Chapter 145 Promoting Weaving

During the Xuande period, fighting crickets were popular in the palace and were collected and woven by the people every year. This thing is not abundant in Shaanxi. A Huayin county magistrate wants to flattate his boss, offer a cricket, have a trial, and become famous in the first battle. The boss was overjoyed and ordered to pay tribute every year. The county magistrate pushed the task to Li Zheng. The scoundrels in the city are catching crickets one after another, raising them in cages, raising prices, and strange goods. The yamen in the countryside are cunning and treacherous. They take the opportunity to accumulate money and apportion expenses. For each cricket collected, it often leads to several residents to ruin their families.

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He became famous, and he was a child in the county. He had a dull personality and failed many times. He teased him for the government officials and served as Li Zheng. He was scheming in all kinds of ways and could not support himself. In a few months, the family property was empty. He caught up with the expropriation of crickets. He became famous and did not want to blackmail the people, but he had no money to compensate. He was bored to death. The wife said, "What's the benefit of death? It's better to search by yourself. In case you find a good kind of cricket, all the difficulties will be solved.

He was very famous. He came out early and came back late. He carried a bamboo tube, carried a silk cage, and went out between the broken walls and grass. He explored the stone and dug holes. The method was exhausted, but he still got nothing. Occasionally, I catch three or two crickets, which are thin, weak and of poor quality, and useless. The county magistrate chased him within a time limit. More than ten days later, he failed to become famous. He was hit by a hundred sticks. His legs were skinned and fleshy, and he was bloody. He was lying in bed to recuperate. He wanted to catch insects but couldn't. Turning around the head of the bed, I just want to suicide.

There is a hunchback witch in the village who is good at divination. When the adult wife went to ask about the gossip, she saw a crowd of people, a girl in red, a white-haired mother-in-law, filling the door. When entering the building, the secret room hangs the curtain, and there is a incense case outside the curtain. The gossiper burned incense in the tripod and knelt down on the ground. The witch prayed on her behalf. Her lips moved and read a few words, but she didn't know what to say. The believers stood respectfully and listened attentively. In a few rooms, paper is toss out of the curtain, and the content predicts good or bad luck, which is not pleasant at all.

The adult wife offered copper money, burned incense and knelt down. Suddenly, the curtain moved, and a piece of paper was thrown down. Pick it up and look at it. It is not a word but a picture. There is an image in the painting: a pavilion, similar to a temple; at the back of the temple, under the hill, there are strange rocks, thorns, and a green-headed cricket hidden in it; next to it is a toad, if it will dance.

The adult wife saw the portrait and didn't understand it. She thought, "The cricket in the picture talks about the central thing vaguely." Put away the pictures and take them home. Please ask your husband for advice. When he became famous, he saw the scenery in the painting and thought, "Is it the mercy of God who asked me to hunt insects in the wild?" Looking at the location of the palace, it is very similar to the big Buddhist temple in the east of the village. So he reluctantly got out of bed, put on crutches in his hand, and went to the back mountain of the Big Buddha Temple. I saw the graves bulging and walking along the grave. The strange rocks were everywhere, and the weeds were overgrown. I pulled the weeds all the way and searched slowly. Gradually, my heart was exhausted, dizzy, and it was still in vain.

While I was in a melancholy, a toad suddenly jumped out, jumped away, and followed all the way to fame. The toad jumped into the grass and disappeared. It was separated from the thatch. I saw a cricket lying in the thorns and came forward to catch it. The cricket drilled into the stone cave, poked it with sharp grass, but it did not come out; it was flooded with water, and then came out. Take a closer look, the cricket is strong and healthy, and he is immediately captured. Looking intently, the giant body has a long tail, a blue neck and golden wings.

He became famous and put the crickets into the bamboo tube and returned home. The whole family celebrates, regards it as a treasure, feeds it carefully, takes good care of it, and only waits for the deadline to be handed over to the government.

The famous son, nine years old, was playful. When his father was not at home, he opened the flower pot and released crickets to tease him. The worm jumped out and was catching. It was not easy to catch it again, but due to excessive force, the cricket's leg was broken and he had to die in a moment.

The son was so afraid that he cried to his mother. When his wife heard the words, his face was like ashes. He scolded, "It's a troublemaker! The time of death is coming. When my father comes back, I will settle accounts with you. My son burst into tears. Not many times after, he became famous and returned home. Hearing his wife's words, he was cold all over, looking for his son angrily, and the child was nowhere to be found. Soon after, the two found their son's body in the well, and their anger turned into grief and heartbroken. The husband and wife sit opposite each other, the cottage is smoke-free, the relationship is speechless, and there is no fun.

The twilight was deep, and the two took a straw mat and planned to bury the body. Touching close to the front, the child's breath is weak, and there is still a heartbeat. The couple was overjoyed and hurriedly put their son on the bed. In the middle of the night, the child finally woke up. The couple was a little relieved, but when they thought that the cricket was dead, they couldn't help worrying. Seeing that his son was weak, he did not dare to take responsibility, so he was in a daze, from late to early, without eye contact.

At the beginning of the rising sun, he became famous and was still worried about lying in bed. Suddenly, he heard the worms outside the door. He was shocked and went out of the house to check. The crickets were resurrected. He came forward to catch it, knit and sang and jumped, and moved quickly. Covered with palms, as if there is nothing. As soon as he raised his arm, the cricket immediately escaped, chased it, turned a corner of the wall, and disappeared.

When he became famous, he wandered around and saw an insect lying on the wall. He stared at it. The cricket was short, and his skin was black and red, not the previous one. He became famous and thought he was thin and didn't catch it. The little bug on the wall suddenly jumped off his sleeves. Looking at it, it looks like a local dog, plum wings, square head and long feet, it seems to be a good species, and it is happy to receive it. If you want to give it to the public, you will feel unsatisfied, and I'm afraid that you won't get the boss's will. He thought to himself, "Let's have a try first, and you will know the advantages and disadvantages before you compare."

The young good-doers in the village tame a worm and name it "Crab Shell Green". They fight with their children every day and are invincible. He wants to sell it at a high price and make huge profits, but no one cares about it. When he became famous, he came to visit and asked for defeat. The teenager watched his crickets and covered his mouth and laughed. He took out his pet and put it in the cage. The crab shell was magnificent, and his body was huge. At the first sight of his fame, he was so sorry that he didn't dare to compare. The teenager repeatedly urged, becoming famous and thinking, "If you die, die." Anyway, my cricket is useless. It's better to fight and let everyone laugh.

Thinking of this, he took out the cricket and put it in the basin. The worm is lying still, as stupid as a wooden chicken. The teenager laughed with a pig. The hair plucks the worm's beard, but it still doesn't move. The teenager laughed again and played with him again and again. The little insect was furious and rushed straight forward, fighting with each other and flapping his wings. Orr suddenly saw the little insect jump up, stretched out his beard, and bit the crab shell and blue neck. The teenager was terrled and shouted, "I admit defeat. Armistice, armistice."

When the worm heard the words, he flapped his wings and cheered, as if he was telling his master: I won.

He was very happy to become famous and enjoyed it with the teenager. Suddenly, a rooster came and rushed to him. He opened his mouth and pecked at the cricket. He became famous and was shocked and shouted repeatedly. The little bug jumped gently, retreated two feet, and the big rooster fell into the air. Then he moved forward and pressed forward step by step. The blinking worm was under his claws, and he became famous and hurriedly didn't know how to rescue. He was so anxious that he stamped his feet repeatedly, and his face was bloodless.

At this moment, the big rooster suddenly whine, turned around, shook his head, and his neck stretched out. The situation was very painful. Looking at it, I don't know when the little worm has jumped off the chicken crown, and now it is biting hard. He became famous and was surprised. He carefully took the cricket back and hid it in the bamboo tube.

The next day, the famous small insect was presented to the county magistrate. The county magistrate saw that the insect was young and scolded loudly. The county magistrate didn't believe that the crickets were different. Take a weaving, order the little worm to fight with it, fighting seven or eight in a row, invincible, invincible. He also ordered the little worm to fight the chicken. As the famous said, it was fierce and unstoppable. The county magistrate was very happy and rewarded him for becoming famous. He dedicated the little worm to the governor, and the governor to the emperor, with a memorial, praising the little worm for its bravery.

Since entering the palace, the small insects are invincible, fighting all kinds of crickets such as butterflies, mantis, oil tarts, green silk foreheads, etc., every battle must be won, and there is no one to the right. Every time the little worm heard the sound of the piano, it danced. The emperor was very happy and issued an edict to reward the governor with the name of Ma Jin. The governor rewarded the county magistrate, and the county magistrate rewarded him with fame, exempted him from military service, and allowed him to enter the county school, and was raised to be a scholar.

A year later, the spirit of the famous son recovered, said that he was transformed into weaving, and was easy to fight, and now he has begun to return to his soul. The governor also became famous. In a few years, there were hundreds of hectares of fertile land, countless pavilions, flocks of cattle and sheep, and when they traveled, they were mink and horses, and they were rich.