Wang Wen of Xuzhou said that there was a family surnamed Liu and two brothers in his village, who were called Liu Da Liu Er for the time being. The family had always lived as farmers, and there was nothing different from ordinary people. Suddenly, one day, a foreigner found Liu Er and asked for a box to be stored in his house temporarily, and promised to give him a good reward when he retrieved it in the future. The foreigner seemed to be injured, and his words were very urgent. It seemed that someone was chasing him. Liu Er happened to be at home alone at the time. Seeing that the foreigner was so urgent, he agreed. Before leaving, the foreigner told him not to tell anyone about it, and he would come to pick it up within a month. If he didn't come, he asked Liu Er to bury the box in the ground, otherwise something bad would happen.

After the stranger left, Liu Er hid the wooden box in his room and did not tell his family about it for the time being. After a month, the stranger didn't come to pick up the box. Liu Er waited for more than ten days, but he never saw him come, so he thought to himself, since it can be buried in the ground, why don't you see what kind of treasure it is? So he pried open the lock of the box and opened it to see that it was an ancient book. It was written on it, and there were some human-shaped patterns and incantations behind it, which were also official books, which he couldn't understand at all. But Liu Er was very smart, he was afraid that others would know this, so after splitting the words, he asked different people, and after half a year, he understood the content of the book.

On the first page of the book, it is recorded that all the soldiers and horses in the world have obtained this book. And on the last page, it says that the book is destroyed. When Liu Er saw the method in the book, he could use thousands of paper soldiers and paper horses for his own use. He was very moved, so he studied this method behind closed doors at home. Every day, Liu Da would only bring food to the windowsill before opening the window for a short conversation, but he never told his brother the truth. For a long time, Liu Er made paper soldiers and paper horses with seven or eight hundred pairs, and prayed with scripture runes and spells every day. After three months, sure enough, the paper soldiers and horses were all attached to spirits and could listen to his orders. Paper soldiers and paper horses were not afraid of knives and guns. The only thing was that they were afraid of the rain, so the rain solved the law, and all their previous efforts were in vain. This Liu Er practiced paper soldiers and horses in the house every day, and at night he put them in the cabinet, so he didn't know about it for the time being.

One day, Liu Er suddenly remembered to go to the market to buy some tung oil and brush it on the paper soldiers' horses, which should avoid breaking the law when it rains, so that paper soldiers and paper horses can practice outside with confidence. With this in mind, he hurried out the door without bothering to explain to his family. When it was time to eat, his brother told him not to, so he went into the room to look for it, but no trace of it was seen. He only heard the sound of weapons hitting each other in the cabinet. Liu was suspicious and wanted to find out, so he opened the cabinet door. As soon as it was opened, the paper soldiers and paper horses rushed out and walked around the village, shouting where the marshal had gone! But Liu Er bought tung oil, walking on the road, has not yet entered the village, there are fellow villagers galloping by, loudly persuaded, the village is full of soldiers and horses, quickly run for your life!

Liu Er was startled when he heard the words, knowing that something had gone wrong, he hurried to his house, pinched the mantra, and summoned the paper soldiers and paper horses back. Just as he was waiting to be put into the room, he did not expect heavy rain to hit, and the eight hundred pairs of paper soldiers and paper horses suddenly softened to mud and became waste. Liu Er sighed when he saw this, but everyone knew about it, and everyone called him a god. After a few days, when it was dusk, Liu Er and everyone were chatting under the big banyan tree at the head of the village, and everyone hoped that he could show his hands and take a look and open his eyes. At this time, a small wind was blowing in the distance. Liu Er deliberately showed off his ability, so he said to everyone, "What are you waiting for in that whirlwind?

Everyone said they didn't know! Liu Er smiled, it's a ghost, now I can take a picture and show it to you. Everyone agreed. Liu Er chanted a spell and cast a spell to capture the whirlwind, and when the wind stopped in front of him, everyone saw that it was a little ghost, only one foot tall and short, with a booklet in his hand and a flag on his back! When everyone saw it, they were shocked. Liu Er was flustered when he saw it, and hurriedly cast a spell to send the ghost away. Seeing that his face changed, everyone asked him what had happened. Liu Er calmed down for a long time and sighed, that little ghost just now was a messenger, a ghost messenger sent by the god Taishan to the underworld. Now that I have offended him, I 'm afraid that something ominous has happened! As expected, after Liu Er returned, the book spontaneously burned to ashes. The spells he had written down were no longer effective, and the method of destroying books had been eliminated. However, he himself did not have any accidents, and it seemed that he was relatively lucky.