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The governor of Yangzhou and the general Liang Gong, dissolved the township, carried the wine on the day, and traveled among the forests and hills.
Will climb high on the ninth day and play with the guest. Suddenly, a person came, patrolling the side of the bureau, and couldn't play. Look at it, the eyes are cold and thrifty, and the hanging quail is knotted. However, he is gentle and has a scribe style. The public salute is sitting. He is also very humble. He said: "Mr. should be good at this, why not fight against the guest?" "When his people are not grateful, they are in the game. The game ended up losing, and his expression was hot, if he didn't do it himself. Burdened and negative, and ashamed. Drink it with wine, and don't drink it, but drag the guest game. From morning to sun, not to mention drowning. Fang fought for the road with one son, the two chattered with each other, and suddenly the scholar left the seat in horror, looking depressed. Shao room, bent his knees to the public seat, defeated and begged for help. The public was shocked and suspicious, and said: "Joke, why is it?" The scholar said: "Begging to pay the people, don't tie the neck of the little student." The public was different and asked, "Who is the Yuan?" He said, "Ma Cheng." ”
First of all, the public servants are impermanent, often entering the underworld for more than ten days, and taking pictures to serve as hooks. The public scholars speak differently, so that people look at it, and they have been lying on the ground for two days. The public is not rude. At a glance, the scholar died instantly. The public sighed for a long time, but he realized his ghost. In the past day, Ma Chengliao was summoned to interrogate him. Cheng said: "Scholars and Huxiang people are addicted to games, and their production is exhausted. The father was worried and closed his fast. Jumping out of the wall, stealing the empty place, and playing with the player. When the father hears the criticism, he cannot stop it. The father died of anger and hatred. King Yama was a scholar who was immoral, urged him to live a long life, and was sentenced to a hungry ghost prison for seven years. Will be Dongyue Fenglou Cheng, under the Zhufu, the writer to make a monument. And the king came out of prison, and he redeemed himself when he was called. Unintentionally, the middle way is postponed, and the deadline is great. Emperor Yue made Zhicao ask the king for the crime. The king was angry, so that the villains searched for it. He inherited the master's order, so he did not dare to tie it with a bondage. He asked, "What is the matter today?" He said, "If you still pay the jailer, you will never live." Gong sighed and said: "The misguided person who is addicted is also like a husband!" ”
Yi Shi said: "When I see Yi, I forget his death; and his death, seeing the game and forgetting his life. What is more important than the living? However, the habit is like this, and he has not yet obtained a high level, and in vain under the nine springs, there are ghosts who will never die. Sad! ”
Translations. Liang Gong, the governor of Yangzhou, resigned and returned to his hometown to live, carrying chess and wine every day to play among the green mountains and green forests. On September 9, the Chung Yeung Festival, Liang Gong and the guests played chess for fun. Suddenly, a man came, lingered beside the chess game, and did not leave after a long time. Looking at his appearance, he was very poor, and his clothes were in tatters. But his demeanor is gentle and elegant, with the demeanor of a literati. He sat down very humbly. Liang Gong pointed to the chess and said to him: "Mr. must have good chess skills, why don't you play against the guests?" He politely pushed for a moment before he started playing with the guest. After the first game, he lost, looking frustrated and anxious, as if he couldn't control himself. After defeat, he became even more annoyed. Invite him to drink, and he doesn't drink, just pulls the guest to continue playing chess.
From morning until the sun set in the west, he didn't have time to urinate. Just when the two sides were arguing because of a chess piece, suddenly the scholar left his seat and stood there in fear, looking miserable and depressed. After a while, he knelt down to Liang Gong and kowtowed to ask for help. Liang Gong was very surprised, got up and helped him and said, "It was originally a game, why is this so?" The scholar said, "Please tell the horse breeder, don't ** my neck." Liang Gong felt even more strange and asked, "Who is the horse breeder?" He replied, "Ma Cheng." ”
It turned out that Ma Cheng, a horse-raising servant of Duke Liang, acted as a ghost official in the underworld, and often entered the underworld once every ten days, taking the documents of the underworld to capture souls. Liang Gong thought that the scholar's words were very peculiar, so he sent someone to see Ma Cheng, and sure enough, he had been in bed for two days. Liang Gong then scolded Ma Cheng not to be rude to scholars. In the blink of an eye, the scholar fell on the spot and disappeared. Liang Gong sighed for a long time, and then he realized that the scholar turned out to be a ghost.
One day later, Ma Cheng woke up, and Liang Gong summoned him to ask about it. Ma Cheng said: "The scholar is a native of Huxiang, and he has a habit of playing chess, and his family property has been wiped out. His father was worried about his affairs and locked him in his study, but he always went out over the wall, secretly hid in a place where no one was around, and continued to associate with people who loved to play chess. When his father heard about it, he scolded him, but he couldn't stop it, and his father died of anger and hatred. Because of his lack of virtue, Hades reduced his life expectancy and was sentenced to the Hungry Ghost Prison, which has been seven years now. Later, when the Dongyue Wind Tower was completed, the following notified the prefectures and recruited literati to write inscriptions. Hades released the scholar from prison and sent him to answer the call to atone for his sins. Unexpectedly, he delayed on the way and delayed the deadline. Emperor Dongyue sent officials on duty to ask the king of Hades. Hades was furious and sent us to hunt him down. The day before yesterday, I accepted your orders and didn't dare to use a rope to ** him. Liang Gong asked, "How is his condition today?" Ma Cheng said: "He was still handed over to the prison guards, and there was no time to survive." Liang Gong sighed and said: "The habit of misleading people has reached such a point! ”
Yi Shi said: "When you see a game of chess, you forget that you are dead; When he died, he saw playing chess and forgot that he still had a chance to be reincarnated in the yang world. Doesn't that mean that what he likes is more important than life? However, it seems that at this level, he has not yet learned a high hand of chess, so he can only make many chess ghosts under Jiuquan who do not want to be reincarnated in the Yang world. It's so sad! ”
Not only does it have a positive message about not being a playful object, but it's also very clever in its storytelling.
Titled "Chess Ghost", it does not start with a chess ghost, but borrows others first. Start with the word "chess" alone. Playing chess is an elegant thing, and Liang Gong "brings chess wine every day and travels among the woods and hills", which is more elegant. However, the author aims to form a contrast with the rest of the text, to show that one should not indulge in it and become addicted. The more elegant it is written here, the more it explains what the chess ghost does**, so the author writes about the height of the nine, drinking and playing chess and the elegance is full of joy, the pen turns, "suddenly a person comes", and turns to the main topic.
Since he is addicted to chess, his chess skills must be good, but the chess ghost loses a game in the next game, which is unexpected. The author describes his expression here beautifully. Losing the first game, "look hot". Losing the second game, "being ashamed of the indignation", the more you lose, the more you pull others down, until you "don't let go of drowning", this description is particularly real to life, so that we can see them as if they were people. The ambition of losing chess is written realistically, but losing chess is always a common thing, which is not surprising, and here the author is surprisingly written, because of losing chess, he actually "looks miserable" and "begs for salvation in defeat", which is unexpected. Then, insert a Ma Cheng, which points out the identity of the ghost. The writing is extremely turbulent.
Writing this, the author used a few sentences of "Yue Ri" to slow down the gesture and recount the origin of the chess ghost through Ma Chengzhi's mouth. As the author said, this person forgot to die when he saw Yi, and after he died, he forgot about the major event of reincarnation, and finally ended up with a tragic result of "no life". Again, this is unexpected.
Let's make this assumption, the story starts from "a certain scholar, Huxiang people, addicted to games", and writes to the "middle way extension", that is, the chess ghost plays chess at Liang Gong's place, and then writes Ma Cheng to search, which is not impossible to complete. But this chronological rearrangement is boring. The same "building materials" are arranged and processed differently in the hands of different level authors, and the artistic effects obtained are different from each other. As Lu Xun said, "use the legendary method, and use the Zhi Monster", which integrates the advantages of the Zhi Monster and the legend, so it can reach such a height in the narrative and portrayal of character.