China is a large agricultural country. Before agricultural machinery became popular for cultivating crops, farmers relied on cattle to plow the fields, so basically every rural household raised cattle.

Farming cattle are good helpers for farmers

In the past two years, I was doing business in Longyan Township, Dengzhou City. We often held animal release activities to promote the principles of abstaining from killing and releasing animals, eating vegetarian food, chanting Buddha's name, and karma. A local senior brother told me The story of his family.

China is a large agricultural country. Before agricultural machinery became popular for cultivating crops, farmers relied on cattle to plow the fields, so basically every rural household raised cattle. There is a famous area in the township market called "Niu Xing", which is the cattle trading market. At the same time, an industry has also emerged, commonly known as "cattle brokers", which is to put it bluntly, cattle dealers. Even if I drink tea in the cattle dealer every day, I have a better understanding of the cattle price and can estimate more accurately what kind of cattle are worth. Therefore, if someone wants to sell cattle, they should find a familiar "cattle broker" in advance. Assess the price of your own cattle so that you have a rough idea of ​​the price, so that you don't lose money on the sale. The average "cattle broker" makes a living by doing this, and when valuing a stock, it will be lower than the market price.

At that time, cattle were sold not based on weight, but on the size, fatness, and age of the teeth to estimate the price. A cow worth 2,000 yuan will be valued at 1,700 yuan by a "cattle broker". Farmers don't understand the market. If they feel it's about the same, the sale is concluded. The cattle dealer also has the funds to pay the owner 1,700 yuan. After the owner of the cow left, he resold the cow to someone who wanted to buy the cow. Since "cattle brokers" are eloquent, it is possible to sell for 2,200 yuan, making money on both ends, and making 500 yuan in one fell swoop.

Cows are killed in the countryside to celebrate the festival

In 1990, people asked for a wedding gift of only 2,000 yuan, equivalent to the price of a cow. "Cattle brokers" earned thousands of yuan in a few days, which was a very profitable industry at the time. Later, the cattle dealer discovered that selling beef was also very profitable, so he sold and killed cattle himself, and sold beef at the same time. He made a lot of money. His wife and children lived a happy life and were extremely rich. How many people are envious.

went on like this for many years. His son had just turned eighteen and was fooling around in Dengzhou City with some friends. His son's friends were a theft gang. When they had money, they would go to restaurants to drink and eat meat. When they had no money, they would work together to block roads and rob at night. Or steal something.

One night, the gang planned to steal a motorcycle and asked his son to be a lookout. However, he was discovered and called the police, who arrested the gang. His son was able to escape because he was outside for fun, but he was revealed by a criminal gang, and someone from the Public Security Bureau arrested his son. He spent more than 100,000 yuan to smoothen the relationship, but it was of no use, because the whole country was cracking down and arresting criminal models, so this group of people went to jail.

There is a cycle of cause and effect

Because his son had just turned eighteen and reached the legal age, he was also sentenced to fifteen years. The family was full of worries and had no intention of doing business, so they went out to work. The ancients said: "The word "prison" comes from cows, and the word "jail" comes from dogs. If you don't eat cattle and dogs, you will never be in jail." It seems reasonable.

The 18-year-old boy had the best youth in his life, but he had to spend it in prison. When he came out, he was in his thirties. Is there any unreasonable disaster in this world? If he hadn't chosen the wrong industry, would his son have been so unlucky?

My brother’s father-in-law also raised and sold cattle to make money a few years ago. Because some cows were not obedient and had a bad temper, he took a straw stick and beat them violently on the cow's head. A few years later, his head always hurt. When the pain was severe, he would hit the wall.

went to Dengzhou People's Hospital for an examination. The result was brain tumor , which was still a malignant tumor. Half a year later, another one grew on the right side and the pain was severe, so another craniotomy was performed. Just after it had grown, my head hurt again. I went for a check-up and found out that a new tumor had grown.

Why is this tumor like a leek, cutting off one crop after another?The family requested an operation, but the doctor refused, saying: The head is the most important organ of the human body and cannot be moved around too much. If a craniotomy is performed this time, we cannot guarantee that he will survive the operating table.

When the family heard that the operation was too risky, they came back. When the pain got too much, he would hit himself with a wooden stick. I tortured myself like this for more than half a year, and finally it hurt to death. He was only in his fifties at the time.

At that time, I had not encountered Buddhism, and I did not know how to repent, recite sutras and recite Buddha to dedicate myself to the harmed sentient beings.

There is also a cattle farmer. His two or three-year-old grandson has a high fever. . Dengzhou City cannot cure it. So he transfers to Nanyang City. There is no solution, so he transfers to the provincial capital Zhengzhou City Hospital, but still cannot be cured. Finally, he is transferred to the capital Beijing Children's Hospital. The hospital spent more than 60,000 yuan to get rid of the fever. In the past few years, all the money earned from raising cattle has been lost, and the grandson is almost unable to save it. I don’t dare to raise cattle anymore when I come back.

The wealth earned by breeding and selling animals cannot be retained, and it also brings disasters. Therefore, practitioners are not allowed to engage in animal breeding, except for animals released into the wild. There was once a chicken farm owner who stopped raising chickens after hearing about Buddhism. He pulled several trucks and sent them all to a temple in Shandong Province. The master converted them and found an open space to raise them; because these chickens were placed in In the wild, people will catch and eat them.

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