Chapter 21 Silkworm God Horse Head Niangniang
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Since Wanrong could walk, she began to help her mother pick mulberries and feed silkworms. Her silkworm raising skills are self-taught, and she can accurately know when silkworm babies eat less and when they eat more, when they sleep and when they form cocoons. The silkworm babies she raised never got sick, and they spit the most silk and formed the largest cocoons.
The silkworm women in the Yi are all learning the technique of raising silkworms from the Rong, and the Rong is knowing everything, and teaching her knowledge of silkworm raising, since then the silkworm babies raised by the people in the Yi are no longer sick, and the yield of silkworm cocoons has also been greatly improved.
The cocoon raising women regard the cocoon as the patron saint of the silkworm baby, and if they don't understand something, they will ask the silkworm and do it according to the words of the silkworm.
After the heavenly insect descended to the mortal world and reincarnated as a cocoon girl. One day, Pegasus came to the Insect Garden to look for the Celestial Worm, but no matter how much he searched, he couldn't find the shadow of the Celestial Worm. I don't know where the insects went, and the insect garden was deserted. So he searched everywhere for the insects. From the south of the sky to the north of the earth, and from the sea of the East to the great wilderness of the west. He was so anxious that he didn't eat or drink, and he didn't stop. From sunrise to sunset, and from sunset to sunrise, the mouth does not stop screaming. Tears rolled in both eyes.
More than ten days have passed, and the news of the disappearance of the insect has reached the ears of the Emperor of Heaven, so the Emperor of Heaven ordered the God of Heaven to check where the Sky Worm has gone. There the people were instructed to raise silkworms. So he returned to the Emperor of Heaven.
The Emperor was furious. said: "The function of the heavenly insect is to spin silk in the heavenly insect garden. How can you leave your post without saying goodbye, and go down to earth without permission? Naturally, there is a 'division' in charge of mortal affairs, and you little heavenly worm, what kind of compassion do you have? If all the immortals in the heavens are like this, isn't that a mess? Is there still a heavenly rule in the sky? Quickly send the golden eagle in the sky down, take her into the deep mountains and wild valleys, and make her suffer a little as punishment. Go for it."
Day after day, year after year, a flash of Rong Rong is already eighteen years old, and she has become a fairy-like big girl.
One day, Rong Rong went up the mountain with her female companions to pick mulberry leaves, and the mulberry picking girls sang mountain songs while picking mulberry leaves. The dexterous hands unconsciously filled the basket on the back of the body.
When he was picking a basket of mulberry leaves and was about to carry it back to feed the silkworm baby, a vicious golden eagle suddenly flew down from the sky. All the way to the rung. Two sharp claws like iron pincers grabbed Ranche's back, lifted it into the air, and flew towards the mountains and valleys in the distance.
Some of the female companions were frightened and cried, and some were stunned, and it took a long time for them to recover and run back to the village to tell Rongrong's parents.
The golden eagle caught the cheon in a deep mountain valley that was inaccessible and threw it out of mid-air. The cheesche rolled down the hillside into the deep valley again. I was knocked out of pain.
Pegasus learns of the incarnation of the insects. He kept looking for the realm of Shu. Walking through the village, this day I walked to the hometown of Rong, and listened to people tell about the disappearance of the silkworm girl Rongrong by the vicious golden eagle, and people were sad and sighed.
I could only hear Rong Rong's parents crying and saying, "If there is any warrior who can save my daughter, I will marry her to him, and I will never break my word." ”
When Tenma heard this, he was shocked, and he was really afraid that someone would save Rongrong before him, which would be his greatest misfortune. In any case, you must be the first to get the cheche back.
Pegasus ran to the deep mountains and valleys in the distance, he did not let go of every mountain, he did not let go of every canyon, but Pegasus still did not eat, drink, or sleep, forgot about hunger, forgot about tiredness, and found darkness from dawn.
Finally, at the bottom of a deep valley that no one knows, Tenma finds the dying Ranche, who is bruised and bruised all over her body, and her life hangs by a thread.
Tenma came to Ranche's side, removed the blood from her wound with his mumble, brought water from the mountain spring, fed her to drink, and then lay down beside her, biting her clothes with his mouth and placing her on his back. Carefully carrying her, over the mountains, through the dense forest, through the deep stream, walked for three days and three nights, and carried the Rong back home.
Rong Rong's parents were very surprised to see a divine horse carrying her home.
At this time, Ma Tiankou spoke. Tianma said: "Rong Rong was taken by the evil golden eagle into the deep mountains and valleys that are inaccessible, and fell very hard, and his life was on the verge of death. I rescued her from the valley and walked for three days and three nights. I can't do it anymore, my life has come to an end, I'm going to die. When I die, you will skin me and put it on you. This will save the life of the Ranche. Don't forget.
With that, Tenma fell down, exhausted.
In accordance with Tenma's instructions before he died, Tenma's father peeled off Tenma's skin, draped it over Tenma, and buried Tenma's body.
After the dying Ranche puts on the skin of a Pegasus, a miracle really happens. I saw that she opened her closed eyes, her pale face became ruddy, and her dying breath became calm. At this time, the family was relieved and spent the night peacefully.
Early the next morning, the family got up to see that the lotus was gone, and they found it outside. At first glance, she climbed onto the mulberry tree in the yard, wearing a horse skin, and was eating mulberry leaves.
The whole family gathered under the mulberry tree to watch the ciche eat mulberry leaves. When the people of the city heard of such a miracle, they also went under the mulberry tree to watch.
Ciche eats mulberry leaves on the mulberry tree as if no one is around. Gradually, the body of the silkworm turned into a silkworm baby, but it was much larger than the average silkworm baby, snow-white, and had a horse's head. Dressed in a horse skin, he munched on mulberry leaves.
After the silkworm had gone through 'four sleeps and five years', it began to spin silk, and after three days and three nights, it made a large cocoon and hung it on the mulberry tree.
Another half a month passed, and one morning, a beautiful silkworm moth girl broke out of her cocoon. She flapped her beautiful white wings and flew towards the sky. The higher and higher it flies, it gradually disappears. Many people in the city have witnessed this scene of the ascension of the Rong to the immortals.
Two days later, on the third day, I could hear the sound of music from the sky, a white Pegasus with a beautiful fairy sitting on its back. Walking down from the clouds, I came to the sky above the courtyard of Yunrong's house, and stopped, and Rongrong's parents and family, neighbors, and many people in the town came out to watch.
The fairy said to the parents of the celestial insects, "I was originally a celestial worm in the sky, because the poor people were barebacked, and the poor girls did not have good clothes to wear, so I used the doppelganger technique to send many celestial insect babies to the world, let them spin silk cocoons, and provide people with silk to wear." However, the baby insects did not adapt to the water and soil, and the people raised them illegally, so that the baby insects were often infected with diseases and plagues.
Because I was concerned about these baby insects and took pity on these silkworm women, I came to the mortal world to be reincarnated privately, became a silkworm girl, and became a daughter of the second elder. The techniques of raising silkworms were taught to the silkworm women.
Now that my mission on earth is complete, I am back in heaven. The Emperor of Heaven thought that I was concerned about the silkworm raising business of the people in the world, so he ordered me to be a silkworm god. From now on, every village, every eupon, can build a temple at the head of the village, and offer my statue in the temple. No matter what disease the silkworms raised at home have, just go to the temple and tell me, I can sense it, and I will help you. Bless your silkworm baby safe and strong, spin more silk, and form a big cocoon. ”
"I would also like to thank my parents for their nurturing grace over the past 18 years, and I will bless you in heaven. ”
After saying these words, the silkworm god Celestial Worm rode back to the heavens on a Pegasus. And all the people of the earth looked into the sky and bowed down. Wanrong's parents were very sad to lose their daughter, but they were proud to know that their daughter had become a god in the sky.
After the people went back, they raised funds to build a temple, and the statue of the silkworm god was put on the temple ****.
The silkworm gods in the temple are all molded into the appearance of the last time she met the people: a beautiful fairy with a horse skin on her body, and a white horse standing next to the fairy.
In other temples, a fairy is dressed in a horseskin cloak and sits on the back of a white horse with her feet together.
The people call the silkworm god Ma Tou Niangniang, or Ma Ming Bodhisattva, and some call her Ma Ming King. This temple is called the Matou Niangniang Temple.
This story was first circulated in Liangzhou, and then gradually spread to all parts of the south. All villages with silkworm breeders have built a Matou Niangniang Temple at the head of the village. The temple is enshrined with the statue of the horse-headed lady, and the incense is continuous.
After reading all this, Matou Niangniang took the hands of the three people again and said: "Get up", so she returned to the Matou Niangniang Temple where she stayed overnight last night.
Dayu was about to say thank you. Look at the horse-headed lady still sitting on the offering table. It's as if nothing happened. Dayu is still reminiscing about the story of Ma Tou Niangniang. The image of the insect lingered in Dayu's heart for a long time, deeply moving Dayu.