Hello everyone, I'm Lao Wang. In the island folk, there are many legends and stories about demons, and today I will bring you a "Woman Who Bows in the Middle of the Night". This story was told to me by an Osaka native.
There is a shop somewhere in Tokyo's Higashiori district, which is run by a couple. The couple also has a lovely daughter and the family lives happily ever after. However, this did not last long. When her daughter was three or four years old, her wife became seriously ill and died soon after. Men cannot take care of the shop and his daughter at the same time. Later, with the matchmaker's help, he married another wife.
The man's second wife is gentle and virtuous, treating the boss's daughter as if she were her own. The boss looked at it and was very happy in his heart. You can run your own business with all your heart.
However, strangely enough, not long after a woman marries a man, the cheerful smile disappears and is replaced by a sad face, and the woman does not do things as orderly as before, and the soul is not guarded all day. The busy boss didn't notice these changes in the woman. Instead, neighbors noticed her change. I wonder if it's because the man has a new lover outside and the boss's wife is left out in the cold that makes her look depressed?
To find out why, the neighbor took the opportunity to invite women to the house.
When the woman came to the neighbor's house, the neighbor asked her to sit down first. After chatting for a while, I asked, "Your face doesn't look very good." What's wrong? ”
“...... Why is that asked? The woman was puzzled
"Because you weren't like that before. What must have happened at home? ”
"Nothing happened..." The woman was reluctant to admit it
"Hey, don't hide from me. Is it your husband who is having an affair outside? "Ah... No, no, no, there is no such thing. The woman waved.
Seeing a woman answer so firmly, is the neighbor even stranger? So I continued to ask, "What's wrong with you?" Something must have happened. You might as well say it and let me see. ”
The landlady hesitated, then he stammered and said, "Actually, I... Something very strange did happen. Next to our couple's bedroom is a Buddhist shrine with only a paper door between the two rooms. When it was late at night, the paper door would be opened and a woman would come out and bow to me... I was really scared, but I didn't want to tell my husband and didn't want him to worry
The neighbor thought for a moment and then asked, "Do you see the man's face?" ”
"Hmmm... Very young, thin and white, dressed in blue striped clothes, with curly hair..." Tell you something? ”
"No... She never spoke. She just stood there, her hands down, bowing to me... I was so scared that it became like this. ”
The neighbor thought, could it be the man's deceased ex-wife? But he didn't say it right away. He was afraid to scare her.
The neighbor decided to tell the man about it anyway, and later he asked the man, "The woman was wearing a blue striped dress, do you know who that person is?" ”
The man was too frightened to speak, for he distinctly remembered that his dead wife had particularly liked to wear blue striped clothes.
The neighbors had seen what he looked like when he was stunned. He thought for a moment and whispered, "Is there anything she hasn't done yet?" ”
The man immediately said, "How is that possible?" I give her incense every day on time, and..." The boss paused. Looking at his wife next to him, he said, "Now that the children are well taken care of, what else can she not be satisfied with... If she shows up again, you have to wake me up, and I have to ask her what the hell happened. ”
Then, after saying goodbye to the neighbors, they went home.
That night, when it was time for rest, they all went to sleep, and their daughter slept among them. In the middle of the night, the woman suddenly woke up from her sleep. She opened her eyes and looked. Sure enough, the paper door of the shrine opened again. Then a woman in blue striped clothes came out. As usual, her hand hung down and bowed to her. The woman was frightened and dumbfounded, and her voice could not speak. She quickly pushed and woke up her husband next to her.
When the sleepy man was awakened, he rubbed his eyes. Now it was clear that the woman in front of him was his dead wife. He immediately stood up and shouted, "What are you doing?" Do you deliberately run out in the middle of the night to scare people? What else can you worry about? She takes care of your family, takes care of your children, and takes care of your children so well, is there anything you are not satisfied with? ”
The ex-wife said slowly, "It is precisely because I am so satisfied, in order to thank her, I often come to bow to her."
"But this method of thanks from you will scare people to death, you know!" We know your intentions are good, but we still hope you don't come back in the future. The man said very sincerely.
After hearing the man's words, his ex-wife quickly disappeared, perhaps with sadness, perhaps with helplessness, and no one cared about her, in short, never appeared again. The family's life has returned to normal harmony.
The so-called demons are just the results of those who can't ask for it, and the cultivation has not yet been achieved. Among the demon stories circulating in the folk of the island country, there are also many touching and warm love stories. They transcend time, space. In the generations of people word of mouth, it has finally become an indelible classic. What do you think about the content of the story? Comments are welcome.