Chapter 48: The Maiden Turns into a Silkworm
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The eldest lady sat on the bed with a sad face, stretched out her hand and patted her old man's thigh, "This horse can still go out to find someone by itself, do you think it's strange?"
The old man was lying on the bed, but when he heard the eldest mother's inquiry, he turned over and sat up, "Strange, what's strange? His grandmother's is simply evil! I've grown so old and I've never heard of it, I'm a demon!"
After the old man said this, he took a sip of tea from the teacup on the table, raised his hand and made a butcher's knife shape, "Kill it, kill it quickly!" After saying that, he lay back again.
The eldest lady sighed and said, "Xiaoying, she won't be willing, she likes Xiaolong so much, then it will never be done?" Besides, you don't know how valuable the horses are now, this knife will cost hundreds of taels of silver." Alas~ It's hard to do, it's really hard to do. ”
When the old man heard this, his eyes rolled and he sat up excitedly, "Eh? Isn't the white horse injured? We told Xiaoying that we want to pull the white horse to treat its wounds, and if the injuries are not healed by then, the white horse will die, won't we get it? Haha, besides, isn't it better to promote this family affair of the prince of the Wang family as soon as possible? Anyway, now that Xiaoying's father is not here, how can she survive as a girl. She doesn't do women's red needlework on weekdays, but she looks better and enters the eyes of the Wang family, which is also her blessing. ”
The more the old man spoke, the more excited he became, and he clapped his hands, "That's it! ”
Gao Hong heard all this in the distance and muttered to himself, "Is it a human being who has a demon heart, or a demon who has a human heart..."
One dark night, the moon was obscured by thick dark clouds in the sky, in a deserted town.
The butcher took off his coat and hung it on the wooden rack, and burned the sharpened axe on the fire, saying, "Are you ready?" replied the man. ”
The butcher washed his hands, wiped his hand on his coat, picked up his axe and came to a white horse, whose eyes were covered with a thick cloth. The butcher said to the man, "Attention, pull it tight." He said slowly to the white horse in front of him, "If I kill you, you should be reincarnated as a human as soon as possible." After saying that, he raised his axe and slashed at the neck of the white horse.
Click, a thunderbolt exploded in the air, and the girl sleeping on the bed on the second floor suddenly woke up from her dream, only to hear that the door on the first floor was suddenly knocked open, and it turned out that the wind was blowing. The girl seemed to see the handsome boy in her dream dangling at the door for a while, and then disappeared again, and immediately got up and went downstairs, and ran to the door. Outside the house at this moment, there was only the whirring night wind, not even the sound of insects, and the girl seemed to have lost something in her heart at the moment.
"Xiaoying, people can't be resurrected after death, let alone a beast. Don't be upset, cheer up and cheer up. The eldest lady looked at the girl sitting on the white horse skin and persuaded her.
The girl was already teary-eyed at this moment, and one by one she was stroking the white horse's horse, and said, "I hurt him!
The eldest lady said, "Silly girl, the little dragon is a beast, and it is not a human being, think about it, how can it understand you? Even if it does, what if it does?"
The girl murmured, "But I promised him that I would marry him if he got my father back." I should have kept my word. ”
The eldest lady continued to persuade, "These words can't be said again, girls' families, these words are not good to spread." What is a letter? What time is it? The generals of the border gates overthrew the imperial court and sat on the dragon chair themselves. People don't believe it, what kind of letter do you have to talk to a brute? Don't say some stupid things, marry the prince of the Wang family in Gao County as soon as possible, marry happily, and soon you will forget everything. This is the common people of the world, that's what is going on. ”
When the girl heard the words of the eldest mother, she secretly wept and never said anything more.
In late spring and March, the sun was shining, the grass was growing and the warblers were flying, and the sound of children playing outside the hut could be heard.
"Forty-six, forty-seven, forty-eight..."The children were counting and having fun jumping ropes and throwing purses in the open space in front of the house.
"No, the big bull is playing Laipi, I won't play with you anymore. ”
"Shall we play a new game, then?"
"How about playing eagle and catching chickens?"
"Okay, good, big bull, you just cheated, I'll punish you for being an eagle!"
The girl's door creaked open, and the eldest lady entered the wooden house with a wooden basin, and when she saw the girl sitting in front of the bronze mirror on the second floor, she couldn't help but say, "Xiaoying, why are you still there in a daze? Hurry up and take out the things on the second floor to dry, the sun is so heavy outside. In two days, Wang Gongzi will come to pick you up!"
When the girl heard this, she turned a few pieces of silk out of the box and gestured on her body, "It will be all right soon." The eldest lady shook her head with a smile, picked out a few dirty clothes and put them in the wooden basin, and said, "That prince is gentle and chic, and he is a showman, and he still has a rice shop at home, and he doesn't dislike you for having no father or mother." The Wang family is also a figure in Nagao County, and if you marry in the past, it is also the marriage you cultivated in your previous life. Look at the dowry given by the prince, which one is not a good thing?" After speaking, the eldest lady turned around and walked out of the wooden house.
When the girl heard what the eldest mother said, she couldn't help but find out a pair of gold bracelets sent by the prince from the wooden box, and gently put it on her wrist.
After a while, the eldest lady finished her work, went into the house to get things, and saw that the girl was still fiddling in front of the mirror, and couldn't help shouting to the second floor, "Why are you still stunned there? ”
The girl said dissatisfiedly, "Got it." Then he reluctantly took off the bracelet on his wrist, put it back in the wooden box, turned back to the bedside, opened the wooden cabinet, and prepared to pack up his things and take them outside to dry. As soon as the wooden cabinet door was opened, a wooden bowl fell down, and a small cloth horse and a small cloth bag fell to the ground.
The girl was stunned, and hurriedly bent down to pick up the little cloth horse, and couldn't help but recall the happy days when she grew up with the white horse dragon. In the cloth bag on the ground, there was still the thunder robbery order. "Daddy~Xiaolong~", the girl muttered in her mouth, putting the little cloth horse and the cloth bag back into the wooden bowl, ready to take them outside the house to dry later.
After tidying up the things, the girl stroked the white horse skin in the cabinet, brushed her slender hand on it, only felt that it was pitted, and thought in her heart, "Xiaolong, why has your skin fallen so much in just half a year?"
The eldest lady was so busy that she kept her feet, and when she entered the house, she saw that the girl was still grinding on the second floor, and said, "You should take it out and dry it, the horse skin smells a little big in the house, and it is easy to attract insects." ”
The girl nodded her head to indicate that she knew, put the horseskin into the dustpan, carried the basket, and the things to be dried were all in the basket, and slowly went down the stairs and out of the wooden house.
The children outside the house were playing games, and when they saw the girl come out, they couldn't help but clap their hands and laugh, "The bride is out!
Outside the wooden house, the eldest lady had already set up two bamboo frames, and the washed clothes and quilts were hung on them to dry, and when she saw the girl coming out of the house, she stepped forward to help take over the thick and heavy white horse skin, walked to the open space, took the horse skin out of the dustpan, and spread it out to dry in the open space. The girl dusted off some small objects and hung them under the eaves.
The children who were playing the game saw the eldest lady sorting out the horse skin, and they couldn't help but stop the game in their hands, and shouted, "Look at the horse skin!
"It's huge. ”
"It's so white and beautiful. "The little hands of the children are scrambling for each other and touching the horse's skin.
"Go away, go away. The eldest lady patted the children's little hands and arranged the edges of the horseskins, for many places were wrinkled and curled, and these places were the easiest places to hide small insects.
The girl put down the things in her hand, looked at the white horse skin that was touched by the children in the open space, and couldn't help but feel bitter in her heart again, "Xiaolong, your life is really bitter." After a pause, he continued, "It would be nice if you could marry me with you." That husband of mine is gentle and considerate, and you will definitely like him. He also enjoys horseback riding. ”
The girl had just said this happily, when suddenly the horseskin on the ground suddenly jumped upward, and the edges were lifted, startling the children who were circling around it, and they all retreated.
"What's the matter?" asked the lady, who had just turned to get the scissors and was about to trim the tattered edges of the horseskin. Before the words fell, the white horse skin on the ground suddenly flew into the air, and the whole fur was in the air, showing teeth and claws, frightening everyone present to run into the distance.
"I hate you! I hate you!" came a man's voice faintly from among the horses. When everyone heard this terrifying sound, they didn't stop at their feet, and the girl Xiaoying also fled with the children.
The white horseskin paused in the air, and immediately flew towards the girl, following her closely.
The girl was terrified, and did not know why this change had occurred, and ran deep and shallow in the grass, and before long she stepped on a stone in the earth, and fell to the ground, and the white horseskin followed, and immediately threw herself up, and wrapped the girl tightly from head to toe.
Here the eldest mother and the children were so frightened that they fled, the eldest mother was too old to run, and a few children turned around to help, only to find that the flying white horse skin behind them was gone, and they stopped one after another.
"The horseskin is gone!"
"Sister Xiaoying is also gone!" The sharp-eyed children found out about the situation and immediately turned back with the eldest mother to look for it. Everyone returned to the open space in front of the wooden house, but still found no trace.
"Please, let me go, little dragon. ”
"Xiaolong, it's me who is sorry for you. ”
Bursts of sound came from afar.
"It's Sister Xiaoying's voice!" a child shouted.
"Let's go, let's go and see. "There are many bold people, and the children pull the eldest mother to look in the direction where the voice came, but they don't know that they are going farther and farther. In the distance, there was a tall tree, the top of the tree was bare, and there was not a single leaf, but at the top there was a large cocoon, which was writhing, and behold, it seemed to be the size of a man, and the voice of a maiden came from inside. Suddenly, the people under the tree were so frightened that they scattered and fled, never daring to come back, shouting, "Youkai, Youkai!"
"Xiaolong, let me go, I can't stand it. The girl's voice grew weaker and weaker, and at last it fell silent, leaving only a large cocoon hanging from the branches, swaying in the wind.
"Alas, this horse is finally going to be with Xiaoying. Could this be the end of dishonesty?" Zuo Tianzong's voice came faintly.
Lu Xihua said, "This is obsession, if it is too strong, it will affect others." If a spirit creature dies halfway, it will become obsessed and will go to the city of vain death to wait. The old demon of Montenegro is using this obsession to affect the world. ”
Gao Hong asked, "I wonder what will become of this girl's obsession with the horse?"
Lu Xihua smiled, stretched out his hand, and a little blue light fell on the tree, and immediately the tree began to grow emerald green leaves, and after a while, it was full of branches, and the whole tree was.
Gao Hong was surprised, "Mulberry tree, how can it be a mulberry tree? Could it be something recorded in the Sou Shen Ji?"
Lu Xihua said, "Sang Tong mourned, this seems to be a mythical reincarnation in front of me." ”
Zuo Tianzong asked, "Master Gao is erudite, please solve your doubts." ”
Gao Hong said slowly, "Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a poor family, my father went out as a soldier, and there was only one beautiful daughter in the family, and her only companion was a strong stallion. The daughter fed it herself, and because she missed her father, she joked with the stallion, saying, 'If you can bring me back to my father, I will marry you as a wife.' When the stallion heard this, he left his daughter and found her father. His father, who was already war-weary, fled back to his hometown on horseback when he saw his horse coming to meet him. ”
"Since the stallion knows how to live in the world, his father feeds him with good feed. Unexpectedly, the horse refused to eat, and every time he saw his daughter walking by, he would raise his hooves and neigh, expressing his joy and anger. The father was deeply surprised by this and secretly inquired about his daughter, who told her father about the previous joke. Worried in his heart, his father shot the stallion with a crossbow arrow, and skinned it off to dry in the courtyard. ”
"On this day when the father went out on errands, and the daughter played with the girl next to the horse, and kicked it with her toes, saying, 'You were only a beast, but you wanted to marry a human woman, and you ended up skinning, so why should you ask for hardship?' Before he could finish speaking, the horse skin jumped up, grabbed her body, and ran away. It was only a few days later that her father found their sights on a large tree, where the daughter and the horse's skin had turned into thick, large cocoons that knotted between the high branches. The woman next door plucked the leaves from the tree and raised them, and the yield was several times that of the cocoon, so they named the tree 'mulberry'. 'Sang' is said to be a homonym for "mourning". Since then, the people who raise silkworms have begun to plant this kind of tree. ”
Zuo Tianzong was surprised, "Isn't this legend almost exactly the same as what is in front of you?"
Lu Xihua smiled, "Isn't there a saying? History is always strikingly similar. The change of dynasties and the vicissitudes of life are all reincarnations one after another. ”
Zuo Tian laughed, "Could it be that the Heavenly Dao also has reincarnation?"
Lu Xihua glanced at Zuo Tianzong, "There is creation first, then there is heaven, before I was free to create, I was born only eighteen years old, and a chaos is a year." This is what a powerful immortal has said, and the chaos he said is 129,600 years. Moreover, the year that the gods say is different from ours, as the so-called one day in the sky and one year on the earth. Maybe our life is a hundred years, but it's just a time when a thought flashes through the gods. ”
When Zuo Tianzong heard this, he immediately sweated like rain, bowed down and said, "Thank you for the warning." ”
At this moment, Gao Hong said again, "Look at the mulberry tree." ”
The two of them looked towards the tree, and saw that the cocoon on the tree was getting smaller and smaller, and finally became the size of a goose egg, and from it it broke, a multicolored moth flew out and circled the mulberry tree. The moth lays a few eggs on the mulberry leaves and dies, the eggs slowly hatch, and finally a few small silkworms in the shape of a horse's head appear on the mulberry leaves and begin to eat the mulberry leaves in large gulps.
"Breaking the cocoon into a moth, the moth dying into a silkworm, this is another reincarnation. Hehe, horse-headed silkworm, it seems that Xiaoying and the white horse are inseparable from life to life. Let's go, let's go find the key person who can enter the underworld. ”
As the words fell, the two figures disappeared into the wilderness, and the wild silkworms on the tree were still rustling, not knowing when they would be found by the villagers.
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