Pu Songling failed many exams and returned to his hometown of Pujiazhuang. Apart from teaching, he devoted all his troubles and indignation to Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, and never came into contact with officialdom.
One day, I suddenly received an invitation from the Prime Minister, which read "Please eat half of Shandong". Pu Songling hates such an invitation. Ordinary people can't even eat, and officials only care about eating, drinking and having fun. So he said to the person who sent the invitation, "I am in poor health and can't go." Please reply to the Prime Minister for understanding. " His wife heard that her husband wouldn't go to the party and thought it was not good to say to Pu Songling. First, the prime minister does not forget his old friends when he is an official; Second, you and the Prime Minister used to study together, and you have to go anyway. " Pu Songling thought for a long time and finally decided to eat.
When the banquet at the Prime Minister's house began, I saw two maids carrying a pot of fish soup on the table. The Prime Minister said, "Please forgive my brother for being honest and clean since he became an official. This is not a banquet, but I want to ask your brother to try how to fish in troubled waters. Only by understanding this mystery can he enter this world. " Pu Songling was very unhappy when he heard this, and thought that life should be contaminated with dirt. So I thought of a way to repay the Prime Minister in the future.
A few days later, Pu Songling hosted a banquet for the Prime Minister in the same way. After receiving the invitation of "Please eat half of Shandong", the Prime Minister went with pleasure. When I saw the broken hut, I couldn't help feeling sympathy. I thought my old classmate * * * was far more knowledgeable than me for several times, just because he was upright, unruly and had no money to manage examiners at all levels. If you want to help Pu Songling with money, you won't accept it. Just catching up with the prime minister, not mentioning the dinner.
The Prime Minister felt hungry and looked out at the sun from time to time until the sun went down, but nothing happened. The Prime Minister was so hungry that he asked Pu Songling, "When will your brother give a banquet?" Pu Songling casually replied: "After eating three meals a day, why do you have a banquet?" The Prime Minister suddenly realized that this was a "day" under Lu. I told him to eat, but he told me to eat. This means something different. Isn't this head full of grandchildren? Isn't it obvious to advise me to be a bright official with the sun in my arms? Although the prime minister was hungry all day, he realized the truth of being an official.
The story of the kitchen god
It is said that "Kitchen God" was originally the prodigal Zhang Wancang, nicknamed Zhang Layue. Its original lilac girl is hardworking, virtuous, beautiful and kind. Zhang Layue took Lilac Girl out the back door because she liked the new and hated the old, and married Wang Haitang at the front door. A few years later, his family was squandered, Yue cried and regretted, begging in the street. One year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, he begged at Lilac's house. Lilac saw Zhang pitying, so she asked the servant to invite him into the house and gave him a bowl of Longxu Noodles to eat. When he learned that this was his ex-wife's lilac house, he was ashamed and died on the stove. Since then, the virtuous lilac girl sacrificed him on the stove on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, and passed it around, so the month was called "Kitchen God", and the custom of sticking "Kitchen God" on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month was also circulated among the people. (From /gzlsgs/ If you want more, go and see for yourself! ! )