The story takes place during the Ming Dynasty, in the Town of Ande in Qinle Province, there is a show named Zhou Sheng, who writes some calligraphy and paintings with his talent to sell, and also has a good income, and Zhou Sheng is charitable and charitable, more or less helped the surrounding villagers several times, and is also respected by everyone.
One day, Zhou Sheng prepared the calligraphy and paintings to sell, today is a market, not so are the best days he sold, so he also got up early in the morning and hurried to leave.
Zhou Sheng bought a few steamed buns for breakfast on the way, and on the way, he also gave half of them to the beggars he met, and soon, he set up the shelves and carefully placed his works one by one.
Zhou Sheng's calligraphy and paintings have also been famous in recent years, not only the people in the county know it, but even the people in the surrounding counties always come to buy paintings, so Zhou Sheng has just set up a shelf, and a small group of people around him have stopped to admire.
Soon the market was also lively, and the people who came to hang out and buy were also in an endless stream, but soon the appearance of a group of people aroused the vigilance of everyone, and Zhou Sheng also looked over to the side, and saw seven or eight small hooligans coming over.
The sellers in the market are very familiar with these people, because these people will always come to collect protection fees at the beginning of the month, and these people also have a backer, even if the official is not able to take them, but will be beaten by them.
So the crowd had to swallow their anger and pay a part of the protection fee every month to an Ansheng, and soon these walked to Zhou Sheng's stall, and one of the strong men with bare arms looked at Zhou Sheng very arrogantly.
The strong man said: "This month's protection fee should be paid, I heard that your income is good, this month then pay five or two silver."
Zhou Sheng was also very angry when he heard this, he had only earned three or two pieces of silver this month, and this man opened his mouth to five or two, so he said, "Five or two is not, I have only three or two this month, if you want it, then I will give you at most one or two."
The strong man heard that it was a look of irritation on his face, kicked Zhou Sheng's stall to the ground, and then he waved his fist at him, but suddenly he was stopped by his accomplices behind him, at this time, a thief with rat eyes also came out, it seemed that these people seemed to be headed by him.
The man smiled and said, "Please ask Brother Zhou not to meet him in general, my brother has just come here and doesn't understand things, since he wants more, then I will set a number, today you only need to take out two or two, we will turn around and leave."
Zhou Sheng was also angry when he saw the situation, and he also knew that these people were not easy to provoke, so he took out the two or two pieces of silver, which re-supported the stall to continue selling paintings, and the other stall owners were also fiercely plundered by these people.
But suddenly, a scream came, Zhou Sheng went to the prestige, only to see an old man selling vegetables being trampled under the feet of those people, and the screams kept coming from his mouth, and Zhou Sheng did not hesitate to rush to rescue the old man.
Only when I got closer did I hear that the old man had only come here to sell vegetables in the past few days, and these had smashed his stall because the old man had not told them in advance, and he had to let the old man compensate eight or two silver before he was willing to let him go.
Zhou Sheng could not bear that the old man was being bullied by these people, so he stepped forward and said: "You are too unreasonable, this old man is too old, and it is understandable that he did not know it, but he was maliciously blackmailed by you, and I will notify the government to come and arrest you and bring you to justice."
When a few heard this, instead of being afraid, they burst out laughing and said wildly, Do you want our brothers to help you call the officials?
After Zhou Sheng heard this, a gush of qi and blood also surged into his heart, but at this moment, a graceful woman suddenly ran over, pounced, and fell to her knees in front of several and begged: A few big brothers should do a good job of sparing my father, and I will make reparations for your sins.
It turned out that this woman was the old man's daughter, and at this time, several were also bright-eyed, and looking at the woman in front of them also showed a dead and evil smile, and the person who headed the group also said: I didn't expect that this old man had such a beautiful woman.
Seeing this leader, he took the initiative to go forward and help the old man up and said, "Old man, my brother doesn't understand things, you don't have to see him in general, we don't accept the money, you can pick the stalls here at will."
Looking at the leader's approach, the crowd was also full of doubts, not knowing what his purpose was, only to see him look at the woman in front of him and say, But I have a condition, that is, you have to come with your father, after all, it is not safe to let the old man sell vegetables alone.
When the woman heard this, she also hurriedly thanked her: "Thank you big brother, I will sell vegetables with my father, thank you for your mercy."
So a few of the left, and the woman bowed to Zhou Sheng: Thank you very much for zhou sheng's big brother for helping, and the little girl is very grateful.
Zhou Sheng hurriedly said, "You don't have to pay attention to this little thing, but you have to be careful of these people, it is certainly for other purposes to let you go easily today, and it is better for the two of you not to come here to sell vegetables again."
Later, the woman also helped the old man to go home, and Zhou Sheng also frowned slightly, hoping that these two people could listen to his advice. However, the next day, Zhou Sheng saw that the father and daughter were here to set up a stall to sell vegetables, and it seemed that nothing had happened, and he was relieved.
Two weeks later, when Zhou Sheng was out of the stall, he overheard someone say that the father and daughter who sold vegetables had not come to sell vegetables for three days, and they didn't know what was wrong, which also attracted Zhou Sheng's attention, so he decided to go to the father and daughter's home to see what was going on.
So after Zhou Sheng's inquiry, he came to the door of his father's daughter's house, and knocked on the door: "Is there anyone at home, I am Zhou Sheng, and I have come to visit the two of you."
However, after knocking for a long time, no one came to open the door, at this time a villager passed by, and when he saw Zhou Sheng knocking on the door, he said something to stop it: "Don't knock on the young man, there is no one in this house, they have been buried long ago."
Zhou Sheng was shocked when he heard this, so he asked, "May I ask these two people who went to the market a few days ago to sell vegetables, why did they die inexplicably?"
The villagers also sighed slightly and said, "Alas, a few days ago, a group of thieves came from nowhere and raped this woman, and this woman's father was also beaten to death because of obstruction, and afterwards the woman also hanged herself."
Zhou Sheng heard that he knew that the thief must be those few, and his heart was full of sadness, so he had to leave this place and return home, Zhou Sheng was also in a bad mood and drank wine alone, and it was not long before he fell asleep, and when he stayed until late at night, he was unexpectedly awakened by the cries of the women.
Zhou Sheng suddenly started, and found that he had come to a strange room, at this time the cries also stopped, Zhou Sheng could not help but feel a trace of chill in his heart, so he hurried out.
After going out, Zhou Sheng was also surprised to find that this residence was actually the home of the father and daughter, how did he come to this place? Could it be that this father and daughter want me to avenge their grievances?
So the next day Zhou Sheng asked a mage to take him to his father's and daughter's home, and asked the mage to do it to see if there was anything different, so the mage became a mage in the house, and after half a pillar of incense, the Daoist priest stopped and took out a charm and handed it to Zhou Sheng.
Then he said, "You can communicate with her by taking this rune."
So Zhou Sheng swallowed the Dao Rune in one gulp, and then looked around, but found nothing, and the Daoist priest pointed upwards at this time and said, "Look up."
Zhou Sheng looked up, only to see that the woman was actually suspended above the beam of the room, and the original rosy complexion had long since become miserable and white, and her appearance was very frightening.
When this woman saw that Zhou Sheng could see herself, she knelt down in the air and said, "Please also ask Brother Zhou to avenge our father and daughter, otherwise the little girl will not be blinded when she dies."
Zhou Sheng also said, "You say, I can naturally help you."
So the woman said, "Brother Zhou only needs to put my necklace in the thief's house, and the little girl is here to thank Brother Zhou."
When the Daoist priest heard about this, he was also furious in his heart, so he pinched his finger and calculated the thief's residence for Zhou Sheng, who put the rope into the thief's house overnight.
Soon three days passed, Zhou Sheng, who was selling paintings, suddenly heard the cheers of the people, and after inquiring, he realized that it was the thieves who had all died in their homes, and the crowd no longer had to be bullied by these people, so they cheered.
That night, Zhou Sheng also saw the father and daughter in a dream, the two had a great vendetta, gave Zhou Sheng a few kowtows, and then went to the mansion to reincarnate, Zhou Sheng's life after zhou sheng was also smooth, there was no disaster in his life, he married his wife and had children, his children and grandchildren were full of halls, he enjoyed the happiness of this person in the world, and finally left safely at the age of one hundred.
Write at the end:
Several thieves harmed everyone, killed both father and daughter, and finally suffered retribution and died tragically at home, and Zhou Sheng, who drew his sword to help, also spent a happy life because of accumulating virtue and doing good.
In our reality, we must also do more good deeds, help others, bravely repel evil forces, transmit positive energy, and hope that each of us can live a peaceful and happy life.