懷慶潞王，有昏德。時行民間，窺有好女子，輒奪之。有王生妻，為王所睹，遣輿馬直入其家。女子號泣不伏，強舁而出。王亡去，隱身聶政之墓，冀妻經過，得一遙訣。無何，妻至，望見夫，大哭投地。王惻動心懷，不覺失聲。從人知其王生，執之，將加搒掠。忽墓中一丈夫出，手握白刃，氣象威猛，厲聲曰：「我聶政也！良家子豈容強占！念汝輩不能自由，姑且宥恕。寄語無道王：若不改行，不日將抉其首！」眾大駭，棄車而走；丈夫亦入墓中而沒。夫妻叩墓歸，猶懼王命復臨。過十餘日，竟無消息，心始安。王自是淫威亦少殺云。
怀庆潞王，有昏德。时行民间，窥有好女子，辄夺之。有王生妻，为王所睹，遣舆马直入其家。女子号泣不伏，强舁而出。王亡去，隐身聂政之墓，冀妻经过，得一遥诀。无何，妻至，望见夫，大哭投地。王恻动心怀，不觉失声。从人知其王生，执之，将加搒掠。忽墓中一丈夫出，手握白刃，气象威猛，厉声曰：「我聂政也！良家子岂容强占！念汝辈不能自由，姑且宥恕。寄语无道王：若不改行，不日将抉其首！」众大骇，弃车而走；丈夫亦入墓中而没。夫妻叩墓归，犹惧王命复临。过十余日，竟无消息，心始安。王自是淫威亦少杀云。
The Prince of Lu at Huaiqing was a man of benighted virtue. He often went about among the common people, and whenever he spied a good-looking woman he would seize her. A scholar named Wang had a wife whom the prince happened to see. He sent a carriage and horses straight into their house. The woman wailed and wept and would not submit, and his men carried her out by force. Wang fled and hid himself at the tomb of Nie Zheng, hoping his wife would pass that way so that he could bid her one farewell from afar. Before long his wife came by. She saw her husband in the distance, burst into sobs and threw herself to the ground. Wang was so stricken that he cried out before he knew it. The prince’s men realized he was Wang. They seized him and were about to beat him. Suddenly a man came out of the tomb, a bare blade in his hand, fierce and terrible to behold. “I am Nie Zheng!” he cried harshly. “How dare anyone seize a woman of good family by force! But since your kind are not your own masters, I will spare you this once. Take a message to your lawless prince: if he does not mend his ways, before many days I will pluck off his head!” The men were terrified. They left the carriage and ran, and the man went back into the tomb and vanished. Husband and wife kowtowed at the tomb and went home, still afraid that the prince’s order would come again. Ten days and more went by with no word at all, and only then did they feel safe. From that time on, it is said, the prince’s tyranny abated somewhat.