During the Ming Dynasty, there was a butcher named Liu Acheng in Changping . His father was the famous "Liu Yidao". It was said that his meat cutting skills were extremely good and he only needed one knife to cut meat. Relying on his father's reputation, Liu Acheng's butcher shop has a very good business.
Liu Acheng is arrogant and often uses his fame to suppress his peers. Over time, Wei Xiaobao, the boy in the butcher shop, also became infected. He always felt that he was superior to himself, and sometimes even some shopkeepers looked down upon him.
Wei Xiaobao was an orphan adopted by the Liu family. He was two years younger than Liu Acheng. When Liu's father saw that he was quick and hard-working, he took him as his apprentice, taught him the skills of killing pigs and cutting meat, and asked him to help in the butcher shop. Perhaps because they grew up together, Liu Acheng regarded him as his brother.
In fact, the business of Liu's butcher shop is booming, which has a lot to do with Wei Xiaobao. He gets up early and works hard every day, and he also does the work of cutting meat and killing pigs. Liu Acheng acted as a hands-off shopkeeper, and most of the money he earned was used for his food, drink and entertainment. Even so, Wei Xiaobao never complained. He also said that the Liu family was kind to him and he should do more.
When Liu Acheng was twenty-five years old, Liu's father proposed a marriage to him. The other party's name was Xiao Su, and his father was a local carpenter. The two liked each other well and soon became husband and wife. After the marriage, the couple became very affectionate and played the piano and the harp in harmony. Wei Xiaobao felt uncomfortable when he saw this. Not long after, he actually left a letter and left without saying goodbye. Although he was extremely reluctant to give up, Liu Acheng still respected his opinion and did not go out to search.
After Wei Xiaobao left, all the big and small things in the butcher shop fell on Liu Acheng, so he was very busy every day. It coincided with the Spring Festival, and business was booming. Liu Acheng saw that there was only one piglet left in the pig pen, and he thought that after closing the shop, he would go to a nearby village to catch a few fat pigs to prepare.
Liu Acheng was lucky. The pigs he caught this time were cheap and good. When he drove the cart home, it was completely dark. Seeing that he had reached the outskirts of the city, Liu Acheng suddenly felt the urge to urinate. Just as he was about to go to the grass to relieve himself, a burst of crying caught his attention. When I looked closer, I saw that she was a beggar girl in tattered clothes, squatting on the ground and crying bitterly.
Liu Acheng thought that she must have failed to beg for food and hid outside the city to cry, so he felt compassion and gave her the money left over from catching the pigs. But when he saw the beggar's face clearly, he was so frightened that he took a few steps back. The woman in front of him was none other than his late wife Wang Ruolan who died five years ago.
It turns out that Liu Acheng got married once when he was 20 years old. The other party's family was poor and settled, and Liu's father had strongly opposed the marriage, but Liu Acheng couldn't resist Liu Acheng's insistence, and the two got married. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Not long after the marriage, Wang Ruolan died unexpectedly. Liu Acheng was heartbroken and it took a full year to recover. For fear of being aroused, he rarely mentioned his late wife.
The woman in front of him was exactly the same as Wang Ruolan. Liu Acheng thought to himself, maybe his deceased wife knew that he had ordered another wife and turned into a ghost to settle the score with him. So he got up in embarrassment and ran in the opposite direction. Unexpectedly, the beggar girl had quick eyesight and quick hands, so she grabbed him and said, "Mr. sir, it is indeed me. Don't worry, I won't harm you."
Seeing that his late wife had no intention of harming him, Liu Acheng relaxed a little and asked her whether she was a human or a ghost. Wang Ruolan said: "Ms. sir, I died five years ago. How can I still be alive? I just returned to the earth temporarily." When he became a ghost, he learned from the book of life and death that Liu Acheng had married a new wife. Instead of being jealous and angry, he wished the two of them to grow old together. But recently, she checked the book of life and death again and found that her husband was about to die, so she ran to the underworld and turned into a beggar to remind him to pay attention.
Hearing this, Liu Acheng was scared to death and asked himself what on earth was going to happen? Wang Ruolan shook his head and said: "I'm sorry, sir, this is a secret. I can't tell you directly. After you go home, remember to kill the smallest pig first. Maybe you can escape. I should go.""
Liu Acheng was confused after hearing this. Just when he was about to ask again, Wang Ruolan had turned into black smoke and disappeared. His late wife's words made him uneasy, so he hurried home and killed the piglet first.
Back Liu Acheng stared at the pig in the pig pen. He suddenly remembered that he had never caught such a thin pig, and he didn't know when it got into the pig pen. He walked up to the pig in a few steps and was about to kill the pig. At this moment, Xiao Su actually appeared behind him and shouted: "My lord, wait a minute, once you kill it, I will lose my mind." "
Liu Acheng turned his head and looked at his wife covered in black smoke. He was immediately frightened to death. He intuitively told himself that his current wife was probably also a ghost. Perhaps his late wife noticed this and was afraid that Xiao Su would harm her, so she returned to the underworld specifically. Reminder.
Xiao Su said with a tearful voice: "Ms. sir, I'm sorry, I'm actually already dead. It's just that I couldn't bear to leave you, so I never went to the underworld to report. "
Hearing this, Liu Acheng was even more confused and asked: "Then how did you die? "
Xiao Su's eyes turned cold and he said, "It's all Wei Xiaobao's fault. "
It turns out that the person who killed Xiao Su was none other than Wei Xiaobao, Liu Acheng's most trusted brother. Over the years, under Liu Acheng's pressure, he had become psychologically abnormal. It was obvious that he had an excellent talent for killing pigs and was a businessman. Unfortunately, due to his status, he had to work as a busy boy, letting Liu Acheng spend the money he earned outside.
Not only that, in Wei Xiaobao's eyes, Liu Acheng only regarded him as a current person, not a brother at all. , for which he decided to take revenge.
He followed Xiao Su secretly and planned to defile her. However, Xiao Su resisted and was beaten to death by mistake. Wei Xiaobao was so frightened that he threw the body into a dry well. . Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, the dead Xiao Su went home like a normal person.
In fact, when Xiao Su was strangled to death, there happened to be a weak pig beside her, and her soul drifted into the pig's body. With the pig's breath, she returned home in the shape of Xiao Su. If the pig died, she would be in disarray. But Wei Xiaobao didn't know it, thinking that Xiao Su was seeking revenge on him, and left Liu's house overnight.
After learning the truth, Liu Acheng. He was so angry that he was shaking all over, and he didn't expect that the brother he trusted the most would hurt him the most. After a lot of twists and turns, the government officials finally caught Wei Xiaobao who was at large.
Afterwards, Wei Xiaobao was sentenced to surgery because of the solid evidence. After being killed, Xiao Su went to the underworld to reincarnate as a human being. After this incident, Liu Ah Cheng's character changed a lot. He ran the butcher shop in a low profile and no longer bullied his colleagues, and he never got married again in his life.
