Chapter 60: The Dove Occupies the Magpie's Nest (1) (1)
During the Qing Dynasty, there was an old man named Zhou who sold tofu in the store street of Luo Shi, Henan. He often got up early and stayed late at night while making and selling tofu.
One evening in late summer, Old Man Zhou finished selling tofu and drove his donkey cart home. As he drove the cart, Old Man Zhou hummed a Henan tune: "Kou Zhun, let me come down. As I walked, I was thinking about a yin and yang plan..."
"Unknowingly, we arrived at Wudu River Bridge.
At this time, suddenly there was a sound of a woman crying.
The old man followed the sound and saw a woman with disheveled hair curled up pitifully on the bridge. Old man Zhou has been doing good deeds all his life. How could he not ask questions when he encountered such a miserable situation today?
"Uu——"
Old man Zhou stopped his donkey, got out of the car, walked towards the woman, and asked kindly: "Little woman, why are you crying on the bridge so late?" Unexpectedly, the woman didn't even raise her head and screamed.
"Old man, why are you asking me? You go!" Old man Zhou didn't care about the rudeness of the woman. He just felt it was a bit strange, so he asked gently: "Good girl, what do you want to do with me?"
I told you, maybe I can help you!"
The woman with the hair raised her head with a cry, and Old Man Zhou shivered. The woman had a grimace, a long red tongue that was constantly stretching, her mouth was particularly ugly, and her nostrils were like two bamboo tubes.
The top of his nose was completely black. Old man Zhou, who had always been bold, broke out in a cold sweat and thought: Could it be that I really encountered a ghost?
The female ghost said: "Old man, since you asked, I will tell you, you are not allowed to tell anyone. My home used to be in Wudu Village, Qiaonan, and because I was angry with my sister-in-law, I jumped into the Huihe River three years ago.
, I was only seventeen years old at that time. I was very depressed as a new ghost, and they would not let me find a scapegoat. Tomorrow night, my ghost age will be three years, and they have allowed me to find a substitute, and I have already found one.
Haha!" The female ghost let out a sinister and scary laugh.
Old man Zhou bravely asked: "My dear daughter, can you tell me who your substitute is?"
"It's Yue Mei, the evil daughter-in-law of old man Zhou who sells tofu in the store. Her opposite daughter-in-law, Zhou Cai, is virtuous and filial. I don't want her."
Old man Zhou almost screamed when he heard this: Oh my, wasn't the substitute she found her own daughter-in-law? My wife is known far and wide as a good wife. Who doesn't know that the daughter-in-law of Ercai is a wicked woman?
At this time, he heard a "pop" sound, and a huge white flower seemed to bloom on the water of the Huihe River. Old man Zhou was stunned, and the female ghost disappeared. He quickly got on the donkey cart and hurried home with a whip.
The donkey cart crossed the bridge and passed through an old peach forest before arriving home. Old man Zhou hurriedly called his wife and son Zhou Yin'er, told them the strange thing just now, and gave them many warnings and instructions: "What do you want to say tomorrow night?"
Don’t let Yuemei go out either.”
On the second night, Zhou Yin'er closed the door early, and Yuemei was uncharacteristically silent and just focused on working.
When she was making noodles, she accidentally dropped the earthenware basin from the kang stove and broke it. Old man Zhou thought to himself: Don't blame her. If she makes a noise, she will have to run out. So he smiled and said: "Yuemei, basin
It’s broken, I’ll buy two sturdy ones tomorrow.”
My wife also said with a smile: "Yuemei, you go and light the fire, I'll make some noodles."
Yue Mei entered the room without saying a word. As soon as she pulled the bellows, the bellows rod broke, and she burst into tears, "I want to jump into the river, I can't do anything!" Zhou Yin'er quickly grabbed Yue Mei and said, "The old one won't work.
Go, new ones won’t come, just rest!”
Old man Zhou and his wife felt that the ghost had arrived at home, so they became even more careful.
After dinner, Yuemei carried her son into the house and went to bed. Zhou Yin'er carried the big toilet into the house and tightened the door bolt. Old man Zhou and his wife, one on the left and one on the right, sat on the door outside the door.
In the middle of the night, the house started to commotion.
Yuemei was anxious to go out, but Zhou Yin'er refused to let her go. Yuemei cried loudly, "I want to poop!" "Pooping is just like in the toilet. Look at how big the toilet is!" Zhou Yin'er said warmly. After a while, Yuemei started to make noise again.
She was hungry and wanted to go to the kitchen to cook. Zhou Yin grabbed her and said, "Yuemei, there is a party tomorrow. I will buy you something delicious. There is nothing to eat tonight."
Seeing that she was not allowed to cook, Yuemei quarreled and scolded, and kept tossing. The chicken crowed all over, and Yuemei had no more strength to toss, so she went to bed. Zhou Yin'er still stood by the door, guarding the door.
bolt.
Dongfang gradually turned white, and then he heard someone shouting outside the door. When Old Man Zhou heard it, it turned out that it was Zhou Cai from across the door who was yelling: "Go away, bitch, you'd better die!" Old Man Zhou said to his wife: "You put it
If you open the door, the ghost may have left, and the rooster has crowd three times. I'll go out and check on Ercai, and I may have another fight with his evil woman."
"Alas! A heartless evil woman, it would be better if she died!"
Zhou Zhoucai was standing at the door yelling and cursing. Seeing old man Zhou come out, he said aggrievedly: "Uncle, these days are not too much. A Bao's mother makes a lot of noise every day, and my mother was forced to live in the village livestock house. Like this
It would be better if the woman was dead. She was making a fuss when she woke up just now. I have been angry with her for several years and I have never scolded her. I couldn't bear it, so I started arguing with her. She said she wanted to jump into the Huihe River. Humph, I'm afraid of death.
You are trying to scare me. It would be shameless to die."
When Old Man Zhou heard this, he shouted "No!" and hurried to Wudu Bridge.
At this time, it was already daybreak. Old man Zhou walked through the old peach forest and saw that the Wudu Bridge was full of people. He looked through the crowd and saw Zhou Cai's daughter-in-law lying on the bridge with a bulging belly.
, her lips were tightly closed, as purple as dead pig liver, and her whole body was dripping wet. She had died.
People talked a lot, the soft-hearted ones shed tears, and the hard-hearted ones still cursed: "Evil daughter-in-law deserves what she deserves."
Zhou Cai shed tears sadly. Old man Zhou comforted him
He said: "Er Cai, after all you still have a son to take care of you. Don't be too sad. People will never be resurrected after death." Er Cai wiped his tears and said, "I don't cry for this bitch. Alas, she is good for you.
It’s Ah Bao’s mother, Ah Bao is only two years old!”
Old man Zhou felt very guilty at this time and said: "Er Cai, you also know how Yue Mei is. From now on, A Bao's clothes will be covered by Yue Mei. Please bring your mother back to live with you. If you don't dislike it, A Bao will recognize me."
Be a godfather!"
"Thank you very much, uncle."
At this time, Yuemei and her husband came over with A Bao. After listening to her father-in-law, she nodded and touched A Bao's forehead lovingly, holding back her tears.
Old man Zhou knew that this was Yuemei's disaster, but the ghost went to Ercai's house to find a substitute. Old man Zhou felt deeply guilty, so he specially erected a monument at the head of the Weihe River Bridge and asked someone to write: July 5th
At night, river ghosts come out of the water, so passers-by be careful.
At that time, there were only three people who knew the truth, but now, somehow, almost everyone in the town knows.
(two)
According to legend, in the early years, the leader of hell was not called the King of Hell.
At that time, there was the Jade Emperor in heaven, the emperor in the human world, and the prison emperor in hell.
So what is the origin of the King of Hell?
In ancient times, there was a village called Taipingzhuang. There were many diligent and kind-hearted villagers living in Taipingzhuang. Among them was a man named Yan Wu, who was kind-hearted and popular. On this day, the Prison Emperor checked the book of life and death, and Yan Wu's
When Yang Shou arrived, he sent a bald ghost to capture Yan Wu.
The bald ghost came to the human world and couldn't find Yan Wu, so he asked an old man where Yan Wu lived. Seeing that he didn't look like a human being or a ghost, he asked a few words, "Who are you? Looking for Yan Wu."
Five what?"
The bald-headed ghost told the old man the reason. The old man thought, Yan Wu is such a good person, I have to find a way to save him, so he deceived the bald-headed ghost, ran to Yan Wu's house, and told Yan Wu exactly what happened.
Having said that, he also helped Yan Wu come up with an ingenious idea. Yan Wu took a gourd float, buckled it on the old man's head, got some black dog hair, pierced a hole in the gourd and inserted the black dog hair.
At this time, the bald ghost found Yan Wu's residence. As soon as he saw Yan Wu, he said: "Yan Wu, your life is up, come with me quickly."
Yan Wu said, "Okay! But we'll leave after I finish planting his hair."
The old man also begged with a sharp voice: "Please do it, Yan Wu is in charge of my hair in the world. What should I do if my hair cannot be grown all the way? I will become a bald ghost when I die."
When the bald ghost heard this, he thought to himself: Oh my! Why didn't I know that there are still people in the world who have hair transplants? If I had had hair transplants at that time, wouldn't I have saved myself from being discriminated against in both the world and the underworld? Thinking of this, he shouted loudly:
"No, no, or you'll have to do it to me first."
Yan Wu said: "Okay, I'll plant it for you first." The old man left reluctantly. Yan Wu planted "hair" on the bald ghost.
Besides, the Prison Emperor waited for Yan Wu on his left and the bald ghost on his right did not come back, so he sent two more ghost soldiers to capture Yan Wu. One was the red-eyed ghost and the other was the hunchback ghost. They also inquired about Yan Wu like the bald ghost.
Two young men found out where he lived, and they hurriedly came to tell Yan Wu, and they worked together to figure out a solution.
One young man pretended to have pink eye, and the other pretended to be a man with a strong waist, saying that he came to see Yan Wu for treatment. When the two ghost soldiers walked into Yan Wu's house, one of the two young men shouted that Yan Wu should cure the red eye, and the other shouted that Yan Wu should cure the red eye.
When the two ghost soldiers heard that they could cure hunchback and pinkeye, they shouted that they should be cured first.
So Yan Wu brought the cloth bag and bench that had been prepared, put the red-eyed ghost in the cloth bag, and tied the bow-pot ghost to the bench.
The Prison Emperor became even more impatient while waiting in the underworld, so he rode a thousand-mile horse to catch Yan Wu, but Yan Wu found out about it again.
Yan Wu walked to the pigsty and let an old sow out, fetched a basin of water and brushed and washed it. At this time, the Prison Emperor came and took a look and shouted: "Yan Wu, your life is over, why do you say
You can't come."
Yan Wu said: "I know, I'll be there soon after I clean up Wanliheng."
As soon as the prison emperor heard about Wan Li Heng, he became greedy: I, the prison emperor, only have a thousand miles horse, but he has Wan Li Heng, so he said: "Yan Wu, let's change our mounts."
Yan Wu said, "No, Wan Liheng knows me, and he can't let you ride in those clothes."
The Prison Emperor was afraid that Yan Wu would not change, so he hurriedly said, "Can't we just change our clothes?"
So Yan Wu put on the court clothes of the Prison Emperor, and said: "My horse is slow, I will leave first." At this time, the Prison Emperor put on his clothes, took the old sow, rode on the pig's back, and beat her.
The pig snorted and walked very slowly.
Yan Wu rode a thousand-mile horse and arrived in the underworld in a short while. He climbed onto the throne of the Prison Emperor and shouted to the ghost soldiers below: "Young men, Yan Wu mentioned it and will be here soon. Wait for him."
He will be executed immediately."
Those ghost soldiers only recognized the clothes but not the person. As soon as they caught the prison emperor, they chopped him down. In this way, the prison emperor was hacked to death.
Yan Wu became the prison emperor, but he didn't want to call people the prison emperor, so he just wrote out his name. Unexpectedly, few of the ghost soldiers knew the characters, and some of them read the white characters, so they pronounced the five characters into the character "王".
There are also those who are good at flattering and flattering, adding the character "ye" after the King of Hell. This is the origin of the Lord of Hell.
(three)
Once upon a time, there was a scholar named Zhang Sheng, who was returning from the capital to take the exam. He encountered a heavy rain on the way, and he was soaked like a drowned rat. He walked forward shivering, and suddenly saw an inn in front of him, so he quickened his pace and rushed there.
go.
When he walked into the inn, he saw no one inside. When he was hesitating, he saw a young woman coming down from upstairs. Seeing his appearance, he was frightened at first.
He jumped for a moment, and then asked timidly: "Where did the young master come from?"
"I came back from the capital to take the exam, and it rained on the way, so I ended up like this. Please don't be surprised." He said, twisting his wet clothes with his hands.
This young woman's name was Ah Niu, and she was pretty. When she was sixteen, she married a man named Wu and opened an inn here. I didn't expect that within two years, she would go to the loess, leaving Ah Niu to open a shop to make a living.
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Ah Niu saw that Zhang Sheng looked really embarrassed, so she took out the clothes left by her husband and put them on for him. She also set up a sumptuous table of wine and food for him. Zhang Sheng was very grateful, and while eating, he chatted with Ah Niu. I don’t know.
Unconsciously, the two fell in love. When Zhang Sheng knew that Ah Niu was a widow, he couldn't help but hugged her and said tenderly: "It would be a pity for a beautiful woman like you to stay in an empty house all her life."
Ah Niu was delighted to hear this. In the two years since she had been a widow, she had never met a man she liked who was so affectionate towards her. She was so excited that she said silently with tears in her eyes, "Mr. Zhang, you are so kind."
.However, I’m afraid you won’t recognize me after you leave the store and call me an empty wedding..."
"I'm sorry," Zhang Sheng hurriedly knelt on the ground before she could finish, "When I go back, I will come to pick you up on August 15th this year. If I am half-hearted, I, Zhang Sheng, will be struck by thunder and lightning!
"
Ah Niu shyly helped Zhang Sheng upstairs...
The next day, Zhang Sheng went back. Before leaving, Ah Niu gave him five hundred taels of silver, "It's a long journey, you will need it when you come to pick me up in the future."
Unexpectedly, there was no news from Zhang Sheng after he returned home.
Ah Niu looked around, looking forward to August 15th, and then September 9th, but still no Zhang Sheng came to pick her up. A year passed, and Zhang Sheng's shadow was nowhere to be seen. Ah Niu knew that she had been deceived, and she was sad and angry.
Feeling hopeless, he hanged himself in the woods.
Just then, a tiger passed by. Seeing that Ah Niu was still alive, he pounced on her and snatched her away. After the tiger sucked Ah Niu's blood, he threw her body in the woods. Over time, the sun scorched her.
In the rain, Ah Niu's body turned into a tiger-like ghost. Her eyes were red, glowing with the flames of revenge. She roared, turned three somersaults on the ground, transformed, and turned into a flower-like figure again.
The jade-like young woman looked even more beautiful than before. She sneered and walked towards where Zhang Sheng was.
Suddenly, a tiger blocked her way and asked sharply: "Wu Yigui, where are you going?"
"Thank you for your life-saving grace." Wu Jianggui knelt on the ground and said, "I want to find my husband. He has an appointment with me first. I hope you can be kind and let me go. He is waiting for me.
.”
The tiger nodded and let her go.
After the ghost Wu got the tiger's permission, he walked faster and faster. In a short time, he arrived at Zhangjiacun. But when he was about to enter the village, he was stopped by the land father-in-law and said: "You are not a human being, come into my village."
What are you doing?"
Wu Yigui hurriedly knelt in front of the land father-in-law, crying and telling her story about her love affair with Zhang Sheng, but Zhang Sheng now disappeared, and she came all alone to find her husband from thousands of miles away...
The more Wu Yigui cried, the sadder she became. Her tears flowed like a river. The father-in-law of the land was moved and thought: Since their love is so deep, let them meet. So he let Wu Yigui into the village.
Wu Yigui wiped away his tears and runny nose, and entered the village. When he saw Zhang Sheng sitting at the door, he wanted to show his true colors, pounce on him, and take out Zhang Sheng's heart. But he thought that he had walked such a long way and broke through.
One difficulty after another came to an end, but he still could not eliminate the resentment in his heart, so he shouted: "Husband, I have had such a hard time waiting for you!" and he deliberately burst into tears.
When Zhang Sheng saw Ah Niu coming, he was surprised and happy. He hurriedly helped her into the house and asked, "Why did you come by yourself?"
"What? If you don't come to pick me up, I'll come by myself. Don't you want to?"
"Yes, yes, I'm going to pick you up." Zhang Sheng said happily. But he didn't understand: how did Ah Niu come here after such a long journey? Although he thought so in his heart, he didn't dare to say more.
ask.
It turned out that Zhang Sheng came home that time and told his friends about what happened to him and Ah Niu. When his friends knew that he had money, they tried every possible means to gamble with him. Soon, he lost all his five hundred taels of silver. He was originally a poor scholar.
He failed the exam, so he had to put aside the matter of picking up Ah Niu. As time passed, he gradually forgot about it. Today Ah Niu came to the door in person, and he felt
Naturally, I am indescribably happy.
That night, Wu Yigui and Zhang Sheng worshiped heaven and earth.
The days passed like this, but gradually people discovered that a child was lost every three or five days in the village. Seeing that more than ten children were lost, not even a body was found. People became more and more afraid, so they
Go and invite an elder to investigate and eliminate this evil.
The elder held a sword and summoned one person from every family in the village to gather at the Drum Tower. At this time, he looked over one by one to see who had the evil spirit on his face, and then he knew which house the man-eating ghost was hiding in. When he saw Zhang Sheng,
The elder said to him softly: "Master Zhang, your wife is a cannibal."
"What? What did you say?" Zhang Sheng couldn't believe his ears.
"Your wife is a cannibal," the elder repeated.
Zhang Sheng was stunned. He never expected that his beautiful wife would be called a traitor. He wanted to rush forward and beat this old fool up. But his hands were too weak to lift them up.
.It turned out that he had been sucked away a lot of essence and blood by the Wu Yigui, and his face became sallow and thin, and he could no longer exert any strength.