The middle-aged man walked out of the city gate with his snakeskin bag and went straight back to his home 10 kilometers away from the city. This is a row of adobe houses with rolling hills covered with masson pines at the back. The pond has slight waves like wrinkles, and the reflections of the adobe houses and trees on the shore are swaying.
When the middle-aged man entered the house and sat down to rest, a big yellow dog came out of nowhere, looked at the snakeskin bag and growled, probably smelling something strange. The middle-aged man stood up, shook the hedgehog out of the snakeskin bag, and rolled it into a ball on the ground. The big yellow dog pounced on it and took a bite. Unexpectedly, it stung his mouth with its sharp thorn, so he took a step back in fear and fell down. The tail barks.
The middle-aged man found a sharp fruit knife from the house. He was about to grab a hedgehog and skin it when he saw that it was covered in sharp thorns. He was afraid of the hedgehog. He also remembered what the seller said, beware of poisoning, so he found two thick sails. Putting on the leather gloves, he picked up the curled up hedgehog and squeezed it hard. It opened its body painfully, and its neck with its sharp beak-like mouth struggled to swing.
The middle-aged man held down its neck, cut a white mark on its lips with a knife, and blood oozed out for a moment. The hedgehog let out a scream, but the middle-aged man turned a deaf ear and continued to use the knife, drawing a bisecting line from the beginning. Head to chest.
The middle-aged man seemed to be an expert in handling wild animals. He put down the fruit knife, grabbed the hedgehog's skin with both hands as if he were holding the folds of his clothes, and then slashed back hard, and the hedgehog's skin with the fishy smell was gone. Cut it off.
At this moment, the hedgehog's sad cries and the sound of its skin being cut were intertwined. The middle-aged man threw its spiky fur on the ground, and then reached out to grab its bloody flesh. The hedgehog was not dead, it was still twisting. When the middle-aged man cut open its belly, it let out another scream, stretched its limbs a few times, and then stopped moving or screaming.
The hedgehog's soul became a wisp of smoke lingering in the air.
At this moment, a gray-white bottle flew in the air. He smacked the mouth of the bottle towards it, and the wisp of tobacco was sucked in. Soon the bottle was in the hands of the Animal God, and the cap was screwed on.
In the Chakravartin Palace, the Animal God unscrewed the lid and shook out the shredded tobacco from the bottle. In the blink of an eye, the shredded tobacco turned into a hedgehog. In front of the hedgehog were the ghosts of butterflies, maggots, flies, ants and other things that turned into eggs and died. , the strange thing is that they can all talk to the Wheel King. According to their respective karma, some wheel-turning kings transform into humans and take the molds of humans, some turn into fish and give the molds of fishes, and some turn into jackals, tigers and leopards, and give the molds of jackals, tigers and leopards.
When it was the hedgehog's turn, he retreated to the back without being seen by the Wheel King, and let the ones behind him come forward. The ones who came forward included cattle, horses, geese, ducks, chickens, quails and other domestic animals, as well as seals, otters, turtles, turtles, crabs and other amphibians. wild animals.
At this time, the animal god had already walked away. When he came to this hall, neither the ghost of humans nor the ghosts of animals could escape. They could only run within a certain range, just like a big fishing net covering a fish. Fish can only swim within the trap, but cannot swim out of it. The foolish hedgehog does not understand this truth. It still retreats and hides in a corner of this hall, hoping to be reincarnated in the human realm in the next life, but it has no way or certainty to realize the wish of this animal realm sentient being.
It hid for a while, and then realized that this corner was not hidden. It turned out that this corner was not a corner, but a glass basket. It didn't understand, and somehow it fell into the glass basket. It wanted to be reincarnated into the human world, but it saw many things. The ghost of a person.
What made it sigh was that the ghost of a man came to the underworld and was suffering a serious crime. Two ghost soldiers caught him, hung his tongue covered with black sores on a hook, and pulled it out. It was bloody, and a python slipped over. Grab it in one mouthful and then devour it.
The man screamed and was in great pain. He dipped his finger in blood and wrote a sentence on the ground: What law have I committed? Such bad retribution. The two ghost soldiers looked at each other and smiled, and then one of them opened a door or window. Many cattle came outside with their curved horns touching the window sill. There were buffaloes, oxen, yaks, etc., and their round eyes shot out a stream of light. The luster of hatred.
The man's ghost was very frightened when he saw the cattle outside the window, so he asked the ghost soldiers to close the window sash.
A ghost soldier asked him, do you understand what your fault is? He nodded penitently. Then scenes from the past life appeared in front of my eyes:
A butcher who slaughters cows especially likes to eat the tongue meat of cows. Every time he kills cattle, buffalo or yak, he cuts off the tongue meat one by one and eats it fried, stir-fried, or marinated in wine. Over time, the meat of the cow is eaten. Countless butchers have inadvertently felt pain at the base of their tongues, making them unable to eat. They touched a small weight with their hands;
When I looked in the mirror, I saw that the weight was still black, like the tongue of a dead cow, and the pain was like a dark fire. I couldn't help it, so I went to see a doctor. He had skin cancer at the base of his tongue, so he underwent surgery to remove it. However, a few days later, a small sore appeared next to it. The pain was also unbearable and he could not eat. His family fed him soup or gruel with a teaspoon every day. .
Unable to sleep, he asked his family to buy sleeping pills and take them before he fell asleep. He vaguely saw a group of cows running towards him crazily. One of the cows actually spoke to him: You are so vicious. You killed me that time and I was still alive. Just use it. The knife cut off my tongue...
Then a group of cattle rushed over and gored him with their horns. He woke up in a cold sweat and could not sleep again. The base of his tongue still hurt like a dark fire.
The family asked the doctor to operate on him again. The doctor said that the sore on the base of his tongue could no longer be cut and it was getting worse with more cuts. Within a few days, this butcher, who had a long history of killing cattle, died.
The ghost soldier behind saw him standing numbly and knew what he was remembering, so he said: That butcher is you. Now you will be tortured by the hook tongue in the underworld. After that, you will be reincarnated into the animal realm, turning into a cow and being killed by a cow. Those who die and are reincarnated as humans are slaughtered. This is called retribution. No matter how many cows you kill, you will be reincarnated as many times as you want, until the killing karma is exhausted.
The hedgehog in the glass basket was horrified when he saw this tragic scene. He seemed to have awakened and wanted to return to the ghost realm and be reincarnated by chance. As soon as this thought came to mind, it was strange that the glass basket that seemed to imprison it disappeared. The hedgehog became free and somehow came to the hall very quickly.
The Wheel King gave it a furry leather coat with a smile, and in a flash it rushed to a forest in the Saha World. It was an island in New Zealand. There were many and active wild animals on it. It wanted to be reincarnated as a tiger and become the king of beasts. , but they must catch up with their estrus period before they have a chance to be reincarnated.
In the spring of that year, two tigers, one male and one female, were mating closely. However, several ghosts in tiger costumes came and besieged it, and it fled.
Seeing many birds flying freely in the sky, it was very envious, so it planned to lay eggs as birds. However, it discovered that birds also have the phenomenon of predators of the weak, so it wanted to be reborn as a powerful big bird.
