Chapter 155: Hou Yi Shoots the Sun
"How can I be sorry?" Nuwa said, "I have given human beings many chances, but they have not cherished them!" They let me down so much!"
Many chances? I was immediately puzzled, and I couldn't help but ask Nuwa how many chances she had given humans.
After hearing this, Nuwa was silent for a long time and did not speak.
Just as I was about to ask Nuwa again, Nuwa finally told me that she had given humans more than ten chances.
She said that the first chance she gave to mankind was when the Gonggong Gong was angry and the mountains caused the heavens and the earth to collapse and the world flooded.
I remember this allusion, Gonggong Fu touched Buzhou Mountain is a famous Han folk myth. Gonggong, also known as Gonggong, is the god of water in ancient Chinese mythology, who controls floods. Legend has it that Gonggong has always been at odds with Zhuan, and there was an earth-shattering battle, which ended in Gonggong failing and crashing into Buzhou Mountain in anger.
After Buzhou Mountain was knocked off, half of the sky fell, and many large holes were exposed; The ground also cracked, and deep pits and cracks appeared. When the sky collapsed and the earth cracked, the mountains and forests burned with raging fires, the earth erupted from the ground, and all kinds of fierce beasts sprang out from the surroundings, and the earth was like a hell on earth.
The goddess Nuwa was very sad to see the people she had created suffering in this way. In order to allow people to live a natural life again, Nuwa decided to repair the broken sky. This is an extremely difficult and complicated work, Nuwa first picked up a lot of five-colored stones in the river, and then burned the stones with a fire for nine days and nine nights to refine the red, yellow, green, white, and black mixed stone slurry, and then poured the stone slurry into the holes in the sky one by one, and repaired the cracked places.
The ensuing work is to hold up the heavens. Nuwa used the four legs of a large turtle to replace the pillars of heaven and erected them on the four sides of the earth, holding up the sky like a tent. The pillars are sturdy, and the sky will never fall again. Nuwa drove away the ferocious birds and beasts that plagued everywhere, and filled the flood with ashes made from reed grass. The heavens were mended, the earth was filled in, and the people of China were able to live a natural and happy life again.
I didn't expect that the battle between Gonggong and Zhurong back then, and Gonggong's anger caused the collapse of the heavens and the earth due to the collapse of Zhoushan, which was also carried out at the behest of Nuwa.
Nuwa said that at that time, she had already seen that the kind and simple human beings were corrupted by many evil thoughts, and when the people she created were already full of evil thoughts, greed, and lust, she decided to punish the eyes of the human beings in the world. But when she saw that humanity was in the midst of floods and living a miserable life, she relented again. She began to re-examine whether she had done too much, so she refined the multicolored stone in the back to make up for the sky, which was also the first punishment and the first opportunity that Nuwa gave to mankind.
When did the second chance take place?
Nuwa said that her second chance for humanity was when her descendants shot the sun.
After the first time Nuwa prepared to exterminate human beings, and later repented of refining multicolored stones to make up for the sky and save mankind, Nuwa began a long sleep. This sleep is tens of thousands of years.
This year, she finally woke up. The first thought she had when she woke up was to see what had become of the humans she had worked so hard to create!
She thought that the world had become a paradise in her mind, but in fact, it was not. She found that the human race at this time was even worse than tens of thousands of years ago! Human beings are not only full of evil, greed, and immorality, but they also kill each other! She was heartbroken by the sight of the fratricidal humans and prepared a plan to exterminate them for the second time.
This time, she arranged for the ten sons of heaven and earth to become ten suns, and then the heavens kept scorching the whole earth, and the weak human race finally suffered another catastrophe in tens of thousands of years.
Because the ten suns scorched the vast earth at the same time, the forests, animals, and humans on the earth were burned to death by the sun, the rivers and the sea dried up, and the fish living in the water were on the verge of extinction, and people were either burned alive by the sun's heat or became eaten by wild beasts. People are struggling in the midst of the calamity of the sea of fire, praying for the gift of God!
This time, in the face of the begging humans, Nuwa once again relented.
She ordered the ten sons of the Emperor of Heaven to stop all actions that endangered mankind, but the sons of the Emperor of Heaven, who were very playful, did not listen to Nuwa's orders at all, and Nuwa once again dealt with the current situation.
Therefore, this time, in order to save mankind, she fabricated Hou Yi, who was infinitely powerful and had excellent archery skills, and descended to the world to help mankind shoot down the ten suns in the sky.
In order to successfully shoot the sun, Hou Yi climbed over ninety-nine mountains, crossed ninety-nine rivers, crossed ninety-nine canyons, came to the East China Sea, and climbed a big mountain, at the foot of which was the vast sea. Hou Yi pulled out a 10,000-pound crossbow, mounted a thousand-pound sharp arrow, aimed at the hot sun in the sky, and shot an arrow with a swish, and the first sun was shot down. Hou Yi drew his bow and crossbow again, mounted a sharp arrow, and shot it with a buzz, shooting down two suns at the same time. Now, there are seven suns in the sky staring at the red eyes. Hou Yi felt that the sun was still very hot, and shot a third arrow fiercely.
The arrow was shot with great force, and one arrow shot down four suns. The other suns trembled and swirled in fright. In this way, Hou Yi shot arrows at the sun one after another, and none of them missed, shooting out nine suns. The nine suns that were shot by the arrow died one by one. Their feathers fell to the ground, and little by little their light and heat disappeared. Until there was only one sun left, he was very afraid, and immediately knelt down to pray to Nuwa Niangniang in the sky, and honestly obeyed Nuwa Niangniang's instructions.
Continue to contribute light and heat to the earth and all things.
After Hou Yi successfully shot the day, Nuwa thought that Hou Yi's mission had ended, so she took Hou Yi back from the world. But just as she was about to meet Hou Yi, she found that Hou Yi had fallen in love with a girl named Chang'e in the world. At this moment, she finally discovered that in addition to sin, killing, greed and (obscenity) among human beings, there is also holy love, so she was very moved, and she decided to leave Hou Yi in the world and monitor the world instead of her.
This time, Nuwa is in an endless slumber again, and she hopes that when she wakes up again, humans will become the paradise of her dreams under Hou Yi's surveillance.
But things didn't go as expected, and tens of thousands of years passed when Nuwa woke up again.
This time, the first thing she did after waking up was to look for Hou Yi, the monitor she placed in the human race, and after looking for a long time, she never found Hou Yi's figure.
Nuwa wandered in the world for a long time, and finally learned intermittently from the legends handed down by human beings that Hou Yi fell in love with Chang'e in the future, and later Hou Yi asked for the elixir of life in the hands of the Queen Mother of the West, and Chang'e took the elixir and ran to the moon and lived in the lonely and deserted Guanghan Palace. Since then, the two lovers who have been in love have been separated from each other since then, and Hou Yi has disappeared. (To be continued.) )