Ghost Story of Liaozhai

Xu in Jiaozhou, who was doing business in the sea, was suddenly blown away by the strong wind.When I opened my eyes, I came to an isolated island, deep in the mountains, and thought to myself, "It's wild overseas, I don't know if there are any residents?" Thinking of this, I carried dry food, went ashore from Zhouzhou, and looked for human signs.Keeping your feet on the ground, you can see that the cliffs on both sides are full of cave entrances, as dense as a beehive.Human voices could be heard faintly in the cave.Came to peek outside the cave, and there lived two Yakshas inside.The teeth are dense, like iron halberds, the eyes are shining, as huge as a lantern, and the sharp claws are stretched out, tearing venison raw and eating it.

Xu was so frightened that he ran away, but the two yakshas found out and grabbed him into the cave.

The monster whispered like birds and beasts, and suddenly tore Xu's clothes, with fierce eyes, as if it wanted to choose someone to eat.Xu was terrified, and hurriedly took the dry food and beef in the package, and yaksha divided them and ate them.Xu shook his hand, meaning: No more.Yasha was furious and captured him again. Xu begged: "Let me go back. There is an iron pot in the cabin. I will cook meat for you." It took a lot of effort to explain, but Yasha finally understood.

One person and two monsters came to the boat, and Xu took the iron pot and cooking utensils and returned to the cave again.Lighting firewood, cooking venison, Yaksha was full of cooked meat, happy, and at night blocked the entrance of the cave with huge stones to prevent Xu from escaping.At dawn the next day, Yasha left and returned after a while. He took a dead deer and threw it to Xu. Xu understood, peeled the deer for water, and boiled a large pot of broth.After a while, five or six yakshas came together, gobbling up a pot of venison in an instant, pointing to the iron pot one by one, as if they thought it was too small.Three or four days later, a yaksha came with a large iron pot on his back, and several other yakshas brought many dead wolves, dead deer, and Xu mixed together, and cooked a pot full.

All the yakshas invited Xu to eat together.After a few days like this, Yesha and Xu got acquainted gradually, and he was no longer forbidden to go out, and people and monsters lived together like a family. After a long time, Xu gradually became aware of the sound and understood the meaning, and learned the language of Yasha without a teacher. Yasha was even more happy when he saw this.That night, the yakshas brought a female companion and forcibly rationed Xu as his wife. Xu was very scared at first, and the female yaksha took the initiative to make out, so Xu had no choice but to have fun with her.After the event, the female Yasha was full of joy, and every day she often left some cooked meat for Xu, and the two were as close as husband and wife.

This day, all the yakshas got up early, with a string of pearls hanging around their necks, and filed out, as if they were waiting for a distinguished guest, and ordered Xu to cook more venison. Go out of the hole and tell the yakshas, ​​"Xu Lang has no bones." The yakshas each plucked five pearls from their necks and gave them to her, and the female yaksha picked ten pearls herself, and made a total of fifty. He rubbed the rope, stringed the pearls, and hung them around Xu's neck.

Xu's eye-catching pearl is extraordinarily precious, and one is worth a hundred gold.All the yakshas left one after another. When Xu finished cooking the meat, the female yaksha came to invite him and said, "Let's go to pick up the king of heaven."

The two of them came to a big cave, which was several acres wide. There were many stone benches in the cave, as smooth as a mirror. Twenty or thirty Yaksha leaders were killed.

After a while, the strong wind raised dust, and all the yakshas stood in a panic, and came out of the cave. Amidst the noise of laughter, a huge yaksha walked in, with a majestic body, and strode to the leopard skin stone bench to sit down.The yakshas stood on both sides, raised their heads in salute, and crossed their arms.

Da Yasha nodded his head and inspected, and asked: "Have all the brothers in Womei Mountain arrived?" All Yashas said in unison: "They are all here." Da Yasha looked at Xu and asked: "Who is this person?" The female yaksha said: "He is my husband." All the yakshas testified one after another, praising Xu for his superb cooking skills.The two yakshas brought a pot of cooked meat to the big chief, and the big yaksha grabbed the food with his hands and praised loudly, "It's delicious, it's so delicious. From now on, I'll pay you tribute cooked meat every day."

After eating about ten catties of meat, Oyasha asked Xu, "Your bone protrusion is so short, why?" To Xu, each one is as big as a thumb and round as a bullet.The female Yasha hurriedly took it, and put it on for Xu, who folded his arms and thanked him again and again.

Oyasha left in the wind, swift as flying.

After four years, the female Yaksha became pregnant and gave birth to two boys and one girl. They all looked like human beings, not as ugly as their mother.All the Yashas loved the three children very much and raised them together.All the yakshas went out for a day, and Xu was sitting alone at home. Suddenly, a strange female yaksha came and forced Xu to have sex with her.Xu's wife came back from outside and was furious when she saw this. The two female Yashas fought each other. Xu's wife was brave and bit off the ear of her rival in one bite.

Since then, Xu's wife, Riri, has been waiting for her husband and has never left her.Three years later, the children were able to walk, Xu began to teach the human language, and Little Yasha gradually became able to speak the human language.Although he was still a child, he ran to the mountains like walking on the ground, and he was attached to Xu Yiyi, and his father and son had a deep affection.

This day, the female Yasha went out with a son and a daughter and did not return for half a day. The north wind was blowing outside the cave. Xu missed his hometown and felt sad. Let's go back to Jiaozhou." The son said, "I'd better tell my mother, it's not too late to go." Xu shook his head to stop, and the father and son boarded the boat and crossed the sea, and returned to their hometown after only one day and night.

At this time, the original wife had passed away, Xu sold two pearls in exchange for ten thousand taels of silver, and his family was wealthy.He named his son Xu Biao. He was fourteen or fifteen years old. He was rough and aggressive. He could lift a hundred catties of boulders.At the time of the turmoil in the frontier, Xu Biao made great achievements in suppressing the rebellion and was promoted to lieutenant general.

At that time, a businessman went out to sea in a boat, encountered wind and waves, and drifted to Womei Mountain.When Fang went ashore, he saw a young man with picturesque features, and his appearance resembled the common people in the Central Plains. When he talked with him, it turned out that he was of the same kind.The young man led the merchant into a small stone cave, where there were thorns and thorns outside the cave. He took out venison to treat the guests, and introduced himself, "my father is also from Jiaozhou." The old man. His son has already become a lieutenant general."

The young man asked: "What is a lieutenant general?" The businessman said: "This is a Chinese official name." The young man asked, "What is an official?" .” The young man was moved when he heard this.The businessman asked: "My father is in Jiaozhou, why did you stay here?" The young man told the truth, and the businessman advised him to return to the south.The young man said: "I also have this plan, but my mother is not a Chinese citizen, her language and appearance are very different from human beings, and she fled privately. If Yasha finds out, she will be killed. So I hesitate." He got up and went out, saying: "Wait for the north wind Come on, let me see you off. When I go back, I will say hello to my father and brother.” The businessman lived in the cave for half a year, and from time to time he saw many yakshas coming and going outside the thorn bushes, and he was frightened and dared not move a little.

That day, the north wind was howling, and the young man came suddenly, leading the merchant to the shore, and presented him with dried meat, saying, "Run for your life, remember what I told you." The merchant promised, boarded the boat and left.

Back in Jiaozhou, the businessman went to the vice general's mansion to visit Xu's father and son, and recounted the experience of going to sea in detail. Xu Biao was very sad when he heard the words, and wanted to go to Womei Mountain to find his younger siblings.Xu worried that the sea would be rough and dangerous, so he tried his best to stop it.Xu Biao insisted that he must go. He went to the commander's mansion and told his superiors. He took two of his men to the sea and sailed against the wind for half a month.All of a sudden, the waves capsized and capsized the ship. Xu Biao fell into the sea and drifted with the waves. He was rescued by a monster and came to a courtyard.

Xu Biao stared at it, the monster had a ferocious face, it was the same kind of Yasha, Xu Biao talked to it in Yasha language, and said: "I want to go to Womei Mountain, do you know the way?" Don't blame me for offending you. My son deviates from the route by more than [-] miles, and this road leads to the poisonous dragon country." He found a light boat and escorted Xu Biao on the road. Yasha was in the water, pushing the hull of the boat, and the boat traveled like flying for thousands of miles.In just one night, he had arrived at Mount Womei.

When Xu Biao went ashore in Dengzhou, he saw a young man standing by the sea, and thought, "There are no human beings in Womei Mountain. This must be my younger brother." He stepped forward to look, and sure enough, the two brothers held hands and cried. Xu Biao asked about his mother and sister. Recently, the younger brother said, "They are all fine and healthy." Xu Biao said, "Take me to see them." The younger brother waved his hand to stop them, and left in a hurry.After a while, both mother and sister arrived, Xu Biao said: "Father misses you very much, everyone will go back to Jiaozhou with me." Mother said: "I don't know the place well, so I'm afraid of being bullied." Xu Biao said: " Your son has a prominent position in China, and no one dares to bully you." The three of them made up their minds, but they were sailing against the wind, and it was difficult to cross the sea. The mother and son were wandering, when suddenly they saw the cloth sail moving south, and the north wind was blowing from the horizon, Xu Biao said happily: "God help me too."

A family of four boarded the boat one after another, and the waves were like arrows, and they arrived at the former residence in three days.Pedestrians on the side of the road saw Yasha and fled in all directions.Xu Biao took off his clothes to cover up his face for the three of them, and when he returned home, Xu came out to greet them. When the husband and wife reunited, the dominatrix scolded endlessly, blaming Xu for leaving without saying goodbye.Xu apologized again and again, and his family trembled when they visited Xu's wife.Xu Biao persuaded his mother to learn Chinese, wear beautiful clothes, and eat cooked food, and the dominatrix was relieved.Both mother and daughter wear men's clothes, which are similar to those of Manchurians.A few months later, the three of them became fluent in language, and the skin of the younger brother and sister gradually became fairer.

The younger brother is named Xu Bao, and the younger sister is Ye'er, both of whom are born with supernatural powers.Because Xu Biao did not know poetry and books, he devoted himself to teaching his younger brother to learn. Xu Bao had a bright personality, read history books, and had a vivid memory. He also practiced bow, horse and archery. Marry the daughter of a guerrilla as his wife.

Ye'er was born with a different species, and no one dared to propose a marriage. One of Xu Biao's subordinates was guarded by the surname Yuan. After his wife died, he forced his younger sister to marry him.Ye'er can open a strong bow with a hundred stones, shoot birds a hundred steps away, and the arrows can't be shot in vain.Every time Yuan Shoubei went to war, he brought his wife with him, and was promoted to General Tongzhi, and most of his military exploits came from Ye'er.

At the age of 34, Xu Bao went to India to travel south, and his mother set out together. Every time he faced a huge enemy, the dominatrix charged forward and was invincible.The emperor was overjoyed, and the imperial decree granted her the title of Lady Protector.