Folk Odd Anecdotes: The Legend of the Yu Immortals

There was a servant named Yu Jun in Shen Yucen's house in Changzhou County, and no one knew where he came from or how old he was. He was primitive in appearance and had no wife or children.

Yu Jun wears a leather coat all year round, never seen him wash it, and the strange thing is that the leather coat is always clean.

Yu Jun was particularly serious when he worked, and after work, he went to the market to buy wine and came back to drink, and after drinking wine, he lay down and fell asleep. If someone called him, he would wake up immediately, not at all like he had been drunk.

He often went to the stove to make a fire, and the children of the family secretly saw him pluck small pieces of silver cake from the fire, and the next day he could still pull out the silver cake from the fire. After careful observation, he found that he first took a few sticks of grass and threw them into the fire, and after a while he burned out the silver cake. The master heard about it and asked him what kind of spell it was, and he said it was the method he had received from an alchemist when he was young. The grass he burned did not know what its name was, but it could be seen everywhere, and some people said it was weeds. However, others could not burn the silver cake with the same weed, so people called it Yu Xianren. Although he was not short of silver, he was still only willing to be a servant of the Shen family. Someone asked him how to burn the silver cake, and he just smiled and agreed. Even if someone scolded him for not agreeing to the professor's method of burning the silver cake, he just laughed.

More than ten years later, once, the owner of the Shen family went out for more than a year. One day, Yu Xianren was basking in the sun in the courtyard, and suddenly said to others: "The master returned at a certain moment today, and the old servant will also bid farewell at that time." Sure enough, as soon as the hour he said arrived, the master returned, and the Yu Immortals who were waiting outside the door fell to the ground and never got up again.