This is a story from Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio. Mr`Sun of Luoyang married the daughter of a magistrate. About twenty days after the wedding， his wife died of illness. Sun was extremely sad. One rainy day， an average-looking girl came to his house and said："My name is Lu Wubing. I admire you for losing your sife at such a young age；；I admire you for your courage at this difficult time. I come to offer help；； Iam willing to be your maid."Mr1`Sun waw that she was simple， generous， diligent， kind and able to read and write， so he accepted her as his concubine， rather than as a maid. He later married a woman named Xu`A year later， Xu bore him a boy as her own child. Ahjian loved Lu Wubin more than his mother. When Ahjian was three years old， Xu fell seriously ill， and she told Sun， "Wubing loves Ahjian. Please let Wubing be the wife after I die."In tears， Sun promised he would dw so. Nevertheless， he could not follow through on his promise because his family did notgive its permission. His family elders dictated that Sun marry a woman named Wang， the daughter of an official. Wang， short-tempered， often beat and scolded Wubing and Ahjian. There the whole family was neither in harmony nor tranquil. Sun went far away from home to avoid the shrewish woman. After a while， Wubing could bear it no longer. She took Ahjian and escaped. She cold him about what had happened in the family and his son's whereabouts. While telling the story， she was weeping and crying and then suddenly she fainted， falling on the ground. Sun rushed to help her， only to find her clothes on the ground. She had disappeared. By then， Sun realized that Lu Wubing was the incarnation of a ghost. In memory of Lu Wubing Sun set up a tombstone with the epitaph："Tomb of Lu Wubing，my ghost wife." 《聊齋志異》中的故事。洛陽孫公子，娶太守女兒爲妻。婚後二十天妻子得一場大病去世，公子十分悲傷。一天下大雨，有一相貌平平的女子挑簾進來說：“我叫呂無病，見公子青春喪偶，又屢屢悲傷，我慕公子才華，特來投奔，願作使女。” 公子見他樸素大方，殷勤溫柔，又識文斷字，便收爲妾。孫公子又娶許小姐爲妻，一年後生一子名叫阿堅。呂無病如同自己孩子一樣愛惜，阿堅對呂無病比親母親還親。阿堅三歲時，許小姐得重病，她叮囑公子說：“無病愛阿堅，我死後把無病扶正。”公子含淚答應，無奈家族不許，又娶王天宮女兒爲妻。王女性格暴燥，對無病、阿堅打罵爲常事，吵得全家不得安定。公子爲避惡婦遠離家鄉，後來，無病看到在這個家實在無法呆下去了，就帶上阿堅逃跑了。她把阿堅寄託在熟人家中，自己千方百計去打聽公子的下落。尋到公子後，告訴阿堅住的地方，又淚流滿面的訴說家中發生的情況。邊說邊哭，昏倒在地。孫公子要去扶她，只見衣服在地上，人早沒影了。孫公子這才明白，呂無病原是鬼變的。公子爲紀念呂無病，專爲她立了一塊石碑，上刻：鬼妻呂無病之墓。
