A corpse that has remained intact in its coffin for years suddenly begins to rot.
A bridal sedan chair drifts into a village in the dead of night.
A skeleton that died many years ago takes the form of a young man and searches everywhere for the benefactor who buried him.
A poor family's youngest son and a wealthy family's white-haired dog's souls are accidentally swapped.
A young woman dreams someone has borrowed her face, then wakes up disfigured overnight.
Granary Rat: The mottled eel who serves the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea is my cousin on my mother's side. I'll go ask him. When next year's drought comes, I'll have the Dragon King make clouds and rain from the heavens!
Ox-Head Ghost: The King of Hell is furious with me, stripped me of my post, and sentenced me to seven lifetimes of reincarnation in the human world. In the first, I was born as an honest, low-ranking official. In the second, as a young widow. In the third, as a scholar who never passes an exam... Daoist, tell me, which of these lives is supposed to be easy?
Gossipy Old Woman: I've heard that everyone in the world suffers. Please spare my life!
Turtle Spirit: I read in a book that ignorance is no excuse. I've understood it now. Would it be all right if this disciple stole a chicken each month?
Hairpin Spirit: I'm the golden hairpin worn by the daughter of the Wan family. I witnessed everything that day, and I was so outraged that I swore to avenge her!
Granny Hua: Yesterday was the year of Yihai. How did fifty years pass in a single night? Am I already an old woman in my eighties?
“Say what you will, even if only for a laugh; in the bean shed, rain falls like silk. Tired of the words of the living, perhaps the dead prefer the ghosts' autumn songs.”
Theme: There are gods three feet above your head
