Whenever the Xuanji hermit took out the ruby necklace and looked at it carefully in the sun, the little white snake always couldn't help but feel very excited, as if the blood in her body was about to boil, she kept spitting out the red little letter, staring intently at the necklace in the hermit's hand, and the round eyes like small black beans flashed with bright luster.

She tried to guess how beautiful this necklace would look if it could be hung on her body, and her brothers and sisters could not help but exclaim how beautiful this ruby necklace would be on the neck of the little white snake.

But when the little white snake looked down at her body, it turned out to be a round and slender snake body, which looked like a rope from a distance, and she was immediately disheartened and depressed.

The little white snake couldn't help but think in frustration that it would be nice if I could look like Uncle Hermit, not only to stand up, but also to have hands and feet. When the time comes, I will borrow this necklace from the kind hermit uncle, and let her wear it for a while to show her brothers and sisters, how good it should be to live an addiction.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but look at her body again, alas! In her eyes, she was not only round and long like a string, but also covered with some neat scales.

The little white snake was very frustrated, and she helplessly spat out her tender red little tongue and curled up her body, as if she was very disappointed in herself.

If only one day she could become a human like Uncle Hermit, not only with hands and feet, but also able to stand up and walk without scales.

It turned out that the little white snake had seen the Xuanji hermit before, and he would wear thin clothes in the hot summer, and the exposed arms and legs were white and smooth skin, and there were no annoying scales like on her and her brothers and sisters.

She felt that these scales on her body looked like fish scales, because she had seen the small fish that the mother of the big white snake had given them before, and there were some tiny scales on them, but they were really annoying when they grew on their bodies.

She also asked her mother, but she told her that the scales on her body were used to protect her body, otherwise they would be bruised by the sharp sand and gravel if they crawled on the ground, otherwise they would be killed.

So the little white snake had to accept her fate, who wanted her to be a little snake, she was born to crawl on the ground, but Uncle Hermit was a human being, with hands and feet to walk upright.

But the little white snake was not reconciled, if one day she could become a person, like the hermit uncle, with hands and feet, can come and go freely, and there are no scales on her body, how good it would be!

At that time, she can run to the mountain spring and take a picture of herself wearing a necklace, and she can also show off in front of her brothers and sisters.

So the little white snake lay at the entrance of the cave and looked at the portrait of Fuxi Ancestor and made a wish, hoping that one day she could become a person, a person with hands and feet, who could come and go freely. As for what she will look like after becoming a human, whether she will be as beautiful as a young girl under the mountain, she has no bottom in her heart at present, but she hopes to become a little better in the future.

The little white snake only knew that the hermit uncle would sit cross-legged in front of this portrait every day, meditating and cultivating, and every time he came back from hunting, he would return with some wild fruits, hares and other things, so she thought that maybe the person in this portrait was very magical, and if she made a wish to him, she could get what she wanted.

Every day, the hermit would read a book with a book and then recite the scriptures in a whisper. The little white snake often cowered at the mouth of the cave and listened silently to the hermit reciting scriptures, and sometimes fell asleep while listening.

She once whispered to her mother, the big white snake who accompanied the Xuanji hermit to guard the book of heaven, about her wishes, but her mother sighed softly and told the little white snake helplessly, you are just a little white snake, if you really want to become a human, it is too difficult.

Just because you are a little white snake, if you really want to become a human, it is better to listen to the hermit reciting scriptures every day, meditate and cultivate, maybe on the day when God is gracious, your wish can come true.

Therefore, the little white snake obediently accompanied the hermit to practice every day, and listened carefully to the hermit's uncle reciting scriptures. She hoped that if it was really like what her mother said, one day God was extra kind and really turned her into a person, then she would get her wish.

The little white snake secretly planned that even if it was a thousand years of cultivation, ten thousand years, she was willing, as long as she could become a person, a real person, from then on, the little white snake had made up her mind to cultivate quietly.

No matter what happens in the future, even if it is through thousands of difficulties and dangers, the little white snake is determined to cultivate to adulthood, even if God wants her to complete the impossible task, she is willing.

Because the little white snake thinks that it is too good to become a human, so that she can not crawl on the ground, and she does not need these scales to protect her body, when the time comes, she can put on clothes like a hermit, walk on the ground with both feet, pick wild fruits with both hands to eat her stomach, and even she can go out of this cave to play in the world.

I heard from my brother and sister that when my mother took them to the bottom of the mountain to hunt for food, when they came to a place close to the human village, they saw a lot of people, both men and women, as well as houses and markets, which were very lively. There are even many children playing by the creek at the edge of the village.

It's just that my mother repeatedly told me not to hurt these human beings, because many of them are good men and women, especially those children, they are all weak and innocent, don't hurt them at will.

So they just hid in the grass and watched the human children from afar, until they were far away, and then they came to the creek to catch the little fish, shrimp and frogs to eat their stomachs.

The little white snake is very envious of the world, she heard her mother say, the world is also known as the red world, although it is prosperous, but the red dust is swaying, which contains a lot of joys, sorrows and joys and sorrows.

As a white snake, they have no seven emotions and six desires, and they don't know the ups and downs of the red world and the sophistication of human feelings.

So they just need to uphold the mandate of heaven to guard this cave. If you are far away from the world, you will be free from a lot of pain and sorrow.

But why did this Xuanji hermit uncle stay away from the red world and hide in a cave? The mother of the big white snake told her that the hermit was ordered to come here to cultivate and protect a mysterious book of heaven, so that he could pass on this book of heaven to a person who was destined for the book of heaven in the future.

As for what the mysterious Book of Heaven looked like and what it did, the big white snake didn't tell the little white snake clearly, because she said it was a secret.