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Guo Pu, whose courtesy name was Jingchun, came to Lujiang and urged its governor, Hu Mengkang, to turn back at once and cross the Yangtze to the south. Mengkang would not listen. As Guo Pu hurriedly prepared to leave, he took a fancy to one of Mengkang’s maidservants, but could find no way to obtain her. He therefore took three dou of red beans and scattered them all around his host’s residence. When his host rose the next morning, he saw several thousand figures in red surrounding his house; when he approached to look more closely, they vanished. Deeply disturbed, he asked Guo Pu to perform a divination. Guo Pu said, “It is not fitting for your household to keep this maidservant. You should sell her twenty li southeast of here. Be sure not to haggle over the price, and this uncanny visitation can be ended.” Guo Pu secretly sent someone to buy the maidservant cheaply, then cast a talisman into the well. The thousands of red-clad figures threw themselves into it one by one. His host was delighted. Guo Pu departed with the maidservant, and some weeks later Lujiang fell.