Ji Xiaolan tells stories about cause and effect #21 - To avenge the hatred of the past life 夙願酬報

(English subtitles) Ji Xiaolan (紀曉嵐1724-1805) was an influential philosopher, politician, and writer in the Qing Dynasty of China.
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In the past, my grandfather had a servant named Dawei, who was about fourteen years old. One day, Dawei followed the villagers to the river to fish. After a while, he caught a big fish w a bamboo basket. The fish was two feet long. When he was about to lift the fish up to show everyone,
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suddenly the fish swung its tail rapidly in his hand and slapped him on the left cheek.
As he was inattentive, his feet slipped, and he fell into the water. However, he did not get up from the water for some time. Everyone felt very strange. So someone walked over and tried to help him up. At this time, they surprisingly saw streams of blood surging to the surface of the water.
It turned out that in the mud at the bottom of the river, there was a piece of broken bowl fragment as sharp as a blade, which just pierced his temple. By this time, Dawei had already died from excessive blood loss.
Before this happened, Dawei's mother had dreamed that he was tied up by a group of people, pushed onto a chopping board, and arbitrarily slaughtered like pigs and sheep.
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Even so, it seems that these people are not yet relieved of their grievances. She woke up from her dream and still felt creepy. Since then, she has often reminded Dawei not to fight with others, lest something untoward happen.
But what no one expected was that Dawei would die in an accident because of a blow from a fish. This is probably what the Buddhists call a past-life grudge. Dawei probably owes a life to this fish from his previous life.