Collection of strange powers and chaotic gods

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a man named Shi in Xian County (now a county under Cangzhou City, Hebei Province) who often liked to go to casinos. Because it's been so long, I don't know his name anymore.

This person has a bold personality, is informal, open-minded and upright, and disdains the despicable and dirty things in the world.

Once, Shi won money from the casino and returned home. As he was walking on the road, he saw a villager couple hugging their children and crying non-stop.

Seeing that they were crying miserably, Shi asked the onlookers: "Did their family encounter any difficulties?"

A neighbor who was familiar with the situation of the villager's family told him: "Because he owed a debt to a rich man and had no money to repay it. The rich man pressed him hard and forced him to sell his wife to repay it. The couple usually get along very well. They are so in love, but the child is young and has not yet been weaned, so they have to leave her like this. They are really reluctant to let go, so they are very sad."

Shi asked: "How much debt do they owe in total?"

The neighbor said: "Thirty taels of silver."

Shi asked again: "How much did his wife sell for?"

The neighbor replied: "Fifty taels of silver, sell it to someone else as a concubine."

Shi asked again: "Can I still redeem it now?"

The neighbor said: "The deed of sale has just been written and the money has not been paid. Why can't it be redeemed?"

When Shi Mou heard this, he immediately took out the seventy taels of silver he had just won from the casino, handed it to the villager, and said to him: "I have seventy taels of silver here, which I won back from the casino. Now I will give it to you. Just pretend I didn’t win. You take thirty taels to pay off the debt, and you use the remaining forty taels to live your life, and don’t think about selling your wife anymore.”

The villager couple was so grateful that they took Shi to their home, killed the chickens that laid eggs in the house, and invited him to drink.

After drinking for three rounds, the villager picked up the child and wanted to go out. Before going out, he winked at his wife, meaning that he asked her to sleep with Shi Mou to repay Shi Mou's kindness.

The wife nodded in agreement.

After that, what she said became a bit seductive and provocative.

But Shi said seriously: "I, Shi, have been a robber for half my life and a patrolman for half my life. I have also killed people without blinking an eye. If you want to take advantage of others' danger and rape their women, I, Shi, will never do that!" "

After finishing eating and drinking, Shi threw away the bowls and chopsticks, threw away his arms, and walked out without saying another word.

Half a month later, a fire broke out in Shi's village at night.

At that time, the autumn harvest had just been completed, and the weather was dry. Every house was piled with firewood in front of and behind the house. In addition, the roofs of the farmhouses were all made of thatch, and the fences and walls were made of sorghum stalks. With the fire, In the blink of an eye, there were blazing fires in all directions.

Shi thought that he could not get out of the house. He was an open-minded person and did not want to engage in unnecessary struggle at this time. He just wanted to resign himself to his fate, so he closed his eyes with his wife and children and sat together to wait for death.

In a daze, he heard a voice shouting from far away on the roof: "Dongyue God has received a hundred thousand urgent documents. The Shi family can be exempted from death by removing their names from the book of life and death!"

Immediately afterwards, another loud "bang" was heard, and half of the back wall of Shi's house collapsed.

Soon after, Shi hurriedly held his wife with his left hand and his son with his right hand, and jumped out from the collapsed back wall.

He himself felt strange. He was not usually so strong. At this time, someone seemed to be behind him and pushed him.

After the fire was extinguished, the village counted a total of nine people burned to death in the village.

Everyone in the neighborhood clapped their hands and blessed him and said, "We laughed at you yesterday for being stupid, but we didn't expect that seventy taels of silver bought three lives of your family!"

However, some people believe that: Shi was blessed by the God of Siming and his family survived, and the merit of giving silver coins accounted for only four-tenths; the merit of not taking advantage of others and rejecting women should account for tenths. six!