According to legend, there was a small hut called Bachun in Dongfu Township, Shanglin County in ancient times, with only 70 or 80 families. This hut is manned by a shopkeeper named Lu, and the other residents are the long-term workers and domestic slaves of the rich man Lu. In the easternmost part of the country lived a family named Lan, whose ancestors had been slaves of Lu for seven generations. In Lan's generation, because the rich man led a team to hunt in the mountains, he met a big bear. The rich man shot an arrow at the belly of the wild bear, and the wild bear was angered and rushed in the direction of the arrow. The rich man panicked, threw down his bow and arrow, and turned and fled. The injured bear is the most terrible, you must fight to the death with your opponent. This time, the rich man was miserable. Running all the way, call for help. Two accompanying nursing homes rushed out of the guardian. Although they chopped the bear with machetes, they were slapped by the furious bear. One died and the other was seriously injured. At this moment, Lan Wang Zu, who was born in Orion, came out and pointed a long burr at the bear's chest. Lan Wang Zu was also shot by the badly injured bear and was seriously injured. The bear pulled out the long grass, and a stream of black and red blood poured out, and the bear bled to death.
The rich man Lu thanked Lan for saving his life and gave him 200 Jin of cassava and two steamed buns. And exempted the Lanzu Wang family from slavery. The Lan family restored the good civil rights of freemen; However, seven generations of ancestors have always been slaves and laborers of the Lujia family, and they have no other skills to make a living except doing long-term work and hunting in the mountains. Although the Lan family is no longer a slave, they are still working as coolies in the Lujia compound. Lan's son, Tehong, is a boy of twelve or thirteen. Watching his father and mother do long-term work for the rich man Lu day after day, he asked his father, "Dad, is there a day of ease?"
Lan sighed and said, "son, my father and ancestors were slaves for seven generations." In my generation, because my family loves hunting, I seldom go hunting with my family, so I learned some hunting skills. Seriously, I don't know what else to do to make a living except to work with my family for a long time and eat at home, so I choose to continue working at home for a long time. "
"Don't you know how to hunt?" Tehong asked his father.
Lan replied: "Hunting can be spent in spring, summer, autumn and winter, but in the long winter, animals are cat's winter." What shall we eat? "
Tehong stopped talking after listening, but the idea of not working for a long time in his heart has grown like a seedling in the rain.
A year later, Lan died of a recurrence of an old injury, and his mother died of grief soon after. At that time, Tehong was only fourteen years old, and Tehong didn't want to continue to work as a long-term worker. One day, he asked the rich man Lu: "In my family, people who do long-term jobs are paid. Why can't I get paid? "
The rich man Lu said, "You are weak, but I raise you well. Do you still need money? " ? Damn slaves! "
Hong Lan said, "Master, it seems that you have been liberated from the slavery of my family. I should be a free man. Should I be paid for my work? And you call me weak, but since last year, I have done as much work every day as other long-term workers. Why can't I get paid? " The rich man Lu has nothing to say. He has always regarded the Tehong family, which has been free and poor, as his own slave, and naturally he has no salary.
The rich man Lu didn't want to lose the hardworking Tehong, so he advised, "It's the end of the year. I'll give you money next year. " I'll give you ten dollars a year, two clothes and room and board. Okay？ "
Tehong thought about it. In this poor mountain road, whether you buy things or spend money on Sam Street or open a shop on the street, nine times out of ten, the rich man or his relatives open a shop, or return the money to the rich man. So he refused the rich man Lu's money, thought for a moment and said, "I don't want your money or your clothes." By the end of next year, you can give me a bucket of sorghum, a bucket of millet and a bucket of beans as seeds, and then give me a hoe, a moon, a firewood knife and an axe. " The rich man calculated that it was much less than the salary and agreed.
In a blink of an eye, another year passed, and the hardworking, kind and capable Tehong left a good impression on the rich man, who was reluctant to let Tehong go out and be a free poor man.
On New Year's Eve, the rich man Lu came up with a plan. Tomorrow, Tehong will go out to make a living by himself. In order to get rid of Tehong's idea of being a free poor, the rich man Lu put a bucket of sorghum, a bucket of millet and a bucket of beans in bamboo baskets, scalded them with boiling water, dried them on the stove, and gave them to Tehong in three bamboo baskets.
On the morning of the first day of junior high school, Tehong packed three barrels of seeds in three old cloth bags. Tehong cherished the hard-won seeds, poured the seeds in the bamboo basket into the cloth bag and patted the bamboo basket for help. I'm afraid there is a hard-won seed caught in a crack in the basket. The hoe given by the rich man Lu is the worst in the rich man's family. The knife has been used for three years, leaving only a piece the size of a palm. The rich man Lu Jia's axe rusted when he left it for a long time, and the firewood knife used only one edge, almost becoming a sickle. Tehong didn't care. He picked up seeds, tools and his rags, carried them on his shoulders, climbed the mountain, climbed three high mountains and walked four paths, and came to a mountain called chicken coop. The mountain is more than 300 meters wide and 500 meters long, with a flat bottom and wild pear and lemon trees. Tehong decided to camp here.
He took a look at the terrain of the field, cut down seven or eight big trees with an axe at a backer, leveled 200 square meters of flat land, connected the trees as a stockade, built a wooden frame house, built a roof with thatch and bark, tied the door with battens, and built a small hut with three rooms with stones as walls. It took three days to repair the house.
On the fifth day of the first month, while people were still at home, he began to cut trees and mow grass on the mountain and piled them together for nearly ten days. He cut out a piece of land 50 meters wide and 200 meters long. The trees withered, and the cut weeds mixed with the trunk. Tehong burned hay with a sickle to ignite withered trees. A big fire burned all the cut dead trees and weeds, exposing an oil-black land that had not been explored for thousands of years.
He dug up the land with a hoe and dug a ridged hole in the moon. In the spring of March, he planted three barrels of seeds. He also walked more than ten miles to the other side of the mountain, picking up cassava stalks and a dozen sweet potato heads that had sprouted in the ground. Pick it back, cut it into small pieces and plant it in the remaining corner.
Since then, he has been diligent in watering, nursing and staying in the corner of the field. Soon after, the cassava planted later germinated and the sweet potato grew seedlings, but the three seeds given by the rich man Lu did not see any seedlings. Tehong knew that he had been cheated, and was cheated by the rich man Lu. During the day, he hunted in the mountains around the mountain road and dug up Hu Aishan, pueraria lobata and wild mushrooms. Make a fire at night to protect the seedlings. Finally one day, he found a sorghum seedling growing on a flat wasteland. It turned out to be a seed in a bamboo basket. Lu, the rich man, didn't get scalded, but Honger dropped it when she patted the bottom of the basket. As a result, the seeds of Sandou grew such a seedling, which Tehong cherished very much. Although he suffered hardships and cold by eating wild vegetables, he had hope when he had seeds. You have the determination to keep fighting.
Under the careful care of Tehong, the seedlings grew up day by day, from one seedling to five branches and six roots, and they could never grow again. Strong sorghum seedlings have brought infinite hope to Tehong.
In an instant, three months passed. First of all, sorghum flowers grow on the earliest main stems. In a few days, six branches also blossomed. The sorghum flowers grown on the six-stem seedlings make Tehong's heart as sweet as honey. Seeing that sorghum is about to mature, the hope of expanding sorghum in the next step will be realized. One day, Tehong went to the mountain outside the mountain road to see if the trap he installed caught any wild animals. Suddenly I saw a big bird flying, stopped on the ripe sorghum stalk, grabbed the sorghum stalk, cut off the sorghum ear and flew to Orient Mountain.
Tehong caught up with the mountain of 3721, and the giant bird could not fly fast with heavy sorghum ears. Rest 100 to 200 meters, Tehong can't catch up with running underground. From morning to afternoon, the big bird flew to the middle of a foggy mountain and stopped in a tall thin tree. Soon Tehong also chased and shouted, "Stupid bird, if you don't put down my sorghum, I will put it down." The big bird ignored him and picked up a stone to hit the bird in the tree. The birds began to fly again and flew to the top of the mountain. Tehong ran to catch up with him. He is going to the top of the mountain. The birds were tired and had to fall off the sorghum, but the sorghum ears fell into a gap just over a foot wide like eyes, and Tehong had no time to reach a few meters away. Only to see it fall into the dark abyss. Tehong cut a Spatholobus suberectus with the child's thick arm, which was three feet long. One is tied to the root of the tree, the other is tied to the waist, and it goes down into the crevice of the mountain. Soon he climbed up again with no end in sight. He cut down three five-foot-long kudzu lotus cities, went down to the gap in the mountain, climbed for more than an hour, reached the bottom of the gap and found the sorghum ear. Just as he was happy, the piano melody came to his ear, and he was busy looking for the sound. He saw a cave attached to the seam. He walked gently into the depths of the cave and saw a dozen men and women in the cave, all of whom were beautiful, wearing gorgeous clothes made of fine gauze and green silk. Some people are singing and playing the piano, while others are playing chess and practicing swords. Tehong is a country boy. He can't sing and play the piano, but he can play chess. Usually I like to watch people play chess, so I go to two handsome guys who are playing chess and watch them play Go, sitting under the * * * with wooden knives. They are hungry after playing chess for a long time. Two old people playing chess asked him to go to dinner together. They walked to a boulder shaped like a steamed bread, dug it with their hands and dug out a soft steamed bread with a fist. They gave it to Tehong. Tehong didn't say anything, but it tasted like white flour steamed bread. After eating a few pieces, I went to a clean pool and washed Tehong with a ladle.
After eating and drinking enough, he and two old gentlemen returned to the board to play chess. For three days in a row, Tehong remembered that it was time to go home. He got up and said goodbye to home, only to find that the wooden handle of the wooden knife under * * * had rotted, and the sorghum ear behind him had rotted into the soil. I turned around and found the rattan, but it turned into rotten soil when I caught it. He couldn't go back, so he cried loudly. The beauties in gauze and silk came to ask him why he was crying. He said that he climbed the rattan from a stone crack on the mountainside. Now that the rattan is rotten, he can't climb the mountain and sew it back to his hometown. An old man playing chess gave him a heart sutra and comforted him by saying, "Nothing, close your eyes and I'll walk you out." Tehong closed his eyes and only felt a breeze blowing. In a blink of an eye, he came to a small cave 300 square meters wide. There are two small rooms on each side of the cave, just like a natural fairy cave. There is a stone step leading to the cave, which is not big, only more than one meter wide. It turned out that he had reached the foot of the Eight Immortals Mountain.
He returned to the henhouse and found that his beard was five inches long and his head was three feet long. His sorghum, red mushrooms and cassava have grown all over the valley by themselves. He went outside the mountain and met an acquaintance hunter in the ravine. He didn't recognize Tehong. When Tehong told me that he was blue's son Tehong, the hunter was surprised. Didn't you disappear three years ago? We all thought you were killed by a wild animal! Tehong knew that he had met a fairy, and the mountain seam was also a world of yin and yang. That's "three days in the cave, three years on earth".
When Tehong returned to the henhouse, he was tired of farming. He lives in a henhouse. Two years later, he moved to a small cave where he came out of the fairy cave. Whenever the first day and the fifteenth night, he can hear the sound of singing and playing the piano in the fairy cave. He yearned for the immortal world, so he fasted and recited Buddha in a small cave and practiced the Heart Sutra. From then on, he only ate vegetarian food and stopped killing animals. After practicing in a small cave for 18 years, Tehong sat in the cave and became an immortal. Since then, he has been included in the immortal class.
But Tehong missed his hometown folks and left his thoughts in Zuohuaxian Cave. For example, if people within 100 miles of Fiona Fang are in trouble, they can ask for incense and worship. Tehong will tell Tehong what he thinks, and Tehong will help others tide over the difficulties.