The first one:

A butcher sold meat and went home. It is getting late. At this moment, a wolf suddenly appeared. The wolf has been peeping at the butcher's meat, and the saliva in his mouth seems to be coming out, so he followed the butcher for several miles.

The butcher was so scared that he showed the wolf the butcher knife. The wolf stepped back a few steps, but when the butcher turned to move on, the wolf followed. The butcher had no choice but to think that the wolf wanted meat, so he might as well hang it on the tree (so that the wolf could not reach it) and come back tomorrow morning (when the wolf left).

So the butcher hung the meat on the hook, stood on tiptoe (with the meat hook) on the tree, and then showed the wolf the empty burden. So the wolf stopped following the butcher.

The second one:

A butcher came back at night, and the meat in his burden had been sold out, leaving only bones. The butcher met two wolves on the road and followed (him) for a long way.

The butcher was afraid and threw the bone to the wolf. One wolf stopped when he got the bone, and the other wolf followed. The butcher threw the bone out again, and then the wolf who got the bone stopped, and so did the wolf who got the bone before. The bones were gone, but the two wolves chased the butcher together as before.

The butcher felt critical and worried about being attacked by wolves before and after. He looked around and found a wheat field in the field. The owner of the wheat field piled firewood in it and built it like a hill. The butcher then ran over, leaned over the firewood pile, unloaded the burden and picked up the butcher knife. The two wolves dared not go forward and stared at the butcher.

The third one:

A butcher was walking on the road in the evening and was chased by wolves. There was a straw shed left by a farmer by the roadside. He ran in and lay in it. The fierce wolf reached into a paw from the straw curtain in the shack, and the butcher quickly grabbed the paw and wouldn't let it leave. But I didn't think of a way to kill it. I only have a knife less than an inch long, so I use it to cut the wolf skin under my claws and blow air into it by blowing pigs.

Original text:

The first one:

It's dusk when people slaughter goods and return them. The wolf came and looked at the meat, which seemed to drool; Step by step, the tail line is a few miles. Sudden fear, to show it with a blade, is slightly; Go follow it. It is better to kill the inorganic meat and meditate on what the wolf wants than to hang it on a tree and be taken away by fleas. Then hook up the meat and hang it between the trees, showing that it is empty. The wolf is the only one.

The second one:

A butcher (tú) came back late, and the bear (Dan) ate all the meat, leaving only the bones. On the way, the two wolves traveled a long way.

Eliminate fear and throw it at the bone. The wolf has a bone to stop, and the wolf still comes from. After the re-voting, the post-wolf stopped and the former wolf came again. The bones are exhausted, and the two wolves drive together.

Tu da ji (jiǒng) is afraid of being attacked by enemies before and after. There is a wheat field in Guye, and the owner of the wheat field earns a lot of money. Tu Naiben leaned against it with a knife on his shoulder. The wolf didn't dare to go forward, and Dan (dān) faced each other.

The third one:

A massacre at dusk, forced by wolves. There was a room left by the night tiller by the roadside, and it rushed into the shadow. The wolf extended his paw to it. Tu was in a hurry to catch, so he couldn't go. He died 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.

Source: Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio in Qing Dynasty.

Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio revealed the darkness of society at that time. In Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, political corruption, officials taking bribes and perverting the law, tyranny, and untold sufferings reveal that the main reason for people's miserable life comes from corrupt officials.

Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio not only exposes the greed and cruelty of the ruling class, but also writes about the resistance struggle of the oppressed people and expresses deep sympathy for them. Among them, Xi Fang Ping ("Xi Fang Ping") is "the big grievance has not been delayed, and the heart is not dead"; There is a neck height ("neck height") that eventually turns into a tiger and kills the enemy; Wu went straight to the underworld and killed two officials and soldiers.

These figures with rebellious spirit have played a positive role in stimulating the struggle consciousness of the oppressed.

Another important content of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is to expose the drawbacks of the imperial examination. Pu Songling was brilliant, but he was notorious in Sun Shan. He is very familiar with the darkness of the examination room, the coma of the examiner and the psychology of scholars, so he can get down to business when writing. Through some fantastic realms, the author mocked the literati who were obsessed with fame and fortune.

Extended data:

Creative background:

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. ?