楚人畏鬼

There was a person of the state of Chu who feared ghosts very much.

 

After knowing this, a thief climbed on the top of wall of his yard, and mimicked¹ the sound of ghost. He was very happy to find the host didn't dare² to look out and was afraid of ghosts as expected. After doing this for four or five days, the thief sneaked³ into the man's house and took away everything.

 

Not long before, there was ghost in his house again. Although he found the things missing⁴ in the thief's home, he thought that they had been taken by the ghost and then given to the thief by the ghost instead of believing that man was a thief.

 

楚国有个人非常怕鬼。

 

一个小偷得知他这一特点后，在夜里爬上他家的院墙学鬼叫。发现主人看也不敢朝外看，果然十分怕鬼，心中大喜。这样学了四五天鬼叫后，小偷溜进房间中将财务一卷而空。

 

不久，他家里果然闹起鬼来。虽然他丢失的东西在小偷家里找了出来，但他却坚持认为是鬼偷了之后送给小偷的，根本不相信那个人是小偷。

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