Chapter 37 Encounter with a ghost

Jiang Bulang said that a friend of his lived in a haunted house, who is this person?

It turned out that there was a scholar named Tao Wangsan in the township of Jiangjiaji, who had always been bold, chic and dignified, and uninhibited. Whenever he got together with his friends to drink, he left alone after drinking, and some of his friends deliberately instigated the woman of the Qinglou to go and tempt him, but he smiled and did not refuse, in fact, he did not have any pollution with the visiting woman all night.

Tao Wangsan often lives in Jiang Bulang's house, and there is a maid who likes this scholar, so he comes to find a scholar privately at night, but Wangsan is not chaotic and has never misbehaved, Jiang Bulang also values him very much because of Wangsan's firmness and not being tempted.

The Tao family is surprisingly poor, and in the middle of summer, the few thatched huts where Wangsan lives are damp and hot. So the scholar wanted to borrow Jiang Bulang's abandoned house to study; Jiang Bulang thought that it was too dangerous to live in the ghost house and refused to Wangsan, so Wangsan wrote a "Continuation of the Theory of No Ghosts" and dedicated it to Jiang Bulang, talking eloquently, and proudly said: "How can a ghost do it!" Jiang Bulang saw that he insisted on going to live, so he agreed.

The scholar then lived in a haunted house. In the evening of the same day, after cleaning the hall, the scholar had just put down the book and returned to get other things. Suddenly, in a blink of an eye, the book that had just been put away was gone. Wangsan was surprised, so he lay on his back on the bed, holding his breath to watch the change. After about a meal, suddenly, he heard footsteps, and the scholar squinted and saw two women tiptoeing out of the room and putting the book that had just disappeared on the table.

These two women, one of them was about twenty years old, and the other was seventeen or eighteen, both of them were beautiful and vulgar, and they had the color of the country, but they were both ghosts. In a moment, the two stood on the edge of the bed, looked at each other and smiled. The scholar had heard about ghosts killing people, but he still kept his eyes closed at the moment. The older girl raised one foot and gently kicked the scholar's stomach, while the younger girl hid her mouth and snickered. At this time, the scholar's thoughts gradually became chaotic, and the distracting thoughts were a little uncontrollable, so he immediately stabilized his mind, put away the distracting thoughts, and ignored nothing. At this time, the woman was even more bold, walked up, pulled the scholar's beard with her left hand, and gently slapped her cheek with her right hand, making a snapping sound, and the little girl laughed even harder.

The scholar sat up suddenly, and scolded loudly: "Why are you two little ghosts so presumptuous!" The two girls were startled, turned around and ran away. After a turmoil, the scholar began to worry that once the ghost aura became heavier at night, he would be tossed by them, and the night came as scheduled, and the scholar was even more worried. I have the heart to retreat and move back, but I am afraid that I will be ridiculed because of my former arrogance. The scholar thought to himself, let's go, let's just have a night reading.

There are many ghosts in the dark, and the scholar only cares about reading the book, and does not look around at all. Gradually, it was already midnight, and the scholar was really sleepy and could not support it, so he put out the candle and went to bed. Lying on the bed, as soon as he closed his eyes, he felt that someone had provoked his nostrils with something very thin, and he was itching so hard that he sneezed loudly, and then he heard a faint laugh in the dark. The scholar remained silent, pretending to sleep again and waiting for them.

After a while, in the dark, I faintly saw that the girl made a small stick with a note of paper, and her posture was like a water bird, pointing her toes and approaching quietly step by step, and the scholar suddenly got up and shouted "Bold!". The girl was startled and ran away. When I fell asleep again, I was again teased by the girl with a small paper stick. In short, the two girls did not stop for one night, and the scholar was miserable. The day gradually brightened, everything slowly returned to calm, and the scholar really slept well. And during the whole day, I didn't see any trace of these two girls.

The sun went down, and the two girls appeared again in a trance. So the scholar cooked at night and prepared to stay up until dawn. After the scholar made all the preparations, he sat at his desk and read at night. I don't know when the older girl was already lying on the table with her arms bent and watching the scholar read, and then blocked the book she was looking at on the scholar's bookcase. The scholar got up angrily and tried to catch her, but the girl was scattered in an instant, and after a while she continued to cover her. So the scholar had no choice but to press the book with his hand to read. But at this time, the little girl lurked behind the scholar's head, covering the scholar's eyes with both hands, and when she turned around, the little girl was already standing in the distance, smiling like a flower.

The scholar pointed at the little girl and scolded viciously: "Little ghost, let me kill you both if I catch you!" After finishing speaking, the two women did not mean to be afraid at all. So the scholar changed his tone and said teasingly: "I don't know anything about the love of men and women, what's the use of you two pestering me?"

When the two women heard the scholar's words, they smiled silently, turned around and walked to the stove, collecting firewood, washing rice, and cooking for the scholar. When the scholar saw what the two girls were doing, he praised him: "Isn't the behavior of the two girls much better than stupid jumping?" After a moment of porridge cooking, the two of them competed to put the spoons, chopsticks, and bowls on several tables.

The scholar sighed: "Thank you two for taking care of me, I really don't know how to repay you?"

The two women smiled and said, "In this meal, there is arsenic and the crane is red, you should eat it quickly." ”

The scholar said: "I have never had any grudges with the two of you, how can you be so vicious to me?" So, he took a big bite of porridge, and after eating it all, he had to go to Sheng, and the two girls competed to serve the meal for the scholar. The scholar laughed heartily and was accustomed to it.

After a long time, they became familiar with each other, even if there was less estrangement between humans and ghosts, so the three of them sat together and talked heartily, so the scholar asked the names of the two. The older one said: "The concubine's name is Qiu Rong, Qiao's family, and that little girl is Xiao Xie of the Ruan family." ”

The scholar asked the two girls about their backgrounds, and Xiao Xie smiled and said, "Silly boy, I don't dare to be close to you, what are you asking our family to do?" Do you want to marry us?"

When the scholar heard this, he said: "Facing the two beauties all day long, I am not a grass and a tree, how can I not be moved at all? However, you two are ghost bodies, if I am close to you, the yin and evil qi in your body will definitely kill me." If you don't want to live with me, you can go, and if you want to live under the same roof with me, wouldn't it be better to have some peace? If I don't love you two at all, why should I let the two beauties be defiled? If I really love you, why should I die a madman?"

The two women looked at each other and were moved, they were unwilling to let the book die, because it was no fun for the two ghosts to meet. If there is fun, under the Yellow Spring, there are not a few handsome young people. Why did they bother with scholars? Since then, they have hardly made fun of scholars. But the two women were still naughty and mischievous, and they still teased the scholar from time to time, either reaching out and pinching the scholar's arms, or pulling the scholar's pants violently, but the scholar didn't care much at this time.