At this moment, two people in the middle of the queue were slowly approaching, carrying a large round drum. The person following behind was holding two drumsticks tied with red ribbons, but they were not beating the drums; the two people following them were holding a copper drum each. Gong, but no gong.
The man at the end quickened his pace and ran to the front of the queue, raising his hand to Li Lamei. Hey, you girl who has lost her fortune, do you still recognize me? I am the owner who lost his leather bag and you picked it up and returned it voluntarily.
Oh, I know. I know, aren't you the owner, Uncle Jia? Li Lamei looked at her and said.
Um! Jia Rihuan nodded.
Send this banner to your medical university to let the university leaders know about it. Zhong Huimin held the banner fluttering slightly in the wind with both hands and spoke solemnly.
unnecessary. I don't want to make it public and don't let the university leaders know. Li Lamei made gestures as she spoke.
Then you take over this banner! Zhong Huimin said.
Not necessary either. Boss Zhong, it’s better to take this banner back. The village originally gave it to you. Li Lamei said firmly.
That won't work. I think you are much nobler than me. You must accept this banner, otherwise, I will let the gong and drum beaters continue to beat the gongs and drums. The reason why I stopped beating gongs and drums just now is because I considered that universities are educational places and must be kept quiet without noise harassment. Zhong Huimin had his reasons for saying this, so Li Lamei had no choice but to take the banner and bow in thanks.
At this time, the bell just rang for the end of get out of class. Li Lamei watched Zhong Huimin and others leave, then rolled up the banner and walked towards the teaching building. She planned to give the banner to Shi Zaitian.
Why give it to him? Li Lamei had her own idea, because it was Shi Zaitian who suggested that she build a temple in her mother's name in her hometown to eliminate her mother's evil obstacles and her mother's madness would be cured.
But where can Li Lamei and her family have money? If you can’t raise money from donations, you won’t be able to build the temple. It happened that Zhong Huimin's subordinate Jia Rihuan lost a leather bag filled with 50 gold bars and she found it. She returned it to the owner without getting greedy, which not only saved the life of the owner Jia Rihuan, but also saved her own life.
The situation at that time was that if the leather bag filled with 50 gold bars could not be found, Jia Rihuan would have to lose his life; and if Li Lamei, who found the valuable lost object, got greedy and left the place where it was lost, If she had to cross the river by boat on the way back, she would die.
The reason was that the boat she bought a ticket for was overturned by strong waves when crossing the river, and all the passengers and crew members on the boat were killed. She was worried about the owner and waited for the owner to come to collect the lost property, which delayed the boat ride. The ticket she held was also invalidated, but the bad thing turned into a good thing. She survived and accidentally saved her life.
As a result, real estate developer Boss Zhong was moved by her righteous deed of collecting money without asking for anything in return, and built a temple in Lijiawan Village in her mother's name. Not only was her mother's life cured, but what was even more gratifying was that eminent monks from Wutai Mountain in Shanxi Province came to live in the temple and often went out to preach scriptures, so that people in this village and nearby villages were inspired to stop doing evil, killing, stealing and prostitution. Instead of doing bad things, they strive to do good deeds and do the right things that are benevolent and righteous.
It is expected that the reason for all these good changes stems from Shi Zaitian's clear instructions. Therefore, this banner should be given to Shi Zaitian.
Li Lamei was worried that Shi Zaitian wouldn't want it, so she kindly came up with a lie. When she was about to enter the teaching building to find Shi Zaitian, unexpectedly, she walked down the teaching building and ran into Shi Zaitian. .
Shi Zaitian smiled slightly and looked confident. He greeted Li Lamei and said, I am waiting for you. Do you want to send me a banner?
Li Lamei nodded, shook out the rolled up banner, handed it to him and said, Professor Shi, how did you know that I wanted to give you the banner? It's amazing. No, no, it's a real estate developer who wants to give you a banner.
Shi Zaitian took the banner with both hands and said, "You were right originally, but you artificially corrected it, and you were wrong again. It was obviously you who wanted to give the banner to me." Of course, you still don’t know that this banner was originally sent by a document from your Lijiawan Village Committee to the real estate developer who built a temple to express gratitude! The real estate developer felt that he should thank you, so he gave the pennant to you. You felt that he should thank me, so he gave the pennant to me. Then I'll accept it.
Li Lamei didn't speak, just nodded.
Shi Zaitian took the banner and did not hang it in his office or his dormitory. Of course, he did not collect it. Instead, he chose a Sunday to go to a Chenghuang Temple on the outskirts of the provincial capital to bring the banner. It is set on fire in front of a clay statue of the City God.
Watching it gradually turn into a pile of ashes, I knelt down to the clay sculpture of the City God again and again, and then elaborated on the merits of the real estate developer Zhong Huimin who funded the construction of a temple.
The city god appeared immediately. Shi Zaitian had yin and yang eyes. When he raised his head and saw him, he said, "Be respectful to the city god in Zaitian." The city god said with a straight face, "What kind of credit are you asking for for real estate developer Zhong Huimin?" He only has one month to live, and the underworld has already planted a white flag on his name. This is of course the same as when a prisoner on death row in the Yang world is escorted to the execution ground, and a mark is placed on his back, indicating that he will soon see the King of Hell. I mean, he doesn't have long to live. What's the use of Shi Zaitian taking all the trouble to ask for credit from him?
What bad thing did Zhong Huimin do that made the King of Hell want to deal with him? Shi Zaitian asked impatiently.
You may not know that Zhong Huimin made his fortune by speculating on land, but he owed a life. He once ordered his men to burn Ai Si, the nail in the house demolition, to death, and no one knew about it until he turned to ashes.
The subordinates asked Boss Zhong why he wanted to burn that nail shop to death? Zhong Huimin said that if the guy was burned to ashes and dealt with, the evidence would be destroyed and there would be no further trouble.
What's even more gratifying is that once the resistance is removed, our real estate industry can become bigger and stronger. Unexpectedly, Ai Si was burned to death, and his ghost went to the underworld to file a complaint. The King of Hell decided to cut off the fortune of the extremely wicked Zhong Huimin and consign him to death. Why should you ask him for any merit?
What the City God said made Shi Zai Tian feel cold in his heart. He pondered for a long time, and then said to the city god, Zhong Huimin has now changed his ways and done good deeds. Can't he offset his sins a little and save one life? Let him continue to do good.
What great good did he do? the city god asked.
He built a temple in Lijiawan Village and lived in an eminent monk, who had a great enlightenment effect on the villagers. Now the public security environment in that village and dozens of surrounding villages has become much stronger. Killings, thefts and prostitution have almost been eliminated, and the people's customs are simple and simple. Zhong Huimin is indispensable for all these good deeds.
Shi Zaitian spoke emotionally, and the City God was moved by what he heard, but he frowned and said that it was just that the soul of Ai Si, who was burned to death by Zhong Huimin, refused to give up. What's more, now that the Hades King of Hades has determined Zhong Huimin's death date, he may be unable to save his life.
Shi Zaitian said, I have made a memorial of Zhong Huimin's meritorious deeds after he corrected his evil ways, and I would like to ask the City God to go to Hades and submit it to the King of Hell to see if there is any improvement. I am petitioning for Zhong Huimin on behalf of the many villagers who have been encouraged to do good deeds.
In this case, then do what you want! As the city god spoke, he bowed and picked up the burned banner. It is said that the burned banner has become a pile of ashes. How can it be picked up? It turns out that the banner before it was burned was yang and was also called the Yang banner. However, after it was burned, although people saw it as a pile of ashes, all beings in the underworld still saw a banner. However, it could only be called the Yin banner. .
At this time, the city god shook the banner in his hand and looked at it. When he saw the words of praise embroidered on it, "Noble moral conduct, blessing the people", he sighed to himself. This shows that Zhong Huimin has indeed abandoned evil and followed good. Take the banner that people gave him to the Palace of the King of Hell, and bring a memorial you compiled to record his merits, and show it to the King of Hell. It is hard to say whether the King of Hell can exempt Zhong Huimin from the death penalty. However, I will try my best to say a few nice words to Zhong Huimin in front of the King of Hell.
After Shi Zaitian returned, he immediately wrote a memorial and went to the City God's Temple to burn it to the City God. Seven days later, the City God, who had returned from a trip to Hades, wrote back to Shi Zaitian in his night dream, saying that King Yama said that from now on, Zhong Huimin can be pardoned from the death penalty as long as he meets three requirements: first, he surrenders; The first is to appease the family members of the deceased and compensate for economic losses in accordance with the law; the third is to persist in doing good deeds and accumulating virtue.
This should be possible. I will communicate with Zhong Huimin and it will be done. After Shi Zaitian made such a promise, he woke up and could no longer sleep.
At dawn, he took leave of absence from school and went to the real estate company where Zhong Huimin worked, intending to meet with Zhong Huimin and tell him how to solve the problem.
Considering that Zhong Huimin didn't know him, Shi Zaitian didn't want to reveal his identity as a professor at the Medical University of L Province. He deliberately wore a beggar's uniform and a pair of galoshes on a sunny day, with a little mud on the uppers, making them look dirty. Xixi.
Shi Zaitian wanted to appear in front of the boss Zhong Huimin with this image and see how he would react. If he scolded him in a snobbish manner, Shi Zaitian would decide to give up on him and ignore the matter.
Unexpectedly, Shi Zaitian appeared in front of Zhong Huimin in such a sloppy manner. He still behaved very calmly. Although he was not enthusiastic, he was not indifferent either. He also arranged for an office staff member to receive Shi Zaitian.
The staff member called Shi Zaitian aside and said, our company has a bathhouse. I will take you to take a bath and let you change into clean clothes prepared by our company for homeless people. Then you can go to our boss Zhong. Discuss.
Shi Zaitian, who was dressed as a beggar, laughed and said thank you, Boss Zhong, for taking care of me. You don't have to worry about me anymore. He immediately took off the beggar's clothes, revealing a new Chinese tunic suit. Then he knelt down and unzipped the chain of his large satchel, took out a pair of shiny leather shoes from inside, and put them on his feet. The pair of muddy galoshes had been replaced, and she looked quite stylish and energetic again.
The staff member looked at Shi Zaitian with admiration and asked, "Where are you from?" Shi Zaitian said, "Don't tell me, I won't tell you. I'll tell you when I meet your boss Zhong."
The staff member took Shi Zaitian to the company's general manager's office to meet Zhong Huimin. Zhong Huimin didn't care about the new-looking Shi Zaitian, but looked at the staff member and asked, where did you send the beggar just now? Or send him away?
The staff member smiled slightly and didn't answer. Instead, Shi Zaitian opened his mouth to grab the favor. Here is the beggar.
Zhong Huimin looked at him carefully. He didn't look like a beggar. Shaking his head, he stared at him again and said, are you telling lies?
The staff member interrupted, "Boss Zhong, he is indeed the person you saw just now. He is just a beggar pretending to be a beggar. His beggar's uniform and muddy galoshes are still in his big shoulder bag." !
This comrade is right. As Shi Zaitian spoke, he knelt down again and unzipped the chain of the big satchel, revealing the stuffed beggar's uniform.
Feeling weird, Zhong Huimin asked, "What do you want from me?" Why pretend to be a beggar again? What's the origin?
To his three consecutive questions, Shi Zaitian did not immediately answer with words, but with actions. He pulled up the chain of his satchel and stood up, took out an ID from his body and handed it to Zhong Huimin. Zhong Huimin took a look and saw that his image, name and unit title were on the certificate.
Zhong Huimin suddenly returned the certificate to him in awe and said, Oh! It turns out that you are Professor Shi from the Medical University of L Province, which is amazing, amazing. Why don't you reveal your identity directly at first, and why do you come to see me disguised as the lowest vulnerable group in society?
I just want to test whether you care about the vulnerable groups at the bottom of society. It turns out that you are not bad, and your decent arrangements made Shi feel warm. Shi Zaitian expressed his thoughts directly.
Professor Shi came to see me for something? Zhong Huimin asked.
bother you for something. Tell me something important. Shi Zaitian said it bluntly, but it sounded a bit mysterious.
What's important? Zhong Huimin asked calmly, but his heart was trembling.
I can only speak to you alone. There is something in Shi Zaitian's words that makes people feel more and more mysterious.
Zhong Huimin understood the meaning and said to the staff member, please stay away.
