Scholar and water ghost

The oil lamp on the table flickered, and there was a man sitting opposite Wei Tingshu, 25 or [-] years old, dressed in brocade clothes, with a smile that was not a smile.

"Should I praise my brother's courage? Or should I praise my brother's courage?" I only heard the man say so.

Wei Tingshu was at a loss for words for a while, knowing that he must be teasing him for being scared and fainted last night, so he didn't answer, but straightened his body and asked, "So many people, why did you only pester Wei?"

The man smiled again, shaking the feather fan lightly in his hand, and said: "It's because among so many people, brother Wei's wine is the most plentiful and delicious."

When Wei Tingshu heard it, he thought to himself, drinking is indeed a bad thing, the ancients never deceived me.

"I suddenly caught so many fish a few days ago, is it because of you?" Wei Tingshu asked.

"That's right, brother Wei is really smart!" said the ghost, but his eyes clearly said, you are so stupid, how did you find out?

Wei Tingshu was furious for a while, he didn't know how to answer, he thought to himself, this ghost is really hard to get along with, he should help him get rid of his wish as soon as possible.So he asked again: "I don't know why Xiongtai is like this?"

Hearing these words, the ghost's face darkened, and then he narrated the events of his life.

It turned out that the ghost's surname was Zhuang and his name was Shaoze. He was originally from a wealthy family in the capital. His family was engaged in business, and he often traveled to various places to sell some goods. This time he went south with his family's servants to buy some goods.Unexpectedly, one night, when the boat was sailing on the sea, the moonlight was as bright as water, and the sea surface was wrinkled by the breeze. The scenery was very beautiful, so Zhuang Shaoze took a jug of wine and drank alone against the moon.Just when the wine was in full swing, he suddenly felt that someone pushed him hard from behind, and he fell into the sea at once.He was a native of the north and didn't know how to swim. He splashed in the water for a long time, but he didn't see anyone, only the boat that originally carried him went farther and farther.

After that, Zhuang Shaoze drowned in the sea and floated to this area along the sea.The faceless corpse at the beach a few days ago belonged to him.

Hearing this, alarm bells rang in Wei Tingshu's heart. Based on his intuition of being an official for many years, this is undoubtedly a murder case.So, he asked: "Brother Zhuang wants Wei to help you find the person who pushed you and bring him to justice?"

Zhuang Shaoze didn't show his face when he heard this, he still frowned in melancholy, and said: "No, no, just based on this, it cannot be concluded that that person wanted to harm Zhuang, maybe Zhuang was slippery at that time. "

"However, you have been splashing around in the water for a long time, and there is so much movement, how come no one came to rescue you?" Wei Tingshu asked again.

"It was midnight at that time, the servants were all asleep, and the waves were loud, so it's not impossible that they didn't hear it." Zhuang Shaoze replied.

Wei Tingshu looked at his expression, knowing that he clearly knew the inside story, but he didn't want to say more, that's all, that's all, he doesn't care about any of the parties involved, why does he care so much for a county magistrate who has already resigned?Then he asked again: "Since it's not to find your true brother, then what is your unfulfilled wish?"

At this time, Zhuang Shaoze's face softened a little, he poured a glass of wine from the wine jar on the table, and said after drinking: "There is indeed something. Zhuang's death this time is also fate, but the parents at home Some of them can’t let go, and I want to go back and meet again.” After speaking, he poured another glass of wine, dried it, and looked at the flickering lights on the table.

"So...you want Wei to send you back to your hometown in the capital?" Wei Tingshu asked, looking like you didn't know you were going back.You know, in the eyes of ordinary people, ghosts are full of evil and omnipotent.

Zhuang Shaoze took the wine glass in front of Wei Tingshu, filled it up, handed it over, and said, "That's right, I'm going to trouble Brother Wei."

"How do you deliver it? Aren't you able to do anything through walls and wind?" Wei Tingshu asked after drinking the wine in front of him, building up his courage.

"Brother Wei doesn't know. Zhuang is just a new ghost, and he doesn't know what Brother Wei said. Besides, people are humane, and ghosts come and go. It's not that simple."

Hearing Zhuang Shaoze's words, Wei Tingshu was secretly pleased, and remembering how frightened he looked like last night, he suddenly became angry, straightened his back, and said, "So, you can't do magic tricks!" If he really has nothing Threats, you can find someone to accept them, why bother, you have to send him to the capital, he has sworn never to go back to that crappy place in the capital.

"Exactly!" Zhuang Shaoze covered his lips with a fan, only showing a pair of big eyes behind the fan and said flickeringly: "If Brother Wei agrees to Zhuang at this moment, and turns around and finds a Taoist priest to take Zhuang away, Zhuang There is no way at all.”

"How...how is it possible? Wei is such a despicable person." When Wei Tingshu heard that his scheme was exposed, he lost face and immediately denied it.

"Well, Zhuang also believes that Brother Wei is not that kind of despicable person." Zhuang Shaoze hid behind the fan and snickered, biting the word "despicable" very hard, and Wei Tingshu on the opposite side blushed again.

"Since that's the case, when shall we set off?" Wei Tingshu changed the subject.

"The sooner the better."

In the early morning of the next day, Wei Tingshu bid farewell to Uncle Qin's father and daughter, saying only that he had gone to Beijing to visit friends, and the date of return was undecided.

According to what Zhuang Shaoze said, Wei Tingshu filled a jug of sea water with the wine jug left over from drinking last night, wrapped it tightly with a black cloth, tied it to his chest, and set out on the road.

According to Zhuang Shaoze, he was a new ghost who had just drowned in the sea, and his body must be wet with seawater, which was why he couldn't go to Beijing alone.During the day, he hid in the wine jar, unable to see the light.At night, they come out of the wine jar to move around and absorb the yin energy of the moonlight by the way.

Wei Tingshu did what he said, and if he didn't accept this ghost's idea, the two of them got along unexpectedly harmoniously on the way to Beijing.

Zhuang Shaoze is free and easy by nature, and Wei Tingshu is good at wine, every time he drinks two sips he becomes a chatterbox.One night, the two of them each held a pot of wine, had a drink with the moon, and immediately hit it off, no difference between people and ghosts, and they had long since forgotten to go beyond the sky.

On the way to Beijing, the two expressed their love for the mountains and rivers, stopped and walked, and walked for nearly a month before seeing the gate of the capital.

"Brother Zhuang, it's already dark. If you're not in a hurry, can you stay one more night and visit the door tomorrow?" Wei Tingshu patted the wine jar wrapped in black cloth on his chest and asked.After walking for so long, only half of the sea water in the wine jar is left.

The wine jar was silent for a while, before a low voice came: "That's fine."

Wei Tingshu couldn't guess what Zhuang Shaoze was thinking, so he found a nearby inn, asked for a room, and asked Xiao Er to serve some home-cooked dishes and two jugs of wine. After eating, he took a comfortable bath , fell into bed and fell asleep.To be honest, he was really tired after traveling for so many days.

Waking up in the middle of the night, I happened to bump into Zhuang Shaoze with his chair back on the window frame, looking up at the moon.All he saw from that angle was his side face, and he couldn't see Zhuang Shaoze's expression, so he jokingly said, "Hey! Brother Zhuang, you're sitting on the window to suck your Yin Qi again."

Zhuang Shaoze was a little different tonight, he didn't come back as talkative as he used to be.

"Brother Zhuang? Brother Zhuang? What are you thinking, so absorbed." Wei Tingshu came back after urinating, and saw Zhuang Shaoze still sitting motionless on the window, so he walked up and patted his shoulder.

Unexpectedly, Zhuang Shaoze turned his head abruptly, and Wei Tingshu saw his pupils were as red as blood, his teeth were sharp, and his face was fierce, as if he wanted to eat him alive.

"You...you...what...what's the matter?" Wei Tingshu was so frightened that he jumped away and backed away several steps.

Zhuang Shaoze, however, seemed to have never heard of it, and kept opening his mouth to pounce on him.

Wei Tingshu retreated more and more, and finally retreated to the corner of the bed. There was no way to retreat, so he closed his eyes and waited to be eaten by evil spirits. The fate of eating raw.

Wei Tingshu closed his eyes for a long time, but still didn't feel the imaginary pain coming. He opened his eyes curiously, but saw Zhuang Shaoze's usual appearance magnified in front of his eyes.

Seeing that the dead ghost looked like he had succeeded, he leaned in front of him and said, "Since you are so afraid, why do you still spend so many days with Zhuang Mou day and night, and don't just find a place to throw me away, you know, that Zhuang Mou I don't care about you." When he said this, he was very serious and solemn.

Wei Tingshu grabbed the pillow and threw it on him, seeing Zhuang Shaoze's figure swaying, the pillow passed through his body.He said: "One word from a gentleman is hard to follow."

"Oh, is that true?"

"Otherwise what else can it do?" Wei Tingshu stood up, got out of bed, patted his chest, suppressed his shock, and said.

Suddenly, he felt a small force pressing up from behind, like a breeze, it turned out that Zhuang Shaoze hugged him from behind.

Zhuang Shaoze said, "Don't move, let Zhuang hug you."

Wei Tingshu didn't move anymore, he still hugged him.At this moment, Zhuang Shaoze was like a child who needed comfort, helpless and frightened.

"What's wrong? What's on your mind? Also, what happened to you just now?" Wei Tingshu asked uneasily.

Zhuang Shaoze didn't answer him.How could he tell Wei Tingshu that he had almost turned into a ghost just now, and he could never turn back. Fortunately, Wei Tingshu woke him up in time.

People who are unwilling to die and entangled in resentment will turn into ghosts.

It turned out that he still held resentment towards his own death after all!

The author has something to say: la la la, it is estimated that no one will read it for a while, but I don't know if it will be lucky enough to be read in a few years.