The Complete Picture of Liao Zhai, Volume 47, Qing Dynasty Picture Books, Collection of the Austrian National Library
The Complete Picture of Liao Zhai is a painted comic book depicting the story of "Strange Tales of Liao Zhai", a complete set of about 90 volumes (scattered all over the world), and 17 volumes (8, 9, 11, 23, 31-33, 38, 41, 47, 48, 53, 60, 63-65, 69) in the collection of the Austrian National Library, and this volume is 47 volumes. This set is roughly a picture book of the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty.
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Book 47: Wu Qiuyue, Princess Lotus, The Girl in Green, The Three Ladies of the Lotus, Jin Shengse
Book 47: Wu Qiuyue
伍秋月
Wang Ding, a native of Gaoyou County, is a man of impassioned, brave and powerful, and has made friends. When he was eighteen years old, his fiancée died before they could get married.
Every time he goes on a long trip, he always doesn't return for years. Brother Wang Nai is a famous man in Jiangbei, and the brotherhood is very deep, so he persuaded Wang Ding not to go out and prepare to find a partner for him.
Wang Ding didn't listen, and arrived in Zhenjiang by boat to visit a friend. When his friend was away, he rented a place in the attic of the hotel. I saw the river turning over the clear waves, the golden mountain vividly, and the heart was very happy. The next day, a friend came to invite Wang Ding to live at home, but Wang Ding refused to go.
After living for more than half a month, Wang Ding dreamed of a girl at night, about fourteen or fifteen years old, with a dignified and wonderful appearance, went to bed with him, and woke up with a leak. He was rather surprised, and still thought it was accidental. Then in the night, he dreamed of the girl again.
Three or four nights passed like this. He was so surprised that he did not dare to blow out the lamp and candle, and although he was lying on the bed, he was always vigilant. But as soon as he closed his eyes, he dreamed that the girl came again, and when he was making love, he suddenly woke up, and hurriedly opened his eyes, but saw a girl as beautiful as a fairy really in his arms. When the girl saw Wang Ding wake up, she was quite shy.
Although Wang Ding knew that the girl was not a human being, he was also very proud, and he really fell in love with her without asking about the situation. The girl seemed to be unbearable and said, "You are so violent, no wonder people dare not tell you to your face." Wang Ding then asked about the girl's situation.
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The girl replied, "My name is Wu Qiuyue." My father was a famous Confucian, who was well versed in the "Zhou Yi" elephant number divination, and loved me very much, but said that I did not live long, so I was not allowed to marry.
Later, when I was fifteen years old, I died, and my father buried me on the east side of the attic, so that the burial place was not raised above the ground, and there was no epitaph, but a stone was erected next to the coffin, which read: 'Daughter Qiuyue, buried but did not set up a tomb, thirty years later, marry Wang Ding.' ’
It's been thirty years now, and you're here. I was happy in my heart, and I wanted to introduce myself to you, but I was shy in my heart, so I met you in my sleep. Wang Ding was also very happy and asked to finish the thing. Wu Qiuyue said: "I need some yang energy, and if I want to be reborn, I really can't withstand such wind and rain. The love of the husband and wife in the future is endless, so why bother tonight?" and got up and left.
The next day, Wu Qiuyue came to Wang Ding again, sat opposite Wang Ding and laughed and joked, just like a living person. Blowing out the lamp and candle to bed, she is no different from a living person. But when Wu Qiuyue got up, she was dripping with leakage and stained the bedding.
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One night, the moon was crystal clear, and the two walked in the courtyard. Wang Ding asked Wu Qiuyue: "Is there a city in the underworld?" Wu Qiuyue replied: "It's the same as the human world." The city of Hades is not here, it is about three or four miles away. But there the night is taken as the day. Wang Ding asked, "Can a living person go to see it?" Wu Qiuyue replied, "It's okay." Wang Ding asked to visit, and Wu Qiuyue agreed.
They went by moonlight, Wu Qiuyue was fluttering, walking as fast as a gust of wind, Wang Ding tried his best to catch up. Suddenly came to a place, Wu Qiuyue said, "It's not far away." Wang Ding looked around, but saw nothing. Wu Qiuyue smeared saliva on the corners of Wang Ding's eyes, and when she opened her eyes, her eyes were twice as bright as usual, and the night was no different from the day. Immediately he saw a city in the misty clouds, and the pedestrians on the road were like gathering places.
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After a while, two soap-clothed servants walked past them with three or four people tied, the last of whom looked very much like his brother Wang Nai. Wang Ding took a closer look, and sure enough, it was his brother, so he asked in horror: "Why did my brother come here?" When Wang Nai saw Wang Ding, he burst into tears and said, "I don't know why I was forcibly arrested." Wang Ding said angrily: "My brother is a gentleman who practices etiquette and righteousness, why is he so bundled and tied up like this!" and asked the two servants to loosen the tie for his brother.
The messenger refused to agree, and glanced at Wang Ding very arrogantly. Wang Ding was so angry that he wanted to argue with the officer, but Wang Nai stopped him and said, "This is the order of the commander, and they should also act according to the law." But I don't have a fee, and they ask for bribes, which is really vicious. When my brother returns, he will have to raise some money. Wang Ding took Wang Nai's arm and cried bitterly. The messenger also started a fire and suddenly pulled the rope around Wang Nai's neck, and Wang Nai suddenly fell.
When Wang Ding saw this scene, he was furious and could not contain it, so he untied his saber and immediately cut off the head of an errand officer. Another officer screamed loudly, and Wang Ding cut off his head again.
Wu Qiuyue was terrified and said: "Killing the official is an unforgivable crime! If you escape too late, a great disaster will come! Please find a boat to go north immediately, don't take off your brother's funeral flag when you go home, close the gate, never go out, and promise to be okay after seven days." Wang Ding helped his brother hire a small boat overnight and quickly went north.
When Wang Ding returned home, he saw that the mourners were still in front of the door, and knew that his brother was really dead. He closed the door, locked it, and as soon as he entered, he saw that his brother was gone.
After entering the house, he saw that his brother had been resurrected and shouted: "Hunger me to death! Hurry up and bring the soup cakes!" At that time, Wang Nai had been dead for two days, and the family was all shocked, and Wang Ding told the reason one by one.
Seven days later, the door was opened, the mourning flag was removed, and people learned that Wang Nai's recovery had been made. Relatives and friends rushed to inquire about the inside story, and Wang Ding had to make up a set of lies as an answer.
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Wang Ding thought of Wu Qiuyue again, and he was upset with his thoughts. So he went south again, came to the attic where he had lived, lit the lamps and candles, and waited for a long time, but Wu Qiuyue never came.
Wang Ding was sleepy-eyed and about to go to bed, but he saw a woman come and said, "Little lady Qiuyue tells you: A few days ago, she was killed because of her duties, and the murderer fled, so she took Qiuyue and took her away, and now she is being held in prison, and the servants who guard the prisoner abuse her. She looks forward to you every day so that she can find a way for her. Wang Ding was sad and angry, so he went with the woman.
When they came to a city and entered from the outer city on the west, the woman pointed to a gate and said, "The little lady of the autumn moon is here for the time being." Wang Ding walked into the gate and saw many houses, and there were many prisoners, but there was no Wu Qiuyue.
I entered a small door and saw a light shining through a hut. He approached the window to take a look, but saw Wu Qiuyue sitting on the bed, hiding her face with her sleeves, whimpering and crying. There were two errand officers beside him pinching their faces and touching their little feet, teasing and teasing, and Wu Qiuyue cried even more.
An errand officer put his arm around her neck and said, "You have become a criminal, do you still keep your chastity?" Wang Ding was furious, and he didn't care to speak, he broke into the house with a knife, stabbed one by one, and killed the two officers like cutting hemp stalks, and took Wu Qiuyue out of the door, but fortunately no one noticed.
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As soon as he arrived at the hotel, Wang Ding suddenly woke up. He was wondering that the dream was dangerous, and he saw Wu Qiuyue standing there looking at him with affectionate eyes. Wang Ding stood up in surprise, pulled Wu Qiuyue to sit down, and told her the scene in the dream. Wu Qiuyue said: "It's all true, not a dream." Wang Ding was surprised and said, "What can I do?"
Wu Qiuyue sighed and said, "This is the arrangement of fate. Waiting until the end of the month is the date for my rebirth, and now that it has reached this point, the matter is urgent, how can I wait. Dig up my burial place, carry me home, call my name every day, and in three days I will be resurrected. But my days in Hades are not yet full, and my bones are still weak, and my feet are weak, and I cannot do the housework for you. ”
When I was alive, my father passed me a talisman that said that in thirty years he could wear it on both of us. Then he came to the pen and wrote two charms quickly, saying, "One for yourself to wear, and the other for my back." Wang Ding sent Wu Qiuyue out of the door, marked the place where Wu Qiuyue disappeared, and dug down about a foot there, revealing the coffin, which had rotted. There was a small stone tablet standing next to it, and what was written on it was really what Wu Qiuyue said.
When she opened the coffin, Wu Qiuyue's face was as pale as life. Wang Ding carried her into the house, and her clothes melted away with the wind. Wang Ding finished pasting her with a charm, wrapped her tightly in a futon, carried her to the river, and called for a boat moored there, assuming that her sister was seriously ill and planned to send her home. Fortunately, the south wind was blowing strongly, and the day had just broken and had already arrived in the township.
He took Wu Qiuyue home, settled down, and then told his brother and sister-in-law. The whole family looked at each other in panic, but they didn't dare to express their doubts directly.
Wang Ding opened the quilt, called Wu Qiuyue's name repeatedly, and went to bed with the corpse in his arms at night. The corpse gradually gained a warm breath day by day, and Wu Qiuyue finally came back to life after three days, and was able to walk on the ground after seven days.
She changed her clothes and went to see her sister-in-law, and her body was no different from that of a fairy. But when she walked more than ten steps, she needed someone to help her, otherwise she would sway in the wind as if she was going to fall.
When people saw this scene, they thought that Wu Qiuyue was suffering from such a disease, but it added a little charm. Wu Qiuyue often persuaded Wang Ding: "Your sins are too deep, you should accumulate more virtue and chant more scriptures to show repentance, otherwise I am afraid that your life will not be too long." Wang Ding has never believed in Buddhism, and since then he has converted to Buddhism, and his attitude is very pious, and he has been safe and sound.
Book 47: Princess Lotus
Princess Lotus
Jiaozhou native Dou Xu, the word Xiaohui. During the afternoon nap, Dou Xu saw a man in coarse cloth standing in front of the bed, hesitating, looking at him in fear, as if he had something to say.
Dou Xu asked what was the matter, and the person who came replied, "The minister has a please." Dou Xu asked, "Who is Xianggong?" The person who came said, "He is nearby." Dou Xu followed him out of the door.
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Turning around some houses, they were led to a quarter, with pavilions on top of each other, one room after another. They zigzag forward here, and Dou Xu felt that there were thousands of doors here, and it was definitely not human.
He also saw the palace maids and female officials, many of them coming and going, and they all asked the man in coarse cloth, "Is Dou Lang here?" and the man in coarse cloth replied in the affirmative.
After a while, a dignitary official walked out to greet him and greeted Dou Xu very respectfully. After boarding the lobby, Dou Xu opened his mouth and asked, "We have never had a relationship, and I have never come to visit. I was puzzled by the hospitality. The dignitary official said: "Our king, because of the innocence of Mr. Wang's family and the virtue of generations, admires your demeanor and wants to see you." Dou Xu asked even more in horror: "Who is the king?" The dignitary official replied, "Wait a while, you will naturally know." ”
Soon, two female officials came and used two flags to guide Dou Xu forward. After walking through the palace gates, I saw a king in the main hall, and when I saw Dou Xu enter the hall, I walked down the steps to greet him, and I used the gift of meeting the guest and the host.
After the ceremony, he stepped into the table, where the feast was very rich. Dou Xu looked up and saw a plaque hanging on the hall, with the word "Guifu" written on it. He felt nervous and didn't know what to say. The king said, "You and I can become close neighbors, which shows that the fate is very deep. Drink with joy and without doubt, without fear. Dou Xu said yes again and again.
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After several rounds of wine, sheng songs are played below, without cymbals and drums, and the tone is elegant and delicate. After a pause, the king suddenly looked at the subordinates on the left and right and said, "I said an upper couplet, please say a lower couplet: 'Only a talented person ascends to the Gui Mansion.'" The people present were thinking about it, and Dou Xu replied, "A gentleman loves lotus." The king was very happy and said, "What a miracle! Lotus is the princess's nickname, how can it be so suitable? Isn't it the fate of her previous life? Tell the princess my words, and she can't help but come out to meet this gentleman." ”
After a while, the sound of the ring's "ding dong" approached, and the rich aroma of bluegrass and musk was heard, and it turned out that the princess had arrived.
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The princess was sixteen or seventeen years old, and she was so beautiful and beautiful that no one could compare. The king ordered the princess to salute Dou Xu and said, "This is the little female lotus." The princess saluted and departed.
Dou Xu saw his heart swaying, sat still, and thought of it. The king raised his glass to drink, but he didn't even see it. The king seemed to be slightly aware of Dou Xu's thoughts, so he said: "The little girl is also a good match for you, but she is ashamed that she is not the same kind as you, how can it be good?" Dou Xu was melancholy, drunk and infatuated, but he didn't hear it.
The person sitting next to him stepped on his foot and said, "Didn't you see the king invite you to drink, didn't you hear the king talk to you?" Dou Xu was at a loss, deeply ashamed, and left the seat and said: "The minister is hospitalized, but he is drunk and impolite, and I hope to forgive." Now that it is getting late, the king is tired, and I am going to take my leave. ”
The king stood up and said, "When I saw you, I was so happy in my heart, why did you say in a hurry that you wanted to leave? Since you don't want to stay, I don't dare to force it." If you still miss this place, I will invite you again. Then he ordered the eunuchs to bring him out.
On the way, the eunuch said to Dou Xu: "Just now the king said that the princess is as good as you, and it seems that she wants to marry you, why are you silent?" Dou Xu regretted that he stomped his feet, and every step he took, he regretted it, and returned home like this.
Dou Xu woke up suddenly, and the sunset was about to disappear. He sat in the darkness and looked back, everything vividly. After dinner, he turned off the lights and went to bed, hoping to relive the old dream, but the old dream was hard to find, only regret and sigh.
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One night, Dou Xu was sleeping in the same bed with his friends, and suddenly saw the previous eunuch come to convey the king's order to call Dou Xu into the palace.
Dou Xu was overjoyed and went with him. After seeing the queen, Dou Xu kowtowed to meet him, and the king pulled Dou Xu up, invited him to sit on the seat next to him, and said, "I still miss and love here after knowing that you are separated." Now I take the liberty of marrying the little girl to you, I think you won't be too disgusted. Dou Xu immediately saluted and thanked him.
The king instructed the minister to accompany Dou Xu to the banquet. When the feast was about to end, the maid came to say, "The princess is dressed." After a while, I saw dozens of palace maids walking out with the princess in their arms. The princess was covered with red brocade on her head, and she walked lightly, as if walking on the water waves, and the palace maid helped her to the carpet and married Dou Xu.
The two were then sent back to their accommodation. The cave room is warmly furnished and extremely fragrant and smooth. Dou Xu said: "With you in front of you, it really makes people only know how to be happy and forget about life and death." I'm afraid that today's encounter is a dream. The princess smiled and said, "Obviously I am with you, how can it be a dream?"
The next morning, just after getting up, Dou Xu painted the princess's eyebrows and powdered to play, and then used the belt to measure the princess's waist and the princess's feet with his fingers. The princess smiled and asked, "Are you crazy?" Dou Xu said, "I have been mistaken by dreams many times, so I have to remember it carefully." If this time it was also a dream, it would be enough for me to miss it all the time. ”
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The two were still joking and laughing, and a palace maid ran in and said: "The monster has entered the palace gate, the king has hid in the side hall, and disaster is coming!" Dou Xu was taken aback and hurriedly went to see the king.
The king took Dou Xu's hand and cried and said, "You don't dislike us, we also want to be good with you forever." Unexpectedly, disaster fell from the sky, and the national fortune was about to end, how could this be good!" Dou Xu asked in surprise why he said this. The king handed a piece of music on the case to Dou Xu to see.
Song Zhang said: "The scholar of Hanxiangdian University, Hei Yi, in order to have an unusual and strange phenomenon, requested that the capital be moved as soon as possible in order to maintain the lifeblood of the country. According to the official report of the Yellow Gate: From the 6th day of the first month of May, a giant python of 1,000 zhang came and entrenched outside the palace, devouring more than 13,800 people from inside and outside the palace, and the palace was in ruins wherever it passed, and so on. The minister bravely went to check, and indeed saw this demon python: I saw that its head was like a mountain, its eyes were like a river and the sea, and it could swallow the palace together with its head, and it could collapse all the walls of the building with its waist. This is really a ferocious phenomenon that has never been seen in the past thousand years, and a disaster that has not been encountered in 10,000 years! The fate of the country is in danger! I ask the emperor to lead the family members in the palace as soon as possible and move to the Promised Land as soon as possible. ”
After Dou Xu finished reading the recital, his face was like ashes. Immediately afterwards, a palace maid ran in and reported, "The monster is here!"
The king was at a loss for a moment, but looked at Dou Xu with tears in his eyes and said, "I'll entrust the little girl to Mr." Dou Xu panted and ran back to his residence. The princess was hugging her head and crying with the palace maid beside her, and when she saw Dou Xu coming in, she pulled his shirt and said, "How does Lang Jun place me?" Dou Xu was grief-stricken, and took the princess's wrist and said thoughtfully: "I am poor and poor, but unfortunately I can't hide Jiao in the golden house." I have a few huts, can we take refuge there for the time being?" said with tears in the princess's eyes: "The situation is critical, how can you choose?" Please take me quickly!" Dou Xu helped the princess out of the residence, and soon they came to the house.
The princess said, "This is a very safe house, much better than mine! But when I come with you, who do my parents rely on? Build another house, and the whole country will come with you." Dou Xu felt embarrassed. The princess cried and said, "You can't rush people's difficulties, what's the use of asking you?" Dou Xu comforted and persuaded slightly.
When she entered the house, the princess lay on the edge of the bed and wept sadly, unable to persuade her. Dou Xu was thinking hard and was helpless, when he suddenly woke up and realized that he had a dream. However, the princess's constant cry still rang in his ears. If you listen closely, it is not a human sound at all, but two or three bees flying on the pillow. Dou Xu exclaimed, "Strange thing".
When a friend asked how to say this, Dou Xu told the situation in the dream, and the friend was also surprised. Together, they got up to see the bees, which were clinging to the sleeves of their robes and would not leave. A friend persuaded Dou Xu to build a nest for the bees, and Dou Xu did as he said and urged the craftsmen to build the hive.
As soon as the two walls were erected, a swarm of bees flew in from outside the walls, one after the other. Before the roof of the nest was closed, the bees fell all over the hive, which was bigger than a bucket. Dou Xu pursued the origin of the bees, but it was the old man next door's previous vegetable garden. There is a room of bees in the vegetable garden, which has multiplied and flourished for more than 30 years.
Someone told the old man about Dou Xu's story, and the old man went to check, but the beehive was silent. When he lifted one of the walls of the hive, he saw a snake about a foot long entrenched in it, so he caught and killed the snake. Only then did Dou Xu know that the so-called giant python was referring to this snake. After the bees arrived at Dou Xu's house, they reproduced more vigorously, and nothing else unusual happened.
Book 47: The Woman in Green
Woman in Green
The scholar was born in the Jingzi Xiao Song Dynasty, a native of Yidu, and lived in Liquan Temple to study. One night, I was flipping through a book and reciting, and suddenly a woman praised me outside the window: "Yu Xianggong is so diligent in reading!" Yu Jing thought to himself, where did the woman come from in the mountains?
Just when she was in doubt, the woman had already pushed the door and walked into the room with a smile, saying, "You are so diligent in studying!" Yu Jing stood up in surprise and saw that the woman was wearing a long green dress, which was soft and moving, incomparable.
Yu Jing knew that this woman was not human, and repeatedly asked her where she lived, and the woman said, "You see that I am not a man-eating monster, why do you keep asking?" Yu Jing liked this woman in his heart, so he slept with her. The woman unbuttoned her silk shorts, and her waist was almost as thin as a handful. Just after the fifth watch, the woman left in a fluttering manner. Since then, she has not been absent from all night.
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One night, the woman and Yu Jing drank together, and during the conversation, they showed that she was proficient in music. Yu Jing said: "Your voice is delicate and delicate, if you can sing a song, you will definitely be able to make people ecstatic." The woman smiled and said, "I don't dare to sing, because I am afraid that your soul will be destroyed." Yu Jing repeatedly asked the woman to sing, and the woman said: "It's not that I'm stingy, it's that I'm afraid that others will hear it." You have to sing it for me, and I'll sing it with ugliness, but I can only sing it quietly and express the meaning. Then he lightly touched the leg of the bed with his slender feet, and sang:
The black mortar birds on the trees are scattered at night in the slaves. Don't complain about the wet embroidered shoes, but I'm afraid that Lang will have no companion.
The voice is as slender as a fly, and I can just hear what is singing. But listen quietly, the singing voice is mellow and beautiful, mellow and clear, pleasing to the ear, and moving. After singing, the woman opened the door and went out to inspect and said, "Beware of people outside the window." "I walked around the house and looked at it all before I entered the house.
Yu Jing said, "Why are you so suspicious and afraid?" The woman smiled and said, "The proverb says: 'Devils who steal life are often afraid of people.'" That's me. Then, the two went to bed, and the woman was worried and unhappy, and said, "The fate of our life, I'm afraid this is the end, right?" Yu Jing hurriedly asked why he said this, and the woman said: "I suddenly feel my heart beating, probably the blessing has been exhausted." Yu Jing comforted her and said, "Heartbeats and eyebeats are common, why do you suddenly say this?" The women were a little happier, and they became affectionate with each other.
After the fifth watch, the woman got out of bed in her clothes and was about to open the door, but she came back hesitantly and said, "I don't know why, but I am afraid in my heart." Please send me out. Yu Jing really got up and sent him to the door.
The woman said, "You stand here and watch me, and when I go over the wall, you go back." Yu Jing said, "Okay." Yu Jing looked at the woman and turned around the porch and disappeared.
Just as he was about to go back to bed, he heard the woman's urgent cry for help. Yu Jing ran there and looked around, there was no trace, and the sound came from between the eaves. He looked up and saw that there was a spider the size of a projectile, catching an insect and playing with it, and it was the insect that let out a hoarse wail.
He cut through the cobwebs, picked off the insects, and removed the silk that was wrapped around him, but it was a green bee, dying of breath. Yu Jing took the green bee back to the house and put it on the desk. When it rests for a long time, the green bee can crawl. The green bee slowly climbed onto the inkstone, threw his body into the ink, and walked on the case after coming out, with the word "Xie" appearing in his footprints. Then it shook its wings frequently and flew away through the window. Since then, the woman in green has never been seen again.
Book 47: The Three Ladies of the Lotus
Three Daughters of Flowers
Zong Xiangruo of Huzhou is a scholar. In the autumn he went to the fields and saw that the crops were swaying violently. He became suspicious, and went across the ridge to look, but saw a man and a woman in the field. He smiled and was about to go back. Immediately, I saw the man put on his belt in shame and left in a hurry.
At this time, the woman also sat up, and when he looked closely, she was still very beautiful. Zong Xiangruo liked this woman in his heart and wanted to linger on it immediately, but he was ashamed of this rude behavior, so he approached a little closer, stroked it gently, and said, "Is your tryst happy?" The woman just laughed and didn't speak.
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Zong Xiangruo approached the woman's side, unbuttoned his clothes, and saw that his skin was as delicate as fat, so he touched almost all of the woman's body. The woman smiled and said: "Pedantic Xiucai! Do you want to do whatever you want, what do you touch?" Zong Xiangruo asked the woman what her surname was, and the woman said: "Once you love each other, you have your own things, why bother asking? Do you still want to leave your name to set up the memorial arch of chastity?" Zong Xiangruo said: "Love in the wild grass and dew in the wilderness, and the rough people in the mountain village do this, I am not used to it." Just because you are so beautiful, you should be self-respecting even in private meetings, how can you be so hasty?" the woman heard this, and agreed very much.
Zong Xiangruo said: "My house is not far from here, please go and stay at home for a while." The woman said, "I have been out for a long time, and I am afraid that I will be suspected, but it is okay in the middle of the night." After asking in detail about the sign in front of Zong Xiangruo's house, he walked on a path and left quickly. At the first watch, the woman really came to Zong Xiangruo's house. The two were immersed in the cloud and rain party, and they were extremely dear. After a month, no one knows the secret.
At this time, there happened to be a monk living in the temple in the village, and when he saw Zong Xiangruo, he was surprised and said, "You have evil spirit, what have you encountered?" Zong Xiangruo replied: "I haven't encountered anything." ”
A few days later, Zong Xiangruo suddenly fell ill for no reason. The woman brought him good fruits to eat every night, and comforted them diligently, just like a husband and wife, but after lying down, she must reluctantly ask Zong Xiangruo to be happy with her. If Zong Xiang was sick, he was a little impatient, and he suspected that she was not a human being, but he couldn't temporarily cut her off and let her leave, so he said: "A few days ago, a monk said that I was bewitched by a goblin, and now I am really sick, and his words have come true. Tomorrow I invite him to come, and I will ask him for a charm. The woman's face changed suddenly, and Zong Xiangruo was even more suspicious of her.
The next day, Zong Xiangruo sent his family to inform the monk of the situation, and the monk said, "This woman is a fox." It's still small and easy to catch. So he wrote two talismans, gave them to his family, and instructed, "Go back and take a clean jar and put it in front of the bed, and stick one of the talismans on the mouth of the altar." When the fox had entered the jar, he quickly covered it with a basin, and then put another talisman on the basin, and put it in a pot with hot water to cook it over a blazing fire, and in a short time he would die. After the family returned, they did everything as the monk said.
It was late at night that the woman arrived, took out the kumquat in her sleeve, and was about to go to the bed to greet her condition. Suddenly, there was a "swish" sound from the mouth of the altar, and the woman had been sucked into the altar. The family suddenly got up and rushed out, covered the mouth of the altar, and pasted the second talisman.
Just about to take it to cook, Zong Xiangruo saw the kumquat scattered all over the ground, recalled the past love, felt sad in his heart, touched his feelings, and hurriedly ordered her to be released.
The family took away the amulet and the basin that covered the mouth of the altar, and the woman came out of the altar, looking embarrassed, and prostrated to the ground, saying, "My avenue is about to be completed, but it has almost turned to ashes! You are a benevolent man, and I swear to repay you." Then he left.
Book 47: The Three Ladies of the Lotus
After a few days, Zong Xiangruo's condition became even more serious, as if he was about to die. The family went to the market to buy a coffin for him. On the way, I met a woman and asked, "Are you Zong Xiangruo's servant?" and the family replied, "Yes." The woman said, "Sorou is my cousin." I heard that he was seriously ill and wanted to visit him, but he was unable to go because of something. There's a packet of elixir here, please bring it to him. "The family took the medicine and returned home.
Zong Xiangruo thought that there were no sisters among his cousins at all, and knew that this was a fox to repay his kindness. He took the medicine, and sure enough, his condition was greatly reduced, and he recovered after ten days. He thanked the fox girl and prayed to the air to see her again.
One night, Zong Xiangruo was drinking alone behind closed doors, and suddenly heard the sound of his fingers knocking on the window. I opened the latch and went out to see that it was a fox girl. Zong Xiangruo was overjoyed, held her hand to express his gratitude, and invited her to sit down and drink together. The fox girl said, "After separation, my heart lingers, and I can't let go, and I can't repay your kindness." Now that I've found a wishful spouse for you, I don't know if I can reluctantly blame you?" Zong Xiangruo asked, "Who is she?" The fox girl said, "It's not something you can know.
Tomorrow morning, you go to Nanhu early, and if you see a Cailing girl wearing a white crepe shawl, row after it. If you chase her down and see a short-stemmed lotus flower hidden under the lotus leaf on the shore, you can take it home and burn the pedicle with the candle fire, and you will have a beautiful wife and a long life. ”
Zong Xiangruo respectfully accepted the advice. After that, the fox girl said that she was leaving, and Zong Xiangruo kept it again and again. The fox girl said: "Since suffering the calamity, I have suddenly comprehended the Great Dao. How can a man and a woman love each other and attract hatred and resentment?" and said goodbye with a serious expression.
Zong Xiangruo did what he said, came to Nanhu, and saw many beautiful women in the lotus swing. Among them was a young girl, dressed in a snow-white crepe shawl, with a peerless complexion.
He urged the boat to speed up, approached the girl, and suddenly disappeared from her. He immediately opened the lotus bush, and sure enough, he saw a red lotus, and the lotus stem was less than a foot, so he folded the red lotus off and went home.
Book 47: The Three Ladies of the Lotus
After entering, he put the red lotus on the table, cut the wick of the candle on the side, and prepared to light the fire. As soon as she turned around, the red lotus turned into a beauty, and Zong Xiangruo was surprised and delighted, and knelt on the ground to worship.
The girl said, "Silly scholar, I'm a demon fox, I'm going to make trouble for you!" Zong Xiang didn't listen. The girl said, "Who taught you?" Zong Xiangruo replied, "I could have recognized you, do you still need to teach?" and grabbed her arm to pull the girl, and the girl slid down casually, turning into a strange stone, about a foot high, and her face was exquisite.
So Zong Xiangruo offered the strange stone on the table, lit incense, bowed twice, and prayed. After night, Zong Xiangruo closed the doors and windows, lest the girl escape.
When I look at it at dawn, it is not a strange stone, but a tulle shawl, you can smell the fragrance from a distance, and when you open the neckline and placket, you can see that there is still the softness left by women. Zong Xiangruo covered the quilt and lay down with a shawl.
When I got up in the evening and lit the lamp, when I went back to bed, I saw the girl lying on the pillow. Zong Xiangruo was extremely happy, he was afraid that the girl would change again, so he begged bitterly first, and then stepped forward.
Book 47: The Three Ladies of the Lotus
The girl grinned and said, "O obstacle, I don't know who made this crazy guy entangle me to death!" and no longer refused. However, when making love, the girl seemed to be unable to bear it, and repeatedly asked to stop, but Zong Xiangruo turned a deaf ear. The girl said, "If you want to do this again, I will change and go!" Zong Xiang stopped if he was afraid that she would change.
Since then, the relationship between the two has been very harmonious, and money is often filled with boxes and cabinets, and I don't know where it came from. The girl only obeys her promise with "uh-huh" when talking to people, as if she is not good at talking about words, and Zong Xiangruo avoids talking about the girl's unusual origin.
Later, the girl was pregnant for more than ten months, and it was time for labor according to the day. She walked into the house and told Zong Xiangruo to close the door, not to knock on the door, to cut open the stomach with a knife, take out the child, and let Zong Xiangruo tear a piece of cloth to wrap the belly, and after a night, the wound healed.
Book 47: The Three Ladies of the Lotus
After another six or seven years, the girl said to Zong Xiangruo: "The previous karmic debts have been paid off, please let us separate." Zong Xiangruo burst into tears when he heard this, and said: "When you married me, I was poor and miserable, and I couldn't stand on my own, because I was a little richer because of you, how could I bear to leave suddenly? Moreover, you have no family, and it is a pity that the children will not know who their mother is in the future." ”
The girl also said melancholy and depressedly: "If there is a gathering, there must be a dispersion, which is common sense." My son's face is blessed, you can live a long life, what else can you ask for? My original surname is He, if you miss me, hold my old things and shout 'Lotus Three Ladies', you will see me. After saying that, he broke free and said, "I'm leaving." ”
At the moment when Zong Xiangruo looked at her in surprise, she had already flown above her head. Zong Xiangruo jumped up and hurriedly dragged the girl, but only caught one shoe. The shoe fell to the ground and turned into a stone swallow, the color was redder than cinnabar, and the inside and outside were crystal clear. He picked up Shi Yan and collected it.
Zong Xiangruo checked the box, and the white crepe shawl that the girl wore when she first came was still there. Whenever he misses the girl, he hugs the shawl and shouts "Three Ladies", so he hugs the real girl, with a happy face, smiling eyebrows and eyes, all exactly the same as the girl, but he can't speak.
Book 47: Golden Color
Golden
Jin Shengse is a native of Jinning. He married the daughter of the Mu family in the village and gave birth to a son, who had just turned one year old. Jin Shengse suddenly fell ill, thought that he would die, and said to his wife: "After I die, you must remarry, don't keep festivals!"
Jin Shengse shook his hand again, called his mother and said, "After I die, my mother will take care of my grandson, don't let his mother keep the festival." The mother cried and agreed.
Book 47: Golden Color
Soon, Jin Shengse really died. Mu Mu came to mourn, and after crying, she said to Jin Mu: "Unfortunately fell from heaven, and my son-in-law died suddenly. My daughter is too young, what will she do in the future?" The golden mother listened to Mu Mu's words in grief and sadness, and was very angry and excited, and replied angrily: "You must let her keep the festival!" Mu Mu was ashamed in her heart and stopped talking.
In the evening, Mu's mother accompanied her daughter for the night, and said to her daughter in private: "Everyone can be a husband." Isn't it a fool for a young woman to not find a home sooner rather than soon and just keep an eye on her infant child? If you must be asked to keep the festival, you should not put a good face on her. It just so happened that Jin Mu passed by here and heard some unfinished words, and she was even more angry.
The next day, Jin's mother said to Mu's mother: "My son has a will, and he didn't let his daughter-in-law keep the festival. Since she can't wait now, she must keep the festival!"
At night, the golden mother dreamed that her son came and persuaded her with tears not to let the wooden girl keep the festival, and she was surprised in her heart. She asked the Mu family to tell the Mu family that she agreed to let the Mu girl marry after her son's funeral. However, as soon as Mr. Xiang Yin and Yang inquired, he said that the tomb was unfavorable this year, and the funeral was delayed. Mu Nu wanted to show off herself in order to get married quickly, and during the period of filial piety, she did not forget to apply grease and powder. She still wears plain clothes when she lives at her in-law's house, and when she returns to her parents' house, she puts on a new and colorful dress.
When Jin's mother learned about it, she felt that she was very bad, but because she was about to become someone else's daughter-in-law, she endured it. As a result, the wooden girl became more and more presumptuous.
Book 47: Golden Color
There was a scoundrel named Dong Gui in the village, who fell in love with Mu Nu after seeing him, so he used the money to buy off the old lady of the Jin family's neighbor and begged her to convey his heartfelt feelings to Mu Nu.
In the middle of the night, Dong Gui went over the wall from the old lady's house to the wooden girl's residence, so he had an affair with the wooden girl. The two have been in contact for more than ten days, and scandals have spread everywhere, only Jin Mu does not know.
There is only one little girl ring in the wooden girl's house at night, and she is the henchman of the wooden girl. One night, while the two were lingering, they heard the coffin ringing, and the sound was like firecrackers. On the bed in the outhouse, the little girl saw the dead Jin Shengse come out from behind the curtain, and with a sword in his hand, he walked into the bedroom.
Soon I heard the surprised cries of Dong Gui and Mu Nu. It didn't take long for Dong Gui to run out naked. After a while, Jin Shengse pulled the wooden girl's hair and walked out, and the wooden girl shouted loudly.
Jin Mu was quarreled and saw Mu Nu running out naked, and was about to open the door, but she didn't answer when asked. chased out the door to see, the surroundings were quiet, there was no sound, and the wooden girl did not know where to go.
Jin Mu walked into the wooden girl's room, and the light was still on. When she saw a pair of men's shoes, she beckoned to Xiao Yahuan, who came out tremblingly and told the strange things that had happened one by one, and the two were relatively surprised.
Book 47: Golden Color
Dong Gui fled to the neighbor's old lady's house and curled up in a ball and squatted in the corner. After a long time, he could no longer hear the human voice, and then he stood up. He was naked, shivering from the cold, and wanted to borrow clothes from the old lady's house.
He saw a house in the courtyard with two doors open, and he went in for the time being. He touched the bed in the dark and touched a woman's foot, knowing that it was the daughter-in-law of the old lady of the neighborhood. Immediately he had lustful thoughts, and while the woman was still sleeping, he secretly went to bed and committed adultery. The woman woke up and asked, "Are you back?" and he replied, "You're back." The woman did not suspect him at all, but made love to him.
It turned out that the neighbor's son went to Beicun for an accident and asked his wife to close the door and wait for him to return. When he returned, he heard a voice in the house, and he became suspicious, and when he listened carefully, his words were extremely obscene, and he was furious in his heart, and he took up his weapon and rushed into the house. Dong Gui was so frightened that he hid under the bed, and the neighbor's son went over and killed him.
He wanted to kill his wife again, but she cried that it was out of a misunderstanding, so she let her go. However, the neighbor's son didn't know who was lying under the bed, so he called his mother over, took a lamp, and could recognize him as Dong Gui.
After a closer look, Dong Gui was already dying, and asked him how he came here, and he could still confess what happened. However, he was injured in several wounds, bleeding profusely, and died after a while.
The old lady of the neighbor panicked and said to her son, "You should have caught the adulterer, but now you have killed one of them, what will you do?" The son had no choice but to kill his wife again.
That night, while the wooden father was sleeping, he heard the sound of fire outside the door, and when he went out, he saw that the eaves were on fire, and the person who set the fire did not hesitate to go away.
Father Mu shouted loudly, and all the family members arrived. Fortunately, the fire was just burning and was easy to extinguish. Father Mu ordered his family to hunt down the arsonists with weapons and bows and arrows. The family saw a man walking over the wall like a nimble ape. Outside the wall is the peach orchard of the wooden family, and the wall surrounded by the peach orchard is high and strong. Several family members climbed on the ladder to check, but there was no trace of the arsonist, but they saw that something was still moving slightly under the wall, and they did not answer the question, so they shot it with arrows, and felt that this thing was soft. When the family opened the door to check, they saw a woman lying there naked, with arrows piercing her chest and head.
took a closer look at the torch, but it turned out to be the daughter of the Mu family and the daughter-in-law of the Jin family. The family informed the owner in horror. The wooden father and the wooden mother were scared to death, I don't know why this happened. The wooden girl's eyes were closed, her face was like dead ashes, and her breath was as thin as a gossamer. The wooden father asked him to pull out the arrow that hit the door of the head, but he couldn't pull it out, so he stepped on the top of his head with his foot before pulling it out. The wooden girl let out a faint moan, and the blood spurted violently, and she died. Father Mu was so frightened that he couldn't come up with any ideas.
After dawn, Father Mu told Jin Mu the truth, and knelt on the ground and begged for forgiveness. Jin's mother didn't resent and angry at all, but just told Mu's father what happened, and asked the Mu family to bury their daughter by themselves.
Jin Shengse has an uncle and brother named Jin Shengguang, who came to Mu's house angrily and scolded Mu Nu for her ugly things in the past. Father Mu was ashamed and depressed, so he had to give him some money and let him go home.
However, it is never known who had an affair with the wooden girl. Soon, the neighbor's son turned himself in to catch rape and murder, and the government reprimanded him a little and let him go. And his brother-in-law Ma Biao has always been good at lawsuits, so he handed over the pleadings to avenge his sister. The government arrested the old lady of the neighbor, and the old lady of the neighbor was frightened and confessed all the whole story.
The government summoned Jin Mu again, and Jin Mu claimed that she was sick and sent Jin Shengguang to testify on her behalf and tell the details of the matter one by one. In this way, the previous case happened again, the father and mother were all involved, and all the circumstances were investigated.
Because she instigated her daughter to remarry, she was convicted of arson, and she should be beaten, and she was asked to spend money to atone for her crimes, and as a result, the family property was depleted. The old lady in the neighborhood was beaten to death with a rod because she was pulling the strings for the adulterer, so the case was closed.