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Folk tale: The master wanted to kill the male donkey, the donkey gave him a dream in the middle of the night: wait until your daughter is full moon before killing me

Folk tale: The master wants to kill the male donkey

By Su Wei LiPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

During the Tang Dynasty, there was a young farmer named Li Peigen in Puzhou who was honest, honest, and loyal. When Li Peigen was twenty years old, he married a woman named Ying Xiao from a neighboring village under the arrangement of his parents.

Three months after Ying Xiao entered the house, she found out she was pregnant. The Li family was very happy to learn this news, and they carefully waited for Ying Xiao, hoping that they could give birth to a healthy child. Let the Li family did not expect is, Ying Xiao six months pregnant when the locals encountered a drought, several months are not raining, the water in the river is dried up, crops are sun-dried, crops are not harvested, and people have to eat grass roots, bark to live.

Li Peigen's home still has some surplus food, because Ying Xiao is pregnant, will that food is left for Ying Xiao? It was not easy to get to the day Ying Xiao was in labor, Ying Xiao struggled in the delivery room for a day and night, before giving birth to a healthy baby girl.

The Li family was very happy to see Ying Xiao's mother and daughter safe, but they ran out of surplus food. To let Ying Xiao have a good month, Li Peigen discussed with his parents and prepared to kill the male donkey. Li Peigen did not expect him to just have this idea, in the middle of the night the male donkey gave him a dream.

In Li Peigen's dream, the male donkey even spits out human words, it seriously said to Li Peigen: "wait for your daughter's full moon before killing me, or I will not stop with your family!"

Li Peigen had never encountered such a thing, and after he woke up from his dream, he told his father about it, who seriously said to Li Peigen, "Everything has a spirit, since this male donkey gave you a dream, there must be a reason for it, so you might as well wait for a while and see."

Li Peigen listened to his father's words, and did not kill the donkey, he went to the mountains every day to catch some wild game to give Ying Xiao health.

On the day of the full moon of Li Peigen's daughter, the daylight, Li Peigen was still asleep, suddenly heard someone shouting his name in his ear, he opened his eyes, and saw the donkey standing by the bed.

When the male donkey saw Li Peigen waking up, he smiled and said to him: "Master, thank you for not killing the day, now I have completed my merit and virtue, I will soon be able to reincarnate as an adult. You can kill me when you wake up, and after I die, you will cut off my ears and tail, and to thank you for taking care of me for so many years, they are my repayment to you."

The original male donkey dream not to let Li Peigen kill himself, because it reincarnated into a donkey time has not yet arrived, if it dies early, its next life will be reincarnated into a donkey, and Li Peigen's daughter full moon day, is that donkey merit completion, so it will ask Li Peigen wait for his daughter full moon before killing himself.

After the donkey explained the truth, it turned into green smoke and flew away, and Li Peigen woke up instantly from his dream.

After waking up, Li Teigen came to the donkey shed and killed the donkey, and according to the donkey's instructions, cut off its ears and tail, so Li Peigen did not expect him to cut off the donkey ears and tail, the donkey ears, and tail turned into gold bars.

The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. Li Peigen felt that the male donkey had love and righteousness, and did not eat the meat of the donkey, but buried the head properly.

Later, the local drought eased and the people's food and drink problems were solved. Li Peigen then exchanged the gold bars for silver, bought a big house, bought hundreds of acres of fields, hired some long-time workers to plant the fields, and the family lived a happy life with no worries about food and drink.

To commemorate the donkey, Li Peigen named his daughter Spring Green, the word green and donkey is a pronunciation, which is Li Peigen's memory of the donkey. The only thing that Li Teigen didn't expect was that people would suddenly laugh when they heard Chunlv's name, and as to why they laughed, Li Peigen couldn't understand.

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Su Wei Li

The invention is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration。

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