LIANZUO

 Yang Yuhua moved to the Surabaya River. His study faced the open wilderness, and there were many ancient tombs outside the wall. At night, he heard the poplar trees being blown by the wind like waves. Late one night, he was alone with a solitary lamp, in a desolate state of mind. Suddenly, someone outside the wall chanted, "The wind is blowing upside down on the night of Xuan Yuan, and the fireflies are staining the grass and the apartment." Repeatedly chanting, the voice is sad and miserable. Listening carefully, the voice is slender and gentle, seems to be a woman. He couldn't help but be very puzzled. The next day, he went outside the wall to observe, but there was no human traces, only found a purple belt, left in the thorn bushes. He picked up the purple band and hung it on the window of his study. At the second hour of the night, there was again a burst of chanting from outside the wall like last night. Yang Yu fear to move a short stool, climbed up to look out of the wall, the chanting sound immediately disappeared. He realized that it was a female ghost, but in his heart, he had feelings of admiration.

 On the third night, Yang Yu Fear lay on the wall and watched. At the end of the first shift, a woman slowly came out of the bushes, holding a small tree with her hand, her head lowered as she chanted sadly. Yang Yu fear gently coughed, the woman immediately hidden in the grass. Yang Yu'ai waited quietly under the wall. When the woman finished the two lines of the poem, Yang Yu'ai continued to recite them through the wall: "How can anyone see the bitter feelings of the ghost? When the moon is on the emerald sleeve, it is cold." After a long time, the surroundings remained silent. So he returned to the study. Just sat down, suddenly saw a beauty walked in from outside, bowed to him, said: "Mr. original is a gentleman of elegance, but I have been afraid to avoid you, not too much!" Yang Yu fear was very happy, and hastily pulled her to sit down. Seeing her thin body, timid demeanor, skin cohesion of a cold, weak and pathetic look. Yang asked her: "Where do you live? Why do you live here for a long time?" She replied, "I am from Longxi and followed my father here. When I was seventeen years old, I suddenly got sick and died, and it has been more than twenty years since then. Under the nine springs, the wilderness is vast, and I am as lonely and desolate as a wild duck that has lost its flock. The two verses I recited were composed by myself to express my sadness in the underworld. But after thinking for a long time, I couldn't continue; I am grateful to you for completing the poem for me, so that I can feel very happy in the next life." Yang Yu Fear wanted to make love to her. She frowned and said, "The rotten bones in my grave are different from those of a living person; if I make love with someone, it will shorten his life. I can't bear to make you suffer!" Yang Yu Ai then stopped. He smiled and touched the woman's breasts with his hands, and felt that the gravy-like breasts were still virginal. He also wanted to see a pair of small feet under her skirt. The woman lowered her head and said with a smile, "You are too pestering!" Yang Yu Fear played with her small feet, only to see the feet wearing moon white socks, tied with a strand of colorful thread. When he looked at the other foot, it was tied with a purple band. Yang Yu'ai asked, "Why don't you tie them both with a purple band?" She said, "Last night, because I was afraid of you, when I was hiding, one of the straps fell somewhere." Yang Yu awe said, "Let me change it for you." He took the belt from the window and handed it to her. She was surprised and asked where she got it from, and Yang Yu'a told her the truth. She untied the colored threads and tied on the purple band. Then she casually flipped through the books on the table, and suddenly saw the Lianchang Palace Lyrics written by Yuan Zhen of the Tang Dynasty, and said with emotion, "I loved to read it when I was alive. Seeing it now is like being in a dream!" Talking with her about poetry and literature, she was clever and very lovely. The two of them sat under the west window, cutting candles and talking, very speculative and tacit understanding, Yang Yu fear is like getting a confidant.

 From then on, every night, as long as she heard the sound of soft chanting, she came after a while. She always instructed Yang Yu'ai, "Keep it a secret and don't tell anyone. I have been very timid since I was a child, and I am afraid that some wild and vulgar guests will come and bully me." Yang Yu'ai agreed. The two of them were like fish in water, very joyful. Although there was no pillow sex, but in the boudoir, the affection was intimate, and it was one level further than the pleasure of Zhang Chuang's eyebrow painting. She often under the lamp for Yang Yu fear copying books, handwriting is very dignified and beautiful. And self-selected a hundred palace lyrics, copied and recited. She also asked Yang Yu'ai to buy a chessboard and a pipa. Every night, he taught Yang Yuyuan how to play Go. Otherwise, she played a song "Banana Window Zero Rain" on the strings, which made people feel sad and sorrowful, and Yang could not bear to finish listening to it, so she changed to play "The Sound of Warblers in the Dawn Garden", which made people feel relieved all of a sudden. The two of them picked the lamp and played games, and when they were happy, they forgot about the dawn. When she saw the dawn on the window, she left in a panic.

 One day, Xue Sheng came to visit Yang Yu'ai for a nap. Looking around the room, he saw a pipa and a chessboard, and knew that these were not Yang's specialty. When he looked around the room, he saw the lute and chess board and realized that these were not Yang Yu's specialty. He also looked up a book and found a book of palace lyrics, and saw that the handwriting was dignified and beautiful. When Yang Yu'ai woke up, Xue Sheng asked, "Where did you get these pipas and chessboards?" Yang Yu Da replied, "I want to learn these things." When Xue Sheng asked whose poetry scrolls belonged to him, Yang Yufa said he had borrowed them from a friend. Xue Sheng looked it over and over again, and saw a small line written on the last page: "A certain month, a certain date, Lian Zuo book." Then he laughed and said, "This is the girl's nickname, how can you lie to me?" Yang Yu fear very embarrassed, speechless. Xue Sheng pressed even harder, but Yang Yu Ai just refused to say anything. Xue Sheng rolled up the poem scroll and put it under his armpit. Yang Yu D畏 was even more embarrassed, so he had to tell Xue Sheng. Xue Sheng asked to meet Lian Zuo, so Yang Yu Da relayed Lian Zuo's instructions. But Xue Sheng admired Lian Zuo very much; Yang Yu'a had no choice but to agree. In the middle of the night, Lian Zuo came, so Yang Yu'ai conveyed Xue Sheng's request to her. Lian Zuo said angrily, "What did I tell you? How dare you tell someone else at length!" Yang Yu'ai had to tell the truth in his own defense. Lian Zuo said, "My destiny with you is at an end!" Yang Yu'ai tried to persuade her, but she remained sullen and stood up to say goodbye, "I'll avoid it for the time being."

 The next day, Xue Sheng came, Yang Yu'ai replied to him on behalf of Lian Zao, said he did not want to meet. Xue Sheng suspected that he was deliberately trying to push him away, and in the evening he asked two of his classmates to come with him, and stayed for a long time, purposely preventing them from meeting each other, and also making a lot of noise all night long, which made Yang Yu'ai very annoyed, but there was nothing he could do about it. Seeing that there was no sign of Lian Zao for several nights, everyone gradually had the intention to leave, and the clamor gradually subsided. Suddenly heard a chanting sound, everyone listened carefully, the voice was very mournful. Xue Sheng is listening out of his mind, with a martial arts student surnamed Wang, picked up a large stone thrown across the wall, shouting: "Pretending not to see the guest, that is what good poetry, whimpering, sad, sad, smothering people to death!" With this shout, the chanting stopped immediately. Everyone complained about Wang Sheng. Yang Yuhua was even more furious and resentful. The next day, these people retreated together. Yang Yu'a lived alone in the empty study, hoping that Lian Zuo would come again, but there was no sign of him. After two days, Lian Zuo suddenly came and cried, "You almost scared me to death by inviting these vicious and vulgar guests!" Yang Yu Ai hastily apologized and admitted his mistake. Lian Zuo stepped out of the study in a hurry and said, "I had said that the fate was over and we parted ways from now on." Yang Yu fear went forward to try to pull her, but the person is long gone. After more than a month, Lian Zuo did not come. Yang Yu fear day and night miss her, the body gradually thin into skin and bones, but how can not think of a way to salvage.

 One night, while Yang Yu'ai was drinking to himself, he suddenly saw Lian Zao lift up the curtain and walk in. Yang Yu'ai was overjoyed and said, "Have you forgiven me?" Lian Zuo kept shedding tears and didn't say a word. Yang Yu'ai eagerly asked her what had happened, and she, wanting to speak, said, "I left you gamely, and then hurriedly came to beg you, so I'm really ashamed." Yang Yu fear repeatedly asked, she said: "I do not know where came a despicable magistrate, forced me to give him as a concubine. I am the daughter of an innocent family, how can I be forced to serve a lowly servant? But how can a weak woman like me resist? If you saw me as a wife, you would never have let me struggle for survival alone." Yang Yu'ai was so enraged that she wished to go and beat that wicked ghost to death; but she was afraid that man and ghost were not in the same world, and she could not help her. Lian Zuo said, "Tomorrow night you go to bed early, and I will just invite you in my dream." So the two of them talked to each other again, and sat there until dawn. When Lian Zuo was leaving, he asked Yang Yu'ai not to take a nap, but to meet him in his dream at night. Yang Yu'ai agreed.

 That evening, Yang Yu fear drank a little wine, riding the drunkenness climbed into bed, wrapped in clothes and fell asleep. In a daze, he suddenly saw Lian Zuo walked in, handed him a sword, and took his hand to go out. Came to a courtyard, just closed the gate to talk, heard someone with a stone stone door. Lian Zuo exclaimed, "The enemy is coming!" Yang Yu Fear opened the gate and stormed out, seeing a man with a red hat on his head, a green coat, and a mouth full of hedgehog-like hard whiskers. Yang Yu'ai angrily rebuked him. The magistrate was furious and regarded Yang Yu'ai as his enemy, and he spoke fiercely and arrogantly. Yang Yu'ai was furious and rushed toward the officer. The officer grabbed a stone and threw it at him, hitting him in the wrist so hard that he couldn't hold his sword. In the midst of the crisis, he saw a man from afar, wearing a bow and arrows, hunting in the field. At a closer look, it turned out to be Wang Sheng. Yang Yuhua called out for help. Wang Sheng rushed to him, opened his bow, and shot the magistrate in the thigh with one arrow; another arrow killed the magistrate. Yang Yu'ai was very happy and rushed forward to thank him. Wang Sheng asked him what this was all about, and Yang Yu Ai told him in detail. Wang Sheng was also very happy and felt that he could atone for his previous faults, so he went into the house with Yang Yu D畏. Lian Zuo was trembling, too shy to come forward, and stood far away without saying a word. There was a small knife on the table, more than a foot long, decorated with gold and jade; when he drew out the sheath and looked at it, the cold light shone so brightly that it was able to illuminate a person's shadow. Wang Sheng marveled at it and loved it. He and Yang Yu fear a few words, see Lian Zuo and shy and fearful look, strange pity, so out of the room, farewell. Yang Yu'ai also went home alone, and when he crossed the wall he fell to the ground, and awoke with a start, when the chickens were crowing in the village. He felt a pain in his wrist; when he looked at it at daybreak, the flesh was red and swollen. At noon, Wang Sheng came and said that he had a strange dream last night. Yang Yu'ai asked, "Did you dream of shooting a magistrate to death?" Wang Sheng was surprised that he was able to foresee it. Yang Yuhua stretched out his wrist for Wang Sheng to see, and recounted the whole story. Wang Sheng remembered the beautiful face of Lian Zao in his dream and hated that he could not really see her. He was glad that he had done Lian Zuo a favor, so he asked Yang Yu Da to introduce him to Lian Zuo again. At night, Lian Zuo came to thank him. Yang Yu'ai gave credit to Wang Sheng and conveyed Wang Sheng's plea. Lian Zuo said, "How can I dare forget that he helped me in such a righteous way. But I am really a bit afraid of his majestic appearance." After a pause, Lian Zuo added, "He loves my sword. This saber was bought for a hundred taels of silver by my father when he was on a mission to Guangdong. Because I loved it so much, my father gave it to me. I wrapped the hilt in gold wire and inlaid it with jewels. My father took pity on me for my untimely death and used it for my burial. Now I am willing to part with it and give it to Wang Sheng; see the saber as you see me." The next day, Yang Yu'ai told Wang Sheng what Lian Zuo meant. Wang Sheng was very happy. In the evening, Lian Zuo did bring the saber, and she said to Yang Yu'ai, "Please tell him to cherish this saber, for it is not a thing of Chinese origin." From then on, the two were as close as they had been in the beginning.

 After a few months, Lian Zao suddenly smiled under the lamp and approached Yang Yu'ai, as if she wanted to say something, but her face was red with shame, and she tried to speak several times before stopping. Yang Yu'ai took her in his arms and asked her what she wanted to say. Chain said, "I have been loved by you for a long time, I have gained the breath of a living person, and I eat earthly food every day, so this white bone of mine has a vitality. But it still needs the essence blood of a living person to be resurrected." Yang Yu Fear laughed and said, "It is you who refuses to do so, where is it that I can't spare it?" Lian Zuo said, "After making love to me, you will definitely be sick for more than twenty days, but you can be cured by asking a doctor to take medicine." Yang Yu fear and she and the pillow to have sex. After the rain and clouds, Lian Zao dressed and got out of bed, and said, "I still need a little blood, can you endure the pain for love?" Yang Yu'ai took out a sharp knife and stabbed blood on his arm; Chain lay on his back on the bed and told him to drop the blood in his navel. Then he stood up and said, "I will not come again. Please remember the term of one hundred days, and when you see a green bird chirping in a tree in front of my grave, dig my grave quickly." Yang Yu Ai firmly remembered her words. When she walked out of the room, she again instructed again, "Always remember my words, don't forget them, late or early won't do!" After saying this, she left.

 After more than ten days, Yang Yu'ai was really sick, and his stomach was bloated to death. The doctor gave him medicine, and the diarrhea was like rotten mud, and it was only after twelve days that he regained his health. Counting the days to one hundred, he asked his family to carry shovels to Lian Zao's grave and waited. When the sun set, he saw two green birds squeaking in the trees. Yang Yu'ai said happily, "We can do it now." So he cut down the thorns and dug open the grave. I saw that the coffin was already rotten and tattered, while Lian Zuo's appearance was still vivid. Touching it with my hand, the body was still a little warm. So masked clothes, carry her back, placed in a warm place, she began to breathe, but breath like a swimmer. Slowly, she could drink a little soup, and in the middle of the night, she woke up. She often said to Yang Yu'ai, "Twenty years is just like a dream."