孫五粒，有僮僕獨宿一室，恍惚被人攝去。至一宮殿，見閻羅在上，視之曰：「悞矣，此非是。」因遣送還。既歸，大懼，移宿他所；遂有僚僕郭安者，見榻空閒，因就寢焉。又一僕李祿，與僮有夙怨，久將甘心，是夜操刀入，捫之，以為僮也，竟殺之。郭父鳴於官。時陳其善為邑宰，殊不苦之。郭哀號，言：「半生止此子，今將何以聊生！」陳即以李祿為之子。郭含冤而退。此不奇於僮之見鬼，而奇於陳之折獄也。
孙五粒，有僮仆独宿一室，恍惚被人摄去。至一宫殿，见阎罗在上，视之曰：「悮矣，此非是。」因遣送还。既归，大惧，移宿他所；遂有僚仆郭安者，见榻空闲，因就寝焉。又一仆李禄，与僮有夙怨，久将甘心，是夜操刀入，扪之，以为僮也，竟杀之。郭父鸣于官。时陈其善为邑宰，殊不苦之。郭哀号，言：「半生止此子，今将何以聊生！」陈即以李禄为之子。郭含冤而退。此不奇于僮之见鬼，而奇于陈之折狱也。
Sun Wuli had a page-boy who slept alone in a room. One night, half-dreaming, he was carried off by someone. He came to a palace and saw Yama seated on high. Yama looked at him and said, “A mistake. This is not the one.” He had the boy sent back. Once home, the boy was terrified and moved to sleep somewhere else. A fellow servant named Guo An saw the bed standing empty and lay down in it. Another servant, Li Lu, had an old grudge against the page-boy and had long been waiting to settle it. That night he came in with a knife, felt for the sleeper, took him for the page-boy, and killed him. Guo An’s father brought a complaint to the authorities. Chen Qishan was then magistrate of my county, and he was not at all hard on the killer. Guo wailed and cried, “Half my life gone, and this was my only son! How am I to live now?” So Chen gave him Li Lu to be his son. Guo swallowed the wrong and withdrew. What is strange here is not that the page-boy saw ghosts. What is strange is the way Chen judged the case.