Verse 568: Dreaming

As soon as he sighed, the old man appeared in front of him, took him by the hand, and said, "How did you get to this point again? It's okay, I still want to help you, you say, how much does it cost?" Du Zichun was embarrassed and embarrassed to speak. The old man asked again and again, but Du Zichun just apologized ashamedly. The old man said, "Tomorrow at noon, go back to the place where I used to meet you." The next day, Du Zichun went very ashamed, and the old man gave him 10 million this time. Du Zichun repeatedly expressed his determination without receiving the money, saying that this time he must work hard to buy a family business, and he will become a monopoly in the future, so that the ancient monopoly is a small role compared with the two of them. When the old man heard this, he gave him the money again.

As soon as the money arrived, Du Zichun's heart changed again, and he began to squander BMW again, spending all day and drinking. In less than a year or two, it was empty-handed again, which was even worse than last time. At this time, he saw the old man again at the place where he met him on Chang'an Street, and because he was too ashamed, he covered his face with his hands and avoided the old man. But the old man grabbed him by his clothes and said, "Where can you hide? Then he gave him 30,000,000 and said, "If you don't reform yourself this time, you will be poor forever."

Du Zichun thought to himself, he was debauched and squandered, and finally got a penny on his body, some of his relatives and friends were rich people, but no one paid attention to me, but this old man gave me a huge amount of money three times, what should I do to be worthy of him?

Thinking of this, he said to the old man, "I have received these three lessons from you, and I should be able to stand on my own feet in the world." Not only will I be self-reliant in the future, but I will also give to orphans and widows all over the world in order to restore my lost reputation and education. "I am deeply grateful to you for your kindness to me, and even if I have achieved a career in the future, it is entirely because of your teaching and support to me. The old man said, "This is exactly what I expect from you!" After you have achieved something, you will wait for me under the two cypress trees in front of the Laojun Temple on the 15th day of July next year. ”

Du Zichun knew that most of the orphans and widows were living in Huainan, so he came to Yangzhou, bought 100 hectares of fertile land, built mansions in the city, built more than 100 houses at important intersections, and called orphans and widows to live in various mansions. For the relatives in his own family, regardless of whether they are close or distant, they have repaid those who have been kind to him in the past, and those who have revenge have also taken revenge. After fulfilling his wish, Du Zichun came to the Laojun Temple as scheduled and saw the old man whistling and singing under the cypress tree.

After seeing Du Zichun, the old man led him to climb the Yuntai Peak of Huashan Mountain. After entering the mountains for more than forty miles, I came to a place and saw a tall and well-groomed house, which did not seem to be inhabited by mortals. Cranes fly around the rooftop, and clouds swirl in the sky. In the middle of the main hall of the room, there was a furnace of alchemy pills more than nine feet, and the purple light in the furnace shone brightly, reflecting the doors and windows. There are nine jade maidens standing around the stove, and there are green dragons and white tigers guarding the stove in front and behind.

At this time, it was almost dark, and when I looked at the old man again, he was no longer wearing mortal clothes, but an immortal master wearing a zodiac robe and a zodiac crown. The immortal master took three white stone pills and a glass of wine and gave them to Du Zichun, telling him to eat them quickly. The immortal master took another tiger skin and spread it under the west wall of the inner room, sat down facing east, and warned Du Zichun: "You must not make a sound. The gods and demons that appear here or the Yaksha or the hell and the beasts of prey, and your relatives who are tied up and tortured, are not true. No matter what miserable things you see, don't move, don't speak, don't be afraid, then it will never hurt you, and you must think about my instructions!"

After the immortal master went, Du Zichun looked into the courtyard, and there was a large urn filled with water in the courtyard, but he didn't see anything else. As soon as the Taoist priest left, Du Zichun heard the shouts of people outside shaking the heavens and the earth, and saw that the mountains and valleys were full of soldiers, flags fluttering, spears flashing, and thousands of horsemen flocked. There was a man who called himself a great general, more than a foot tall, and he himself and his horse were clothed in golden armor and shining brightly. There were hundreds of the general's guards, all holding swords and bows, until they came to the front of the house, and loudly reprimanded Du Zichun, saying: "Who are you? Why didn't the general avoid it when he arrived!" Some of the guards even forced Du Zichun with their swords to ask him his name and what he was doing, but he didn't say a word. Seeing that he was silent, the guards were furious, shouting one after another, "Kill him!" and "Shoot him!" Du Zichun was still silent, and the general had no choice but to take the team away angrily. After a while, groups of fierce tigers, poisonous dragons, lions, pit vipers and poisonous scorpions came, scrambling to pounce on Du Zichun to tear him apart and devour him, some were still jumping around above his head with teeth and claws, Du Zichun was still silent, and after a while, these poisonous snakes and beasts also dispersed. At this time, there was a sudden heavy rain and thunder and lightning, the sky was dark, and he couldn't see his five fingers, and after a while, a big fire wheel was burning and rolling left and right on him, and the light shone in front of and behind him, so bright that he couldn't open his eyes. In a moment, the water in the courtyard was more than a foot deep, and the thunder in the air rumbled and the lightning flashed, as if the mountain peak collapsed and the river flowed backwards, and its momentum was unstoppable. In the blink of an eye, the rolling waves rushed to Du Zichun's seat, but he was still sitting upright without even blinking his eyelids. Then the general came again, leading a group of bull-headed horses and hideous ghosts in hell, and placed a cauldron filled with boiling water in front of Du Zichun, and the ghosts held spears and two iron forks, and ordered: "Say your name, and let you go, if you don't say it, put you in the pot and boil!" Du Zichun still did not speak.

At this time, the ghosts grabbed his wife and tied her to the bottom of the steps, pointed to his wife and said to Du Zichun, "Say your name and let her go." Du Zichun was still silent. So the goblins whipped his wife, slashed her with knives, shot her with arrows, burned and boiled at one time, and tormented her in all sorts of ways. His wife was so miserable that she cried to Du Zichun: "Although I am ugly and stupid, I am not worthy of you, but I have been your wife for more than ten years after all." Now that I have been captured by demons and tortured like this, I can't stand it! I dare not expect you to kneel down and plead with them, but I only hope that if you say a word, I will live. Who can be ruthless, husband, can you bear to keep silent and let me continue to be tortured?" his wife cried and shouted and cursed and cursed, but Du Zichun always ignored it.

The general also said, "If you don't speak, I have more vicious means to deal with your wife!" and as he said that, he ordered the file to be brought in, and began to file his wife inch by inch from the foot. His wife's crying became higher and higher, but Du Zichun still didn't even look at it.