Ghost Story of Liaozhai

Taiyuan Wang Shusheng got up early for a walk, and met a girl on the road, carrying a package in her arms and hurriedly walking, staring carefully, the girl was twenty-eight years old, with a very handsome appearance, and went up to strike up a conversation, "It was early in the morning, the girl walked alone. Where are you going?"

The girl said: "You are a passer-by, and you can't solve other people's problems. Why do you ask?"

Wang Shusheng said: "Young lady, if you have any worries, you might as well tell them and listen to them. If you need help, you will never refuse."

The girl said dejectedly: "My parents were greedy for money and sold me into a rich family as a concubine. The main wife was jealous and incompatible. She beat and insulted me sooner or later. I was fed up with the torture and ran out secretly."

Wang Shusheng asked, "Where are you going to flee to?"

The girl said: "Fleeing girl, who will take me in? The whole world is my home."

Wang Shusheng said: "My house is not far away. If the girl doesn't dislike it, she can stay as long as she wants."

The girl was overjoyed, followed the scholar back home, entered a house, looked around for no one, and asked: "The young master lives alone, is there no one else?"

Wang Shusheng said: "I also have a wife, surnamed Chen, who is a virtuous person. This is my study room, the environment is elegant, the girl can just rest at ease, and no one will come to disturb her."

The girl said: "This place is very good, but I don't like to meet strangers, I hope you will keep a secret for me."

Wang Shusheng agreed without hesitation, the woman smiled slightly, and immediately took off her clothes, a man and a woman were lingering and happy, needless to elaborate.

Wang Shusheng was very lucky in making love, and secretly bragged to his wife, "My wife, let me tell you something, I secretly hid a beauty in the study, you must not be angry."

Chen frowned and said, "Where is the beauty? Don't be a dowry daughter of a rich family, send her away quickly, so as not to cause trouble."

Wang Shusheng shook his head and smiled, but did not agree.

At noon this day, Wang Shusheng was wandering in the street and came across a Taoist priest.When the Taoist saw the scholar's face, his expression changed in astonishment, and he asked, "My lord, have you messed with something unclean?"

Wang Shusheng said: "No."

The Taoist said: "Why not? I see evil spirits lingering around you, you must have encountered a ghost."

Wang Shusheng said angrily: "You Taoist priest, you are full of nonsense, why do you hurt people for no reason?"

The Taoist shook his head and said: "When the time of death is approaching, it is ridiculous to be obsessed with obsession." After speaking, he went away.

Because of the strange words of the Taoist priest, Wang Shusheng secretly became suspicious, thinking, "Could it be that the beautiful woman I brought back is a monster? Impossible, such a beauty, how could it be a monster. It is probably a Taoist priest pretending to be a ghost to cheat money."

Disappointedly returned home, went to the study, but found that the door was closed in broad daylight, was startled, hurriedly tiptoed to the window to peep, saw a ferocious female ghost sitting on the edge of the bed, with a pale green face and fangs Sharp as a knife, his face is terrifying.Looking at the bed again, there was a piece of human skin covered at some point, the female ghost took a colored pen and gently painted on the human skin.After a while, she threw the pen on the ground, picked up the human skin and put it on her body, instantly turning into a peerless beauty.

Wang Shusheng broke through the secret of the female ghost. He was terrified and trembling with fear. Afraid of making a noise and revealing his whereabouts, he lay down on the ground, slowly crawled outside the house, and ran wildly to seek help from the Taoist priest.When I came to a wilderness, I saw a Taoist priest sitting on a rock to rest, and hurriedly knelt down on the ground, uttering only one sentence over and over again, "Taoist priest, help me, Taoist priest, help me."

The Taoist sighed and said: "Get up first, and listen to me: Although this female ghost is vicious, she is still a living creature in the world. She took great pains to find a human skin substitute, and I can't bear to hurt her life. In this way, I will give the whisk in my hand to you." For you, hang it outside your bedroom when you get home, and it will surely keep you safe. If you want to find me in the future, you can come to Qingdi Temple."

Wang Shusheng thanked him repeatedly, went back to sleep in his wife's house, and hung the fly whisk on the door wall.On the first watch, the female ghost came to provoke her, but seeing Fuchen flinched, she gritted her teeth and left bitterly.Wang Shusheng patted his chest, breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly heard the sound of footsteps, the female ghost went and came back, cursing: "The broken Taoist scares me, how can I give up the food in my mouth." Twice torn to pieces.Kicking the door and entering, Wang Shusheng was pushed down on the bed, his chest was cracked, his heart was dug out, chewed whole, and then he laughed loudly and walked away.

Mrs. Chen hid under the bed, saw her husband die tragically by her side, and cried loudly. Wang Shusheng was still breathing, and said intermittently: "Go... go to the Qingdi Temple to find... the Taoist priest, hurry... hurry."

The wife did not dare to disobey her order, so she hurriedly called her younger brother Chen Erlang, and told him to rush to Qingdi Temple quickly, and asked the Taoist priest to come out of the mountain to deal with the female ghost.

In the Qingdi Temple, a Taoist priest met Chen Erlang, and when he learned that the female ghost had killed someone, he was furious and cursed, "What a female ghost, I won't kill you, but instead you will run rampant and do evil. Hmph, we are at odds."

Hurrying to the palace, the female ghost was nowhere to be found. Looking around, I saw black smoke swirling in the south, knowing that it was the female ghost's hiding place, and said: "Don't worry, the evil ghost is not far away. Mr. Chen, who is in the south?" House?"

Chen Erlang said: "It's my home."

The Taoist said: "The female ghost is at your house right now, you should go back and check quietly to see if there are any strangers visiting recently, and report quickly."

Chen Erlang took the order to leave, and came back soon and replied, "The Taoist guess is right. This morning, an old woman in my house came to apply for a servant. Apart from this, there are no other strangers."

The Taoist said: "This old woman is a female ghost. Let's go and subdue it." Holding a mahogany sword, he broke into the compound of Chen's residence and shouted: "Evil ghost, break my whisk, and pay for it."

Hearing the words, the female ghost knew that she was no match for the Taoist priest, so she went out of the house to escape, the Taoist rushed to catch up, swung the sword in his hand, and cut off the female ghost's head with one sword, the female ghost screamed, and her body turned into thick smoke, billowing and filling the air. Pick off the gourd around the waist, uncork the smoke, like a long whale sucking water, put all the smoke into the bottle.

When the smoke cleared, the female ghost was completely dead, leaving only a piece of fresh human skin.The Taoist rolled up the human skin, folded it like a scroll painting, put it in his pocket, and left.

Mrs. Chen grabbed the Taoist priest's clothes tightly, and begged: "Please be merciful, Taoist priest, and save my husband."

The Taoist sighed and said: "The poor Taoist mana is weak, and he can't bring the dead back to life. Let me point out a way for the lady: in the downtown area not far from here, there is a beggar who is crazy and often sleeps in the dung pile. Prince, but he has a weird temper, if he humiliates his lady with his words, please endure the humiliation and never get angry. That's all I said, and my lady will do it for herself." After finishing speaking, he drifted away.

When Mrs. Chen came to the downtown area, she saw a beggar who was wretched and wretched, with a runny nose and a foul smell, so she knew she had found the right man.He hurriedly approached and knelt down on the ground, begging: "Please help me, senior."

The beggar reached out and touched Chen's face, and said with a smile, "Does the beauty like me?" Chen didn't dare to struggle, but kept kowtow.The beggar didn't pay attention at all, and said with a smile: "When the husband dies, he dies. Just find another one. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a good husband, so why save your husband?"

Mrs. Chen was silent, but tears fell down involuntarily. The beggar was indifferent, and said again: "Hey, how do you save the dead? Do you think I am the Lord of Hades?" He slammed the stick in his hand, and hit Mrs. Chen fiercely on the back.

Mrs. Chen endured the pain and did not dare to complain, the beggar let out a bah, and spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, which smelled foul, and ordered: "Swallow it."

Chen's face was flushed with embarrassment, but remembering the Taoist's instructions, she could only endure the nausea, closed her eyes and swallowed the thick phlegm, only to feel a ball of cotton clogging her chest, which made her very uncomfortable.

The Taoist laughed loudly, turned and left, and said as he walked, "The beauty likes me, the beauty likes me."

Mrs. Chen hurriedly chased after him and came to a ruined temple. The beggar suddenly disappeared out of thin air, and searched back and forth, but he was nowhere to be found.Chen was so anxious that she wanted to cry. She was humiliated for no reason. She was ashamed and ashamed. She went home silently, picked up her husband's body, and stuffed her intestines and organs back into her stomach one by one, crying while stuffing them.

After crying, his throat became dry, as if he was about to vomit, and accidentally, something jumped out of his throat, which happened to enter Wang Shusheng's abdominal cavity, pulsating, steaming, and when he looked carefully, it turned out to be a heart.

Chen was overjoyed, and hurriedly found a piece of cloth, and tied her husband's body tightly to prevent the heart from jumping out of his chest. Gradually, Wang Shusheng's wound was filled with heat, and the body's body temperature recovered. His breath was weak, and he was able to breathe air.After a night, Wang Shu came back from life and death, and shouted: "It's like a dream, it seems to have walked through the gate of hell, but why is there a dull pain in the chest and abdomen?" Looking down at the wound, the wound has already scabbed.