Ghost Story of Liaozhai

Fan Shiniang, the daughter of Lucheng Jijiu, has a beautiful appearance and is deeply loved by her parents.There was an endless stream of people coming to ask for relatives, and Eleven Niang's vision was very high, and she didn't like any of them.During the Lantern Festival of this year, Shuiyue Temple held the "Menglan Basin Festival", and there were many tourists in the temple, including Eleven Niang.While wandering around, he suddenly saw a woman following closely behind him, as if she had something to say.

Taking a closer look, the woman is fifteen or sixteen years old, with a peerless beauty.Eleven Niang felt good and smiled.The woman asked: "Is elder sister Shi Shi Niang?" Shi Yi Niang nodded.The woman said: "I've heard about your name for a long time, but today I saw it, and it really deserves its reputation." Eleven Niang asked about the woman's background, and replied: "My little sister's surname is Feng, she is the third in her family, and she lives in a neighboring village."

The two held hands and talked, and the girl's words were gentle, Eleven Niang loved her more and more, she was reluctant to part with her, and asked: "Why is there no partner around my sister?" Feng Sanniang said: "My parents died young, and there is only one old woman in the family. Guarding the gate, so I don’t have a maid to serve me.”

After a while, Eleven Niang was about to go home, and said: "The humble house is not far away, go in and sit down." Feng Sanniang said: "My sister is from a wealthy family, and my family is poor and has no relatives. Being gossiped by others." Eleven Niang repeatedly invited, and Feng Sanniang said: "Change the date."

Eleven Niang took off the gold hairpin from her head and gave it to Sanniang, who gave it back with a green hairpin.

After returning home, Eleven Niang took out a green hairpin to play with because she missed Sanniang. The hairpin was neither gold nor jade, and the family didn't recognize it, which was very strange.Eleven Niang looks forward to San Niang's visit every day, and misses her sickly.When the parents heard the news, they sent people to look for Sanniang everywhere, but they found nothing.

In a blink of an eye, it was the Double Ninth Festival, and Eleven Niang was sick and lying in bed, extremely bored, so with the help of a maid, she went to the back garden to relax and set up a bed under the east fence.Suddenly a woman climbed the wall to peep, Eleven Niang took a closer look, and the woman turned out to be San Niang.I just heard her say: "Come and help me."

The maid went to greet her, and Sanniang climbed over the wall and entered the garden.The reunion of old friends made both daughters overjoyed.Eleven Niang jumped up from the bed, took San Niang's hand, and the two of them stood next to each other, asking: "Why did you break the promise? You always don't come to see me?" Then she asked: "Where did my younger sister come from?"

Sanniang said: "I just came back from my uncle's house. I told you that I live in a neighboring village, which means my uncle's house. Since we parted, I have often missed my sister. It's just that you and I are so disparate in wealth and feel ashamed, so I haven't dared to come see you." You, passing by the wall just now, heard the voice of a woman in the garden, and climbed up the wall out of curiosity to watch, unexpectedly, it was my sister."

Eleven Niang said: "You cruel girl, do you know how much I miss you? I'm sick." San Niang heard the words, weeping like rain, and said: "I have to keep a secret when I come to see you. Some people spread rumors and gossip, it's unbearable." Eleven Niang agreed.The two returned to the boudoir together, and they have been inseparable since then, and Shi Niang's condition gradually recovered.The two daughters became sisters in private, and they were very close, and they wore each other's clothes, shoes and socks.If someone came, Sanniang hid behind the curtain, got along like this for five or six months, and was finally noticed by her parents.

This day, the two were playing chess in the house, when the wife broke in suddenly, looked at Sanniang's appearance carefully, and said with a smile: "What a beautiful girl, she is indeed my daughter's friend." My close friend, the second elder has no objection, why did you keep it from us?" Eleven Niang said: "This is Sanniang's intention, she doesn't want to meet strangers." Madam looked at Sanniang and asked, "Why?"

Sanniang was blushing all over her face, she kept silent, but kept tugging on her belt.Not long after, the wife left, and Sanniang got up to say goodbye.Eleven Niang tried hard to keep her, but she just stopped.

One night, Sanniang rushed in from the door in a hurry, crying: "I said you can't stay here, and I really suffered humiliation today." Eleven Niang asked why, Sanniang said: "Just now I went out to change clothes, I don't know where I came from. A young man stepped forward to make fun of him. Fortunately, he escaped by chance, otherwise, what face would he have?"

Eleven Niang asked about the boy's appearance in detail, and apologized: "Sister, don't be angry. The boy is my brother. He is mentally ill and stupid. Please forgive me for offending him. I will tell my mother and let her beat him up." Brother." Sanniang insisted on leaving, but Eleven Niang said: "Even if you want to leave, you have to wait until dawn."

Sanniang said: "Uncle's house is not far from here, just lend me a ladder to help me climb over the wall." Eleven Niang knew it was difficult to keep her, so she ordered her maid to take her home.After climbing over the wall and walking half a mile, Sanniang thanked her and said, "No more sending, please come back."

The maid turned back by herself, and Eleven Niang lay on the bed and wept, unbearably sad.A few months later, the servant girl went to the East Village on business, and when she came back in the evening, she ran into San Niang, followed by an old woman.The servant girl was overjoyed and came forward to greet her. San Niang looked sad and asked, "How is sister?"

The maid said: "Miss often misses the girl." San Niang said: "I miss her too. Just don't let others know. In this way, you go back first, open the back door quietly, and I will come." The maid told ten Yi Niang and Eleven Niang were overjoyed, they came to the back garden, and as soon as they opened the gate, San Niang was already in the garden.Seeing each other, talking to each other, talking all night long, and forgetting to go to bed happily.

After the maid fell asleep, San Niang got up to sleep with Eleven Niang, and whispered beside the pillow: "I know that my sister is in the boudoir, she is unparalleled in talent, why don't you have a husband? She is just a dude, and she is not good enough for you. If you want a good wife , don't dislike the poor and love the rich." Eleven Niang nodded in agreement.

Sanniang said: "In Shuiyue Temple, there will still be a dojo this year. Tomorrow, my sister will go to play, and I will meet Mr. Ruyi. I have been able to read since I was a child. Trust me, there will be no mistakes." Just after dawn, Sanniang Then he left and said, "See you at Shuiyue Temple." Eleven Niang went to the temple as she said, and San Niang was really waiting here.

The two traveled in the same car, went out hand in hand, and saw a scholar, seventeen or eighteen years old, with plain clothes and handsome appearance.Sanniang pointed to the scholar, and said: "This is a scholar of the Imperial Academy." Eleven Niang looked at it briefly, noncommittal.San Niang said: "Sister, go back first, I will come later."

In the evening, Sanniang came as promised and said, "I have found out for my sister that the scholar's surname is Meng and his name is Anren, and he is from the same town as my sister." I'm afraid it's not a good match." Sanniang said: "Why is my sister like an ordinary person who only recognizes money? Meng Xiucai is destined to be prominent and will never be poor for a long time. If he does not develop well in the future, I am willing to goug out my eyes and never see him again." Mutually."

Eleven Niang asked: "Then what should we do now?" San Niang said: "Sister, please show me a token, and make a covenant with the scholar, never to be held back." Eleven Niang said: "Marriage is an important matter, we can't be so hasty. If the parents don't agree, what can I do?" Sanniang said: "It's because I'm worried that my parents won't allow it, so I decided to make a private decision for life. As long as my sister is strong-willed, I don't have to worry about big things failing." Eleven Niang said repeatedly: "No, no."

Sanniang said: "My sister's marriage has been changed, but the evil has not disappeared. The reason why I matched the marriage for you is to repay the kindness. I will leave now, and I will give my sister the gold hairpin as a gift to a scholar, and say yes." You sent it." Eleven Niang said: "Don't worry, let me think about it again." Before she finished speaking, San Niang had already left.

Although Meng Anren is a talented scholar, it is a pity that his family is poor, so he has been single.Ever since I saw two beauties in the temple, I couldn't forget them after I went back.At the end of the first watch, San Niang came with money, and the scholar was overjoyed, and asked her name, San Niang said: "The concubine's surname is Feng, and she is the companion of the Eleven Niangs of the Fan Mansion."

The scholar was very happy and had no time to ask more questions. He hugged the girl and wanted to be intimate with her. San Niang refused to refuse, saying: "The concubine is not Mao Sui, but Cao Qiusheng. Eleven Niang wants to stay with the young master. I'm here to be a matchmaker for her." Xiucai was stunned and didn't believe it, Sanniang took out the gold hairpin and said, "I have this thing as evidence." Xiucai couldn't help but say after a long time: "Thanks to the wrong love of my beautiful woman, if Meng Mou doesn't marry eleven in this life As a wife, I would rather be alone until I grow old."

San Niang nodded and left.At dawn the next day, Xiucai asked the neighbor's old lady to propose marriage for her. Mrs. Fan despised Xiucai's poverty, and refused to discuss it with her daughter.When Eleven Niang knew about this, she was greatly disappointed, and she couldn't help feeling resentful towards San Niang, but the gold hairpin had already been given away, and for the current plan, she had to stick to it.

A few days later, a certain squire proposed marriage for his son and asked the county magistrate to be a matchmaker. This man was quite powerful, and Master Fan was afraid.When her mother asked her what her plans were, Eleven Niang remained silent, but kept crying.He secretly sent someone to tell his mother, "My child will not be married to Mr. Meng in this life." Master Fan was furious and suspected that his daughter had an affair with a scholar. In a fit of anger, he even assigned her to the son of a squire, and quickly arranged the marriage.

Eleven Niang resented and went on a hunger strike, and was bedridden every day.On the day of welcoming the bride, Eleven Niang suddenly got up and got out of bed, and she was dressing in front of the mirror. The lady was secretly happy, and Er Er's maid came to report: "Miss committed suicide." The whole family was in grief and regretted it.Three days later, Eleven Niang was buried in the earth.

Since the return of the matchmaker, the scholar has been resentful in his heart, and goes to Fan's residence every day to inquire about news, hoping that the Fan family will change their minds.Then, when she heard that Eleven Niang's famous flower had a master, she was furious and lost all thoughts.Not long after, I heard that Eleven Niang died, and she became inexplicably sad.That night, I went out to the cemetery to pay homage to the beautiful woman. I was weeping bitterly, and suddenly saw a person floating towards me. When I looked closer, it was Sanniang.

Sanniang turned to Xiucai and said, "Congratulations, son, the marriage will be settled." Xiucai burst into tears and said, "Miss, don't you know that Eleven Niang is dead?" Sanniang said, "I came to congratulate you precisely because my sister died. Hurry up and gather your family and dig the grave, I have the elixir that can revive my sister from death."

The scholar nodded in obedience, dug up the tomb and broke the coffin, took out the body of Eleven Niang, filled it with soil again, carried Eleven Niang home and put it on the bed.San Niang fed her medicine, and after a while, Eleven Niang really opened her eyes.Looking at Sanniang, he asked, "Where is this?"

Sanniang pointed to the scholar and said, "He is Meng Anren." Briefly telling the story, she asked Sanniang not to leak the news, and said, "There is a mountain village fifty miles away, which is very remote. You can go there to avoid the limelight." The mother said: "Sister, will you go with me? If you don't go, I won't go either." Sanniang had no choice but to agree.

The two went to the village to live in seclusion. Eleven Niang sold the funerary objects in exchange for money to spend the day without worrying about food and clothing.Whenever a scholar came, Sanniang would avoid seeing her.Eleven Niang said calmly: "You and my sister are as close as flesh and blood. Life is only a few decades, why don't you follow Ehuang and Nvying and serve your husband together?"

Sanniang shook her head and said, "I have been practicing Taoism since I was a child, breathing and breathing, and pursuing longevity, so I don't want to marry." Eleven Niang said with a smile: "There are so many health-preserving techniques in the world, and which one is effective?" Sanniang said: "The formulas I practice are different from those in the world. The oral formulas and exercises handed down in the world are all fake. Only Hua Tuo's Five Birds Picture is true. Practitioners are nothing more than promoting blood circulation to reach hundreds of thousands of animals. Illness does not invade the realm. Those who practice the five-animal picture, once they get sick, they only need to put on various animal poses, and according to this luck, the disease will disappear on its own."

Eleven Niang secretly conspired with Xiucai, asking him to pretend to take a long trip.At night, Eleven Niang drunk Sanniang with wine, and Xiucai secretly went back to the house to have sex with her forcibly.After Sanniang woke up, she noticed the insanity, and complained: "My sister is very harmful. If I didn't break my sexual precept, I would have had a chance to ascend to the heavens, but now you're tricking me, ah, that's how I should be." She got up and said goodbye.

Eleven Niang sincerely apologized, and said: "I was kind, but I didn't want to hurt my sister. Please don't go, stay." San Niang sighed: "Tell me the truth; I am a fox demon. I see my sister by chance. She is beautiful, and she loves her heart, but if she doesn't want to, she is trapped in a cocoon, which leads to today's disaster. This is the catastrophe of the demon of love, and it has nothing to do with you. If you stay here, the demon of love will be resurrected, and there will be no end. Sister Fuze is profound, hope You cherish self-love." After saying that, she disappeared.

The couple were amazed for a long time.A year later, the scholar took part in the provincial examination, the general examination, became famous in one fell swoop, and was awarded the Hanlin by the official.Prepare your own stabs and go to Fan's mansion to pay a visit. Master Fan is ashamed and remorseful, and refuses to meet.Xiucai repeatedly asked, Master Fan just showed up to meet each other, and Xiucai paid homage as a son-in-law, with thoughtful etiquette.

Master Fan became more and more ashamed, suspicious, and said angrily: "Boy, are you here specially to humiliate the old man?" The scholar said: "Xiaosheng has no such intention." The resurrection was reported one by one, Master Fan shook his head in disbelief, and sent someone to visit the village, which was full of pleasant surprises.He asked the scholar: "You know this matter and I know it. Don't publicize it, so as not to cause trouble."

Two years later, the squire was exposed for taking bribes and sent to Liaodong to serve as an army. Eleven Niang got her wish and was finally able to go home.