Once upon a time, there was a rich man surnamed Suo, who was a miser. Villagers gave him a nickname called "Suo Rooster", saying that he was an iron rooster and did not pull a dime.

This year, there was a rare drought in the village, and the land was cracked due to drought, and several wells in the village became dry wells one after another. Strangely, the wells in the village were all dry, but only the wells in the rich man's house was still abundant. It turned out that the well of the rich man's house happened to be drilled into the water vein, and the water could not be drilled, and when would it be available. The rich man was very proud, saying that it was the blessing of his ancestors. After taking water from the well every day, he covered the mouth of the well with a large stone slab, and tied two large dogs to guard it, so that no one could take a drop of water.

There was an old lady in the village who was really thirsty and wanted to take a crock pot to drink water, but the water didn't catch, but the dog of the rich man Soo bit it. The villagers went to the rich man to judge, but the rich man said that the old woman stole his well water and deserved to be bitten by a dog. Everyone hated him so much that they all said, "Why didn't this rooster die early!" "Why didn't the Lord of Hell hook the rooster!"

Someone else said, "This rooster, when he dies, no one will carry the coffin for him. Tell his body to be placed at home, and no one will care if it stinks."

These words somehow reached the ears of the rich man Suo. When he heard this, he smiled and deliberately said in the street: "My surname Suo will not die in thirty or fifty years. At that time, my wealth will be more prosperous, and I am worried that no one will carry the coffin for me? I am afraid they will compete for my filial piety!"

But he did not expect that within three days of the rich man saying this, his family was really dead, and it was the rich man's father who died. Early that morning, people found that the old man Suo died before the incense table, his face was quite ruddy, but his body was already cold. The rich man opened his mouth and cried, and the whole village knew it.

The Suo family was a rich man, so the funeral must not be shabby. The coffin was made of the most precious wood, and monks in the temple and Taoist priests in the temple were invited to chant sutras and make a dojo. However, except for Dai Xiao's relatives, no one in the village came to mourn, and the funeral hall was deserted.

It turned out that the villagers had all discussed that everyone should not get involved in the funeral of the Suo family, and see what he had to do with the rich man. He usually didn't pull out a penny, so he asked his father to lie down in the spiritual shed for a while.

The funeral of the rich man's house did not have the help of the villagers, and it was indeed impossible to play. What worried him the most was that he could not invite anyone to carry the coffin, and if this went on, the body would not be rotting at home! A few days later, the rich man Suo couldn't keep his breath down. As soon as he gritted his teeth and let out the words, whoever carried the coffin for his father would give one tael of silver. It took four people to carry the coffin, and two people at the head and tail of the coffin. This time, it would cost four taels of silver. The rich man Suo was cruel this time.

If this condition is offered, no one will come to carry the coffin, and the villagers can be regarded as setting the score now. The rich man gritted his teeth and offered a high price of two taels of silver per person, but the villagers still did not come. If you add up to four taels per person, no one is willing to carry the coffin. The rich man really had no choice but to let the villagers make an offer by themselves, no matter what the price was, he agreed.

The villagers offered a price – to carry the coffin for Grandpa Suo, one penny per step, and to carry it to the cemetery, as many steps as possible. When the rich man heard that, he secretly laughed: One penny per step, how many steps can you take from home to the cemetery? He agreed with them.

The price was set, and the villagers came all over. With the help of filial piety and help, the funeral could finally go on. On the day of the funeral, a few strong men lifted the coffin of the old man Suo, and relatives sent it out crying. As soon as the coffin was lifted and the first step out, someone shouted, "A penny!"

The rich man was so angry in his heart. The coffin hadn't left the mourning hall yet, so it started to count. After taking another step, someone shouted, "Two pence!"

Just as he walked forward, the coffin was slowly carried out of of the rich man's courtyard, and he had already counted 800 yuan. The rich man was secretly distressed, and he was only at the door of the house. If he walked to the ancestral tomb, he might not know how much it would cost!

Villagers walked around the village with their coffins in twists and turns, and it took a full 8,000 steps to turn out of the village. The rich man was so distressed that he was sweating, and a thousand pennies was one or two taels of silver! Only then did he leave the village, how much did it cost to get to the ancestral grave? Only then did he realize that he had been fooled, and one penny per step seemed to be less, but if he really counted it, it would be more.

Villagers carried the coffin in the direction of the Suo family's ancestral grave. Along the way, the rich man was so distressed that he didn't have the heart to cry, and he followed their steps to calculate how much money. After walking for half an hour, everyone came to a wasteland, which was a mass grave, where those who died in a foreign land were buried. The rich man suddenly shouted, "Stop!"

The coffin stopped, and the rich man said, "Put the coffin here, dig a hole and bury it."

The villagers were stunned. They hadn't entered the ancestral graves of the Suo family yet! A person as respected as Old Master Suo not only had to be buried in ancestral graves, but also in a prominent position. How could he be buried in this mass grave and become a ghost?

The rich man sat down on the ground and said, "I really can't stand it anymore. Now it's 25,000 steps, which is twenty-five taels of silver! If I really want to carry it to the ancestral tomb, I have to pay all my family wealth!"

Since the rich man Suo had decided, the villagers dug a pit on the spot and wanted to bury the old man here. Just after digging twice, there was a sound in the coffin, as if someone was slapping inside. Everyone was startled, is this a fake corpse? The rich man Suo was terrified, knelt down in front of the coffin and cried, "Father, my son is unfilial, I really can't send you to the ancestral grave, please forgive me."

At this time, a voice came faintly from the coffin: "My son opens the door, my son opens the door!" It was the voice of the old man Suo. A few bold villagers stepped forward to pry open the lid of the coffin, and saw the old man sitting up from the inside trembling. The villagers were terrified, and the rich man knelt on the ground and shivered.

For a moment, people couldn't tell if Old Master Suo was a human or a ghost. He sat in the coffin and coughed twice, saying, "Don't panic, everyone. I'm not a ghost. I'm alive again.

Grandpa Suo told everyone - last night, he was in front of the Buddha and was chanting: "I, Suo Gongji, am worthy of heaven and earth in my life..." Suddenly, he felt dizzy and fell to the ground. After a while, he felt that his body was floating in the air, and there were two people standing next to him. Grandpa Suo was so strange in his heart that he thought someone had kidnapped him, so he asked, "Who are you and what are you doing?One of them said to Grandpa Suo, "Is your name Suo Gongji? We caught you! We are cattle and horses, and we specially caught you in the underworld."

He thought to himself that he was already in his eighties, which was considered a long life, so he calmly followed Niu Tou Ma Mian into the gate of hell. Unexpectedly, the judge looked at him and said to Niu Tou Ma Mian, "Wrong, you caught the wrong one." Niu Tou Ma Mian also defended: "His name is Suo Gongji!" The judge said, "Wrong, I told you to catch Suo Rooster, not Suo Gongji. Send him back quickly, if he is buried in the ground, it will be difficult." So, with Niu Tou Ma Mian, he came back in a gust of wind.

After Grandpa Suo finished this adventure, the rich man Suo's face turned yellow in fright. "Suo Rooster" was his nickname. It turned out that Niu Tou Ma Mian came to catch him. Had it wasn't for the mistake of arresting his father, he would have been in the underworld by now.

The villagers can understand, it seems that they curse the rooster to death all day long, and their grievances reach the sky. Yama knows, and he really wants to arrest people!

The rich man asked his father, trembling, "Father, that rooster is me. Do you know of any remedies?"

Grandpa Suo thought for a while and said, "I've heard from my elders before that some people die prematurely because they have damaged their yin virtue. If they can make up for their yin virtue within three days, they can restore their longevity."

The rich man thought to himself, in order to save his life, to accumulate more virtue.

In the future, the rich man would open his own well, and the villagers could come and fetch water at will. The money he promised before was all fulfilled, and twenty-five taels of silver were given to the villagers, and the villagers used silver to drill a deep well.

The rich man Suo accumulated several yin virtues in these three days, and by the third night, he was fine, and he lived until the fourth day. From then on, he was like a different person, convenient to people everywhere, and kind to charity. No one called him "Suo Rooster", but they all called him "Suo Shanren".

Decades later, the rich man Suo had a good death. On the day of his death, the whole village rushed to carry his coffin. You carry it all the way, and I carry it all the way. This scene is big enough.

From then on, there was a saying in the countryside: "Accumulate some yin virtue, don't die, no one will carry the coffin."