Chapter 247: Capturing the Hedgehog Alive
Dude, forget it! Even if you smash the hedgehog to death, it's covered in thorns, how can you bite it? As soon as the fat monkey said this, the monkey with the stone thought it was the same, so he threw the stone in his hand.
The fat monkey continued, last time I was lying on the tree and saw a big bad wolf pounce on the hedgehog and arch a few times, maybe it stung its mouth, and then it fell and fled with its tail and chirping, is the big bad wolf not as powerful as our monkey?
The monkey gave the fat monkey a surrendered look, turned around and left, and then went into the forest with the fat monkey to climb a big tree, which was their aerial home and their safest abode.
When the grass god saw the two monkeys gone, he talked to the tree god about the fat monkey that was smarter. The god of the tree said that the monkeys were wise people in their past lives, but they were small and stupid. Why? That's because they use their wisdom to do all the bad things that hurt nature and reason, so that they lose their human body in their reincarnation and become beasts that will never be restored or will never recover.
The grass god looked at the cave by the grass and said, I also asked one thing, why do some animals have hair all over their bodies, and some animals have thorns all over their bodies? The tree god said that it was all due to the fact that when they had a human body in their past lives, they never accumulated virtue and did good deeds and blindly did bad things, which is a kind of bad karma, so they all became animals, and some animals were covered with hair, and some animals were covered with thorns, which was the difference in their personality for creating karma.
In the case of the hedgehog that burrowed into the cave just now, he served as a deputy county magistrate in his past life and was in charge of the transportation and urban construction department, and he was particularly popular and wealthy, but in his administrative work, he specialized in "one word hall", and he had the final say on everything, did not follow the mass line, and could not listen to even good opinions. It's like a thorn on the body, you can't touch it, you can't touch it, and it's tricky to touch it.
Therefore, after such a person dies, he will be reincarnated as an animal in the next life due to too many iniquities. And because that person has a violent personality that no one else can touch or touch, like a thorn on his body, he becomes a beast, and he really has thorns all over his body.
There are also people who, when they are alive, use their brains to devise harm to others or whose brains cannot turn around, and who keep creating evil and harming others with their stubborn temper and insatiable greed, and who do not listen to advice, just like those who have horns on their heads, and who disobey them, will attack whomever they want, and after death, such people will lose their human body and become animals, and they will really grow horns on their heads.
Brother Tree God, to hear you say this, whether it is a beast with thorns on its body or horns on its head, it is a karmic animal, which is realized from its own nature. The grass god sighed. He stomped on the cave by the grass with his foot, and said with a smile, it seems that the hedgehog's long thorns are quite good, like a soldier wearing armor and invulnerable swords and guns on the battlefield, and he is very safe at every turn.
The tree god said, you are wrong, the hedgehog's self-protective thorn can only be said to be relatively safe, this security is quite pitiful, and it can still play a little role in the defense of beasts, but it cannot play any defensive role in humans. The hedgehog's doom is coming.
The god of grass thought that although the hedgehog was covered in thorns and crawled up and down the grass every day, he never hurt a single stalk of grass, but on the contrary, those big beasts with bright fur or gentle personality trampled a lot of grass to death. At this moment, he smiled and said, I still pity the hedgehog, what bad luck does it have?
A few days later, a man in the mountains was plowing the plough, and suddenly he heard a strange cry from the woods, and he did not understand what it was, but it was certainly not a bird's call, so he asked a hunter who happened to be passing by, and the hunter listened quietly to the call, and said with certainty that it was a hedgehog call. He walked a few steps, then turned back and said that eating hedgehog meat can cure stomach problems.
The man frowned, said that he had a stomach problem, and begged the hunter to hunt the hedgehog that was screaming in the woods and give it to him, and he was willing to pay for it. The hunter slapped the shotgun and said with a smile, you don't have to shoot with a gun, the hedgehog can be captured alive.
After a while, the hunter who had gone into the woods turned around again and threw a cloth bag in front of the man.
What is it? The man asked.
The hunter asked him to open the sack and look, but it was a hedgehog. The man paid the hunter, and he brought the hedgehog home and did not know how to eat it, and kill it to cut the skin for the meat? But when I started it, I was afraid that its dense thorns would be tricky.
The man walked around his house a few times, and accidentally glanced at the fire, he had a whim, so he started a fire in the fire, and when the flames were full of blue light, he immediately opened the cloth bag and took out the thorn with the fire tongs, and put it in the fire pit to burn it alive, until the thorns on its fur were burned out, and it gave off a scorching smell, and then he took the hedgehog out of the fire pit, put it on the ground to cool it, and then peeled the skin and opened the chest and broke the belly.
After the man boiled the hedgehog meat, he didn't see any improvement in his stomach pain. He even regretted that he should not have spent money on the hedgehog, but thought that he had suffered a lot from listening to the hunter, and he wanted to make up for the loss of buying the hedgehog from the hunter. How to redeem it? The only way is to go up the mountain and catch the hedgehog and sell it for money in the market.
So the man went up the mountain, and listened with his ears in the dense forest, and wherever he found the cry of a hedgehog, he went to catch it. In just a few months, he caught a lot of hedgehogs, and sold them all for money, making up for the losses he thought had been caused by the last purchase of hedgehogs, and there was still a surplus.
He tasted the sweetness of almost no capital business except for manual labor, so he went out every day to look for hedgehogs, so that the hedgehogs could no longer be heard in the villages and valleys near and far.
That time, as usual, he did not find the hedgehog, but found a black snake in the grass, so he used a machete to cut a branch with a branch in the forest, made a fork and held it, and tiptoed close to the grass, but the black snake had already slipped away.
The next day, when he approached the grass again, he saw that the black snake had reappeared, and was lying lazily basking in the sun on the grass. The man took advantage of its unpreparedness and stretched out his fork and pressed it on it, and finally caught it. The black snake struggled desperately, and the man who had been prepared for it grabbed it seven inches with a hand wearing thick canvas gloves, put it in a cloth bag, tied a knot in it, and carried it home.
Of course, he knows that snakes can be sold for money, snake meat can be eaten, it is a good dish, snake gall can be used for medicine, it can brighten the eyes, and some people still swallow snake gall bladder alive for this! Everyone knows that snake skin is not only widely used in the barrel of the Menghu qin, but also to make skin bags or something. The man wanted to keep the snake meat for himself to eat, so he put the snake gall in a bottle and took it to the market with the snake skin to be sold at a price.