In the Ming Dynasty, there was a butcher named Wang Liyi, who was originally a tenant and lived by renting farmland.
However, farming does not make money, he has not made money for many years, and he has fallen into a bunch of debts.
In a fit of rage, Wang Liyi started from scratch, he saw that others were very profitable by killing pigs and slaughtering sheep, so he borrowed some money, bought knives, and also began to kill pigs and slaughter cattle, becoming a butcher.
However, the butcher is not easy to do, Wang Liyi has been working for nearly ten years, or he still has not done a good job.
Some people say that Wang Liyi's technique of killing pigs is not good, bloodletting is not enough, and the taste of pork is not good;
Some people also say that Wang Liyi will not cut meat and remove bones, and it is not easy to cook meat when he goes home;
Some people also say that Wang Liyi can't grasp the time, he can't get mutton during the New Year's Festival, but usually he gets a lot of it and can't sell it.
Some people even gave Wang Liyi a nickname and called him "fast knife", which is not to say that his knife skills are good, but the meaning of "fast knife cutting chaos", which is a joke that Wang Liyi kills pigs like chopping messy hemp.
Wang Liyi was angry and angry, and finally gave up on himself, and died before he was forty years old.
Before dying, Wang Liyi told his son Wang Quanren: You must be a butcher, win glory for your father and me, and don't be laughed at.
Wang Quanren was sixteen years old at the time, and he fully understood his father's feelings, and nodded his head while shedding tears.
In fact, Wang Liyi has always been teaching his son how to kill pigs and sheep, but his skills are limited, and although Wang Quanren learns with his heart, he has not learned well.
After the death of his father, Wang Quanren did not immediately continue to be a butcher, he listened to his mother's words, "sharpen the knife and do not cut wood by mistake", spend money to travel around, look around for butchers, and when he finds them, he will look at them from the side, and it will be a whole day.
Sometimes, he forgot to even eat.
Staying in the inn at night, he took out a knife, simulated killing pigs and sheep, and kept practicing until he was satisfied.
Sometimes, he is willing to help others kill pigs and sheep for free.
At first, some people disliked Wang Quanren, saying that his pig-killing technique was terrible;
Slowly, everyone began to praise him, some people said that he had good knife skills, some people said that he was like a Ding Ding to solve the cattle, and he was at ease.
Three years later, there was hardly anyone to hear criticizing Wang Quanren's technique.
Wang Quanren has a lot of thoughts and is very clever, and he thinks that if he can occasionally hunt some prey and sell it to everyone to eat, everyone will definitely like it.
So, he spent more than a year learning archery and throwing knives, until within a hundred steps, a hundred shots, he stopped learning.
In less than five years, Wang Quanren's slaughtering technique was already very powerful, and there was no one more powerful than him in the entire Huizhou capital, so he went home, officially inherited his father's business, and continued to be a butcher.
In the past few days, many people came to see the joke and thought that Wang Quanren would be like his father, he would not be a butcher, and he would be killed by everyone.
However, after a few days, they did not think so, because Wang Quanren killed pigs and sheep, clean and sharp, bloodletting, shaving, cleaning internal organs, cutting bones and cutting flesh, dividing into small pieces, very smooth, all in one go.
Even when Wang Quanren killed pigs, there would be many people to watch, because they never found that the original pig killing could look so good.
In today's words, Wang Quanren is also the first person to kill pigs live.
When he has free time, Wang Quanren will also go hunting on the nearby hills, he is highly skilled in archery, first-class flying knife skills, and can often hit wild boar, rabbits, foxes, roe deer and other wild game.
When he returned, he asked for a low price and sold it to everyone.
Many people covet freshness and will come to buy it, and their impression of Wang Quanren is better.
Therefore, soon Wang Quanren's business was on fire, and in three years, he not only earned a few hundred taels of silver, but also married a wife, two beautiful concubines, and gave birth to three sons.
Not long after, his mother died, and Wang Quanren kept filial piety for another three months.
Of course, he has already taken in an apprentice, and there are apprentices who continue to open and kill pigs, so that the business will not be left unattended.
On this day, Wang Quanren asked his apprentices to open a meat sale and go hunting in the mountains by themselves.
Having not hunted for a long time, he decided to go and fight a big guy and sell more money.
Entering the mountain, Wang Quanren walked around in a big circle, and he didn't find the prey, which was very strange.
It was almost dark, and Wang Quanren went home dejected.
When he was about to go out of the mountain, he found a small wild boar, less than a hundred pounds, with dark fur, the back mane like an arrow, looking very imposing, and it must be powerful when it grows up.
The little wild boar also saw Wang Quanren, and it seemed to know that Wang Quanren had come to hunt, and it looked very angry, its eyes widened, and it stared at Wang Quanren viciously.
Wang Quanren's heart was hairy, but he was reluctant to let go of the little wild boar in front of him, so he took a bow and arrow and shot at the little wild boar.
The little wild boar was flexible and dodged at once.
Wang Quanren fired three arrows in a row, and the little wild boar dodged and rushed towards Wang Quanren while hiding.
Wang Quanren was a little flustered, such an animal that is not afraid of death is really the first time to see, is it not that the newborn wild boar is not afraid of hunting?
He did not have time to shoot the arrow, took the throwing knife from his waist, and whizzed out, the little wild boar dodged the two flying knives in front of him, and the third knife did not dodge it, and he suffered a slight wound to his forehead.
At this time, the little wild boar had already arrived at Wang Quanren, and it knocked Wang Quanren down at once, and then stepped on Wang Quanren with both feet, and roared at Wang Quanren with huge fangs.
Strangely, this little wild boar had obviously subdued Wang Quanren and could lower his mouth, but he did not take the opportunity to bite him to death, as if he did not want to kill him.
Wang Quanren couldn't move, he was afraid in his heart, so he casually touched a large stone and smashed it against the head of the little wild boar.
After three or five strokes, the little wild boar fainted on the ground.
Wang Quanren got up and wanted to kill the little wild boar, but suddenly he glanced at the tail of the wild boar and thought to himself: If you pull this wild boar home and raise it, and then pair it with the pig at home, won't there be many small wild boars?
Wild boar meat is more powerful than domestic pork, and the price is also expensive!
Thinking of this, Wang Quanren found a few wooden sticks, cut the bark with a knife, tied the little wild boar up, tied it to the stick, and with all his strength, finally dragged the little wild boar home.
Back at home, it was already evening, and the wives and concubines had been waiting for a long time.
Wang Quanren said a word of peace, and then threw the little wild boar in the pigsty.
To prevent accidents, he placed the little wild boar in a circle alone and did not untie it.
Subsequently, Wang Quanren changed his clothes and fortunately was not injured.
The next morning, before dawn, Wang Quanren, who had been thinking about the little wild boar in his heart, had woken up early, and he wanted to see how the little wild boar was doing.
If he could, he would keep it, and if he couldn't, he would kill it, or the meat would taste bad.
At this time, the wives, concubines and sons of the family had not yet gotten up.
Wang Quanren got out of bed, got dressed, quietly opened the door, and walked toward the pigsty.
Before he reached the pigsty, he heard a sound that seemed to be someone talking.
Could it be that someone is trying to steal their own pig?
Or is someone thinking about this little wild boar?
Wang Quanren couldn't understand it, so he closed the door and quietly approached the pigsty, listening carefully.
Only to hear a woman say: Tenjin, how did you get like this?
Immediately after that was a man's voice, he said, Emperor Daughter Sang, you don't know, this matter has to start from the beginning.
I was originally the favor of the Heavenly Doumu Yuanjun, but because of my mistake, the Yuanjun relegated me to this place, beat me into its original form, re-cultivated, and put me in charge of guarding this mountain forest.
I've only been here for a month, and I'm not strong enough, so I'm just a little wild boar.
Yesterday, when I was guarding the mountain forest, I saw the king butcher who often came to hunt, and I had already subdued him and was about to reprimand him, but he knocked me unconscious with a stone.
I could not manifest the Yuan God, nor could I use the Fa, so I was captured.
Emperor Sang was the daughter of Emperor Yan and was good at divine fire, and she continued to ask: I know that you are the god under the Yuan Emperor's throne, but I don't know what happened when the Heavenly God summoned me to come with the order of the Yuan Emperor?
The pig god said: Yesterday I spared the king butcher, but I did not expect that he would throw a cruel hand, almost destroying my flesh and taking my life.
If I hadn't had the protection of a golden body, I would have been killed by him.
The king butcher slaughtered pigs and sheep, went up the mountain to hunt, and injured countless people, the Emperor of Heaven was going to punish him, but it was not yet time, and now, the time has come, I have received the Mandate of Heaven, and ordered you to burn the King Butcher's house to show heavenly might!
Emperor Nu Sang could not bear it and asked: It is the duty of the butcher to slaughter pigs and sheep, and moreover, the people regard food as the sky, and without the butcher, how can they eat meat?
The pig god sighed and said: Pigs, sheep, cattle and horses, originally they were domesticated and raised to kill and eat, but there is nothing.
However, the creatures on this mountain are not like this!
Wild boars, roe deer, foxes and rabbits are all born to breed, neither attacking humans like tigers and wolves, nor stealing food like rats.
And the king butcher killed pigs to get rich, married wives and concubines, had three sons, was not satisfied, and often went to the nearby mountains to hunt, so that the creatures on the mountains were almost extinct, and the local people also followed suit, is not it too much?
When Wang Quanren heard this, he broke out in a cold sweat.
He understood that over the years he had hunted a lot of prey, and he could get rich, not by selling pork and mutton, but basically by selling wild game.
Just thinking about it, Wang Quanren heard Emperor Sang say again: Since the Heavenly Emperor has an order, and the King Butcher is so excessive, then my honorable order is.
The pig god confessed to people outside the family of the king butcher, and said that time was hot and waiting.
When Wang Quanren listened, the time was less than midnight, and it was just dawn.
He looked to the east, and there was already a glimmer of red light, which was a precursor to the rising sun.
Wang Quanren suddenly reacted, and quickly looked behind him, only to see that smoke had already come out of the house, and there were also flames, strangely, only his own house was like this, there were no flames on the left and right sides, as if it was covered by something.
The wives and concubines and sons have not yet gotten up.
Wang Quanren was horrified and rushed into the house.
At this time, the smoke choked people, Wang Quanren felt that it was difficult to breathe, he shook his wife and son, and then let them out.
The wife and son panicked, not knowing what was going on, choked on the smoke and unable to speak.
Wang Quanren was slightly calm, looked around, did not find water, in a hurry, he pulled off the sheet, took off his pants, and peed on the sheet.
Then he tore the sheets into small pieces, let his wife and son take the wet cloth strips, cover their mouths and noses, and open the way in front of themselves, and finally rescued his wife and son.
Wang Quanren went to another house, took a wet cloth strip, gave it to the concubine and son, and rescued two concubines and a son.
At this time, Wang Quanren was already burning his hair and eyebrows to the extreme, and when he looked at the pigsty, the little wild boar was gone.
Less than half an hour after the fire burned, Wang Quanren's house was reduced to ashes, but there was nothing wrong with the houses on both sides.
At that moment, Wang Quanren knelt on the ground and prostrated his head, although there was no house, he finally rescued a wife, two concubines and three sons.
Wang Quanren took some money out of the ashes, took his wife and concubines, rented a house, and temporarily settled down.
He knew what to do in the future, but he was not sad.
That night, Wang Quanren had a dream, and in the dream, he heard the little wild boar and the emperor's daughter Sang talking.
Emperor Nu Sang said: Wang Butcher's family, who escaped the fire, do not know how to deal with it?
The little wild boar said: The king butcher can escape the heavens, and it is also providence!
He already knew that he was wrong, so let him spare his life for the time being, hoping that he would be a butcher in the future and stop wantonly killing the creatures in the mountains.
From that day on, Wang Quanren never went hunting again, and he honestly slaughtered pigs and sheep because he knew that this was what he should do.
Sometimes, when he saw others hunting, he would dissuade him, and when he saw living creatures, he would buy them and release them into the mountains.
Once, twice, the little wild boar saw him and didn't rush anymore.
Wang Quanren relied on his craftsmanship to make a fortune again.
His three sons, one inheriting his father's business, two of whom studied, were also very successful later.