The translation of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, witchcraft, is urgently needed!

There was a man named Yu who was honored as. When he was young, he was very chivalrous, liked boxing and had great strength. He can lift the tall and heavy clepsydra and dance like a whirlwind.

During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, he attended the palace examination in Beijing. He is bedridden and worried. There happens to be a clever fortune teller in the city who can judge people's life and death. He wants his servant from Yoshiki Hayashi.

When I arrived at the fortune teller, before I could speak, the fortune teller asked him, "Don't you want to ask the servant about his illness?" He paused and answered truthfully. The fortune teller said, "The patient is not hurt, but you are in danger." So let him do the math himself. The fortune teller calculated a divination for him and said in surprise, "You will die in three days!" " "Yu Gong surprised for a long time. The fortune teller said unhurriedly, "I have a little spell." If you give me twelve taels of silver as a reward, I can pray for you to eliminate the disaster. " Life and death are a foregone conclusion, he thought. How to save a little spell? Stand up and don't answer. I want to go back. The fortune teller said, "Don't regret it, don't regret it!" "People who love Yu Gong are very worried about him, and advise him to empty all the money in his pocket and ask the fortune teller for help. Yu Gong didn't listen.

In the blink of an eye, on the third day, Yugong sat squarely in the hotel, quietly watching the movement, and there was no disaster until dark. At night, he closed the door, lit the lamp, leaned against a sword and sat upright. As soon as it was over, there was no sign of his death. I was about to lie down and sleep when I heard a noise in the window. I hurried there and saw a little man, holding Mao Ge, drilling in and jumping to the ground, as tall as a real person. Yugong grabbed the sword, jumped up, and quickly hit him head-on, but missed. The villain suddenly shrank, went to the window crack again and tried to escape. He quickly cut it off, and the villain fell to the ground with his hand. Take a lamp and see, it turned out to be a paper man, and the middle was cut off.

Yugong dared not lie down and sleep, and continued to sit on the stool and wait. An hour later, a monster came in through the window, hideous as an evil ghost. It jumped to the ground at once, and Yugong's eyes were in a hurry. A sword and a blow broke in two, and both of them were crawling on the ground. The foolish old man was afraid that he would get up again and cut all the swords, and the sound of the sword inside was not soft. On closer inspection, it turned out to be a clay bodhisattva, piece by piece, cut into pieces.

Yugong moved his seat to the window and looked at the crack in the window with sharp eyes. After a long time, I heard the wheezing outside the window like a cow breathing. Something is pushing the window hard, and the beams and walls are shaking, as if they were going to collapse. Afraid that the house would be pinned down, he thought he might as well go out and have a fight, so he bolted and ran out. I saw a GREAT GHOST standing outside the window, as high as the eaves; In the dim moonlight, I saw it as black as coal, with yellow eyes; I have no clothes on my upper body, no shoes on my feet, a bow in my hand and an arrow in my waist. Yu Gong just stupidly, GREAT GHOST shot an arrow. If you draw an arrow with a public sword, you will fall; Just as I was about to draw my sword and fight back, another arrow came. Yugong quickly dodged, and the arrow went through the wall and made a noise. The big jack-o'-lantern pulled out his sword from his waist and waved it like a gust of wind, cutting it at Yu Gong. As agile as a monkey, Yugong jumped forward, the ghost knife split on the step stone, and the step stone broke at once. Yugong got between his legs and cut his ankle with his sword, making a loud noise. GREAT GHOST even more fire, roar like thunder, turned and split a knife. The foolish old man bent down and drilled through again. The big ghost knife fell and cut off Yu Gong's robe. The foolish old man had got under his ribs, and suddenly he cut off his sword. With a clang, GREAT GHOST fell and lay flat on the ground. Yugong waved his sword and cut it for a while, making a thumping sound. Picking up the lamp and looking at it, it turned out to be a puppet, tall and big, like a person. Bows and arrows are still wrapped around the waist, depicting very ferocious; Where the sword cut, blood came out. The foolish old man was afraid that ghosts would come to hurt him, so he lit a candle and waited for dawn. He realized that all three ghosts were sent by fortune tellers, trying to kill people and prove their divination skills.

The next day, Yu Gong told all his friends about this situation and went to the divination place with everyone. When the soothsayer saw the foolish old man from a distance, he hid himself so that people could not see him. Some people say: "This is invisibility, and dog blood can be broken." According to this statement, Yu Gong was vigilant and went to find a place to calculate divination. The fortune teller is still as hidden as before. Yu Gong quickly spilled dog blood on the place where he was standing just now, only to see that guy, his head and face were covered with dog blood, and his eyes were shining, standing there like a ghost. Yugong arrested him, handed him over to the relevant officials and killed him.

Yi Shi said, "Someone once said that people who spend money on divination are fools. Some people in the world want to know good or bad luck from hexagrams, but after a hexagram, how many people are as good as their own life and death? Counting a divination, if it doesn't conform to the reality of life and death, is like not counting. And even if you tell me clearly that my death is coming, what can I do if I calculate a divination? Besides, it is even more terrible to prove your divination by borrowing someone else's life! "