One Hundred and Forty Three                                                           �

During the Xuanhe period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Jiang rebelled, and the rebel army quickly rose up, siege cities and occupied land, and Shandong planted Yiqiu. The rebel army captured Dongping County. The yamen runner Qiu Ming served for many years. Because he was not good at socializing and dull, he was not confused and still had no wife. He was a widower. The yamen fell and the money was scattered, and he had nowhere to settle down. He took his possession to return to his hometown Qiujia Village to rest.

Qiujia Village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with beautiful scenery. There are more than a hundred households in the village, and towering ancient trees outside the west of the village. There is a Guandi Temple surrounded by ancient trees. The temple is small and has no monks. There have been many years of lack of pipes, damaged doors and windows, and the clay and patent leather is peeled off. The roof of the temple is short of bricks and tiles, and the dry grass is overgrown, and no one is willing to invest in the repair.

Qiu Ming returned to his hometown. With the help of his close relatives, he set up a grass house at the west entrance of the village and lived there temporarily. His grass house was close to Guandi Temple. One day and night, he was about to sleep when he suddenly saw a military general entering the house. He looked at it carefully and saw that the general was wearing a golden helmet, heavy armor and purple battle robe, red phoenix eyes, lying silkworm eyebrows, and his face was like heavy dates. Five long beards floated on his chest. Qiu Ming was shocked and asked, "Who are you? What's the matter at night?" The general bowed and said, "I am Guan Yunchang, the Marquis of Shouting in Han. I have something to do here tonight.

Please, don't know if you can do it?" Qiu Ming immediately explained that this general was the god of Guandi. He hurriedly bowed and said, "If I can do it, Guandi will just tell the villain to do his best." Guandi said, "The Guandi Temple in this village is dilapidated. If you raise funds to repair it, you will definitely be rewarded in the future. Can you please?" Qiu Ming knelt down and sweared, "The villain is willing to give up everything and raise funds to repair it." Then he kowtowed and looked at it again. Emperor Guandi was nowhere to be found. He bowed to the sky and vowed to obey his words and acted.

Emperor Guan showed his spirit and asked Qiu Ming to build a temple. He promised that he could not sleep all night and decided to give it. The next morning, he brought incense offerings and went to Guandi Temple to worship Guandi to enlighten his true heart. When he arrived in front of the temple, he saw a beautiful woman holding her son to offer fruits, lit candles, burning incense and kowtow. Qiu Ming knew this woman, and was Fan Yu, the widow of his cousin. The year before yesterday, his husband traveled far away to do business and went south on a boat. Unfortunately, he encountered a typhoon and the boat overturned and drowned. In order to make a living, he opened a cake shop at his own home and lived with his young son. It was very difficult.

Qiu Ming was not suitable to disturb the mother and son, and was afraid of the same worship, so he made rumors, so he set up outside the temple to wait. After a long time, after the mother and son kowtowed, Fan Yu took his son out of the temple. Seeing Qiu Ming waiting outside the temple for a long time, he felt apologized. He knew Qiu Ming's daughter who was well-written and said to Qiu Ming to express his grace. Qiu Ming held his fists and bowed back. Although both sides did not say anything, he explained it. At this time, he saw a middle-aged man walking with his bag on his shoulders. This man had a hawk nose and a hog eyes, and his eyes were dull. Qiu Ming felt familiar with him and thought about it. Suddenly he remembered that this man was named Wang Bo, not from the village, but an outsider. He heard that he was wandering around and made a living by forcing his robbery, and a suspected fugitive. Now he didn't know why he returned home. At this time, he saw the scene of Qiu Ming and Fan Yu polite each other. Fan Yu saw him, lowered his head and left, and he narrowed his eyes and looked at Fan Yu without turning his eyes. Qiu Ming saw him, frowned, and the ominous signs suddenly surged.

Fan Yu and his son left, Qiu Ming entered the temple, burned incense and bowed to Emperor Guan, looked up and saw Emperor Guan sitting in the middle, Zhou Cang held the Qinglong Yanyue Sword on the left, Guan Pingshou Sweat the sword on the right, and stood on both sides. The clay sculptures were covered with dust and the paint fell off. Qiu Ming prayed, "Master Guan, the villain will never break his word. I will build the temple with all my strength to reshape the golden body for you, and then enrich the incense. Please ask Master Guan to bless him."

After a day of tranquility, the sun was scorching and the weather was hot. The villagers all went to the ancient trees to escape the heat and cool off. When they saw Qiu Ming leading a craftsman to the temple, he gave advice outside the temple. A villager was confused and asked, "Qiu Ming, what do you want to do? Did you want to destroy the temple and sell bricks, tiles and wood?" Qiu Ming laughed and said, "No, I want to rebuild the Guandi Temple, so I ask the craftsmen to make a budget first, and I will raise funds to provide it." There were two violent men sitting under the tree. Qiu Kui and Qiu Da, Qiu Ming's cousin. Hearing Qiu Ming's words, he laughed and hurried forward with a fan. Qiu Kui laughed and said, "What's the use of this ruined temple? The temple is the place where monks and Taoists belong. You are not monks or Taoists. I have only one thing to do. Do you want to cheat money with this?" Qiu Da said, "It is said that cunning rabbits do not eat grass beside their nests. If you want to make money, you cannot plot against all neighbors."

When Qiu Ming heard this, he was not angry or resentful. He explained, "I saw Mr. Guan appearing at night and asked me to raise funds to build a temple. Mr. Guan has great magical powers and will do it to the public afterwards. Good deeds will be rewarded. The two brothers misunderstood. If you demote me, you can be punished. If you blaspheme the gods, you will be punished." Qiu Kui disagreed and said, "You have returned to your hometown for less than ten days. Why did Mr. Guan appear to you? I don't believe it. You said you were punished, and I don't believe it even more. If I was punished, I would buy a house and sell land to help you raise funds to give it to you." After saying that, he turned his sleeves and fanned into the temple.

At this time, Fan Yu brought a basket to buy cakes. When he heard Qiu Ming's advocacy, he praised: "What my uncle said is very correct. I often go to the temple to worship Guan Sheng. My business is gradually increasing and my income is quite abundant. I agree with the temple building. I am willing to raise funds, and all the villagers should support it."

After a moment, Qiu Kui returned with a smile and said to Qiu Ming, "You guess what I have just entered the temple? I gave up a brief explanation before the offering, and put the urine into the incense burner. You said that you will be punished. I want to see it. How can Guan Gong punish me?" Everyone was shocked when they heard it. Qiu Ming said angrily, "You dare to do such a rash thing? You lack great virtue, and you will definitely be severely punished."

A few days later, Qiu Kui was safe and sound. He walked past the village and went to Qiu Ming's hut at the entrance of the village and shouted, "Qiu Ming, when will my severe punishment be here? Why am I safe?" Qiu Ming heard it and held back his anger and refused to say it. The neighbors and neighbors all went out of the house to watch it. Qiu Da heard the sound and said to Qiu Kui, "Why punish it? It's just nonsense, alas! I just caught the old lady Qiu's dog, and now I feed it in the cage, wait for it to be fattened and stewed, and the fragrant dog meat is poured on wine. How happy it is!" The two rash men left laughing, Qiu Ming paused and was helpless.

The neighbors knew that they were doing evil and acted recklessly, and they all scoffed at him. Who is Mrs. Qiu? A lonely and widowed woman in the village was blind a few years ago. Fortunately, she raised a dog and was very human. She picked up firewood and water and was brought by the dog. If she lost this kind dog, Mrs. Qiu would be hungry and wait for death.

Good will be rewarded, and evil will be rewarded. How can we not be rewarded? Late at night that day, when everything was silent, a scream suddenly came from the village. Everyone woke up and heard it. The screaming was Qiu Kui. When they got up in the morning, they saw a doctor coming out of Qiu Kui's house and hurriedly surrounded him and asked him. The doctor shook his head and said, "Last night, Qiu Kui suddenly had a strange disease. There was a sore in the lower body's vagina and continued to flow pus. This is not something that doctors can cure. If the person in charge of his life, he would have no choice but to be tortured to death." When the crowd was shocked when they heard it, they saw Qiu Da's wife stumbled.

He knelt down and begged the doctor, "Sir, please save my husband quickly. Last night, a strong light flashed outside the window. My husband woke up and rolled down to the bed, crawling around, barking wildly, afraid that he would be infected!" The crowd rushed over and looked at it, and saw Qiu Da crawling like a rabies, barking and howling continuously, so he crawled into the dog cage and fostered food with Mrs. Qiu's dog. After watching the doctor, he said helplessly, "This strange disease cannot be cured by the doctor, and I cannot do anything." After saying that, the doctor was helpless and left. The crowd was confused and looked at each other, and suddenly realized and exclaimed: "This is a bad retribution! A bad retribution!"

Everyone believed Qiu Ming's words, and it was true that the Martial Saint showed his spirit, and they were willing to invest and gather to build the temple. The next day, everyone gathered with Qiu Ming to discuss the construction of the temple. At this time, Qiu Kui and his wife knelt down to the temple, saying that they had replaced the incense burner and changed the offerings. Afterwards, Qiu Da and his wife also climbed to the temple, saying that they had brought Mrs. Qiu to their homes and were willing to spend their youth. Qiu Ming pointed his head and said, "If you know your mistakes, you can correct them, and the gods know you, you will definitely forgive me."

The evildoers were eliminated. Qiu Ming and the others quickly returned to the pancake shop. Seeing Fan lying on the ground, Qiu Ming stepped forward and helped him up and shouted. After a long time, he saw Fan waking up and opened his eyes slightly. Fan was resurrected!

The next day, the crowd entered the temple and saw the bloodstained on the Qinglong Yanyue Sword held by Zhou Cang. Fang Yu waved his sword last night and killed Wang Bozhi's blushing Han Emperor, and Guan Emperor appeared again!

Qiu Xu's cheek was injured. Although he healed after several months, the scars were difficult to remove. When he spoke, he was speechless and confused. He was talking. This was a punishment for blasphemy!
Chapter completed!