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Chapter 5 - An old servant, Zhuang Shou, said: I used to serve a certain official, and I saw an official coming when it was almost dawn, and another official came after him

An old servant, Zhuang Shou, said: I used to serve a certain official, and I saw an official coming when it was almost dawn, and another official came after him. They were all close friends, and it seemed that they were sending news secretly. After a while, they left, and the owner also ordered someone to drive a horse and then go out. I didn't come back until the evening, the car was in danger and the horse was exhausted, very sleepy. After a while, the two officials in front came again, biting their ears, nodding, waving their hands, frowning, or applauding under the lamp, not knowing what they were discussing. On the second watch of Tianjiao, I heard giggling outside the north window from a distance, but I didn't hear it in the room. In the midst of doubts, I suddenly heard a long sigh and said, "Why is this!" Both the guests and the host were startled, and they opened the windows to look eagerly. After a new rain, the mud was as flat as the palm of your hand, and there was no trace of anyone. Everyone suspected that I was talking in my sleep. At that time, because the owner prohibited eavesdropping, I avoided standing under the flower trellis outside the south eaves. I never slept or said anything, and I didn't know why it was.

Yongchun Xiaolian and Qiu Ertian occasionally rest on the way to Jiuli Lake. A child came riding on an ox, walking very fast, and when he came to Qiu Ertian, he could not stop. The child recited the poem to him and said, "Come to beat the wind and rain, and go to the haze. I am the one who is still on the mountain road." Qiu Ertian thought about it. The figure of the child has already disappeared in the woods half a mile away. I don't know if this is an immortal game, or if the children in the village school listened to people's recitations, occasionally memorized this poem, and recited it to him again.

Lin Pei, a native of Putian and a teacher, went north because of his full salary in Taiwan. When I got to the south of Zhuozhou, I got out of the car to urinate and saw a poem carved on broken magnets on the wall of the broken house: "A team of mules rang the copper bells, and braved the cold air to pass the post pavilion early in the morning. I hung my whip and played with the residual snow, The hoof of the donkey is slowly marching while the mountains are green." The signature is "Luoyangshanren". After Lin Pei finished reading the poem, he said to himself, "The poem is still a little interesting; where is Luo Yang?" Someone in the room responded, and the tone sounded like someone from Huguang. When I entered the house, there was only a pile of dust and leaves. Knowing that he had met a ghost, he got into the car in a hurry, always feeling depressed and uncomfortable. He passed away shortly after.

Li Luyuan is a native of Jingzhou, and he was the brother-in-law of my wife in the 53rd year of Emperor Kangxi. He was very knowledgeable, especially good at poetry. On the day when the candidate was promoted, he wrote a poem in his dream: "Luanheji is scattered, and the crooked eyebrows bow to the left disciple." After waking up, he did not understand what the poem meant. Later, he was promoted to the county magistrate of Hunan and died in the office. This is the place where Qu Yuan hangs his voice.

My grandmother, Mrs. Zhang Tai, raised a small dog at home. The maids secretly strangled it because they hated it for stealing meat. One of them, R Huan, is named Liu Yi. She often sees this dog biting her in her dreams, and she often talks in her sleep. When Mrs. Tai knew about it, she said, "This dog was killed by the rhuts together. Why do you only hate Liu Yi? It must be Liu Yi who also stole meat, so I can't believe it." After investigation, it turned out to be the case.

In the test house in Tingzhou, Fujian, there are two ancient cypress trees in front of the hall, which were planted in the Tang Dynasty. Legend has it that there are gods. On the day I went to the test house, the test house officials told me that I should go to see Cooper. I said that the tree spirits do not harm people, and it is enough to admit their existence. There is no ceremony to worship trees in the ceremonies, and the imperial envoys should not go to worship the ancient cypress. The trunk of the ancient cypress is tall and the branches and leaves are lush, which can be seen across several houses. That night, the bright moon was hanging high, and the test house was quiet. I took a walk and looked up at the ancient cypress. I saw two people in red on the treetops, bowing to me and saluting, and then slowly disappearing. At that time, I urgently asked the screen friend to come out to watch, and the screen friend also saw the two men in red. The next day, I came to the tree and bowed to each of the two ancient cypresses to express my gratitude, and engraved a couplet on the ancestral gate: "It's always like this in the sky, so I nod my head in red robes or you." This is also the case. Weird. Yuan Zicai once recorded this incident in the "Xin Qi Xie", his record is slightly different from the facts, probably due to the error in the rumors.

Mr. Song Qingyuan from Dezhou said that there was a Taoist priest Lu, who, of unknown origin, was good at illusion. He used to be a guest at the house of Tian Yamaguchi, a farmer. When the wisteria flowers are in full bloom, Tian Yamaguchi invited guests to party to enjoy the flowers. There was a vulgar man who talked vulgarly and vulgarly, and his chatter was very unpleasant. There was also a young man who was especially distasteful in his frivolous manner. Rebuking them not to talk too much, the two were so angry that they almost stretched out their arms. An old pedant persuaded them, but they did not listen; the old pedant was also angry. As a result, it made the whole house unhappy. The Taoist priest and the little boy whispered a few words, took a pen and paper, drew three talismans and burned them. All three suddenly stood up and walked around the yard several times. After that, the layman ran to the southeast corner and sat down, muttering to himself. If you listen carefully, you are talking about family affairs with your wives and concubines. He looked around for a while as if trying to persuade him, and then he pleaded for himself in a pleasant manner, and then made an appearance of admitting his fault. Looking at the young man, he was sitting on the flower fence in the southwest corner, fluttering his eyes and sending affection, whispering softly, laughing, humbly declining, and whispering "Huan Sha Ji", babbling endlessly. His hands beat the beat, and he was extremely dissolute and ugly. The old scholar was sitting on the stone bench, explaining the chapter "Affairs of Qi Huan and Jin Wen" in Mencius, analyzing the words and sentences, pointing to the east, looking to the west, looking left and right, as if he was talking to four or five people, and suddenly waved his hand to say no. Suddenly widened his eyes and said, don't you understand? At the same time, he was coughing and wheezing. Everyone was startled and laughed, but the Taoist priest waved his hand to stop everyone from laughing. When the reception was about to end, the Taoist priest burned three more talismans. So the three of them sat stunned and woke up after a while. They claimed to be drunk and fell asleep and apologized to everyone. The guests let out a sigh of relief. The Taoist priest said: "This is just a small skill of carving insects, and there is nothing to praise. Ye Fashan used this kind of talisman to lead Tang Xuanzong into the Moon Palace. At that time, it was mistaken for a real immortal, and the pedantic scholars thought it was nonsense. They are frogs at the bottom of the well." Later, the Taoist priest took the soul of a concubine of a former nobleman with a talisman at the hotel. After the concubine woke up, she got into the car and remembered the path and portal that the soul passed through, and told the nobles to search quickly, but the Taoist priest had already escaped. Perhaps because of this, "Zhongcai" of Zhou Li stipulated that people from other sideways should not be allowed to enter the palace.

Jiaohe old Confucian and Runchu, Yongzheng Yimao year to participate in the township examination, arrived at Shimen Bridge in the evening. At that time, the guest house was already full of tourists, and there was only one hut. No one wanted to live because of the window facing the manger, so Ji Runchu had to live in it. At night, the horses kicked and jumped, making it difficult to fall asleep. After the people were quiet, they suddenly heard the voice of a horse. Ji Runchu usually likes to read miscellaneous books. He remembered that the Song people said that there was a cow language in the ministry. Knowing that it was not a ghost, he listened to it with bated breath. One horse said, "I only now know the pain of enduring hunger. Where is the forage money that I embezzled and defrauded in my previous life?" Another horse said, "Most of our horses are reincarnated by people who feed the horses, and we only understand after death. , I didnt know anything about it before I was alive, its too sad. When all the horses heard this, they all whimpered sadly. Yima said, "The judgment in the underworld is not very fair. Why can Wang Wu be reincarnated as a dog?" Yima replied, "The ghost in the underworld once said that his wife and two daughters were very lewd, and he would be reincarnated as a dog. He stole all the money and gave it to the person he loves, which can cover half of his sins." Yima interjected: "That's right, the crime is serious, Jiang Qi was reincarnated as a pig and had to be slaughtered, compared to our horses. Wouldn't it be more bitter?" Ji Runchu coughed softly suddenly, Ma Yu immediately stopped, and it was silent. After this incident, Ji Runchu often used it to warn people who feed horses.

One of my maids has never scolded anyone. She said that she had seen her grandmother who was good at swearing, but she was not found to be sick, but her tongue rotted to her throat and she could not eat or speak. After a few days like this, he died.

Sleeping alone at home, occasionally getting up late one morning, calling for his wife and concubines, but none of them were there. I asked the little maid at home, and she replied that she went south with a young man. The man picked up a knife and chased after him, trying to kill all three, and the boy suddenly disappeared. An old monk in a red cassock, holding a bowl in one hand and a tin staff in the other, blocked his sword and said, "Aren't you awake yet? The treacherous heart is too heavy, and it can be concealed so that others can't see it. But ghosts and gods hate this kind of fighting people the most, so I sentenced your two women to do this kind of thing to punish you. What are they guilty of?" Said It's gone. This man took his wife and concubine back. The two women said, We never knew this young man, and we didn't like him, and suddenly, like a dream, we left with him. The neighbors also said: "These two women are not the kind of immodest people who can't elope, and they have never known, how can they go with the same person? Besides, the elopement must be avoided by others. How can he act openly in broad daylight and slowly wait for those who are chasing? There is no doubt about the punishment of the gods. However, everyone has been ignorant of his sins. This is really "hidden evil"!

Everything is often destined, isn't it true? In the spring of the Wuzi year, I inscribed "Fan Riding, Shooting and Hunting" for someone and said: "The white grass sticks to the sky and the beasts are fat, and the arc is like a flying horse. Why should you drink the blood of the yellow sheep quickly, and once you go up to the Tianshan Mountains, you will be surrounded by snow." He even joined the military and went to the Western Regions. In addition, Duke Wenke of Dong once made "A Autumn Forest Seeking Sentence Map" for me. When I arrived in Urumqi, there are dense forests in the west of the city, with ancient trees towering into the clouds and stretching for dozens of miles. The former general Wu Gong Mitai built a pavilion inside and named it "Xiuye". Walking in the middle, it is very similar to the scenery in the previous painting. When Xinmao returned to the capital in the year of Xinmao, he wrote a quatrain by himself and said: "The frost leaves are slightly yellow and the stone bones are blue, and the solitary chanting is too lonely. Who would have known that the prophecy of the westward journey was made earlier, and the old wood Hanyun Xiuye Pavilion."

There is a doctor in Nanpi who specializes in sores, and his medical skills are very high. However, this sore healer secretly used poison and extorted money from the patient. If the patient who was healed by his hand did not meet his requirements, the sore was bound to develop and he would die. Because of his mysterious poison, none of the other doctors could save the patient. One day, his son was struck to death by lightning. Now the sore doctor Nanpi is still alive in the world, and no one dares to ask Hua to see a doctor. Some people say that the sore doctor killed many people, why did God not kill him but his son? This allowed him to escape punishment. I don't think this understanding is correct. If the crime does not reach the extreme, the punishment will not be imposed on the wife and children; if the evil does not reach the top, the disaster will not fall on future generations. God kills his son, which shows that he has committed a heinous crime and has received the heaviest punishment for the heirs of the calamity.

An Zhongkuan said: "In the past, when Wu Sangui rebelled, there was a warlock who was proficient in Liuren and wanted to defect to him. I met a man on the road and said that he would also defect to Wu Sangui. So the two stayed together. The man the warlock met was sleeping on the west wall. Next, the warlock said, "You don't sleep here, this wall will come down between nine and eleven tonight. "The other party said:" Your art industry is not very good. The wall falls out, not in. "At night, the wall really collapsed outwards. I think this is far-fetched. This person can know which direction the wall is falling, but why doesn't he know that Wu Sangui must fail?

There was a monk who traveled to Jiaohe County and lived in the house of the Su Libu. He is good at alchemy and has endless changes. He claims to be the same disciple as Lu Daoshi. He made a pig with the mud, chanted the mantra, and the pig would gradually wriggle; chanted the mantra again, and the pig would croak; once again, the pig would jump up. He gave the pig to the cook to slaughter for the guests to eat. The pork did not taste good. After eating, the guests all vomited, and the spit out was all mud. There was a monk who was living with the monk because of the rain on the way to study. He secretly asked the monk: "The "Taiping Guang Ji" records that the warlock chanted a spell on the tile, gave the tile to others, and used this tile to draw the wall, the wall immediately opened, and one could sneak into other people's boudoirs. Can the technique reach this level?" The monk said, "It's not difficult." The monk picked up a tile, chant it for a long time, and said, "You can just take this tile and go. But don't speak, speak. It won't work." The scholar tried the tile, and the wall really opened. The scholar came to a place, saw the woman he yearned for day and night, and was taking off his clothes to sleep. He kept in mind the monk's warning, and without saying a word, he closed the door and went straight to bed to have sex with him. The woman was also very enthusiastic. The next day, the scholar woke up and found that he was lying on his wife's bed. The two were questioning each other. The monk came to the door and scolded the scholar and said, "Daoist Lu was killed by lightning because of a single thought. Do you want to implicate me? Keep this kind of evil thoughts." After that, the monk sighed and said, "The evil thoughts you gave birth to this time have been recorded by the commander of the inquisition. Although you will not be punished, it will affect your future career." Scholar really has a bumpy life, and in his later years he got a teaching position, and his life is poor.

During the Kangxi period, Hu Weihua of Xianxian County gathered a crowd to rebel in the name of burning incense. The place where he lives is more than 300 miles away from the capital along Dacheng and Wen'an, and more than 200 miles away from Tianjin along Qingxian and Jinghai. Hu Weihua plans to divide the army into two ways. All the way to surprise, and journey to the capital; all the way to occupy Tianjin, plundering ships. If it is profitable, the soldiers of Tianjin will also drive north, but if it is not good, they will flee to Tianjin and board the ship and go to sea. But when he was about to deploy to his subordinates, things had leaked. The official army went to Jina, surrounded it first, then attacked it with fire, beheading it all, not even the young children were left behind. At the beginning, Hu Weihua's father was rich and liked to help the poor, and he never did any major evil. There was an old scholar Zhang Yueping in a neighboring village who had a daughter who was bright and beautiful, and could be called a national color. However, Zhang Yueping was upright, pedantic and stubborn, and had no reason to make his daughter a concubine. Hu's father hired him to teach at home. Because her parents' coffin was in Liaodong and could not be transported back, Yueping was often unhappy. One time, I talked to my father about this incident, and my father donated money to let him return with the coffin, and gave him a burial place. There is a dead body in the Yueping field. He was his enemy before his death. Therefore, the government will try him for murder. Hu's father tried every means to defend him, so that Yueping was released. One day, Yueping's wife took her daughter back to her parents' house. The three sons were very young. Yueping went back to her home to guard the gate, and it was estimated that she would return in a few days. Father Hu secretly instructed Jiading to lock his door at night and set fire to his house. The father and son were all burned to ashes. He pretended to be surprised and mourned, and arranged for the funeral, and often Zhou Jiyueping's wife and daughter even depended on him for a living. If someone wanted to hire her daughter, Yueping's wife would definitely come to discuss it with him, so he secretly obstructed it so that he could not succeed. After a long time, it gradually revealed the meaning of begging her daughter to be a concubine. Yueping's wife was grateful for his favor and wanted to agree. The daughter began to be reluctant. At night, she dreamed that her father said, "If you don't go, I will never be able to fulfill my wish." The daughter obeyed her mother's order. After more than a year, Wei Hua was born, and her daughter died of illness with Yin. Wei Huajing destroyed his clan.

There is a rich family thirty or forty miles away from my house. The head of the household brutally abused his servant, and after killing the servant and his wife, occupied their daughter. Her daughter has always been smart, cunning, and understanding. Moreover, he is gentle and considerate to the head of the household, lustful, flirtatious, and does everything that can win his favor. People are talking behind her back that she forgot to kill her father. Fascinated by her, the head of the household became more and more fond of her, to the point where only she would listen to her words. This woman began to guide him in pursuit of luxury, spending seven or eight out of ten of the family property. Afterwards, he encouraged right and wrong, alienated the relationship between flesh and blood, and made the family become enemies with each other. Then, he often told him the stories of Song Jiang, Chai Jin and other characters in "Water Margin", praised them as heroes Yuhan, and encouraged him to make friends with thieves. The wealthy head of the household finally offered to kill for his life. On the day of the execution, the woman did not go to cry her husband, but secretly prepared wine and fruit, and went to the tombs of her parents to perform sacrifices. She said to the graves of her parents: "My parents often accuse me in their dreams, gnashing their teeth in resentment, and beat me many times. Do you understand today?" , not only people can't measure it, but even ghosts can't see through it, so deep in her scheming!" However, people didn't think she was insidious.

When I was in Urumqi, the military officer brought dozens of documents, held an ink pen and asked me to sign for approval, saying: "Anyone who died here, his spiritual pivot will return to his hometown, and the documents should be given as usual. Otherwise, the soul of the deceased will not be able to enter the customs. "Because this document is commonly used in the underworld, it is not signed with a red pen, and the seal on it is also black. The writing on the paper is extremely poor. I said, "It's just a different way for the small and medium officials to make money. You should ask the general to remove this rule." Ten days later, someone reported to me that there were ghosts crying in the cemetery in the west of the city, because they couldn't return to their hometown without documents. I scolded him for talking nonsense. After another ten days, someone reported that ghosts were crying near the city. I also reprimanded him like last time. Ten days later, there was a sound outside the walls of my residence. I thought the clerk was playing tricks. After a few days, the sound came out the window. The moon was bright and I went out to look for it myself, but found nothing. My colleague, the censor Guancheng said: "What you insist on is correct, even the general can't blame you. But the ghost cry is something everyone has really heard, and the ghost who can't get the documents will definitely resent you. Why not give them a try. Clerk, stop the mouths of those who make irresponsible remarks? If the ghost is still crying, then you have something to say." I reluctantly obeyed his advice, and the ghost was silent that night. Also, the military official Song Jilu was in the printing room, and suddenly collapsed to the ground. After a long time he woke up and said that he saw his mother coming. After a while, the Taiwan Army presented an official document. When I opened it, it was Hami County that reported that Song Jilu's mother came to visit her son and died on the way. Is there anything in the world? Confucian scholars said that this is very common. I have written one hundred and sixty miscellaneous poems in Urumqi. One of them said: "The white grass is whistling in the wind, and it is always far away from the clouds. Who is the boundary of the mountains and rivers? The ghosts come and go with the official documents, Han Changli didn't write about such things in "Original Ghost" either." He wrote about these two things.

When Zhang Yue of Qingyuan was an official in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, there was an old mulberry tree in the official office. Zhang felt disgusted and cut it down. That night, his daughter saw a man under the lamp. His face, hands, feet, and coat were dark green, and she said sharply, "Your father is too domineering. For the time being, he will show his vigilance!" Zhang Yue called the servant girl in surprise. When the maid arrived, her daughter was already demented. Later, she married Ge Xianhui, a servant, and died soon after. Expelling evil spirits and destroying lewd temples are exactly the things of people like Di Lianggong and Fan Wenzhenggong. If virtue is not enough to overcome it, there are few who do not bring their own defeat.

Qian Wenmin said: "Fortune and misfortune from heaven are like rewards and punishments given by monarchs, and the inspection of ghosts and spirits is like the detailed discussion of officials. Suppose there is a bullet that says: "A person has no blemishes in his life, and he has political achievements as an official, but his family's door is the door. Towards the evil side, when building a house offends the evil day, the guilty should be demoted. , Does the competent official approve or reject it? Suppose there is another recommendation book saying: "A person has a lot of stains in his life, and his office is also very bad, but the door of his family is facing the auspicious side. Or should I reject it? Officials in the world will definitely reject it. Can it be said that ghosts and gods will approve it? Therefore, I still dont believe in the so-called Yangzhai theory. room. However, as far as I can see, there are indeed haunted houses: there is a house in the south of Gusi Road diagonally opposite the capital, and I have been mourned five times; Zongcheng Cao Xuemin once lived in the Gusi mansion, but when they moved in, the two servants died violently together on the same night. The Cao family was afraid and moved out immediately. The residence on Liuli Street, where Professor Shao Dasheng lived, often saw strange things during the day. Professor Shao was not afraid of evil and finally died in this residence. What's the point of this? Liu Wenzheng said: "The auspicious house is found in the Book of Books, and the auspicious days of divination are found in the Book of Rites. If there is no good or bad luck, why would the sage ask? However, this is probably not what today's magicians can understand. Yes." That's a fair argument.

Pan Ban, a native of Cangzhou, is good at calligraphy and painting and calls himself a Taoist of Huangye. One time I was staying in a friend's study, and I heard someone whispering from the wall: "Don't let anyone else live here tonight, I'll go out to accompany you." Pan Ban was so frightened that he quickly moved out. A friend said, "There used to be this monster in the study. She is an elegant and lovely woman who doesn't harm anyone." Later, the friend said to someone close to him in private, "Pan Jun may have been a scholar in his entire life. This monster in the study is neither a ghost nor a fox, and I dont know where it came from. It doesnt come out when it meets vulgar people, and it doesnt come out when it meets rich and noble people. It only comes out to accompany the bed when it sees talented but down-to-earth people. Later, Pan Ban had a rough life. One night more than ten years later, I suddenly heard crying in the study. The next day, a strong wind blew off an old apricot tree, and the monster disappeared. Grandfather Zhang Xuefeng once joked: "This monster is really good. Its knowledge is much higher than that of ordinary women."

According to Chen Fengya, a doctor of Guanglu, during the Kangxi period, there was a student in Fengjing, Zhejiang, who was studying in the villa. He saw a piece of rock in the grass, which had been broken and eroded. There were several crosses on it. The stone tablet of a woman who died in infancy. This imperial student has always been a good student. It is estimated that the tomb of the young girl is nearby, so he often displays some refreshments on the ruined monument, and prays for some obscene words. About a year later, I saw a beautiful woman walking alone among the vegetable borders. Holding a wild flower in her hand, she smiled at the student. The student too walked to her side and winked. The woman led the student to the bushes behind the fence and stopped, staring blankly at the student, as if thinking a little. Suddenly, she slapped herself in the face and said, "It's been more than a hundred years, and my heart is like a dry well, but I was seduced by this slutty boy." Only then did she know that she was the ghost in the tomb. Cai Jishi wrote and said: "The old saying says that the conclusion of the coffin is closed. From this incident, it is difficult to conclude that the coffin is closed. This is a ghost of chastity, and because of a single thought, he almost lost his nature." Zhu Xi Youshi said: "There is nothing like the world. People want to be in danger, and a few people come here to lose their lives." That's true!