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Young Master Gao was rich and married. When he stayed at a riverside inn, he met a security officer. The officer said that there was a widow who wanted to remarry to a wealthy family as a concubine. He said that the widow was very beautiful and had a lot of dowry. He asked Gao if he was interested. Gao consulted with his wife, who was tempted by her money, and agreed. The officer asked Gao if he wanted to see her first. Gao was very happy and stayed to drink. The officer went out and stood by the boat, waiting. After a while, a woman in a green dress and a red skirt walked on the embankment, covering her face with a small green umbrella. She had a graceful figure and a light step. Gao couldn’t take his eyes off her and liked her very much. The officer smiled and asked him if he was satisfied. He also said that this was a decent woman and he couldn’t make a casual promise. He had to give her some gifts. Gao gave her a bunch of ribbons.
At night, the officer came again and said that he had made an appointment with her. Today, he would move all her belongings to Gao’s boat. Tomorrow, they would meet at a temple and get married. As he spoke, there were more than a dozen people carrying boxes, which were filled with gold, pearls, jade, spices and the like. The next day, the officer took Gao to the temple and came to the door of a room. They saw several women laughing and talking through the curtain, and the one in the red skirt was among them. They saw someone outside and all turned and ran away. The officer said, Gao, please wait a moment, he would go in and talk to her. He went in and didn’t come out for a long time.
The monk who was chanting in the temple saw Gao standing for a long time and came to ask him what was wrong. Gao told him everything he had seen and heard. The monk said, this was a mountain temple, where could there be such things. Gao thought that the monk was lying to him and scolded him loudly. At this time, an old monk came out of the house and sighed, saying that this must be that ghost. Recently, many people had seen it. The old monk took Gao to see, and there were more than a dozen funeral halls behind the temple, all with wooden plaques with the names of the owners. One of them had the name of the widow, and the last one had the name of the security officer. Gao was scared and ran out. At this time, a servant came to report that the boat was about to sink. Another servant said that the boat was fine, but the belongings had changed. Gao looked and saw that the gold, pearls, jade, spices had all turned into white paper, black money, ashes, and the so-called utensils were all skulls, animal bones, cow and horse dung.