Cao Zhongchun said, it was my brother Cao Mengchun’s ears.
The county magistrate asked, why was his ear cut off?
Cao Zhongchun said with a choked voice, "One night seven days ago, my brother Cao Mengchun was accidentally kidnapped by several masked men. My wife and I were sleeping next door and heard the noise and found out. We chased him out, but we were outnumbered. One of them was masked." They also threatened to let our family pay 2,000 silver dollars before they let me go.
Where do we have so many silver dollars in our house? I had no choice but to sell my property within a few days to collect 2,000 silver dollars, and deliver them to the kidnappers at the designated time and place in hopes of releasing him. However, after waiting for a long time, my brother did not come home.
One night, suddenly a bag of lime was thrown into the door of my house. When I opened it, I saw a pair of bloody human ears. I knew that something bad had happened to my poor brother Cao Mengchun.
The county magistrate looked at the pair of bloody human ears in front of him and sighed, but said nothing.
Cao Zhongchun knelt down on his knees again and said with pleading eyes, County Master, please send the arresters to arrest those masked men.
The county magistrate asked, did you see the faces of those masked men clearly? Do you know where they are from?
Cao Zhongchun replied awkwardly, where can I see clearly at night? Besides, they were all veiled. Because of this, I reported the case on behalf of my brother and expressed his grievances, hoping that the county magistrate would personally solve the case, arrest the culprits, and punish the criminals. On the one hand, I would bring peace to the township and the people, and on the other hand, I would comfort my brother's soul. He bowed his hands and bowed several times, and then continued, Cao Zhongchun, a grassroots man, asked again.
The county magistrate said, you put away your brother's human ears and bury him in a coffin. After the county solves the case and arrests the culprit, you can recover your brother's body and bury him together.
Cao Zhongchun wrapped his brother's human ear again and held it in his hand. Just as he was about to leave, he heard the yamen servant say, Magistrate, this official document shows that the war is urgent. How can we have the energy to find the murderer and solve the case now? Let’s deal with the foreign invaders first!
Later, three years later, due to the ongoing war, although the case of kidnapping and killing Cao Mengchun was reported to the county government, no one took action. Cao Zhongchun never knew who the real murderer was?
That day, the atmosphere in front of Kan Nenglai's house in Kanjiazhuang was tense and mysterious.
Kan Nenglai, who was wearing an ancient tax official's uniform, led a young and beautiful girl hurriedly through the scene, opened the door and entered the house.
At this time, hundreds of dog spirits surrounded his door, making barking sounds. But the people in the room can't hear or see it. That's because they are living people in the upper world and are not in the same time and space as the dog spirits in the underworld, so they cannot feel it.
But the two door gods: the bearded man and the leopard-headed man with ring eyes found the dog spirit's bark noisy.
The bearded man took out the ax from his waist, swung it in his hand and shouted, "You still have to surround the door and scream, don't blame me for hacking you to death."
Those dog spirits gathered together were not afraid of this threat at all, and instead barked more and more fiercely.
The leopard's head and eyes jumped down from the door and was about to drive away the dog spirits, but the dog spirits ran away in a hurry. When the leopard's head and eyes returned to their original positions on the door, they came around again, still barking fiercely. .
The leopard's eyes brightened and he yelled at the top of his lungs, "God of Animals - Why don't you care?" There were so many dog spirits barking at the door of our house, and the noise was driving us crazy.
Unexpectedly, when he stopped shouting, a giant figure about ten feet tall with a human face and an animal body flashed in front of the house and said, I am the Animal God, what is the use of looking for me? His voice was slightly higher than the barking of the dog spirits, so it could be heard.
The bearded man and the leopard-headed man said in unison, "Oh, you are the Animal God. These dog spirits should be under your control. Why do you say that there is no use in looking for you?"
The animal god explained angrily, "Two door gods, you don't know something. There is a reason why these dog spirits are barking around Kan Nenglai's house door." Kan Nenglai was addicted to eating dog meat, and now he was a government tax collector, so the people in the seven villages and eight bays did not dare to offend him.
Everywhere he saw a dog, he would ask people to catch and kill the dog and treat him to dog meat. In this way, he had been working as a tax collector for less than half a year, and he had more than a hundred dogs killed. The hundreds of dead dog spirits blamed and resented him, so they gathered around the door of his house and started barking. What do you want from me? Method? Look, why aren't the dog spirits surrounding Kan Nenglai's house barking?
The bearded man and the leopard-headed man were speechless and shook their heads helplessly.
At this moment, a big dog spirit shouted loudly, as if giving some instructions, and all the dog spirits stopped barking.
The bearded man with a leopard head and eyes felt much calmer, and he cast a grateful look at the Animal God.
The bearded man praised, "Master Animal Controller, you said there is no way, but there is still a way. As soon as you appear, the dog spirits will stop barking."
The Animal God Si had no time to respond. It turned out that the big dog spirit was surrounding him, grunting and speaking dog language. He listened attentively, sometimes nodding, sometimes shaking his head.
The big dog spirit jumped up and was about to rush towards the door, but the Animal God Si stretched out his hand to stop it, causing it to squat still. The Animal God Si spoke to it again in dog language, and then the big dog spirit nodded obediently.
The leopard's head ringed with eyes and he said, "Master Animal Controller, what did the big dog spirit tell you?" What did you tell it again?
The Animal God Si smiled and said leisurely, "I just wanted to tell you something." Pointing to the big dog spirit squatting on the ground, he said, "It just told me on behalf of all the dog spirits that your master Kan Nenglai is a very lecherous person. The reason why he eats dog meat every day is because he It is believed that eating dog meat can nourish yin and strengthen yang. Once the body is well, it can indulge in sexual pleasures without restraint.
Just now, this big dog spirit told me that you two door gods should not stop it. It wanted to rush into the room and bite Kan Nenglai's spirit away, causing Kan Nenglai to die early. I stopped it and told it, The underworld is the same as the underworld. Although it is all about revenge, people cannot be killed casually.
If this person is guilty, he will be punished by the laws of the country in the world of the world; in the underworld, he will be punished by the laws of the underworld. If you, the dog tribe, want to take revenge and put Kan Nenglai to death, you must obtain the consent of the underworld and issue an edict. If Hades doesn't agree, don't mess around. Once chaos occurs, what was originally reasonable will become unreasonable; what was originally a case won will become a case lost.
This big dog spirit understood what I meant and was no longer impulsive. It became calm and asked me to file a petition on behalf of the dog clan to go to the underworld to punish the lecherous people who killed dogs indiscriminately and played with many women. Kan Neng can come.
The bearded man listened carefully and asked, "Do you agree to their request?"
The Animal God Si nodded.
The leopard's head and ring eyes showed his attitude. As the doorkeeper of Kan Nenglai's family, we are also ashamed of him. Of course we are opposed to some of the things he did that disgraced the family, but there is nothing we can do about it. Since we are goalkeepers, we must not fail to fulfill our responsibilities. Some ghosts of unknown origin, including strange dog spirits, are about to break into the house, and of course we will stop them out of instinct.
If you submit a petition on behalf of the dog spirits, obtain the certificate issued by the underworld, and allow the dog spirits to enter the house to seek Kan Neng's revenge, or even ask for his life, we will not stop it.
The Animal God Si said approvingly, I understand.
The bearded man seemed to be aroused with righteous indignation. He said that when it came to Kan Nenglai, it was too much. Because he played with women too frequently, his wife found out and could not stop him. She simply took her young son back to her parents' home to live together. , I haven’t returned to this home for a long time. Just now he brought another beautiful girl into the house, and now he is doing that kind of persuasive thing.
The Animal God Si said with a serious face, Got it, I will write a petition for the dog clan now and submit it to Hades in order to punish the lecherous person.
