Frightened by the misfortune predicted by him, the young merchant Wang Wen-yun says goodbye to his father and wife and leaves for a hundred days to peddle.

Things are going well with Wang. On the way to Sizhou, he stops at an inn where he dreams that a robber is killing him. And indeed, the next morning, in a roadside zucchini, he encounters the robber Bai Zheng, nicknamed the Iron Pole. To the innkeeper’s jokes, the robber finds out from Van who he is, demands to take him into companions and threatens death if he refuses. However, Wang manages to give the thief (who begins to sing songs) to drink, and then slip away from him.

Van gets to the next tavern and asks the owner not to let anyone else in. The robber nevertheless enters the tavern and sees that Van has something to profit from. Taking the cinnabar basket, Bai decides to kill the innkeeper for his own safety. Wang himself runs away again, but in the temple of the deity of Taipei, the robber again overtakes him. Before his death, Wang summoned rain bubbles near the temple to witness the crime.

Having arrived at Wang’s house, the robber kills the old father and forces the widow to become his wife. She asks for a delay of one hundred days to observe mourning. The killed old man in the afterlife is trying to complain about the robber.A hellish official advises him to forget about earthly affairs - he died so died. Here comes Taipei. He gets acquainted with some sentences of sinners, faces the case of the robber and decides to punish him.

The soul of Wang Wen-yun returns home, craving revenge, and finds a killer. He unlocks, but Van calls a witness - the deity of the temple, in front of which rain bubbles appeared. Taipei condemns the killer, who will now be in hell an eternally hungry demon.