Folk Tale The city god held a hundred ghost feasts, the butcher's family went to help, and the ghost market made a fortune
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a butcher named Zheng Youcai, who was tall and sturdy, with a meaty face. However, his appearance often makes strangers feel vicious and difficult to get close to.
Despite this, the townspeople understand his kind and helpful nature, so many regular customers love to patronize his butcher shop.
Zheng Youcai's wife, Wang, is also the daughter of a butcher's family, and they have three sons, and the family works together to run the butcher shop business in the town. However, since there were not many wealthy families in the town, they could only barely earn some silver to support their families.
However, after a Halloween festival, the family's situation improved dramatically, and they unexpectedly made a windfall.
The story takes place the day before Halloween. That night, Zheng Youcai dreamed of a man who looked like a civil official, claiming to be a civil judge at the local Chenghuang Temple. He told Zheng Youcai that since Halloween was coming, Lord Chenghuang planned to hold a Hundred Ghosts Banquet, and hoped that Zheng Youcai would help organize the banquet. The reason why this civil judge found Zheng Youcai was because he had a good reputation in the neighborhood and was good at cooking. Zheng Youcai readily agreed, because he was not afraid of ghosts and gods, especially when he learned that it was the local city god who invited him.
The judge told him the specific location, and paid Zheng Youcai to buy the ingredients at the market, and asked him to prepare the banquet according to the style of the human banquet, so that the ghosts and gods could taste it.
In order to cope with the busyness, the judge suggested that Zheng Youcai could take the whole family with him. After saying this, the judge turned into a puff of green smoke and disappeared.
When he woke up the next day, Zheng Youcai told his family about the dream. The whole family rejoiced. Zheng Youcai's wife, Wang, came up with a clever idea and suggested selling paper thread, paper clothes, paper carriages, and other items in the ghost market. She thinks that some wealthy families are very particular about funeral goods, and this is also a rare opportunity for ghosts, and they will be willing to buy them. In this way, the family can also make a fortune.
Zheng Youcai and his three sons thought it was a good idea, so they took out their family's money and went to the street to buy the items they needed.
On the day of Halloween, the Zheng family of five came to the vicinity of the City God Temple with a cart full of ingredients and a fat pig. They found an open place to slaughter the pigs and give birth to ** to prepare for the feast.
Although it was not completely dark, the nearby villagers saw that they were so generous that they were willing to take out a pig to worship the city god, but they just smiled and said nothing.
When night fell, the place where Zheng Butcher and his gang worked suddenly lit up with a dazzling light, illuminating the surroundings as if it were day.
To outsiders, the place is still dark and uninhabited. It turned out that in order to avoid causing panic, the City God used his mana to hide this area.
Looking at the tables and chairs that appeared out of thin air in the air, Zheng Youcai's family couldn't help but marvel at the magic of the spell.
They hurriedly put the prepared delicacies on the table, there were ten tables in total, and according to the requirements of the City God, ten people sat at each table, which was indeed a veritable feast of a hundred ghosts.
As Zheng Youcai's family set up the dishes, a burst of white mist filled the surrounding open space.
After the white mist dissipated, hundreds of ghosts and gods appeared on the ground, and the appearance of one person led by him was very similar to the statue of the city god, and there were two judges on both sides, both civil and military, and these ghosts and gods were seated one after another.
Before enjoying the meal, Cheng Huang Ye made a speech thanking Zheng Youcai and his family for a year of hard work, and at the same time thanked Zheng Youcai's family and told them to go down and have a good rest.
The Lord also said that if they brought goods from the world, they could trade them at the stalls later, and there would be a dance party after the feast, and they would be safely sent home after dawn.
With the approval of the city god, Zheng Youcai's family was overjoyed and quickly found a place to set up a stall.
After many ghosts and gods enjoyed the perfect taste, they also began to trade items with each other, and the sound of bargaining came and went, and the small place seemed to be turned into a corner of the night market.
Zheng Youcai's family's goods were sold out quickly, and since they were guests invited by the City God, the other ghosts and gods did not dare to use fake currency, and they all paid real money**.
Looking at the piles of silver taels around them, the whole family rejoiced, this time participating in the ghost market can be described as a great value for money, and the income from one night even exceeds the income of their ten years of hard work.
After shopping, Zheng Youcai's family of five wandered around the ghost market again, ** ghosts traded items with each other, and even enjoyed a song and dance performance late at night, and the party lasted until dawn.
At this moment, Judge Wen found Zheng Youcai and handed over a bag of silver, which was the reward for their family to help set up the banquet.
Zheng Youcai looked at it, didn't dare to accept it all, and said modestly: "Lord Judge Wen, this silver is too much, enough to be equivalent to our family's income for several years." Only five taels of silver is enough, and the extra money villain really doesn't dare to accept it. ”
The judge was very happy when he heard this, after all, who doesn't like money?He was very satisfied with Zheng Youcai's honesty.
He said: "You don't need to excuse yourself, this is for the city god to hold a banquet, and most people in the world dare not come, so it can't be compared with the gift of the world." This is also your fortune, and it is the reward of the City God. As the saying goes, 'The elder gives, and he can't give away.'" You can take it without any burden. ”
After Judge Wen finished speaking, he directly stuffed the silver into Zheng Youcai's hand, and Zheng Youcai happily accepted it after hearing it.
It didn't take long for the sky to get brighter, the lively scene of the night gradually calmed down, and the ghosts and gods returned to their respective positions, and the city god also turned back into the clay statue in the temple.
Zheng Youcai's family of five knelt down in front of the city god and thanked him for his generosity.
Subsequently, the family returned home happily with more than 200 taels of silver earned overnight. Soon after, Zheng Youcai used the money to prepare a dowry for his three sons and held a glorious wedding for them.
In the years to come, every time the City God held a hundred ghost banquets, he would ask Zheng Youcai's family to help. The incident was later leaked by a Taoist priest, and everyone said that Zheng Youcai's family was really lucky, and their butcher shop business was more prosperous because of it.
can be recognized by the city god, presumably Zheng Youcai's character is also quite good. Moreover, buying their meat is also a reassuring choice.
Zheng Butcher's family is honest and kind, and since then it has won praise from the surrounding area, and finally won the favor of the city god, and the family road has suddenly prospered. In the journey of life, a good reputation is undoubtedly crucial.
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