Chapter 13 The Scholar of the Household
He sat up and looked under the bed through the moonlight. It was pitch black and nothing could be seen.
I lit the candle again, walked to the kitchen, and checked the rice vat. There were no mice.
Li Chuan carefully checked the three rooms by the light of the candle, but there were no mice.
Forget it, let’s look for it again during the day tomorrow.
Turn on the lamp, get into bed, close your eyes.
Squeak, squeak, squeak.
When I was about to fall asleep, the sound appeared again.
This time, Li Chuan did not get up. He closed his eyes to listen to where the sound came from.
After a long time, I was about to fall asleep, and I heard another "squeak" sound, very close, as if...
Li Chuan suddenly opened the pillow.
No, no mice.
Forget it, Li Chuan gave up, put down the pillow, and fell asleep with the quilt covering his head. If he heard the sound again, he would never get up. If he didn't get bitten, he wouldn't get up!
During his sleep, the squeaking sound kept sounding far and near. Li Chuan ignored it and just fell asleep. When he fell into a very deep sleep, the squeaking sound stopped.
The next day, Li Chuan got up and searched all over the house. No trace of mice was found, but as soon as he went to sleep, he heard rustling and creaking.
He also wondered if there was a rat demon causing trouble.
He has encountered a chicken demon, a crab demon, and it is not impossible for him to be targeted by a rat demon again.
But later I discovered that when he closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep, there was no sound. He had to fall asleep. When he was half asleep, the sound started.
It seems that the problem lies with himself. It is probably the scholar Li Chuan who thinks too much on weekdays, so he has auditory hallucinations. Psychological problems will be reflected on the body after a long time, so he also heard it.
As for why I haven’t heard it before. It may be that the situations he went through were more stressful and exciting, so he ignored them. Now that he is back in a safe place, his psychological problems have returned.
After placing the problem on the original person, Li Chuan calmed down.
What can be done?
While thinking about it, his mind turned elsewhere - go to the street to cut a few kilograms of meat and come back to make up for it.
So after packing up, we went to the street.
There were two butchers selling meat on the street. Li Chuan came out a little late and one of them was closed. Only Butcher Pan’s butcher’s shop was still open.
Butcher Pan has been ill these days, and the person looking after the stall is his daughter, named Xiaohua.
Pan Xiaohua was born with great strength. When she was six or seven years old, she could run around the street with a piglet weighing more than 50 kilograms. At the age of eleven or twelve, she started helping butcher Pan and learned how to butcher pigs and sell the meat.
Li Chuan looked at the stall and saw only a pair of pig feet, and some pigs had fallen into the water.
He was a little disappointed. He originally wanted to buy some lard and go back to make lard.
But pig’s feet are not bad, so he said: “I want this pig’s feet.”
"Okay." Pan Xiaohua weighed the pig neatly, tied the pig's feet with a straw rope, and handed it to Li Chuan.
When Li Chuan took it over, he finally saw Pan Xiaohua’s appearance clearly. She had an apple face, willow eyebrows and almond-shaped eyes. There was a heroic spirit between her eyebrows and eyes. The hands holding the straw rope were small and fleshy, and the joints were hidden. Once inside the meat, the fingers are like radishes.
I really can’t imagine that this hand can kill pigs.
Li Chuan didn’t dare to look at it, paid the money, and left with the pig’s feet.
After walking a few steps, he heard a noise not far away. He followed the crowd and gathered around to watch the excitement.
It turned out that two neighbors were quarreling. One family's surname is Liu, and the other's surname is Wang.
The Liu family lost their chicken, and he suspected that the Wang family next door had stolen his chicken.
Why? Because the Liu family's rooster has been crowing desperately in the middle of the night these days. The wife of the Wang family had just given birth to a son, not even a hundred days old yet, and she cherished him very much.
The chicken crowed in the middle of the night and woke up the little baby, crying loudly.
So the Wang family came to the house several times and asked the Liu family to take care of the chickens at home. When the quarrel got fierce, they even killed the chickens.
So now that the Liu family’s chicken is missing, the biggest suspect is the Wang family.
Of course the Wang family did not admit it. While gloating about the misfortune, they mocked the Liu family and said that their chickens had committed too many sins and finally suffered retribution and were stolen.
The Liu family lost their chicken and were said to be retribution, which made them even more angry.
Neighbors often quarrel with each other, big or small. After the quarrel got angry, old and new grudges came to mind. I don’t know who made the first move, but a fight broke out!
When the onlookers saw that they were fighting, they began to break up the fight.
But Liu and Wang were so angry that they couldn't get away from each other at all.
Wang, a master, has great strength; Liu, although his movements are dexterous, has lost strength over time and has gradually fallen behind. When he was about to lose, Liu suddenly pulled out. A chisel was used to stab Wang in the head.
It turns out that Liu is a carpenter and he carries working tools with him.
Someone is going to die!
Li Chuan made a snap and immediately threw the pig's foot out, hitting the chisel.
The chisel was crooked by an inch and it made a hole.
The pig's feet fell to the ground, rolled a few times, and were stained with dust.
Liu was stunned for a moment, and Wang realized that he had just missed death. His anger surged and he wanted to fight back. However, Li Chuan stepped forward and grabbed Wang's sleeve.
Wang wanted to break away, but heard Li Chuan say loudly: "You are so ignorant! If I hadn't taken action just now, your life would have been lost. Is this how you treated your savior? ”
Wang couldn't find anything to say to refute for a while, so he was pulled away.
The onlookers also quickly pulled Liu aside.
Then, Li Chuan walked up to Liu and said, "You committed murder in broad daylight. Have you thought about the consequences?"
Liu scratched his neck and said, "He Stealing my chicken!"
Li Chuan said: "You want to kill someone just for a chicken? Do you think you can get away with killing your neighbor in front of so many people? Even if you run away for a while and take your life, do you think you can still be a carpenter and raise chickens? "
Liu gradually became dejected as he listened.
Li Chuan looked at him and said, "So you tell me, did I save you from fire and water? Am I your savior?"
Liu also asked Without any words to refute, he glanced at Wang and repeated: "He stole my chicken!"
Li Chuan asked: "Do you have evidence that he stole your chicken? For example, if you saw Did he steal the chicken feathers from your chicken? Or did he eat the chicken?"
Liu shook his head, "But who else? Can you run by yourself? ”
"You can't say for sure," Li Chuan said as he picked up the pig's feet that fell on the ground and patted the ashes. "Look at Zhang Yuanwai's chicken. Didn't he just run away and hook up with a girl?" The ghost is coming to harm the old master.”
The incident involving the demon in Zhang Yuanwai’s family was already causing a lot of trouble. Yesterday, Taoist Wen’s methods were spread, and the story of the chicken demon and female ghost was even more public. The ironclad is set.
(End of this chapter)