Bianliang, Northern Song Dynasty, winter night.
Lin Mo, a wonton vendor, closed his stall and gave his last bowl of wontons to the blind beggar at the entrance of the alley. This is the only thing he has learned in more than twenty years - kindness. Although his kindness never gave him good rewards: his father died early, his mother died of illness, and he was trampled and humiliated by the ruffian Niu Er.
That night, my mother's spiritual body suddenly shook, and a person walked out of a golden light - the ancestor of the Lin family, Lin Xiaoxian.
The ancestor claimed to be the judge of the underworld and told Lin Mo a shocking secret: three generations of the Lin family have accumulated virtue and their bloodline has been opened. From then on, he held the "book of merits" to see people's sins, and the "mirror of cleansing injustice" to conduct autopsies and investigate cases. He has only one mission - to gather forty-nine extremely evil people, bring them to justice, and send them to hell.
Forty-nine sinners.
Lin Mo thought it was easy. Are there still few evil people in this world?
But he soon discovered that the real evil was never in the face.
The kind-hearted grain merchant had a lot of money and gave out porridge every year. He was known as "Li Dashanren", but seventeen bones were buried in the backyard - all of them were farmers who were forced to death by him. The youngest one was only three years old when he died of starvation. The vegetable seller Mrs. Zhang, who always smiled and gave sweets to her children, abducted forty-three children, killed seventeen, and buried them in a mass grave outside the city. There was also the butcher Wang who was kind to Lin Mo. He often gave him meat on credit and gave him water during holidays, but he dismembered seven homeless people in his backyard, mixed the meat with pork and sold them.
Behind every smiling face, there is a hell.
Well written and very true. Very humane.