The Original Translation of "Money is Nothing" in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio

The Original Translation of "Money is Nothing" in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio

Brief introduction: Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, short for Ghost Fox Biography, is a collection of short stories by Pu Songling, a famous novelist in China in the Qing Dynasty. The following is the original and translation of Qian Buwu in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio that I brought to you. I hope it helps you.

Original text:

Xia Shang, Hejian people. His father, Dongling, is extremely rich and extravagant. Every time he eats steamed buns, he abandons his horns and leaves them all over the floor. People call it because of its fat weight? Qiu jiao? . For the next year, my family was very poor and I didn't give food every day. My limbs are too thin to breathe. Raise a strong man? It's called hanging bags. Death means business: I was violent all my life, died in a rage, and was hungry and cold. You should cherish your blessings and practice to cover your father's honor. ?

Businessmen obey orders, honesty and simplicity, land to the tiller and self-sufficiency. The villagers like to respect them. A rich man lamented his poverty and used capital as an excuse to turn his school into a traitor, but he owed it to his mother. There is no compensation for shame. Please be a servant. Weng refused. Shang was very upset. He tried his best to pay back his land and house. Weng courted for profit. Forcibly redeem the old business; I also borrowed a lot of money to make a good family. Business vocabulary:? How can we bear the debts of donkeys and horses if we can't pay more than a dozen dollars? Weng Nai invited him to join in. If you return the goods after a few months, you can only lose money; Weng refused to accept his interest, so he answered. After years of borrowing, Yingdai returned to the river and was hit by a hurricane. The boat was repeated several times and half of the things were lost. If you return it to the plan, you can return it to the Lord slightly, so Jia yue said: Who can save heaven from poverty? I'm tired of this! ? I paid Jia records and retired. If Weng is strong again, he is indispensable, and he will continue to work hard. Every time I sigh: In the world of life, everyone has enjoyed it for several years, so why should he be down and out? There will be foreign wizards who will know the luck of the rich. Respect it. Witches, old women too. The room is clean, there is a shrine inside, and the aroma is often smoked. Businessmen worship God, witches ask for money. When the merchant gave him a hundred dollars, the wizard put it in a wooden barrel and knelt down, shaking like a sign. It's already started. Pour the money and put it in the last case first. Its method takes the word as nothing and the curtain as constant; Count to fifty-eight, and then make the curtain. Q:? Geng Jia geometry? A:? Twenty-eight ? The witch shook her head and said, It's still early, an official is lucky in front of others, not physically. When you are 58 years old, you will have your own luck. ? Q:? What is the luck of ancestors? Say: The ancestors have good deeds, and the blessings are inexhaustible, and future generations enjoy them; If the ancestors are not good, their disasters will be endless, and future generations will also suffer. ? Shang Zhiyi said: Ten years have passed, and my teeth are old and I can't walk. ? Wuyue:? I have returned to China before 58, and I have some business; But only because of hunger and cold ears. In 58 years, when there is a huge amount of gold coming, there is no need to fight for it. Officials have nothing to do all their lives and can enjoy it endlessly in the near future. ? Don't come back with a witch, you are suspicious. However, I am poor and self-sufficient and dare not ask for it. After 53, pay attention. You can't plow when you are sick. When it recovered, it was a drought, and the grass in the early stage was dry. It rains in recent autumn, and there are no other species at home. Several acres of land are famous for growing grain. During the drought, it was buried half to death, but the valley was safe; After that, it rained heavily. I am hungry in spring, so I can be happy. Businessmen believe in witchcraft and borrow money from Weng, which has little right to their sons and mothers and little income; Still advise everyone, business is not willing. At the age of 57, I even repaired the wall and dug the ground to get an iron kettle; Exposed, white gas such as flocculant, dare not send. I ran out of gas when I moved, and the white jar was full. Husband and wife shipped it together, weighing 1325 two. A secret discussion about witchcraft. The neighbor's wife entered the industry, saw it and reported it to her husband. If the husband is jealous, he will sue the city for massacre. Slaughter is the most greedy, and the arrested businessman asks for gold. The wife wants to hide half, Shang said: What you don't deserve is a curse. ? Go all out. If you kill gold, you can't hide it, so you chase the container. It is the release of the merchants that makes it full of gold. Living with nothing, I moved to Nanchang to know each other. Over forty, Shang moved to Nanchang, and Ying Zai was dead. The wife will return, the goods are heavy; Tung oil is like a dry basket. Merchants buy it because it is straight and cheap. When I got home, the equipment leaked, and I poured it into other equipment, which contained a platinum collar; I can't find it anywhere. In the opposite direction, it is advisable to dig the number of cymbals before.

As a result, businessmen became rich, benefited from poverty and were generous. The wife advised future generations to accumulate, saying:? That's why future generations have stayed. ? The neighbor is extremely poor and a beggar. He wants something, but he is ashamed. The merchant heard about it and said:? What happened in the past is that my time has not come. What does it matter to you that ghosts and gods are defeated by fake hands? Every week. Neighbors are crying. After Shang lived for 80 years, his descendants passed on from generation to generation.

Shi Yi said:? This is a waste, the princes can't help it, Shu Ren is in trouble! What a pity to be born suddenly and violently and die without food! Fortunately, the birds died, they were sad, and the children could help them. They lived in poverty for 70 years and died in ZTE. Otherwise, the father's sin is to tire his children, and the children tire their grandchildren, so that beggars will not be passed down from generation to generation. What is an old wizard and then announce the secrets of heaven? Ho ho! Strange! ?

Translation:

Xia Shang was born in Hejian County, Hebei Province. His father's name is Dongling. He is rich, but he lives in luxury. When he eats steamed bread, he will throw it away and throw it all over the floor. Besides, he is very fat, so people gave him a nickname, called? Qiu jiao? . In his later years, Xia Dongling's family was poor and he couldn't even eat rice every day. His arms are very thin and his skin hangs like a cloth bag, so people call him again? Monk Muzhuang said that he was like a monk with a bag hanging around begging for alms. When he died, he said to his son Xia Shang: I wasted too many things in my life and offended God, so I didn't eat or wear when I died. You should cherish your blessings, live a good life and make up for your father's mistakes. ?

Xia Shang strictly abides by his father's wishes, is honest and simple, has no crooked ways, and lives on his own. The villagers respect him very much. A rich man in the village sympathized with the poor days at home and lent him money to learn to do business. However, Xia Shang couldn't do business. As a result, he lost his money. He felt ashamed and unable to repay his capital, so he asked to hire rich people as servants. The rich man refused, and Xia Shang was very unhappy, so he sold all the cultivated land and houses and sent the money to the rich man. When the rich man asked about the situation, he felt more sympathy for him and forced him to redeem the farmland houses sold by Xia Shang. Lend him more capital and let him do business. Xia Shang declined politely: I borrowed a dozen taels of silver from you, and I can't afford to pay it back at a loss. Why do you want me to be a donkey in the afterlife and pay your debts? The rich man let him go with other businessmen. Come back in a few months, just don't lose money; The rich man didn't want his interest and went out to do business again. After more than a year, Xia Shang went to the south to buy a car load. When he came back, he was hit by a hurricane on the river. His boat almost capsized and half the goods were lost. After returning home, I calculated the remaining goods and was able to repay the borrowed money. Xia Shang said to other associates: God wants you to be poor, who can save you? This is all because of me. ? According to the account book, he paid the money to the businessman and quit the business. No matter how the rich man forced him to do business, he resolutely refused to do it and honestly practiced at home. He often laments himself:? People live in the world, there are several good days, why am I down and out to this point?

One day, Xia Shang met a fortune teller from other places, saying that he could use money for divination and know the luck of a person's life. Xia Shang went to see him specially. When he got there, he saw that the fortune teller was an old woman. The house she lives in is exquisite and clean, with God's seat in it, and the fragrance edifies people's hearts. After Xia Shang went in to worship the throne, the soothsayer's wife told him. Xia Shang gave her a hundred dollars. The witch put all the money in a tube, held it in her hand, knelt down at the table, rang the bamboo tube with her hand and made a prayer. Then get up, pour out the money in your hand, and spread it on the console table in order. Is her divination method based on the word money? No? Melon, when the money curtain (back)? Constant? Melon; She counted 58 dollars, all the money came out, all the money came out, so she asked Xia Shang: How old is it? Xia Shang replied:? Twenty-eight ? The witch shook her head and said, Good morning! Early ah! What you are paying now is the luck of your ancestors, not your own. You can't make your luck until you are 58 years old, so there is no intertwining. ? Xia Shang asked: What do you mean by the luck of your ancestors? The witch said:? If the ancestors did good deeds before their death and his blessings were not fully enjoyed, then future generations would enjoy his blessings; If an ancestor did something bad before his death and didn't suffer disaster, then future generations will continue to suffer. ? Xia Shang counted them and said, In another 30 years, I have become an old man, and I am almost in a coffin. ? The witch said:? Before you are 58 years old, your luck will have a slight turning point for five years, but it won't do much good, and you can only avoid hunger. At the age of 58, a lot of money should come to you, and you don't need to pursue it hard. Sir, you have never done anything too much in your life, even in the afterlife, you will never enjoy it. ? Xia Shang bid farewell to the witch and returned home with a grain of salt.

Live a poor life with peace of mind and dare not have other ideas. By the age of fifty-three, he was very careful to verify whether the witch's words were valid. At that time, it was just spring, and the work in the farmland began to be cultivated. Xia Shang suffered from malaria and could not go to the fields. When I got well, there was a drought, and all the crops planted early died. It didn't rain until autumn, and there was no other food at home. Xia Shang planted millet on several acres of land. Then came the great drought, in which half of the buckwheat beans died, and only the drought-tolerant millet grew well. Later, it rained several times, and the millet grew better, twice as much as in previous years. The next spring, it was another famine year, and the youngest in the family finally didn't go hungry. Because of this, Xia Shang believed that what the witch said was effective. He borrowed money from the rich, did some small business, and gained a little. He was suggested to do big business, but Xia Shang refused. Until the age of 57, Xia Shang occasionally repaired the wall and got an iron pot when digging; When it was uncovered, smoke like white catkins emerged from the ground. Xia Shang couldn't figure out the reason, and he didn't dare to dig deeper. After a while, the smoke came out and I saw a jar full of silver. The husband and wife carried the scales together, totaling 1325. Xia Shang thought that there was something wrong with the witch's prediction. The neighbor's wife went to the merchant in Xia, saw so much money, and went home to tell her husband. Her husband was jealous of them and secretly sued the government. Hejian county magistrate was the most greedy. He arrested Xia Shang and extorted money from him.

Xia's wife wants to hide half and pay half. Xia Shang said: this is not the money we should get, and staying will also lead to disaster. ? Give all the money to the county magistrate. After the county magistrate got the silver, he was afraid that Xia Shang was hiding something, so he asked him for a big jar with silver, put all the silver in it, and let Xia Shang go when the jar was full. Not long after, the county magistrate was transferred to Nanchang Prefecture Tongzhi. A year later, Xia Shang went to Nanchang on business and the county magistrate died. The magistrate's wife had to go back to her hometown and sell those heavy things. There were several baskets of tung oil, and Xia Shang saw that it was very cheap, so he bought them all and shipped them home. When I got home, I saw that some oil baskets were leaking, so I poured tung oil into other utensils and found two silver collars in the baskets. Try again. Each basket has two silver collars. After the exchange, it meets the amount of silver excavated. From this, Xia and Shang became rich, took care of the poor more and more, and often helped generously. Xia Shang said that his wife suggested that Xia Shang save some money for his children and grandchildren; ? What I do is to bless my children and grandchildren. ? Tell on his neighbor's bankruptcy and want to borrow some money from Xia Shang, but he always feels that he has done something wrong. Xia Shang told him after learning:? A thing of the past, it was my bad luck, so the ghosts and gods reported it under the guise of your hand. What does this have to do with you? The neighbor was moved to tears. Later, Xia Shang lived to the age of 80, and his descendants never lost. ? ;