The cold winter has just fallen, the spring breeze has not arrived, and it is at the turn of these two seasons, and the scenery is even more deserted. Houwangzhai this remote small village, only dozens of households, this small village can not be said to be special, winter grass covers frost, surrounded by mountains, beside the forest road, ploughing the fields and cattle, the sunrise rooster cries and the dog barks, the moon rises frog and sings the cicada. There is no quarrel with the world, day after day, year after year. If you are tired of the deception of the world, this place is like a paradise.

The only thing that's a little special is a trail to the south of the village, which leads straight to the Guanyin Temple halfway up the mountain. In a small village, the incense of Guanyin Temple is naturally not prosperous, but there is only this temple within a radius of 100 miles, whether it is seeking children, seeking wealth or seeking health, the Guanyin Bodhisattva in the temple is the only belief of the villagers, although the incense is meager but is cleaned very clean.

At the time of the change of seasons, the weather is even colder than the normal winter, and no one wants to brave the cold wind to go to the temple. But looking at the fresh footprints on the path, there were unexpectedly people going. It was a stout man, dressed in a patched coarse linen coat, and his straw sandals had been broken in two places, evidently worn for a long time; However, the footprints are not only the man's, densely packed, at least three or five people, can't help but be surprised, this was originally no one to come to the Guanyin Temple, there are so many people to go. The man's face was a little pale, but there was no trace of hesitation between his eyebrows, and he strode to the front of the Guanyin Temple.

In front of the temple gate, sure enough, there were four old men who were tall, short, fat and thin, all with solemn faces, and the tall old man was the first to see the man, and stretched out his hand to point: "He is here! Wang Cai is here!" When the other three old men heard this, they all looked in the direction pointed by the tall old man, and the short old man put his toes to the highest, so that he could see Wang Cai's figure.

When Wang Cai saw the four old men, he couldn't help but stop, and the old man's eyes were like sharp arrows, and they shot over with a brush. Wang Cai frowned, walked up, and asked the old men to pack their luggage: "Why do village chiefs come here to worship the Bodhisattva on such a cold day?"

"Humph!" Old Man Gao snorted coldly: "Then why are you here?"

There are four "big" surnames in Houwangzhai, Gao, Ai, Pang and Wang, these four families account for more than eighty percent of the population of the whole village, although the overall number is not much, but for this small village, it is a very large number. These four old men are the most respected of the four surnames, the tall old man is surnamed Gao, the short old man is surnamed Ai, the fat old man is surnamed Pang, and the thin old man is surnamed Wang, and the four of them jointly preside over the affairs of the village. Perhaps because of the clever surname, the young people jokingly referred to the four village chiefs as "tall, short, fat and thin", and regardless of whether the thin old man had the surname "thin" or not, it was funny to call them together. And Wang Cai is the eldest son of the younger generation of the Wang family, and he will inherit the position of village chief in the future.

Wang Cai smiled: "Naturally, I came to worship the Bodhisattva." Village Chief Pang glanced at Wang Cai: "You go to worship, I'll see what you ask for." "Good!" Wang Cai did not hesitate and walked straight into the Guanyin Temple.

The statue of Guanyin in the temple is still solemn, Wang Cai knelt in front of the statue of Guanyin, made three gestures, took a deep breath, as if he had made up his mind, and said loudly: "Please the Bodhisattva bless me Wang Cai to make a lot of money outside!"

As soon as these words came out, the four village chiefs boiled. Village Chief Gao rushed in first, pointed at the back of Wang Cai's head, and said sharply: "Wang Cai! You really want to leave the village! Don't you kid know that this is a taboo in our village?" After all, the village chief is the village head, no matter how bold Wang Cai is, he was frightened by the angry shouts of the village chief Gao. But then he calmed down, and only smiled: "Village Chief, how can you make a loud noise in front of Guanyin Bodhisattva?" The old man was furious: "Even if you offend Guanyin Bodhisattva, I can't let you break the taboo in the village!"

"That's a good point!" Village Chief Pang also walked in: "Ah Cai, do you know that the people of our Houwangzhai have been isolated from the world for more than a hundred years, and they don't fight with the outside, and they don't fight with us outside, how good is it to live in peace and stability? Why do you want to leave?"

Wang Cai said: "That's right, after so many years of isolation from the world, maybe you don't know what the outside world is like, right? ”

"You...... You...... You ......" Village Chief Ai pointed his right hand at Wang Cai and shook up and down: "No matter what, you can't break the taboo in our village!

Village Chief Wang sighed: "Ah Cai, our ancestors are just tired of the sinister world outside, so they came to this place in seclusion, if you go out and bring some evil qi back, then how can you get it? Wouldn't our village be dangerous?"

"I don't understand!" Wang Cai stood up and turned to face the village chiefs: "Why do you come back with evil spirit as soon as you go out? Why do you bring danger to the village when you go out? Why do you imprison us in this cage where birds don't? I just want to go out and have a look, make more money and come back so that everyone can live a good life, is this also wrong?"

Village Chief Wang said: "Wang Cai ......"

"I don't care!" Before Village Chief Wang's words could be spoken, he was pushed back by Wang Cai: "I must go out, I want to leave this place and go to the outside world!" Wang Cai is very firm, the village chiefs know Wang Cai's temperament, and it is difficult to persuade him not to do what he has decided, but he can't break the taboo of the village, and he doesn't know how to say a word of scolding for a while, and the Guanyin Temple suddenly fell silent.

"Master Wang, your name was chosen by you. Wang Cai broke the silence and said to Village Chief Wang: "Since my name is 'Cai', then I will not cultivate the land with peace of mind, I want to be a businessman, I want to make a lot of money, my name is taken by you, you also want me to be like this, right?" Wang Cai deliberately said the name twice, hoping that Village Chief Wang would not stop him. Village Chief Wang shook his head, sighed, and said no more. Wang Cai swept the four village chiefs in triumph, raised his head with his chest up, and walked out of the Guanyin Temple. I just listened to the village chiefs behind me, and I didn't know what to say, but most of them were some unpleasant words?

"It doesn't matter anymore, I'm going to leave this place where birds don't early tomorrow morning and go out into the world and have a look. I want to be a rich man, and I want to change my destiny. Thinking like this, Wang Cai has already gone away.

It was late at night, and all the households had gone to sleep, only the lights of the village chief's house were bright, and the four village chiefs were discussing Wang Cai's departure from the village.

Village Chief Gao said: "We must not let Wang Cai get out of this village. Village Chief Wang shook his head and said: "Everyone knows Wang Cai's temperament, and the three cows can't pull back the things he decides, and he can't be locked up." Village Chief Ai was a little anxious: "What should we do then? If Wang Cai leaves the village and brings outsiders in, what have we done in the past hundred years...... Isn't it in vain?"

The wind outside the window was whistling, and a few wisps of cold wind hit the four village chiefs.

"I can't say ......" Village Chief Pang muttered for a while: "Only ......" Village Chief Wang's spine was cold for a while, not because of the wind blowing, but because of Village Chief Pang's words. The implication of Village Chief Pang is to use force to keep Wang Cai, so that even if Wang Cai's life can be saved, his legs will not be saved.

Village Chief Gao sighed: "Alas, it has to be like this. He looked at Village Chief Wang again: "Elder Wang, we know your feelings, after all, Wang Cai is a member of your family." But you know, that's what we had to do. Village Chief Wang nodded sadly.

When the moon hung in the sky, a gust of wind from before blew away the diffuse around the moon.

Wang Cai lay on the bunk, thinking that he would leave the village at dawn and go outside, so he could not sleep. What the outside world is like, what will happen, everything is unknown.

Suddenly, the bright moon flickered, and Wang Cai was surprised, and when he looked closely, where was the moon flickering? It was the beating of the firelight that fascinated the moonlight. Wang Cai shouted in his heart: "Not good!" One rolled out of bed, picked up the baggage that had already been packed, and quickly pushed the door to leave, but many people were blocked outside the door, and it was the four village chiefs who led the way!

Village Chief Gao shouted, "Wang Cai, where are you going?" Wang Caixin said: "I was negligent, I should have left early, the four village chiefs led people to stop me, how could I get out?" After a change of thought, Wang Cai laughed and said: "Why do the four grandfathers want to be so excited? I won't leave, I will never leave the village in my life, I am joking during the day." ”

Village Chief Wang hurriedly asked, "Is this true?" Wang Cai nodded again and again: "Seriously, how can what I Wang Cai said not be true?" Wangcai is true in the village on weekdays, and he only hopes that he can get away with lying for the first time in his life. Village Chief Wang is Wang Cai's elder, so he is naturally easy to fool, but Village Chief Gao shouted: "Don't talk nonsense, you just want to trick us into leaving, you can get out!"

Wang Cai said: "Master Gao, what are you talking about? I, Wang Cai, have always been good at talking, and the whole village knows it, what evidence do you have if you say that I have deceived you?"

"Evidence? Hehe...... "Village Chief Gao laughed: "Is the wish you made in front of Guanyin Bodhisattva during the day fake? No matter how big the four of us are, can we be bigger than Guanyin Bodhisattva?" Wang Cai secretly screamed in his heart, but he didn't expect that Village Chief Gao was determined to use force on himself.

Village Chief Pang shouted: "Everyone, don't let Wang Cai leave this village!" As soon as the village chief Pang gave an order, the men of the Pang family rushed towards Wang Cai with various farm tools, and the other three families also followed when they saw the Pang family's move. Village Chief Wang shook his head and sighed bitterly, but he couldn't stop Wang Cai from being besieged by everyone.

Seeing that everyone gathered around, Wang Cai hurriedly said: "Don't, don't, don't! Everyone meets every day, why bother? Isn't our friendship very good on weekdays? Pang Fei also helped you dig out the bird's nest yesterday, don't forget!" Wang Cai's tone sounded relaxed, but his heart was extremely anxious.

But this word is indeed useful, Pang Fei couldn't help but be stunned when he heard it, but he heard Pang Village Chief shout: "Do it!" How dare Pang Fei disobey? Raising his sickle, he slashed at Wang Cai, shouting incessantly: "I'm sorry! Brother Cai!"

Wang Cai was taken aback, and hurriedly flashed from the side, the sickle slashed on the door, Pang Fei's strength was relieved, the sickle was taken off, and it only hung on the door and swayed. Wang Cai felt a chill in his heart: "This Pang Fei is real!" Hurriedly turned around and closed the door, and when he got up, he heard the knocks on the door one after another, resounding in the sky.

"Wang Cai! you can't run away!"

"Open the door!"

The beads of sweat on Wang Cai's head fell in big drops, and the four village chiefs obviously wanted their own lives in order not to let themselves leave the village. Wang Cai was so annoyed that he shouted, "Why? Why are we not allowed to leave this place?" But his own voice has long been drowned out by the noise of the crowd.

"It's over, I, Wang Cai, obviously want to be a God of Wealth, but I'm going to die before I even go out of the house!"

In fact, with the wooden door of Wang Cai's house, everyone only needs to work together, and they can break into the door in an instant. But everyone was thinking about their friendship with Wang Cai, and they didn't know why the four village chiefs didn't allow Wang Cai to leave, so they deliberately didn't break the door.

Village Chief Pang shouted: "Fence off the house! Don't let Wang Cai escape!" The crowd had no choice but to surround Wang Cai's small house as he said. Suddenly, the window opened, Wang Cai poked his head out, and said loudly: "If you don't allow me to leave, then I will die for you!" Village Chief Pang said: "That's just right!

As the words fell, there was silence all around, and suddenly a crisp sound came from inside the house, followed by the flames jumping, and then flames erupted from the house! Village Chief Wang shouted "Ah": "Quickly extinguish the fire!" It turned out that Wang Cai had set fire to the oil lamp in the house and wanted to burn down the entire house! As soon as Village Chief Wang shouted two sentences, the wind blew suddenly, and the fire snake coiled on the beam in an instant and jumped.

The elder Pang was taken aback, although he was here to take Wang Cai's life, he never thought that Wang Cai would burn down the house. The houses in the village are all very close to each other, and there is a strong wind tonight, and the whole village is on fire, so how can Village Chief Pang still have the heart to care about Wang Cai?

The four village chiefs each commanded their families to extinguish the fire, and everyone became a pot of porridge for a while. The wind blows up flames, and the whole room is burning, and it will collapse in an instant, and the flames will fly, and it will surely ignite a nearby room, and then it will be out of control. I only heard the village chief Gao shouting desperately: "Hurry up, get water to extinguish the fire!"

As soon as the words fell, I only heard Wang Cai's voice coming from a high place: "Hehe, everyone, quickly put out the fire, my Wang Cai is about to slip away!" Village Chief Gao looked up and saw that Wang Cai had taken advantage of the chaos to climb a vine, and the person had already climbed halfway, and no farm tool could reach that height. Village Chief Pang hurriedly shouted: "Catch him! Don't let him get out of the village!" Village Chief Ai said, "Quickly extinguish the fire!" The four village chiefs were different, and everyone could only control the flames in front of them, but Wang Cai had climbed the mountain and disappeared from everyone's sight.