Bai Qi, a native of Shu, has no other hobbies and loves to raise some snakes of different sizes and colors, which makes his family and friends quite afraid and are unwilling to get close to him.
He checks the changes of each snake one by one every day, as if he is looking for something, but he shook his head every time disappointed.
Bai Qi has a good friend Chen Xiao, who is a hunter. The two met by chance.
Not only was Chen Xiao not afraid of Bai Qi raising snakes, but he often sent a few snakes he caught in the mountains.
That day, Chen Xiao came to Bai Qi's house again, took out a white snake with a wrist-thickness from the bamboo basket and said, "Brother Bai, this is what I caught yesterday. It is snow-white all over, red eyes, and looks quite spiritual. I came to see you."
Bai Qi loved it very much when he saw the white snake, and thanked him very much.
Later he carefully raised the white snake. After three years, he found that two small bulges grew on the front and back of the abdomen of the white snake.
"Hi! Finally found it! I have raised tens of thousands of snakes and finally found the spirit beast!"
Bai Qi looked crazy and extremely excited. Then he released all the other snakes, leaving only the white snake to feed them carefully.
That day, Chen Xiao sent him another snake. Bai Qi said gratefully: "Thank you very much for Brother Chen, but I won't bother Brother Chen in the future!"
Chen Xiao was puzzled: "Why is this?"
Bai Qi was unwilling to reveal the secret, but thinking of Chen Xiao's help over the years, the two trusted each other and stopped hiding it.
"Does Brother Chen know why I raise snakes?"
"I just think this is your habit. Is there another reason?"
Bai Qi whispered: "To be honest, I'm looking for 'turning dragons and snakes'!"
Chen Xiao was puzzled: "What is 'turning dragons and snakes'?"
Bai Qi became more and more mysterious: "This is what I saw from ancient books, and it is said that there is a kind of snake. , born with the blood of a real dragon, can turn into a small dragon for ten years. If you find it, when it turns into a dragon, it will be stewed into soup, and after drinking it, it will last for thousands of years! "
Chen Xiao was surprised: "This is why you tried your best to raise many snakes?" "
" That's right! "
" So... have you found a small dragon?" "
" Do you still remember the white snake you sent three years ago ? That's the little dragon! Now that it has begun to grow limbs, and only after seven or eight years grow dragon horns will be completed! "
Chen Xiao can't believe it: "So that's the case! That's really congratulations to Brother Bai!"
"I'll ask Brother Chen Hongfu! Please don't leak this matter to avoid others coveting it!"
Chen Xiao hurriedly promised: "Don't dare to leak it! Brother Bai is relieved!"
Bai Qi said in a dilemma again: "But, I didn't dare to leave the white snake for a moment, for fear of an accident, so I asked Brother Chen to have three meals for me and the white snake. On the day the white snake turned into a dragon, I asked Brother Chen to drink dragon soup together to live with him for a thousand and eight hundred years!"
Chen Xiao happily agreed, and after that, he was indeed as tight as a bottle, and brought firewood, rice, oil, salt and fresh wildlife every three days for each person and one snake to enjoy.
For more than seven years, the white snake has been carefully fed by Bai Qi and has already had its limbs. It grows dragon horns and is about to completely turn into a little dragon.
The white snake is as close to Bai Qi as father and son, and trusts him quite much, and has no idea that Bai Qi wants to stew it with it.
That day, Chen Xiao came to Bai Qi's residence. Bai Qi was too sleepy because he was too sleepy to take care of the white snake all day long, so he got up and dozed off.
Chen Xiao saw that the white snake in the cage had turned into a small white dragon, with dragon claws and horns, and he might be killed by Bai Qi in the near future and stewed soup.
The little white dragon looked at Chen Xiao obediently. It knew that Chen Xiao brought wild food to him all year round for him to eat, so he was also closer.
Chen Xiao walked to the cage, put a finger into the cage, touched the head of the little white dragon and whispered: "Little Dragon, Xiaolong, although you are not as good as the real dragon and divine dragon, you are also one of the few spirit beasts in the world..."
Then he sighed: "In the past few years, I have actually figured it out. I have lived for thousands of years in vain. Watching my parents die of old age and death, and my wife and children die again and again. What is the point?"
Seeing that Bai Qi is still sleeping, he suddenly made up his mind and said to Xiaobailong in a low voice: "Little Dragon, we raise you carefully, not to treat you as a family member, but to eat your meat to live forever. I can't bear it. I'll take advantage of Bai Qi's sleep and release you now. I will bear the consequences. You can escape quickly!"
After saying that, he gently opened the iron tie and released the little white dragon out of the cage.
The little white dragon had already been spiritual. After understanding Chen Xiao's words, he was disbelief first, and then he was heartbroken. He looked at the two of them a few times and crawled out of the house with tears in his eyes.
At this moment, Bai Qi suddenly woke up and suddenly saw the little white dragon crawling outside the house, shouting: "Little dragon ran away! Catch it quickly! Don't let the evil beast escape!"
Little white dragon was completely disheartened when he heard Bai Qi's shouting, and hurriedly accelerated his pace to escape outside the house.
Bai Qi picked up a short sword and chased after him, but Chen Xiao stood there without any action.
The little white dragon's limbs were flexible and rushed out "slipping". In desperation, Bai Qi threw out a short sword and hit the little white dragon's hind legs without bias, leaving a pool of blood, and still ran away.
"You! Why did you let it escape? Why didn't you chase it!" Bai Qi was angry and looked crazy.
"Brother Bai, I can't bear to hurt my life, so I deliberately let it go. If you want to blame me, blame me..."
"You!"
Bai Qi was so angry that he couldn't speak. After a long time, he sighed: "You and my brothers, starting today, we will be ruthless! You go..."
Bai Qi was resentful because of letting Xiao Bailong go, and the two of them had no contact since then.
Another ten years have passed. On that day, Bai Qi took a boat to pass by a big river. Suddenly, the water in the middle of the river surged, and the air waves rolled, as if boiling, as if something was about to emerge from the bottom of the water.
"What's going on!" Bai Qi was shocked.
Then, a white dragon head as big as a bull's head suddenly surfaced, the dragon's whiskers hung on the water, the dragon's horns were crystal clear, and his big eyes were looking straight at Bai Qi.
"Ah! Dragon! Monster!" Bai Qi was shocked.
Bailong said, "I haven't seen you for ten years, Bai Qi, don't you know me anymore?"
"You...you are!"
"I am the little white dragon you raised for ten years."
"Ah! So it's you! Do you want to avenge that sword?"
"That's right!"
Baiqi was frightened when he heard this, but he said, "I have raised you carefully for ten years. Even if you have any mistakes, you can defeat your merits! You can't kill me!"
Baiqi was frightened when he heard this, but he said, "I have raised you carefully for ten years. Even if you have any mistakes, you can't beat me! You can't kill me!"
Baiqi was frightened when he heard this, but he said, "I have raised you carefully for ten years. Even if you have any mistakes, you can't beat me! "
Bailong said disdainfully: "You feed me, not to eat my flesh and blood, and the firewood, rice and wild food are provided by Chen Xiao. How much credit do you have?"
Baiqi was still stubborn: "Even if that's the case! Now you have the opportunity and become a real dragon beast. Can you kill people and do evil? Are you not afraid of God's punishment?"
Bailong pondered for a moment: "Even if I can't kill you, the revenge of a sword will be repaid sooner or later, so you can do it yourself."
Bailong finished speaking, the dragon head sank into the river and disappeared, leaving only bubbles on the water rolling.
Bai Qi let out a long breath and rowed his boat to the dock. Since then, he rarely approached rivers and lakes, for fear that another big dragon head would appear in the water would scare him to death.
Although he escaped, he was very worried about the retribution Bai Long said. He stayed at home all day and refused to go out easily.
This year, Bai Qi's father-in-law's birthday was unavoidable, so he rode a fast horse to celebrate his birthday, thinking that he would go and go back quickly to avoid any accidents.
When riding a horse and passing by a bamboo forest path, the horse suddenly ran away in fright. Bai Qi rolled down unsteadily and fell into a pile of bamboo piles. The sharp bamboo pieces cut through his thighs and blood flowed, exactly the same as the part where he threw a sword and stabbed Bailong.
Bai Qi hurriedly pulled off his clothes and tied them to stop the bleeding, and said in pain: "I have done it all, but I still haven't escaped! Fortunately, the wound is not deep, and I have no worries about my life!"
He limped to find the horse, got on the horse and went straight to the clinic. It took him a long time to recover.
Another thirty years later, Bai Qi was already an old man with white hair and beard. One day, he met Chen Xiao by chance on a remote mountain road.
I saw that Chen Xiao was still in his thirties and showed no sign of aging. Bai Qi said angrily: "Chen Xiao! Could it be that you used a trick to eat the white dragon, so that you can live forever!"
Chen Xiao said helplessly: "Since I can let it go, how could I harm it? Besides, it later got a great opportunity and turned into a real dragon. How could I have the ability to cook it and stew it?"
"Then why do you have no ageing face!"
"It's a long story..."
Then, Chen Xiao told what happened more than thirty years ago.
It turned out that after Chen Xiao let the little white dragon go, the little white dragon hid in the deep mountains. Later, he searched for spiritual herbs in the mountains to swallow them, and it turned into a real dragon.
In order to thank Chen Xiao for saving his life, it showed up and pulled out a few pieces of dragon scales and a few strands of dragon beards and asked Chen Xiao to make soup and take it, saying that it can strengthen the body.
Chen Xiao took it happily, and later found that he had not been old for decades and was still strong. Only then did he realize that the true dragon scales and the true dragon whiskers are magical medicines for extending life.
After hearing this, Bai Qi regretted it and said in tears: "If I had known this, Bai Long and I would treat me honestly. After it turned into a dragon, it would definitely give me dragon scales and dragon beards. Why do you have to eat its flesh and blood and turn it into enemies!"
Chen Xiao said helplessly: "Bai Long once told me that if you have good thoughts in your heart, God will fulfill your wishes; be kind, respectful and frugal, and your blessings will last. I hope you can understand this truth too."
Bai Qi sighed: "It's too late to regret! What's the use of understanding now?"
Not long after, Bai Qi died in regret, and Chen Xiao lived until he was 160 years old before he died without success.
