Gao Yucheng, the owner of a large family, is good at acupuncture, whether poor or rich in the countryside near and far, as long as he gets sick, he will always give medical treatment, so his reputation is excellent.
One day, a beggar came from their village, with abscesses on his calf, unable to walk, lying on the side of the road. Because the abscess was broken, it was so smelly that no one dared to come near. The people of the village were afraid that he would starve to death in the village and gave him a meal every day.
Gao Yucheng saw that the beggar was pitiful, so he ordered his servants to help him to the house and place him in the ear room. The family thought that the beggar was too smelly, and they all covered their noses from a distance and did not want to come closer. Gao Yucheng personally used wormwood to treat the beggar and gave him meals on time every day.
After a few days, the beggar asked the servant for soup cakes, and the servant rebuked him loudly. Gao Yucheng heard this and immediately ordered his servants to bring him soup cakes.
A few days later, the beggar asked for wine and meat again, and the servant complained to Gao Yucheng: "This beggar is so ridiculous!" A few days ago he was lying on the side of the road, and it was very difficult to eat a meal every day, and now we provide him with three meals a day, and he still thinks that the meal is not good, and he wants both soup cakes and wine and meat. I think such a person is only suitable for throwing it on the side of the road! Gao Yucheng asked him how his injury was, and the servant said, "The scab of the knot has slowly fallen off, and it seems that he can walk, I see that he is deliberately pretending to be humming, as if it is very painful!" Gao Yucheng said, "If he wants wine and meat, why don't you give him wine and meat, how much is it worth?" Wait until his injuries are healed, as long as he doesn't hate me! The servant pretended to agree, but did not give the beggar wine and meat, and chewed the root of the tongue with the other servants, laughing at the master's foolishness.
The next day, Gao Yucheng personally went to visit the beggar. The beggar stood up with a limp and thanked him, "Thanks to your great kindness, it is like bringing the dead back to life and making flesh grow on the bones, which is really good for me!" But my injury is not good yet, and I have a bit of wine in my mouth! Knowing that the servant had not listened to him, Gao summoned the servant and beat him up, asking him to bring wine and meat to the beggar immediately.
The servant was beaten, and with a grudge in his heart, he lit a fire at night, burned the ear room, and then deliberately shouted for fire. By the time Gao Yucheng put on his clothes and came out to see, the ear room had burned to ashes, and Gao sighed: "The beggar is finished!" "Let the people hurry up and put out the fire." When the people looked at the beggar, they saw that he was still asleep in the ashes, snoring like thunder. The crowd hurried to wake up the beggar, and he deliberately asked, "Why is the house missing?" Everyone knew that this beggar was a stranger, and Gao Yucheng respected him even more, eating and drinking well every day, letting him live in the guest room, changing him into new clothes, and chatting with him every day. Gao asked the beggar's name, and he said that his name was Chen Jiu.
After staying for a few days, Chen Jiu was full of spirits, radiant, talking elegantly, and good at playing chess, Gao Yucheng played with him, always losing to him. Gao is humble enough to ask him for chess lessons and master a lot of mysteries about winning chess.
After half a year, Chen Jiu did not say anything, and Gao Yucheng could not leave him for a while. There was a distinguished guest at home, and Gao always invited him to drink with the guests. If you want to roll the dice during the banquet, Chen Jiu always guesses the number of points on behalf of gao, and there is no time when he can't guess accurately. Gao was very surprised, so he asked Chen to teach him, and Chen always said that there was no mystery.
One day, Chen Jiu said to Gao Yucheng, "I'm going to say goodbye, I have received such a deep favor from you in the past six months, and I have not repaid you." Today I have a little wine, please enjoy your face together, just don't bring other people! Gao said: "The two of us are so happy together, why do we suddenly have to say goodbye?" Besides, you don't have any money, and I don't dare to let you break the bank! Chen replied, "Just a few glasses of thin wine, you can't spend a few dollars, you must appreciate your face!" Gao asked, "Where to go?" Chen replied, "In the garden!" ”
It was a cold winter, and Gao was afraid that it was too cold in the garden, and Chen said, "It's all right!" So Gao Yucheng followed him to the garden, only to feel that the climate had suddenly warmed, as if it was the beginning of March. Gao followed him to the pavilion again, only to feel the fragrance of flowers around him and the birds flying, as if it was the twilight of spring again.
Gao Yucheng took a closer look and found that several cases in the pavilion were inlaid with agate, and next to it stood a screen made of crystal, crystal clear, the flowers and trees inside swayed, and birds like snow rose and fell on the flower trees. Driven by curiosity, Gao reached out and touched it, and found that there was nothing inside. Gao was stunned, and then found a partridge perched on the shelf, shouting: "Tea is coming!" As soon as the words fell, I saw a phoenix flying over with a red jade plate, standing in front of Gao Yucheng with its neck outstretched, with two glasses on the plate and fragrant tea. After gao finished drinking, he put the cup back on the plate, and the phoenix took the jade plate and spread its wings. The partridge cried out again, "Here comes the wine!" Then a blue heron and a yellow crane, holding a wine jug and a wine glass, flew from the sun and placed them on several cases.
Then, the birds flew over and offered a variety of delicacies, and the entire table was filled in an instant. Chen Jiu saw that Gao Yucheng was very happy to drink, so he said, "Your amount of wine is large, you have to drink well!" The partridge cried out again, "Take the big cup!" I saw a giant butterfly flying from the sun with its wings flashing and placing a large cup on the desk. Gao saw that the giant butterfly was larger than the goose, and the wings were full of gorgeous literary colors, beautiful and abnormal, and he couldn't help but admire it one after another.
Chen Jiu shouted, "Butterfly persuades wine!" "Only to see the giant butterfly turn over and fly, it turned into a beautiful woman, gorgeously dressed, with a charming posture, and came to the banquet to persuade Gao Yucheng to eat wine." Chen Jiu also said, "You can't have a feast without singing and dancing!" The woman then came out to the table, danced and danced, dancing to the climax, two feet more than a foot off the ground, looking up and waist until she reached her feet, and then turned over and stood, her whole body not stained with any dust. Only to hear the woman sing: "Even the laughter and laughter step on the fang bush, and the low sub-flower branches are red." The twists and turns do not know the golden tungsten, and even follow the butterflies through the east of the fence. "The song stops, and the afterglow goes around the beams, and the strings go on and on.
Before the song and dance, Gao Yucheng was confused and pulled the woman to ask for the same drink. Chen Jiu let the woman sit together and let her drink together. The beautiful woman sat next to her, Gao Yucheng couldn't help herself, she stood up from the seat and went to hug the woman, only to see that the woman suddenly turned into a night fork, her eyes protruded from the orbit, her teeth protruded from her lips, and her black skin was uneven and uneven, and her appearance was extremely ugly. Gao Yu was taken aback when he saw this, and hurriedly let go of his hands, lying on the ground and trembling. Chen Jiu hurriedly tapped the mouth of the night fork with chopsticks and drank, "Go quickly!" The night fork turned into a butterfly again and flew away.
Gao Yucheng's mind was slightly settled, and he went out of the garden, only to see the moonlight like a wash and the silence around him. Gao said to Chen, "All those fine wines and delicacies you just had come from the air, and your home must be in heaven, can you take me with you for a swim?" Chen Jiu said, "Yes! So he took the high hand into the air, and when he did not move, he came to the heavens.
Before the meeting, a tall round door appeared, and when I entered the door, it was as bright as day, and the steps were made of wide bluestone, smooth and smooth, and there was no dust on it. There is a large tree next to the steps, several feet high, full of red flowers, as big as a lotus canopy. There was a woman under the tree, pounding a red dress on the anvil, and the beauty was extraordinary. Gao Yucheng stopped and looked intently, forgetting to walk. When the woman saw this, she shouted angrily, "Where is the light and thin lang, what are you doing here?" Then he smashed it with the mallet in his hand and hit it on the high back. Chen Jiu quickly dragged Gao Yucheng into an empty house and scolded him fiercely. Gao Yucheng took a blow, and the wine was also mostly awake, very ashamed, and quickly followed Chen out. Seeing that there was an auspicious cloud under his feet, Chen said to Gao: "You and I have said goodbye to this, I have a word to tell you, you must not forget: your life expectancy will be exhausted, tomorrow you must go to the Western Mountains to hide, you can avoid this disaster!" Remember! Gao still wanted to keep it, and Chen actually turned around and left!
Gao Yucheng only felt that the clouds under him were getting lower and lower, and slowly landed in the garden, and found that the scenery around him had changed greatly. Back at home, Gao Yucheng told his wife in detail what had happened, and her wife was also very surprised, and then looked at the place on her back that was hit by a mallet, only to see that it was red like brocade and smelled strange.
The next morning, Gao Yucheng listened to Chen Jiu's words, put dry food on his back, and came to the Western Mountains. At that time, the fog was long, and he couldn't discern the path, and Gao Yucheng panicked in his heart, only to feel that his feet were empty, and his body fell into a deep hole. When he woke up, he looked up and saw that the mouth of the cave was clouded with mist, and he felt like he was in a steamer, and the end was unfathomable. Gao Yucheng sighed, "The Immortals asked me to come here to avoid trouble, but I have such a fate, how can I get out of here?" ”
After sitting in the cave for a while, Gao Yucheng found that there was a faint light in the depths of the cave, so he had the courage to slowly walk in and found that there was no hole in it. Three old men with long beards and white hair were playing against each other around a table when they saw Gao walk in, and he did not ask questions or stop the chess in his hand. Gao Yucheng then simply squatted down and watched the chess game next to the old man. After a long time, after the chess was finished, the old man put the chess pieces into the box, and then asked, "How did the guests come to this place?" Gao replied, "Accidentally slipped off my foot and fell!" The old man said, "This is not the human world, it is not suitable for a long time, I will send you back!" The old man led Gao Yucheng to the cave, and Gao only felt the clouds rising under his feet, so he returned to the ground. Gao Yi looked around, full of fallen leaves, as if it were an autumn scenery, Gao Da exclaimed: "I came in winter, how did it become late autumn?" ”
Gao Yucheng hurried home, his wife and children were shocked, and the family hugged and cried. Asked why, his wife replied, "It's been three years since you left, and we all thought you were gone!" Gao replied, "Strange, I've only been there for a while!" So he took out the dry food from his waist and found that the dry food had turned to ashes.
The wife said: "After you left, I dreamed of two people, dressed in black, with white belts tied around their waists, as if they were collecting taxes, and entered the house in a menacing manner, looked around, and asked me: Where is your husband?" I asked: He has gone out, you are an official, why did you enter the woman's boudoir without permission? The two went out, and as they walked, they said: Strange things, strange things! Gao Yucheng then understood that what he encountered was a god, and what his wife encountered was a ghost!
After every meeting of Gao Yucheng, he always wore the clothes that had been beaten by the fairies inside, and the seats were full of incense, neither musk nor orchid, and the aroma of sweat was even stronger!