During the Taihe period of Tang Wenzong, there was a poor scholar surnamed Xiong Taishen. On this day, his wife found that the rice jar had bottomed out and there was not much food in the house, so she took him to the mountains to pick up mushrooms. Xiong Taishen picked it up for a while, and felt unbearably thirsty, so he raised the water bladder to drink. At this moment, a fireball streaked through the sky, landed not far away, and burned.
Xiong Taishen was startled by this strange scene, and suddenly a flame rushed over, and instantly arrived in front of him, he sprayed a mouthful of water into the flame, and the flame was immediately extinguished, and he found that it was a centipede, longer than a chopstick, and it had been burned to the ground.
Xiong Taishen squatted down, picked the centipede with a straw stick, and found that the centipede could still move, so he couldn't help but feel pity, and picked the centipede into the vegetable basket, planning to go home for treatment. The wife complained: "You are really, the family is about to be unable to open the pot, and you are still idle to meddle in things." Xiong Taishen smiled and said: "It's a life, try it, maybe it can be saved, it depends on its creation." ”
Back at home, Xiong Taishen took the centipede to find his uncle, who was practicing medicine, and the uncle checked the injury, shook his head and said: "The claws are burned, the teeth are half burned, and the shell on the body is also burnedYou don't want to be blind and waste your efforts to order wax. After that, Uncle Yi picked up the centipede and was about to feed the chickens, but was stopped by Xiong Taishen.
Xiong Taishen said: "If you don't want to save it, I'll save it." He took the centipede home and smeared it with sesame oil so that the charred shell would not crack. He took out the ** bruised pill again, ground it into powder, sprinkled it on the centipede's body, and then took cotton wool and covered it with the centipede.
Early the next morning, Xiong Taishen took out the cotton wool to check and found that the centipede was still alive, so he did the same, and broke an egg and put it in front of the centipede. After the night, he went to check, and the egg liquid was much less, and the centipede was in much better condition.
Without further ado, after a few months, all the claws of the centipede grew out, and the fangs also grew out, and they returned to normal.
When Xiong Taishen rescued the centipede, the old mother objected, saying that the centipede was poisonous, and this animal did not know how to be grateful, and if it was not good, it would bite back. Now that the centipede is back to normal, the old mother began to mumble again, asking him to drive the centipede away, but there is no good thing in any poison, be careful of hurting the family.
Xiong Taishen's old mother was paralyzed in her right leg and had been unconscious for several years. On this day, Xiong Taishen helped her to the yard to bask in the sun, and she saw Xiong Taishen fiddling with the centipede again, and couldn't help but count it down again. Xiong Taishen saw that the centipede was already good, so he complied with the old mother's wishes, carried the vegetable basket to the wild, and released the centipede.
After lunch, the old mother began to close her eyes and recuperate, and suddenly she began to shout. He ran out to take a look, only to see that the centipede bit the old mother's paralyzed right leg, which happened to bite the tendon, so the old mother felt pain, so she cried out.
Xiong Taishen quickly tore off the centipede, threw it on the ground, stepped on it into meat paste, and cursed in his mouth: "It's really ungrateful, I knew today, I shouldn't have saved you in the first place." ”
The old mother kept complaining: "I told you a long time ago that centipedes don't know how to be grateful, you just don't listen, but now it's good, it's biting, isn't it?"Xiong Taishen hurriedly called Uncle Mi, who practiced medicine, and when he took Uncle Mi home, he found that the old mother was walking slowly in the yard, and her right leg was conscious.
Uncle Mi was greatly surprised, carefully examined Xiong Taishen's old mother's right leg, and sure enough, he regained consciousness, and he didn't understand the reason. However, there is no doubt that the bite of the centipede cured the old mother's paralysis. It only takes a period of time to recuperate, and the old mother can be completely **.
Xiong Taishen was shocked, so it seemed that the centipede bit the old mother and was repaying the favor, but he mistakenly thought that the centipede had hurt the old mother and trampled it to death!
Xiong Taishen swept up the centipede's flesh and buried it in the back of the house. He also wrote a eulogy for this purpose, expressing his repentance and not being too impulsive. After reading it, he burned the eulogy, and the ashes fluttered and flew into the air, and he didn't know if the centipede's unjust soul had received it. When many scribes heard about it, they complained about the centipede, and mocked, "Save Xiong Taishen and remove Xiong Taishen!".
This is the grievance caused by the stereotype, people have formed a stereotype of centipede as a poison, so the centipede is obviously an act of repaying the favor, but it is misunderstood as an injury, which leads to death. To be a man is still to be calm, after figuring out the truth of the matter, it is not too late to express your emotions, and do not be impulsive and make irreversible moves, otherwise, it will be too late to regret it. This story adopts an absurd penmanship, which is to use facts to illustrate and persuade the world, and has nothing to do with feudal superstition.
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