Strange Tales from Liaozhai, a collection of classical tales by Qing writer Pu Songling, features fantastical stories about fox spirits, ghosts, etc. Today, we will talk one of the most popular stories, the Judge Lu.
Zhu Erdan, of Lingyang, whose courtesy name was Xiaoming, was bold and outgoing by nature, though tending to be gullible. He studied industriously but had not yet made a name for himself.