Text/Murong Zijun During the Ming Dynasty, there was a son of an official named Hu Man. He was also a very talented person, so everyone usually called him Mr. Hu. People who didn't know him thought he was a humble gentleman, but he was not. Hu Gongzi's mother, Mu, was his father'

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During the years of the Ming Dynasty, there was a son of an official family named Hu Man. He was also a very talented person. Usually everyone called him Mr. Hu. People who didn't know him thought he was a humble gentleman. In fact, he was not. .

Mr. Hu's mother, Mu, was his father's concubine. Taking advantage of her youth and beauty, Mu often made trouble out of nothing, was mischievous, and even abused her husband's wife, Yang.

Mrs. Yang was a lady of the family, and she was not even close to her. She gave birth to three sons, all of whom were very outstanding and served as officials in the government. But Mr. Hu, Mr. Mu's son, was doing nothing all day long, indulged in lewdness and violence.

Mr. Hu's father, Hu Weng, was a kind-hearted man, because Hu Man was his youngest son and the son born to him by the woman he loved most. Hu Weng doted on his younger son very much.

Mr. Hu appeared to be a gentleman in front of outsiders, but in fact he was just a cruel and ruthless evil man. As long as his maids and servants made the slightest mistake, he would strip off their clothes and whip them, and he even said openly: "No way." The clothes were torn.

Mr. Hu also abused the cats and dogs at home. Whenever he was in a bad mood, he would tie up the four legs of the cat and beat it with a whip. If it was a dog, he would tie the four legs of the dog to four donkeys. On the legs of , they were killed by imitating the torture of breaking a car into pieces in ancient times.

After the father taught his son a lesson, Mu started crying and pretended to seek death. However, Hu Weng had no choice but to pretend not to see the atrocities committed by his young son.

Unexpectedly, when he just turned eighteen, he suddenly fell seriously ill and coughed every day. It turned out that he had tuberculosis, and he died in less than half a year.

His soul was arrested by ghost messengers and taken to the Hall of the King of Hell, where he saw The King of Hell sitting on the high hall. The King of Hell asked the judge to check his life and death record, but he did not expect that he still had fifty years to live, because He has done many evil things, and the underworld asked him to come to the underworld in advance to be tortured.

After hearing what the judge said, the King of Hell became furious and ordered the ghost to whip Mr. Hu dozens of times. Mr. Hu was in unbearable pain and wailed miserably.

At this moment, a woman was suddenly escorted over. When the woman saw Mr. Hu who was in agony, she screamed: How could my son suffer such torture?

It turned out that this woman was Mr. Hu's mother Mu. The day after her son died, she was so sad that she accompanied her son to reincarnation. The mother and son came to this underworld almost at the same time to be judged.

In the coming year, Master Hu's uncle Mu Shen suddenly dreamed of his nephew Hu Man that night. Master Hu was standing in front of his bed. He saw him with disheveled hair, naked body, bruises and bruises on his body, and a sad expression. Qi's.

Mu Shen asked in surprise: You have been dead for more than a year, why do you still come to harass your uncle and me? Didn't I treat you badly before you were alive?

There was a reason why Hu Man's uncle said such a thing. He knew his nephew's nature better than anyone else. Whenever he saw his nephew using a soldering iron to brand the maids and servants, he would quickly stop him, but he always stopped him. The nephew stared at me and said: My surname is Hu, and you have a surname called Mu. If you have nothing to do, just leave. Why do you come to my house when you have nothing to do?

Mu Shen knew that he could not offend his nephew, so he thought to himself, had Hu Man become an evil ghost after arriving in the underworld? It seemed I was doomed.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Hu cried to his uncle and said: I was extremely unkind when I was alive. After I died, I experienced all the pains of hell. Originally, the king of hell wanted to send me to the eighteen levels of hell.

It happened that my mother also arrived in the underworld. My mother begged the King of Hell, saying that she was willing to go to hell instead of me, saying that she should bear all the faults because she failed to educate me well.

The King of Hell said that although my mother had made mistakes, she should not go to hell. After thinking for a moment, the King of Hell allowed us, mother and son, to reincarnate as donkeys. At that time, he told Mother to reincarnate.

Now the order from the underworld to me has been finalized. Our mother and son will be reincarnated as donkeys in this life, but we cannot die in vain, otherwise we will be reincarnated as livestock in the next life.

Uncle, if you go to a store on the west side of the intersection of East Street tomorrow, if you see a female donkey in front of the store, she is thin and has a bald tail, that is my biological mother and your sister.

The foal carried in the donkey’s belly is me. I hope my uncle will remember our former relatives and redeem our mother and son.

As he spoke, Mr. Hu burst into tears. After crying for a long time, he told his uncle: Otherwise, we, mother and son, will die under the butcher's knife, and then we will have to reincarnate in the animal world in our next life. If we, mother and son, If you die of old age naturally in this life, you can be reincarnated as a human being again.

Mu Shen couldn't help but cry. After the two cried for a while, Mu Shen agreed to his nephew, and Mr. Hu said goodbye to his uncle.

Mu Shen also woke up at this time, with tears streaming down his face. Although he knew that he had a dream, he still believed it and sighed, unable to sleep anymore, tossing and turning until dawn.

Early the next morning, Mu Shen didn't have time to have breakfast, so he asked his servant to drive a carriage to the market to check. When he reached the crossroads, he saw a female donkey with a colt tied in front of a shop. The shape of the donkey was exactly the same as what his nephew described to him in his dream.

Mu Shen quickly got out of the carriage. When the female donkey saw Mu Shen coming, she screamed at him at the top of her lungs and shed tears. Mu Shen couldn't help but burst into tears.

After Mu Shen wiped away his tears, he entered the store and asked the owner: Do you want to sell the donkey in front of the door?

The shop owner shook his head and said: I bought this donkey from the market. I am going to kill it today to sell meat. You can go to the market to buy it. It is not far from here. It only takes half an hour to walk.

Mu Shen said: You killed the donkey and sold its meat today just because you wanted to make more money. You only said how much money you could make by killing the donkey, right? I redeemed it for twice the money.

The store owner said: I bought it for 6,000 yuan, because I wasted half a day buying this donkey. After selling it to you, I still had to spend half a day going to the market to buy another donkey.

The shop owner looked at the donkey in front of the door, and then said: Since you sincerely want to buy it, I don't dare to ask you for more, so just give me 8,000 yuan. It's not easy for us to do business.

Mu Shen hurriedly gave the money to the shopkeeper, fearing that he would regret it again. Then, he asked the servant to hold the donkey, and he followed him back home in the carriage. The donkey kept crying silently and looked very sad. Pitiful.

That night, Mu Shen dreamed that his sister and nephew came to thank him. Mu Shen said sadly: I have to tell my brother-in-law about this tomorrow. It would be better if he could let you mother and son go back, but we cannot hide this matter from him. .

Mu Shen didn't want to delay the matter for too long. He came to his brother-in-law's house that day and told Hu Weng about the matter.

After Hu Weng heard about this reincarnation, he couldn't help but said in shock: Is there such a thing? It's incredible. But seeing Mu Shen's sad look, he had no choice but to believe it.

Hu Weng also understood Mu Shen's purpose. He pondered for a long time before sighing, and then said angrily: This traitor, how come he is nothing like his three brothers? He is not good at all. Don't do evil. He He deserves such retribution.

Hu Weng glanced at Mu Shen and said: Your sister is not virtuous either. She dares to abuse my wife just because I love her. Fortunately, my wife is not as knowledgeable as her.

When the mother and son were alive, they made the Hu family very upset. No one in the house was not afraid of them. After they left, the family could live a peaceful life.

When Mu Shen heard this, he knew that his brother-in-law was not willing to take the donkey home. He stood up and said goodbye: My sister had a relationship with you when she was alive, and my nephew had a relationship with you as a father and son. After they died, the family relationship was also severed. Yes, I know this too.

But the purpose of my coming today is just to let you know about this. If you still miss me, please take the time to visit my house. After saying that, Mu Shen left without looking back.

Not long after this incident, the female donkey gave birth to a foal, and Mu Shen fed it himself.

On this day, Hu Weng couldn't help but come to Mu's house. When the two donkeys saw Hu Weng, they both lowered their heads and shed tears. Hu Weng couldn't help but go up and call their names.

The two donkeys immediately waggled their tails and started braying, as if they had agreed to the Hu Weng. The Hu Weng couldn't bear it and wanted to take the donkeys home to raise them. But Mu Shen was unwilling now. He was afraid that Hu Weng would accidentally tell the story. The maid and servant who had been beaten by his nephew would definitely kill his nephew once they knew the truth of the matter.

In this way, the two donkeys died of old age naturally at Mu Shen's house.

Hu Man was extremely violent and cruel during his lifetime. After his death, he was reincarnated as a donkey and almost died under a butcher's knife. This was what he deserved, so good and evil must be punished in the end.