Shopkeeper Zhao took twelve hanging money, it seems that the pig can't be bought, buy the cow first, he walked to the bull market.

It's noon, and there aren't many people in the bull market. There is a middle-aged man who is still waiting for the buyer. Shopkeeper Zhao turned to the willow tree, looked at the scalper, and asked for the price.

The cattle seller was a farmer, and he replied with a dark and thin face: "You can give thirty yuan for your own cattle." ”

Shopkeeper Zhao circled around the cow and asked, "Why is this cow not energetic? Is it a sick cow?"

"How come!" the farmer patted the ox's head with his hand and sighed, "Yesterday it pulled the plough for me. Your brother also knows that this year is the year of Xiaobi, and my son is going to take the township exam, and he can be a lifter if he is admitted. But there was a lack of money at home, so I had to sell it first, scrape together enough to wrap it up, and buy one later. ”

"Is there only one ploughing cow at home?"

"At this end, the whole family is counting on it to pull the cart from the plough. The farmer said. "We provide education for our children, but he is also angry, he has just been admitted to Xiucai, poor Xiucai, rich people, you know. We are looking forward to the child being admitted to the lifter, and we are helpless, and now we can only endure the pain and cut the love, and make up enough money. ”

"Oh, that's right. Zhao shopkeeper said, it seems that he bought his cattle, and his family took the test with this money to let the child catch the exam, which can be regarded as a good thing. "Why didn't you borrow some money from friends and relatives?"

"Brother, you don't know, how can a poor person have rich relatives. ”

"Yes, how can a poor person have rich relatives, and if there are rich relatives, they will not become poor, and if rich relatives do not help poor relatives, they are naturally not relatives. Shopkeeper Zhao sighed.

"The old man really understands people!" said the farmer, rubbing the head of the ox with his hand, "I have raised this cow from below, and I have worked for me for many months as an adult, if it were not for the family's urgent need for money, how could I bear to sell him? ”

"These thirty dollars are a bit more expensive. Shopkeeper Zhao patted the cow's back, although this cow is not skinny, thin skin and bones, it is almost the same.

"There's no way, if you sell it, in addition to the plate fee for the child's exam, you have to leave some money to buy farm tools, at least a few more pairs of shoes. ”

"Oh, why is that?" asked the shopkeeper Zhao.

"The oxen are sold, and in the future, it is up to us and the husband and wife to pull the cart and plough the land, because in the past, the oxen could not plow the land, so we had to plow the land by ourselves, so we had to prepare more ropes and farm tools; in the past, we could ride in an ox cart, but now we have to pull the cart by ourselves, so we need to prepare a few pairs of shoes. The farmer replied.

"Yes, yes, yes, the thousand-year-old farmer has worked hard, and when I heard what my brother said, it was true. Shopkeeper Zhao didn't dare to ask any more, took out thirty pieces of money from his arms, gave it to the crop man, and reached out to untie the rope.

The farmer patted the cow's neck and said to the shopkeeper Zhao: "Wait, brother! Seeing that my brother is also from a rich family, if you don't bargain with me, I will buy you a rein for you, you wait first." ”

"Why is this?" shopkeeper Zhao was puzzled and stopped and asked. He rarely buys livestock, and always goes directly to the slaughterhouse to buy meat. Today is unusual, he offered three sacrifices to the Chenghuang Bodhisattva, so he came to buy it himself.

"Selling cattle doesn't sell the reins. The farmer said. "This is the rule of the livestock trade, I will buy it for you, you wait first, I will go and go back. ”

Shopkeeper Zhao didn't know that there was still this rule, stood under the willow tree, and said, "Trouble brother, go and go back quickly." ”

The crop man trotted all the way away, the bull market had dispersed, and the shopkeeper Zhao looked at the thin cow alone, and said in his heart: "Chenghuang Bodhisattva, although this cow is thin, but I have also done a good thing, you will use it!"

As soon as the shopkeeper Zhao thought of this, the cow suddenly "mooed" at him, startling him.

The two eyes of the scalper stared at Shopkeeper Zhao, the bull's mouth opened and closed, and he said human words: "Shopkeeper Zhao, I can't go with you!"

Shopkeeper Zhao took two steps back, and in the morning, he saw that the white sheep and the black pig were talking, and it was not strange for the scalper to speak. "Why, you can also talk? Are you also a livestock that should not be killed?"

"Yes, I don't deserve to die, and besides, I'm waiting for you to do a good deed!" said the scalper.

"You haven't paid off your debts?"

"That's right! I owe this farmer a debt when I was alive, and Lord Yama made me a ploughing ox and ploughing and pulling carts for him all my life, until I died of old age. The scalper said.

At this time, Shopkeeper Zhao was not afraid, but he was more curious: "I spent thirty yuan to buy you, which is not enough for you to repay your debts?"

"Not enough! The judge calculated for me and let me work for another fifteen years, until the end of my life, and the debt could not be paid off. I advise you, do good deeds, and give this thirty dollars to this farmer for nothing, his son, in the future, will be promoted all the way, and will come to Shucheng as an official, and you will still be polished!"

"How can I get naked?" Shopkeeper Zhao was very reluctant when he heard that the scalper asked him to give away thirty yuan for nothing, but when he heard that he could be naked, his mind changed again, and he hurriedly asked.

"You opened a coffin shop in Shucheng, and your peers competed with you, and you wanted to beat your idea, you only asked the son of the farmer to be an official, and gave you a plaque in person, and the peers saw that you had the support of the government, so they naturally didn't dare to beat your bad idea again. These thirty hanging money can be regarded as the pen fee for the Taishou of Shucheng in advance, do you think it is cost-effective?"

"Of course it's cost-effective!" Zhao shopkeeper was happy in his heart, the scalper said well, there is more than one coffin shop in Shucheng, and someone really wants to crush him, if there is the support of the government, naturally those peers who open the coffin shop dare not fight his idea again. What's more, now he is spending 300 hanging money, and he can't find a way to get the current Taishou to inscribe a plaque for him - an official as big as the Taishou of Shucheng doesn't care about that money, let alone write a plaque for his small coffin.

"Okay, I still have to go home, plough the fields and pull the cart to pay off the debt, you can also go, he will buy the reins and come back, and if he can't see you, he will naturally go back." The scalper said.

"I don't understand something, please ask me about your sacred cow. Shopkeeper Zhao asked, "Do you know the debts you owe him when you were alive?"

"Of course you know. ”

"Then after a hundred years, when I become a soul return, does Lord Yama want to calculate the detailed accounts for me before I die?"

"Of course! There are gods three feet above your head, and the good and evil deeds you did during your life are recorded. In particular, the punishment for debts owed by a conscience is even more severe. In my previous life, I was a partner with this farmer in business, and I embezzled his 200 hanging money, and I was punished for becoming this cow, and I had to repay it for the rest of my life. ”

"Won't you not say that?"

"If you don't say it, you can't do it! There are judges there, who are specially managed, and if they don't confess, they will be tortured, and you will not see the punishment, and in the end you will be punished in vain, and you have to tell the truth. ”

"The underworld judgment to repay debts, is it a combination of principal and interest?"

"For example, if you owe a hundred taels, let you turn the person you owe into cattle and horses, and do the work of several lifetimes, all of which will be set for you, and then let you give birth to animals. ”

When Shopkeeper Zhao heard this, he broke out in a cold sweat.

"Shopkeeper Zhao, I also advise you, don't do bad things before you die, you can hide from the retribution before you die, you can't avoid the retribution of the Yin Si, you are so self-conscious! After the scalper finished speaking, he broke free of the reins, lifted his four hooves from the ground, and ran quickly towards the outside of Shu City, like a mad cow.

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