During the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a Wangjia Village in a remote valley, and the people of Wangjia Village lived here to escape the war, and slowly formed a town.
There was a farmer named Wang Youyou in Wangjia Village, when he was nineteen years old, he married his wife Xiuyun through matchmaking, and gave birth to two sons, named Wang Fu and Wang Sheng.
One day, Wang Youyou and Xiuyun went up the mountain to pick wild vegetables, passing by a mountain, and saw a stone rolling down from the cliff, which happened to press on a green snake, and the tail of the green snake was instantly blurred.
Wang Youyou, a kind-hearted man, saw the green snake struggling, so he moved the stone away, but the green snake's tail was already broken. Looking at the weak green snake, his wife Xiuyun said: "This green snake is so pitiful, let's take it home and see if we can save its life." ”
Wang Youyou originally had this idea, and the two coincided, Wang Youyou broke off a branch from the tree, picked the green snake into the back basket, and then closed the lid.
When they got home, the two took the green snake out of the back basket, the green snake was already dying at this time, with more air and less air intake, Wang Youyou immediately found some herbs to apply to the place where the green snake's tail was broken, and then prepared a little water and raw meat for the green snake, and left it alone.
The next day, the green snake regained a little vitality and ate a little meat, which was a good sign, and the green snake knew that Wang Youyou and Xiuyun had no ill will towards him, and did not attack Wang Youyou and Xiuyun.
A month later, the green snake's injuries had healed, and Wang Youyou and Xiuyun discussed releasing the green snake back into the mountain.
Wang Youyou put the green snake in the place where he first met it, and then went back, he never thought that the next morning, he saw the green snake in the yard, and so on several times, Wang Youyou and Xiuyun both knew that the green snake didn't want to go, so they let the green snake settle in the yard.
It just so happened that there were five immortals in the northeast, and the snake was also one of them, so Xiuyun said to the green snake to let it be a family protector and bless the safety of the family.
The green snake seemed to understand Xiuyun's words, and disappeared after walking around the yard several times.
Since then, there has been no bad thing in Wang Youyou's family, and Xiuyun also incense the Baojia Immortal every year, praying for the safety of the family.
Wang Youyou will often put some raw meat in the corner for the green snake. But without exception, the two never saw the green snake again.
Twenty years have passed in a blink of an eye, Xiuyun still incense the Baojia Immortal every year, Wang Youyou also died, and his two sons Wang Fu and Wang Sheng also got married one after another.
One day, her mother Xiuyun called Wang Fu and Wang Sheng to the bedside and explained to the two, "There is a family of Baojiaxian is a green snake with a broken tail, and the two of you must remember that the incense cannot be broken every year, and you sincerely worship it." After finishing speaking, Xiuyun took his last breath.
Wang Fu and Wang Sheng were heartbroken, beat a coffin, and buried their mother next to their father's grave.
Although Wang Fu and Wang Sheng are brothers of the same father and mother, they both have completely different personalities, Wang Fu is the boss, he is good by nature and thoughtful, but Wang Sheng, as a younger brother, is very arrogant and competitive.
After the death of his mother Xiuyun, Wang Fu kept his mother's words firmly in his heart, and every festival, he had to incense his parents and the green snake of the family, but Wang Sheng was unimpressed, because the two brothers had never seen the green snake, Wang Sheng thought that his mother had coaxed him.
In this way, the two who are both brothers, the situation has also changed dramatically, Wang Fu married a little wife Lanzhi, who has a happy life and small assets, and Wang Sheng, who is very arrogant, married a butcher's daughter Cuihua, the butcher's daughter has a big waist and a round waist, but the butcher is not short of meat, so Wang Sheng looks fine.
After Wang Fu became married, he moved out of the family's old house and rebuilt the house outside, and the old house was left to Wang Sheng. Wang Fu did not forget his mother's entrustment.
After Wang Sheng and Cuihua became married, they learned Xi slaughtering techniques from Cuihua's father, Zheng Butcher, Wang Sheng has a big personality and is a natural butcher.
Wang Sheng's wife Cuihua loves to eat meat, and she gave birth to a son named Wang Xiaoming, Wang Xiaoming is also like his mother, and must eat meat every day.
Wang Fu's wife Lanzhi gave birth to a son and a daughter to Wang Fu, the son is called Wang Qian, and the daughter is called Wang Lan.
Twenty years have passed in a blink of an eye, Wang Xiaoming, Wang Gan and Wang Lan have all grown up, Wang Qian married a wife and had children, Wang Lan also married a wife, but Wang Xiaoming is still single.
Everyone nearby knows that Wang Xiaoming is a lazy person, and they are unwilling to push their daughter into the fire pit.
For Wang Xiaoming's delay in getting married, his father Wang Sheng and mother Cuihua were very anxious.
They think that their children can't get married, because the house is too old and others don't look down on it, and they never look for reasons in their sons.
Wang Sheng is also old, and the butcher must be young and strong to be competent, Wang Sheng began to be powerless, but the family has no savings.
So Wang Sheng found his brother and asked for a little money to renovate the house. Wang Fu agreed bitterly and gave Wang Sheng ten taels of silver. When Wang Fu told his wife Laneige, Laneige also agreed, after all, the eldest brother is like a father, and the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother. Laneige also asked Wang Fu to help.
When Wang Sheng rebuilt the house, Wang Fu and Wang Qian, father and son, went to help.
While digging the foundation, someone suddenly shouted, "What a lot of snakes!"”
Everyone gathered around to take a look, and there were dozens of green snakes densely packed under the foundation, among which there was a severed-tailed green snake as thick as an arm.
Wang Fu suddenly thought of his mother's dying entrustment and said to Wang Sheng: "Brother, this is what my mother said about protecting the family immortal, hurry up and kowtow to it." ”
Wang Sheng said indifferently: "What is the Baojia Immortal, it's just a few green snakes, don't worry about it." ”
Wang Fu kowtowed to the green snake, but he didn't expect Wang Sheng's son Wang Xiaoming to find a cage from **, he caught all the snakes in it, and said in his mouth: "Eat the whole snake banquet tonight!."”
Wang Fu hurriedly called his son Wang Qian to stop Wang Xiaoming with him, but Wang Sheng stepped forward to stop Wang Fu and said: "Brother, I haven't been doing slaughtering work recently, I haven't opened meat at home for a long time, and my son is hungry and thin. ”
Wang Fu didn't have Wang Sheng's strong physique, so he couldn't get over at all, and Wang Gan didn't have Wang Xiaomingzhuang, he was overturned on the ground, Wang Qian knocked over the cage containing the green snakes, and two green snakes got into the grass and disappeared.
Wang Xiaoming came to the river with the cage and skinned all the green snakes in the cage with a knife, and the skinned green snakes were still struggling.
In the grass in the distance, two green snakes, one large and one small, watched this scene, spat Sachiko in their mouths, and then turned their heads and crawled towards the mountain.
Because of Wang Sheng's behavior, Wang Fu asked his son to leave angrily.
In the evening, a delicious smell permeated Wang Sheng's house, looking at the meat in the pot, Wang Xiaoming drooled, and the last pot of snake meat was eaten by Wang Xiaoming.
Since then, Wang Fu and Wang Sheng have stopped interacting.
Wang Sheng has no job, and the conditions at home have plummeted, and there is often no meat for ten and a half days.
So Wang Xiaoming volunteered to hunt in the mountains. When Wang Xiaoming hits the meat, he eats it directly on the spot, and every time he leaves some leftovers for his parents at home.
One day, when Wang Xiaoming was hunting, he saw a girl on the side of the road, and he walked up to see that there were two holes in the girl's back ankle, and the holes were left with black blood.
Wang Xiaoming knew that it was a snake bite, and seeing that the woman was young and beautiful, Wang Xiaoming sucked out the poison to the girl, and carried the girl home.
The girl woke up at Wang Xiaoming's house and learned that Wang Xiaoming had saved herself, and expressed her gratitude to Wang Xiaoming. After a short rest at Wang Xiaoming's house, he got up and planned to leave.
During the break, the more Wang Xiaoming looked at the girl, the more he liked it, so he changed his way to inquire about the girl's details.
It turned out that this girl's surname was Xu, and her name was Xu Wan, who was a hunter and a daughter in the mountains, and she went into the mountains to pick wild vegetables on this day. Unexpectedly, I accidentally stepped on a snake, and then I was bitten, and then I fell into a coma, but fortunately I met Wang Xiaoming, otherwise I would have died.
Wang Xiaoming sent Xu Wan home, and Xu's father saw that Wang Xiaoming was strong and had a life-saving grace for his daughter, so he asked, "Do you have a marriage match?"”
Wang Xiaoming said: "Not yet. ”
Father Xu said, "What do you think of the little girl?"”
Wang Xiaoming replied: "It's all up to my father-in-law." ”
In this way, the news that Wang Xiaoming was going to marry spread throughout the village, and everyone knew that Wang Xiaoming had married a beautiful woman like a flower.
On the day of marriage, all the villagers came to watch, and saw that the bride was slim and slender, and everyone thought that it was a flower inserted in cow dung.
On the day of the wedding, Wang Fu also came, although the two families broke off contact, but the nephew got married, and he still had to come to the town.
In the evening, everyone left, leaving only the Wang family to cool off in the courtyard, and Wang Xiaoming couldn't hold it anymore and entered the cave room with Xu Wan.
There were painful voices in the room, and everyone smiled, didn't break it, and stayed away.
The next day, Wang Xiaoming and Xu Wan didn't get up for a long time, at first they thought they were too tired, and it wasn't until the evening that Wang Sheng asked his wife Cuihua to go and have a look.
Cuihua knocked on the door and pushed it open, and suddenly a scream resounded throughout the village, and people nearby leaned over, only to see Cuihua slumped to the ground, pointing to the room.
Everyone looked over and saw a complete human skin hanging from the beam, and under the human skin was a skeleton with scattered flesh and blood on it, and four large characters were written in blood on the wall: "The crime deserves." ”
This skeleton is Wang Xiaoming's, and the human skin is also Wang Xiaoming's.
When such a strange thing happened in the village, everyone was terrified, for fear that one day they would be like this.
So, Wang Sheng and others went to a famous Taoist temple nearby, hoping to get an answer.
The real person in the Taoist temple said to Wang Sheng: "If you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself, you do what you shouldn't do, it is retribution, and you can't complain about others." ”
It turned out that the cause of the incident was still on the dozens of green snakes that Wang Sheng dug up when he was renovating his family's house.
The green snake is the family fairy invited by Wang Sheng's parents, which is of great significance, the green snake blesses the Wang family to grow up healthily and be safe, but Wang Sheng is not grateful, but connives, but connives, his son kills them, eats their flesh, and this beam is finished.
And Xu Wan is the green snake who escaped, turned into a woman, and came back for revenge. It killed Wang Xiaoming in the same way to relieve the hatred in his heart.
After finishing speaking, with a wave of his hand, the Taoist chief drove Wang Sheng and his wife down the mountain, and those who will take revenge will be punished by heaven.
Wang Fu came to ask the reason, it was really because Wang Xiaoming ate the Baojia Immortal, and Wang Fu completely broke with Wang Sheng's family after hearing it.
Since then, Wang Xiaoming's mother Cuihua has been crazy all day long, and when she sees people, she says that you killed my son. And Wang Sheng always felt that something was staring at him, and he always dreamed that a green snake came to beg for his life. In the end, I was scared to death when I saw the hemp rope.
The people of Wangjia Village have also changed their previous style, everyone has done more good deeds, and they know that there are gods in their heads.
If Wang Sheng didn't dote on his son at the beginning, and could have stepped forward to stop him from killing the snake, maybe things would have been another result.