Folk Tale A beggar outwitted the serpent, and when he became famous, he became famous

Mondo Culture Updated on 2024-02-11

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In ancient times, the land was vast, the population was sparse, and many places were covered by high mountains and dense forests, and jackals, tigers and leopards and other fierce beasts were often infested, posing a threat to people's lives and livestock.

When businessmen go out of the house, they like to travel together to avoid accidents.

There is a shop called Ruyi Grocery in Yunshui Town, and the owner is Li Dafu. He often sent people to the mountains to buy mountain goods, so his family formed a caravan of about fifty or sixty people.

Early that morning, Li Dafu came to the store and waited for the return of the caravan. However, what he was waiting for was bad news.

After lunch, Li Dafu looked out of the door from time to time, and suddenly, the figure of a group of people appeared in his sight.

When these people approached, Li Dafu realized that they were fellows of the caravan. At this moment, their faces were full of fear, and some of them were still wounded, and blood was flowing. When Li Dafu saw it, he hurriedly asked what happened.

These guys who fled back told him:

When the caravan passed through a dense forest in the mountains, it was intercepted by a giant python more than five feet long. They attacked with knives, guns, and clubs, but they could not defeat the python, and two people were swallowed directly by it.

After the python ate the man, it quickly retreated into the mountains and forests. In fear, they can only drop their goods and flee back.

When Li Dafu and the guys in the store heard the news, their faces turned pale with fright, and in addition to being frightened, their hearts were also full of anger.

After all, Li Dafu was experienced, so he calmed down and began to think about countermeasures. This snake must be removed, otherwise how can it reassure his subordinates.

After thinking about it, Li Dafu immediately walked out of the store and went to the county office. This matter needs to be informed to the county order, and let him help think of a way.

After hearing the county order, he fell into deep thought, the catchers of the county government deal with some theft cases on weekdays, and it is okay to maintain law and order, and in the face of the giant python that can resist swords and guns, sending them forward is tantamount to sending sheep into the tiger's mouth.

Li Dafu saw the worry of the county order, so he said: "Lord County, I am willing to take out a thousand taels as a reward for removing the giant python, I believe that there will be capable people in the people who can put forward effective countermeasures." ”

When the county order heard it, he secretly rejoiced in his heart, thinking that this Li Dafu was indeed shrewd and knew how to use people's hearts.

He thought to himself, as the old saying goes, there must be brave men under heavy money, and Li Dafu's words may really inspire people's courage.

So, at noon, an official posted a reward announcement in the bustling city center, which soon attracted many onlookers.

The official explained the incident in detail, and the discussion in the crowd suddenly boiled. Although a thousand taels of silver was a lot of money, thinking of the ferocity of the giant python, everyone felt powerless.

At this time, a young man said to an old man: "Uncle Zhang, you are a master of snake catching, why don't you go out and get rid of this harmful python." ”

When Zhang Laohan heard this, he glared at the young man, and reprimanded sternly: "My old man has always acted according to the actual situation when catching snakes, and I have seen the power of this snake, not to mention finding its seven inches, even if you get close to it, you may not even be able to die." You kid, do you want to see me laugh? ”

When they heard what he said, they all felt that it made sense, and they began to talk about it again.

Some people say that this snake is afraid of realgar, and everyone goes to pour realgar on it, maybe it can be so frightened that it can't move, and then it won't be dealt with casually.

Others say that it smoked its cave and smoked it alive in the cave.

But these methods are just everyone's ideas when they are chatting, and the giant python is not a fool, will it still wait to be cleaned up?

While everyone was talking with great interest, an old beggar rushed to the front, and he told the official that he would remove the bounty list, and that he could get rid of the python.

As soon as the old beggar said this, the surroundings suddenly fell silent, and then there was a burst of laughter.

The official looked at the old beggar's unkempt hair and thin body, and said with some tears and laughter

Don't come here to make trouble for your old man, the catchers in the county government don't dare to go, let alone a body like yours. If you expose this list, you won't be able to come up with a good plan at that time, and the county magistrate will punish you for the crime of disrupting official business. ”

The old beggar hurriedly explained: "Official, I understand this truth, I won't touch the big snake, I have my own clever plan to make it, and I use a clever trick." With that, he pointed to his head.

Seeing that he was so confident, the official couldn't help but pay attention to it.

People often say that the folk Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, this old beggar may really have a way, whether it will work or not, in the end, it is up to the county master to decide.

So, he took the old beggar to the county government and saw the county order.

The county magistrate was also surprised to see the old beggar, and he didn't beat around the bush, and directly asked the old beggar what he could do.

The old beggar gave a salute and replied respectfully: "Lord Qiqi County, I am not a local, but I fled the famine and came to your county. I used to be a carpenter, and I learned the secret art left by Patriarch Luban.

Some of these secret techniques are too vicious for me to use lightly, but they are fine with this harmful snake. I have a secret method called lightning channeling, I carve a spell on a wooden board, and I chant a spell to lead the lightning to strike it. ”

After hearing this, the county commander and the master looked at each other, and after pondering for a while, he said to the old carpenter: "You try it first, if it can really attract heavenly thunder, I will credit you, and the 1,000 taels of silver will also belong to you." ”

The old carpenter began the experiment as instructed, and soon after, it attracted thunder.

The county commander was overjoyed when he saw this, and saw that the old carpenter alone had limited strength, so he recruited more carpenters who were good at Luban's secret art in the county in case of emergency.

A day later, more than a dozen carpenters carved thunder spells on more than 100 pieces of wood, and everything was ready for the python to appear.

The county magistrate recruited more than 100 brave people to go up the mountain to eliminate snakes with the carpenters.

The group came to the place where the python was haunted, and in a hidden place they spread wooden blocks with spells carved into them, and placed a large amount of prey on them as bait.

After setting up the scene, everyone hid on a mountain bag and looked down.

It wasn't until late evening that only the sound of grass falling to the ground was heard, and then the head of the python protruded from the dense grass.

The python sensed that there was prey in front of it and sped up its speed.

Before eating, it paused for a moment, raised its head and looked at the place where everyone was hiding, although they knew that the snake's eyes had poor eyesight, everyone was still frightened into a cold sweat.

After a while, the python began to devour its prey, and the carpenter on the mountain, seeing that the time had come, began to recite the spell of lightning channeling.

Suddenly, a strange scene appeared, thunder rumbled in the sky, and thunder and lightning struck directly towards the giant python.

A series of lightning bolts struck the python, blowing its flesh to pieces. The ordinary snake has long since died, but the python has tenacious vitality, and it rolled on the ground a few times, and actually broke many small trees.

Everyone was shocked when they saw it, could it be that this giant python was about to become a sperm?

After about a quarter of an hour, the python's struggle gradually subsided, and one of the deadly lightning bolts struck seven inches, and the snake's head turned black.

At noon the next day, a giant snake ** that was blackened by thunder and lightning quickly carried it around the county seat.

The entire county was boiling, and everyone watched and praised.

This time, everyone who went up the mountain to remove snakes was rewarded, and the old carpenter received more than 1,000 taels of silver.

He used the money to open a small shop in the city and make furniture. Because of his meritorious work in eliminating snakes, he became famous in the county and his business was prosperous.

This story is purely fictional, thank you all for reading. **From the Internet, the infringement will be deleted immediately.

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