During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a villager named Tang Erliang in Nanzhuang, Dengzhou, Henan Province. His father Tang Yan and his mother died early. His family was poor and he lived by planting a few acres of thin land, while his father and son depended on each other for their lives.

Tang Erliang is kind-hearted and willing to help others. However, he has not married yet because his family is poor. In addition, Tang Yan is in a serious condition and takes medicine all year round but has not recovered from illness. Who is the daughter of the family willing to marry him?

Tang Yan had only one cousin, named Xu, and the grandson of Yi Ye. One day, Tang Yan was critically ill and died at the death. Tang Xu comforted him and said, "Brother, don't worry, I will take care of Erliang and I will let my nephew marry and get married." Tang Yan died and died.

Erliang was alone. After his uncle Tang Xu as a guarantee, he went to a wealthy family in Niu Township, a neighboring village. One night in summer, it rained lightly. Erliang got off work and returned home. He wore a hat and a straw raincoat. When he walked halfway, strong winds rose, thunder sounded loudly, and heavy rain poured. In the wind and rain, Erliang saw a broken temple on the side of the road, and he rushed into the temple to avoid it.

This temple is the temple of the Queen Mother. The temple enshrines the statue of the Queen Mother. It is said that the Queen Mother is the Queen Mother. She is in charge of marriage and childbirth in the world. She is the protector of the mother and young, protecting creatures and has endless magic power. Every year during the temple fair, many people come to the Temple of Niangniang to pray for blessings, burn incense and reassure. However, for more than ten years, due to the Taiping Army's rebellion, the war has continued. The doors and windows have been damaged and the roof leaks. The statue of the Queen Mother and the servant goddess on both sides of the temple are vivid, but the colored paint fades. Erliang raised his eyes and saw a small hole on the top of the temple. The rainwater flowed into the temple and splashed on the body of the Queen Mother. Erliang saw it and couldn't help thinking: The statue of the King Mother is made of clay sculptures, how can it withstand the rain and rush over it for a long time? Then he went to the table, took off his hat, put it on the statue, took off his straw raincoat, and put it on the statue.

Erliang looked up at the sky and saw the rain stopping, but the sky was not clear. He wanted to return and wanted to take the hat and straw raincoat. At this time, he thought again: If I ignore it and the rain falls again, the statue of the god will be damaged. It is better to keep the hat and strawcoat for the time being and let the statue of the goddess be used temporarily. When the sky is clear, block the small hole on the top of the temple, and it is not too late to take it again. His thoughts have settled and he has left.

Unexpectedly, when Erliang was still half a mile away from home, a storm came again. When he ran to his home, he had already become a chicken. Because he was sweating and raining, Erliang caught a cold that night and had a high fever that did not subside. He lay on the kang and did not regret his illness. Instead, he was glad to leave his hat and straw raincoat in the statue of the empress, which made him happy because the statue of the god was not damaged.

The next day, when Erliang came to the temple with illness, he saw that the small hole on the roof of the temple was enlarged, but because of a straw hat and a straw raincoat, the statue was safe and sound. Afterwards, he invited the bricklayer to the roof of the temple with a meager salary and repaired the roof of the temple. When the villagers heard about this, they praised it.

However, there was a person in the village who disliked him and instead ridiculed him. Who is this? There was a man of the same age as Erliang in the village, named Hou Qi, and a rich playboy. He was sarcastic by nature, spoiled since childhood, and was not engaged in his job properly, idle, eating, drinking, gambling, and losing all his family property. His parents died because of his anger. He was thirty years old and had not married his wife and got married. Who is willing to marry him? Hou Qi had a sister named Yuzhu, who was not only beautiful but skillful and skillful, but good at embroidery. The embroidered products were sold at the market and were favored by buyers. Hou Qi relied on his sister's skills for a while. Yuzhu had passed the age of her hair and was still not betrothed by others. Hou Qitian was shameless and said: If you want to marry my sister as your wife, you must support me until my age. Except for this, you will not marry. Who dares to marry him?

When Hou Qi saw Erliang building a temple, he sarcastically said, "It's not different that you are not smart. You are not smart. What is the use of this mud fetus? Can mud fetus find your wife for you? The laughing stock in the world." Erliang heard his words and ignored them and still repaired them. After the temple was completed, Erliang asked for medical treatment due to illness and owed his cousin's debts, and his life was in trouble. Hou Qi sarcastically said, "A fool does stupid things, and no one cares about the fool's illness, so why don't the mud fetus help him?" Erliang heard this and remained calm and regretful.

Autumn is coming and winter is coming, and the Spring Festival is approaching. Erliang is already poor and has no money for the New Year. He wants to borrow money from his uncle's house again, but he is afraid to go, but he is helpless. One morning, he shot Yan to his uncle's house. When his aunt heard that he had borrowed money again, he mocked him, "A real man can't support himself. How sad! As the saying goes, "He is not a poor man, but he is not a poor person. You are the one who fills the pit of poverty that is unfair."

Tang Xu felt sorry for his nephew and concealed his wife and said to Erliang: "Don't blame your aunt for being cruel. All families have difficulties. My uncle told me that when your father was dying, I responded to it and planned to make a wife for you. If you have a wife, I will provide funding for your father. Apart from this, I can't do anything else."

At noon, Erliang returned home sadly and thought about it: The Spring Festival is coming, and there are a little coarse grains at home, and there is no New Year's goods. How to celebrate the New Year? Alas! My parents are dead, lonely and lonely, and it is hard to get rid of this dilemma. He couldn't help but burst into tears. In a daze, he saw a woman carrying a package and came to the house and said to him, "Brother Tang, building a temple is what good people do. You are kind, you should be rewarded. Brother Don't worry about it. I will help you overcome difficulties to solve the urgent need." Erliang looked at it carefully. Seeing that this woman was beautiful and beautiful, she had outstanding appearance, she knew that she was Hou Yuzhu. He was confused and asked: "My sister Hou, although I am with you, I have never had any contact. Why do you help me?" Yuzhu smiled and said, "Brother Tang, I saw you loyal, kind, and kind, and help others. I have long been in love with her. Now I heard that you are in a difficult situation. I came to help me.

.”Erliang has never heard of any woman who takes the initiative to help and expresses secret love. He is extremely grateful and said, "My sister Hou, can you be my wife?" Yuzhu looked shy. Erliang was overjoyed and thought about it quietly. I was poor and destitute. How could Hou Qi allow him to marry him? How could he marry him? Yuzhu seemed to be like Erliang's thoughts, so he took off his backpack and said, "There is one hundred taels of silver in this bag. My father kept it privately before his death and hid it in the boudoir. I was afraid that my brother would know it and squander it. He told me not to take it out until I had no choice. Now I will take it out and give it to Brother Tang for marriage. Please collect it properly." Erliang opened the package, and saw that the glittering silver ingots in the bag. He was very happy and collected it in the wardrobe. Erliang asked, "The marriage has been settled, can you please come to my uncle's house to show that he will become my wife?" Yuzhu said, "The marriage has been settled.

Erliang took Yuzhu to Tangxu's house again, and entered the door and shouted, "Uncle, I already have a wife!" Tang Xu was smoking in the house. When Erliang heard Erliang's words, he was stunned. How could Erliang find his wife so quickly? He hurriedly got off the kang and went out of the house to greet him. When he saw that his daughter was Yuzhu, the sister of Hou Qi, was surprised. After he was surprised, he laughed and said, "Don't joke, how could Yuzhu be your wife?" Before Erliang could speak, Yuzhu said calmly, "I would like to marry Erliang's brother to be your wife, not to joke." Erliang's aunt saw it and half believed and half doubted, "I'm afraid that you two would agree to pretend to be a husband and wife, come here to borrow debts, and make fun of it?" Yuzhu said, "Auntie is too worried. I will repay all the debts that Erliang borrowed." After saying that, he took out scattered silver from his arms and returned it as much as possible.

Tang Xu and his wife believed it to be true and asked Erliang and Yuzhu to enter the house. To express their feelings, according to local customs, my aunt took out a red turban and tied it to Yuzhu to show good luck. Suddenly, the jade bead turned into a mud fetus. Erliang and Tang Xu and his wife were shocked and looked at it carefully. This mud fetus was like a statue of the eunuch in the temple. When they were surprised, the mud fetus suddenly disappeared without a trace. How strange! Tang Xu and his wife were surprised. For some reason, they asked Erliang, but Erliang didn't know why. Erliang returned and hurriedly opened the wardrobe. They saw that the silver-patterned pattern was still there, and they were very confused and difficult to solve.

The next day, this strange thing spread like wildfire and spread throughout the village immediately. When Hou Qi heard about it, he asked his sister if it was something. Yuzhu explained, "I was lying on the kang and taking a nap yesterday. I suddenly felt my body float up and went to Erliang's house. I decided to live my life with him and went to his uncle Tang Xu's house to show him. His aunt took a red turban and tied it to my head. I suddenly woke up and had a dream."

Erliang and the others went to the temple to look at it. They saw that the maid on the left side of the statue of the goddess Zhusheng tied a red scarf. Yesterday, his aunt tied it, and everyone exclaimed that the lady Zhusheng showed up! To thank Erliang for his love for building the temple, he ordered the maid to change into jade beads to make up his marriage. It was undoubtedly a foregone conclusion that the jade beads were married to Erliang.

Although Hou Qi did not want Yuzhu to marry Erliang, he had no choice but to go to Erliang's house and said to him, "I have already said that those who marry my sister must support me for the rest of their lives. Can you wish me?" Erliang agreed to him, "That's right, but you must follow my orders every day, and you cannot make a mistake." Hou Qi asked him unreasonably and said, "You must help me find my wife before you can rely on him." Erliang said, "If you want to find a wife to get married, you need to go to the Niangniang Temple to ask for it. I have no way to do it."

Hou Qi thought: Erliang can get it, why can't I ask for it? When he arrived at the Temple of Niangniang, he not only did not burn incense and petition, but instead spoke filthy words, pointing to the statue of Niangniang and said, "Why are you the leader and marrying my sister to Erliang? You must find a wife for me to repay it. Otherwise, I will carry your maid home as a wife. I will limit you to three days. Don't complain about it. Don't blame me for not daring to do it."

After three days, no movement was seen. Hou Qi rushed to the temple of the Queen Mother, climbed up to the altar, and was so brave that he hugged the maid like a kiss, and acted as a maid. Later, he carried the goddess statue on his shoulder and staggered out of the temple. Before he could walk a hundred steps, a strong wind suddenly came. Hou Qi fell to the ground, and the maid like a maid like a heavy stone, crushed Hou Qi, and Hou Qi was suddenly destroyed! When the villagers saw it, they all blamed him for his bad deeds, and they were blasphemed for his deeds, and were scolded by the public.

After the Spring Festival, Tang Xu invested and chose an auspicious day. Tang Erliang and Hou Yuzhu got married. On the night of the wedding night, Erliang took out the silver-patterned package and said to Yuzhu: "You give me a hundred taels of silver. I haven't used it yet. Please ask your wife to collect it properly. When I accumulate more than a thousand, I want to rebuild the Temple of the Niangniang and reshape the golden body for the Niangniang. Do you want to?" Yuzhu was shocked and said, "I have never given you silver, so how can I get a hundred taels of silver?" Erliang suddenly explained that this silver was given to the Niangniang.

When Tang Xu heard this, he said, "How can the gods not repay me if my nephew Erliang does good deeds? I advise the young people to do good deeds and not ask about their future." This is a famous saying that has never changed since time immemorial."

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