To enter Julang Ranch, you must first pass through the Nanhao. The Nanhao is a manually dug river, four meters wide and two meters deep. It has always been the main source of drainage and irrigation for surrounding residents.

The story is caused by a painting:

The third master attended a private school when he was young, and he was good at writing calligraphy and painting flowers and birds with fine brushwork. So every New Year, people would always ask him to write couplets. In the past, furniture was all made of solid wood (it seems a bit luxurious now)

After the carpenters finished making the furniture, they would draw landscapes, flowers and birds on the cabinet doors and bedsides. Carpenters in the Northeast are no better than those in the South, and generally only know how to do carpentry and not paint. So the job of painting flowers and birds falls on the third master.

However, since the 1990s, more and more people have begun to buy ready-made furniture, so fewer and fewer people come to Sanye to paint furniture.

The old Zhang family at the east end of the village has a pair of wooden boxes made in the 1970s. The quality is very good and has not been deformed or damaged for more than 20 years. However, the pattern on it has been worn away. The old couple was reluctant to throw it away, so they asked the third master for help.

Draw a new painting. The third master thought about it and agreed. The third master asked Lao Zhang what he wanted to draw? Lao Zhang said: "We rural people don't know much about art, as long as the painting is beautiful."

The third master pondered for a while, dipped his pen in ink, and finished the painting in a short while. It was a small bird on a branch, with a red beak and yellow feathers. It was very beautiful. He also took up the pen and wrote a poem by Bai Juyi. After the painting was dry, he painted it with bright

The paint and the box were as good as new. Lao Zhangtou was very happy and specially invited the third master to have two drinks.

Two days later, Lao Zhangtou's son, who lived in the west of the village, came. As soon as he entered the house, he was attracted by the newly painted box. He looked at it carefully. Suddenly he saw the poem, his face changed, and he asked: "Dad.

, who wrote this poem?" Old Zhangtou said: "It was written by your third master, saying it is a poem by Bai Juyi, a great poet."

Xiao Zhang said: "What kind of mess is this? It's causing trouble. I'm going to settle the score with him." Old Zhang didn't catch him. Xiao Zhang rushed to Third Master's Yi Nian Zhai and loudly accused Third Master. What's causing trouble?

It's troublesome, annoying, and so on. It makes the neighbors come to break up the fight.

I graduated from high school and had a little education. I heard that they quarreled over a poem. It was very strange. When I followed everyone to the old Zhangtou's house, I understood what was going on. I saw that the poem said this

:

Bird——Tang﹒

Bai Juyi, who said that the lives of all living beings are small?

General flesh and bones, general skin.

I advise you not to hit the birds on the branches. The son is in the nest looking for his mother to return.

Everyone in the ranch knows that Xiao Zhang and his neighbor Xiao Zhao have no occupations. Their main source of income is hunting and selling birds. Xiao Zhao mainly shoots large birds, white storks, wild ducks, waterfowl and the like. The shooting methods are air guns, scattered birds, etc.

Shotguns and drugs. It is said that he once shot a red-crowned crane. Every time the prey was sold to a game shop in Daqing, the income was very considerable. Xiao Zhang mainly

Catch small birds, such as sparrows. The method is to use hundreds of plates of clips lined up in a row during the day, and then drive the birds into the area. As soon as the birds eat, they will be killed by the clips. At night, use sticky nets to find the firewood and hay stacks where the birds live.

Cover them with a net, and then catch them all at dawn. They sell them to various snack bars for 8 cents each, and it is said that the daily income is more than 100 yuan.

The two hunted birds professionally and with professional methods, and the harvest was extremely fruitful. It is said that the insect disaster two years ago was directly related to the two of them. The third master would advise the two of them not to kill too much when walking almost every day. Birds are also life.

They also need to love and protect him. Seeing that he was older, the two of them didn't argue. They just found it annoying and avoided seeing the third master from a distance every day.

The third master's intention in writing this poem is very obvious, which is to persuade the two of them to be compassionate and not to commit sin. Everyone will know what is going on at a glance.

Xiao Zhang also graduated from high school and had some education. He also had the loudest voice in the debate: "Birds are just beasts. Even if they are alive, they are only for people's appetite. They belong to the end of the food chain. What's the big deal about killing a few birds? Wolves are still alive." Eating sheep is a matter of course. If it is eaten, it is a sin committed in the past life, so it should be eaten by me in this life."

The third master just shook his head and sighed, and said softly, "It's a sin, it's a sin." Everyone felt that Xiao Zhang was wrong, but they felt it was difficult to refute what Xiao Zhang said.

At this time, my uncle walked out of the crowd. My uncle is the third master's son-in-law, an engineer for an installation company, and he is at home during the holidays. The third master often said that his uncle was a prisoner of the Yima, and he carried a canopy every year, so he was destined to be associated with religion. .

Uncle said to Xiao Zhang: "Xiao Zhang, stop arguing. Although the purpose of reincarnation in the six realms is to be reincarnated in the animal realm and to suffer, animals wandering in the wild suffer from long-term cold, heat, hunger, thirst, and being hunted by the same kind. The pain of killing and eating each other. Animals raised by humans are labored, whipped, and even slaughtered for their skin, meat, and bones. The suffering is also unspeakable. After all, God has the virtue of good life, and until the karma is exhausted, there is hope for rebirth. As a human being, if you do too many evil things, there will be a cycle of cause and effect. Treat good people with kindness, and evil people with evil."

"Now let me tell you a story about saving a life and getting a good reward: In ancient times, Liu Xiucai taught children to read in an ancient temple. One night, two people claiming to be "hungry ghosts" suddenly came to him and begged him to donate some leftovers. Liu The student agreed to their request, and from then on, he often spilled the leftover wine outside the wall.

One night a year later, I suddenly heard a voice outside the wall saying: "Thank you for your long-term help to us. Today I come to say goodbye to you." Liu Sheng asked: "Where are you going?" They said: "We were working in the officialdom during our lifetime. , we will fawn over whoever has power, and once it declines, we will turn away like strangers. We have never done good deeds, so we cannot seek transcendence. In recent years, we just want to do more good deeds to extricate ourselves. This forest There were a lot of wild birds in the area, and some came to shoot them, so we frightened the birds so that they could fly away. There were some caught in the net, so we were the first to drive them away and prevent them from getting into the net. Because of this kindness, we moved the gods, and now we have been allowed to do so. The wheel has given birth."

Liu Xiucai told this story to others and said: "They have been sinking for a long time, but they can still use their meager efforts to try their best to save living things from being slaughtered. Why do so many of us say nothing about protecting living things and protecting ecological balance?" What is beyond your reach?”.”

After listening to his uncle's words, Xiao Zhang thought that he was indeed in the wrong, so he immediately went down the steps and went home with everyone's persuasion.
Chapter completed!