It is said that during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a mason named Zhang Tieniu in Shunde Mansion, and he was also a poor person. Tie Niu's mother died of illness when he was three years old, and it was his father Zhang Laohan who was both a father and a mother, and he raised him with a handful of and urine with hard work.
When he grew up, he married his childhood sweetheart, Feng Niang, a playmate who grew up together.
Feng Niang is beautiful, her skin is like mutton fat and white jade, not as rough as ordinary rural women, her eyebrows are as light as a distant mountain, her phoenix eyebrows are bright, and she looks forward to being displaced, and all the single guys in the village are devoted to her.
And Zhang Tieniu is not the best young man in the village, the reason why the two were able to finally come together is only because the two of them have known each other since childhood and have a deep relationship, so he stood out among many suitors and finally hugged the beauty.
After the two got married, in order to make the living conditions of the family better, Zhang Tieniu began to run around the surrounding ten miles and eight towns to help people repair houses and build houses, and the couple also got together less and left more.
On this day, Feng Niang was washing clothes at home, and saw Zhang Tieniu's friend Wu Liang came to the house in a panic, and he told Feng Niang that people found the clothes of the Tie Niu brothers by the river outside the village, but Tie Niu was nowhere to be found, and there was a ** chance that he was drowned.
Hearing this news, Feng Niang suddenly felt that her eyes were dark, and she was almost about to faint, Wu Liang pulled Feng Niang, who had no master of the six gods, to trot all the way to the river. Feng Niang looked at the extremely familiar clothes on the shore, she ran over like crazy to pick up her husband's clothes and cried, the villagers began to fish in the river from the morning, and did not find anything until dusk, people said that Zhang Tieniu was estimated to have been washed away by the river to other places.
More than a month has passed in the blink of an eye, and because Zhang Tieniu has not seen anyone alive or dead, the government has designated this case as an unsolved case. This incident immediately became the talk of the villagers after dinner, and they all talked about it, saying that his body must have floated down the river and did not know where to go, and they were sure that it was gone.
No matter how the people in the village came to conclusions, Feng Niang still couldn't accept this result, her husband was fine before leaving, and even joked with her that she must finish the work there as soon as possible and come back to have a baby with her. She thought that if her husband really had an accident, he would not have committed suicide, because her husband had already arrived outside the village, and it was impossible for him to take off his clothes and go to the river to bathe for some reason. She always felt that there must be something wrong with this, but for a while she couldn't figure out what the problem was.
As the days of Zhang Tieniu's disappearance passed day by day, Feng Niang became a widow in the eyes of everyone as a matter of course, and many single men in the village began to move again. Among them, Zhang Tieniu's friend Wu Liang is the most attentive.
Since Zhang Tieniu's 'disappearance', Wu Liang has come to Feng Niang's house almost every day, and he doesn't say that he came to see Feng Niang, but only that he takes care of his father for his good brother Tie Niu. It's a pity that his sugar-coated cannonballs can't confuse Feng Niang, but Zhang Tieniu's father was so moved that he said all kinds of good things about Wu Liang in front of Feng Niang all day long.
On this day, Wu Liang bought some things and came to visit Zhang Laohan, and when the two were chatting, Zhang Laohan suddenly sighed and said, "Wu Liang!."You're not too young, and it's time to think about starting a family. When you get married, don't come to see me again, a bad old man, and don't let me make you and your wife awkward. ”
Uncle Zhang, if you say anything, it's too outward. Wu Liang said as he spoke, and involuntarily looked at Feng Niang, who was cleaning up the house next to him, and continued: "As long as Feng Niang says a word, you are my father, and I will give you a ...... for the rest of your life when the time comes."”
Before Wu Liang's words fell, he saw Feng Niang slam the rag in his hand on the table, and said angrily: "I don't have much ability, besides, my father only has a son named Zhang Tieniu." If you want to be a son to someone else, go find someone else!My dad didn't dare to casually recognize a son who was so old. ”
Feng Niang's words are full of guns and sticks, these words will Wu Liang is self-ashamed, I saw that his face was blue for a while and red for a while, and it was not embarrassing to sit there, and finally Zhang Laohan opened his mouth to relieve the siege, so he barely squeezed out a smile, and casually found an excuse to run out of Feng Niang's house.
I thought that Wu Liang would stop for a few days after eating deflated this time, but what Feng Niang didn't expect was that the next day Wu Liang actually carried a ceramic jar and knocked on the door of Feng Niang's house again with a sneer.
Wu Liang handed the ceramic jar in his hand to Feng Niang, and said very sincerely: "A few days ago, I always heard Uncle Zhang say that his leg hurts, and sometimes he can't sleep because of the pain. I heard that using a snake to make wine can cause a leg disease, so I went up the mountain to catch a snake, and you can use it to make wine for the uncle to drink!”
Feng Niang didn't want to accept it, but when she thought that her father-in-law Zhang Laohan couldn't sleep well all night because of leg pain every night, she could only sigh deeply, and reached out to take the ceramic jar, "Wu Liang, I bought this snake with you, and I will send you the money in a few days." Today, I will also tell you the truth, I only have Tie Niu in my heart, except for him, I will not marry anyone else in this life, I advise you not to delay your efforts on me. ”
As soon as she finished speaking, Feng Niang closed the door directly and didn't even look at Wu Liang, but unfortunately she didn't see it, Wu Liang at this time showed a gloomy smile on his face, only to see him muttering without smiling: "Stinky girl, you actually toast and don't eat and drink, then don't blame Lao Tzu for being ruthless, all this is your own fault." ”
Feng Niang carried the ceramic jar into the house, she opened the lid and looked inside, only to see a white snake with a snow-white body and a body of more than three feet long, a pair of scarlet eyes looked very scary, but it was very tame, and tried to climb out of the porcelain jar several times, but it did not show any aggression.
I don't know why, whenever the white snake looks at her, Feng Niang always feels that the white snake's eyes look at her very gently and are very familiar, she can't think of why after thinking about it for a long time, she can only treat it as an illusion. She sealed the mouth and went to the village tavern to buy a large jar of soju and went home.
According to the rules of the older generation, the door should be left open when soaking snake wine, so that although the snake's body is dead in the wine, the soul can be free to go to the underworld to be reincarnated, mainly to avoid the revenge of the snake's resentful spirit.
Feng Niang opened the door, and then carefully pinched the seven inches of the white snake, picked up the white snake and put it in the wine jar, the white snake seemed to know that if he was put in, he would die, only to see him twist his body desperately and struggle, his mouth kept making a "hissing" sound, and his ruby eyes were full of tears, despite this, no matter how the white snake struggled, he never tried to attack Feng Niang.
Just when the white snake was about to be immersed in the wine, he was suddenly stopped by a white-bearded Taoist priest who happened to pass by the door of Feng Niang's house: "Madam, stop, this white snake is your husband." It turned out that when this white-bearded Taoist priest passed by the door of Feng Niang's house, he inadvertently glanced into the house, and saw that Feng Niang was putting the white snake into the wine jar, and the Taoist priest who had practiced for many years saw at a glance that the white snake had a problem, so he stopped it.
Feng Niang, who stopped moving when she heard this, looked at the Taoist priest outside the door in surprise and said, "My husband?."How could it be ......How could this white snake be my husband?As she spoke, Feng Niang hurriedly invited the white-bearded Taoist priest into the house.
He was put under a transformation spell, which is why he became a snake. I have been practicing for many years, so I can naturally see his original appearance, just now he kept shouting, 'Lady, stop, I'm Tie Niu.' It's just that you don't understand, so I know you're husband and wife. As he spoke, the white-bearded Taoist priest unpacked his bag and took out the cinnabar, yellow paper, and other things needed for the practice.
I saw him dip a brush in a little cinnabar, and then on the white snake dragon flying phoenix dance to draw some charms, when the white bearded Taoist priest finished drawing the last stroke, the white snake suddenly let out a painful hiss, and the body continued to writhe as if suffering great pain.
The body of the white snake slowly became larger, and the snake skin on its body began to fall off little by little, and by the time the snake skin completely fell off, the white snake had become Zhang Tieniu, who had been missing for a long time. Feng Niang covered her mouth in disbelief, and suddenly threw herself into her husband's arms and cried bitterly, all her thoughts turned into tears. Thinking that she almost killed her husband with her own hands just now, I was afraid for a while.
Zhang Tieniu gently patted his wife's back and persuaded her not to blame herself, and it took a while for Feng Niang to calm down, Zhang Tieniu's family and the white-bearded Taoist priest sat together, and Zhang Tieniu explained the ins and outs of the whole thing.
That day, Zhang Tieniu, who had finished his work from other villages, hurried home, and when he was about to reach the village, he met his friend Wu Liang on the way. Wu Liang showed a weird smile when he saw Zhang Tieniu, and had to drag him to the river, saying that he had something to discuss with him.
After the two came to the river, Wu Liang began to tell his admiration for Feng Niang and his envy for Zhang Tieniu. Zhang Tieniu was also shocked when he found out that his good brother had such thoughts about Feng Niang, after all, they were best friends, and the so-called friend wife could not be bullied, but he had always had a crush on his wife.
Just when Zhang Tieniu was distracted, Wu Liang took out a yellow talisman from his arms and pasted it directly on his back, Zhang Tieniu's eyes instantly darkened and he fainted. By the time he woke up again, he had turned into a white snake.
Wu Liang captured the white snake that Zhang Tieniu had turned into and put it in a porcelain jar, and kept it at home, not only that, but he also told Zhang Tieniu what happened to Feng Niang's house every day, so as to torture him.
Just the day before yesterday, Wu Liang returned home in a rage, gritted his teeth and said that Feng Niang pretended to be high and didn't know what to do, and in order to punish her, he decided to take the white snake to Feng Niang to make wine, and let her kill her beloved with her own hands. Feng Niang knew the rest of the matter.
After learning the ins and outs of the matter, Feng Niang felt angry and called Wu Liang too vicious, and the white-bearded Taoist priest also sighed again and again that there were such insidious and vicious people in the world.
After everyone discussed, a treacherous and vicious person like Wu Liang must be severely punished, and finally decided to treat him in the same way.
The white-bearded Taoist priest handed a transformation charm to Feng Niang, and the next day, Wu Liang came to ask if the snake wine had been brewed.
Feng Niang found an opportunity to put the charm on Wu Liang's body, and in the blink of an eye, Wu Liang turned into a snake with a dark body. The black snake also wanted to try to attack Feng Niang, but was pinched by Zhang Tieniu, who was hiding on the side, and put it in the porcelain jar before and put it in the back mountain, leaving it to fend for itself.
Since then, the people in the village have never seen Wu Liang again, and Zhang Tieniu and Feng Niang have lived an ordinary and happy life.