法苑珠林 74.35

74.35

Under the Tang, an assistant magistrate of Guantao County in Jizhou was surnamed Zhou; his personal name has been forgotten. In the eleventh month of the fourth year of Xianqing [659 CE], he was dispatched on an official mission to Linyu Pass for mutual trade. When he departed, he took two subordinate clerks along with him. Zhou carried a considerable amount of money and silk. The two men then crushed him to death with bags of earth. They stole all the money and silk away, leaving only the clothes on his body for his burial. At the end of the year, he entered his wife's dream, recounting in full the details of how he was killed, and also told her the hiding place of the stolen goods and wealth. His wife then reported this to the authorities accordingly. The officials investigated and interrogated, obtaining the true facts along with the money and silk, and captured both men; both were condemned to death. The monk Huiyong of Zhili Temple in Xiangzhou said that he personally met the Daoist priest Liu Renkuan of the Mingting Abbey, who recounted it (the above one proof is from the Mingbao shiyi).