Drinking Buddies

Che was born in a family that was not rich, but he was addicted to wine and could not sleep without drinking three large bowls of wine every night, so the wine bottle by his bedside was often not empty. One night, he woke up from sleep. When he turned over, he felt as if someone was sleeping with him. He thought it was because the clothes covering him had slipped down. Touching it with his hand, he felt a furry thing, which looked like a cat but was bigger than a cat. He lit a lamp and looked at it. It was a drunk fox, sleeping on its side like a dog. Looking at the wine bottle again, the wine is empty. Mr. Che then smiled and said, "This is my drinking buddy!" Mr. Che couldn't bear to wake up the fox, so he covered it with clothes to block its outstretched arms, and slept together, keeping the light on so that he could see any changes. In the middle of the night, the fox stretched out and yawned. Chesheng smiled and said, "I slept so beautifully!" When he opened his clothes, he saw a handsome man wearing a Confucian hat. The fox got up and kowtowed to Chesheng in front of the bed, thanking him for not killing him. Che said: "I am addicted to drinking, but people think I am crazy. You are my confidant. If you don't doubt me, let's make a drinking friend." Then he pulled the fox to the bed and continued He went to bed and said, "You should come often and don't be suspicious of each other." The fox nodded in agreement. When Chesheng woke up, the fox was gone. So I prepared a glass of fine wine and waited for the fox to drink.

In the evening, the fox came indeed, so they drank together. The fox drinks a lot and is good at telling jokes. It's really a shame to meet him so late. The fox said: "I have asked you to entertain me with fine wine many times. How can I repay you?" Mr. Che said: "Why talk about the joy of drinking and drinking?" The fox said: "Even so, you are a poor scholar. Buying Drinking money is not easy to come by. I should plan some drinking money for you." The next night, the fox came and said: "There is lost gold on the roadside seven miles southeast of here. You can go and get it back early. "After daybreak, Mr. Che went there and found two pieces of gold. So he went to the market to buy good food and prepare to drink wine at night. The fox told him again: "There is something hidden in the cellar behind the yard, and we should dig it out." According to what the fox said, he got more than one hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Che said happily: "With money in my pocket, I don't want to worry about it anymore." The fox said, "You can't do this. How can you keep scooping out the water in the ditch for a long time? You should plan for the long term." One day, the fox said to Mr. Che: "There is a lot of buckwheat in the market." It's cheap, and this kind of thing is a rare commodity." Mr. Che obeyed and bought more than forty stones of buckwheat. People laughed at him for being ignorant. Soon, there was a severe drought, and all the crops originally planted withered, and only buckwheat could be grown. In this way, Chesheng sold buckwheat seeds and earned ten times the interest. From then on, Chesheng became richer and bought 200 acres of fertile land for farming. Whatever you want to plant, you first ask the fox. The fox says if you plant more wheat, you will have a good harvest of wheat; As they became more and more close to each other, Fox called Che's wife sister-in-law and treated Che's children like his own sons. Later Che died and the fox stopped coming.