During the Yongzheng period, there was an old Confucian named Ji Runji who went to stay at Shimen Bridge one night. As a result, he was told by the second brother that the guest rooms of the inn were full, and there was only one hut left. However, the window of this hut was against the manger, and it smelled very big, so no one wanted to live there.

Although Old Ru was very reluctant, he could only reluctantly live in the barn. Soon it was night, and the horses in the barn were kicking and jumping, and the sound was very loud. Old Ru could not sleep in peace, so he could only lie on the bed and rest with his eyes closed. After the voices around him gradually quieted down, Old Ru suddenly heard the voices of the horses in the barn talking.

Old Confucian Ji liked to read some miscellaneous books on unofficial history, so he was only surprised by this matter, not afraid. Old Confucian Ji suddenly remembered that he had read a similar thing in a novel written by a Song Dynasty person. It was the story of the Song Dynasty people hearing a cow talking under the bridge, and it was similar to this matter, so Old Confucian Ji knew that it was not a ghost. Out of curiosity, Old Confucian Qi held his breath and listened to the sound of the horse shed with peace of mind.

One of the horses in the barn said, "I didn't know the pain of starvation until now. I didn't know where it was because I hid the money from my master before I died, and now I don't know where it is." Another horse also said, "Most of us are reincarnated by horse breeders. Only after we die do we understand that we don't know the pain of today when we are alive. This is really regrettable."

After hearing what the two horses said, the horses in the stable whimpered together sadly. After the horses whimpered for a while, one of the horses said with a sobbing voice, "I think the judgment of the underworld is not fair, why can Wang Wu be reincarnated as a dog?" The other horse replied, "I heard that the ghost soldier in the underworld once said that Wang Wu's wife and two daughters were very dissolute and gave all his money to his lover, which offset half of his sins."

When the other horse heard this, he sighed and said, "That's right, sins are different in severity. Jiang Qi turned around and threw himself into a pig, and he was going to be slaughtered. Compared to us, Jiang Qi was obviously more painful."

When he heard this, he suddenly had an itchy throat and coughed a few times. The horse language disappeared along with his cough. He waited a long time, but he was still silent.

Afterwards, He Runji often used this matter to warn those who kept horses not to arbitrarily withhold the horse's food and grass, otherwise they would be reincarnated into the horse's fetus sooner or later, and it would be time for these people to suffer.