During the reign of Emperor Xi of the Tang Dynasty, there was a big river in the deep mountains and old forests, which ran endlessly all year round. There is a small village near the river, where more than a dozen families live, including an elderly woman surnamed Pei, about 50 years old, who often uses a cage to catch fish and shrimp on the river beach to improve her family's food.
On this day, an old woman surnamed Pei touched a fish on the river beach and touched an egg. This egg was bigger than a goose egg, and she didn't know what kind of bird's egg it was, so she put it in the fish basket and planned to make a delicious leek omelette with a few eggs.
While cooking dinner, the old woman surnamed Pei picked up the bird egg and was about to break it, when she suddenly felt a movement inside. She couldn't help but be stunned, could it be that the young birds had hatched inside?She is a kind person, and since there is already a little life in it, she can't eat it.
She quickly made a small nest out of straw, put cotton wool in the nest, and then put the eggs in it to hatch. After some time, the egg broke through its shell, and a small snake crawled out. However, this little snake is ugly, with a relatively large head, and two small bags can be faintly seen on its head. She didn't recognize what kind of snake it was, so she raised it.
After a while, mist appeared on the body of the little snake, and it always climbed into the basin to play in the water, and the old woman surnamed Pei thought it was a water snake, so she dug a small pool in the yard and raised it in the pool.
After a while, the two bags on the head of the little snake drilled out two tiny horns, and the old woman surnamed Pei became suspicious, suspecting that it was not a snake, but a dragon. She didn't dare to keep it in the pool, and she knew that the pool was too small, and the dragon was not a thing in the pool after all, so on a moonlit night, she put the little dragon into the river.
As soon as the little dragon entered the water, it instantly grew more than ten times and turned into a dragon, with 4 claws growing on its body. It stuck its head out, hit the old woman's foot, and dived under the water and disappeared.
Since then, whenever the old woman surnamed Pei washes clothes by the river, Xiaolong will surface and look at her from afar. Occasionally, an old woman surnamed Pei beckoned, and the dragon would slowly approach and let her caress her.
The news spread and reached the ears of the county order, and he was full of joy, if he caught this dragon and dedicated it to the emperor, wouldn't he be able to be promoted and make a fortune?However, the dragon is the king of water, and it is not easy to catch itHe rolled his eyes, thought about it, and came to the old woman surnamed Pei with a heavy gift, asking her to lure the dragon ashore, as long as she caught the dragon, rewarded her with thousands of acres of fertile land, and countless gold and silver.
The old woman surnamed Pei has no good land, her husband and son make money by working part-time, and the family is not good. However, she is an upright and kind person, how can she betray the dragon in exchange for wealth?This will make her conscience uneasy, and she immediately rejected the county order.
Annoyed and angry, the county commander dragged her to the shore, where many archers were lurking on both sides, and the arrows were smeared with hemp, and as long as the arrows pierced through the dragon scales, the dragon could not fly.
Sure enough, when the dragon saw the old woman, he floated up. The prefectural order couldn't wait to give the order to release the arrows, and the dragon quickly dived into the water and disappeared. The county magistrate tried a few more times, but the dragon no longer floated up, and he beat the old woman twenty times, and went away regretfully.
Soon, Thorn Shi got the news that he was a foodie and had eaten everything, only dragon liver and phoenix gallbladder had not eaten, and if he could eat dragon liver, it would not be in vain to come to the world.
With a few warships and 2,000 soldiers, the assassin came to the great river, and there were archers in ambush on both banks, and the boats were also full of archers.
He escorted the old woman surnamed Pei to the bow of the boat, ordered the two soldiers to put their knives on the old woman's neck, and shouted: "Listen to the underwater dragon, I count to three, if you don't float up, I will kill the old woman." ”
After that, Thorn Shi began to count, and when he counted to 3, the dragon really floated up. The old woman surnamed Pei shouted anxiously: "Long'er, don't be fooled, even if they kill you, they won't let me go, you go quickly, go to the sea." ”
The dragon hurriedly dived underwater, and the assassin ordered the arrow to be released, but it was too late, and the dragon escaped. Assassin Shi was furious, swung his sword and beheaded the old woman, and pushed her into the river. Seeing all this underwater, the dragon suddenly rushed out of the water, and with a long roar, spit out a column of water and sprayed at the warships, and several warships suddenly flipped on their sides.
After a while, the rain was pouring down, and the river continued to pour upwards, flooding the farmland, the houses, and the city, and the sea became a sea for hundreds of miles. In this disaster, countless livestock were killed and tens of thousands of people were drowned, including Thorn Shi and 2,000 soldiers, including the county order.
After that, the dragon was never seen again. Many years later, the Taoist priest went down the mountain and talked about the dragon, which was locked to a trapped dragon stake at the bottom of the sea because of the indiscriminate killing of innocents. The Taoist priest sighed and said, "These people in the government can force the dragon into an evil dragon, and what can they do with the common people?"The tide is gone!”
A few years later, the Great Yellow Nest Rebellion broke out. Later, the Tang Dynasty fell.
In fact, there are very few naturally wicked people, and many wicked people are forced to be like this by the environment. However, no matter how difficult life is, we must keep the bottom line of conscience and never fall into the path of the devil from which we will never recover. 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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