In the early years of Jiangxi, it was not rich, the folk customs were fierce but the mountains and rivers were beautiful, and there were many bizarre stories, and the most embarrassing and emotional of these stories was the following one:

The cormorant repays the favor of the fourth child, and kills the witch and the dragon.

This person named Mao Laosi usually doesn't have a regular business, walks the streets and alleys, and does odd jobs from time to time, which can be regarded as surviving.

is over forty years old, he didn't find a daughter-in-law and no children, Mao Laosi also accepted his fate, knowing that he couldn't get rich in this life, so he would make do with it.

There is a Longshui Lake in Jiangxi, which has been renamed several times, and no one remembers what it is called now.

Mao Laosi lives on the edge of Shuilong Lake, and usually fishes and hunts, but the harvest is not good, and there is no unique skill in craftsmanship, so he is naturally hungry every once in a while.

It's the same on this day, I've been hungry for several days in a row, today is God's opening, helping the old man next door to repair the big car, and people rewarded a few dollars, and Mao Laosi can be regarded as able to survive these two days.

On the way home, I bought a few hard cabbage sticks and went to the liquor store to get a pot of wine.

Mao Laosi thought to himself that he would be hungry anyway, and he would really not be able to get through it when the time came, and he could deal with it for a night after drinking a few sips of wine.

The poorer the person, the less ambitious he is, isn't that how poor people are short-minded?

There is no tomorrow today, no matter how much Mao Laosi wants to make money, someone has to be blind to him, so there is a reason why these days are getting poorer and poorer.

But when he was walking home with the beaten rough wine, Mao Laosi saw a lynx eating a cormorant.

The cormorant seemed to be weak and weak, and could not resist at all, so it was thrown to the ground by the lynx in three or two strokes, and saw that the claws were sharp and about to die.

Mao Lao Si didn't know what to think, maybe he felt that this lynx was like a rich and noble family who ate people and didn't spit out bones, and this cormorant was like himself, being wantonly exploited by others, and there was no day to raise his head.

Listening to the cormorant wailing, Mao Laosi still couldn't bear it, so he rushed up and drove the lynx away, the lynx screamed, but it couldn't beat such a big living person, so he could only give up.

The cormorant's feathers are scattered, but at a glance, it is a good fellow, fat and smooth, with a long beak and bright eyes, and it should have been caught accidentally.

The cormorant got up, shook his shoulders, glanced at Mao Laosi, and limped away.

Mao Laosi wanted to take it back and slaughter it, but he pondered again, after eating this meat, how will he live the next meal?

People are like this, if they eat well, they will no longer allow the cabbage gang to enter their eyes.

Mao Lao Si was also unproductive, and he was happy to be so poor, so he let the cormorant go away and went home by himself.

When I returned home, the day was as usual, and after two days, I was hungry again, and the wine was drunk.

Out of the house, it happened that a few fishermen were going out of the water Longhu Lake on this day, saying that they were going to fish together, which was also a tradition in the early years, and they took care of each other.

But one family didn't come temporarily, Mao Laosi took advantage of the loophole, got on someone's boat to help catch fish, and agreed to divide the fish into fifty or fifty.

Mao Laosi was elated, everyone looked a few years younger, if there were seven or eight fish in this scene, the food money for several days would be settled again.

And so it came out of the lake.

Floating on the lake for a long time, maybe it was not very lucky, several people didn't catch a fish, Mao Laosi was in a hurry, but there was no way.

Sitting on the boat, he sighed, thinking that he was going to be hungry again.

At this time, a mighty and beautiful cormorant flew to Mao Laosi's boat, Mao Laosi took a look, wasn't this the cormorant he saved a few days ago?

I just thought about simply catching the cormorant and going home to cook meat, but the cormorant plunged into the lake and flew up again.

Fluttering with a mouth, a big fish full of pockets!

All of them existed in the mouth of the cormorant, and the four hairy men were overjoyed, this cormorant was originally the nature of the fish in the mouth, but it actually threw it to himself.

As soon as I thought about it, I knew that it must have come to repay the favor, and Mao Lao thanked him for his kindness and accepted the fish.

When he returned to shore that day, only Mao Laosi caught a lot of fish in several boats, and everyone was surprised that they were abnormally fat.

According to the agreement, Mao Lao Si also went back with half of the fish, and the cormorant also flew away.

After waiting for a few days, a few fishermen thought that Mao Laosi really had some ability, so they looked for him again, and Mao Laosi was also happy to do this, so he went to Shuilong Lake again.

Sure enough, the cormorant came again, and the four Mao were overjoyed, and said that they would still be hungry when they pointed to this in the future?

With this cormorant, life is also smooth, and the fish that can't be eaten will be sold, and later Mao Laosi bought his own boat.

Every day when he goes out of the lake to fish, everyone is impressed by Mao Laosi, this person is really capable.

The cormorant is also very clever, every time the fish in his mouth is fat and big, the navel is far away, and some are still pregnant with fish fry, which is worth it no matter how it is sold.

The days are getting better and better, and the relationship between Mao Laosi and this cormorant is getting closer and closer.

There are also other families who call cormorants to fish on Shuilong Lake, but they all tie the cormorants' hind legs with ropes, lest the cormorants be greedy or fly away, and the fish caught are not very good.

The throat has to be stuffed with small pieces to prevent this cormorant from being greedy, which is really exhausted.

But Mao Laosi's cormorant is strange, he never needs to say hello, as soon as Mao Laosi gets on the boat, the cormorant flies over, and when Mao Laosi leaves, the cormorant also flies away.

There are more fish caught than others, everyone is envious, some people pay a high price to buy this cormorant, Mao Laosi has some money, and he has more eyes, and he is unwilling to sell, so he points to this work.

Life is rich, but people are also greedy, in the past, Mao Laosi would release small fish fry when he saw them, but now he only thinks about catching more fish so that he can marry a daughter-in-law.

So regardless of whether it is a fry or a cub, one refuses to let go, goes out of the lake early in the morning, and comes back at night, sometimes the cormorant is tired, and Mao Laosi also uses a stick to drive the cormorant down.

As soon as a person makes money, there is no room for any emotions and six desires in his eyes, all of them are silver!

Mao Laosi fished with red eyes every day, and the cormorants did not dare to disobey, and after a year or two, the big fish in the entire Shuilong Lake were almost clean!

When there were fewer big fish, Mao Lao Si was angry with the cormorant, and from time to time he beat up, scolded a few words, and desperately drove the cormorant to catch the big fish.

It's the same on this day, Mao Laosi threw the cormorant into the lake, waiting for the big fish to come up, but when he looked up, he saw that the whole sky had changed color, dark clouds, lightning and thunder!

Immediately afterwards, there was a whirlpool in the water, and a big black shadow swirled back and forth under Mao Laosi's boat!

Mao Lao Si was shocked and was thinking about retreating, but a witch dragon jumped out of the water!

There is a witch dragon in this water dragon lake, which has always been a legend, but I didn't expect Mao Laosi to really meet it.

It may be because there are no big fish in the lake, the witch dragon is hungry and anxious to go out of the water to hurt people, and some people say that it is Mao Laosi who angered the gods, this witch dragon is the dragon king in the lake, and he can't bear to be killed by Mao Laosi when the fish fry in the lake are killed, so he comes to retaliate.

In short, Mao Laosi was stupid, the whole person trembled into a mess of rotten meat, and all he thought about was all kinds of ways to die and fear.

As soon as the witch dragon rushed out, her eyes were scarlet, and she stared at Mao Laosi, screaming and rushing, only to see that her mouth was open, red flesh and white teeth!

But at this moment, the cormorant also flew out of the water and rushed into the mouth of the witch dragon at once, blocking this catastrophe for Mao Laosi.

The witch dragon was hit by the cormorant in its mouth, and in a fit of rage, rolled back into the water, and crunched and chewed the cormorant to pieces, and the cormorant died without even making a sound.

Mao Laosi took this opportunity to desperately slide the oar towards the shore, and climbed back to his house on the shore with a roll.

After a serious illness, it took more than a month to recover, Mao Laosi had no cormorants, and he couldn't catch fish, so he could only consume the little money he had left, and it didn't take long for him to become poor again.

It's just that since then, Mao Laosi has never eaten fish in his life, and he has never been to Shuilong Lake again, helping people sew and mend work every day, drinking when he makes money, and kowtowing to the ground when he is drunk.

No one knows why he is like this, some people say that he doesn't have that rich life and deserves to be poor for a lifetime, but only Mao Laosi knows in his heart that he owes the kindness of other people's cormorants!

This is exactly what is said to be that there is a cycle in the way of heaven, and retribution must be paid in the end!

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