The Story of the Eight Golden Roosters

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Legend has it that there is a mountain in a county in Hubei called Triangle Mountain. Due to the beautiful scenery and abundant water sources, many families live at the foot of the mountain.

Although the land was fertile and the water was plentiful, under the oppression of landlords and bullies in the old society, the tenant Li San's family still couldn't get enough to eat or wear warm clothes. The ten-year-old daughter was often as hungry as paper, and she had reached the age of study early and had not yet gone to school. In order to fill her stomach and get her children to school quickly, Li San often got up in the dark every day to help the landlord Zhang Wan's family with farm work.

One day, as usual, Li San rubbed his sleepy eyes after the first rooster crow, took the old scalper in the yard, picked up the farm tools, and plowed the sloping land at the foot of the triangle mountain behind the village for the landlord's house. Since it was the beginning of autumn, there was already a thin fog at night, and it was still early, so he couldn't see clearly.

Li San skillfully set up the plow and began to plow the ground. He always saw a few small bright spots in front of him hanging around the plow and rake. Li San thought his eyes were blurred, so he quickly wiped his face with the spring water by the ditch, and then rubbed his eyes hard.

Later, Li San told the old people in the village about his experience, and the old people said that someone had seen it before. It was a golden hen with seven little golden chickens foraging there. Li San understood that the golden chicken was helping him. With that small ball of gold, Li San quickly let his daughter go to school, and life slowly got better. But there is no airtight wall in the world, and Li San soon found out about gold by Landlord Zhang. This landlord started the idea of the golden chicken, forcing Li San to take it to the hillside of the plowed field every morning when the chicken crowed, and then took a bullwhip to watch where the golden chicken haunted. For a few days, the golden chicken did not appear.

This landlord did not give up, and finally on the fourth day the golden rooster appeared. Zhang Wan was so happy that he almost smirked, but for fear of scaring the golden rooster away, he held back and quietly waited until the golden rooster turned to him with the plow and rake again, "Pa"! A loud bullwhip was whipped out, hit, hit, and when Zhang Wan rushed over excitedly, all he saw was an ordinary rock. This Zhang Wan still did not give up and pounced on the big hen, hugging the golden hen tightly. The hen turned and pecked at his left tiger's mouth, and he quickly let go of his left hand, and the hen took the opportunity to run away with the chick.

Holding this broken gold, "This trip has not come in vain, hum," the owner was complacent.

But then, the place where Lord Zhang's hand was pecked by the golden chicken was infected with pus, and he invited many famous doctors to treat it for a long time, but it was not good. Later, Lord Zhang calculated that until he spent all the broken gold he got from the golden chicken, he cured his hand.