法苑珠林 67.61

67.61

魏城陽王元徽。初為孝莊帝晝計殺爾朱榮。及爾朱兆入雒害孝莊。而徽懼走投雒陽令寇祖仁。祖仁父叔兄弟三人為刺史皆徽之力也。既而爾朱兆購徽萬戶侯。祖仁遂斬徽送之。并匿其金百斤馬五十匹。及兆得徽首。亦不賞侯。兆乃夢徽。曰我金二百斤馬百匹。在祖仁家。卿可取也。兆覺曰。城陽家本巨富。昨令收捕。全無金銀。此夢或實。至曉即令收祖仁。祖仁入見徽。曰足得相報矣。祖仁欵得金百斤馬五十匹。兆不信之。祖仁私斂戚屬得金三十斤馬三十匹輸兆。猶不充數。兆乃發怒。懸頭於樹。以石硾其足。鞮箠殺之（右此七驗出冤魂志）。

Yuan Hui, Prince of Chengyang in the Wei, originally devised daytime plans for Emperor Xiaozhuang to kill Erzhu Rong. When Erzhu Zhao entered Luoyang and murdered Xiaozhuang, Hui was terrified and fled to Kou Zuren, the Magistrate of Luoyang. Zuren's father, uncle, and brothers—three persons—becoming Regional Inspectors was all due to Hui's efforts. Soon after, Erzhu Zhao offered a reward of a ten-thousand-household marquisate for Hui. Zuren thereupon severed Hui's head and delivered it, while also concealing his one hundred jin of gold and fifty horses. When Zhao obtained Hui's head, he did not reward him with the marquisate. Zhao then dreamt of Hui, who said, 'My two hundred jin of gold and one hundred horses are at Zuren's home; you may take them.' Zhao awoke and said, 'The Chengyang household was originally exceedingly wealthy. Yesterday, when I ordered the seizure, there was no gold or silver at all; this dream may be true.' At dawn he immediately ordered Zuren's arrest. When Zuren entered, he saw Hui, who said, 'Now I have fully repaid you!' Zuren confessed to having obtained one hundred jin of gold and fifty horses; Zhao did not believe him. Zuren privately collected from his relatives and obtained thirty jin of gold and thirty horses to deliver to Zhao, but it still did not make up the count. Zhao then flew into a rage, hung his head from a tree, weighed down his feet with stones, and whipped and beat him to death with boots and lashes. (These seven evidential accounts above are from the Yuanhun zhi.)