That day, the Xishan Temple on the west hillside was chanting as usual, showing a unique tranquility and mystery.
I saw an abbot in a light yellow cassock leading the monks all dressed in monk's robes to recite sutras devoutly in the temple.
Suddenly they heard a woman yelling. Before they could hear it clearly, the sensitive people among the monks looked up and saw a familiar woman standing at the door of the temple - Mrs. Wu. She was still dressed in plain clothes, and people could tell at a glance that she was wearing mourning.
The abbot stretched out his hands into the void and pressed lightly, and the monks stopped reciting sutras. Mrs. Wu's voice became louder. My husband built the temple in vain. There was no god to bless him. He died of a sudden illness and his life span was so short that it was not as good as a common man...
The abbot said, Donor, please show your condolences! We are willing to perform salvation for the donor’s husband.
Mrs. Wu first smiled bitterly, and then said disdainfully, "What kind of salvation are you doing?" The priest in the Catholic church said my husband has gone to hell.
The abbot said reservedly that one can achieve salvation even if he goes to hell.
Mrs. Wu kept shaking her head and said, I don't believe it unless you monks have the ability to summon my husband's soul from hell to talk to me.
The abbot and the monks remained silent.
After being stiff for a moment, the abbot said that it would have to be possessed by the soul of the deceased. We monks believe in the righteous Dharma and disdain to practice such heretical magic.
Mrs. Wu said unhappily, "That's okay. I won't ask you to do anything." You know that this temple was built with the money from my husband Wu Dacheng. Since it has no use for my husband and me, I plan to sell the temple house for other purposes. Why should I give it to you donkeys for free?
The abbot was startled, but still said kindly, Donor, please don't have a mouth. The priest said there must be a reason why your husband went to hell.
Mrs. Wu asked, what is the reason? Can you make it clear? Then he exited the temple gate.
At this time, the abbot and the monks were very nervous and anxiously talking to each other, what if the female donor really sold the temple out of anger?
One morning, Mrs. Wu rushed to the church's preaching hall early, wearing a cheongsam like last time. The priest was also waiting there early for her, and motioned for her to sit on the end of a chair by the wall.
The priest said, Madam, wait for a moment. When Deng Min's wife comes, Deng Min's ghost will explain to you.
Mrs. Wu said "Hmm" and looked not at the priest, but at a square table in the preaching hall. There is a spiritual tablet placed on the square table, with a cross drawn on it and the words "Deng Min's spiritual tablet" written below. After a while, a female believer wearing a black robe came in from the door.
The priest pointed at her and introduced to Mrs. Wu that she was Deng Min's widow and a female believer in our church.
The female believer nodded towards Mrs. Wu as a greeting. Then she stood in front of the spiritual tablet, clasped her hands, moved her lips, and prayed silently. The voice was very low at first and could not be heard clearly, but slowly it became louder: My poor deceased husband, pray for your wife that God will save your soul and ascend to heaven! …
Mrs. Wu glanced at the priest. The priest approached her sensitively and whispered: Wait a moment, and after the couple has finished speaking, you can ask Deng Min's ghost about your husband. Mrs. Wu nodded silently and waited patiently.
The priest suddenly stood up from his seat, clasped his hands together, and began to preach. The priest of this church respectfully invites Deng Min's heroic spirit to come and speak. …
At this time, before the priest finished speaking, he heard the sobbing of a man under the table, but no one could be seen. Then the sound of wailing can be heard.
When the female believer heard it, she heard that it was the familiar cry of her husband. She felt sad and was infected by the atmosphere. She also covered her face and cried bitterly. While crying, she looked under the table, but could not see anything.
I can actually hear Deng Min's ghost crying and complaining, Wife, I lost my body after I got sick, and now I'm just a ball of air. You can't see me, but I can see you.
The couple can only meet each other through the feeling of sound, because Yin and Yang are separated, one is invisible and the other is tangible. We cried and talked with each other for about ten minutes. The priest listened calmly and calmly.
It was the first time for Mrs. Wu to see humans and ghosts talking to each other, and she found it very strange. She opened her mouth wide and looked in a daze. Although she couldn't see the shadow of Deng Min's soul, it was clear from her expression that she completely believed that Deng Min's soul was indeed under the table or between the spiritual tablets. superior.
Suddenly, a miracle occurred. Deng Min's ghost hissed and told something that could be verified. The priest, Mrs. Wu, and especially his widow listened attentively.
Deng Min's ghost said, Qiuying, when I passed away, I was in great pain and had no strength to speak, so there was one thing I didn't tell you.
The female believer wiped away her tears and asked alertly, "What's going on?"
Deng Min's ghost said, before I came to the hospital alive, I took off a piece of clothing I usually wear and put it on the back of a chair in my bedroom at home. I also put 50 yuan in cash in the pocket of the jacket. You can go back and touch it. See, is that 50 yuan in cash still in your pocket?
The female believer replied, I will go back to look for him right away. He said hello to the priest and left here.
The priest looked at Mrs. Wu who had been waiting for so long and said, you can ask Deng Min about something now.
Mrs. Wu said, I won’t ask for now, I want to see if Qiuying can really take out 50 yuan in cash from the jacket pocket of that single coat when she gets home.
The ghost of Deng Min said that as long as you wait for a cup of tea, Qiuying will bring the piece of cash to you and the priest.
Mrs. Wu heard a man's voice talking under the table, but could not see the figure. He looked at the priest with a calm expression and said, I believe this. Then he said under the table, Mr. Deng Min, can I ask you something?
Deng Min's undead answer, you ask!
Mrs. Wu said that my husband Wu Dacheng died of a sudden illness recently. I asked the priest to summon his soul, but he could not be summoned. The priest also said that my husband was caught by evil spirits and went to hell, so he could not be summoned. This is True or false?
Deng Min's undead answer is true. Your husband was not taken to hell at first, but was tried in Hades. The judge said that countless innocent souls reported that he had done a heinous bad thing when he was a magistrate in Shandong Province.
Mrs. Wu asked in disbelief, my husband has always been kind and virtuous, would he still do bad things?
Deng Min's ghost said, Madam, listen to me. There was a severe drought in Shandong Province one year, no grain was harvested, and there were countless victims. Your husband wrote a memorial to the court, and the emperor ordered a large sum of official silver and daily necessities to be transported to the Shandong Provincial Government. However, your husband only used a small amount of official silver and daily necessities to help the victims, and most of them were misappropriated and used as his own.
As a result, more than 89% of the victims starved to death, and the famine situation in Shandong was not alleviated. The fields, mountains, and village houses were littered with dead bodies, which was too horrible to look at.
At that time, someone in the provincial government knew the inside story and secretly wrote a memorial to the court accusing your husband of embezzling government funds and daily necessities for relief to the victims. Emperor Long Yan was furious and immediately sent a group of imperial envoys to Shandong Province to investigate. If it is true, your husband will be captured, questioned and executed, and his head will be shown to the public.
After your husband learned the inside story, he was extremely flexible and skillful. He treated the imperial envoys who came down to investigate the problem in every possible way. In addition, he also bribed a large amount of gold and silver to silence them.
As the saying goes: If you eat someone else's mouth, you will get someone else's hand. After the imperial envoy returned to the court, he reported a false report to the emperor, saying that your husband had not committed any corruption, but that someone saw that he had meritorious service and wanted to falsely accuse him. The emperor believed this and will not hold your husband accountable.
But people are doing it, and God is watching. People's hearts can be deceived, but God cannot. Because your husband has done such evil and evil things, and used tricks to win over the imperial officials to protect him from life and death. In addition, the ghosts of thousands of hungry people who died of starvation are still lingering, and they often gather and rush to the underworld to beat drums and complain about Wu Dacheng. Claim your life.
In this way, Hades will send a bull-headed horse-faced man to arrest your husband's soul and take him away, and he will naturally die. When he arrived in Hades, the judge accused him of countless crimes he had committed in the human world. Therefore, it was inevitable that he would be sent to hell.
Mrs. Wu's face turned black and white. She was convinced, but also had doubts, so she asked, how do you know so clearly?
Deng Min's ghost replied, "When your husband was being tried in the Ghost Judge's Hall, many innocent souls were listening, and I was one of the spectators."
Mrs. Wu asked again unconvinced, "My husband has done many good deeds later, can't they offset the sins he committed?"
