The monk said: "Since the meat demon is gone, he will not come again." There is no need to avoid it. ”

In the end, the monk left without doing anything, and did not take a sip of that cup of tea from beginning to end.

After Zhu left, the boss's daughter didn't make weird noises at night. But the daughter's appetite is getting worse and worse, and she doesn't eat much anymore, and she can't stop crying when she sees meat.

It didn't take long for the boss's daughter to lose weight again, and after a few months, she lost even more weight than before, and she has been slimming until now.

After listening to the boss, my father took a move and said, "I'm afraid that monk is not a real monk." ”

The boss's mind was completely off chess, and he leaned over and asked, "Why?" I obviously went to the temple to invite it, but it's impossible. ”

Grandpa said, "If you don't believe it, you can go to that temple and ask." Not only that, I'm afraid that meat demon is not a real meat demon. ”

"Huh? Is this still fake? ”

"And that Zhu, who you mistook for a meat demon, hasn't left your daughter's boudoir yet."

The boss stood up in shock and asked, "Haven't left yet?" I saw him go! And the monk also said that there is no need to exorcise evil spirits! ”

"Since the monk is not a real monk, naturally what he said is not credible." Daddy said.

The boss messed up the endgame and said upset: "Impossible. I saw Zhu leaving, I saw the monk coming, and I saw my daughter getting fat and thin, have I been deceived for so many years? ”

Grandpa put the chess in the chess box and said, "If you don't believe it, you can go to the temple where you asked for help." But don't let your daughter hear about it. ”

"Why is that? Did my daughter lie to me too? ”

"You said that your daughter was very reluctant when Zhu left, so this possibility cannot be ruled out." Daddy said.

The boss was silent.

Grandpa stayed in that town for more than ten days, and finally ushered in a sunny day. However, instead of rushing to Fushun immediately, he accompanied him to a nearby temple on a hill at the request of the innkeeper.

The temple was not big, and there were less than ten monks.

The boss found the abbot of the temple and asked who the monk who had gone to his house a year ago to help exorcise evil spirits was.

The abbot called a monk to the main hall.

When the boss saw the monk, his face suddenly changed greatly∵ the monk who entered the hall was tall and thin, and his face was yellow. And the monk who went to his shop a year ago was fat.

The boss asked the monk: "A year ago, I came to the temple to ask the abbot to send a monk to exorcise evil spirits for me, which monk is you?" ”

The monk replied, "It's the poor monk." But that day, as soon as I came down from the mountain, I met the man you sent and told me that I had already asked Gao Ming to exorcise evil spirits, and that I did not need to go. So I went back to the mountain and didn't go to your shop. ”

The boss was surprised: "I didn't send someone to call you back!" ”

The monk was also surprised and said, "Could it be that someone is making trouble from this?" ”

Grandpa interjected and asked, "May I ask what the person who told you to go back to the mountain looks like?" ”

The monk said: "Chubby, oily, slightly shorter." ”

Grandpa and the boss looked at each other. Nine times out of ten, the person who stopped the monk was Zhu. Zhu personally stopped the monk who went to drive him away, but he was not discovered by the monk. It can be seen that Zhu's cultivation is more than a monk. Even if the monk arrives at the store, he may not be able to drive Zhu away. Grandpa and the boss both know this.

In this case, it would be in vain for the boss to tell him to go down again.

The boss didn't say anything, and went down the mountain with a few perfunctory words.

On the way down the mountain, the boss said, "Sure enough, as you said!" It seems that this Zhu is still in my house! But why didn't I hear moaning at night? My daughter has also changed from fat to thin, isn't it caused by Zhu's departure? I still haven't figured it out. ”

Grandpa said: "He stopped the monk who drove away evil at the foot of this mountain, and then turned into a monk to find you, ask what you think is wrong, and then change the places you think are wrong one by one, giving you the illusion that the evil spirit has gone." That way, he will be able to live here for a long time. ”

"The way he left in anger at the time was also pretending to be me?" The boss asked.

"Hmm. It's for you to see, and it's for your daughter. Trick your daughter into deceiving you by agreeing to cooperate with him. Your daughter has lost weight, and she weeps at the sight of meat, all in order to give you the illusion that she is gone. ”

"This monk who specializes in exorcism has been deceived by him. How do you see that? ”

Grandpa said, "I've lived in your shop for so long, and I only found out that you have a daughter, but I haven't seen her face. We were playing chess that day, and your daughter came out, and I smelled the smell of a pigsty. But look at your daughter, she is neatly dressed, and she doesn't look like a person who doesn't like cleanliness. This is one of them. Later, I heard you say that the monk who drove away evil spirits was somewhat similar to that Zhu, and he defended Zhu everywhere when he spoke, as if he wanted to confess to you, which was simply the incarnation of Zhu. This is the second one. It had been raining the other day, and I was wandering around the neighborhood when I was bored, and I happened to see footprints left by pig's feet under the window of your daughter's boudoir. This is the third. ”

"Footprints left by pig's feet?"

"Hmm. Combining the three, I will judge that it is not the meat demon that caused your daughter to be evil, but the pig demon. ”

"Pig demon?" The mountain road was still very wet, and the sole of the boss's foot slipped and he almost fell.

Grandpa helped the boss and nodded: "Yes, this also happens to explain why your daughter once had such a good appetite and grew so fat." This is exactly the effect of the pig demon. But it's not a problem, after all, your daughter is getting better because of it. He called himself Zhu, and Zhu was a pig. ”

"So I have to thank the pig demon?" The boss huffed.

"A man is a man, and a pig is a pig. Even if it is intended to protect your daughter, this ethics is not to be confused. Don't worry, I'll catch it tonight and let your daughter get rid of its psychedelia. ”

"Can you help me catch Zhu?" The boss will be skeptical.

"You can try." Grandpa replied.

"How to catch?"

Grandpa said: "You prepare a bucket of pig food for me, a pig-killing knife, the pig-killing knife must be a knife that has killed pigs, you can go to the butcher shop to borrow one." With these two things, I was able to catch it. ”

"Such a simple thing can catch it?" The owner wasn't quite convinced.

Grandpa smiled: "These two things seem simple, but they are not simple for the pig demon. The nature of pigs dictates that they can't resist temptation when they see pigs eating them, and they have to be afraid when they see pig-killing knives. Pig Mo does not rely on pig food to survive, and dies when he kills a pig knife, for it, this is a major event in his life. Most of the sentient beings are greedy for life and afraid of death, so these two things are enough to deal with it. The country is easy to change and difficult to move, people are like this, and so are animals. Even if you do what I say, even if it doesn't work, it won't cost you much money and effort. ”

"Good, good, good." The boss hurriedly agreed.

That night, the boss quietly prepared a bucket of pig food and a pig-killing knife. Daddy wrapped the wooden barrel filled with pig food with oiled paper to prevent the smell of pig food from coming out, and then wrapped the pig-killing knife with yellow table paper to prevent its murderous spirit from leaking out.

Grandpa calculated the time, explained a few more words to the boss, and then broke into the boss's daughter's boudoir with a pig food bucket with the boss's cooperation.

After entering the boudoir, my father tore the oil paper, and the smell of pig food suddenly dispersed. Grandpa knocked on the pig food bucket and called "hello". "Hello" means to call the pig to eat, and the pronunciation should be subdued. In this area of Thrush Village, people make noises to communicate with poultry when they are feeding. For example, when feeding chickens, they should "cluck" to call for chickens to eat, and when feeding dogs, they should call dogs playing outside to come back to their homes, and walking cows will immediately stop when they hear a "wow". This is the experience of humans and animals over thousands of years.

As soon as Daddy called a few times, a huge pig ran out of nowhere, making a snorting sound, the pig's nose was pressed against the pig food bucket, and its teeth were biting on the barrel. The pig was three or four times the size of an ordinary domestic pig, and was covered in white coarse hair, with only a black mane on its back, like an ink painting.

The boss behind Daddy was taken aback.

Grandpa didn't care about 3721, threw the pig food bucket to the side, the barrel was poured, and the pig food inside flowed out. The strange smell of pig food in the house is even stronger.

The huge pig immediately rushed to the pig's food and feasted on it with great joy.

Grandpa took out the silk and circled around the pig's four feet while it was feasting.

At this time, the boss's daughter got up from the bed and saw pig food everywhere on the floor, and a big pig was eating in her room, and screamed in fright.

When the pig heard the cry of the boss's daughter, he seemed to remember something, and hurriedly ate his food, trying to escape. But as soon as its hooves stepped away, its huge body fell to the ground with a bang. The little things in the room jumped with a shock.

Silk tripped over its feet. Its four feet hold each other down, so it will fall when it takes a step. The silk was so thin that it strangled its feet. It screamed in pain.

Its cry was so high and thin that it almost pierced the eardrums of the people in the room.

The other men in the shop heard the cry and hurried to it, and when they saw the pig, they went up and held it down. But five or six people couldn't hold it down. It rolled and the five or six fell to the ground. Some people screamed at it. The pig food was rolled on its body, dirty.

Its hooves kicked wildly, but no matter how hard it tried, it couldn't break the silk, and it only added to its own pain. There was blood on his hooves.

The boss shouted at his daughter according to the explanation of his father before he entered the door: "Look at it! Take a closer look! What the hell is this surnamed Zhu! Don't look at what he usually dresses up in front of you, he's actually a pig! A pig! ”

The boss's daughter was stunned, and looked at the pig lying on the ground howling in disbelief.

The boss's daughter must have believed her father's words at the time. Because later she took the initiative to admit that when she was in bed with Zhu, she saw that Zhu had a black mane on his back, which was more prickly to the touch.