Many centuries later, during the Qing dynasty, there was a lazy man called Jiang Sanmang, who heard the story of Song Dingbo and conceived a crafty little plan. Every day he went to the graveyard carrying a stick and a rope, and waited to snare himself a gui, which he intended to sell to fund his drinking.
影響所及，到了清朝，有個叫姜三莽的懶鬼，聽人說起宋定伯賣鬼的故事，打起了「鬼主意」，天天帶著棍棒、繩子到野墳去「守墳待鬼」，想靠賣鬼來換酒吃。