"Before I officially begin to speak, please allow me to introduce myself, I am a very successful businessman, with great wealth, and a noble position, in the human world, I can enjoy the things that many people dream of, even they can not get in several lifetimes, and I can easily obtain." 」
But my wife did not think so, and she often advised me to be a person who accumulated goodness, saying that people's wealth and fame are actually a kind of poisonous miasma, which can slowly erode people's minds and cover people's eyes. She said that the evil I did would eventually repay myself, and the good I had accumulated would eventually be returned. Because everything in the world is empty, only cause and effect are not vain. ”
"Until one day, the retribution finally came."
His voice began to become muffled, and the speed of his speech gradually slowed down, and he raised his head, and his eyes became confused, as if he were recalling the past.
I sat there, listening quietly, speaking strangely, at this time, the inexplicable nervousness and foreboding seemed to disappear, and the demon gentleman in front of me, like a very good actor, let me enter the realm of his performance.
But this retribution did not fall on me, but on my beloved wife. Three years ago, she had a strange disease, the skin of her whole body began to fester, and using a lot of medicines did not work, I watched her skin continue to fester, scab, fester, scab again. In just a few months, she had become inhuman and ghostly, her hair had fallen out, and her once beautiful face was completely unrecognizable. ”
"During that time, she refused to meet me, didn't want me to see her scary look, she washed her face with tears all day, and whenever I saw her like this, her heart hurt like a knife. I hated myself, I had so much wealth, but I couldn't save her, and at that time I often thought that if someone could save her, I would rather scatter my family wealth than be an ordinary person who had nothing. ”
"To this end, I have done a lot of good deeds, I have worked hard to do everything I can, I donate money, I build bridges, I build temples, I build schools, I take money to save some terminally ill patients... But no matter what I did, my wife still did not get better, she became more and more emaciated, and soon there was a handful of bones left, and she once stood tall, and finally weighed less than seventy pounds. ”
"Finally, on a stormy night, she took my hand and begged me bitterly to send her out of this world, and she could no longer bear the pain. She said that if there is an afterlife, she hopes to stay with me, because I have done too many sins in this life, and the next life must be very bitter and miserable, and she is willing to accompany me and pay back all the debts owed in this life little by little. ”
"I said to her with tears in my eyes, if I can't be a human being in the next life, and I reincarnate into a cat or a dog, what will I do?"
She said that if that were the case, she would try to find me in the vastness of the world, that whatever I became, she would find me, and if I became a cat, she would hold me in her lap every day and tell me stories of the past. If I became a dog, she would make me a lot of good food every day, take me out on a trip, and see the scenery of the world. Because I promised her to take her all over the world, but I didn't. She said she wanted to join me in fulfilling this dream. ”
Mr. Devil murmured his story, and in the process, he did not look at me the whole time, but stared at the painting on the wall, and his voice was full of sorrow.