(xxvi)
In the old place of the underworld, Jiu'er had followed Jiang Gong's soul and threw himself into the Death Stone again. The corpse of the black cat in the desert was made by her with a stone. Only then can it all be turned into a mystery, an ending in which no creature can survive. In this life, Meng Po's familiar voice sounded in her ears as before: "There are five lives left!" Do it yourself. ”
She walked away without looking back, and now that the end is decided, what is there to fear about her. In this life, whether it is nine lives or ten lives, as long as there is one life left, then she will follow him until she can't keep up anymore. Why not spend her life paying off the debt she once owed.
Twenty years later, in Liangcheng, the sound of slaughtering pigs was coming from Zhang's butcher's house. Early in the morning, the pig's mournful cry resounded throughout Zhuqing Street. On the street of Zhu Qing, someone from Zhang's butcher's house sent a few big fat pigs, he was busy with the white knife in and out of the red knife, slaughtering the big fat pigs in turn, and then put the pigs that had lost their breath on a large long table in the house, and used a big spoon to scoop up the boiling water in the pot, and slowly poured it on the dead pig, and then a sharp thin knife quickly went up and down on the pig's skin, and the pig's hair was shaved clean in an instant. After he had shaved the pig's hair, the next step was to disembowel, and all the internal organs were put into a large vat, and then the pig was brushed several times with clean water, and finally cut it into pieces and put it on top of the car that was already waiting aside. In this way, pieces of pork were pulled to the market by truckloads and sold.
Zhang's family has been butchers for generations, and has been butchers since his grandfather's grandfather's generation. The family's nirvana has been passed down for five generations, and now it is here with Zhang Butcher, and it is even better than the blue. His name is Zhang Mad, his father asked him to take such a domineering and arrogant name, originally thought that taking such a big name could make his life harder, and he would not lose his life because of it. The men of the Zhang family may be because they have too much blood on their hands, and the men in the family have never lived long, and the longest-lived one should be Zhang Qiang's father, who only happened to live past forty years old. So on the day he was born, his father asked him for such a name: Insolence. The name is quite domineering, but unfortunately, people are not good.
It is said that the first time Zhang Madness followed his father to kill a chicken, he was so scared that he peed his pants. Because of this, his father was afraid that no one would inherit his family's unique skills when it reached his generation, so he forced him to practice knives every day, so he practiced his current knife skills. He was exactly twenty years old, and his father had already returned to the West when he was eighteen. Now it's just him and his mother, no, there's a cat, a black cat. It was a black cat that had grown up with him since he was a child.
According to his mother, the cat had come to their house since he was born, and had grown up with him since childhood, and was the longest-lived cat she had ever seen in her life. Zhang Crazy has lived until now, killing chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cows, sheep, and even killing a big black bear caught alive, but he has never killed a cat. There was no other reason, that is, when he was about to kill a white cat that day, their little black cat looked at him directly, as if begging him, and there were hidden tears in his eyes, so that he couldn't do it anyway. Since then, he has not killed a cat, and he bought the white cat and let it escape.
Therefore, some people often laugh at him and say: "Insolence, what if you marry a daughter-in-law in the future and don't let you have a cat?" ”
Zhang Crazy smiled and said, "Then I won't marry!" ”
He said it easily, only to hear his mother shaking her head on the side. His mother was afraid that he would do what he said, so in the past two years, she has told him about marrying a daughter-in-law, and added one more to the matchmaker, that is, the daughter-in-law candidate must like cats. But who would let their daughter marry and compete with a cat for favor? Just put it aside, seeing that he was about to turn twenty, but he still didn't find a daughter-in-law. He was not in a hurry, but his mother was worried. even thought about secretly sending the black cat away, after this matter was discovered by Zhang Madness, he was docile on weekdays, and yelled at his mother, and since then he has taken the black cat with him for a moment. His mother had no choice but to go with him.
The killing was too heavy, and the arrogance still couldn't escape the arrangement of fate. When he was twenty-five years old, because one of his buddies had a little fat son, the two of them drank happily together until dawn that night. The next morning, someone brought an ox to be slaughtered early, saying that a large family in the city was in a hurry to hold a banquet, and asked him to slaughter it and transport it away.
Zhang Crazy drank all night, and slept for less than an hour until dawn, the smell of wine had not dissipated, and his head was even more dizzy, and he was thinking of refusing, but seeing that the man was really anxious, he got up hard. He couldn't bear to let his sleeping mother help, so he lit the fire himself, filled the pot with water, and then increased the firewood to boil the water.
Last night's hangover made his head ache secretly. Squatting to add firewood and boiling water, he almost fell to the ground when he stood up, and when he barely stood up, he pulled the tall and strong ox, and when he wanted to tie the ox's four feet, he didn't expect to stumble under his feet, and his hand pressed down, and the bright knife on the table fell to the ground. The sword light of Bai Huahua completely angered the already frightened scalper. I saw its head exert a force, and slammed the arrogance that had not yet recovered from his senses on the table. It just so happened that his head hit the sharp corner of the table and he fainted. And where he fell, it was the pot of boiling water that he had boiled and was about to be used to kill cattle.
When the sleeping old lady in the house heard the sound and hurriedly ran out, what she saw was that she had been cut into the boiling water that was rolling white waves, and the person had been soft and had no movement. His mother ran over crying and grabbed him by the clothes and pulled him out of the pot. At this time, his face was already like a steamed shrimp. When his mother touched it with her trembling right hand, the skin of his face had already been torn open, and blood flowed out of the torn skin. She put her hand under his nose again, and he was no longer breathing. "Ahh A miserable cry came from the house of the insolent man, startling all the sleeping people in the street, and the barking of dogs was everywhere. Then there were a few more "Ahh Yes! Yes! The cry came out. When the panicked neighbor rushed into Zhang's house, his mother had already fainted beside him. The door of his house has been smashed, and no one knows why he became like this.
And so the arrogance went. On the day he was buried, the black cat kept watch in front of his grave, no matter how his mother called, he couldn't call it away. After a few more days, the black cat never returned. Some people say that the cat starved to death in the forest, others say that the black cat left, and some people say that the black cat was reluctant to let go and took it away. In short, after the death of the insolent maniac, no one saw the black cat again. The Zhang family was left with the old lady who cried for him blindly.