One day Ji Gong was standing under a big willow tree next to the West Lake, shaking his fan and watching the scenery of the West Lake. It was the time of Chongyang, the golden wind was refreshing, the lake was rippling, the willow branches were blowing on his face, and the lake and mountains were beautiful.

Ji Gong was looking happy when he suddenly saw a person walking not far away and stopped not far from the willow tree. Because he lowered his head and didn't look that way at all, he didn't find Ji Gong under the willow tree. Ji Gong could see him clearly. I saw this person in his thirties, dressed as a craftsman, his eyes red from crying, and he was in a daze at the lake, looking like he was about to dive into the water and kill himself.

Ji Gong looked into his eyes and thought to himself. I don't know why this young man is seeking death, but I have to try to save him. As the saying goes, "Saving a person's life is better than building a seventh-level budur." Making up his mind, he walked quickly to the man. When the man saw someone coming, he hurriedly lifted his clothes and mask, and was about to jump into the lake.

"Cough! what's the matter that you can't get through? do you want to find this short-term view?"

"Don't pull me, let me die, living is suffering." The man said, struggling to jump into the lake.

"Tell me if you have any difficulties, maybe I can help you." Ji Gong persuaded while pulling.

The water thrower looked at the monk and saw that although he was ragged, his face was full of kindness, especially his eyes, which gave people a sense of hope and strength. The water-thrower sighed and said, "Master, whether you can save me or not, I will tell you the pain, even if you die, there will be a witness." So he told Ji Gong one by one.

It turned out that this person's surname was Zhang, known as "Carpenter Zhang", and he worked in an official family in Hangzhou. The son of this family, nicknamed "Huahua Tai Sui", was a villain who was idle and bullied men and women. On this day, Huahua Tai Sui was playing with crickets outside the flower hall. After finishing his work, Carpenter Zhang stood behind the crowd watching and casually said "OK." It happened that Huahua Tai Sui's beloved "Golden Head King" (cricket) jumped at this time and jumped into the flowers, but he didn't get it back for a long time. Huahua Tai Sui was furious and insisted that his baby was scared away by Zhang Carpenter, and asked him to pay him one thousand taels of silver within three days.

Carpenter Zhang was a poor craftsman. He had a sick mother and a wife and children at home, so he was hungry and had a full meal. Where could he get those thousand taels of silver? Today was the deadline, so he had to hide it from his mother, wife and children and come to this lake to seek death. When Ji Gong heard this, he laughed: "I thought it was a big deal, wasn't it just a thousand taels of silver? I'll just pay him back for you!" Saying that, he pulled up Carpenter Zhang and left.

As they walked, a few "trivial" sounds suddenly came from the grass by the roadside. Ji Gong squatted down and touched the grass. He caught a cricket, blew it with his mouth, and held it in his hand. Looking left and right, he looked like he was admiring a treasure, and his face showed joy.

Ji Gong took Carpenter Zhang to the "Three Doulou" in the city. This is the most famous amusement park in Hangzhou. Because this is where "fighting cocks, fighting birds, and fighting crickets" are located, the name of the building is "Three Doulou". I saw that upstairs and downstairs, there was a huge flow of people and it was very lively. It was the best day for "Three Doulou." They came to the hall of Doucricket on the second floor and saw Huahua Tai Sui using his "Silver Head King" and the other party's "Iron Shell Qing" to compete for the "champion". They came and went in a fight. I saw Iron Shell Qing jump three times and two times, biting the right leg of the Silver Head King in one bite, pulling hard, and biting off one of the Silver Head King's legs in unison.

Huahua Taisui was so distressed that he stomped his feet. He thought to himself that if my golden king were still there, the champion would be ours. When he thought of this, he was angry, so Huahua Taisui shouted to his family: "Did that carpenter Zhang send the money? Today is the deadline. If you don't pay the silver, beat him to death!"

"Don't shout, we're here!" Ji Gong pulled Carpenter Zhang and squeezed in. Huahua Tai Sui saw a crazy monk coming. Carpenter Zhang hid behind the monk with his head lowered, then opened his eyes and shouted loudly, "I called Carpenter Zhang, what are you crazy monk messing with?"

"How about I send him silver?" Ji Gong replied casually. "Look at you like a bear, you smashed your bones, and you can't squeeze out a tael of silver. What are you going to give me back a thousand taels of silver?"

"Don't worry, I have a little thing here, I caught it from the earth temple in the southern peak, see if it is worth a thousand taels of silver?" Saying that, Ji Gong stretched out his left palm to Huahua Taisui. Huahua Taisui looked at it, and in the monk's palm, there was a dumbfounded cricket squatting, and he shouted angrily: "What a bald donkey, you dare to make fun of my Taisui master, you want to take this thing for a thousand taels of silver, I'm really pissed off! Come on, hit this bald donkey for me!"

The family swarmed up and were about to hit someone. Ji Gong laughed: "If you have eyes but don't know golden fragrant jade, my cricket is called 'King of Zhenshan ', and what'golden head', 'silver head', and 'iron shell green 'are all not its opponents. If you don't believe me, look."

As he spoke, he dialed the cricket with a broken fan, and only heard it call twice, scaring the crickets in the pots around him. The silver-headed king, who had a broken leg, heard the call, stretched out that single leg, and died. Seeing this, Huahua Tai Sui knew that this cricket was not ordinary, so she immediately accompanied her smiling face and quickly said, "Master, your cricket fruit can defeat today's champion, Zhang Carpenter's thousand taels of silver.

"Okay, it's a deal, what you say is unwarranted, how about writing down the documents?"

"Yes, what if you can't fight?"

"I can't fight, I will die for Carpenter Zhang."

"Okay, that's it!" Huahua Tai Sui hurriedly asked her family to bring pen and paper, and the two sides wrote down the documents.

People put today's champion "Tie Guqing" and Ji Gong's "King of Zhenshan" in the pot together. King Zhenshan stayed by the pot, motionless, stirring only his two head whiskers. Seeing that Tie Guqing was thin and small, Tie Guqing thought he could be bullied, so he opened his teeth and danced his claws and rushed to King Zhenshan. King Zhenshan did not wait for Tie Guqing to stand firm, and rushed forward to meet him.

Ji Gong put away the King of Zhenshan, handed the document to Carpenter Zhang, and said to Huahua Taisui, "I'm sorry, one thousand taels of silver is cleared!" Then she was about to leave. When Huahua Taisui saw Ji Gong was about to leave, her eyes were red, and she quickly grabbed Ji Gong and said, "Master, sell me this cricket, I'd rather pay another thousand taels of silver!"

After hearing this, Ji Gong laughed out loud: "I'm a monk, what's the use of it? Young Master, when you see love, I'll give it to you!" Huahua Tai Sui thanked Ji Gong a lot and returned to the mansion with the cricket. When he got home, the more he thought about it, the happier he became, and he hurriedly ordered his family to weave a gold wire cage so that he could put the King of Zhenshan in the cage to show his preciousness. When the cage was woven and put in, the King of Zhenshan jumped out of the flower hall with two feet, jumped three times, jumped twice, and got into the flowers.

Huahua was so anxious that she clapped her hands and paused, and hurriedly called her family to catch it. When the family went to catch him, he had long since disappeared.

In a hurry, suddenly heard the cry of the King of Zhenshan coming from the foot of the wall of the flower hall. Huahua Taisui hurriedly asked his family to pour water into the crack of the wall and poured more than a dozen buckets, but the King of Zhenshan just didn't come out, so angry that Huahua Taisui ordered his family to knock down the wall of the flower hall, but still no trace. Suddenly, he heard the King of Zhenshan calling under the cornerstone of the flower hall. Huahua Taisui was cruel and ordered his family to tear down the flower hall, turn over the bricks and tiles, but still didn't catch the King of Zhenshan.

Just as she was annoyed, the cry of the King of Zhenshan came from under the Moon View Pavilion, and Huahua Taisui quickly ordered her family to dismantle the pavilion. Just after the pavilion was dismantled, another cry came from under the floor of the back study, so the study was dismantled, the study was dismantled, and the bedroom was dismantled… The crickets were dismantled wherever they were called. After three days and three nights, there was still no shadow of the King of Zhenshan.

Huahua Tai Sui drooped her head, red and swollen eyes, lying on the rattan chair and was about to fall asleep when she heard singing outside the door:

Strange really strange, crickets gone people anxious;

Take care to find bugs. Tear down the walls and dig the foundations.

Dig three feet into the ground without a trace, see if it can still go to the sky?

Heaven and earth are not seen. Tai Sui deceive people and be deceived!

After listening to the song, Huahua Taisui suddenly realized that Ji Gong was punishing him, a rascal. He immediately felt cold all over, his hands were cold, and he lay there rolling his eyes...