My grandfather's name is Hu Guohua, the ancestor of the Hu family was a well-known landowner in ten miles and eight townships, and in the most glorious period, he bought more than 40 houses connected by three alleys in the city.

There is a folk proverb: "Rich is not more than three generations - this is very reasonable, even if there are mountains of gold and silver in the family, it cannot stand the squandering of the children and grandchildren of the loser."

In the years of the Republic of China, it was passed on to my grandfather's generation and began to fall into the middle of the family, first divided the family, Hu Guohua also got a lot of family property, enough to live a life without worry, but he refused to learn well, of course, this is also related to the social environment at the time, first indulged in gambling, and then smoked Fushou paste (big smoke), and lost the Wanguan family fortune.

When Hu Guohua was young, he ate, drank, prostituted, gambled, and smoked all five drugs, and in the end he was so poor that he didn't even have a big son. If you are addicted to smoking, you will scratch your heart and liver and you can't stand it, but who will let you smoke if you don't have money? In the past, when there was money, the boss and the guy in the tobacco house saw that he was all Hu Ye Chang and Hu Ye was short, and he greeted him attentively and thoughtfully, but once you were penniless, they treated you as a stinky person to ask for food, and they couldn't drive you away.

People are going to be poor and crazy, and the concepts of honesty and morality are not important, so Hu Guohua thought of a way to go to his uncle to cheat some money. Hu Guohua's uncle knew that he was a big smoker from a ruined family, and he usually refused to give him a penny, but this time Hu Guohua lied to his uncle that he wanted to marry a daughter-in-law and asked his uncle to make up some money.

When the uncle heard this, he was moved to tears, this unscrupulous nephew finally did something serious, if he married a virtuous daughter-in-law to take care of him and collect his heart, maybe he would be able to learn well in the future.

So he took him twenty yuan of ocean, and told him to marry a daughter-in-law and live a good life, don't get contaminated with those blessings and longevity ointments again, and when he is free in a few days, he will go to Hu Guohua's house to see his nephew and daughter-in-law in person.

Hu Guohua had the most ghost ideas, in order to deal with his uncle, he went home and went to the village to find a craftsman who tied paper people and paper horses, which was the kind that burned the dead. This paper-binding master is very skillful, as long as he can tell what you can say, he can do it vividly.

He tied Hu Guohua a paper woman framed in white paper paste as required, and painted the paper figure with watercolors eyebrows, eyes, nose, clothes and hair, and looked at it from a distance, hey, it really looks like a living person.

Hu Guohua carried the paper figure to the house, put it on the kang in the inner room, covered the paper figure with a quilt, and thought very well, and when my uncle came in a few days, he said that my daughter-in-law was sick and could not see guests while lying on the bed, so let him take a look from afar. Thinking of the pride, I couldn't help humming a little song and slipped into the city to smoke a big cigarette.

Within a few days, my uncle came to the door and bought some flower cloth snacks and the like to see my nephew and daughter-in-law, Hu Guohua shirked according to the pre-thought statement, saying that my daughter-in-law was unwell and could not see guests, so I asked my uncle to open the curtain at our mouth and take a look at it and put the curtain down.

Uncle doesn't want to, oh, you kid just deal with your own uncle? No, I have to meet my new daughter-in-law today, and when I am sick, I will pay for my new daughter-in-law to ask Lang Zhong to see her illness.

Hu Guohua stopped him alive and dead, and the more he stopped him, the more he seemed to have a problem, and his uncle was even more suspicious, and the two quarreled. At this moment, the curtain of the door of the inner room opened, and a woman came out, looking white and clean, with a big face and plates, big butts and small feet, Hu Guohua sighed in his heart, hey, isn't this the paper man I found someone to paste? How did it come to life?

The woman gave a salute to her uncle and said that she had been in poor health recently, and she didn't come out to greet her uncle just now, and she asked for forgiveness for her rudeness, but now she suddenly felt that her body was getting better, and she would leave her uncle at home for a light meal today, and then she turned around and went in to cook.

Hu Guohua's uncle was so happy when he saw it, this nephew and daughter-in-law are so virtuous, and they are born with a good appearance, my dead sister Quanxia has knowledge, and he must be happy to see his son marry such a good daughter-in-law. As soon as his uncle was happy, he gave Hu Guohua another ten oceans.

Hu Guohua stayed on the spot, flustered, and didn't know whether to be happy or afraid, time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was evening, the white paper man made a table of food, and his uncle was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, but Hu Guohua had no intention of eating and drinking, he looked at the woman sitting opposite him, and felt disgusting like eating a fly. Her face was very white, there was no blood at all, and the rosiness on her face was all smeared with rouge.

The uncle's eyes were dizzy, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with the woman, and he got drunk after seven or eight glasses of old wine, so Hu Guohua borrowed a donkey cart and sent him home.

On the way back, the more I thought about it, the more scared I felt, so I simply didn't go home, and went to spend the night in the flower willow alley in the city, and even used up the ten oceans that my uncle had just given me.

In the end, he was kicked out because he had no money to pay the bill, and he had nowhere to go but to go home. When I got home, I saw that the light was dark in the house, and the white paper man was lying motionless on his bed, covered with a quilt, as if nothing had happened before.

Hu Guohua wants to keep her at night and then become a living person, it is better for me to burn it clean. Resist the white paper man to the yard, take out the fire fold, and want to burn the paper man, when the paper man suddenly spoke: "You have no conscience, I am kind enough to help you, but you want to burn me!" -

Hu Guohua was startled, and in the middle of the night, he only heard the blank paper woman continue: "I see that you are pitiful, although you eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, but your heart is not bad, I want to marry you, are you willing?" -

Hu Guohua shook his head desperately and asked the paper man, are you a demon or a ghost? The white paper man said that of course I am a ghost, but I am only temporarily attached to this paper man, but don't dislike me if you are a poor stick, I was very rich when I was alive, and the gold and silver jewelry that accompanied the funeral was enough for you to smoke for ten lifetimes, don't you hear that the rich and dead ghosts are a hundred times stronger than the poor people?

As soon as he mentioned Qian Hu Guohua, he was a little moved, because he was so poor recently, and even his clothes were gone, but he didn't want to have his life to get money and spend money without life, he once heard the old people talk about female ghosts hooking men, and they sucked up the man's yang energy as soon as they came and went, and those men who were entangled by ghosts were left with only a pair of bones wrapped in dry skin. So he said to the paper man: "Even if you are really good to me, I can't marry you, after all, we are people and ghosts, yin and yang are blocked, and this is against the way of heaven-

The white paper man said that since you are so hard-hearted, I will not force you, but sooner or later there will be a day when you will regret it. You remember, if your life is really too poor to live, you can come to me in the deserted grave of Thirteen Miles, and in the middle of that cemetery there is a lonely grave without a tombstone, and the coffin in it is where my body is, and there must be gold, silver and jewels in the coffin, and if you dare to come, those possessions can be used as you like.

After speaking, the white paper man was motionless, and Hu Guohua was bold and lit a fire to burn the white paper man to ashes.

Later, there were a few times when I was so poor that I couldn't help it, so I wanted to go to Shisanlipu to dig graves, but in the end I held back and mixed up my life. Two years later, he was desperate and finally went to the cemetery, but that's a later story, let's not show it for the time being.

A lot of things happened during the Spring Festival this year, and Hu Guohua's case of cheating his uncle out of money was finally revealed, and his uncle was angry and angry, and he couldn't afford to get sick, and he died in less than three days.

The relatives and friends of the Hu family all guarded him like a thief, not to mention lending him money, and they didn't even let him rub a bite of leftovers. Hu Guohua sold the last pair of sandalwood boxes in the family for two silver oceans, which were his mother's dowry, and he always wanted to keep a thought, but he was reluctant to pawn them. But when the addiction to cigarettes started, I couldn't care about that much, so I bought a small piece of Fushou paste with these two dollars, and rushed home to light a cigarette bubble and pour it on the bed, inhaled twice, and my body was as light as in the clouds.

At this moment, he feels like a fairy, and the experiences of being looked down upon, insulted, and bullied on weekdays are not important. After two more puffs, he suddenly found that there was a black whirring thing on his broken bed, and when he looked closely, there was a big mouse lying on the corner of the bed, this mouse must not be young, his beard has turned white, and his body is about the same size as a cat, and it is sucking the smoke from Hu Guohua's cigarette gun next to it, as if it also knows the benefits of this Fushou ointment, sniffing its nose and enjoying it greedily.

Hu Guohua thought it was interesting and said to the big mouse: "You guy also has a smoking addiction? It seemed that I was one of the same people—and when he had finished speaking, he took a puff and spat the cloud at the rat with his mouth, and the rat seemed to know that he had no ill intentions, and was not afraid of him, and raised his head to receive the smoke that was being sprayed at it. After a while, it seemed that he was too addicted, and slowly crawled away.

For several days, this big mouse came to smoke with Hu Guohua every day, Hu Guohua was despised everywhere, there was no half of friends around, and he had a good impression of this mouse, sometimes the mouse came a little later, and Hu Guohua endured the addiction to smoke and waited for it.

But the good times didn't last long, Hu Guohua's house was left with a bed and four walls, and there was no money to buy tobacco soil, he was depressed, and sighed and said to the mouse: "Mouse, mouse, today I have no money to buy Fushou ointment, I'm afraid I can't often smoke this flavor with you."

The mouse listened to him, his eyes flashed, and he turned away thoughtfully. When it was dark, the mouse came back with a silver dollar and put it next to Hu Guohua's pillow, Hu Guohua was pleasantly surprised, and went into the city overnight to buy a piece of Fushou ointment.

The next day the mouse took three silver dollars in his mouth, Hu Guohua was so happy that he didn't know what to say, remembered an allusion he learned when he was in a private school, and said to the mouse: "Knowing the middle, Bao Shuya is also, you know that I am poor and generous to me, it is really my confidant, if you don't dislike it, we will become Jinlan brothers - from then on with this mouse brother and brother, call it - Brother Mouse-, eat and drink together, smoke together, and also make a nest for it in bed with cotton wool, so that the mouse also sleeps on the bed."

People and mice are at peace, no less than the friendship of Mo Rebellion, the mice go out every day to bring back silver dollars, as little as one or two, as many as three or five, since then Hu Guohua has no worries about food and clothing. Years later, my grandfather would recall that it was the happiest time of his life.

After more than half a year, Hu Guohua gradually became richer, but isn't there such a sentence? Fortune meets friends, bad luck touches villains, and Hu Guohua is poor life, he was targeted by a villain.

There is a scoundrel in the village named Wang Ergangzi, he is different from Hu Guohua, Hu Guohua has at least been wealthy, and he has been a young master Hu for more than 20 years.

Wang Erkongzi didn't have such a good life, from his ancestors to his generation, he didn't wear a pair of pants that didn't show his cheeks, he saw that Hu Guohua's family business was defeated, gloating, and scolded and insulted Hu Guohua when he had nothing to do, bullied and bullied the young master Hu back then, and found some balance in his heart.

Recently, he felt very strange, Hu Guohua, a poor boy, didn't make a living, everything he could pawn at home was pawned, and his relatives were almost dead, why did he smoke at home every day? Where did he get all the money to buy tobacco? Maybe this kid has become a thief, so I might as well keep an eye on him quietly, and when he steals something, catch him and twist him and send him to the government for a few oceans of reward.

But after staring for a while, I found that Hu Guohua basically stayed at home and never interacted with anyone, except for occasionally going into the city to buy some food and tobacco. The more he didn't know where his money came from, the more itchy Wang Ergangzi became.

One day, Hu Guohua went out to buy food, and Wang Ergangzi took the opportunity to climb over the wall and enter his house, rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find out what Hu Guohua's secrets were. Suddenly found that there was a big mouse sleeping on the bed, Wang Erkongzi grabbed the mouse and threw it into a pot of water that was boiling on the stove, and then pressed the lid of the pot, thinking that when Hu Guohua came home to drink water, I would have fun watching it next to me.

Before Wang Erkong went out, Hu Guohua came back, just blocked him into the house, Hu Guohua saw the big mouse in the pot, had been scalded to death, suddenly red eyes, picked up the kitchen knife and chopped, Wang Erkong was cut more than a dozen knives, fortunately, Hu Guohua is a big smoker, his hands are weak, although Wang Erkong was hit by a lot of knives, but he was not fatally injured, he fled to the security team for help with blood all over his body, the captain of the security team is a relative of a local warlord, and he was inviting this warlord to drink, the captain saw that this was repaid? Committing murder with a knife in broad daylight, is there no royal law? Hurriedly ordered a few subordinates to tie up Hu Guohua's flowers.

Hu Guohua was escorted to the front of the hall, and the security captain shouted and asked, why did he kill Wang Erkong with a knife?

Hu Guohua burst into tears, sobbing and recounting the whole story, and finally lamented and said: "I thought I was in trouble and wanted to die, without this mouse I would not be alive today, but I was negligent for a moment and caused Brother Rat to die, although it was not killed by me, but because of me." Jiuquan bears this good friend, how can I be embarrassed, I do things alone, since I cut Wang Erkongzi, the killing and punishment are all subject to the fall, I only ask the chief to let me go home and bury my mouse brother, even if I die, I am blind-

Before the security captain could speak, the warlord next to him sighed and said to Hu Guohua: "His grandmother's is not ungrateful, not benevolent, not to live up to her heart is righteous, and she is still like this to mice, let alone to people?" I read your benevolence and righteousness, and see that you are helpless, so you will follow me in the army and become an adjutant in the future-

The warlord leader instructed his subordinates to whip the king with a whip to Hu Guohua, and let Hu Guohua go home to bury the mouse, Hu Guohua buried the mouse in a wooden box, dug a pit and buried it, and cried for a long time, and then went to the warlord leader.

As the saying goes: when you are hungry, eating bran is as sweet as honey, and when you are full, eating honey is not sweet. When a person is poor and falls, others will be grateful to Dade even if they give him a bowl of porridge and a piece of cake, not to mention that the rats gave Hu Guohua so much money, of course, the rats' money was also stolen. The sage said that he would die of thirst and not drink the water of the stolen spring, but that was the moral standard of the most holy and sage person, and it was difficult for the ancients to do it, let alone a mediocre person like Hu Guohua? I used to hear that smoking in the room will become addicted to flies and mice in the house after a long time, and this is true.