Chapter 509: Persuading Thieves

There are still some lonely and widowed elderly or lonely and disabled elderly people who have no one to take care of in Qilishan Village, and their lives are very difficult. He Langzhong took out the savings he had saved for many years to build a nursing home and adopt all the elderly in the village who had no one to take care of them.

Of course, He Langzhong was too busy to do it alone, and he also hired a few young people to help as nurses in nursing homes. In order to keep the old people fed and clothed, and there is no shortage of materials to help the old people, he also raised a few ploughing cattle for cultivating acres of land and planting crops, so that in less than three or five years, the nursing home will be rich, like a self-sufficient manor, and not as short of manpower as before, but the manpower is slowly increasing.

What is the reason for this? The reason is that those lonely old people or lonely and disabled old people have lived a relatively prosperous life under the care of He Langzhong, and most of them have become healthy and able to participate in labor.

In addition, He Langzhong, who is proficient in medical skills, taught them how to maintain health and health, and they have fewer diseases and their bodies are getting healthier and healthier. Some are competing to do this, some are competing to do that, each doing their best, each doing their best, and treating this nursing home or manor as their own big family.

At that time, there was an old man who had let go of the cow in the past, surnamed Hu, the word was elegant, the number was not to come, and the name was true. He fought to raise cattle. He was six out of eighty, and like He Langzhong, he was full of silver hair, but he was in good spirits.

He is one year younger than He Langzhong, and He Langzhong often calls Brother Hu, he feels cordial and is willing to agree. One winter night, at the time of the unitary season, these elderly friends from different villages spent the night happily like a family, and dispersed, Hu Zhenzhen also left the restaurant and went straight to the cowpen house in the backyard to see if the bull had eaten the forage he had put there.

He pushed open the door that had not yet been closed, and lifted the lit pine flame to see, he didn't know what he saw, turned around and left, and came to the residence and clinic of He Langzhong, who was boiling medicine, and whispered something to him mysteriously.

Then he picked up a wooden stick and wanted to leave, He Langzhong smiled and said, Brother Hu, slow, don't be reckless, you listen to me, put down the wooden stick, and wait at the door of the bullpen house for a while.

Hu Zhen was puzzled, but he still came to the door of the bullpen house to wait as He Langzhong instructed. For about half an hour, Hu Zhen smelled the fragrance of food, and he wondered even more, we all spent the night, it's not early now, who else will have dinner?

As he was thinking like this, he heard footsteps, and when he looked back, He Langzhong came over with a candle lit by a floating flame, and said to him, Brother Hu, you lead the way, go to the bullpen and have a look.

Hu Zhen understood a little, and then went up to the bullpen, he pointed to a person who was lying on the belly of the cow and couldn't see the purpose, turned around and whispered to He Langzhong, who came quietly, see? That's the cattle thief. How can we deal with it with our bare hands? I'll go get a stick!

He Langzhong shook his head and motioned for him to go away, while he approached the bull, squatted down, looked at the man lying on the belly of the cow and said, Alas, the gentleman on the beam, no, the gentleman on the cow, you avoided us and sneaked into the bullpen to steal the cow, you must have been forced by life, and I don't blame you, but I want to tell you that this kind of thing can't be done.

In fact, you were lying on the belly of the cow, and Lao Hu in our manor had already found out, and he told me, I will not sue the official, nor will I alarm you, for fear that if you are alarmed, you will run away.

Why don't I alarm you? I also specially arranged for the husband to set up a table of banquets to entertain you, I want to accompany you to have a glass of wine, and talk to you well, what difficulties do you have, why do you want to steal cattle, don't steal cattle?

If there are any difficulties and you can't live, you just stay in our manor and do what you can, eat and drink without worrying, why do you have to do this kind of disgraceful thing that you are frightened, found out, beaten and humiliated, and will make your family lose face?

Suddenly, with a "poof", the person lying on the belly of the cow - a man with a pair of small eyes like mung beans fell, no, jumped down.

He knelt on the ground and kowtowed to He Langzhong repeatedly, and said, good man! I have long heard that you He Langzhong is a good person, but I didn't expect that you are really so good, I shouldn't have the heart to steal the cattle in your manor, although I didn't steal it, but I was at fault first, if you didn't take care of it strictly, I would have succeeded. Ah! It's so wrong with your manor, He Langzhong, you just let me go! If you don't arrest me or sue the officials, I'll be thankful, how dare I expect to stay in the manor and let you treat me like a guest?

He Langzhong helped him up and pulled him out of the bullpen and said, I sincerely want to keep you for a glass of wine, if you are willing to stay in the manor to work, I will take you in, if you are unwilling, I will give you a ride, just advise you not to do such a disgraceful thing in the future.

Here, Hu Zhenzhen was also affected, and his hostility towards the man who attempted to steal the cattle gradually turned into kindness, saying, you should really go to the house and sit down and have a glass of wine, first, listen to He Langzhong's advice, and second, suppress the shock. Speaking of this, he sneered, and continued, You should thank He Langzhong well, if he hadn't persuaded me to forgive you, you would have been beaten by me a few sticks, because you were the first to find out about lying on the belly of that bull.

Hearing this, the man came over and knelt down and kowtowed to Hu Zhen, and said, Thank you dad for not fighting, I will no longer have any thoughts about your manor, you are too good to me. Hu Zhenzhen said, don't thank me, if you want to thank He Langzhong.

He Langzhong said, no, no. He picked up the man and walked towards the main room in the courtyard, and the fragrance of dishes filled the air, making the man really feel that He Langzhong really treated him as a guest.

The hazy night, like the darkness in the man's heart, was dissipated little by little in He Langzhong's eloquent persuasion of him to clink glasses and handle the lamp.

His heart seemed to be immediately full of light, and he immediately worshiped He Langzhong as his father-in-law, and vowed to wash his hands in a golden basin from now on, never steal again, honestly study medicine with his father-in-law, and give free medical treatment to others.

A few years later, He Langzhong indoctrinated five or six people who were similar to the thief, and ten years later there were fifty or sixty people. Later, Qilichong Mountain Village really showed a good atmosphere of not closing the door at night and not leaving the road behind.

One day in the autumn of that year, He Langzhong sat in the manor and died of illness at the age of 140. When he left, with a smile on his face, his eyelids slightly closed, as if he were sleeping, the old people who were still alive in the manor heard bursts of fairy music, so they talked about it, saying that God has the virtue of a good life, and seeing that He Langzhong had accumulated countless merits during his lifetime, he played fairy music to welcome him to ascend to the heavenly realm as an immortal.

Mortals do not have heavenly eyes, they can only guess. And the god of the land, the god of the family, the god of the stove, and the god of the door, who already had their own magical powers, rushed to send He Langzhong a ride respectfully, and they were already standing in a row, but what they saw was a different scene: a portable shrine accompanied by bursts of fairy music fell from the sky, and immediately carried He Langzhong's spirit body rising.

When he went to the Heavenly Palace, He Langzhong's spirit body should be incorporated into the immortal class, but after he thanked the gods, he said, I once secretly swore in the world that I would do 30,000 good deeds, but now my life has ended, less than 30,000, and I still owe 1,200 good deeds. I beg the Emperor of Heaven to let me return to the world to reincarnate and become a human being, so as to complete my good karma.

Suddenly, an immortal official smiled and said, After many people end their lives, they wish to ascend to heaven to be immortals, but you don't want to let go down to earth to be a human being. How much do you have to suffer as a human being? How happy it should be to be a god?

He Langzhong's spirit body worshipped, forgive me for being disrespectful and blunt, when Xiao Langzhong was alive, I once heard a Taoist monk say: not for personal happiness, but for all living beings to be free from suffering. I went down to earth to be reincarnated as a human being, mainly to help mortal beings who are suffering.

The Emperor of Heaven praised, it is rare to find this compassionate heart of He Langzhong, and this official will fulfill your wish! Immediately arranged for the Guardian Immortal to send He Langzhong's spirit body down to earth, and instructed him to be reborn in the home of a big official in the capital.