Lu Dongbin saw that Xuan Chu asked a lot about the Heavenly Palace, and also asked Emperor Ziwei, could this be, who mentioned something in front of this girl, but since he didn't say it in front of her. It is impossible for the master to say it in front of her, could it be that the girl said it from the jade hairpin, but the jade hairpin doesn't know anything, how can she tell Yu Chu something?

Lu Dongbin smiled: "Hehe, you kid ask these strange questions, practice hard, and be able to do it as soon as possible, you will naturally know if you are in the immortal class?" At that time, I'm afraid that there will be many places to socialize in the Heavenly Palace every day, and you will be more troublesome......"

Xuan Chu thought to himself that the princess of Zichen Palace, life would inevitably be more social. However, what I know is not this, but I want to know whether I am a bad person or a good person.

Could it be that there are still bad people who live in the heavenly palace?

Xuan Chu said, "Master, did you say that the immortals who live in the heavenly court are there any bad people? ”

Lu Dongbin smiled: "Hehe, you girl, why did you suddenly remember to ask this question, do you think there are any bad people in Heavenly Court?" ”

Xuan Chu said: "I think, I don't know, I just don't know before I asked Master, what do I think?" I don't want I think I want you to feel ......"

Lu Dongbin said with a smile: "During the Daoguang Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, Mr. Niu Shumei served as the prefect of Ningyuan Mansion, and was honest and diligent and prudent, with outstanding political achievements, and was unanimously praised by the people. Suddenly, one day there was a major earthquake, and the houses in the city collapsed, the number of dead and injured was not counted, and the government office was also damaged in many places. The husband's son was unfortunately killed, and his own legs and feet were injured, making it difficult for him to walk. ”

Xuan Chu said: "Master wants to tell stories and clarify thoughts? ”

Lu Dongbin said with a smile: "You will know after listening to it, he felt very indignant, so he wrote a sparse article to question the city god of the palace, to the effect that the city god enjoyed the incense of the people, but did not protect it." The whole city is so big, are they all wicked? Even if he is an official, he has a clear conscience, but his son died and he was injured. Could it really be that the way of heaven is not enough to rely on faith, and the gods are also wrong in their inspection? ”

Xuan Chu said: "Even if everyone is a bad person, what is the crime of the newborn child......

Lu Dongbin smiled: "Well, hehe......"

At night, the gentleman dreamed that the lord of the city god invited him to go, sat down according to the courtesy of the guest and host, and said to him: "The gentleman is justified in accusing him with words, but unfortunately he cannot understand the way of ghosts and gods, so he invites you to come and talk about it to explain the suspicion and slander." It is no accident that all catastrophes are caused by the accumulation of sins. The earthquake disaster has been investigated and recorded for 50 years, and everything that should not have suffered has been moved elsewhere, and if it is a new sin that has been created recently, it will be moved again, and even if it is temporary, there will be changes in and out, and it will never be indifferent and disregard the lives of the people.

The gentleman said, "Is there not a good man in the whole city?" Will my son and I also be condemned?

Lord Chenghuang said: There are still three families, it is indeed difficult to move away in a short period of time, and now they are all safe and sound. The family is a festival woman in a certain street, widowed for three generations, raising a little grandson; The family is a certain Langzhong, who does not sell counterfeit medicines in his life, and if he is invited to see a doctor, even if it rains late at night and the road is muddy, he will go immediately and treat him wholeheartedly; The family, an old woman selling oil dumplings and her little grandson, were not killed. Sir will be able to find it when he goes back and visit, and he will not deceive you. The son's previous life was so bad that he could not escape. Even Mr. was originally within the calamity, but because of the incorruptibility of the officials, he was able to be lenient, but he only injured his legs and feet. In short, God rewards and punishes, is cautious and cautious, and never favoritism. There is no unjustified disaster, and there is no reason to be spared. The gentleman tried his best to be a good official, and in the future he would be promoted to the official position of an envoy.

Xuan Chu said: "Did you really find those people in the end?" ”

Lu Dongbin smiled: "Mr. thanked and apologized. After waking up, I searched everywhere, and sure enough, I found the festival woman and Langzhong, and the whole family was safe and sound, but because the house was short and was covered by the houses on both sides, I didn't find it. Only the old woman who sold the oil balls, after many searches, found it in the corner formed by the rafters of the house. ”

Xuan Chu said: "Sure enough, he is doing business and selling oil cakes? ”

Lu Dongbin said with a smile: "Ask her, saying that she usually does business here, and if you encounter the old, weak and disabled, even if the money is not enough, you will sell it to them, and occasionally give alms, not a penny." A day or two before the earthquake, the number of people buying oil cakes suddenly increased, and the supply exceeded the supply, so she took her little grandson to make oil cakes at night for sale. After the earthquake, the grandfather and grandson were covered under the collapsed house for three days, and they used oil cakes to satisfy their hunger, because they couldn't go out because of too much pressure, but they didn't expect to see the light of day again. Xu Zeol, the governor of Sichuan at that time, said in a draft submitted to the Qing court: Ming Qian, the magistrate of Xichang County, said that on the night of the seventh day of the first month of August, there was a sudden earthquake in the county seat, which shook and turbulent, and the building collapsed. The city was boiling, and there was no way to save it because of the rain in the dark night. By the dawn of the day, the whole city was overwhelmed with wood and stones, and the streets, alleys, temples, city towers, civil and military offices, prisons, and warehouses were all collapsed...... Countless soldiers and civilians were crushed and killed. ”

Xuan Chu said incredulously: "This is really a god!" ”

Lu Dongbin smiled: "Why are you still suspicious of this fact?" Niu Shumei herself also wrote a poem "Xichang Earthquake Chronicle", describing the situation after the earthquake......"

Xuan Chu said: "I am suspecting that it may be to educate people's hearts, how does the poem say?" ”

Lu Dongbin said with a smile: "Kun Wei walked thunder in the middle of the night, and the mountains shook and the sea was depressed. The bed is like a dancer, the ten thousand houses are destroyed by dead leaves, Chi Ming looks at the city and flats, and who can know if he wants to distinguish the street. The Xichang Earthquake Stele Forest in Lushan also has a detailed record of the earthquake. It can be seen from this that the person, time, place, and event of this matter are undoubtedly conclusive and by no means apocryphal. ”

"The formation of earthquake disasters is a geological phenomenon from the perspective of natural science. However, from the perspective of Taoism, everything in the world is the cause of the Heavenly Dao, which is formed by the harmony of internal and external causes. The outer edge of the earthquake is a geological change phenomenon in the scientific sense, and the internal cause that plays a fundamental role is the burden of all living beings, destroying the natural environment, excessive killing of wild animals, etc., it has to be said that the earth's ecosystem is interlocking, and if any one of them is destroyed, the whole system will lose its balance and there will be unimaginable disasters. ”

Lu Dongbin said with a smile: "Throughout history, all the outbreaks of diseases and disasters in human beings are always inextricably linked to what human beings do. In the thirty-ninth chapter of his work "Tao Te Ching", Lao Tzu warned: "The sky is not clear, and it will be torn apart; If the land is not peaceful, it will be feared of waste; God has no spirit, and will be afraid; The valley is incomparable, and it will be exhausted; All things cannot be born, and they will be destroyed. ”