Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Suspicious Case of Hiring a Cat (4)
The book continued above, and it was said that the shopkeeper touched the back of the donkey's neck with his hand, and his heart suddenly chuckled.
It turned out that the mane on the back of the donkey's neck was exceptionally soft and fine, and it could pull up a large ball with a light grip.
Therefore, folk often use 'ears stuffed with donkey hair' to tease the back of a person's ears.
However, the mane that the shopkeeper now touched in his hand did not have the softness of donkey hair...... This hair is a little prickly!
So the shopkeeper quickly put his face behind the donkey's neck and looked carefully, only to find that the mane behind the donkey's neck did not look like donkey hair at all.
It was thick and hard, and it looked a bit like a painted bristle!
Seeing this, the more suspicious shopkeeper pinched a few manes with his hands and gently pulled them, and actually tore these hairs off the donkey's body with a "poof".
But the donkey, whose mane had been torn off by the shopkeeper, did not cry out in pain, but still stretched out his head and tried to reach the well, as if none of the hairs on his back were on his body.
I don't know if it's his own delusion, but the owner always feels that the head of the donkey next to him seems to be more ...... than before the watering Got a lap bigger?
Seeing this, the shopkeeper was ruthless, grabbed a large sum of donkey hair with his hand and tore it down.
Listening to the crisp sound of "stabbing", not only the donkey hair in the owner's hand fell in response, but even the 'donkey skin' under the donkey hair made him pull out a gap more than two inches long.
I saw two pieces of brown-black skin turned outward like upside-down leaves, and instead of blood gushing out from underneath, a small piece of tender white flesh was exposed
The shopkeeper simply didn't do anything, grabbed the turned over donkey skin with both hands left and right, and pulled it out with the strength of milk.
With a few crisp sounds, the donkey's skin on the donkey's body was suddenly split into two pieces from the hole torn out by the owner of the shop.
Then out of it came a woman who was not up and down, curled up into a ball and shivering!
As soon as he saw that the donkey pulled by the guest on the cart was actually a woman wrapped in donkey skin, the shopkeeper immediately tightened his scalp.
Only then did he realize that the guest who came to stay at the inn was actually a demon who had drugged and made animals, so he hurriedly took off the robe he was wearing and put it on the woman, and carried her to a vacant guest room to settle down.
After that, the shopkeeper beckoned a clever and strict man, and asked him to quickly go to the neighbor's house to borrow a donkey and tie it in the backyard stable, and then go to the yamen to report that there was a demon suspected of making animals in the store.
After the order was finished, the shopkeeper summoned another man to assign him to go upstairs to bring tea to the animal demon who lived in the guest room, and instructed him to report the dishes that the master of the inn could cook to the guests resting in the room one by one, so as to drag the demon in the room.
It may be that the demon was in a hurry along the way, and he lost too much energy for this, and when the guy knocked on the door with tea, he lay on the bed and fell asleep.
Seeing that the man came to inquire about lunch, the demon groaned slightly, ordered four or five good dishes in succession, and asked the man for a pot of fine rice wine, and told the man to send the wine and food into the room for him to enjoy after the food was ready.
There are two flowers, one on each branch.
It is said that Xue Zhutou was also shocked after getting the news from the innkeeper, and hurriedly ordered the three shifts and six rooms of the yacha to catch quickly, and ordered him to go to the inn with the messenger to arrest the beast maker, and at the same time said that he must be caught alive.
"The prisoner will be sent to the prefect for personal interrogation at that time."
Not long after the demon finished ordering the wine and food, the fourth master of Yangzhou Mansion, Xue Xianzhen, quietly entered the inn with more than a dozen convenient catchers.
When he learned from the shopkeeper that the beast demon was waiting for wine and food in the guest room right now, Xue Siye rolled his eyes, waved his hand to call a catcher, and whispered a few words in his ear.
After his subordinates nodded and left, Xue Siye turned his head and instructed the innkeeper.
"Now I still have something to worry about, and I hope that the shopkeeper can help me."
After another quarter of an hour, the door of a guest room on the second floor of the inn suddenly knocked softly from outside.
"Guest officer, the villain is the guy running downstairs, and the wine and food you ordered have been done."
I heard the phrase "put it on the table" from inside the room, and the wooden door of this guest room was suddenly kicked open from the outside.
Immediately afterward, a large black shadow wrapped in a foul smell flew through the open door, dousing the beast-making demon who had turned over from the bed and sat up from head to toe.
"Zuo...... Wow. ”
It turned out that Xue Zhutou was worried that the demon in the room would hurt people in the invisible demon method, so he ordered his subordinates to bring half a bucket of dung water from the latrine in the backyard in advance.
Then taking advantage of the moment when the door opened and the demon in the house was stunned, the official picked up the toilet and poured the dung water in the bucket on the demon's head.
Thinking that the animal demon in the room is not familiar with divination and calculation, how can the prophet know that he has been surrounded by Yangzhou Hunting Fast?
Seeing that the wooden door of the guest room was suddenly kicked open from the outside, the demon's face changed, and he was about to get up and attack.
However, as soon as he blurted out the word 'do what' halfway through, he even ate the dirt in the toilet bowl with the soup.
The rest of the content was all suffocated at once, and he fell to the ground when he landed, and he vomited.
Seeing the toilet tactics to defeat the enemy with one blow, Xue Siye's face suddenly became happy.
"Qingyang's bull's nose taught the method is so good, this dung and urine can really break the evil arts.
Hurry up and take the lock and tie this beast-making demon with me carefully, and bring it back to the prefect for interrogation! ”
After Xue Siye escorted the prisoner back to the yamen, the prefect of Yangzhou saw that he had caught the beast-making demon, and hurriedly ordered the third class of officials to ascend to the court.
In the sound of "might-martial-" cheers, the prefect turned the screen in the back hall and sat down, and then slapped the startling wood on the table with his hand.
"Take someone to commit it!"
But it was said that the head catcher Xue Siye first ordered someone to beat a few basins of water to slightly flush the demon who was full of pickled things, and then took a twenty-pound wooden flail to flail the person, and then pushed and shoved the prisoner and brought it to the court.
(The old rule is that the heavier the sin, the heavier the shackle.) Twenty pounds of wooden flail were reserved for death row prisoners. )
said that it was too late and that it was fast, and the demon with the flail had just stood in the hall, and a quick catcher came over early on the side, and shouted: "Don't kneel down yet!" ”。
I saw that the official raised his leg and bent the leg of the prisoner twice, and then the demon's knee weakened, and he knelt on the ground with a "grunt".
To make a long story short, it is said that the Yangzhou prefect interrogated him a little in court, and interrogated the demon surnamed Lu, who was originally engaged in selling donkeys and was nicknamed "Donkey (Lu) Trader".
A few days ago, this 'donkey dealer' rescued a beast-making demon who had slipped through the net during the search and killing of the imperial court on the way to sell livestock, and later learned a few tricks from him.
Since then, the Lu dealer no longer does the business of selling livestock, but instead pretends to be a merchant who walks the streets and alleys, and uses the evil art of animal creation to do things that hurt nature and reason.
There is a saying that 'the sky net is magnificent, negligent but not leaky'.
This 'donkey dealer' had just recently taken a woman from a good family who had bought knitted silk thread from him in the nearby countryside with medicinal cakes, and 'made' the person into a donkey, mixed it with two real donkeys, and drove it into Yangzhou City.
The 'donkey dealer' had gone to all over the city to shop around the green houses and tile houses one by one, and to see which old bustard was willing to pay a high price to buy people, so he sold the poor girl into the fire pit.
As soon as he wanted to live in the inn, the demon who made the animal was knocked out by the owner.
splashed his stinky feces first, and then he was quickly twisted to the prefect's lobby by the public!