Collection of strange powers and chaotic gods

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a scholar named Ye who supported his family by selling literature in the Niulanpu area west of Tongcheng County (today's Tongcheng City, Anhui Province, a county-level city directly under the provincial government). Both his father and brother make a living by farming.

In the spring of the Guimao year of Qianlong's reign, Ye Sheng's family rented a piece of land, which was their own family's field at Paimen Village.

For the convenience of farming, their whole family moved there.

This year, Ye Sheng's wife had just turned eighteen. She had always been dignified, steady and taciturn.

Who knew that after moving, she suddenly became crazy and cursed constantly.

Her voice also changed, it was completely different from usual. I heard her constantly scolding a person, named Li: "You are so unconscionable! You destroyed the graves of ten of us to build a house for your own enjoyment, but trampled our bones wantonly!"

Ye Sheng didn't know what was going on. He didn't know why his wife's voice had changed, and he didn't know who Li was whom she was scolding.

Because he had just arrived and was not familiar with the situation here. So, he went to ask the elderly neighbor.

After some inquiries, he found out that the owner of the house their family rented was Li. During the Kangxi period, Li indeed did the work of leveling graves and building houses.

Ye Sheng suddenly realized: It turned out to be the ghosts under the house who had possessed his wife. It was not his wife who scolded Li, but the ghosts venting their hatred through the mouth of his wife!

So, Ye Sheng said to his wife (ghost): "It was Li who leveled the tomb and built a house. We just rented his house. Every injustice has its owner. You want to take revenge and find him. Follow me." what is the relationship?"

The wife (ghost) replied: "At that time, Mr. Li was very arrogant and we were all afraid of him. We had no choice but to swallow our anger and say nothing, and we all ran out to play to avoid him.

Now that you are here, we see that your family's luck is low, so we come to you to vent our anger? "

Ye Sheng heard more than one voice among the scoldings of his wife (ghost). After careful identification, there are actually ten of them!

Among them, the one just now was the loudest and scolded the most harshly. The other nine only occasionally added one or two words, and their tone was relatively calm and not so fierce.

In desperation, Ye Sheng promised to demolish the house and rebuild their tombs.

The wife (ghost) said: "The house is not yours, you are just renting it here! There is an owner of this house. It is useless if you agree to us, and you cannot demolish it at will! You must go to the landlord Li to discuss , only if he agrees!"

So, Ye Sheng immediately ran and invited the homeowner Li over.

Li was called over by Ye Sheng inexplicably, and he didn't know what happened.

Ye Sheng’s wife (ghost) explained the whole story and accused Li of his arrogant behavior back then.

Then he said that the current resident Ye Sheng agreed to demolish the house to build a grave, and hoped that the homeowner Li would agree.

Li refused to admit it.

He said that his house has always been peaceful and there has never been any ghosts or ghosts causing trouble. How could it be built on a cemetery?

Ye Sheng's wife (ghost) took Li to the two main rooms on the west side of the lobby, pointed them out to Li one by one, and said: "There are two coffins here, four tombs here, and two next to the window." The woman’s grave, mine is under the wall behind the bed.”

Li somewhat believed it and asked her: "Then who are you? What is your life like? How come you are buried here?"

Ye Sheng's wife (ghost) replied: "My name is Ruan Fu, and I was a Confucian scholar during the Zhengde period of the previous dynasty. I was only twenty-two years old when I passed away.

When I was alive, I stayed in Baihe Temple to study. In my free time and boredom, I learned some Taoist skills from the Taoist priest Guan Nei, and unexpectedly I became a Taoist priest.

I once went out for fun. I accidentally discovered that a young lady from a wealthy family was very beautiful. For a moment, I was greedy for beauty, so I wanted to climb over the wall and have a tryst with your lady.

Who knew, when I climbed onto the wall, I was caught by her servants. The owner of the house had someone beat me up, stripped me of my clothes, and threw me into the street.

I was so humiliated by her family that I hanged myself.

After my death, my family felt that I was uncivilized and would not allow me to be buried in my ancestral grave. Back then, this was a mass grave, and my family was buried here.

Among the ten people buried here, I am the one who has been trampled and filthy the most, so I asked you to come together to discuss building a new tomb for me. "

Li asked again: "Then where are your bones buried?"

Ye Sheng's wife (Ruan Fu) said: "Behind the bed, there is a grave in the middle of the wall. If you dig down three feet, you can see a black coffin. That is my bones!"

Li was frightened after hearing this and hesitated to dig.

When Ye Sheng's wife (the hanged ghost Ruan Fu) saw this, she couldn't help but cursed Li.

The news that the Ye family was haunted quickly spread. After hearing about it, people nearby came to watch the fun.

Ruan Fu, the hanged ghost, would answer all the curious questions of these people.

The Ye family listened to other people's advice and burned a lot of paper money, begging him to leave and stop being a monster.

The other nine ghosts also advised him to stop. Of course, the voices of these ghosts were all made through Ye's wife's mouth.

Ruan Fu, the hanged ghost, scolded: "You nine gambling ghosts, you have accepted the paper money from the Ye family, and you only have fun gambling on the sidelines. How can you have the face to persuade me?"

After being scolded by him, the nine ghosts were speechless and stopped speaking.

In the end, only Ruan Fu, the hanged ghost, was left making trouble.

Seeing that the paper money was burned and the ghost was hanged, Ye Sheng didn't buy it; he invited a Taoist priest to come here to perform rituals, but Ruanfu still didn't appreciate it.

Finally, I invited Chen, a teacher from a private school, to come over and write a letter to send ghosts.

After listening to Chen's "article to send ghosts", Ruan Fu, the hanged ghost, laughed and said: "Your article is simply nonsense!

The allusion somewhere is wrong, the wording somewhere is too vulgar.

What's more, if you wrote an article to send me away, you should use a tone of begging me, not threatening me! "

Chen heard that everything the hanged man said was reasonable, but he felt that the article was not as good as his. He couldn't help but feel ashamed, and could only nod his head in agreement.

As for the Taoist priests over there, if there is an error in the scriptures they recite, Ruan Fu will immediately hear it, point it out, ridicule and blame him.

Ye Sheng has a relative whose surname is Cheng. His family is rich and he also comes to Ye's house to watch the fun. He just arrived at the door of Ye Sheng's house. Before he entered, Ruan Fu knew it and said loudly: "The rich man is here, you should prepare tea."

Xiaolian Zhangfu and Ye Sheng's family are in-laws. Like Cheng, when he was about to arrive at Ye's house, Ruan Fu said before entering the house: "A Wenquxing has arrived. You can ask him to write my epitaph."

So Zhang Fu composed a seven-character poem and gave it to him:

"The end of the year turned out to be a mess,

The remains are scattered here.

The thatched hut will be demolished when it is too late.

Gao Feng was destroyed by mistake and has been restored.

Congzidu Le'an yellow soil,

I also hope that I will take pity on you and release the green servant girl.

One day, I will be able to ascend and borrow mana,

Line up the Immortal Class at Changhe. "

After hearing this, Ruan Fu, the hanged man, thanked Zhang Fu and said, "Thank you, sir! I have the sin of being romantic, so how can I be ranked in the immortal class! But the fifth and sixth sentences, sir, are very good! I shouldn't make fun of you." Innocent person! So, I follow your husband’s advice and stay away from here!”

Before leaving, Ruan Fu called Ye Sheng's name, called him to him, and explained: "I don't accept the confession of Taoist priests, but I accept the confession of literati, because I was a literati in my lifetime, and I can never get rid of the old literati. habit.

Ye Sheng, can you engrave that poem on my tombstone as my epitaph? Let me have some brilliance under Jiuquan? "

Ye Sheng quickly agreed to do it.

I saw Ye Sheng's wife closed her eyes, stopped talking, and fell into a deep sleep!

It took a day before she woke up.

The Ye family asked her if she remembered what happened. She was at a loss and had no idea at all!