本美术片为木偶动画片，改编自福建同名高甲戏。某富少放荡形骸不学无术，看上娴熟端庄的某民女后，妄图与之结为夫妻，民女不堪其烦，相告若能高中状元，就会下嫁。两人对话被算命先生听到，为骗取几两银子，算命先生奉承富少赴京赶考定能高中，喜得他连忙收拾行装和下人一道赴京。半路遇到九千岁，由于自小目中无人，他反让九千岁让道于他，并放言自己会高中三甲，九千岁听闻，来了兴致，让下人递上名片想一窥他如何高中。深更半夜两位主考官正在商讨该让哪位高官托付的“俊才”做状元时，富少叩门，一见来者手拿九千岁名片，两人有了主意。第二日，富少理所当然成为状元郎。更为讽刺的是，这位目不识丁的新科状元郎随后竟然“因祸得福”连升三级。

神秘雪山脚下，因触怒黄大仙，女孩突然中邪变异。为救伙伴胡八一误闯千年黄府，异事不绝的地下诡宅竟阴门大开、灯火通明。一探黄仙庙破纸人屠村之谜、二解黄仙吊魂之法、三斩邪灵刺破满堂高坐“诡”戏飘，台上戏子咿呀唱戏，台下看客双目圆睁无痛无绝，带着深积的怨气，向着胡八一几人步步逼近……

原作は、つぶやきシローが2016年に発表した同名小説。地元密着型スーパーウメヤ（大原店）の万年主任・伊澤春男を主人公に、愛する妻や子供たちとのかけがえのない生活、店長昇格への長く険しい戦いの果てに待っていた予想外の結末が描かれる。

The story follows a rich, comfortable household thrown into escalating turmoil after a shabby vendor of sweet potatoes suffers a stroke in their drawing room. His presence alone isn't much of a catalyst (although it does spark plenty of interest and attention from the victim's greedy and envious tenement neighbors), but serves instead to counterpoint the absurd behavior of everyone around him. A large cast of sympathetic and eccentric characters bustles constantly in and out of each (oddly lit) scene, but despite all the frenzied activity and sharp dialogue the film presents a rather quaint moral: too much money spoils true love.