Night talk in the countryside Part 3? The ghost mother feeds her children. Women are weak by nature, but being a mother makes them strong. ?
I don’t know which dynasty or generation the story is from. It is said that there is a place called Luliu Town, with beautiful mountains and clear waters, it is like a paradise. Because there is a Grand Canal passing through the town, ships are constantly coming and going. There is a pier at the east end of the town, and people from ships often come ashore to rest here. Therefore, the town has many shops, is densely populated, and is very prosperous.
Because there are so many people coming and going, the most popular shops in the town are food shops. Old Man Wang's Shaobing Shop is located next to the pier. The sesame biscuits are delicious, both sweet and salty. They only cost a penny each, and are of high quality and low price. There is also free hot water in the shop, so the business is very good.
Old man Wang and his wife have no children, so they only have this small shop. They live in three houses in the back, and have three front doors, one selling sesame cakes, one for people to rest, and one for storing food. Some sundries. The old couple worked from morning to night, whenever the sesame seed cakes were sold out, and when the restaurant closed. The old couple are good at giving and don't care about money. They put a basket next to the sesame cake frame. Whoever buys the sesame cakes can just put the copper coins in it. The old couple closes the door at night and has nothing to do, so they can come back to count.
But these days, the old couple discovered a strange thing. Every day, the copper coins they counted always contained a piece of paper money.
At first the old couple didn’t pay much attention, thinking it was some rogue boy who had done something disgusting. However, after discovering paper money for several days in a row, the old couple secretly took note of it. Slowly they discovered that every day after dark, a young daughter-in-law would always come to buy sesame cakes, one at a time and a bowl of hot water.
The little daughter-in-law didn’t talk much. Every time she took sesame seed cakes, water, put down the money and left. The little daughter-in-law's whereabouts are very suspicious. Although the town is large, she has lived in it for decades, and there are not many people the old couple doesn't know. But the young daughter-in-law was very nervous. When I talked to her, she just smiled without saying much, nodded kindly and left.
It’s not a problem to find paper money every day! Old Man Wang came up with an idea. After dark, he put away the basket containing the money and replaced it with a copper basin to hold the money. If someone puts down copper coins, there will naturally be a sound, but if it is paper money, it will be silent. As soon as they said it was done, the old couple replaced the copper basin as soon as it was dark. People came to buy sesame cakes in twos and threes. After a few jingles, copper coins fell into the basin one after another. The old man and the old lady would check in from time to time. The old lady kept an eye on it. When no one was around, she only left six copper coins in the basin and kept the rest.
It was getting dark, and the little wife came again. I bought sesame cakes as usual, asked for water, smiled, put down my money and left. The old couple pretended not to care, but in fact they were listening to the young daughter-in-law putting money! No sound! There was no sound at all. The old couple looked at me, and I looked at you, and suddenly they had the courage to look at the copper basin, and there was an extra piece of paper money in it...
The old couple was frightened, and closed the door in twos and twos. He didn't care whether there were any saved sesame seeds. The old lady was timid, so she clasped her hands together and chanted: "Old man, we are provoking someone, why are we here to buy sesame cakes?" The old man was still looking for excuses, and said stutteringly: "Maybe this is the home of this young lady. It’s hard to use paper money to pay off debts...”
The old lady’s nose almost became angry, who is having trouble spending paper money! Even if it's on credit, I can pay it back when I have money in the future! The little daughter-in-law is a ghost, and every time she walks, she is light and airy. The more I think about it, the more scared I am... The old lady is a little stupid: "Old man, if she comes again tomorrow, what should we do? We have to sell it to her. "It must be sold. People spend people's money, and ghosts spend ghost money. It's not like they didn't pay for it!"
The old lady said: "Why don't we find a Taoist priest to make something?" Yes! Tell her not to come..." The old man said: "No matter what you do, she won't harm anyone. Who knows what she will do if you piss her off?" "That's right, she's such a pretty little wife. He's so nice, why is he just a ghost?" the old lady muttered.
Mr. and Mrs. Wang brought the baby back and fed it carefully, just like their own grandchild. People called the child "Guisheng", but the old couple found it unpleasant and named the child Guisheng. Within a few months, the child was running all over the floor, calling him "Grandpa" and "Grandma". The old couple almost went crazy with joy.
The story of the ghost mother giving birth to a son became a curiosity and spread throughout the local area. A year later, a man came to Wang's Shaobing Shop and kowtowed as soon as he entered. He called himself Lin Yong, Wang Cuixiang's husband. It turned out that after he buried his wife, he wanted to transport goods to the guests he had booked in advance so that he could exchange money and return to receive his wife's body. Whoever succeeded in his plan met water bandits on the way and the goods were robbed. He and some merchants were hijacked by water bandits. Arriving on an island, he was forced to work all day long and narrowly escaped death.
He only escaped after the water bandits were wiped out by the court a few months ago. The court found out the truth and returned the robbed goods to him. He finally got rid of the goods in exchange for money, and then returned to Luliu Town, hoping to move his wife's grave and bury her in another place. While resting, I heard the storyteller in the teahouse talking about the ghost mother feeding her children, so I hurriedly asked about it before I came here.
Seeing that what he said was accurate and his directions were unmistakable, the old couple quickly called Guisheng and asked him to call him daddy. Guisheng called out loudly: "Daddy." Lin Yong held his child and cried loudly...
After crying for a long time, Lin Yong said that there were no relatives in his hometown anymore, and he planned to buy a Feng Shui treasure land here to bury Cuixiang. He was willing to live happily at the knees of the two elders of the Wang family and provide for them until the end of his life, in order to repay their kindness. The old couple of the Wang family cried with joy, as they suddenly had children and grandchildren.
In addition to going out to do business, Lin Yong took care of the Wang family and his wife. He was grateful for his wife's kindness and never remarried in his life. Guisheng was very smart and well-read. When he grew up, he won the gold medal and became a high-ranking official. The old couple of the Wang family lived to be eighty years old and died without any illness.