The story of the Eight Immortals is widely circulated in Penglai, Shandong Province. According to the local 80-year-old Ge Chuanbao and Mr. Liu Jianmin, the story goes like this:
Lv Dongbin was once a scholar, but he never won the imperial examination twice. From then on, he stopped studying, relied on the property left by his ancestors, made friends, traveled and lived a carefree life. Before Lv Dongbin became immortal, there was a fellow countryman friend named Gou Kun, whose parents died and his family was poor.
Lv Dongbin sympathized with him, became sworn brothers with him, and invited him to live in his own home, hoping that he could study hard and have a bright future.
One day, a guest named Lin came to the house. Seeing Gou Kun's beauty and diligence, he said to Lv Dongbin, "I want to marry my stupid sister to Gou Kun. What do you think? " Lv Dongbin, afraid of delaying Gou Jian's future, hurried away, but Gou Jian was tempted when he learned that he agreed to this marriage with Lv Dongbin. Lv Dongbin said, "Miss Lin is beautiful and virtuous. Now that my brother has made up his mind, I won't stop it, but after I get married, I will sleep with the bride for three nights. " After listening to this, you can't help but be stunned, but after much deliberation, you still agreed. On Gou Gou's wedding day, Lv Dongbin was beaming, but Gou Gou was ashamed to meet people, so he simply hid aside and didn't show up. In the evening, in the bridal chamber, the bride wears a red veil and sits on the bed. At this moment, Lv Dongbin came into the room and said nothing. He just sat under the lamp at his desk and buried himself in reading. Miss Zhu waited until midnight, but Wen Fu still didn't sleep, so she had to sleep with her clothes on. When I woke up in the morning, my husband was gone, and it was like this for three consecutive nights, but it was bitter for Miss Lin.
After three days, I just entered the bridal chamber and saw my wife in tears. She hurried forward to make amends. Miss Lin just hung her head and cried, "Lang Jun, why didn't you go to bed with me for three nights, just reading in front of the lamp, coming in at dark and leaving at dawn?" This question was dumbfounded, and it took him a long time to wake up. He stamped his foot and laughed at the sky and said, "My brother was afraid that I was insatiable and forgot to study, so he used this method to motivate me." My brother means well! Miss Lin was puzzled by Gou Kun's words. "。 Gou Kun explained that after the incident, both husband and wife were very happy and said in unison, "Brother Lu, we will definitely repay you in the future! "
A few years later, Gou Kun really became a big official, and the couple left with the Lv Dongbin family in tears and went to their posts.
Eight years have passed in a blink of an eye. This summer, the Lu family accidentally lost a fire, and a large amount of property turned into a pile of ashes. Lv Dongbin had to build a thatched cottage with the remaining broken tiles and bricks, and live in it with his wife and children to shelter from the wind and rain. Life is very difficult. The couple discussed it and decided to ask Gou Gou for help. Lv Dongbin went through a lot of hardships along the way, and finally found a hook home. Gou Gou was very sympathetic to the fire in Lv Dongbin's house and treated him warmly, but he didn't mention any help. Lv Dongbin lived in Gou Gou's house for more than a month in a row, but Gou Gou didn't give Lv Dongbin a penny. Lv Dongbin thought he was ungrateful and went home.
It's strange that Lv Dongbin found a new house built at home when he came home. He was just about to enter the house when he saw white paper on both sides of the door and knew that someone had died at home. Surprised, he ran into the room and saw a coffin. His wife, Pima Dai Xiao, was crying. Lv Dongbin leng along while, just gently let out a cry "madam". The lady looked back and shouted in horror, "You, are you a person or a ghost?" Lv Dongbin was even more surprised and asked, "Madam, why do you say that? I am back well, how can it be a ghost? " The lady looked at it for a long time before she recognized that it was really Lv Dongbin and said, "You scared me to death!"
It turned out that shortly after Lv Dongbin left, a group of people came to help him build a house, and then he left. At noon the day before yesterday, a large group of people came in carrying coffins, saying that Lv Dongbin had died in Gou Gou's house. Hearing this, Lv Dongbin knew that this was Gou Kun's trick. He approached the coffin, picked up a big axe and split it in half, only to find that it was full of gold and silver jewelry, with a letter on it that read:
If you are not an ungrateful person, you will send gold and silver to build a house.
You shut my wife in the room and I made her cry her eyes out.
Lv Dongbin woke up like a dream after reading the letter. He gave a wry smile: "Dear brothers, you have helped me so much!" "
Since then, the relationship between Lu and Gou Jian has become closer and closer.
This is the old saying "I don't know how to win people's hearts when I went to Lv Dongbin", because "I went" and "I was bitten by a dog" are homophonic and passed around, so it became "I don't know how to win people's hearts when a dog bites Lv Dongbin".