Jiaohe, Ruai, and Zhang Wenfu from Qingxian County were all old Confucian scholars, and they both taught apprenticeships in Xianxian County. One night, the two gentlemen walked between Nancun and Beicun, watching the moon and stars, and gradually left the academy and came to a lonely and desolate field overgrown with vegetation. Zhang Wenfu was frightened and wanted to go back. He said to Ji Ru'ai, "There are many ghosts in the ruined tomb, and you cannot stay here for a long time." As he was talking, an old man suddenly came to the front with a cane in his hand, and asked the two of them to sit down and talk. The old man said, "How can there be ghosts in the world? Haven't you heard of Ruan Zhan's theory? The two gentlemen are Confucian scholars, so why do you believe in Shi's nonsense?" Accessible, clear argumentation, coherent, and fluent in language. The two gentlemen listened, nodding their heads in praise, and sighing that Song Ru had mastered the true meaning of the Dao. The two gentlemen were only talking about the old man about Neo-Confucianism, but they forgot to ask his name. At this time, several carts approached from a distance, and the sound of cow bells was very loud. The old man immediately gathered up his clothes and got up, and said, "I've been lonely for too long. If I don't talk about no ghosts, I can't keep the two gentlemen for a long talk. I'm going to break up soon, and I'll tell the truth. Tell me, please don't be surprised, don't think I'm a ghost who deliberately catches and abandons strangers." In the blink of an eye, the old man was gone. There are no scholars in the area where the two gentlemen walked. Only Mr. Dong Kongru's tomb is relatively close. The old man is probably Mr. Dong's soul.
Tang Sheng in Hejian likes to play, and the locals still know that there is such a person. The so-called "Tang Xiaozi" is him. This private school gentleman said that there are no ghosts, and said: "Ruan Zhan has met a ghost, how can there be such a thing? It's just a rumor made by monks!" At night, Tang Sheng sprinkled soil on the private school's window, and then whimpered again. Called to knock on the door. Mr. Private School was startled and asked who it was. He replied, "I'm a ghost that combines two phases." The teacher of the private school was so frightened that he covered his head and hid under the covers and trembled, and asked the two disciples to guard him until dawn. In the morning, he was paralyzed there and could not get up. A friend came to ask and he just groaned that there was a ghost. Later, when everyone found out that Tang Sheng did it, they all clapped their hands and laughed. However, since then, real ghosts have started to make trouble, throwing tiles and rocks, shaking doors and windows, and there is no quiet night. At first, I thought it was Tang Sheng who was making trouble, but after careful observation, I realized that it was a real ghost. Mr. Private School couldn't take it anymore, so he left the school and left. This is because after he was frightened and ashamed, his courage had diminished, and the fox ghost took the opportunity to enter. "Demon is created by people", that's what it says.
In Tianjin, a Juren and a few friends went out for a green outing in the suburbs. Most of these people were frivolous teenagers. When they saw a young woman riding a donkey in Liuyin, the teenagers bullied her as being single, so they chased behind the young woman and joked nonsense. The young woman ignored them, whipping the donkey and galloping. There were two or three people chasing after them, and the young woman suddenly got off the donkey and spoke to them gently, as if they were very happy. After a while, the master and three or four other people also caught up. Take a closer look, isn't this your own wife? But his wife can't ride a donkey or come to the countryside. Suspicious and angry, he stepped forward to reprimand her. His wife laughed. He was so angry that he raised his hand to slap his wife. His wife suddenly flew on a donkey and changed into another appearance. She pointed at Juren with a whip and said, "When you see someone else's wife, you flirt with it for no reason. Seeing that it is your own wife, you are so angry. You are a scholar of sages. The person who wrote the book, "Shu", still hasn't figured it out, why did you get the exam?" After finishing the scolding, he went straight on with his donkey. His face was ashes, and he was standing on the side of the road, unable to go. I don't know what kind of ghost this young woman is.
Tian Baiyan of Dezhou said: There was an Edutong who was walking in the mountains on the border of Yunnan and Guizhou, and saw a Taoist priest pinning a beautiful woman on a stone, and wanted to dissect her heart. The woman screamed for help, and the forehead quickly urged the mount to run up, and immediately slammed the Taoist priest's hand. The Taoist stomped his feet and said, "You have ruined my affairs! This spirit has already killed more than 100 people, so I want to catch and kill it to eliminate the scourge. But because it has absorbed a lot of human semen, it has been known for a long time. Spirit, if its head is cut off, the primordial spirit escapes, so its heart must be cut to kill it. Now that you have let it go, you will leave endless troubles. Pity the life of a tiger, put it in the deep mountains, I don't know how many elk lives in the swampy mountains and forests are going to die in its mouth!" As he spoke, he inserted the dagger into the sheath, and crossed the stream angrily and walked away. This is probably the fable of Bai Yan, that is, how can a family cry as the recitation can compare to the victimization of one party. Appease and tolerate those corrupt officials who think they have accumulated wicked virtues, and people praise him for being loyal; while poor people sell their children and lose their wives, they dont even think about it. What is the use of such an elder?
There is a small official in the Xianxian county government, Wang, who is proficient in criminal law and litigation, and is good at taking money from clients. However, whenever he has a little savings, an accident must happen and the money will be consumed. There is a Taoist boy in the Town God's Temple. One night, the quietness was deeper, and the Taoist boy was walking in the temple, and saw two ghost officials holding account books to account. One of them said, "He has a lot of savings this year, how can I write it off?" After speaking, he lowered his head and thought. Another said: "One Cuiyun is enough, there is no need for trouble." People often encounter ghosts in the Temple of the City God, and Daotong has long been used to it, so I am not afraid to see two ghosts, but I don't know who Cuiyun is. I don't know why people write off their savings. Soon, a little prostitute named Qianyun came to the county seat, and soon won the extraordinary love of the county official Wang. Wang spent 80 to 90% of his savings on Xiaocui, and he contracted a bad sore. He spent a lot of money on medicine. When the sore healed, all his savings were gone. Some people have estimated the wealth that Wang has made in his lifetime, and only a handful of huge sums of money are about 30,000 to 40,000 yuan. However, later Wang went mad and died violently, and Jing didn't even have a coffin.
Chen Yunting Sheren said: There was a Taiwan residents post envoy who lived in the post house and saw a beautiful woman climbing up the wall and peeking down. The post envoy scolded her and went to look for her, but she was gone again. The postmaster slept until midnight when he heard a sound, but a tile was thrown beside his pillow. He asked what kind of monster it was, and dared to bully the emperor's messenger. He answered loudly outside the window: "You are rich and famous, I didn't have time to avoid you, so I was scolded and questioned by you. I was afraid of being reprimanded by the gods, and I was always uneasy in my heart. Just now, you had evil thoughts in your dream and mistakenly thought that I was a courier. Daughter, I plan to get married in the future. When a thought arises in a person's heart, ghosts and gods will know it; your evil thoughts have summoned me, an evil ghost, you can't blame me. So I threw a tile as an answer, what can you be annoyed about What?" The post envoy was extremely ashamed, so he dressed up and left before dawn.
In Ye Luting's house, there was suddenly a fox charm, talking to people in broad daylight and asking Ye Lute to give up the house. It's constantly messing around, making the cups and plates spin in the air by themselves, the tables and the beds moving by themselves. Ye Yushi told Zhang Zhenren about this, and Zhang Zhenren entrusted the matter to the judge. The judge wrote the talisman first, and the talisman was torn as soon as it was passed. He also wrote an ultimatum to the City God, but it was not valid. The judge said: "This must be a celestial fox, and it must be a memorial." So a seven-day dojo was set up. On the third day, the fox monster was still scolding endlessly, and on the fourth day, he said good things and asked for peace. Ye Yushi did not want to take revenge against the fox monster, so he asked Zhenren Zhang to give up. Zhang Zhenren said, "The memorial has already been sent to the upper bounds, and it is impossible to catch up." On the seventh day, the sound of fighting was suddenly heard, and the doors and windows were broken and fell. Until dusk, the sound of fighting has not subsided. The judge made another letter, asking other gods to help in the battle, and then he captured the fox, put it in a bottle with a big belly and a small mouth, and buried it outside the Guangqu Gate. I once asked Zhang Zhenren the reason for exorcising ghosts and serving gods, and he said: "I don't know why, but it's just implemented according to the law. Generally speaking, ghosts and spirits are under the command of the seal, while the mouth of the talisman is in the hands of the judge. They are officers, and judges are like petty officials. The real person can't use the talisman without the judge's seal. If the judge does not have the seal of the real person, the talisman will not work. Some of the talismans are effective, and some are not. Just like the writing in the government The memorial, some approved, some rejected, can't all be so effective." There is some truth to this statement. I asked Zhenren Zhang again, if you suddenly encounter fox spirits and ghosts in an empty house or deep in the mountains, can you subdue them? He said: "For example, when a high-ranking official passes by here, the robbers will naturally avoid it. If some ignorant and maddened person suddenly offends the high-ranking official, although the high-ranking official has the military power, it is impossible to transfer the military. Kou, there is nothing I can do for a while." This is also very true. It can be seen that all the magical legends in the world are mostly far-fetched.