After a period of time, Kan Nenglai's almost healed left kneecap began to hurt again, which made him unable to go out to collect land taxes. He was not particularly anxious about this. What was anxious was that it was inconvenient for him to go outside to pick flowers and ask for willows. The main reason was that When walking, the left leg is weak and difficult to lift. If I have to force myself to take a step, I can only walk with a limp.
Moreover, he found that the skin on the knee of his left leg was swollen and turned purple. He found a masseur who couldn't give him a massage, saying it was taking too long.
Why relapse into old injuries? Kan Nenglai didn't know what caused it. The therapist then used suction tubes or cupping to suck out a lot of congestion on his knee, but it was still not healed. Kan Neng came and went home to rest. His wife had been angered by his inappropriate behavior and had taken the child away, so he felt very lonely when he was alone.
At this moment, Kan Nenglai, dressed in tax uniform, was gazing narcissistically in front of a bronze mirror under the window sill. Suddenly, I heard voices and footsteps approaching from far away. As I approached the door, a voice called: Can Kan come home?
Kan Nenglai walked from the house to the door and poked his head out. He saw three familiar tax collectors wearing official tax robes who were in charge of southeastern and western areas: a big man, a medium man, and a short man. They all came to the door one after another. forward.
Kan Nenglai cupped his hands and said, "Welcome. What do these three tax collectors do to come to this humble abode?"
The big man said straight to the point, you have not completed the task of collecting land taxes in the past few months, and there is a big gap in the county treasury account books. The finance officer reported this to Magistrate Liu, who was furious and wanted to remove you from your position as tax collector in Beipian.
The middle one took out a piece of paper from his tax robe and said, I will now read out an "Urgent Order Concerning the Dismissal of Kan Nenglai Beipian Tax Collector" written by Liu Zhixian himself:
After deliberation by the county government and the Department of Finance, Kan Nenglai was dismissed from his position as tax collector in Beipian. Kan Nenglai worked as a tax collector for the county government, but he usually failed to perform his duties and complete the tax collection task, resulting in land tax gaps for three consecutive months. In accordance with the county government's stipulations that tax collectors in rural areas who have a three-month tax gap will be punished by being dismissed from their posts, Kan Nenglaiqing will now be withdrawn from the government service team, and his tax robe and work permit will be recovered.
It is hereby promulgated.
Puqi County Government Office
Noonday, lunar month and day of Yiyou year
Finished reading.
The middle one waved the official document in front of Kan Nenglai and then took it back.
The short man came closer and urged, "Hurry up and take off the tax robe you are wearing and give it to us along with your work permit and take it back to the county office."
Kan Nenglai asked pretending to be calm, is this a joke?
The big man with a serious face said loudly, who is kidding you? All the official documents from the county government have been read to you. If you are negligent, the three of us can definitely tie you up and take you back to the county government office to beat you. Are you afraid?
Kan Nenglai is still trying to get close to you, "three tax officials, I treat you well!"
The middle-aged man said it with a straight face, but who told you to be dissatisfied? There has been a shortage of land and property in the area you manage for three consecutive months. I wonder what tricks you do every day.
The short man also helped, and he heard from the people in the North District that you promised everywhere that if the Zhang family gave you benefits, you would reduce the land tax for the Zhang family, and if the Li family gave you benefits, you would reduce the land tax for the Li family.
If there are beauties wherever they are, you will try your best to seduce them and rape them; wherever there are fat dogs, you will try your best to kill them and cook them. How can you do a good job in collecting and collecting land taxes if you are like this?
We haven't reported your misdeeds to the county government yet. If we did, we would not only fire you from your official position, but we would also punish you and put you in jail.
Seeing that Kan Nenglai refused to take off his tax robe and looked hesitant, the big man yelled rudely, brought a rope and tied him up.
Kan Nenglai quickly took off his tax robe, took out his work permit and handed it to the big man.
Kan Nenglai pointed to his painful foot and said humbly, if the left leg had not become diseased and made walking inconvenient, I would not have been unable to complete the land tax task for three consecutive months.
The three tax collectors ignored what Kan Nenglai said and turned around and walked away.
Kan Nenglai couldn't think about it, so he found a hemp rope in the house and put it around his neck, set up a chair, hung it from the beam, and kicked the chair down. His whole body was hanging under the beam, and his neck was tied up, suffocating him. Don't get angry.
He twisted in pain, but he was not dead for a while. His eyes turned white, his tongue stuck out, and then a little blood flowed from his nostrils, and he slowly died. He was dead.
Before Kan Nenglai hanged himself, the door god, the bearded man, the leopard head with ring eyes, and the animal god were all present. They were arguing about the reasons for Kan Nenglai's bad luck.
The bearded man said, "Si Animal God, you are really powerful. You brought the big dog spirit to the underworld and really received the decree to rectify Kan Nenglai."
The Animal God Si stroked his black beard, smiled slightly, and said calmly, "I'm not sure at all. Will I take the big dog spirit to the underworld?" To put it bluntly, Kan Nenglai's character was too poor and he had created too many bad karma, so this god sent a petition written on behalf of the dog clan to Hades. King Yama, who accepted the case, took a look at it and said After asking the city god where Kan Nenglai was stationed, he found out that the situation was true, and immediately issued a decree to the big man to punish Kan Nenglai. It will be much easier to take revenge with the decree. At least you, the door gods, dare not stop me.
Leopard Head and Ring Eyes said, I saw the big dog spirit turned into a poisonous cell and attached itself to Kan Nenglai's left knee. The skin in the area that had recovered from the previous fall began to become inflamed and painful again, making it difficult for him to move forward. It was very difficult to walk with a limp, and the task of collecting the land tax would not be completed. Of course, it would not be easy to rape a local girl again. Now that he has been expelled from his official position by the county government, hanging himself because he couldn't think about it is a very satisfying thing.
The Animal God Si looked at the leopard's head and said, "You are his door god. Why don't you protect him and still say this to him?"
The leopard's head and eyes sighed, "Oh, you don't know something. Kan Neng has offended me long ago." Whenever he was in a mood and felt unhappy, he would beat his fists on my door like crazy, and a bursting sound could be heard far away. Because he often comes to me to vent his anger, you can see that there are cracks in the door panel on my side.
The Animal God Si smiled silently, then spoke, oh, that's the reason.
Suddenly, a poisonous cell like tobacco jumped out of the left knee of Kan Nenglai, who was already hanging. Kan Nenglai's corpse hanging from the rafters barked several times.
The Animal God Si asked, "Big Dog Spirit, why did you come down?"
The big dog spirit replied in dog language, Kan Nenglai is already dead, do I still need to turn into a poisonous cell and parasitize on his knees?
The Animal God Si said, that's true. I congratulate you for finally avenging the dog clan.
The bearded man raised his head and shouted, "Look, Kan Nenglai's soul has left his body and is flying on the roof!"
Kan Nenglai's soul was looking down, asking in a hoarse voice, are you...
The bearded man looked at him and said, "Don't worry about us. We are here to watch you hang yourself!"
Woof woof woof, the big dog spirit barked at Kan Nenglai's soul floating on the roof.
Kan Nenglai's soul still scolded you tyrannically, "If you still scream, be careful I catch you and kill you for cooking."
Suddenly two weird-looking gods crashed in from outside the door. One had a pair of horns on his head and held a steel fork. He pointed at Kan Nenglai's soul. Before he could attack, he fell to the ground; the other had a pair of horses. Er, holding the iron chain in his hand, locked Kan Nenglai's soul with just a flick.
The animal god, the bearded man, and the leopard-headed man with ring eyes all bowed their hands and saluted, and in unison welcomed the ox-headed and horse-headed men who came to arrest Kan Nenglai, the guilty soul.
The bull heads and horse faces also responded in unison, asking everyone to work together to subdue this beast, which is inferior to a pig or a dog.
Kan Nenglai's soul shook the iron chains that locked his hands and feet, and said angrily, I am obviously a human being, how can I be a beast inferior to a pig or a dog? Then he pointed at the big dog spirit and said that it was the only beast.
Niu Tou sneered and asked, "Don't you want to cook it?" I'm afraid it will be someone else's turn to cook for you later.
Ma Mian pulled the chain and shouted, "Let's go, don't be nagging, go out quickly, cross the Yin Mountain, step on the underworld, and go to the underworld to be judged."
Kan Nenglai's soul was taken away. A week later, a passerby passed by and smelled a foul smell coming from the house.
Pushing open the ajar door and entering the room, Kan Nenglai's corpse hanging from the beam was highly decomposed, with maggots as big as grains of white rice lying on it, and some even had their fleshy heads moving indiscriminately. crawl.
