The story of Uncle Cao Guo, one of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea

One of the Eight Immortals of Taoism. According to legend, he was the great uncle of the Song Renzong Dynasty, and he was also a Jingxiu. Uncle Cao's younger brother was greedy for the beauty of Xiucai's wife who went to Beijing to take the exam, hanged Xiucai, and forcibly occupied his wife. Xiucai's unjust soul appealed to Bao Zheng, and Bao Gong allowed him to investigate. Uncle Cao told his brother that he must put Xiucai's wife to death in order to prevent future troubles. So the second uncle threw Xiucai's wife into the well, she escaped, met Uncle Cao Guo on the way, mistook it for Bao Zheng, and appealed to Uncle Cao, Uncle Cao was shocked, and ordered his subordinates to beat Xiucai's wife to death with an iron whip, and his subordinates thought she was dead, and abandoned her body in a remote alley.

After Xiucai's wife woke up, she complained to Bao Gong, and after Bao Gong asked the truth, she cheated on her illness, and Uncle Cao Guo came to visit Bao Zheng. Bao Zheng ordered Xiucai's wife to file a lawsuit and imprisoned Cao Guo's uncle. He also made a fake book to send the uncle of the two countries to Kaifeng Mansion, so that the woman could complain about her grievances. and put the uncle of the two countries in prison. Empress Cao and Song Renzong personally came to persuade Bao Zheng to release her two younger brothers, but Bao Zheng refused and ordered the two uncles to be executed. Song Renzong granted amnesty to the world. Bao Gongcai released Uncle Cao Guo.

After Uncle Cao Guo was released, he went into the mountains to practice and retreated to the mountains and forests, determined to cultivate Taoism and learn immortals, and one day, Zhong Liquan and Lu Dongbin asked him, "What do you raise?" Uncle Cao Guo said, "What I raise is the Tao." The immortal smiled and asked, "Where is the Tao?" Uncle Cao pointed to the sky and said, "The Tao is in the sky." Then the immortal asked, "Where is the heavens?" Uncle Cao Guo pointed to his heart. Zhong Liquan and Lu Dongbin said with satisfaction: "The heart is the sky, the sky is the Tao, and you have already understood the true meaning of the Tao." He was given the "True Secret Decree" one by one, and he practiced carefully, and it didn't take long for Uncle Cao Guo to become an immortal.