What are the interesting stories in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio?

1. Forty Thousand

Master Wang's family is very rich. One day, he suddenly dreamed that a man said to him, "You owe me 4 yuan, and now it's time to pay me back." Then he went straight into the house. He woke up and his wife happened to have a boy. It seems that this child is here to settle the bill for life. So he took out 4 yuan and put it in a room alone.

All children's food, clothing and medical expenses are paid from these 4 thousand Li. After three or four years, 4 yuan will leave 7. On this day, the nurse was playing with her child in her arms. Master Wang sighed at the child: "4 thousand is almost used up, so you should probably go." After saying his word, the child's face changed greatly, and he looked up and stared, and he was out of breath at once.

Wang Sima didn't expect to vomit himself, and the child was so angry. I had to do nothing and bury the child. Just spent the remaining 7 money.

Pu Songling commented: People who are in debt can take this as a warning. Once a man was old and childless, and went to ask a monk. The monk replied, "If you don't owe others and they don't owe you, how can you get a son?" Therefore, giving birth to a dutiful son is to repay kindness; I gave birth to an unfilial son, and that's to collect debts. Life and death are cause and effect. Don't be too happy when you have a child, and don't be too sad when your child dies.

when I was a child, I couldn't understand most classical Chinese. But when I read this story, I vaguely felt that a paragraph written by Pu Gong at the end was very meaningful. After reading the last sentence, "Don't be happy for the living, don't be sad for the dead", I suddenly felt that Pu Gong was very warm. Of course, it is not necessary for everyone to believe this passage of Pu Gong, because it is only written for people who need this passage.

2. Thieves

During the reign of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty, bandits were rampant in Tengxian County, Shandong Province, with an average of seven out of ten people being bandits, and the government did not dare to catch them. Later, these bandits were recruited and submitted to the court, and the county official gave them another household registration, which means "thief household registration". Whenever a "thief" has a dispute with a good citizen, the government will do everything possible to protect them.

I can't help it. I'm afraid they will rebel. Later, when a lawsuit was filed, someone always pretended to be a "thief". Eventually, every time a lawsuit was filed, both parties to the lawsuit did not have to say anything. As soon as they started, they began to argue who was the real "thief" and the government had to check the household registration. It's ridiculous. It happened that there was a fox in the county yamen, and the daughter of the county magistrate was fascinated by a male fox.

The county magistrate invited a mage, caught the fox with a spell, put it in a bottle and prepared to burn it to death. At this time, I heard the fox shouting in the bottle, "I am a thief!" " Even the county magistrate is happy.

3. Xia Xue

In the summer of Ding Hai, it snowed heavily in Suzhou. The people were frightened and hurried to the Longwang Temple to pray. "Lord Dragon King has mercy, but we didn't do anything unnatural.".

The Dragon King suddenly attached himself to a person and spoke: "Now, whoever is called Master is preceded by the word' big'; Don't you think I am too small to bear the word' big'? " Everyone was shocked and quickly shouted: "My Lord!" The snow stopped immediately.

4. A certain armour in Zhucheng

When I was a child, I was so scared that my head fell off: I said that a man (a certain armour) was killed, and his head fell on his chest, but he didn't fall off, and his throat was still a finger-wide piece of flesh. His family held his head and sent him home to raise him. After feeding him a little, he recovered after raising him for half a year. There is still a circle of cracks on my neck, and I am afraid of it. It's not over yet.

after more than ten years, a certain armor was having a party with a friend, and a friend who loves to shake and be clever told a joke. A certain armor applauded and laughed, and then the knife mark suddenly broke and his head fell off! He breathed his last! There's blood everywhere The family of the deceased took the joke to court. I have been afraid to be smart with my friends for so many years.

5. Lu Shu

A corrupt official does a lot of bad things on weekdays. His wife often admonishes him with karma and refuses to listen. There is an alchemist who can know the number of lives. Corrupt officials went to see him. The alchemist said, "if you don't accumulate virtue, you won't have much money." If you eat twenty meters of rice and forty meters of noodles, you will die. " The corrupt official went home and said to his wife, "I save some food and eat two stone noodles a year, so I can still live for twenty years."

I was so happy that I was able to shrug off it and continued to do evil. The next year, I suddenly got diabetes, and my appetite increased greatly. I'm hungry after eating for a while, and a dozen meals a day is not enough. Two months later, he died.