So, Bai Delai escaped overnight, stayed at the station, and used both burglary and begging in the market and village during the day. Soon he was exiled to the people of Hunan and Hubei, mainly stealing. This time he failed to break the door and steal bacon, and he was thinking about what to steal to be safe and reliable. But the rat spirit has been following him, and although he can't get close, he has a monitoring effect.

Bai Delai fled to another village with an iron rod and a hammer that night, and he heard a dog barking hundreds of meters away from the village house, and after walking a little further, a pair of green dog eyes flashed in the night, and the dog's barking posture with cracked teeth made him panic, he was not afraid of dogs, but worried that it would be easy to expose if he committed another crime.

When he approached the yard of a village house, several dogs barked around him, and he immediately lost the confidence to commit another crime. He turned around and walked in the other direction, and there was a hazy mountain in front of him, and over the hill, there was a barren slope, and in the middle of the slope there were two adobe houses, and there was silence inside, but there was a faint snoring sound when he listened closely, and he put down his heavy tools of crime, knocked on the door and shouted: "Old man, open the door—even shouted several times, and there was a response inside: Here it is.

Lights come on for a moment. Gee...... As the footsteps approached, the door creaked open, and a wrinkled old woman with a candle on her face, about sixty years old.

The rat spirit that came with her looked at her and understood her life background, this old mother is called Liu Yuzhen, and she is the widow of Ma Xingguo, a nearby villager who has died of illness for many years. She gave birth to seven sons in her life, none of whom survived, and in her old age she was miserable, and her only property was four tiled houses in the village.

Since she had no one to support, a well-to-do gentleman in the village offered her a few buckets of rice every month. Liu Yuzhen is a person who knows how to repay her kindness, and she feels that she can't enjoy other people's money in vain, so she found the gentleman and knelt down on her knees, and said with tears in her eyes: I don't have a son, and I dare not think of you as my godson, but you are my great benefactor.

The gentleman was about to help her up, and said "Mother Liu, you can't kill me like this, what do you have to say!" Liu Wangzhen said: If you agree to my request, I will get up. The gentleman was taken aback and thought to himself: If she makes an unrealistic request, can I agree? But the gentleman, who had always respected the old man, and was not allowed to let her kneel, said, "I may be able to agree to your request, stand up and speak!"

Liu Yuzhen stood up and said, "I want to give you all four tiled houses of my family, and you can let those tenants who work for your family live." The gentleman thought that this was also good, because there were many tenants working for his own house, and the housing was in short supply, but he could not say so, so he said: You do not live in your own house, where will you live?

I want to move to two adobe houses on the hillside behind your house that used to be guarded by sheep, just like that, one for lodging and one for cooking. Liu Yuzhen said, with a yearning look on her wrinkled face.

It's a remote place, and it's not safe for you to live there as an elderly person. The gentleman said worriedly.

I'm not afraid, I'm a lonely old woman, just trying to be quiet and comfortable, who will come to attack me what? Liu Yu gestured as she spoke, as if it was the right place for her.

The gentleman felt that she had a point, and after a few days arranged for some men to help her move the quilts, cooking utensils, and other tithes to the muddy house on the hillside.

Although Liu Yuzhen is old, she is very diligent, she used a hammer to dig out a few pieces of cooked land, planted vegetables and sweet potatoes, sesame and other cash crops, except for rice is given by the gentleman's family, most of the others can be self-sufficient, she also often uses vegetables or something in exchange for some living needs.

That time, she was digging sweet potatoes in the sweet potato field, and a strange man knelt in front of her with a face full of brazenness and said in Chinese with a Zhejiang accent: Lady, accept me! I was homeless, because I was hungry, I stole a little from someone, I was chased by others, I ran to the mountains to hide, you have pity on me, take me!

Child, no matter how poor you are, you can't steal. Liu Yuzhen said: I can accept you for a while, but you can't steal anymore in the future, it's disgraceful!

I promise, I promise. The strange man reported his name and kept kowtowing. Seeing his honest appearance, Liu Yuzhen remembered his name, Bai Delai, and told him to get up and welcome him into the house to entertain him.

During that time, he also helped the old man hoe the field, and said that he was willing to be her godson, Liu Yuzhen was very happy, but he did not change his thief nature, and often avoided the old man to steal property in nearby villages; The old man asked him what he was doing outside, and he always prevaricated with lies.

Sometimes, some belongings appeared in this adobe house for some reason, and when Liu Yuzhen asked where they came from, he always said that they were given by others. Although the old man was a little suspicious, since he had not caused any trouble, the old man did not ask more.

That night, Bai Delai knocked on the door and entered the house, and when he saw him empty-handed, the old man asked, "What are you busy with when you come back so late?" He snorted, and without a clear answer, went to sleep in the sleeping bunk in the other room. But he couldn't sleep, and he was always thinking about how to steal property, save trouble and be safe.

He pondered and finally came up with an idea, but the rat spirit with his mind understood his intentions at once, and said to the door god of the adobe house, Do you know that this white man is a thief, how to subdue him? The god of the door replied, "Mortals no longer believe in me, and I have never been worshipped."

As for where this thief is going to steal, I don't care, and I won't care. Wherever he steals, even if he is unlucky, the wealth eater may deserve this fate, and it is not superfluous for me to intervene in him?

When I was a squirrel in my previous life, I listened to the scriptures recited by the monks of the monastery, and I had an epiphany in my heart: Helping sentient beings to change evil and follow good or helping victimized sentient beings to seek good fortune and avoid evil, can not only save sentient beings who have sunk into the sea of suffering and retribution for wrongs, but also show their own righteousness.

The door god was not interested in what the rat spirit said, and the rat spirit left the house, but its faith could not be shaken, and it came to the top of the mountain, and knocked lightly on the door of the mountain god, and the mountain god was burly, and his black hair was fluttering, and when he saw the rat spirit coming, he asked what was the matter.

Before the bad deeds of the rat spirit general Bai were finished, the mountain god smiled and said: "That kind of mundane and idle matter is not within the scope of my jurisdiction, who cares about it?" As soon as Bai Delai first entered the mountain gate, I could see that he was a habitual thief, but it was okay for me, so why should I bother?

The words of the mountain god were almost the same as what the door god said, and the rat spirit was bored with himself, and drifted away.

The next day, Bai Delai got up early, went down the mountain, passed through a field, and watched quietly for a long time by a microwave pond, a golden snub-nosed carp swimming in the microwave, but it set off waves in his heart - he had a desire to catch fish.

However, this is the fish pond of Sima Fu, a farmer, and if you want to catch fish, you have to pay first. If you don't have any money, what else can you do but steal? The fish in this pond are not to be stolen casually; Even if you don't steal, it's difficult to catch fish by wading in the blue sky and white sun. But he thought of a way to catch the fish easily. You see he then turned around and walked away, went straight to the market, walked into a store, bought a pack of fish killer, and carried it in his arms.

He was going to choose a night when the fish pond was unattended.

He came to step on it several nights, and finally found that the fish pond was not waiting at all at night. He became bold, and first went to a remote village in the mountains to find a carpenter and set up a bamboo raft, and he moved into the river to try to row, on which just two or three people could stand. This time, he was going to steal the fish alone, and the load of the bamboo raft would not be a problem.

He lifted the raft out of the river and quietly placed it on a hill near Sima Fu's fish pond so that he could steal fish nearby at night.

After that, he gave some stolen vegetables and other small things to a man with fishing gear, and asked him to lend him a fish dumpling. It can be said that the tools of the crime are ready, and you can do anything wrong just by waiting for the dark and late at night.