In the Qing Dynasty, Yangzhou There was a person who raised chickens, ducks, dogs, pigs and other domestic animals at home often disappeared for no reason. The whole family found it strange, but there was nothing they could do. One day, a beggar passed by his doorstep, carefully observed his house, and asked, "Does the things you raise often lose?" The man hurriedly said, "That's true, how did you know?" The beggar sneered, "Your family is about to be in trouble. Find a way quickly, otherwise the whole family may have their lives lost, let alone these domestic animals." The man asked in surprise, "Do you have a way?" The beggar said, "You have a monster at home. I don't know what it is, so I can only try it. If it can help you relieve the danger, you can give me some money to buy wine; if it fails, don't blame me." The man agreed to the beggar's request.
The beggar walked around his house. When he came to the kitchen, he saw a water tank and said, "The monster should be here."
The beggar asked the family to buy a piece of pork, cook it until it was half-cooked, hooked it with an iron hook, hang one end of the hook on the pillar with a rope, put the meat next to the water tank, and then hid next to observe. Sure enough, everyone saw something crawling out from under the water tank, biting the meat, and being hooked by a hook. This thing wanted to break free from the lasso, but the rope was tied firmly to the pillar and could not escape. The beggar quickly stepped forward, tied the thing and looked at it with his master. It turned out that this thing was thirty or forty centimeters long and looked like a lizard.
Beggar said, "Fortunately, you met me. This thing is called the Shelled Turtle. It has just been changed and is easy to control. If it is more than a year, you can eat people. At that time, your family will probably be eaten by it."
This person was surprised. He remembered that he had raised a big turtle at home, which had disappeared for many years, and he felt that it should have been the big turtle. So I searched around and found turtle shell in the dog hole under the wall. It turned out that it was probably because the dog hole was too small, and the turtle accidentally crawled in and was stuck. It suddenly pushed forward and its body drilled out of its shell.
Beggar said: This turtle shell is a good thing, a wonderful medicine for bone transformation. If someone has caries , or has poisonous sores or bone necrosis on his body, apply a little bit, and the disease can be cured. But be very careful. If you have too much contact, both bones and flesh will be melted. After saying that, the beggar chopped the turtle and the shells into meat paste, and cleaned them together with the blood on the ground, put them into clay pots, and buried them in the deep mountains. The owner was very happy and kept the beggar for dinner and gave the beggar money as promised.
The second year, the owner of this house held a banquet. It was hot in summer and a guest was sleeping in front of the door. When he woke up in the morning, he found that the guest had some idea of what was going on, and his body had turned into blood, leaving only his hair. Because of this, the master was arrested by the government and imprisoned.
At this time, the beggar came again. After hearing this, he said, "I blamed me for not cleaning up at that time. I left some blood from the monster on the door, which fell on the guest's body, and turned him into blood." The beggar reported the matter to the government, and the owner of the house was released.
