Today I saw a reader ask about Fang Xing, by the way.

This question is mentioned in the first part of the first volume of "Strange Tales from Liaozhai".

The original text of "Kao Chenghuang": To the ancestor of his sister-in-law, Song Gong, Yi Lisheng. One day when he was sick, he saw the official holding a mask, leading the white horse, and the cloud: "Please go to the test." Gongyan: "Wenzong has not come, why should he be tested?" The officials did not speak, but urged them. Gongli was sick and rode a horse from it, and the road was very unfamiliar, to a city, such as the king's capital. When you move into the mansion, the palace is magnificent. There are more than ten officials sitting on it, and they don't know who they are, but Guan Zhuang Miao can be recognized. Under the eaves set up several, piers each two, first have a show before sitting at the end, the public and the shoulder. There are pens on each of them. The Russian inscription paper flew down, and there were eight characters in it, and the cloud: "One person and two people, with or without a heart." "The two official documents are completed and presented to the palace. There is a cloud in the official document: "If you have a heart, you will be good, although you are good, you will not be rewarded." If you do evil without intention, you will not be punished for evil. The gods were full of praise. Summoning the public, the edict said: "Henan lacks a city god, and the king is called his position." Gong Fangwu suddenly cried and said: "How dare you say more if you are insulted and favored?" But the old mother is seventy years old, and there is no one to support, so please have to live all her life, but listen to the recruitment. "The person who is like the last emperor is destined to live with his mother. A long-bearded official flipped through the book, and Bai: "There is a yang calculation for nine years." After hesitating, Emperor Guan said: "You might as well let Zhang Sheng take the seal for nine years, and Guadai can also." It is the public: "I should go to the post immediately, and now I will promote the heart of benevolence and filial piety, and give nine years of leave." Timely resumption. He encouraged Xiucai to speak. The two public inspectors are combined. Xiucai shook hands, sent to the suburbs, and said to himself Changshan Zhang. Farewell to poems, forget the words, there is a sentence "there are flowers and wine, spring is always there, no candles and no lights are self-evident at night".

The public rides, but he does not go, and arrives in the room, as if he is dreaming. It has been three days since he died, and his mother heard the moaning in the coffin, and helped him out, and he could speak for half a day. asked about the long mountain, and if there was Zhang Sheng, he would die on the same day. Nine years later, the mother died, the camp and burial were completed, and Huan Hao entered the room and disappeared. In the west gate of his home city, he suddenly saw Zhu Yi carved by the public, and there were many horses. Ascend to the hall and bow down. They were all suspicious, they didn't know that they were gods, and they ran to the village, but they were already dead. The public has a small biography, but it is a pity that there is no existence after the chaos, and this is a little bit of a hearing.

It is to the effect that a person was recruited for an exam in a dream at night, and when he saw the question "one person and two people, with or without heart", he knew how to answer, so he replied: "If you deliberately do good deeds with utilitarian interests, even if you do good deeds, God will not reward them; If you don't want to do evil and do something bad unintentionally, God will not punish you. His scrolls were circulated by the gods, and they praised him, so they invited him to serve as the city god. This person panicked when he heard this, the city god is a priest in the underworld, and letting him be the city god is not letting him die. So he begged to go back to take care of his mother first, so he went back to take care of his mother for nine years before he died, and he went to Chenghuang.

In fact, this story should reflect a very common view of good and evil retribution among the ancient folks, believing that good cannot be deliberate, otherwise it will have no effect, that is, the mind will not be traced. This view is obviously made up by the poor, because where there is a theory of karma in the world, there will be people who try to seek good results by doing more good deeds, but in terms of doing good deeds, of course, whoever has more money has the greatest effect, not to mention that in ancient times, most people were so poor that they couldn't eat enough at home, how could they help others. Therefore, when doing good deeds, the poor are obviously not as good as the rich.

What to do? Hence this kind of chicken thief saying. The poor have no ability to help others, and the rich spend money to do good deeds to accumulate yin virtue, but the poor do not want the rich to occupy any yin virtue, so they think that doing good with heart is an opportunistic act of karma and has no meaning. It is no different from the poor who do not do good deeds. On the contrary, a poor person does not want to do bad things, but because of various reasons, such as being too poor, not understanding the law, not being careful, and doing bad things, he cannot afford to pay for them, and he will defend that I have no intention of doing evil and should not punish me.

The people who came up with this theory were poor and shameless, and most of them were lumpenproletarians in ancient times.

When we people look at it today, we will think that this is a double standard and a troll, because we are normal people, not lumpenproletarians who have become distorted under the oppression of the feudal system in ancient society.

This phenomenon is not an isolated case, on the contrary, I have seen quite a few folklore.

And, if you look at ancient words, you will find a lot of episodes that are angry to death. I still remember the beginning of Jigong's biography, Jigong's family has done good deeds for a long, long time, I don't know how many good deeds have been done, but there have been no children, and the villagers have said that his family must not be a true and good person, otherwise how can there be no descendants?

So where is the justice on earth?

Of course, in the essence of ancient culture.

For example, there are hundreds of schools.

That's my personal crude opinion. If there is any error, please correct it.