Paranormal Stories

According to the "Night Tan Sui Lu" record, during the Tang Dynasty, a certain Shang Shu resigned and returned to his hometown and bought a mansion. The upstairs of the backyard was empty and unoccupied, and strange things often happened.

One day, the scholar's fourth son was sleeping in the middle of the night when he was suddenly carried upstairs to the backyard, only to see candles lit behind the screen and a feast with more than ten guests. A beautiful young girl smiled and said to him, "My name is Feng, and I have a destiny with you." After the wine, those people carried him back to his room.

When he woke up the next day, he told his mother about it. His mother was horrified and said, "That's a fox fairy, don't go there in the future!" But the Fourth Prince often slipped into the backyard because he missed Feng. One day he ran into his mother and she was so angry that she ordered someone to beat him with a thorn. The mother knew it was a fox fairy and said angrily, "What business is it of yours if I teach my son a lesson?" At that time, the shangshu was not at home, and the eldest son took a knife to kill the fox, when suddenly tiles flew up out of the air and smashed many vessels.

From then on, the fox fairy repeatedly made mischief. Once, when the Grand Duke was promoted to the position of the Chinese official, his colleagues came together to celebrate. At the banquet, the wine was replaced with horse urine, and when the colleagues put down their chopsticks to pick up the food, they picked up feces. The colleagues shouted loudly that the Grand Duke was teasing them with dirty things. The Grand Duke understood that the fox was playing a role and tried his best to explain, but the colleagues did not believe him and left angrily. The Grand Duke went to the backyard in anger and hatred, and jumped and cursed for half a day. When he was tired of cursing and felt hungry, he went to eat snacks, and when he started to eat, the taste was very beautiful, but when he entered his throat, he felt the snacks crawling, and when he spat them out, they were small toads.

After a few dozen days, Shang Shu returned from a trip to the mountains, the wife said the matter, discuss moving to avoid the demon fox. Shang Shu ignored, after half a month, surprisingly peaceful, everyone thought it was the blessing of the master. The scholar also boasted, "What about it? I can see that the strange is not strange, its strange self defeat." After a few more days, Fang Gong, the chief examiner of Shang Shu's countryside examination, came, and the whole family was happy and excited. The Shang Shu rushed out to welcome him and invited him into the hall, but Fang Gong sat there for a long time and blamed the Shang Shu for being lazy and not coming to greet him often. The Shang Shu was drenched in sweat and kept thanking him. He stayed at the house until midnight, chattering on and on. Slowly, the Shang Shu could not hear Fang Gong's voice, only to see Fang Gong's face hairy, can not identify what is. Shang Shu looked closely, only to find that it was a scarecrow sitting on the seat. Shang Shu was shocked and laughed out loud for a long time, "Good trick! Good deception!"

After dawn, Shang Shu came to the backyard and said aloud: "I heard that foxes, as spiritual beings, can become immortal after a long time, since they are beasts with spiritual energy, why do they have to come to trick people! I now make a pact with you to use the pink wall as a boundary and not to infringe on each other. If you look for trouble again, we will fight to the death!" From then on there was no problem.

One day, while sitting alone in the middle of the night, he saw an old woman leading a group of six or seven men and women to pay their respects together, saying, "Thank you for allowing us to stay, now that your fourth son will be in great trouble, I would like to marry my daughter, Feng, to be his concubine, and will protect him sooner or later to repay the kindness." The Shang Shu thought about it and agreed.

After three days, the Shang Shu and his wife were sitting and chatting when suddenly a beauty lifted the curtain and came in, saying a thousand blessings and calling herself Feng. When the lady saw her beauty and dignity, she was happy to keep her. The woman served her parents-in-law with great filial piety, and the couple loved each other very much.

One day in the middle of summer, a thunderstorm broke out, and Feng, panicking and fidgeting, lay in the tent with the fourth son in her arms, begging him not to leave, and then took her original form and turned into a black fox. Only to see the thunder and lightning around the house roar, after an hour to stop. Black fox again into a Feng, kneeling to thank the fourth son, full of joy, but in the middle of the night, she suddenly disappeared, never returned, the backyard also no trace of the fox.

Later, the four grandsons official to the Cabinet, the Shang Shu only slowly understand, before the old fox said the grandson in trouble, in fact, is a falsehood. Because the fourth son is a noble life, so the fox fairy to seek refuge through marriage, to escape the calamity. Before the fourth son was carried to the backyard to meet with Feng, is also for this reason. Although he was set up by the cunning fox fairy, but thinking of Feng's filial piety and gentleness, Shang Shu was no longer annoyed.