In autumn, Shao Kangjie's illness got worse. He stayed in bed all day. Sima Guang, Fu Bi, Zhang Zai, Cheng Yi, Cheng Hao and other friends come to visit him every day and wait for him. Although Shao Kangjie can't move his limbs, his mind is very clear. He talks about this and that to whoever comes, and talks about learning endlessly.
On one occasion, Cheng Yi visited Shao Kangjie. When he left, Shao Kangjie said, "It seems that we are going to say goodbye forever." Cheng Yi was a little sad and asked Shao Kangjie, "Sir, do you have anything for me?" Shao Kangjie said: "If we want to make the road ahead narrower and narrower, how can we make people walk?" Cheng Yi nodded.
One day in winter, Shao Kangjie was dying. Relatives and friends came and began to prepare for his funeral. Cheng, Sima Guang, and others gathered in the outhouse to discuss the funeral, which was difficult to decide at the moment. Shao Kangjie, who was lying in the room, heard their discussion, called his son Bowen to the bed and said to him, "I have three requirements that must be met." Bowen cried and said, "Go." Shao Kangjie said intermittently, "First, don't bury me in Luoyang after my death, but in Yichuan, my ancestral home. Second, the epitaph should be written by Cheng Bochun. Third, don't bury anything, put your head on the pulley, wear black coarse cloth and grease your clothes. When I was dying, I asked the little bald girl of the Li family to take care of me. " "Wen Dian nodded, and then, close your eyes and passed away.
According to the will of family and friends, when Li's little bald girl died, she was called to dress in thick black clothes, put oil on her clothes, put them in a coffin, put pulleys on the pillow, let the little bald girl see what was buried inside, and then nailed the coffin and sent it to Yichuan cemetery.
On the way to the funeral, many people stood on both sides, men, women and children crying and wiping their tears, chanting the benefits of Mr. Shao.
Eight wonderful boys were carrying coffins. At first, they were carrying heavy loads and their shoulders hurt, so they walked slowly. However, after going out for more than ten miles, it is strange that the farther you go, the lighter you are, and it is not difficult to carry it. Later, people found that when they met uphill, there was a "gurgling" sound inside, and when they went downhill, there was also a "gurgling" sound inside, and the sound was from back to front. Someone was afraid and said to himself, "What's ringing?" One man said, "It looks like the pulley head is rolling back and forth."
Why does pulley head roll? The old people said that Master Shao had ascended to heaven, and the coffin was empty, leaving only a pulley head.
Sixty or seventy years passed quickly, and the little bald girl got married and gave birth to a son. The son and daughter got married and gave birth to a grandson. This grandson of hers will become a loser when he grows up, specializing in the activities of stealing coffins and robbing tombs. One day, I whispered to others that I was going to steal Shao Kangjie's grave. It happened that the little bald girl heard my words and quickly stopped and said, "Don't go. When Mr. Shao was buried, I saw clearly that there was nothing in it, not even clothes, but also oil. " Grandson asked, "Is it true?" "It's true, I saw it with my own eyes." In this way, Shao Kangjie's tomb was not stolen.
It turned out that Shao Kangjie knew that the little bald girl's grandson was a coffin thief and grave robber before he died.