During the Ming Dynasty, Linjiang had a butcher named Zhu Liang. He had a meaty face and made a living by slaughtering cattle and selling meat all year round. He was hardworking and frugal. When he was thirty, he had a high deposit. Under the introduction of a matchmaker, he met a woman named Yi Pinxue. She was as beautiful as a flower and was loved by many men in the village, but he only fell in love with Zhu Liang.
Zhu Liang brought two kilograms of pork to Yi's house to propose marriage to her. Yi Pinxue immediately agreed. After the marriage, the two lived a peaceful life. Zhu Liang was often invited by the villagers to slaughter cattle. After working for most of the day, Yi Pinxue took care of everything at home in an orderly manner. The couple lived a very sweet and happy life.
Zhu Liang's yard has a cow pen, which feeds an cow to be born. On a windy and snowy evening, it gave birth to two calves . Yi Pinxue was happy when she saw it, stared at the calves, and led the two calves to the mountains to let them eat grass freely. Gradually, the two calves grew to half a human height.
On the afternoon of that day, Yi Pinxue came to the cow pen, released the two calves , led them to a grass, tied them to a tree, and fell asleep against the tree in a sleepy state. When she woke up again, the two calves had disappeared. Yi Pinxue hurriedly searched nearby, but only found one, but the other was missing.
Yipinxue returned home and told her husband about this. Zhu Liang hurriedly went to the village to search for it. He searched for it all night but didn't see the calf. When he was about to give up, the calf suddenly ran back from outside by himself.
Zhu Liang drove him back to the cow pen. After that, the calf seemed to have changed. He nestled in the corner of the cow pen every day, with a fierce look in his eyes. It also kicked the cow with its hooves.
On this day, Yi Pinxue suddenly felt vomiting while eating. She retching on the side, but she didn't vomit anything. She went to the town to find the doctor to take her pulse. The doctor said she was three months pregnant. Yi Pinxue happily touched her stomach and told Zhu Liang the good news.
This was Zhu Liang's first child. He was so happy that he danced with joy. He hugged Yi Pinxue and turned around twice. He found that his wife was very light in weight and was too thin and was not conducive to the healthy growth of the child. Zhu Liang put down Yi Pinxue and came to the yard, and turned his attention to a calf in the cow pen.
Two calves eat the same forage and are also taken care of by cows. One of them is half a head taller than the other. It seems that they have never grown again after they are lost last time. What is ridiculous is that the cow and a calf are very scared when they treat the calf, two meters away from the calf, and they are never willing to get close to it.
The calf stared at Zhu Liang with a fierce look. Zhu Liang was a little unhappy when he was staring at him, so he sharpened his knife and walked towards the calf, slaughtered it in front of the cow, and stewed it into a pot of beef soup , brought it to Yi Pinxue, and fed her mouth to drink it. The cow and calf smelled the soup without any sadness.
On the evening of the day, Zhu Liang finished drinking beef soup and lay on the bed for a sleep. In a daze, the cow came to him and said, "Master, you killed that calf, you killed it well!"
Zhu Liang was puzzled. The calf was also the cow's child. When it died, the cow actually applauded. He was about to ask the reason, but the cow said it himself.
It turned out that after the calf ran away that day, he entered a cave, and there was a mountain ghost inside. The mountain ghost had killed the calf and entered the body of the calf, and lived by the cow as a calf. However, the mountain ghost was furious and impermanent. He often kicked the cow and the calf.
Gradually, the cow discovered the abnormality on his body and recognized the identity of the mountain ghost. Naturally, he had to avoid being more taboo with the calf, so as not to be killed by the mountain ghost.
The calf has long been dead, and its body will not grow up again, so Zhu Liang saw it relatively short.
Fortunately, Yi Pinxue was pregnant, Zhu Liang loved his wife again and killed the calf to make soup. The mountain ghost in its body passed away, otherwise the cow and the calf would have to endure the abuse of the mountain ghost.
After waking up from the dream, Zhu Liang told his wife about his dream. Both of them felt very strange. They came to the cow's pen, and the cow stared at Yi Pinxue with two eyes, his eyes very soft.
1 A few months later, Yi Pinxue gave birth to the child, and the mother and son were safe. The family felt that the cow was spiritual and kept it at home.
