At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a family named Li in Xiaojiang, Ningbo, Zhejiang. His parents had passed away long ago, leaving two brothers Gui Gen and Gui Sheng. Soon, the two brothers got married one after another. The younger brother Guisheng was very happy after giving birth to two sons, but soon he fell ill and died. My elder brother, Gui Gen, is almost sixty and still has only one son and a half daughters. Gui Gen discussed with his wife that he wanted to adopt his nephew as his son.
The next day, after breakfast, the couple happily went to their brother's house. It was my sister-in-law who opened the door. When she saw that it was her brother and sister-in-law, she quickly offered to sit down, poured tea, and asked what happened. So, Gui Gen explained his purpose.
Unexpectedly, my sister-in-law heard this and said with a sneer: "Hey, you asked me to give you the child. If you don't have a child, how do you know the pain of pregnancy and the difficulty of feeding a child in ten months? Thank you for saying that." You have to say something." The Guigen couple were frustrated and had no choice but to walk home in silence.
After Guigen’s wife came home, she was so angry that she cried. Guigen persuaded: "Forget it, why should we be friends with her? My brother died early, so we will let her go."
Oddly enough, when Guigen was sixty years old, his wife actually got pregnant. The old couple were so happy that they didn't know what to say. A few months passed in the blink of an eye. Guigen saw that his wife was about to give birth, but he happened to have to go out to collect debts. He decided to find a midwife first so as not to be caught off guard when she arrived. Gui Gen found out that Aunt Duihe was a skilled midwife, so he rushed to Aunt Six's house, gave her two hundred taels of silver, and entrusted her with his wife's delivery.
Aunt Six was a quick talker, so the news that Guigen's wife was expecting to give birth was spread to the ears of Guigen's sister-in-law. Have evil intentions. Gui Gen's sister-in-law originally thought that her brother and sister-in-law's death was not far away, and their family property would be secure. But there is an extra problem. As soon as the child is born, won’t all the family property be lost? snort! Can't do it. Thinking of this, she hurriedly went to her sixth aunt: "Brother Guigen asked you to deliver the baby, how much will he give you?" The sixth aunt replied: "Two hundred taels of silver." The younger sister stuffed another two hundred taels of silver and put her head towards the sixth aunt. In his ear, he whispered something quietly.
On the day when Guigen’s wife was about to give birth, her sister-in-law came to Guigen’s room and said, “Sister-in-law, when the child is born, you should close your eyes hard so that the child will suffer less.” Guigen’s wife thought it was reasonable. , I quickly closed my eyes when I was giving birth, and sure enough, the baby was born quickly. There was only a "wow" sound, and then there was no more sound. After a while, she opened her eyes and asked Aunt Six if she was giving birth to a boy or a girl. Aunt Six replied: "The child was born a freak and has been lost." She was so shocked that she almost fainted.
What on earth is going on? It turned out that Guigen's sister-in-law was greedy for money and wanted to take advantage of Guigen's family property. She gave the sixth aunt two hundred taels of silver just to do this. Guigen's wife clearly gave birth to a fat and white boy, but she strangled the child to death. Then she asked Aunt Six to lie to Guigen's wife that she had given birth to a freak, then she took her purse, tied up the child, and threw him into the wilderness. .
Unexpectedly, all this was seen by an old yellow guard dog of Gui Gen’s family. Guigen's sister-in-law walked on her front legs, and she entered the dog shed with her purse in her hind legs. The old yellow dog bit off the rope, opened the purse, put the child on the ground and licked it dry. Fortunately, the child was not strangled to death. He slowly regained his breath, sucked the old yellow dog's milk, and survived.
Three days later, Guigen collected the bills and returned home. As soon as he walked into the house, the old yellow dog barked at its owner. Gui Gen thought the dog was hungry, so he gave it something to eat, but the dog wouldn't eat and kept barking. Gui Gen was annoyed, so he kicked the dog and went inside to see his wife. Unwilling to give up, the old yellow dog pounced on his clothes and pulled them out with all his strength. Gui Gen felt strange and followed it to the dog shed. He only heard the cry of a child coming from inside, and he followed it. I saw a naked child in the corner of the dog kennel, crying hard. Gui Gen hurriedly bent down and carried the child into the house. The wife sadly told her husband that she had given birth to a freak. When Gui Gen heard this, he felt something was fishy. At this time, the old yellow dog came to the owner again with the purse in his mouth. Gui Gen opened it and saw a rope inside, which made her more suspicious. Guigen quietly hid the purse and the rope and said to his wife: "You gave birth to a freak. Now that I have found a boy, let's raise him as our own son." His wife nodded in agreement.
The next day, Guigen gave four red eggs and two bowls of noodles to each of his neighbors, except for his sister-in-law.
When my sister-in-law learned the news, she went to the county government to report to Guigen and his wife, saying that Guigen had adopted a child that was fed by a yellow dog. Isn't this a clear insult to her, a widow and her biological nephew? As soon as the county magistrate heard that they were justified, he ordered someone to bring Guigen and his wife to the hall, and beat them twenty times each indiscriminately. The couple suffered this injustice, so they came home crying and said to the old yellow dog: "Yellow dog, the county magistrate doesn't believe that dogs can feed children, what should we do?" The yellow dog barked at them three times. Voice.
The next day, the county magistrate again told Gui Gen and his wife to bring their children to court. Guigen said to the magistrate: "This child was indeed fed by a dog." After saying that, an old yellow dog ran into the hall to feed the child, and even brought the purse in front of the magistrate. The county official felt that something was wrong, so he sent someone to summon all the parties involved to appear in court. The sixth aunt had never been through such a battle before, so she was so frightened that she had no choice but to confess truthfully. When the truth of the matter came to light, the county magistrate immediately arrested his sister-in-law and sixth aunt.
Guigen and his wife happily returned home with their biological child in their arms, and named the child "Gou Bao". They also asked the most famous tailor in the area to imitate the old yellow dog who looked after the door. He made a hat and put it on, hence the name "dog head hat".
Later, people thought that wearing the dog-headed hat on a child’s head would be lively and cute, and would bring good luck in preventing illness and disaster, so they started to imitate it one after another. As a result, dog hats have gradually become a favorite hat for children.