Collection of strange powers and chaotic gods

According to legend, in the summer of the Bingyin year of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, there was a resident named Xu Jia in Jiangyin County (now Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province). His home suddenly suffered from a black disaster (a disaster caused by water and gas in the five elements in ancient times).

Strange things often happened in his home inexplicably: sometimes the chimney suddenly caught fire; sometimes the cooking pot was suddenly filled with feces and urine.

The house was in chaos and there was no peace for a moment. The neighbors can't bear to be disturbed and are deeply troubled!

At that time, the magistrate of Jiangyin County, Liu Hanchang, was a famous scholar in western Guangdong. People nearby kept complaining to the county government about Xu Jia's family.

Magistrate Liu also tried every means to eliminate the evil disaster in the Xu family.

He prayed for Xu Jia in front of the gods, but it had no effect; he also invited Taoist priests to come and perform the ritual, but it also had no effect.

In the end, I really couldn't think of any other way, so I had to ask Shao Sikong (another name for the Minister of Industry) Liu Xingwei to write an ultimatum, and then take it to the City God's Temple to appeal to the City God.

After Magistrate Liu took a bath and fasted, he threw the ultimatum into the stove and burned it to the City God, and then slept in a nearby room to wait for the City God's reply.

On the second day, there was no special omen from the City God, and nothing strange happened, but the ashes bulged up and formed the word "Chu Tao".

Magistrate Liu asked Xu Jia doubtfully, "Do you have any grudge against someone named Tao from Chu region?"

Xu Jia was a little surprised when he heard Magistrate Liu ask this question. He thought to himself that it seemed that the city god had really appeared, and what happened after so many years had been revealed.

So, he confided the truth to County Magistrate Liu and told a past incident that happened to him.

When Xu Jia was young, he went to Wuchang (now Wuhan City, Hubei Province) to look for someone from his same clan.

Unexpectedly, he fell seriously ill on the road. His companions disliked him for delaying his journey, so they cruelly left him on the road and left alone.

While struggling, he fell into a ravine on the roadside and could only wait to die in despair.

Just when Xu Jia was about to die, a beggar passed by on the roadside. He quickly used all his strength to shout for help.

The beggar heard the sound and walked to the roadside. He looked into the ravine and saw a man lying down, so he climbed down to save him.

Xu Jia took a look and saw that this man was very strong and his eyes were deep-set and bright. He hurriedly asked the Han's surname and name.

The man smiled honestly and said that he was a beggar. He only remembered his surname, Tao, but no name.

Beggar Tao saw that Xu Jia was sick and hungry, and was already dying. He took some of the food he had with him and gave it to Xu Jia. After he finished eating, he carried him on his back.

From then on, Beggar Tao took Xu Jia with him to beg. If you ask for food, you will eat together. If you ask for money, you will treat Xu Jia's illness.

After more than a month like this, Xu Jia's illness gradually improved.

Beggar Tao relied on his physical strength to bully other beggars and force them to donate what they begged to him.

In fact, the reason why Beggar Tao did this was for Xu Jia's sake. He hoped that through this method, he could accumulate some money, which could be used by Xu Jia to help him get home.

After a while, Beggar Tao saved enough money for Xu Jia. Xu Jia was able to go home because of this.

Xu Jia has always been a scheming and hard-working person. After returning home, he first rented a few acres of land for farming, and then helped others do business. Later, he married a wife, gave birth to a son, and slowly lived a happy life of being a wealthy man.

Suddenly one day, Beggar Tao hurried to Xu Jia's home, carrying a huge package, but looking very nervous and embarrassed.

After the beggar Tao entered the door, he knelt down and kowtowed to Xu Jia, pleading: "In order to save you, I had no choice but to become a bad person, oppressing my colleagues, robbing their money and making you pay for them.

Since I separated from you, I could no longer be satisfied with being the leader of beggars, so I took my fellow beggars with me and joined the green forest as a bandit. I lived in the Huxiang area for twenty years.

I was surrounded and suppressed by the government not long ago, but now it failed, and I was left alone to flee. The police behind me have been chasing him very urgently. I beg you, for the sake of helping you, please let me hide here for a while.

If I can escape this disaster, I will definitely thank you again! "

After saying that, he opened the big package he carried with him and showed it to Xu Jia. He also told Xu Jia that it contained gold and silver treasures accumulated over the years as a robber.

Xu Jia was reticent and did not dare to agree immediately, so he called his son over to discuss countermeasures together.

Xu Jia's son was timid and afraid of trouble. He objected to leaving the beggar behind and said: "According to the law of the time: if you hide a robber, you are guilty of the same crime as the robber! In my opinion, it is better to let him escape by himself!"

Xu Jia was still thinking about his old relationship and was hesitant when suddenly many officers and soldiers rushed into the house and took Beggar Tao away without saying a word.

Xu Jia was taken aback and was wondering how the officers and soldiers could arrive so quickly, and whether the news had leaked somewhere.

At this time, he heard someone in the room clapping his hands and laughing.

Xu Jia took a look and saw that it was his daughter-in-law.

Just ask her why she is so happy.

Just listen to his daughter-in-law say: "You don't need to thank me! After all, we are all a family! I know that you, father and son, want to let him go, and you can't bear to let the government catch him!"

So I went to notify the officers and soldiers. I was the one who asked them to come! In this way, the robber's large package of gold and silver treasures will be ours, and the government will also give us a large bounty. Do you think it is worth being happy?

Besides, he became a robber, which was a capital crime! If you are captured by the army now, you will definitely die! Are you still afraid that he will come for revenge? ! "

Now that the matter has come to this, Xu Jia has no choice but to take things back!

But every time he remembered that Beggar Tao was his savior, and when he asked for help, because of his hesitation, he listened to his son's words and let his daughter-in-law murder his benefactor, Xu Si felt filled with regret!

However, I didn’t expect that the beggar’s ghost was causing trouble in the family!

Magistrate Liu said: "A robber who robs people of money and kills them is a capital crime. If you killed the robber, the robber deserved his punishment. How could his ghost come to harm you?"

In my opinion, it's because you have evil intentions. You don't want to kill the robbers to eliminate harm for the people, but to possess the money obtained by the robbers, so you are also a robber! No wonder it doesn’t work if I pray before God for you, and it doesn’t work if you ask a Taoist priest to do it for you! It turns out that even gods cannot protect robbers! "

After speaking, Magistrate Liu walked away and no longer paid attention to Xu Jia's family affairs.

Not long after, the evil evil became more serious. Xu Jia's home was completely destroyed, and Xu Jia's son and daughter-in-law also died one after another!

Xu Jia was the only one left in the Xu family, and he eventually became a beggar!

At this point, the black disaster has stopped causing trouble!