The story takes place in the early years of the Tang Dynasty. There is a woman named Wu Shuniang in Changyuan County. Wu Shuniang's husband is Luo Wu, who is a chef who works in a local tavern. Unfortunately, one summer, it rained heavily and the tavern collapsed, and Luo Wu was unfortunately buried. Since then, Wu Shuniang has become a widow and lives with her son Luo Sheng.
In order to raise her son, Wu Shuniang does all kinds of dirty and tiring work. Sometimes she will take the initiative to help them when she meets poor people. Therefore, Wu Shuniang is deeply loved by the people nearby in the local area. One day, Wu Shuniang went out to buy vegetables and saw many people surrounding a divination. Wu Shuniang was curious and came over. When everyone saw that it was Wu Shuniang coming, many people came to talk.
Wu Shuniang also wants to calculate a fortune for herself and see how much she has left for life, because in recent days she has always felt chest tightness and shortness of breath. She is afraid that one day she will die, and then she will leave her son alone in the world. If there is not much life left, I will make plans early.
Fortune telling Taoist saw that Wu Shuniang had a prestige among the crowd. If she could calculate it correctly, she would definitely be famous in the local fortune telling in the future. Wu Shuniang drew a lottery, and fortune teller concentrated on calculating. After a long time, the fortune teller sighed and said, "You are a great evil hexagram. If I did not calculate it correctly, your life span will be today, and you will die tonight at the third update."
Wu Shuniang's eyes turned dark after hearing this. She didn't expect that her life span was so short. Wu Shuniang was a little distrusted by her ears and asked, "Will you calculate it wrong?" The old Taoist said confidently, "Person, the neighbors present, be a witness. If I don't calculate it correctly, you come and smash my divination stall tomorrow, and then I will pay you a hundred taels of silver."
When everyone saw that the old Taoist was so decisive, they believed in what the old Taoist said more and more, so they had to comfort Wu Shuniang to go home to prepare for the funeral. After Wu Shuniang returned home, she hugged her five-year-old son and cried bitterly. Luo Sheng said in a tender tone: "Mom, is anyone bullying you? My son will stand up for you now."
Wu Shuniang said: "Today I am telling fortunes on the street. The fortune teller said that I will die at the third update tonight. For some reason, your father left you early. Now I can't grow up with you." Luo Sheng widened his eyes and said: "Mom just said that fortune telling on the street? The fortune teller can't believe what he said. If they really could predict the future, they would have been successful. Why should they endure the cold winter and heat on the street?"
Wu Shuniang comforted herself when she saw her son saying this. Perhaps it was really a Taoist who spoke nonsense, so she went to the house to sleep after making supper. In the middle of the night, a strong wind suddenly broke out in the yard, and a giant person immediately knocked the door open. Wu Shuniang was shocked and picked up the shoulder pole and smashed it at the monster. But the monster was made of something, but it was extremely hard. After Wu Shuniang's shoulder pole was smashed on it, it broke into two pieces.
Seeing that the monster was about to crush Wu Shuniang to death, Luo Sheng also woke up. Seeing that there was a urinary under the bed, he didn't care about so much, so he picked up the urinary and smashed it on the monster. It was strange that after the urinal hit the monster, a black air emerged from the monster. Wu Shuniang looked at it again and said, "There was no monster there. It was clearly a big stone with a yellow talisman on it."
At this time, Wu Shuniang suddenly realized that it must be the old Taoist who made great achievements in promoting his fortune-telling, so he deliberately said that he would die in the third update, and then used magic to kill himself. Unexpectedly, an unintentional act of his son actually used a boy's urine to break the old Taoist's evil technique.
The neighbors were worried that Wu Shuniang would have something wrong, so several neighbors around were not asleep yet. After hearing the movement, they hurried over to check it.Wu Shuniang told the story and everyone went to the City God Temple to find the old Taoist, but the old Taoist seemed to have predicted that the matter had been exposed. When everyone arrived, the place where he lived was empty.
However, some careful people found that the old Taoist's bed was still warm. An older man said, "Since this old Taoist knows evil magic, he might know invisibility . Since boy urine can break his evil magic, he will definitely break his invisibility technic." Everyone picked up a bucket of manure and poured it around the house. Sure enough, he found the old Taoist in a corner. At this time, the old Taoist was covered in feces, not to mention how embarrassed he was.
Everyone tied the old Taoist rope to the county government for punishment. After that, people no longer believed in fortune-telling.
[Sounding Statement]
This story is a folk story, purely literary creation, the plot and characters are all fictional, aiming to enrich readers' spare time, please do not match feudal superstitions.
