On a late spring evening in the early Ming Dynasty, a man surnamed Tu hurried past the foot of Crouching Tiger Mountain in Tengxian County. Suddenly, three or five big men jumped out of the bushes to block the way. Mr. Tu knew that he had encountered a villain, and his legs couldn't stop shaking. These people led him to a cave, removed his mask, and saw a fierce-looking mountain king sitting on the wolf pier in the light of pine torches.
The king of the mountain stood up and gave up his seat: "Yesterday, Mr. was divining for others in Shen Family Town. It was really Zhuge Liang who was reborn and Yuan Tiangang was reborn, so someone from Zhu specially invited Mr. to come and beg you to calculate a hexagram."
Mr. Tu secretly complained bitterly, but he didn't expect that he set up a stall in Shen Family Town yesterday, and casually mumbled a few words, so that the thief's subordinates could see it. But he did not calculate that he would be "invited" to the local gangster's nest. Hearing the meaning in the words of the King of the Mountain, Mr. Tu knew that he had met a master who believed in hexagrams, so he told himself not to panic, and he had to be flexible, otherwise the thief would turn his face and the guy who ate on his neck would be gone!
Besides, the king of the mountain, surnamed Zhu, had a name omnipotent, and he had gathered more than a dozen subordinates, who specialized in robbing sporadic merchants from the past, stealing money without hurting their lives. Zhu Wanneng reported his name and birthday, saying that he was now eager to achieve something big: I recently visited and learned that there was a Dou family manor going north from the mountains. The owner had quite a lot of land, and the Dou family felt that his popularity was good, so the precautions were not very strict. Zhu Wanneng wanted to go down the mountain to loot, and it was estimated that he could get several thousand taels of silver. Because it was the first time to do such a big business, he couldn't make up his mind, so he asked Mr. Tu for advice.
Hearing this, Mr. Tu thought to himself, a dozen bandits at the moment are enough to cause disaster. If it is allowed to expand, will the common people still survive? Besides, since the Dou Zhuang Master is a good person, he must be a kind person, how can he bear to let him suffer? You better do whatever he wants. He pretended to frown and think again, and shook his head slightly: "No, this Dou Yuanwai family can't move!" "Why?" "The king's surname is Zhu, and the man's surname is Dou. If the'pig 'eats the'bean' and soon grows fat, it will not be far from being slaughtered!"
"Ah!" Zhu Wanneng's expression changed, and he almost slapped the stone table and jumped up! But seeing Mr. Tu's serious look, he did not dare to offend, so he asked kindly: When will he be able to turn around?
Mr. Tu thought to himself, the country is easy to change, but nature is hard to change! To persuade Zhu Wanneng to put down the butcher's knife in a few words, is that wishful thinking, or to kill his killing heart, just say every word carefully, you are currently not bright, you can only lurk minions; if you want to become famous in one fell swoop, you have to endure for five years.
When Zhu Wanneng heard that he had a "General Star," he became even more convinced that this gentleman was indeed a divine hexagram. He quickly asked him what he should do. Mr. Tu thought for a while and casually said, "The king's surname is Zhu, and the pigeats the chaff.
Zhu Wanneng was overjoyed, and immediately hosted a banquet for Mr. Tu, during which he invited Mr. Tu to be his military advisor again and again. Mr. Tu shirked: "Now is not the time. The surname of the younger brother is taboo, think about it, if the 'pig 'meets the 'butcher', then it's okay? I have to go down the mountain and change my surname and be recognized by thousands of people, and then I will assist the king in the great cause together." Zhu Wanneng heard Mr. Tu's reasonable words, so he gave him a ingot of silver, and reluctantly sent him counterfeit products when we met again and again.
When Mr. Tu came down the mountain, the cold wind blew, he woke up, touched his head, and still had it on his neck. He kept shouting "so dangerous", hurriedly heading south along the way, while counting his hexagrams, he ran to the capital.
It turned out that Mr. Tu was a person in distress. On his way to Beijing to take the exam, he was robbed of his belongings by bandits. In the past, there were two things that scholars must learn, one is medicine, and the other is easy. The risk of hexagram reading is small, so this Mr. Tu is on his way while reading hexagrams, making some painless wishes, cheating a few pennies to fill his stomach. He never dreamed that he would be invited by the bandits to do hexagrams, and he even deceived the bandits with a large amount of silver by talking nonsense!
In the blink of an eye, three days later, Mr. Tu came to a village. One of the largest tile houses in the village had brick walls. Mr. Tu knew that it was a wealthy family with money to make, so he repeatedly knocked on his copper plate outside the courtyard. Sure enough, the black lacquered door opened with a "creak", and a little maid came out and said, "The owner asked Mr. to come in and calculate a hexagram."
Mr. Tu followed the maid into the yard, and a middle-aged man welcomed him into the living room for tea. As soon as he gave his surname, Mr. Tu's cold sweat came down: This village is called Kangzhuang, and the owner of this house is surnamed Kang! Mr. Tu asked Kang Yuanwai, there is a Crouching Tiger Mountain in the north, do you know? Kang Yuanwai said, Crouching Tiger Mountain, who doesn't know, that place is not much more than a hundred miles away, just a hundred miles away!
Mr. Tu took a sip of hot tea in a panic, so hot that his tears came out. Originally, he only wanted to save Villa Master Dou, but he was afraid that Zhu Wanneng would not die, so he casually made up a surname Kang. Who knew that things happened so coincidentally, there was such a Kang Zhuang and such a Kang member in the south, and the distance was not much, not much, exactly a hundred miles! As the old saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid that thieves will miss you. Five years later, in the blink of an eye, if Zhu Wanneng does not fall into the net of the law, he will definitely be more powerful than he is now. How can you prevent it?
In a trance, Mr. Tu suddenly heard Kang Yuan report his birthday. He quickly pretended to calculate it and casually said that since next year, the family business outside the members will be more prosperous day by day. The member hurriedly asked, "Then is there a villain in my life, how can I be on guard?Mr. Tu quickly took advantage of the situation and said to him: "You pay attention to the north direction, there is a person surnamed Zhu, who is the nemesis of the member. Five years later, there will be a big calamity outside the member, which will cause financial ruin and injury, and it will all be on this person, because 'pigs' eat 'chaff'. Fortunately, the'chaff' outside the member is thick, and if you are careful, you can turn bad luck into good luck."
Kang Yuanwai was very grateful to Mr. Tu for his timely advice. He stayed in Kangzhuang for two days and received him very warmly. He also sent money to do entanglement.
Mr. Tu said goodbye to Kang Yuanwai, and the more he thought about it, the more guilty he felt: Kang Yuanwai had never known him before, and he treated him so well, but he instigated Zhu Waneng to make a fortune by "eating" him five years later. What's more, the bandit believed his nonsense! He was a person seeking fame and would never dare to tell Kang Yuanwai the truth. If it was leaked that he had a relationship with the bandit, I was afraid that he would get rid of his reputation and never get ahead! After thinking about it again and again, Mr. Tu stayed in a small town near Kangzhuang, and seeing that the shopkeeper of the hotel was loyal, he wrote a letter and instructed the shopkeeper to hand the letter to Kang Yuanwai after three years. After doing this, he didn't dare to misunderstand people anymore. He rushed to the capital day and night to study quietly, and only waited for the autumn to fight. This is a future story.
Besides, after sending Mr. Tu away, his heart was always pained: Due north, the surname Zhu is my nemesis? Thinking about what Mr. Tu said, it makes sense. This "pig" doesn't eat "chaff", but I don't know what the surname Zhu looks like, how can I prevent it from turning bad luck into good luck? So I paid special attention to the movements in the north. He has some thin fields in the north, which are rented to tenants for farming. Looking at the winter solstice, Kang Yuanwai will go there for a walk and collect the rent by the way.
On this day, Kang Yuanwai took the rent and returned, but he saw a ball of things curled up near the Valley Temple outside the village. He looked closer and saw that it was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old little beggar, frozen in the snow... Kang Yuanwai hurriedly found someone to carry the little beggar to Kangzhuang, and ordered the maid to cook ginger soup and feed porridge rice, saving the little beggar's life.
The little beggar woke up and knew that it was Kang Yuanwai who saved him. He quickly knelt on the kang and kowtowed, claiming to be surnamed Zhu. His hometown was in the north, and both his parents starved to death due to the famine. He begged all the way to this point, but today he didn't get any food, so he froze in the snow. The little beggar begged the yuan to keep him on the farm, whether he was herding pigs and horses, as long as he had a bite to eat. After listening to his story, Kang Yuanwai was shocked and speechless for a while. Mr. Tu warned him that there was a nemesis surnamed Zhu in the north, and he came to the door, and he led the wolf into the room and personally found someone to carry him home. After five years, this kid will grow to twenty years old, and he will kill and steal money. It is his age! If he knew this earlier, he really shouldn't have saved him, and he would be clean if he froze to death
But this person, Kang Yuanwai, is quite kind-hearted. When he thinks about it, I treat him well, and even if he has a heart of stone, he can be influenced. How can he see that he will definitely hit me? This is probably what Mr. Tu said about "prevention".
So, Kang Yuanwai left the little beggar to live on the village. This child is smart, and as long as Kang Yuanwai looks at everything, he immediately understands that when Kang Yuanwai sees that he is talented and intelligent, he simply does not allow him to do work, and specially invites a school teacher to teach him to read. This child has a good memory and high comprehension. After two years, the master can't teach him, so he has proposed several times to ask the owner to hire another expert. Kang Yuanwai was very relieved, and thought to himself: I have treated him so well, and in the future, if there is a ghost in the dark to ask him to take money and kill him, he will not be able to do it! Thinking about it this way, he became more and more affectionate to the little beggar, and secretly said to the little beggar: I am middle-aged without children, it seems that it is the future of life, and I am counting on you in my old age. You should study hard now, and when the time is ripe, I will accept you as my adopted son, and the family property will belong to you.
The little beggar hurriedly thanked: "The person in trouble, who has been taken in by the master, is already as important as a mountain, how dare he climb the dragon and the phoenix and be the adopted son of the master? Emperor is above, if Zhu dares to be a little discouraged, he is willing to be hit by five thunderbolts!" Seeing that he is so reasonable, Kang Yuanwai can't help but be happy.
In the blink of an eye, three years had passed, and Kang Yuanwai had almost forgotten about the hexagram-telling incident. During the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, someone suddenly came to the door to submit a book, saying that a fortune-teller surnamed Tu had left a letter three years ago. The man had repeatedly instructed that this letter was related to the life and death of the Kang family. Kang Yuanwai hurriedly opened the letter and saw a few big characters written on it: "After two years, pigs will want to eat chaff, may you prevent it!"
This letter aroused Kang Yuanwai's heart disease. That fortune teller is by no means ordinary. He has calculated that there is someone surnamed Zhu in the north to take my life and property, but not a beggar surnamed Zhu! Now that I am eighteen years old, in two years, wings will form... If you want to drive him away, and you are afraid of exacerbating hatred, he has already figured out the situation in his family... Kang Yuanwai made this letter uneasy and swooned, and finally gritted his teeth: If you are not related, let him enjoy these years of happiness, and you don't owe him anything, it is better to plan early!
Entering the 39th year, the end of the year is approaching, Kang Yuanwai made up his mind and took the little beggar to the countryside to collect rent. On this day, when he came to a desolate small village, Kang Yuanwai deliberately ate wine with the tenants until dark, but he insisted on leaving regardless of the owner's request. The tenant couldn't keep it, so he handed a piece of woodworking work to the member for self-defense.
The more he looked at the little beggar in front of him, the more reluctant he became. For the past three years, the child has been in front of and behind him, understanding, even if a kitten or a puppy dies, it will be uncomfortable for many days, let alone a living person! However, Mr. Tu's warning is by no means groundless, as the old saying goes, if you don't listen to good people, you will suffer in front of you!
The little beggar stared at Kang Yuanwai in surprise for a long time. Seeing that he did not seem to be joking, he quickly knelt down and said, "What's wrong with the little one, the master only cares about the blame." Kang Yuanwai did not speak, and when he closed his eyes, he raised his head high and was about to viciously chop it down!
It was also the little beggar who had a big life, and Kang Yuan was facing up in one fell swoop. He was not wary of a tree next to the path, and the branch was hanging above his head. After running to the end, the little beggar really couldn't carry the fat body of the member outside, so he gathered some dead grass under the buttocks of the member outside, tied the member outside with his back to back, half dragged and half backed, finally found a family, begged someone to ask Lang Zhong, at this time, Kang Yuanwai's face was pale and he was dying...
Lang Zhong looked at Kang Yuanwai's injury and couldn't help but be amazed, saying, "If this head goes deeper, even the immortals will be powerless to return to the sky! Fortunately, the outer member is thick and fleshy, so he didn't get hurt. It's also thanks to this little brother running around overnight, otherwise he would have lost too much blood and couldn't be saved. So it seems that the outer member is really lucky!"
Kang Yuanwai lay on the kang, and when he heard Lang Zhong's words, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion: he had planned to kill the little beggar, but unexpectedly the little beggar retaliated with virtue... When Kang Yuanwai looked at no one around him, he quietly asked the little beggar: "Why did you save me? Don't you hate me?"
The little beggar said, "If I had not been saved by the members, I would have died three years ago, and I have lived for three years now. Now that I am knowledgeable and reasonable, it is all given by the members. Even if I die a few more times, I have no reason to hate you!" When Kang Yuanwai heard this, he hugged the little beggar and cried aloud!
After this incident, Kang Yuanwai decided that the little beggar was kind-hearted, and the actions on the mountain were absolutely impossible for ordinary people to do, how could such a person kill his life and steal money! So after obtaining the consent of the little beggar, he chose a auspicious day, invited relatives and friends, officially accepted the little beggar as an adopted son, and changed his name to Kang Yaozong. This autumn, Kang Yaozong became a scholar, studied in leisure, and helped his father take care of family affairs. There were many things that Kang Yuanwai could not imagine, and he thought that before two years, the Kang family would be richer.
Afterwards, Kang Yuanwai chewed on Mr. Tu's words and suddenly realized: "It's really a secret! Lang Zhong said that my skin is thick and fleshy, so I didn't get hurt by the head of the adze, didn't I just respond to the thick words of the'chaff '? It is because of the thickness of my "chaff" that I was not eaten by the pig, but I got an excellent son, who is not called good fortune? Then Mr. Tu is really a fairy!"
After chatting, Kang Yuanwai said of Mr. Tu's prophecy, Kang Yaozong smiled and said, "There are two layers of skin in the human mouth, and the truth is right! Our family is such a big industry, you can calculate it all day long, and one day you will drive the crane west, and this industry will not be able to bring it. Why not take advantage of your lifetime to accumulate more goodness..." Kang Yuanwai listened and nodded: "That's right, one day I will go to the temple to pledge."
"Father is poor. Now the people of Li are starving, but you go to honor that mud fetus, isn't that giving up the basics and seeking the end?"
The sentence woke up the dreamer, Kang thought outside, usually the tenants have scolded me behind my back, not them, where did I get the family business? So he sent a message to reduce the land rent; he also followed Kang Yaozong's suggestion and vacated two wing rooms, each with an iron pillar erected in the room, put on a rope, hang a huge quilt, hang it up during the day, and put down the quilt at night, so that those beggars who have nowhere to live can gather here at night, lie down in the shape of a fan, cover it and rest. The beggars were spared the pain of freezing, and there was a sound of praise everywhere. Kang Yaozong simply did a good job to the end, and gave everyone a bowl of hot porridge in the morning. Beggars also have a conscience. They feel that they can't eat and live for free, and they will not be empty-handed when they come back to stay, even if it is a brick and a stone, they have to bring some back. Kang Yuanwai was planning to build a sauce shop, but the ingredients were all donated by these more than 100 beggars! The days of Kang Yuanwai's family are like fish thrown into a pan of oil, and they are initiated when they see it...
Kang Yuanwai's reputation grew and soon spread to Wohu Mountain.
The bandit leader, Zhu Wanneng, did not forget for a moment Mr. Tu's prophecy of "eating chaff and making a fortune" five years later. Seeing that the Kang family was rich, he kowtowed to the sky with joy: "My'pig 'has a'chaff' that I can't finish eating in my life!" He was wellprepared, brought more than 30 people in counterfeit products together, chose a good day, quietly sneaked into the Kang family compound, surrounded the yard, and gave an order.
Before Zhu Wanneng's group shouted, they heard a sound behind them. Looking back, many farmers emerged from nowhere and surrounded them. The shovels were densely packed, and the number of people exceeded ten times their own! It was the tenants of the Kang family who besieged the bandits.
A young man on the ladder inside the wall said, "I am Kang Yaozong, the young master. Xiaozhuang doesn't want to be enemies with the king; if you are willing to make friends, please come to the living room to talk." At this point, Zhu Wanneng signaled his subordinates not to do anything, and he entered the courtyard with his bare hands.
When they entered the courtyard, they listened to the noise in the courtyard. It turned out that the beggars who were boarding were filled with righteous indignation when they heard that the bandits were going to rob Kang Yuan, and they were all willing to fight for their lives with the bandits! Seeing this battle, Zhu Wanneng took a deep breath. Kang Yaozong smiled and said to the beggars, "I have something to discuss with this stockade owner, you don't have to worry, please go back and rest."
Zhu Wanneng secretly marveled at the calmness and generosity of Kang Xiucai. After the beggars retreated, Kang Yaozong politely asked Zhu Wanneng, "The king must have gathered in the mountains and forests, and the days must be moist. If you lack anything, just squeak, why hurt your harmony?"
Zhu Wanneng had no choice but to tell the truth. He and his brothers had been worried all day, stripping off their clothes and going to bed tonight, wondering if they would be able to wear them tomorrow. Dreams were often related to prison, "If you are not forced by food and clothing, who is willing to do this kind of killing, they will not even dare to start a family, for fear of dragging down their wife and children in the future."
Kang Xiucai listened, got up and saluted, saying, "If the king wants to let the brothers live with food and clothing, we have opened a new sauce shop, which can be handed over to the king for escrow. The brothers shall eat with their strength, and the wages will be paid in full. Please think twice."
Zhu Wanneng was overjoyed and discussed with the brothers at the moment. Most of the brothers had had enough to lick blood at the edge of the knife and were willing to run the sauce shop with Zhu Wanneng. Zhu Wanneng listened to Mr. Tu's words and had been lurking minions for five years, so he did not do much evil. Kang Yaozong took the initiative to negotiate with the government.
Zhu Wanneng and his brothers went to the sky and became good citizens, and they admired Mr. Tu even more: "God, he said that my'pig 'should eat'chaff', didn't I eat long-term rice! He said that I have a general star, but it turned out to be a 'auce star ', high view, high view!"
Looking back at Mr. Tu, he arrived in the capital and failed his first test, so he stayed in the capital to study hard until the next time he started his course, Jinbang High School. He didn't forget Kang Yuan for a moment: he was all lying about it, and if Zhu Waneng really robbed the surnamed Kang, it would be Tu's sin! Looking forward to the stars, looking forward to the moon, the news came from the official department that he wanted to appoint him as the governor of Jiangyin County, he trusted his relationship and exchanged with another one who went to Teng County to take office in the same year, and rushed to take office anxiously.
To go to the county seat, you must first pass through Kangzhuang, and Tu Zhixian rushed to take a look. In five years, the sea has turned into mulberry fields, and this Kangzhuang is so rich that he dare not recognize it! Kang Yuanwai heard that the magistrate arrived and greeted him in person. During the banquet, he asked the young master to meet the county supreme, and after telling the process of the father and son's acquaintance, he said: "My lord was a clever plan back then! If you hadn't told me again and again to be on guard against the surname Zhu, the little old man wouldn't have a murderous heart, and it would be difficult to achieve a wonderful relationship between father and son, let alone the prosperity of Kangzhuang today! It really answered your prophecy of turning bad luck into good luck!"
Tu Zhi County was stunned for a moment, and thought to himself: Fortunately, the person involved had extraordinary behavior, so he passed through the disaster! Now, he no longer hides it, telling the truth about the hexagram back then, the Kang family and son were stunned: "The lord is talking about Zhu Wanneng, the thief of Crouching Tiger Mountain? Don't worry about the Lord, he has already married and had children, and will not do anything wrong again!As he said, he immediately sent someone to find Zhu Wanneng. When Zhu Wanneng saw that the county was actually the god hexagram of the year, he quickly knelt and kowtowed: "It's not that the lord is guiding and confused, the villain is now a prisoner!"
Tu Zhi County looked up at the sky and sighed: "Although success is in the sky, conspiracy is in the people!"
After Tu Zhixian arrived in office, he told his subordinates the story of how he made up hexagrams and almost caused a catastrophe, and ordered that in the future, if anyone dared to tell hexagrams and deceive people in the county, he would be given a staff of twenty, a flail of three days, and a fine of one month of hard labor.
Unexpectedly, no one would believe his statement. Everyone said that those who set up stalls on the street were of course deceiving people, but Tu Zhi County was a god. Just based on the two hexagrams that the old man calculated for Zhu Wanneng and Kang Yuan, he had to accept it!