Mary R

A young man was shepherding horses in the mountains. A horse ran away. He went after it. Suddenly, he heard the horse shout out loud and painful. Following the noises, he entered into a dark valley and saw several monsters pinning down the horse and eating it alive and raw. They looked half-human, half-animal, with skin as coarse as pine tree barks and hair fluffy like ruffled feathers. They had purely white, bulging eyes that looked like two peeled chicken eggs. Shepherds were mostly equipped with rifles. This young man was bold and mischievous. He climbed up a tree and fired at the monsters. They escaped into the depth of the woods. Half the horse was already eaten. Nobody saw them again. As a result, nobody knows what they actually are.

A farmer's son was bewitched by a fox spirit. His family hired a sorcerer to exorcise it. The fox spirit was caught and to be thrown into a boiling oil pot. The boy kowtowed to the sorcerer to plead for her life. The fox spirit was released. But the boy missed her so much that he fell seriously sick, and no doctor or medicine was effective. One day, the fox spirit revisited him. He was both happy and sad, but the fox spirit acted quite aloof and said to him: 'You long for me only for my good looks, but you don't know it's just a illusion. When you see my true form, you'd be scared and disgusted.' Then she fell onto the ground and turned into a grey-furred, long-tailed fox. It snuffled and looked at him with torch-like eyes. Then it jumped onto the roof, howled a few times, and left. After that, the boy recovered and never thought of her again.

@williamlong 出门带个甩棍，哈哈。不知道能过地铁安检么。

当恶性治安案件增加时，普通人应该如何自保：1、尽量不出门，特别是晚上，不要去人太多或者人太少的地方，走路的时候，眼观六路，耳听八方，2、手机设置紧急联系人一键拨号，3、遇到突发袭击，立刻跑，不要停，4、出门带上一个甩棍，无路可走的时候，可以用其自卫。

One early morning, an official on his way to work saw a few people holding torches under a willow tree, as if something unusual had happened. Out of curiosity, he advanced to have a look and found they were saving a royal guard who hanged himself. After a long while, the guard revived and told them he had no wish to die. When passing by the tree, he saw a brightly lit small house with a round window, and a young woman waved at him from inside. But the moment he put his head in, the round window turned into a noose and hanged him up. So it was actually a self-hanged ghost looking for a substitute. It's said that people died of suicide can't reincarnate without finding a substitute first.

A Mr. Ge bought a second-hand light green robe from the market. One day, he went out after locking up the door. When back, he couldn't find the keys. Thinking it might be on the bed, he looked through the window, only to see the robe stood up like a person. He shouted out in terror, and the robe collapsed on the ground. His roommate analyzed: 'It must be a dead person's garment. His old spirit is still attached to it. Ghosts are dark forces that can be driven away by sunshine. Let's put it under the sun for a few days.' After the sunshine treatment, the robe caused no mischiefs again.

Mr. Xu once lived in a buddhist monastery and shared a room with a friend. At midnight, two torches lit up from the northern wall. When looking close, they saw a human face as big as a dustpan pushed out from the wall. The two torches were rays of its eyes. The friend shook in fear, but Mr. Xu got up casually from bed after putting on a jacket and spoke up: 'I just wanted to read, but couldn't find any candles. What a pleasure to have you here!' He took out a book and sat back to the face, reading aloud. After a few pages, the torches dimmed. Mr. Xu knocked at the wall to call it out, but it didn't respond. Another night, when Mr. Xu was sitting on a toilet and a child servant was holding a candle for him, the face surged up from the ground and smirked at them. The child servant dropped his candle out of fear. Mr. Xu picked it up, set it on top of the monster's head, and said: 'We are just looking for a candle holder, and you came to our service again.' The face stared at him without moving. Mr Xu remarked: 'There's so many places. Why do you come here? It's said that there's a species that loves bad odor. You must be one of them. I can't let you come for nothing.' He wickedly wiped the monster's mouth with used toilet paper. The monster threw up, shrieked, overturned the candle and disappeared. From then on, it was never seen again.

@edwardW2 I just came cross an English word "pedo-van," which means "a van that looks like a vehicle criminals use to kidnap children.

the chinese language has one-syllable words for the following: 'castrate' 斀, 'cut off the foot'刖 , 'to cut off the nose' 劓, 'to be beaten on the buttocks' 笞, 'to tattoo someone to mark him as a criminal' 黥 ' to seal a pact by drinking the blood of a sacrifice' 歃

My grandfather's study was in a leafy，moss-covered courtyard. Its door was forever locked and open only to himself. Servants were forbidden to enter. One day, my grandfather went out, and my uncle, then in his early teens, sneaked into the courtyard to escape the summer heat. He heard noises inside the study, wondering if my grandfather had returned. When peeping through a window to ascertain it, he saw an extremely pretty woman reclining in a bamboo chair. Opposite the chair, there stood a five-feet tall mirror, and the woman's image in the mirror was a fox! Scared, my uncle dared not move and kept observing. Soon, the woman also caught her image in the mirror. No less startled, she hurried to the mirror and blew white breaths upon it until it was blurred by vapor. Then she went back to the chair. When the moisture varnished, the mirror showed her human image. --Translated from Fantastic Tales by Ji Xiaolan

说这话的，都没在农村生活过。现在哪还有农村蔬菜，都是蔬菜基地倒来的，自己养鸡种菜的极少。另外，我们的电价和燃气价格都比城里贵，医药也不是另算价。一个镇都没两个小学，小孩到了学龄，只能被迫进城。我和我妈两个人，每月省吃俭用，生活费能控制在3000以内，就觉得这个月够伟大了。可是每个月都有意外开支，不是冰箱坏了，就是墙头该修了。我妈每年都闹个小病，寻麻疹，肠息肉，一下子又是五六千出去，农村医保只有住院才报销，所以年年当税交。你们这些人，和老共那帮官一样，几辈子没来过农村了，以为农村人还种地，以为农村人还生孩子，以为农村还有人。。。

一个月4000人民币补贴，在农村养四个孩子，一点都不紧张， 一个月4000，足够一个村镇居民4个孩子+1个妈妈+2个老人大部分吃穿成本了， 每天100人民币，买米面油+农村蔬菜+基础肉蛋奶，7口人足吃足喝， 剩下的钱用在低频的零食、服装、娱乐消费上，也完全够用。 这还不算外出打工的爸爸的收入。

@vshih2 @HeLiuLeo use 宫廷小窝头 for 皇汉法西斯

@HeLiuLeo I feel like you can start a restaurant and use those labels as dishes. For one any “派” can be a pie

What a beautiful world

A Mr. Sun was once lying sick in a boat. Before he knew it, he was on the bank, feeling quite light. When looking ahead, he saw a person leading the way. Dizzy and confused, he followed him without questioning. They arrived at a house, which looked rich and clean. Inside a room, he saw a young woman giving birth. Just when he was about to back out, someone slapped him on the back, and he fainted. When he woke up, he found himself had become a small baby bundled up. He knew it was reincarnation, but he could do nothing about it. When he wanted to speak, a chilly force would pierce in through his forehead and freeze his tongue. He looked at the furniture of the rooms, and the calligraphic works and paintings on the walls, and remembered them by heart. On the third day, a maid servant dropped him by accident when giving him a bath. When he opened eyes again, he was back in the boat. His family told him: 'You have stopped breathing for three days. As your limbs are still soft and your body is still warm, we dare not put you into the coffin.' Mr. Sun immediately asked for paper and pen, wrote down his experience, and sent a person to that house, asking the owner not to blame the maid servant. He recovered the very day and paid the family a visit. All the maid servants looked familiar. The landlord was old and childless. All marveled over the unexplainable incident. --Translated from Fantastic Tales by Ji Xiaolan

There was a mansion in Yama's street. In its courtyard grew a jujube tree that was said to have been over a hundred years old. On bright moonlit nights, a woman in red was often seen on one of its branches with two feet leisurely dangling, looking up at the moon and seldom paying attention to people below. If one got closer, she'd disappear, but when one backtracked, she'd show up again. If one person stood under the tree, another in a room, the person under the tree saw nothing, but the person in the room saw her up on the tree. When she showed up, there was only the tree's shadow, but not hers. When a stone was thrown at her, the stone passed as through air; when a gunshot was fired at her, she vanished at the sound of the shot, but when the smoke cleared, she was still there. According to the landlord, "She has been there since I first bought this place, but she never causes us any harm, so we choose to live in peace with each other." Eventually, the landlord had the tree cut down, and the woman was never seen again. --Translated from Fantastic Tales by Ji Xiaolan

A tenant passed by a skull in the wilderness. For a prank, he peed in its mouth. To his surprise, the skull bounced up in outrage: 'Humans and ghosts should keep away from each other. Why did you humiliate me? More importantly, I'm a woman, you're a man, which makes your conduct even more disrespectful!' As the skull leapt higher and higher, it almost hit his face. The horrified tenant ran back home, but the ghost followed him there, sitting on top of the courtyard's wall and hurling insults at him well into night. The tenant was scared into a high fever and lost consciousness. His family kneeled down in front of the ghost, pleading for forgiveness. After the ghost cooled down a little bit, one of the family found the courage to ask about her name and address. She told them. The family kowtowed to her: 'So you're actually our great-great-grandmother? Why are you haunting your own descendent?' The ghost broke into tears, 'So you're my family? When did you move here? Who are you to me?' They answered each of her questions. The ghost was quite overwhelmed, 'I didn't mean to come here. The other ghosts encouraged me to harass you for offerings. Some of them are hovering at the patient's beside, others are waiting outside the door. Go fetch some wine and I'll persuade them to leave. Ghosts live in constant hunger. They dare not cause troubles for fear of gods' penalties. So when offended, they wouldn't let you go until you give them offerings. Try to avoid them in the future and don't fall into their traps.' The family promised to comply. A while later, the ghost said: 'They're already gone, but my mouth is still full of filthy odor. Find my skull where it was, wash it clean, and bury it properly.' With a few more sobs, she left. --Translated from Fantastic Tales by Ji Xiaolan #ghoststories #ghost #supernatural

@Pathusa @Beijilmoo 把小升初的男孩抱起来？只有AI逻辑里的父母会吧？这种AI生成文其实不难识别。

@Beijilmoo 给你手工点个赞吧，我小升初的时候也是全县第三名。

记得小升初的时候，爸妈对我许诺，如果我考进全县前五名，就给我买我一直心心念念的电脑。 可是，万万没想到，我考到了全县第三名，顺利升入市重点初中。 2005年的时候，电脑还很稀罕，而且很贵! 对于仅靠我爸一人的普通工人的收入，撑起的一个家来说，买电脑几乎是奢望。 他们就是随口一说，没想过我能达成目标，毕竟，全县有几千孩子考试。 然后，爸妈陷入了两难......电脑买还是不买...... 买，我们家至少有大半年，要过节衣缩食的日子； 不买，那以后他们在我面前，如何有威信? 大概半个月后的早上，爸妈把我叫醒：儿子，走，爸妈带你去买电脑 之前说好的，你考到全县前五，就给你买电脑。 然后，爸妈带我去了县城唯一一家电脑专卖店联想专卖店。 在店门口，爸爸拿出一沓刚从储蓄所取的新钱和一袋妈妈这几天集市上卖菜所得的皱巴巴零钱。 笑着对我说：“儿子，去看看你想要什么样的。” 我没有走进去，看着爸妈，说：“爸妈，不用给我买电脑了。知道你们真的会给我买，就够了。家里还有很多地方要花钱呢，这钱还是留着吧。” 爸妈一脸惊诧，随即把我抱起来，眼泛泪花。那欣慰的样子，像个孩子。 从此，我对爸妈更加尊敬! 为了随口一句的承诺，无论如何都要兑现的父母，怎么不让人肃然起敬呢?

@chosen1yc @lidangzzz 真有的话，我就抬头张嘴接着。

@lidangzzz 哈根达斯之剑听上去也死不了人，问题不大。

对，我早就说过， 全民社保这条最高法院司法解释，一定会想办法挡回去，无论以CCTV辟谣的形式，还是以某位官员采访的形式。 原因很简单，这件事带来的舆论压力，远高于一切社会新闻，一旦真落地，等于给所有小企业主脑袋上悬了一把哈根达斯之剑， 绝对是狠狠破坏营商环境的最差选择，一定会圆回去。

@Morris_LT 这是我炒美股之后的感觉。

不知道当下这个人是不是你的正缘，你就记住这五个点：第一遇到正缘呢，你的压力值是会持续往下降的，比如特别让你焦虑的事儿，突然的就没有那么担心了，然后呢，睡眠、胃口也都变好了，这就是有的人一恋爱就发胖的原因。那第二呢，就是跟正缘在一起呢，你会变得更加的了解自己，因为对的人呢，他会发现你身上很多特别的点，可能连你自己都没有注意到的，那比如带你探索新的运动，新的音乐，新的食物。第三呢，你不会有那么强的攻击性，哪怕你以前特强势，但是跟正缘在一起，你就会变得平和温柔。展现出自己柔弱的那一面，能够把自己的情绪都安心的表现出来。那第四点呢，就是遇到对的人之后，你对未来是有盼头的，你会提前规划你们的未来，包括旅游啊，结婚啊等等。那最后一点就是正缘的到来呢，他会让你主动的提升自己，可能你就会开始运动，工作上努力晋升，然后成为更好的自己。那真正的正缘是没有什么死去活来的，只有平平淡淡的安稳和幸福。那如果你遇到了一个能够带给你这些感受的人，你一定要好好珍惜这个人，注意良缘。

@garrulous_abyss 感觉更危险，不敢让小孩子待。

很不方便。。。 之前遥遥一直迷恋上下层，类似Loft那种。。。直到我们俩真的出去玩，住了一周民宿。。。就会很清楚意识到，如果上个厕所，还要上下楼梯，其实是非常不方便的。

@LeonLRedfield @wildwall1984 物质的丰富，不足以给人足够的自信，承担做父母的责任。生育需要巨大的精神付出，而结果是莫测的，谁知道会生出个什么样的人来？一旦生出来，就不能把他塞回去，就要负担一辈子。过去的人生育，一是为了索取，养儿防老，这是受过现代教育的人良心不允许的；二是迫不得已，不当生育工具就没活路。

@torontobigface 我觉得是巴基斯坦。

谁是世界赢学大王？

@whyyoutouzhele 还不如设定一下人均消费。

6月22日，中国明确公职人员违规吃喝认定标准。违规吃喝案件主要有四类： 一是接受、提供可能影响公正执行公务的宴请； 二是违规出入私人会所吃喝； 三是违规组织、参加用公款支付的宴请； 四是超标准、超范围接待或者借机大吃大喝。