During the reign of Emperor Xiaozong in the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a man named Wang Er in Hengshan. On the social day, the mountain village offered sacrifices to the gods and held a big banquet. Wang Er He was an alcoholic and got drunk at the banquet.

In the evening, everyone dispersed, and he went home alone. Wang Er, who was drunk, walked from side to side, and when he passed a field, he tripped to the ground and fell into the mud.

After falling to the ground, Wang Er got up in a daze and hurried home along the field. When he got home, he saw that the door was closed. Wang Er raised his hand and knocked on the door, but no one answered. Wang Er was anxious and actually broke through the door.

He entered the house and saw his wife spinning twine, and his two sons playing with her. As the wife spun the twine, she scolded Wang Er from time to time: "You must be drunk again if you don't come home so late."

Wang Er stood in front of his wife and said loudly to her, "I'm right here, I'm back!" But the wife didn't seem to hear him at all. Wang Er thought that his wife was deliberately ignoring him and began to scold his wife, but her wife still turned a deaf ear.

Wang Er exclaimed, "My wife can't see me, am I already dead?" After saying that, he got up and ran outside. As he passed by the offering table dedicated to the ancestral tablet, he saw his grandfather and father, who had long since passed away, sitting there nicely.

Wang Er cried and told his grandfather and father about his situation, asking them to help him, Wang Er's father said to him, "Don't be afraid, child, I will go to intercede with the Land Lord for you, and you will be resurrected soon." After saying that, he got up and left, and soon came with the Land Lord.

The landlord asked Wang Er what had happened, and turned back to the boy behind the god and said, "You and Wang Er go to the place where he fell." The boy was bald and barefoot, like a cow herding a baby. Wang Er followed the little boy out the door and returned to Tiankan along the same road. Wang Er found his body lying there, covered in mud and motionless.

The boy said to Wang Er, "Hurry up and hug your body and shout your name." Wang Er did as he said, and suddenly woke up. He found himself covered in mud and pain all over his body. Could it be that he had a dream just now, and Wang Er touched his hair and thought about it?

But he still stood up and walked home by himself. At this time, Wang Er's wife was worried that her husband would not return late at night, so she begged her neighbor to come and look for Wang Er with a torch. The three met halfway and returned home together. After arriving home, Wang Er's two sons were still playing and playing. Only then did Wang Er know that he had not dreamed before.