Chapter 2118 Flower dispute (twenty-six)

Compared with the imperial examinations, Pu Songling from Shandong realized his weakness after failing the exams many times and decided not to take the imperial examinations. Instead, he became a "Mr. Liaozhai" and wrote some weird stories. Not only did he pass the time, he also

The female ghosts in the novel are graceful, tender, and both moral and artistic. Any one of them is the object of men's remembrance.

Specifically, the readers he faces are those scholars who are preparing for the imperial examination but have no hope of becoming an official. Like Juren and Pu Songling, they all have the dream of being named on the gold medal list and having flowers in the bridal chamber, but after failing the exam many times, they can no longer get it.

If you are an official and you can’t get any young girls, then you can get a few female ghosts and fox fairies, right?

Men have fantasies about these "goblins" because they are not living "women" who will worry about firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. Jacob also had a fiancée, but when the woman heard that he had not applied for a loan to open a bakery, she

Jacob didn't feel sad after leaving him, but instead breathed a sigh of relief.

Later he met Queenie and quickly fell in love, even though he knew Queenie was a witch.

Take a brief look at the female ghosts written by Pu Songling. They are particularly good to the male protagonist. Even Nie Xiaoqian, a female ghost who specializes in seducing passers-by so that tree demons can absorb their essence, let Ning Caichen go.

Wang Yangming had a disciple named Lu Cheng. One day Lu Cheng asked Wang Yangming, "Why are some people afraid of ghosts at night?"

Wang Yangming replied, "It's because this person can't do good deeds and feels guilty that he is afraid of ghosts. If everything can be done in accordance with the will of the gods, then what is there to be afraid of?"

Lu Cheng asked again, "There is no need to be afraid of honest ghosts. What you are afraid of is evil ghosts. No matter good or bad people, they will harm you, so you are afraid."

Wang Yangming replied, "How can evil ghosts confuse an upright person? Just having this fearful feeling means that the heart is not righteous. Therefore, people who are deceived by ghosts are not really deceived by ghosts, but are deceived by their own hearts.

For example, people who like beauty will be deceived by lustful ghosts, greedy ghosts will be deceived by greedy ghosts, irritable people will be deceived by angry ghosts, and timid people will be deceived by cowards.”

In Wang Yangming's time, ghost stories were not as popular as in the Qing Dynasty, especially beautiful female ghosts, so he said that beautiful people will be fascinated by lustful ghosts.

Zhu Quanzhong's concubine in Yu Sheng and Shen's family was good at singing and dancing, and she was extremely elegant. No matter how you looked at her, she didn't look like a monster with a green face and fangs.

The young monk went down the mountain to transform into a vegetarian. The old monk told her that the woman at the foot of the mountain was a tiger, so if you encounter one, you must avoid it.

After walking through one village after another, the little monk secretly wondered why tigers don't eat people and they look quite cute.

The old monk told his apprentice that this kind of tiger is the most powerful and dangerous.

Ming utensils were utensils used in ancient funerals. Meng Yunqing in the Tang Dynasty once wrote an elegy: "What does Ming Ming He need? I will do my best for the living." It means, "Why does the underworld need these things? It's just that we do our best for the deceased.

It’s just my intention.”

However, are bright weapons used by the living to relieve grief, or can they really be used by the dead? Ji Yun and Ji Xiaolan think there is no conclusion.

There are two stories in his "Notes of Yuewei Thatched Cottage":

When Ji Yun's eldest son Ru Xin was critically ill, his daughter once burned a red horse for him. Ru Xin came to life after dying and said: "My soul has left home just now, and my eyes are blank and I don't know."

Where to go? Then I met the servant Wang Liansheng leading a horse to take me home. The only reason is that the horse's foot is lame and the road is bumpy and uncomfortable." The servant in charge of burning the paper horse was in tears.

Said: "It's all my fault for being careless in my work. When I was burning the paper horse, I accidentally broke one of its legs, causing the master to suffer."

There is another thing. When Ji Yun's sixth aunt Chang was seriously ill and dying, she murmured to herself: "I just went to see my new house. The house is good, but the east wall is damaged, but

what should I do?"

When Leng Buding heard what she said, her family members were a little confused. After thinking about it carefully, they realized that maybe the house she was talking about was her coffin, so they immediately went to check the birthday coffin prepared for her. Sure enough, it was on the left side of the coffin.

It rotted and broke a small hole. Neither the craftsmen nor the supervisors noticed it, but it was discovered by her wandering spirit.

These bright objects are still within the normal range. In theory, mirrors are used to ward off evil spirits. When a woman looks in the mirror, what she sees in the mirror is her own appearance. She has an entity. However, Zhu Quanzhong’s concubine has no entity. She has long been

He was hacked to death by the rebel army. According to Buddhism, appearance has nothing to do with whether there is an entity or not. The main thing is that it will affect your heart, making it impossible for your heart to remain stable and peaceful.

Zhu Quanzhong's other name is Zhu Wen, a famous tomb robber in history. Ever since he got that mirror, Yu Sheng has been guarding it in front of it all day long. He seems to like looking in the mirror more than women. He doesn't care about his family and his family.

He is losing weight day by day, as if he is seriously ill.

It doesn't matter whether Zhu Wen stole the mirror from the tomb or whether it was cast by the immortal master with her blood as the concubine said. In addition to meeting Nie Xiaoqian at Lanruo Temple, Ning Caichen also met

Yan Chixia, a scholar who loves to slay demons.

To put it another way, Hogwarts also has the Mirror of Erised, which cannot be destroyed. The Shen family needs to find a heavenly master with real cultivation skills to "suppress demons" for their family, otherwise they will be like the Mirror of Erised.

He found a place to hide it like a mirror. The mirror was finally locked in a large iron cabinet by his father-in-law. However, after his father-in-law passed away, no one knew the whereabouts of the mirror.

Wang Yangming believes that "ghosts" are produced by conscience, which consists of conscience and good energy. Conscience tells us what we should do and what we should not do, while good energy tells us whether we have the ability to do what conscience wants us to do. Both of them

Unity is conscience.

In fact, in addition to people who usually do more in line with the will of gods and are not afraid of ghosts, people without conscience are also not afraid of ghosts, because they simply do not believe that there are ghosts in the world.

Some people may ask, conscience is supposed to protect us, why does it create ghosts to scare us?

Threatening us reminds us that we should correct our behavior and not do bad things. If we do bad things, we should correct them immediately. There is no other way.

A person without conscience, on the other hand, refuses to change despite repeated admonishment and goes his own way. He does not feel uneasy or guilty when he does those evil things. When Ximen Qing pursues his desires excessively, he does not feel anything wrong, etc.

He was about to die and his conscience discovered it, so he was afraid that the ghosts of Hua Zixu and Wu Dalang would come to him to collect debts.

Wang Yangming's classic study of mind lies in "inside" - one's own conscience. Accusing others belongs to "outside". If you are so angry that you accuse the other party, the other party will be indifferent, and it will even make the other party hold a grudge. Why bother?

Lao Juren believed in "not being tempted", which is what Mencius said, "I am not tempted at forty." After the age of 40, he was no longer interested in the female ghosts and fox fairies in the novels, which would cause him to have distracting thoughts, and he could not

Passed the imperial examination.

He hoped that Nick would be like him and concentrate on gaining fame, which is what he called "reborn." He said that the examples of torture and confessions in the Soul Calling Case were also evidence. Look at that Wang Xiucai, he was full of nonsense. In the end, it was not because of

Doesn't the scholar's reputation as a scholar need to be tortured? And the monk Mingyuan claimed to be the son of the general soldier, and he could write and see diseases. Wasn't he tortured to death?

The last time he wrote the words "witch" and "gu" on the table where Nick lived, it was the first time Nick, a foreigner, got involved in Chinese culture and he didn't quite understand it. After this period of study, what should he say next?

It's a "gu".

Poison is usually thought to come from Yunnan, and most of them are bugs. In fact, voodoo is not just a bug. The strange biting bug from Shanxi that was widely rumored in the Zhili area was a rumor among the people. The so-called "poisonous bug" is probably a "poisonous person"

"Zhang Tingrui.

However, Juren stayed in the capital for another year with his relationship as a tutor, and saw a lot of things. The originally vigorous soul-calling case died down within three months. Next, it was time to deal with the imperial examination, the Lianghuai salt case and the

The Qing-Burma War started.

Many people believe that the war is fought for money. For military expenses, not only the construction of the Lama Temple has been stopped, but also the merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will be forced to beg for food by the emperor.

After that, he would go to the south of the Yangtze River to "sympathize with the people's sentiments". In addition to returning the 6 million taels of silver brought by the Lianghuai salt case, the salt merchants would also "donate money" to build the Yangzhou Palace. Not only would they build pavilions and pavilions, they would also purchase antiques, treasures, flowers and trees.

Bamboo and stone, and tens of thousands of plum trees were also purchased for the emperor to enjoy.

No matter how rich the salt merchants were, they fell into decline because of their excessive expenditures. The "donations" they handed over to the emperor were like dumb people eating coptis and unable to tell the story of their sufferings.

Later, there was really no money, and even Jiang Chun, the general merchant, had to borrow "internal funds" from the emperor, which were usury loans issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In other words, Qianlong used the silver paid by the salt merchants themselves as capital to lend it to the salt merchants.

It is used to repay the fines that must be apportioned every year in the salt case, and part of it is used as working capital for the salt merchant's business to pay employees' salaries and rent. The interest on this kind of borrowing is 0.2 taels per quota. After they have paid off the principal and interest, they will have a life together.

More than ten million taels of silver.

The young Juren sympathized with them. He was debt-free and light-hearted, so he understood why the followers of the White Lotus Sect wanted to take advantage of the wealthy households. Not only because the wealthy households had surplus food, but also because the creditors died and the debts were written off. At that time, the interest on private loans was

Already 30% are legal.

If he couldn't repay his debt, he would be sold into slavery. After the baby boy was born, his identity would be recorded. If his father was a slave, he would naturally be a slave as well.

The tenth hexagram of the Book of Changes is the Gu hexagram. This hexagram says that when affairs are in chaos, innovation will lead to prosperity. It seems to be about voodoo, but it actually contains the method of curing voodoo, which can eliminate ills, bring order to chaos, and achieve great order in the world.

Of course, if the shortcomings cannot be eliminated, we will have to go in another direction. There will always be a few small bugs that devour the same kind and become big bugs, like Jiedushi Zhu Wen.

Whether it is cultivating voodoo or removing voodoo, it is not something that happens overnight. It is said that the disease comes like a mountain falling, and the disease goes away like a string. The "prosperous age" of Qianlong left Jiaqing a Himalayas.

Conscience told Lao Juren not to be alone, but Liang Neng told him that you are not capable of helping the world. Now he has too much to take care of himself. He plans to adopt a child to provide for him until his life becomes stable.

There is an idiom called "Rotten grass is firefly", which means that fireflies grow out of rotten grass.

Maybe someone will be able to change this corrupt situation in the future, but that is a matter for "posterity". His "predecessor" is already lying in the grave with a green will-o'-the-wisp. So he can only learn from Du Fu, and do it every day.

During family sacrifices, we remind future generations not to forget to tell them what happened next.

Maybe he can find a beautiful female ghost as a neighbor. As for whether people like him or not? I don’t know. It is said that ghosts like to suck the yang energy of living people. Even if the other person is a poor scholar, it is still beneficial to them.

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