During the Qing Dynasty, there was a butcher named Zhu Xiaotian in Yingzhou. He had a tiger-back and bear-waisted face, and looked very ferocious.
On this day, Zhu Xiaotian was walking home, and a short yellow-clothed grandmother suddenly stopped him. Seeing this, Zhu Xiaotian asked the grandma if she had encountered any difficulties. The grandma held his hand tightly and said, "Benefactor, remember, don't eat the food your wife cooks when you go home." After
After saying that, before Zhu Xiaotian asked, the grandma rushed into the bushes with agility and disappeared in a flash. Zhu Xiaotian couldn't help but feel doubts.
Zhu Xiaotian entered the house with great thoughts, and his wife, Naye, came out. Yan Ye took Zhu Xiaotian's arm intimately, took him to the table for him to sit down, and brought the sumptuous meal from the kitchen, constantly greeting Zhu Xiaotian to move his chopsticks.
Yu Ye is a thrifty wife. The big table of food in front of Zhu Xiaotian usually only appears during the Chinese New Year. He remembered what the old lady in yellow said, and his doubts became deeper and asked, "Ye Ye, it turns out that you remember that this day is my birthday."
Zhu Xiaotian was stunned when he saw Yi Ye. Then, she raised her smile and said, "Of course I remember that I also specially made the dishes you like. Hurry, eat a few more bites while it is hot."
As he said, Yan Ye reached out to pick up the dishes for Zhu Xiaotian. She stared at Zhu Xiaotian straight, looking at that, she wanted to stuff the dishes into Zhu Xiaotian's mouth.
Zhu Xiaotian slapped the chopsticks on the table with a "slap", picked up the pig-killing knife placed beside him, pointed directly at Yan Ye's face, and asked with a cold face: "You are not Yan Ye, who are you? Why do you pretend to be Yan Ye? Where is Yan Ye?"
Faced with this series of questions, Yan Ye's eyes turned red. She looked at Zhu Xiaotian sadly, as if she didn't understand why he said such words.
Zhu Xiaotian sneered and said, "Stop pretending, my birthday was a month ago, and Yan Ye had already celebrated me."
Hearing this, "Yi Ye" took off her disguise, and a black fog rose all over her body. When the black fog dissipated, a man in white appeared in front of Zhu Xiaotian. A crazy smile appeared on the man's face and said, "Your wife was eaten by me, just like my wife was eaten by someone after you killed her, hahaha."
Looking at the horror and anger on Zhu Xiaotian's face, the man said, "You won't forget it, do you? A few days ago, you killed an ewe, that's my wife. I'm here to avenge you."
The man said that he and his wife were goats living in the mountains. Because of some opportunities, he had enlightened his mind and gained human body. Not long ago, he heard that there was a grass on the next hill that could help ordinary animals to enlighten their minds, so he went to search for it. After returning, he found that his wife was missing.
After many inquiries, he learned that during his departure, his wife was caught by a hunter. After several twists and turns, she came to Zhu Xiaotian's hands. He hurried down the mountain to Zhu Xiaotian's home to find his wife, but unexpectedly he happened to encounter the scene where Zhu Xiaotian slaughtered his wife.
The blood of the female goat splattered on the ground, dyeing the man's eyes red. He made a poisonous oath in his heart that he would treat his wife with the same way as him and avenge his wife.
The man said to Zhu Xiaotian, who looked like a ghost-like face: "Before you go home, I swallowed your wife, pretended to be her, and poisoned her food. I didn't expect you to see it out, but it didn't matter. I will swallow you and reunite you with your wife."
After saying that, the man turned into a male goat with two sheep horns on his head, and rushed towards Zhu Xiaotian. Zhu Xiaotian did not avoid or dodge, holding a butcher's knife in his hand and chopped the male goat.At the critical moment, the old lady in yellow who stopped Zhu Xiaotian on the road appeared in the room. She grabbed Zhu Xiaotian's butcher's knife with one hand and held the male goat's horns with the other, and restrained them both.
The goat said angrily: "Grandma Huang, I respect you three points on weekdays, but if you stop me from avenging my wife, then I will be rude to you."
Grandma Huang sighed: "Don't beat me first, listen to my old lady, will it be successful?" As she said that, she turned to look at Zhu Xiaotian and said, "Benefactor, I am the weasel you saved two years ago."
It turned out that Grandma Huang is a weasel in the mountains. Two years ago, Zhu Xiaotian went up the mountain to chop wood and saved her life. She was also familiar with the goat spirit. On this day, she saw the goat spirit swallowing Zhu Xiaotian's wife and poisoning the food in the form of Zhu Xiaotian's wife. She had no time to stop the goat spirit and could only remind Zhu Xiaotian on the road. She kept following Zhu Xiaotian quietly. Seeing that he had a conflict with the goat spirit, she hurried out to stop him.
Grandma Huang looked at the goat spirit and sighed: "The grass has spirits. Are you worried that the grass will hurt when you eat grass? Of course, no, so when people eat sheep, they will not think about whether the sheep will have a partner and a child. From the perspective of the benefactor, he did nothing wrong. Although the benefactor is a butcher and looks fierce, he is definitely not a bad person, otherwise he would not have saved me back then."
After saying that, she turned to look at Zhu Xiaotian again and said: "Benefactor, although the goat spirit killed your wife, you also killed his wife. At this point, his pain is the same as you, his nest in the mountains. There are children in there, I beg you to take a step back, you can let him go back to the mountain."
After hearing Grandma Huang's words, Zhu Xiaotian and the goat spirit calmed down. Finally, Zhu Xiaotian threw the butcher knife aside with a "bang" and said to the goat spirit, "This matter is caused by me. My wife was implicated by me. I will stop first, you still have children, go back to the mountain. We will not owe each other since then. After we arrive at the underworld, our own judge will judge our guilt."
Goat spirit looked at Zhu Xiaotian deeply, turned to leave, Grandma Huang bowed Zhu Xiaotian, turned into a weasel, and left with the goat spirit. After the incident of
, Zhu Xiaotian changed his career and kept his deceased wife's spiritual position all his life, and never renewed her marriage.