Author: Anonymous

Zhang Jianqi, Xue Kui, Ji Zhen, Liu Yuanding, Zhang Liben, Yao Kun, Yin Ming, Wei's son

Zhang Jianxi

Zhang Jianqi, a native of Nanyang, at the end of the first year of Zhen in the Tang Dynasty, played with eagles between Xu Si. It was a sunny day, and the eagle could not catch anything, so it flapped its wings and flew into the clouds. Zhang Jianxi stared at the eagle's trail and chased after his companions separately. Soon it was dark, and about a watch, I came to an ancient tomb unconsciously. Suddenly, a candle appeared, and when I approached, I saw the light peeking out of a tomb. When I stepped forward to take a closer look, I saw a fox leaning against the table, reading a pamphlet earnestly. There was a group of rats beside it, adding tea and giving fruits, all of them bowing like people. Zhang Jianqi scolded it angrily, and the fox was frightened and wanted to run away, so he packed up the booklet and ran to the deep black hole to hide. Zhang Jianqi picked up a booklet with an eagle rod and went home. On the fourth watch, I heard the sound of someone outside the house shouting for a booklet, and I went out to look for it, but I couldn't see anything. When it was dawn, there was no sound, and from then on he kept asking for it every night. Zhang Jianqi was deeply surprised by this, so he carried the pamphlet to the city, wanting to show the pamphlet to people. About three or four miles from the city, they suddenly met an acquaintance, saluted each other, and asked where they were going. Zhang Jianqi took out the booklet and told about the situation of meeting the fox, and the man was also surprised and funny, took the booklet, and left quickly on a horse. And looked back at Zhang Jianqi and said, "Thank you for returning the booklet to me." Zhang Jianqi hurriedly chased after him. The man became a fox, and the horse became a roe deer, and he could not catch up. When I turned around and entered the city, I interviewed acquaintances who lived here, and my friend was at home and didn't go out, only to realize that it was a fox who had come to grab the book. The book is bound in the same way as a man, and the paper and ink are the same. It's all fox text, I don't know it. Zhang Jianqi still remembered the first three lines of text, so he recorded them for others to see.

Xue Kui

In the last years of Zhenyuan of the Tang Dynasty, Xue Kui, the general of Xiaowei, lived in the north of Longxingguan in Yongning County. There are many demon foxes in the residence, running around at night, and they are not afraid of meeting people, Xue Kui's whole family is very scared, and they don't know what to do. Some people said to him: "The demon fox is most afraid of hunting dogs, and there are many eagle dogs in the house of the neighbor Li Taiwei to the west, so why not borrow the best of them and let the dogs guard against foxes at night." Xue Kui deeply thought that it was right, so he went to visit the children of the western neighbor and told him in detail about his family, and the children of the Li family were overjoyed when they heard it, and handed them to him with three dogs. There was a moon that night, Xue Kui let go of the dog, and the people in the family watched the dog. Then he saw that all the three dogs were tied to the reins, and the three foxes rode on them, running in the yard, east, west, south, and north, as they pleased. When it was dawn, the three dogs were sleepy and tired, and they slept and did not eat. As soon as it was dark, he was ridden by a fox to hit a ball in the courtyard and have fun, running around in the spacious yard, and when the dog stopped for a moment, he immediately whipped Xue with a whip. Kui had no choice but to move.

Count the truth

During the Yuanhe period of the Tang Dynasty, there was a person named Ji Zhen who lived between Qingzhou and Qizhou. Once went west to Chang'an to play, and when he arrived in Shaanzhou, Ji Zhen was very friendly with a staff member in Shaanzhou. On this day, he was going to say goodbye to his staff, who left him to drink and did not part with him until dark. After walking less than ten miles, he fell off his horse without realizing it, and the two servants went forward with their coats. By the time Ji Zhen woke up, it was already dark and the horse had left on his own. Because he saw horse urine on the north road, he went to look for it, but he walked a few miles. Suddenly, I saw a tall red gate, and the locust and willow trees grew luxuriantly. Ji Zhen had lost his servants and horses, and he was very unhappy, so he went to knock on the red door, which was locked. When a servant came out to visit, Ji Zhen asked, "Whose residence is this?" and replied, "It's Li Wailang's villa." Ji Zhen asked to go in and see him, and the servant hurriedly went to report. Soon, the guests were invited in and placed in the guest room. As soon as I entered the door, there was a guest accommodation in the north that was very clean and bright, and the barriers installed were all ancient landscapes and famous paintings, as well as classics, bedding and beds, etc., most of which were clean and not luxurious. Ji Zhen sat for a long time, and the servant came out and said, "The master is about to arrive." "In a moment there was a man, about fifty years old, wearing a red court robe with silver patterns, and his appearance was very majestic. Ji Zhen thus explained in detail that the staff of Shaanzhou were old friends, and that they had left themselves to drink, and that they had fallen drunk on the way, and before they knew it, it was dark, and the servants and horses had been separated, so could they have borrowed a night here? Li Wailang said: "I am just worried that this place is shabby, narrow, and cannot accommodate distinguished guests, do I still hate you?" Ji Zhen apologized to him ashamedly, and Li Wailang said: "I used to be a staff member in Shuzhou, and I left my post soon due to illness, and now I am retiring here." So when I talked to him, I said things that were profound and intelligent, and Ji Zhen envied him very much. Li Wailang ordered the servants to look for Ji Zhen's servants and horses, and soon found them, so he let Ji Zhen live here, and then set up a banquet to eat together, and after eating, he drank a few glasses of wine and went to sleep. The next day, Ji Zhen got up early and told him that he was leaving, and Li Wailang said, "I hope to stay together for another day and be happy." Ji Zhen was very touched by his heart, so he stayed and said goodbye the next day. When I arrived in the capital and lived for more than a month, someone knocked on the door and introduced me as Jinshi Dugu Swamp, Ji Zhen sat down to talk to him, very smart and good at arguing. And said to Ji Zhen: "My family lives in Shaanzhou, yesterday I went west, passing by Li Wailang's house, he talked about and kept praising you, and he planned to marry his daughter to you, so let me meet and tell you, what do you think?" Ji Zhen happily agreed to him, Dugu Nuan said: "I am going back to Shaanzhou now, when you go home to the east, you should visit Li Wailang, and thank him for his heart." "And they parted. A month later, when Ji Zhen went back, he visited Li Wailang's villa, Li Wailang was very happy to see Ji Zhen coming, Ji Zhen said Dugu Nuan's words, and thanked him by the way, Li Wailang left Ji Zhen to live, and found a good day to hold a wedding. His wife's face is very beautiful, and she is smart and gentle, Ji Zhen lived for a month before taking her back to her home in Qingzhou and Qizhou, and since then Li Wailang's information has been coming non-stop. Ji Zhen believed in Taoism, and every morning when he got up, he read the "Huangting Neijing Jingjing", and Li often stopped him and said: "You like Taoism, can you compare it to the Qin Emperor and Han Wu? The power of pursuing the way to become immortals is comparable to that of the Qin Emperor and Han Wu? The two of them are the noble sons of heaven, who occupy the whole world and exhaust the world's financial resources to learn the way of becoming immortals, and one dies in the sand dunes and the other is buried in Maoling, not to mention that you are just an ordinary person, but you have to be confused by the matter of seeking immortals?" Ji Zhen told her to talk nonsense, and after reading the whole book, he thought that his wife was a person who knew how to seek immortals, and he didn't suspect that she was another type. More than a year later, Ji Zhen took his family to the capital to listen to the election as an official, to the outskirts of Shaanzhou, Li Wailang left his daughter, let Ji Zhen come to Beijing to learn, the autumn of the second year, the election appointed him to Yanzhou to join the army, Li followed him to take office. A few years later, he was dismissed from his post and returned to his hometown. After more than ten years, the Li family gave birth to seven sons and two daughters, and their qualifications and appearance surpassed ordinary people. Although Li is old, he is still dignified and beautiful, no different from when he was a teenager. Ji Zhen liked her even more. Not long after, she became very ill, and Ji Zhen ran around begging the doctor to find a wizard, but he tried everything, but he was never cured. One morning, he withdrew the others, held Ji Zhen's hand, whimpered and wept, and said: "I know that the time of death is coming, but I still have to endure shame and tell you what is in my heart, I hope you can forgive my sins and let me finish my words." As he spoke, he was sobbing and couldn't bear it anymore. Ji Zhen also wept for her, and comforted her, and she said: "I really know that I will be reproached by you, and then I see that the nine children are still there, and they will become a burden to you, and I feel that I should speak the truth, and besides, I am not human, and I am destined to be your wife, so that I can serve you for twenty years with the humble body of a fox, and I have not committed the slightest mistake, so I have not caused you sorrow because I am of other kinds." With the sincerity of a woman's blood, it can be said that she has done her best to dedicate herself. Now I want to leave you, I dare not entrust you with the remaining breath of the illusion, and then I think that the child and the weak girl are in front of me, and they are all born by the people of the world in order to continue the race, and when I swallow my breath, I hope you will think of the childish heart of the children a little, do not regard my bones as enemies, and be able to preserve the corpse and bury it in the soil, which is a gift to me for a hundred lifetimes. After speaking, he became sad again, tears fell one after another, Ji Zhen was in a trance and was very sad, choked and speechless, and cried for a long time. Li covered his head with a quilt and lay with his back against the wall, about the time of a meal, there was no sound, Ji Zhen lifted the quilt and saw a fox dead in the quilt. Ji Zhen was particularly sentimental and mourned her, and held a ceremony for her to be buried in the same way as human etiquette. Ji Zhen went all the way to Shaanzhou, visited Li Wailang's residence, the abandoned cemetery, overgrown with thorns, quietly nothing, and returned home in a melancholy mood. After more than a year, the seven sons and two daughters died one after another, looking at their corpses, they were all people, and Ji Zhen never had a disgust.

Liu Yuanding

Legend has it in the past that the wild fox, also known as the purple fox, flicked its tail out of Mars at night, and was about to make a monster, so it was necessary to wear a dead man's skull and kowtow to the Big Dipper, and the dead man's skull would become a human if it did not fall off. When Liu Yuanding did the history of Caizhou, Caizhou had just been captured, and there were a lot of foxes, Liu Yuanding sent officials to be responsible for capturing them, and let go of the hounds in the area of the stadium every day, chasing foxes for fun, and killing more than 100 foxes a year. After chasing a fox covered in scabies, he released five or six hounds, but they did not dare to chase it, and the fox did not run. Liu Yuanding was particularly surprised, and ordered people to visit the hunting dogs of the general's house and the big hunting dogs that the prison army also boasted about. It was a long time before the fox moved slowly, until he walked up to the hall, through the platform, out of the back hall, and when he reached the city wall, he suddenly lost his tracks. Liu Yuanding never again ordered the fox to be captured. There is a so-called "Heavenly Fox Don't Practice Method" in Taoism, which says that the Heavenly Fox has nine tails, golden hair, serves in the Sun Palace and the Moon Palace, has talismans, can pray to the gods to avoid disasters, and can gain insight into the changes of yin and yang.

Zhang Liben

Yao Kun

Yin Yin

Yin Ying, who was once admitted to the Jinshi examination, failed the examination, and became the lieutenant of Jinyang County, Taiyuan. After resigning, he retired and lived in the suburbs, and he was very comfortable dancing and writing every day. Suddenly, one day, a man in white came to ask for a meeting, claiming to be a native of Wuxing, surnamed Zhu, who loved to study in his early years, and privately listened to the public that you were very conceited in your articles and studies, and was willing to learn from you, so as not to be rejected by you. Yin Ying invited him into the house and talked to him. And ask for his opinion. He himself said: "In his early years, he and Wang Yushi worked in the North Ya of the Praetorian Guard, and now they have lived in Wang Yushi's villa for many years. Since then, he has come every four days, and he is quick to argue and analyze as he wants, and his language is elegant, and Yin Ying loves him very much. Yin Ying therefore said to him: "You are good at speaking and eloquent, and your truth is profound, you should go to the county to lobby and be a distinguished guest of the prince's family, why are you willing to sink into passivity and live in the mountains and trees?" Zhu Sheng said: "It's not that I don't want to meet the prince, but I'm afraid that I will encounter unexpected disasters in the morning and evening." Yin Ying said: "Why do you say such inauspicious words?" Zhu Sheng said: "Since the beginning of this year, I have been dreaming and divination with signs of desperation. Yin Ying used words to persuade and comfort him. Zhu Sheng looked ashamed. Later, on the day of the Double Ninth Festival, someone gave Yin Ying a bottle of strong and mellow wine, and Zhu Sheng also came, so he poured wine for him to drink. Zhu Sheng began to say that he did not dare to drink because of his illness, and after a while he said: "How dare you not make the master happy when you meet during the festival?" He poured a full glass of wine and drank it, and after a meal, he was drunk and said goodbye home, and before he had walked dozens of steps, he suddenly fell to the ground and turned into an old fox, so drunk that he couldn't move. Yin Ying killed the fox, and then went to visit Wang Yushi's villa. An old farmer said to Yin Ying: "Wang Yushi and his lieutenant generals, when they were guarding Lanchuan a few years ago, they fell ill and died, and it has been many years, and the cemetery is dozens of steps away from the north of the village. Yin Ying ordered his servants to look for Wang Yushi's grave, and sure enough, there was a cave. Yin Ying later made the imperial history. Said it in private. It was the early years of the Taihe period of the Tang Dynasty.

Wechsler's son

Du Ling's Wei family lives in Hancheng, and there is a villa more than ten miles north of the city. Tang Wenzong came out of the city to play in the autumn of ten years, it was almost dark, and he saw a woman wearing white clothes and carrying a scoop, coming from the north, and the woman said to Wei Shizi: "I have lived in the township in the north of the city for several years, and my family is very poor, and now I am insulted by Lixu, and I am ready to go to the government to complain." I hope you can write this down with pen and paper, and I will take it to the city and take revenge. Webster agreed to her, and the woman sat down on the ground with a gesture for Webster. He took a wine glass from his clothes and said, "There is wine in the scoop, and I am willing to drink with you until I am drunk." So he poured a glass of wine for Webster. Webster was about to raise his wine glass when a hunter on horseback came from the west, carrying a few dogs. When the woman saw it from afar, she walked a few dozen steps east and turned into a fox. Wei Shizi was very frightened, looking at the wine glass in his hand, it turned out to be a human skull, and the wine looked like cow urine. As a result, Webster contracted a fever, and it took more than a month to recover.

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