阴阳界奇遇

阿丁是个书信官。
有一天夜晚，他送完所有文件，准备回家的时候，路上突然出现一道陌生的城门，城门旁的地上还竖着一个怪怪的石碑。
“真奇怪，这城门今天出门时还没看到，怎么起得这么快？这块石碑应该是新造的呀，可是怎么这么旧？连上头的字迹都看不清楚……”

阿丁看得正出神，一只脚不知不觉踩过了界，他正想折返，这才发现：路变得完全不一样了。
他回过头，原本的景色也完全变了样？阿丁叹了一口气，心想，反正迷路了，那也只好继续往前走走看喽！

阿丁来到了一间破庙里，庙顶只剩木头骨架，里面有尊神像，上头的金漆已经斑驳剥落，脸部都看不清楚了。
神像的旁边还有一尊雕着牛头的神像，已经完全被蜘蛛丝覆盖爬满。

阿丁顿时起了怜悯，用自己的袖子帮牛头擦去脸上、身上的蜘蛛网和灰尘，好不容易才把牛头的塑像弄干净，他也满身大汗了，阿丁决定就在这里先休息一夜，明儿个再上路。

夜里，阿丁突然听见耳边传来清澈的溪流声。
他循着声音走到一条陌生的河边，看见一位妇人正在洗东西。
阿丁上前仔细一瞧，这位妇人不是同乡阿梅吗？好多年都没有她的消息了！

阿梅看见阿丁，脸色发青，紧张地问他怎么会到这里来的？阿丁将经过告诉阿梅，阿梅听了，露出忧虑的神情，沉思了好一会儿。

“这里是哪里呀？这么晚了，你为什么一个人在这儿呢？”阿丁好奇地问。

阿梅没有直接回答阿丁的问题，她好似要隐瞒什么，开始岔开话题，跟阿丁闲话家常聊了起来。
她告诉阿丁，她已经结婚了，和丈夫就住在不远处的槐树下。
阿丁看见阿梅洗着一种紫色的菜，叶子像芙蓉，从来没见过，就顺口问那是什么？

阿梅告诉他，这种菜叫做“紫河车”，是产妇的胎盘，传说只要洗个十次就可以包生儿子，将来大富大贵、做大官；洗两次、三次的就是一般人，但生活可以衣食无缺……说着说着，两人已经走到阿梅家门口，阿丁于是入内坐坐，喝杯茶。

过了不久，阿梅的丈夫回来了，阿丁看到他竟然长着一颗大牛头，吓得差点从椅子上摔下去。
阿梅笑吟吟地向丈夫介绍阿丁，一面伸手把丈夫的牛头给摘了下来──阿丁惊叫出声，这才发现自己失态了。
原来，那只是一个牛造型的木偶头啊！阿丁忍不住问，阿梅的丈夫可是演戏的艺人？不然怎么戴着一个牛的木偶头呢？阿梅赶紧扯扯丈夫的手，示意他不要多说话，只向阿丁介绍说，她的丈夫叫牛哥，并且叫牛哥给阿丁倒茶，回避了这个话题。

阿丁觉得阿梅怪怪的，但是他心想，多年没有见面，又是第一次到人家做客，如果多问会显得没礼貌，于是低头喝茶，假装什么事都没有，虽然他还是满腹疑惑。

这时，牛哥捧着肚子直喊饿。
阿梅笑着取出了三盘菜、三只碗、一壶酒和几只杯子。
阿丁早就饿了，这时闻到酒菜香，忍不住直吞口水。
他先夹了一筷子青菜，满口都是家乡味，这让阿丁不禁胃口大开，直呼美味。
牛哥看到阿丁那么捧场，好意夹了一块红烧肉要阿丁尝尝。

阿梅突然脸色大变，激动地伸手打掉阿丁筷中的肉，露出紧张和制止的神情；阿丁手中的肉掉在桌上，抬头望向牛哥和阿梅，三人面面相觑，霎时间气氛有点尴尬。

“这肉……”阿梅捡拾起来，垂低着的脸红通通的：“它臭了！不能吃，我换一道。
”

“怎么会呢？我吃起来很香甜嘛！”牛哥说。

“我们这儿的肉，阿丁哥不能吃！”说时，阿梅快手快脚将红烧肉收走，换上两盘腌渍酱菜。

“唉！真可怜！”善良的阿丁心想，“看样子阿梅她们家境不好，大概是觉得肉贵，不方便拿来招待客人吧……”之后，他假装吃得欢畅，不想让主人家觉得为难。

隔天一早，阿梅竟然给阿丁准备了一份奇怪礼物──那是一块用纸包裹着深红色的肉，那肉竟是生的，另外还有一只信封。

“阿丁哥，待会儿我家牛哥会送您一路出城，您沿路上不要东张西望，赶紧回到您熟悉的地方去；这个信封也请您等到了家再打开，千万别忘了！”阿梅帮牛哥戴上牛头，送两人出门。

牛哥却什么也没说，一路上拉着阿丁的袖子，跑得飞快；阿丁只觉得晕乎乎的，一下就回到了他迷路前的那个城门口。

“谢谢您呀……咦？牛哥咧？怎么不见啦？”阿丁觉得这一切都怪透了。
这时，他的妻子着急地朝他跑来。

“你怎么三天三夜没回来？我天天来这儿找你，还以为你出事了呢！”妻子说。

“咦？我因为迷路，不过才去了一夜，你怎么说我三天没回来呢？”阿丁回答，“啊，对了！你还记得跟我们同乡的那个阿梅吗？昨儿个我遇见她和她丈夫了，她变得好奇怪唷！”

“爷……”妻子的脸色刷的一下变了，说，“你不是在开玩笑吧？你怎么可能遇到阿梅！”

“是真的呀！阿梅还嫁了一个牛头艺人呢，真有趣！”阿丁拎起那包肉给妻子看，“你瞧！这就是她和她丈夫送我的礼物！我昨晚在她家要吃肉被拦住了，阿梅她大概是觉得不好意思，所以送了肉给我们，算是补偿吧？”

说完，阿丁将包肉的纸打开，顿时臭味四溢，原本新鲜的红肉竟然变成了一块又烂又臭的肉。

“咦？不久前她拿给我时还很新鲜的，怎么变成了这样……”

阿丁又把信打开，和妻子一起看，只见上头写着──

阿丁，真没想到还能见到您。
谢谢您帮我家牛哥把他身上的灰尘和蜘蛛网都清理干净了。
这块红肉是我家牛哥答谢您的一点小心意；不瞒您说，我家牛哥是阴曹地府的牛头鬼差，这块肉是南边张富翁身上的，他因为为富不仁，做了许多坏事，阎罗王叫小鬼在他背后挖了一块肉；你只要拿这块肉去给张富翁贴在背上，他很快就会痊愈了，这样你就可以得到一大笔奖赏……

阿丁看得惊呆了。
这时他的妻子才告诉他，她早就知道阿梅死了的消息，都三年了，可她没说罢了。

阿丁缩起脖子，慢慢地转头回看了一眼来时路──哪里有什么新起的城门和石碑呢！

阿丁半信半疑地拎着这块肉，去到信上所说的张富翁家，一问之下果然有这事！阿丁发着抖，将这块肉敷在张富翁背上，不出两天张富翁痊愈了！他高兴地送了阿丁一笔五百两银子的赏金；只是阿丁不敢用，他全部带回故乡，送给阿梅的家人了。

Introduce:A Ding is an epistolary official.
One day night, he sends all documents, when preparation comes home, a new city gate appears suddenly on the road, the monument that end up blames quite is returned on the ground by city gate.
"Really strange, when this city gate goes out today, had not seen, how to rise so quickly? This monument should be new build ah, can you be how so old? The handwriting that connects above sees not clear …… " A Ding looks so that be lost in thought, a foot had stepped on a bound insensibly, he is wanting to fold return, this ability discovers: The way becomes completely different.
He has turned round, originally did the scene change completely also appearance? A Ding sighed at a heat, the heart thinks, got lost anyway, that also is forced to continue to go to look forth! A Ding Lai arrived in a broken temple, temple carries a remnant wood framework on the head, have inside honour God, the gold lacquer of above is already mottled flake, facial ministry looked to not be clear about.
There still is one honour carve to wear on the side of God the God of bovine head, be enclothed already completely to climb by the thread of a spider web full.
A Ding removed pity immediately, the head of arm side ox that uses oneself obliterates on the face, the cobweb that goes up personally and dirt, nice not easy gift the statue cleaning bovine head, he also kubla khah of all over the body, a Ding Jue rests first here surely overnight, tomorrow again start off.
At night, a Ding hears side side transmits clear brook sound suddenly.
His abide is worn by the side of the river that voice goes to unfamiliar, see a woman is washing a thing.
A Ding Shangqian is careful one look, is this woman plum of fellow villager A? The message that does not have her a lot of years! A Mei sees A Ding, complexion is paly, how to ask he can come to here nervously? A Ding tells A Mei the course, a Mei listened, show anxious expression, it is good to brooded a little while.
"Where be here? So late, you why is a person here? " A Ding asks curiously.
A Mei did not answer A Ding's question directly, what should her seem conceal, begin branch off topic, with A Ding claver the daily life of a family chatted to rise.
She tells A Ding, she had married, live below nearby pagoda tree with the husband.
A Ding sees A Mei is washing a kind of purple dish, leaf resembles lotus, had never seen, ask with respect to read smoothly what that is? A Mei tells him, this kind of dish is called " dried human placenta " , it is the puerpera's placenta, fokelore should be washed only can include unripe son 10 times, in the future large fortune, do a magnifico; Wash twice, 3 is average person, but the life is OK back and belly is not had be short of …… to saying, two people had gone entrance of Home A Mei, a Ding is entered then inside sit, drink a cup of tea.
Passed before long, a Mei's husband came back, a Ding sees he is growing head of a big ox actually6444