There is now a rich man in the Changshuitang area of Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, who is called Jin Zhong, who is known as a gold official, and his family is rich, but he is extremely miserly, and has a nickname "gold cold water, gold peeling."

Cherishing wealth as fate and causing evil will be repaid with two empty results

There is a rich man in the Changshuitang area of Jiaxing, Zhejiang, known as Jin Yuanwai, the family is rich, but extremely miserly, with a nickname "gold cold water, gold peeling". His wife Shan Shi was kind and charitable, and ate and fasted well on weekdays. The couple is over forty years old and has no children. Because her husband loved money and was stingy, Shan Clan privately gave twenty gold of private money to Fushan'an near his home. The old monk in the nunnery taught her to chant a sutra and pray for her heirs. Sure enough, the Buddhist door has a spirit, and the Jin family has two sons in a row, and they are handsome in appearance.

That year, the eldest son of the Jin family was nine years old and the second son was eight years old. Shan Shi also gathered some private silver as a prayer and wish, and then secretly opened the warehouse door to take the rice three buckets and sent someone to Fushan'an. Then Jin Yuanwai came out and glimpsed Shan Shi's behavior of sending money and grain, and his heart was very angry, and he had no sleep all night, thinking left and right: "I only hate this group of bald donkeys, and often harass this loser's mother-in-law." Unless the vulture is dead, it will be gone. ”

After dawn, the old monk came to the Jin family with his apprentice to reply to the matter of returning the wish. The gold officer saw this and counted his heart. He went to the market medicine shop to buy arsenic cream and then to the stall selling dim sum. He bought the sugar filling and the dough cake, spread the arsenic cream in the back of the pan, and then added the filling to make a cake, making four in a row. Back at home, I saw two monks in the hall. He gave a respectful salute and took out four hot pastries and handed them to the two monks. Shan Shi thought that her husband had returned to his heart and was very happy. The monks also knew that Jin was a human being, and did not sit still for a long time, nor did they have the heart to eat the bread, but only brought the bread back to the nunnery.

However, it is said that the two sons of the Jin family often play in the nunnery after school, and this day they came to the nunnery again. The old monk felt that there was no hospitality for the children, so he heated the four cakes, boiled tea, and invited them to eat. The two little officials were tired of playing, their stomachs were grumbling, and one person ate two cakes. Soon the abdominal pain is unbearable, like a thousand arrows piercing the heart. The monks carried the two children home. The Jin family was also frightened and asked why. Jin Yuanwai knew the mystery and told his wife the truth. Soon the two sons bled and died of poison. Shan Shi was devastated and committed suicide by hanging beams. Jin Yuanwai fell seriously ill and died seven days later. The clan family usually hates Jin for being miserly and stingy, and when they hear the news, they flock to snatch the Jin family's belongings and empty them. The wealth of the family was only empty.

In the story, because of his extreme miserliness, he regarded wealth as his destiny, and he had a murderous heart, and his good thoughts did not exist. And do you know that the human heart has a thought, and the heavens and the earth know it all? Killing thoughts together, the nature is lost, and the results of heavenly reason are selfish. In the end, it only ended up with two people and two moneys!

The story is from the "Cautionary Tales" of "Lü Dalang Returns the Golden Flesh"