Collection of strange powers and chaotic gods

Chapter 109 Cherry Ghost

During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Kumamoto, who was serving as Taishi (an official who recorded history and compiled history books), rented a house in an alley in the capital, and met Zhuang Lingyu (original name Zhuang Jinglian, nicknamed Sunfu, and Ruan Zun) who was in charge of editing at the Hanlin Academy. Politicians and poets in the Qing Dynasty (who lived through the two dynasties of Kangxi and Qianlong) were neighbors.

The two have a very good relationship. They arrange drinks and meals every day and take turns inviting each other to their homes.

On the evening of August [-]th, Zhuang Lingyu arranged a banquet for Kumamoto.

The host and guest had just sat down when someone suddenly came to invite Zhuang Lingyu.

Zhuang Lingyu asked who invited him.

Someone said. His owner is the Xianggong of Tongcheng (referring to Zhang Tingyu, a famous poet in the Qing Dynasty). He specially came to invite Mr. Zhuang to come over and discuss matters.

Zhuang Lingyu usually had a lot of contact with Zhang Tingyu. Knowing that it would not take long, he said hello to Xiong Ben and then left with the visitor.

Xiong Ben thought that Zhuang Lingyu would be back soon, so he did not go home. Instead, he stayed there alone, drinking and waiting for him.

Kumamoto picked up the jug, poured himself a glass of wine, and put it on the table. Before he could drink it, when he turned around to put the jug, the cup was already empty.

Did Kumamoto think he was hallucinating? At first, I thought I had forgotten to pour the wine, so I poured another glass of wine. This time I was not in a hurry to put the jug in, but kept my eyes wide open and watched.

Suddenly, something unexpected happened to him: he saw a big blue hand stretching out from under the table, trying to get the wine glass from the table.

Kumamoto was startled and stood up quickly. The owner of the blue hand also emerged from under the desk and stood aside.

I saw that this man's facial features, hair and skin were all blue, and he looked very strange.

Kumamoto ran outside in panic and shouted loudly.

The banker's two servants heard the sound and came over.

Kumamoto told them about the strange thing he had just seen, and the two slaves ran to check it out.

But they didn't see any blue people. They looked everywhere with candlelight, but they didn't find anything.

Not long after, Zhuang Lingyu came back.

The two sat down and continued drinking.

During the dinner, Zhuang Lingyu burst out laughing after hearing what Kumamoto said.

He joked with Kumamoto: "There is a monster in my house. Do you dare to spend the night here?"

Kumamoto was young and full of energy at this time, so he immediately replied: "What's wrong with this!"

With that said, he asked the bookboy to go to his home to get the bedding, while he continued drinking with Zhuang Lingyu.

After the book boy brought it over, the two of them had almost finished drinking, so they said good night to each other and went to bed separately.

Kumamoto directed the bookboy to put the bedding on the couch and spread it out.

After the book boy finished cleaning up for him and went out, Kumamoto sat there alone with his sword, not daring to sleep.

Kumamoto’s sword has a great origin. It was given to him by General Nian Gengyao (from Fengyang, Anhui Province. A famous general in the Qing Dynasty). When General Nian was pacifying Qinghai, this sword was stained with blood and was given to him to ward off evil spirits.

It was already late autumn, the autumn wind was howling outside, and waves of coolness were coming.

Kumamoto sat for a while. Before the blue weirdo appeared again, he felt a little cold, so he went to lie down on the bed.

I saw the cold moonlight outside the house, shining through the window on the green gauze tent on the couch, so that Xiong Ben, who was lying down, could clearly see the things inside the room.

After a while, Kumamoto heard the watchman on the street outside and began to beat the midnight drum.

Although he was tough-talking and told Zhuang Lingyu that he was not afraid of ghosts, he was still a little scared in his heart. So, his body was lying on the bed, but he kept tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a noise from the table, as if someone was throwing a wine glass. There was a "clang" sound, and a wine glass was thrown over. After a while, there was another "clang" sound, and another wine glass was thrown over.

Seeing this, Kumamoto was no longer afraid. He laughed secretly and said: "It seems that the man who stole the wine is here!"

After a while, I saw a leg stretching out from the east window, and then half a body, a hand, an eye, an ear, half a nose, and half a mouth came in;

Immediately afterwards, the other half of the body came in from the west window, also with only one leg, one hand, one eye, one ear, half a nose, and half a mouth.

It looked like a person's body was neatly sawed in half from the middle, and they were both blue.

After the two halves of the body entered the room, they merged into one in a short time and became a complete person.

The man's bulging eyes were staring fiercely at the bed tent on the bed. His whole body was exuding cold air, and he slowly approached the bed.

At this moment, the bed tent on the bed suddenly opened automatically, and the blue man stretched out his hands to grab it inside.

Kumamoto jumped up, drew his sword and slashed at him, hitting the blue ghost's arm with his sword.

Kumamoto felt as if he was cutting on broken cotton wool without making any sound.

The ghost was injured and quickly turned around and ran away from the window.

Kumamoto chased after him all the way to the cherry tree in the yard, when the ghost suddenly disappeared.

The next morning, Zhuang Lingyu got up and came to find Kumamoto. When I walked to the house, I found blood outside the window. I was shocked and thought Kumamoto was injured.

He hurriedly ran into the room to see if Kumamoto was okay.

Kumamoto told him what happened that night.

After discussing it, the two people felt that the blue monster last night should be a cherry ghost.

So Zhuang Lingyu ordered his people to chop down the cherry tree in the courtyard, then took a torch and burned it to ashes.

In this way, the two of them became more convinced that the ghost was Cherry Ghost. Because when it was burning, there was still a smell of alcohol.

It seems like this cherry ghost stole a lot of wine to drink!

At this time, Kumamoto discovered that there was an old doorkeeper outside the window of the room, but he was too old and could not see or hear. Although he was lying on the path that the ghost must pass by, he saw nothing. , heard nothing, still snoring like thunder, sleeping soundly.

When Kumamoto was in his eighties, his eldest son became the governor of Zhejiang and his second son became the governor of Hunan.

After he retired from old age and returned to his hometown, he chatted with people in his free time, and often talked about the past when he met the Cherry Ghost when he was young. He always laughed at himself and said to people: "I use courage, force and blessing to defeat the enemy." He defeated the monster, but he was not as good as the old servant guarding the door, who defeated the monster just because he was deaf and blind!"