Xu Yanyan passed away as the daughter of the magistrate of a broken city. There was a famine in the city and her father did not dare to open a warehouse.
She stole the warehouse key in the middle of the night. Three thousand disaster victims went to the construction site with rice porridge, and the whole city scolded her for being a prodigal. Two months later, the flood passed through and no water entered the west part of the city. The people knelt by the canal and called her Living Bodhisattva.
A year later, glazed lanterns illuminated the entire city, and the night market lasted all night. The imperial censor came to investigate and walked around. When he returned to the capital, he only wrote one sentence in his memorial: "I don't know how to get involved with her."
The emperor paid a private visit incognito and watched the lights on the city tower all night. At dawn, he said: "My capital is missing a light."
That lamp is called Xu Yanyan.
In a sentence: She was transformed into the unlucky daughter of the prefect of a dilapidated city, and she built a city that was dead due to famine into a city that never sleeps.
