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Author: Humble Gong
#清代志怪小说趣味故事 #
"Liaozhai Zhiyi" can be called the industry benchmark of China's Zhiwei novels. Among them, there are more than 490 stories, the content is wonderful and rich, the plot is bizarre and vivid, whether it is a fairy fox ghost or a strange person anecdotes, it can be described as a popular population and a household name. A considerable part of the story provides valuable script material for a large number of film and television drama works.
What I want to share with you today is a small story of demon removal that is wrong and crooked:
(Chinese Qing Dynasty novelist Pu Songling's collection of short stories "Liaozhai Zhiyi")
A man named Xu Yuangong (or Xu Yuan) in Changshan County (present-day Zouping City, Binzhou City, Shandong Province) was a former Ming Zhusheng (the Ming Dynasty referred to the students who had passed the Xiucai meritorious examination and entered the county school as Zhusheng). At a time of great chaos in the world, the Manchus took advantage of the situation to enter the Central Plains and unify the world.
Lao Xu probably did not want to serve the foreign race, so he decided to abandon Confucianism (in this way, he avoided "shaving his hair and changing clothes"—escaping into the empty door and practicing monasticism was the ideal choice of most feudal literati who were reluctant to cooperate with the Manchu Qing government at that time).
Perhaps gifted, intelligent and agile, he was self-taught and self-taught, and spent several years learning the "art of chì lè" (Taoists drew spells to write spells to control ghosts and evil spirits, and the word "edict" on the spells was written as Yolle, hence the name), which was a slightly small success, and was famous in the ten miles and eight townships.
Hong Kong actor Lam Cheng-ying played the "zombie road chief"
There was a local tycoon in the county town next door, let's call him "HorseMan Wai" (sic no name), and one day he prepared a banknote and silver and a well-worded invitation letter and ordered the servants to lead the horse to the old Xu mansion to greet him. Old Xu was puzzled, so he asked, "Please let me attend the meeting, is there any entrusted business?" ”
The servant replied stupidly, "I don't know, but the old master ordered that he must ask Xu Ye to appreciate his face." When Lao Xu saw the silver of the white flowers, he did not doubt that he had him, and gladly went to the appointment.
When they arrived at the Ma Mansion, they had ordered people to put a full table in the compound, and Bi respectfully invited Old Xu to sit on the seat, bring tea and hand over cigarettes, and toast with vegetables. But Old Xu was full of doubts, wondering in his heart--- What is this asking me to do?" He couldn't help but ask, "Ma Zong, just as the so-called 'no merit is not lu', the little man does not know what your excellency has entrusted?" "It's okay, it's okay, there are many friends and many roads, there is wine in this day and drunk in this day, but it is okay to drink." Come and go! Let's go another one, I'll do it first! The horseman said as he raised his glass and drank it all by his neck.
A banquet for the Qing Dynasty
Old Xu saw him flashing his words and hiding his words, always feeling that something was wrong, but it was inconvenient to break the casserole to ask the end, and he could only continue to socialize with the horseman. The two people often talk about gossip, comment on current affairs, and talk endlessly, unconsciously it is already the sun going down and the twilight is deep.
The butler leaned forward and whispered a little around the horseman, and the officer would understand, raise his hand and high-five the domestic servant to clean up the wine table, and then turn his head to old Xu with a smile on his face and said: "Please Sir condescending to move to the back garden, let's drink the second stall." ”
Come to the back garden of Ma Fu, ho! The scenery and exquisite structure here are almost catching up with the Changchun Garden in the capital (the favorite place of the Kangxi Emperor). However, the bamboo forest in the garden is towering, impermeable to the sun, emitting a hint of cold and cold; all kinds of flowers in the flower garden are scattered in the waist-deep weeds, showing three points of loneliness.
They walked into an attic, the spider webs on the floor were intricate and layered like coiled holes--- how long had no one taken care of it!?
However, Lao Xu had already drunk seven meats and eight vegetarian dishes, and did not pay too much attention to these details. Outside the main hall of the attic, he and the horseman pushed cups and changed cups and drank several times. Seeing the treetops and the stars on the moon, the horsemen ordered people to light fires and wax and pick up lights to fight at night. (This guy is a huge amount!) After all, Old Xu was overwhelmed by the wine, frequently spared, and lost the battle.
The horseman drank outside Lao Xu, and finally was satisfied, and then "called out the wine and called for tea". At his command, the domestic servants were busy, going in and out, and collecting the cold and hot soup and rice bowls and dishes to the cases in a box on the left. After removing the wine vessel and replacing it with a tea set, he and Lao Xu drank "decanting tea" again.
However, before the "bubble" was finished, the horseman hurriedly left the table on the grounds of "releasing water". (After drinking so much, I finally remember to pee?) When the servant saw this, he helped Lao Xu into the left room with a candle in his hand, and then he stood the candle on top of several cases and walked away without looking back.
Seeing the servant leaving in a hurry, Lao Xu still thought that he was going to get the bedding and then came back to spend the night with himself. (What?) Are you a person who sleeps afraid of bedwetting? But zuo waited and did not come, nor did he wait on the right, it was simply that the yellow crane was gone, and he never saw half a figure again. Old Xu, who had no patience, couldn't help but scold: "Rude slave!" So he closed the door and went to bed, and slipped into the bed.
The bright moonlight outside the window penetrated the room and sprinkled on the bed, accompanied by the chirping of birds and insects on the branches, and Lao Xu was actually unsteady for a while, and it was difficult to sleep. (Shouldn't it be easier to fall asleep, right?) ）
Suddenly, there was a creaking sound on the floor slab in the attic, and it seemed that someone was walking upstairs! The man was getting more and more anxious, and soon went down the ladder and came to the door of the compartment! Old Xu was stunned, his hair was towering, and he was so frightened that he covered his head with a quilt and made a "shrunken-headed turtle". (That's too much of a buoyant,) right?) ）
When it was too late, the door slammed open. Old Xu Serer trembled, pulled a thin slit from the corner of the quilt, and quietly peeked out. This does not look tight, a look of fright, a good look! In front of Lao Xu's eyes was a beast-headed human body, covered with a monster with long and hard black hair like a horse's mane! The guy opened his mouth and grinned, revealing his mountain-like sharp Sensen white teeth; two eyes shot out 24K titanium alloy glow, aggressively.
It quickly crawled to the edge of the bed, leaned down and hula and sucked the leftover soup on the table. ("Pure Altar Messenger"?) A long tongue waved left and right, swept across the table, and licked all the dishes and chopsticks. After eating and drinking enough, it approached the edge of the bed and sniffed at the futon that Lao Xu had hidden, and was about to find Lao Xu.
Old Xu who was nestled in the quilt was already sweating profusely, and the alcohol was emitted with his pores, and he was no longer drunk. At this time, he had nothing to hide, no hiding, and it was a time when he was extremely embarrassed and helpless. Suddenly, he had a clever move and a plan, instead of sitting still, it was better to fight hard.
This monster just came in front of Lao Xu, who took the opportunity to turn over and jump up, violently lifted the futon and wrapped the strange head, hitting it unexpectedly. The monster suddenly saw a darkness in front of his eyes, and he didn't know which way the immortals were hiding in the nest, so he was frightened and screamed, so he flew away and slammed into the attic door panel, running wildly and fleeing.
Old Xu did not dare to stay in this place of right and wrong for a long time, (there were other monsters living upstairs in Bao Buqi. He quickly got up in his clothes, spread his legs, and snatched the road. I ran to the garden gate only to find that this door was actually locked from the outside! Old Xu's heart was full of ten thousand grass and mud horses galloping by, but now was certainly not a good time to scold the mother, and he couldn't take care of much, so he could only slip along the wall like a rat.
Coming to a collapsed gap, he climbed out of the way--- only to fall into the stables. The horses were frightened, hissing and kicking, and the groom followed the sound and found Lao Xu who had fallen into a dog's. The terrified old Xu shuddered like a sieve and told the groom what had happened to him, and begged to spend the night in the stables. (Scared? ）
When it was dark, the horseman sent someone to the garden to wait for Lao Xu to get up, only to find that the guest had accidentally disappeared. The horse house clamored up and down, searched the mountains and haitis, and finally found Lao Xu snoozing on the horse in the stable.
After Lao Xu saw the horseman, he angrily saw the broken mouth and scolded: "Ma Hua Teng, you are a king and a bastard, I X you are an ancestor board!" Lao Tzu learned the art of exorcising ghosts and warding off evil spirits, not the method of lowering demons and eliminating monsters, (the original subjects are different huh?). Feelings You are holding a C2 driver's license? You asked me to come and didn't give me anything, and pretended to be stupid. Besides, I have a Ruyi hook (a magic weapon) in my backpack, and you don't send me to the compartment to let me fight monsters with my bare hands to upgrade, are you going to kill me!? ”
Ma Yuanwai smiled and apologized: "To stop being angry, the original intention of the old decay was to worry about telling the truth, and your excellency would retreat in the face of difficulties, so he did not explicitly say it." Besides, if we knew that you had a magic weapon in your backpack, how could we not give it? Many offenses, damn damn it. You are a large number of adults, and you also look forward to the sea culvert. As he spoke, he asked the housekeeper to hand over a large red envelope.
But Old Xu Yu was still angry and took a bite: "I'll go to your grandmother's leg!" Grandpa I don't play anymore. This is the way back home, farewell! After saying that, he went straight out the door, turned over on his horse, rode in the dust, and never looked back.
But what is strange is that Ma Fu has not made any strange noise since the fight, and the horseman has opened a roar in the garden with confidence, and proudly showed off to the guests attending the meeting: "You all enjoy the visit and spend a good night together, this is all the credit of Mr. Xu ~ hahahaha." ”
The story ended at this point, but in the end, I didn't understand what kind of monster Lao Xu encountered in the attic. I don't know why it stopped making waves after this scare and disappeared, maybe it was too intimidating, right? And the horseman asked Old Xu to come to the mansion to remove the demon without saying it, not only (inadvertently) took away his magic weapon, but also locked him in the garden, which is confidence in Old Xu's Taoist honey juice? If the practice fails, and Lao Xu is killed in Ma Mansion, will Ma Yuanwai not be afraid of taking a life lawsuit and be claimed by Xu's family?
At the end of the original story, according to the habit of Zhiwei's note-taking novels, the author Mr. Pu Songling also added his own comment: "The so-called 'No matter the yellow cat or the black cat, catching a mouse is a good cat.'" This is not an empty phrase. (Originally written: "Yellow beaver black fox, rat male.") This is not empty words also. If Old Xu had preemptively and unexpectedly driven away the monster, pretended to be calm, and falsely claimed that he had successfully cast a spell to eliminate the monster, then wouldn't everyone have to compete for praise, 'Mr. Xu is really a sai immortal!' ’）
It can be seen that even Pu Songling understands marketing theory and the importance of advertising. This also shows from the side that Lao Xu is really a man with a temperament, and it is no wonder that he would rather become a monk than give up his career to serve the Manchu Qing.