During the period from Tang Suzong to Germany, the merchant Tan Yiqiu rode a horse to Chang'an, planning to purchase some cloth to come back, because it was the first time to go to Chang'an, and he did not know the goods in Chang'an, so he did not bring the goods, but traveled lightly. On this day, because of the delay in the ferry, and the unfamiliarity with the path, Tan Yiqiu missed the lodging, and when the sun set, he was still walking on the mountain road.
Just when he was impatient, there was a sudden curling smoke in the mountains and forests, where there was smoke, there would be people's homes, he rode his horse and galloped, and soon arrived, there was only one family, a small courtyard, and three houses in it.
Tan Yiqiu knocked on the courtyard door, and after a while, a woman came out of it, stood in the courtyard and asked who it was? Tan Yiqiu talked about the meaning that it was getting late and wanted to come to spend the night, the woman opened the door, showed a pretty face, looked Tan Yiqiu up and down, and said: "You only have one person, it's easy to say, the house is narrow, and there are too many people to live." Come on in. After saying that, the woman opened the door and asked Tan Yiqiu to lead the horses in, tie them to the courtyard, and then sit down in the hall.
After a while, the woman brought a few dishes, took out a jar of wine, and drank it with Tan Yiqiu. Tan Yiqiu asked about the woman, why is she the only one? Is the husband not at home? The woman's eyes turned red and she talked about her life experience.
It turned out that the woman's surname was Su, and her husband died less than a year after marriage, leaving her to live here alone, but fortunately, her husband's family was thick and would not starve and freeze. It's just that she suffered, a long night, and there was nothing to rely on. Speaking of this, she glanced at Tan Yiqiu meaningfully.
Tan Yiqiu, why doesn't he understand the hint of this look? Suddenly the whole body became hot, and he also looked at the woman deeply, thinking: It turned out to be a young widow, it seems that there is a blessing tonight, and this opportunity must not be missed. He pretended to be calm and asked, "You are so young, why don't you make a plan early and marry someone else?" ”
The woman sighed and said, "I have a good relationship with my deceased husband, and I can't bear to leave so early, and I plan to abide by the etiquette system and remarry in three years." Tan Yiqiu took the opportunity to praise and said: "A woman like a little lady who understands love and righteousness is rare in the world, and it is really a blessing to meet it today!" ”
The more the two talked, the more speculative they became, Tan Yiqiu was bold, grabbed the woman's hands, and said a lot of love words. The woman said coquettishly: "The Spring Festival is worth a thousand gold, let's go to the bedroom." Tan Yiqiu was overjoyed, quickly stood up, took the woman's hand and was about to leave.
At this moment, from Tan Yiqiu's sleeve, a sable suddenly came out of his sleeve and said, "Lord, by all means, you can't be with her tonight, you have to sleep on the roof beam." ”
Speaking of this sable, since he was rescued by Tan Yiqiu, he has been by his side for almost five years. Speaking of Tan Yiqiu's rescue of the sable, it is still full of legends.
It was five years ago, Tan Yiqiu went to the Northeast to do business, buy wild ginseng, and transport it to Luoyang City to sell. On this day, Tan Yiqiu went to visit an old visitor, walked in the mountains, suddenly got lost, and the more he walked, the more he felt that something was wrong.
At this moment, he heard a cry for help in the distance, "Whoever saved my life will be a servant for him for life!" He shouted three or four times in succession, mixed with exclamations. Tan Yiqiu hurriedly slapped his horse forward, the voice sounded again, he followed the prestige, only to see a sable squatting on a stone on the cliff wall, and in the gap next to the stone, a big snake was exposed, with its head held high, staring at the sable at the sable, ready to attack at any time.
Tan Yiqiu couldn't help but laugh, as far as he knew, sables eat snakes, how could they be afraid of snakes? What a sable in vain. He was laughing when the snake jerked its head out and attacked the sable, which jumped and dodged, almost slipping off the stone. The cliff is about a few feet high, and if you fall down, you will either die or be injured.
Seeing death and not saving it is not his style, Tan Yiqiu immediately took off the longbow on his back, bent the bow and set up an arrow, and shot it at the head of the snake, the big snake was frightened, got into the gap and disappeared. Sable took the opportunity to climb down the rock, came to Tan Yiqiu's horse, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and said: "Under the sable, thank the lord for his rescue, never break his word, and be willing to follow the lord and serve before and after the saddle." ”
Tan Yiqiu asked it to get up and asked why it was afraid of snakes. Sable spoke. It turned out that this was not an ordinary snake, but a snake on Maoshan Mountain, hiding in a cave to listen to the preaching of the immortals, practicing in secret, and having high mana. Because the sable listened to the sermon a few years later than it, and its mana was not as good as it, it was afraid. After listening to it, Tan Yiqiu nodded, and took it with him.
Now, Sable prevented Tan Yiqiu from being with the little widow, and wanted him to sleep on the roof beam, which made Tan Yiqiu a little puzzled, and was about to ask, only to hear the little widow angrily scolded: "Mouthy, you don't know what to do, you fought with the big snake at the beginning, and was driven down by the immortals from Maoshan Mountain, but now you have come to me to talk nonsense." ”
Sable sneered at each other and said, "Although I was driven down the mountain, we are cultivating the right way, unlike you, a wolf demon, who cultivates the demon way, specializing in defrauding people of money and harming people's lives." The little widow angrily fell into Tan Yiqiu's arms, and said coquettishly: "The sable bullied me, you quickly drive it away!" ”
Tan Yiqiu turned his head and said, "Sable, you let me go, go quickly, don't disturb my good deeds." Sable said, "My lord, the little widow is a wolf demon, she approaches you for your money, you must not be fooled." The little widow was stunned in Tan Yiqiu's arms, Tan Yiqiu had already lost his mind, and yelled at the sable: "You go quickly, I don't want you to be a servant anymore, and from now on you will be cut in two." With that, he picked up the broom and beat him up, and Sable had no choice but to escape from the house and disappear into the night.
The little widow pulled Tan Yiqiu into the bedroom, and Tan Yiqiu got his wish. The next morning, when he awoke, he found that the little widow was gone, and all the money on her body was gone, and he was lying in a pile of rocks, and the horses were not far away, and only a skeleton remained, apparently eaten by the wolf.
Tan Yiqiu woke up like a dream, regretting that he shouldn't have listened to the sable, it turned out that the sable was right. However, it was too late to regret it, and the sable did not know where to go, so he had to walk down the mountain. Because he was penniless and hungry, Tan Yiqiu had no choice but to pull down his face and beg for a living, after all, living is the last word.
However, begging did not go well, and many people saw that he had hands and feet, and that he was young and strong, so they ignored him at all, and he lived a life of hunger and hunger.
On this day, Tan Yiqiu was walking on the road, and suddenly a sable came out of the grass, and he couldn't stop crying when he watched him. Tan Yiqiu turned his face away angrily and said, "Aren't you leaving?" Why again? The sable said, "You drove me away, can you blame me?" Tan Yiqiu said with a cold face: "Since you are gone, don't come again." ”
Sable said, "I swore to heaven that I would be a slave to you for the rest of my life, and I would not leave you." "At the beginning, Sable said that he would fulfill his promise and be a servant to Tan Yiqiu, and Tan Yiqiu asked him to swear to the sky, so Sable knelt on the ground and swore to the sky that he was willing to wait for Tan Yiqiu for a lifetime, and if he broke his promise, he would be punished by God.
Tan Yiqiu listened and was silent. Sable approached him and said, "My lord, begging like you, before you get home, you are probably starving to death, ** have money to do business?" I have an idea, we can make money, let's go in the direction of Chang'an, and when we get to Chang'an, we will have money to buy cloth. Tan Yiqiu suddenly came to his senses and asked, "What good can you do?" ”
Sable said, "There is no good way, it is also begging." Tan Yiqiu was immediately deflated and blamed Sable for entertaining him. Sable said, "I've come to beg, and the effect will definitely be better than yours." ”
So, the sable followed Tan Yiqiu and came to a village, it jumped and somersaulted, attracting a lot of onlookers, and it could also make all kinds of actions according to the instructions of the onlookers, attracting bursts of cheers, people kept throwing coins, and people brought food to them.
In this way, they walked the streets and villages, performing non-stop, and at the end of the day, the minimum was 800 wen, and the most was more than three times and more money. Just like that, he stopped and stopped, and when he arrived in Chang'an a year later, he had accumulated nearly a thousand taels of silver in his hand.
After entering Chang'an City, Tan Yiqiu put the silver in the blanket and wandered around, which was really inexhaustible prosperity. In the evening, Tan Yiqiu had dinner in a small restaurant and began to look for an inn to stay, when he suddenly saw an alley at the mouth of an alley, and a woman beckoned to him, saying that he could stay. When he saw that the woman was as beautiful as a flower, he couldn't help but feel itching, and followed the woman into the house.
The woman immediately took him by the hand and was about to go into the inner chamber. At this time, the sable came out of his sleeve and stopped him, saying, "My lord, you can't go, you have to sleep on the beams of the house." This woman is none other than the wolf demon on the mountain at the beginning, and now she has come to Chang'an City, she wants to cheat you out of your money. ”
The woman glared angrily and scolded: "You don't know what to do, you are really talkative. Tan Yiqiu asked: "Sable, this girl looks different from the little widow, why do you want to say that she is the original wolf demon?" ”
Sable said: "Lord, the wolf demon is good at changing, don't be blinded by her." The woman threw herself into Tan Yiqiu's arms and let Tan Yiqiu drive the mouthy sable away. Tan Yiqiu's heart suddenly beat faster, his blood surged, he had already lost his mind, and immediately drove the sable away. Sable didn't leave, and said, "Lord, are you confused again?" Forgot the lessons of the past? ”
Tan Yiqiu was furious and said, "Do I still want you to teach? I don't want you to be a servant anymore, and from now on, you and I will be strangers. With that, he kicked the sable away.
Sable endured the pain and got up, glanced at Tan Yiqiu, sighed, turned around and disappeared into the night. Tan Yiqiu got his wish and lived with the woman.
When I woke up the next morning, a few big men came and drove Tan Yiqiu out. Tan Yiqiu wanted to take the blanket, the woman took out a piece of paper, sneered and said: "You have agreed to give me all the money, with your handprint on it, if you make any more trouble, I will send you to the government." ”
Only then did Tan Yiqiu know that while he was asleep, they took his hand and secretly pressed his handprints on the paper. He had no choice but to suffer a dumb loss. However, when he got out of the alley, he was at a loss, and he didn't know where to go? Once again, he was in a desperate situation of being penniless. After two days like this, he finally had the cheekiness to beg.
As before, when people saw that he was young, strong, and strong, with hands and feet, they ignored him, and he lived a hungry and full life, and he was miserable.
On this day, he suddenly saw a thin figure in front of him, which turned out to be a sable, and immediately shouted in surprise. Sable glanced back at him, turned his head and continued walking, not paying any attention to him at all. He strode forward, caught up with Sable, and said with a smile on his face: "I'm sorry, Sable, it's me who is wrong, I apologize to you." But you can't ignore me, I'm your master! ”
Sable said angrily: "I don't have a lord like you who can't listen to advice, besides, you have long said that the two of us have nothing to do with each other, and we are like strangers." Tan Yiqiu hurriedly said: "That's me being confused for a while, don't be surprised." Sable still walked on her own, ignoring him.
Tan Yiqiu suddenly sat on the ground and cried, shouting: "I'm so miserable now, you actually left me alone, you are so ruthless." The sable said, "You brought it on yourself." Tan Yiqiu saw that it was not good, so he got up and said hatefully: "Sable, have you forgotten your original promise?" ”
When Sable heard this, he sighed, obediently walked up to Tan Yiqiu and said, "Okay, lord, what do you say we should do?" Tan Yiqiu said: "As always, sell art to make money. Sable said, "I'm tired, and money is slow to come like that." I've inquired a long time ago, you can sell me to the prince, but don't reveal that I can speak. "It turns out that there is an old prince in Chang'an City, who likes all kinds of small animals, as long as it is fun, he will buy it at any cost.
Tan Yiqiu said that he sent the sable to the palace. The old prince found that the sable was both smart and flexible, and empathetic, and could play all kinds of tricks, so he was overjoyed, and immediately took out three thousand taels according to Tan Yiqiu's meaning. Tan Yiqiu excitedly left the palace, bought two carts of cloth in Chang'an City, rented two carriages, and went home.
After walking for about four or five days, and staying in the inn that night, Sable suddenly came to Tan Yiqiu's pillow. Talking about Yiqiu Daxi, asking how it came out? Sable spoke.
It turned out that the old prince believed in ghosts and gods, and one night two days later, the sable slipped to the old prince's pillow, and suddenly spoke, claiming to be the god of heaven and the mink descended to earth. The old prince believed it, and quickly kowtowed, respectfully inviting the god mink**. Sable jumped out of bed and walked away.
After listening to Tan Yiqiu, he laughed at the sable ghost with too many ideas, but it was a pity that the old prince lost three thousand taels in vain. Sable smiled and said, "I can't lie to him, besides, three thousand taels **, for him, it's just a drop in the bucket." ”
After walking for a few more days, when he arrived at his hometown county, Tan Yiqiu stayed in an inn and began to sell goods. The ** of the cloth is good, in less than half a month, it was sold out, and it earned eight hundred taels of silver. Tan Yiqiu put it in a box and drove the carriage to his home.
On the way, it happened to be raining heavily, and Tan Yiqiu had to drive the carriage to the farmer's house to hide from the rain. It rained for nearly two hours. When the rain stopped, Tan Yiqiu drove the carriage and continued to hurry. Maybe it was because the sky was dark, Tan Yiqiu took a fork in the road, turned onto the mountain road, and when he found out, he quickly turned his horse's head and walked back.
As he walked, he found that it was not the same way, but he was lost. In this way, after wandering around the mountain road for a long time, I did not go down the mountain, and the sky gradually darkened.
When it was time to hold the lamp, Tan Yiqiu found that the lights were lit up in the distance, and drove the carriage to stay. Coincidentally, it is a single family, a woman, and a little widow.
Tan Yiqiu chuckled in his heart, did he meet the wolf demon again? He looked at the woman carefully, which was completely different from the original two women, and then he was relieved.
When the woman saw Tan Yiqiu looking at her, she quickly put on a smile on her face, and her eyes shot a seductive light. Tan Yiqiu suddenly couldn't hold it in his heart, and his words showed a provocative meaning. The woman took advantage of the trend, and the peace talks were eyebrows, and the two didn't even eat, and they were about to enter the inner room hand in hand.
Sable hurriedly stretched out his sleeve and shouted, "Lord, you have already been fooled twice, do you want to be fooled a third time?" Do you know who she is? She's a wolf demon, the same wolf demon as the first two encounters, you don't go in, you should sleep on the roof beam. ”
The woman was furious and scolded: "Mouthy, you talkative, talker, go away." Sable sneered and said, "It should be you who walked away, wolf demon, you have already deceived my lord twice, if you are fooled again this time, my lord will fall into hell from which there will be no return, no matter what, I can't let this kind of thing happen." ”
Tan Yiqiu said: "I have observed, she should not be a wolf demon, besides, there are so many wolf demons in the world, why did I just run into it." Sable shouted: "She is indeed a wolf demon, once she is targeted, she will definitely ** you three times, so that you will never recover, the first two times are just for wealth, this time it will be fatal." ”
The woman said impatiently: "Don't listen to the sable nonsense, the spring supper is short, hurry up and get rid of it." Tan Yiqiu smelled the fragrance on the woman's body, and his heart suddenly rippled. His face was flushed, his eyes were red, and he rose up and kicked at the sable.
The sable flashed away and instantly pounced on the woman, who quickly let go of Tan Yiqiu and retreated to the wall. Sable shouted, "Lord, quickly put the stool on the table, climb up the roof beam, and lie down on it." ”
Tan Yiqiu looked up at the roof beams and asked, "The roof beams are so small, how can I lie on them?" Sable shouted, "That's an illusion, just lie down." ”
As soon as the words fell, the woman pounced with her teeth and claws, twisted the sable and hit, the sable did not give in, and a pair of claws kept scratching the woman. Tan Yiqiu hurriedly climbed onto the roof beam, lay up with his eyes closed, and lay down firmly. He leaned down to look down, and realized how high the roof beams were. And the woman's head has long since turned into the head of a wild wolf, and she is gnawing on sables.
Tan Yiqiu's heart hurt, Sable died, and sacrificed his life for him, the master, he suddenly felt extremely guilty, and a line of tears flowed from his eyes. At this time, after eating the sable, the woman looked at Tan Yiqiu on the roof beam, but she was helpless.
Finally, when the east turned white, the scene in front of me suddenly flashed, and everything changed. Below was a pile of rubble, and next to it was a towering tree, on which he was lying. And the carriage was nearby, and the boxes containing the money were in a pile of rubble.
Tan Yiqiu got down from the tree, found the skeleton of the sable in the grass, wept profusely, buried it nearby, and then drove home in the carriage. This time, Sable's death deeply touched his heart, no matter in **, he regarded women as mustards, and he would never think about it again. It's also strange, since then, Tan Yiqiu has never encountered strange things.
Three years have passed in a flash, and on this day, his wife, who is nearly forty years old, suddenly said that she was pregnant, but Tan Yiqiu was shocked, the youngest child in front of her was almost ten years old, and his wife had not been pregnant for almost ten years, how could she suddenly be pregnant now?
In a blink of an eye, the October period expired, and on the eve of childbirth, Tan Yiqiu suddenly dreamed that Sable walked in, jumped on his wife's bed and disappeared. Tan Yiqiu woke up, and then realized that his wife was pregnant at an advanced age, and it was prepared for sable. On the morning of the same day, his wife gave birth to a son, and Tan Yiqiu named him Huaizi, which means missing the sable.
Tan Huaizi is very attached to his father, as long as Tan Yiqiu is at home, he will lie in Tan Yiqiu's arms. When he was six or seven years old, Tan Yiqiu often took him to relatives, as long as he had drunk three rounds, he would come forward, and Tan Yiqiu was not allowed to continue drinking, saying that it was not good for his health. Tan Yiqiu has always felt very guilty about the sable in his heart, so he listened to Tan Huaizi's words very much, and almost obeyed him, because he knew that this son was the reincarnation of the sable.
About ten years later, this year Tan Huaizi was seventeen years old, and Tan Yiqiu unfortunately fell ill and was paralyzed in bed. The other children just greeted him, and only Tan Huaizi waited in front of the bed inch by inch.
About seven months later, Tan Yiqiu was seriously ill, and when he was dying, he returned to his light, pulled Tan Huaizi and said: "I know that you are the reincarnation of a sable, I am leaving, you take care." ”
Unexpectedly, Tan Huaizi said: "After you leave, I will also leave." Tan Yiqiu asked in surprise: "You are young, why did you say this?" Tan Huaizi smiled and said, "I once made a vow to be a servant for you for the rest of your life, and when you leave, your life will be over, and I will continue to practice." ”
It turns out that after the sable dies, because it is a cultivator, the soul can continue to practice without the need to be reincarnated. However, it kept in mind that the oath had not yet been completed, so it was reincarnated as Tan Yiqiu's son and continued to guard him.
After hearing this, Tan Yiqiu was extremely moved, smiled, and said, "Don't be so stupid in the future, why do you promise to be a servant to others?" Even if you are a servant, you should not promise to be a servant for the rest of your life. And if you're dead, the vow will be automatically lifted, so why bother with it? You are still reincarnated and continue to keep your vows, you are really stupid. ”
Tan Huaizi smiled and said, "Alas, there's no way, I'm just a promise, I can't change it." But you, don't be so stupid in the next life, you will be deceived again and again, you can't imagine that there are people like you in the world, and you are very stubborn. ”
Tan Yiqiu laughed, and after a while, he asked, "Why do I always run into wolf demons?" Why haven't you ever met a wolf demon since you died? ”
Tan Huaizi said: "Because you were greedy for women before, you always fantasized about having an affair, so you produced dark ghosts, which are easy to attract bad things, such as wolf demons." Later, you really woke up and were upright, so you didn't dare to get close to you. In fact, as long as you are doing right, you will not attract evil spirits. I understand this truth, but there are very few people who can do it. ”
When Tan Yiqiu heard this, he was relieved, closed his eyes and left. Less than a month later, Tan Huaizi also died, and the master-servant relationship between him and Tan Yiqiu was completely over.
Sable is really stupid, blindly good to people, but stupid and cute, Tan Yiqiu is really stupid, always can't wake up, stupid want to beat people. However, it is precisely when the two come together that they will deduce a different human plot. There are many true temperaments like sables in the world, and when you meet them, you should treat them well and treat them as friends. There are many people like Yiqiu, who can't listen to persuasion and don't know the hearts of good people, so it's better to stay away from such people. At the same time, the story also inspires people not to think about things that they shouldn't think, but to make themselves righteous and full of energy, so that evil will stay away and life will be comfortable.