once upon a time, a farmer kept a donkey. The donkey has worked hard for him for many years, but the relentless years and years of hard work have made him old now, and his work is getting worse every day, making it more and more difficult to be competent for his previous job. Therefore, his master didn't want to keep him any longer and was ready to kill him. However, the donkey saw his master's mind, so he ran out quietly and marched all the way to the city.
He thought,' I may be a musician when I get there.' After walking for a while, he found a dog lying on the side of the road, panting as if he were extremely tired. The donkey stepped forward and asked,' Friend, why are you panting like this?' The dog replied,' Hey! Because I am old and my strength is insufficient, I can't go hunting with my master anymore, so my master is going to kill me. I ran out, but now what do I do for a living?' The donkey said,' Well, I'm going to be a musician in the city. If you want to go with me, we are like-minded. Will you?' The dog immediately said that he would like to go together, so they became fellow travelers.
not far away, they saw a cat crouching in the middle of the road, looking sad. The donkey came forward and said,' Lady, please tell us, what's the matter with you? Why do you look so listless?' Me!' The cat sighed and said,' whose life is in danger, can his spirit get better? Just because I am old, I just want to lie by the fire and rest, and I don't want to catch mice in the room, so my hostess grabbed me and tried to drown me. Although I was lucky enough to escape from her, I don't know what to make a living from now on.' All right! Just come into town with us. You are a good singer at night, and being a musician will bring you good luck.' The cat listened to this suggestion and happily joined them.
after a short walk, they passed a farm and saw a rooster perched on a door and crowed loudly. Wonderful!' The donkey said,' Your voice is quite good. Can you tell me what this is about?' Alas!' The rooster replied,' I mean today is a fine day, and it happens to be laundry day. My hostess and chef not only don't thank me for my painstaking efforts, but also plan to kill me tomorrow and stew chicken soup for the guests who come on Sunday.' I hope it won't happen!' The donkey said,' Rooster, come to the city with us! Anyway, it's better than staying here and waiting for the decapitation! Besides, nobody knows. If we take turns to sing, we can organize a concert. Join us!' The rooster said,' All right! I will do my best.' The four of them happily set foot on the road to town together.
However, the city can't be walked in one day, so when it got dark that day, they had to go into a forest to have a rest. The donkey and the dog slept under a big tree, the cat climbed the tree and slept on the branch, while the rooster thought that the higher the place, the safer it was, so he flew to the top of the tree. He also had a habit of seeing if everything around him was wrong before going to bed. He straightened his neck and saw that there was light coming in the distance. He immediately shouted to his companions,' There must be a house not far away, because I saw the light.' The donkey said,' If there is a house, we'd better sleep somewhere else. The place to sleep now is terrible.' The dog went on to say,' Besides, maybe you can find some bones or some meat there!' So, they walked together in the direction that the cock saw. As they approached, the lights became brighter and brighter. Finally, they came to a house where robbers lived.
The donkey is the biggest among them. He goes to the window and peeks into the house. The cock asked,' Donkey, what do you see?' What do I see?' The donkey repeated,' I saw a table full of all kinds of delicious food, and the robbers were sitting around the table happily.' The rooster said,' I hope this is for us'. The donkey also said,' Yes! As long as we can get in.' Then, they discussed together how to drive the robbers away. Finally, they came up with a way: the donkey stood on its hind legs, its front legs were on the windowsill, the dog stood on the donkey's back, the cat climbed on the dog's back, and the rooster flew up and sat on the cat's head. After they stood up, they agreed on a signal and then sang together. The donkey growled, the dog barked wildly, the cat whined, and the rooster screamed. They broke the window and turned into the room at the same time. The broken glass and the terrible noise completely frightened the robbers. In panic, they thought that a terrible monster had found them and fled desperately.
After everything was calm, these uninvited guests who wandered around the Jianghu sat down and ate the food left by the robbers in a hurry, as if they had not eaten for a month. After they had eaten enough, they put out the lights and found their own resting places according to their own habits. The donkey lay on a pile of grass in the yard, the dog lay on a mat behind the door, the cat curled up in front of the fireplace where there was still residual heat from the ashes, and the rooster perched on the roof beam. They walked so many roads that they were quite sleepy and soon fell asleep.
In the middle of the night, the robbers saw that the house was out of light from a distance, and everything seemed very quiet, wondering if they had escaped in a hurry in panic. One of the bolder robbers is going to have a look. When he walked into the kitchen, he found a box of matches and tried to light the candles. I happened to see the cat's eyes shining like flames. He mistakenly thought it was an unlit charcoal fire in the furnace, so he put the match together and tried to light it. But the cat didn't know how to joke, got up and pounced on the robber's face, spitting and scratching. The robber was so frightened that he quickly withdrew his legs and ran outside the door. But at the door, the dog jumped on him and bit him on the leg. When he crossed the yard, the donkey kicked him again. The rooster was awakened by the noise at this time and cried desperately. The robber was scared to roll and crawl back to his companion's hiding place in the Woods and said to the robber leader with lingering fear,' How terrible! A terrible witch stayed in the house. She spat on my face and scratched my face with her long, skinny claws; There was a man hiding behind the door, holding a knife in his hand and stabbing me in the leg at once; There is a black monster standing in the yard. He is beating me with a big stick. There was a demon sitting on the roof beam of the house. He shouted,' Throw that villain here! From then on, the robbers never dared to go back to that house, and the musicians lived happily in it. I bet they still live there now.