Strange Tales of the Ghosts

The book boy wanted to go up the mountain, but the woodcutter refused to let the book boy go up the mountain. She was afraid that something might happen to the book boy when he went up the mountain, so the woodcutter stopped the book boy desperately. Seeing that the sky was darkening, she even more willingly invited the book boy to her home as a guest. After the scholar happily agreed, he came to the woodcutter's house. This was the first time that the old master entered the woodcutter's home. The woodcutter's family treated them like guests and gave all their rice to the scholar. At night, the woodcutter even gave up her bed to the book boy to sleep in the house, while she slept on the firewood pile outside. This made the book boy transformed by the old master very grateful.

The next day, the book boy said goodbye, the woodcutter saw him off, and walked out of the woodcutter's house.

"My sister's family has been so kind to me, I can't thank you enough." The book boy saluted the woodcutter.

The woodcutter smiled sheepishly and replied, "My family is poor and I have nothing to entertain you."

"Let's do it this way. Since I'm not looking for my young master, it's inconvenient for me to take these on the road. Why don't I give these to my sister, hoping to help her tide over the difficulties." The book boy said and put a bag of things in the woodcutter's hands. .

The woodcutter didn't look at it and said hurriedly: "This is impossible. How can I ask for your things? Take it back quickly."

"It's better to accept it. If I don't find the young master, I'm afraid I won't be able to go home. Take these with me. If you meet a thief, it will be a disaster rather than a blessing." After the boy said this, he did not allow the woodcutter to refuse and ran down the mountain.

The woodcutter froze on the spot, opened the bag and saw that there was actually a bunch of white money inside. When she wanted to chase after the money and return it, the book boy could no longer be seen.

In fact, at this time, the old master turned invisible and stood beside the woodcutter, but she couldn't see it. After seeing the woodcutter's behavior, the old master was more sure that what he did was not wrong, so he replied five times with peace of mind. Huashan.

Since then, the old master has been practicing in Wuhua Mountain for a hundred years. During this period, he has not seen any human beings. He was not free until the elders approved the old master to become a disciple. At this time, the old master was already a young man. According to the rules, he can ascend to the position of Old Master of Wanshu Kingdom in two hundred years. Because he was personally taught and trained by the elders, he will patrol Wuhua Mountain on behalf of the elders when nothing happens.

On this day, the old master visited the place where the woodcutter used to chop wood. Suddenly, he heard a sound of chopping and thought, could it be the woodcutter? So I happily ran over to see how the woodcutter was doing now. When he ran there, he saw a woman with a face covered with thick cells. She looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, but the woman was not a woodcutter. The old master recognized it at a glance, but he didn't know why there was such a similar situation, so he turned into a tree and looked at it for a long time. He really didn't know each other. Although this woman was in the same situation as the woodcutter, she Can't talk to trees.

The old master kept observing for several days. After finding no problems, he decided to go to the woodcutter's house to have a look.

After going down the mountain and going to the woodcutter's house, he saw that the hut was still the same. The old master was suspicious. The money he gave the woodcutter was enough to last her a lifetime, so why had the woodcutter's house not changed at all? He was curious and decided to find out.

At this time, he saw the ugly girl who was cutting firewood on the mountain walking outside the house with a bundle of firewood on her back. After putting down the firewood, she entered the house. After a while, he helped out an old woman with a thick face.

The old woman walked unsteadily and asked with a smile on her face: "Is it going well for you to cut firewood in the mountain today?"

"Yes, grandma." The ugly girl replied, helping the old woman to sit down on the chair.

After the old woman sat down, she asked again: "Then do you see a young gentleman?"

"No, grandma." The ugly girl replied. After thinking about it, she suddenly asked: "Sister, why do you always ask me to find a young man?"

"Hey, that was a long time ago. A young man left something at our house. If you meet him, you have to return it to him." The old woman started coughing as she spoke.

The ugly girl patted the old woman on the back and whispered: "Grandma, don't worry. If I see him, I will definitely bring him back."

"Yeah." The old woman nodded.

Seeing this situation, the old master finally understood. How could human beings remain unchanged after a hundred years? He laughed at himself for being too naive, not realizing that the old woman was the woodcutter back then. The woodcutter has now become an old woman. Even her granddaughter is seventeen or eighteen years old, but they still want to find the young master from back then. This shows that the woodcutter has got it. Afterwards, he did not tell his family or spend the money, but waited for others to come back to collect it. This deeply moved the old master and made him unable to calm down.

After returning to Wuhua Mountain, he has been thinking about how to help such a kind person. If they don't want to give him money, what should he do? The old master thought for a long time and finally thought of it, so the next day, he knocked the ugly girl unconscious while she was chopping firewood.

When the ugly girl fainted and was unconscious, the old master took out his tree essence, rolled the essence on the ugly girl's face, and cured the thick cells on the ugly girl's face. The cysts disappeared one by one, and the ugly girl's face became smooth and fair. When the old man saw it, he was stunned. He had never seen such a beautiful woman before and couldn't help but sigh that the pearls were buried in the sand. This girl was covered by the cysts. My true face. At this moment, the ugly girl seemed to be waking up, and the old master hurriedly took back the essence and hid. The ugly girl didn't notice his presence. After she got up, she touched her belly and said to herself: "Did I faint because I was too hungry?" After saying that, no one answered her, so she started chopping firewood again without saying a word. Notice the change in your appearance.

It wasn't until she went out to sell firewood on the street the next day that the ugly girl felt something was wrong. People who usually ignored her took the initiative to buy firewood from her, which made her a little flattered. She was happy, but also a little scared. When I got home and cooked, I took a look at myself in the water tank and realized that I had become beautiful. The ugly girl ran to the old woman.

She said happily in front of her: "Grandma, look at my face..."

"What's wrong with your face?" The old woman squinted her eyes. As she got older, she could no longer see things clearly, so she didn't notice anything when she got closer. She thought her granddaughter was sighing about her appearance again, so she consoled her: "Sister Qiao, I'm sorry. It doesn’t matter what you look like, what matters is a person’s heart. To act upright and stand upright, it doesn’t matter what others say, you know?”

"Grandma, I'm not ugly anymore, I'm not ugly anymore!" The ugly girl excitedly took the old woman's hand to touch her face.

The old woman touched her granddaughter's face. After feeling the smoothness on her face, she asked in surprise: "What's going on?"

"I don't know, grandma, when I went to the street to sell firewood today, those people didn't scold me and even bought firewood from me. I don't know what happened. I just discovered that there are no pus cells on my face. "Qiao Mei was indescribably happy because she came out of her mother's womb with pus cells on her face. The pus cells seemed to be inherited from generation to generation, from grandma to her father to Qiao Mei. No one was spared. .

The old master hid outside the window and felt happy to see his mother-in-law and grandson so happy. He had finally done something good for this good family, so he left happily.

Originally, he thought that the woodcutter sister would find a good family to marry after she became beautiful, but unexpectedly, the woodcutter sister went to the mountain to chop firewood every day as before, but she no longer sighed when chopping firewood, and always had a smile on her face. . Whenever she came to chop firewood, the old master would sit next to her for a while. He liked to see the woodcutter smile, and the woodcutter smiled very nicely. Others didn't know it, but Xiaomori knew it, so he asked the old master worriedly: "What if the elders find out about this?"