It is said that Feng Sanyan and the group of people who made cattle were eradicated and were commended by the county government, but most of them were verbal praises, and there was no silver reward, and life was still miserable.

In the blink of an eye, the weather is getting colder, the scattered work in the town is becoming less and less, Feng Sanyan's livelihood is becoming more and more embarrassing, sitting on the threshold of the Shiniu Temple and looking at the sky with clouds and clouds, he can't help but sigh for a long time.

Feng Sanyan was depressed, Liu Bao suddenly hurried to Shiniuguan, and when he saw Feng Sanyan, he cried and said, "Brother Sanyan, my mother has an accident!"

Liu Bao is also a hard-working child, when he was seven years old, his father was crushed to death by wood when he was logging in the mountains and forests of Baoqing Mansion. Two years ago, Liu Bao found a job as a helper in the town's slaughterhouse, but Liu's mother suddenly fell ill and was bedridden.

Liu Bao's monthly salary from the slaughterhouse is not very good, but most of it is thrown into the medicine jar in front of Liu's mother's bed, even so, Liu's mother's illness has not improved, and she is still paralyzed in bed and unable to take care of herself.

When Feng Sanyan heard Liu Bao's words, he was shocked, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with Auntie?" Is it getting worse again? ”

Liu Bao wiped away his tears and choked up: "My mother seems to have fallen into evil!"

Feng Sanyan was stunned, and then asked Liu Bao to explain the situation slowly.

It turned out that about three days ago, Liu Bao was about to return home from work in the butchery, and it happened that the butcher's meat stall was selling a piece of pork liver and a large intestine, and the boss asked Liu Bao if he wanted it. At that time, the scraps of this kind of pig water were worthless and difficult to preserve, so if no one bought them, they could only be thrown away on the street corner to feed wild cats and wild dogs. Liu Bao thought that although it was a pig in the water, it was still meat, and if he took it home and cooked it cleanly, he could cook a bowl of chop soup for his mother. So I thanked the boss and carried it back home.

After Liu Bao went home, he immediately handled the pig in the small courtyard, wanting to let the old lady taste the meat before dinner. Halfway through the process, he heard the old lady in the back room calling to drink water, so Liu Bao could only dry his hands and go into the back room to serve the old lady first.

When Liu Bao greeted the good old lady and turned around and was about to continue to deal with the pig's water, he found that a huge gray-haired mouse came to the yard at some point, eating the pig in the wooden basin on the ground with relish.

The size of this giant rat is the size of a pig cub that has been born for more than ten days, and its gray and black fur is as oily as satin.

Liu Bao had never seen such a huge mouse, so he was taken aback at first, and then burst into anger: What an eyeless beast! actually ruined the filial piety for the old lady to eat! I'm going to have to let you die!

Liu Bao is a stout and honest person, with the straightest temperament, he picked up the bolt stick from the crook of the door, and threw it towards the rat with all his strength! The big rat suddenly heard the sound of the door bolt breaking the air, and immediately stopped talking and turned his head to look at Liu Bao, but after all, he woke up too late, and it was too late to dodge, and he was smashed between his ears by the flying threshold, only to hear a crisp click, the big rat's skull was shattered, and his whole body convulsed for a while, and his four claws stretched out to return to Huangquan.

It is in response to the old saying "people die for money, birds die for food".

Liu Bao killed the big mouse, and then saw that the pig water in the wooden basin had almost been eaten by the big mouse, and the anger in his heart was still difficult to extinguish, and he kicked the mouse corpse a few times, and then picked up the rat's tail and prepared to throw the rat corpse into the field outside the house.

Before he left the yard, Liu Bao suddenly remembered that he had heard from the boatmen who ran the boats at the riverside wharf that some areas in the Liangguang area loved to eat rat meat, saying that rat meat was not only delicious but also very nourishing. Thinking of this, Liu Bao immediately dispelled the idea of discarding the mouse corpse, took a knife to disembowel the mouse, cut off the fur, and prepared to use rat meat instead of pig to cook vegetables to honor the old lady.

This mouse is really fat, and there are still two or three catties of net meat left after the fur and internal organs are removed. Liu Bao stewed half a pot of rat meat that night, and the taste was really delicious, and even the old mother, who had been sick in bed for a long time and had no appetite, praised it and asked Liu Bao what kind of meat it was. Liu Bao was afraid that the old lady was afraid of rat meat, so he only said that it was a broth cooked with a hare.

The next day, Liu Bao came home from work in the slaughterhouse, and found that his mother actually sat up from the hospital bed, Liu Bao was overjoyed, thinking that the old lady's condition was improving, and was about to come forward to ask, but was scolded by the old lady with a head and face, and the old lady's voice was sharp, and it seemed to be greatly stimulated. Liu Bao is a filial son, seeing that the old lady was angry for no reason, and thought that he had done something wrong, he immediately knelt down on the old lady's bed and asked: "Mother, what did the child do wrong, even if you teach a lesson, don't be angry with yourself!"

Liu's mother's nose twitched for a long time, and suddenly she screamed and said to Liu Bao: "I want to eat meat, I want to eat eggs, go and get it!"

Liu Bao was stunned, the old lady has been in bed for many years, her appetite has been bad, and she has limited food per meal, and her old man also knows her own situation, even if she has meat and vegetables, she will try to save it for her son to eat, why do you suddenly want to eat today, and point out that you want to eat meat and eggs? Could it be that I ate rat broth yesterday and aroused my appetite?

Since the old lady opened her mouth, where did Liu Bao dare to slack off, and immediately took out the remaining money from the family to buy pork and eggs in the market.

Liu Bao came home sweating profusely and was about to go into the kitchen to cook, when the old lady heard a noise in the back room, and called Liu Bao screaming, asking Liu Bao to take the pork and eggs he bought to the back room for her to see.

Liu Bao didn't dare to disobey the old lady's order, so he had to bring the raw pork and fresh eggs he bought to the old lady. The old lady put her face next to the pork egg and sniffed violently, so greedy that the corners of her mouth drooled. Taking advantage of Liu Bao's inattention, he suddenly grabbed a piece of raw pork and stuffed it into his mouth, and swallowed it in his stomach after a few chews.

Liu Bao was stunned, it was too late to stop the old lady, so he had to hurriedly open the remaining pork and eggs in his hand, but he secretly thought in his heart, could it be that the old lady's condition has changed and has turned into madness? Liu Bao couldn't help but feel a knife in his heart, but he didn't dare to show pain on his face, but he gently comforted the old lady and said: "My dear mother, these things can't be eaten raw, the child will go to the kitchen and cook them and then bring them to you to eat slowly."

Mother Liu stretched out her tongue and licked her lips, her originally cloudy eyes showed a fine light, and she suddenly said without a clue: "My son, this account between us, my mother will slowly settle accounts with you."

Liu Bao was stared at by the old lady's sharp eyes, and when his mother's condition worsened and he became delirious, he didn't care about the meaning of those words, but was busy cooking in the kitchen.

That night, Liu Bao lay in bed tossing and turning, thinking back to the old lady's behavior and words today is really incomprehensible, if it is said that the condition is aggravated, it should not be so sudden.

After thinking about it, Liu Bao suddenly remembered that he had heard the older generation talk about the story of the animal possessing the essence to take revenge, and he couldn't help but feel excited: Could it be that the big rat who was killed by himself yesterday to eat meat came to take revenge? Thinking about it like this, I feel more and more that the old lady's strange words and behaviors are rushed by spirits and the like! Liu Bao's heart was in a mess, and he finally survived until dawn, so he hurriedly went to the slaughterhouse to ask for a few days off, and then went straight to Shiniuguan to find Feng Sanyan and the unfair old man, and asked them to help save their lives.