There is such a rich man who employs several long-term workers at home. This rich man was particularly stingy. Not only did he pay less, he often found all kinds of excuses to deduct the wages of the long-term workers, and even did not feed the long-term workers. The long-term workers were suffocated. One night, a few long-time workers sat together, discussing and discussing. The more they talked, the more angry they became. They felt grievances and made the rich man suffer.
After dinner that day, the rich man came to the shed of the long-term workers again as usual, with his ears attached to the crack of the door, and eavesdropped on whether the long-term workers were speaking badly about him again, so as to seize the handle and deduct their wages. Suddenly, he heard a long-time worker whispering: “Hey, everyone, I had a strange dream all night. I dreamed of an old man with a white beard. He told me that on the tree in the yard, there was a magpie’s den. A’shadow grass’, as long as you hold it in your hand, others will not see it. You said, we want to have a shadow grass, and take a nap in the field during the day. It’s not going to be deducted anymore.” He just finished speaking, and the other one immediately said, “Ah, ah, I had this dream too, and I also dreamed of the old man with white beard telling me that there is a tree in the magpie’s nest. “Shadow grass”. You said, if we want to have a “Shadow grass”, do we still do this tiring and hard work? Why don’t we take anything outside if we don’t want anything.” “Yes, with that baby, Not only can we get everything, we can definitely make a fortune.” The third said. The fourth said: “You both dreamed about it. It must be true. Let’s go find it!” As soon as his voice fell, one immediately said: “What are you in a hurry? You have to look for it during the day.” “By the way, I can’t find it in the dark, so don’t say it, so that the owner will hear it, and I will take it away in front of us, and all sleep and sleep.”
The rich man heard it plainly, this joy, and there was no sound in the room, and then he tiptoed back to his own room. After returning home, the rich man didn’t sleep all night. He kept staring at the tree in the yard from the window. For fear that the workers would regret it, he climbed the tree in the middle of the night to look for “Shadow Grass”. As soon as daybreak, he drove the long workers to the ground.
As soon as the long-term workers left, he called his wives under the tree and climbed onto the tree himself. When the magpies in the magpie nest saw someone climbing up, they flew away, chirping. There was a lot of grass in the magpie den. The rich man didn’t know which one was the’shadow grass’, so he picked up one, shook it in front of him, and asked the wives who looked up at him, “Did you see me?” The wives replied together: “I saw it” “Louder!” “I saw it!” When the rich man heard it, he picked up another tree and asked, “Did you see me?” “I saw it!” Answer together. The rich man changed another one, and the wives said they saw it again.
In this way, more than an hour passed, and several wives were sore in their necks, shouting with dry mouth, and did not understand what he was going to do. Several of them murmured that he was guilty of nerves. The rich man asked again and said: “I can’t see it!” The rich man heard this joy, and found the’Shadow Grass’! Take the grass down.Several wives ran to the house early to drink tea and rub their necks.
The rich man swayed his “Shadow Grass” and went to the street. He walked to the Zhang’s shop to get an apple, to the Li’s shop to get an orange, and to the Zhao’s shop to get a biscuits, and took it in succession. None of the seven or eight families made a sound, because he was a rich man. The rich man is happier, no one really can see me anymore. The rich man thought, I, the county government, there are many good things in the county government, so take some of him. He often visits the county government and is familiar with the county officials.
The county government was hearing the case. The county magistrate was sitting in the lobby and the government officials stood on both sides. No one greeted him. The rich man is so happy, he held up the grass and walked to the front of the court case. He saw the magistrate’s big seal at a glance, and his eyes lit up. This is more valuable than anything else. I’ll just come and take it. Get up and go. The county magistrate froze for a while before shouting: “Yin, Yin, don’t go, don’t go.” But the rich man didn’t hear him, and went on. The county magistrate was in a hurry, patted the case, and shouted: “Catch him back to me!” The officials rushed up, caught the rich man, and twisted him back. The county official shouted angrily: “Fight me!” After a big meal, the rich man howled the pig and howled the wolf!