Fang Ke was stolen
Fang, a native of Wuyuan, was a salt merchant, and once, he went to Wuhu (now Anhui) and encountered robbers. The robber first tied up his servant, cut his belly with a knife, and threw him into the river. Then it was Fang's turn, and Fang cried and knelt down to beg for mercy. The robber said, "I have killed your servant, and I cannot spare you." Fang said: "I hope I will say something before I die." When the robber asked him why, Fang said, "I have been fond of burning incense since I was a child." Now there are still a few taels of agarwood incense in the box, please let me open the box and take it out, burn incense and worship the gods of heaven and earth, and then it is not too late to die. The robber agreed. After a while, the incense burned out. The robber said, "Because you are pitiful, save you from a sword." And he bound his hands and feet, and threw a great stone into the river.
At this time, Fang had been out on business for several months, and his family was upset that they could not hear from him. One day, when Fang suddenly arrived home, his wife reproached, "Since you can come back, why don't you send someone to deliver a letter beforehand?" Fang said, "Don't be afraid. I was killed by thieves in Wuhu one day. The corpse is now somewhere. The thief who killed me was so-and-so, and is currently somewhere. You can report it right away. The wife cried loudly, and Fang disappeared.
Fang's wife went to Taiping Prefecture (now Dangtu, Anhui) to file a complaint, and according to Fang's words, the robber was captured.
Judge of the Water House
Qi Ju, whose name is Zhongyu, is a native of Dexing County, Raozhou (now Jiangxi). He has a gentle and kind personality, loves to read, and his family is very poor, and he supports his family by teaching students.
In the seventeenth year of Gaozong Shaoxing (1147), he went to the house of Dong Shimin in the same county to teach. The two sides have made a contract, but he has not yet arrived after the expiration date. Dong sent a letter to urge him. When the messenger arrived at the door of Qi's house, he heard the crying inside, and it turned out that Qi Ju had been dead for two days.
Qi Ju's friend Wang Yao said: "Qi has been sick since December last year, and I dreamed that someone came with a document and said, "The king asked Xiucai to be the judge of the Water Mansion." When I opened the letter, it read: "You can't give up your parents, you can't miss your wife and children." Qi Ju made an appointment with him to go on the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, and after waking up from the dream, Qi said to his family: "I will die on the thirteenth day of the first lunar month next year." Since then, he has refused to take medicine, and even his diet has stopped. I often say to myself, "There is a lot of good in it, how can you live here for a long time!" The people in the family began to be very worried, and although they did not die on the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, they were on the verge of dying and could no longer speak. It took another eight days before he died. ”
Chen Wuluo reported
The people of Xiuzhou (now Jiaxing, Zhejiang) like to make loaches into jerky, saying that it is the warmest in aquatic products. It can be eaten even by pregnant women and sick people.
There is a man named Chen Wu, who makes the best work, and everyone is vying to buy it. Those who sold dried loaches tried their best to inquire about how he made them, but he refused to tell them. Later, Chen Wu got an illness and tossed and turned in bed. As soon as his body touched the table, he immediately cried out for pain and helped him up, and the pain was even worse. Ten days later, Chen Wu died, and when he died, his whole body festered.
Only then did his wife say: "When my husband was alive, every time he got a loach, he put it in a jar, and in addition to the salt as is usually done, he added a lot of crumbs of pottery. The loach was soaked in salt water, and it couldn't help the pain, and it writhed and drilled in the tank. The loach skin is scratched by pottery shavings, and the salt flavor slowly seeps into the meat, so it is particularly delicious. Now Chen Wu's illness is like a loach dying.