The Third Translation of Wolff's Three Principles

A butcher was walking on the road in the evening and was chased by wolves. There was a field resting place left by a farmer by the roadside, so he ran in and hid in it. The wolf put his paws into the straw curtain of the thatched cottage.

So the butcher quickly grabbed the wolf's paw and wouldn't let it leave, but there was no way to kill it. There is only a knife less than an inch long. Use it to cut the wolf skin under the claws and blow air into it by blowing pigs.

(Butcher) blew hard for a while, and felt that the wolf had little movement, so he tied the wolf's leg with a rope. When I went out to have a look, I saw that the wolf was swollen all over, just like an ox. You can't bend your legs, and you can't close your mouth with your mouth open. The butcher carried it back.

The third original work of Three Wolves by Pu Songling in Qing Dynasty;

A massacre at dusk, forced by wolves. Next to the road, there was a room left by night ploughing and rushed into the shadow. The wolf extended his paw to it. Tu is in a hurry and can't go. But you can die without thinking. It's just that the space of the knife is not enough, so I cut the skin under the wolf's paw and blow it by blowing.

When I tried to blow it away, I felt that the wolf was not very active, so I tied it with a belt. Out of sight, the wolf swelled like an ox, its legs were crooked and its mouth could not be closed. Then take it back. Three things are all out of slaughter; Then the remnants of murder can also be used to kill wolves.

Extended data writing background:

When Pu Songling was five years old, the Qing Dynasty just entered the customs and suppressed the peasant uprisings in Yangzhou and Shandong, which also produced many strange things, all of which affected Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio.

Pu Songling probably started writing Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio when he was a private school teacher after separation. His good friend Zhang found that Pu Songling's writing of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio influenced the examinee, so he wrote a poem to persuade him to stop writing novels and concentrate on the exam. But Pu Songling didn't listen, but wrote. No matter what anecdotes a friend hears, he should learn about them and write them in his own works.

Pu Songling was born in a scholarly family. In his early years, he also wanted to use the imperial examination to be an official. Unfortunately, he tried again and again and could only make a living by teaching. He has been interested in folk ghost stories since childhood.

It is said that Pu Songling once opened a teahouse in front of his house in order to collect materials. People who come to drink tea can use a story instead of tea money. Pu Songling collected a large number of bizarre stories in this way, and after finishing and processing, they were included in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio.

According to the notes of the Qing Dynasty, "Three Borrowing Lu Bi Tan", Pu Songling spread a mat on the ground next to the avenue every morning and set up a yancha, waiting for passers-by to collect anecdotes. Every time I hear something, I whitewash it when I go home.

In the first year of Kangxi (1662), Pu Songling began to write stories about foxes and ghosts at the age of 22. In the spring of the eighteenth year of Kangxi, forty-year-old Pu Songling compiled the manuscript into a book Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio for the first time, with a preface in the south. Since then, it has been added frequently. It was not until around 239 and 46 years of Kangxi that there were several addenda in the book. The writing of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio lasted more than forty years, and Pu Songling devoted most of his energy.