in the Song Dynasty, there was a woodcutter named Yue Chengyang in Lin'an. He was very hardworking and often went up the mountain to chop wood after breakfast every day. On this day, Yue Chengyang came to the top of the mountain as usual, and at noon, he encountered a strange thing.
A rustling sound suddenly came from behind Yue Chengyang. When he looked back, a python as thick as an arm flew over his head and landed two meters in front of him. Then many snakes flew over Yue Chengyang. They lay in a piece on the ground and made a "hiss" sound at Yue Chengyang.
Yue Chengyang had never seen so many snakes. He was frightened and turned around to run away. As he ran, a python as thick as a bucket appeared in front of him. It was opening its bloody mouth, and dense snakes gushed out of its mouth.
The snake that flew past Yue Chengyang's head just now was spit out of the python's mouth.
The python saw Yue Chengyang, and it raised its head a little, sprayed the snake in its mouth towards Yue Chengyang.
Yue Chengyang pushed away the snake on his body and quickly went down the mountain home with firewood on his back. During this period, he was bitten by a snake several times. Fortunately, there was no fatal component on the snake's teeth, otherwise Yue Chengyang would have died if he couldn't get home.
When Yue Chengyang returned home, he ordered his wife to stew a pot of meat soup, and added a lot of sweating medicine to the soup. After that, he found the village chief and told the village chief and the villagers all his experience today.
It turned out that a python appeared in the village a few months ago. It climbed down from the mountain, hurting many people's lives. It kept spitting snakes out of its mouth, making snakes everywhere in the village.
The village chief was preparing to find a way to remove the python at that time, but when he was about to carry out the action, the python did not know where it was, and the village chief took people to search but could not find it, so he had to give up.
Now, Yue Chengyang bumped into it on the mountain, and the villagers could not let it go. The village chief led the strong man in the village and Yue Chengyang to the top of the mountain together and found the python.
Yue Chengyang placed the stewed broth on an open space. The aroma of the meat attracted the python. The python drank all the broth in a few bites. When it was still aftertaste, it fell to the ground and remained drowsy. The villagers picked up the sticks and hit the python.
Under the attack of the villagers, the python kept rolling on the ground, and there was no movement in a short while. At this time, its flesh suddenly broke open, and the snakes around seemed to notice the movement here, crawled towards the python, drilled into the broken flesh, and became part of the python's body.
Just when the villagers thought they had won a great victory and were about to go down the mountain to leave, the python's body grew stronger and there was another movement. It was a python composed of thousands of snakes. If snakes are immortal, it will not disappear.
The reason why the python retaliated against the villagers was because the snake catchers in the village were too rampant a few years ago. They almost hunted the snakes on the mountain. In order to resist, the remaining group of snakes united and merged into a python.
If the snake catcher in the village did not kill all the snakes, the snake would not harm humans at all. The villagers recalled and found that what the python said was true. The few people killed by the python in the village were all killed frequently.
So, the village chief suggested to the python that they would leave a way out for the snake in the future, and that they would not kill the female snakes that they were about to give birth, and the small snakes would not kill them. At the same time, the python could not harm humans everywhere.
The python has added another one, that is, some snakes in the group of snakes have been cultivated into spirits, which are easy to identify and are generally relatively large in size. Such snakes may ascend in the future and cannot be harmed. The village chief agreed and led the villagers to evacuate the mountain.
Later, there was no case in the village where snakes hurt people again, and the snake catchers in the village also restrained a lot, and some of them changed their careers to do other business.
Yue Chengyang is still the same as usual. He goes to the mountain to chop wood in the early morning every day and occasionally bumps into snakes, but none of them hinder each other and gets along in a friendly and harmonious manner.
