Legend: Paint the skin

The story I want to tell today takes place in Taiyuan, Shanxi, and the protagonist of the story is a scholar surnamed Wang.

One day, he got up in the morning and went out, and on the way he met a woman who was rushing away.

The woman held a burden in her arms, although she walked quickly, but it could be seen that it was very difficult to walk.

Wang Sheng hurriedly chased after him to see what was going on, it turned out to be a beautiful girl of about sixteen years old, and Wang Sheng was very happy in his heart. So he asked, why did the girl get up so early and walk at night? The woman replied that people passing by could not help people relieve their sorrows, so why should they ask these questions.

Wang Sheng asked again: What worries do you have? Maybe I can play, I will not resign.

The woman looked lost and said, My parents coveted money and sold me to a rich family as a concubine, and the eldest wife was jealous of me, scolding in the morning and beating at night, I couldn't stand it anymore and was ready to flee.

Wang Sheng asked, "Then where are you going?" The woman replied that I was a fugitive and had no definite destination.

Wang Sheng said that my home is not far away, you can come to my house. The woman was very happy and agreed to Wang Sheng's request, Wang Sheng helped the woman to carry the package home together, after the woman entered the house, she found no one, and asked, Is there no one else in your family? Wang Sheng replied that this was a study.

The woman said that it was very good here, and if you pity me and want me to survive, don't tell this secret to anyone else. Wang Sheng agreed to this request and then stripped off to bed.

After a few days, no one else knew. Wang Sheng revealed this to his wife, who was very confused, believing that this was a maid who had escaped from the eunuch's family, and persuaded Wang Sheng to send her back, but Wang Sheng did not listen.

Wang Sheng went to the market and met a Taoist monk. The Daoist priest was very shocked to see Wang Sheng and asked, "What happened to you?" Wang Sheng replied that nothing had happened.

The Taoist priest said, the evil qi in your body is haunting, how can you say that there is no? Wang Sheng insisted that he did not, so the Taoist priest left, and said, How strange is that there are people in the world who are still obsessed with death.

Wang Sheng felt very strange about his words, a little suspicious of the woman.

Thinking about it, obviously a beautiful woman, how can it be a monster? He thought that maybe this Taoist priest wanted to use rumors and spells to cheat money.

There was nothing else to do, and Wang Sheng returned to the study. Found that the door of the courtyard was locked and could not be entered. Suspicious, he jumped off the wall and went in. When I got to the door, it was still closed.

So he carefully went to the window, peeked in through the crack of the window, and saw only a vicious evil ghost, very ugly, with a green face and teeth as sharp as a saw. He laid a human skin on the bed, was using a colored pen to draw, after drawing, he threw the pen away, lifted the human skin like wearing clothes, draped on his body, and instantly became a beautiful woman.

Seeing this scene, Wang Sheng was very frightened, and even ran out of the study with a rolling belt. Hurriedly went to chase the Daoist, and did not know where the Daoist priest went, so he searched all over the mountains, and finally met in the wild, Wang Chang could not get up on his knees, and begged the Daoist priest for help.

The Taoist priest said, even if you drive him away, this ghost thing is also well-intentioned, and I have not found my own substitute, and I can't bear to hurt his life.

So the Taoist priest gave Wang Sheng his own dust and asked him to hang it in front of his bedroom door. The parting agreement was made, and the two said goodbye at the Qingdi Temple.

After Wang Sheng returned, he did not dare to go to the study, returned to the inner room to sleep, and hung the dust on the door.

One more (eight o'clock in the evening), he heard the sound of careful walking outside the door, Wang Sheng himself did not dare to look, let his wife secretly look, only to see the woman coming, see the dust did not dare to go in, stood there gritting teeth, after a long time to leave.

But after a while, he came again and scolded: The Taoist priest frightened me, do I still have to spit out what I have already entered?

The woman took off the dust, shattered it, broke the door and walked in, went directly to Wang Sheng's bed, tore Wang Sheng's belly, and took out her heart and took it away. The wife cried, and the maid brought the candle. It was found that Wang Sheng was dead, his flesh and blood were blurred, and his five internal organs were scattered and in a mess.

Chen Shi was very scared and did not dare to speak out. Only after dawn did Wang Sheng's younger brother Wang Erlang go to the Daoist priest, and the Daoist priest said angrily, "I had pity on him, this ghost beast dared to do this." ”

So the Taoist priest followed Wang Erlang to Wang Sheng's house, and the woman was gone. The Taoist priest looked up and said, fortunately, he didn't run too far, whose house is in the southern courtyard? Jiro said, it's my family.

The Taoist priest said, it is in your house. Jiro was shocked and thought it wasn't.

The Taoist priest said, "Do you have anyone you don't know in your house?" Erlang replied that I had gone to the Qingdi Temple in the morning, and I didn't know it yet, so I needed to go home and ask. After a while, Jiro came back and said, there is indeed an old lady who came in the morning and wanted to find a job to do, and my wife left her behind, still at my house.

The Taoist priest said that it was her. So the Taoist priest and Erlang came to Erlang's house together, stood in the middle of the courtyard with a wooden sword in hand, and shouted, "Demon, come out and return my dust." ”

The old lady panicked in the house and went out to run, the Taoist priest came forward to chase and beat, the old lady was knocked down, the human skin fell off, and became a powerful ghost, lying on the ground and barking like a pig.

The Taoist priest cut off his head with a wooden sword, and his body turned into a thick puff of smoke, forming a heap around the ground. The Taoist priest took out a gourd and put it in the smoke, and the gourd actually inhaled all the smoke as if it could inhale.

The Taoist priest stuffed the mouth of the gourd and put it back into his package. Everyone came to see the human skin together, and there were eyebrows, eyes, hands and feet. The Taoist priest rolled up the human skin like a calligraphy and painting, and then put it in a package.

The Taoist priest bid farewell to leave, and Chen Shi went forward to bow down and pray for Wang Sheng's treatment. The Taoist priest prevaricated that it could not be done. Chen Shi was very sad, crying incessantly, lying on the ground and not getting up.

The Taoist priest pondered for a moment and said, "My spell is shallow and cannot be revived from the dead, I recommend someone, maybe it can be done, you go and ask for it will have an effect." ”

Chen asked who it was, and replied, "There is a crazy person in the market, who often lies on his stomach in the dung pile, you can try to beg him, if he insults you, you must not be angry." Jiro said that he knew the man, so he bid farewell to the Taoist priest and went to the market with his sister-in-law to find the crazy man.

The two men saw the beggar singing madly on the road, his nose three feet long, and the filth could not be approached.

Chen Shi walked on his knees and leaned forward, and the beggar smiled and said, Beauty, do you love me? Chen told him why, and the beggar laughed and said, Everyone can be your husband, save him what to do.

Chen Shi still stubbornly pleaded with him, and the beggar said, Strange, people are dead but come to me begging, I am the king of Yan Luo! So he angrily hit Chen with a stick.

Chen endured the pain without making a sound. Gradually, more and more people gathered to block the road. The beggar coughed up phlegm, spit a full handful, held it up to Chen And said, Eat!

Chen's face was red and his face was ugly, but when he thought of the Taoist's words, he still reluctantly ate it, feeling that it was hard and hard in his throat, like a ball of cotton wool that was difficult to swallow.

The beggar laughed and said, Beauty loves me! Get up and go.

Chen Followed him to the temple and disappeared. I looked for it before and after, and there was no sign at all. I had no choice but to go home.

Chen not only mourns the tragic death of her husband, but also regrets the humiliation of eating spit. Cry out loud and want to die instantly. Wanting to wipe the blood and collect the body first, the family stood by and watched, not daring to come closer. Chen Shi picked up the corpse, gathered his intestines, and cried bitterly while sorting it out, and the crying was exhausted.

Suddenly wanting to throw up, I felt a knot in my throat, jumped out suddenly, and fell into Wang Sheng's chest before I could see it.

Chen Shi looked closely in horror, it turned out to be the human heart, jumping suddenly in the chest cavity, steaming like smoke.

Chen Shi was very strange, and hurriedly hugged his chest cavity with both hands, trying to squeeze them together. After a while, gas slowly came out of the crack. Immediately tear some cloth to wrap around Wang Sheng's chest.

Touching it with my hand, my body has gradually warmed up. So I covered it with a quilt. When I got up in the middle of the night and looked at it, I was already breathing. At dawn, I came back to life.

Wang Sheng said, "It's like a dream, it's just very painful", and then look at the place where it is broken, it has scabs, and soon it will be all right.

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