Yan Sheng, a native of Henan, stayed at a farmhouse on his way to the north. After knocking on the door, a white-haired old man came out, heard Yan Sheng's intentions, and the old man said: "My family has no idle house, there is a grass hut in the backyard, which is the residence in front of the little girl." It's just that the little girl died a month ago, and the coffin is still parked in the house, and if you don't hate it, you live there. Yan Sheng thought that there was no other place to go, so he said: "It doesn't matter, you can only stay for one night, and you can't thank you enough." ”
The old man killed chickens to cook, and then got hay for Yan Sheng's mount, which was very enthusiastic. At dinner, lao Weng said that his surname was Liu, and he had only one daughter named Ruyi, who was nineteen years old. Unfortunately died a month ago. Say goodbye and sigh. Yan Sheng tried to comfort him as much as possible, and after eating, he came to the back room, where a coffin was parked on a white screen. There were girls' toiletries in the back room, and there were a few books on the table.
After the old man left, Yan Sheng picked up the book on the table and looked at it. They are all wild history novels and other categories, and then carefully look at other things around, most of them are dusty, half of the fat powder in the box is left, and the fingerprints on it are still there. Yan Sheng couldn't help but sigh a few times and blow the lamp to rest.
Suddenly, I heard a thud in the outhouse, and a noise came from inside the coffin. Yan Sheng was startled and listened around, but there was no movement. He lit the lamp and prepared to go to the outhouse to have a look. But I saw a woman appear under the lamp, Tao Jing Liu Dan, willow eyebrows, Gu PanShengbo. The woman said to Yan Sheng, "Where did the crazy student go into people's boudoir to sleep." Yan Sheng knew that the other party was a ruyi ghost, but he was not afraid, and said: "The bed has been cleaned for you, the girl please go to bed to rest, I will serve under the bed." ”
Ruyi said, "So thin, not afraid of death?" He said and drew a small knife from under the mat and drew it at Yan Sheng's throat. Yan Sheng's face changed in fright, Ruyi put the knife down, smiled and said, "Oh, so timid? I'm just suppressing your madness, not really trying to kill you. But the first time we met, you were a reader and you shouldn't be joking like that. ”
Yan Sheng apologized and said, "It's really sad to see your relics, but it's a pity that you didn't meet before you died." Ruyi said, "Although I have passed away, my soul is still not scattered, enough to be a wife, if you are not abandoned, you are willing to be a concubine." Yan Sheng hesitated, and his face was difficult. Ruyi said unhappily: "I am shy and self-recommended, out of sincerity, why should I refuse?" Yan Sheng said, "I am worried that marrying a ghost wife will be detrimental to the people who have given birth." Ruyi said, "No problem, if it is unfavorable, how can I bear to hurt you?" After taking me home, he only said that he had married in a foreign land, and who knew that I was a ghost? Yan Sheng had to agree temporarily, and Ruyi disappeared.
In the morning, Yan Sheng told lao Weng about last night's events and begged lao weng to take care of his daughter and not to pestering himself again. The old man was very surprised and said, "After Ruyi died, he never acted strangely, is it because the soul has returned?" He ran to tell his wife, and the old woman said, "Last night I dreamed of Ruyi, saying that she was going to marry Yan Sheng as a wife." It is pitiful to die young and still have emotions! He cried.
Yan Sheng saw that his heart was also a little sour, so he bid farewell to the road. The old man said that the sky was not good to keep, Yan Sheng refused, got on the horse and hurried away. After walking fifty miles, it really rained heavily. Yan Sheng was already wet when he found the guest house, and he was drying clothes alone in the guest room. Suddenly, the curtain was lifted and Ruyi walked in. She said with an angry face, "I don't think I'm ugly, why do you hate it so much?" Also tell my parents and bring them shame! Yan Sheng said: "The matter of marriage cannot be ambiguous, if you elope like Zhuo Wenjun and Sima Xiangru, I will never agree." Ruyi said: "Jumping the wall to elope, I don't despise it, I have told my mother, you also heard it!" I was waiting at Qinglingtai, not far from your house, and you took me home in a small palanquin. Yan Sheng had to agree.
Yan Sheng went to the capital to finish his business, remembered the agreement with Ruyi, and did not dare to go home. Someone told him to take a detour home, and Yan Sheng thought he was right. After he bypassed the Qingling Platform, he suddenly saw Ruyi standing in the shade of the trees beside the road, glaring at him. Yan Sheng quickly dismounted, excused himself, and Ruyi was no longer angry and walked with him. When they arrived at the inn, the two of them ate and lived together, no different from ordinary people. Yan Sheng had never married a wife, and his skin was close, and he felt entangled, and finally made up his mind to marry Ruyi home.
He hired a palanquin and returned home with Ruyi to meet his mother and brother-in-law, saying only that she was the daughter of an old man in a guest house. Half a year later, the woman is filial to her mother-in-law, respects her husband, and can also handle the housework without abnormality.
But it caused the jealousy of the two sisters-in-law. The sisters-in-law talked to each other: "This woman has come from an unknown place, and she has not returned to her mother's house for half a year, nor has she seen her mother's family come, which is really suspicious." He also said, "She never gets into the strong daylight, either a demon or a ghost!" ”
The two sisters-in-law asked their husbands to question their brothers, and Yan Sheng had to tell the truth. After the sisters-in-law prayed to their mothers, they prepared to find a warlock to catch ghosts. It just so happened that an old Taoist priest was outside the door, claiming to be able to cast down demons and exorcise demons. When the Yan family invited the Daoist priest in, they saw Ruyi running out of the house, looking very embarrassed, and ran to the Daoist priest and disappeared into green smoke. Yan Sheng cried loudly, and the Taoist priest said, "Don't be sad, how can people and ghosts get along for a long time?" I have my own way of reuniting you!" He stared at his two sisters-in-law and said, "Evil in heart, more annoying than ghosts, so do your own thing, don't be angry with right and wrong anymore." "After saying that, I didn't ask for pay.
Yan Sheng has an aunt and sister, who looks very beautiful but has a crazy disease, often talks nonsense, and is high and low, and no one dares to marry when he reaches the age of marriage. One day, Yan Sheng's aunt met an old Taoist priest at the door, claiming to be able to cure madness. The aunt was overjoyed and invited him into the house. The Taoist priest first drew a charm with a Zhu pen, burned it to ashes for his sister to take, and then circled around her three times, and with a wave of his hand, a green smoke flew out and entered his sister's body.
The Taoist priest said, "Yes, but you must marry someone immediately to ensure that there will be no recurrence." "The Taoist priest left. The aunt saw that her daughter was groggy and asleep, and when she woke up, she looked around and was very conscious. Then I washed, dressed, embroidered and read, and my mind was as usual. Yan Sheng's mother heard about it and came to visit. Seeing that her niece behaved demurely and had no foolishness, she was very happy, so she brokered her niece and son to marry. My aunt was also very willing, so she chose an auspicious day to get married.
One day, my sister said to Yan Sheng, "Who do you think I am?" Yan Sheng said, "You are my aunt's sister, why do you ask such a question?" Are you demented again? The sister said, "No, I am your ghost wife Ruyi!" The Taoist priest was a fairy, and he took my soul and put it into your aunt's sister' body. My sister has exhausted her fate, the fate of the two of us is still there, I was born from a shell, all rely on immortals, and should be enshrined in the golden statue of a Taoist priest. ”
So Yan Sheng sculpted a small statue of a Taoist priest, and the husband and wife worshipped in the morning and evening. After the two sisters-in-law learned of the reason, they were even more resentful, and arranged yan sheng's wife in front of their mother-in-law to be a demon. The mother-in-law said angrily, "This is my niece, how can it be a demon?" If you slander again, you will not be spared! ”
The two sisters-in-law were ashamed to retire, so Zhang Luo separated the family. Yan Sheng was an open-minded person, and after separating from his family, he moved with his mother to the south of Guangwu Mountain in Heyin and bought a few acres of thin land to live. Later, he explained the matter to Ruyi's father and moved Ruyi's bones to the vicinity for burial.
(The story is from "Drunken Tea ZhiWei", and the end of the original text says that the two sisters-in-law want to poison Ruyi to death, but they kill their own children.) I didn't like the plot so I deleted it. ）