The story was inspired by "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", which I edited and re-created.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a huge banyan tree outside the official office of Fuzhou Mansion, which is said to have existed during the period when the warlord Wang Zhenzhi seized Fujian at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and it has been more than 200 years.
Friends in the south know that the banyan tree can become a forest alone, as long as a tree, its vines and branches take root, for a long time, this banyan tree has become a forest with an area of more than ten acres.
I don't know when it began, there are thousands of egrets perched on the trees, and it is very beautiful to look at from a distance, and the local people are amazed and very pleasing to the eye. But after a long time, the problem also came. These thousands of egrets covered the road at the entrance of the yamen with dung, and for a long time, they could not even see the ground, and people walked on it very slippery and foul smell.
On this day, Lord Taishou went out in a car, and the official robe he had just made was stained by bird droppings falling from the sky, and he was very annoyed. Taishou was a little superstitious, thinking that bird droppings were very unlucky to sprinkle on his body, so he was angry with this banyan tree, thinking that it was all caused by this banyan tree, and thinking about finding someone to cut down all the banyan trees another day, but his city was very deep, and he didn't show it, nor did he say it, so his entourage didn't know about it.
That night, the master was in the courtyard to cool off, and fell asleep in a daze. I dreamed that an immortal wearing a white feather coat floated up, bowed his head, and said slowly, "I accept Mazu's order to protect the territory of Fuzhou here." Thousands of my subordinates live on this tree. Lord Taishou is going to cut down this tree so that my subordinates will have no shelter. Please help us intercede. You will be rewarded. With that, the feather-clad immortal floated away.
The master woke up suddenly, thinking it was nonsense, and he didn't take it seriously.
Immortal in white
The next night, the master fell asleep again at the same hour. The immortal appeared again, and his eyebrows were very anxious, "Please go and talk to Lord Taishou immediately, otherwise it will really be too late." The prefect doesn't hate egrets, he just hates filth. Please tell me and give me ten days and we'll clean it up. ”
The master asked, "Then why don't you tell Master Taishou in person? ”
The white-clothed immortal said, "Lord Taishou is the Emperor of Wenqu Xingjun, and he is protected by a great god by his side, and it is very difficult for a small god like me to ask to see him, let alone a dream." Lord Taishou is going to Lin'an to be the prime minister in the future, and the prime minister can support the boat in his belly, and he won't care about the trivial matter of the official robe being soiled. ”
Prefect stills
As soon as I arrived at the government office on this day, the master told the prefect about it. The prefect was very surprised, "I really wanted to find someone to cut down this big banyan tree, but I didn't say it, how could the gods know? ”
In the afternoon, the sky was suddenly cloudy and rained heavily, and three days later, after the rain, all the egrets were gone, and the leaves and branches of the banyan tree were washed away, like new twigs and leaves. The dirt on the ground was also rinsed.
Later, as the immortals said, after the term of office of Lord Taishou expired, he went to Lin'an, and it didn't take long for him to really enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister.
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