The life of the coachman Wu Laoqi should be extinguished. There is no fire in the house, there is nothing in the stomach, and the more hungry you are, the colder you get, and the colder you get, the hungrier you get. Are you waiting to die in a room that is colder than an ice cellar? Although it snows heavily in the middle of the night and no one uses the car, it is better to be outside than to wait at home to freeze into a popsicle, and it is better to walk than to sit with heat on your body. He pulled the cart out and walked out. He was pulling a Toyo car.
He walked all the way to the intersection of the Drum Tower, there was no figure in the black rumbling, who went out in the middle of the night? Even wild dogs and wild cats froze and hid. He had no energy to go any further, and as he stood there, he began to feel that his feet were not his own.
At this moment, a figure walked out of the black doorway under the drum tower and walked slowly. Is this man on crutches, also an old man, and a poor old man who is hungry and cold, who came to him to ask for food?
When this person gradually got closer, he was not a poor man, but an old man from a rich family. He wears a long green cotton robe, a fur hat with ear protection, kind eyebrows, and a long beard. This old man's appearance is a bit strange and extraordinary. I haven't seen it before, but I feel like I've seen it somewhere. Without waiting for him to speak, the old man said: "Go to the front of the archway of the Confucian Temple in the East Gate." With that, the old man got into the car. Wu Laoqi thought that this was God's grace, and he still had work to do in the middle of the night, but he didn't feel that his body was a little strong, so he pulled up the car and trotted all the way to the east gate. On the way, he didn't dare to speak, for fear of exerting himself. The old man in the car was also silent. The street inside the east gate was empty, and only his car walked. As he walked, he suddenly felt that the car was a little heavy. Can people still get heavier? Are you bored? As I was thinking, the car became heavier, as if it had pulled half a cart of stones. He felt that something was wrong, stopped the car, and when he turned around, a big strange thing appeared in front of him, and the green-robed old man in the car was gone, empty! Look closely, there are two bags on the saddle, one large and one small. He opened it and saw that the small bag was full of cakes, and the big bag was full of money. He looked around, and he was still alone in the snow and ice - and a cart of silver! To his surprise, the car was parked not far from his home.
Wu Laoqi is rich, and he has too much money, copper coins, silver, and small gold ingots. Wu Lao has a steady temperament by seven days, has lived on the dock for decades, and has seen a lot of things. He understands that having more money is a blessing and a curse. He did not show off his wealth and show off his wealth, but kept quiet, first calculated his future life in the small shack, hid the money, and then walked out of the shack and followed the plan step by step.
First opened a breakfast shop, then opened a small food stall, followed by a restaurant, a restaurant, a restaurant, and a restaurant, he did steadily. In the eyes of others, he did it step by step, and he never saw that he got rich overnight. Then he opened a decent Jiuhe restaurant in the most popular areas of Gulou, Beidaguan and Liangdian Street. He eats because he has been hungry for most of his life. The dry rice shop will no longer be hungry, and the dry rice shop can see money every day, and it is all cash. When people have money, there are many ways. Wu Laoqi used all his brains, coupled with his hard work, to do a good job, and his family business also prospered all the way. However, the money bag that the green-robed man gave him back then has always been kept, and the few small gold ingots in the bag have not been touched, because he has always had the life-saving benefactor who suddenly appeared in the cold and frozen ground in his heart.
But where did the old man in the green robe go to find it? Wu Laoqi did not use any strength. From searching on the street to visiting the door, there were embarrassments and jokes about recognizing the wrong person in the middle, but there was never a trace of it. He pondered carefully, and this matter was still a little strange. For example, the appearance of the green-robed man is extraordinary. He searched all over the city and outside the city, but he really didn't have such a kind look; For example, who would wear a green robe? The robes of Tianjin people are black, blue, gray and brown, but no one wears green. Someone joked with Wu Laoqi that there are cuckolds, and there was a county lord in Tianjin who always had a stiff face and asked people to wear cuckolds.
The most strange thing is this bag of money. There are many rich people in Tianjin Wei, and there are many rich and good people. However, the good people of Tianjin opened porridge factories, gave money, helped the poor, and donated money under the noses of the public, so that others could see and know. Who would quietly stuff this big bag of money into a man who is about to freeze to death and starve to death? No one has ever done the thing of folding his arms in his sleeves.
It seems that this green-robed man is an immortal, but which immortal is this? There are more than 100 large and small temples in the city of Tianjin, the incense is continuous every day, the common people kowtow every day, who has seen the gods appear.
In the autumn of this year, Wu Laoqi hosted a banquet for several business partners at the branch of his own "Jiuhe Restaurant" in the south of the city. He has been doing everything smoothly lately, and he is not awkward in his heart, and everyone is full of auspicious words. When a man is happy, the wine is high. He came out of the restaurant, walked around and walked to the drum tower, and climbed up. The drum tower is high, and the old city **, from here by the railing to look far away, you can see the scenery of the whole city, 100,000 people. Wu Laoqi watched it with pleasure and pleasure. If the wind blows again, it is even more comfortable. He was going home for a good nap, and when he was about to go downstairs, when he turned around, he suddenly saw someone on the other side of the stairs watching him. This man looks kind and kind, with a long beard and a little familiar. He stopped and took a closer look, and the man was actually wearing a green robe. Ah! Isn't it the green-robed man who saved his life, was kind to him, and looked for him for more than ten years? It looks exactly the same! He hurried over and looked—it was a man, and it was a statue. How is it a clay statue, it is clearly a green-robed man.
The drum tower is not a temple, the gods and Buddhas in it are all invited by rich people. He asked an unrelated person next to him. They said, "You don't even know who he is." Bao Jiaxian, Mrs. Hu!
Of course, he had heard of the Baojia Immortals, Huhuang, White Willow and Gray Immortals, who blessed the whole family with peace and happiness. But he had no money to marry a wife in his life, was widowed and lonely, had no home, and naturally never burned incense for Baojiaxian. How do you know that this third master Hu in a green robe is merciful to the world, saw him, a person who is about to die, appeared in the world, saved him, and made him rich in one step. It turns out that the green-robed man is him! That's right, didn't he just come out of the doorway under this drum tower that day? He fell to the ground with a grunt, kowtowed repeatedly, and his head hit the floor until he kept knocking, and kept knocking, until he pulled someone up, and his head bleed.
Others don't know why he kowtows so much, thinking that he has encountered a catastrophe, or that he is crazy for money. But only he understood it, and he could not say it. Since then, every year on the coldest day of the 39th day, in the middle of the night, he will climb to the drum tower to burn incense and kowtow to the green-robed fairy. He looked forward to the immortal appearing again, and he wanted to thank him, but every time he saw it, it was a clay wood sculpture that did not move at all.