Chapter 96 Wang Cheng meets his grandmother

The flowers bloom two and each show a branch, let's talk at two ends, after talking about Wang Lan, let's talk about Wang Lan's brother Wang Cheng, Wang Ziming. It is said that Wang Cheng because he became a monk and learned Taoism, his wife scattered all the family wealth in order to find him, and now he is back and his life is not as good as day by day, there are only a few broken houses left in the house, plus he is very lazy by nature, and his life is not improving, so he and his wife lie in the cow coat at night, complaining to each other. It was the middle of summer, the air was humid and hot, there used to be a garden surnamed Zhou in the village, the houses collapsed, only a pavilion was left, and many people in the village stayed in it at night, and Wang Cheng was among them.

Once in the morning, the sleeping people had left, and it was already three poles in the morning, Wang Chengcai got up and wandered to go back. He saw a golden hairpin in the grass, picked it up and looked at it, and it was engraved with small characters that read "Made in Yibin Mansion". Wang Cheng's grandfather was a guest of honor in Hengyang Mansion, and many of the things left at home were of this style, so he hesitated with a hairpin.

Not long after, an old woman came looking for hairpins. Although Wang Cheng has always been very poor, he used to be rich, he has read books and has integrity, understands a lot of truths, and has a very upright personality, so he immediately took out the hairpin and handed it to the old woman.

The old woman was very happy to get the golden hairpin, and praised Wang Cheng's noble virtue very much, so she said to Wang Cheng: "The hairpin can be worth a lot of money, this is something left by the first husband." ”

Wang Cheng asked suspiciously, "Who is your husband?"

The mother-in-law replied: "It is the late Hengyang Mansion Yibin Wang Cambodia." ”

Wang Cheng was surprised and said, "He is my grandfather, how could you meet him?"

The mother-in-law was also surprised and said, "Are you the grandson of Wang Cambodia? I am a fox fairy, and about a hundred years ago, I was good with your grandfather." After your grandfather died, I went into hiding. I lost the hairpin after passing here, and you just picked it up, isn't it the number of days?"

It turned out that this mother-in-law was the fox fairy Mrs. Changchun, because Wang Cheng had a hard time, so he showed up to help him, and the loss of the golden hairpin just now was just a test of his character.

Wang Cheng had also heard that his grandfather had a fox wife, so he believed her and invited her to his house. The mother-in-law followed him, and Wang Cheng called his wife out to meet, and his wife was wearing a ragged dress and holding her hair, and her face was very hungry.

When the mother-in-law saw this, she sighed and said, "Alas, the grandson of Wang Khan Zhi is so poor!" and saw that there were no fireworks on the collapsed stove, and said, "How can the family live like this?"

Wang Cheng's wife saw that the elders were coming, so she complained, described the poverty of the family in detail, and cried chokedly, making Wang Cheng's face red with shame. The mother-in-law handed over the hairpin to his wife, let her temporarily exchange money to buy rice, and she came to see them again three days later, Wang Cheng respected the elders, although the family was very hard, but he did not want to let her live alone at such an age, so he kept her.

The mother-in-law was very touched by Wang Chengde's filial piety, so she smiled and said, "You can't support a wife by yourself, if I live here and live by the house, what good will it be?"

Wang Cheng explained the reason to his wife, and his wife was very afraid, after all, the family was very poor, and if there was another person with more mouths, how difficult and hard would it be to have that day? Wang Cheng recounted her righteousness and asked her to serve her mother-in-law as her own mother-in-law, and his wife reluctantly agreed. After three days, the mother-in-law came, took out a few taels of silver, bought a load of corn and wheat, and slept in a small bed with his wife at night.

The wife began to be afraid of her, after all, she was a stranger, of unknown origin, and was wary, but seeing that she meant it was very enthusiastic, she no longer doubted it.

The next day, the mother-in-law said to Wang Cheng: "Grandson don't be lazy, you should do some small business, how can you sit and wait for dinner for a long time!" Wang Cheng had to tell him that he had no capital, and it was difficult for a penny to defeat a hero, even if he had great ability, it was difficult to show it, so he could not do anything.

The mother-in-law said, "In the days of your grandfather's life, money and cloth were at my disposal, and I never took more because I was not a man of this world and did not need these things." It's just that I have accumulated forty taels of money to buy hairpin powder, and I still keep it, and it's useless to hide it for a long time, so you can take it and buy kudzu cloth, and you can earn some interest when you enter the capital on the same day. ”

Wang Chengzhi said that his grandfather was very rich, and a little bit of it was enough to live on his own for a long time, so he listened to what she said, bought more than 50 horses, and came back, ready to do some small business to improve his life.

The mother-in-law asked him to pack his bags, calculating that he could reach Yandu in six or seven days. He was instructed: "Be industrious and not lazy, be eager and not slow, for if you are slow for a day, it will be too late to regret it." Wang Cheng respectfully agreed, loaded the goods and went on the road. Unexpectedly, Wang Cheng belonged to Jiang Ziya, and on the way to do business, he encountered rain, Wang Cheng was embarrassed by the rain, and his clothes and shoes were soaked.

Wang Cheng had never experienced hardships in his life, and he was so tired and haggard that he rested in the hotel temporarily. Unexpectedly, the rain fell all night, and the rain dripping under the eaves of the porch was like a rope. After the night, the road was even more muddy. He saw the pedestrians coming and going, and the mud he was stepping on had submerged his calves, and he was very afraid of this suffering. It wasn't until noon that the road slowly dried, but the clouds gathered again, and it rained heavily. Wang Cheng set off after another night.

When he was about to arrive in the capital, he heard that the price of Gebu was very expensive, and he was secretly happy in his heart. When he arrived in Yandu, Zai undressed at the inn, and the host sighed very much that he was late. It turned out that the roads in the south had just been opened, and there were very few people who came to sell kudzu. And the price of the kudzu cloth that Baylor was very eager to buy immediately went up. That's three times as much as usual. I bought enough the day before, and the people who came after were disappointed. The master told Wang Cheng about this reason, and Wang Cheng was depressed and unhappy. After a while, more people came to sell the kudzu, and the price fell even more. Wang Cheng refused to sell because there was no interest. It dragged on for more than ten days, and he felt even more depressed and depressed after calculating that he had consumed a lot of food. The master persuaded him to sell Ge Bu and make something else. Wang Cheng listened to him. lost more than ten taels of capital, and Ge Bu took it off. When I got up in the morning, I was about to go back, and when I opened my baggage, I saw that the silver two were gone. He was surprised and told his master's house. There is no way for the host family. Some people persuaded Wang Cheng to become a high-ranking official and let the master's family compensate.

But I don't know that although he is poor to the bones, but his firm spirituality has not changed at all, although stubborn, but he is not an unreasonable person, so Wang Chengcheng sighed and said: "This is my days, what does it have to do with the master?" The master's family heard Wang Cheng's words, and thought that he was very virtuous, so they gave him five taels of silver and comforted him to go back.