One day, heavy snow was falling. Tian Yuan went out to sweep the snow and saw a woman lying on the doorstep of her house. Seeing that the woman was still breathing, Tian Yuan helped the woman home. He first covered the woman with a quilt, and then brought the stove to keep the woman warm. Tian Yuan’s old mother Zhou said, “Boy, go to the kitchen to make a bowl of ginger soup. This hungry person has a cold body. If you feed some ginger soup, you will be relieved.”
Tian Yuan followed his mother’s instructions and hurried to the kitchen to find a piece of ginger, cut it into thin slices and put it in the pot to cook. When he was about to come out of the pot, he sprinkled a handful of brown sugar in the bowl and then brought it to the house. Tian Yuan stirred the ginger soup over and over with a spoon. When he saw that the ginger soup was no longer steaming, he fed it to the woman's mouth one spoon after another.
About a quarter of an hour later, the woman finally woke up. When she learned that it was Tian Yuan who saved her, she couldn't help but cry and struggled to get out of bed and kowtow to Tian Yuan. Tian Yuan said honestly, "This girl doesn't have to worry about it. It's not worth mentioning." Seeing that the woman was wearing thin clothes and her accent didn't look like a local, Zhou asked her why she fell in the snow.
The woman cried and Tian Yuan then learned about the woman's life experience. The woman's name is Huang Guizhen, and her ancestral home is from Lingnan. She followed her father to do business. Unexpectedly, her father suddenly died of illness. She sold all the gold and silver jewelry she had on her body, bought a coffin and buried her father.
Just when Huang Guizhen was desperate, an old woman saw that she was pitiful and was about to take her home to raise her as her goddaughter. Unexpectedly, after Huang Guizhen arrived, she found out that the woman was the madam in the brothel. Huang Guizhen jumped out of the window at night, but because she didn't know the way, she finally fainted on the road due to hunger and cold...
After hearing this, Tian Yuan and his son couldn't help but sigh. In this way, Huang Guizhen is also a pitiful person. Zhou said, "The old woman takes the liberty to ask, what are the plans for Miss Huang next?" At this time, Huang Guizhen burst into tears and murmured, "Now I have no way to go to the sky and no way to the ground. If I go out, I can only die!"
Zhou said, "The old woman has something to say. If you offend the girl, don't be surprised. My Yuaner is now over twenty years old and still has no marriage. I think you are of the same age. If you If we don’t mind our family being poor, it’s better to stay in our family as my daughter-in-law. My son is hardworking and willing to work hard. Not to mention that he can give you great wealth, at least food and drink is not a problem. "
Huang Guizhen fell to his knees and said, "Young Master is my savior. From now on, the little girl is willing to accompany you all the time and be a cow and horse. "Tian Yuan drew water and asked Huang Guizhen to wash her face, and then bought a new set of clothes for her to wear. I saw that Huang Guizhen seemed to have changed her body, very beautiful and charming.
Zhou was very pleased to see his son marry such a beautiful wife, and Tian Yuan was also very happy from the bottom of his heart. Since then, Tian Yuan has been more motivated than before. Because his mother at home is taken care of by his wife, Tian Yuan doesn't have to come back to cook. He can chop firewood three times a day and earns more money than before.
When Huang Guizhen was at home, she first spun yarn and weaving cloth to supplement her family's income, and secondly, she made various delicacies to honor her mother-in-law. At noon, she had to go up the mountain to deliver meals to her husband. In her spare time, she chatted with Zhou and told her about the customs and strange stories of Lingnan, and often made Zhou happy.
Tian Yuan and Huang Guizhen are very filial to Zhou, but by the winter of the following year, Zhou passed away. At that time, Zhou had been in bed for three years. Although he could eat and drink, his physical functions had long deteriorated.It was extremely cold that winter. Zhou caught a severe cold, but the high fever did not subside and died in bed.
Tian Yuan and Huang Guizhen buried their mother, and they have lived by relying on each other since then. People often say that blessings are unparalleled and misfortunes never come in singularly, and this is true. Shortly after Zhou's death, Tian Yuan also encountered an accident. One day, Tian Yuan went to the mountain to chop wood, and there was a lot of fog that day. Huang Guizhen advised her husband to wait until the fog cleared before going. Tian Yuan said, "I have been walking on this mountain road for more than ten years. I can go up with my eyes closed. It's okay."
As a result, after Tian Yuan went up the mountain, because the fog was too thick, he couldn't see his five fingers. Tian Yuan accidentally fell off the cliff and fell to death on the spot.
Huang Guizhen was heartbroken and had to bury her husband by her mother-in-law's grave. On the day when he arrived at Tian Yuantouqi, Huang Guizhen came to the Wall Chan Temple in the southwest of Liyang County to burn incense and pray for his deceased husband. After Huang Guizhen finished scenting, she suddenly felt a little anxious to pee, so she went to the toilet in the temple to make it convenient. Unexpectedly, when Huang Guizhen was about to untie her belt, the side wall of the pit suddenly turned around. Before Huang Guiniang could react, she had been taken into the side wall.
It turned out that there was a mezzanine in the middle of the side wall, which was about four feet wide, and could accommodate two people. At this time, there was a monk standing in the wall, which was the monk who was just standing next to Huang Guizhen to recite scriptures. The monk smiled and said, "When the little lady burned incense just now, the monk could no longer control himself. Since the little lady came to him on his own initiative, how could the monk miss the God-given marriage?"
After saying that, the monk carried Huang Guizhen on his shoulders and dragged it into the cellar.
Huang Guizhen only found that there were more than a dozen women there, their hands and feet tied with ropes, and there was no cloth covering their bodies. Just by looking at the situation, Huang Guizhen could probably guess what they had treated. The monk threw Huang Guizhen on a straw mat and prepared to do the beastly matter.
Huang Guizhen looked at the monk coldly and said, "Fat Pig Arch, I'm looking for death! It just so happens that I haven't had a meat dish for a long time!" When the monks such as
were about to get close to Huang Guizhen, Huang Guizhen turned into a golden giant python and swallowed the monk into his belly. The other women were stunned at this time. The giant python changed back to Huang Guizhen's appearance, and then said, "Sisters, don't be afraid. I am actually a snake demon in the mountains. Many years ago, when I was a little snake, I was saved by the woodcutter Tian Yuan. In order to repay his kindness, I turned into a woman and became his wife to respect his mother for him. A few days ago, Tian Yuan and his mother had their lives exhausted and both died. I thought of praying for them in the temple, hoping that they would be reincarnated as a good family in the next life, but I didn't expect to meet such an evil monk. Now the evil monk has been eaten by me, and all the sisters can go home."
Huang Guizhen untied the ropes of those women and let them go home. Then Huang Guizhen lit a big fire and burned the temple to ashes. Since then, people have never seen Huang Guizhen again, but the story of this python repaying kindness has been passed down.
[Soul Statement]
This story is a folk story, purely literary creation, the plot and characters are all fictional, aiming to enrich readers' spare time, please do not match feudal superstitions.
