Turtle catching
Shenpu Wang Zishan, 14 years old. I happened to go out and cross a small stream, and I saw a big turtle with a basin size floating on the surface of the water. Nourish the good young man's heart, play to pick up stones and throw them, there is a sound, and the big turtle sinks to the bottom of the water.
When he returned home, he fell into the evil spirit, and his eyes were staggered, and his hands were stretched out as if he were crawling. The family was shocked, and they didn't answer the question at first, but after a long time, they said sharply: "I am the king of the black spirit, playing in the water, and I was hit on the back by this person's stone, and the pain was unbearable." After saying that, he jumped wildly, looking for knives everywhere, as if he wanted to kill himself.
Surrounded by his family, his strength was several times greater than usual, and his parents found more than ten relatives and friends to take him **. Although his body was restrained, his mouth was still noisy and abusive, and his parents' promise to burn paper money for worship had no effect. Since then, Wang Zishan has been mad, and when he sees bricks and tiles, he picks up and smashes his head, and it doesn't work to find a warlock.
A relative of the Wang family was a Taoist priest in Qionglong Mountain, and he came to visit his relatives on this day, and was surprised to see Wang Zishan's situation, and said: "Is there a beggar in the broken temple here?""The Wang family said that there is indeed such a person. The relative said, "His Taoism is superb, and there must be a way." The Wang family's parents followed their words.
When the beggar didn't come, the monster already knew about it, and attached it to Zishan and said, "What's so great about the beggar?"Let him come and see whose means are higher!The Wang family was a little worried, but after tasting it carefully, they felt that the monster was very inward, and it seemed to be a big threat.
The beggar arrived, took out a small chisel, and waved it into the air. Wang Zishan looked frightened, ran to the corner, ran to the hall, and finally hid in his father's bedroom. The beggar chased him to the bedroom and rubbed his body around. Wang Zishan knelt down and begged for mercy in the tone of a monster. Lai Tou said with a smile: "Hurt people for no reason, and you want to fight me again, your arrogance is gone?"”
The monster said (attached to Zishan): "The little demon is shallow, how dare he be the enemy of the immortals." It's just that this person hurt my back, and I was angry for a while, so I blamed him. There are little demons like me everywhere, why are you only targeting me?”
The beggar didn't listen, and waved the chisel as usual, Zishan suddenly fainted, and a whirlwind went straight outside. The beggar hurriedly drew a talisman and burned it, and there was a loud bang in the back garden. Let's go and see, a big turtle died in the back garden. The patient was awake.
The original author said: "Monsters hurt people, but in the end they hurt themselves, when they didn't meet the masters, all kinds of scary tricks, the iron chisel was shocked, and they could only show up and die." If you know this, why don't you shrink your head early and be a turtle. ”
The story is from "The Collection of Sorrows", and the achievement is not high. It's not clear what happened to the original author, but the story may be a metaphor.
Raven Country
During the Tang Dynasty, Wang Qian guarded Jiangling, and Xu Sheng, a clerk, died violently when he was on night duty, and woke up the next day. He told his colleagues that when he died, he was summoned out by two men in yellow and walked north, beside which was barren and wild, with a faint path in the middle.
Dozens of miles later, come to a city front, the city gate is three zhang high and three zhang wide, and there are three big characters written on it: "Crow Singing Country". When I entered the city gate, it was dim and dark, just like the sun had just set in the world, there were no houses, and countless big locust trees were as high as the sky. The trees were covered with crows, and the cries were deafening.
After walking forward for dozens of miles, there was no longer a crow noise, and he came to a big yamen. The man in yellow entered with Xu Sheng, and a purple-clothed official sat according to the case. The man in yellow reported: "The crow catcher brought it!."The official nodded and asked Xu Sheng, "Are you good at catching crows?"Xu Sheng replied: "The student is a clerk under Wang Jiedu's account, and he can't catch birds." ”
The purple-clothed official was furious and rebuked the man in yellow: "You can't do such a small thing well, why did you find the wrong person?".The man in yellow knelt down and apologized: "The villain is guilty, it should be that he mistakenly ticked the person with the same name and surname." The official said, "Hurry up and return it." ”
There was also a tall black-faced man sitting next to the official desk, also wearing a purple robe, with a cotton cloth wrapped around his head, as if he was injured. He beckoned to Xu Sheng and said, "Come here, I have something for you to hear." Xu Sheng approached, and the man said: "After I go back, I will give a message to Wang Qianfu, I am very grateful to him for the money and goods he burned, but the people who bought them were greedy for low prices, and the quality of the yellow paper burned was too poor to be used." Ask him to burn another 50,000 pieces of yellow paper, all of which are good papers, and I have urgent needs. In addition, I will see each other soon. ”
Xu Shengwei agreed, and after saluting, he went out of the yamen and was brought back to the yang world by the two yellow-clothed people at the beginning. Xu Sheng asked what was going on in the country of crows, and the yellow-clothed messenger said: "Birds also have a lifespan, and crows will be caught here when they die, so find someone who is good at catching birds." Then he said, "It is so dark and dim here for hundreds of miles that it is impossible to distinguish between day and night, so let the crows chirp here to distinguish day from night." ”
Xu Sheng asked what the open space in the country of crows was for, and the man in yellow said: "When people die, they become ghosts, and after they die, they are placed there." ”
On the second day of Xu Sheng's resurrection, a birdcatcher with the same name and surname as him died next to the yamen. When Wang Qian heard about this matter, he was invited to inquire, and Xu Sheng told what he had seen and heard in Yamingguo again, Wang Qian was very disgusted by the sentence "meet soon", and his face became gloomy. Listening to Xu Sheng's description, the black-faced man was the deceased Wu Xiangguo. Wang Qian was hand-picked by Wu Xiangguo, so he burned some paper money for Wu Xiangguo every festival.
After listening to Xu Sheng's story, Wang Qian immediately bought 100,000 pieces of high-grade yellow paper and burned them. In March of the following year, Wang Qian died. "The Legend of Hedong".
The god of the South Mountain
When Cao Du'an was young, he studied under Luo Shugong, who was an old talent and liked to help people. One day, the god of Zhongnan Mountain came to the altar and called Luo Shugong a young master and called himself an old servant.
Shugong was surprised and asked, "You are a god, when did you serve in my house?"The other party said (writing): "Ask the prime minister to know." "Xiang Gong is Luo Shugong's third uncle. After the third uncle arrived, he talked to the god for a long time, and the god left, and he said to Shugong: "There is indeed such a person, surnamed Zhang, your grandfather was in charge of guarding the door when he was alive, and he was a diligent and loyal person. ”
The third uncle also introduced that when Zhang died of old age in the Luo family, he was buried next to the grave of Shugong's grandfather, and he would also burn a piece of paper money when he went to the grave.
There are two kinds of symbols for Luo Shugong to invite the gods, one is to write a certain name to summon the invitation, and the other is not to write the name and let the gods come by themselves. After that, he often invited Zhang to come to the altar. Sometimes when the patient is asked how to do it, Zhang will not practice medicine. One time, Shugong's mother was sick and begged bitterly, and Zhang said, "Wait a minute, I'll ask you about the ghost who understands medical skills." After a long time, I wrote down a prescription, and Shugong's mother took the medicine according to the prescription and recovered.
For a period of time, Zhang did not come many times. Finally invited and asked the reason, Zhang said: "I was promoted to the head of Zhongnan Mountain God, and I am very busy these days." ”
Later, when Shugong invited God, he wrote Zhang, the head of the god of Zhongnan Mountain, and Zhang arrived for a long time, saying: "Don't write the position in the future, just write the name." If you write a position, the entourage will prepare horses, find dependents, and change into formal clothes, which is very troublesome. Just write my name and you'll come quietly. ”
Zhang also warned Shugong not to invite God without writing his name, which is easy to attract lonely souls and evil ghosts. Shugong often told his students about Zhang, and in the end he always said: "A gatekeeper who cultivates hard will become a god, let alone you scholars." Be a good man!"Cave Spirit Chronicles".