During the Song Dynasty, there was a young man named Zhu Dachang in Suzhou. He had an ugly face and his face was full of beards. He relied on farming to make a living and had no money. The girls in the village looked down on him, and the matchmaker did not introduce him to his marriage. He was still a bachelor when he was thirty.
Zhu Dachang is very filial. He has an elderly mother to take care of. He works during the day and serves her mother when she goes home at night.
On this day, Zhu Dachang was going to attend a wedding banquet of a distant relative. On the way, he encountered a heavy rain. He was soaked in the heavy rain that he was soaked in the drift. There happened to be a dilapidated temple nearby. He walked to the dilapidated temple to shelter from the rain. In the evening, the heavy rain did not stop. He had to spend the night in the dilapidated temple and stay for a night.
There are two weird people outside the dilapidated temple. They were each wearing black and white clothes, wearing a high hat on their heads, and did not hold an umbrella. They walked back and forth in the heavy rain, and glanced at the dilapidated temple from time to time. Zhu Dachang came to them and invited them to shelter from the dilapidated temple. However, they refused to come in and stood firmly outside the dilapidated temple to get wet in the rain.
Zhu Dachang felt that the two of them were particularly strange, but they couldn't tell where they were strange. When he saw that they didn't know the good people's hearts, he no longer cared about them. He found a pile of straw in the dilapidated temple, lay on it and fell asleep. When he slept until midnight, Zhu Dachang was suddenly photographed by someone.
After opening his eyes, Zhu Dachang found that the other party was a beautiful woman. The beautiful woman looked anxious. She wanted to pick up Zhu Dachang directly and kept pulling Zhu Dachang with her hands. She also said, "Don't make a sound, hide in my skirt!"
The beautiful woman was named Ye Tingyu. She just saw Heibai Wuchang outside the door. Wuchang also asked Ye Tingyu if he had ever seen a man named Zhu Dachang. Zhu Dachang's life is here. They want to take Zhu Dachang's soul away to the underworld for a job.
Ye Tingyu shook his head and lied that he had not seen it. Then he ran to the dilapidated temple and told Zhu Dachang all this.
Zhu Dachang felt a little scared after listening to it. The two weirdos he saw in the evening turned out to be two Wuchang in the underworld, but he cannot die yet. Although he has not married a wife and has no wife and children to take care of, he has an eighty-year-old mother who is lingering in sick bed. He must take care of his mother Li.
So, Zhu Dachang immediately got under Ye Tingyu's skirt and stayed in it for a cup of tea. Suddenly, he heard footsteps. Zhu Dachang could vaguely tell that they were two men. They talked to Ye Tingyu for a while, and Ye Tingyu pointed them in a direction at will, and then the two people left the dilapidated temple.
These two people are the black and white impermanence. The Life and Death Book clearly records that Zhu Dachang will pass by here, so they have been guarding the gate of the ruined temple, but never waited for the real Zhu Dachang. They thought they missed it with Zhu Dachang and chased in the direction Ye Tingyu pointed.
After Wuchang walked away, Ye Tingyu asked Zhu Dachang to come out from his skirt. She also told Zhu Dachang about an old past. As early as ten years ago, Ye Tingyu had a common face with Zhu Da. At that time, Zhu Dachang was a young man who often went to the river to take a bath with his shirtlessness. That day, he met a girl on a boat while taking a bath by the river.
The girl was Ye Tingyu. The water leaked in the middle of the boat she was on. When she arrived near Zhu Dachang, the entire boat sank into the water. Ye Tingyu couldn't do water, so she struggled on the water and called for help for a moment before sinking.
Zhu Dachang was kind-hearted. After hearing the girl's call for help, he swam towards the girl quickly and rescued the girl who fell into the water. If Zhu Dachang had not sacrificed his life to save her ten years ago, Ye Tingyu might have been drowned in the river.
After Ye Tingyu's remarks, Zhu Dachang recalled what happened ten years ago. However, Ye Tingyu has changed a lot in the past ten years, and Zhu Dachang almost failed to recognize him.
There is an unwritten rule in the underworld. If the living people in the world avoid the pursuit of impermanence and successfully avoid the impermanence's eyes and ears, they can increase their life for thirty years. In the next thirty years, Zhu Dachang will not encounter danger.
As a heavy rain, the date of the relative's marriage was wrong, and he returned home and served his mother as usual.
Under Zhu Dachang's care, Li's body gradually improved and lived safely and healthy for another 30 years. Shortly after her death, Zhu Dachang's life also came to an end. This time he did not resist and went to the underworld with Wuchang.
