Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a small village at the foot of Wuyi Mountain, where more than a dozen families lived, and the township was called Zong'an.
In the thatched hut with earthen walls at the east end of the village, there are two mothers and sons, who depend on each other for their lives. The mother is blind and sick in bed, relying on her son Xie Duan to serve her.
Xie Duan is loyal, busy farming outside, cooking inside, three meals of mushroom grain to satisfy hunger, and has not left the countryside for half a step for several years.
Well-wishers often advised him: "Xie Duan, it's time to find a daughter-in-law." Xie Duan's face flushed, and it took a while to make up a sentence: "It's too poor to support yourself, and you can still take care of marrying!."
The neighbor Ah Xiang's sister-in-law is a warm-hearted person, and she often cooks two meals for lunch and dinner, so that he can work in the fields without missing the agricultural time.
Xie Duan was very grateful to his good neighbor Sister-in-law A Xiang, and often said when serving rice to his mother: "Mother, if it weren't for Sister-in-law A Xiang to cook lunch on her behalf, how could she plant seedlings and mushrooms on time!"When Xie Mu heard this, she burst into tears and thanked her repeatedly.
During the winter planting season, one day Sister-in-law Ah Xiang went back because of something at her mother's house. Before leaving, he was worried about the Xie family's cooking, and hurriedly said to Xie's mother: "Your family's rice has been cooked today, and tomorrow you have to ask Xie Duan to do it himself." ”
Mother Xie lay on the bed, grateful and speechless. Finally, he waved his hand and said, "Go ahead!".My mother's family is in a hurry. Sister-in-law Ah Xiang stroked Xie's mother's tattered quilt, covered the sack, and was leaving.
Mother Xie was very grateful, and Sister-in-law Ah Xiang hesitated for a long time and instructed the old man: "My mother's house is far away, it will take three days early and five days late." You have to explain it to Xie Duan when you cook it. As he spoke, he walked back in five steps.
The winter planting and farming work was anxious and busy, and Xie's mother was afraid that her son would miss work, and Ah Xiang's sister-in-law did not tell her son about returning to her parents' house for a while.
A few days later, Sister-in-law Ah Xiang came back from her parents' house. Xie Duan said to her sincerely: "Thanks to your help these days. You paid for a good meal and a good meal, and I can't afford to pay it back!"Sister-in-law Ah Xiang heard it strangely: I went back to my parents' house these days, how can I have any money for meals!?
Sister-in-law Ah Xiang said no, Xie Duan didn't believe it, and the two couldn't tell the difference, so they agreed not to cook it in the future, and Xie Duan would do it himself.
The next day, Xie Duan went up the mountain with a hoe. Who knew that when I returned at noon, I saw the steaming stove as soon as I entered the house, and I opened the lid of the pot to see: the food was well cooked, hot and fragrant!He wondered: Which kind person is doing it for me?
He brought food to his mother, and he went out to several doors, but he couldn't find out who cooked it for him. I was depressed.
At night, he was so anxious and surprised that he could not close his eyesThinking, thinking, I fell asleep in a daze after the third watch.
A hunchbacked old man came with a cane at this time, stroked his hands and pressed his beard, and said, "Xie Duan, congratulations, congratulations!".Xie Duan was puzzled and asked, "What is there to congratulate my poor family?"”
The old man smiled and squinted and said, "Haha, I'm going to drink the wine." With a daughter-in-law, you still hide it from others!Xie Duan felt even more strange and didn't answer.
The old man shouted, "Quick, be the groom!."Then I heard the golden drum blowing and beating, and the sedan chair was crowded into the house by the crowd. Xie Duan saw that he was covered in mud and didn't prepare anything, and woke up in a panic.
At this time, the east turned white, and the ducks flocked in the stream to chase food. Xie Duan hurriedly got up to wash rice and cook rice, but when the lid of the pot was lifted, he was stunned again: the meal had already been cooked again!The more he stood in front of the stove and thought about it, the more surprising it became.
At noon, Xie Duan went home, and the rice was cooked again;When I went home in the evening, the meal was still cooked.
At night, Xie Duan found that the torn clothes placed at the head of the bed had been mended by someoneThe old shoes under the bed, I don't know who refreshed them... What's going on?Is this in a dream or is it real?
After a month like this, one day, Xie Duan took dry food and pretended to go to work in the distant mountain fields. While he was cooking lunch, he returned to the village and peeked in the bamboo forest, and smoke rose from the house.
Xie Duan rushed home in a hurry, quietly hid in the back door, and observed the movement in front of the stove.
Sure enough, there was a beautiful girl in front of the stove, dressed plainly and with dignified manners, who was busy burning wood and chopping vegetables. Xie Duan saw her smiling, her hands were diligent, and she was very happy.
said that it was too late, it was too fast, Xie Duan broke into the kitchen, pounced on this strange girl, and asked urgently: "Who are you a woman, or are you a monster?"Let's get it clear!”
The girl looked at Xie Duan shyly and said, "You saved me." "Hurry up and kneel down to thank you. Xie Duan wondered in his heart: "What's going on?."Stretching out his hand to help the girl, he hurriedly asked, "How did I save you?"Maybe I recognized the wrong person!”
The girl smiled slightly, pointed to the big water tank in front of the stove, and replied shyly: "You raised me here, and I should repay you for saving my life!."
Xie Duan remembered that one evening, when the sunset was shining on the mountain stream, a group of ducks were chasing something in the rice field, and he kindly drove the ducks down the stream.
There was a duck with a snail on the street, and he was chased by Xie Duan in a panic, and as soon as he let go, he landed in the water and grass on the side of the road. At this moment, a ray of light flashed in front of him, as if a beautiful girl was smiling.
Xie Duan looked at it again, the girl was gone, and she didn't know where to go, but she saw a big field snail emitting a dazzling golden light. He thought it was strange and picked it up.
Xie Duan took the snail home, and his heart was sweet, and he raised it in the water tank.
Thinking of this, Xie Duan asked, "Why did you come to my poor house?"The girl smiled like a camellia and replied softly, "I love you, a working man." Xie Duan asked the details again, and she told her origin.
The girl elaborated on the original situation: she is the third princess of the Sea Dragon King, because she violated the laws and regulations of the Dragon Palace, she was reduced to a snail and thrown in the field, a group of ducks are looking for food and pecking, and at the end of the crisis, she was fortunately rescued by Xie Duan and raised in the water tank .........
At this time, Xie's mother called her son to serve food, and Xie Duan turned around to serve his mother. Miss Tianluo saw that Xie Duan cared so much about his mother, and she fell in love with him deeply.
That night, Xie Duan lit the lamp and pretended to sleep on the bed. What happened during the day, is it a dream, or is it true?Turning over and over, I was puzzled. Soon, I heard the sound of pouring water into the tank in front of the stove.
When Xie Duan heard the sound, he got out of bed and ran to visit, and sure enough, she was carrying water in. He hurriedly thanked: "You take care of me like this, I really don't want to go, how can I repay you?"”
The snail girl blushed and said shyly: "Become a snail to the Xie family, and praise Lang for being diligent and loyal." Sifan fell in love with the farmer, and the male farmer and the female weaver became a family. ”
Xie Duan shook his head and excused himself: "There have been many disasters and hardships in these years, my mother and son have three meals, and you shouldn't be affected!"She agreed: "Two-handed labor is **, men and women don't have to worry about weaving!."Xie Duan was stunned, and only after a while did he answer: "It's better to leave my poor family!."
The girl understood in her heart, but she just smiled and insisted on not leaving. Xie Duan felt very embarrassed. Xie Duan hesitated for a long time, and the girl didn't move half a step, what should this be?Finally, he took the girl to visit the old mother and asked her to be the master of the old man's house.
After hearing this, Mother Xie leaned sideways to the edge of the bed, stroked the girl's body, and excitedly pulled off a silver hairpin from her bun and inserted it into the girl's hair: "This is a gift for you!."”
At this time, when the full moon was in the sky, Xie Duan and the girl bowed to each other and got married. The next day, word spread inside and outside the village, and men, women, and children came to thank their families.
Since then, Xie Duan and Tianluo girl, one farming, the other weaving, have lived a happy and harmonious life.
In the busy season of spring tea, Xie Duan and his wife went up the mountain to pick tea. The snail girl picked it quickly and well, and won everyone's praise. Xie Duan plucked an orchid from the edge of the rock and put it in her bun.
During the summer harvest, Xie Duan was harvesting rice in the mountain field, and the snail girl brought him refreshments. Xie Duan happily sang a mountain song to thank her. On the day of the autumn harvest, Xie Duan dried the millet on the mountain rock, raised the millet, and the snail girl came, and there were a few gusts of wind, and the millet was clean and clean, and he brought it back to the village.
The winter was cold, and Xie's mother was seriously ill, and she whispered on the bed: "Son, you marry a good daughter-in-law, your mother is relieved!.""The snail girl looked for a doctor to decoct medicine and took care of her mother-in-law in every way.
Xie Duandong hunted up the mountain, and the snail girl took back a mountain roe deer and asked her husband to exchange it for medicine to treat her mother-in-law, who was sick and dying. The snail girl fished, caught a lot of fish and shrimp, and asked her husband to go to the street in exchange for good medicine to heal her dying mother-in-law.
After the Chinese New Year, Xie's mother fell ill and died. The snail girl gave birth to a boy.
This child is very cute, and Xie Duan often holds the child and accompanies the snail girl to weave in the moonlight. The people who saw them called them a couple who were in harmony.
The snail girl is not only a good weaver, but also a skilled embroiderer. The grass orchid of Wuyi Mountain she embroidered is fragrant from far and near. People love her embroidery skills.
One day, the snail girl said to her husband, "Add a mouthful of land and open up an acre of wasteland." Make a living!Xie Duan nodded yes, and he wanted to grow rice under the hoe.
An old man in Chen Village fell to his death, blew and beat, and was buried on the hill behind Xie Duan's house. The snail girl was drying grass in front of the door, when suddenly the crow screamed, and Lao Cai's eldest son broke into her.
Phew!The snail girl spat angrily and retreated into the house. The Chen family relied on themselves to collude with officials and continued to pursue the handsome and pretty Xie wife, but was blocked by Xie Duan.
It's really a narrow road. It turned out that Chen Laocai's eldest son was a blood-sucking "leech spirit" in Shanxi who was pinched into the stove and burned to death by Xie Duan when he was young.
Chen Laocai's eldest son pointed to the location of the Xie family, which was all land surnamed Chen, and forced Xie Duan to pay the rent. Xie Duan argued about the mountain boundary of the Chen family, and did not govern where the Xie family was located, so that the "leech essence" was speechless.
Leech Jing "does not give up, one plan fails, and another plan is born: forge a note of debt borrowing, saying that Xie Duan's father borrowed six loads of grain, and the mother gave birth to interest, and the interest was transferred to the mother, and he had to repay sixty loads!
When Xie Duan heard this, he was furious and scolded the "leech spirit" for talking nonsense, and Chen Laocai's eldest son took out the "IOU" drawn by Xie's father, saying that there was also a "proof" from the Chinese, and Xie Duan's face turned white with anger.
The snail girl persuaded Xie Duan not to quarrel with the wicked people, and promised that she would try to repay the debt tomorrow. Of course, the landlord was happy, and thought: Even if the Xie family has three heads and six arms, it will not be too late to pay off the sixty rent debts tomorrow!”
The snail girl is so amazing!At night, I don't know what "spell" was used, and suddenly a gust of wind flew from the Chen family's granary and piled up in front of the Xie family's door. Xie Duan couldn't tell how happy he was.
The next day, the "leech spirit" came and saw that the Xie family was piled up like a mountain. He couldn't force the debt, and found out that Xie's wife was a snail essence, so he insisted that Xie Duan had stolen other people's grain, and took a sedan chair to the government to complain.
There is money and reason, and there is no money and no reason. According to the complaint of the "leech spirit", the government summoned the snail girl and judged that "the demon was in rebellion," and that she would be burned to death with pine wood stacked towers.
A group of soldiers tied up the snail girl to the ancestral hall of Chen Village and wanted to throw her into the chaita and burn her alive.
Xie Duan shouted grievances, the child was very sensible, and took the snail shell to save his mother;Unexpectedly, he was discovered by the "leech spirit" family, and all the family members gathered around to catch the seven-year-old Xie Zi.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Xie Duan's children fled quickly, and Ding Zhuang of the Chen family followed closely after him. Running to the river, the child saw that the river was flooding the bank and the waves were blowing in the sky, so he had to jump into the water and escape. He floated in the river in a snail shell and went with the current.
Xie Duan's son happened to meet the Sea Dragon King on patrol while rafting, and he cried to his grandfather about the details of his mother's suffering. The dragon king was furious when he heard this, and immediately taught his nephew the spell to save the third princess, and ordered the turtle to send Xie Duan's son back to Zong'an to save his mother.
Just as the "leech spirit" held a banquet to invite the county officials, preparing to drink and have fun, and when the snail girl was burned, Xie Zi suddenly came from the well in the courtyard of the ancestral hall with the snail shell.
The county magistrate was shocked, and the snail girl took the opportunity to pounce on the snail shell and was rescued by the child. The county officials and the "leech spirit" family members were so panicked that they chased and chased, chased, chased until they reached the riverside, and when they stopped and looked, they were all scared stupid!
I saw that the snail shell turned into a boat, carrying Xie Duan's family, along the stream, through the mountains and gorges, and fled from their hometown. The county officials, the "leech spirits" and the family members were afraid that the snail girl would come back to punish them, so they fled in a gang and rushed to the edge of the Min River in the starry night. They saw a small boat approaching in the distance, and hurriedly beckoned them to flee for their lives.
The boat came ashore, and the county officials scrambled to jump on the boat and escape. When the boat reached the center of the river, the fisherwoman who was holding the boat suddenly turned into a snail girl, only to see her stomp her feet and overturn the boat, and the "leech spirit" and the county official fell into the river and drowned.
Xie Duan's family followed the mountain stream from Zong'an, drove into the Min River, followed the flow east, and settled down on a barren sandbank. Their family cultivated fertile land, planted mulberry and rice, and the men cultivated and the women weaved, and lived a happy life.
Xie Duan's godson farming: farming, transplanting, and planting vegetables;The snail girl taught her son to read and write: "Rice Grass", "Fish and Meat", "Farming"·· Winter goes to spring, and it turns five years. One day at noon, the snail girl was drifting yarn by the river, and suddenly, the crow crowed, and a black leech jumped up from the water.
The snail girl ran home in a panic, Xie Duan was startled when she saw her sad face, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"”
The snail girl told her husband about the encounter with the black leech, and she was afraid that this demon would come to destroy the happy family again, so that the flesh and blood would be separated, and the husband and wife would be separated, and she looked very panicked.
Not long after, the spring thunder shook the ground, and the sky was dark and the house was dark. Tianluo girl burst into tears and said to her husband: "The black leech Qin Chengtian Emperor, falsely accused me of leaving the Sea Palace, disobeying the punishment law, and eloping to the world. Lang, life and death are not in sight!
Xie Duan took his wife and said, "We have been farming and weaving for a hundred years!"The snail girl wet her clothes with tears and said: "The matter has come to this point, there is no return, I hope you will grow up and take care of yourself!."”
Xie Duan hugged his wife and called for help hoarsely. At this time, the thunder rumbled, the storm howled, and the snail girl broke away from Xie Duan's hand and said, "Lang, hateful" The leech is a haunter, I have made up my mind, although the heavenly court is cruel, I will die in the world!”
The son was crying and crying, and he wanted to go to the Dragon Palace for help. The snail girl persuaded: "If you are under siege, you don't have to run in vain." Xie Duan lifted the lid of the water tank and asked his wife to take refuge at the bottom of the tank.
The Tianluo girl pulled out the silver hairpin from her bun and handed it to Xie Duan: "It's difficult to be a husband and wife in this life, and the original thing will be returned..." As he spoke, he jumped into the water tank.
In an instant, there was a thunderstorm, a lightning flash, the water tank broke through, and the snail girl was gone.
Soon, a large field snail floated and bumped in the center of the river with the turbulent waves. Suddenly, there was a thunderclap on the surface of the river, and a huge wave of emptying was rolled up.
Then, the golden light rose out of the water, and the waves let out a mournful cry until the evening, when the clouds dispersed and the water fell. However, from then on, the river roared day and night, rolling day and night, and it was no longer as calm as it used to be.
Xie Duan took his son to roar along the river, and he couldn't find the snail girl again.
Xie Duan's father and son hated the "leech spirit" and destroyed the beautiful family. So, they fought the leeches along the river. Since then, the sandbar fields in this area have no longer seen the blood-sucking "leech spirits" infested.
In order to commemorate the snail girl, the descendants called this river the snail girl river;This desolate sandy beach is called Luozhou. Today, there are still the remains of the Luozu Temple by the riverside, and the stone tablet of "Luoxian Victory" is erected in front of the door.