Ghost Story of Liaozhai

Guo Sheng, a native of Zichuan County, loves reading very little, but it is a pity that the mountains are remote and there is no famous teacher to teach him, so he is in his twenties, writing and painting, making many mistakes.The Guo family used to be infested by fox demons, and eating utensils were often stolen by fox demons, which caused endless headaches.

That night, Guo Sheng was studying at home and put the article on the table, but he was smeared black by the fox demon, making a mess.What's more, in some places, the writing is messy and full of ink, making it difficult to read at all.Guo Sheng shook his head and sighed, and copied the slightly clean text again, only sixty or seventy poems remained, resentful in his heart, but helpless.

Guo Shengping has written more than 20 articles, and he thinks they are good, so they are collected together, and he is going to ask famous people to point them out.When I got up early the next day, I saw all the articles spread out and thrown on the desk. The lines of the characters were dripping with ink and completely destroyed.Coincidentally, my good friend Wang Sheng came to the mountain village on business to visit Guo’s house. When he first saw the text on the table, he asked what happened.

Wang Sheng looked at the game and found that the fox demon's smearing was not random. What was deleted was nonsense, and what was left was essence. As a teacher." A few months later, Guo Sheng re-read the old articles and found that the obliteration of the fox demon was very correct.So I re-wrote two articles and put them on the table to watch the changes.At dawn the next day, the new work was painted over again.

After a year like this, the fox demon no longer smears the article, but just circles the dots with ink, and the paper is full of ink dots.Surprised, Guo Sheng showed the article to Wang Sheng. After reading it, Wang Sheng said, "The fox demon is really a good teacher. Brother Guo's writing has improved a lot. You can take the imperial examination."

In this year's college examination, Guo Sheng was admitted as a scholar. Since then, he has been grateful to the fox demon for his kindness, and often prepares fat chickens for the fox demon to enjoy.Every time I buy a textbook, I don't make up my own mind, it's all up to the fox demon.He took part in the township examination twice, and both ranked among the best, and passed the examination as a tribute student.

At that time, Mr. Ye was famous far and wide, and his articles were gorgeous, and his family recited them.Guo Sheng had a handwritten copy of Ye Gongwen Anthology, which he took great care of, but who knew that it was stained by the fox demon splashing ink, and a masterpiece he had carefully conceived was also stained by the fox demon, and he felt unhappy, so he no longer believed in it.

Soon after, Mr. Ye was arrested and imprisoned for reforming his writing style.Knowing this, Guo Sheng couldn't help admiring the foresight of the fox demon.But every time I write an article, I put in painstaking efforts, but in the end, no one is spared, and they are all smeared by the fox demon.

Because Guo Sheng was proud of the previous exams, he became more and more dissatisfied with the fox demon, so he specially found a few articles to test it. These articles were too much ink, and they were all hand-picked masterpieces by the fox demon in the past. Unexpectedly, he was smeared again.

Guo Sheng laughed angrily: "Fox demon, you are simply unreasonable. You are the one who says yes, and you are the one who disagrees. It's really difficult to serve." Since then, he no longer prepares meals for the fox demon. To prevent the fox demon from retaliating, he locked all the articles and textbooks in the wooden cabinet.

When I got up in the morning, the wooden cabinet was locked tightly without moving a thread, but when I opened it, there were four lines of ink on the writing, the thickness of my fingers; five horizontal lines were drawn on the first page, and five lines were drawn on the second page. I was full of doubts and didn't know the meaning, but from that day on, the fox demon disappeared and never appeared again.

Later, when Guo Sheng took the exam, he ranked fourth for the first time, and ranked fifth for the second and third time. Only then did he realize that the fox demon is unpredictable, and the test results have already hinted that he is just stupid and blind.