Liaozhai Ghost Story

Chapter 271 Guo Xiucai

Guo Shusheng from Guangdong, who returned from a friend's house this night, got lost in the mountain and crashed in the grass. At the beginning of the day, laughter came from the top of the mountain. The scholar approached and saw more than a dozen people sitting on the ground, drinking. Seeing Guo, he shouted, "There is a drinker in the mountain. Since my friend came uninvited, it's wonderful."

The scholar sat on the ground and stared at the crowd. They only saw that they were wearing square scarves, most of whom were Confucian students. They had a good impression and asked the way home.

A man smiled and said, "The prince is really pedantic. He doesn't reward the bright moon. What's the way?" While talking, he handed the scholar a glass of wine, which was fragrant. The scholar did not refuse to drink it, and then a Confucian student came up to persuade him to drink. The scholar drank a lot. In addition, he ran for a long distance, and his mouth was dry. At that time, the whale swallowed the cow and drank about ten glasses of wine in one breath.

Everyone praised: "Age! It's really a good friend." Scholars are open-minded, good at joking, proficient in oral skills, and imitate the calls of animals, which is vivid. When he was relieved, there was a sound of swallows in his mouth. Everyone said strangely, "Where did the swallows come from in the middle of the night?" The scholar imitated the cuckoo's cry, and everyone became more and more confused.

The scholar returned to the crowd and sat down, smiling and saying no words. While everyone was talking, the scholar secretly turned his head, imitated the parrot and shouted, "Guo Xiucai is drunk. Send him back quickly." Everyone listened attentively, and there was silence around. Suddenly, the scholar opened his mouth again, and everyone suddenly realized that they laughed and learned from the scholar one after another, whistling randomly and imitating the sound of animals, but their understanding was limited, and no one could learn it.

One person said, "It's a pity that the young lady didn't come." Another person said, "Let's come here again during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mr. Guo must come then." The scholar agreed. One person got up and said, "Guests have unique skills. Let's also present the ugliness and perform a stacked arhats. Everyone clapped their hands and shouted, and stood up at the same time. The first person stood upright, and the second person gently stood up in the air and stood firmly on the shoulders of his companions. Over and over again, the latter pressed the former, and more than a dozen people were superimposed layer by layer, stacking a human wall, and high into the sky.

The scholar shouted loudly, and suddenly the human wall collapsed, clinging to the ground and turning into a path. The scholar knew that everyone was guiding him. Now he walked along the path and went home smoothly.

The next day, the scholar had a great pain in his abdomen and sprinkled a bubble of green urine. The color was like copper blue. Where the urine passed, the green bricks and soil turned green. When he breathed, he did not smell fishy in his nose. This lasted for three consecutive days, and it turned normal. On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the scholar planned to go to the appointment. His friend stopped him kindly, but finally failed to do so.