Liaozhai Ghost Story

Chapter 107 Wang Shixiu

Wang Shixiu, a native of Luzhou, is brave and powerful. He can lift a hundred catties of stone mortar. Both father and son are good at Cuju. Wang's father is more than 40 years old. When he crossed the Qiantang River, he sank into the heart of the river. He didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

After eight or nine years, Wang Shixiu went to Hunan to do business. At night, he lived in Dongting Lake. At that time, the bright moon rose in the east and the Chengjiang River was like practice. While enjoying the moonlight lake, I suddenly saw five men coming out of the lake, holding a huge mat in their hands, flattened, half an acre in size. They were covered with dishes and wine on the mat, and the cups and plates made a sound, which was warm and dull, not like human ceramics. After a while, three people sat down on the mat, and the other two waited aside. The host is dressed in yellow and white. The three of them wore red square scarf hats on their heads. The style was strange, the moonlight was faint, and they couldn't understand it for a while.

The two servants are all dressed in brown, one like a boy and the other like an old man. I only heard the man in yellow say, "The moon is beautiful tonight, and it should be white." The man in white said, "This situation is quite similar to the banquet on Lihua Island held by the King of Guangli in the past." The three of them advised each other to drink, staggered, and sometimes talked. The voice was so small that they couldn't hear it clearly. The guests on the boat did not dare to move. Wang Shixiu looked at the old man carefully and found that he looked exactly like his father, but listening to his words, he was different from his father.

At the end of the second update, an owner said, "Take advantage of this bright moon to hit the ball for fun." As soon as the words fell, the child took out a round ball from the lake, which seemed to be full of mercury and clear inside. The three masters stood up one by one, and the man in yellow shouted that the old man played together. The old man kicked it out, kicked the ball several feet, rose into the air, and fell on the deck with a thump. Wang Shixiu was itchy and tried his best to step away. The ball was extremely soft. It only touched it gently, broke from it, and threw it into the heart of the river. Halfway, it was shining brightly, like a long rainbow through the sky, or like a comet falling to the lake. The water of the lake was boiling and bubbling. It took a long time to calm down.

The owner of the banquet was furious and scolded with one voice, "Where did the stranger come from? I will be happy!" The old man smiled and said, "It's not bad, it's not bad. This is the meteor abduction method of the old man's family. It's a good kick." The man in white said angrily, "We are angry with ourselves. You old man, are you happy? Why don't you catch the culprit for me with the little son of a bitch, or I'll break your two dog legs with a stick.

When Wang Shixiu heard the words, he had no place to escape. He simply summoned up his courage and stood in the bow with a knife. In a short time, he saw the two children rushing with weapons. Wang Shixiu stared at it. The old man was really his own father and shouted, "Aweng, the child is here!" The old man was horrled and looked at each other sadly.

The child turned around and left. The old man said, "Son, hide quickly, or you and I will die." Before saying that, the three owners boarded the boat and broke in. They were all dark, and their eyes were as big as pomegranates. The man in yellow grabbed the old man and dragged him out. Wang Shixiu fought desperately, the ship shook and the cable broke. Wang Shixiu cut off the enemy's arm with a knife, and the man in yellow screamed and fled in confusion. A man in white rushed to him. Wang Shixiu cut off his head with a knife, threw it into the middle of the lake, and fell into the water with a sound. Another man in white was timid and afraid of death. He jumped into the water with a plop and disappeared.

Wang Shixiu discussed with his father and was ready to leave at night. Suddenly, a huge mouth appeared on the surface of the lake, as deep as a dry well. With a suction, the water on all sides of the lake converged one after another, all of which were absorbed by the giant mouth. Only a loud noise was heard. The water in the huge mouth splashed, the waves were turbulent, and the tens of thousands of ships in the lake were bumpy at the same time, and the passengers were in a mess.

Wang Shixiu was not afraid of danger. He leaned over and grabbed a hundred catties of stone drum on the ship and threw it into his huge mouth. The water splashed everywhere, and the sound was like thunder. The wave gradually subsided. Wang Shixiu threw the second stone drum, and the wind wave calmed down.

For the rest of his life after the father and son's disaster, Wang Shixiu suspected that his father was a ghost. The old man said, "I didn't die. In the past, a total of 19 people sank into the heart of the Qiantang River, all of whom were swallowed by fish demons. I was lucky to survive because I was good at Cuju. Later, the three fish demons offended the Qiantang Dragon King and moved to Dongting Lake to take refuge. The ball you kicked just now was the fish bubble. The father and son were reunited and couldn't help but leave by boat overnight. The next day, Wang Shixiu saw a five-foot-long shark fin on the deck, and suddenly realized that the shark fin was broken by the man in yellow.