One night, Yan (阎), the wife of Wu pawnbroker Zhao Hong (赵弘), is raped by a Wutong spirit named "Fourth Master" (四郎), who tells her that he will return in five days.

Yan is coerced into drinking with the Wutong spirits; thereafter Fourth Master rapes her till she loses consciousness.

They enjoy a meal of horse meat and pork; the last two Wutong spirits fall off the grid for the following month.

[1] Originally titled "Wutong" (五通), the story was first published in Pu's anthology Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio.

[2] The French translation of "Wutong" was first included in the thirteenth volume of Bulletin des Etudes Indochinoises and subsequently in a 1940 Saigon publication titled Cinquantes contes chinois extraits du Leao-tchai Tche-yi.