The Shocking and Extraordinary Romance of the Great Sage

But it was said that Zhang Guolao rode his donkey backwards and walked slowly among the crowds at the market, shouting:"Fellow fellow villagers, there are those who have petitions, monks, medical treatment, and migration difficulties; there are those who have bad luck, fortune-telling, theft, and man-made disasters. Those who are looking for good luck when it comes to housing, waiting for work, going to the countryside, leaving their wives, or those who have children, broken homes, ruined lives, or ruined reputations, all can come here for divination and fortune-telling. Although I am already old, I can try my best to transcend and save. Relieve the crisis." After saying that, many villagers came around to ask for help. Guo Lao has a donkey's back, he doesn't mind the chaos, receives everyone one by one, lets nature take its course, and helps those in need and shows them the way.

During the noon meal, everyone returned home. Zhang Guolao went to the spring cave to get water and rode his donkey backwards. When I arrived outside the Shuiyuan Cave, I suddenly saw a young man kneeling on the bank of the spring, lowering his head and crying. He was so sad. Guo Lao asked,"Why are you crying? What's so sad about you, a fine young man?" The late student who knelt down was none other than Bei Zongxiang, the second eldest son of the Bei family. He was born weak, not as strong as his elder brother, and not as bold as his younger sister. Beizong complained bitterly to him:"Grandpa, I am not sad for my own children, but for my mother and father." Guo Lao took the clean spring water with a gourd and asked again:"Why? Are you sad for the two elders?" Beizong complained bitterly to him. Xiang Xuan cried and said:"It's bitter, it's bitter, it's hot. It's scorching hot, it's a great heat. Both of us suffered from heatstroke, prickly heat all over our bodies, and stomach problems. We're too hot to eat." Guo Lao said,"Strange, you As a child, why don't you use a fan to fan the old man? Wouldn't it be better to go to this spring and cry, can crying relieve the heat?!" Bei Zong said sadly:"My son wants to respect his filial piety, so he carries some cold water and sprinkles it on the house. But sprinkle it No matter how much you drink, it will dry up again and it will still be hot. If this water is ice cubes, you can carry it home to relieve the heat and cool down." He also said:"Bitter, how can this spring water turn into ice? Spring water, spring water. , it would be great if you turned into an ice cube and saved my parents from being discharged.……"After saying,"Wow wow wow"……Howling again.

Suddenly, my tears flowed like small channels and turned into ice cubes. The second son of the Bei family was shocked. When he wiped his eyes and looked at it, he found that the spring water was also frozen. In a short time, the water surface of the cave spring was covered with a thick layer of ice. Bei Zongxiang was overjoyed. He took a stone and knocked it on the ice several times. It all cracked into pieces, some big and some small. I took out ice cubes and put them into two empty buckets. My hands were red and swollen from the cold, but I was not afraid of the pain. He picked up a load of ice and walked back home. Within a few steps, he was startled and thought:"It's amazing, that old man with the white beard must be a god! Otherwise, how could the water come out of his mouth even if he cried on a hot day?" It has turned into ice!" Thinking of this, he put down his burden and looked for Zhang Guolao. Where can I find it? It has disappeared long ago. The second child was even more surprised. He immediately fell down and knelt down to worship the heaven and the earth without saying a word.

From that day on, the second son, Bei Zongxiang, went to the spring cave to carry ice cubes every day, and there was always ice that did not melt and he took it home. He put ice cubes in large and small basins in his parents' bedroom. The doors and windows were closed tightly, making the house extremely cool. A few days later, the prickly heat on the second elder's body was cured and his diet was much better.

His father's stomach problems improved after taking Chinese medicine. However, because he was too weak, he fell on the bed and could not get up. After the doctor saw the doctor, he prescribed some traditional Chinese medicine and told her to stew the medicine with black-bone chicken and have three meals a day. The eldest brother, Bei Zonglu, and his younger siblings went to buy ten black-bone chickens and raised them in the courtyard. On the first day, I stewed a black-bone chicken with Chinese medicine and only gave it to my sick parents. After a night, the remaining nine black-bone chickens were half dead and unable to move. I don’t know what disease the chickens were suffering from, but they all died before I could call a veterinarian.

The eldest brother, Beizong Lu, worked hard as a hired hand and earned copper coins, which he used to treat the elderly and support his family. There were only a few dozen copper coins left, so they all bought black-bone chickens, but all the chickens died. The whole family couldn't help but feel sad.

What can you do! They all had no idea and were all dejected. The eldest son went to work quickly to earn money, the youngest daughter went to take care of her bedridden father, the mother went to do farm work in the fields, and Beizong Xiang was left to bury the dead chickens.