Ji Xiaolan????tells stories about cause and effect #28 Killing is the most serious karma 殺業至重

(English subtitles) 紀曉嵐講因果故事 Ji Xiaolan (紀曉嵐1724-1805) was an influential philosopher, politician, and writer in the Qing Dynasty of China.
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In a certain place in Fujian, there was a lady who loved to eat cat meat. After she caught a cat, she first put quicklime in a jar, threw the cat in, and then poured in a pot of boiling water.
The cats are corroded by the evaporation of lime gas, and their fur falls off completely, so there is no need to remove and deal with their fur.
Moreover, cat blood is concentrated in the heart,
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making cat meat crystal clear, delicious and white as jade. She said: "After this treatment, the taste of cat meat is ten times stronger than that of tender chicken.
So she set up a net every day, and she caught and ate countless cats. Later, the lady became critically ill and kept meowing like a cat for more than ten days before she died.
Lu Huiji, who served as an observation official, was once a neighbor of this lady. His son, Lu Yinwen, is my son-in-law, who told me about this matter.
Speaking of cruelty to small animals, Lu Yinwen recounted another story: There was a son of an official in Jingzhou who enjoyed catching small animals like cats and dogs,
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breaking their legs and twisting their feet backwards. He then amused himself by watching them stagger around, trying to move forward but unable to, constantly wailing in agony.
He tortured many small creatures to death. Later, the children he gave birth to were all born with their heels facing forward and toes facing backward.
Further, my family has a servant named Wang Fa, who is passionate about playing with bird guns and never misses his target. He killed dozens of birds every day. Wang Fa had only one son, who was born in Jining, Shandong Province, so he was named Jining.
When Jining was eleven years old, he suddenly developed boils all over his body, so densely packed that it looked like he had been shot by a musket. In each boil was a grain of iron sand, and no one knew how it got in. Although Wang Fa sought medical treatment for him in every possible way, he eventually died, and the Wang family was cut off from descendants. The sin of killing is extremely serious. Judging from these examples, you should believe it.