There is a tofu shop at the west end of Baoyuan Town. The shopkeeper is Li Zixu. There is no client in the tofu shop, only him and his wife Yuan Guizhi. When you get up at the third day of the day, you will refine, filter, boil, decoct and press-form. Day after day, the cold winter and hot summer have never stopped.
People say that big business is afraid of losing money, small business is afraid of eating, and doing tofu is naturally a small business. In fact, it means a bit elevating to say that it is "fang". Because his hometown is at the west end of Baoyuan Town, the house was left by his ancestors, and it is more suitable to say that he is a tofu maker.
Both husband and wife are hardworking people. Although their business is small, they have their own advantages every day. People in the town are used to eating their tofu and work hard every day so that they will not be rich and noble. A small life can be considered as a decent life.
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However, every family has a difficult sutra to recite. The couple lived a happy life, but only one thing is that they have been married for more than ten years, and Yuan Guizhi has never shown her concern.
This caused some people to gossip, and everything they said. Li Zixu always comforted his wife, but Yuan Guizhi was extremely upset about it. At the same time, she felt sorry for her husband and was depressed.
After a long time of thinking, she became sick. She thought about this day and night, and gradually became a stubborn disease in her heart. She had a weird temper and was prone to getting angry. When she saw others whispering, she suspected that she was talking about herself behind her back and insisted on having a big argument with others before she could stop.
Li Zixu tried many times to comfort his wife, but once someone's ideas entered the narrow alley, unless he could wake up and turn around, it would not be easy for others to pull him back.
Therefore, Yuan Guizhi's heart disease became more and more serious, so serious that she didn't want to do any job. In the past, couples worked together and their lives were pretty good. Now that my wife doesn’t work, she still picks her nose and looks at her, finds problems everywhere, and loses her temper at all times.
Some people blew the air beside Li Zixu's ears. It would be fine if Yuan Guizhi didn't look pregnant, but she became so rough. She just took this opportunity to take a break and change another one.
Li Zixu was furious when he heard this. His wife had shared the joys and sorrows with her before and suffered more than ten years of sin. Now she is sick, but she abandons her. Is this something that humans can do?
So, anyone who tells him this way will be scolded in the mild case, and the worst case will be beaten by him. Over time, people no longer say it in front of him, but they will laugh and ridicule behind their backs.
In the past, my wife helped her, but Li Zixu was not that busy. Now his wife can't work, so all these hardships are pressed on him, making tofu, selling tofu, and going out to collect beans from time to time, running around all day.
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He didn't run far when he went out to collect beans, mostly in the villages around Baoyuan Town. On that day, he came back with beans and was tired and hungry. He drank a scoop of cold water and found that there was no movement from his wife at home.
"Guizhi, Guizhi?"
shouted twice, but his wife did not respond. He walked into the house curiously and found that there was no one in the house.
Oops! He immediately sweated on his forehead. His wife used to be no different from a normal person. She has become increasingly abnormal in recent years. She is not at home, so where did she go? There is a river outside, what should I do if I fall into the river?
The more I think about it, the more I feel worried, and I don’t care about running around and working hard, so I want to go out to search. Unexpectedly, before leaving the house, Yuan Guizhi entered the house from outside. She bent over and looked depressed on her face. She didn't say anything when she saw Li Zixu, but hurried into the house.
Li Zixu followed her into the house with the goal of persuading her a few words and asking her to try to avoid going out when she is not at home. What if she gets lost?
Before he could speak in the room, Yuan Guizhi took out something from her clothes and carefully placed it on the table.
No wonder she had to bend down when she entered the house, it turned out that she had something on her body. However, Li Zixu was shocked when he looked at this thing carefully. This was a peach made of jade, which was vivid and even fake.
Li Zixu quickly wanted to put away the Yutao, but Yuan Guizhi grabbed it and hugged it in her arms. She stroked it carefully and murmured to herself: "I said that as long as I hand over this thing, we can have children, but I didn't find someone after I went out."
people's house? Li Zixu sighed heavily. This thing is valuable and worth it, but he didn't know because it was passed down by his father. My father, who also made tofu, was seriously ill and handed over the goods to him when he died. He said that it was passed down by his ancestors and was priceless and must not be shown to others, otherwise it would be very likely to cause disaster.
He put away this item and worked hard to make his own tofu. He never thought of selling it for money. The couple has always been loving, and after getting married, they naturally cannot hide such things from their wives. Yuan Guizhi, who knew that she had this treasure, was also careful to take care of her and never dared to show her to others. Why did she take her out of the house today? Who is the person she is talking about?
was at a loss and suddenly heard a noisy sound from outside. He went out and stood in the yard to look, and found that the street was crowded with people running towards the east of the town.
When we arrived at the gate of the courtyard, people heard that something happened to the home of the Dongma Ma official in the town.
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Ma Yuanwai is an outsider in Baoyuan Town. Although he is an outsider, he is a rich man. He came to the town more than ten years ago and bought a house and made land. He usually doesn’t know how to make a living, but he is astonishingly rich. But this person acts strangely. Such a rich man has no wife and is alone on weekdays.
When hearing something happened to Ma Yuanwai’s house, Li Zixu was also a little curious and followed people to watch the fun. Before he could reach Ma Yuanwai's house, he saw the fire in front of him soaring into the sky. When he arrived, he learned that Ma Yuanwai's house had a fire for no reason and no one escaped.
Li Zixu joined the firefighting ranks without hesitation, but such a big fire relies on people to draw water from the well, and it is a delusion to put out it. When Li Zixu and everyone were so tired that they collapsed on the ground, Ma Yuanwai's house had been burned to ashes.
People did not see Ma Yuanwai. Looking at this scene, it is most likely that there is a lot of luck.
This fire is really strange, but Mr. Ma’s family has no one except him, and no one has pursued this matter. Although Li Zixu lives in Baoyuan Town with Yuanwai Ma, he has no intersection usually. He is just a tofu producer and naturally cannot make friends with others. I just couldn't bear it after following everyone to put out the fire.
He returned home with great worries and was surprised to find that his wife was missing again. He was nervous and opened the box where he usually put Yutao, and there was nothing inside.
She went out with Yutao again? Li Zixu stomped her feet anxiously and hurried out to search. Finally, she saw his wife in front of Ma Yuanwai's house and pulled her home without saying a word. Fortunately, Yutao was still there.
Yuan Guizhi's eyes were dull, and she tossed and turned her mouth and said: "I promised to exchange it for Yutao, why can't I find someone?"
Li Zixu didn't dare to be careless anymore. After putting the Yutao away, he put Yuan Guizhi on his back. He did not blame his wife for this, because he knew it was useless to blame. At the same time, he also knew that his wife was stuck in the horns. She might not know what she was doing, so how could she bear to blame her?
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At noon the next day, he just sold out the tofu made in the morning, and someone came to his door. The visitor was a young man in his twenties, claiming his surname was Jiao and his name was Jiao Dabao. Jiao Dabao said that his neighbor Yang's family had half a bag of beans to sell, but she was old and had difficulty in legs and feet, so she asked Li Zixu if she could go there.
Li Zixu was not willing to go because the weather was gloomy, and thunder broke out from time to time, and it was windy. People say that the wind was the head of rain. This weather was obviously brewing a heavy rain. If you go there, you might be wet.
But if you think about it carefully, someone is helpless and asks someone to come and sell some beans. How can I not go? So he nodded in agreement. Jiao Dabao told him the place and left by himself, while he set off with the scale.
When we arrived at the edge of Yangshijia Village, it was just a gloomy sky that had started to rain, and the rain was pouring, accompanied by strong winds and lightning.
He quickly covered his head and wanted to find a place to hide from the rain, but he saw a grandmother standing in front of a broken house with a cane. The rain was too heavy, and Li Zixu didn't care about being polite and got into the house.
Wait until he explained his purpose, he found out that this grandma was Yang. Jiao Dabao helped her find the bean collector, but it rained heavily. She was afraid that the other person would not be able to find his home after he got the bean collector, so she waited at the door.
At the moment, Li Zixu weighed Yang's beans very well, and waited for the rain to stop after paying the money.
The thunder in the sky kept ringing, and lightning like a child's arm kept striking down, and it was like the earth shaking.
Li Zixu secretly regretted that with such heavy rain, lightning and thunder, would the wife at home be afraid? While worried, lightning suddenly appeared to slash at a pile of earth next to Yang's house. This mound is extremely tall. Under the lightning strike, the mound begins to loosen slowly.
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Li Zixu thought he was dazzled, and after a closer look, the mound of soil was indeed moving, the soil layer on it slowly cracked, and a huge triangular head slowly poked out from inside.
Li Zixu couldn't help but gasp. This turned out to be a python. It has been in the mound for many years, but it was awakened by these lightning. Such a large python is rare in the world.
He was still surprised. The python had completely drilled out of the mound. It rolled its body in lightning, and the lightning kept slashing at it. Li Zixu was shocked and could not feel what kind of torture the python was suffering at this time.
The python's head slowly raised, and its tail shaking, revealing the momentum of leaving the ground.
Suddenly, a thunder sounded, and the body of the python, which had just left the ground, fell heavily, and was in pain.
Li Zixu was shocked because the direction of the python rolling was Yang's hut. This python was too big. Once it rolled up, the hut would be hit.
Before he could think too much, he reached out and picked up Yang and rushed out of the hut.
It was raining and muddy outside. He lost his balance with Yang holding him in his hand and lay heavily on the ground. The Yang in his hand was also thrown out by him.
Yang fell to the ground, and the python rolled, and its tail pressed on one of her feet, making her unable to move.
At this time, thunder and lightning suddenly stopped, and only the downpour was still falling. Lightning and thunder both stopped, and the python tried hard to roll, but it seemed as if it had lost all its strength and could not move.
Li Zixu was trembling with his eyes. If the python rolled onto Yang, she would be killed immediately. Although she was extremely afraid of this python, she could not stand by and watch. How could she watch Yang suffer from this bad luck?
panic, he ran over first, holding the python's tail in both hands to lift it up so that Yang could crawl out.
But the python is too big and its tail is too heavy, which doesn't work at all.
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In desperation, he saw a gap-cutting hatchet at the door of Yang's house. He took a few steps and held it in his hand, and slashed it down at the tail of the python.
I don’t know if it was the hatchet being too dull or the python’s tail was too hard. He tried his best to cut out only a gap, and the blood immediately burst out.
The python was hurt and its tail suddenly raised. Li Zixu pulled Yang out with one hand and rolled and crawled outside the yard.
He had just dragged Yang out, and thunder and lightning in the sky rose again, and the explosion and dazzling lightning caused Li Zixu to be unable to see clearly what was happening in the courtyard.
After a long incense stick, the thunder and lightning stopped. He saw that there were no pythons in the yard. The muddy ground was charred, but there were indeed no pythons.
Where can such a big python go? Even if you crawl away, it should be very moving.
He searched everywhere, and the python seemed to have disappeared. One side was originally a mound of soil, but now it has become a big pit. A lot of water has accumulated in the big pit. The big pit and rain water are telling Li Zixu that there was indeed a big python just now. It came from the ground and has now left again. I don’t know where it has gone.
Although Yang had just been suppressed by one of her feet, the ground was muddy, and she was not injured, but was just frightened.
Li Zixu was really worried about his wife at home, so he comforted Yang for a while, and then hurried home with Douzi on his back.
Along the way, he was always very scared and nervous. What I was afraid of was the rolling python, and what I was nervous about was that the heavy rain and thunder were so heavy, I didn’t know what happened to my wife at home. She was usually afraid of lightning and thunder.
As soon as he entered the house, he saw that the door was wide open. When he entered the house, he saw that the inside was in a mess. Things that were usually properly placed were thrown everywhere.
What happened? He opened his mouth and shouted, "Madam, Madam?"
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No one agreed at all. He panicked and ran into the inner room and found that Yuan Guizhi was sleeping peacefully on the bed. He went over and shook for a while. Yuan Guizhi woke up slowly and looked at him blankly.
"What happened? Is the thief in my family?"
When he heard her husband's question, Yuan Guizhi looked at him for no reason. Seeing that he couldn't find a result, he quickly checked around and found that the things were being turned up very messy, which meant that there must be a thief in the family. But the strange thing is that nothing is lost.
He patted his eyebrows violently, drilled into the bed, cut a brick in the corner, and touched it. Yutao was still there, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
"The thunder and lightning sounded so loud just now, I was still worried that you were afraid at home..."
Before he could finish his words, Yuan Guizhi interrupted him with a surprised look on his face: "What thunder? What lightning?"
Hum? He looked at his wife dumbfounded. She was not interested in lying to him. Did she fall asleep just now, so she didn't hear it? It makes no sense. Such a loud thunder would be awakened even if you fall asleep.
Although Yuan Guizhi's expression was a bit mixed, Li Zixu still understood that it was raining and windy just now, but there was no thunder or lightning. As for why she slept in the bed, she couldn't understand it. She just said that she felt dizzy. She thought of resting on the bed, lying down by the bed, and then Li Zixu woke her up. She didn't know what happened in the middle.
Li Zixu couldn't believe what she said. The thunder resounded through the sky, the lightning that he had never seen in his life. How could she not see or hear such a big noise?
A neighbor came to the house to borrow something. Li Zixu was chatting with others while taking the thing. He was shocked to find out that what his wife said was true. He didn't hear thunder, let alone lightning.
After the people left, Li Zixu sat in the chair and was puzzled. Could it be that thunder and lightning only appeared in the Yang family? Did you go to the python?
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. Even if he wants to break his head, he can't figure it out, so he can only give up in the end. Another realistic problem is that when he went to Yang's home to collect beans, a thief took advantage of the rain and turned the house into a mess, but he didn't steal anything.
You know that although it was raining just now, it was daytime after all, and a thief dared to sneak into his home to steal in broad daylight. This can only explain two problems. Either this thief is really bold or this thief knows he is going out, so he pinchs time to search.
Although I have saved some money by selling tofu, it is far from the point where people are anxious to steal during the day, right? His life can only be considered medium in the town. With such a big struggle, there can only be one explanation, that is Yutao.
He had a headache secretly and vaguely felt like he had fallen into an invisible vortex. The reason for the incident was most likely that someone had seen his Yutao, or that someone knew that there was such a thing.
But he didn't know who it was and had no way to avoid it. This is his home. He lives and does business here, so he can't hide out because of this, right? At worst, be careful in the future and pay more attention to your wife so that she can’t know where Yutao is.
He still didn't think of the seriousness of the matter at this time, and he didn't understand that a big disaster was about to come.
The next day, after making the tofu, he went out. This is what he must do every day. In the past, Yuan Guizhi was fine, so he would make more tofu and leave some for sale at home, and he would take most of the tofu out to sell.
Now that his wife is in good spirits, he no longer keeps her at home, and takes them all away, and comes back after selling them out.
Not long after going out, I caught a familiar person in the corner of my eyes. This person was hiding behind a corner of the wall, as if he was peeping at him.
He didn't dare to look carefully, but looked at it with the corner of his eyes. The person who was hiding was Jiao Dabao. Li Zixu suddenly woke up, Jiao Dabao asked him to go to Yang's house to collect beans. When he came back, he found that a thief had entered the house.
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Will this person use a trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain? Otherwise, what would he do if he peeks at his home like this?
He was so imaginative that he didn't look in front of him, and directly hit the wall, almost knocking over the tofu in his burden.
Wait until he packed up and looked at it, and found that Jiao Dabao was hiding had disappeared. He wanted to go back, but he felt sorry for Tofu. This thing is different from other objects. It is the most unspread. After making it, it is a good seller. It will become sour after a little time.
After thinking about it, he felt that home is more important. If something happens to his family in order to sell this little tofu, whether it is Yutao or his wife, any accident will be a fatal blow to him.
So, he carried the load back again. People were used to eating his tofu. When he didn't, they would come to buy it at home. Until noon, there was not much left.
There is an old man not far from his house. His son passed away the same year before yesterday, and he was the only one left, unable to work and living a difficult life. It would be better to give him the rest. Anyway, the two families are not far away, and even if there are thieves, there is no opportunity to take advantage of them.
Thinking of this, I was about to take the tofu out, but a beggar came to the door. The man was dressed in rags and fell to the wall when he arrived at his door, panting, looking extremely weak.
"Okay, okay, give this poor person a bite, okay!"
This man shouted, and taught Li Zixu to make trouble. He held the tofu in his hand. This thing was cooked and could be eaten directly. For ordinary people, it was a good dish, but it was also perfect as a staple food.
This person almost starved to death in front of his home. If he was indifferent, he would not be able to get over his conscience.
, I will give it to the old man after the rest tomorrow. Let this poor person eat these.
He brought the tofu to this person and squatted down and said, "Look at how hungry you are, eat these tofu."
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As soon as he finished speaking, the man's eyes widened. Only then did he realize that although this person was in ragged clothes, he could not be a real beggar, because his muscles and ordinary scattered seeds, how could he raise these meat?
"You will soon be in trouble. Hiding under the bed at night, don't sleep in the bed."
Hearing Huazi's warning, Li Zixu was confused and was about to ask questions, but Huazi reached out to snatch the tofu in his hand, buried his head, and started eating it voraciously.
He returned home with full of doubts. He was puzzled by what this person said, and he was becoming more and more afraid because he found that his life was getting more and more abnormal. Jiao Dabao was obviously spying on himself, and the magic sperm appeared inexplicably and even secretly warned him.Who is Jiao Dabao? Who is this Huazi? What are they trying to do?
had this doubt in his heart. He didn't dare to go out anymore, and he didn't even have the intention to make tofu. So many strange things were surrounding him, and if he didn't figure it out, the business would not be able to continue.
After dark, he went outside to take a look and found that the syringe was gone, so he carefully went to the door. Yuan Guizhi fell asleep quickly while lying on the bed, but he sat on a chair toss and turns and couldn't sleep.
The sound of the second day of the clapper sounded outside, and he decided to follow Huazi's advice. So he woke Yuan Guizhi on the bed and took her to hide under the bed regardless of her doubts.
Yuan Guizhi is really abnormal now. She was dragged under the bed by her husband for some reason. Ordinary people will ask questions constantly, and even return to the bed angrily. But she didn't, and after a while she fell asleep again.
Of course Li Zixu couldn't sleep. He was worried until the fourth day of the morning. Suddenly, he heard a sound on the roof, as if the tiles were lifted away. Then, a sound of rope sliding came out, as if something had fallen on the bed.
At this moment, a loud shout came from outside, heavy objects fell from the roof, and fighting began to sound in the yard.
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Li Zixu hugged Yuan Guizhi who was awakened and shivered. When he was at a loss, something suddenly hanged from the bed and then fell to the ground. One or two, all of them were snakes.
He was so scared that he rolled out from under the bed with his wife in his arms. In addition to the ones crawling on the ground, there were more than a dozen snakes on the bed. These snakes spitted out their letters and surrounded them with their husbands.
When the couple were feeling despair, they suddenly heard a faint chirping sound. The snakes crawling around on the ground suddenly rang out and died. It seemed that they were scared to death.
There was a fierce battle outside, and he didn't dare to go out. After a stick of incense, the voice of Huazi came from outside: "Come out."
He helped his wife, who was shaking constantly, and found three people lying on the ground outside. Two of them he knew, namely Jiao Dabao and Ma Yuanwai, who had a fire at home, and the other was a stranger.
Then he realized that Huazi was not a simple person. According to Huazi, he was a disguised constable and had been pursuing two thieves for more than ten years. These two thieves were Ma Yuanwai and the stranger.
These two people did countless evils, but suddenly disappeared ten years ago. It turned out that they were here to stay in hiding their names.
For more than ten years, the constable never gave up on the investigation. Finally, they found out that they were hiding in Baoyuan Town, so they pretended to be beggars to come here to inquire.
Ma Yuanwai was very alert. He found that he might be exposed, so he wanted to make his last fortune and escape.
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What he called the last money was the news given by the scoundrel Jiao Dabao. According to Jiao Dabao, when Li Zixu's father was still alive, he entered the Li family at night and wanted to steal money. Unexpectedly, I saw a jade peach.
Ma Yuanwai thought this was a valuable thing, so he designed a plan and pretended to tell Yuan Guizhi that he had a way to get pregnant, but he needed to exchange the jade peach at home.
Yuan Guizhi was crazy about pregnancy, so she took Yutao and wanted to change it.
Ma Yuanwai was about to succeed, and suddenly found the constable staring at him. The man made a quick decision and burned his own house to hide, trying to make the constable think that his house had died of a fire.
Yuan Guizhi failed to exchange Yutao for pregnancy, and Mr. Li did not get Yutao either. He hid in the dark and instructed Jiao Dabao to ask him to help Li Zixu away. Then they gave Yuan Guizhi medicine, causing her to fall into a deep sleep and began to search.
But they did not find Yutao, and they were angry and embarrassed. In addition, Li Yuanwai, who was eager to escape, decided to take a gamble, kill Li Zixu and his wife, and then dig three feet into the ground, but they didn't believe that they could not find Yutao.
They uncovered the tiles on the roof at night and threw the poisonous snake down, hoping to make Li Zixu and his wife bit to death, but unexpectedly, the constable set up an ambush here, kicked them off the roof, and captured them all alive after a fight.
Li Zixu was frightened when he heard this. At the same time, Ma Yuanwai and the constable didn't understand why the poisonous snakes were ferocious. Why were they okay with the couple? Even if they hid under the bed, the poisonous snakes could crawl, and it was incredible that they could escape.
In fact, even Li Zixu didn't understand why he avoided those poisonous snakes, let alone why those poisonous snakes died suddenly.
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Constable took Ma Yuanwai and others away. Li Zixu breathed a sigh of relief. This disaster should have passed.
Three days later, he suddenly found himself standing at Yang's house, with a huge python lying on the mound of soil.
python looked at him and said, "Don't be afraid, I'll repay your kindness for passing the tribulation. If you hadn't cut me with a hatchet that day, and lifted my tail when I was exhausted, the thunder punishment would stop because I couldn't hurt me to suppress Yang. You hurt me to save someone, and it was just a rescue. Now you have repaid great kindness, and these are what you deserve."
python disappeared after saying that, and he reached out to ask a question, but found that he was sleeping well at home. He just had a dream.
Half a year later, Yuan Guizhi became pregnant, had a baby for ten months, and gave birth to a child before fertility. When the child was born, it rained heavily and thunder kept ringing. Her wish was fulfilled, and her whole body gradually got better. After a few years, she was no different from ordinary people.
Li Zixu still runs a tofu shop in Baoyuan Town. The family of three is happy, and lives a normal and happy life. Throughout his life, Yutao never showed it to others, and he never mentioned it to others.
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everyone, Li Zixu is a beggar who keeps a golden rice bowl. Why do you say so? He has a family-born jade peach, which is very valuable, but he never thought of selling it, because it was his father repeatedly told him to pass it on, so he only made money through his own hard work.
But every man is innocent and is guilty of being guilty. He never thought of selling, but others are thinking about it, which causes trouble.
Originally, with his knowledge and ability, he could never escape Ma Yuanwai's plan. After all, he was a thief who had been rampant for many years.
But in order to save Yang, he accidentally injured the python, and by chance, the python successfully overcomes the tribulation. At the last moment, the python also came out to help him.
At the same time, the constable who had never given up on the pursuit also saw Li Zixu's kindness. Although tofu is not a rice, it is more precious than rice. For the sake of this rice, the constable warned him in advance, allowing him to escape the harm of the poisonous snake.
Whether it is a constable or a python, they all come out to help Li Zixu, which seems to be a coincidence.
In fact, this is not a coincidence? If he saw Yang running away in fear when he saw him trapped, how could the python behind him come to save him? If he did not feel compassion when he saw the transformed son, how could he warn him in advance?
He gave his kindness first, and he also gained good things.
Ma Yuanwai and others first paid their viciousness, so they gained endless regret. It was just a natural result between positive and negative ones. What do you think?
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