As soon as my junior brother Baoguo heard about Elvis Presley, he said to me: "Senior brother, where can we find the Elvis you are talking about, it is a spiritual creature that can be met but cannot be sought, I have not heard of Elvis Presley all these years." ”

I smiled and said, "Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean we don't have it in the village." ”

As soon as I said that there was an Elvis Presley in the village, the eyes of the people who were roasting the fire there were wide-eyed, and then the second egg came over and said to me, "That bold, where is the Elvis you talking about?" How come I haven't heard of it? ”

I smiled and said, "Far away, close at hand." ”

When Erdan heard this, he quickly said, "Where is it?" Where is it? You don't have cats in your view, do you? ”

I smiled and said, "Brother Erdan, don't look for it, that Elvis Presley is in your house, and your rhubarb is Elvis." ”

When Erdan heard this, he covered his stomach and laughed, and after laughing, he said: "Don't be funny, just that lazy cat in our family, with a short neck, short legs and long tail, has been fat like a fat thief since he was a child, and it is still Elvis Presley?" ”

I smiled and said, "You don't understand this, do you?" I ask you your rhubarb, what do you usually feed? ”

Erdan winked and said, "Feed it again?" We can't eat it ourselves. ”

I said, "If you don't feed it, why does rhubarb grow so fat and fat?" ”

Erdan said: "This, this, I don't know why I can grow so fat." ”

I said, "I'll tell you why, your rhubarb is the king in this area, and all the cats worship under your Elvis Presley, don't look at its usual laziness, but when it shows its real body, it has the majesty of Elvis Presley." ”

Erdan said, "How do you know this?" ”

I smiled and said: "This is what I read in the Xiang Mao Sutra, according to the general situation, the cat body is long legs and long is a good cat, but there is a kind of cat that is short as precious, the micro calendar is the book Daquan said: the cat is short and the most good, the eyes with money and the tail with long, the face is like a tiger roaring, and the mouse will die immediately when he hears it." That rhubarb in your house is exactly this kind of cat. ”

When Erdan heard that his mouth was open, he laughed stupidly, wiped the saliva from his mouth and said, "Really? That's really good, I can't think of our rhubarb, it's still a baby, you say our rhubarb is so powerful, can you exchange a few catties of pork to eat? ”

I said, "Brother Erdan, you know how to eat, but your rhubarb, as long as you can lower that rat essence, I will let me give you a pig's head." ”

When Erdan heard this, he smiled and piled up the meat on his face, and then said stupidly: "Really? ”

At this time, Yang San hurriedly said: "Really, really, if you can really lower the rat essence, not to mention one pig's head, even two pig's heads." ”

When Erdan heard this, he smiled and said, "Then what are you waiting for, let's go, hurry up to our house to catch rhubarb, that guy will sleep lazily on the firewood stack." ”

I said, "Let's go, let's get the rhubarb first." ”

Erdan got up and led Yang San to leave, I said to a few seniors who were roasting the fire, and ordered Baoguo and Tianning to pack up their things, and then catch up with Erdan, the three of us arrived at the door of Erdan's house, Erdan pointed to the firewood and straw stack, and said to us: "That lazy cat must be on the firewood and straw stack, let's go and see." ”

Talking led us to his firewood and straw stack, I saw rhubarb was sleeping on the firewood stack, the whole body curled up into a ball, the rhubarb of the second egg's house, we have been playing with it since childhood, rhubarb is really lazy, no matter how we tease it, it is lazy, I came to rhubarb, patted rhubarb with my hand, rhubarb squinted at me, rhubarb is different from other cats, the head is round, the pattern on the top of the head is similar to the tiger's, a bit like the king pattern, on the top of the eyes are two money lines, the body is round into a ball, I grabbed Rhubarb's neck, lifted Rhubarb, and said to Rhubarb: "Rhubarb, don't be lazy, follow us to reduce the rat essence." ”

After I finished speaking, Rhubarb's eyes suddenly flashed cold, and then I squinted my eyes again, lazily stretched my paws forward, stretched my body, and got up, I suddenly held Rhubarb in my arms, Rhubarb, this guy is really heavy, I hugged Rhubarb and said with a smile: "Rhubarb, Rhubarb, if it weren't for eating cat meat and not being able to cross the Nahe Bridge, Brother Erdan would have killed you as a pig a long time ago." ”

Rhubarb listened to me, lazily opened its sleepy-eyed cat's eyes, opened its mouth and barked at me weakly, I said, "Don't scream, your screaming is too ugly, rest assured that no one will eat you." ”

In fact, in our Huanghuai River Basin, the cat meat can almost be described as fearful, people say that cat meat is sour, but no one has ever thought to try, even in the three years of starvation natural disasters, the bark has been eaten clean, and no one dares to eat cat meat, there is a saying in our place, that is, to do seven lifetimes of goodness, after death, the next life can be reincarnated into a cat.

We have a tradition here that when people die, the living will make new shoes for the deceased, and the soles must be made of reed leaves, and the more stitches you make, the better, and the soles made of reed leaves, worn by the dead, and when you get to that world, you will not get wet when you cross the river, and you will not get your shoes wet, and you will cross the bridge calmly. And people who have eaten cat meat, after death, even if they wear such shoes, they can't cross the Naihe Bridge. Therefore, people who have eaten cat meat will not make this kind of shoes at home.

Yang San and I walked towards our Three Treasures Temple with Rhubarb in our arms, and Erdan said to us in the back, "Don't forget to give me a pig's head." ”

I said, "Don't worry, as long as we reduce the rat essence, I will definitely ask Third Brother Yang to send a pig's head to your family." ”

When we returned to the Three Treasures Temple, the juniors and disciples had already packed up their things, I stuck my ghost head knife in the back behind me, and then said to the two juniors, "You two also bring the ghost head knife, in case the rhubarb can't stop the mouse essence, we have to give it a finish." ”

When the brothers and disciples heard this, they also took out two ghost head knives from the offering table, these two ghost head knives were beaten by the king blacksmith in our village, this king blacksmith is an ancestral craft, very powerful, and the ghost head knife for the junior brothers and sisters is almost the same as mine, extremely sharp. Playing these two knives is really a matter of old nose, in the Republic of China, steel is not enough, and a good knife has to be tempered to become a good knife.

Wang blacksmith often boasted to us, saying that his ancestor was Pu Yuan of the Three Kingdoms, saying that his ancestor was a god who built weapons, and it was recorded in the "Taiping Yulan" that year, which recorded that Pu Yuan made 3,000 knives for Zhuge Liang in the Slope Valley. The knife he created can split a bamboo tube filled with iron beads, and is known as a divine knife.

When I was beating my brother with a knife, he asked us to take an ox cart to Longquan, fifty miles away, to get water, and I said, "Isn't it just a knife?" Do you need to go to Longquan to get water? ”

Wang blacksmith Niu coaxed and said: "If you want to get two knives that sharpen iron like clay, you can get water from Longquan, the water of our village is too soft, not suitable for quenching, Longquan water is just soft in the middle, for the king of water, the quenched treasure knife is also very powerful, and ordinary water, the quenched knife, can not reach this level, and too soft, easy to curl the edge, notch." ”

We listened to the words of the blacksmith, so we had to go to Longquan, fifty miles away, to get water, and after getting the water, we asked the blacksmith to give him a knife, and in those days the blacksmith asked us to give him a hand, and in those days, if the blacksmith was too hard, I would almost have to be a blacksmith. The work of the blacksmith seems to be inconspicuous, but there are a lot of Taoists in it, like this quenching, if the quenching is not enough, the blade is not hard, and it is easy to roll the edge; If the quenching is overdone, the blade will become brittle and easy to break; Quenching is suitable for quenching, and it is necessary to have extremely rich experience.

After more than half a month, finally made two ghost head knives with tail rings, Wang blacksmith found peach wood as a knife handle, and wrapped it with calf tendons, and finally handed over the two ghost head knives to Baoguo and Tianning, when handed over to our knife, Wang blacksmith said to us that the two ghost head knives are the best knives he has played in his life, the two knives are indeed the same as what Wang blacksmith said, as soon as they are taken out, the cold is pressing, the back of the knife is heavy, the knife edge is sharp, it can blow hair and break hair, and it can also cut more than a dozen layers of paper.

We took our things, put the fat cat in our pockets, and followed Yang San to the Black Wind Mouth.