"It is said that a long, long time ago, there was a snake god mountain, and there was a poor boy named Zeng Er on the mountain, and his parents died when he was a child. Huang Xinqing didn't see Yue'er and her father's anxious looks, and began to recall them vividly.

Zeng'er lived a lonely life, so he could only rely on herding cattle for the rich man for many years to survive. One day, when Zeng Er was herding cattle, it suddenly rained heavily, and he hurriedly led the cow to hide under a big tree by the lake, but saw a beautiful woman bathing in the lake.

The boy was curious by nature, so Zeng Er hid behind a tree and peeked secretly. After a while, the beautiful woman came to the shore after bathing and turned into a big snake that did not look vicious, and the big snake spit out a glittering bead from its mouth and let it bathe in the rain, and she crossed over on the shore of the lake and fell asleep.

Zeng Er's newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, so he quietly stepped forward, and when he saw that the beads were fun, he picked them up and led the cow away while playing. But he didn't know that what he picked up was actually a snake pill, this snake has been cultivated for a long time, and his cultivation has reached the transformation stage.

After the snake god woke up, he found that the snake pill had been lost, and he was immediately shocked, and hurriedly turned into a human form and looked around. After walking a few steps, the snake god saw Zeng Er, and asked, "Brother Herding Niu, did you see a bead falling to the ground?" When Zeng Er heard this, he immediately took out the snake pill from the back pocket of the cow and gave it back to the beauty he had just seen.

Seeing that Zeng Er's eyes were clear and honest, the beautiful snake god asked, "Child, what is your name, who are the elders in the family, and why are you herding cattle here alone?"

"My name is Zeng'er, my father and mother died early, and now I am the only one left in the family. Zeng Er replied.

"If you want, you can recognize me as a mother, come to me, I can provide you with food and clothing, and teach you literacy and cultivation, how about it?" The snake god asked.

Although Zeng Er knew that the beauty was a snake, she felt her gentleness and kindness, so she nodded, took the cow back, and followed the snake god herself.

Time flies, the snake god for the mother of Zeng'er lived in the cave for three years, on the day of Zeng'er's sixteenth birthday, the snake mother said to Zeng'er lovingly: "Zeng'er, now you are the year of the elephant dance, for the mother recently learned that you have a chance to enter the court as an official." Today, the prince of the imperial capital is suffering from nameless swelling and poison, extremely damp and hot, and no one can treat him. ”

"E-niang, but the child can't see a doctor. Zeng Erqi said.

"It doesn't matter, the bile in Eniang's stomach is a thousand-year-old bitter cold thing, and this thing is naturally unobtainable to outsiders, but as long as you take out a few drops from your mother's stomach, it is enough to relieve the prince's swelling and poison. As she spoke, the snake lady handed a silver needle and a jade bottle to Zeng Er, and at the same time turned into her body, prostrate on the ground, and opened her mouth.

Zeng Er did not doubt it, and then followed the snake girl's prompts to the right side of the snake's mouth, touched the position where the snake's gallbladder was located, pricked it lightly with a needle, took a few drops of bile, and then drilled out again.

Then the snake girl packed up for Zeng Er and cast a spell to send him out of the cave. At the time of parting, the snake lady said to Zeng Er: "For my mother, I calculated that there will be a catastrophe in your life, if you can avoid greed, or you can turn evil into good fortune." If he wants to come back to find his mother one day, he can shout three times here on the day of the pouring rain, and I can hear him come to pick you up. ”

Zeng Er wrote it down and left.

Zeng Er came to the imperial capital, unveiled the imperial list, and easily cured the prince's illness with thousand-year-old snake bile.

The Yellow Emperor was overjoyed and appointed him as the prince's attendant according to the list. And seeing that he does not have a full name, the royal gift has a name, and there is a hidden meaning that the prince will ascend the throne and worship the dynasty and let him be the prime minister.

After a few more years, the eldest princess of the imperial capital suffered from the same disease as the crown prince. The Yellow Emperor summoned Zeng Xiang again and said: "If you can cure the princess this time, I can make you the princess's concubine." ”

Seeing that the eldest princess was very beautiful and greedy for the position of a concubine, she returned to the mountains to get snake bile to treat her.

On this day, the rain poured, the world changed color, and the snake mother appeared, and they reunited after a long absence, and the two were very happy.

After learning of Zeng Xiang's return, the snake lady said at first: "I see that you have a calamity star coming to the position in the past few days, so you should not be in a hurry." Why don't you take it back after a while? ”

He couldn't stand Zeng Er's constant begging and urging, so he gave him a silver needle and a jade bottle, and repeatedly explained: "This time you take bile from your stomach, don't be greedy! Remember, remember!"

Zeng Xiang responded casually, then hurriedly burrowed into the snake's belly, found the snake's gall bladder, and took a few drops of bile. At this time, he thought in his heart: "I have been going back and forth for so long, it is too much to take so many drops, this bile is quite effective, and he will be useful in the future, so just take a little more, why should my mother be too stingy." Then another series of stabs followed.

The snake god was in great pain, and the qi of the armor wood rushed upward, and then his mouth was closed, his stomach shrank, and he fainted.

And Zeng Xiang was imprisoned because of this, and finally suffocated to death.

Then after a while, the snake girl woke up, remembered that Zeng Xiang was still in her abdomen, and then spit it out. Zeng Xiang's corpse fell to the ground, and the bile splashed on the grass next to it, and it became "snake gall grass".

Although the snake lady was greedy and greedy, she was even more sad in her heart. In order to fulfill his last wish, he immediately transformed into a human form again, picked snake gall grass, and went to the imperial capital. After meeting the Yellow Emperor, the snake lady said that she had fallen off the cliff with this herb in her hand and died, so she brought it to see if she could cure the princess's life.

The Yellow Emperor agreed, and the princess took the snake gall grass, and the illness was cured.

The Yellow Emperor then asked for the name of the herb.

The snake god replied, "Snake gall grass." ”

It's just that the bloodline of the Huang clan can't let the snake gall be cured, so he pretended to hear it wrong: "Gentian grass, good, very good! Someone came, immediately sent someone to the place where Zeng Xiang fell off the cliff to build a temple to comfort Zeng Xiang's spirit in the sky." ”

Chrysostom said that it is not impossible to refer to the deer as a horse, but it is the future generations who know more about gentian grass but not snake gall grass.

A few years later, a literati passed by and learned about this, so he wrote a couplet in this temple on the snake god mountain:

Shanglian: The heart is peaceful and the snake god is the mother,

Downlink: The heart is greedy and stabs the gall snake and swallows the phase.

Horizontal criticism: people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants.

I don't know how many years later, the horizontal criticism of "people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants" has been widely spread in the community, but there are very few people who know the miraculous effect of gentian. After speaking, Huang Xinqing's eyes looked at Yue'er's brother as if he knew everything, and smiled silently.

Yue'er's elder brother's face became even more ugly, and he trembled and took out a bottle of pill from his arms, which was the whole bottle of Peiyuan Pill that fell out when Huang Xinqing deliberately dropped the spirit stone before. The value of these pills is a hundred times that of the truckloads of goods around them.

Everyone had just seen Huang Xinqing slaughtering the bandits like a god descending, and at this moment, when they saw that Brother Yue'er was so confused and secretly hid the elixir of his life-saving benefactor, they all broke out in a cold sweat. If the other party moved to kill, they were really not unjustly killed, and the scene was suddenly silent.

Huang Xinqing took the pill, and casually dried the rhizome of gentian grass that he had picked from the wheel while telling the story just now, and then threw it to Yue'er and said, Take it to your brother to boil water and apply it externally, and the internal poison will be eliminated within two hours.

Yue'er thanked her, and then heard Huang Xinqing stretch her waist and say, "Ouch, I just finished the activity, and I'm hungry again!"

"Immortal Master rest assured, and when I pass by this ominous and bloody place, I will immediately serve you a meal of the top food in the imperial capital. Yue'er's father hurriedly picked up the stubble as if he had been amnestied.

"That's it, then it's disrespectful, thank you!" Huang Xinqing replied with a grin.

At this time, in the imperial capital Xuanyuan Mansion, the golden-shirted man who was about twenty years old crushed the message Lingbao in his hand and said angrily: "Is it the medicine boy Huang Xinqing? I don't care what kind of ant you are? Since you dare to beat Lao Tzu's dog!? Then be ready to leave your life in the imperial capital." ”