Yan Bao married Sun, and they only had a daughter named He Hua. When He Hua was sixteen or seventeen years old, she had grown into a beautiful girl. Countless people came to propose marriage to He Hua.

The story takes place in the Tang Dynasty During the Xianqing period, there was a carpenter named Yan Bao in Qingyuan Mansion. Yan Bao married Sun, and they only had a daughter named He Hua. When He Hua was sixteen or seventeen years old, she had grown into a beautiful girl. Countless people came to propose marriage to He Hua.

There is a White Pagoda Temple outside the city of Qingyuan Mansion. It is said that it was built in the Sui Dynasty and its incense was very prosperous. The abbot of Baita Temple is named Elder Hui Nian. It is said that he is an eminent monk who has practiced Buddhism for ten generations. People say that he can know the past and the future. Everyone calls him the true Buddha . During the Hungry Ghost Festival every year, Baita Temple will hold a grand Bon Bon Festival, and people from a ten-mile radius will go to Baita Temple to enjoy the lanterns and visit temple fairs.

In order to watch the excitement, Yan Bao, his wife Sun Shi and his daughter Hehua also came to Baita Temple to watch the temple fair. But there were too many people visiting the temple fair that night, and Yan Bao and his wife lost track of their daughter He Hua at some point. Finally, everyone dispersed in the middle of the night, and Yan Bao and his wife could not find their daughter.

The next day, Yan Bao inquired and learned that many women disappeared in Baita Temple on the night of the Ghost Festival. In order to find out the truth, Yan Bao went to Baita Temple to find someone, but was kicked out by the monk who was guarding the door. The monk said: "The pure land of Buddhism is not a place for you to trespass and make mischief?"

Yan Bao vaguely heard something in the Zen room. There was a sound of a woman crying in the direction. Late at night, Yan Bao brought a ladder and secretly climbed up to the roof of the Zen room along the back wall of Baita Temple. Yan Bao opened a piece of tile and discovered that there was a secret room behind the Zen room, in which many women were detained. Elder Hui Nian, who was kind-hearted during the day, was now intimidating and tempting to indulge in pleasure.

Some women had a strong temperament and wanted to die together with the monk Hui Nian. The monk Hui Nian was so strong that he beat the woman to death with one palm, and then continued to behave like an animal. Yan Bao gritted his teeth, but he was helplessly outnumbered, so Yan Bao had no choice but to return home angrily, and then try another plan.

In the early morning of the next day, Yan Bao accompanied his wife Sun to the Baita Temple to offer incense. Sun was only in her thirties at the time, and she was already a great beauty. Plus, she wore heavy makeup that day, which made her look even more charming. Mrs. Sun went to the main hall to offer incense, while Yan Bao was waiting outside the main hall. Elder Hui Nian saw that Mrs. Sun was beautiful, so he led her to the Zen room on some pretext, saying that he wanted to give her some advice.

After the two of them entered the Zen room, they heard a scream in the Zen room, a big snake jumped out of the Zen room, and the monks panicked. Yan Bao saw this scene outside the main hall and secretly said in his heart: "Finally, the great revenge has been avenged! This evil monk should have died long ago!" It turned out that the person who accompanied Yan Bao to the temple to offer incense was not his wife Sun, but A snake fairy in the mountains.

More than ten years ago, when Yan Bao was going up the mountain to chop firewood, he accidentally discovered a white snake that had been hit by a falling rock. Out of kindness, Yan Bao rescued the white snake. Later, Yan Bao learned that the white snake was going through a tribulation. After the white snake successfully passed through the tribulation, it would be able to transform into a human form. She often brought wild game to Yan Bao's home, and treated Yan Bao as a benefactor.

Yan Bao knew that the snake fairy was very powerful in magic. When he learned that his daughter was abducted by the monk Hui Wan, he came to the mountain to ask the snake fairy for help. After hearing this, the snake fairy became angry and said: "That monk Hui Nian was a snake catcher in his previous life. I almost lost my life a hundred years ago at his hands. I haven't asked him to settle the score yet, but I didn't expect that he would do something harmful to nature again. Today I I won't let him go!"

So the snake fairy turned into the appearance of Yan Bao's wife, and they went to the Baita Temple to offer incense. The monk Hui Nian didn't know that the beautiful woman in front of him was transformed into a snake fairy, so he brought her into the meditation room on a whim, intending to behave like an animal. As a result, the snake fairy showed its true form and ate the monk Hui Wan alive. When the monks saw that Monk Hui Wan was dead, they scattered and fled.

Unfortunately, everyone was still a step too late. The girls who were kidnapped by Hui Wan had all been ravaged to death. In anger, everyone burned the Baita Temple to ashes and then reported it to the county government. All the evil monks who participated in the crime were arrested and brought to justice, and the matter came to an end.The Snake Immortal violated the prohibition of killing and ruined his five hundred years of Taoism. Since then, he has lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests to practice.

Yan Bao and his wife lived for several decades, but both died without illness.

Hundreds of years later, Yan Bao was reincarnated as a scholar named Xu Xian, and met the snake fairy again in West Lake. And monk Hui Wan was reincarnated into Fahai , and a love-hate entanglement across time and space began again...

[Solemn statement]

This story is a folk tale, purely a literary creation, and the plot and characters are all fictitious. To enrich readers' spare time life, please do not fall in love with feudal superstition.