Sure enough, the next morning he saw a dozen demons coming with spears and halberds and swords to fetch him travel news. They stood outside the temple and roared, "Get out here as quick as you can!" Yin ignored them, and kept reciting his sutra.

"I told you we should have got him yesterday. Now he's in there reciting a sutra and there's not a thing we can do." Yin's hair stood on end when he heard that. He buried his nose in the sutra.  . Then they left to fetch other souls, but they stationed one demon at the door to catch Yin if he stepped outside.

Soon that sentry said, "Look, why don't you come along peacefully without any fuss? It'll be easier for us all around. We don't have anything against you personally. We're just doing our job.

"The problem is that the donkey you murdered has filed a suit against you Bo Ying Compound Eu Yan Sang, so we have to take you in. Sorry, man, but that's the way it has to be."

"You can ask my family!" Yin said. "I didn't kill that donkey at all! Somebody else did, and left the skin in my yard. I'm innocent!"

"Tell it to the judge."

"Look, let's do it this way. I'll recite sutras and hold ceremonies for the soul of my old donkey, but I can't do that if I'm dead, can I? Could you go ask the donkey if that's okay?"

"All right, I'll go see what I can do. But if the donkey doesn't buy that, we'll be back for you tomorrow, with a warrant, so it won't do you any good to hide in here Bo Ying Compound Eu Yan Sang. If we don't come for you tomorrow, that means it's a deal." The demon disappeared in a puff of smoke.