On this day, Cao Nanshan was building a wooden bridge on the Nanjia ditch in Caojiazhuang, and the material of the wooden bridge was the three pieces of oak trees he carried from the mountain. In order to make the wooden bridge firm and safe to walk on, he also tied the three sections of the oak tree tube tightly together with iron wire, and tied a hoop at the upper and lower ends and one in the middle section to keep the wooden structure of the bridge from loosening.

After the completion of the wooden bridge, he was already sweating all over, but his face was full of smiles, sometimes from one end of the wooden bridge to the other, and said to himself: This is good, it can be convenient for myself and others.

It was a rainy early summer season, and on a sunny day, a torrent of torrents was pouring down from the mountains in the ditches and bubbling to the great river beyond.

At this moment, Cao Nanshan was standing on the wooden bridge and watching a full ditch of water with a smiling whirlpool, as if applauding his merits in repairing the bridge.

Suddenly, the yin ghost Cao Yang appeared, he came to Cao Nanshan's back, and was about to push Cao Nanshan with a palm, intending to push him down the ditch, and then hold down his head and drown him to avenge his hatred. But when the yin soul Cao Yang stretched out his hand, he was grabbed by the land god who suddenly appeared behind him.

The land god said in a consultative tone, you spare Cao Nanshan!

Yin Soul Cao Yang turned around and asked, why did I spare him? I want to avenge the next life. His arm broke free from the hands of the land god, and then he took out a certificate, lit up in front of the land god, and said with confidence, you know what? The god of the land, I asked him for his life because I received the decree, and I must put him to death today.

At the beginning, that is, in his previous life, he participated in a group of strongmen who robbed a boatload of soybeans transported to Jiangbei by our family on the Chibi River, and pushed our family of 7 into the river to drown, I will push him into the ditch and drown him today, otherwise, I am not happy and angry, why do you stop me?

The land god stomped his feet, let go of his voice and said, "Oops! Listen to my explanation, in his previous life, it is true that he participated in a group of strongmen to do the kind of bad things that exterminated humanity, but he has become a better person, you see this wooden bridge was built by him with his heart, and on both sides of the ditch are two villages facing each other, and building a wooden bridge here can facilitate the people of the two villages to take a lot of detours.

You see, if there is no wooden bridge here, the people of Beicun need to walk along the edge of the ditch to the south village more than two miles long loess road, and then through a stone arch bridge in the middle of the ditch, in order to pass.

Yin Soul Cao Yang said with an angry face, The land god, tell you clearly, I came to him to ask for his life, not to listen to you talk about his merits in building bridges and roads, do you know?

He has merit now and will be rewarded in the future; He did bad things in the past, there was no reckoning in the past, and now that the opportunity is ripe, he will be found to settle down. This is a matter of course, and you have to distinguish clearly.

The land god still said peacefully, Cao Yang, don't get angry, I know that you have received the decree, and I should not stop you from asking for your life from Cao Nanshan. But I have a sentence now, don't vomit or be unhappy, let me say it, and if you ask him for his life again, I can't care about it.

Yin Soul Cao Yang put the spirit in his hand back on his body, and said in a soothing tone, then you can say it!

The land god said, let me tell you, this Cao Nanshan is one of the strongmen who robbed your family on the Chibi River in the past life: it has always been early, and now he has been reincarnated as the son of your parents Cao Hongyou and Xiaohuaihua, of course, your parents in the past life have also been reincarnated, that is, Cao Bohua and plum blossoms who are still married in the present life.

The reason why I dissuade you from asking Cao Nanshan for your life to collect debts is because I remember that Cao Nanshan is not only a good man in his current life, but also a true filial son, and he is very filial to your reincarnation parents.

At the beginning, the opinion of the Ghost Judgment Hall was to make the past life always turn into a beast early, but considering that he was filial to the Venerable Master and his good roots still existed, he continued to reincarnate and become a human being, but he became a person with no ears and a broken appearance, which was also due to his karma.

Yin Soul Cao Yang took a closer look, Cao Nanshan, who was still wandering on the wooden bridge, really didn't have long ears, and the parts that should have long ears were bare, with only two holes.

Persuaded by the god of the land, he walked across the newly built wooden bridge to the south of the ditch, and muttered for a long time.

The land god came to me and asked, what do you want to say?

Yin Soul Cao Yang said, I think he is also quite pitiful, he looks disabled, but he is not disabled in his heart, and he is quite beautiful. So be it! From today on, I will investigate Cao Nanshan for three years, if he is not really filial, it is pretended filial piety, then I'm sorry, once I find out, I will immediately ask him for his life to collect debts, that is, to find an opportunity to push him into the water and drown, in the past life he also pushed my family from the boat into the water to drown, I also want him to experience the taste of being drowned.

On the Qingming Festival in the second year, Cao Bohua and Cao Nanshan father and son went to the ancestral tomb behind the house to worship their ancestors. In addition to burning incense and kowtowing and setting off firecrackers, offerings of wine and meat were also placed. Cao Bohua took the wine jug and sifted several cups of wine one after another, and sprinkled it on the ancestral tomb where the grass silk had just been pulled out and the loess bag appeared, and the air was immediately filled with a smell of wine.

Cao Nanshan instinctively hung his nose and moved, and then asked for the wine jug and wine cup from his father's hand, and was about to sift the wine and follow his father's example and throw the wine in the cemetery as a sacrifice.

Cao Bohua said, Nanshan, no need, I just sprinkled wine on the grave. After a while, the sacrifice is over, and there is still half a pot of wine in this pot, you can drink it if you want, and it just so happens that there are a few plates of pig's head meat offered to the ancestors in front of these graves, which can be used as a snack dish.

Cao Nanshan said, Dad, wait a while, we will drink wine and eat meat together in the cemetery.

Cao Bohua said, I don't taste wine, I get dizzy when I taste wine, you are young, you can eat all this wine and meat, it's best not to take it home.

Cao Nanshan waited for about a cup of tea with a wine jug and a wine cup, and Cao Bohua looked at him and made a gesture and said, You can drink wine and eat meat.

Cao Nanshan seemed to be in a hurry, he didn't even want a wine cup, picked up the wine jug, stuffed the spout into his mouth, craned his neck, and drank it gurglingly.

After that, he put the flask down, picked up a plate of pork head meat and ate it in a few strokes, and then took the flask and poured wine into his mouth, and then ate the meat. Repeated four times, the wine in the jug was drunk, and the pig's head meat in the four cold dishes was eaten up, and Cao Nanshan's ears were bright red at this time. He was already slightly drunk, and asked Cao Bohua, Dad, did I drink too much?

Today is a special situation, and you can't drink so much next time. Cao Bohua, who nodded, said so.

Cao Nanshan said "um".

At this time, the father and son went down the ancestral tomb mountain, walked the mountain path to the back of the house, did not go home directly, but went around to the front of the house, and walked towards the sparkling dangjiatang in front.

Cao Bohua approached the pond bank and told Cao Nanshan to take the empty wine jug back, but Cao Nanshan did not return immediately.

Cao Nanshan carried a bamboo basket containing four empty plates and went to the pondside wharf to wash.

Cao Bo frowned and said, you drank too much wine, you are a little drunk, your body is crooked and falling, be careful to roll into the pond, let me wash it!

Cao Nanshan said, I'm just a little drunk, and I don't get in the way, not to mention that I am drunk and clear, and I have absolutely no problem washing 4 plates. Then he stuffed the empty wine jug to Cao Bohua and said, Dad, you go back first.

Cao Bohua had no choice but to walk back with the empty wine jug, but when he approached the edge of the pond, the soles of his feet slipped, and with a "bang", he fell into the water. With the splash of water at a height of a few feet, Cao Nanshan, who was washing empty dishes, couldn't help but say, from the dock a fierce man into the pond, the body is sinking only to see the gray hair of Cao Bohua out of the water, Cao Bohua grabbed a handful of shore grass and climbed onto the shore, wet, his body was so cold that he shivered, and then trotted to the house. When he came out after changing his clean clothes, he didn't see Cao Nanshan.

At this time, many villagers gathered around. Cao Bohua asked, have you seen Cao Nanshan?

The villagers replied in unison, no.

Cao Bohua said vigilantly, it's broken. He approached the pond and shouted loudly, Nanshan ...... Nanshan ......

Knowing that something was ominous, the villagers set up bamboo rafts and fished them with iron hooks in the deep water area of the pond, and finally retrieved Cao Nanshan's body from the pond and placed it on the bank of the pond.

At this time, the plum blossoms in the vegetable garden rushed home and found that their son was lost, so they cried out to the sky and the ground, son! How do you drown when you play in the water?

Cao Bohua was also crying, his mouth was still counting, at first I fell into the pond, my son Nanshan rescued me, I don't know if he didn't get up from the pond. I don't understand, he can play in the water, how did he drown?