If they won, there was naturally a lot of paper money to be burnt in thanks. Some "believers" lost everything they had though, and occasionally would return to the tree in rage to chop it down.
中獎了，固然燒大把紙錢討好大樹公，卻也有人因血本無歸，一怒之下竟持斧頭要砍掉大樹。