1. Miser

Once upon a time, there was a pair of neighbors, and they were all very stingy. One day, the owner of one of the houses asked his subordinate to go to a neighbor's house to borrow a hammer, and the subordinate ran over and asked, "Hello, excuse me!" Can you borrow your hammer? My host wants to order some nails. ”

The owner of the house asked, "Is it an iron nail or a wooden nail?" ”

The servant replied, "It's an iron nail." ”

So the owner of the house refused: "It's really unfortunate, this was originally just a trivial matter, but my hammer is not at home now, and it just happened to be lent out." ”

When the servant returned, he told his master about the result. The master was angry and said, "This person is too stingy! After asking whether it was an iron nail or a wooden nail, they even said that the hammer had been borrowed, so they were afraid that their iron hammer would be injured. But in that case, we have to use our own hammers. ”

Second, the thief's heart

Once upon a time, on a snowy day, a man went to a friend's house. Because it was too bright outside, when he entered the house, he felt that the whole room was as dark as night, and he couldn't help but sigh: "It's so dark." ”

However, as he entered the house, he stepped on a small firewood knife in the doorway. He just wanted a firewood knife, thinking to himself, it was so dark, no one else could see it anyway, so he secretly put the firewood knife into his arms. Unexpectedly, after a while, after he got used to the light in the room, the room was not so dark. At this time, he realized that all the people in the house had seen what he had just done. He could only pretend to be calm and chat with others awkwardly.

At this moment, a person suddenly came in from outside. The man said at the door, "It's so dark in this house!" ”

The man who stole the firewood knife hurriedly said: "I'll teach you a good way, you can put this firewood knife in your arms for a while, and the house will not be so dark, I did this just now, it is very effective." ”

With that, he put the wood knife in the hand of the man who had just entered the door.

3. Toad God

A long time ago, at the foot of a mountain there was a village with a woodcutter who was already very old. There is a waterfall in the mountains, and one day, the woodcutter was cutting down trees behind the waterfall. Unbeknownst to him, the woodcutter accidentally threw the axe out and fell into the waterfall. Below the waterfall is a deep pool, into which the axe falls. However, the water in the pool instantly set off waves, and the surrounding water vapor rose, and the surroundings became pitch black. A mallet-shaped thing with black thorns floated on the surface of the water.

Seeing this, the old woodcutter panicked and wanted to escape down the mountain, but a gentle voice behind him said, "Old man, please wait a minute." ”

The old woodcutter looked back, and there was a young and noble woman standing on the edge of the waterfall, the woman was gorgeously dressed, and she looked like she didn't eat the fireworks in the world. The old woodcutter thought. The woman said, "I am the toad god here, I have been in the water for thousands of years, and everything was fine, but then a big crab came to the waterhole and forced me to marry it, and I didn't agree, so it didn't leave, and my mana was not as strong as it, so I could only let it lie in it." Just now, fortunately, your axe fell, and this crab's crow was cut off, and the mallet-shaped thing just now was its crow, which had been washed away by the water. That big crab is screaming in pain at the bottom of the water now! However, this big crab still has an egg, so please throw the axe off the waterfall again. ”

With that, the toad god handed the axe back to the old man.

The old man was very scared and wondered, how could a toad become so beautiful? He did not dare to disobey the toad's request, so he returned to the place where the axe had fallen above the waterfall, and threw the axe down again, and as before, something like a mallet appeared on the surface of the water, and was washed away by the water. The toad was very happy and said happily: "Thank you, you will live a hundred years and be rich for a lifetime." After saying that, he jumped into the water and disappeared.

A few days later, at the mouth of the sea, the villagers found a dead crab that was missing two crows and was a foot wide. Only then did everyone know that what the woodcutter grandfather said was all true. Some people say that the old man was rewarded with a big copper toad, and the toad spits out a gold coin every day.

This is a beautiful legend, an auspicious legend, the toad will spit out money, so until now, many people who do business will put a fortune toad in the store.

Fourth, good people are rewarded

Once upon a time, there lived a poor groom in the countryside. Seeing that the next day was about to celebrate the New Year, he still had no money to buy New Year's goods, so he had to lead the empty horse home. On the way, the groom saw a dirty man named Hanako, who fell under the pine tree on the side of the road**, and looked like he was about to freeze to death.

The kind-hearted groom thought, I didn't expect someone to have a harder time than me, and I must help him.

So, the groom asked Hanako to sit on the back of the horse and took him home. When he got home, he asked the old woman to spread a mat in the outhouse and make the fire in the stove more vigorous. Marf felt that although there was nothing to entertain him, at least it could keep him warm.

The next morning was the first day of the new year, and the sun had risen very high, but Hanako still hadn't gotten up. The groom went up to him and called out to him, but received no response. The groom thought he was dead, so he lifted the straw mat on Hanako's body, and was startled———— where else is Hanako, it's obviously a big piece of gold!

The groom who got the gold soon became a monopoly. What a good person has a good reward!

Fifth, the fox repays the favor

A long time ago, an old man got up in the morning to clean the backyard and saw a bean in the corner of the courtyard, so he planted the beans in the vegetable patch in the backyard. It didn't take long for the beans to take root and sprout, and finally grew into a big tree, and the beans on the tree were as many as one or two buckets, which was good, and saved money to buy beans.

Unexpectedly, one day, a fox came running from nowhere and ate all the beans.

The angry old man said, "You fox is so hateful! The beans I worked so hard to cultivate were all eaten by your little brute! See if I don't kill you! ”

The fox apologized to the old man vigorously and said, "Forgive me for you, and I will make you earn a sum of money, which will be regarded as compensation for you." ”

Only then did the old man calm his anger and nodded. Thus, the fox turned into a good horse. The old man made a fortune by selling the horse to a wealthy family.

After a few days, the little fox, which had turned into a horse, escaped and said, "This time I will turn into a teapot." ”

With that, it transforms into a beautiful teapot. The old man took the teapot and sold it to a monk in the temple who liked to drink tea. Whenever the monk put the teapot on the stove, there would be a gentle cry, and the little monk who went to the river to dismantle the teapot could sometimes hear the sound of crying out for pain and laughing, and the laughter was like touching itchy meat.

The old monk couldn't understand why a teapot could talk, so he turned the stove on fire and put the teapot on it. At this time, the fox finally couldn't bear it anymore and shouted, "You monk, you want to burn me to death!" ”

With that, the fox fled with its tail exposed.

Sixth, Hercules

Once upon a time, there lived a sumo wrestler named Dou Yuan by the sea. Once, when he was walking along the beach from a friend's house, he saw a man sitting on the beach from a distance, because of the evening, he could not see the person's appearance clearly, and vaguely thought that it was a woman, so he walked over and saw that it was indeed a woman, but this woman looked different from ordinary people, and she had sharp horns on both sides of her forehead. Dou Yuan was taken aback, because he was well-informed about competitions all over the country, and guessed that the woman in front of him might be a dragon girl.

"You're a dragon lady, aren't you? What are you doing here? Sumo Dou Yuan asked.

I saw that the woman nodded and said, "I am a dragon girl, but when I came home from the heavenly court, I met a monster, and I fought with it for a few rounds, and I killed it, but I was also injured, and my scales fell off five pieces, but one of them was not picked up, and it may have been blown to the woods next to me by the wind, my feet are crooked, and I am unable to move, can you go to the forest for me to see?" ”

Sumo Dou Yuan is a bold man, and he replied, "No problem, I'll take a look." With that, he ran into the woods.

In a few moments, he returned with palm-sized, glittering silver scales in his hand and handed them to the dragon maiden. The dragon girl was very moved, said thank you, and said: "My feet can't walk, you push me into the sea, before I enter the sea, I will fulfill a wish of you in return, you say, if you have any wishes, I will help you realize them." ”

Sumo Dou Yuan thought for a moment and said, "My profession is a sumo wrestler, so please give me the power of a thousand people." ”

The dragon girl said that there was no problem, so she gave him great strength, and then, with a strong Dou Yuan, she pushed the dragon girl into the sea in just one stroke.

However, the strength was a little too great, and Dou Yuan, who was walking on the road, was very distressed, because he would step on the road with a little stomp, so he had to be careful, almost to the extent of tiptoeing, and he didn't know that Dou Yuan was doing something unseemly.

In desperation, Dou Yuan came to the beach again, he called the dragon girl facing the sea, because of his strength, every time he shouted, he fell into the sand under the weight of the force, and when the dragon girl floated to the sea, he had already fallen into the sand half of his body. Seeing this, the dragon girl couldn't help but snicker, pulled him up, and withdrew some of his strength, until Dou Yuan could move normally, he thanked the dragon girl, and swaggered home, even if he jumped, the road was still intact, and he was relieved. The dragon girl told him that this power can be passed on from generation to generation, so your children and grandchildren can use sumo as a profession for generations, but remember that you only have one chance to pass it on to the other party, and you must not pass it on to your wife, otherwise, the power will be passed on to your wife, and the mother is the greatest, then only the girl will have the power among your descendants. Dou Yuan remembered the words of the dragon girl tightly.

However, although time passed, Dou Yuan forgot about it. One day, Dou Yuan brought back a large bag of gifts from a friend's house, and as soon as he entered the house, he gave the package to his wife, so that the power was transmitted to his wife, and when he remembered it, it was too late, and his wife became as strong as him.

After another year, his wife gave birth to a child and gave birth to a dragon and phoenix fetus, but only the daughter was born with divine power, although she grew older and older, until she had the same strength as her parents. It is said that their son-in-law was bathing in the bathtub one evening, and it suddenly rained heavily, so the daughter brought the basin into the house with her.

There are also many things about Dou Yuan's strength in the local area. It is said that when people were building a temple on a nearby hill, the beams were too big to find a suitable way to put them, so hundreds of people discussed a solution.

At this time, Dou Yuan happened to pass by, and he muttered quietly, "It's all a bunch of useless guys." ”

Everyone heard him talk to himself clearly, and said, "If you have the ability, move up and let us see." ”

So Dou Yuan climbed onto the roof alone with the beams, and then put the beams down.

Everyone present was shocked, and in order to test him again, they said to him, "You have put the beam upside down!" Dou Yuan listened, lifted the beam again, and turned the direction. The big guy was embarrassed to tell him that it was just to test him, and asked him to reverse the beams again. But this time, the angry Dou Yuan directly refused. As a result, the beams of this temple are still upside down.

Dou Yuan's sumo career was full of glory, but because of his carelessness, it ended in his generation.

7. Gold stone grinding

Once upon a time, there was a pair of farmer brothers who lived in a small, remote and quiet village. The younger brother is a scheming person, but the elder brother is a little honest and honest, therefore, the elder brother is always supported by the younger brother to do all kinds of work, the elder brother is not unaware of the younger brother's little caution, but he doesn't care. However, it was too much that some people in the village also bullied him, and whenever his brother walked on the road to and from the crop fields, someone always threw stones at him in the dark. The younger brother knew that his brother was being bullied, but he didn't care about it.

One day, my brother was walking on the way home, when he passed a deep pool, a white-bearded old man emerged from the pool, although the old man came out of the water, the clothes on his body were not wet at all, and the elder brother thought it was a fairy, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed. The fact is that the white-bearded old man is a fairy, and he said with a smile: "Honest and kind people, people do not deceive the sky, I will give you one thing, so that you can eat and drink without worry for the rest of your life." After speaking, the palm of his hand flipped and a small stone mill was conjured. The fairy then said, "This is a treasure, you only need to put a grain of rice in this stone mill every day, and grind it again, and the grain of rice will turn into a grain of gold." When you get home, you dig a small pool in the yard and bring the water from the pool every morning and offer it to the stone mill. ”

"Thank you, old fairy." The elder brother respectfully took the stone mill. And the old fairy laughed and disappeared into the water.

The elder brother took the stone mill home, dug a pool, and used the stone mill to grind a grain of gold every day. In this way, he lived a prosperous life even if he did not work. The younger brother found that his brother's life was so leisurely and rich every day, and he wondered. So when his brother was not at home, he sneaked into his brother's house and found the small stone mill. He put a grain of rice in it, but he didn't expect to grind out a grain of gold, and he couldn't help but be surprised. But the greedy brother was not satisfied, he even poured a bowl of rice into it, and then turned the stone mill around. I saw that the little stone mill turned faster and faster, turned to the outside of the house, turned to the small pool, and then disappeared. Since then, this stone mill has never been seen again.