Chapter 38 Ha Mandin's Story-1

Once upon a time, there was a great Greek philosopher named Dornier, who was knowledgeable and theoretical.The academic circles are well-known for his unique insights and immortal contributions in philosophical theory.Everyone learns from his school, and his disciples can be said to be everywhere. But it is a pity that until his later years, Dornier did not have a descendant. One night he was troubled by the thought that he had no son, no one to inherit his rich intellectual legacy.Then he thought again: Doesn't it mean that God will grant the request of all those who piously pray to him?Why don't I try.

So, he immediately prayed devoutly, begging the benevolent God to give him a smart and lovely son to inherit his inheritance, so that he can stand out and live a good life in the future. After Dornier entrusted all his hopes and ideals to God, he peacefully accompanied his wife into dreamland. Perhaps his piety moved God, and he was rewarded.After this night, his wife was indeed pregnant. This brought infinite joy to their old couple.For this reason, he continued to travel around and give lectures with confidence. Once he took all his works to give lectures in a different place. Unexpectedly, on the way back, the boat he was on was in distress at sea. Fortunately, he himself was able to save his life by climbing a board.And his writings, except the five pages which he carried in his pocket, all sank to the bottom of the sea along with the ship.Back home, he treasured the remaining five pages of the book in a cardboard box and locked it up as a family heirloom.On this day, he called his wife to his side and told him:

"I'm going to another world soon. Before I go, I have one more thing to tell you. When I die, you may give birth to a boy. Let's name him Ha Mandin. I hope you take care of him well." He. When he grows up, you will give him my legacy, which is the five pages in this box. After reading these suicide notes, he will understand its meaning and gradually become a generation of learned men. It belongs to a gentleman." Then he prayed for his wife, and then died suddenly. The bad news of his death spread quickly, relatives, friends and many of his disciples came to mourn, and everyone took care of his aftermath and held a grand funeral.

Soon after Dornier's death, his wife gave birth to him a lovely boy.In accordance with her husband's will, she named her son Ha Manding, and invited a group of famous astrologers to predict his son's life. After careful calculation, they said to her: "Your son has a long life span. When he is young, he will suffer risks and hardships. If he can survive these dangers safely, he will become the most famous philosopher of our time." Ha Mandin's mother carefully nurtured her son with mixed emotions.The son was only taught to Hao when he was two years old. He studied for several years without any success.His mother had no choice but to give up and let him learn crafts instead.But he was still uneasy, and he had been doing nothing for a few years.As a mother, she is eager to see her son become a dragon. Seeing that her son can't read well, and can't learn any skills, he idles around all day long and has nothing to do, so she has to cry sadly.The relatives and neighbors were very sympathetic to her situation, so they gave her advice:

"Give him a wife! Maybe after he gets married, he will change his behavior." She felt that what her relatives and neighbors said was reasonable, so Zhang Luoshou made a marriage proposal for her son and married him a wife, but things backfired.There was nothing a mother could do about him.At this time, those young men among her relatives and neighbors who made a living by chopping firewood felt that she was pitiful, so they came to visit her one after another, and gave her some advice: "Let your son go up the mountain to cut firewood with us, so that he can get a share of the money from selling firewood every day. On the one hand, he can help the family, and on the other hand, he will not have nothing to do. You only need to help him Just a donkey, an axe, and some rope."

She listened to the advice of the woodcutters and was overjoyed. She immediately bought her son a donkey, an ax and some ropes, and then took him to the woodcutters and entrusted him to them face to face. They comforted her: "Don't worry about this child! He comes from a noble family, and he will be successful in the near future." So early in the morning, they took him up the mountain, and in the afternoon they carried the firewood they cut to the city to sell, and gave him a share of the money to take home.In this way, Ha Manding followed the woodcutters up the mountain to cut firewood every day.One day, they went to the mountains to cut firewood as usual, when suddenly it rained cats and dogs, and they rushed into a nearby cave to hide from the rain.Hal Mandin sat alone in a corner, bored, so he took the ax and tapped it here and there.Suddenly, he heard an empty echo from the place where he was struck, and then he realized that the bottom of the cave was empty. When he dug it open, he found a circular stone slab with a ring.Surprised, he shouted loudly.

When the woodcutters heard the sound, they hurriedly lifted the stone slab and found a door under the stone slab.When I opened the door, I saw a cave full of honey, so someone suggested: "This cave is full of honey. We must go home to get some things to take the honey away, and then carry it to the city to sell. Everyone will share it equally. But at the moment, we need to leave one person here to watch over it, and don’t let others take it away.” "Well, you guys go back to get things, I'll stay here and take care of it." Ha Manding volunteered to keep the caretaker Honey.

The woodcutters agreed with Manding's opinion, hurried home, quickly fetched altars and jars, filled them with honey, and carried them to the city on donkeys to sell. Because there is a lot of honey, it cannot be filled at one time, so the woodcutters shipped and sold it back and forth again and again, but Ha Manding stayed in the cave all the time.When the transportation was about to be finished, some of them became ill-intentioned.He said to the others: "Because honey was first discovered by Ha Manding, if he insisted on insisting on monopolizing the money for selling honey, we really can't do anything about him. From this point of view, if we don't want to find a way Get rid of him, and everyone will suffer."

"How to get rid of him?" Someone asked a question. "That's easy, just let him down the hole to hold the rest of the honey. After he's down, we slip away, because he can't get out without our help. So he'll actually be Trapped inside, no one but us knows what happened to him." The woodcutters listened to the guy's idea and thought that this method was okay, so they went back to the cave together and said to Ha Mandin: "We are exhausted from tossing around like this. How about it, go down and save the rest Scoop the honey in the jar, and we'll meet you up there."

Ha Mandin didn't know what to do, and readily agreed.After he went down, he quickly filled the honey, and then shouted to the top: "Guys, I have completed the task, please help me and pull me up." There was an echo in the cave, but no one answered, so he called again for a while. , still nothing.Only then did he realize that he had been cheated by the woodcutters.He was terrified and called for help, crying loudly.Finally, he sat on the ground dejectedly, and secretly prayed to God to bless him to escape safely. Besides, after the woodcutters tricked Ha Manding into the cave, they quietly drove the donkey and slipped away with a load of honey.After they had sold all the honey in the city, they rushed to Ha Mandin's house in a fake cry and reported the death to his mother:

"Old man, your son Ha Mandin was unfortunately killed on the way to the mountain to cut firewood, and he has now returned to the underworld. People cannot be resurrected after death. I hope you are old and take good care of yourself." "What the hell is going on?" Ha Mandin's mother couldn't believe what she heard. "We were chopping firewood in the mountains when it rained heavily suddenly, so we went into a cave, hoping to wait for the rain to stop before we could continue chopping firewood. Unexpectedly, your son's donkey was frightened and ran away, so he hurried to chase after it. , but I met a hungry wolf on the way and took him away. The donkey did not escape the fate of being eaten." When Ha Mandin's mother learned of her son's tragic experience, she was overwhelmed with grief.She frantically slapped herself on the cheek, sprinkled dirt on her head, and cried like hell.From then on, she was lonely, crying all day long, relying on the meager charity of the woodcutters to live a difficult life. The woodcutters made a lot of money by selling honey, so of course they didn't want to go to the mountains to cut firewood, so they all changed their careers to business.They opened many shops in the city. Because of the prosperous business, they all made a fortune and lived a life of eating, drinking and playing. Ha Mandin was trapped in the cave and couldn't get out. He couldn't help crying bitterly, feeling that his life had fallen into despair.Suddenly a scorpion fell beside him, and he jumped up in fright and killed the scorpion.He thought to himself: "This hole is full of honey, there is no gap, so where did the scorpion come from?" Confused, he slowly walked to the place where the scorpion fell, looked carefully, and found that there was a very narrow crack, and a ray of light came out.He pulled out the machete, aimed at the crack and pried it wildly, until the crack was as big as a window.At this time, he crawled out along the crack. Not far in front of him was an iron door with a silver lock and a golden key hanging on the door.He peeped in through the crack of the door, only to see the light shining inside.So he opened the door with the golden key that hung in the lock, and went in. After walking for a while, I came to the bank of a large lake, the lake was shining with silver light, beside the lake was a hill made of jasper, on the top of the hill was a golden throne inlaid with pearls and precious stones, surrounded by a row of A row of gold, silver, emerald... all kinds of chairs.He went to the throne and counted all the chairs around him, twelve thousand in total.He was sitting on the throne, with the jeweled mountains and lakes in front of him, as if in a fairyland, he closed his eyes and fell asleep unconsciously.A moment later he was awakened by a hissing and rustling noise.He opened his eyes and saw that in just a short while, there were big snakes entangled on every chair around him, their eyes were shining brightly.Under this surprise, he suddenly felt dry mouth, thinking that this time he was going to die.Looking around again, the lake is full of layers of small snakes, densely packed, their number is impossible to count. After a while, a big snake floated up in the lake and slowly crawled towards him. On the big snake's back was a gleaming yellow gold plate, on which sat a female snake with a human face and a snake body that was as transparent as crystal. The strange female snake slowly approached Ha Mandin, and it actually opened its mouth to say hello to him.At this time, a big snake hurriedly climbed up from the seat and carried the golden plate, allowing the female snake to sit high in the golden plate.All the snakes kowtowed to the female snake from all directions.She received the salutation of the snakes, gave a command from afar, motioned for the snakes to sit down, and then she turned to Hal Mandin and said: "Young man, this is the country of snakes. On behalf of the snakes, I welcome you to the country of snakes. I am the queen of the country of snakes." When Ha Mandin saw that the queen treated people with courtesy, he immediately dispelled his fear.So the queen ordered the snakes to entertain the guests.The snakes entertained him with apples, grapes, pomegranates, coconuts, almonds and plantains, and said, "Welcome to the country of snakes, young man! What's your name, please?" "My name is Har Mandin." "Our diet is rough. Please eat these fruits to your heart's content. Just rest assured that you don't have to be afraid of anything here." The Snake Queen said. Ha Manding completely dispelled his worries and began to eat happily.After he had eaten, he thanked God sincerely. The Snake Queen waited for Ha Mandin to eat, and ordered all the snakes to come and clear away the dishes, then she talked with him and asked: "Ha Mandin, where are you from? Why are you here? Can you tell me about yourself?" Ha Manding described his situation from birth to growth to entering the cave in detail from the beginning to the end, and finally said: "It's unfortunate, but it's over after all. As for what will happen to me in the future?" misfortune, only God knows." "Don't worry! Of course you will have good luck in the future. But I want you to live in the snake country for a while, so you won't be bored. I'm going to tell you a very moving story with twists and turns. " "Okay!" Ha Manding readily agreed. So Ha Mandin stayed with the Snake Queen.The Snake Queen told him the following story.