Ning Caichen, a native of Zhejiang, is generous and bold, and is square and self-respecting. I often say to people, "I have never loved a second woman in my life." ”

Ning Caichen once went to Jinhua, and after arriving in the north of the city, he went into a temple to rest. The pagoda in the main hall of the temple is very magnificent, but the ground is covered with basil that is taller than a person, and there seems to be no trace of people coming and going. The doors of the houses where the monks lived on the east and west sides were hidden, except for the door of a hut on the south side, which seemed to have a new lock hanging on it.

There is a bamboo cultivation in the east corner of the hall, and there is a large pond under the steps, and the wild lotus root is overgrown in it, and it has bloomed. Ning Caichen liked this secluded place very much. At this time, the envoy came to preside over the examination, and the rent of the buildings in the city was very high, so he considered staying here, so he took a walk and waited for the monks in the temple to return.

In the evening, a scholar came to open the door of the south hut. Ning Caichen stepped forward and saluted, and told him that he wanted to stay here. The reader said, "There is no owner here, and I am a person who stays here." You're not afraid to live here in the cold, and it's a great honor for me to be able to ask you for advice sooner or later. Ning Caichen was very happy, spread some artemisia grass as a bed, and set up a wooden board as a table, planning to live here for a few days.

That night, the moonlight was bright, and Ning Caichen and the scholar sat in the corridor of the main hall chatting together, each saying their names. The scholar himself said: "My surname is Yan, and my name is Chixia." Ning Caichen thought that he was a talent who came to take the exam, but listening to his accent, he didn't look like a Zhejiang person at all. So he asked the scholar, and the scholar himself said: I am from Shaanxi. The tone is simple and sincere. When the two finished talking, they went to bed.

Ning Caichen couldn't sleep for a long time because he lived in a strange place. He heard a whisper in the room to the north, as if there was a family living there. He got up and leaned under the stone window of the north wall and took a sneak peek. I saw a woman in her forties in a small courtyard outside the short wall, and an old woman wearing faded red clothes, with a silver comb on her head, looking hunchbacked and senile, and the two were talking under the moon.

The woman said, "Why hasn't Xiao Qian come for a long time?" and the old woman said, "It's almost here." The woman said, "Didn't she complain to her grandmother?" and the old woman replied, "No, but she looked worried." The woman said, "The little girl should not be treated as a confidant." ”

Before he finished speaking, a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old came in, and she seemed to be very beautiful. The old woman smiled and said, "Don't talk about people behind your back, the two of us are talking about you, but I didn't expect you, a little goblin, to come in quietly, fortunately we didn't say anything bad about you." ”

The old woman continued, "The little lady looks like the person in the painting, and if I were a man, I would be swept away by you." The girl said, "If Grandma doesn't praise me, who else will say that I am good?" What the woman and the girl said, Ning Caichen did not hear clearly. He thought it was the whispers of the neighbors, so he lay back on the grass bed and stopped listening to them. After a while, there was silence in the temple.

When Ning Caichen was about to fall asleep, he felt as if someone had entered his bedroom. He hurriedly got up and took a look, and found that it was the girl named Xiaoqian in the north courtyard who came in. He couldn't help but be taken aback, and asked her what she was doing when she came in, and she said she wanted to sleep with him.

Ning Caichen said seriously: "You are not afraid of other people's discussions, but I am also afraid of others gossiping." If you make a mistake by chance, you will become a shameless person with a degraded morals. The girl said that no one knew during the night. Ning Caichen scolded loudly, and the girl hesitated to say something.

Ning Caichen yelled, "Go away! Otherwise, I will call out to the people in the hut in the south." Hearing this, the girl was a little frightened, so she had to go away. As soon as he walked out the door, he turned around and came back, placing a piece of gold on Ning's mattress. Ning immediately threw it on the steps of the courtyard and rebuked, "Ill-gotten gains, staining my pockets." The girl picked up the gold in shame and walked away, saying, "This man is really hard-hearted." ”

Early the next morning, a scholar from Lanxi came with a servant to take the exam. They lived in the east wing of the temple. Unexpectedly, the scholar died violently that night. After his death, it was found that there was a small hole in the center of his foot, as if it had been pierced by an awl, and wisps of blood were flowing out.

No one knows what's going on. One night later, the scholar's servant also died, and his symptoms were exactly the same as those of the scholar. In the evening, Yan Sheng returned. Ning Caichen asked him if he knew the cause of death, and he thought it was a ghost's doing. Ning Caichen was upright and didn't take the ghost matter to heart at all.

In the evening, the girl came to him again. She said to Ning Caichen: "I have seen many people, but there is no one as upright as you. You have the qualities of a sage, and I dare not deceive you. My name is Nie Xiaoqian, I died of illness at the age of eighteen, buried next to this temple, unfortunately threatened by monsters, and did a lot of dirty things. I use my face to deceive others, which is not what I want to do. Now that there is no one in this temple to kill, it is likely that Oniyasha will come and kill you. ”

Ning Caichen was very shocked when he heard this, and he asked Xiao Qian to help him find a way. Nie Xiaoqian said: "If you live in the same room with Yan Chixia, you can avoid the disaster." Ning Caichen asked: "Why don't you confuse Yan Chixia?" Xiao Qian replied: "He is a strange person, and the ghosts and demons dare not approach him." ”

Ning Caichen asked again: "How do you go to confuse people?" Nie Xiaoqian said: "I quietly stabbed the center of his foot with an awl, so that he quickly passed out, so I sucked his blood and gave it to the monster to drink." Sometimes, I use gold to seduce, but it's not gold, it's the bones of a rakshasa ghost. Whoever this thing is left with, it can take out someone's heart and liver. These two methods are to cater to the psychology of today's people's greed for sex and money. ”

Ning Caichen asked her when she was on guard, and she said tomorrow night. When parting, Xiaoqian cried and said, "I fell into the sea and couldn't find the shore." You are a righteous gentleman, and you will definitely be able to save the suffering. I would be grateful if you could bring my rotten bones to a clean place to be buried. Ning Caichen agreed to her request and asked her where her grave was, and she said, "Remember, the place where there is a crow's nest in the poplar tree." After saying that, he went out and disappeared in a moment.

The next day, Ning Caichen was afraid that Yan Chixia would go out, so he went to his room early and invited him to drink. At ninety o'clock in the morning, the food and drinks were ready. At the banquet, Ning Caichen paid close attention to Yan Chixia. Ning Caichen said that he wanted to sleep in the same room with him, Yan Chixia excused himself and said that he liked to be quiet, Ning Caichen didn't listen, and at night, he forcibly moved all the covers over, and Yan Chixia had no choice but to sleep with him.

He instructed Ning Caichen: "I know that you are a big husband, and I admire you very much. However, I have some personal matters that I can't talk about explicitly. Please don't look through my little box. Otherwise, it's not good for you or me. Ning Caichen respectfully agreed. Later, they went to bed. Yan Chixia put the small box on the windowsill before going to bed, and after a while, he snored like thunder.

Ning Caichen couldn't sleep for half a day. About a watch, he noticed a faint figure outside the window, slowly approaching the window and looking in, his eyes shining. Ning Caichen was very frightened, and was about to shout Yan Chixia, when he suddenly heard something fly out of the small box, shining like a white satin, breaking the stone lattice on the window, shooting suddenly, and then extinguishing like lightning.

At this time, Yan Chixia woke up and got up, and Ning Caichen pretended to be asleep and observed him secretly. I saw Yan Chixia pick up the box and check it, take out something from it, and smell it in the moonlight. It was shiny, about two inches long, the size of a leek leaf. Then, Yan Chixia wrapped it tightly and put it in the box again. Yan Chixia said to herself: "What kind of old monster, how dare you have such a big courage to break my box." So he lay down again.

Ning Caichen felt that it was too strange, so he got up and asked Yan Chixia, and told Yan Chixia everything he had just seen. Yan Chixia said: "Now that we have become good friends, I don't have to hide it anymore. I'm a swordsman. If it hadn't been for the stone lattice blocking it, the youkai would have died at that time.

Although it did not die this time, it was seriously injured. Ning Caichen asked him what he was hiding just now, Yan Chixia said it was a sword, and said that when she smelled it just now, there was a demonic aura on it. Ning Caichen said that he wanted to see this sword, Yan Chixia took it out and showed it to him, it turned out that it was a shiny little sword. As a result, Ning Caichen paid more attention to Yan Chixia.

Early the next morning, Ning Caichen went out the window to check and found blood stains on the ground. On this day, Ning Caichen walked out of the monastery, and in the north of the monastery, he saw a barren mound. When I looked again, there was a poplar tree with a crow's nest on it.

After Ning Caichen finished his errands, he hurriedly packed up and prepared to go home. Before leaving, Yan Chixia set up a banquet to see him off, and gave the broken skin bag to Ning Caichen, and he told Ning Caichen: "This is the sword bag." You have a good collection, it can avoid monsters. Ning Caichen wanted to learn swordsmanship from him, Yan Sheng said: "A righteous and upright gentleman like you could have learned, but you are a person from the rich and noble class, not in my business." "Ning Caichen lied that a sister was buried in the north of the temple and planned to be relocated. So, he dug up Nie Xiaoqian's rotten bones, wrapped them in clothes, and rented a boat to return home.

Ning Caichen's study is close to the suburbs. After he returned home, he built Xiaoqian's grave outside Zhai. After the burial was built, he sacrificed and said, "Pity you alone, bury you next to my hut, so that I can hear your joys and sorrows, and I hope you will not be bullied by the ghosts." A glass of water and wine is not a tribute, please don't dislike it, just drink it!"

After he finished blessing, he was about to go home, when he suddenly heard someone shouting behind him: "Please wait for me!" Nie Xiaoqian smiled at Xie Ning Caichen: "I will never repay you for your faith." Please let me go back with you and meet my mother-in-law, even if I am willing to be a girl and a concubine. Ning Caichen looked at her carefully and saw that she had delicate skin, small toes, delicate figure, and charming.

So, he took her back to the study with him. Ning Caichen asked her to sit for a while, and he went first to tell his mother. His mother was shocked when she heard about it. At that time, Ning Caichen's wife had been ill for a long time, and his mother told him to keep quiet, so as not to irritate the patient. While their mother and son were talking, Nie Xiaoqian had quietly entered the house and knelt on the ground to meet Ning Caichen's mother.

Ning Caichen introduced: "This is Xiaoqian. Mother Ning looked at her in a panic, very scared. Nie Xiaoqian said: "I am alone, far away from my parents and brothers. Thanks to Childe's care, I got out of trouble. Therefore, I am willing to serve Him in return for His kindness. Mother Ning saw that she looked very cute, so she dared to talk to her. Ning's mother said: "The girl is willing to take care of my son, and of course I, the old woman, am very happy." It's just that I only raised this son in my life, and I have to rely on him to inherit the lineage, and I don't dare to let him marry a ghost wife. ”

Xiaoqian said: "I really don't have two hearts. Since the people under Jiuquan can't get your trust, then let me treat Gongzi as a brother, listen to your old man's orders, and serve him in the morning and evening, okay?" Mother Ning felt that Xiaoqian's words were very sincere, so she agreed.

Xiaoqian said that she wanted to meet her sister-in-law, but Ning's mother excused herself and said that Ning's wife was sick in bed, which was inconvenient. Xiaoqian didn't go. Then, Xiaoqian immediately went to the kitchen to cook for her mother. She went in and out of Ning Caichen's house, passing through the hall and entering the room, as if she had been here for a long time, and she was no stranger at all.

After dark, Ning's mother was a little afraid of her and asked her to go back to sleep first, but she didn't prepare a bed quilt for her. Xiaoqian realized that this was a signal from her mother to drive her away, so she left. When she passed by Ning Caichen's study, she wanted to go in, but she didn't dare to enter, and lingered outside the door.

Ning Caichen called her, and she said, "There is sword qi in the room, which makes people afraid." Some time ago, I didn't dare to see you on the road, that's why. Ning Caichen suddenly remembered the broken leather bag that Yan Chixia gave him, so he hurriedly took the bag down and hung it in another room. Xiao Qian entered the study and sat down by the candlelight.

After sitting for a long time without saying a word, she asked Ning Caichen: "Do you read at night? I recited the "Lengyan Sutra" when I was a child, but now I have mostly forgotten it. Please help me find a book, and I'll ask my eldest brother for some advice when I'm free at night. Ning Caichen agreed. The two of them had nothing to say, and Xiaoqian didn't say goodbye.

After the second watch, Xiaoqian was still sitting in the study and didn't leave, Ning Caichen urged her, she said sadly: "I am a lonely soul from other places, and I am especially afraid of going to the deserted tomb." Ning Caichen said: "There is no other bed here, and between brothers and sisters, suspicion should also be avoided." ”

Xiaoqian stood up, looking sad and about to cry, wanting to take a step but couldn't take a step. She walked slowly out of the study, and disappeared over the steps. Ning Caichen felt very sorry for her in his heart, wanted to leave her to sleep in another bed, and was worried that his mother would blame her.

Early the next morning, Xiaoqian asked her mother for peace, brought water to wash her, and was busy with housework, and all Liu Yifei's version (16 photos) was in line with Ning's mother's heart. In the evening, Xiaoqian left the study automatically. When she passed by the study, she often recited scriptures by candlelight, and did not leave sadly until Ning Caichen was about to sleep.

Originally, since Ning's wife fell ill, Ning's mother had taken care of all the housework, and she was tired. Since Xiaoqian came home, Ning's mother has been much more leisurely.

As time went by, Mother Ning and Xiaoqian gradually became acquainted, and she loved Xiaoqian more and more. Later, Ning's mother had forgotten that Xiaoqian was a ghost, and she couldn't bear to ask her to leave at night, so she left her to sleep with her. When Xiaoqian first came, she didn't eat or drink, and only started to eat porridge half a year later. Ning Caichen's mother and son love her very much, and never say that she is a ghost.

Soon after, Ning's wife died of illness. Ning's mother wanted to accept Xiaoqian as her daughter-in-law, but she was afraid that she would not be able to have children, Xiaoqian said that Caichen would have three boys, and there would be no offspring because of a ghost wife. So, the Ning family held a banquet and invited relatives and friends. On the day of the wedding, Xiaoqian dressed up and came out to meet relatives and friends generously, which stunned all relatives and friends.

People do not suspect that she is a ghost, but that she is an immortal. So relatives from all sides came to congratulate them and rushed to see Xiaoqian. Xiao Qian is good at painting orchids and plum blossoms, and often paints to thank guests, and the person who gets the painting collects the painting and takes Xiao Qian's painting as an honor.

One day, Xiaoqian leaned against the window, looking worried. Suddenly asked, "Where is the leather bag?" Ning Caichen said, "Because you are afraid of it, you have hidden it somewhere else." Xiaoqian said: "I have been breathed by the living for a long time, I should no longer be afraid, it is best to hang the leather bag at the head of the bed." ”

Ning Caichen asked her why she did this, and Xiaoqian said: "In the past few days, the worry in my heart has not stopped, I expect that the monster in Jinhua will hate me for running away, I'm afraid I will find it sooner or later." Ning Caichen then brought the leather bag over. Xiao Qian looked at it repeatedly and said, "This is what the sword fairy used to hold people's heads, and now it's broken like this, I don't know how many people have been killed." When I see it now, I'm still shaking. ”

So he hung up the leather bag. The next day, he asked Ning Caichen to move to the door. At night, the two of them sat opposite each other with the lights lit, and suddenly something like a bird flew in. Xiao Qian was so frightened that she hid in the curtain, Ning Caichen looked at the thing like a yaksha, thunderous eyes, blood-colored tongue, glowing all over her body and moving forward quickly, stopped at the door, lingered for a long time, slowly approached the leather sac, grabbed the leather sac with his claws, as if to tear it apart.

Suddenly there was a sound and it became as big as a grate, and in a trance, a ghost protruded half of its body from the sac, and pulled the yaksha into the sac, so it fell silent, and the sac changed back to its previous appearance. Ning Caichen was shocked and frightened, Xiaoqian also came out, and said happily: "It's okay!" Let's look at the leather bag together, there is only clear water.

A few years later, Ning Caichen was admitted to the Jinshi, and Xiaoqian also gave birth to a boy. Later, Ning Caichen took another concubine, and Xiaoqian and her each gave birth to a boy. Their child later became a famous person as well.