Most of the schoolchildren were so frightened that they scattered away. Only Fang Xingxing boldly took the hand of Ma Qinxue, who also wanted to escape, and said, "Don't be afraid."
After a while, many adults came from the village, and they all went into the wing to take a look. Those who saw it came out and said that Teacher Yin looked like he had been strangled to death by a ghost. His neck and back were bruised and there were lumps.
Ma Xingfu, who was standing at the door surrounded by villagers, sighed and said that the semester was over in half a month, and Teacher Yin left at the wrong time. My son goes to school in the Mongolian school he runs, and I still owe him 240 yuan of silver for this semester’s tuition on credit. I promised to give it to him before the holidays, but now I can only give it to his family.
A villager wearing a straw hat said, if you take out the 240 pieces of silver and ask for help to carry Teacher Yin's body back to his hometown on a stretcher for burial, won't it count as you have repaid the tuition fee? If Teacher Yin is alive in heaven, he will still be grateful to you.
Ma Xingfu hesitated for a moment, then reached out and touched his body. He knew that there was less than 240 silver coins in his underwear pocket, so he said to the villagers surrounding him, "It's a pity that I don't have any silver coins with me now."
At this moment, a honest-looking man in his thirties said, "I'll lend it to you." Ma Xingfu knew him, so he took the 240 pieces of silver that he took out of his jacket pocket and handed over with a clanking thank you, and said in a more serious tone, Zhao Binglian, don't worry, I will definitely pay it back.
After a while, Ma Xingfu placed a hanging whip at the door of the wing and threw in some pieces of straw paper with copper coin marks. Then he led several big men into the side room, wrapped Teacher Yin's body in white cloth, took it out, put it on a stretcher, and carried it away. Two classmates, Fang Xingxing and Ma Qinxue, who were standing nearby, followed closely behind and sent Teacher Yin off solemnly.
A few days later, the more than 20 children were taken over by Mr. Liu, a newly hired teacher from Sujiayuan Village, who took them all to a Mongolian school in the Chenghuang Temple in the southern suburbs of Shapo County.
One day after school was over, Fang Xingyi walked out of the Mengmeng Hall and saw Ma Xingfu and Zhao Binglian quarreling with each other as they walked up to the main hall of the City God. They each rang bells and drums in turn, lit candles and burned incense and knelt before the god to swear oaths.
Fang Xingye curiously hid behind the curtain to observe the movement. At this time, I heard Ma Xingfu say, City God, if I, Ma Xingfu, do not return the 240 pieces of silver to brother Zhao Binglian, you can punish me by breaking one of my feet to show my deceit. If I have paid back the silver, then Brother Zhao Binglian will break his foot to show that he has wronged me and defaulted on the debt.
I also heard Zhao Binglian swear an oath, Lord City God, Ma Xingfu will lend me 240 yuan of silver to handle Yin Tianqing's funeral. If I accept the debt and break my foot, and if he is deceitful and refuses to pay back, I will break his foot as a sign. The punishment is clear. Zhao Binglian knelt down and worshiped again and again in front of the god, and then walked towards the temple gate.
When Ma Xingfu saw that Zhao Binglian had gone far, he knelt down and prayed, "Master City God, I am so deceived by the people that I really haven't paid back the money I owe him. I hope God will bless me and punish Zhao Binglian's foot for breaking. I will prepare roosters, pig heads, and fat when I get back." Wine, yellow money paper, come to wish you a happy birthday. After Ma Xingfu finished speaking, he felt anxious and then left the statue.
In the afternoon, Fang Xingyan heard people talking on the way to school. Zhao Binglian fell on the way home and dislocated his left knee. Residents in the southern suburbs accused him of doing something unconscionable and receiving retribution.
Fang Xingye listened to it, remembered it in his heart, and thought to himself: The teacher often said that gods are upright and selfless, but this is all a lie. It was still early for him to arrive at the school, and he didn't see other classmates yet, so he laid out ink and paper and wrote down a complaint.
Complaint:
The Jade Emperor in the Lingxiao Palace in the Nine Heavens, the High God in the Xuan Dome, the jade mirror shows that he is corrupt and perverts the law, and unjustly punishes the civil servants in the lower realms.
He sued Shapo County Town God for taking bribes and destroying the laws of heaven. He coveted Ma Xingfu's roosters, pig heads, fat wine, and yellow money paper. He unjustly killed the victim Zhao Binglian and injured his left foot. The students personally heard the oaths sworn by both parties and Ma Xingfu's secret prayer for bribery.
This fact is Ma's deception and ignorance of conscience, and the county god is unfair! Therefore, he went up to heaven with his feelings, prayed to heaven for justice, redressed the grievances of the Zhao family, begged for permission, and monitored the civil affairs, so that the laws of heaven were clear and the people were truly benevolent! This submission.
The petitioner is a student of Shapo County Chenghuang Temple Academy: Fang Xingxing
The complaint was completed, and Fang Xingqing was thinking about how to get to heaven.
At this time, Teacher Liu stood outside the window and asked him how many students were there now, and he answered truthfully. He was also afraid that Teacher Liu would find out about the complaint he wrote against the gods and would scold him for his trespass. If the teacher finds out, he will punish the person who hit the board. Fang Xingxing pretended to go to the kitchen to drink tea, then threw the complaint into the stove and burned it.
On the night of the third day, after the officials and citizens of Shapo County and the teachers and students of the academy fell asleep, they simultaneously dreamed of a golden-armored god general holding a gold slip and stepping on the auspicious clouds, announcing to the people: The Shapo County City God has betrayed the rules of heaven and is benevolent and deceived. The people of Shapo County were corrupt and perverted the law, which was unforgivable by nature, so the people of Shapo County ordered him to beheaded with knives. Limit the horses to bring good fortune, reward the Zhao family with silver and ocean, and reform their faces and cleanse their hearts. If they resist, they will be punished with epidemics and make them surrender immediately. Admire this.
Teacher Liu thought it was strange to have this dream. When I went to school the next day, I asked Fang Xingye if he was dreaming? Fang Xingzhen told him the whole process of hearing Ma and Zhao swear an oath in front of the statue. On the same day, they heard that Ma Xingfu apologized to the Zhao family and returned the silver in full.
On the same day, widespread influenza infections occurred in Shapo County. Some people are talking privately that anyone suffering from this disease can be cured by just taking the soil from the clay statue of the City God and drinking it. The rumors alarmed the sick people. Within two days, the dirt on the statue of the City God had been scraped off, leaving only a wooden frame tied with straw. The influenza epidemic subsequently subsided and all the sick people recovered.
In Yin Shigui's family, the black sow with a white flower on her belly gave birth to several litters of piglets in the next two years, both male and female, with six or seven piglets in each litter. Because Yin Shigui and his wife are old, their physical strength is exhausted. Most of the raising of sows and piglets falls on daughter-in-law Tian Jingui.
Tian Jingui was too lazy to feed the sow cooked food because she was afraid of being tired. Instead, she mostly fed her raw food. She cut a basket of fresh pigweed in the wild and placed it in front of the sow for her to chew.
While the sow was eating happily, Tian Jingui had a stern face. That was because she remembered that this sow was the reincarnation of her ex-husband Yin Manyuan, so she complained and said, you are such a plague-ridden person, what did you do in the first place? My husband, I take care of you. Now you've turned into a pig and you still have to take care of me. It's so annoying. If you hadn't been able to give birth to a few piglets and sell them for money, which would be of some use, I would have asked the butcher to stab you to death with a knife.
Of course, the sow couldn't understand human speech. She just feasted on a pile of pigweed and swung her fluffy tail from time to time.
Later, Tian Jingui became even lazier and did not go to the wild to collect pigweed and feed it to the sow. Instead, he simply tied a thick rope around the sow's neck and led her out into the wild to eat weeds and vegetables.
One day, I came to a valley. The valley was a wasteland covered with green weeds. Tian Jingui, who was holding the pig rope, simply tied the rope around the pig's neck, just like wrapping a cow rope around its horns to let the cow graze freely. She let the sow You can also freely look for green and tender wild vegetables to eat. This is a good way, people can relax and pigs can benefit from it.
But this kind of Qing Fu Tian Jin Gui cannot be enjoyed. She stood on a mound of earth slightly higher in the valley and smelled the fragrance of wild flowers. She was looking for where the wild flowers were and planned to pick a bunch and enjoy them in her hand.
Before he could take any action, he heard a buzzing sound. Before he could react, he felt a sharp, needle-like pain on the upper left side of his face. He slapped it with his hand and knocked down a wasp. The wasp landed at my feet, not completely dead, its jagged little toe claws still wriggling. She was so angry that she rubbed it into some vague powder with a foot wearing a thick-soled cloth shoe to relieve her anger.
At this moment, the left side of Tian Jingui's face had obviously become "fat", very uncomfortable, and had fever and pain. It was obviously infected with bee venom that made the skin swollen, and the eyelid of his left eye was swollen as if he was suffering from " "Pick the needle", as if a flesh insect was lying on it, and it was difficult to open its eyes.
Tian Jingui ignored the sow that was foraging for food in the wasteland. She turned around and left empty-handed. She left the valley and did not go home. Covering his swollen eyelids with one hand, he went straight to Majiazhuang, five kilometers away, to find a groom to treat the bee venom on his face.
