This year, several villages outside Hangzhou City, many strange things happened one after another, and every night of heavy rain, there would be livestock missing for no reason, as if they had disappeared out of thin air.
The prefect connected to several families to report the crime and sent someone to investigate carefully, but found nothing, did not know how the livestock were stolen, and there was no trace of the crime.
For a time, rumors spread everywhere, saying that there was an old zombie with infinite strength, taking advantage of the rainy night to capture livestock, and soon it would catch people, causing people to panic and everyone was in danger, closing the door and closing the house every night, and the heavy rainy night was even more trembling.
The prefect's investigation made no progress for more than a month, and for a while there was no clue, so he had to send people to quietly guard the homes of several households with livestock, hoping to catch someone.
But the perpetrator was very cunning, and there were two similar cases in a month, neither of which were in the homes of the people who had been guarded in advance.
On this day, a scruffy Daoist priest came to the prefect's gate, raised his feet to rush inside, and was scolded by four servants: "Where is the blind eye called Hanako, if you don't see clearly, you dare to break in!" ”
The Daoist priest said angrily, "I have come to relieve your prefect's worries, but if you delay it one day, I am afraid that it will cause great disaster!" ”
The four servants laughed and said, "Crazy people talk big, be careful that the wind flashes their tongues!" Get far away, and if you don't go any further, you will be punished for the crime of disturbing the gates! ”
Just as several people were making noise in front of the gate, the prefect just returned, got off the palanquin and scolded: "Noisy and noisy, what a system." ”
The Daoist hurriedly stepped forward: "Your Honor, the poor Dao has come from Qingyun Mountain, I have heard that many livestock have disappeared for no reason recently, so I have come to arrest the criminals, please hurry up and help me, otherwise it will be too late for another day!" ”
The prefect listened and hurriedly said, "Does the Dao Commander have a way to solve the case?" Please come with me! ”
Many high-ranking people in the world do not trim the edges, and their tattered clothes are not incompetent, and the prefect is well-informed and naturally knows this truth, so he did not neglect the Daoist and invited him into the house for advice.
The two sat down to look at the tea, and the prefect asked again, "Does the Dao Commander know the ins and outs of this matter?" ”
The Daoist nodded, "I learned about the rumor from it, so I hurried to come." This is not an ordinary crime, but a demon who sucks up the essence and wants to cultivate into human form! ”
"Demons suck blood?" The prefect frowned in surprise.
"It is precisely that the demon can fly off the ground, sneak into the farmhouse under the cover of heavy rain, take away the livestock and suck up the sperm and blood, so there will be no trace of clues."
The prefect nodded, "What kind of demon is it?" And how to catch it? ”
The Daoist pondered, "Demons are cunning, but there are also ways to catch them, so please prepare thirty cattle and sheep each, give them to the poor Dao to make a good mark, and then tie them to the grass outside the city, if the demons come again, I will have a way to know where it is." ”
The prefect immediately nodded, ordered the people to quickly buy thirty cattle and sheep each and hand them over to the Daoists, and then posted a notice that the people were not allowed to take the cattle and sheep outside the city without permission.
The Daoists only spent half a day marking and led the cattle and sheep to the outside of the city and tied them up.
That night, it suddenly rained heavily, and the next morning, the Taoist priest went to check it out, and sure enough, he found that there were five cows and two sheep missing!
Then, the Daoists took a cadre of servants and rode into the deep mountains and old forests on high-headed horses, and in a remote valley, they found the corpses of many livestock, and sure enough, they had all been sucked dry of blood.
The Daoist people found a few cattle and sheep that disappeared last night, and said to the people, this demon has some wisdom, someone secretly guards it and does not come, so I don't want you to secretly guard it, and on the cattle and sheep, marked with the Daomen secret method, I can sense it for hundreds of miles and the like. ”
The servants were amazed and admired, and asked, "Please ask the elder, what is the evil cult?" ”
The Daoist pointed to the long stone that was lying on the ground not far away, "This is what is the cause!" Go back and get the chisel hammer and break it and bury it! If you are half a day late and let it suck enough blood, it can fly a hundred miles, and it is not easy to catch it! ”
Originally, there was a pig killer outside Hangzhou, surnamed Jiao, known as Jiao Tu, who grew five years and three thick, and had a beard. Because of his bold and moralistic personality, he has some fame in the tens of miles, so many people are willing to sell pigs to him.
Jiao Tu usually kills pigs on a long stone in his yard, slaughters bones and meat after killing, and then takes them to the market to sell.
Speaking of the long stone, it was dug out of the dirt in the yard by his grandfather many years ago, and the square strips were just used to kill pigs and sharpen knives.
So three generations of grandchildren have killed pigs and sharpened knives on this stone, and the stone is often stained with pig blood, and one of them has become black.
Jiao Tu was forty-seven years old when he was seriously ill, and it was not easy to recover, and someone advised him: "Jiao Tu, you have killed pigs for half your life and created many sins, maybe this serious illness is a warning from heaven to you, you still have to stop here, and seek him else!" ”
Jiao Tu listened, and couldn't help but believe a few points in his heart, thinking that in the past twenty years, killing pigs has also earned a lot of silver, enough for his family to live, so he simply collected the knife and started other businesses.
One night, the stone disappeared, and Jiao Tu only stole it from a stupid thief, nor did he take it seriously, who knew that the stone had been soaked with pig blood for many years, and gradually gathered the spirit of death into a spirit.
Because Jiao Tu no longer killed pigs, it had no blood to continue cultivating, so it floated away on the rainy night, and then committed crimes everywhere, sucking livestock on its body and floating away, but finally it was seen through by the Daoists and arrested and destroyed.