Records of Strange People and Strange Events in the Old Mansion

Chapter 8 Cow

Mr. Zhu said that half of the twelve zodiac signs have seen blood, chicken, rat, dog, sheep, rabbit, pig, and the remaining half will come next, and the one about to see blood is the horse. Zhu Badger disagrees.

Zhu Badger didn't pay any attention to the chickens whose heads were wrenched off and hung on bamboo poles, and the skinned rats placed on various stoves. He thought it must be some mischievous slang who was making fun of the common people in the old house. This kind of thing has happened before, but it was not so bloody.

As for the hare that flew into the old house with a whooshing sound and the wild boar that hit and died on the screen wall of the old house, Zhu Badger thought it was purely accidental. It was the end of winter, and the wild beasts on the Jiuhantian Mountains accidentally ran into the old house in search of food. It's not unusual for people to be homeless, and it's also weird for some people to have a hare skinned.

As for the bitch lying on the threshold of the old house with a broken belly, Zhu Badger heard his mother analyze it and felt that it made sense. Because Zhu Badger is famous for her love for animals, she would always lend a helping hand to keep birds with broken wings or lame dogs safe. It is normal for them to find the red badger when they have difficulty.

Hey, Mr. Zhu said that the horse that was about to see blood was with her day and night every day. Without the protection of this horse, she would have been cursed to death.

True is also false, and false is also true. Nothing exists and nothing exists. Could it be that this horse is not a real horse, but the horse of her old mother, Ma Yaksha?
No, I have to go back and take a look to see if that horse is Mayasha's horse?

Badger Zhu left Mr. Zhu's house in a gust of wind and went back to his own home. When he opened the door of his room and took a look, he was so frightened that his legs went weak and he sat down on the ground.

If it weren't for the eight puppies on the bed, howling cutely, Zhu Badger wouldn't be able to come back to his senses.

In front of him, Ma Yaksha fell to the ground covered in blood. Also lying on the ground were the two dairy goats. The two dairy goats were dripping with blood, and the blood from their horns was still dripping down.

I am the Nine Immortals. Who am I afraid of? Huh, if you, Zhu Zheshan, hadn't been so accurate with your nonsense, I wouldn't have been able to scare me.

Zhu Badger got up from the ground and went to help Ma Yaksha and asked her what happened?

Mayaksha replied that she wanted to push the goat to eat more food and produce more milk, but the goat was trying its best to use its horns to pierce her belly.

Zhu Badger lowered her head and saw that blood was flowing out from both sides of Ma Yaksha's waist. She dragged Ma Yaksha to her bed and turned around to look for healing equipment and herbs. Her father, whom she has never met, is an old hunter, and his home is equipped with various healing tools and herbs.

After Zhu Badger found the relevant utensils and herbs and returned to the bed, the sight in front of her frightened her into confusion again.

This is the first time today that Zhu Badger has grown so big that he has not been frightened to the point of losing his mind. Today is the first time, and it happened twice in a row.

I saw Ma Yaksha lying on the bed and sleeping deeply. The gurgling blood from his waist had completely stopped. Even the blood stains on his body and clothes had been licked clean by eight puppies. If Zhu Badger hadn't seen it with his own eyes. No one could tell from the scene that she had been injured.

Zhu Badger calmly walked to the bedside, lifted up Mayasha's clothes and looked at it. Not to mention that his waist was intact, and he slept more soundly than when eight little puppies were sleeping. But the eight little puppies actually opened their eyes, suddenly grew in size, and completely turned into full-moon dogs.

The red badger turned around and bent down to inspect the injuries of the two dairy goats. The two dairy goats were more gentle than the puppies when facing the red badger. They were not injured, and the blood of the yaksha was flowing in their horns.

Zhu Badger wanted to wipe the blood from the horns of the two dairy goats. The two dairy goats walked to the bed and stretched their heads into the bed. The red badger thought that they were going to challenge Ma Yaksha, and just as he was about to step forward to stop them, the eight puppies automatically divided into two groups, with two on the left and right in each group. They stretched out their little tongues and licked the blood on the horns of the two dairy goats with relish. .

After the puppies finished licking the blood from the goat's horns, the dairy goats returned to sleep on the hay pile that the red badger had laid for them. The puppies turned into middle dogs and jumped off the bed one after another to surround the red badger's feet.

Zhu Badger rubbed his eyes, and saw the same scene in front of him: Ma Yaksha was sleeping soundly on the bed, two dairy goats were resting on the haystack, and eight and a half large dogs were clustered at her feet.

Everything really happened, everything really existed, whether it was because of the bed or the blood. Zhu Badger wanted to find out what was going on. Dan'er's panicked shouting came from outside the house: "Sister, sister..."

"What's going on?" Zhu Badger opened the door and left the house, followed by eight dogs.

When Daner saw the eight dogs, he forgot to answer the red badger. His original panic disappeared and he squatted down to play with the eight dogs.

The eight dogs are all black, with short hair that is shiny black, without a trace of hair of any other color. The streamlined body structure and four strong thighs indicate that these are eight fine fine dogs.

When Zhu Badger saw Dan'er playing with the dogs, he picked up a shovel and shoveled the snow in front of the door without asking any more questions.

The heavy snow has stopped and the sky has returned to normal. Under the blue sky, the old house is white and crystal clear, sacred and mysterious.

Hearing the sound of Zhu Badger shoveling snow, Xianyanpo stuck her head out of the window and asked Dan'er: "Where did so many wild dogs come from?"

"Whoever calls "wild dog" again, I will cut off his tongue and feed my dog ​​with wine!" Zhu Badger sternly replied while slamming the shovel in his hand on the ground.

The slant-eyed woman quickly retracted her head into the house, not daring to show her face again. Dan'er remembered the business, raised his head from the pile of dogs and said to Zhu Badger: "Sister, the pig butcher has gone to see the King of Hell."

Zhu Badger frowned, straightened up and unconsciously looked towards the west mountainside.

Butcher's family lives halfway up Xishan Mountain. When the old house was distributed to each family, Butcher's grandfather also got a share, but Zhu Badger's grandma refused to let their family move into the old house, preferring to pay for them herself. Build a decent house outside.

The reason for Grandma Zhu Badger’s objection is that the old house has rules, and the people who live there must not do evil and must be benevolent and righteous people. The pig-butcher family has been engaged in the business of killing pigs for generations. White knives go in and red knives go out all day long. They kill countless livestock and commit many sins.

Grandpa Pig Killer received a sum of money from Grandma Zhu Badger and lost it all on the gambling table that night, so he had to live in the same shabby house.

From then on, the pig-butcher's grandmother chanted Buddhist scriptures at home every day, and soon became a well-known goddess.

The pig-butcher's wife took over from her mother-in-law, and her level of Shinto was better than her master's.

Seeing a huge red cloth hanging halfway up the west mountain, and faint sounds of crying coming from it, Zhu Badger was sure that Dan'er was not lying.

"Hey, why did this man, who is as strong as an ox, leave just as he said he would?"

"It seems that these Chao Sui items are not for us mortals to eat."

"Fairy, we took back the pork and put it here."

The owners of each household came to the door of Zhu Badger's house with pots and pans, put down the cooked or uncooked wild boar meat, looked at the eight thin dogs playing with Dan'er in horror, turned around and left in a hurry .

Zhu Badger didn't pay attention to the crowd. She was thinking about what the first neighbor said: "Why did this man as strong as an ox leave just as he said?"

As strong as an ox, ox, ox, Mr. Zhu said that after the "horse" in the Chinese zodiac, there will be an "ox". Isn't this the "ox"? And isn’t this pig-butcher born in the year of the Ox? The Ox is as strong as an ox, and is more authentic than the "horse" of the surname horse, Ma Yaksha. The shovel in Zhu Badger's hand fell to the ground.

"Dan'er, how did the Pig Butcher die?"

"It is said that he died of bleeding from his orifices after eating wild boar meat."

Bleeding from the seven orifices? Seen blood too? Zhu Badger stayed in place until Mr. Zhu came over with a large pot of chestnut and wild boar meat.

"Why did you return it?"

“It’s never wrong to go with the crowd.”

"That's not necessarily the case. Isn't it right for you to go along with the cold pandemic?"

"You always joke about horses and oxen, right?"

"It's a bit far-fetched, I still don't believe it."

"Believe it or not, I have warned you. Also, I declare again that the notice was not written by me."

Mr. Zhu put down the basin, and the cross-eyed woman stumbled towards Mr. Zhu with a large iron pot of wild boar in her arms.

Mr. Zhu turned around and left, and the squinty woman pursued him with the iron pot in her arms.

"stop!"

"Ayo!"

After a scream, the squinty woman disappeared from Mr. Zhu's side.

(End of this chapter)