When a very miserly（吝啬的） man nicknamed the stingy ghost died and went to hell, the Yama King reproached（责斥） him, saying, You stingy ghost! When you were alive, you clung hard to everything and wouldn't give to anyone. Even when you saw others in poverty and misery1, you refused to offer them help. Also, you didn't take good care of your parents, relatives or friends and let them suffer and starve. For your evil karma（因果报应） , you'll be dumped into a pot of boiling oil.
The ghost wardens2 then escorted the man to the pot of boiling oil, and when they arrived, he looked at the pot and said, Hey! Wait a minute! There's so much oil in it. What a waste! Please drain out the oil, sell it and give me the money. Then, you can simply dump me in a pot of boiling water! There's no need for oil. You're using too much oil to cook one person anyway!
有一个人非常吝啬，叫吝啬鬼，他去世了将来下地狱，阎罗王骂他说：你这个吝啬鬼，在尘间的时候什么东西都抓非常紧不放，什么人都不给，看到贫穷、痛苦的人也不帮助，爸爸妈妈、亲戚、朋友也没照顾好，让他们都挨饿吃苦，你这种凶恶的业障，应该被放入滚开的油锅里面。
鬼差就带他到滚得非常热、非常烫的油锅那边，吝啬鬼一看就说：喔，等一下、慢一下！油那样多，如何那样浪费呢？你们先把这类油倒出来，卖出去后把钱给我，然后丢我在热烫的水里就能了！何必用油，而且还用那样多油!
