"Strange Tales from Liaozhai" can be called the industry benchmark of China's strange **. Among them, there are more than 490 stories, the content is wonderful and substantial, the plot is bizarre and vivid, whether it is fairy, fox, ghost and demon, strange anecdotes, can be described as popular and well-known. A considerable part of the stories have provided valuable script materials for a large number of film and television dramas.What I want to share with you today is a little story of eliminating demons by mistake and crookedly:
China's Qing Dynasty ** family Pu Songling's literary short story ** collection "Liao Zhai Zhi Wei").
There was a person named Xu Yuangong (or Xu Yuan) in Changshan County (now Zouping City, Binzhou City, Shandong Province), who was a student of the former Ming Dynasty (in the Ming Dynasty, the students who were admitted to the county school were called Zhusheng). At a time when the world was in turmoil, the Manchurians took advantage of the situation to enter the Central Plains and dominate the world.
Lao Xu probably didn't want to work for a foreign race, so he decided to abandon Confucianism (in this way, he avoided "shaving his hair and making it easy to wear" - escaping into the empty door and becoming a monk was the ideal choice for most feudal literati who were unwilling to cooperate with the Manchu Qing Dynasty at that time).
Perhaps he was gifted, intelligent and agile, he was self-taught, and spent several years learning the "art of Chì Lè" (Taoist priests draw talismans and write spells to control ghosts and evils, and the word "edict" must be written on the spell to be Yole, hence the name), which can be regarded as a slight success, and is famous far and wide in ten miles and eight towns.
Hong Kong actor Lin Zhengying plays the "zombie Taoist".
There is a local tyrant in the next county, let's call him "Ma Yuanwai" (the original text is unknown), one day prepared banknotes, silver and eagerly worded invitations, and ordered the servants to lead the horse to the old Xu Mansion to wait. Lao Xu was puzzled, so he asked, "Invite me to the meeting, is there any entrusted business?" ”
The servant replied stupidly: "I don't know, even if the master ordered to invite Xu Ye to come with his face." When Lao Xu saw the white silver, he did not doubt him, and happily went to the appointment.
When I arrived at Mafu, I had ordered someone to set up a full banquet in the courtyard, and respectfully invited Lao Xu to take a seat, serving tea, handing cigarettes, and toasting with vegetables, so thoughtful! But Lao Xu was full of suspicions, wondering in his heart---What is this asking me to do?" He couldn't help asking: "Mr. Ma, as the so-called 'no merit is not rewarded', the villain doesn't know what Your Excellency has to entrust?" "It's okay, it's okay, multiple friends and multiple roads, there is wine today and drunk today, but it doesn't hurt to drink." Come on, come on! Let's go again, I'll do it first! The horseman said, raising his glass, tilting his neck and drinking it all.
A banquet for the Qing Dynasty.
Lao Xu saw him flickering and concealing, and always felt that something was wrong, but because of the etiquette, it was inconvenient to break the casserole and ask to the end, so he could only continue to socialize with the horsemen. The two chatted about gossip and commented on current affairs, talking endlessly, and before they knew it, it was already sunset and twilight was deep.
The housekeeper leaned forward and whispered to the outside of the horseman, and the outsider understood, raised his hand and high-fived the servant to clean up the wine table, and then turned his head to Lao Xu and said with a smile on his face: "Please sir, deign to move to the back garden, let's have a second drink." ”
Come to the back garden of Mafu, ho! The scenery here is pleasant, the structure is exquisite, and it is almost in line with the Changchun Garden in the capital (a favorite place of the Kangxi Emperor). But seeing that the bamboo forest in the garden is towering, impermeable to sunlight, exuding a trace of cold chill; The flowers in the flower bed are scattered and hidden in waist-deep weeds, showing three points of loneliness.
They walked into an attic where the spider webs on the floor were intricately layered like holes--- how long had it been since no one had taken care of it!?
However, Lao Xu had already drunk seven meat and eight vegetables, and he didn't pay too much attention to these details. He and the horsemen went outside in the main hall of the attic and changed the glasses and wined several times. Seeing the treetops on the moon and the starry sky, the horsemen ordered people to light the fire and light the wax, and fight at night. (This guy is a lot!) After all, Lao Xu was not strong enough to drink, and frequently asked for mercy and was defeated.
The horseman drank Lao Xu outside, and was finally satisfied, and then "stopped drinking and calling tea". As soon as he gave the order, the servants were busy, going in and out, packing up the scraps, the rice bowls and dishes on the table in a side room on the left. After removing the wine vessel and replacing it with a tea set, he and Lao Xu drank "sobering tea" again.
But before the "soak" was drunk, the horsemen hurriedly left the table on the grounds of "releasing water". (After drinking so much, I finally remember to pee?) Seeing this, the servant helped Lao Xu into the room on the left with a candle in his hand, and then he stood the candle on top of the case and walked away without looking back.
Seeing the servant leave in a hurry, Lao Xu thought that he was going to get the futon and then come back to spend the night with his companions. (What?) Are you afraid of bedwetting when you sleep alone? But the left waited and did not come, and the right waited and did not come, it was simply that the yellow crane was gone forever, and he never saw half a figure again. The impatient Lao Xu couldn't help but scold: "Impolite minion!" Then he closed the door and got into the bed.
The bright moonlight outside the window penetrated into the room and sprinkled on the bed, accompanied by the chirping of birds and insects on the branches. (Shouldn't it be easier to fall asleep, right?) ）
Suddenly, there was a creaking sound from the floor of the attic, and it seemed that someone was walking upstairs! The man walked more and more urgently, and soon went down the ladder to the door of the wing! Lao Xu was frightened, his hair stood on end, and he was so frightened that he covered his head with a quilt and became a "shrunken turtle". (That's too cowardly, isn't it!?) ）
It was too late, and the door was slammed open. Old Xu shivered, pulled a thin slit from the corner of the quilt, and quietly peeked out. This doesn't matter, it's startled when you look at it, and it's a good girl! What caught Lao Xu's eyes was a beast-headed human body, covered with long and hard black hair like a horse's mantle! The guy grinned, revealing white teeth as sharp as a mountain peak; The two eyes shoot out a 24k titanium alloy glow, which is aggressive.
It quickly crawled to the side of the table at the head of the bed, and leaned down to suck the leftovers on the table. ("Messenger of the Altar of Purification"?) A long tongue swung left and right, swept the table, and licked all the dishes, chopsticks, dishes and spoons. After eating and drinking, it approached the edge of the bed again, sniffed east and west towards the futon that Lao Xu was hiding, and was about to find Lao Xu.
Lao Xu, who was nested in the quilt, was already sweating profusely, and the alcohol was emitted with his pores, and he was no longer drunk. At this time, he had nothing to hide, no way to hide, and it was a time when he was extremely embarrassed and helpless. Suddenly, he had an idea, and instead of sitting still, he should fight hard.
The monster just came to Lao Xu, and Lao Xu took the opportunity to turn over and jump up, and suddenly raised the futon to wrap around the monster's head, and hit it by surprise. The monster's eyes suddenly darkened, and he didn't know which way the fairy was hidden in the nest, so he was so frightened that he flew away and slammed into the attic door with a strange scream, and ran wildly to escape.
Lao Xu didn't dare to stay in this place for a long time, (there are other monsters living upstairs.) He quickly got out of bed, spread his legs, and ran away. I ran to the gate of the garden only to find that the door was actually locked from the outside! Lao Xu had 10,000 grass and mud horses galloping by, but now is definitely not a good time to scold his mother, and he can't care about much, so he can only slip along the wall like a mouse.
Coming to a collapsed gap, he climbed out--- only to fall into the stable. The horses were frightened, neighing and kicking, and the groom followed the sound and found Lao Xu, who had fallen into a dog and gnawed on. The frightened old Xu trembled like chaff and told the groom what had happened to him, and begged to be dealt with in the stable for a night. (Scared?) ）
When the sky was dark, the horsemen sent people to the garden to wait for Lao Xu to get up, only to find that the guests had disappeared unexpectedly. The horses made a noise up and down, searched the mountains and Haiti, and finally found Lao Xu leaning on a horse and napping in the stable.
When Lao Xu saw Ma Yuanwai, he angrily scolded: "Ma Huateng, you bastard, I x you are an ancestor!" Lao Tzu learned the art of exorcism and evil spirits, not the method of subduing demons and eliminating monsters, (the original subjects are different?) Feelings: You have a C2 driver's license? You invited me to come and didn't explain anything, and you pretended to be stupid. Besides, I have a Ruyi hook (a magic weapon) in my backpack, and you don't send me to the side room and let me fight monsters and upgrade with my bare hands, why do you want to trap me!? ”
The horseman smiled and apologized: "Stop the anger and stop the anger, the old man originally meant to worry that if he told the truth, His Excellency would know the difficulty and retreat, so he did not say it clearly." Besides, if we knew that you had a magic weapon in your backpack, why wouldn't we give it to you? How much offense, damn it. You have a lot of adults, and you also look at the sea and the sea. As he spoke, he asked the butler to hand over a big red envelope.
But Lao Xu Yu was still angry, and spitted: "I'll go to your grandmother's legs!" Grandpa, I don't play anymore. Let's go home and say goodbye! With that, he went straight out, turned over his horse, rode into the dust, and never looked back.
But the strange thing is that Ma Fu has not made any strange trouble since this incident, and the horse staff started a party in the garden with confidence, and proudly showed off to the guests: "Everyone is here to enjoy the light and spend a good night together, this is all the credit of Mr. Xu Hahahaha." ”
That's the end of the story, but in the end, I didn't understand who the monster Lao Xu encountered in the attic? I don't know why it stopped making waves and disappeared after this scare, isn't it too cowardly? And the horse clerk invited Lao Xu to come to the mansion to get rid of the demon but did not say anything, not only (inadvertently) took away his magic weapon, but also locked him in the garden, this is confidence in Lao Xu's Taoist honey? If the practice fails, and Lao Xu is killed in Mafu, Ma Yuanwai is not afraid of taking a life lawsuit and being claimed by Xu's family?
At the end of the original story, according to the habit of Zhiwei notes**, the author Mr. Pu Songling also added his own comments: "The so-called 'no matter whether the yellow cat is a black cat, catching a mouse is a good cat.'" That's not just an empty phrase. (Original text: "Yellow civet black raccoon, the one who gets the rat is male.") This is not empty words. If Lao Xu relied on a preemptive strike to drive away the monster by surprise, pretending to be calm and lying that he had successfully cast a spell to eliminate the monster, wouldn't everyone have to compete to praise 'Mr. Xu is really a race fairy!' ’）
It can be seen that even Pu Songling understands marketing theory and the importance of advertising. It can also be seen from the side that Lao Xu is really a temperamental person with one thing to say, and it is no wonder that he would rather become a monk and give up his career and not work for the Manchu Dynasty.
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