Ghost Story of Liaozhai

A certain butcher came home from selling meat, and it was already dark, when suddenly a wild wolf ran up, staring at the pork, salivating.When the butcher walks, the wolf also walks; when the butcher stops, the wolf also stops.After driving like this for several miles, the butcher was afraid and drew out his butcher knife to threaten, the wild wolf was slightly deterred; then the butcher stepped forward, but the wild wolf followed closely.

There was nothing the butcher could do, so he thought: "It's better to hang the pork on the treetop, and come back tomorrow morning to pick it up." So he hooked the pork with an iron hook, hung it on the tree, and clapped his hands on his body to indicate that his hands were empty.Seeing this, the wild wolf stopped.

The butcher escaped home and came to fetch the meat at dawn the next day. He saw a huge thing hanging from a tree from afar, its whole body stiffened like a hanged ghost. The butcher was horrified and walked to the tree. The thing is the wolf.Looking up, I saw the wolf had pork in its mouth, and the iron hook pierced through the upper jaw. It was like a fish on a fishhook.

At that time, wolf skins were very expensive, and a whole wolf skin was worth ten taels of silver, so the butcher made a fortune.

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A certain butcher came back at night, and the pork in his burden was sold out, leaving only two bones.On the way, I met two wild wolves and followed them all the way.The butcher was terrified and threw out a bone. A wild wolf got the bone and stopped.The other wild wolf still followed, but the butcher threw out the second bone. The rear wolf stopped, and the front wolf came again.The bones were exhausted, and the two wild wolves followed side by side, refusing to leave.

The butcher was in great embarrassment, fearing that two wild wolves would attack him back and forth.Looking around, there is a wheat threshing field in the wild. There are many piles of wheat in the field, standing tall like hills.The butcher ran quickly to the wheat pile, holding the butcher's knife tightly in his hand, waiting for the battle.The two wild wolves did not dare to attack rashly, they stared at each other glaringly at each other.

In a short time, one wild wolf turned around and left, while the other squatted in front of the wheat, as if closing its eyes and resting its mind, with a relaxed expression.Seeing the opportunity, the butcher jumped up violently, slashed out with the butcher knife in his hand, hacked several times, and killed the wild wolf.Just as he was about to go home, he turned his head and saw that behind the wheat pile, another wild wolf was digging a hole, trying to sneak up behind him and attack by surprise.

Half of the wolf got into the hole, only the buttocks and tail were exposed. The butcher quietly came to him, cut off the wolf's legs, and killed it again.Only then did he realize: the wild wolf pretended to sleep earlier, it turned out to be a trick to lure the enemy.

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A certain butcher was driving at night and was chased by wild wolves. He saw a grass shed beside the road, so he ran into the shed and lay down on the ground.The wild wolf poked its front paws from the outside, and the butcher grabbed the wolf's legs and held on tightly.For a while, he was at a loss, not knowing how to kill his prey.There was only a small knife by his side, which was no more than a few inches long. After a little thought, the butcher used the knife to cut through the front paw of the wild wolf and cut a gap. Then he pointed his mouth at the gap and kept blowing.

After blowing for a long time, the wild wolf howled and howled hoarsely, and then the sound stopped and stopped moving.The butcher took off his belt, tightened his mouth, opened the door and went out.I saw that the wild wolf was swollen all over, as big as a calf.The four legs are straight and cannot be bent, and the wolf's mouth is wide open and cannot be closed.

The butcher was overjoyed, and immediately took the wolf on his shoulders and carried it home.

These three stories are all related to the butcher. It can be seen that the butcher usually kills livestock with cruel methods, and it is also useful to deal with wild wolves.