This day is also the 49 days after Hu Xiangcai's death, which is known as the "last seven days" among the people. Since Hu Xiangcai was not an old man, the funeral was not so grand and enthusiastic, but simply a formality.
I saw Hu's father burning Hu Xiangcai's spiritual tablet in front of his house, leaving a pile of ashes on the large bluestone slab. He silently raised the back of his hand to wipe away the tears from the corner of his eyes, and then picked up half of the chalk that had been placed on the slab. A circle was drawn on the slate, enclosing the pile of gray foam, and a line of words was written on the edge of the slate: Pedestrians passing by, please do not step on them.
At this time, when he heard the piglet making a cry of "hehe", Father Hu, who was bending over, straightened up and looked around. A young man was walking on the soil in front of the door carrying a bamboo basket containing a black piglet. On the road, from west to east, I didn't look at anyone, I kept my head buried, and my steps were a little hurried!
Father Hu found that the black piglet in the bamboo basket had no tail. He was surprised, so he caught up a few steps and shouted to the young man, "Hey, what's going on?"
The young man turned around, faced him, smiled slightly, and asked, "Do you want to see this pig?"
Father Hu said "Hmm" and after seeing the young man's square face clearly, he said, "Oh, are you Cao Baohua from Caojiazhuang?"
Cao Biaohua nodded, put the bamboo basket containing the piglets on the ground, and said that the pig was born without a tail.
Father Hu looked at it carefully. The piglet looked at Father Hu in the bamboo basket and kept barking. From time to time, he pressed his mouth against the edge of the bamboo basket.
Cao Baohua was afraid that the lid of the bamboo basket would come loose, so he squatted down and pressed it tightly while scolding, "What's your name for someone who died from the plague?" It’s so noisy!
Father Hu waved his hand and said, "Take it and walk away."
Cao Baohua stood up, grabbed the bamboo basket, and walked away. After taking just one step, he heard Mother Hu's cry, "Wait a minute, let me take a look."
He stopped again and put the bamboo basket on the ground. Mother Hu, who had just finished drying the clothes on the clothespin in the shed, hurried over and took a closer look at the piglet in the bamboo basket. Not only did she see that there were no butts on its butt, but she also saw that its eyes were wet. tears.
Mother Hu suddenly screamed, "Hey, why is this black piggy without a tail crying?" Did you abuse it?
Cao Baohua said, how could I abuse it? Just caught it at Ma Hongce's house in Majiazhuang.
The black pig seemed to be able to understand people's words. When Mother Hu said this, tears streamed down from its eyes. In addition, it kept commotion and was clearly about to burst out of the bamboo basket.
Mother Hu said "Alas", why did this piglet look like this when it saw me?
Cao Baohua pressed the lid of the bamboo basket tightly again and said blankly, "How do I know?"
Father Hu came over and urged, "Go quickly."
Cao Baohua picked up the bamboo basket and left.
Hu's mother chased him a few steps and said, "Stop, I'll go to the house and get some green vegetable leaves for it to eat. Are you hungry?"
Cao Baohua stopped, put the bamboo basket on the ground again and said, okay.
Mother Hu went into the house and indeed took out a handful of green cabbage leaves, but Cao Baohua opened the lid of the bamboo basket and asked Mother Hu to stuff the green cabbage leaves inside. The black piglet only smelled it but did not eat it, but stared intently at it. Mother Hu kept moaning for a long time, her tears streaming down her face as if she was crying.
Mother Hu said, "Why don't you eat it?"
Cao Baohua responded, "Forget it if you don't want to eat it." Then he pushed away Hu's mother's hand holding the green vegetable leaves, put the lid on the bamboo basket, picked it up and left.
The black piglet not only screamed louder, but also rushed into the bamboo basket, but could not get out. It still looked longingly at Mother Hu standing in front of the house door.
Cao Baohua turned the bamboo basket and turned its head to the opposite side, so that it could no longer see Mother Hu. But the black piglet immediately turned around and looked at Mother Hu again. Cao Baohua stopped turning the bamboo basket and just walked away faster.
He yelled as he walked, why did this piglet scream even more loudly when he saw Mother Hu? How strange!
Hu's mother was also surprised when she heard what Cao Baohua said. She said, I don't know the reason.
Cao Biaohua's back disappeared at the corner of the alley ahead, and the screams of the black piggy became weaker and weaker, and gradually became inaudible.
Father Hu looked at Mother Hu and said, I feel like that black piglet seems to care about you. It screams, jumps and sheds tears when it sees you. Does it have anything to do with you?
Mother Hu said, what does a beast have to do with me? This was the first time I saw it. If it hadn't had a tail on its butt, I wouldn't have wanted to see it.
Father Hu said, are you looking strange?
Mother Hu replied with a "hmm".
At this time, the house god and the door god were also standing in front of the door, pointing and talking around the piglet without a long tail: Father Hu, Mother Hu, and Cao Biaohua, who had just left, were in different time and space, so of course they looked at each other. Don't see them. In other words, the former is in positive time and space, and the latter is in negative time and space. The former cannot see the latter, but the latter can clearly see the former's behavior and speech. At this moment, their discussion was quite interesting.
The family god said, do you know the origin of the black piglet without a tail just now?
The door god responded and knew that it was the reincarnation of Hu Xiangcai, the son of the couple named Hu. Hu Xiangcai joined a group of strongmen who robbed a ship of soybeans on the Chibi River, killing people and stealing the goods. Unfortunately, seven members of his family were killed. One of the dead was named Cao Yang. He refused to be reincarnated and swore secretly that even if he turned into a ghost, he would still seek debts from the seven strong men.
Later, Hades sent a bull-headed horse-faced man to capture several criminals, and some of them changed their minds and turned around again, accumulating virtue and doing good deeds, and using virtue to turn resentment away, so Hades stopped pursuing them, and Cao Yang stopped pursuing them.
But Hu Xiangcai is a heinous guy, and Hades allowed him to demand his life from Hu Xiangcai and issued a decree. You know this. After Hu Xiangcai died, in order to punish him, the King of Hell demoted him to an animal body - a pig.
He became a black pig. Although he was no longer a human being, his ghost still remembered the events of his previous life because his ghost did not have to drink the soul-forgetting soup in the underworld before turning into a beast.
Passing by here just now, this black piglet still remembered his family and parents in his previous life. Because during her lifetime, Hu's mother was very kind to her son Hu Xiangcai. This time, although he had transformed into a black piglet, he still had deep feelings for Mother Hu, so when he saw her, he kept barking, jumping, and squirming in the bamboo basket where he was kept. She shed tears, they were sad tears.
The family god said with a heavy heart, you are right, Hu Xiangcai's retribution was caused by his misdeeds during his lifetime, which is sad and deplorable. But I also want to ask you, if you want to make money and become a pig, why not turn into a good-looking pig with all the organs of the body intact? Why do you want to become a pig without a tail on your butt?
The door god opened his eyes and looked into the void of Hu Xiangcai's past life. His eyes were covered by a haze. He couldn't identify the reason why Hu Xiangcai turned into a pig but didn't grow a pig tail. He couldn't tell clearly and felt fuzzy. He shook his head and said, "I am not a good person, so I'd better ask the family god to talk about it."
The family god smiled and said, do you know? When Hu Xiangcai was alive, he was addicted to pig tails. He often braised, stir-fried, pan-fried, steamed and stewed pig tails in various cooking methods as a side dish with wine. During his lifetime, when his wrists were swollen and he was brought to the city for treatment by a beater, his father asked his father to buy braised tails on the street as a snack.
His karma for eating pig tails was too heavy, so when he was reincarnated as a pig, he would not grow pig tails. This is so ironic, as if he ate all the pig tails before he was alive, so when he turned into a pig, he didn't even have the tail he should have.
The door god said that pig tails have no or little effect and it doesn't matter whether they grow long or not.
The family god said that if one pig organ is missing, it will become a disabled pig, and it will have to endure more helpless pain than other normal pigs. For example, in the summer when a mosquito bites its butt, it could use its tail to drive it away, but it cannot be driven away, so it has to suffer unbearably and let the mosquito bite it on its butt.
In winter, if it can survive until winter and has not been slaughtered, it will have to live comfortably, but it will not live comfortably because the weather is cold in winter and there is no tail to cover that part for warmth, and it will get chilblains. That was quite uncomfortable. How pitiful.
The door god said that it seems that one should not do evil in this world, otherwise, in just a few decades, one would be reincarnated and suffer disaster. Alas, family god, I also want to ask you a question. If Hu Xiangcai had no blood debt during his lifetime, but was just addicted to eating pig tails, if he died normally when he was old, would there be any problem in being reincarnated again?
The family god said, you are also asking a strange question. Of course, I still tell you, as you said, Hu Xiangcai was only addicted to eating pig tails during his lifetime and had no other evil obstacles. If he is reincarnated into a human body again, then he will still have problems. In middle age or old age, maybe in youth, his There will inevitably be problems in the butt area, either the anus bleeds for no reason, or he suffers from hemorrhoids all year round, which is difficult to cure, or cannot be cured at all. This disease will accompany him for the rest of his life.
The door god said "Oh", I understand. Whatever the cause is, there will be the effect.
The family god gave a thumbs up and praised, you are right!
