roccoschili Chapter 132 The Land Grandma cheated on the sacrifices
Chapter 132 The Land Grandma cheated on the sacrifices
This story takes place in Jinling City in the south of the Yangtze River (now Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province) during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
At that time, there was a famous doctor named Tu Cheru in Huju Pass. His daughter-in-law, Mrs. Wu, is the sister of Xiaolian Wuzhen.
One day in June of the Bingshen year of Qianlong, Wu had a dream when she was sleeping at night.
She dreamed of the neighborhood Zongjia (the "Neighbor Protection Inspection Law" implemented during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, referred to as the "Zongjia system". Ten households are one Ajia, and ten Ajias are one Zongjia. It is roughly equivalent to the current village chief.) Li A certain person, holding a booklet with a registration list in his hand, walked into the house and said he wanted to collect donations.
Wu didn't know why, so she asked him what the donations were used for.
Li explained: "There will be a fire in Huju Pass soon! Grandma Tu said that as long as a play is performed, this disaster can be eliminated. I think this is everyone's business, and we cannot let a certain family pay for it. So, I called everyone to raise funds just for the purpose of acting and praying to avoid disaster."
As he said that, he showed Wu the donation brochure.
Wu took it and saw that the names of many donors had been registered on it.
These people are all neighbors whom Wu knows personally.
When Wu was hesitating whether to donate, she suddenly saw an old woman wearing yellow clothes and a red skirt walking in from the door.
The old woman told Wu bluntly: "On the third day of September this year, there will be a fire here, and your family will bear the brunt and will be the first to suffer this disaster.
This is your family's fate, it is destined, there is no escape! Therefore, your family needs to donate more money! Not only do you have to act, but you also have to burn paper money and buy sacrifices to make offerings to fulfill your wishes, so as not to burn people's lives! I don’t know what you are still hesitating about? ! Hurry up and donate your money! "
Wu was shocked when the old woman shouted like this, and immediately woke up from her dream.
She calmed down and tried to wake herself up.
She recalled the situation in the dream, and suddenly remembered, wasn't the general manager Li already dead long ago? Why are you still here to raise funds? !
The next morning, after the confused Wu got up, she hurried to the nearby neighbors' homes, told them what happened in her dream, and asked Li if he had entrusted the dream to them.
All the neighbors said no.
Mrs. Wu said that she had not been married long and was not very familiar with the neighborhood, so she asked them if there was any old woman wearing a yellow shirt and a red skirt nearby.
All the neighbors also told her, no.
Wu immediately became wary.
She thought this matter was very strange, so she went to the Earth Temple to burn incense and pray.
Who knew that the statue of Grandma Tu that she saw in the temple, wearing a yellow dress on the upper body and a red skirt on the lower body, was exactly the same as the old woman she saw in her dream!
Wu suddenly felt shocked and scared!
After hearing the news, all the neighbors were very scared and hurriedly donated money to perform performances, sacrifices and prayers, spending a total of hundreds of taels of silver.
As September approached, the Tu family moved all their valuable clothing and equipment to relatives' homes to prevent fires.
Since the first day of September, the Tu family has stopped cooking.
By the third day of September, everything around Huju Pass was safe, and no accidents such as fires occurred.
There was no disaster in the Tu family.
Everyone couldn't help but sigh with emotion: It turns out that Grandma Tu was up to something! Immortals can also defraud people of their incense!