Xie Duan is a native of Jin Dynasty Fujian Houguan. When he was very young, both his parents died and he had no relatives. The neighbors took turns to take care of him and raise him.
When Xie Duan was seventeen or eighteen, he began to make a living on his own. He is loyal by nature, diligent, well-mannered, courteous, submissive and cautious, and never gets involved in immoral things. The villagers praise him as a good offspring and like him very much. But because of bad family circumstances, he has never married a wife. The villagers pity him, miss him, and plan to marry him a wife, but they haven't found a suitable one.
So sometimes, Xie Duan said shyly: "I am so poor, how can I afford a wife?" Therefore, he has been living a lonely life. However, this is also good, one person is full and the whole family is not hungry. He also ended up at ease.
Xie Duan gets up very early every day and goes to work in the fields. He doesn't stop working until the sun goes down. He eats three meals a day together, and sleeps late at night to clean up the housework at home.
One day, when he came back from ploughing the fields, he found a big snail under the city. It was as big as a three-liter pot, and it was dazzling with golden light. He thought this snail was a strange thing, so he took it home, put it in the urn, and raised it with clean water.
Unexpectedly, one day, a miracle will happen! Xie Duan returned home from work. As soon as he entered the house, he saw that the house was cleaned up, his clothes were washed fresh, and there were hot, fragrant meals on the table. Xie Duan's eyes widened in surprise, and thought: What's the matter? Are the gods descending? No matter, let's eat first.
For more than ten days after this, Xie Rui got up every day and went to the field to farm. When he got home, he saw steaming food in his house, food and drink, soup and water, as if someone specially gave it to him. He did. He ate the delicious food and thought to himself: "This must be made by the kind aunt next door. I must thank her."
To thank the aunt, Xie Duan deliberately went to thank the neighbor. The neighbors feel ashamed,They said: "Everything we do for you is not for you to thank us. We are all neighbors and should help each other." Xie Duan felt that the neighbors didn't understand what he meant and couldn't say directly, so he ran to other people's homes many times. , To express my gratitude.
I want to ask who is cooking for myself every day, so please don't bother. The neighbors all smiled and said: "You child, it is really strange. You obviously have married a daughter-in-law, and you hide in the house
and cook for you. Not only did you not let us look at her, you also said that we helped you. Busy, what about the food we cooked for you, what are you kidding us about?" Xie Duan was speechless, wondering and could not let go.
Xie Duan felt very strange, extremely surprised, and couldn't find anything to say. He was covered with mist in his heart, but he didn't know why. He decided to clarify this matter.
In order to find out what happened, one day, just before dawn, Xie Duan went out to work as usual, and came back quietly at dawn, peeping at his home outside the fence and observing the movement in the house.
He saw a very beautiful young woman coming out of the urn that raised the snails, came to the stove, lit a fire, and started cooking. Xie Duan saw it really, and hurriedly ran into the door, and went straight to the urn to see the big snail.
But the big field snail that I picked up in the urn only has an empty shell. He went down to the stove and looked for the woman.
The woman didn't expect Xie Duan to come back suddenly, and was caught off guard. She hurriedly wanted to return to the urn, but was stopped by Xie Duan and couldn't go.
Xie Duan asked the woman, "Where are you from? Why do you cook for me?"
The woman replied, "I am a white water elementary woman in Tianhe, the daughter of the emperor. 天帝 knows Your parents have died since you were young, and you are lonely and lonely. You are very sympathetic to you. Seeing that you are diligent, thrifty, and self-sacrificing, you sent me to help you. Send me to take care of your house and cook for the time being. Within ten years, you will make your home wealthy. .When you find your wife in the future, I will take it back. Then I will go back to heaven and return to life. But now my mission has not been completed.But you have been like a secret, my identity has been exposed, even if you promise not to speak out, it will inevitably be known to others, I can't stay here anymore, I must go back to Heaven.
Xie Duan begged Bai Shui Su Nu to stay, but she said: "I can no longer stay in the world now." You may cook your own food in the future, it may be very hard work, but as long as you are diligent in plowing the fields, fishing and collecting medicine, you can make a living. I leave this husk for you, and use it to store rice, so you don’t have to worry about no food to eat. ’
Xie Duan repeatedly asked her to stay, but she refused. At this time, there was a sudden wind and rain in the sky, and the Baishui Su-girl instantly took away her figure and left.
The snail shell left by the white water element has a very magical effect. Put a little rice grain in it, which is a full shell. No matter how much you use, there will always be no shortage of rice grains. Xie Duan was grateful for the kindness of the goddess and specially built a statue for her. And relying on his hard-working hands and the help of the goddess, he became prosperous day by day, and his family was rich in food and clothing, but he was not rich or expensive. A few years later, a villager liked Xie Duan as a person and married his daughter to him. He married his wife and lived a happy life. Later, Xie Duan became an official and became the county magistrate and county guard.
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