Hundreds of years ago, the cat and the dog were a pair of aunts and cousins who opened a leather shop in the town of Hongze. Cats catch mice, dogs chase rabbits, take off mouse skins, rabbit skin hanging jackets, make suitcases, and make leather bags and shoes...... The meat is kept as a vegetable to eat, and if it can't be eaten, it is sold on the street. It's really a thriving business, and it's making money every day.

But this cat is suspicious, and the dog is careful, and the cousins are suspicious, and as the day grows, they split. The cat's two front paws are not a good thing, scratching here today and scratching there tomorrow, bent on catching the puppy's handle. What about the dog, the pair of nostrils, sniffing here and smelling there, bent on sniffing the cat's fault.

One day, the dog went out into the field to pick up the rabbits, and the cat caught mice at home and took them to cook. At noon, the dog picked a rabbit and came back, and the cat caught a lot of mice. The dog had never caught so many rabbits, and no matter how tired he was, he was happy. When I saw the cat at home, I was not very happy, and the cat had a coffin face so that people didn't dare to look at it. I thought, why, did you quarrel with the customer?

In the old days, as soon as the dog and the rabbit arrived home, the cat had already prepared the meal, set it on the table, and poured wine and waited for the dog to come back. What's wrong today? What's uncomfortable? The dog wanted to ask, but the cat didn't want to pay attention to it, and only looked up and down at the rabbit's tail it had brought up, and at the mouse tail it had caught hanging on the wall. The dog, as for it, slowly seemed to understand a little, and looked up and down, looking left and right at the rabbit ears it had caught and the mouse ears that the cat had caught.

The two sides were silent for a while, but the dog spoke first: "What's the matter, cousin?" I don't want to eat yet. The cat ignored it, staring at the tail of the rabbit and the mouse. The dog went to serve the food and put the wine on the table, and shouted again, "Cousin, let's eat!" The cat deliberately licked his mouth and wiped his lips and said, "My rabbit's tail has long been full." ”

It turned out that the cat had been looking for months and had been trying to grab the dog's handle, but today it was caught. It saw that the rats it caught were smaller than the rabbits, but the tails were only longer than the rabbit's tails, so where did the rabbit's tail go? The dog must have eaten the rabbit's tail outside!

As for the dog, when he saw the cat looking at the tail of the rabbit and the mouse, he slowly understood: "Why is it that my rabbit's ears are so long and big, but its mouse ears are so small, that it steals the mouse's ears at home, and suspects me." The dog said, "I can swear, rabbits have always had short tails, and I think someone stole the ears of mice!"

The cat also quickly said: "Mice are small ears at all." The more the cousins quarreled, the more fierce they became, and then they fought. The dog overturned the table, the cat broke the dishes, and even the stove. In a fit of rage, the cousins broke up and the leather store was closed.

In the end, the dog and cat cousins swore a curse together: when the dog can catch the long-tailed rabbit, the cat can catch the big-eared mouse, and the cousins will reconcile. In this way, the dog chases the rabbit every day, the cat catches the mouse every day, the cat sneers when it sees the dog, and the dog sees the cat with red eyes.

A long time ago, there was a woodcutter, everyone called him Niu Wazi, who made a living by collecting firewood all year round. One day, on the way to chop wood, Niu Wa accidentally found a small egg, he picked it up and saw that the little egg white was raw and bright, so he carried it in his arms.

Soon, Niu Wa returned home after collecting firewood, felt that something in her arms moved, unbuttoned her shirt and looked, ah! It turned out to be a small blue snake. Niu Wa made a bamboo cage and put it in it and raised it carefully. After a few months, the baby snake slowly grew up.

One day, Niu Wa came home from collecting firewood, and when she saw the bamboo cage, the blue snake was gone. That night, Niu Wa lay on the bed, thinking about the blue snake, and fell asleep for a long time. Suddenly, he saw the blue snake sneaking towards him, and thought: "So you are here, so I have a hard time finding it!" Unexpectedly, the blue flower snake raised its head and suddenly said to him: "I am the daughter of Zhang Tianshi of Longhu Mountain, thank you for hatching and raising me, I can't repay your kindness, please wait at the fork in the back mountain tomorrow evening, I want to meet you." In the blink of an eye, the snake was long gone, and it turned out to be a dream.

The next day, Niu Wa came to the fork in the back mountain, and sure enough, she saw a woman dressed in blue. Xide Niuwa hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Miss, --? you?" The woman replied, "My surname is Zhang, my name is Lan Xiang, I live in Longhu Mountain, and I made an appointment with you last night." So they worshipped heaven and earth in the wilderness with joy, and became husband and wife.

After a while, Lan Xiang fidgeted and said to Niu Wa: "I was originally from Longhu Mountain, in order to repay your kindness, I came to marry you, and now I have been out for a long time, I have the heart to go back to see, but I can't bear to leave you." After Niu Wa heard about it, she was willing to accompany her to Longhu Mountain.

They walked for a long time before they arrived at Longhu Mountain. Lan Xiang led the cow baby to meet her father-in-law, Zhang Tianshi. When Zhang Tianshi saw it, he was taken aback and thought secretly. originally wanted to give his daughter to the ninth prince of the Yangtze River Dragon King, but he didn't want her to disobey her father's orders, transform and escape, and marry this layman. Only by killing Niu Wa and then promising Longjun can he fulfill his wish.

The next day, Zhang Tianshi instructed Niu Wa: "Today you go to the backyard to cut Nanzhu and weave a few baskets!"

Niu Wa told Lan Xiang about this, and Lan Xiang said: "This Nanzhu is a big python that my father ambushed, and it will die if it touches the bamboo leaves!" When Niu Wa heard about it, she was scared, and Lan Xiang quietly told him how to cut it.

Niu Wa took an axe and came to the backyard, only to see a Nan bamboo, several feet tall, spitting white mist. Niu Wa unhurriedly circled the bamboo roots, turned left three times, turned right three times, raised the axe and chopped, Nanzhu fell down with green blood. Niu Wa grabbed the tip of the bamboo with her hand and dragged it back without looking back.

Zhang Tianshi saw that a plan had not been successful, so he set up another plan. The next day, he commanded: "Niu Wa, there is a forest behind the mountain, you go and put it down."

Niu Wa asked Lan Xiang for a plan, and Lan Xiang said: "This forest is a group of jackals, tigers and leopards locked by my father, if people get close to the trunk of the tree, they will be eaten, I will go with you tomorrow!"

Niu Wa and Lan Xiang came to the back mountain, only to see a large forest in Hessen, and the fog was rising. Lan Xiang found two kudzu vines and connected them, told Niu Wa to hold one end, stood still, picked up one and ran towards the woods, and the kudzu vine became longer and longer, and tightened. They all walked down the hill at the same time. In this way, a forest of brushed land was put away.

A few days later, Zhang Tianshi said to Niu Wa again: "This morning, you carried ten bags of sesame seeds up the mountain and scattered them on the newly opened field."

Niu Wa asked Lan Xiang what to do, and Lan Xiang said: "This sesame seed is the ant essence that my father has received, and it has been practicing for two hundred years, and once it is bitten, it will die." When Niu Wa heard this, she was scared into a cold sweat, Lan Xiang whispered to him, and Niu Wa turned into joy.

Niu Wa carried the corner of the cloth bag, came to the mountain, and lifted the bottom of the bag to a poplar, and suddenly, the sesame seeds were like a drizzle, evenly scattered in the field.

When he returned home, Zhang Tianshi saw that he was not poisoned by ants, and said to him: "I am confused, that field is planted with wheat, you better take back all the sesame seeds for me!"

Lan Xiang hid next to her, and when she heard her father's instructions, she and Niu Wa came to the back mountain and asked Niu Wa to tear the cloth bag apart. Lan Xiang whistled, and suddenly tens of thousands of sparrows rushed straight into the field, and after a while, the sesame seeds spit out of the sparrow's mouth, just ten bags.

These three poisonous schemes did not kill Niu Wa, Zhang Tianshi knew that it was Lan Xiang who helped, so he thought of a trick that Lan Xiang could not rescue.

A few days later, Zhang Tianshi said to Niu Wa: "Now that there is a drought, you go and dig out the sediment in the well in the corner of the house, and I will take the Tianquan for later use."

After hearing this, Niu Wa thought to herself: What's so difficult about this! He told Lan Xiang about this, but when Lan Xiang heard this, she was surprised and said, "Where is this well?" This is the mouth of the red dragon spirit that my father took away the year before last. As soon as the person goes, the dragon's mouth immediately closes, and in less than a day, it will turn into clear water. Niu Watuo asked if there was a way to save him, and Lan Xiang said: "Only Li Zhenren of Wudang Mountain can break this, I have no choice."

Niu Wa was so anxious after hearing this, Lan Xiang said: "No, let's leave here tonight, it seems that my father's intention to kill is difficult to change."

Niu Wa asked how to walk to escape. Lan Xiang said: "I can only go to the east, the wild boar spirit is sleepy, and the guard is not too strict; The tiger spirit in the west, the fox spirit in the south, and the spider spirit in the north are all strictly guarded. Be sure to bring an umbrella with you next to your bed when you leave. Remember not to stretch out on the road. Niu Wa nodded.

That night, Niu Wa hurriedly took an umbrella, came out of the back door, and went straight to the east to the bottom of the mountain.

At this time, in the night sky, dark clouds rolled, lightning flashed, and the downpour poured down, Niu Wa forgot his wife's instructions for a while, and opened the umbrella to cover the rain. Unexpectedly, as soon as it was opened, a blue snake fell from the umbrella. It rolled on the spot, and it turned out to be orchid. Niu Wa was overjoyed and surprised. Lan Xiang blamed: "I told you not to hold it out, but you didn't follow me, I am now revealing my original form, and the blue smoke emitted by my father, after my father knows about it, he will inevitably chase after him."

Sure enough, Zhang Tianshi got up at dawn, and Niu Wa and Lanxiang were gone, and when he looked around, he saw a wisp of blue smoke moving in the east, and immediately chased after him.

Niu Wa ran without stopping, Zhang Tianshi chased after him viciously, and the red light emitted from his body had already attracted Lan Xiang's attention. I saw a hammer falling straight down from the air, Lan Xiang caught it with her left hand, and threw it back. As soon as they struck, a throwing knife stabbed at them again. Lan Xiang caught the flying knife, stabbed her middle finger, stained it with blood, and threw it away. Zhang Tianshi took the flying knife, sniffed the fishy smell, saw that there were blood stains, and thought that the two of them had been killed by the flying knife, so he stopped and returned to Longhu Mountain.

Lan Xiang saw that the red light had receded, so she said to Niu Wa with confidence: "Dad has returned to the mountain."

After the rain, the husband and wife held hands and happily walked towards the east, far away.