In the 57th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1792 AD), in June, there was a strange incident in Andong County where a villain committed an evil oath and was finally reported to have been struck by lightning. Today I will tell you this story.

At that time, a pregnant woman in a village in Andong County gave birth and asked the midwife to deliver the baby. After the pregnant woman gave birth to a baby boy safely, the midwife stayed overnight at the pregnant woman's house and went back the next morning. Soon after, the pregnant woman's husband came back from other places, holding the newborn baby boy very happy, ready to take money out to worship God.

At this time, when the husband touched the pillow where he usually hid the money, he was shocked and said, "I hid four ingots of silver in the pillow, and no one knew, how did it suddenly disappear?" After asking carefully, he found out that the midwife slept on the pillow last night, and it was possible that she took it. So the husband went to the midwife to ask for the silver, and said that he would give half the silver as a reward to the midwife, and the other half as a vow to worship God.

Unexpectedly, the midwife was furious when she heard it, and cursed and said, I came to your house to deliver the baby to your wife, but your money was gone, but you actually called me a thief. Now I swear and swear: If I am wronged, let your son die; if I really stole the money, let me be beaten to death by lightning! This midwife scolded non-stop, and everyone heard about it.

Because the ancients attached great importance to oaths, when the husband heard the midwife make such a poisonous oath, he no longer suspected her. Instead, he suspected that his wife stole the silver and framed it for others.

Three days later, it was time to ask the midwife to wash the baby. Washing, also known as washing three, is a kind of baptism held on the third day of a newborn's birth and is a local folk custom.

The midwife did not come on the day of the washing and asked her daughter to wash it. That night, the baby died suddenly. The couple were so sad that they buried the baby in a wooden casket, crying at the same time. The midwife's oath was fulfilled, and our child died. It seems that we really wronged the midwife.

Then suddenly lightning flashed and thunder, and people heard a loud thunderbolt. The whole village was alarmed by this thunderbolt, and someone ran out to see where the thunder had struck. At that time, I saw two women kneeling in the open space of the village. Both of them were charred by thunder, and their corpses were holding two ingots of silver in their hands.

Everyone saw that the two women were the midwife and her daughter, and the silver ingot was the silver stolen from the mother's house. And the baby buried by the couple had come out of the ground crying.

When the neighbors saw such a strange thing, they all came to see the resurrected baby. Everyone took a closer look and saw a needle exposed on the baby's belly button. After carefully pulling out the needle, the baby bled a little, and then everything was normal.

So far it is known that the midwife stole the silver and refused to admit it, so she took a poisoned oath; while washing her child, she instigated her daughter to murder the baby with needles, so that her poisoned oath could be fulfilled, so that no one would suspect her of stealing the silver.

But they did not expect that all the bad things people did could not be hidden from the gods of heaven and earth. In the end, they took it upon themselves and really answered the poisonous oath they had made and were struck to death by lightning. And the baby's life should not be lost, and was also saved by the gods.

After reading this story, it really made people sigh: Evil deeds will be rewarded, and vows will be fulfilled! You must know that people's vows are by no means over and done, and poisonous oaths will be fulfilled. In the story, the midwife was really struck by lightning after she took a poisonous oath, which is a very typical example of a poisonous oath being fulfilled.