roccoschili Chapter 258 The ghost is banned
Chapter 258 The ghost is banned
During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Xing, the magistrate of Shangyu County (now Shangyu District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province), doted on his concubine, but he was at odds with his wife.
One day, Xing had another quarrel with his wife over a trivial matter, and impulsively slapped his wife in the face.
The wife was so angry that she hanged herself in anger.
Three days later, the ghost of Xing's wife began to appear and cause trouble.
As long as Xing and his concubine went to bed, they would blow cold air and lift the bed curtain; sometimes they would blow out the lights in the room, which in short would make them uneasy.
After several times, Xing could no longer bear it and was very angry.
He invited a Taoist priest to the official office to catch his wife's ghost with a charm and locked it in the east wing. Then he drew a charm to seal the door, and then added the official seal on it to suppress it.
From then on, the ghost of his wife could not appear again.
Soon after, Xing was transferred to the post of Qiantang County Magistrate.
The newly appointed Shangyu County Magistrate did not know about Xing and his wife. After taking office, he opened the east wing when cleaning up the official office.
The suppressed ghost escaped from the east wing.
The ghost did not go away, but attached itself to a little maid in the government office, and it still caused the same trouble as before.
The newly appointed county magistrate figured out the ins and outs of the matter and said to the ghost: "Madam has a grudge against Mr. Xing, so she should go to Mr.
The ghost said: "I don't want to harm this maid. The reason why I am attached to her is just for the convenience of meeting the adults and asking for help."
The new county magistrate asked: "Why do you want to see me? If you have any requirements, just tell me. If I can meet them, I will definitely help you!"
The ghost said: "I have no other requests. I just want to ask you to send me to Xing in Qiantang County."
The new county magistrate asked strangely: "This is not a high request, but why doesn't Madam go by herself?"
The ghost said: "I am a ghost who died in vain. There will be river gods to intercept me along the way. Without your official seal, I will not be able to pass. In addition, I also hope that you can send two officers to escort me there."
The new county magistrate asked: "Who do you want to send there?"
The ghost said two names: "Chen Gui and Teng Sheng."
When the new county magistrate heard about it, he found that these two men were indeed servants of the county government, but they had both died a long time ago.
The new county magistrate just wanted to send this ghost away as soon as possible, so he did as she said. He wrote an official document, stamped it with the official seal, burned it to Ming Si, and asked the two officers to escort her to Qiantang County.
On this day, Xing was having dinner in his room. His concubine suddenly fell to the ground and shouted: "You are so heartless. You don't want to force me to death, but you also want to imprison me in the east wing." I'm starving here! Now that I'm back, I won't let you go!"
Xing heard that the concubine's voice was indeed that of his dead wife, and he knew that his wife's ghost had really escaped.
From then on, there was no peace in the official offices of Qiantang County day and night.
Xing had no choice but to ask a Taoist priest to do it again.
This time, after the Taoist priest caught his wife's ghost, he used talismans and official seals to seal the ghost in Qiantang Prison.
Before the female ghost was taken to the prison, she shouted loudly: "Xing, you are so crazy! You sealed me in the east wing before, which was still a room. What crime do I have now? You have locked me in prison. !I won’t let you go!”
Xing thought to himself: I suppressed you in prison, how can you seek revenge from me?
He didn't take that ghost's words to heart at all.
Unexpectedly, less than a month later, an important prisoner in the prison hanged himself to death for no apparent reason. Xing was impeached for poor supervision and was dismissed from office.
Only then did Xing know that what his wife's ghost said was true, and he was very scared.
He vowed not to pamper his concubine anymore, and he would become a monk and travel around the world.
Some of the officials who were at the same time as Xing were willing to pay for his travels, but before Xing could set out, he fell seriously ill and died immediately.