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The story of cow's head and horse's face

According to legend, the cow's head and horse's face used to be an adult in charge of real power in the underworld. Why did Yan only work as a servant to arrest people? Here's another story.

Legend has it that there was once a Mr. Ma in Fengdu City. This Mr. Ma is in Fengdu City, but he is a big man with both financial power and wealth. Supposedly, he should be satisfied, but he has always had a grievance that he is over 60 years old, but he has a son. His eleven wives and concubines all have a son. No matter how Mr. Ma prayed, it was useless, needless to say.

On this day, Mr. Ma finished his meal and prepared to go out for a banquet, because tomorrow is Mr. Ma's 18 birthday. Just as Mr. Ma was preparing to go out, a fortune teller came outside and muttered, "Fortune telling, fortune telling, is useless and doesn't cost money." Mr. Ma was overjoyed, and hurried out to invite the fortune teller back and told him what he wanted. Then, he gave his son's birthday to the fortune teller. "What's the matter?" The fortune teller said, "Your son's life is not good, and his life is too short." Mr. Ma quickly asked how much it was. The fortune teller said that at eighteen, Mr. Ma fell to the ground.

After a long time, Mr. Ma stood up and thought that tomorrow would be Ma Yichun's eighteenth birthday, but he was going to die. He quickly asked the fortune teller to help him find a way. The fortune teller said that we mortals can do something about this, but if you are willing to spend money, it will be much easier to say. As soon as Mr. Ma heard the solution, he quickly asked what it was.

The fortune teller said, "Tomorrow you prepare a delicious table and put it in the box. Tomorrow at midnight, you will take this box to the twelfth step of the gate of hell. At that time, you will see two chess players. Please give them the box, remember, wait patiently, don't rush to exercise, be sure to ask three times. Teacher Ma will keep it in mind.

When I was a child, Mr. Ma took the box to the gate of hell according to the fortune teller's words. Sure enough, he saw two people playing chess. Those two people were none other than cow's head and horse's face. Mr. Ma went over and knelt on the ground and lifted the box above his head. When it was time to invite the two gods to have dinner, they seemed to listen. Mr. Ma didn't dare to disturb them, so he had to watch their next game of chess until they finished.

After a long time, Niutou suddenly put the chess piece down and said, "Marco, it's time. We should go." The horse nodded, packed the chessboard and was ready to go. When Mr. Ma saw that they were leaving, he immediately shouted. Please stay, two great gods, and leave after dinner. Hearing this, he turned around and saw Mr. Ma kneeling on the ground and lifting the box. The cow asked, "You stop me." Seeing such delicious food, the tauren said to Ma Mian, "Brother, we didn't eat this business trip. It was thoughtful of this man. We ate it and wolfed it down. "

After dinner, the tauren asked, "You want to make us such a rich Lai dish. What happened to us? " Mr. Ma said, "Please help my son." After that, he also burned a bunch of paper money. The tauren said, since we ate your meal and took your money, you can tell me what happened. Mr. Ma said, "I am in my sixties and have only one son. The fortune teller said I was. " The tauren asked, "What's your son's name?" Mr. Ma said it was Ma Yichun. The tauren opened the book of life and death given to him by the judge and found it was not good. The person they want to arrest tonight is Ma Yichun.

Mr. Ma begged Mr. Niu to let him go, but Mr. Niu said that the laws of the underworld were strict and difficult to handle. Seeing that they refused to help, Mr. Ma said, "I have a brother who is a big official in the underworld. If you don't help me, I'll go to him. " Mr. Ma said that I was the only one surnamed Ma in the underworld, but I didn't know you. Mr. Ma said, "When you arrive in the underworld, you will drink Meng Po Tang and forget the past lives. How do you know him?

Yan soon learned about it and sent black and white impermanence to find out for himself. As soon as the impermanence of black and white was found out, Yan Dashu sent someone to fetch the cow's head and the horse's face. Yan each beat him forty times, and then he was reduced to the slave of arresting people. But things didn't end there. Ma Mian was unwilling to be a little servant to arrest people, so he sneaked out of the underworld and tried to get Ma Yichun back. Unexpectedly, he just got in at Mr. Ma's door.

It turned out that the fortune teller knew that the cow's head and horse's face had been demoted, and he was worried that they would come back to catch Ma Yichun and forgive him. He asked Mr. Ma to put a door god on his door, and then put a statue of Yan in Ma Yichun's room, so Ma was afraid of Yan and naturally didn't dare to come. Ma Mian was very angry when he arrived, so he returned to the underworld and secretly changed the judge's life and death book. Then he told Ma Yichun, who was black and white, that his birthday had already passed, but he was afraid to enter his house with the portrait of the keeper.

Black and white are impermanent to catch Ma Yichun, and soon Ma Yichun died. Ma Yi was unwilling when she died, so she committed suicide. After Ma Yi died, she told Yan that her son had changed his life and escaped from danger, but now he died for no reason. Yan heard that it was black and white impermanence that arrested people. Yan asked why black and white impermanence arrested people, and black and white impermanence told Yan that it was a horse face.

Later, it was found out that Ma Mian stole the book of life and death, and Yan changed all the responsibilities of Ma Mian and became a mortal. The new horse face is Ma Yichun, the son of Mr. Ma. He was kind before his death. After his death, he could be a new horse face in the underworld. He had a personal vendetta against the former horse face, so he was demoted to a mortal. But not long after, because Ma Yichun was so kind, he spared many ghosts. After learning this, Yan said, "Ma Yichun is too kind and wants to be a servant to arrest people." So he left the horse pure with him and became the king of reincarnation. The new horse face was made by Ma Yichun's father, Ma Yuanwai.

This is the story of cow's head and horse's face. Later, the horse's face has not changed, and it is still outside the horse until now.

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