Collection of strange powers and chaotic gods

Chapter 211 Ghost Adviser

During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a student named Wang in Piling (now Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province). He was in his forties and worked as an aide in Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province.

Later, his fellow villager Zhuang Xu'an (also known as Zhuang Xin, an official in the Qing Dynasty, with the courtesy name Jingyan and the nickname Xu'an, who was born in Wujin, Jiangsu Province) was appointed by the imperial court as the governor of Yusi County (sound zhou, zhi, now Xi'an, Shaanxi Province). The magistrate of Zhouzhi County under the city invited Wang Sheng to serve as his staff.

In the autumn of that year, Wang Sheng and his friends from the county government, Zhuang Kuiji and others, who were also on the staff, made an appointment to go to the Chenghuang Temple to watch the chrysanthemums.

Everyone walked around in a circle with great interest, but no one found anything particularly good-looking.

After walking for a while, I finally saw a beautiful chrysanthemum. Wang Sheng quickly picked one and asked his servant to take it home for his wife to appreciate.

Zhuang Kuiji and others quickly dissuaded him, saying that this was something in front of the City God and should not be touched easily.

Wang Sheng disagreed and said jokingly: "I have been an upright person all my life. I have never done anything like cheating or engaging in malpractice for personal gain. Now I just picked a flower. I believe the City God will not be offended! To say the least, if the great God If you really want to condemn him, then I am willing to handle one or two official matters for him, what do you think?"

Everyone laughed it off and continued admiring the chrysanthemums.

Unexpectedly, on March [-] of the following year, Wang Sheng suddenly died without any warning.

Everyone was strange and surprised.

But that night, during the first watch, something even more surprising happened to everyone: Wang Sheng, who had been dead all day long, actually woke up again!

Under the curious inquiry of everyone, Wang Sheng told his experience during this period.

This morning, after Wang Sheng finished breakfast, he sat alone in the room.

Suddenly, a messenger came in from outside the door, holding a name card in his hand, inviting Wang Sheng.

Wang Sheng was in a daze and did not refuse, so he walked out of the door with him and boarded the sedan that had been parked there for a long time.

After walking for about a mile, several people arrived at the Chenghuang Temple.

The City God was actually waiting there early.

Seeing Mr. Wang get off the sedan chair, the City God came down the steps to greet him.

After the two of them finished the ceremony of guest and host, the City God said: "Sir, he picked my chrysanthemums last year and promised to handle the case for me. Now there is a backlog of cases in a certain county, which has been delayed for a long time and has not been concluded yet. So... Please come, sir, to discuss the matter."

After a while, a petty official came in with the old backlog of case files, and the City God left immediately, leaving him to handle the case on his own.

Wang Sheng was originally a staff member, so he immediately began to check the plots of the cases. In fact, they were all small cases that were easy to handle. There was only one case of "accidentally hooking up a certain criminal". Wang Sheng wrote on the case file: "This person's body is not cold yet. Since he was hooked up by mistake, His soul should be returned to the sun! Otherwise, when Emperor Dongyue investigates and discovers that it was the City God's mistake, he will be punished!"

After a while, the city god came out to check.

After learning about Wang Sheng's handling method, he was overjoyed and said: "What you saw, sir, is exactly what I want."

After saying that, he asked his men to serve tea.

After drinking tea, the City God sent Wang Sheng to the steps where he got off the sedan chair, and then said to him: "I have one more thing to ask you: if you see Bao Shaofu after you go back, please tell him, he The wood needed for the project we undertake will arrive in just a few days.”

Wang Sheng agreed repeatedly, then said goodbye to the City God, got on the sedan chair and returned.

He took out three hundred coins from the bedside, rewarded the bearers who carried him back and the servants who followed him, and suddenly woke up.

After hearing his experience, Zhuang Kuiji and other friends secretly marveled: He picked the chrysanthemums of the City God and actually went to handle the case for the City God!

So, everyone gave him a nickname, "Ghost Staff".

Three days after the incident, Youxian (Mr. Yuan Mei wrote about Xianyou), Painting a Tiger into a Cat thought: It may be a typographical error, or a typographical error in printing by later generations. Because Xianyou County is in Putian City, Fujian Province, and The story takes place in Shaanxi. Youxian belongs to the Sichuan Basin. Only when there is a flood there, can the wood float to Shaanxi.) When there is a flood in the area, all the wood on the mountain comes from Heikou Town and floats out with the flood. .

The Bao Shaofu mentioned by the City God was Bao, a Tongzhi (deputy post of the prefect, equivalent to the deputy mayor of a prefecture-level city today) of Liquan (now Liquan County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province). Construction was going on there at the time and there was a shortage of wood.

The city god said that the wood would arrive soon, and it came true.

From then on, when friends met, they all called Wang Sheng "Ghost Staff".