Painted Skin

Painted Skin

There was an intellectual called “xiucai” who was self-learning and preparing for the national examination to become government officials which was held very few years for government positions. He had a family and lived with his wife, teen aged son and his mother. His only younger brother went out to learn some skills of Gongfu and Taoism with his master.
In order to have a quiet study environment, he moved to the back yard and alone and asked his family not to interfere with him without big issue. On night, when he was concentrating on studying, he heard some lady was weeping some where. The sound was so sad and helpless in the silent dark night. He put down his books and followed the weeping starting to search. Finally, he went to an abandoned temple which looked deserted and sort of horrible. One the steps sat a lady who was drying her tears with her handkerchief. The xiucai asked why she was crying like that in the dark, she told him that she had a bad life and did not want to live because her father would marry her to some body she did not like and her father was going to capture her and force her to finish the marriage. She was call Meiniang, and she was extremely beautiful. Then the xiucai told her she could hide in his studying place and it would be safe.

Time went on, it was an autumn, his wife went to his room in back yard, she found his husband was pale and thinner and she found that it seemed that there was some one else lived in his room according to woman’s sensibility. But she was clever and went away.

If face the, beauty was an ugly monster in side the skin of the beautiful lady, it ate on human blood and finally ate human hearts. But Xiecai was puzzled by it skin beauty. One day, the monster set an male servant on to the bed where the wife was sleeping and arranged Xiecai to go back and see this adultery using its monsters power. Xiucai found excuses and excelled his wife. His wife was very wronged and hanged herself on the tree in the village. Fortunately, the brother went back home on a horse and saved his sister in law and know the truth.

He went home silently and went to the back yard, his told his brother his beauty was an ghost and tended to eat human being. The xiucai did not trust first and his brother took him and looked through a little hole trough the paper paved widow until he was scared to faint.
He saw the monster uncovered the skin and painting it into a beautiful lady and the monster was like a rotten skeleton with extruded teeth and half bolded head.

However, his brother had not enough supernatural power to defeat it and he went back to invite his master to get rid of it. But it was a little bit too late, the monster noticed it and took our the heart of the xiucai and grasped his son and about to flee when the master came. The master was very powerful and stabbed the monster by his sword finally.

Dear Nicholas,

I made some corrections on your article, please take the time to review your mistakes. Any question you may have, feel free to ask during class.

<0> to become a government official
<0>which is seldomly held for new government positions
<0>he moved to the backyard to be alone and asked
without being big issues
some lady weeping
<0>and started to search
on one of the steps
she was called
someone else living in his room
<0>learned/found out the truth
he told his brother
<0>a ghost
beings
trust him at first

very interesting story, in your opinion what's the moral of the story?

Teacher~Jeffrey