Pastoral Jiaoyi's mother and father are here

Chapter 173
In Shanghe Village, in the village chief's courtyard, under the scorching sun and wine, everyone was eating fresh melons and fruits, waiting to hear the princess tell them stories.

Gu Xiangsi had such a casual and uninhibited look, and said with a sly smile: "There are two famous sayings at the beginning of this story, 'The human heart is not enough to swallow the snake, and the world will end with the mantis to catch the cicada'. What we are talking about today is The story of a snake swallowing an elephant. It is said that during the reign of Song Ren, in a certain village in Shenze, the family consisted of only two people, a mother and a child. Wife, earning her living by selling grass..."

Gu Xiangsi is actually telling a story of a famous saying to the world. It is about the king who saved a snake when he pulled weeds. The story of being repaid by a snake.

At the very beginning, this snake was an extraordinary snake. One day, the little snake felt bored in the house, so he crawled into the yard to bask in the sun, and became thick and long under the sun, like a girder. Seen by Wang Juan's old mother, she screamed and passed out.

When Wang Fan came back, the snake had already returned to the house and returned to its original shape. It said anxiously: "I was rude today and scared my mother to death, but don't be afraid, you quickly take three pieces of skin from my body. Get some weeds and boil them in a pot to make a soup, let your mother drink it and it will be fine."

Wang Wang was a very kind-hearted person at that time, so he said: "No, this will hurt your body, so you should find another way!"

Pied Snake felt guilty, so he kept urging: "It doesn't matter, hurry up, I can stand it."

Wang Fan, who was still very kind back then, had no choice but to do so with tears in his eyes.

After the mother drank the soup, she quickly regained consciousness. The mother and son were both grateful and puzzled, but neither said anything. Wang Fan thought about the golden light shining in the snake basket every night, and felt that this snake was extraordinary.

Until one day, the emperor's life was too boring, so he wanted to find something new, and he also wanted a luminous pearl to play with, so he posted a notice that whoever could offer one would be appointed as an official and rewarded.

This matter got to Wang's ears, and when he went home, he told the snake that it was time to repay his kindness, so he told Wang that its eyes were two night pearls, and asked Wang to dig out one of its eyes and offer it to the emperor. , Wang Wang can be promoted and get rich, and the mother and son have no worries about food and clothing. It can be regarded as repaying the life-saving grace of the mother and son.

Wang Wang was very happy after hearing this, but after all he had a relationship with the snake and couldn't bear to do it, but the snake repayed his kindness wholeheartedly and was willing to endure the pain of gouging out his eyes. Wang Wang gouged out an eye and presented it to the emperor. A small reward of gold, silver and jewels.

After the emperor saw the orb, he was very appreciative and took it as his own. The empress of the West Palace also wanted one when she saw it.

At this time, Wang Fan was already greedy, thinking that if he offered the second eye of the snake, wouldn't the prime minister be mine?

So he went to the emperor and said that he could still find one, and the emperor happily gave him the prime minister, but he never expected that when Wang Huang's guards went to get the second eye, the snake would not give it anyway, saying that it was because of seeing Wang Huang. Okay, Wang Fan had no choice but to come to see the snake in person.

When the snake saw Wang Wang, he said bluntly: "I have already donated one eye to repay you, and you have also been promoted to the palace and made a fortune, so don't ask for my second eye. People should not be too greedy. "

Wang Fan has long been obsessed with officials, so he still listens to the snake's advice?Shamelessly said: "Don't I want to be the prime minister? How can you become the prime minister if you don't give it to me? Besides, I have already told the emperor about it, and the official gave it to me. If you don't give it to me, it will end badly, and you will be fulfilled." kill me!"

He insisted on taking out the second eye. Seeing that he had become so greedy and cruel, the snake was already furious, so he said, "Okay then! You can take the knife! But you have to put me in the yard to get the second eye." .”

Wang Wang couldn't wait for a long time, and didn't analyze the snake's words. He agreed, put the snake in the sunny yard, and went back to the house to get the knife. Panting at him with a big mouth, Wang Huang's frightened soul disappeared, and it was too late to run, the snake swallowed the greedy man in one bite.

After Gu Xiangsi finished telling the story, she put down her arms and legs, and after she sat down, she picked up the Xingmu and patted the table. Looking at the folks with different faces below, she smiled very gently and said, "Say, If Wang Wang was contented and happy, after he got the official position and wealth, he would marry a wife and have children, and take good care of his mother, would he be able to enjoy the wealth and glory for a lifetime, so that the descendants would be able to enjoy the shade of their ancestors instead of being buried in the belly of a snake in the end? Woolen cloth?"

These people are from the country, but they have never read a book, and after hearing this story, they understand that Gu Xiangsi is telling them not to be greedy, and be careful not to be greedy.

"Ah! The so-called dripping grace, the fountain is reciprocating, it's just that people are willing to do everything they can to repay and help the benefactors, instead of letting the benefactors keep asking for rewards from others at will. " Gu Xiangsi smiled slightly, very gentle and kind.

If Feng Qiji really accepted Zeng Qiqi's begging for kindness, then he would have to marry Zeng Qiqi as his wife.

If you want people to repay you, you have to have a limit. You can't give others a bowl of life-saving water, and others will have to let you ask for it for the rest of your life.

Then if you ask others to repay you like this, why not just take a knife and kill the person you rescued with a knife, and then kill it with a knife!

After a kindness must be repaid, there is still the saying that no kindness is repaid!
If people in the world can't keep the simplicity and kindness of their original intentions, but become a greedy person like Wang Fan, they will inevitably end up like Wang Fan.

After hearing the thought-provoking story of Gu Xiangsi, Yang Baihua stood up, turned to look at all the fathers and fellow villagers and said, "Fathers and fellow villagers, not everyone in our village has helped Xiangsi and Lao Qin's two elders, but Xiangsi But she treats everyone equally, and when she repays our village, no matter if there is kindness or hatred, she will help us buy these fields together, and contract the taxes of all our families year after year. It’s paid off! You all think about it, without taxation, the harvest of our farming for the whole year is our own, will we still be sad in the future? Wait for us to save money to start a small business, and slowly, every family will , won’t you be able to work hard and get rich?”

Wu Bing also stood up, facing all the folks, with a serious face on his honest face: "Xiangsi taught our family to push tofu before. If you want to learn, we can teach you all. So, folks, Don't embarrass Xiangsi anymore. If Xiangsi marries into the King's Mansion of Zhen, she is still the daughter of our Shanghe Village. How can we natal family embarrass the daughters of our village like this? One by one, we reach out and ask for gratitude. What's the difference between this and those beggars who don't know how to work hard, have good arms and legs, but stretch out their hands to beg?"

"That's right! Those of us who have helped Acacia's family haven't said anything yet. Those who have never done anything for Acacia are shameless enough to make a fuss about Acacia. Pooh! This kind of person is really dirty." Let’s go to Shanghe Village.” A tall and thick man supported a red-faced, bearded and staring white-haired old man, as if he was afraid that when the old man scolded someone in anger, he would fall over excitedly.

He Hua blushed at what the old man said, but she didn't dare to turn back. After all, this old man is an elder in the village, and he is over 80 this year. In terms of seniority, she has to call her uncle, how dare she offend him?

Liu Laizi and his group of gangsters in the village were notoriously contemptuous of elders, so they became very arrogant immediately, brazenly starting a war of words with the old man.

Gu Xiangsi was really worried that the old man would be pissed off by these rascals, so she picked up the Xingmu on the table, patted it, and seeing that everyone was quiet again, she ordered with a half-smile: " Gaefeng, Mo Yun, take all the troublemakers and arrest them."

"Yes!" Lie Feng and Mo Yun clasped their fists to receive the orders, and went out for a while, attracting the guards of the palace who came later.

"By, why arrest us?" Liu Laizi was frightened when he saw these guards with knives rushing in.

But these rascals, relying on the presence of their fathers and fellow villagers, Gu Xiangsi didn't dare to do anything to them, her arrogance was a little bit low, but she still continued to make noise indignantly.

Gu Xiangsi slapped Xingmu on the table in his hand again, looked at them with cold eyes, but the corner of his mouth was hooked into a half-smile and said: "It's useless to catch you and not kill you, but to watch you all idle around. , I just want to find some work for you. Ah, how should I put it? I am not a fool, I can’t help me, and those who have never helped me, I will treat you as equals and take care of you unconditionally, right? So, starting today, Anyone who has never helped me and my adoptive parents took my land, received the seeds I sent, and asked me to help them pay the national taxes throughout the year. They all have to help me build reservoirs and canals, understand Yet?"

"What? Let us be free laborers? No, we won't do it!" Liu Mangzi, a loafing, lazy rascal, was the first one to yell again.

Afterwards, there was a lot of trouble, and there were some friends who had the same smell as him.

Would Gu Xiangsi be afraid that they would make trouble?Xingmu clapped in his hand!There were three beeps in a row, and the bottom fell silent again.She looked at those rascals, then at their families, sighed and shook her head and said: "You parents! Don't even think about it, how old they are, let alone whether they are daughters-in-law, just say that you will die in a hundred years. These people who are single, or have a family but can’t support their wives and children, won’t they end up lonely and abandoned by their wives and children? Now! I’ll help you turn their prodigal sons back for free, I don’t ask you to be grateful to me, I just ask you not to be loving fathers and mothers who are too many losers, okay? Come on! Detain them all, and whoever dares to say no will be sent to the quarry to move stones. Let them taste what it's like to be whipped every day without enough food and sleep."

"Yes!" Lie Feng and Mo Yun are willing to carry out the order of the princess, happy!
Liu Laizi's father grabbed his old wife and shook his head at her. The princess was right, they would die before his son sooner or later, if his son still couldn't get rid of his bad habit of stealing chickens and dogs after they died, he would be punished sooner or later. People were killed.

Many parents are reluctant to let their sons be taken away like this, but it is really scary for these people to draw their knives at them!
Gu Xiangsi, after those rogues were gagged and tied up and taken away, she looked at the loving fathers and loving mothers of those troubled children, and sat down on the grand teacher's chair behind, playing with the piece of Xingmu, watching them pursed their lips and said : "I know that some of you will thank me in your heart for helping you teach your sons, but some of you will be short-sighted and resent me for being too lenient in your heart. But it doesn't matter, whether you are grateful to me or resent me, in the future After dinner, you all have to come here to listen to my stories. Don’t worry, what I’m going to say next are all wise words, and I’m definitely not trying to scare you. Auntie, I will trouble Uncle Wu to beat the gong to call everyone here after dinner, and the school ...Let the master tell some interesting fables to the children! They can't understand much, just listen to a little story, and someone will take them to sing, dance and play."

"Okay." Wu Bing and Yang Baihua nodded in agreement. Anyway, there are already many people in the village who are jealous of them, so it's no big deal to do more offending things now.

It is impossible for Gu Xiangsi to offend everyone with a stick. After the punishment that should be punished, she smiled kindly and said, "Since I came back to see everyone, I can't come empty-handed. Just wait! After a while, Someone will bring chicken, fish, meat and eggs over, everyone will have a good meal, let's get together to listen to a story at night, and then I will prepare gifts for you, okay?"

"Okay!" Passionate ones belong to most people.

Only some people who have a guilty conscience or can't think about it will be reluctant to listen to any stories.

However, they are still very happy to receive chicken, fish, meat and eggs.

After seeing off these folks, Xiling Yan, who was sitting on the official hat chair and sipping tea, raised her eyes and pursed her lips and said, "You are really patient. Give me a stick and a sweet date."

"Hey! There's nothing I can do about it. I can't be really ungrateful and clean them up ruthlessly, right?" Gu Xiangsi sat slumped on the grand teacher's chair with her feet resting on the table. It's really selfish.

After all, this can be regarded as the starting point of her rebirth, which is equivalent to her birthplace, man!There is always a little hometown plot about the place where I was born.

Therefore, she really wants to make Shanghe Village better, and she can't let him use his power to protect Shanghe Village for nothing, can't she?
"I hope they can really understand your good intentions in the future." The reason why Xilingyan didn't speak from the beginning to the end was because he didn't want to ruin her affairs, and he also believed that she had enough ability to handle these villagers' riots well. .

"I hope so too!" Gu Xiangsi looked up at the grape trellis above her head wearily, but there were too many entanglements in her heart.

Repaying these people is for the original owner.

But if they really don't understand her good intentions, should she really let go completely when the time comes?
Although He Hua said those words because she hated her, but what she said was a bit reasonable, and the kindness of a drop of water should be repaid by the spring.

"People can only do what they can, and they can't force it." Xiling Yan stood up and walked to her to reach out. A pair of long, white and slender hands with well-defined joints rested on her shoulders, and massaged her shoulders with strength all the time, hoping to relieve her pain. exhausted.

Gu Xiangsi folded her arms and closed her eyes in real enjoyment. She didn't think there was anything wrong with being served by a dignified prince like a grand lord.

Because Yang Baihua's daughter-in-law made almond tofu, she came to invite Gu Xiangsi's family to eat. As soon as she arrived at the door, she saw the scene of Xilingyan rubbing Gu Xiangsi's shoulders and back in the courtyard. Her legs went limp, I almost knelt down in fright.

Holding the door frame with one hand, he hurriedly turned around and walked away quickly.

cough cough!She should find her children to eat almond tofu first!
God, how much is this lovesickness loved by the prince?The prince, he actually rubbed Xiangsi's shoulders and beat his back...serving her?

Whoops!This is amazing, those people who risked their lives to offend lovesickness were truly blessed by their ancestors, they lost their lives in vain.

If the prince was unhappy and furious at that time, wouldn't those people have their heads chopped off on the spot?
"Aunt Wu, what's the matter with you? Did you see a ghost in broad daylight?" A fat middle-aged woman just went out to splash the dishwashing water, when she saw Yang Baihua walking quickly with her head down in a panic, turning her head to look behind her from time to time At a glance, it's like being chased by a ghost in blue sky and white day.

Yang Baihua paused, stopped and turned to look at the fat woman, rolled her eyes, turned around and walked over, looked around like a thief, then leaned into the other's ear, muttered, and told her After saying a lot, he patted his chest, and said with a panicked look on his face: "This is really scary, let alone the prince of the Tian family, it is these mud-legged men in our village, our mother-in-law , I dare not do that..."

Seeing Yang Baihua's frightened look, the fat woman also raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead. What kind of method did this lovesickness use against the prince of the town to teach such a dignified prince? Docile and obedient?
Waiting for her to rub her shoulders and beat her back?Whoops!She suppressed her man so badly, that dead ghost didn't even pour water for washing her feet once!Not to mention serving her by rubbing her shoulders and pounding her back.

"I won't talk to you for now. I'm going to find Baozhu brothers and sisters. If I don't go back, the almond tofu will be ruined." As soon as Yang Baihua finished speaking, he hurried away again.

snort!With the big mouth in the village to spread the word, before dinner time, the whole village, even adults and children, can know how the prince loves Acacia.

Now she wants to see, He Hua is first-class, and those local ruffians like Liu Manizi and his family, who dare to make trouble for Acacia.

People are good at being bullied, and horses are good at being ridden by others. This is the reason since ancient times.

Xiangsi is kind and let them bully her, she is not a good stubble, just wait and see!This time, it will surely scare all of them out of their wits.

(End of this chapter)