During the Ming Dynasty, in a small mountain village in Jiujiang, there was a girl named Gu Pan. She had a birthmark on her face when she was born. She was the most ugly person in the village. But she was kind-hearted and not only kind to the villagers, but she also took the initiative to help them do farm work. The villagers also liked her.
On this day, Gu Pan helped the villagers pick mushrooms in the wilderness ridge. On the way, he encountered a seriously injured python. There was a crack on its belly and blood kept coming out. He was about to die. On the spot, Gu Pan quickly pulled off a piece of cloth from the hem of the skirt, bandaged the wound for the python, and brought some food and water for the python.
Under Gu Pan's careful care, the python's injuries quickly recovered as before and left Gu Pan's sight. Then a man named Chen Tieniu suddenly came to the village. He looked honest and honest and did a good job of carpentry. There was an open space on one side of Gu Pan's yard. Chen Tieniu built several thatched huts on the open space and became Gu Pan's neighbor.
Perhaps because of the neighbor's affection, Chen Tieniu often went to Gu Pan's house to help her work, and even delivered things to her every now and then, which moved Gu Pan. At this moment, Chen Tieniu confessed his feelings to Gu Pan and wanted to marry Gu Pan home as a wife.
Because of this birthmark on her face, no young man in the village has ever proposed marriage to Gu Pan. She thought she would never get married in this life, but Chen Tieniu fell in love with her. She immediately nodded happily and agreed, held a marriage with Chen Tieniu, and invited several neighbors to testify.
After marriage, the couple had a harmonious relationship and were very loving. They both thought about each other. In order not to let Gu Pan go out with a birthmark all the time, Chen Tieniu went to the mountain to pick a thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum , mashed it and applied it to Gu Pan's face. Soon after, the birthmark on Gu Pan's face disappeared, became fair-skinned, bright eyes and white teeth, and became the most beautiful woman in the village.
At this time, many young men in the village were thinking about Gu Pan. Every time she walked on the street, many young men stopped and watched, and some even let Gu Pan and Chen Tieniu get along. After all, Gu Pan became so beautiful. If you don’t want to find a man, why do you need to live with a rough man like Chen Tieniu? Although Gu Pan, who had not changed much on the surface, had aroused her heart. After that, she became more and more disliked Chen Tieniu, as if Chen Tieniu was wrong everywhere. Even if Chen Tieniu obeyed her, she could not change her dissatisfaction with Chen Tieniu.
The next day, the village chief held an 100-day banquet for his children and invited all the villagers from the village to attend, including Gu Pan and Chen Tieniu. Gu Pan found a seat to sit down, and the young man next to him instantly surrounded her.
During the banquet, several young men were pushing glasses on the table. They poured wine for Chen Tieniu and asked Chen Tieniu to drink together. But Chen Tieniu said he would not taste it. Gu Pan, who was beside him, found this strange shape, and followed several young men to urge him to pour wine for Chen Tieniu. Chen Tieniu had no choice but to taste it and tasted it. He then had snake scales on his face, and his body gradually turned into a python. He lay on the ground and was unconscious.
When Gu Pan saw this situation, he not only did not worry about Chen Tieniu's safety, but also thought that he finally caught Chen Tieniu's handle. In this way, Chen Tieniu had to divorce even if he didn't want to.
After the banquet, Gu Pan first took the python to a nearby temple, saying that the python pretended to be a human, forced Gu Pan to marry him as his wife, and asked the monk to remove the python so that he would not become a climate disaster to the villagers in the future.
The monk looked at the python lightly and asked Gu Pan thoughtfully if he was sure to get rid of the python. Gu Pan nodded immediately and asked the monk to do it quickly. After hearing this, the monk sighed long and asked Gu Pan to place the python first. He would naturally punish the python appropriately, so that he would never dare to pester Gu Pan again. After that, Gu Pan left the temple with satisfaction.
After Gu Pan walked away, the python got up from the ground and turned back to Chen Tieniu's appearance. He was the python that was saved by Gu Pan. At that time, Gu Pan was kind-hearted. The python was grateful for her life-saving grace and turned into Chen Tieniu to marry her. She was also worried that Gu Pan would be inferior because of the birthmark on her face, which made Chen Tieniu look particularly ugly. But since he cured the birthmark on Gu Pan's face as Chen Tieniu, everything seemed to have changed. She felt so ruthlessly that Chen Tieniu was not worthy of her, and she wanted someone to kill Chen Tieniu.
Monk did not do anything about the python, and he respectfully bowed to him three times. After that, the python lived in the temple until half a month later, and after that, the merits were perfectly transformed into a black dragon, and were named a god who protects the peace of the land and water.
The villagers built many temples for this newly promoted god and often came to worship him. Gu Pan on the other side of the other side, since the python left, she immediately remarried a rich man as a concubine. At first, she gained a lot of favors with her beautiful face, but as she grew older, her face gradually grew older, and the rich man despised her old and yellow, drove her out of the house, and Gu Pan spent the night in a temple with no way out. In the shrine in the temple, there is a statue of the python turned into Chen Tieniu. The villagers carved it according to Chen Tieniu. It seemed that it had already learned about Gu Pan's tragic experience, but was indifferent.
