Collection of strange powers and chaotic gods

Chapter 110 Two strange things about the Governor of Shaanxi

In the fifteenth year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, Yin Wenduan (namely Yin Jishan, with the courtesy name Yuan Chang and the nickname Wangshan. A native of Daxing, Beijing. A poet and minister of the Qing Dynasty. Wenduan was his posthumous title.) served as the governor of Shaanxi. During his tenure, two strange things happened.

At that time, there was a certain Gu, a native of Suzhou, who served as the magistrate of Suide, which is known as "a famous state in the world".

There is an old saying in Shaanxi called "Mizhi's mother-in-law Suide's Han". It means that rice and fat will produce beautiful women, and Suide will produce handsome men.

But Gu, for some unknown reason, was said to be from Suzhou and was an official in Suide. Both places were rich in handsome men, but he was unsatisfactory with his fat head and big ears.

In September of this year, Gu went to Xi'an to ask for a meeting with Yin Wenduan.

Yin Wenduan felt a little strange after seeing him. Gu, who was originally obese, now became very thin.

Yin Wenduan wondered if he was sick and asked him why.

Gu knelt down and said, "Sir, something strange has happened to Bei Zhi! Bei Zhi has been a scholar all his life and has never believed in ghosts and gods. Even if he did, how could he dare to talk nonsense in front of adults?

It's just that Begong's current body is deteriorating and he is in danger. He doesn't know when he will suddenly die. Now that your Excellency is asking for help, I don’t dare not to tell you, so that I can arrange for my posthumous affairs! "

Then, Gu told Yin Wenduan exactly what happened to him.

On the seventh day of May this year, Gu got up in the morning and sat alone in his study reading.

Suddenly, he saw a stranger, wearing green clothes and a soap hat on his head, holding an invitation in his hand. He walked in and said to him: "An official invites you to come over for a meeting. I have prepared a mount outside the door." , please come with me!”

Gu took the post in his hand and saw that it was from his colleague Tang Shi.

So, Gu immediately followed the man out, mounted his horse and headed straight out of the city.

He rode his horse thirty miles north and arrived in front of an official office. Someone immediately came out to greet him.

The man was wearing ancient clothes and an ancient hat. He bowed to Gu and said, "The reason why I have the temerity to ask you to come here is to compile a list of names and send them to the Jade Emperor. I need to communicate with you." Let’s handle it together, sir.”

Before Gu could speak, a clerk next to him knelt down and said: "The draft of the roster has not been created yet. It is too early to handle it with Mr. Gu now. We need to wait until August [-]th. Transcription completed."

The man in ancient clothes and hat said: "In that case, let Mr. Gu go back first!"

After saying that, he asked the man in green clothes and soap hat to deliver the invitation to take Gu home. He also told Gu not to break the appointment when the time comes.

Gu walked out of the official office, mounted his horse again, and walked thirty miles back to his government office.

When he entered the room, he saw his body, lying stiffly on the bed, with his wife crying next to him.

Gu found that his body seemed to have become very small. The man in soap clothes pushed the little body and entered through the mouth of the body on the bed. The body made a "gruck" sound.

Gu felt that his whole body, limbs, bones, and internal organs were all very aching.

After a while, Gu regained consciousness. He felt very hungry, but also felt that he was too weak to eat big fish or meat, so he asked his wife to get him rice soup to drink.

From then on, Gu took the time to arrange official affairs and arrange his own private affairs.

On the morning of August [-], Gu got up, put on his clothes and hat, and then said goodbye to his staff, friends and wife one by one.

Finally, he cried and warned his wife: "I am going to the underworld to do some work soon. If you find that my body has not turned cold, please postpone the burial!"

The wife agreed with tears in her eyes.

By noon, Gu began to feel faint, as if he was having a stroke.

In a daze, the man in soap clothes came again last time and took Gu to the previous official office.

The man in ancient clothes and hat was sitting in the hall, with two desks placed side by side in front of him. He asked Gu to sit in front of one of the desks, just like two officials in the human world sitting together for an interrogation.

There was a junior official next to him, looking at the roster and calling everyone's names, but Gu didn't recognize them all.

The third one on the list is a certain clerk from Suidezhou; the eighty-fifth one is a Cambodian house official (a junior official in charge of correspondence in the yamen) so-and-so from Suidezhou.

Although the other people, Gu, looked familiar, they couldn't name them.

Gu called the two people from this state to the table and asked them: "Why are you two here?"

Both of them said they didn't know what it was for.

At this time, the man wearing ancient clothes and hat next to him smiled and said: "Why do you ask them this, sir? After a while, you will be working with me here, and by then, you will naturally know everything." "

Gu asked: "How long will it take? When will I come here again next time?"

The man said: "You must come here on the seventh day of October this year! Sir, you can take advantage of this time to go back quickly and make arrangements for your funeral. If you come back next time, you won't be able to go back!"

After hearing this, Gu said goodbye to the man again.

A moment later, Gu woke up in his home. However, this time his body was even thinner than last time.

Gu then said to Yin Wenduan: "This is why you see that I have lost weight.

Not long after I woke up that time, a plague broke out in Suizhou. The two people named in my dream both contracted the plague and died!

It is already September, and the dream said that I will report to the underworld on the seventh day of October. My death is not far away, so I come to say goodbye to you! "

Yin Wenduan comforted him repeatedly, saying that things in dreams may not necessarily come true.

Gu, however, believed firmly and left crying.

In the first month after the Spring Festival of the next year, Yin Wenduan went to inspect the prefectures and counties under his jurisdiction, and Suidezhou was also on his inspection route.

One of his subordinates, a staff member named Xu Xiaozhang, knew about Zhizhou Gu, so he made a special trip to visit Gu.

However, Gu did not die and was still alive.

Gu followed Xu Xiaozhang to the governor's residence and came to pay homage to Yin Wenduan.

When Yin Wenduan saw him, his body had returned to the fat head and big ears he had before, he joked with him and said, "Why does the ghost's words work for those two petty officials but not you?"

Gu quickly kowtowed to thank him and declared that he had not deceived the governor. But if you want to ask why nonsense doesn't work for him, he really doesn't know the reason!

This is a very strange thing that Governor Yin Wenduan encountered.

When Yin Wenduan was the governor of Shaanxi, he also encountered another strange thing.

Once, the Governor's Yamen received an official report from the magistrate of Huayin County, which read: "In order to describe the situation that offends the ghosts and gods, I specially wrote a report:

There is an ancient locust tree in front of the humble county government office. It blocks the sun and makes the county government office as dark as night during the day, so I want to cut it down.

But the clerk in the county government said: 'This tree has a spirit and cannot be cut down! "

I didn't believe it, so I insisted on cutting down the tree and digging out its roots. At this time, something strange happened: there was a piece of fresh meat at the bottom of the tree root, and there was a painting under the fresh meat, which showed a naked woman lying down.

I felt disgusted in my heart, so I burned the painting and fed the meat to the dogs.

That night, Bei Zhi felt uneasy. Although he did not fall ill, his body became more and more haggard day by day. I often hear people cursing in my ears, but I can't see anyone.

I know that I have offended the gods because of my humble position, and my life will be short-lived! Please also appoint a successor to come! "

After Yin Wenduan read the official report, he circulated it to his staff and asked, "How should such an official document be approved?"

Before he finished speaking, another official document arrived.

The subordinate reported: Huayin County reported to the county magistrate so-and-so, the death document has arrived!