During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Yangzhou had a large family named Yan. The head of the family, Yan Qing, was an important minister in the court. The Yan family was the richest family in Yangzhou City. Mr. Yan lost his wife in middle age, and later married four concubines, but he only had one daughter named Yan Ruyu with his deceased first wife.
Yan Ruyu has been well-behaved and sensible since she was a child. She has read a lot of poetry and books. She is proficient in everything from the Four Books and Five Classics to music, chess, calligraphy and painting. She even has two brushes for Cuju which boys love to play, so she has made many friends. There are countless local men pursuing her, but she is never in a hurry about marriage.
On this day, Yan Ruyu, who was resting in bed, was suddenly awakened by a nightmare. Then she closed her eyes and prepared to go back to sleep. However, she couldn't fall asleep no matter how hard she fell, which made her look a little haggard. She told the story She killed the people in the house and found that everyone in the house was having the same nightmare as her.
Yan Ruyu was feeling irritable, so she was going to go shopping in the market to relax. As soon as she left the door, she was besieged by several cats raised by neighbors. She saw them barking at Yan Ruyu, and Yan Ruyu thought she had something on her. He looked around hurriedly, but found nothing. He only saw an injured partridge at his feet.
The gray partridge was brought home by Yan Ruyu in a coma. The kind-hearted woman found the medicine box at home and briefly treated the wounds on the partridge. The partridge woke up after a while, and in it The moment he saw Yan Ruyu, he immediately flapped his wings and flew up. Yan Ruyu was worried that it would be too excited and tear its wound, so she caught it in her hand.
Yan Ruyu put it on the table beside the bed, and then she felt sleepy. She fell asleep again inexplicably, and it took a few hours to wake up. She recalled the process of falling asleep, Surprisingly, I found that I slept quite well without any nightmares. The partridge climbed onto her bed at some point and curled up under the quilt.
Yan Ruyu thought the partridge was very cute, so she kept it with her. But not long after, she had another strange dream. This time it was not a nightmare, but an erotic dream that Yan Ruyu found difficult to talk about.
In the dream, there was a handsome man. He told Yan Ruyu that his name was Huamanlou. Huamanlou was quick in thinking and eloquent. He could always make Yan Ruyu giggle. He would do it almost every two or three days. He would appear in Yan Ruyu's dreams and tell Yan Ruyu various stories.
Having had sexual dreams more and more often, Yan Ruyu became very shy and wanted to blush at every turn. She always thought of Hua Manlou's voice and smile during the day. As an experienced mother, of course she saw that her daughter had someone she liked, and then asked Yan Ruyu what his name was. Yan Ruyu couldn't say that she fell in love with Huamanlou in her dream, so she had to keep her mouth shut and say nothing. explain.
In these days when Yan Ruyu was in love with Hua Manlou in her dream, more and more people in the city were having nightmares. Some people even saw a white shadow going back and forth from house to house in the middle of the night. Many people are tortured by nightmares that keep them awake all night, and they are mentally haggard and almost going crazy. As for Yan Mansion , since the partridge entered the house, no one in the family has had a nightmare again.
Everyone in the town saw that the situation was serious, so they sent a few people to a temple on a mountain thirty miles away to find two monks to practice the method. As soon as the monks came to the town with Buddhist beads, they felt the strong miasma. There are obviously demons causing trouble here. Then the two monks led the villagers through the streets and alleys following the instructions of compass . When passing by Yan Mansion, they found that there was an invisible barrier between the outside world and Yan Mansion, blocking out the miasma outside.
The two monks were a little surprised, so they decided to go to Yan Mansion to have a look. After entering, they happened to see Yan Ruyu playing with the partridge in the yard. The monk soon discovered something unusual about the partridge and stared at it. It kept looking. Yan Ruyu didn't notice this and asked the monk to meet Master Yan directly.
The partridge was in Yan Ruyu's arms. The monk stared at the partridge as if he was staring at Yan Ruyu. When he saw the two monks staring at his daughter with such eyes, Mr. Yan thought of the two monks at that time. Very unseemly and a little annoyed. When the monk found out, he immediately withdrew his gaze and said, "Master Yan, when your daughter reaches the age of getting married, she should find a good man to marry!"
As soon as the monk finished speaking, the partridge flew from Yan Ruyu's arms. When he came out, he flapped his two wings and kept beating the monk on the cheek. The monk quickly covered his face and said while running: "You monster, I don't agree with you because you have never done anything evil." You care so much, leave Miss Yan quickly, shemales are in different ways, you can't be together!"
When the partridge heard this, he stopped attacking and flew back to Yan Ruyu's arms. Yan Ruyu heard the monk calling the partridge bird demon, and was a little confused for a while, so she asked the monk why. The monk touched his red cheek and pointed at the partridge in her arms with great fear: "He is a monster that absorbed the essence of heaven and earth and transformed into shape in ancient times. His magic power is endless. The poor monk is no match for him." !”
As for the reason why people in the town have nightmares, it’s because a fox demon comes to the town. This fox demon keeps using miasma to make people have nightmares, but nightmares are not the reason why the townspeople become haggard. The reason is that fox demon will take advantage of people's nightmares to suck away the essence from their bodies, and in order to prevent people from noticing it quickly, it sucks in a little bit every time without making any big movements.
Essence is the basis for human survival. Losing a little does not matter. It will only make the body haggard and thinner. But if it is sucked in too much, it will be life-threatening. If the essence is sucked dry, then the person will directly die from life. A person becomes a mummy.
As an ancient demon, Partridge is certainly capable of preventing the miasma from invading the Yan Mansion, so in order to repay Yan Ruyu's kindness, it directly set up a barrier to prevent the miasma from entering. However, regarding the townspeople outside the Yan Mansion, it Stand by and watch, don't care. The monk guessed that the partridge transformed into Hua Manlou and met Yan Ruyu in a dream. The relationship between men and women developed during the day and night, so he asked Mr. Yan to marry his daughter off as soon as possible to stop the partridge's thoughts.
After hearing this, Yan Ruyu burst into tears. The partridge gently rubbed its head against Yan Ruyu's palm, then flew up and circled in the sky. Then its body bloomed with white light and transformed into a flower-filled building. It seemed that a sword came out of thin air in his hand. The blade exuded a soft light. The miasma around him quickly boiled violently. With the fox's shrill scream, he discovered the fox's hiding place.
When the two monks saw this situation, they quickly came to help Hua Manlou, took out the Buddhist beads and chanted something. With the unremitting efforts of the three people, the fox was finally killed on the spot and turned into ashes and annihilated in the world, while Hua Manlou Manlou returned to the place where he had survived for thousands of years, which was the underworld.
After Huamanlou left, Yan Ruyu cried in tears all day long, and she never saw him in her dream again. Until one day three years later, a young man in his twenties came to Ye Mansion to propose marriage. Yan Ruyu did not want to be with any man except Hua Manlou. She refused without thinking. Who However, the man barged in directly. To Yan Ruyu's surprise, this man looked exactly like Hua Manlou.
It was boring for Huamanlou to stay with monsters and ghosts in the underworld, so he dispersed all the magic power in his body and exchanged cultivation and immortality for a human body and the opportunity to be with Yan Ruyu. Yan Ruyu also successfully agreed to his marriage proposal, and they were happily together ever since.
