This is the first time I've seen half-human, half-demon creatures, they have a different feeling from humans, but they have a little more human touch than youkai.

"I was an ordinary girl living here, and like most people here, my family also grows alfalfa for a living. "I've loved horses since I was a child, and my father spoiled me, and he really gave me a horse as a gift when I was an adult." ”

"You turned out to be human?" is never mentioned in the available sources.

"Many silkworm girls were originally human," it said, "one day my father went out, and when he came back, he was carried back, he was hit by a car and injured his leg, if he can't be treated in time, he may have an amputated leg, although my family usually has some savings, but it is far from enough for surgery and subsequent treatment, my father is the pillar of the family, and as soon as he falls, it is equivalent to cutting off the financial source, so he doesn't want to spend this money, saying that it is good to raise it." ”

"It's not a good thing to raise," I said.

"Well, within a few days, my father's injuries became more and more serious, I didn't know anything at that time, and I never left home, and I wanted to make money instead of my father but had no clue. It spared its fingers, its light green nails as if they were transparent, "and just as I was crouching by the stable and shedding tears, my horse suddenly spoke." ”

Not only silkworm girls, but even horses can speak, maybe there is something more exaggerated.

"The horse said it could teach me how to make silk, and that the silk made with it could be sold for a very good price, but in return, I would marry it. The silkworm girl smiled when she said this, "Where have I seen a horse talking, and I thought it was God who came to save me, so I agreed without even thinking about it." ”

"This is no ordinary horse," I said, "and if you don't do what you promised it, you'll be punished." ”

"But I only thought it was an ordinary horse at that time, and after agreeing to marry it, it didn't know where to find a lot of silkworm cocoons, and began to teach me from mixing cocoons and peeling cocoons, and soon I learned to choose cocoons, boil cocoons, and reel silk, and within a few days, I was already able to weave beautiful silk fabrics, and the horses took me to a far away market, and the silk fabrics under its guidance were almost sold out, and when I returned home, my father was surprised and relieved, and finally agreed to go for surgery, and the next recovery was also smooth. ”

"Didn't you tell your father about promising horses?" I asked.

"Seeing my father getting better day by day, I didn't pay much attention to that agreement," said the silkworm girl, "until one night, when the horse poked his head into my window to inquire about marriage, I realized the seriousness of the problem, and the next day I hurriedly told my father, who killed the horse in a fit of anger, and angrily peeled off its horse skin and put it in the yard. ”

“... With all due respect, the horse is pitiful," I said, "and it should not have been moved to marry you, but it was born of love, and it did save the life of your family, so it should not have been killed." ”

"Now that I think about it, since I have promised it, I should give it an explanation anyway, but it is too late," said the silkworm girl, "after the horse was skinned, one day I was resting in the yard, and the horse skin in the ground suddenly rolled me up, and when I came back to my senses, I had been fixed on the big tree in the silkworm pond by the horse, and from then on, I was in the form of a silkworm during the day, and only at night would I become a human." ”

"So every time you go to find Toyoshige, it's at night. I said.

"Well, after becoming a silkworm girl, I can only eat mulberry leaves and drink nectar, during the day I spin silk as a silkworm, and at night I raise silkworms and weave silk as a silkworm girl. It said.

"Which kind of silver silk is the legendary silver silk in the field of Ousi? is it the silk you spit out, or the silk spit out by the silkworms you raised?"

"It is the silk that we raise silkworms," it said, "and our own silk is golden, and is mainly used to make the silk of dreams, which guarantees a good night's sleep." ”

"If you are a silkworm girl, how can you meet Feng Mao?"

"The silkworm girl can only leave the field of Osi on the eve of boiling cocoons, and that night I wanted to go home after bathing, but I miscalculated the time, and I did not go until dawn, and the noonday sun was so scorching that I had no strength to climb into the shade of the silkworm, and I could only lie down in the middle of the road and feel myself being dried a little by little," it said, "and then I met Feng Mao, and he walked away and came back, and sent me to the shade of the tree where I was dying, and I lived." ”

"I can't see that he is so gentle," I said, "and the person who is willing to save a silkworm on the side of the road must be a kind person." ”

"So Feng Mao is my life-saving benefactor, I can't bear to see him live such a poor life," the silkworm girl smiled slightly, "It stands to reason that the grace of saving life should be promised by body, but I am a silkworm girl, I can't leave the field of Ousi to live, I can only leave the seeds of the five-color grass and the eggs of the colored moth, after becoming a cocoon, I can draw silk and weave silk, and it should be able to sell it at a good price, and it is not a problem to worry about food and clothing." ”

"Did you tell him these words yourself, or did I convey them?" I asked.

"Please pass it on," it said, "and I have repaid the favor and cannot see him again." ”

"It's okay, I already know the reason, so I'll leave first," I stood up, and saw that the silkworm girl wanted to speak and stopped, and before leaving, I asked it, "Are you really just repaying his kindness to him?"

This answer doesn't make much sense. It said.

"Haha, I'm just curious, and I won't tell him," I said, "and if you don't want to tell, I won't ask again." ”

When I returned to Fengmao's residence, I told him what I had seen and heard in the silkworm girl's pool, but I omitted the last words of the silkworm girl, and if he didn't know something, he wouldn't regret it.

The next day I set off for the next destination, Feng Mao caught up from afar, and told me that he had a long dream last night, the dream was a place of green waters and green mountains, the girls were dressed in gauze clothes, singing and weaving silk, all kinds of silk and satin like mountains and seas, like a fairyland, in the dream he saw the silkworm aunt he thought about day and night, she gave him the golden dream silk, blessed him with a good dream every night.

When Feng Mao woke up, the dozen or so huge silkworm cocoons in the room had turned into shimmering silk, and the golden silk in the dream was also lying quietly on the pillow.

"Say, did she really come last night?" asked Toyoshige.

"Perhaps... Thinking and dreaming every day, right?"

"What do you explain about the silk in the house?"

"Perhaps... You knitted it yourself in the middle of the night?"

“......”

"Haha, I'm kidding, not everything can be explained. ”

"No," said Toyoshige, "I woke up today, and it was as if I had really mastered the art of silk making, as if I had learned it overnight." ”

"I guess," I said, "it's her parting gift to you." ”

Later, Feng Mao left his hometown, went north and south, became a famous silk merchant, his health was getting better day by day, and he married a beautiful wife, it is said that he would tell everyone the legend of the field of Ou Si wherever he went, he said that the silk town not only has gold and silver precious silk, but also industrious silkworm girls, they will invite kind people to come to this daughter country in their dreams, teach them the ability to raise silkworms.

Actually, I'm quite jealous of Feng Mao, after all, I also want to go to that legendary place to see, even in a dream, but although I didn't find the field of Osi, I still got the silver wire I wanted, and it was worth it, but I always remembered what Aunt Silkworm said to me at the end of my later trips, and she sighed slightly, completely like an ordinary girl.

"If I can, I also hope to be with him, even if the family is only the size of a turtle shell, it is enough for two people to rely on each other, even if they are so poor that they will not complain about eating pickles to satisfy their hunger, they will have each other, they will love each other equally, they will have a dull time, and they will be peaceful for the rest of their lives, so it will be good. But for the silkworm girl, this is too extravagant after all, and my only hope is that he can get a better future. ”