So Bai Delai ran away overnight, stayed at the station overnight, and spent his days stealing and begging in markets and cottages. Soon he lived among the people in Hunan and Hubei, mainly stealing. This time he failed in his attempt to break open the door to steal bacon, and he was thinking about what would be safe and reliable to steal. But the rat spirit has been following him. Although he can't get close, it plays a surveillance role.
Bai Delai fled to another village that night carrying an iron rod and a hammer. He was still a few hundred meters away from the village house when he heard a dog barking. After walking a little further, pairs of green dog eyes flashed in the night. The dog's barking posture with its bared teeth and gaping mouth made him panic. He was not afraid of the dog, but worried that he would be exposed if he committed another crime again.
As he approached a village house, several dogs barked around him, causing him to immediately lose the confidence to commit another crime. He turned around and walked in the other direction. A hazy mountain ridge appeared in front of him. Over the ridge, there was a barren slope. There were two adobe houses in the middle of the slope. It was silent inside, but if he listened carefully, there was a faint snoring. He put the heavy He put down the crime tools, knocked on the door and shouted: Mom, open the door - he shouted several times, and there was a response from inside: "Here we come."
The lights come on for a moment. Tsk tsk... The footsteps approached, and the door opened with a creak, revealing an old woman holding a candle with a wrinkled face, about sixty years old.
The rat spirit that followed took a look at her and understood her life background. This mother's name was Liu Yuzhen, and she was the widow of Ma Xingguo, a nearby villager who had died of illness for many years. She gave birth to seven sons in her life, none of whom survived, and she lived alone in old age. Her only property was four tile-roofed houses in the village.
Since she had no one to support her, a wealthy gentleman in the village gave her a few bushels of rice every month, enough to feed her. Liu Yuzhen was a person who knew how to repay kindness. She felt that she could not enjoy her salary in vain, so she went to the gentleman, knelt down on her knees, and said with tears streaming down her face: I have no son, so I dare not claim you as my godson, but you are my godson. great benefactor.
The gentleman then helped her up and said, "Mother Liu, don't kill me if you act like this. What can you say?" Liu Wangzhen said: If you agree to my request, I will get up. The gentleman was startled and thought to himself: If she makes an unrealistic request, can I agree to it? But the gentleman always respects the elderly and cannot let her kneel for a long time, so he said: I may be able to agree to your request, you stand up and say it!
Liu Yuzhen stood up and said: I want to give you all the four tile-roofed houses in my house, and you can let the tenants who work for your house live in them. The gentleman thought that this was good. There were many tenants working for him and housing was in short supply. But he couldn't put it this way, so he said: If you don't live in your own house, where will you live?
I want to move to the two adobe houses on the hillside behind your house where people used to guard sheep. That would be just right, one for sleeping and one for cooking. Liu Yuzhen said, with a longing look on her wrinkled face.
That place is remote and it's not safe for an old man like you to live there. Gentleman said worriedly.
Don't be afraid. I'm a lonely old woman who just wants to be quiet and at ease. Why would anyone want to sneak up on me? Liu Yu made gestures as she spoke, as if that was the right place for her.
The gentleman felt that what she said made sense, and after a few days, he arranged for a few men to help her move quilts, cooking utensils and other belongings to the dirt house on the hillside.
Although Liu Yuzhen is old, she is very diligent. She digs out several pieces of land with a hoe and grows vegetables, sweet potatoes, sesame and other cash crops. Except for rice, which is provided by the gentleman's family, she is mostly self-sufficient. She also often uses vegetables and other crops. in exchange for some daily necessities.
That time, when she was digging sweet potatoes in the sweet potato field, a strange man knelt down in front of her and said in Mandarin with a Zhejiang accent: Auntie, accept me! I was homeless, and because I was hungry, I stole something from others, and was chased by others. I ran to the mountains to hide. Please take pity on me and accept me!
Children, no matter how poor they are, cannot steal. Liu Yuzhen said: I can take you in for a while, but you can't steal anymore. It's disgraceful!
I promise, I promise. The strange man announced his name and kept kowtowing. Seeing his honest look, Liu Yuzhen remembered his name - Bai Delai, asked him to get up, and welcomed him into the house to cook a meal to entertain him.
During that time, he helped the old man hoe the fields and said he would be her godson. Liu Yuzhen was very happy. However, he did not change his thief nature and often avoided the old man and went to nearby villages to steal property. The old man asked him what he was doing out there. He always lies to excuse himself.
Sometimes, some belongings would appear inexplicably in this adobe house. When Liu Yuzhen asked where they came from, he always said they were given by others. Although the old man was a little suspicious, since it had not caused any trouble, he did not ask any more questions.
That night, Bai Delai knocked on the door and entered the house. Seeing that he was empty-handed, the old man asked: What are you busy with when you come back so late? He hummed, without giving a clear answer, and went to sleep on the bunk in another room. But he couldn't sleep, always thinking about how to steal property easily and safely.
He thought hard and finally came up with an idea, but the rat spirit who had his mind understood his intention immediately, so he handed over his hand to the door god of the adobe house and said, "Do you know that this Bai Delai is a thief? What should I do?" uniform? The door god replied, Mortals no longer believe in me, and I have never been worshiped.
As for where this thief goes to steal, I have no control and I will not care. Wherever he steals, he will be unlucky. Those who lose money may deserve this disaster. Isn't it superfluous for me to interfere with him?
The rat spirit said: This is wrong. What you said seems to make sense, but it is a negative understanding of the law of cause and effect. When I was a squirrel in my previous life, I listened to the scriptures read by the monks in the temple, and I had an epiphany in my heart: to help sentient beings change their evil ways and become good, or to help victims. By seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune, sentient beings can not only save those sentient beings who are sinking into a sea of misery and repaying injustice, but can also demonstrate their own righteousness.
The door god was not interested in what the rat spirit said, so the rat spirit left the house without wavering, but its confidence could not be shaken. It came to the top of the mountain and knocked on the door of the mountain god. The mountain god was tall and tall, with a fluttering black beard. When he saw the rat spirit coming, he asked if he had any questions. What's the matter?
Before the rat spirit Jiang Bai De Lai finished talking about his bad deeds, the mountain god smiled and said: Those mundane affairs are not within the scope of my jurisdiction. Who will take care of them? I could see that Bai Delai was a habitual thief when he first entered the house, but it didn't bother me, so why should I bother?
What the mountain god said was almost the same as what the door god said. The rat spirit asked for trouble and left.
The next day, Bai Delai got up early, went down the mountain, walked through a field, and watched quietly for a long time by a pond with cool waves. A golden carp swam in the microwave, but it caused waves in his heart—— He developed a desire to catch fish.
However, this is the fish pond of farmer Sima Fu. If you want to catch fish, you have to pay first. Since I have no money, what else can I do besides stealing? The fish in this pond are not easy to steal; even if they are not stolen, it is difficult to just wade in the water to catch fish under the clear sky and broad daylight. But he thought of a way to catch the fish easily. You see, he then turned around and left, went straight to the market, walked into a store, bought a pack of fishicide, and carried it in his arms.
He planned to choose a night when no one was watching the fish pond to start.
He visited the fish pond for several nights, and finally found that no one was waiting at this fish pond at night. He became bolder, so he first went to a remote village in the mountains to find a bamboo craftsman to build a bamboo raft. He moved it into the river and tried rowing it. It was just big enough for two or three people to stand on it. This time he planned to steal the fish alone, so the load of the bamboo raft would not be a problem.
He lifted the bamboo raft from the river and quietly placed it on a mountain near Sima Fu's fish pond so that he could steal fish nearby at night.
Afterwards, he gave some stolen vegetables and other small things to a family with fishing equipment and asked him to lend him a fish trap. It can be said that the tools for committing crimes that were obtained for free are ready, and they only need to wait until it gets dark and late at night to do whatever they want.
