Xuanyuan Jue

Chapter 24
After being hit hard by the butcher Hu, the pig was naturally in great pain.While howling, he pawed the ground with his four hooves.The two skinny pigs who had fled to the entrance of the alley, instead of running away, fell back tremblingly, appearing frightened and anxious.

After fighting for a long time, Hu Tuhu was so tired that he was out of breath.As soon as he lifted his body, the pig under him pushed hard and knocked Butcher Hu to the ground.

The ground is a dirt road, mixed with a lot of small stones.The back of Hu Tuhu's head hit the ground, and happened to hit a broken stone.A piercing pain hit, making Hu Tuhu's eyes red with anger.

The thin pig lost its restraint, and crawled up to limp to run, but Hu Tuhu was faster than it. He raised his hand and grabbed its hind hoof.

The hind hoof was pinned, and the pig struggled and kicked desperately.The butcher Hu saw it repeatedly resisted, and his killing intent suddenly arose. He found the pig-killing knife thrown not far away, and immediately grabbed the lean pig with one hand, and stretched out the other hand to grab the sharp knife on the ground.

After holding the knife in his hand, Hu Tuhu didn't say anything else, he first bit the back of the knife with his teeth, freed his hands to overturn the skinny pig to the ground a few times.As soon as the pig's belly was exposed, Butcher Hu stepped on it, pulled out the sharp knife in his mouth, and stabbed it at the pig's neck!

With a muffled "poof", the sharp knife directly sank to the handle.Bursts of bloody foam gushed out of the pig's mouth, and it began to twitch violently.Hu Tuhu didn't hold back, he held the handle of the knife and stirred it in the cavity, and then pulled it violently, severed the throat.The thin pig kicked its hooves wildly a few times, and then it died thoroughly.

"This bastard died quite quickly!" Hu Butcher cursed secretly, and pulled out the butcher's knife.

As soon as the knife was pulled out, blood flowed profusely, spraying the butcher's head and face.The remaining two lean pigs screamed and fled in a blink of an eye.Seeing that he could not catch up, Hu Tuhu simply stopped chasing him. After wiping off the blood on his face, he grabbed the dead pig from the ground and carried it on his shoulder, and strode back home.

The next day, Tu Huhu got up early again.Boiled a pot of hot water, shaved the dead pigs, took them off the water, loaded them on a cart, and sent them to Zuixian Tower...

"My lord," after telling the whole story, the Hu butcher kowtowed to the hall, "What the villain said is the truth, I hope the lord can decide for the villain..."

After hearing what Hu Tuhu said, Fu Yin also frowned secretly.Although the butcher Hu was rude by nature, the words he said clumsily did not seem to be fabricated.What's more, this remark roughly coincides with what the cook Niu Er said.Fu Yin thought for a while, and asked Feng Shen: "Feng Jing, what's your opinion on this case?"

"Return to your lord," Feng Shen said hastily, "Beizhi has been listening carefully just now, and feels that this butcher is not lying. But I still have a question in my mind, and I plan to ask this butcher first."

The governor waved Feng Shen, nodded and agreed: "Just ask."

"Thank you sir." Feng Shen bowed his head, turned to look at Butcher Hu and said, "What does Lai Qing, who sold you a thin pig, look like? Did he ever carry a macaque by his side?"

"Resque monkey?" Hu Tuhu was taken aback, and scratched his head, "When the villain saw him, he was driving three pigs, and he didn't see any rhesus monkeys... In terms of appearance, he was a bit born Like a monkey, dry and thin, with a thin head and a sharp brain..."

Feng Shen and Zha Wuzuo looked at each other, and quickly asked, "Is there still a big black mole on the earlobe?"

"Yes! There is a mole! There is a mole!" The Hu butcher thought for a while, and then hurriedly said, "There is still a bunch of black hair growing on that mole! Why? This lord also recognizes Lai Qing? "

"That's it!" Feng Shen said, "We met that Lai Qing once, but one of them was careless and let him escape... Hu Tuhu, let me ask you again, do you know the whereabouts of Lai Qing?"

"This... this kid is full of tongue... I don't know where he is staying!" Hu Tuhu said with a bitter face, "If the villain knew his whereabouts, he would have gone to the door to ask for the money back... "

Feng Shen nodded, and then said to Fu Yin: "My lord, I think that this person named Lai Qing is probably the real culprit!"

Hearing what Feng Shen said, Fu Yin asked: "How can you see it?"

"Your Excellency, let me tell you," Feng Shen continued, "at noon today, Beizhi and Zha Wuzuo met a monkey-playing man on the bridge. The man's appearance was exactly the same as that of Lai Qing described by Hu Tuhu. Plus Combining his various strange actions with this strange case, the villain must be Lai Qing!"

"Oh?" Fu Yin said again, "Just then Feng experienced that the post-mortem examination has already made some progress, so let's hear it."

"Yes," Feng Shen said, "judging from that strange corpse, there is indeed a person under the pig's skin. Moreover, it's not that he hid the corpse after death, but that he was covered with pigskin while he was alive, and he was born into a human body." A mouthful of pork!"

"There is such a thing?" Fu Yin's body trembled, his face paled in shock, "This... This is really appalling! How can such a living person be turned into a pig?"

"Oh, there are such evils in this world." Feng Shen sighed, and said slowly, "This method was mentioned by my late father by accident, but it was only a rumor at the time, and I never expected that it would be true. exist in the world..."

"What kind of sorcery is it that is so vicious?" Fu Yin asked.

Feng Shen let out a long breath, and said: "This kind of sorcery...is called 'making animals in envelopes'!"

(End of this chapter)