The touching deeds of the ancestor named Zhao.
Speaking of the "Generals of the Yang Family" in the Song Dynasty, few people do not know about it, but why did the Zhao family become the "Emperor" while the Yang family could only be "Generals"? There is such a story among the people.
When the ancestor of the Zhao family was still a cowherd boy, he often went to herd cows with a boy named Yang in the summer. The two little boys took out their cows, threw them on the grassy slope, and ran to a nearby pool to take a bath.
The water in that pool is no different from the water in other pools, except that every time the sun goes down, a stone rhinoceros will emerge from the center of the pool and stand motionless in the middle of the water. Occasionally he opens his mouth.
It is said that the rhinoceros is a Feng Shui stone, which is a bit mysterious. It is said that only children under twelve years old - that is, boys and girls - can see it, while ordinary adults cannot.
The two little boys were both less than twelve years old at the time, and they didn’t know it was a Feng Shui stone. They just thought it was fun to stand in the water, so whenever they were free, they would go to Niu Bei. Climbing up and down, having water fights, the stone rhinoceros let the children play with it. After about an hour, it sank to the bottom of the pond, and it happened every day.
At that time, the Khitan people in the north became powerful. They wanted to occupy the Central Plains, so they sent a Feng Shui master to check all over the country to find a treasured Feng Shui land.
People believe that as long as the bones of their ancestors are buried in a geomantic treasure land, future generations will be able to produce emperors.
The Feng Shui master spent a lot of effort and searched for ten years before he found this Rhinoceros Pond. Stone Rhinoceros said it was an extremely good Feng Shui treasure.
Mr. Feng Shui is very old, and he cannot see the stone rhinoceros. Just when he was at his wits' end, he saw these two cowherd boys and suddenly had an idea: I can bring the master's ancestors to him. The remains were put in a small wooden box and asked to be put into the mouth of the rhinoceros by the two cowherd boys.
Early the next morning, Mr. Feng Shui brought the prepared wooden box. It happened that the two little boys were still playing there, so he said to the children: "Have you often seen a stone rhinoceros coming out of the pool?"
The two children said in unison. : "Yes!"
Mr. Feng Shui took out twenty taels of silver from his arms: "As long as you put my wooden box into the mouth of the stone rhinoceros, I will give you ten taels each. "Silver."
The child named Zhao asked: "What is in your box?"
The Feng Shui master thought, tell the truth to these two children. It was no big deal, so he said, "They are the bones of my master's ancestors."
The two children agreed. After the gentleman left, the two little boys discussed: "Why did he put the bones of his master's ancestors in this box? And he asked us to put them into the mouth of the stone rhinoceros. There must be a reason for this. . Why don’t we put the bones of our ancestors in a small box and put them into the rhino’s mouth?”
As they said, they hurried to their ancestral graves and dug them up. I picked up the bones of my ancestors, put them in a small box, and brought them to the rhinoceros pond.
When the stone rhino emerged from the water again in the afternoon, the two little boys climbed on top of the stone rhinoceros and tried to put all three boxes into it. But the rhino's mouth was too small to fit the three boxes in, so we had to put them in one by one.
Oddly enough, when you stretch out Mr. Feng Shui’s box, the stone rhinoceros’s mouth opens; when you stretch out the boxes named Zhao and Yang, the stone rhinoceros’s mouth is tightly closed. , just won’t open.
The boy surnamed Zhao slapped his head: By the way, I will first stretch out the Feng Shui Master’s box, causing it to open its mouth, and then put our boxes in together. That’ll be fine. ?
In this way, he put the two boxes side by side into the stone rhino's mouth. There were many gaps in the stone rhino's mouth, which could not be closed or opened even a little bit. When the child named Yang saw it, he had no choice but to hang his box on the horn on the nose of the stone rhinoceros.
The two children tilted their heads and looked left and right. They felt that it was still a bit unsatisfactory: wasn't there still a lot of space in the cow's mouth? What if the box falls?
They swam back to the shore, picked up some firewood, and inserted all the firewood into the rhino's mouth with stones. Now, the cow's mouth was full. After a while, the stone rhinoceros slowly sank to the bottom of the pool as before.
The next day, the third day, the fourth day... I never saw the stone rhino surface again.
It turns out that the rhinoceros mouth is really a geomantic treasure. But now the bones of two people are buried in this place, occupying a treasured place, so they will never come out again.
One month later, the mother of the little boy in the Zhao family was washing dishes in the kitchen when she suddenly heard a little bird outside chirping. The chirping sounded like: "Zhao The emperor of our family has lived for thousands of years. "The Zhao family was very poor at that time. When his mother heard that the bird was still singing like this, she was very angry. She tapped the edge of the pot with her chopsticks and said, "Don't say tens of thousands of years, just three hundred years!"
Then The bird was actually transformed by the Kitchen King Bodhisattva, specifically to report to the Zhao family. Upon hearing the Zhao family's mother's request, he had no choice but to go to heaven and say to the Jade Emperor: "The Zhao family's mother said she only wanted to be the emperor for three hundred years."
The Jade Emperor thought for a while and said: "Others want to do it for a few more years, but it's better for her. If you want to do less, just follow her."
In this way, the person named Zhao did it. Since the establishment of the Song Dynasty by Zhao Kuangyin, the general has ruled for more than three hundred years. Because the family surnamed Yang buried their ancestors on the horns of an ox, they could not be emperors, but could only be generals. The mouth of the stone rhinoceros was filled with firewood, so the family surnamed Chai also became rich.
As for whether the master of the Feng Shui master became an emperor in the future? Very few people know this. In fact, the Liao Kingdom that was competing with the Zhao family for the world at that time was founded by Yelu Abaoji, a descendant of the Khitan people.