My grandfather’s name is Hu Guohua.
The ancestors of the Hu family were famous big landowners from all over the country.
During the most glorious period, they bought more than 40 houses connected by three alleys in the city.
During this period, there were also some officials and businessmen.
An assistant who donated grain and trough transportation from the Qing Dynasty.
There is a folk proverb: "You can only be rich for three generations."
This is very reasonable.
Even if the family has gold and silver, it cannot withstand the squandering of the descendants of the prodigal family.
During the Republic of China, my grandfather's generation began to fall into decline.
First, the family was divided.
Hu Guohua also received a lot of property, which was enough to live a life of food and clothing without any worries.
However, he refused to learn well.
Of course, this was not the same as at that time.
It was related to the social environment.
First he was addicted to gambling, and later he started smoking drugs, which destroyed all the wealth of Wan Guan's family.
When Hu Guohua was young, he was addicted to eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling and smoking.
In the end, he was so poor that he didn't even have a fortune.
If a person is addicted to smoking, he will be unbearable, but if you don’t have money, who will let you smoke?
In the old days, when you had money, the bosses and waiters in the opium den were all Mr.
Hu who was better than Mr.
Hu when they met him.
The greetings are courteous and considerate, but once you are penniless, they treat you as a beggar and chase you away.
When people are poor and crazy, concepts such as integrity and morality are no longer important.
Hu Guohua thought of a way to go to his uncle to swindle some money.
Hu Guohua's uncle knew that he was a prodigal and a heavy smoker, and usually refused to give him a penny, but this time Hu Guohua lied to his uncle that he wanted to marry a wife and asked his uncle to collect some money.
When the uncle heard this, he was moved to tears.
This unscrupulous nephew finally did something serious.
If he married a virtuous daughter-in-law and took good care of him and accepted his heart, maybe she could learn from him in the future.
So I got him 20 yuan and told him to marry a wife and live a good life.
Don't get contaminated by those blessings.
In a few days, when I have free time, I will go to Hu Guohua's house to see my nephew and his wife in person.
Hu Guohua had the most evil ideas.
In order to deal with his uncle, he went home and found a craftsman in the village who could make paper figures and horses, the kind that were burned to the dead.
This paper-making master is very skilled in craftsmanship.
As long as you can name something, he can make it perfectly.
As required, he made a paper woman for Hu Guohua and framed it with white paper.
He also painted the eyebrows, nose, clothes and hair on the paper figure with watercolors.
When he saw it from a distance, hey, it really looked like a living person.
Hu Guohua carried the paper figure home, placed it on the kang in the back room, and covered it with a quilt.
He was thinking very well.
When his uncle came a few days later, he said that my wife was sick and could not be seen in bed.
Guest, just let him take a look from a distance.
Thinking of the happy place, I couldn't help but hum a ditty and went to the city to smoke.
Within a few days, his uncle came to visit his nephew and daughter-in-law and bought some calico snacks and the like.
Hu Guohua excused himself according to the pre-planned excuse, saying that his daughter-in-law was unwell and could not see guests, so he asked his uncle to reveal it to them.
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He opened the door and took one look at the curtain before lowering it.
My uncle doesn't want to, oh, it's not okay for you to deal with your own uncle like this.
You have to see your new wife today.
If she is sick, I will pay for it to be treated by a doctor.
Hu Guohua refused to let him see her.
The more he stopped, the more problematic he became.
His uncle became more suspicious and started to argue.
At this moment, the door curtain of the back room opened, and a fair-looking woman came out, with a big face, a big butt and small feet.
Hu Guohua's heart skipped a beat, oh, isn't this the paper figurine I asked someone to make?
alive The woman bowed to her uncle and said she had been in poor health recently.
She had not come out to greet him just now.
Please forgive me for being rude.
Now she suddenly feels better again.
She will stay with uncle at home for a light meal today.
After saying this, she turned around and went in to cook. .
Hu Guohua's uncle was overjoyed when he saw it.
This nephew's daughter-in-law was so virtuous and had the good looks of a prosperous husband.
My dead sister Quan Xia Youzhi must be happy to see his son marry such a good daughter-in-law.
When his uncle was happy, he gave Hu Guohua another ten yuan.
Hu Guohua stayed on the spot, feeling flustered.
He didn't know whether he should be thankful or afraid.
Time passed quickly, and it was night in a blink of an eye.
The man on the white paper cooked a table of food.
His uncle was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, but Hu Guohua had no intention.
While eating and drinking, he looked at the woman sitting opposite him and felt as sick as if he had eaten a fly.
Her face was very white, with no blood at all, and the rosiness on her face was all rouge.
The uncle's eyesight was dim and he didn't think there was anything wrong with the woman.
He drank seven or eight glasses of old wine and became very drunk.
Hu Guohua borrowed a donkey cart to take him home.
On the way back, the more I thought about it, the more scared I became, so I simply didn’t go home.
I went to spend the night in Hualiu Alley in the city, where I used up all the ten oceans my uncle had just given me, including smoking and prostitution.
In the end, he was kicked out because he had no money to pay the bill.
He had nowhere to go and had no choice but to go home.
When I got home, I saw the lights in the house were dark, and the white paper man was lying motionless on his bed, covered with a quilt.
It was as if everything before had never happened.
When Hu Guohua thought about what to do if he kept her and turned into a living person at night, it would be better for me to burn it clean.
He dragged the paper man into the yard, took out the fire folding box, and wanted to burn the paper man.
At this moment, the paper man suddenly spoke: "You are so heartless.
I helped you with good intentions, but you want to burn me."
Hu Guohua was startled.
In the middle of the night, he only heard the blank woman continue to say: "I feel sorry for you.
Although you eat, drink, whore and gamble, you are not a bad person.
I want to marry you, are you willing?"
Hu Guohua shook his head desperately and asked the paper man whether you were a demon or a ghost.
The white paper man said of course I am a ghost.
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I am only temporarily attached to this paper man.
But you poor guy, don’t dislike me.
I was very rich when I was alive.
I will be buried with you.
Gold and silver jewelry are enough for you to smoke for ten lifetimes.
Don’t you know that a rich man is a hundred times better than a poor man?
When it comes to money, Hu Guohua gets a little excited, because he has been so poor recently that even his clothes have been pawned, but he doesn't want to have the life to get the money but no life to spend it.
He once heard the old people talk about the female ghost and the seductress.
The things that happened over and over again sucked away all the man's yang energy.
Those men who were haunted by ghosts were left with only skeletons wrapped in dry skin.
So he said to the paper man: "Even if you are really good to me, I can't marry you.
After all, we are humans and ghosts, and Yin and Yang are separated.
Doing so is against the laws of heaven."
The man on white paper said that since you are so hard-hearted, I won’t force you, but sooner or later there will be a day when you regret it.
Remember, if you are really too poor to survive, you can come to me in the deserted grave in Shisanlipu.
In the middle of that graveyard is a solitary grave without a tombstone.
The coffin is where my body is.
There are gold, silver and jewels in the coffin.
As long as you dare to come, you can use those properties for whatever you want.
After saying that, the white paper man became motionless.
Hu Guohua took courage, lit a fire and burned the white paper man to ashes.
Later, there were several times when I was so poor that I had no choice but to go to Shisanlipu to dig graves, but in the end I resisted and made my living by borrowing here and there.
Two years later, he was at the end of his rope and finally went to that cemetery, but that is a story for another day, so we won’t mention it for now.
A lot of things happened during the Spring Festival of this year.
It was finally revealed that Hu Guohua had made a paper man to defraud his uncle of money.
His uncle became angry and fell ill.
He passed away and returned to the West within three days.
Relatives and friends of the Hu family all guarded him like a thief.
Not to mention lending him money, they wouldn't even let him take a bite of the leftovers.
Hu Guohua sold the last pair of sandalwood boxes at home for two yuan.
The boxes were his mother's dowry.
He had always wanted to keep them as a memory, but was reluctant to pawn them.
But when I got addicted to smoking, I couldn’t care less about it.
I used the two yuan to buy a small piece of Fushou ointment.
When I got home, I couldn’t wait to light up the cigarette and fell on the bed.
I took two strong puffs and my body felt as light as before.
Cloud.
At this moment, he felt as happy as a god.
The daily experiences of being looked down upon, insulted, and bullied by others were no longer important.
After taking two more puffs, I suddenly found something black lying on my old bed.
I took a closer look and saw that there was a big mouse lying on the corner of the bed.
This mouse must be much older, and its beard has turned white.
It is about the same size as a cat.
It is smoking the smoke from Hu Guohua's pipe next to it.
It seems that it also knows the benefits of this longevity ointment, sniffing and enjoying it greedily.
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Hu Guohua found it interesting and said to the big mouse: "You are also addicted to cigarettes.
It seems that you are the same as me."
After saying that, he took a puff and puffed at the mouse with his mouth.
The mouse seemed to know that he meant no harm.
Nor was it afraid of him, raising its head to receive the smoke that was directed at it.
After a while, he seemed to have had enough fun and crawled away slowly.
For several days, this big mouse came to smoke with Hu Guohua every day.
Hu Guohua was looked down upon everywhere and had no friends around him.
He was very fond of this mouse.
Sometimes the mouse came a little later, so Hu Guohua endured his craving for cigarettes and waited. it.
But the good times did not last long.
Hu Guohua's house only had a bed and four walls.
He no longer had money to buy tobacco.
He was depressed and helpless.
He sighed and said to the mouse: "Mouse, mouse, today I have no money to collect food.
But I don’t have the money to buy Fushou ointment anymore, so I won’t be able to smoke this smell with you all the time.”
After saying this, I couldn’t help but sigh.
After hearing what he said, the mouse's eyes were bright and thoughtful, and he turned around and left.
When it got dark, the mouse brought back a silver dollar and placed it on Hu Guohua's pillow.
Hu Guohua was so surprised that he went to the city that night and bought a piece of longevity ointment.
When he came back, he lit it under the lamp, vomited it profusely, and drank it happily with the mouse.
Eat a full meal.
The next day, the mouse picked up three more silver coins.
Hu Guohua was so happy that he didn't know what to say.
He remembered an allusion he had learned when he was in private school, so he said to the mouse: "The one who knows Guan Zhong is Bao Shuya.
You know me."
Even though I am poor, you give generously to me.
He is my confidant.
If you don’t dislike me, we will become Jinlan brothers.”
From then on, we called this mouse brother and called him “Brother Rat.”
We shared food and drinks, smoked cigarettes together, and put cotton wool on the bed for him.
Make a nest and let the mice sleep on the bed.
The relationship between man and mouse is no less than a close friendship.
The mouse goes out every day and brings back silver coins, ranging from one or two to three or five.
From then on, Hu Guohua has no worries about food and clothing.
Years later my grandfather would look back on it and always said that this period was the happiest time in his life.
Just like this, more than half a year later, Hu Guohua gradually became rich, but isn't there a saying that if you get rich and meet a good friend, but if you are unlucky enough to meet a villain, Hu Guohua should be destined to be poor, so he was targeted by a villain.
There is a scoundrel in the village named Wang Ergangzi.
He is different from Hu Guohua.
Hu Guohua was at least once wealthy and had been "Master Hu" for more than 20 years.
Wang Ergangzi's life was not so good.
From the eighth generation of his family to his generation, he had never worn a pair of trousers that did not expose his buttocks.
Seeing that Hu Guohua's family business had failed, he gloated about his misfortune and beat Hu Guohua whenever he was fine.
Swear and insult, bully and bully the young Master Hu back then, to find some balance in his heart.
Recently, he felt very strange.
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Hu Guohua, a poor boy, didn't do anything to make a living.
He pawned everything he could in his family, and most of his relatives were dead.
Why did he smoke at home every day?
Where did he get the money to buy cigarettes?
Maybe this kid has become a thief.
I might as well keep an eye on him quietly, catch him when he steals something, and send him to the government in exchange for a few oceans of reward.
However, after watching for a while, I found that Hu Guohua basically stayed at home and never interacted with anyone, except for occasionally going to the city to buy some food and tobacco.
The less he knew where his money came from, the more anxious Wang Ergangzi became.
One day when Hu Guohua went out to buy food, Wang Ergangzi took the opportunity to climb over the wall and entered his house.
He rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to find out what secrets Hu Guohua had.
Suddenly he found a big mouse sleeping on the bed.
Wang Ergangzi grabbed the mouse and threw it into a pot of water that was boiling on the stove.
Then he put the lid on the pot and thought that he would wait for Hu Guohua to come home and drink some water.
I was watching from the side.
A lot of fun.
Before Wang Ergangzi could go out, Hu Guohua came back and just blocked him in the room.
When Hu Guohua saw the big rat in the pot, it had been scalded to death.
His eyes suddenly turned red.
He picked up a kitchen knife and chopped Wang Er.
Gangzi was stabbed more than a dozen times.
Fortunately, Hu Guohua was a heavy smoker and his hands were weak.
Although Wang Ergangzi was hit, Although he was not seriously injured, he fled to the security team covered in blood and asked for help.
The captain of the security team was a relative of a local warlord and was inviting the warlord to drink.
Is there no way to kill someone with a knife?
He quickly ordered a few of his men to tie up Hu Guohua.
Hu Guohua was escorted to the front of the hall.
The security captain asked sternly why he wanted to kill Wang Ergangzi with a knife.
Hu Guohua burst into tears, sobbing and recounted the whole story.
Finally, he lamented: "I thought I was dying of poverty.
Without this mouse, I wouldn't be able to live today.
Unexpectedly, my negligence caused Brother Rat's death.
Although it was not me, Killed, but He died because of me.
How can I bear the loss of such a good friend?
I am responsible for all my actions.
Since I have hurt Wang Ergangzi, I will let him be killed or punished.
I just ask the commander to let me go home and bury my brother rat.
Even if you die, you will have peace of mind.”
Before the security captain could say anything, the warlord next to him sighed and said to Hu Guohua: "His grandma, it is benevolence to not be ungrateful, and it is righteousness to not be unfaithful.
Even if you do this to mice, let alone people, I miss you and look at you."
You have no one to rely on, so just join the army and become an adjutant in the future.”
The barrel of the gun is the political power.
In troubled times, the words of the soldiers are the king's law.
The warlord leader ordered his men to whip the king's second stick with a whip to vent his anger on Hu Guohua, and then let Hu Guohua go home to bury the mouse.
Hu Guohua used wood to bury the rat.
He Sheng buried the mouse's body, dug a hole and buried it.
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After crying for a long time, he went to join the warlord leader.
As the saying goes: when you are hungry, eating chaff is as sweet as honey; when you are full, eating honey is not sweet at all.
When a person is poor and impoverished, others will be grateful even if they give him a bowl of porridge or a piece of cake.
What's more, the mouse gave Hu Guohua so much money.
Of course, the mouse's money was also stolen.
The sage said that he would not drink the water from the stolen spring until he died of thirst, but that was the moral standard of the sages and sages, and it was difficult for the ancients to achieve it, let alone a mediocre person like Hu Guohua.
It is true that flies and mice can become addicted
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