During the Zhenguan period, an old woman surnamed Wu lived in a small mountain village in the southwest mountains of Luoyang.
Her husband and son were both drafted by Wang Shichong to fight and eventually died on the battlefield.
After that, the families of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were all given pensions, but only this old woman did not enjoy the pension because her family participated in the army of the thieves, but was confiscated by the government with two acres of land.
With nothing to do, she can only rely on wild vegetables to fill her stomach, so everyone calls her a bitter aunt.
One day, the hard-working aunt was going up the mountain to dig wild vegetables and was walking on a path with sheep's intestines, when suddenly a young man jumped out of the woods and blocked her way.
The bitter aunt looked up and found that the young man was ugly and vicious, with the appearance of a black bear on his face from time to time.
It turned out that this person was a black bear monster who had been practicing for hundreds of years, and although he couldn't change his ** form, he hoped to speed up his cultivation by gaining the status of a mouthful.
Because his concentration is not enough, his face shows the appearance of a bear from time to time, and he is worried that he will scare his wife, so he tries to use his face to show people, but his face is changeable.
The bitter aunt was taken aback and asked him what he wanted to do.
The young man smiled and asked, "Auntie, do you think I look like a human?" The hard-working aunt knew that he wanted to get a home, so she replied with a smile: "Like, it's exactly like a person, not only like a person, the more I look at you, the more like my son, both capable of work and filial piety." ”
When the young man heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand to thank him, and then turned into a black bear and burrowed into the woods, and a gust of wind immediately rose in the woods, and the wind quickly blew away the figure of the black bear.
The bitter aunt was stunned, she didn't expect that even the black bear monster disliked her, a lonely old woman, and sighed unbearably, and then continued to go up the mountain.
The bitter aunt dug up a basket of wild vegetables, washed them, and put them in a pot to cook.
After cooking, she rinsed it with water, then added water to cook it again, then grabbed a handful of rice and put it in the pot.
When the porridge was ready, she picked up the bowl and ate a bowl.
In the evening, in order to save lamp oil, the bitter aunt lay down in bed early.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door, followed by a shouting for the mother.
She hadn't heard such a shout in years, and her whole body couldn't help but tremble, and she pricked up her ears to listen carefully.
Someone outside shouted: "Mother, open the door quickly, I'll come back to be your son." ”
When the bitter aunt heard the voice of the black bear monster, she was very excited, and quickly opened the door, only to see a young man standing at the door with a roe deer on his back in the moonlight.
He knelt down with a thud and said, "Mother, I am willing to be your son." ”
It turned out that after returning to the mountain, the black bear monster decided to be the son of the bitter aunt after careful consideration.
Although he had lost his free mountain life, it was good for him to be able to accumulate merit and good fortune by taking care of her.
In fact, taking care of a lonely elderly person without children is also a practice and a great merit.
The bitter aunt pulled the young man up, hugged him and cried bitterly.
The young man comforted her for a while before the bitter aunt stopped crying.
After discussing with his hard-working aunt, the young man decided to call himself Xiong's name Yamaman outside.
Subsequently, Xiong Shanman processed the roe deer meat, fried some of it, and served it to the bitter aunt.
Since her husband and son left, she has never eaten meat again, eating roe meat, her tears can no longer hold back, crackling down, but her heart is full of happiness.
Since then, Xiong Shanman has lived here, making a living by hunting and taking care of his hard-working aunt.
When the villagers heard that the bitter aunt had a son, they came to congratulate her and praise her good luck.
Someone was very optimistic about Xiong Shanman and wanted to marry his daughter to him, but he politely refused.
Because he has to go back to the mountain to practice sooner or later, he doesn't want the women of the world to experience the pain of parting.
More than ten years have passed, the hard-working aunt died of illness, Xiong Shanman buried her, said goodbye to the villagers, and returned to the mountain to practice.
The villagers still don't know that Xiong Shanman's true identity is a black bear.
Because of supporting his hard-working aunt, the black bear monster was rewarded by Emperor Taiyue, and became a mountain patrol general under him, directly becoming an earth immortal, saving thousands of years of practice.
This is an afterword, and the above is only a brief explanation.
As the saying goes, respecting the old and loving the young is practice.
We should care for our parents and all the elderly who need care.
The story uses absurdity, exhorting people through allegory, and has nothing to do with feudal superstition.