The following story is from the Song Dynasty Li Fang's Taiping Guangji (quoted from "Legend"), with changes in translation. The illustrations in the text come from the network, if there is infringement, please inform us to delete.
During the tang dynasty, there was a very learned scholar in Luoyang named Lu Han. Lu Han's family was very rich, and in the north of Wan'an Mountain, he also had a manor house, where tenants usually ate and lived, and after harvesting crops, the stored grain was also placed in the courtyard.
In the summer of this year, the wheat was harvested and the seasonal fruits were ripe, so Lu Han rode his horse and went to the manor by himself to see.
After walking about a dozen miles, I saw that next to the cypress forest in front, there was a shop, which seemed to have just opened not long ago, and the house was very new and beautifully decorated. Just when Lu Han was tired at this time, he went up to rest and tied the horse to the tree, and the horse bowed its head and only cared about grazing.
At this time, there came a young girl, looking dressed should be a maid, the maid is very beautiful, quite feminine, beautiful eyes, seducing the soul. Lu Han came to be interested and asked who the girl was and what she was doing here.
The young girl said: I was originally the maid of General Geng's family, and now our family guards the grave for General Geng, and my father and brother are not there.
Lu Han didn't care about this, he took a fancy to the girl's posture, so he kept talking to the girl and going to stir people up. The young girl did not mind, asked what to say, was it still secretly sent to Qiu Bo, and said that she was empty and lonely and cold here, and the implication did not need to be said more. When Lu Han saw the young girl like this, he could hardly control himself.
The girl suddenly smiled and said, "I have some sake in my house, all of which I brewed by my own hands, can Lang Jun drink a few cups?"
Lu Han didn't drink much, but at this time he said: Yes, I can drink ok.
So, the girl went into the house, quickly came out, and came out with a pot of wine, but the wine glass was an ancient copper bottle, which was quite strange. However, although Lu Han noticed it, he did not ask, he and the girl laughed and drank, both of them were very happy, but in fact, they were pregnant with ghosts.
When the wine was hot, the girl suddenly slapped the table while singing a song: holding a towel alone to cover the entrance, the small tent was not shadowed by candles. In the past, the robes are now gone, and the poplar wind is cold.
Lu Han drank wine, heard words such as "no one", "candle shadow residue", "exhausted", etc., and felt that the girl's song was not very good, but he did not understand what it meant.
The wine was quickly finished, and the girl said to Lu Han: Lang Jun, you are eating for a while, I will go in and add some more wine.
By this time, it was already dark, and the girl went into the house with a candle. Lu Han felt that the girl was a little strange and quietly followed in. Only to see a very long and extremely thick black snake hanging in the room, the girl stabbed into the snake with a knife, slightly turned the handle of the knife, the snake blood flowed down, and the girl took it with a wine jar.
It turned out that the wine I had just drunk was snake blood, no wonder it tasted strange!
Only then did Lu Han understand that the charming girl in front of him was a goblin, and he hurried out, untied the horse rope, and ran in a hurry. After the young girl noticed it, she chased it out and shouted loudly: Tonight I will accompany Lang Jun for one night, how did I leave? Don't go, come back.
After shouting a few times, the girl knew that Lu Han would not come back, and shouted to the east: Hurry up and catch him, and arrest him for me!
To the east was a cypress forest, and inside there was a big man who roared and had already run out of the forest to chase Lu Han. Lu Han looked back while beating his horse and running fast, only to see that the big man was like an ancient tree, his steps were heavy, his speed was very slow, and he watched as the distance between the two of them was getting farther and farther.
Lu Han did not dare to take it lightly, and continued to speed up the whip, passing through a forest again, and a huge monster appeared in the forest, which looked like snow white from a distance.
A voice came from behind: We must catch him tonight, or we will all have disaster tomorrow morning.
After Lu Han heard this, he was even more frightened, and he slapped the horse's ass hard and ran all the way. When I arrived at the courtyard, it was already three days old, the gate was closed, and there were several cars at the door, all empty. There was also a flock of sheep nearby, grazing, and in the dead of night, there was no one there.
There was movement not far away, lu Han did not dare to enter the manor, he got off his horse, drove the horse away, and hid under the car himself.
Soon, a snow-white giant arrived, and when he came to the door, Lu Han found that the two-foot-high courtyard wall was only below the giant's waist. In this way, this giant is at least four feet tall.
The giant looked at the courtyard, and suddenly there was an extra Fang Tian Painting Blade in his hand, and he used the Painting Blade to stab and stab a small child. The child was picked up by the giant with the Fang Tian Painting Blade and hung in mid-air, his hands and feet moving wildly, but there was no sound. Then, the giant walked slowly, and finally stopped moving.
Lu Han estimated that the giant had gone far, so he dared to get out from under the car and knock on the door.
The dealers heard a knock at the door, quickly got up to open the door, and when they saw that it was the owner Lu Han, they were still breathless, and they looked frightened and asked what was going on. Lu Han saw the dealer, and his tense heart relaxed, and suddenly he couldn't speak, just crying. After crying for a long time and drinking some water, Lu Han slowly got better.
The dealers did not know what was going on, and could only appease Lu Han. It was not easy for Lu Han to stabilize his mood, and everyone went to sleep. Lu Han was not sleepy, he thought about what he saw last night, he did not know whether it really happened or whether he had hallucinated.
After dawn, Lu Han was sleeping in a daze when he heard a dealer howling and crying.
After getting up, Lu Han asked the dealer what was going on and why he was crying. The dealer said: I have a three-year-old child, last night after going to bed has been very quiet, did not expect to see this morning, but there is no breath. My poor boy, he's only three years old!
Lu Han suddenly remembered that the white giant yesterday used the Fang Tian Painting Blade to pick up the child and leave. In this way, what he saw last night was actually true, and the giant should have taken away the soul of the child, no wonder the child did not cry.
Thinking of this, Lu Han quickly said what he had seen last night, and said that he wanted to get rid of these monsters.
When the farmers heard this, they were very angry, picked up forks, scythes, shovels, chain shackles and other agricultural tools, and shouted for revenge. There are also knives, guns, bows and arrows in the courtyard of Lu Hanzhuang, which are usually used by the villagers to protect themselves, and Lu Han asked a few people who were slightly skilled in martial arts to bring them. Dozens of dealers were bold, and they were no longer afraid, and they went back on horseback.
When I came to the cypress forest last night, I saw a clay figurine made of clay, which was exactly the charming girl that Lu Han saw last night, but it was only two feet high, and it looked like it was a meditative artifact used for sacrifice. Next to the figurines, there was a large black snake, which was already dead, with several knives in its stomach and blood flowing out.
In the east of Berlin, there is a statue of Fang Xiangshi used to drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters, which is so tall and heavy that several dealers can't move, so everyone picks up the guy and smashes the statue.
Lu Han thought about the white giant last night, and kept looking for it, and finally found it under the fallen leaves in the woods.
A dealer accidentally kicked away the thick layer of fallen leaves, saw the white stone, felt strange, pulled it open to look at it, and was suddenly shocked and unable to speak.
It turned out that it was not a white stone at all, but a human bone, to be precise, a human foot finger, a foot long. Everyone worked together to rip open the bones of this giant, and only then did they find that the giant was more than four feet long, and all the bones were there, a little bit, the bones were hard, and everyone could not smash them.
Later, several people cut with large axes and knives, and the bones were not broken, but there were only a few more marks.
Lu Han was worried that the skeleton giant would also harm people, so he asked the dealers to break up its bones and throw them in various places, some buried in the ground, some thrown into the ditch, and some pulled up the mountain to hang on the tree. The skull couldn't be moved, so everyone found stones and covered them.
Since then, there have been no more monsters in the area, and no children have died for no reason.
Lu Han originally had a wind disease, and he often had seizures, which was very painful, because he drank the blood of the black snake and was completely fine.