roccoschili Chapter 102 Crab
Chapter 102 Crab
There was an unknown poet in the Song Dynasty who wrote a poem titled "Ode to Crabs":
The water is clear and the double pincers are not black,
It's hard for Qiu Lao to escape the red color on his back.
The meaning of these two sentences is: No matter how clear the water is, you can't wash away the black color on the two big claws of the crab. In autumn, when the fat and meat are thick, you can't escape being caught and steamed until the crab shell turns red and eaten. .
This poem is used to satirize Zhu Meng (the great traitor in the Northern Song Dynasty) for his excessive greed and his inevitable downfall.
Ordinary animals, whether they are chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, etc., are killed by the chef with a knife when brought to the kitchen for cooking, and they do not suffer much torture.
Only when crabs are brought to the kitchen, they are put alive in the pot and then slowly steamed to death.
From putting it in the pot when it is alive to boiling the water and then steaming it, it takes a few quarters of an hour at best.
The pain and suffering suffered during this period were so tragic that the crab really just wanted to die quickly!
If he is not a sinful person, God will definitely not let him be reincarnated as a crab.
It is said that during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, when Zhao Hongxie (alias Lianggong, Haoli'an, native of Yan'an, Shaanxi Province) served as governor of Zhili (referring to the current Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei areas), Zhili had not yet established a governor's office. .
One night, Zhao Hongxie had a dream.
In his dream, he saw dozens of bookboys, servants, maids, and women at home. In fact, these people were already dead.
They knelt in a circle at the steps of the courtyard, kowtowing and shouting for mercy.
Zhao Hongxie didn't understand why.
Those people replied: "We all received the kindness of being supported by our master during our lifetime, but we did not want to repay it. Instead, we colluded with each other, formed groups, and worked together to deceive the master.
Over time, our clique relationship has become inextricably linked, and our mutual relationship has become deeply rooted and has become an unbreakable situation.
Sometimes someone reveals a little bit of clues, and everyone else covers it up for him, and everyone works together to get rid of it cleverly.
Even if the owner has doubts, even if he already knows what is going on, there is nothing he can do.
If the master wants to accomplish anything, we will secretly hinder him. If there is something that cannot satisfy us, then the master will not be able to accomplish anything!
It is precisely because of these sins we committed during our lifetime that we were reincarnated as crabs, making us suffer the pain of being steamed in all our lifetimes.
Those crabs in tomorrow’s master’s meal are our future generations. So we all come together to ask the master to be magnanimous and let us go! "
Zhao Hongxie is a kind-hearted person by nature.
After dawn the next day, he told the chef what happened in his dream at night and asked him to throw all the crabs into the water and let them go. He also took out money and asked the servants at home to invite monks and Taoist priests to come to the house to do monastery and redeem the servants who had passed away.
It was autumn at that time, and autumn crabs were the most plump, so the crabs supplied to the governor were even better.
The servants in Zhao Hongxie's house talked a lot and thought it was a pity to throw away such good crabs. They all laughed secretly and said: "This old man is so cunning! He wants us to listen to him, and he even made up such a lie to scare people. ! How could we be deceived so easily?”
So, they followed what the school master did in "The School Master Cooked Fish" recorded in "Mencius", steamed and ate all the crabs, and then reported to Zhao Hongxie that they had let them go.
They also misappropriated the money that Zhao Hongxie used to hire monks to do the dojo to deliver salvation to the dead, but they reported that the dojo had been completed.
But the owner Zhao Hongxie has been kept in the dark.
These slaves commit crimes and commit crimes, and they are greedy for pleasure. This is their unrepentant nature.
Those dozens of dead slaves and maids passed down this bad habit even though they were dead. They not only harmed themselves, they could not escape the punishment of being steamed, but also harmed those who were alive.
"Please put yourself in the urn", it's your own fault, that's what it means!
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Drawing a tiger into a cat:
The story of "School Man Cooking Fish" is as follows:
During the Spring and Autumn Period, someone sent a large live fish to Zheng Guo's official Zichan. Zichan gave it to the petty official (school official) who managed the pond and ordered him to keep the fish in the pond.
The petty official did not do this, but secretly cooked the fish and ate it. Then he ran to Zichan and said, "I put the fish in the pond and swam for a while, but then it swam into the deep water and disappeared."
Not only did Zichan not blame him, but he was very satisfied with his behavior.