Cui Shu in Yuanfeng County has an only son named Huaner. Cui Shu was good at managing his business and had a good family property, so he was the richest man in Yuanfeng County. Although Cui Shu was rich, he was unkind and never helped people in need of him. If relatives and friends came to borrow money from him, he rolled his eyes and said, "I am not well-off lately, and I just paid a sum of money." Seeing that he was so stingy, his relatives and friends gradually broke off contact with him.
Huan'er grew up to seven years old and became more naughty and naughty. She often sneaked out to play in the river with her friends. After Cui Shu knew about it, he beaten and punished him, but Huan'er's naughty nature had not changed at all.
That day, there was a ragged beggar sitting on the stone pier in front of the Cui family, muttering and singing something.
Cui Shu happened to come back from outside, got off the carriage, and saw a beggar sitting in front of his house. He was so angry that he didn't call him, and told his servants, "Hurry up and drive away this beggar!"
The beggar walked up with a smile, pointed at Cui Shu and said, "Do you want me to save your son? Your son will be alive in the near future!" Cui Shu was not willing to listen to his nonsense, so he asked the servants to drive him away.
That day, Huan'er sneaked out while his father went out. Seeing his friends playing in the river, he took off his clothes and went into the water.
A group of children started diving in the river. Huan'er bragged that he could dive to the bottom of the river. The children didn't believe it and laughed at him for bragging. Huan'er could only dive into the water with his teeth.
After a while, he was not swam up. Several older children dived and couldn't find him. Everyone was anxious and hurried to the Cui family and told the Cui family.
Huan'er's mother rushed to the river with a group of family members. She went to the river to look for it, but she couldn't find it. At this time, Cui Shu received the letter and rushed over, looking at the servants looking for people on the river and said, "Whoever finds Huan'er will get 100 taels of silver!" 100 taels is not a small amount! There must be a brave man under the heavy reward. Sure enough, a servant named Li Zhuang said, "Did it sink to the bottom of the river? I'll go and see!"
Li Zhuang dived down fiercely. After a while, he dived up again and swam towards the river bank like a runaway. After getting ashore, he gasped and shivered, as if he was very frightened.
Cui Shu walked over and asked, "Li Zhuang, is Huan'er at the bottom of the river?" Li Zhuang said with lingering fear, "Master, the young master is at the bottom of the river!" Cui Shu said angrily, "Why didn't you pull him up? Or do you think the money is too little? I'll add another 200 taels!" Li Zhuang breathed and said, "Master, it's not that I won't pull the young master up, but that the young master is walking at the bottom of the river!"
"What?" Everyone was shocked! There was a legend in Yuanfeng County that after someone drowned in the river, they would be possessed by the water ghost , and then they would walk in the river like a water ghost. Yuanfeng County people called this "stand up a corpse". The drowned person becomes a corpse, and no one dares to salvage it, so he can only stay in the river forever!
Although Cui Shu is rich and unkind, she loves Huan'er for ten minutes. When she heard that Huan'er was a corpse, she was in a hurry and spit out a mouthful of blood...
When everyone was not sure what to do, they suddenly heard someone from a distance walking towards them.
The sharp-eyed servant recognized it, "Master, isn't this the beggar who was the beggar that day?" Cui Shu saw that it was indeed the beggar who was sitting at the door of his house that day. Cui Shu staggered over, grabbed the beggar's hand, and knelt down, "Master, please save my child!" As he said that, he kowtowed to the beggar's beggar. "Oh--" The beggar sighed and said, "If you were not for being unkind, you would not have had this disaster today. But your child has passed away. Even if you are saved, you will not be able to survive!"
Cui Shu said with a heartache: "Master, please salvage the child. I will donate thousands of dollars in family wealth in the future and follow the master to practice." As he said that, he kowtowed to the beggar again.
beggar said, "The child has not become a corpse. He just got stuck in his feet by the stones. He lost his life if he couldn't swim. Who would go down to catch the child? Your master will be rewarded with 200 taels of silver!"
Li Zhuang heard that, and quickly volunteered to say, "I, I'll go!" As he said that, he put in the water again, and in a short while, he held the child up and said, "I'm indeed stuck in the stone!"
At this time, Huan'er was already exhausted. After burying the child, Cui Shu fulfilled his promise, rewarded Li Zhuang with 200 taels of silver, and donated all his property to the villagers in Yuanfeng County!
, but Cui Shu himself was completely disappointed and followed the beggar to travel around.
