The wounded crane

Zhang Hua had been working as a long-time laborer for the wealthy Li Renyi.

　　One afternoon, Zhang Hua was weeding in the mountains alone, a crane landed not far from him, lying there motionless.

　　Zhang Hua stopped his work and ran over to see that one of the crane's legs had been broken and was bleeding, looking very painful.

　　Zhang Hua quickly tore off a piece of rags from his lab coat to bandage the crane, and then picked it up, which was carefully measured.

　　Only to see its red crown, pointed mouth, long neck, white feathers, with a little black, two long and thin legs, just two eyes full of tears, as if praying to Zhang Hua what, looking very poor.

　　A while later, he saw a few people coming this way from a distance, the crane looked very scared and upset.

　　Zhang Hua quickly hid the crane to the grass at the edge of the ground, the crane is as popular, quietly lying in the grass, did not move.

　　Zhang Hua continued to hoe his grass, these few people step by step towards him. I saw them all carrying bows, clutching arrows in their hands, a fierce look.

　　Zhang Hua thought to himself, "No need to ask, that crane was shot down by them, and they are really down to it."

　　Come closer, no matter how they ask, Zhang Hua said he did not know, these people looked around, found nothing, had to look elsewhere.

　　When it was dark, Zhang Hua took the crane back to his home, carrying out careful care and feeding.

Injured crane

　　More than a month has passed, the crane's injuries have fully recovered, Zhang Hua is ready to release it back to nature.

　　This somehow let the rich man Li Renyi know, one day he suddenly led people blocked in front of Zhang Hua's house, said Zhang Hua is in his land picked up, should be returned to him, and snatched the crane. Li Rinyi took home, the crane in a cage, ready to let people do for him to eat, it is said to eat the crane meat, to prolong life.

　　Raised for such a long time have raised feelings, Zhang Hua is really not willing, on one morning, secretly opened the cage, the crane released.

　　The crane nodded toward him and flew away with fondness. In the morning, the rich man saw that the cage was opened, the crane was gone, angry almost rolled his eyes, he scolded Zhang Hua, not a penny to pay, he was thrown home, no source of income, Zhang Hua family can only rely on his own a few acres of thin land to live.

　　One morning, the crane flew back to Zhang Hua's yard, followed by an old grandfather riding one, which also landed in the yard, to Zhang Hua's great surprise.

　　The old grandfather said to Zhang Hua: "That crane is mine, you saved my crane some time ago, I am here to repay you today, you can say what you want."

　　Zhang Hua said, "I just want to plant a few mu of land and pray to God for good weather and rain."

　　The old grandfather said, "That's fine."

　　As he was talking, Li Renyi, the wealthy man, blocked the door with his men. When he heard that the cranes had flown to Zhang Hua's house again, he brought someone to catch them.

　　The old grandfather said to the rich man: "No matter how to say that my crane was saved by you two. How about this, you two each ride a crane to the sun's nest to get a bag of gold, as my repayment to you. Remember, you must leave tomorrow morning before the sun comes out, or you will be burned to death." Said, two cranes respectively pack two people to the sun nest to fly.

　　The sun nest is full of gold, Zhang Hua just a little in the jacket pocket, and then drive the cranes to fly away.

　　The wealthy Li Rinyi, is loaded with bags and bags, cranes can not pack, he still do not want to leave, and the whole body is loaded full, can no longer be loaded, or do not want to go. The sun is coming out, the crane how can not fly up, crooked Zhang Zhang, suddenly the crane wings a crooked, the rich man and fell into the sun nest, it is too late to go down to pack the rich man, if the crane does not fly away also have to burn, the crane can only choose to quickly leave, the rich man was burned alive.

　　Zhang Hua used the gold to buy back most of the land of the rich man Li Renyi's family, he distributed these lands to the poor. From then on, the wind and rain here every year, the crops grow happily, the village people have a good life.