The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Hundreds of students in the dormitory were awakened by the screams as if a pot had exploded.

"What's the matter? What's the matter? What's the matter?" People asked each other one after another. They all left the house and came to the open space of the courtyard.

A black, fat, half-naked student wearing short pants with a black face, only two eyes exposed, and hair hanging down was running wildly in the courtyard, shouting, "There is a ghost...you eat people."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. Is this person out of his mind?He dressed up like a ghost and said that others were ghosts. During the discussion, someone who had a maintenance meeting brought Cao Min over.

Cao Min and a few entourages rushed to the hands of several people, and they were holding a knife. Apparently, the student who reported the message was serious about the situation, and everyone made way for Cao Min and others to come to the black-faced and bare-chested place. in front of people.

"Ghost, man-eating ghost..." The man curled up under the wall, buried his head and face between his knees, and trembled like chaff.

Cao Min's face was seyin and Yu Jinxue appeared on the first day of school. Wouldn't it make people laugh that such absurd things had never happened in his own territory? Seeing the man's embarrassment, he couldn't help but sternly said: "Who are you? Why are you screaming here in the middle of the night when you can't sleep peacefully? Look at you, look up like a student from Yingtian Academy!"

The man raised his head and his face was full of hideous terror drawn by something. Except for the whites of the eyes and teeth, his face was black and his lips were thick and white. His teeth looked particularly permeable under the light, which scared Cao Min a lot. Jump.

Cao Min took a step back and pointed at the man's nose with a simple knife, "Who the hell are you pretending to be a god here?"

The man fell to his knees and said, "Professor Cao's student Wu Hengxin has a ghost in my room...it's a man-eating ghost, please hurry up and get it, it scares me to death."

Cao Min's scalp was numb and he calmed down and shouted: "Stop talking nonsense, I am dignified, Yingtianfu Academy has Confucian music to protect you, why do you get dirty things? I think you are out of your mind."

"No, Professor Cao is really a ghost, student... The student saw it holding the child's hand in front of me, gnawing at the mouth full of blood, and still wanting to say something about the student's face. If the student didn't run away quickly, this face might be gnawed. It's half off..."

Hearing Wu Hengxin's words, everyone in the courtyard was terrified. His hoarse tone echoed in the courtyard. Even if hundreds of people gathered in the courtyard, the courtyard suddenly felt ghostly.

A gust of night wind swept across the wind lanterns hanging in mid-air, and suddenly extinguished a few lights in the courtyard. When the lights in the courtyard dimmed, the crowd started to shake, and some people began to smash their teeth;

Cao Min was also a little hairy, he had heard a lot about folk ghosts, even though he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would be deceiving to say that he didn't believe it at all; today, what Wu Hengxin said had a nose and eyes, and he couldn't help but start beating a small drum in his heart.

However, in front of so many students, how can you be scared and run away with just a few words? I'm afraid, but I have to bite the bullet and hold on anyway. Hundreds of people are here, are they still afraid of a ghost?

Thinking of this, Cao Min shouted: "Everyone, don't panic. There is something wrong with this matter. Light up the lanterns. Let's go and find out who this ghost is, who dares to act wildly in the Holy Land of my academy."

Everyone admired Cao Min's courage, and some even scolded in their hearts: "What kind of heroes and ghosts are you playing in front of, let alone a few hundred people here, so what if there are thousands of people here?"

But after scolding everyone, they lit up dozens of lanterns according to Cao Min's order. Each of them picked bricks and took sticks. Those who couldn't find someone who was good at it picked up dust and weeds randomly, regardless of whether these things could resist them. Ghosts and gods don't always feel at ease if they don't hold something in their hands.

Cao Min shouted to Wu Hengxin who was still sprawled on the ground: "Lead the way!"

Wu Heng shook his head like a rattle and said, "I don't dare to go if I don't go."

Cao Min grabbed his hair and gritted his teeth next to his ear: "So many people have been tossed by you all night without sleep. If you are really a ghost, you will be the first one to kill you; if you don't Go to the official and tie you here and take people away to teach that ghost to eat you up."

Wu Hengxin is a thrilling person. The person in front of him is not much better than a ghost. Before Wu Hengxin came to the academy, his colleague from Laizhou told him that anyone in the academy can be provoked, but he must not offend Professor Cao; After that, he basically had no choice but to go back home. Cao's lectures on the methods of punishing people were both sinful and harmful to the common people, and there were quite a few scholars who suffered under his hands.

At this point in his mind, Wu Heng knew that there was no way to avoid it. At the same time, the hundreds of people in front of him got up courageously, took a step and turned back three times, leading them through the corridors and corridors, and walked slowly towards the South Sixteenth Room where he lived.

Everyone followed him step by step and squirmed forward. He didn't even dare to make a sound. Hundreds of people crowded in the middle of the aisle, or someone stepped on someone else's foot and was trampled. They could only open their mouths and let out silent shouts, and then glared. But no one made the slightest sound. The discipline is suddenly so strict. I'm afraid this academy has been in operation for decades.

The South Sixteenth Room is gradually approaching. With the faint firelight, it can be seen that the door of the room inside is half-hidden and pitch-black, as if a big mouth is ready to devour anyone who dares to approach.

Wu Hengxin didn't want to go any further, shivering behind a small official, pointing half of his face at the door, trembling lips.

Cao Min gasped for a few breaths with his mouth open, exchanged glances with several subordinate officials holding simple knives, suddenly gritted his teeth and yelled, rushed to the door first, and several servants also shouted and rushed towards the house. Men Caomin came to the door, covered his head and face with a plain knife, kicked the door "teng" away with his kick, and backed away abruptly, holding the knife and concentrating on guarding against possible evil spirits.

But seeing the door being kicked open and closed, creaking, fanning the cool wind, blowing the lanterns in everyone's hands flickering; When the ghost appeared, he immediately fled back, but after waiting for a long time, there was no movement, but he heard a slight snoring sound coming from the house.

Everyone looked at each other in astonishment, could it be that the evil spirit is still asleep in the house?It is strange that ghosts can also snore.

Xia Silin was caught in the crowd and was so nervous that she knew that Su Jin was playing tricks from the beginning to the end, but she didn't expect Su Jin to be able to scare Wu Hengxin, who was in the same room, like this. I don't know how this guy did it.

Cao Min no longer hesitated, reached out and pulled Wu Hengxin over to block him, pushed him away, Wu Hengxin was about to struggle, Cao Min flew up and kicked his ass, Wu Hengxin thumped into the room with the sound of howling ghosts and wolves.

Cao Min and several petty officials rushed into the room holding a lantern with their knives sideways. Under the light of several lanterns, the room was like daytime.

The room is messy, clothes, shoes, pillows and mats are all over the floor, as if it was a scene that has just been robbed, but what makes people dumbfounded is that there is a person lying on the couch, snoring loudly, holding the bamboo pillow with both hands, and there is still happy saliva at the corners of the mouth. .

Cao Min sternly shouted at Wu Hengxin: "Where is the evil spirit you mentioned? Could it be the one lying there?"

Wu Heng shook his head in bewilderment and muttered: "I don't know, when I opened my eyes in the middle of the night, I saw a ghost with disheveled hair holding a child's hand and chewing in front of my eyes, dragging his tongue down to his chin, his mouth full of blood, and pointing at me Laughing."

Cao Min turned his head and pondered that the situation in front of him was too weird. He knew the person lying on the couch. It was Su Jin who offered three pancakes as a gift today. I'm afraid he is also pretending to sleep.

Thinking of this, Cao Min leaned forward and shone a lantern on Su Jin's face, only to see that there was indeed something red and bloodstained at the corner of Su Jin's mouth. Suddenly he was startled, pointed at Su Jin with the tip of his knife and shouted, "Who is that fellow?" If you’re still pretending to be asleep, why don’t you hurry up and get up and answer this officer.”

Su Jin snorted and clicked his mouth twice and continued to sleep soundly.

"I told you to pretend to chop off one of your legs and see if you still pretend." Cao Min gritted his teeth and yelled, shook his weapon, and then Pu Dao made a "woo-woo" sound, exhaled and slashed at Su Jin's forked left leg. down.

Xia Silin, who squeezed in, cried out in surprise and wanted to make a sound to stop it, it was too late, only to see the simple knife whimpering down with the sound of the wind, seeing that Su Jin's left leg was about to be separated from his body, Xia Silin covered it with both hands I can't bear to watch this bloody scene again, and I feel regretful in my heart. I have killed Su Jin. If I hadn't run to some books and begged him to find a way to live outside, how could Su Jin have ended up like this.