"If you come back at night, I'll still be here waiting for you." The young girl looked at the man who was flirting with herself in front of her, not only did she not get angry at all, but she said delicately. However, the man not only verbally flirted with the girl, but also quietly took the girl's ring when the girl handed over the tea.
In ancient times, there was a person surnamed Zhu, on the way to visit a friend, encountered a tea shed. An old woman greeted him for tea with a warm attitude. Just as he was thirsty, he walked over happily. Zhu Sheng brought tea to his lips and smelled a strange smell. As soon as my heart moved, I stopped drinking tea, put down the tea bowl and lifted my feet and left.
The old lady hurriedly shouted, "The Third Lady has not yet brought a good cup of tea!" As soon as the words fell, a young girl flashed out from behind the tea shed, holding a cup of herbal tea in her hand, and walked towards Zhu Sheng. The woman was about fourteen or fifteen years old, with a beautiful posture and a gold ring and jade bracelet.
Zhu Sheng took the teacup from her hand, unconsciously moved his mind, and smelled the tea again, the aroma was incomparable. Zhu Sheng finished drinking one cup, asked for a second cup, and finally asked the woman for a handful of tea leaves, before getting up to bid farewell and reluctantly leaving.
When he came to his friend's house, Zhu Sheng suddenly felt nauseous and wanted to vomit, suspecting that it was a problem with tea, so he told his friend about the tea shed drinking tea on the road. When my friend heard this, he was shocked and said, "Oops! You have met the water reckless ghost, and you have been poisoned by the water recklessness, which is incurable! ”
Zhu Sheng was also frightened for a while and did not know how to be good, and he took out the tea leaves to inspect, it was indeed a waterweed.
He described the woman's appearance again, and the friend speculated: "This must be the work of the third lady of the Kou family, she is the daughter of the Kou rich man in nancun, who died of poisoning by eating water grass by mistake a few years ago, and in order to find a substitute and reincarnate again, he is setting up a tea shed on the side of the road with an elderly water ghost to tempt passers-by to be poisoned." ”
Zhu Sheng suddenly realized that it was too late, the water poison had already occurred, and his friend hurriedly carried him home, and when he arrived at the door, Zhu Sheng was already dying.
He swore with difficulty, "When I die, I will definitely find Third Lady Kou in the underworld and prevent her from reincarnating and escaping!" "I stopped breathing when I finished. The mother buried her son in grief.
After Zhu Sheng's death, his wife remarried, leaving a son to be raised by the old mother, who worked day and night, plus missed her son, often weeping at night.
One night, Zhu's mother was crying in the room, and Zhu Sheng's ghost quietly walked in, and the mother did not believe her eyes, and was busy wiping away her tears, looking at her son in front of her doubtfully.
Zhu Sheng hurriedly explained: "The son was under the wine spring, and he heard his mother crying day and night, and his heart was very sad, so he rushed home today so that he could serve his mother day and night."
The son found Kou Sanniang in hades, and she is now the son's daughter-in-law, and now she is also taking her home to share the housework for her mother. ”
Zhu Sheng just finished speaking, outside the door walked into a woman, richly dressed, beautiful appearance, as soon as she entered the door, she knelt down in front of Zhu Sheng's mother!
Since then, the two ghosts have remained in ZhuSheng's mother's house, taking care of housework and serving the old mother. Soon, the Kou family heard about the incident, and also sent two servants, more than a thousand taels of silver, dozens of cloth, and often sent wine and meat, wishing the Sheng family a life without worrying about food and clothing.
One day, someone in the village was poisoned by the water reckless grass and died, but immediately came back to life, and people felt strange. Zhu Sheng explained, "I saved this man."
He was killed by the watery ghost Li Jiu, and I drove away Li Jiu's ghost for him. Mother Zhusheng said, "Why don't you find a stand-in to reincarnate?"
Zhu Sheng said, "I deeply hate this evil spirit that turns misfortune on others, and drive them all away, no longer endangering the human world." How could he do such a hurtful thing again? Moreover, my mother and I were deeply happy, and we did not want to return to the world. ”
After that, all the families of those who have been poisoned by the water and grass must prepare a rich table to pray for the elimination of disasters and disasters. After more than ten years, Zhu's mother died, and Zhu Sheng and his wife did their best to mourn.
After two years, Zhu Sheng's son married his daughter-in-law and started a family. One day, Zhu Sheng said to his son, "God saw our merits in saving people, and named me the 'Four Dragon Lords' (the gods who govern the Yangtze River, the Huai River, the Yellow River, and the Jishui), and I am going to leave today." ”
In an instant, a yellow-draped sedan driven by a horse stopped in the courtyard, and the legs of the sacred horse were covered with scales.
Mr. and Mrs. Zhu Sheng dressed in gorgeous costumes boarded the car to bid farewell to their son's family. The son and daughter-in-law cried and knelt down to pay their respects, and the carriage disappeared in the blink of an eye.
After Zhu Sheng and Kou Sanniang became ghosts, they still had to return to the human world, honor the old mother, and fulfill their filial piety, Zhu Sheng would rather be his own soul forever, and insisted on driving away those water ghosts who wanted to find a substitute, so as not to let them continue to plague the human world.
This article is adapted from Pu Songling's "Liaozhai Zhiyi" in the Qing Dynasty. Although Zhu Sheng died of poisoning, he adhered to the belief of "do not do to others what he did not want", preferring to serve his mother as a ghost rather than find others to replace him, and also took the initiative to rescue the injured and caused people, accumulating many merits in the world.
However, Zhu Sheng is not perfect enough, so that readers regret it, but this is probably the normal and true of life. Whether in life or history, we can see similar men everywhere, they are perhaps good friends, good employees or good people, and even make important contributions to history. However, they do not respect women enough, and their character is not good, which is what we dislike and disdain. However, this is the richness and complexity of human nature, the three-dimensional and pluralistic nature of life...
But then again, what if people are ghosts? As long as it is full of human goodness and beauty, it is really worthy of our praise and praise. As the saying goes, "The house of goodness will have a surplus of celebration", zhu sheng will not abolish justice for his own selfishness, cultivate virtue and help others, in order to achieve positive results, without him, only because of a good!
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The same is the tea offering jade, and the girl who comes out is fragrant.
May the world be cast away from the devils in spite of death, and the world will not suffer new suffering!
