During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a scholar named Liu Tianshan who was on the way to the capital to catch the exam, it was the height of summer, and he passed through Xinglong County, Hebei Province, although it was not far from the summer resort, but people were also hot and sweaty in this season.
When Liu Tianshan was panting in the heat, suddenly the sky was full of dark clouds, and seeing that a rainstorm was coming, he thought that he could finally cool down, but in order to prevent the heavy rain from drenching, he quickened his pace, and he wanted to go to the village in front of him to take shelter from the rain before leaving.
When Liu Tianshan passed by a wheat field, he saw a strange big man, he was busy drying wheat, Liu Tianshan thought: "This person is crazy, right?"It's going to rain, and he's still drying wheatSo he strode forward and hurriedly stopped the big man: "Stop it, don't you see it's going to rain?".The rain won't wet the wheat for a while?”
The strong man smiled and said to Liu Tianshan: "This is our host's let him dry, he said to work while it will be cool," Liu Tianshan said: "Then your boss doesn't know that the wheat will spoil when it gets wet with rain?"The strong man lowered his head to dry his wheat and said, "You don't know, our host is very powerful, he said that the heavy rain will only fall to the east of the road, and it will not rain in the west of the road."
Liu Tianshan didn't believe that there would be such a thing, and he was not in a hurry to take shelter from the rain, he wanted to wait here to watch a good show to see if what the strong man said was true.
After a while, sure enough, the sky flashed and thundered, and the heavy rain came down, but it was very strange, the rain was like long eyes, the east of the road was pouring heavy rain, but the west of the road did not rain, an hour passed, the rain stopped, the sun also came out, the sun sprinkled all over the earth, just suitable for drying wheat.
Liu Tianshan couldn't believe that this was true, he asked the strong man Your owner is in **, I want to visit him, the strong man pointed to a big tree in front of him and said: "Look at the one sitting under the big tree is our owner, his name is Luo Kang."
Liu Tianshan walked in the direction pointed by the strong man, and there was indeed a very large poplar tree in front of him, the trunk was so thick that four or five people could hold it, and the tree was three or four feet high. There was an old man sitting on a rattan chair under the tree, shaking a fan in his hand, and he was enjoying the shade leisurely.
Liu Tianshan shouted from afar: "The student comes to see Mr. Luo", Luo Kang glanced at him, turned around and pointed to the big poplar tree and said, "This tree belongs to my Luo Kang."
Liu Tianshan thought: "I'm a little far away from Mr. Deluo, he must not be able to hear." So he took a few steps forward and shouted to Luo Kang: "Mr. Luo, student Liu Tianshan is here to see you." Luo Kang still ignored him, got up and looked at the big tree, and said to himself, "This tree is mine, it will never be wrong."
Liu Tianshan thinks it's too strange, is it that people are old and have their ears back?He didn't believe it, he really couldn't hear my shouting, he shouted to Luo Kang with all his might, almost like a roar: "Student meet Mr. Luo." What made people collapse was that Luo Kang didn't look at Liu Tianshan at all, but still said to the tree: "That's right, this tree is mine, I have a document to prove it."
Liu Tianshan was completely disappointed, he thought that this old man was either deaf or crazy, and he couldn't communicate with him at all, so he had better hurry.
Three years later, Liu Tianshan really passed the Jinshi examination, he happened to be assigned to Xinglong County to be the magistrate, Liu Tianshan is definitely a good official who does practical things for the people, he often goes to the villages and towns to pay private visits to check the real life status of the people.
On this day he walked to an orchard at the edge of the village, he felt tired and hot, he looked up and saw a small dilapidated house, which was supposed to be an abandoned hut used by the fruit farmer to look at the garden. He walked in and lay down on the bed, ready to take a break.
As soon as Liu Tianshan lay down, a person entered the house, and this person asked, "Are you Liu Tianshan?"Someone wrote you a letter", Liu Tianshan is very strange, someone here actually knows my name?He took the letter, and the man said, "The man who wrote to you is called Luo Kang, and he told you to read it now," and the man turned and left.
This is a letter that looks very old, several pieces of letter paper are glued together, he looked at the first one, there are six words written on it: "Please go out and read the letter first", Liu Tianshan remembered the old man who ignored him three years ago, isn't he just called Luo Kang?He knew that Luo Kang's supernatural powers were vast, and since he said so, there must be some truth, so he walked out of the house with the letter.
After Liu Tianshan went out, he twisted the letter hard, and he saw that six more words were written on the second piece of paper: "Three more steps forward." Liu Tianshan thought to himself: "Does Mr. Luo want to meet me?"He followed what was written in the letter and took three more steps forward, but after taking three steps forward, Liu Tianshan looked around and saw nothing.
At this moment, Liu Tianshan heard a loud bang behind him, boom!The little house he had just rested in had collapsed, it was too dangerous!If Liu Tianshan came out one step later, he would be buried inside, it was Luo Kang who saved him, and Mr. Luo calculated what was going to happen today.
Liu Tianshan returned to the mansion, rested for a while, and planned to leave to find Mr. Luo Kang, but at this time, a group of people who were fighting a lawsuit came, and he had to go to court to handle the case first.
There are four people on one of the parties, the leader is called Luo Zufang, and there is only one person on the other side, named Luo Zuyuan. Luo Zufang spoke first, he said: "My family has a big poplar tree growing near the drying field, we plan to see it off and use it to build a house, but Luo Zuyuan won't let it be sawed."
Luo Zuyuan said anxiously on the side: "That tree belongs to my family, of course I can't let them see it."
Liu Tianshan slapped the shocked wood and shouted: "Don't argue, you all said that the tree is your own, can you come up with evidence?"”
Luo Zufang preemptively said, "I have evidence, many people can testify against me", and then handed a piece of paper to Liu Tianshan, Liu Tianshan looked at it, and there were indeed many people's signatures on the paper.
At this time, Luo Zuyuan also said loudly: "I also have evidence, but they took advantage of the large number of people and snatched my evidence and tore it up."
Liu Tianshan slapped the stunned wood again, and shouted angrily: "I see that you are quibbling, you said that your evidence was torn up, there are always fragments, bring the fragments to me to see." Luo Zuyuan felt so wronged, and cried and said: "The fragments are gone, they swallowed the fragments into their stomachs."
Liu Tianshan looked at Luo Zuyuan's sadness, and felt that what he said might be true, and he couldn't misjudge the unjust, false and wrongful case, he remembered that Luo Kang, so he said to them: "Let's go here today, and the trial will be retried another day, I want to meet a friend named Luo Kang first."
When Luo Zuyuan heard the name Luo Kang, he cried even more, he said, "Luo Kang is my father, but his old man died half a year ago."
Liu Tianshan understood now, no wonder the letter was worn out like that, it turned out that Mr. Luo had written the letter half a year ago, and he also recalled that when he talked to Mr. Luo, he had not spoken, but he kept saying "This tree is mine", it turned out that Mr. Luo had calculated that one day in the future, there would be a dispute over this tree.
Liu Tianshan patted the stunned wood and said loudly: "This tree belongs to Luo Zuyuan"!When Luo Zufang heard this, he was very unconvinced, he said: "Why do you say that this tree is his", Liu Tianshan shouted angrily: "You still dare to use strong words, Luo Kang personally told me that this tree is his three years ago, and he said it three times in succession."
In the end, the tree was sentenced to Luo Zuyuan, and Luo Zufang, who made up lies and deceived the county order, was pulled out and beaten twenty boards.
In order to thank Luo Kang for saving his life, Liu Tianshan went to Luo Kang's house before his death, and he wanted to pay homage to this magical and kind old man, and he bowed three times to Luo Kang's statue.
When Liu Tianshan was leaving, Luo Zuyuan took out a letter to Liu Tianshan, saying that it was his father's deathbed request, if you come, I will hand over this letter to you.
Liu Tianshan took the letter and opened it, and was so shocked that his eyes almost fell out, there was nothing written on it, only a big red seal, which was printed with "The Seal of the Military Division Liu Bowen"!It turned out that Luo Kang was the famous Ming Dynasty military advisor Liu Bowen, who resigned after helping Zhu Yuanzhang conquer the country, and lived incognito in this small place.