Yangzhou butcher Xu Erbiao is very skilled in slaughtering pigs. He is famous here. Everyone from all villages come to him to kill pigs. The business is good. Especially during the Chinese New Year, more people are looking for him to kill pigs.
One day, he went to a different village to kill pigs for people, and killed several pigs in a row. In the end, the owner of the family was a very enthusiastic man.
enthusiastically kept him for dinner, and also gave him some pigs and cooked meat.
It is hard to refuse the kindness, so Xu Erbiao had to stay for dinner.
At the dinner table, the host took out the old wine collected from the house to entertain him.
Two people started to eat and drink, and they had a great time and had a great conversation.
After a while, I was drunk. At this time, it was getting late.
The owner is worried that he will walk alone at night, because now, the end of the year is approaching, and robbers are rampant, and tigers, wolfs, and poisonous insects are often seen.
But Xu Erbiao is famous for being brave. He often walks at night, is not afraid of anything, and never believes in the sayings of ghosts and gods.
The owner tried hard to keep him, but he was worried about his mother and wife and children at home, so he insisted on leaving.
The owner had no choice but to stagger and sent him to the entrance of the village, handed him the lantern, and went back.
Xu Biao held a lantern in one hand and a pig in the water and cooked meat in the other, walking staggeringly...
Not long afterwards, he came to the wilderness, drunkenness, and walked in a daze...
I really couldn't walk, so I had to sit under a tree, planning to rest for a while and walk.
But he just sat down, and was tired and drunk again. He sat down and fell asleep quickly.
was confused and suddenly heard a serene voice.
Open your eyes and saw that it was more than ten feet high from a large grave, with a ghost with green face and fangs and a long red tongue.
Xu Erbiao often walks at night and has never encountered anything before. He is not afraid. So he squinted his eyes and pretended to be asleep, wanting to see what this ghost is going to do.
The ghost came out, saw him, he hesitated, and walked over carefully...
Looking at his pig going into the water and cooked meat, looking very excited.
picked it up very quickly. Just as he was about to put it in his mouth, Xu Biao suddenly carp hit and said angrily: "You evil ghost! How dare you steal my things!"
After saying that, he punched him...
But what he never expected was that although the ghost was very tall, he was very agile and he avoided it gently.
seemed to be angry and rushed over...
Xu Biao dodged... In this way, one person and one ghost fought for dozens of rounds, no victory or defeat.
Xu Erbiao thought about it and said to the ghost: "You and I are tired, why don't we both rest and fight again?"
After hearing this, the ghost agreed and sat on the ground to rest.
The ghost looked at the pigs and cooked meat beside him, looking salivating.
Xu Erbiao looked at it and had an idea in his mind. He knew that this ghost was extremely powerful. If he fought with it, if he couldn't do it well, his life would be gone and he could only take it out of his mind.
Thinking of this, I generously and generously threw the pig into the water.
The ghost was surprised and happy, and was not polite, so he picked it up and ate it...
At this time, Xu Erbiao picked up the pig-killing knife behind him with lightning speed and slashed it hard...
was fully focused, and the ghost who ate the pig and went into the water was very comfortable being chopped by him.
A wailing sounded, and the blue smoke was rising, and he was about to escape, but Xu Biao continued to chop over... He didn't know how many knife he cut until the ghost stopped moving.
breathed a sigh of relief, took out the rope used to kill pigs, and tied it up firmly.
The ghost couldn't move and begged him to let go, saying that he had no intention of harming others, but just asked him for something to eat.
But Xu Erbiao smiled and said, "Ghosts are all harmful! I won't believe your nonsense. It seems that ghosts are still fighting but humans! If you let you go, they will harm people."
said nothing and ignored it.
After a while, Xu Biao was shocked. The tall ghost suddenly became smaller and turned into a little ghost and disappeared from the ground.
Xu Erbiao was very frustrated. He thought that he could show off to his friends after he went back, but he never expected that he would let it run away.
was very annoyed and had to get up and go home.
When I returned to my doorstep, I suddenly saw a man in black lying sneakily on the wall of my yard, looking inside.
is not good, there is a thief, Xu Erbiao was shocked, and then quickly cut off the wall with a knife...
The man oh, and suddenly fell off the wall.
Xu Biao listened to the familiar voice. When he looked carefully, he couldn't laugh or cry. He turned out to be his own brother. Fortunately, he didn't hit the key point.
asked him in surprise, why was he lying on the wall at night?
The younger brother moaned in unbearable pain and told him aggrievedly that the family saw that he had not come back, and they were very worried that they were waiting for him to come back. They were clearly reading under the lamp, and their mother and sister-in-law were chatting and sewing clothes. They suddenly shivered and knew nothing.
After hearing this, Xu Erbiao was very surprised and took him in.
Mother and wife were shocked and asked urgently when they saw this scene.
The two brothers each revealed the passage.
After hearing this, my mother looked at him up and down, and saw that he was not hurt at all, so she felt at ease.
asked him to go out quickly and ask the doctor to heal his brother's injuries.
Xu Biao hurried out and found a doctor to heal his younger brother. Fortunately, the injury was not serious.
After that, what surprised Xu Biao was that next, killing pigs was always unhappy.
One day, he was bitten by a pig. Fortunately, he broke free quickly, otherwise his finger would be gone.
He was so scared that his face looked like earth. He had never been so unlucky after killing pigs for so many years.
Not only that, every night on his way home, he always feels that someone follows him and turns around, but no one is there.
Just like that, after several days of continuous progress, he was very brave, and he was a little nervous, confused, and unable to do his job well.
The family was worried about him, so they had to let him stop killing pigs and rest at home for a while.
But after he was at home, every day at noon and at night, some stone tiles and feces would always be thrown in the yard. The sound was loud and it was frightening.
Xu Erbiao went out angrily, his voice disappeared, he entered the room, and the sound rang again.
Just like that, it was repeated over and over again, and the family was so scared that they hid in the house and dared not go out.
In the morning, the thick yard was covered with stone tiles and feces, which was foul.
The neighbors were unhappy and came to ask in dissatisfaction, thinking it was a ghost, so they asked him to find a Taoist priest to catch the ghost.
His mother also had this idea.
Xu Erbiao felt that it must be the run away ghost who was taking revenge on him and came to cause trouble, so he had to invite a Taoist priest to catch the ghost.
The Taoist priest was wearing a yellow robe, energetic and had a torched look in and patrolled. After doing the method, he sighed and said, "The ghost you encountered was just a wild ghost. He coveted your pig into the water and did not harm others! Because he almost killed you, he hated you very much and came to do something." After saying that, he asked him to buy some paper money and offerings, went to the grave to worship, and apologize and repent to it.
After doing all this, there was no strange thing anymore, and life finally returned to normal.
However, after this incident, Xu Erbiao became less courageous and never dared to walk at night.
