During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the scholar Fang Qingshen copied accounts outside Liu Yuanwai's home, and ate and lived in Liu Yuanwai's home. About ten days later, after the account was copied, Liu Renwai set up a table of wine, invited Fang to ask for a request, and settled the salary. When Fang Qingshen was packing his bags, a small girl walked in and stuffed him with a note.
Fang Qingshen unfolded the note and looked at it, it was written to him by the young grandmother Hongcui, and he met outside the backyard door two days later. Hongcui was originally Fang Wenshen's neighbor, the two grew up together, and at the age when their love sinus first opened, the two had a good feeling for each other and a mutual affection. However, due to etiquette, the two did not dare to cross the thunder pool for half a step.
Later, Hongcui's father fell seriously ill and was in urgent need of money, so he sold her to Liu Yuanwai as a concubine. Liu Yuanwai is more than twenty years older than Hongcui, and his health is not good, and Hongcui is aggrieved in his heart. Now that I have seen my childhood lover, my heart has ignited old feelings and I want to get along with Fang Qingshen.
Fang asked Shen Daxi, returned home, remembered the time with Hongcui in the past, and it was difficult to calm down in his heart, and he wanted to meet Hongcui as soon as possible. After waiting for two days, when it was close to dusk, he hurried to the courtyard outside the willow staff.
After walking for a long time, Fang Qingshen suddenly got lost, and when he woke up, he didn't know where he was? By this time, it was already dark, and he rushed forward with feeling. Unconsciously, I came to an ancestral hall. When he looked up, he couldn't help but be surprised that he had arrived at the Land Temple.
The Land Temple is old and built at the foot of a mountain in the wilderness, in the opposite direction of the home outside the Willows. Fang asked Shen in his heart, how did he get here in a vacuum? He looked up at the stars again, and found that he had reached The Three More, and his heart was shocked again, and he couldn't imagine that he had walked for such a long time. He calculated in his heart that he wanted to come to Hongcui for a long time and wait for him not to come, and he had already returned. It was getting late, and there was no need for him to rush any further, so he went into the Land Temple, intending to spend the night here, and it was not too late to return home after dawn.
Fang Wenshen looked around and found that behind the statue of the land lord was a good place, both safe and hidden, so he jumped on the shrine, sat behind the statue, closed his eyes and leaned back, and slept.
After a while, Fang Qingshen heard the voice and opened his eyes to see that there was a light in the land temple, and there was a white-bearded old man sitting in the house, who was talking outside the door. Only to hear him say, "What kind of wind blew the two high officials?" I haven't seen you for a long time, where are the two of them now? ”
Only to see two people outside the door walking in, a fat and a thin person, after bowing their hands and performing the salute, sitting on the lower head. Fat smiled and said, "Now our brothers are working as errands in the Taiyue Temple and have become messengers of bad luck." The thin man said, "Tonight we both have a business trip, and since then we have passed by, and I remembered that I had not seen Uncle For a long time, so I came in and talked about it." ”
The old man smiled and said, "Yes, I haven't seen you for a long time, and I miss you too." I don't know if tonight is those two unlucky ghosts, and you two need to work hard? ”
The fat man said, "I'm going to send illness to the rich man of Song." "It turned out that although the rich man of Song was rich in family, he was very stingy and forgot his righteousness. The other day, he rode a small donkey to the market, and on the way he picked up a bag containing two pieces of money. This money was lost by a descendant surnamed Zhang.
The family named Zhang was in urgent need of money, his father was seriously ill, he could not be cured for a long time, he heard that there was a famous doctor in the provincial city, he wanted to send his father to the provincial city to see a doctor, so he borrowed two pieces of money from relatives and friends. Who knew he was in too much of a hurry and lost his money halfway through.
Later, the descendant surnamed Zhang searched all the way, met the Song rich man, and inquired. The Rich Man of Song denied it and swallowed up the money. The matter was reported by the Sun God Record, and Emperor Taiyue ordered the fat emissaries to send illness to the Song rich man. Starting tomorrow morning, the rich man of Song will fall ill, and not only will he spend all the two pieces of money that he has lost, but he will also paste five pieces of money upside down.
The white-bearded old man nodded and said, "That's the way it is." He turned to the thin man and asked, "Which family did you lose again?" Thin said, "I'm going to send disaster to Chen Xiucai." It turned out that Chen Xiucai's hands and feet were not clean, and one night a few days ago, he saw that the old woman next door was not at home, jumped over the wall, and caught her two old hens home and cooked them.
The old woman was a widowed old man, her son died of illness, her daughter-in-law remarried with her grandson, she lived alone in two mountains and lived a tight life, and the daily oil and salt were all exchanged for eggs laid by two old hens. Chen Xiucai's move was too immoral, the matter was reported by the night watch god record, Emperor Taiyue ordered the thin emissary to send disaster, tomorrow morning, Chen Xiucai will go out and fall, break the left calf, and lie in bed for half a year.
After listening, the white-bearded old man sighed and said, "But the people of the world are confused, thinking that they are acting in secret, and others do not know, and do some deceitful things, but they do not know how can this matter be hidden from the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth?" Heavenly Justice has already given punishment through the way of calamities and diseases. ”
The fat one said, "Yes, the so-called evil thoughts are born, and disasters come." But whenever there is a person who has evil thoughts, the calamity is already in front of him. If you do not know how to restrain and turn evil thoughts into actions, disasters will come to you. The thin man said, "There is no unprovoked calamity in the world, and any consequences have antecedents." No matter how good the blessing, if you do too many bad things, you will be unblessed. No matter how bad luck is, the more good things are done, the luck will become better. With a kind heart and integrity, you will be free from illness and disaster in your life. Where does the world know that no disease and no disaster is a great blessing? ”
The three of them sighed together for a while, and the two messengers of bad luck got up and resigned and went on their mission.
After a while, another person came in outside the door, saluted the white-bearded old man, and said, "Uncle, disturbed, I want to rest here for a while." The white-bearded old man said please, and the man sat down. The white-bearded old man asked what he was doing?
The man said, "I am the messenger of the ghost of Yinji, and tonight I was ordered to capture the ghost of Fang Qingshen." Fang Qingshen was taken aback and pricked up his ears to listen. The white-bearded old man asked, "Why did you arrest Fang And ask Shen?" The man said, "He shouldn't have had lustful thoughts." ”
It turned out that after Xiao Yahuan helped Hongcui and Fang Wenshen pass the note, she was afraid in her heart, so she found Liu Yuanwai and confessed everything. Liu Yuanwai told Xiao Yahuan not to be silent, secretly gathered a few thugs, and tonight he stayed in the backyard, as long as he saw Fang Qianshen appear, he would be beaten to death.
The man finished explaining the reason, and then said, "Uncle, are you strange when you say strange?" Originally, this matter was doomed tonight, but Fang Qingshen did not go, and he did not know where to hide? ”
The white-bearded old man smiled and said, "I hid him, I used a spell to get him lost, and now he is hiding in the Land Temple." The man asked, "Uncle, why did you save him?" The white-bearded old man smiled and said, "When this land ancestral hall was built, Fang Wenshen's ancestors donated a large amount of money, and I saw that on the face of his ancestors, I saved him." ”
The man sighed and said, "This is the accumulation of virtue by the ancestors, and the blessings of future generations." Thanks to your presence, this boy was spared a death, and in the future, as long as he acts correctly and has a good heart, he will naturally not cause disasters and diseases. Anyway, I don't wait, I go back to my life. "Say goodbye and leave."
After a while, the land temple fell into darkness, a silence, and Fang Wenshen seemed to have a dream. About an hour later, when the sky was bright, Fang Qingshen jumped off the shrine and glanced at the statue of the land lord, which was the white-bearded old man from last night. He quickly knelt down and prostrated his head in thanks, swearing that from now on he would straighten his mind and never dare to have any delusions in his heart again.
On the way home, I passed by the home of the rich man of Song and went in to inquire, and the rich man of Song was indeed ill. He told the story of last night's adventure at the Land Temple, and the Rich Man of Song quickly sent his family to return the money, and he would never dare to be greedy for money again.
Back at home, Fang Qingshen remembered Chen Xiucai again, so he went to his house to visit, and Chen Xiucai did break his leg this morning. Fang Qingshen talked about what he saw and heard in the Land Temple last night, and Chen Xiucai was shocked, and quickly bought a few chickens to pay the old woman next door, and he would never dare to steal again.
After a while, Fang asked Shen to inquire clearly, that night, Liu Yuanwai really led someone to ambush in the backyard. After waiting for one night, he did not see Fang ask Shen Lai, so he ordered Hongcui to be strictly guarded, and the matter was not resolved.
After this incident, Fang Qingshen feared the gods from then on, did the right thing, and later was admitted to the jinshi and became a qing official.
Just as the so-called three feet of the head is a god, people are doing heaven to see, good thoughts arise, blessings come, evil thoughts are born, and disasters and illnesses are near. This story adopts an absurd penmanship, which lies in borrowing things to persuade people to be good, and has nothing to do with feudal superstition.
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