Old Man Liu is a woodcutter at the foot of Qipan Mountain. He has been from a poor family since childhood, but his parents finally got married to him. However, he and his wife have no children in their lives, and his wife passed away due to illness. From then on, Old Man Liu has

Old Man Liu is a woodcutter at the foot of Qipan Mountain. He has been from a poor family since childhood, but his parents finally got married to him. However, he and his wife have no children in their lives, and his wife passed away due to illness. From then on, Old Man Liu has become a lonely man and usually lives by chopping wood.

One day he went to the town to sell firewood and saw a group of people surrounding the city gate. Out of curiosity, he went forward and saw a hunter in the crowd holding a big flower snake, shouting to sell snakes! There are a few little snakes in his basket, and I want to sell them together!

I saw the big flower snake with thick arms. The onlookers said in a lingering manner: "This snake is so thick, it must have been hundreds of years. Its snake gall must be the best product!" The hunter smiled and said: "Of course! Not only is the snake gall precious, but it is believed that its meat is also delicious!"
Old Man Liu looked at the big flower snake being played with by the hunter, shook his head, and said in a touch: "You are so uncomfortable living in the deep mountains, but you can't escape the sword of mortals! Alas!" After that, he was about to leave.

But I saw the big flower snake hissing the letter, as if wailing. Seeing this, people shook their heads.

The hunter heard what Old Man Liu said and shouted, "Old man is kind-hearted, would you want to buy these snakes?"
Old Man Liu is indeed a kind-hearted person. He asked, "How do you sell these snakes?"

The hunter smiled and said, "If you like it, give me a tael of silver. How about I give you these little snakes?"

Old Man Liu was determined and said, "Buy it, you can't regret it!" As he said that, he took out a tael of silver from his body and handed it to the hunter.

The hunter put the big flower snake into the basket and happily left after collecting the money. Old Man Liu carried a basket out of the city.

He carried a basket to the mountain, and then released the big flower snake and several small snakes. Seeing that the big flower snake was reluctant to leave, he said, "Let's go, the farther you go, the better, don't let the hunter catch it anymore!"

Big flower snake nodded at him and slowly crawled into the grass and disappeared.

That morning, Old Man Liu had breakfast and went into the mountain to chop wood as usual. As soon as he opened the door, he saw a dead pheasant at the door. He picked it up and took a look. The pheasant was bitten to death by some animal and threw it to his door. He picked up the pheasant and went home to stew a pot of chicken. In the evening of that day, he had a beautiful meal.

A few days later, when he went up the mountain to chop wood, he heard something happening behind him. He turned around and saw a big flower snake behind him, with a hare in front of him. He understood everything. It turned out that the pheasant was also given to him by the big snake a few days ago. Then the big flower snake turned around and crawled into the grass and left.

Since that day, Old Man Liu will encounter the big flower snake every day when he goes to the mountain to chop firewood. The flower snake has also given him wild game. After that, the flower snake brings more and more small snakes to visit Old Man Liu. In this way, Old Man Liu and Hua Snake have known each other for more than half a year. Looking at the little snakes, Old Man Liu was particularly happy, looking at them like their own children.

One day, the neighbor Zhang old man asked him, "Brother Liu, where did you get so much money from when you have meat every day?"

This old man Zhang and Old Man Liu have been neighbors for 40 years. He has helped Old Man Liu a lot and did not hide anything from Old Man Zhang, and told Old Man Zhang about the matter.

Old man Zhang said after hearing this: "Everyone says snakes are spiritual, it seems to be true! Brother Liu, you are a good person and rewarded!"

"I didn't think so much at that time, I just saw it pitiful!" Old man Liu smiled silly after saying that.

Days pass very quickly, and half a year has passed in a flash. Early that morning, Old Man Zhang went out to do business and passed by Old Man Liu's house. Old Man Liu had already gotten up at this time, but today the door was closed, for some reason. So he called out twice outside the door, and saw that Old Man Liu did not respond, he was in a hurry to do things and didn't care.

Wait until the evening, when he came back from work, he found that the door of Liu's house was still closed, so he pushed open the gate of Liu's house.

After entering the house, I saw Old Man Liu lying on the bed without moving. He called out a few times after approaching, but Old Man Liu did not answer.Old Man Zhang felt something was wrong, so he went up to check that Old Man Liu had no breath, and Old Man Liu died bizarrely.

Old man Zhang quickly ran to the street and asked for help. The neighbors and neighbors all came. Old man Liu had a good relationship with the neighbors in normal times. Everyone watched Old man Liu lying quietly on the bed, and some neighbors couldn't help but burst into tears. That night, everyone set up a mourning hall at Old Man Liu's house. Since Old Man Liu had no relatives, neighbors took turns to keep his soul on his behalf.

Seven days later, Old Man Liu was about to be buried. When the neighbors got up the coffin, they found a group of snakes outside the door. The leader was a big flower snake, and there were more than a dozen small snakes behind him. He shouted that the snakes were blocking the way, so he was about to drive forward. But behind him, Old Man Zhang's voice came: "Get out of the way, they are here to go to the funeral!"

shouted San and said in surprise: "Snakes run to the funeral? How is this possible?"

Old Man Zhang asked everyone to put down the coffin and wait quietly. He saw that the big flower snake was not afraid of people. He first climbed to the coffin, and the little snakes followed behind him. The big flower snake lowered its head, and the little snakes also lowered their heads. After bowing three times, he gradually left with the little snakes in the surprised eyes of others.

At this time, Old Man Zhang asked those who were calling for funeral to get up the coffin quickly, and don’t delay the time of funeral. The person who was calling for funeral hurriedly shouted: “Come on the coffin!” Then people carried Old Man Liu’s coffin up the mountain in a mighty manner! Everyone buried Old Man Liu and went down the mountain.

Since then, no hunters in the town have ever sold snakes. When people enter the mountain, they often see some pheasants and hares on the grave of Old Man Liu. People know that Old Man Liu has no relatives, and that is the big flower snake worshiping him!

The material of this article is derived from "Folk Legend". The story uses things to describe the truth and warns everyone to be kind and love animals in their work. It has nothing to do with Feng Shui superstition.