During the years of the Qing Dynasty, Feng Sheng was born in a remote mountain village. Due to the high mountains and dense forests, there was very little land suitable for farming. Therefore, his father, like most young adults in the village, mainly made a living by hunting and gathering.
Feng Sheng's father is an excellent hunter. He is courageous, powerful and agile. The family keeps more than ten hounds. In winter, they often pull a mule and horse , and take the hounds to the deep mountains and old forests to round up the hibernating black blind man .
When the hounds found the hibernating Black Blind Man and fought the Black Blind Man to exhaustion, he took a sharp blade, found the right moment, rushed to the Black Blind Man, quickly, accurately and ruthlessly, and let the sharp blade penetrate the Black Blind Man's heart, killing him with one blow.
then took out the internal organs of , the blind bear, , and fed them to the hounds. Then the blind bear was tied up, lassoed by a mule and horse, and pulled out of the deep mountains and old forests in the thick snow, and brought home. The bear paws and furs obtained by
can be sold at a high price to Ding Yuan's family, who made a fortune selling mountain products in the village. It is said that they were finally sold to the Manchu nobles for enjoyment at a purchase price several times higher. Bear meat is cheap, so unless someone specifically wants it, it is usually reserved for the family to eat.
This method of hunting is very cruel, especially when a mule pulls a bloody beast, walking on the white snow with scarlet patches. Ordinary people can't help but feel trembling when they see the bloody scene.
Therefore, every time Feng Sheng's father came back from hunting in this way, Feng Sheng's mother would scold him, saying that hunters kill too much in the first place, and to kill their prey in such a cruel way is against the will of heaven, and sooner or later they will be punished. of.
Every time after saying this, he asked Feng Sheng's father to bathe and change clothes, wash his hands and burn incense, and then go to the mountain temple in the village to worship together, so as to reduce sins and seek more spiritual comfort.
There is an old saying: "If you often walk by the river, how can your shoes not get wet?" In the winter when Feng Sheng was twelve years old, Feng Sheng's father went hunting in the deep mountains and old forests. He never thought of rounding up and killing a bear. After the blind man pulled the horse, When they came out of the mountain, the smell of blood attracted two adult Siberian tigers. As a result, only horses and a few dogs came home that night, and Feng Sheng's father stayed in the mountains forever.
Early the next morning, Feng Sheng's mother hurriedly called the hunters in the village to help find her husband in the mountains. Following the tracks left by horses and dogs, when we found the place, we saw patches of blood-red in the snow. Only some broken clothes of Feng Sheng's father were left. The man had been eaten by the tiger, and no bones remained. In the end, only one grave could be buried. Feng Sheng's mother said that this was his fate!
When Feng Sheng's father died, the mainstay of the family was gone, leaving the orphan and widowed mother, who could only survive by collecting mountain products all year round, and lived a very poor life.
When Feng Sheng reached the age of fifteen or sixteen, he thought about learning to hunt from the old hunters in the village, so that he could hunt in winter, obtain animal fur and meat, obtain high returns, and make his family's life better. It's much better than collecting firewood and sending it to the charcoal kiln.
When Feng Sheng’s mother found out about his thoughts, she gave up Feng Sheng’s idea of becoming a hunter. She pointed at the bloody-smelling sharp blade left by his father and said, “Have you forgotten your father’s lesson? Look at the village again. How many of our hunters have had a good death? They often fight for their lives with poisonous snakes and beasts. If they are not careful, they may be injured, or they may be disabled or die. Mother only hopes that you will live a safe life and be poorer. It doesn't matter!"
Feng Sheng heard his mother's persuasion and knew that her mother was doing it for his own good, so he gave up and gave up the idea of becoming an Orion.
In the days of poverty, mother and son depended on each other. In order to keep Feng Sheng fed, Feng Sheng's mother also wanted to save money to marry Feng Sheng a wife in the future, so she lived frugally and often went hungry.
When Feng grew up, he was still not married when he was twenty because his family was poor. Feng Sheng's mother fell ill due to her anxiety, overwork, and chronic malnutrition.
Feng Sheng was a filial son. In order to treat his mother's illness, he spent all his family's savings without telling his mother.
To take care of your body, you can not only take nourishing medicines, but also eating wild ginseng is not enough. You also need to eat well.For example, use wild ginseng to stew hen soup to nourish the body and need to be adjusted slowly.
Although wild ginseng can be mined in the mountains, it is a big problem for the mother to drink it for more than half a year to maintain her health.
Because Feng Sheng had no money, he had already owed dozens of old hens on credit in the village. He had to lie to his mother that it was a gift from a neighbor in the village, so his mother reluctantly drank it and left most of the chicken for Feng Sheng to eat. , making Feng Sheng dumbfounded.
Feng Sheng, who was short of money, had to borrow money from many people in the village and had no choice but to come to the home of the rich family member Ding. Because there is a lot of disputes in front of Ding's family, and others may gossip about her, Feng Sheng is not willing to borrow money unless it is absolutely necessary.
It turns out that after the death of Mr. Ding and his wife, they left Ding Xiaobao a fortune and married him a beautiful wife during his lifetime. But not long after his marriage, Ding Xiaobao went out hunting and encountered a wild boar. He was knocked off a cliff by a wild boar. Although he saved his life, he broke his cervical vertebra and was paralyzed in bed ever since.
So now, Ding Xiaobao’s beloved wife Xinghua is in charge of the store. Recently, there were rumors in the village that she couldn't bear the loneliness and often seduced wild men behind her back. Feng Sheng had no choice but to go to her house to see if he could borrow some money.
Xinghua’s eyes lit up when she saw Feng Sheng coming. After knowing Feng Sheng's purpose, he took Feng Sheng to Ding Xiaobao's room in the backyard, retired the servants, closed the door and said, "Xiaobao, are you satisfied with Feng Sheng?"
Ding Xiaobao looked at his hair. Xiao, turned to Feng Sheng and said, "Brother, I'm begging you!"
Feng Sheng was confused by the couple, making Monk Zhang Er confused.
was then taken to the living room in the backyard by Xinghua, and after asking the servants to leave, they opened the skylight to Feng Sheng and spoke frankly!
It turns out that due to special circumstances, the couple wanted to find a well-established man to come to the house to help them live together. It is said that it is to stop other people's mouths to prevent wild men from coming to harass them. After saying this, Xinghua burst into tears.
Feng Sheng heard what Xing Hua said and understood Xing Hua's difficulties. A weak woman supports a family. Feng Sheng understands that it is inevitable that there will be people with ulterior motives who will often come to harass her. What's more, Xinghua, this beautiful girl, is a rich woman, so there will definitely be a lot of people paying attention to her.
However, when he thought that he, a young man, was going to help, it would be too unpleasant to spread the word, and Feng Sheng retreated in his heart, fearing that the people in the village would despise him.
Seeing this, Xinghua hurriedly said: "Just tell outsiders that you are helping me here, and I will give you the money to treat your mother. Moreover, the doctor said that Xiaobao will probably not survive this year. In the future, I and I The whole house is yours, you won't suffer at all!"
said, deliberately raising his tall chest, touching Feng Sheng's arm, and touching his lips to Feng Sheng's ear, exhaling like blue. Feng Sheng was so distracted that he could hardly control himself. He quickly stood up and said, "Let me think about this." He quickly went home with a blushing face. After
got home, after careful consideration, Feng Sheng recounted the incident to his mother.
Although Feng Sheng's mother knew that there was an old custom in the local area of helping others, the mainstay of the family was disabled and could not fulfill her responsibilities as the male protagonist. In order to keep his wife and children and raise a family, with the consent of his husband, he would recruit a man into the home to help the woman support the family. This person can usually be married to the heroine, and after the woman's sick and disabled husband dies, they can become a formal couple with the man and continue to live together.
But after all, this is unjust and contrary to human ethics. The man who comes to help the gangster has a low status, and if word spreads about it, he will be ridiculed.
But then he thought about his own situation and saw that Feng Sheng was old and had no hope of marrying. Now that I am sick and burdening my son, I might make my son a bachelor for the rest of his life and make the Feng family unable to succeed. This is my fault!
then agreed to Xinghua’s proposal and let Feng Sheng live in the Ding family on the grounds that Feng Sheng went to be a steward of the Ding family.
What makes Feng Sheng a little strange is that Xinghua is so passionate that she not only pesters him to do good deeds every day, but also every time he sees Ding Xiaobao, he finds that his eyes are cold, neither happy nor sad, without any emotions, very strange, as if not human.
After a few days, Feng Sheng was worried about his mother at home, so he went back to visit. The mother was shocked when she saw Feng Sheng. She saw that her son was haggard, as if his energy had been drained, and he was more than ten years old.
Recalling the ghost legends told by the older generation, combined with what she had encountered before, Feng Sheng's mother was shocked. He quickly told Feng Sheng to go to the Qingshan Taoist Temple ten miles away and ask Master Tianxuan for help, otherwise his life would be hard to save.
was talking, but he heard someone coming outside the door. Please go in and see a sloppy old man. Feng Sheng's mother hurriedly asked Feng Sheng to meet the Taoist. It turned out that this sloppy Taoist was Tianxuan Zhenren, whom the Feng family had a favor with.
Back then, Master Tianxuan fought with a Wong Tai Sin who had been practicing for eight hundred years. Although he eliminated this scourge that was causing harm to the world, he was also seriously injured. When he was lying at the end of the village, dying and no one dared to come near him, Feng Sheng's father carried him home and arranged for him to live in a side house and support him every day. He did not leave the Feng family until the Taoist recovered. When
left, Taoist told Feng Sheng's parents his origin. He also promised the Feng family that if anything evil happens at home, they can go to Qingshan Taoist Temple to find him.
Later, although Master Tianxuan deduced that Feng Sheng's father would be killed in the tiger's mouth, that was his destiny because he had committed too serious a crime. He was an outsider and could not interfere in the affairs of the world, so he did not go down the mountain and did not dare to violate the laws of heaven.
may have felt guilty for not being able to rescue his benefactor last time, so this time after he deduced that the descendants of his savior were harmed by spirits, he immediately set off down the mountain and came to Feng's house to eliminate the disaster.
When the sloppy Taoist saw Feng Sheng, he looked him up and down and said, "You are being sucked out by two vixens to help them practice. If this continues, your life will be in danger!"
After saying this, he took out the long contract from his body. A five-inch piece of dark black wood, with the word Tianxuan engraved on it as if it had been burned by fire. He handed it to Feng Sheng and said, "Keep this lightning-struck jujube tree with you at all times. No monsters or monsters can harm you. Go back at night and I will be there soon."
Feng Sheng carried the lightning strike wood given to him by the Taoist in his arms and returned to Xinghua's house uneasily. When Xinghua saw him coming back, she rushed towards him and hugged him, wanting to be happy with him.
Feng Sheng quietly took out the lightning strike wood from his arms. The lightning strike wood with the word "Tian Xuan" engraved on it suddenly shone with light and directly forced the vixen possessing Xinghua out of her body. Xinghua collapsed immediately. land.
The vixen possessing Ding Xiaobao in the house heard the screams of the same kind outside, and immediately left Ding Xiaobao's body and ran out.
I saw the true form of two vixens, baring their teeth and claws and rushing towards Feng Sheng, uttering human words: "You bastard, if you dare to use the lightning strike tree to hurt me, you will not be allowed to do anything!"
Hold the lightning strike tree tightly in his hand Feng Sheng was horrified and secretly screamed that something was wrong. At this time, I suddenly heard a loud shout from behind, and the sloppy Taoist appeared. He gently shook his hand peach wood sword at the two foxes who were rushing towards him. Two golden lights appeared and nailed the two vixens' real bodies to the room at once. On the pillar.
I saw two vixens speaking arrogantly: "Stinky Taoist priest, humans are slaughtering thousands of our descendants, picking off their fur, eating their meat, and drinking their blood. You don't care. Now you are here to help the evildoers." "What's the point?"
saw the old Taoist saying with a smile: "Fangwai people only care about Fangwai's affairs. You monsters also belong to the Fangwai ethnic group and should not mix with the human world. Otherwise, the world will be confused. Yin Shang will learn from the past. What will happen to you?" You will be punished by God and will never recover. Don’t you know? Your cultivation with the help of human yang energy is an evil way and goes against the harmony of nature. I will forgive you if I don’t tell you the reason today! What the old Taoist said makes sense. If they don't bring trouble to the world, the old Taoist will not take action.They were still at fault first, so they immediately begged for mercy and said: "Master, please remember that we are eager to avenge our own clan, so we came to seek trouble for the Ding family who collects the furs of our descendants. For a moment, I couldn't resist the temptation of human yang energy. This It's just opportunistic and opportunistic, please show your kindness, we will never go out to cause trouble in the world from now on!" After saying this, he couldn't stop nodding his head and begging for mercy.
The sloppy Taoist said: "Since you have admitted your mistake, please hand over your inner elixir, save the people you harmed, redeem your sins, and spare your life. You can still practice again, and you can still achieve the right result. If not , Humph...!" The Taoist shook the peach wood sword in his hand.
Under the coercion and inducement of the old Taoist, the two vixens obediently vomited out the inner elixir and handed it over. The old Taoist saw that the frail Ding Xiaobao had already expired. This was his destiny and there was no way to save him. He gave two vixen inner elixirs to Xinghua and Feng Sheng respectively, and both of them immediately glowed and were filled with vitality.
After learning the truth, Xinghua knelt down and thanked the old Taoist. Under the auspices of the old Taoist, Ding Xiaobao was successfully buried. A hundred days later, the village elders were invited to witness that Xinghua and Feng Sheng were married. He took Feng Sheng's mother home and took good care of her. The old lady recovered quickly.
Before leaving, the old Taoist told Feng Sheng and Xinghua not to engage in fur business, commit less crimes and do more good deeds, and they will have good luck in their lives. From then on, Xinghua and Feng Sheng only purchased medicinal materials that could cure diseases and save people and benefit the people.
Since no one in the village collects animal skins, and it is too far to sell them in the mountains, it is not cost-effective to waste time. So the hunters had no choice but to change their careers, rely on the mountains to eat, and gradually found a way to make a fortune by planting medicinal materials in the forest. There were no ghosts harming people in the village anymore.
Later, the two gave birth to five boys and four girls. When the children grew up, they got married and started a business. Perhaps because they took the vixen inner elixir, they were still as young as ever, so they lived in seclusion in the mountains together and became a couple of gods.
(This story is purely fictional and has nothing to do with feudal superstition. It is mainly to promote the protection of animals, punish evil and promote good.)
