Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2118 Flower War (twenty-six)

Compared with Juren, Pu Songling, a native of Shandong, recognized his "jinliang" after many failures, and decided not to take the imperial examinations. Instead, he became "Mr. Liaozhai", writing some bizarre stories, not only to pass the time, he The female ghosts in the pen are graceful and graceful, tender like water, and both virtue and art. Any one of them is the object of men's remembrance.

Specifically, the readers he faced were those who were preparing for the imperial examinations, but had absolutely no hope of becoming an official. Like Juren and Pu Songling, they all had the dream of a gold medal title and a bridal chamber, but they couldn't get it after they failed many times. Officer, if you can't get young girls, then you can get a few female ghosts and foxes, right?

   Men have fantasies about these "fairies" because they are not living "women" and will worry about chai, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea. Jacob also had a fiancée, but the woman left him as soon as he heard that he hadn't applied for a loan to open a bakery. Jacob didn't feel sad, but heaved a sigh of relief.

   Later he met Queenie and soon fell in love, even though he knew Queenie was a witch.

   Take a brief look at the female ghosts written by Pu Songling. They are especially good to the male protagonist. Even Nie Xiaoqian, a female ghost who specializes in seducing passers-by and supplying tree demons to **** its essence, has spared Ning Caichen.

   Wang Yangming had a disciple named Lu Cheng. One day Lu Cheng asked Wang Yangming, "Why are some people afraid of ghosts at night?"

  Wang Yangming replied, "It's because this person is not able to accumulate virtue and do good deeds, and he is afraid of ghosts because he feels guilty. If he can do things in accordance with the will of the gods, what is there to be afraid of?"

  Lu Cheng asked again, "You don't need to be afraid of upright ghosts. What you are afraid of are evil ghosts. No matter whether they are good or bad, they will cause harm, so they are afraid."

Wang Yangming replied, "How can an evil ghost deceive an upright person? Just having this fearful feeling will make one's heart unrighteous. Therefore, some people who are deceived by ghosts are not really deceived by ghosts, but are deceived by their own hearts. For example, people who like beauty will be deceived by **** demons, money-loving demons will be deceived by money-loving demons, irritable people will be deceived by angry demons, and cowardly people will be deceived by cowardly demons.”

  The ghost stories of Wang Yangming's era were not as popular as in the Qing Dynasty, especially beautiful female ghosts, so he would say that people who are beautiful will be fascinated by sexual ghosts.

   The concubine of Zhu Quanzhong from Yu Sheng and Shen's family is good at singing and dancing, and she is very elegant. No matter how you look at her, she doesn't look like a monster with green face and fangs.

  The young monk went down the mountain to Huazhai, and the old monk explained that the woman at the foot of the mountain is a tiger, and if you encounter it, you must avoid it.

   After walking through villages and villages, the little monk secretly wondered why tigers don't eat people, and they look quite cute.

  The old monk told his apprentice that such a tiger is the most powerful and powerful.

Ming utensils were used for funerals in ancient times. Meng Yunqing in the Tang Dynasty wrote an elegy, "Mingming and what you need? Do what I want." It means "How can the underworld actually need these things? It's just that we do our best for the dead. Just mind."

   However, are the objects used by the living to relieve grief, or can they really be used by the dead? Ji Yun and Ji Xiaolan think there is no conclusion.

   There were two stories in his "Notes on Yuewei Thatched Cottage":

When Ji Yun's eldest son, Ru Xin, was dying, his daughter burned a red horse for him. Ru Xin came to his senses after he died and said, "Just now my soul has left home, and my eyes are blurry. Where to go. At this time, I met the servant Wang Liansheng, leading a horse, and took me home. The only thing I can do is to borrow this horse's feet, and the road is bumpy and uncomfortable." The servant in charge of burning the paper horse burst into tears. Said: "It's all because of the careless work of the slaves. When I was burning the paper horse, I accidentally broke a horse's leg, causing the son to suffer."

One more thing, when Ji Yun's aunt Chang Shi was dying of a serious illness, she muttered to herself: "I just went to see my new house, the house is good or not, but the east wall is damaged, but what should I do?"

Hearing her say this suddenly, the family was a little confused, and after thinking about it carefully, maybe the house she was talking about was her own coffin, so she immediately went to check the birthday coffin prepared for her, and it turned out to be on the left side of the coffin. It was rotten, and a small hole was broken. Neither the craftsman nor the overseer found it, but it was discovered by her wandering soul.

These bright objects are still within the normal range. In theory, mirrors are used to dispel evil. When a woman looks in the mirror, what she sees in the mirror is her own appearance. She has a physical body, but Zhu Quanzhong's concubine has no physical body. She has long been Killed by the rebels. The appearances mentioned in Buddhism have nothing to do with the existence or non-substance. The main thing is that it will affect your heart, making it impossible for your heart to remain stable and peaceful.

Zhu Quanzhong also has a name called Zhu Wen. He is a famous tomb robber in history. Ever since he got the mirror, Yu Sheng has been guarding it in front of it all day long. He seems to like looking in the mirror more than women. Losing weight day by day, like a serious illness.

   As for whether the mirror was stolen from the tomb by Zhu Wen, or as the concubine said, it was forged by the immortal master with her blood. In Lanruo Temple, Ning Caichen met Nie Xiaoqian and Yan Chixia, a scholar who loves to slay demons and demons.

To put it another way, Hogwarts also has the Mirror of Erised, and that thing cannot be destroyed. The Shen family must find a real celestial master to "suppress the demon" for their family, or else it will be like the Erised Demon. Find a place to hide it like a mirror. The mirror was also locked in the big iron cabinet by the father-in-law in the end, but after the father-in-law passed away, no one knew the whereabouts of the mirror.

Wang Yangming believes that "ghosts" are produced by conscience. Conscience is composed of conscience and good energy. Conscience tells us what to do and what not to do, while good energy tells us whether we have the ability to do what our conscience wants us to do. Unity is conscience.

   In fact, in addition to the fact that people who are in accordance with the will of the gods are not afraid of ghosts, people without conscience are not afraid of ghosts, because they do not believe that there are ghosts in the world at all.

   Some people may ask, conscience should protect us, why does it create ghosts to terrorize us?

   Threatening us is reminding us to correct our behavior, not to do bad things, and to correct them immediately if we do bad things, there is no other way.

   A person without a conscience, on the other hand, does not change after repeated teachings and goes his own way. He does not feel disturbed or ashamed when he does those things that hurt the world. When Ximen Qing pursued his desires excessively, he didn't think there was anything wrong. When he was about to die and his conscience found out, he was afraid that the ghosts of Hana Zixu and Wu Dalang would come to him to collect debts.

  Wang Yangming's classic study of the heart lies in the "inner" - your own conscience, accusing others of being "outer", you are so angry that you accuse the other party, the other party is indifferent, and even makes the other party hold grudges, why bother?

   Laojuren believed in "not moving the heart", which is what Mencius said, "I am not moving at forty". After the age of 40, he was no longer interested in the female ghosts and foxes in those novels, which would make him have distracted thoughts and would not be able to pass the jinshi examination.

He hoped that Nick would be the same as him, concentrating on getting famous, which is what he called "reborn". He said that the examples of torture and extorting confessions in the "Soul Case" are also evidence. Look at Wang Xiucai, who is full of nonsense. Don't you need to be tortured for your fame? And the monk Mingyuan claimed to be the son of the Chief Soldier, and he could write and see a doctor. Isn't he tortured to death?

The last time he wrote the words "Witch" and "Gu" on the desk at Nick's residence. At that time, Nick, a foreigner, was involved in Chinese culture for the first time, and he didn't quite understand it. After this period of study, what should he say next? It's "gu".

   Gu is usually considered to come from Yunnan, and most of them are insects. In fact, Gu is not just insects. The monster biting insects from Shanxi that were widely rumored in the Zhili area back then were rumors spread among the people, and the so-called "poisonous insect" was probably a "poisonous man" Zhang Tingrui.

   But with the help of his tutor, Juren stayed in the capital for another year and saw a lot of things. The originally vigorous case of calling the soul died within three months, and then it was time to deal with the imperial examinations, the case of the Lianghuai salt citation and the Qing-Myanmar war.

  Many people think that the war is about money. For the sake of military expenses, not only the lama temple has been stopped, but even the merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will be forced to beggars by the emperor.

After that, he will go to the south of the Yangtze River to "sympathize with the people's feelings". In addition to the 6 million taels of silver that has been cited in the case of Lianghuai salt, the salt merchants will also "donate money" to build the Yangzhou Palace, not only to build pavilions, but also to buy antiques, treasures, flowers and trees. Bamboo and stone, in addition to the purchase of tens of thousands of plum trees for the emperor to watch.

  No matter how rich the salt merchants are, they are also going to decline because of the numerous expenditures.

   Later, there was really no money, and even Jiang Chun, the general merchant, had to borrow "internal money" from the emperor, that is, the usury loan from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. That is to say, Qianlong used the silver paid by the salt merchants himself as capital to lend them to the salt merchants, part of which was used to repay the fines that must be apportioned every year for the salt case, and part of it was used as the working capital of the salt merchants' business to pay the salaries and rents of the employees. This kind of loan interest is quoted at 0.2 taels each, and when they pay off the principal and interest, they will have more than 10 million taels of silver together.

   The young Churen was very sympathetic to them and had no debts, so he understood why the parishioners of the White Lotus Sect had to eat a lot of money. Not only because the big family had surplus grain, but also because the creditor died and the debt was written off. At that time, the interest on private loans had reached 30%, which was legal.

   If he can’t pay his debts, he sells himself as a slave. After the baby boy is born, his identity must be recorded. If his father is a slave, he is naturally a slave too.

   The eighteenth hexagram of Zhouyi is the Gu hexagram. This hexagram is to say that when affairs are in disorder, innovation can be carried out before the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. It seems to be talking about Gu, but it actually contains the way to cure Gu, which can eliminate ills, set things right, and achieve great governance in the world.

   Of course, apart from the ills, we have to go in the other direction. There will always be a few small Gu worms that swallow up the same kind and become big gu worms, separate from the Jiedushi Zhu Wen.

   No matter it is a matter of raising or removing the poison, it is not an overnight thing. The so-called disease comes like a mountain, and the disease goes away like a thread. Qianlong's "prosperous age" left Jiaqing a Himalayas.

   Conscience told Lao Juren not to be alone, but Liang Neng told him that you are incapable of helping the world, and now he is too busy to take care of himself.

  There is an idiom called "rotten grass is firefly", which means that fireflies grow out of rotten grass.

   There may be someone who can change this corrupt situation in the future, but that is the matter of the "descendants", and his "predecessors" are already lying in the grave with green ghosts. Therefore, he can only follow Du Fu's example, and every time the family sacrifices to remind future generations, don't forget to tell him what happened later.

   Maybe he can find a beautiful female ghost as a neighbor. As for whether people like him? I don't know, it is said that ghosts like to **** the yang energy of living people, even if the other party is a poor scholar, it is profitable for them.

   (end of this chapter)