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 Anhui Lingyang Zhu Erdan, word Xiaoming. His character is bold, however, has always been slow, despite reading diligently, but failed to high school, famous in all directions. One night, the literary society gathered for a banquet, someone joked with him, "You have always had a reputation for boldness, if you can go to the Hall of Ten Kings in the middle of the night, the left corridor on the back of the Judge, we'll put up the money to buy you a drink." It turns out that Ling Yang has a ten kings of the temple, the temple of the gods and ghosts are carved out of wood, makeup and paintings decorated vividly. On the east corridor there is a standing Judge of the Underworld, green face and red beard, especially fierce and vicious appearance. Some people have heard at night on both sides of the corridors of the Hall of the Ten Kings of the sound of torture and interrogation. Anyone who went in was tense and their hair stood on end. So the crowd used this to embarrass Jurdan. Jurdan smiled and stood up and went straight there. Not long after, he shouted outside the door, "I have invited the bearded patriarch!" Everyone stood up. Then Zhu Erdan came in with the statue of the Judge on his back, placed it on the table, held a wine cup in his hand, spilled wine on the ground, and toasted three cups. The crowd watched, all fearful, fidgety, they asked him to carry back. Zhu Er Dan once again wine sprinkled on the ground, said: "students arrogant and rash, do not know the etiquette, understand the great master do not blame. My humble abode is not far away, the great master may wish to come to find wine to drink, please do not be bound by the boundaries of man and god!" So the statue was carried back.

 The next day, the showman really invited Zhu to drink. In the evening, Zhu Erdan half-drunk and returned, still can not enjoy, light up the lamp and drink. Suddenly someone lifted the curtains to come in, he looked up, but it was the Judge of the Underworld, and stood up and said: "I think I'm probably close to death! I offended you last night, so I've come today to have a sword and an axe added to my neck!" The magistrate parted his thick beard and smiled, "No. Yesterday I was grateful to you for your kind engagement, and I had an occasional spare moment in the night to fulfill the appointment of this open-minded man of yours." Zhu Erdan was very happy, pulling his sleeve and urging him to sit down, getting up himself to wash the cups and brush the plates, and making a fire to warm the wine. The magistrate said, "The weather is warm enough to drink cold wine." Jurdan obeyed, put the bottle of wine on the table, and ran to order his servants to prepare the dishes and fruits. When his wife heard of this, she was very frightened and advised him not to go out again. Jurdan would not listen and made sure to prepare and serve the things. He exchanged cups with his guests and toasted each other before asking for his family name. The magistrate said, "My surname is Lu, and I have no name." Zhu talked to him about ancient texts, and Judge Lu responded as quickly as an echo in a valley. Zhu asked, "Are you familiar with the articles for the examination?" Lu said, "I am quite able to distinguish the merits of the essays. Reciting poetry and books in the netherworld is similar to the Yang world." Judge Lu had a large capacity for alcohol and drank ten cups of wine in one go. Zhu Erdan because of drinking all day, do not feel drunk, body like a jade mountain toppled, crouched on the table and fell into a deep sleep. When he woke up, he only saw that the candle was almost burned out, the candlelight was dim, and that the guests of the netherworld had already left.

 From then on, Lu judge three or two days will come to a trip, their friendship is increasingly happy, but also from time to time to sleep in the same bed. Zhu Erdan submitted his own work to Judge Lu, Lu always red pen deletion, said no good. One night, Zhu Erdan drunk first sleep, Lu is still drinking alone. Zhu in a drunken dream, suddenly felt a slight pain in the internal organs, woke up to see the land sitting in front of the bed, his abdominal cavity opened, pulling out the intestines and stomach, is organized one by one. Zhu Er Dan was shocked, said: "I and you always have no grudges, why kill me?" Judge Lu laughed, "Don't be afraid, I'm just replacing a smart heart for you." He calmly put Zhu's internal organs back into the abdominal cavity and then reclosed it, and at the end, he used a shroud to wrap up Zhu's waist. After finishing up, there wasn't really any blood on that bed when he looked at it. Just feel a little numbness in the abdomen. Just see Judge Lu put a lump of meat on the table. Zhu asked what it was, Lu said: "This is your heart. You don't think fast enough to do your writing, so you can tell that your heart is clogged. In the netherworld, I picked a good one out of millions of hearts and replaced it for you, and I'll keep this one to take back to cover the missing number." After saying this, he got up, closed the door and left. After dawn, the shroud unraveled a look, the wound has healed, leaving only a red line. From then on, he was greatly improved, read and forget. A few days later, he took the article to Judge Lu again. Lu said, "It's ready. It's just that you have a thin fortune in your life, you can't be rich and famous, and you can only pass the township and imperial examinations." Zhu asked, "When?" Lu said, "This year will be the first place."

 Soon, Zhu Erdan to participate in the test really won the first, the fall should be examined in the countryside, and topped the list. The same society has always made fun of him, this time to see his test text, are looking at each other, very surprised, ask carefully, only to know that there is a change of heart of the strange things. People are begging Zhu for an introduction, willing to make friends with Judge Lu. Lu agreed. The scholarly people waited for him at a banquet one night. On the first night, Judge Lu came, his red beard fluttering and his eyes gleaming like lightning. All the scholars were so scared that their faces were colorless, their teeth were fighting, and one by one they all slipped away.

 Zhu Erdan then dragged Judge Lu home to drink, and when he was drunk, Zhu said, "You have cleansed my intestines and disemboweled me, and I have been blessed with many gifts. There is one more thing I want to trouble you with, I don't know if it's possible?" Lu asked him to do so, and Zhu said, "I think I can change my heart and my face. My wife is my original wife, and those little feet are quite good, only the face is not very pretty. I would like to trouble you to move the axe, how about it?" Lu smiled and said, "Good, let me take my time to plan." After a few days, Judge Lu came knocking on the door in the middle of the night. Zhu Er Dan hurriedly got up to guide him into the house. Light up the lamp, only to see Lu with the lapel wrapped in a thing. Zhu asked him, Lu said: "You asked something earlier, has not been easy to find the object. Just now happened to get a beauty head, so I came to resume." Zhu Erdan spread the lapel to see, the head of the neck is still dripping blood. Judge Lu urgently urged to quickly into the inner room, do not disturb the chickens and dogs. Zhu Erdan worried about the inner room portal night bolt. Judge Lu came to the door, hand a push door, the door opened. Zhu Erdan took him into the bedroom, see the lady is sleeping on her side. Lu handed the head to Zhu to hold, he himself drew a snowy knife from his boot, shaped like a dagger, pressed on the lady's neck, and with a force, like cutting tofu, the flesh and bones were dissolved, and the lady's head fell on the pillow. Lu hurriedly took the head of the beauty from Zhu's arms closed in the lady's neck, look at the placement of the correct, and then pressed with the hand. Finished moving the pillow over to stuffed next to the shoulders of the lady, and instructed Zhu Erdan buried the lady's head to a secluded place, before leaving. Zhu's wife woke up, felt slightly numb on the neck, dry scabs all over the face; a rub, rub the blood flakes, could not help but be alarmed. She called out to the maid to fetch water to wash her face. The maid saw that her face was covered with blood, and was also frightened. After washing her face, the basin of water turned all red. The lady raised her head, and the maid saw that her face had changed, and she was even more horrified. Mrs. take a mirror to look at themselves, also very shocked, do not know what is going on. Jurdan came in and told her. So again and again carefully scrutinize this new look, only to see the slender eyebrows straight into the temples, cheeks of the bottom of a pair of smile nest, really like a picture of a person in general. Undo the collar to see, there is a circle of red lines on the neck, the upper and lower skin color is very different.

 Earlier, an imperial official surnamed Wu had a daughter who was very beautiful and died without two fiancés, so she was still unmarried at the age of nineteen. Lantern Festival she went to the ten kings of the temple to play, when the tourists mixed, there is a rogue in the spy on Miss Wu, fascinated by her beauty, so secretly inquired about her address, climbed the ladder into the night, dug through the door of the bedroom, killed a maid on the bed, forcing the Miss with him to lust. The young lady tried her best to resist and cried out loudly, so the thieves were annoyed and killed her as well. Mrs. Wu vaguely heard the noise, called the maid to see, the maid saw the corpse, scared to death. The whole family was alarmed and parked the body of the young lady in the hall, with the severed head placed next to her neck. The family cried and shouted all night long. At daybreak, the quilt covering the body was removed, and they found the body still there and the head missing. So they whipped each maid, saying that they had not kept strict watch and the head was eaten by dogs. Wu reported the case to the county, and the county magistrate set a deadline for arresting the murderer, but three months had passed, and the culprit had not yet been found.

 After some time, some people told the Zhu family Mrs. head of the strange story told the Wu Royal Secretary, Wu became suspicious, sent an old woman to visit the Zhu family. The wife went in to see Mrs. Zhu, very surprised, ran back to report Wu Gong. Wu Gong see Miss body is still there, surprised and suspicious, the heart can not decide. He suspected that Zhu Erdan killed his daughter with evil magic, so he went to question. Zhu Er Dan said: "My wife changed her head in a dream, I really don't know how it happened. To say that I killed the young lady would be unjust." Wu Gong did not believe him, and accused him. The magistrate arrested the servants of Zhu's family and interrogated them, and they all made the same confession as Zhu Erdan. The county magistrate could not reach a verdict. Zhu Erdan went home and asked Judge Lu for advice. Lu said, "It's not difficult, we must let the woman speak for herself." That night, Wu dreamed of her daughter and said, "My daughter was killed by Yang Dainian of Su Xi, and it has nothing to do with Mr. Zhu. Mr. Zhu thought his wife was not pretty, so Judge Lu took his daughter's head and replaced it with hers, so that although her body was dead, her head was still alive. Please don't make a grudge against him." Mr. Wu woke up and told his wife, who had the same dream. He then reported it to the magistrate. When the court investigated, there was indeed a Yang Dainian; he was arrested and tortured, but he confessed. Duke Wu then went to Zhu's house in person, asked to meet with Mrs. Zhu, and from then on with Zhu Erdan as a son-in-law. Later, he buried the head of Mrs. Zhu on the body of Miss Wu.

 Zhu Erdan three times to participate in the examination of the Ministry of Rites, all because of violation of the rules and failed. So his heart to seek the honor and fame went cold. After another thirty years, one night, Judge Lu said to him, "You will not live long." He asked when he would die, and Lu answered five days later. Zhu asked, "Can you save me?" Lu said, "Only Heaven can determine life and death, how can a man change it privately? Besides, in the view of the open-minded person, life and death are the same, why should life be happy and death be sad?" Zhu Erdan thought it was reasonable. He immediately made preparations for clothes, blankets, and a coffin; and when all was done, he died fully dressed.

 The next day, Mrs. Zhu was holding the casket and crying, when Zhu Erdan suddenly walked in from the outside in a calm manner. The lady became frightened, and Zhu said, "I am indeed a ghost, but no different from when I was alive. It is just that I am thinking of you orphans and widows, and I am very much attached to you." The lady was very sad and wet with tears; Zhu Erdan warmly comforted and relieved her. The lady said: "The ancients have a soul regeneration, you have the spirit, why not resurrect it?" Zhu Erdan said: "Heaven's order can not be violated ah." The lady asked, "What are you doing in the underworld?" Zhu Erdan said, "Judge Lu recommended me to supervise the clerical affairs, and I was given an official title, and I did not work hard." Mrs. still want to speak, Zhu Er Dan said: "Judge Lu came with me, quickly set up wine and food." Said quickly walked out. The lady followed the instructions and prepared the banquet. I heard the house laughing and drinking, and the voice was as loud as it was before I was born. In the middle of the night and then go to spy, then no sound, has left. Since then, Zhu Erdan's ghost of three to five days will go home, and sometimes stay overnight, the couple lingering, home affairs will be disposed of. Son Zhu Wei is five years old, Zhu Er Dan always go home to hold him; to seven or eight years old, will teach him to read under the lamp. The child is also smart, nine years old can write articles, fifteen years old in the Xiu Cai, but has not been aware that he has no father. After that, Zhu Erdan gradually reduced the number of times to go home, only occasionally back. One night, he said to his wife, "I'm saying goodbye to you forever." Mrs. Zhu asked, "Where are you going?" Zhu said, "Thanks to the Heavenly Emperor's appointment of me as the God of Mount Huashan, I am about to travel a long way to take up my duties. I am busy with official business and the journey is long, so I cannot go home." The mother and son pulled him to cry, and Zhu said, "There is no need to be like this! The child has grown up, and the family can still make ends meet; how can there be a couple that is not separated for a hundred years!" Then he turned back to his son and said, "Be good and don't destroy your father's family business. Ten years later can still see each other." After saying this, he went straight out the door and left, and never came back.

 Later on, when Zhu Wei was twenty-five years old, he got a bachelor's degree and was appointed to the post of pedestrian. He was instructed to go to the western mountain Huashan, passing through Huayin, suddenly there was a car with pheasant feather umbrella, with a large group of attendants, came head-on, rushing his honor guard. Zhu Wei was very surprised, look closely at the person sitting in the car, it is his father. Zhu Wei dismounted from his horse and cried bitterly, bowing to the side of the road. His father stopped the car and said, "You have a good reputation as an official, I can die in peace!" Zhu Wei fell to the ground and refused to get up; Zhu Erdan urged the car to start, ignoring his son's tears, and hurriedly sped away. Not far away, and look back, take off the knife, asked the attendant to bring to Zhu Wei, far from the message: "Wear this knife, when you can show noble." Zhu Wei is trying to catch up, only to see that the carriage attendant, floating like the wind, instantly without a trace. Zhu Wei and grief and regret, can not be calm for a long time. Pulled out the knife to see, the production is extremely fine and detailed, engraved with a line of text, said: "Boldness wants to be big and heart wants to be small, wisdom wants to be round and line wants to be square." Zhu Wei later has been to the Ministry of War Secretary. He had five sons, named Zhu Shen, Zhu Qian, Zhu Abstruse, Zhu Hun, Zhu Shen. One night, he dreamed that his father said, "The sword should be given to Zhu Hun." He did so. Zhu Hun later became a royal inspector and was famous for his governance.