Ghost Story of Liaozhai

Gao Fan in Linjiang County, a young man who was intelligent and handsome, was admitted to the county school at the age of 14. He was very popular, and all the rich ladies were vying to marry him.However, Gao Fan has a very high vision and has never had a favorite object.His father, Gao Zhonghong, was in his sixties and had only one son, Gao Fan, who was very fond of him.

At the beginning, there was an old man in the East Village, Fan, who lived in the Gao Mansion. The old man had a daughter named Jiang Cheng, who was the same age as Gao Fan. At that time, both of them were only nine years old.Later, old man Fan moved to other places, and there was no news for four or five years.

One day, Gao Fan saw a girl on the street, she was extremely beautiful, accompanied by a little maid, only six or seven years old.When the girl saw Gao Fan for the first time, she secretly opened her eyes and looked at him, as if she had something to say.Taking a closer look, the girl is none other than Jiang Cheng.When the old friends reunited, they were very happy with each other, and each said a few words. Gao Fan said goodbye and left. When he parted, he deliberately threw down a red scarf.

Jiang Cheng picked up the red scarf, put it in his arms, took out another white silk scarf, and told the little maid, "Master Gao dropped something, you take it back to him." The little maid was young and ignorant, so she did so immediately.

Gao Fan accepted the silk scarf, overjoyed, and went back to his mother and said, "I want to marry Jiangcheng." His mother said, "Jiangcheng's family is poor, with nothing in his family's property and land, and he has been wandering away all year round. How can he be worthy of you?" Gao Fan's attitude Resolutely "This is my own idea, even if I make a wrong choice, I will never regret it."

Mother pondered for a while, and said: "Since you have no hesitation, I will find out the news for you first. If Jiangcheng is really beautiful, I will talk about it later." The next day, my mother went to visit Jiangcheng's residence and met Jiangcheng. Juanxiu, overjoyed in her heart, immediately gave many dowry gifts to marry Jiangcheng.

After the two got married, they got along well at first.However, Jiang Cheng's character was irritable, he would get angry at every turn, and his words were sharp, which was hard to bear.Once, his parents criticized his daughter-in-law's shortcomings in front of Gao Fan. When Jiang Cheng found out about it, he scolded him loudly.

When the parents heard the news, they were aggrieved and ordered their son to write a divorce letter and send Jiang Cheng back to his natal family.His daughter was dismissed, old man Fan felt ashamed, and secretly pleaded with Gao Zhonghong, but Gao Zhonghong refused to listen.

After a year like this, one time Gao Fan went out and passed by his father-in-law's house. His father-in-law invited him into the house to have a talk, warmly entertained him, and ordered Jiang Cheng to come out to meet the guests.Gao Fan rekindled his old love, drank a few glasses of wine, and under the arrangement of his father-in-law, he slept with Jiang Cheng in the same bed, and the reconciliation was as good as before.

Old Man Fan was overjoyed, and immediately went to Gao Mansion to meet Gao Zhonghong, begging him to take back his promise and allow his daughter-in-law to go home, but Gao Zhonghong couldn't resist Fan's rambling, and said, "If my son is willing to accept Jiangcheng, I will naturally have nothing to say. "Old man Fan smiled and said: "There is no problem with the son-in-law. He stayed at my house last night and is in love with Jiangcheng."

Gao Zhonghong was surprised when he heard the words, and sighed: "Since my son's old love is still there, what else can I say? This is the end of the matter, so that's it." Then old man Fan left, Gao Zhonghong called his son, and said: "You want to I have no objection to being reunited with Jiangcheng. However, the daughter-in-law has a hot personality, and the old man is too old to be stimulated. From now on, the father and son will live apart, and it will be pure if you don’t see it.” Now he set up another house for his son, and sent another maid serve.

After Jiang Cheng came back, he kept his own law and order for the first month, but after a long time, he began to revert to his old ways, insulting and beating his husband from time to time, Gao Fan was bullied, and his cheeks were torn by Jiang Cheng, covered with finger marks.This day, Gao Fan couldn't take it anymore, so he went to his parents' residence to complain. After Jiangcheng heard the news, he carried a wooden stick and beat Gao Fan fiercely in front of his parents-in-law. He beat Gao Fan more than 50 times in a row before walking away .Seeing his son suffering, Gao Zhonghong felt sorry for him, but also hated him for not being up to date. He said, "You chose the path yourself. You deserve it if you suffer. Don't come to me in the future."

The mother was soft-hearted, she didn't want her son to suffer, so she secretly bought him a house, and said, "Live here first, my wife's side, I can't go back for now." While comforting her son, she sent someone to invite old man Fan to order him to discipline him. daughter.

Old man Fan went to his daughter's residence and tried his best to persuade him, but Jiang Cheng refused to listen, and his words were sneering and sarcastic, and he didn't give his father any face.Old man Fan was angry and disappointed, and he returned bitterly. He secretly said to his wife: "My daughter is so unfilial, don't associate with her in the future."

Not long after, old man Fan and his wife died one after another. Jiang Cheng was still angry and refused to attend the funeral.Going to the in-laws' residence every day, yelling and cursing through the wall.

On the other hand, Gao Fan lived alone and was very lonely, so he begged the matchmaker, Mrs. Li, and said, "Mom, you often walk around outside. I don't know if there are any good girls in the brothel who are both talented and beautiful. Introduce some to me." ?” The matchmaker agreed.

Since then, Gao Fan often had contacts with prostitutes, and this matter soon spread to Jiang Cheng's ears.Jiangcheng was furious, and went to Gaofan's study in person, scolding loudly.Gao Fan tried his best to defend himself, swearing at the Tianmeng, repeatedly complaining about his injustice, Jiangcheng did not find any evidence for a while, and turned back angrily, but secretly waited for the battle, and searched for Gao's clues.

On this day, the matchmaker had just returned from her study, and happened to meet Jiang Cheng. When the two met, the matchmaker was guilty of a crime and her face was pale. Jiang Cheng became more and more suspicious, and said angrily, "Old man, I can see your secret activities at a glance. Finally I’ll tell you the truth, if not, I’ll pluck your eyebrows.” The matchmaker tremblingly said: “In the past half month, Mr. Gao rarely had contact with women, only Li Yunniang from the brothel came twice. Mr. Shicai told me that he I met the daughter-in-law of Tao's family on Yuzhi Mountain, and she said that Miss Tao's feet are beautiful, so I don't know if I can match her up for him."

Jiang Cheng said coldly: "It's very good if you are willing to tell the truth. Listen, I want you to do something for me. Tonight, go to the study, turn off the lights, and tell a little lie, just say 'Miss Tao is here', don't worry about the rest of the matter, leave it to me." The matchmaker agreed, and when it was dark, she followed Jiang Cheng's instructions and went to the study to deceive Gao Fan, saying: "My lord, the person you are looking for , I brought it to you."

Gao Fan was overjoyed, and said with a smile, "Really, invite Miss Tao to come in." Jiang Cheng winked at the matchmaker and ordered her to leave, then walked into the room without saying a word.Gao Fan was still in the dark, grabbed Jiang Cheng by the arm, asked her to sit down by the bed, and said, "Miss Tao, since the last time I had a quick glimpse on Yuxi Mountain, I have been dreaming of you." He stretched out his palm and gently stroked Jiang Cheng's ankle.Jiang Cheng suppressed his anger and remained silent. Gao Fan said again: "The long-cherished wish of many days has finally been fulfilled. It's just that the room is dark, and I can't see the girl's face. It's a pity." Get up and light the lamp, and look carefully under the candlelight. Jiang Cheng himself was frightened out of his wits, his hands trembled, and the candle fell to the ground.

Jiang Cheng reached out and grabbed Gao Fan's ears, dragged him home, took out the silver needles, and stabbed Gao Fan's legs indiscriminately, blood gushed out, Gao Fan cried out in pain again and again, like killing a pig.

From then on, Gao Fan was afraid of his wife like a tiger, and he was always worried and exhausted.Jiang Cheng hated that iron could not be made into steel, so he slapped Gao Mou several times and punished him to sleep alone.

There are two elder sisters in Jiangcheng, both of whom are married to scholars.The eldest sister is kind and not sociable, so Jiang Cheng doesn't like her very much.The second sister married Ge Shusheng as his wife. She is cunning and eloquent. Although her appearance is not as good as Jiang Cheng's, her style of toughness and pungentness is even better.

This day, Gao Fan went to Ge's mansion as a guest, and the two were very drunk. Ge Shusheng took advantage of the wine and said, "I heard that brother Gao is afraid of internal affairs, why is that?" Gao Fan laughed and said, "There are many things in the world It’s hard to explain. For example, if I’m afraid of guilt, it’s because my wife is beautiful, so I tolerate it everywhere; but there are some brothers, whose wives are plain-looking, but they are like me, fearing their wives like tigers, how can this be explained?”

When Dong Shusheng heard the words, he was ashamed, so his maid waited on him and secretly told Dong's wife about it. Dong's wife was so angry that she immediately brought a wooden stick and came to Gao Fan to settle the score.When the men and women met, Mrs. Dong was not polite, and hit Gao Fan's head with a stick, bleeding profusely, and another stick hit Gao Fan's waist. Gao Fan grinned in pain, limped, and fled in embarrassment.

After returning home, he mentioned this matter to Jiang Cheng, and Jiang Cheng was furious, "My husband, no matter how bad he is, he doesn't need to be disciplined by outsiders." Without further ado, he took a pole and went to the second sister's house to find a place.Dong's wife came out to greet her with a smile, Jiang Cheng was full of rage, picked up the shoulder pole and slammed it down, only heard a scream, Dong's wife was hit on the cheek, fell to the ground, four or five teeth were shot out, her legs were sprained, and feces and urine flowed out.

Dong's wife was humiliated and angry, so she urged her husband to take revenge. Dong Shusheng went to Gaofu as he said, and said to Gaofan: "My wife has always been arrogant. It is rare that Jiangcheng is willing to teach me a lesson. I am grateful. Don't worry. , I won't trouble you."

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Cheng rushed out angrily, cursing: "Dirty thief! My wife is bullied, and she doesn't care about it. Such a man, it's better to kill him with a stick!" He picked up the broom and made a gesture to beat him. Dong Shusheng was terrified, Not daring to stay, he ran wildly and disappeared in an instant.

Gao Fan had a classmate and friend named Wang Ziya who opened a hotel where many plum blossoms were planted.On this day, Wang Ziya came to Gao Mansion to visit friends, and chatted with Gao Fan, and the words involved Fengyue, and the tone was obscene, which was unbearable.Jiang Cheng happened to pass by the door. Hearing the words were displeased, he secretly put the croton into the soup. Wang Ziya drank the soup and went to the toilet seven or eight times. His whole body was exhausted and his breath was dying. Jiang Cheng sneered, "How dare you be rude?"

Wang Ziya shook his head again and again, begging for mercy, Jiang Cheng smiled slightly, took out the antidote, mixed it with mung bean soup, and said, "Miss is soft-hearted, don't pursue it this time, if you do it again, it's not as simple as having diarrhea." A female evil star, Wang Ziya could only admit that she was unlucky, sighed immediately, and drank the mung bean soup in two or three gulps, the poison was relieved immediately.

That night, Wang Ziya held a banquet in his own restaurant, and invited Gao Fan, and the host and guest drank to their heart's content. During the dinner, Wang Ziya said, "There is a famous chicken from Nanchang in my house. I wonder if Brother Gao is interested?" Now, there is a fierce wife in the next family, how dare you be promiscuous?" Wang Ziya said: "The girl from Jiangcheng is not here, so why should Brother Gao be afraid? Unless...you are not a man."

Gao Fan said angrily: "Hmph, you don't need to provoke me. Isn't she a prostitute? I haven't seen her before. If you ask her to come out, who is Fang Jiali? I want to meet her." Wang Ziya clapped his hands together. , only to hear the ring pendant, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman walked out gracefully, her face was neat and unparalleled, when Gao Fan saw it, his heart was shaken, and he asked: "What a beautiful girl, what's her name?" ?”

The woman smiled and said: "My family name is Xie, and my name is Fanglan." The voice is charming, and the breath is like orchid.Gao Fan was overjoyed, and shouted: "You have a good surname, and a better name. Miss Xie, come and sit next to me." Xie Fanglan agreed, and Yingying came to the table and sat down next to Gao Fan.The two exchanged glances and exchanged affection.

Xie Fanglan lightly held Gao Fan's palm, stretched out her index finger, rubbed it on his palm, and wrote the word "Su" stroke by stroke.Gao Fan understands it, and intends to be lingering with the beautiful woman, but is also worried that the Dong Chuang incident will happen, and the Rouge Tiger at home will show his power.For a moment, my heart was in turmoil, I couldn't bear to go, I didn't dare to stay.

It was late at night, and the guests in the restaurant dispersed one after another, leaving only one young man who was still staying behind. The young man was handsome and followed by a book boy. The two drank three jugs of wine together , the young master took out an ingot of official silver, threw it on the table, and left.

After a while, he suddenly heard footsteps. The book boy came to Gao Fan and said, "This gentleman, my master has an invitation." Gao Fan laughed and said, "Who is your master? I don't know him, so why should I listen to his orders?" While speaking, his eyes raised and fell between the book boy's eyebrows, Gao Fan's face changed drastically after just one look, and he cried out, "Xiaohuan, is it you?" So it turned out that this The book boy is none other than Xiaohuan, Jiangcheng's personal maid.

Now Gao Fan honestly returned home, the husband and wife met, Jiang Cheng covered his face with frost, picked up the whip, aimed at Gao Fan's vitals, and whipped hard.From then on, Gao Fan's freedom was restricted, and Riri was controlled by his wife, and Riri was like a year.

This day, Gao Fan and Xiaohuan chatted privately, and the conversation was very pleasant.Jiang Cheng was furious, secretly suspecting that the gentleman had an affair with the maidservant, so he didn't bother to be polite, so he directly covered the maidservant's head with a wine jar, and beat her indiscriminately.Then tied Gaofan's hands and feet with ropes, took out scissors, and cut off a palm-sized piece of human skin on Gaofan's lower abdomen. Then, in the same way, he cut off the human skin on the maidservant's lower abdomen, reversed each other, and pasted the maidservant's skin on Gaofan's wound On the top, Gao Fan's skin is pasted on the maidservant's body, which is still sewn with needles and threads.After more than a month, the wounds of the two men healed, and the human skin and muscles matched everywhere, and there was no blemish, not even a scar left.

In the days that followed, Jiangcheng's attitude towards his husband became worse and worse. He often threw the big cakes in the dust, stomped on them with his feet, and then ordered Gaofan to eat them.There are so many pranks.

Once my mother came to visit Gao Fan and saw that he was emaciated, and she was so sad that she wanted to die after returning.That night, my mother saw an old man in her sleep, and said to herself: "Old lady, don't worry, this is the karma of the previous life. In the previous life of Jiangcheng, a white mouse was raised by the monk Jingye, and the son was a scholar-bureaucrat in the previous life. Going to the temple to play, accidentally trampled to death a white mouse, that's why today's report. From today on, the old lady recites the Avalokitesvara mantra a hundred times every morning, and someone will surely rescue her."

After the mother woke up from the dream, she followed the instructions of the dream and recited scriptures every day.After more than a month, an old monk came outside the gate on this day, preaching the Dharma, and the audience gathered.Jiang Cheng also ran to watch the fun, but the crowd was like a wall and it was difficult to get close. In a hurry, he moved a chair and stood on the chair to watch. It's really inappropriate to show your face without saying anything, and then move the chair to the stool. Thinking of this, they all shook their heads.

Jiang Cheng didn't realize it, he watched the old monk's discourse to himself, with a disdainful expression, he said to himself: "The old monk pretends to be a ghost, and mutters, I really don't know what it means." With a smile, he took out a bowl, filled a bowl full of clean water, walked slowly to Jiang Cheng, and suddenly roared, "Don't be angry, don't be angry! The past life is not false, and this life is not true. Duh! Rat! Keep your head back, don't let the cat look for you." After speaking, he took a full mouthful of clear water, sprayed out his luck, and sprayed it all over Jiang Cheng's body, making his clothes completely wet.

Everyone was horrified, thinking, "The old monk is tired of life, dare to provoke the female devil, I'm afraid he will die a miserable death now." Seeing Jiang Cheng's expression was bewildered, he stretched out his hand to wipe off the water drops without saying a word. Turn around and head back to the house.

When Jiang Cheng returned home, he did not eat all day long, cleaned the bed by himself, and went to bed.In the middle of the night, Jiang Cheng suddenly stood up, called Gao Fan's name, and said, "For so many years, I have made my husband suffer." As he spoke, he took off Gao Fan's coat and underwear, revealing his scarred chest.

With tears in Jiang Cheng's eyes, he slowly stretched out his right hand, gently stroked Gao Fan's chest, choked up, and said, "There are 120 scars in total, and I will return it to you with interest right now." While speaking, he took out a dagger, With a flick of his wrist, there was a chirping sound, and the dagger cut through his skin, cutting a wound several inches long, and blood gushed out.

Gao Fan turned pale in shock, grabbed the dagger, threw it out of the window, and said angrily, "What are you doing? Jiang Cheng, listen carefully. If you dare to self-mutilate again, I will divorce you immediately." After a pause , reached out and hugged Jiang Cheng into his arms, and said softly: "The past is wiped out, and no one is allowed to hold grudges. You are the wife I am marrying. No matter what others say about you, in my heart, you will always be my wife."

Since then, Jiangcheng has changed his past, filial to his parents-in-law, considerate to his husband, gentle and virtuous, and the family is harmonious and harmonious, without any barriers.Jiangcheng is good at managing money. In just a few years, the family has accumulated tens of thousands of money.Later, Gao Fan obtained fame in the examination, and with Jiang Cheng's matchmaking, he married Xie Fanglan as his concubine.