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Chapter 7 - In Xian County, a farmer's cow gave birth to a unicorn. The farmer was afraid and killed it

In Xian County, a farmer's cow gave birth to a unicorn. The farmer was afraid and killed it. The county magistrate, Liu Zhenglian, buried it after hearing about it, and erected a stele with the words "See Linjiao" written on it. Liu Zhenglian was originally recognized as an honest official, but this practice is really not flattering. The unicorn is an auspicious beast, not a cow. The cow gave birth to a unicorn with horns on its head. When it was a thunderstorm, it sensed the dragon and crossed it.

When Duke Wenke was not in the first place, he set up the school in an empty house. Some people say that there are often strange things here. Dong Gong didn't believe it, and he waited with the lights shrouded in bamboo at night. After the third watch, the wind was blowing, the door in the courtyard opened automatically, and a few monsters who looked like humans but didn't look like humans swarmed in. Seeing Duke Dong, he was startled and said, "There's a ghost in this house!" They all fled in embarrassment. Dong Gong chased after him with a stick, and they called each other again, "The ghost is chasing, hurry up!" They rushed over the wall and left. Duke Dong often talked about this and said with a smile, "I don't know why you call me a ghost?" Jia Hanheng from the old city, at this time, studied scriptures with Duke Dong, so he cited "The Yaksha in "Taiping Guangji" Wanting to eat the corpse of brother Shu Han's concubine, Han was sleeping next to him, and Yaksha said to each other: "What should I do if you are here? , John himself considered making me a nobleman, and there should be no harm in hitting it, so he got up and hit it, and the Yasha ran away. Ghosts and Gui have similar sounds, or ghosts call Mr. noble, and Mr. can't hear them clearly. "Dong Gong smiled and said:" That's right! "

In the autumn of Kangwu year, I bought a copy of "Pi Ya", in which a piece of green paper was folded, and the poem was written on it: "Sorrowful smoke and low power Zhu Feishuang, sour to see the slightly broken jade female window. Cut off the golden mouth." The grass roots are exposed, and the insects are anxious, and the hibiscus stands quietly in the dark of night. The wet firefly crossed the empty pond a little, and the dim light saw the residual red weeping. "The inscription at the end:" Fairy Liangyun descended the altar poem, recorded by Zhang Ning. "It turned out to be written by "Fuji" seances. But I think this is a ghost poem, not a fairy poem.

Mr. Zhang Xuan'er from Cangzhou wrote a quatrain in his dream: "In autumn, the tide in the river beats the shore, and the lonely boat is moored at night for nearly three watch. Twelve red buildings are scattered everywhere, and where is the flute accompanied by the bright moon." He wrote a postscript himself, saying: "If the dream is not something that I have thought about, how can it be a poem? If the dream is something that I have thought about, then I have never been to Jiangnan, how can I have such an impression? I don't know what it is. The reason. Record it for the time being. I didnt know Yao Biefeng from Tongcheng before. He just came from the south of the Yangtze River and talked at Li Ruidians house. He said that this poem was included in his newly engraved recent works. It was more than a year after my dream. I opened the box and took out the old poems to show him. Everyone was amazed. There are really incomprehensible things in the world. The Confucian scholars in the Song Dynasty paid attention to reason in everything, and I dont know where this principle came from. Li Shuliu, a native of Haiyang, whose name is Chengfang, was the same year I was in Dingmao. There is a picture of Tao Yuanming picking chrysanthemums hanging in my yamen, which was painted by Uncle Lantian. Dong Qujiang said: "Why are the people in the painting so similar? Li Shuliu? I checked it out, and it does look like it. Later, Li Shuliu went to Beijing to participate in the examination and asked for the painting. He said that the small photos he has painted in his life are not as good as this painting. This is also incomprehensible.

There are several barren tombs in the western suburbs of Jingcheng, almost as level as the ground. When I was passing by this place when I was young, the servant Shi Xiang pointed to the barren tomb and said to me: "Here are the descendants of Zhou who are buried here. Because he did a good deed, he has passed on three generations of descendants." Even the drought, insect plagues, and finally, even the bark and grass roots were eaten up. People had to use human flesh as food, and officials could not control it. Women and children are tied to the market to sell, this is called a vegetable man. The butcher buys them, just like slaughtering pigs and sheep. Zhou's ancestors went to Dongchang to do business and came back to eat at this hotel. The butcher said: "Guest officer, the meat is gone, please wait a moment." After a while, he saw that he dragged two women into the kitchen and greeted, "The customer has been waiting for a long time, so hurry up and chop off a hoof first." Zhou Mou The ancestors of the woman didn't know what was going on, only to hear a long cry, a woman's right arm had fallen to the ground, and she was rolling on the ground in pain. The other was terrified. When they saw Zhou Zushang, the two cried together, one begging the butcher to kill him quickly, the other begging for help. Zhou's ancestor was deeply distressed, and with good intentions, paid the money to redeem the two women. The woman with the severed arm was in so much pain that she committed suicide. The other was brought back, but he had no son, so he took him as a concubine. The concubine bore him a son. Since then, the Zhou family has passed down the incense for three generations. People say that Zhou's ancestor was destined not to have a son, but he did a great deed and passed it down to three generations.

A young peasant woman in Qingxian County, with a frivolous temperament, works with her husband and is inseparable. Husbands and wives often laugh at each other, flirt with each other, do not avoid others, and sometimes sleep together in the vegetable garden on summer evenings. The villagers looked down on her and thought she was lewd. But the young woman treats other men like ice; if someone flirts with her, she will be severely rejected. Later, the young woman was robbed by robbers and suffered seven knives on her body. After the incident, the villagers were amazed at her loyalty and heroism. The old Confucian Liu Junzhuo said: "This is the so-called person who is good in nature but has no education. Because he is loyal to the love of husband and wife, he would rather die than betray his husband. Because he does not understand etiquette, his erotic feelings are expressed in his appearance and intimate privacy. It is revealed in speech and behavior." Mr. Xin Tongfu said: "Cheng Zi has a saying: "Anyone who avoids suspicion is insufficient. , This woman has no other distractions in her heart, does not suspect that she is wrong, is open and candid, and controls her actions according to her own wishes, so she can stick to the festival. Those who are sanctimonious and arrogant are completely hypocritical. "My late father Yao Angong said:" Mr. Liu's comment was orthodox, while Mr. Xin's comment was a little extreme. "Later, the young woman's husband was guarding the bean field at night, and he was sleeping alone in a round thatched hut that was temporarily built in the field. Suddenly, his wife came in, and he made out with him as usual, and told him, "Meosi because I am a chastity." Martyr, arrange for me to be ranked in the next life, to be an official and a county magistrate. I miss Langjun, do not want to go, beg to resign from the official position to be a stalker, and stay with Langjun for a long time. The underworld officials sympathized with me and granted my request. "The husband was moved to tears and vowed not to marry another. Since then, the young woman has come day and night, and about twenty years have passed. Some children have secretly seen the young woman's ghost. This is what happened in the last years of Kangxi. At the time, Yao Angong could tell their names and addresses, but I have forgotten them now.

Han Mou, an old scholar in Xianxian County, has an upright temperament and abides by the etiquette and laws in everything he does. The township recommends him as a sacrifice wine. One day, he contracted a cold, and in a trance, he saw a ghost standing in front of him and said, "The City God is calling you." When they arrived at an official office, the God of the City God checked the roster and said, "Because the surname is the same, I made a mistake." He beat the ghost twenty sticks and ordered Han to be sent back. Feeling uneasy, Han went up and asked, "Human life is at stake, why did God send such a foolish ghost to arrest the wrong person? If I didn't find out, wouldn't I be wronged? What smart and honest!" God laughed Dao: "Xin said that you are stubborn. It looks good today. There are still errors in the operation of God, not to mention ghosts and gods? If you make mistakes, you can immediately detect them, which is called wisdom; Can you know these truths? There is no fault in reading your words and deeds, forgive you for the time being, and don't be so impatient in the future." Han Mou suddenly woke up. This is what Han Zhangmei said.

The ancestors had a little servant named Da Yue, who was thirteen or fourteen years old. Zeng and the villagers went to the river and caught a big fish about two feet long. As he was holding it up for everyone to see, the fish struggled and swayed, slapped him on the left side, and he fell into the water. Everyone saw him lying in the water and couldn't afford it. It was very strange. They went to help him, but they saw strands of blood floating out of the water. A sharp bowl was embedded in the mud, stabbing his temple. Before this, his mother dreamed that he was tied to a chopping board, like slaughtering pigs and sheep, as if he had a grudge against the butcher. After waking up, I was very worried, so I often reminded my son not to cause trouble and fight with others. Unexpectedly, he was pushed into the water by a fish and died. According to the Buddhist saying, this is because he owed a life to the fish in his previous life.

Liu Qingyuan, Minister of Rites, said: There is a pair of middle-cousin and sisters, involved in the kind of suspicion written in Yuan Zhen's "Huizhen Ji", the woman was pregnant and was noticed by her mother. The woman lied that there was often a giant to press at night, and her body was heavy and dark in color. The mother said: "This must be a clay statue of a god to make a monster." She gave her a colored silk thread and told her to wait for the giant to come and tie it to his feet secretly. The woman secretly gave the colored silk thread to her lover and tied it to the feet of General Zhou in Guandi Temple. Mother Xunqi found it, and almost broke General Zhou's foot. Later, the middle cousins rendezvous again, and suddenly they saw General Zhou hitting them on the waist. People all say, "This is the retribution for slandering the gods!" You know, it's a clever way to blame others for the benefits. Coincidentally, it is taboo from the creator. After all kinds of organs are counted, it is counted on one's own body. This is the way of heaven. God hates their sinister intentions, not their slander.

Luo Liangfeng, a native of Yangzhou, has bizarre eyes and can see all kinds of ghosts. He said: "Where there are people, there are ghosts. The ghosts who die violently do not linger for many years, usually in the deep houses of idle houses; people should not approach such ghosts, or they will suffer. The yang qi is strong, and it is mostly on the yin side of the wall; after noon, the yin qi is strong, and it is more likely to wander around; these ghosts can pass through the wall, but do not go through the door, but avoid giving way when they meet people, because they are afraid of the yang qi; wandering ghosts are everywhere, It doesn't harm people." He added: "The gathering place of ghosts is often in densely populated places, and ghosts in remote areas are very rare. Ghosts like to surround the kitchen stove, as if they want to get close to the gas; they also like to enter the toilet, The reason for this is unknown, but it may be caused by the lack of travel." Luo Liangfeng also painted "Ghost Interests", which makes people suspect that he fabricated it according to his own subjective consciousness. There is a ghost in the picture, whose head is dozens of times larger than its body, which is especially absurd and illusory. However, I once heard my late father Yao Angong say: "Chen Gong, a native of Yaojing, hangs up a window to rest in bed at night in summer. The window is one zhang wide. Suddenly, a huge face peeks into the room from outside the window. The face is as wide as the window. I don't know Where is the body? Chen Gong hurriedly slashed the left eye of the giant-faced monster with his sword, and the giant-faced monster disappeared. An old servant in the opposite room also witnessed the giant-faced monster. According to the old servant, the giant-faced monster came from The ground under the window gushed out. People dug the ground more than ten feet deep and found nothing. From this, it seems that there really is such a big-headed ghost. I am confused, where can I ask this question!

The servant Liu Si took leave to visit his parents in the summer of Renchen year. He drove the bullock cart himself and took his wife away. When he was thirty or forty miles away from his parents' house, it was almost midnight when the cow suddenly stopped walking. The wife screamed in the car and said, "There is a ghost with a head as big as an urn, in front of the car!" Liu Si looked carefully, and it was a short black woman with a broken chicken coop on her head, dancing and calling "Come here!" Come!" Liu Si was frightened and went back to the car. But the ghost jumped in front of the car again and called out "Come on!" and went back and forth like this until the rooster crowed. The ghost suddenly stopped and said with a smile: "It's cool at night, there's nothing to do, let your husband and wife have fun and joke around. Don't scold me after I leave, if you scold me, I'll come back. The chicken coop belongs to a certain family in the former village. Give it back to him." After speaking, he threw the chicken coop in the car and left. When they got home after dawn, the couple were both in a daze as if they were drunk. His wife died of illness soon after, and Liu Si also wandered around indifferently. Probably the ghosts bullied them while they were running out of gas.

According to the Xianxian Chronicle, Liu Wuzhou's tomb is in Jingcheng. Liu Wuzhou was from Mayi behind the mountain, so his tomb should not be here, it may be the tomb of Liu Xuan in the Sui Dynasty. Liu Xuan is from Jingcheng. See also "-Tongzhi" records that Liu Wuzhou's tomb is 80 miles east of Xianxian County, and Jingcheng is 87 miles away from the county seat, which is likely to be his tomb. In the past, there were foxes living in the tomb, and they used to tease the "drunk ghosts". Chen Shuang in the village said angrily after hearing about it: "You monster, how dare you be so rude!" When he reached the cemetery, he cursed. At that time, the ground was full of working people, and they all saw Chen Shuang's father sitting by the tomb, full of anger. Chen Shuang stamped his feet and cursed? The group came over and scolded him: "You are so drunk, and you are scolding your father!" Chen Shuang took a closer look and saw that it was really his father. He was so frightened that he hurriedly kowtowed and bowed. His father ignored him and walked back. Chen Shuang begged his father not to leave, and only caught up outside the village. He lay on the ground to explain the reason, and suddenly heard a group of women laughing: "Chen Shuang, why do you worship your wife?" Chen Shuang looked up and saw that it was his wife. He was stunned, and his wife went straight back. Chen Shuang returned home in frustration, knowing that his father and his wife had never gone out, and only then did he realize that the fox was playing with him. He dared not go out for several days. Those who heard this all smirked. In my opinion, Chen Shuang did it by himself and didn't scold foxes, so why did he do this? If the fox didn't play tricks, why would he be abused by Chen Shuang? Foxes are also self-inflicted. Disputes and grievances are all due to a single thought. Therefore, the Buddha said that all living beings must not stir up trouble and create trouble.

Fang Gui is the son of an exiled prisoner in Urumqi. He said that once in the mountains, a horse ran away suddenly. He followed to look for it, and heard the shrill sound of the horse across the mountain. Following the direction of the sound, I came to a deep valley, and saw a few things that looked like people and beasts, with rough scales and scattered colors, like ancient pine: the hair was disheveled, like a car hood decorated with bird feathers; the eyes were prominent and the color was pure white. Like studded with two eggs. Together these things hold down the horse and bite its flesh alive. Most of the herders carried fire guns to protect themselves. Fang Gui was naughty and violent, so he climbed up the tree to let the guns go, and all those things went into the dense forest. At this time, half of the horse's body had been eaten. I haven't seen it since, so I don't know what it is.

There is a building in the house of Rui Tiekou, the concubine, and the fox lives upstairs. The fox demon sometimes cooks in the kitchen and entertains guests in the fasting. It is common for family members to not be surprised. Once there are thieves, the fox can drive away the thieves and protect the house for the owner. For a long time, people and foxes have coexisted peacefully and lived in peace with each other. Later, the house was sold to Li Lianyi, a bachelor. Li Xueshi never believed in evil spirits, so he went upstairs to open the door to check it out. He saw that the three houses in the building were spotlessly clean. There was a large mat in the center covered with wooden boards, which was as neat as a bed, and there was nothing abnormal. . At that time, Li Xueshi wanted to build a new house, so he demolished this building together, so that the fox could not live there. Nothing unusual happened after the building was destroyed. On the day when the new house was just completed, fires suddenly erupted everywhere, and the new house was reduced to ashes in an instant, leaving not half an inch of rafters, but not even a single grass was burned in the neighboring house. People say that this is the fire set by the fox demon. Uncle Liu Qingyuan said: "The fate of this house should be burned on this day. If the fate of the house should not be burned, how could the fox demon dare to set it on fire?" There is no killing mission. The kingly law of the world forbids killing, and as a result, many people dare not kill, and people who kill to justify their crimes often appear. Such things were never known.

Wang Lanquan, the junior secretary, said that when Mengwutang was appointed to teach in Jiangnan, there was a high hill behind the yamen, and strange lights were often seen at night. It was said that there was a pheasant and a snake on the hill. Wutang was young and energetic, and gathered everyone to take a shovel and soil basket to level this high hill. Everyone hesitated to make a move, and Wutang was getting angry and urged, suddenly, a strong wind blew a mat to cover his head. He hurriedly pulled off the mat, and another piece flew over his head. These mats are all on the awning in the yamen. Wutang felt a little abnormal, so he stopped working. Gaoqiu is still there.

The old servant Wei Zhe heard from his father that in the early years of Shunzhi, there was a certain student who was 80 or 90 miles away from my house. He forgot his name, and he and his wife died one after another. After three or four years, his concubine also died. At that time, his family's hired workers stayed at night under the porch of the Dongyue Temple to take shelter from the rain. In a dream but not a dream, I saw a certain student standing in front of the court wearing shackles, with his wife and concubines behind him. There was a god who looked at his clothes like a city god, and said respectfully to Yueshen: "A certain student has insulted these two people, he is guilty; he has saved the lives of both of them, and he deserves credit, so it should be equal." Yueshen said unhappily. : "These two people are afraid of death and are shameful, and they can be forgiven; a certain life saved these two people, just to rape these two people, can only be convicted, how can it be said that the merit and the crime are worth it?" So the God of the City God was sent away go out. A certain student and his wife and concubines also went out. The employee was afraid to make a sound. After dawn, he went back and told his family, but no one understood what was going on. A former servant of a certain life cried: "It's really strange that he was arrested because of this incident. Only our father and son know about it. Because of the deep gratitude, we swore not to say it. Now that it has been changed, we are not afraid to say it. The two mistresses were not actually women. During the Tianqi period of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian killed Concubine Yu. Concubine Yu's palace maids were secretly arrested and sent to Dongchang, where they died horribly. There were two inmates, one They were called Fulai, and the other was called Shuanggui. They escaped. Because they were old acquaintances with my master, who was doing business in the capital. They defected at night. The master took the two of them into the secret room. I peeked in through the crack of the door. Hearing the master say to them: "Your voice and appearance, neither male nor female, are different from others, you will definitely be caught when you go out. If you change women's clothes, you won't be able to recognize them. But two women without husbands live in someone else's house, and they behave suspiciously and can be seen through. The two have been cleansed, and they are no different from women. If they are willing to be wronged to be my wives and concubines, they will be safe. , The two were unable to advance or retreat. After pondering for a long time, they had no choice but to follow. The owner bought women's accessories for them, pierced their ears and eyes, and gradually they could hang earrings. And bought cartilage medicine and told them to bind their feet. After a few months, they turned into two beauties. So the owner took the two home in a car and lied that they were married in the capital. These two people have been under the imperial confinement for a long time. And it happened unexpectedly, so no one doubted it. It is strange that neither of them are female celebrities, but there is no doubt that the explanation is arrogant and arrogant. The two were grateful for the grace of their master's life, so after Wei Zhongxian's death, they were still willing to live with their master. The master actually coaxed them into submission with eloquent words, not sympathy for them to flee from nowhere. Therefore, Yueshen should punish him. "It can be seen that people can be deceived, but ghosts and gods cannot be deceived.

In the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong's reign, I presided over the township examination in Shanxi. I had two papers and both passed the examination. One was set at No. 48. When filling out the draft list, Wanquan County magistrate Lu Okou, the examiner who was grading the papers, mistakenly put his papers in the trunk and could not find them; the other was set at No. 53. , When filling out the draft list, the overcast wind blows out the candle three or four times, and then it's time to change to another paper. After the list was announced, it was unpacked and checked. The one who lost the papers was called Fan Xuefu, and the one who blew out the candle was called Li Tengjiao. I was quite suspicious that the two candidates were immoral, so they were punished in the dark. However, in the 25th year of Qianlong's rural examination, these two candidates were selected. Fan was still the forty-eighth; Li became a jinshi in the forty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign. Only then did I know that the imperial examinations were destined, and it was impossible to get them a year earlier. What are those busy chasing after? Even if you pursue it and get it, it must be what your life should have, and you will get it if you don't pursue it.

His late father Yao Angong said: He was in the same house with Tang Xiaolian, a native of Xiongxian County, during the Yongzheng Gengwu year meeting. In the middle of the night, Tang Xiaolian suddenly saw a female ghost with drab hair. He lifted the curtain and smashed his test paper with his hands. The fragments of the test paper flew around like butterflies. Tang Xiaolian has always been upright and not afraid. He sat down and questioned her, "I don't know about my previous life, but I did not do anything harmful in this life. Why are you here to tear up the scroll?" The female ghost looked at Tang Xiaolian in astonishment and took two steps back. Ask: "Isn't your house No. 47?" Tang Xiaolian replied, "I am No. 49." It turned out that there was an empty house in front of No. 2, and the female ghost didn't count it. She scrutinized for a long time before Shi Li apologized to Tang Xiaolian and left. In a blink of an eye, there was a loud cry from the forty-seventh building, saying that someone was caught in an evil spirit. This female ghost is too confused, Tang Xiaolian can be described as a disaster. Fortunately, he had no guilt in his heart, and he was not afraid. He dared to argue in a hurry, but he was only torn apart, otherwise it would be dangerous.

Gu Demao, a member of the staff, said that he was the underworld official of Dongyue, and I didn't really believe it. But what he said made sense. He used to say to me in Qiu Wenda's house: "The underworld places great importance on virtuous women and martyrs, but they are also classified. It may be because of the love of children, or because of the richness of the parents-in-law's wealth and nostalgia. Those who remarry are inferior. Those who have lustful desires and can restrain themselves with courtesy and righteousness are middle ones. Those whose hearts are like a dry well, do not have emotional waves, do not long for wealth, do not care about hunger and cold, and do not care about interests, they are superior. Wait. There is not one such person among thousands of people. If it is such a person, the ghosts and gods will also pay respect. One day it was rumored that the festival lady arrived. King Run looked serious, and all the underworld officials stood up to greet them in neat clothes. An old woman walked over very tired. She seemed to be stepping on the steps under her feet, climbing up the heights step by step. When she reached the Palace of King Run, she walked over from the top of the hall, not knowing where she was going. King Run said disappointedly: "This person has already Ascension, not in our ghost realm anymore. "Gu Demao said again:" The worthy ministers are also divided into three classes. Those who fear the law are inferior, those who love reputation are the middle. People who have a heart for the royal family, who only know the national economy and people's livelihood, and who don't know the good and bad, are the best. "He also said that the underworld hates competition for fame and fortune, and believes that all kinds of sins are caused by it. Therefore, it often makes such a person unhappy, making him lose more than his gains. The underworld does not value hermits very much, and thinks that heaven and earth create talents in the hope of making up for things in the world. If everyone went to be Chaowen and Xuyou, the world would still be flooded with floods, and even a place to hang a ladle and drink a calf. There will be no. He also said that the laws of the underworld are like the "Spring and Autumn", which seeks perfection and blames the wise, and is kind to others. The gentleman is stubborn and bad things are recorded as faults. The villain has one thing that is beneficial to others, and he must use it. Xiao Shan came to repay him. People in the world do not understand this aspect, so they often suspect that karma is sometimes not fulfilled.