聊斋志异英语故事：婴宁拈梅.docx

聊斋志异英语故事：婴宁拈梅
On the day of the Lantern Festival， Zifu”s cousin， Wu Sheng， invited him for an excursion. Wu had to retu

聊斋志异英语故事：婴宁拈梅
On the day of the Lantern Festival， Zifu”s cousin， Wu Sheng， invited him for an excursion. Wu had to return home early to attend to something else. Zifu stayed and whiled away the time alone. Suddenly， Zifu spotted in the crowd a girl with bright eyes. The girl was carrying a twig of plum blossoms and was walking delicsately slowly. Zifu could not help but glue his sight on the girl. When the girl saw what was happening， she left her twig of blossoms on the ground and walked away smiling.
　　Zifu picked up the flower and returned home. He put the flower under his pillow. He missed the girl so much so that he would not eat or drink. Zifu soon became so weak that he was not able to support himself. When Wu Sheng learned of this he came to ask about the reason. Zifu told the truth to his cousin. To comfort Zifu， Wu Sheng lied， saying that the girl was one of Zifu”s cousins living in the mountains some 15kilometers to the southwest. He promised that they would go and look for her after Zifu got well. After hearing Wu”s words， Zifu felt so happy that he soon fully recovered. Since he was lying， Wu Sheng was reluctant to see Zifu again and made himself scarce.