At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a man from Shanxi named Li Renhou, known as "Li Laoxi", who ran a bank and pawn shop in Lujiang County. Although Li Laoxi had a lot of money and was rich, he was kind and righteous. Santana sparse wealth and often opened the purse generously to help the poor, so he was very praised by people.

Li Laoxi had a neighbor named Zhao Maocai, who was a small trader. His family was not wealthy, and he was often helped by Li Laoxi. But Zhao Maocai was greedy and often fought for a penny of money and people, so he was called "Zhao Yiwen."

This winter, Li Laoxi decided to go back to his hometown to visit relatives. Before leaving, he said to Zhao Yiwen: "I want to go back to my hometown now and come back next spring. I have forty jars of Shaoxing rice wine here, and I want to store it at your house temporarily, and I will pick it up when I come back." Zhao Yiwen naturally agreed. So the forty jars of Shaoxing rice wine were moved to the Zhao family's backyard for storage. Li Laoxi also went back to his hometown.

One day, a few children were playing and accidentally broke one of the wine jars. Zhao Yiwen shouted angrily, "Oh no, you're going to ask me to pay for a jar of yellow wine!" However, after a long time, no wine leaked out. Zhao Yiwen was a shrewd person and immediately felt that something was wrong. He immediately drank from the child and opened the wine jar himself. Where was the wine inside, it turned out to be a jar of silver! There were a total of 100 ingots, each with fifty taels. Zhao Yiwen then opened the forty jars one by one, and they were all filled with silver, a total of 4,000 ingots, 200,000 taels.

At first, he was at a loss, and then he couldn't help but have evil intentions. He took out all the 200,000 taels of silver overnight and buried it underground. The next day, he went to the street to buy Shaoxing rice wine, poured it into the wine jar, and sealed it as it was.

The next spring, Li Laoxi rushed back to Lujiang County from his hometown, came to Zhao's house, thanked Zhao Yiwen again and again, and then moved 40 jars of Shaoxing rice wine home.

Li Laoxi went home and opened the jar to take a look, and was immediately dumbfounded, and the silver inside disappeared. I wanted to ask, but because I said at the beginning that I was storing Shaoxing rice wine, what can I say? Li Laoxi was really dumb and could not tell. In a fit of anger, he died of a sudden illness that night.

In this way, the Zhao family made a large windfall out of thin air. With 200,000 taels of silver, the business grew bigger and bigger. They bought a house in the city and land in the countryside.

At noon that day, Zhao Yiwen sat in the courtyard to take a nap and unknowingly didzed off. In a trance, he saw Li Laoxi wearing a green cloth gown, holding an umbrella in his hand, and a burlap on his shoulder, walking into the Zhao family compound with a smile. Only to hear Li Laoxi shout, "Boss Zhao..." Zhao Yiwen suddenly realized that it must be Li Laoxi's ghost who collected the bill! He couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat and woke up suddenly. It turned out to be Nan Ke Yimeng.

At this moment, a maid walked out of the room and reported to Zhao Yiwen, "Congratulations to the master, the wife has just given birth to a young master." When Zhao Yiwen heard that, he was very happy at first, but when he calmed down and thought about it, he felt that the dream just now was strange, and it seemed like the real thing. What's more coincidental is that when he dreamed that Li Laoxi walked into the yard, the wife gave birth to a young master. Could this child be reincarnated by Li Laoxi to collect the bill?

From then on, this thought was entangled in Zhao Yiwen's heart like a nightmare, making him uneasy, afraid that his son would disobey and be unfilial in the future, or become a prodigal son who did not do his job properly and lose the Zhao family's property.

Unexpectedly, this child has been very obedient since he was a child, very filial to his parents, very smart at reading, and very diligent. Zhao Yiwen's doubts gradually disappeared.

The child grew up and his studies were smooth sailing. First, he was admitted to Xiucai, and then he was admitted to Juren. At this time, Zhao Yiwen's doubts had disappeared, and he was complacent that the Zhao family had such a successful son.

At that time, the finances of the Qing Dynasty were in deficit for many years, and it was very common to sell official titles. In order to make his son rise to the top and for the Zhao family to ascend to the sky, Zhao Yiwen gritted his teeth and spent 400,000 taels of silver to donate an official position of Taoist platform to his son.

Who knew that the 400,000 taels of silver had just been paid, and the black gauze hat on the Taoist platform had just been received, but the child unfortunately died of a sudden illness. All 400,000 taels of silver were wasted.

This was a disaster for Zhao Yiwen! From then on, he was silent and died soon after. Before his death, he said to his family: "The debt always has to be paid to the public Santana, isn't that even the interest? Unjust wealth is not advisable!"