Strange Dreams

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, there were many wars all over the world and people were living in misery. The people were living in misery and suffering, and the people were either attached to various forces to show their talents or living in the mountains to avoid trouble.

There was a Taoist temple on Wangwu Mountain, named "Lotus View", the master of which was a hermit in his fifties, with a lean body, thick eyebrows, and shining eyes, a fairy style. One day, four fugitives came into view, three men and one woman, a couple in their forties, a young man in his early twenties, and a sturdy middle-aged man. The master invited them to use some meals in their respective accommodation to let them rest. At night it rained heavily a dark shadow flashed into the master's room, and a lightning bolt slipped through a miserable scream from the master's room!

After two years.

A donkey and a sheep were inseparable from each other all day long, just like a couple. Every time the owner took the donkey out to pull the goods, the sheep had to follow, and if they were separated, the donkey would scream, and the owner would not go away from how to beat it, and the sheep would bleat, and tears would flow from their eyes. One day on the road, the new owner of Lotus View went down to the mountain to buy something and ran into the owner of the donkey driving the donkey back to the village.

When the donkey saw the master, it went crazy and broke free from the reins and ran towards the master, kicking and biting him. The sheep also rushed over to the master and topped him, and they didn't stop, so the master had to run back to the village. The donkey and sheep chased a long way and did not catch up with the master before he came back, the master is also shocked before settling, and would like to teach them a good lesson, but see the donkey and sheep's eyes are full of tears, the heart is also soft, not in the fight them. But I was wondering what was wrong with the donkey and the sheep today. Usually, they are very docile!

Two years ago, the old master of Lotus View went on a trip, his brother presided over the Taoist temple. The new master and the village people get along quite well, he rarely comes out on weekdays, except to buy supplies before going down the mountain. But recently there is also a legend that the Wangwu Mountain is not peaceful, there are passing merchants through this area often missing, there are also people reported to the officials, the police officers to the village near the inquiry, but the military chaos also did not find out a reason on the end of it. Since then, the donkeys and sheep often went to the side of the hill leading to Lotus View to graze and keep watch, and usually hauled goods to stop here to look at the hill.

At this time, the Qin King of the Tang Dynasty Li Shimin's army is fighting with Wang Shitong's army, one day there is an urgent matter in the court to recruit Li Shimin back to the dynasty, and because time is tight, the Qin King took the military division Xu Ji and the general Yuchi Gong accompanying the security frame to rush back. The fastest way from Henan to Shanxi is to go over Wangwu Mountain. They traveled in simple clothes, and when it was late at night on Wangwu Mountain, they saw a Taoist temple and came to stay.

Knock on the door of the master is a middle-aged man, slightly fat, body only robust, the face, curved eyebrows, thin eyes, lion nose, wide mouth, a face of beard repair but also clean, military division Xu Ji came forward to answer that is accompanied by the Prince to Shanxi goods, late in the day want to borrow a night, the master arranged for them to stay in the compartment. At night, Li Shimin could not sleep because he was worried about military affairs, and looked out of the quiet window and thought of the people in the war and chanted: "The world is often at war, there is no discontent in the mountains. In the future, when the kingdom of heaven and earth is settled, the sea will be peaceful."

At this time the mountain wind blew Li Shimin's hazy sleep, in the dream only to see a body of thin, thick eyebrows, eyes shining old man standing in front of him. The old man said: "Your chanting 'the world is often war, no grievances in the mountains. In the future, heaven and the earth will be settled, and the sea will be peaceful. But I don't know that this mountain is full of the grievances of the dead. Do you know who I am?" The king of Qin shook his head. The old man said, "I am the master of the Lotus View. Two years ago, four fugitives came into view, a couple, a young man and a strong man.

I saw them poor and kindly arranged for them to eat and let them stay, but who thought that night the rain, I only saw a black shadow into my room and stabbed me to death, I thought they were a group of robbers, but who thought that only the black strong man was a thief, he stabbed the young man and the couple and threw our bodies off the cliff. After that, the thief pretended to be my brother and said that I had gone on a trip, so he presided over this view and took over the place. And also did the robbing and killing of passing merchants, and financial affairs.