In ancient times, there were two people who asked for food, and they would first offer the food to the land lord and then eat it themselves, Lu Dongbin saw it, so he asked the land: "Why don't you bless them?" The land lord said: The two of them are poor, if they are blessed, they must die, Lu Dongbin did not believe it, and the land said: "If you don't believe it, you can try." ”
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Two orphan brothers, Cheng Da and Cheng Er, have been able to live on the street since they were young, their parents have long since died due to war and famine, the two children have no support, can only support each other, watching others worship the land lord, they also learned to build an earthen altar under the tree, every day to the land lord incense and pray, hoping to be blessed.
One day, after the two brothers finished worshipping under the tree, they were about to leave, when Cheng Da accidentally kicked a cloth bag on the side of the road, he picked it up and looked at it, it was full of silver tickets! It turned out that this was a caravan encountering bandits in the past, and the silver tickets were scattered all over the place, and the two brothers were very happy, they had never seen so much money, as if they had become rich overnight.
At night, they secretly divided the silver ticket into two halves and buried it in the forest behind the land temple, Cheng Er suggested to bury it separately, so as not to be discovered, the location of Cheng Da buried was relatively hidden, and Cheng Er buried a little shallow, the next morning, Cheng Er took a silver ticket to the town to exchange money according to Cheng Da's meaning, he wanted to exchange some broken money, so as not to attract attention.
Who knew that the merchant became suspicious when he saw his ragged clothes, thinking that he had stolen the silver ticket and stolen goods, and even reported to the official that he had stolen the silver ticket! At that time, the local officials were extremely greedy, and they would definitely take possession of the silver ticket after getting it, and the county order immediately sent someone to arrest Cheng Er, and tortured him to ask him about the origin of the silver ticket, Cheng Er was so frightened that he confessed to the place where the silver ticket was buried, and the official messenger soon dug up the half of the silver ticket buried by Cheng Er under the tree behind the land temple,
The county commander wanted to be alone, but when he saw that he only found half of it, he was furious, put Cheng Er in prison, and sent people to beat him every day to ask him to hand over the rest of the silver tickets, and the local cell was extremely bad, Cheng Er was locked in a dark and damp cell, bitten by mosquitoes, and had to endure whipping and kicking.
At this time, Cheng Da had quietly dug out half of his silver tickets, bought new clothes and a house to live in, and lived a worry-free life, and he still kept a bag of silver tickets to marry his wife, and no longer had to beg for food all day.
One day, he met Cheng Er on the street, and was immediately startled, it turned out that Cheng Er lied to the county magistrate that he knew the way to retrieve the silver ticket, and was released.
The two brothers met, Cheng Er pretended to Cheng Da to divide half of his silver ticket, Cheng Da was willing to do it, the two of them scuffled on the street, Cheng Da was in a hurry, pulled out a saber and stabbed Cheng Er, at this time the county order brought people to arrive, Cheng Da was captured, Cheng Er was seriously injured, Cheng Da was executed, and the remaining silver tickets were all taken by the corrupt officials and county orders.
At the beginning, Lu Dongbin gave the two orphans a chance to turn over, wanting to help them change their fate, but who knew that they had a dispute due to greed, but ended up in a miserable end.
