During the Qianyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, there was a river outside the city of Jiangning County, and there was only one bridge on the river for traffic, and every time it was dark, the bridge was shrouded in a thick fog, and as long as the people who walked into the thick fog, almost did not come out alive. When people heard about this, they were very afraid, and whenever it got dark, the people living nearby locked their doors and windows and did not dare to go out.
That summer, a businessman named Cheng Hehe came here to do business, and the locals told him about it and asked him not to walk on the bridge at night, but Cheng Hehe did not take this matter to heart, he walked on the bridge at night, and he really encountered something strange.
Cheng Hehe was unfortunately infected with a foot disease because he was running around for many years, and the doctor asked him to soak his feet with salt water every day to cure the disease. Cheng Hehe hurried to buy a bag of salt, and then went to a restaurant to meet the business partner, the two were talking about business, and it was common to talk, and they drank until midnight before getting up to say goodbye.
Cheng Hehe drank a lot of wine, and he staggered toward the hotel, but when he reached the head of the bridge, he found that the bridge was shrouded in a strange thick fog.
Cheng Hehe remembered the warnings of the locals, and he couldn't help but be a little afraid, but the hotel where he lived was at the end of the bridge, and if he didn't go over the bridge, he could only sleep on the street. Cheng He thought about going, but he still felt that he could rest well when he returned to the hotel, so he gritted his teeth and walked onto the bridge.
Strange to say, when Cheng Hehe walked into the thick fog, he found that only a thick fog was shrouded outside, but everything on the bridge could be seen clearly. Cheng Hehe felt very strange, fog on the river is a common thing, but why is the fog on the river only shrouded around this bridge?
Cheng Hehe boldly took a few steps forward, but unexpectedly, when he walked to the middle of the bridge, a young girl wearing a yellow dress suddenly stepped out of the thick fog in front of him. The girl was born very beautifully, but she carried a lantern made of human skulls, which looked very frightening.
The yellow-robed girl looked directly at Cheng Hehe and blocked his way, Cheng Hehe saw that he was drunk for the most part, he saw that the girl was born weak, so he asked in a loud voice: "This bridge cannot be walked at night, are you not afraid to come up?" ”
The young girl couldn't help but laugh and said, "The thick fog around the bridge was deliberately brought by me, I have nothing to be afraid of!" ”
Cheng Hehe heard the girl say this, knowing that she was definitely not a person, so he asked the girl why she let the thick fog cover the bridge, and the girl said that she did this to find a husband for herself. After the girl finished speaking, she put down the lantern and very boldly threw herself into Cheng Hehe's arms and asked him if he was willing to be her husband.
When the girl approached Cheng Hehe, Cheng Hehe only felt that the girl's clothes were wet, and her body was fishy, thinking that she should not live on land.
The girl wanted to confuse Cheng Hehe with beauty, but Cheng Hehe firmly pushed the girl away, and he took advantage of the girl's lack of reaction and hurriedly took out the bag of salt from his arms and directly sprinkled it on the girl. Unexpectedly, after the girl touched the salt, she immediately screamed and fell directly to the ground.
The girl rolled on the ground a few times, and then she was motionless and turned into a loach. Cheng Hehe only then understood that it was a loach that was harming people on this bridge, and he was worried that the loach spirit was not dead, so he stepped forward and stomped on it fiercely.
After the loach spirit died, the thick fog around the bridge dissipated, and since then, there have been no strange things in the neighborhood, and Cheng Hehe has become a hero praised by the locals because he got rid of the loach spirit. Because of this incident, the business partner believed that Cheng Hehe had courage and strategy, and he also successfully negotiated a business.