One night this winter, Zhang Xiaosan, who had been begging for a day, came to the door of a big house. Seeing that the door was closed and the gatehouse was tall, he planned to hide in the doorway under the gatehouse to shelter himself from the wind for the night. He was curled up and just fell asleep when a little girl who looked like a maid carrying a lantern, accompanied by a handsome young woman in a mink coat, came over. The maid said in a flattering tone as she walked, "The young lady is very lucky tonight. This mahjong has reached the last lap, and she can still play three in a row!" The young woman said, "You have also been credited for helping me peek at the cards of the next house. This piece of ocean is rewarded to you." Saying that, she gave the maid a silver dollar. The maid took the silver dollar excitedly, put it in her pants pocket, and repeatedly thanked the young woman.
While they were talking, the two reached the front door. The maid saw Zhang Xiaosan sleeping under the doorway and shouted in disgust, "You stinky beggar, get up and go away!" Zhang Xiaosan was awakened and quickly got up to make way.
In the middle of the night, Zhang Xiaosan woke up from the cold. He got up and walked around, thinking about moving his frozen hands and feet. Suddenly, through the faint moonlight, Zhang Xiaosan saw something shining on the ground, and as he approached, "Hey," it turned out to be a shiny silver dollar. Zhang Xiaosan put the silver dollar in his hand and thought while playing with it, tomorrow morning he must buy two burnt and fragrant biscuits, and a bowl of hot and sour soup for a delicious meal.
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaosan couldn't help but saliva flowed out his mouth. But then he thought, this silver dollar may have been left by the two women, maybe more than one was left behind, how great it would be if he found another piece! So he put the silver dollar he picked up in the dirty cloth bag where the steamed buns were usually left, carried the cloth bag over his shoulder, and went to the place where he had picked up the silver dollar just now. Unexpectedly, he just turned around and really picked up another silver dollar. Zhang Xiaosan laughed out happily, lucky tonight, I will buy a chicken leg tomorrow to satisfy my cravings.
Zhang Xiaosan casually put the newly picked silver dollar into the cloth bag on his back and continued walking around, secretly praying in his heart: Bodhisattva bless, let me pick up another silver dollar… Coincidentally, Zhang Xiaosan turned around and indeed picked up the third silver dollar. Don't mention the joy and beauty in his heart.
After picking up two or three silver dollars in a row, Zhang Xiaosan's sleepiness disappeared, and his restless heart became more and more alive. Although he knew that "nothing is more than three things," and the possibility of picking up another silver dollar was slim, he still held a trace of fantasy and continued to circle around looking for silver dollars. But just like that, a miracle happened – Zhang Xiaosan actually picked up the fourth silver dollar. People often say that good luck can't stop it. It seems that my Zhang Xiaosan should make a fortune tonight. I won't eat chicken thighs tomorrow, I want to buy a complete roast chicken, no, buy another roast duck, and it is best to have a bottle of old wine. A chicken in the left hand and a duck in the right hand, eating oily and drinking dizzy, that is the day of the gods.
Zhang Xiaosan's mind was full of wonderful visions, and his legs could no longer stop. It was unbelievable that Zhang Xiaosan kept wandering around, and he could keep picking up silver dollars. After two hours, he had already picked up 100 silver dollars. Could it be that there is a cornucopia buried in the ground? Or is it the blessing of the Bodhisattva, and the earth lord appears. Of course, Zhang Xiaosan's thoughts also changed qualitatively at this time. He no longer thinks blindly about eating and drinking, he wants to buy land, build a green brick house, and marry a little daughter-in-law. It is best to marry a woman like the handsome young woman he just saw.
All night long, Zhang Xiaosan was thinking excitedly, constantly turning and picking up. When the east was shining brightly, he miraculously picked up 215 silver dollars. At this time, he lowered his head so low that his neck was stiff, and his back was sore when he bent down. When he walked, his legs were straight, and the cloth bag on his back seemed to get heavier and heavier, but he still went around in circles like a demon. Because every turn or two, he could pick up silver dollars.
At that moment, the courtyard door opened with a "squeak," and the little maid who had been playing mahjong with the young woman last night walked out of the courtyard. She stood at the door and looked around for a while, then quickly came a few steps behind Zhang Xiaosan and quickly picked up a piece of silver from the ground. The little girl blew the dust on the silver dollar and said to herself excitedly, "I said that the young lady clearly gave me a piece of ocean last night, but why did she disappear early this morning? It turned out to be here." The maid said as she touched her trouser pocket, and suddenly understood that when she put silver dollars in her trouser pocket last night, she put them in the place where the trousers were slit (in the past, women's trousers were slit on one side), and the silver dollar slipped from the inside of the trousers and fell to the ground along the trouser leg.
At this time, Zhang Xiaosan was already dizzy from exhaustion. He suddenly saw that the little maid had also picked up the silver dollar, and said with regret, "If I had walked faster, this silver dollar would not have been picked up by the little girl." Hearing this, the maid scolded, "You stinky beggar, my master is going out to walk the bird soon, don't get out of here!" Zhang Xiaosan only then noticed that the sky had already brightened. He was proud and regretful, and murmured, "You little maid look like a fart, I will be a rich man soon!" After saying that, he quickly left.
When he arrived at a remote and deserted place, Zhang Xiaosan, who was exhausted, sat on the ground and couldn't wait to put the cloth bag he had carried all night in front of him. He wanted to count again carefully to see how many silver dollars he had picked up overnight. However, when he reached into the cloth bag, he was suddenly stunned – there was not a single silver dollar in the cloth bag except for a few steamed buns!
Zhang Xiaosan was not reconciled, and turned the cloth bag upside down and upside down, shaking it vigorously. A few cold, hard steamed buns rolled down at his feet, but he still didn't see the silver dollar. However, he immediately understood what was going on – there was a hole the size of an egg at the bottom of the cloth bag.
Zhang Xiaosan suddenly fell to the ground like a deflated ball. Dare he pick up the silver dollar overnight, but it was put in and leaked out, and then picked up, packed, and leaked again. In fact, it was still the silver dollar. And this silver dollar was taken back by the little girl just now.