Stone man

Stone man
Author: Qiu Gao
There is a stone man who is also called the God of Horse Horse. What is going on?
In the age of the iron cart, there is a hill in the middle of the grassland. There is a small village in front of the mountain called Xiaoshantun.
There is a horse-drawn iron carriage road connecting north and south in Tundong. The hillside road is steep, and wheels with heavy iron tiles are nailed to them. Under the rolling of heavy wooden axles, they roll out deep and wide ruts, especially those that have been covered by rain. The snow washed out the ditch and the road was very uneven.
On this road, at night or in bad weather, there were frequent incidents of overturning and smashing people to death. Therefore, the road has become a ghost gate, crying and miserable sounds, which can be heard every few days.
The mother and son of the horse pasture live in the small mountain. The mother is over 60 years old. The son is less than 30 years old and has not yet married. Although there have been marriage proposals, they are all put down because they can't afford the wedding.
One day, there was another miserable cry on the road, and the mother and son of Muma couldn't bear to listen.
The mother said: "My son, can you level up the ditch of the overturned car---"
Before the mother was finished, the son rushed to say: "I wanted to build roads a long time ago, so miserable things should not happen again."
The next day, the son went to herd horses again, carrying a whip with one hand and a shovel with the other. He drove the horses to the grass, and the three horses stroked the green grass and sprinkled joyous children. They were strong and fat.
He held the shovel in both hands, shoveling and transporting soil with all his strength, sweating, the sun was shining in the west, and finally the ditch on the road was leveled.
The horse-drawn iron wagon that passed has no more accidents.
However, after a heavy rain, the road was washed out of the ditch again, and another rollover accident occurred.
Wrangler, went to level up again, tired and sweaty.
It rains every year, and every year the dirt road is washed out of the ditch by the rain. The Wrangler went to repair roads year after year, sweating every year, but failed to completely solve the rollover accident.
At this time, the mother said again: "My son, you are in your thirties, and you always run horses in the village. You still can't afford to marry a daughter-in-law. You can earn a living far away and earn a lot of money."
Er said: "I can go far away, but who will repair the sloped and ditch road? Wouldn't it even roll over and kill people?"
The mother and son thought about it for days and nights, but couldn't think of a good way.
Two more days later, the son said, "I think of a way, mom, can you?"
"My son, say it quickly."
I sold three horses in my family, used the money of two horses to carve a big stone man, and stood by the roadside, blocking the running water from washing the road, and replacing me in repairing and protecting the road. Using the money from another horse, I went to a foreign business. "
Mom readily agreed.
With the money of two horses, the son bought top-quality stones and hired a stonemason to concentrate on carving. A stone statue with beautiful craftsmanship and a large base stands on the side of the road with the help of the villagers, blocking the running water on the hillside and protecting the dirt road.
Since then, there has been no rollover accident on the dirt road in Xiaoshantun. In the past few years, people said happily: "Xiaoshantun is still called Shirentun. Shirentun has stone people to take care of it. The slope road is changed to a thoroughfare, and the north-south traffic is accident-free."
One day, a person nicknamed "Cheap" passed by here. Looking at the head of the stone man from left to right, his round face is clear and beautiful. He thought: This must be changed to a rice mortar, which saves money and is the only rice mortar in the world. This is a big deal. So he laughed. Then, he found a big hammer, smashed the head of the stone man, and asked a mason to make a rice mortar.
The stone man lost his head and could no longer stand, and fell on the side of the road with the base. This road was no longer under guard, and soon the slope was washed out of the ditch by water again, and rollover accidents still occurred frequently.
Let's talk about the "cheap" family. Use stone heads to pound rice. This rice mortar is very easy to pound. The speed of pounding the rice is fast, and the rice grains are not broken. The more "cheap" I think about, the more I feel that I have chosen the big bargain, and that is the secret of pleasure in my heart!
After three days, I went out "cheap" and wanted to continue looking for bargains. His family still uses stone heads to pound rice. I pounded the rice with a stone mallet at home, and his head hurt in a hotel in a foreign area. The stone mallet couldn't help pounding rice. His head hurt so much that he rolled over on the kang and sweated all over his body. One pain lasts for two days, and for three days, he can't stand it anymore.
The shopkeeper said: "Hurry up and ask a doctor and spend the money for treatment."
He thought: "Ask the doctor to spend more money, and find a great god to spend less money." "Cheap" decided to find a great god to treat the disease.
The great god came, with a bell on his waist, a three-horned hat on his head, closed his eyes and touched the "cheap" head, then closed his eyes and said: "Nothing---" Then he closed his eyes and said : "Nowhere---"
"Inexpensive" doesn't understand what "nothing---" is.
The shopkeeper prompted, "Take out two large tickets, put them on your head, and it will pass."
"Cheap" couldn't bear the pain, and reluctantly took out two large tickets and placed them on the painful head.
The great god still closed his eyes and touched it, touching the money on his head if something happened and said, "It's OK, I watched it." However, the great god just pressed the money with his hand and didn't say what he saw.
"Cheap" was so painful that he asked, "God, tell me what I saw."
The shopkeeper prompted again: "Put another big ticket."
"Inexpensive" can only do so.
The great god grabbed three big tickets and said, "I saw a hole beside your father's grave, and there was a Huang Jiaxian in the hole.
"Then what should I do?" "Cheap" actively asked, and then automatically handed a big ticket.
The great god said: "You have to respond and go home to offer Huangjiaxian."
"Cheap" said hurriedly, "I should, and I will pay when I go home."
At this time, the "cheap" family stopped pounding rice, and his head hurts less. "Cheap" thinks this great god is really a god! Just make a buckle towards the great god. "Inexpensive" thinks: If you don’t make money, you can make money again and again.
"Cheap" came home and thought: You have to pay for Huang Jiaxian. If you don't make the payment, I'm afraid of headaches. So I bought the cheapest Huangxian wall chart and the cheapest incense burner bowl and put it in the corner of the hall.
That day, his family smashed rice again, and the "cheap" head hurts immediately, and he went to the Great God again helplessly.
The great god entered the hall and saw the newly offered Huang Jiaxian at a glance. He was not particular or decent. The great god shook his whole body, and when he shook his hips, the hanging bell on his waist kept ringing, shaking the head of the three horns, closing his eyes, and muttering inaudible spells.
"Cheap" had a little experience and lessons, and took the initiative to take out two big tickets and hand them to the great god.
The great god held the money in one hand, and pointed to the Huangxian tablet and said: "It's too cheap, too cheap."
"Inexpensive", he knelt down and bowed his head again and again, crying and said: "God, I will do what God says."
The great god said: "Re-offer and make more money."
"Cheap" fully promised, and kept saying: "Re-supply ---"
At this time, the rice maker put down the stone mallet and came to watch the excitement. The headache of "cheap" eased a little, and he knelt down and bowed his head again, saying, "God, God is really God!"
"Inexpensive" to re-supply Huangxian, the money spent a little bit more, the supply is a little more style.
However, his family had to pound rice after eating rice, and the "cheap" headache started to hurt again.
"Cheap" found a great god again, and the great god entered the hall and saw the newly donated Huangxian. He became more dignified. He sat down on the ground, kicked his legs, raised his hands, and shouted "No". Good", it's like dying on the ground.
At this time, "Cheap" knew that money could help the gods, so he took out two big tickets and placed them in the hands of the gods.
The great god slowly opened his eyes and said: "You have to go to your father's grave first, and then you can tell you when you come back."
"Inexpensive" did so. When he burned paper money in front of his grave, he found a small hole beside his father's grave and said to himself: "Great God, true God!"
"Cheap" returned home, slammed his head towards the Huangxian tablet, and said: "Huangxian, the old fairy house is under my father's grave, protecting my father, I thank you so much.
The Great God said: "It's not just this way,---"
"Cheap" knew that he had to get the ticket, and then took out two big tickets.
The great god said: "Huangxian's protection is peace. Your family must play Taiping drums and burn Taiping incense."
"Cheap" said hurriedly: "Please God please point me to the peace date."
The great god closed his eyes and stretched out his right hand, but the right finger did not move, as if he wanted to count.
"Cheap" then understood that God also likes money, so he stuffed a big ticket in the left hand of the Great God.
Sure enough, the great god's right finger counted and said: "Ga, 尜, ram, prickly---the twelfth lunar month---twenty-five."
On the early morning of the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, "Cheap" hung a family tree painting on the north wall of the hall, and a couplet was pasted on the purlin in front of the painting. . On the ground in front of the genealogy, there is an offering table. The main dish on the table is a pig's head with a pig's tail in its mouth. The main sacrifice is the small incense burner bowl that Huangxian once offered, with three unlit incense sticks in it.
At that time, the Taiping drummers were divided into big beatings for three days; small beatings for one day.
In order to save money, "Cheap" has been discussed with the palm of the world in advance, and it will take one day. The commission will be four big tickets and there will be a bounty.
The palm of the altar led the two little drummers to arrive on schedule, and saw that his family’s couplet for the ancestors had six more words: "Forever cheaper, pick money forever", and saw a small ticket under the bowl of the small incense burner. Bounty.
The palm of the altar thinks: "No wonder his nickname is'cheap'. Let's be cheap, right?"
The arrangement of playing the Taiping Drum for one day was originally three meals a day before the start of the palm of the altar and the little drummer playing the standing drum three times.
The palm of the altar holds the big drum and beats it slowly or quickly. The sheepskin drum will not sound when it is damp, and it will not be roasted on the fire.
The palms sang slowly: "It’s so cheap to burn incense at a cheap home, a little pig’s head and a small tail, a small incense burner and a small reward for money, big couplets are always cheap, and long picks for money, we will also be cheaper if we play drums, don’t play standing drums. Sing less, run less in circles, and invite gods less---"
At this time, only two neighbors came to the main hall to watch the excitement, and the neighbors went on to say: "The neighbors are also cheaper, so two people came here. If you don't eat or drink, "cheap" is cheaper."
I played the standing drums once during the day. After dinner, I ran in the circle for a while, and only sang a short section of "Daxixiang"; I didn't offer food to the neighboring villages, and I rarely watched the crowds.
In the middle of the night, the gods are invited. There is an altar in the center of the courtyard. There is a half-dipper on the table, and a steelyard is inserted into the dagger. The cheap family kneels toward the altar. None of them watch the excitement.
The palm of the altar saw very deserted, and did not suppress the rewards. He was not emotional about the gods. He said: "It is enough for the one in charge to kneel, and the others will go back to the house. It's so cheap."
"Cheap" continued to kneel, but the palm of the altar still didn't play drums or sing, and said, "Tianjin is also a person who is looking for a bargain. He comes early and it is not cheap. You can only kneel and wait for the bargain."
Samsung Pingxi, it was late at night, and the palm of the altar said: "The gods are coming." Then, he beat the drums a few times, sang a few words "Little mother speaks slander", and said: "The gods are coming late. I've taken a detour, I'm so tired, I need to rest."
"Cheap" home, because three drummers came, ate more than a day of rice, ate all the rice they prepared, and had to pound the rice with stone heads.
As before, pounding the rice will make his head hurt.
"Cheap" hugged his head with his hands, rolled from the kang to the ground, and from the ground to the outside of the house. The courtyard was full of rolling, shouting hoarsely: "My head is about to split. God is not saved, and my ancestors are not saved. Just waiting to die--help! Help!--- ---"
The Wrangler is doing business in a foreign area and has a good income. He is ready to go home to honor his mother. After passing through here, he heard the urgent cry of "Help!---", he thought: "Since I was young, my mother taught that'you must save when you die'. "
He pushed open the gate of the courtyard wall and saw that a person was rolling in the courtyard, still yelling; he heard the sound of pounding rice in the house, and he clearly heard the pain of pounding the rice in the house.
"Cheap" heard the door ringing and thought it was the gods who came. He shouted: "My God, please help me, it's going to hurt to death---"
The Wrangler asked compassionately: "What do you use for pounding rice?"
"Cheap" said: "I use stone mortars."
When the Wrangler walked into the house, he recognized that the stone mortar was the lost stone head.
The Wrangler said: "I am not a god, if you tell the truth, I can save you."
"Cheap" truthfully explained how he smashed the head of the stone, and seriously expressed his hatred of being guilty of coveting petty gains.
The Wrangler returned to the Xiaoshan Village with the head of the stone man, and hired a stone mason. With the help of the villagers, the big stone man, who was reattached to the head of the stone man, stood there again.
However, there is a joint on the Dashiren's neck. The boss who frequently and safely passed the iron car, happily proposed the oil brush hung in the oil hoist of the car, and smeared Dashiren's neck with some oil. After a long time, the big stone man is like a black velvet scarf, majestic and majestic, guarding the safe road in the four seasons.
The deeds of the Wranglers building roads and protecting the roads spread all over, and matchmakers followed one after another. At the wedding, the folks and the wagon people who passed the road all came to congratulate them for “cheap”.
"Cheap" blushed in front of everyone, narrating the painful loss of "seeing small and cheap and suffering a big loss", heartily thanked the Wrangler than "God saved him" and determined to repent of his past.
As a result, everyone unanimously called that stone man the "horse-horse god". The owner of the iron cart who drove the carriage with the words "The car travels thousands of miles, the horses and horses are safe", chanted the "horse-horse god" everywhere, and it has been passed down to this day.