During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, there were large households in Shandong surnamed Zhao, who had made a fortune in the tobacco business earlier, and he specially went to some tobacco-producing places in the north to collect cheap local tobacco leaves, and then hired people to process these tobacco leaves into tobacco in a workshop built near his home, and then specially hired people to sell them in the southern coastal cities and towns, thus making a fortune.
After he had the money, he bought a very large place in Jinan Province, Shandong Province, and specially asked someone to find skilled craftsmen from the south to build a house for him, and asked him to have the style of Suzhou Jiangnan, because he had been to Suzhou for a while before and liked the style there. Moreover, at home, a back garden was also built, which also placed rockery Taihu stones transported from Jiangnan, which was very beautiful.
This merchant surnamed Zhao, locally known as Zhao Laoye. Although Mr. Zhao's family is rich but very kind, he is also well-known in the local area, and he will prepare a cauldron of boiled porridge for the poor on some special days such as the famine year, so he has also saved a lot of people in the past. The locals also gave him the nickname Zhao Dashanren.
This Zhao Shanren also has a preference is to like riding horses, he used to take the martial arts exam when he was young, so he especially liked to ride a horse, and after he made his fortune, he did not give up this habit, and built a stable in his house, which raised a few good horses that he looked up to when doing business in various places, and usually rode horses with friends as long as he had time. But one day when he was out playing, he encountered such a strange thing.
One day he went out to have something to go to a friend's house in the field, walked to the middle of the road, suddenly it rained heavily and it was dark, and when he walked to a place called Shimen Bridge, he wanted to stay in the guest house. But the inn was full, there was only one cabin, and no one would stay because the window was against the stables, but he liked horses and didn't mind, so he moved in.
Soon after staying, I listened to the horses jumping, making it impossible for people to sleep at night. After that, it was a while later, until it was late at night. Suddenly he could hear the horse talking. This old master Zhao usually likes to read miscellaneous books, when he read books earlier, he remembered that in books such as Song Ren's notes and novels, there were things about the cattle language under the weir, and he knew that it was not a ghost.
After that, he held his breath and listened, only to hear a horse say: "Today I learned about the suffering of starvation, the grass bean money that was deceived and hidden before I was born, where is it?" A horse said, "I am mostly reborn by horse breeders, and only when I die do I know that I am not enlightened when I am alive, and it is really a sigh of relief." All the horses whimpered. Then he heard a horse say, "The judgment of Hades is not very fair, so why did Wang Wu become a dog?" A horse said, "The hades once said that his wife and two daughters were both promiscuous and debauched, and that they stole all his money to the good ones, which was half of his sins." A horse said, "Indeed, there are light and heavy sins, and Jiang Qiqi has fallen into the body of a pig and is slaughtered and cut, and it is even worse than me waiting." ”
After listening to a paragraph, Old Master Zhao felt more and more strange, and then suddenly felt discomfort in his throat, so he sneezed more, and there was a slight cough, and the stable next to him suddenly fell silent. After that, Mr. Zhao slept all night, and then went to see his friends, and he often used this incident to warn the horse breeders in his family when he was at home.