斗山魈

这年秋天，小米粥劈了些竹子，做成蟹笼，想捕蟹去卖，以补贴家用。

这天，小米粥满怀希望来到河边，想收笼里的蟹，可是提起篓一看，笼门被破坏了，里头一只蟹也没有。

是谁偷了蟹，又把笼门弄坏了？小米粥站在河边，对着不知名的贼骂了一通然后修好笼门，到晚上又把蟹笼安置在河里。
这回，他多了个心眼儿，夜里不回去，躲在一旁看着。

这一夜，他没合过眼，可是一早去看，使他大吃一惊——笼门又坏了，而且，坏得跟上次一模一样，笼里自然一只蟹也没有，却呆着一个怪模怪样的东西，长二尺多。

小米粥不知道这怪物叫什么，但断定，这两天都是由于这怪物的捣乱，才一无所获。
他气愤至极，本想把怪物当场摔死，可不知怎么又有了恻隐之心，把它放了，说：“下次再来，我就不客气了！”

可是，这怪物实在可恶，第三天照样若无其事地呆在笼里。

小米粥气得头发都竖起来了，对这怪物破口大骂了一阵，然后把它装在蟹笼中，准备回家后把它砍死。

行到半路，小米粥忽然听得背上蟹笼里有奇怪的响声。
他怕怪物想逃，就回过头去看。
这一看，却使他吓了一大跳。
原来，那怪物已变了形状，脸像人，身子却像猴子，一只手，一只脚，样子十分可怕。

“不好，碰到了鬼！”小米粥暗香，“好在是白天，谅它也无能为力。
我得赶紧回家，把它弄死，鬼是怕火的。
”

笼里的怪物果然是鬼。
这鬼当地人称作山魈。
这时，那鬼开口说话了：“我是山神。
只是因为我特别喜欢吃螃蟹，所以才几次到河里把你的蟹笼弄坏了，实在对不起，请你见谅。
我知道你是个忠厚的人，请放了我吧。
我会保佑你发财，帮你捉到许许多多的大螃蟹。
”

“别花言巧语了，你是一个十足的恶鬼！”小米粥愤怒的说，“我已经放过你一次，可是你仍来做恶。
这次，我不会再饶你！”

“不。
我不是鬼，我是山神。
请放了我吧！”山魈苦苦哀求。

“你是山神？那么，为什么不在山神庙里呆着？”小米粥早就不耐烦，不再理睬山魈，只管赶路。

山魈又生一计，问：“请问，你叫什么名字？”

小米粥继续赶路，对山魈的问题不理不睬。

山魈急了，使出激将法：“大丈夫行不更名，坐不更姓。
就是我们鬼也有名字，只有鸡鸭禽兽才无名，你难道也像那些禽兽一样吗？”

“告诉你又怎么样？我叫杨……”小米粥刚要说，忽然又止住了，他警觉起来，心想：这山魈是恶鬼，如果被它知道了自己的名字，以后不知会有什么麻烦事呢。
不必跟它一般计较，不跟它说。

“说呀，你叫什么名字？”山魈挑逗着，“连自己的名字都不敢说，连鸡鸭都不如，你做禽兽算了！”

小米粥知道言多必失，闭口不言，忍受着山魈的恶语。

不一会儿，小米粥便回到了家门口。

山魁终于绝望了，长叹一口气说：“看来，我的死期到了！唉，我本想害你性命，谁知反而死在你手里，真是想不通啊！”

“你应该想得通！”小米粥说：“人再笨，也总比鬼聪明。
”边说，边点起火，把蟹笼架在上面。

山魈在笼里乱叫乱撞，不一会儿就被烧成了灰。

除掉山魈后，小米粥的蟹笼再也没被损坏，每天都能捉到好多蟹，卖掉换了钱，正好补贴家用。

Introduce:This year of autumn, millet congee broke off some of bamboo, make it crab basket, think crab goes selling, with allowance family expenses.
This day, millet congee is full of a hope to come to the side of the river, want to close basket the crab in, but mention,basket looks, basket door was destroyed, a crab also does not have within.
It is who stole crab, basket door bang up? Millet congee stands in river side, scolded to foster cordial relations between states next to not famous thief basket door, to in the evening crab basket finds a place for in the river.
This, he became much a heart, do not go back in night, hide in look at aside.
This one night, he had not closed a key point, but early in the morning goes looking, make him astonied —— basket door bad, and, so bad that catch up with second exactly like, basket in a crab also does not have nature, a slow-witted however lardy-dardy thing, grow 2 foot much.
Millet congee does not know what this an eccentric person calls, but conclude, as a result of,these two days are of this an eccentric person make trouble, ability is empty-handed.
He is furious to extremely, this wanting that throw an eccentric person dead on the spot, can not know how to have the heart of compassion again, put it, say: "Come again next time, I am impolite! " but, this an eccentric person is really abhorrent, the 3rd day all the same ground of as if nothing happened stays in basket in.
Congee enraged millet the hair is perpendicularly to rise, to shout abuse of this an eccentric person, it is its outfit next in crab basket, after preparation comes home, chop it dead.
Arrive all right on the way, millet congee listens so that carry the noise with have strange in crab basket on the back suddenly.
He is afraid that an eccentric person wants to escape, had turned round to look.
This looks, make he was frightened however jump greatly.
Original, that an eccentric person already changed appearance, the face resembles a person, the body resembles a monkey however, a hand, a foot, appearance is very terrible.
"Bad, came up against ghost! " millet congee is dark sweet, "It is by day fortunately, forgive it is helpless also.
I must come home rapidly, its kill, ghost is afraid of fire.
" basket an eccentric person in is ghost as expected.
This ghost local calls mandrill.
At this moment, that ghost mouth talked: "I am hill god.
Just like to eat crab particularly because of me, just arrive a few times so in the river yours crab basket bang up, I am sorry really, ask you to excuse me.
I know you are a honest and tolerant person, put me please.
I can bless you to get rich, help you be caught lots and lots of big crab.
" " not fair-spoken, you are a dye-in-the-wood cacodaemon! " millet congee says angrily, "I had let off you, but you still come,do evil.
This, I won't again forgive you! " " not.
I am not ghost, I am hill god.
Put me please! " mandrill presses his suit.
"Are you hill god? So, why staying in hill fane? " millet congee is early impatient, no longer mandrill of pay attention to, hurry on with his journey simply.
Mandrill is born again one plan, ask: "Excuse me, what do you call the name? What do you call the name?? 3612