From the mouth of Chunniang, Gao Ming acquired some extremely important information.
Every year, Mr. Tang would throw a birthday banquet, each one more dreadful than the last. His servants and the guests who came to offer gifts were all townsfolk who sought favors from him, and they were eventually consumed by him bit by bit until they could no longer leave the Tang Mansion.
Moving the stone lion from the front of the ancestral hall, stealing the Water Dragon King's woman, trading the lives of townspeople for incense and copper coins—Mr. Tang was a major household in the town, the evil deeds he committed would take more than ten pages to list, yet he still lived a prosperous life.
The townspeople all knew that Mr. Tang was worse than a beast, but when his birthday came, they would still come to his door to present gifts, begging him to do them favors.
