There was a scholar named Wang in Taiyuan. One day, at dawn in the east, he went out in a hurry. Not far from his home, he saw a girl walking alone in front of her with a bundle under her waist. Judging from the pace of her walking, she seemed to be very tired and difficult.
Wang Sheng followed quickly. When he saw it, she was a young and beautiful girl, and he liked her very much. Then he struck up a conversation and asked, "Why are you walking slowly on the road alone so early?"
The girl looked up at him and said, "You are a passerby and can't help me solve my worries, so why bother asking." Wang Sheng said: "What worries you? If I can help you, I will never refuse." Upon hearing this, the girl immediately showed a sad look on her face and said, "My father My mother was greedy for money and sold me as a concubine to a wealthy family. Unexpectedly, my eldest wife was jealous and scolded me every day. I couldn't bear it and wanted to run away."
Wang Sheng asked again: "Are you planning to escape? Where are you going?" The girl replied, "There is no definite place for people who are on the run." Wang Sheng said, "My home is not far from here. How about you come to my house?" The girl was overjoyed and nodded in thanks. .
So Wang Sheng took the girl's baggage and led the way to take her home.
Wang Sheng took the girl home. When the girl saw that there was no one at home, she asked, "Why do you have no family?" Wang Sheng said, "This is my study."
The girl was very happy after hearing this and said, "Here is Very good. If you love me and want to save me, you must keep it a secret and never let it out." Wang Shengzheng was glad that he got a beautiful woman out of thin air, so there was no way he would not agree.
That night, Wang Sheng lived with the girl. The two are affectionate and extremely affectionate. The next day, Wang Sheng hid the girl in a secret room for many days, and sure enough, no one knew about it.
One day, Wang Sheng revealed the matter to his wife Chen. Mrs. Chen suspected that the woman was a runaway concubine from a wealthy family and persuaded Wang Sheng to send her away. Wang Sheng is obsessed with the girl, who can hear it.
One day, Wang Sheng accidentally went to the market to buy some clothes for the girl, and met a Taoist priest . The Taoist priest looked at Wang Sheng again and again, and asked in surprise: "Have you met anyone of unknown origin?" Wang Sheng replied: "No!"
The Taoist priest said seriously: "I see that you are full of evil spirits. Why do you still say no?" Wang Sheng tried his best to defend himself and denounced the Taoist's nonsense.
The Taoist priest shook his head and turned away. As he walked, he sighed: "It's really hard to understand that there are people in the world who are about to die, and they haven't woken up yet!"
Wang Sheng saw that the Taoist priest's words were very strange, and he doubted whether the girl was a monster. . But then I thought about it, how could she become a monster despite being a beautiful woman? It was probably because the Taoist priest wanted to subjugate monsters and defraud her of food and clothing, so she didn't take it to heart.
After a while, Wang Sheng returned to the door of the study and pushed the door with his hand, but the door was blocked from the inside and could not go in. Wang Sheng suspected that the girl was doing something inside, so he went around to the backyard and climbed over the collapsed wall.
Wang Sheng jumped off the broken wall and came to the secret room. Seeing that the door of the secret room was also closed tightly, he tiptoed to the window and peeked at what the girl was doing inside.
When I looked at it, it didn't matter, but I saw a ferocious evil ghost inside, with an emerald green face and teeth as long as saws. She spread a piece of human skin on the couch and painted on it with colored pens.
After finishing the painting, he lost the pen, picked up the human skin with both hands and shook it, just like shaking clothes.
then put the human skin on her body and turned into a beautiful woman.
When Wang Sheng saw this, he was so frightened that his limbs became limp. He rolled and crawled, but he still climbed out of the broken wall.
After Wang gave birth to the broken wall, he became more courageous and his hands and feet became stronger. He thought of what the Taoist priest had just said and hurried to the market. He searched everywhere in the market for the Taoist priest, but there was no trace of him.
asked several people, but they all said they had not paid attention. Finally, they asked one person and said they saw him going out of the east gate. Wang Sheng hurried out of the east gate to pursue the Taoist priest.
Wang Sheng drove for several miles and chased him into the wilderness, only to see the Taoist priest walking in front. So he rushed over and knelt before the Taoist priest, begging him to be saved.
The Taoist priest asked Wang Sheng to tell the truth.Only then did Wang Sheng tell the whole story about the woman he met on the road a few mornings ago, how he took her home to live with her because of her beauty, and how he just saw her painting human skin.
After hearing this, the Taoist priest said: "I can help you send her away. But this thing has good intentions. We have just found a replacement, and I can't bear to hurt her life." He put a mosquito-repellent person Give the whisk to Wang Sheng and ask him to hang it at the door of his room when he returns.
The Taoist priest said goodbye and told Wang Sheng: If anything happens in the future, go to Qingdi Temple to find him. Wang Sheng nodded frequently, thanked him and returned.
After Wang Sheng returned home, he did not dare to go to the study. In the evening, I stayed in my wife Chen's room, hung the fly whisk on the door frame, and told my wife about it in detail.
One day, Wang Sheng heard whispers outside the door. He didn't dare to look at it himself, but asked his wife to take a peek.
When Mrs. Chen looked out from the crack in the door, she saw a woman standing outside the door. She saw a whisk hanging on the door frame and did not dare to come in. She gritted her teeth and hated it for a long time before she left.
After a while, the woman came again and cursed: "This is a Taoist priest threatening me. Otherwise, how could I spit out the food in my mouth?" He took off the fly whisk and broke it in half.
Then, the woman broke open the door and rushed into the room angrily. He ran straight to the bed, grabbed Wang Sheng, tore and pulled him, tore his chest and abdomen, took off his heart, and carried him away.
Mrs. Chen was so frightened that she burst into tears. The girl didn't know what happened, so she rushed over, lit a candle and saw that Wang Sheng's abdomen was bleeding and he was dead.
The girl asked Chen what happened. Chen was so frightened that she just cried but did not dare to say anything.
Early the next morning, Chen told Wang Sheng's younger brother Erlang about the matter and asked him to go to the Qingdi Temple to inform the scholars.
The Taoist priest heard Erlang's complaint and said angrily: "I originally wanted to pity her, but she dares to act so boldly. She is really a monster who doesn't know whether to live or die."
The Taoist priest then took a peach wood sword and called it Erlang. Lead the way and follow suit.
The Taoist priest came to Wang Sheng's house and looked for the woman everywhere, but she was nowhere to be seen.
The Taoist priest raised his head and looked around for a while. He said: "Fortunately, I didn't run away." He asked again: "Whose family is in the South Courtyard?" Erlang replied: "That's my home." The Taoist said: "It's in your home now."
Erlang was suddenly startled and thought it might not be the case. have. The Taoist priest then asked, "Has anyone you don't know come to your home?" Erlang said, "I came to Qingdi Temple early in the morning to see you. I really don't know. Otherwise, I'll go back and ask."
Erlang is going? After a while, he came back and said to the Taoist priest: "As expected, a stranger came to the house. An old woman came in this morning and wanted to help me as a servant. My wife left her behind. "It's still in my house now." The Taoist priest arrived at Erlang's house, stood in the center of the courtyard, and shouted: "Die Mei! Give me my whisk!" The waiter
the old woman heard it in the house, her face turned pale with fear, and she tried to run away through the door in a panic.
The Taoist priest caught up and struck her, causing the old woman to fall to the ground. The human skin came off with a roar and she turned into an evil ghost. She lay on the ground and howled like a pig.
The Taoist priest cut off her head with a mahogany sword, and the evil ghost's body turned into a thick smoke and scattered in a pile on the ground.
The Taoist priest took out a gourd, pulled out the stopper, and put it into the thick smoke. The gourd slowly sucked the smoke into the gourd as if it were inhaling air.
After a while, the cigarette was exhausted, and the Taoist priest plugged the mouth of the gourd tightly with a stopper, and then put it into a cloth bag.
Let’s look at the human skin on the ground, with facial features, mouth, nose, hands and feet, everything is there.
The Taoist priest bent over and rolled up the human skin. The sound was like the sound of a scroll scroll. After rolling it up, he also put it in a cloth bag.
The Taoist priest said goodbye and was about to leave. Mrs. Chen knelt at the door to greet him, crying for the power of resurrection. The Taoist priest said: "I can't do anything about this."
Chen was even more sad and fell on the ground and refused to get up. The Taoist priest pondered for a while and said: "My Taoist skills are shallow and I really can't bring the dead back to life. I recommend someone, or if I have a way, asking him will definitely be effective.""
Chen asked: "Who is he? Where is he now? The Taoist priest said: "There is a crazy man in the market who often lies in the dirt. Go and complain to him. If he insults you in every way, you must not get angry." "
Erlang also saw this crazy beggar often, so he thanked the Taoist priest and went to the market with his sister-in-law.
When he arrived at the market, he saw the beggar singing crazily on the street. His nose was three feet long, smelly and dirty, and people did not dare to come close. Ms. Chen knelt on the ground and walked forward with her knees. "Beauty, do you love me?" "
Mrs. Chen told him her request. The beggar laughed and said: "Any man can be your husband, what can you do to save him? "
Mrs. Chen begged him hard, and the beggar said again: "How strange! If a person is dead and you ask me to save him, am I King of Hell ? "Angrily, he hit Mrs. Chen with a bamboo stick. Mrs. Chen endured the pain and endured it.
At this time, more and more people gathered around, and it seemed like a human wall was built around them. The beggar coughed a few times and vomited a lot. A hand full of phlegm was raised to Chen's mouth, asking her to eat it
. Chen's face turned red and she felt very sick. She suddenly remembered the Taoist priest's instructions and forced herself to eat.
Chen felt that the phlegm had hardened in her throat, like a ball of cotton wool. She swallowed hard and stopped. The beggar looked at it and laughed and said, "The beauty really loves me!" "
After the beggar finished speaking, Gu Zi walked forward. Mrs. Chen followed him and saw him walking into a temple.
Mrs. Chen followed him to the temple and wanted to beg him again, but she didn't know where the beggar had gone. Mrs. Chen He and Erlang searched everywhere in the temple, even in the shrine, but couldn't find the beggar.
Chen had no choice but to walk out of the temple with Erlang. Chen felt ashamed and resentful. She mourned her husband's tragic death and regretted the humiliation of swallowing phlegm in public. She cried bitterly when she thought about it.
Erlang finally persuaded his sister-in-law to go home to bury him. When the family members saw the bloody corpse, no one dared to come forward.
Mrs. Chen hugged the corpse, put the intestines into her abdomen, and cried. Li, crying hoarsely.
Chen suddenly felt like vomiting, and felt that the knot in her chest was rushing out, and before she could turn around, Chen was startled. When she opened her eyes, she saw that it was the body. A human heart was beating in Wang Sheng's chest, steaming hot.
Mrs. Chen was very surprised, and hurriedly closed her chest with both hands, hugging her tightly, slightly. At one point, the heat inside came out from the cracks.
Chen quickly ordered people to bring cloth and wrap the body. When he touched the body, he felt that it was getting hot.
Chen covered the body with a quilt. , I opened it in the middle of the night and found that he was breathing.
At dawn, Wang Sheng was actually alive. He said: "It was like a dream, and I just felt a dull pain in my abdomen. "Looking at his injury, there was a scab as big as a copper coin. It healed soon.
