Ji Xiaolan's "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" is similar to "Liaozhai", and is a short literary novel written in the form of notes. Its literary value is high. One of the articles is very interesting about the interaction process between the fox spirit and the student.
It is said that during the Song Dynasty, a Xiucai named Tu Cheng, whose parents saved money and used it for his study, hoping that one day Tu Cheng would be able to get ahead, and high-ranking officials would have to sit in the cabinet to worship him. Tu Cheng was not bad, living up to the expectations of the high school jinshi and becoming a local official, but because of his integrity, he was not allowed to enter the official field. Later, Tu Cheng's parents died, and Tu Cheng resigned from the government and returned home to guard filial piety for three years. During this period, he lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests, but he was also at ease. One day, Tu Cheng was resting in the mountains, just at this time he heard the sound of a woman screaming, Tu Cheng followed the sound, and saw a Taoist priest with a peach wood sword stabbing at a woman, who was dressed in red and tied to a tree by a golden rope. Her face was absolutely beautiful, there were many wounds on her body, blood was pouring, and she kept wailing. When Tu Cheng saw this, he immediately shouted, "Stop, in broad daylight, you dare to carry out a sword."
The Daoist looked at Tu Cheng and said, "Whatever to do with you, be nosy, you will immediately get me out of the egg now." Be careful with your life if you are nosy." Tu Cheng said, "You old haired man is so hurtful to heaven and nature, I saw that I should stop it." When the Daoist man heard this, he was about to give the student some color, but when he turned his head, he saw that the bound woman was about to struggle out. The Daoist shouted badly, and slashed at the woman's head with a peach wood sword, but was stopped by Tu Cheng's death, and in this instant, the woman turned into a red light and disappeared in a flash. Old Dao was immediately anxious and scolded: "You nerd, you have ruined my big thing."
Tu Cheng was also dumbfounded, and he was really surprised to see a woman soar away. This Daoist sighed and said, "You rammed goods, you probably looked at the beauty of that woman, moved by the heart of admiration, I tell you, that woman is not a human at all, but a seven-tailed demon fox, about to cultivate into a nine-tailed demon fox, in order to cultivate the Nine Heavens Dafa, I don't know how many people were killed, I had a hard time leading her into the arranged formation, holding her with a bundle of demon ropes, and when I saw it, I could remove the demon for the people, but I was let go by your mallet."
Henceforth, innocent people will die at the hands of the fox demon, and all this is because of you, you are the one who aided and abetted the abuse. The old Daoist's speech did not know whether it was true or not, anyway, Tu Cheng was frightened into a cold sweat, originally hoped to come to a hero to save the United States, but did not want to be a fox spirit, if it is true as the old Dao said, he is really a sin that is unforgivable, thinking of this, Tu Chengcheng apologized to the old Dao: "Immortal Chief, Xiao Ke is reckless for a while, causing a big mistake, and a hundred deaths cannot atone for his sins." Now I hope that the Taoist will teach me the art of surrendering the demon fox to make up for my mistakes." Lao Dao pondered for a moment, "That demon fox spell is profound, I am not his opponent, you think you can catch the fox goblin by learning three moves and two styles?" I really don't know if I'm alive or dead."
But Tu Cheng refused, and had to teach him a few tricks, but Lao Dao was forced to do so, and pondered for a moment and said, "Well, since the fox spirit was saved by you, it must be unguarded against you, and it will certainly be grateful to you, now I will give you a spell and a string of bells, if you meet the fox demon again, take advantage of its lack of preparation to put the spell on her chest, and then shake the bell, I will come to lower the demon." Tu Cheng is naturally full of mouths. And took the spells and bells handed by the Daoists.
For the next few days, Tu Cheng had been looking for traces of fox spirits in the mountain forest, but he couldn't find them everywhere, and one night, Tu Cheng was eating at home. At this time, a red light drifted in, and a woman dressed in red stood in front of Tu Cheng, who was the fox spirit saved by Tu Cheng that day. The woman in red said, "A few days ago, thanks to gongzi for rescuing her, the slave family was able to escape, but because of the serious injury, they rested for a few days, so until today did they have time to thank Gongzi and ask Gongzi for forgiveness."
Tu Cheng thought in his heart: "This is really a place to step on the iron shoe, and it takes no effort at all." Tu Cheng thought of this, secretly took out the spell in his arms, held it in his hand, and then said, "It's just a matter of raising your hand, the girl doesn't have to be polite." Saying that he walked towards the woman in red, and then suddenly burst out, attaching the spell to the woman in red, the fox spirit was defenseless for a while, and it was too late to react, the spell suddenly turned into a cyan flame, wrapping the fox demon in a circle, and the fox demon suddenly rolled to the ground and screamed continuously, but no matter how the fox demon struggled, the blue flame could not be extinguished. Tu Cheng immediately began to shake the bell and said to the fox spirit, "When I saved you that day, I thought you were a weak woman, but I didn't think you were a goblin, and to capture you today is to make up for my mistake that day." So as not to harm people again.
When the fox demon heard this, he burst into tears and said, "I have seen you often in the mountains, and I know that you are pure and good in heart, but I have never harmed you, but today it seems that you listen to the evil nonsense, I have eaten a lot of people, but I have eaten people who go up the mountain to hunt, these hunters hunt my race, whether young or old, sell their furs, my parents and sisters have all died at their hands, are they only allowed to hunt me and so on, do not allow me to take revenge?" After Tu Cheng listened, he was speechless for a moment.
The demon fox continued, "Do you think that dao man is a good person?" In order to kill me, in exchange for deepening his own Dao Fa, he used the hunter as bait to lure me into the ambush demon array, but he did not care about the life of the hunter, and if I wanted to kill you now, you would already be dead." Tu Cheng already had some regrets when he heard this, and felt that he should not listen to the one-sided words of the believers. At this time, Lao Dao had already arrived, and seeing the blue flame burning on the fox demon's body, he said with great joy: "Today, Ben Dao Ye will take your life to see where you can still escape." Yan shuffled his sword and slashed at the fox demon.
The fox demon endured the pain of the fire, still got up and killed with the old Dao, although the Dao people had the upper hand, but they did not have the ability to kill the fox demon, only the strength to fight, and at this time the green flame on the fox demon was gradually extinguished, and the fight gradually took over, the old dao's cyan flame-like fire, but away from the fire, this fire can burn out the hair of the demon fox, but now it is countered by the fox demon's mana, it is about to be extinguished, away from the fire, the old road is difficult to compete with the demon fox. Seeing this, Lao Dao took out a spell from his arms, bit the tip of his tongue, sprayed blood on the spell, pierced the spell with a peach wood sword, and the spell spontaneously combusted without fire, and chanted the spell in his mouth. In an instant, when the dark clouds in the air rolled and the lightning thundered, the Dao people shouted: "The Five-Square Thunder Emperor, the Demon Demon, is anxious as the law." Only to see countless lightning bolts split from the air, the places where they split were all cracked, but the fox demon was not afraid, spitting out a fire dan in his mouth to help his whole body, shuttling between the thunder pillars, hurting no more than a minute, the old Dao saw that the demon fox mana was so high, he knew that he was not an opponent, and when he saw that the general trend had gone, he was eager to escape.
But Wan Wan did not expect that the lightning strike suddenly went towards Tu Cheng, and how could he dodge it as a scholar. Seeing that he was about to be struck by a bolt of lightning, the fox demon looked at it. He flew to Tu Cheng's body to resist it, and the demon fox surrounded the Neidan protective body, but the demon qi was split by the life, and the fox demon spat out blood with a scream, and the fire was rekindled, and the demon fox was nearly dying. The demon fox then said, "I have now repaid the grace of saving my life that day, the grievances have been cleared, and you don't have to regret saving me anymore", Tu Cheng dreamed that the fox demon would give up his life to save himself. Just as the fox was suspicious, the old man shouted, "Get out of the way, today I will eliminate the harm for the people." Raise your hand and kill the fox demon with a sword to avoid recurrence.
At this time, Tu Cheng once again blocked the old road. He said: "People have humanity, demons have demons, she is a demon, killing people for revenge, saving me for retribution, being able to distinguish between grace and resentment, certainly not a demon, she is seriously injured, it is better to let her go." When the old Daoist saw tu cheng blocking his good deeds again, he almost died of anger, and couldn't help but scold: "Why are you such a pedantic student, but as a human being, you want to intercede with the demon fox, and repeatedly block me from removing the demon, otherwise Hugh blames me for being ruthless." At this time, Tu Cheng resolutely refused to do anything to Lao Dao. He said, "The fox also has feelings, how can I fail her?" Lao Dao was extremely angry, and swung his sword to cut off one of Tu Cheng's arms, and Tu Cheng endured severe pain at this time, and died to protect the demon fox. The old Daoist sneered, "You are looking for death yourself, but you can't blame me." Raising his hand and stabbing a sword at Tu Cheng's heart, Tu Cheng shouted in his heart, "My life is over."
At this time, the fox demon saw that the old Daoist was fully focused on Tu Cheng, did not pay attention to himself, and took advantage of his lack of preparation, and flew towards the top door of the old dao, flying to the halfway point, the demon fox appeared in its original form, and directly pounced on the throat of the old Daoist, and the old Dao was caught off guard, and was bitten off the throat, and the top door was hit. After struggling for a moment, he fell to the ground and died. At this time, the Fire Dan had been abolished, the Demon Fox's mana was weak, and it could no longer suppress the fire, and it was burned to ashes in an instant, and the thousand years of cultivation were reduced to nothing. Tu Cheng struggled to stand up and thought to himself, "Although the demon fox died, but fortunately saved his life, he immediately came to the little fox, caressed it with his only hand, and then left, and the little fox also jumped and followed and Slaughter Cheng."
A month later, the temple in the city had a one-armed fallen monk, and miraculously, this one-armed man carried a fox, and this fox was quite human.
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