During the Qing Dynasty, there was an old man named Zhang in Liangzhou . His family was poor when he was young. In his middle age, he scraped together dozens of taels of silver to marry a wife, known as Cheng. She gave birth to a daughter named Meng'an. After the family lived a stable life for two years, old man Zhang died.
Mr. Cheng is thirty years younger than Mr. Zhang, and still has charm. With a little dressing up, he can charm a group of bachelors outside. After Meng'an got married, she lived a lonely life at home. Regardless of Meng'an's dissuasion, she went out to hang out with a group of men, often not returning home until midnight.
On this day, Mrs. Cheng and several men were drinking in a restaurant and chatting with a group of bachelors. One of the men, dressed in white, was sitting next to Mrs. Cheng. He was forced by Mrs. Cheng to drink several glasses of wine and became unconscious. A book slipped out of his pocket. Mrs. Cheng took the book and looked at it. She found that the cover had three characters "Book of Life and Death" written on it. When she opened it, the name of her son-in-law Chen Qingli was recorded.
Chen Qingli was recently infected with tuberculosis, and even ten doctors could not cure him. He stayed on the bed every day, and Meng'an stayed at the bedside to take care of him every day. His life was not comfortable.
According to the records in the Book of Life and Death, Chen Qingli will die in half a month, and ghost messengers will come to take away his soul. Cheng is Chen Qingli’s mother-in-law after all, and she couldn’t bear to see him die like this, so she found a pen and crossed out Chen Qingli’s name from the Book of Life and Death.
Then Cheng stuffed the book of life and death into the man's pocket, pretended as if nothing had happened, and continued drinking with other men until early in the morning, then returned home drunk.
Ever since Cheng changed the book of life and death that day, Chen Qingli's body has been getting better day by day, cured without treatment, and stronger than before. He is a salesman. In order to bring Meng'an a better life, he works hard to sell goods outside every day, getting up early and working late at night. Meng'an takes care of everything at home, and the life of the couple becomes more and more promising.
Ten years passed in the blink of an eye. Chen Qingli and Meng An had a child, their nickname was Xiao Qian. The two raised Xiao Qian together and married him a wife. Meng An was already over seventy at that time and had aged terribly, but Chen Qingli still maintained his original appearance. He was a young man in his early twenties, looking younger than Xiao Qian.
Over the years, Mrs. Cheng had already passed away due to illness. Even before her death, she did not reveal to Chen Qingli that she had encountered a ghost and changed the book of life and death without permission. Therefore, Chen Qingli had never understood the reason for his immortal appearance and long life.
Another forty years passed in the blink of an eye. Meng An died without any illness under the care of Chen Qingli. Xiao Qian also grew up to be an old man with a family full of children and grandchildren. Chen Qingli still looked like he was when he was young.
The strange thing that happened to Chen Qingli was so strange that it attracted a large number of villagers to discuss, but they couldn't come up with a reason, so they treated Chen Qingli as a god and built an ancestral hall for him.
Five hundred years have passed like this. The ancestral hall built by the villagers for Chen Qingli has long since collapsed due to the wind and sun, but Chen Qingli is still alive, and his appearance has not changed at all. In order to avoid attracting the attention of the villagers, he would change his residence every twenty years.
One day, Chen Qingli went to visit his cronies. His descendants had reproduced for dozens of generations and had a population of hundreds. After Chen Qingli arrived home, his descendants immediately surrounded him and treated him as a monster. From time to time, they pinched Chen Qingli's cheeks and pulled Chen Qingli's hair. This made Chen Qingli impatient. While his descendants were resting at night, they secretly went to the ruined temple to spend the night.
There is a figure of a man in the ruined temple. He has a thick book in his hand, which is full of names. The man is kneeling on the ground, groping for a bunch of vague words with his fingertips, and muttering to himself, as if something terrible has happened.
Chen Qingli felt that something was quite strange, so she walked up to the man and chatted with him for a few words. She learned that the man was a ghost servant. He came to the underworld hundreds of years ago and went to the tavern to drink for pleasure. Someone secretly changed the destiny of life and death while he was drunk. He has not dared to return to the underworld to work on his mission.
This person has never been seduced by ghosts and must live for hundreds of years. Ghosts have been asking for a long time and learned that there is a person with a long life in this area. He wanted to see if he was this person in the book of life and death, but he could not find him.
In fact, it is easy to resolve this matter. Just press the person's finger on the book of life and death, and his name will reappear, and the trouble of ghosts can also be resolved.
After listening to Gui Cha’s statement, Chen Qingli put his fingertips on the Book of Life and Death. He saw a golden light emitting from the Book of Life and Death. Chen Qingli’s name appeared again, and he realized that someone had tampered with the Book of Life and Death for him.
Chen Qingli lived for hundreds of years and was tired of the life in the world. He went to the underworld with the ghost messenger to deal with the judge.
Based on the location of the restaurant and thinking of Cheng's behavior during his lifetime, Chen Qingli could easily think that Cheng had done everything, so he told the judge what he knew.
The judge first escorted the derelict ghost officer to the cell, then found the Cheng family who was reincarnated in the earthly world, and sent the Cheng family to the endless hell. At the critical moment, Chen Qingli quickly begged the judge to release Cheng family.
Chen Qingli is a kind-hearted person who has been doing good things for people for hundreds of years. His words have some weight, so the judge shortened Cheng's life span by thirty years and put her back in the world of the world.
As for Chen Qingli, he was taken into reincarnation and ended his life.
