A long time ago, there was a Langzhong surnamed Yao in Yaozhou Mansion.

Lao Yao's medical skills were brilliant, and he often treated poor people without pay. Everyone was very grateful to him. Lao Yao and his wife lived a comfortable life, but the fly in the ointment was that the couple had no children under their knees, and Lao Yao co uld only comfort himself: "Having children depends on fate, and having no children is God's will."

More and more poor people came to see Lao Yao, and his wife persuaded Lao Yao to collect some compensation. Lao Yao didn't listen, so his wife went to those people's houses to make trouble. Unable to stand his wife's constant troubles, Lao Yao was obedient on the surface, but secretly treated poor people.

One day, Old Yao quietly treated a poor hunter in the mountains. On the way home, by the moonlight, Old Yao found a person in front of him. As he approached, he saw an old woman on crutches.

The old woman stretched out her hand, and there were three bells in her palm, which were strung together by silk thread. "I have three bells, and I only give them to those who are destined. When all three bells ring, it will clear your mind. Today I will give them to you."

Old Yao took the bell and looked back and forth, but he didn't see the name. He rang the bell, but there was no sound at all. He looked up, but found that the old woman had disappeared without a trace. Did he meet an immortal? He bowed three times to the old woman's position and hurried home.

When Old Yao returned home, his wife lifted her ear and asked, "Who went to see a doctor today, and did you get paid?" Old Yao begged for mercy again and again, and in a panic, three bells fell out of his cuffs.

The wife thought it was something valuable, picked it up and looked at the candle carefully, and sneered: "After receiving these bells that won't ring, which one must not be able to give money to you, right?" She sighed again: "I'm doing it for your own good. You don't know, some people can clearly afford to pay, but seeing that you have a good heart, they lied to you about the medicine money!"

Old Yao knew it was useless to talk too much, so he put the bell next to his pillow and stopped talking about it. When he woke up the next day, he stretched out and touched the string of bells on the ground, and suddenly the bell rang. Old Yao picked up the bells from the ground and shook them, and one of the bells made a crisp sound.

Old Yao called his wife in surprise and said, "Strange, none of the three bells could ring yesterday." His wife didn't care: "A string of broken bells, what does it matter if they ring or not?"

A few days later, before dawn, he heard someone knocking on the door. Old Yao got dressed and went out to welcome him. It turned out that Liu Er, the head of the village, suddenly fainted and begged Old Yao to see his mother.

Who knew that his wife stopped at the door and said, "Today, if you don't take money, you won't be able to see a doctor!"

Liu Er had a sad face: "Good aunt, I really can't take the money in my hand now. Can I catch two big fish and send them later?"

Old Yao also compared the painting: "You forgot? Last winter, Liu Er gave our family such a big leg of lamb!"

The wife remembered that she had indeed eaten the leg of the lamb of the Liu Er family, and she pouted unwillingly and let Lao Yao go out.

Old Yao gave Liu Er's mother medical treatment and returned home, but his wife did not scold him as usual. Old Yao was puzzled when he saw his wife pick up the string of bells from the table and said, "Strange thing, this string of bells has another small copper pendant!"

Lao Yao took the bell and took a closer look.

"Where did this bell come from?"

Old Yao had no choice but to tell the story of going into the mountains to treat hunters not long ago and meeting the old woman on the way home. His wife thought for a while, and suddenly she was overjoyed: "You must have met an immortal! seeing that you have accumulated virtue and done good deeds, I want to reward you!"

"Reward me for what?"

"The first time you treated a hunter, one bell rang, and today you treated Liu Er's mother, and another bell rang. In my opinion, if you treat another poor family, these three bells can ring, and then, can't you end your mind?"

From then on, Lao Yao's wife was concerned. She urged Lao Yao to hurry up and find out which poor family was sick, so that he could hurry up and make the third bell ring. She also instructed Lao Yao to wait for all three bells to ring, ask Lao Yao to make a wish, and ask the old fairy for a big house.

After winter, no poor family came to invite Lao Yao to see a doctor, but the bell has not rung.

That day, his wife said to Old Yao, "I want to eat tofu. Go to Bai San's and buy me a piece."

Old Yao couldn't resist, braving the cold wind, he went out to the Bai San family to buy tofu. As soon as he walked to the door of the Bai San family, he heard Bai San's mother crying and scolding: "You are the only laborer in the whole family, how did you break your leg, how can we live!"

Seeing Old Yao come in, Bai San also had a bitter face: "Brother Yao, you came just in time. I broke my leg, please treat me, the whole family is still counting on me to support me!"

Old Yao saw that his legs were so swollen that he couldn't even stand up, so he hurried home to get medicine for him to treat, and left the money he brought with him to subsidize his family.

Two hours later, old Yao returned home. When his wife saw him coming home, she excitedly grabbed the bell on the table and waved it back and forth in front of her eyes. Strangely, none of the bells rang.

Yes, today Lao Yao treated the poor for free again. It stands to reason that the three bells should have rung.

For a long time, Lao Yao said without thinking, "If you do evil, it will be silent."

The wife gave me a thrill.

Old Yao put on a straight face and said, "You were in such a hurry to get me to buy tofu this morning. Bai San said that someone threw a large pool of water at the door of the house and it froze before he slipped. This water is your'credit, right?" Seeing his wife's face turn blue and white, Old Yao continued, "Today Bai San injured his leg, and if his head landed on the ground, it might be a human life! If you are greedy for return, then it is not doing good, let alone you doing evil first. If this bell is really given by the gods, there will be a reward and a punishment, you can do it yourself! Let's put these three bells on the bottom of the box, don't always think about the pie falling from the sky."

The wife held the bell and couldn't speak for a long time. After that, Lao Yao's wife changed, and she no longer stopped Lao Yao from seeing a doctor for the poor villagers, and her attitude became friendly.

One day, Lao Yao's wife was rummaging through the box for a cloth head and saw the string of bells pressed against the bottom of the box. She couldn't help but pick up the bells and shake them. She found that all three bells had copper pendants at some point, and the sound was loud.

Not long after, Lao Yao's family had a happy event: his wife was pregnant.