Ghost Story of Liaozhai

During the Jiayin period, the San Francisco was in chaos.The officers and soldiers went to the south to suppress the rebellion, passed by Yanzhou, and recuperated here.This gang of officers and soldiers raped and looted, committed all kinds of crimes, and all the huts were looted.At that time, it rained heavily, and the fields accumulated water to form lakes. The women had nowhere to hide, but climbed over the wall and hid in the sorghum bushes.The soldiers knew this, rode naked, went into the water to capture women, and abused them to their heart's content, no one was spared.

There was a woman in the village surnamed Zhang, who was brave and cautious. When she saw the soldiers infesting her, she didn't care, and she didn't run away, and lived openly at home.In order to guard against the soldiers, together with her husband, they dug a crypt in the bedroom. The hole was filled with sharp bamboos and covered with a quilt cover. At first glance, it looked like a bed.

One day, Mrs. Zhang was cooking in the kitchen when two Mongolian soldiers rushed in, intending to rape her. Mrs. Zhang calmly said, "How can such a thing be done in front of others? I can only serve one person at a time." Officer, which one of you will come first?" One soldier stepped forward with a smile, while the other cursed in a low voice and went out to watch.

Mrs. Zhang brought the soldier into the room, pointed to the bed, and ordered him to go up.The soldier didn't become suspicious, and climbed onto the bed according to his words, and immediately fell into the trap and fell into the cave.He was stabbed by the sharp bamboo, and he was seriously injured, and he couldn't help moaning.Mrs. Zhang remained calm, found a quilt again, and covered the hole.Then he went outside the door, waved and smiled at another soldier.

The soldier came to the room with her, and there were screams from the cave from time to time. The soldier frowned and asked, "Who is calling?" Mrs. Zhang pointed to the bed and said with a smile, "You heard it wrong, who is calling? Let's It's important to hurry up and get down to business, you see, I have already spread the quilt." The soldier laughed and quickly climbed onto the bed, only to feel light under his feet, and fell into the hole.Mrs. Zhang prepared the firewood long ago, and immediately put all her brains into the hole, lit a fire and ignited it. After a while, the fire spread, and the whole house was wrapped in fire, and the flames soared into the sky.Mrs. Zhang came outside the house unhurriedly, pretending to call for help.Everyone heard the news and came to put out the fire, and then the flames were extinguished, and the air was filled with the smell of burnt corpses.Everyone asked the reason, and Zhang said: "I raised two pigs. I was afraid of being looted by soldiers, so I hid them in a hole in the ground. I didn't want to, but they were burned to death. Don't panic."

A few miles away from the village, there is a main road, surrounded by open spaces, full of people coming and going.In order to protect himself, Mrs. Zhang often carries needles and threads to embroider here.The sun is shining brightly, even if the soldiers want to do evil, they dare not do anything in broad daylight.Besides, women who are hot under the sun are too hot to be interested.

Soldiers pass by the road every day. When they first saw Mrs. Zhang, they all thought, "Embroidering under the scorching sun, this man is a madman. But his appearance is really good." After teasing and teasing, he left immediately. thing.This day, another soldier came, this person was extremely shameless, he didn't care about the sun in the wild, grabbed Mrs. Zhang, and was about to invade him immediately.

Mrs. Zhang half pushed, and secretly stabbed the horse with a silver needle. The horse screamed and jumped wildly in pain.The soldier wanted to get angry, but he was worried that the horse would run away, so he wanted to tie it to a tree, but there were no trees nearby. He thought for a while, tied the rein of the horse to his thigh, clasped Zhang with both hands, and scratched at random. groping.

Mrs. Zhang pushed him away, took out a huge needle, and stabbed the horse's neck fiercely. The horse galloped wildly.After death, only one thigh was left, which was tied to the horse's bridle, and the rest of the body was missing.