Yang Si of Xincheng County, Shandong Province, once worked as an accountant in Sima Da's mansion and was very proficient in the way to make money. After resigning from sima fu, he went to other places to do business, and returned to his hometown a few years later, already on the side of the rich, comparable to the financial resources of local officials and gentry.
One day in a dream, he saw a man running at him and saying, "You owe me forty thousand dollars, now it's time to pay it back." Yang Si asked him who he was and when he owed him money, but the man did not answer and rushed to the back room.
After waking up from the dream, his wife Wang Shi gave birth to a baby boy.
Yang Si immediately understood that this son had come to collect debts.
So Yang Si put forty thousand dollars in a room and said to Wang, "All the money that this child will spend in the future will be taken from here."
Wang Shi was puzzled, and Yang Si said truthfully.
Wang said: "Can a dream be taken seriously"?
Yang Si said, "I have heard of such a thing before, but I didn't expect that the fulfillment came to me, this boy is the reincarnation of a debt collector, and do as I say, see how he will spend this forty thousand dollars."
Wang Shi couldn't bear it, and with tears in his eyes, he said, "Poor my son."
Yang Si said: "Such a bad fate is such that Providence is difficult to violate."
Yang Si named his son Huan, Yang still grew to 3 years old, and there was still a small half of forty thousand dollars left. In the past three years, the Wang family had never had a son and a half daughter, so Yang Si understood that if the forty thousand dollars were not repaid, he would not have children. But fortunately, I was still young, and I spent half of the forty thousand dollars, and I waited for two more years.
On this day, Yang Si also invited a enlightened teacher to Yang, and Wang Shi looked at it but said: "Asking teachers also to spend money, isn't this spending my son's life"?
He resigned the teacher and gave Yang yang an enlightenment.
When the Wang family was not out of the cabinet, the family also invited a female gentleman to teach several female disciples to read and write, and the Wang family was intelligent to everyone and did the best homework. It was better to give Yang a better education than to invite a teacher. Teach new characters every day, memorize some books such as "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Text", "Children's Language" and so on.
Yang Si saw it and said, "Just be enlightened, don't be too tired, forty thousand dollars have gone to a large part."
When Yang was still 4 years old, Yang Si saw that there were still seven hundred left of the forty thousand dollars, and just as Wang Shi was still playing with Yang in his arms, Yang Si beckoned his son to come over and said, "The forty thousand dollars are going to be spent, and you are also leaving." After hearing this, Yang's face suddenly changed drastically, his whole body stiffened, and he fell straight to the ground. Wang Clan exclaimed in surprise and was out of breath when he lifted up.
Yang Si said, "The remaining seven hundred dollars are just for this matter."
Wang Shi was overly sad and fell ill, and Yang Si asked a famous doctor for her, but did not get better.
One day Yang Si went to the monastery outside the city, and he and the abbot of the monastery were old acquaintances. Yang Si told the debt collector and his sick wife about it, and when he said that he was sad, tears flowed. The host sighed and then said, "You don't owe anyone, and people don't owe you." How can there be a son? To have a good son is to repay kindness, and to give birth to a stubborn son is to collect debts. Do not rejoice in the living, and do not grieve for the dead."
When Yang Si heard this, he felt relieved at the moment, and came back to comfort wang.
Wang Shi said: "Monks are all cut off from human feelings, and when they say such things, they think they are clever, but in fact they are the most hateful."
That night, Wang Shi went to sleep. Dreaming that Yang was still coming to worship her, Wang Asked, "Where is my son now?" ”
Yang also said: "Now that the old debt has been cleared, it will be reincarnated."
Wang said, "Is it true that my son was born in my family only for debts?"?
Yang also said: "It is true."
Wang Said: "The debt owed to my son is now cleared, but the debt that my son owes to me has no whereabouts, so why did he leave in a hurry?"
Yang also bowed his head for a long time, and then said: "The mother's nurturing grace has indeed not been repaid."
Wang Said: "My son has a clear sense of grievances and debts, so why should he not repay his debts?" ”
Yang also said: "The matter has reached this point, there is no way, the reincarnation is about to begin, the mother's kindness, I am afraid it is difficult to repay."
Wang said, "Where will my son be reincarnated?"
Yang also said, "It is not yet known that people, or hungry ghosts, or beasts, first need to be weighed and evaluated by the gods of the underworld..."
Before he could finish speaking, a force sucked Yang away from behind, and Yang still took off on all fours, his face showing the color of pain, and shouted: "Mother save me."
Wang Clan jumped up and tried to save him, but he was also sucked into the underworld.
Wang Shi was undecided, and when he looked up, he only saw a group of night forks in front of him, holding dozens of people, including Yang Huan. Wang Clan wanted to catch up, but suddenly the Night Fork turned back, and the state of terror frightened Wang Clan to the ground.
One Night Fork asked Wang, "You are not a reincarnated person, why are you here?"
Wang told him the truth. Night Fork sighed and said, "It is a great difficulty for a non-reincarnated person to come here, and it will be difficult to go back."
Wang said, "Then where will my son be reincarnated?"
The Night Fork said, "First escorted to the Legal Realm, we are not responsible for weighing and judging, just taking people and detaining people."
Wang Clan begged The Night Fork to send the mother and son back, and the Night Fork said, "That can't be done, you are not a reincarnated person, you can go back, but your son's Yang Life is over, and his body has been buried, how can you go back?"
Wang Shi begged to follow the Night Fork to the Fa Realm, and after seeing the whereabouts of his son's reincarnation, he would return to the Yang Realm.
The Night Fork said, "Ben is also going to send you there, only the shangguan of the Fa Realm can send you back to Yang."
Wang Shi led Yang Huan and followed the team to the Fa Realm, and along the way the ghosts cried wolf and howled, and the terror was all kinds of things. The Night Fork comforted Wang Shi and said, "Everyone dies, and after death, they have to experience these things, there is nothing to be afraid of."
Finally came to the Fa Realm, but when he saw Shangguan sitting high, a group of ghosts and gods stood in two rows, and the majestic momentum made people dare not exhale loudly.
The Night Fork informed Shangguan of the matter of the Wang clan, and the Shangguan passed the Wang clan to the front of the hall and said, "Thinking of your heart to save your son, his feelings are pitiful, so he will send you back to Yang."
Wang Clan said, "But I don't know where my son will be reincarnated?"
Shangguan said, "Don't be too stupid, Yang went to collect debts in his last life, and his fate with you was also exhausted with the debts paid off, and the place of reincarnation is a natural opportunity, and mortals cannot know it."
Wang said: "Yang's debts have not yet been cleared, and you have arrested him too early."
Shangguan said, "Isn't the forty thousand dollars exhausted?"
Wang Said: "Forty thousand dollars is repaid, but the parenting grace of parents is worth more than forty thousand dollars, and Yang should have repaid us again, but he was arrested here early."
Shangguan said: "If they are all calculated like you, then won't the debt collectors all have to give their parents pensions to the end"? After saying that, he sent someone to send the Wang clan back.
Wang Clan refused, pulled Yang Huan, and the mother and son hugged and cried.
Shangguan Mingye fork separated the two, Wang Shi looked at his son being taken away, crying even more miserably, for a time the ghosts of hell suffering, moved by this cry, all cried, and this cry shook the netherworld. The king of Jizo listened, asked why, and sighed: "I was also a mother in the first life." The boy was guarded at the entrance to Huiyang and quietly told her about Yang Huan's reincarnation: "I will be born in a certain place and a certain family on the sixteenth of this month, and I will not be sad anymore."
Suddenly, the big dream had awakened, and when he looked at it again, Wang Shi found himself at home, and the illness had disappeared. Yang Si was overjoyed, and wang told the dream truthfully, but Yang Si did not believe it. Wang Said: "Then go to a certain place and look at it, don't you know whether it is true or false"?
The couple came somewhere with several servants, probed, and sure enough, a certain family gave birth to a son on the sixteenth of this month. Yang Si still didn't believe it and thought it was a coincidence. Wang often entrusted people to send money and gifts to the family, but the child no longer recognized her.
This story, which later spread locally, became one of the many stories that taught children to be filial and has been passed down to this day. A local friend named Huaren zhi told me about it.