Monkey brain (Liaozhai story)

Zuo Feng in Yuxian is a businessman. With deep pockets, he is very arrogant on weekdays, bullying the weak and fearing the hard. One day he was ill, and after a few days he recovered. He thought a lot. I am so rich and happy, but I don't know when I can enjoy this fairy-like life. He is terrified at the thought of death, so in his spare time, he often goes to various places to ask for advice from those who know how to live forever.

One day, he met a charlatan, cheated him a lot of money, tricked him into a deep forest, caught a monkey, smashed the monkey's head with a stone, sucked its brains, and showed a satisfied expression on his face. He is very mysterious. Tell him that if he wants to live forever, he will eat live animal brains. Zuo Feng was overjoyed. So I rode home.

After that, I ordered people to buy some animals, smash their brains alive and suck their brains dry. Every time the servants see him greedily sucking the white sticky brains of monkeys, they can't help vomiting. A few days later, Zuo Feng was not satisfied, and ordered people to go to the mountains to catch animals. Servants have to go to the mountains to catch rabbits and pheasants.

Once, he caught a boa constrictor and came home. Zuo Feng was overjoyed and ordered them to skin the snake alive. His eyes greedily devoured the snake gall in front of the struggling snake, and he held a fire in the yard to roast the snake meat. After a while, he felt as if he was getting better and better. I am very happy.

One day, the weather was fine and Zuo Feng was in a good mood, so he went to the mountains alone. Halfway up the hill, I suddenly saw a monkey jumping in front of him. I was overjoyed and wanted to catch it, so I followed closely and waited for an opportunity to catch it. And the monkey is stop-and-go, from time to time back to make a face at the left wing.

At first, Zuo Feng was very excited and energetic, but after a long time, he was panting and exhausted, and regretted not bringing some servants. But although he was exhausted, he was insatiable and insisted on chasing monkeys. Not exactly. The monkey stopped at the top of a cave. When Zuo Feng saw the huge cave, he couldn't help being full of strength.

He thinks this cave should be a monkey's lair, and he will go back after his own investigation and bring some people to arrest him. Thinking of this, he approached the monkey slowly, but the monkey didn't seem afraid, and took him to the cave as if he were deliberately seducing him. Cao Wei entered the cave without hesitation, and the monkey suddenly squeaked.

Moments later, countless monkeys and pythons suddenly gushed out of the cave and gathered around angrily. In an instant, the left front was surrounded. A few days later, Zuo Feng's family found him on the mountain. To their great surprise, at this time, the left front had no flesh and blood, and the whole skeleton and brain seemed to be sucked dry by some animal. Even my eyes were swallowed. Without the proof of his clothes, his bones really can't confirm that he is a left winger. Zuo's family witnessed his tragic death and couldn't help crying. Want to report the murderer to the authorities.

The monks in the temple on the mountain all fled when they saw this scene, looking solemn and chanting Amitabha. In an instant, the benefactor killed all beings for selfish desires before he died! Sow the consequences, this life is doomed. The left family knelt down and asked the monk for advice.

Seeing that they are very pious, the monk sighed and said, it is a gift from heaven to have a baby, live a rich life, eat and drink! But he was greedy, wanted to live forever, and killed many animals cruelly! It's really inhuman! If you keep his bones, you should all do more good deeds and stop killing animals. Otherwise, his bones will be dug out by animals, so that he will die in the wild. Even wild ghosts can't do it! Then he sighed and left. Since then, Zuo's descendants have accumulated virtue and done good deeds, and no longer harmed animals.