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Sun Fugui is a famous butcher.

Today, I went to a servant of a large family and found him secretly. He said that one of the cattle that his family used to farm the land for the tenants below accidentally drowned.

 Let him go to the house to slaughter the cattle that accidentally drowned.

Sun Fugui is a well-known butcher in the city. He has dealt with countless pigs, sheep, cattle, and dogs. Anyone who wants to kill pigs or sheep will come to him. He even handles seven or eight cattle.

Speaking of cattle slaughter, the most interesting thing is that those who can afford to raise cattle are wealthy families, and those wealthy families will always have all kinds of strange reasons for killing cattle every now and then.

For example, a cow has a sprained foot and cannot bear to see the cow in pain, so he euthanizes the cow.

For example, when a cow was eating grass, it fell off a mountain because it was too greedy and died. In order to relieve the cow's pain, the owner "euthanized" the cow.

Another example is that he goes crazy and bites several people, so he "euthanizes" the cow twice so that it will not become a biting mad cow in the next life.

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 This time the reason is even more outrageous.

 The cattle drowned?

Every time he thinks of this reason, Sun Fugui wants to laugh.

Are these people so lazy to even think of an excuse to kill a cow?

With this continuous drought, the fields are cracked and there is no water. Let alone the cattle plowing the fields, even the water in the river has dried up. There is no water left. How could you accidentally drown?

However, these wealthy families were not something that an ordinary butcher like Sun Fugui could afford to offend. He didn't bother to think about whether there was any way to do this, as long as he gave enough rewards every time.

If you meet someone nice to talk to, you might be able to eat some leftover beef offal to satisfy your cravings...

 The patter of rain.

It is still raining in the sky.

Sun Fugui followed the servants of a wealthy family, casually wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, and walked in the market, letting the rainwater hit his face and form drops of water on his face.

　　It brought a rare coolness after the drought to his dark and rough face.

Until, a tall stone cow statue came into view of Sun Fugui.

The stone cow was tall and powerful, with a majestic momentum. It lowered its head slightly and raised its front hooves, as if it was carrying something heavy, as heavy as a thousand pieces of stone. The heavy, vicissitudes of history and the desolate atmosphere hit its face.

Come.

The stone cow is carved lifelike, and the texture of each tendon and muscle is clearly carved out by the hands of the stonemason, as if it is about to break out of the stone statue and come to life, which is lifelike.

As a local who grew up in Fucheng, Sun Fugui naturally knows the origin of this stone cow. It is said that it was dug out from the bottom of the river when the Yinyi River was cut off more than ten years ago. Together with this stone cow,

What came out was a stone coffin carried on the back of a stone bull.

I heard from the older generation that the stone cow was very strange when it was salvaged. It looked like it was carrying a coffin under the Yinyi River. It seemed alive and kept moving under the river until the Yinyi River stopped flowing.

It was only then exposed that the person buried in the sarcophagus was a Taoist priest...

 But this matter has been in the past for a long time after all.

Many folklore and legends of the older generation have become ambiguous, making it difficult to distinguish between true and false.

Perhaps this stone cow was really fished out from the bottom of the river, but whether there was a real sarcophagus or what Taoist priest was buried there, who can tell?

Perhaps it was a village by the river, and I can’t say for sure whether it was a stone cow thrown into the river.

There are many villages on both sides of the Yinyi River. There have been legends of the Dragon King since ancient times. In order to pray for good weather and no floods in the coming year, people in the two rivers often worship the Yinyi River and throw some clay pots, stone carvings and so on into the Yinyi River.

For example, during the continuous drought some time ago, many people chose young and beautiful women to serve as the Water Goddess to the Dragon King.

 “What a crime.”

 Sun Fugui sighed unbearably when he thought of those women who were killed.

Sun Fugui sighed, and when he was about to pass the stone cow, he suddenly stopped.

"Sun Fugui, what are you looking at? Let's go quickly." The servant who had been walking in front suddenly stopped when he saw Sun Fugui behind him. He stared at the stone bull in the square in a daze. He walked back impatiently and shouted

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Sun Fugui was in a daze for a while, until he was called out several times by his servants. He felt as if he was woken up by being slapped on the head. He pointed at the stone cow with a panicked expression and said, "You, did you see just now? This stone cow seems to be alive."

Come over?"

The servant looked impatiently at the stone cow that had been placed in the square for more than ten years.

He was tired of looking at this stone cow.
Chapter completed!