During the Republic of China, Yong'an there was a young man named Mo Zi'ang. A strange thing happened to him recently. When he was lying in bed every night, he would have a strange dream. In the dream, a two-meter-high hedgehog came to him and asked Mo Zi'ang over and over again what it looked like.
This strange dream lasted for three days. It was not until Mo Ziang was trained that he could only say the word "like a god", and the hedgehog left with peace of mind.
The next evening, Mo Ziang attended a friend's wedding banquet. He drank some wine and got very drunk. On the way home, he met a hedgehog. He stood two meters in front of Mo Ziang. He put his hands on his hips and asked Mo Ziang what it looked like, and asked Mo Ziang to answer according to the words in his dream.
However, the drunk Mo Ziang saw a little hedgehog in front of him. Although he looked just like the hedgehog in his dream and could speak human words, he was not afraid and did not follow the hedgehog's wishes. He told the hedgehog that it was the twentieth century and made the hedgehog believe in science.
Mo Ziang's words surprised the hedgehog. It was clearly rehearsed in a dream, but Mo Ziang suddenly changed his mind. He pointed at one of his broken legs and claimed that it was broken by Mo Ziang when he was young. Mo Ziang himself was guilty and asked Mo Ziang to take responsibility for his actions.
If the hedgehog fails to ask for the title, he will have to practice for hundreds of years, even thousands of years of shallow practice. Therefore, the hedgehog attaches great importance to this request for the title. It asked Mo Ziang several times angrily and anxiously, but it could not get Mo Ziang to answer the word "like a god".
After saying this, a line of white smoke came out of the hedgehog and immediately turned into a chicken leg. However, this chicken leg could speak human language and could roll on the ground, leaving a message to Mo Ziang: "I will come back to you for revenge!"
Then, the chicken leg rolled into the grass and disappeared.
From then on, Mo Ziang dreamed of a two-meter-high chicken leg floating in mid-air and hitting Mo Ziang's head every night. The pain in the dream was real. Mo Ziang grinned in pain every time, and when he woke up the next day, his head was swollen. He was going to find a charlatan to find a solution, but he met a Taoist just after he left home.
The Taoist priest claimed that when he was young, he was friends with Mo Zi'ang's grandfather, Old Mo. At that time, Old Mo was a high-spirited young man with extraordinary good looks. He was the dream lover of many girls in the village, who all dreamed of marrying him, including a hedgehog who was refined into essence and turned into a beautiful woman and came to Old Mo.
However, Old Man Mo had his heart set on something, and he always fell in love with the village beauty. Regardless of the opposition of both families, he married the village beauty back home. He didn't care about the hedgehog at all, and even kicked the hedgehog out after it ran into the house.
The hedgehog couldn't accept such humiliation. Since he couldn't let Old Man Mo bow down under her pomegranate skirt , he let Old Man Mo kneel down in front of her.
That year, the hedgehog sneaked into Old Man Mo's house and secretly bit the village beauty on the back, causing the village beauty to fall into coma. Old Man Mo invited dozens of doctors to no avail. Finally, he found a Taoist priest and discovered that it was the hedgehog.
Old Man Mo suppressed his hatred and found the hedgehog, asking the hedgehog to tell him how to save the village beauty.
The hedgehog sneered and asked Old Mo to kneel in front of her. Old Mo did as the hedgehog said, and then the hedgehog put a golden elixir into Old Mo's hand.
After Old Mo saved the village flower, he lived a stable life with the village flower for two years. Later, the hedgehog felt that it was too easy for them to let Old Mo and the village flower live a good life, so he attracted a group of locusts from other places, and let the locusts eat up the crops in the old man's field, including the crops in several nearby villages.
The superstitious villagers thought they had offended God, so they set up an altar and found boys and girls to sacrifice to the gods to save them from this disaster. However, Old Man Mo severely prevented the villagers from doing this. He knew in his heart that all this was done by hedgehogs and had nothing to do with God.
Old Man Mo found the Taoist priest again, and united with hundreds of strong villagers nearby to capture the hedgehog alive, beat it back to its original shape, and threw it into the wilderness to practice again.
When the hedgehog was thrown away, it murmured that it would come back for revenge. However, after it returned from practicing for decades, it found that Old Man Mo had died without a cause. So it found Old Man Mo's grandson, Mo Zi'ang, and wanted to bite him and make him sleep forever, but Mo Zi'ang stepped on and broke his leg.
The hedgehog had to practice for another ten years. When he reached a certain level of practice, he would need to ask for a title from humans before he could become a human or a god. For this reason, he deliberately sneaked into Mo Ziang's dream and asked Mo Ziang to do as he was told.
However, Mo Ziang didn't like hedgehogs, let alone being bold after drinking, and turned the hedgehog into a chicken leg.
Because the old man Mo had foresight, he had already guessed that the hedgehog would come back for revenge. When he was dying, he called the Taoist priest to him. If he died, the hedgehog would definitely not be able to take revenge on him, so he could only vent his anger on his children and grandchildren. He asked the Taoist priest to take good care of his children and grandchildren as much as possible, and the Taoist priest agreed to him.
This time the Taoist priest came specifically to clean up the hedgehog. He searched outside for three days and three nights before he found the hedgehog that had turned into a chicken leg. This time the Taoist priest threw it directly into the alchemy furnace.
From then on, nothing strange happened to Mo Ziang again.
