The fat man and the monkey got into a fight over the ecstasy, but the monkey became unstable and crashed into the offering table next to him.

The stone offering table was knocked away by the skinny monkey. Then he found that on the ground, a swarthy hole was exposed, and he couldn't help but praise in his heart: The name of the fat man's "lucky general" is really worthy of his name!

The three of us immediately pushed the offering table away, I didn't expect that there would be a dark room in the stone shrine. Hurriedly let the fat man carry the cigarette man on his back, and everyone jumped into the black hole together.

Below the stone shrine is a stone room made of thick stone slabs, there is a stone door on one side, in the center of the stone room, there is a stone "money furnace" that is used to burn paper money, there is a delicate and complete beast statue carved on all sides, the head and tail are complete, the claws and teeth are sharp, the side of the stone beast is carved with the relief of grass and trees, it is very exquisite.

The money furnace is mostly placed in the temple dedicated to the gods, and occasionally one will be placed in the ancestral hall, because since ancient times, there is a saying that the two worlds of yin and yang, and the paper money burned by the descendants is to the ancestors in the underworld to fulfill their filial piety, so in addition to the incense burner in the ancestral hall, there is also a money furnace. However, I don't know why this furnace is placed underground, this is not logical, is it possible that the descendants of Mengzhuang here want to secretly burn paper money underground to be filial?

When he saw the money furnace, the fat man immediately said to the monkey beside him, "Monkey cub, have you heard the story about the money furnace?" ”

The monkey immediately shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of it." ”

The fat man said to the monkey, "Then I'll tell you." ”

I was going to treat the smoke boy and the little brother, and I didn't have time to pay attention to them, so the fat man told the monkey about the legend of the money furnace.

Legend has it that it was at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Kaifeng, the capital of Henan Province, has a wealthy family with the surname Qian. Qian Yuan opened a rice village and a cloth village. Tea plantation, do all kinds of business. But he is an iron rooster, a miser, who regards money as his life, and does not pull out a dime. Doing business is also a conscience, often short of catties and two, if you can cheat, you can deceive, and if you can, you can be blinded. Absolutely only do cheap trading, never willing to suffer a loss. Even if there is soaking, you have to endure the stomach pain and pull it to your own field to feel at ease.

Although Qian Yuanwai has thousands of family assets and a group of wives and concubines, he is almost old, but he has no children under his knees. Boo sighed.

Later, Qian Yuanwai heard that the City God Temple in the west of the city was very effective, so he bought a candle and went to ask for a son, and made a wish: As long as the City God gives him a son. reshaped the golden body for the city god.

In the west of the city, there is a true god living in this city god temple, and the money furnace in the courtyard is also cultivated to become refined. Then he said disdainfully: "How can a man who has no virtue come to ask for a son!" ”

The city god saw that the money furnace was full of mouths. moved his heart for no reason, so he pinched his fingers and counted it. Then he said to the money furnace: "If you talk too much for no reason today, you have the idea of red dust, and you must go to the mortal world for a while, and I will let you be born in the house of the money clerk and be his son." ”

The money furnace was very reluctant and said: "Although I am exposed to the smell of fireworks here every day, I don't want to smell the smell of copper, and I implore Lord Chenghuang to take back his life." ”

Lord Chenghuang said to the money furnace: "The matter is doomed, go!" ”

After speaking, with a wave of his sleeves, the money furnace fell into the mortal world and was reincarnated in the Qian family.

Qian Yuanwai suddenly got a son, and he was overjoyed, so he gave him a name "Qian Jin", which means that money came in.

But this Qian Jin is a destined fate, since he was born, he has been crying non-stop, and his aunt and nurse are waiting for people, no matter how he coaxes him, he can't coax it. He cried day and night, stirring up the money mansion, and no one was at peace.

Suddenly, one day, the maid who was serving Qian Jin accidentally broke a jade bowl with a ruyi pattern. As a result, when Qian Jin heard the sound of the jade bowl breaking, he suddenly stopped crying and laughed.

Qian Yuanwai was the first time since Qian Jin was born that he saw the child no longer crying, and he couldn't stop laughing, and he clapped his hands happily.

In the future, as long as Qian Jin was crying, Qian Yuanwai ordered someone to drop a jade bowl to make Qian Jin happy, thinking: Anyway, his family property can't be spent in a few lifetimes, and breaking a jade bowl from time to time is not a big deal. It's just that every time the jade bowl is broken, Qian Yuanwai will inevitably have abnormal heartache, and over time, he will fall into angina.

Qian Jin, who grew up with a golden spoon, was still crying from time to time when he was three or four years old, and he had to drop one or two blue and white porcelain vases or porcelain plates to stop crying. I often put the gold and silver ingots into the lake, saying that I like to listen to the "knock".

When Qian Jin was seven or eight years old, he almost ruined the family property, so he said to Qian Yuanwai: "I'm fed up with the smell of copper, and I'm leaving today." With that, he swallowed his breath.

After listening to the fat man's speech, the monkey said: "The money furnace is a thing that specializes in burning money and turning money, and he should be sent to the money clerk's house, and he should scatter all his wealth." ”

After I had finished the smoking medicine on the smoking man, I asked the fat man to pick him up and prepare to walk towards the open stone door.

The monkey had just walked a few steps, and suddenly grabbed the fat man, "Fat brother, look, there is gold in the money furnace." ”

After hearing the monkey's shout, I also saw the golden light shining in the furnace, and when I looked closely, I saw that there were indeed several yellow, orange and orange gold ingots placed in the furnace.

When I came in earlier, I didn't notice anything in the furnace, why a few ingots of gold appeared out of thin air, and the yellow color didn't look like a mirage.

The monkey stared at the gold ingots in the money furnace with a pair of small eyes, and muttered, "I thought this was a money furnace that specializes in burning money, but I didn't expect it to be a cornucopia that can conjure money." ”

The fat man also nodded in agreement immediately, but they didn't dare to stretch out their hands casually without my order.

I don't have the simple idea of monkeys and fat people, my heart said: This money furnace must be a charming, foolish monster, whether the things in it are gold or silver, absolutely can not touch half a point, so I persuaded the fat two to dispel the idea of greedy money as soon as possible. They also knew that the gold ingot, which suddenly appeared in the furnace, was not a good thing, so they turned their heads away from the gold ingot that tempted them to sin.

I wasn't in the slightest interested in the gold ingots in the furnace, because I knew it wasn't a desirable thing, but I was so interested in the furnace that it could spit out money, so I couldn't help but take a few more looks before leaving.

As a result, I found that the stone carved beast statue on the body of the money furnace suddenly became red, and then opened the mouth of the blood basin, and broke free from the furnace body little by little, seeing that the beast head, which was originally only the size of a fist, turned into a hideous beast head the size of a basin after breaking free from the furnace body, and hurriedly beckoned the fat man and the monkey to run.

The fat man carried the cigarette man on his back, and did not see the change in the stone carved beast statue on the money furnace, because he heard my urging and knew that it was absolutely no good, so he immediately ran towards the door.

The monkey saw the change in the beast statue, and with a cry of "Mommy", he rushed to the door like a wind.

The outside of the stone chamber is a long corridor made of stone slabs, and the stone walls on both sides are close to the front, and a tall stone pillar will appear in three or five steps, on which are carved a couplet, which should be opposite to the left and right sides. But because of the running, I couldn't see what words were engraved on it at all?

The corridor seemed to have no end, and as I ran, I looked back from time to time to see if the stone beast on the money furnace was like a demon beast, and whether it was chasing it?

After running a long way, I looked back and saw the beast statue on the money stove, but I didn't chase after it, so I told the fat man who kept running with the cigarette man on his back to stop and rest.

The monkey panted and asked me, "Master Wen, what happened to that just now?" We didn't take the gold ingots for money, so how did the beast image on the money furnace change? ”

The fat man didn't know what had just happened, so he asked the monkey what was the matter?

The monkey told the fat man what he had just seen, and the fat man looked at me very puzzled.

I took a moment's breath and said to the two of them, "Perhaps the gold ingots and beast images I saw just now are phantoms; Or maybe it's our tiny greed that lures it in. ”

The monkey asked me puzzled, "Why is there an apparition?" ”

I replied, "Maybe it's to lure us into touching the money-making furnace." ”

The monkey said, "Fortunately, we didn't touch the furnace casually, and if we couldn't help but stretch out our hands, we might get into some kind of big trouble." ”

The fat man and the monkey are both masters who dare to poke holes in the sky, and they are the troublemakers in the ranks, and I saw that it was time to take advantage of this experience to educate them well, so that they could be used as a wake-up call, so I opened my mouth and said to them: "Fortunately, we are not greedy, otherwise we would not have been able to talk here now." The two of you must have a long memory in the future, the inverted battle process is thrilling, and you must be cautious at all times. ”

They nodded very instructively, and I was immediately quite relieved, thinking that these two trouble-making spirits had finally grown up.

The crowd, who were in a good mood because they had escaped the catastrophe, soon reached the end of the corridor. At the end of the corridor, there is another stone room, but this stone room is a burial chamber, because there is a coffin in it, but there is no coffin lid on the coffin, and it is not clear from a distance whether the coffin contains a corpse?

The fat man and the monkey listened to my enlightenment and advice just now, and obviously grew a lot, although they saw the coffin, they did not rush forward.

I first looked around the stone room, there was no ornamentation on the stone wall, only a poem "Dream after dream, life after life, a thousand turns and empty intestines; Day after day, night after night, although your appearance is not a fight. ”

The poem is very simple, casual, after I read it, although I don't understand the meaning, but I feel a little familiar, catchy, but I can't remember which poet wrote it, it is estimated that it was mentioned by someone related to the owner of the tomb here. But the sentence is inevitably very desolate, there is a kind of strange world, and there is a suspicion of "last year and today", it can be seen that the person who wrote the poem must be a long-term person. (To be continued......)