The first short story: Several businessmen stayed in a hotel during their business trip. The hotel was connected to the neighbor's house, separated by a board wall. One of the board joints fell off, revealing a hole.

Today I copied three short stories from the book "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio": a businessman chopped off the head of a beautiful woman without a body; a cart driver couldn't move his hand while pushing a cart uphill, but a wolf bit off a big bite of meat from his buttocks; a hunter in the valley I met two little people two feet tall... You first read the original manuscript of the classical Chinese text, and then I will tell these three short stories.

(Copied from the original classical Chinese text of "Beauty's Head", "Carman" and "Yang Scar Eyes" in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio")

The first short story: Several businessmen stayed in a hotel during their business trip, and the hotel was connected to the neighbor's house. , separated by a board wall in the middle, one of the board sections fell off, exposing a hole.

The businessmen were chatting when suddenly a beautiful woman's head stuck out from the hole in the wall. She was very young and beautiful. She blinked at the businessman and stretched out an arm.

The merchants were surprised when they saw it. The hole in the wall was only as big as the mouth of a bowl. How could a person's head be penetrated? He stood up in fright, and just as he walked forward, the beautiful woman's head suddenly disappeared.

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When several people were wondering what to do, the beautiful woman poked her head over again. A businessman ran to the next room and took a look. He was so frightened that he screamed: This beauty only has a head but no body. This head is right there. I poked around the hole.

There was a bold businessman who squatted on the wall with a knife. The beauty's head came over again. He chopped it down with his knife, and the head fell to the ground, dripping with blood.

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When the merchants saw the heads on the ground, they had no choice but to tell the shop owner. When the shop owners saw that the people were dead, they took the heads and went to sue the officials. The county officials sent people to escort the businessmen to the county government office. After questioning the merchants at first instance, the county magistrate was also confused. He only had a head but no body. What should he do?

Day after day passed, no one reported the crime and no one was looking for the head, so we had to let the businessmen go and bury the head without a body...

This scary little story is in line with the writing style of Mr. Pu Songling . People and ghosts are his must-write subjects.

The second short story: The unlucky coachman lost a piece of meat on his buttocks and it cannot be regenerated. This is really bad! He was pushing a cart of goods uphill, and a wolf jumped out of the grass on the side of the road. The wolf used the right timing to bark, and with one bite, it bit the driver's butt.

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There was a sharp pain, and the driver took a breath of air-conditioning. He couldn't stop when he was going uphill. He had to push down the car as soon as he stopped. The cargo on the car was too heavy. He had no choice but to push it up and push it. When we went up, the wolf took a big bite of meat and disappeared long ago.

This story shows that the wolf is a very intelligent and cunning animal. It will look for opportunities and opportunities to bite.

The third short story: When a hunter was looking for prey in the valley, he suddenly saw a little man coming out of the mountain stream, about two feet long, standing on the stone as if waiting for something. After a while, another villain came out from a distance, and the two villains came together.

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The villain who came out first said: "I see that Yang Scar's eyes have been dark these past two days, and his face has turned black. , I am afraid of some disaster...", and the other villain said: "I also feel it. What kind of disaster is going to happen if you look at Yang Scar? Let's go to his place quickly." When the hunter heard this, he knew that these two must be aliens. He jumped forward with a hunting fork and shouted sharply. The two villains. It disappeared immediately. That night, the hunter captured a fire fox. He picked up the fox and took a look: there was a scar on the left eye, as big as a copper coin. He knew that the fox must be the "Yang Scar Eye".

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The stories written by Pu Songling are all logical. Borrowing the words of the two villains to say that "Yang Scar Eyes" has a dark face is a kind of foreshadowing, setting the stage for hunters to capture foxes. Foreshadowing, the writing skills of the ancients can be seen.