Chapter 41 Painting Skin

There is a scholar surnamed Wang in Taiyuan. He got up early this day for a walk. He met a girl on the road. She hurried with a package in her arms and stared at her. The girl was twenty-eight years old and her appearance was very handsome. She came forward to chat up and said, "It's early in the morning, where is the girl going?"

The girl said, "You are a walking passer-by, and you can't solve the problems for others. What are you doing here?"

Wang Shusheng said, "If you have any worries, you might as well talk about it and listen to it. If you need help, you will never refuse."

The girl said sadly, "My parents are greedy for money and sell me to a rich family as a concubine. My wife's jealousy is not compatible. Sooner or later, I will beat and abuse. I have had enough of torture and sneaked out."

Wang Shusheng said, "Where are you going to escape?"

The girl said, "The fleeing woman, who will take me in?" The four seas are home."

Wang Shusheng said, "My home is not far away. If the girl doesn't mind, she can live as long as she wants."

The girl was overjoyed. She followed the scholar back to the house, entered the house, looked around and asked, "The prince's family lives alone. Is there no one else?"

Wang Shusheng said, "I also have a wife, surnamed Chen, who is virtuous. This is my study. The environment is elegant. Just rest assured and no one will disturb her.

The girl said, "This place is very good, but I don't like to see strangers. I hope the prince can keep a secret for me."

Wang Shusheng agreed, and the woman smiled slightly, and then untied her clothes. A man and a woman were lingering happily. There was no need to elaborate.

Wang Shusheng made a fortune and secretly brag to his wife, "Wife, let me tell you something. I secretly hid a beauty in my study. Don't be angry."

Chen frowned and said, "Where did the beauty come from? It's not a big dowry girl. Send her away quickly so as not to cause trouble.

Wang Shusheng shook his head and smiled, but did not agree.

At noon this day, Wang Shusheng wandered on the street and met a taxi by chance. As soon as the Taoist priest saw the scholar's face, he was stunned and asked, "Your son, have you got into trouble with something unclean?"

Wang Shusheng said, "No."

The Taoist priest said, "Why not? I think the prince is evil. He must have met a ghost.

Wang Shusheng said angrily, "You Taoist priest, you are full of nonsense. Why do you hurt people for no reason?"

The Taoist priest shook his head and said, "The time of death is coming, and he is still obsessed. It's ridiculous, ridiculous." After saying that, I took care of myself.

Wang Shusheng secretly became suspicious because of the strange words of the Taoist priest and thought, "Is the beautiful woman I brought back actually a monster?" It's impossible. How can such a beautiful woman be a monster? It's probably the Taoist priest who pretends to be a ghost to cheat money.

When he returned home and went to the study, he found that the door was closed in broad daylight. He was shocked and hurriedly crept to the window to peep. He saw a ferocious female ghost sitting on the edge of the bed. Her face was pale green, her fangs were as sharp as a knife, and her face was very frightening. Looking at ** again, I don't know when there was a human skin. The female ghost held a colored pen in her hand and gently painted it on the human skin. After a while, he put his pen on the ground, picked up the human skin and put it on his body, and instantly became a peerless beauty.

Wang Shusheng broke into the secret of the female ghost. He was so scared that he trembled with fear that he would make a noise to expose his whereabouts. He lay on the ground, slowly climbed outside the house, ran wildly, and went to the Taoist priest for help. When he came to the wild, he saw the Taoist priest sitting on the stone resting and hurriedly kneeling to the ground. His mouth was just a sentence, "Help the Taoist priest, save his help."

The Taoist priest sighed, "Get up first and listen to me: Although this female ghost is fierce, she is at least a creature in the world. She took great pains to find a human skin stand-in, and I can't bear to hurt her life. Well, I will give you the dust in my hand and hang it outside the bedroom when I get home, which will keep you safe. If you want to find me in the future, you can come to the Qingdi Temple.

Wang Shusheng thanked him repeatedly. After going back, he slept in his wife's room and hung the dust on the door wall. At the next day, the female ghost came to provoke. Seeing the dust, she was deterred, gritted her teeth, and left with hatred. Wang Shusheng patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief. Suddenly, he heard the sound of footsteps. The female ghost went back and scolded, "The Taoist priest scared me. How can I give up the food in my mouth?" He grabbed the dust off and tore it to pieces three or two times. He kicked the door and entered, pressed Wang Shusheng down on the bed, cracked his chest, dug out his heart, chewed it, and then laughed and left.

Chen Shi hid at the bottom of the bed, saw her husband die tragically and cried loudly. Wang Shusheng still had a breath left and said intermittently, "Go... go to the Qingdi Temple to find... find the Taoist priest, quickly... go quickly."

The wife did not dare to disobey, so she quickly called her brother Chen Erlang and told him to quickly rush to the Qingdi Temple and ask the Taoist priest to go out of the mountain to deal with the female ghost.

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In the Qingdi Temple, the Taoist priest met with Chen Erlang. When he learned that the female ghost was killing people, he was furious and scolded, "What a female ghost, if I don't kill you, you are rampant in evil. Humph, we are at the right."

Rushing to the royal palace, the female ghost had disappeared. She stared around and saw black smoke in the south. She knew that it was the place where the female ghost was hiding and said, "Don't worry, the evil spirit has not gone far. Mr. Chen, whose house is in the south?

Chen Erlang said, "It's my home."

The Taoist priest said, "The female ghost is at your house right now. Go back quietly to find out and see if there are any birth visits recently. Come and report it quickly."

Chen Erlang took the order and left, and soon came back to reply, "The Taoist priest guessed correctly. This morning, an old woman in my house came to recruit as a servant. In addition, there were no other strangers."

The Taoist priest said, "This old woman is a female ghost. Let's go and collect it." Carrying a mahogany sword, he broke into the courtyard of Chen Mansion and shouted, "Evil, if you break me and brush the dust, pay for it quickly."

When the female ghost heard the words, she knew that she was not the opponent of the Taoist priest. She wanted to escape when she went out of the house. The Taoist priest caught up quickly, waved the sword in her hand, and cut off the head of the female ghost with a sword. The female ghost screamed, turned into thick smoke and rolled. The Taoist priest took off the gourd from his waist, pulled out and smoked, like a long whale absorbing water, and put all the thick smoke into the bottle.

The smoke dissipated, the female ghost completely died, and the bones were left, leaving only a fresh human skin, eyebrows and feet, all of which were lifelike. The Taoist priest rolled up the human skin, folded it like a scroll, put it in his bag, and left.

Chen grabbed the Taoist priest's clothes and begged, "Please be merciful and save my father-in-law."

The Taoist priest sighed and said, "The poor Taoist mana is low, and you can't come back to life. I point out a path for my wife: not far from here in the downtown, there is a beggar who is crazy and often sleeps in the dunghill. This man has a profound ability, and there may be a way to save Mr. Wang. But he has a strange temper. If his words humiliate his wife, you must endure humiliation and bear the burden. Don't be angry. That's all for the words. My wife can take care of herself. After saying that, he drifted away.

When Chen came to the downtown, he saw a beggar obscene and obscene, with a runny nose, and his body was smelly. He knew that he had found the right person. He knelt down to the ground and begged, "Please help me."

The beggar stretched out his hand and touched Chen's face and said with a smile, "Does the beauty like me?" Chen did not dare to struggle, but kept kowtoing. The beggar ignored it at all and said with a smile, "If your husband dies, you will die. If you find another one, isn't it wonderful to be a man? Why do you need to save your father-in-law?"

Chen didn't say anything, but tears fell down involuntarily. The beggar was indifferent and said, "Hey, how can the dead be saved? Do you think I'm the Lord of Hell?" The stick in his hand smashed angrily and hit Chen's back.

Chen didn't dare to complain. The beggar spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, which smelled and ordered, "Swallow it."

Chen's face turned red and his face was difficult, but when he remembered the Taoist priest's instructions, he had to endure nausea. He closed his eyes and swallowed the thick phlegm. He only felt that there was a blockage of cotton in his chest, which was very uncomfortable.

The Taoist priest laughed and turned away. As he walked, he said, "Beauty likes me, beauty likes me."

Chen hurriedly chased after him to a broken temple. The beggar suddenly disappeared out of thin air, searching back and forth without a trace. Chen was so anxious that she wanted to cry. She was insulted for no reason. She was ashamed and ashamed. She silently returned home, picked up her husband's body, stuffed her intestinal organs back into her stomach one by one, and cried at the same time.

After crying, his throat was dry and he seemed to vomit. Inadvertently, an object jumped out of his throat and just got into Wang Shusheng's abdominal cavity. It suddenly pulsed, and the heat steamed. He looked at it carefully, but it was a heart.

Chen was overjoyed. He quickly found a piece of cloth and tied her husband's body tightly to avoid his heart jumping out of his chest. Gradually, Wang Shusheng's wound filled with heat, and the body also regained his body temperature. His breath was weak and he could breathe air. After a night, Wang Shu came back to life and die and shouted, "I'm in a dream. It seems that I've been closed at the ghost gate, but why is there a faint pain in my chest and abdomen?" He lowered his head and stared at the broken. The wound has a scab.