Dude, forget it! Even if you kill the hedgehog, how can you eat it if it is covered in thorns? When the fat monkey said this, the monkey holding the stone thought so and threw the stone away.
The fat monkey continued, "Last time I was lying on that tree and saw a big bad wolf pounce on the hedgehog and hump it a few times. Maybe it stung its mouth and then ran away with its tail lowered and grunting. Could it be that the big bad wolf Not as powerful as us monkeys?
The monkey looked at the fat monkey surrenderingly, turned around and left. Then he and the fat monkey went into the forest and climbed up a big tree. It was their home in the sky and their safest residence.
When the grass god saw the two monkeys gone, he discussed with the tree god the fat monkey who was smarter. The tree god said that the monkeys were smart people in their past lives, but they were little clever and big stupid. Why do you say this way? That's because they use all their intelligence to do bad things that are harmful to nature. In this way, they lose their human bodies in reincarnation and become beasts that will never be recovered or will never be recovered.
The grass god looked at the cave beside the grass and said, I also want to ask one thing, why are some animals covered with hair and some animals with thorns? The tree god said that it was all caused by them never doing good deeds but blindly doing bad things when they had human bodies in their past lives. This was a common bad deed, so they all turned into animals, and some animals were covered with hair, and some were animals. They have thorns all over their bodies, which is their personality difference in creating karma.
Take the hedgehog that got into the cave just now. In his past life, he was the deputy county magistrate and was in charge of the transportation and urban construction department. It was a very popular and lucrative position. However, in his administrative work, he specialized in "One Word" , I have the final say on everything. I don’t follow the mass line, and I don’t listen to even good opinions. I am self-willed, even domineering, and I have the feeling that I will punish anyone who puts forward opinions. It's like there are thorns growing on the body. It can't be touched or touched. It's troublesome when touched.
Therefore, after death, such people will be reincarnated as animals due to their excessive sins. And because that person has a violent personality that cannot be touched or touched by others, it is like having thorns on his body, so he becomes a beast, and he really has thorns all over his body.
There are also people who, when they were alive, specifically used their brains to design harm to others or were unable to change their minds. With their stubborn temper and insatiable greed, they continued to commit crimes and harm others, and they could not listen to advice, just like the head. It's like having horns, and it will attack anyone who disobeys. After death, such people will lose their bodies and become beasts, and they will actually grow horns on their heads.
Brother Tree God, I hear you say this, whether the animals have thorns on their bodies or horns on their heads, they are all karmic animals, manifested by their own temperament. The Grass God sighed. Then he stamped the cave beside the grass with his foot and said with a smile, it seems that the thorns all over the hedgehog are quite good, just like the soldiers on the battlefield wearing armor and invulnerable to fire and water, they are always safe.
The tree god said, you are wrong. The sharp thorns on the hedgehog's self-protection can only be said to be relatively safe. This kind of safety is quite pitiful. It can play a little role in the defense of beasts, but it does not play a role in the defense of humans. Doesn't have any defensive effect. This hedgehog's doom is coming.
The Grass God thought that although the hedgehog was covered in thorns and crawled around on the grass every day, it had never harmed a single grass stem. On the contrary, those big beasts with shiny coats or docile personalities had trampled a lot of grass to death. At this moment, he smiled and said, I quite pity the hedgehog. What bad luck does it have?
A few days later, a man was plowing the fields with his cows on the mountain. Suddenly he heard a strange sound coming from the forest. He didn't know what it was, but he was sure it wasn't a bird, so he asked a hunter who happened to be passing by. The hunter listened quietly to the cry and was sure that it was the cry of a hedgehog. He walked a few steps, then turned back and said that eating hedgehog meat can cure stomach problems.
The man frowned, said he had a stomach problem, and begged the hunter to hunt down the screaming hedgehog in the forest and give it to him. He was willing to pay for it. The hunter slapped the shotgun and said with a smile, there is no need to shoot with a gun, the hedgehog can be caught alive.
After a while, the hunter who got into the forest came back and threw a cloth bag in front of the man.
What's this? the man asked.
The hunter asked him to open the bag and look, but it was a hedgehog. The man paid the hunter. He brought the hedgehog home but didn't know how to eat it. Why did he kill it and cut off its skin to get the meat? But I was afraid that its dense thorns would be thorny when I touched it.
The man walked around his house a few times and accidentally glanced at the fire pit. He had a sudden idea and lit a fire in the fire pit. When the flames started to glow with blue light and filled the room with warmth, he immediately opened the cloth bag. Clamp the thorn with tongs, take it out, put it in the fire pit, and burn it alive until the thorns on its fur are burned away and a burnt smell is emitted. Then he picks the hedgehog out of the fire pit and puts it on the fire pit. Let the ground cool down, then peel off the skin, open the chest and belly.
After the man cooked and ate the hedgehog meat, his stomach pain did not improve. He even regretted that he should not have spent money to buy the hedgehog. He felt that he had suffered a great loss after listening to the hunter. He wanted to recover the loss of buying the hedgehog from the hunter. How to recover it? The only way is to go up the mountain to catch hedgehogs and sell them in the market for money.
So the man went up the mountain, listening attentively in the dense forest. Whenever he heard the sound of a hedgehog, he would catch it there. In just a few months, he caught a lot of hedgehogs and sold them all for money. He had already made up for the losses he thought were outweighed by the last time he bought hedgehogs, and there was still a surplus.
He tasted the benefits of a business that was almost costless except for labor costs, so he went out to look for hedgehogs every day, so much so that the screams of hedgehogs were no longer heard in villages and valleys far and near.
That time, as usual, he didn't find the hedgehog, but found a bent black snake in the grass. He used a machete to cut a branch with forks in the forest, made it into a fork, and crept toward the grass. , but the black-tip snake had already slipped away.
The next day, he walked closer to the grass and saw that the black-tailed snake appeared again, lying lazily on the grass and basking in the sun. The man took advantage of its unpreparedness, stretched out his fork and pressed it against its body, finally catching it. The black-tailed snake struggled desperately, and the prepared man pinched its seven inches with a hand wearing a thick canvas glove, stuffed it into a cloth bag, tied the knot, and carried it home.
Of course he knows that snakes can be sold for money, their meat can be eaten and are excellent dishes, and their galls can be used to make medicine and brighten their eyes. Some people even eat snake galls alive for this purpose! Everyone knows that snake skin is not only widely used in Menghu piano tubes, but it can also be used to make skin bags and so on. The man wanted to keep the snake meat for himself, so he put the snake gall into a bottle and took it to the market together with the snake skin to wait for a price.
