Wang Xia asked Hou Yi to shoot a bull's-eye with a diameter of one inch and an animal skin of one foot, so he told Hou Yi: "If you shoot this, you will be rewarded with 12,000 gold; If you miss it, deprive you of your fief. " After hearing this, Hou Yi's face was uncertain and his breathing was tense and cramped. So Hou Yi opened his bow and shot at the target, and missed; Shoot at the target again, but miss. Wang Xia said to Minister Fu Miren: "This is Hou Yi, and the archery is accurate; But if you reward him, don't you hit the bull's eye? " Fu Miren said: "Like Hou Yi, happiness and fear became his disaster, and twenty-two thousand gold became his disaster. If people can abandon their fears and give up their two thousand gold, then the world will not be worse than Hou Yi. " (From Zi Shan) When Yao was in power, ten suns came out together. The scorching sun scorched crops, dried up flowers and trees, and people even shot at the sun.

There is nothing to eat. Poets, Scissorhands, Nine Babies, Feng Yi, and Xie Tiao all come to harm people. (So) Yao sent Hou Yi to kill people, south to Zedi wilderness, north to fierce water to kill nine babies, Qingqiu tied arrows with silk ropes, east to Ozawa, shot down nine suns, and then killed Yi, Dongting Lake to kill snakes, and mulberry forests in the Central Plains to catch seals. Hou Yi cleared away those disasters one by one. The people were very happy and elected Yao as emperor.