During the Ming Dynasty, there was an old carpenter named Zhong in Shuangzhai Village, Shangzhou. He was taciturn and did not like to communicate with others. Since his son died, he lived with his daughter-in-law Feng Xiu. Feng Xiu is a virtuous and filial daughter-in-law. She an

During the Ming Dynasty, there was an old carpenter named Zhong, Shuangzhai Village, Shangzhou. He was taciturn and did not like to communicate with others. Since his son died, he has lived with his daughter-in-law Feng Xiu.

Feng Xiu is a virtuous and filial daughter-in-law. She and her husband are childhood sweethearts and have a deep relationship, so she has been reluctant to remarry after her husband dies. Although Old Man Zhong has a weak personality, he is also very grateful to Feng Xiu for being willing to take care of him, the old man, so he always treats her as his biological daughter.

Not long ago, Old Man Zhong fell seriously ill. Under Feng Xiu's careful care, although his illness has been cured, his health has become worse day by day. He became more taciturn. Sometimes he didn't say a word to Feng Xiu for two or three days, but sat blankly under the eaves, staring at the chicks running around in the yard.

On this day, Old Man Zhong blew a cool breeze and fell ill on the bed again. The disease was very dangerous this time. The doctor came to take the pulse and shook his head straight, asking Feng Xiu to prepare for the funeral immediately. After hearing the doctor's words, Feng Xiu sat by the bed and cried silently, not knowing what to do.

At this time, the old man Zhong opened his eyes with difficulty. He told Feng Xiu that he had put an egg in the kitchen and asked Feng Xiu to take it over.

Feng Xiu hurriedly did it when she heard this. She handed the egg to Old Man Zhong. Old Man Zhong did not answer, but asked her to peel the egg. Feng Xiu only realized that there was a chicken that was about to hatch in the egg. I wonder if Feng Xiu was dazzled, but the more she looked at it, the more she felt that it was more like a curled-up little man who was not as big as a finger than a chicken.

Old man Zhong stared at Feng Xiu with an unnatural blush on his face. He said to Feng Xiu in a hoarse voice, asking her to eat the egg.

Feng Xiu shook his head repeatedly when he heard this, and his hand holding the egg began to tremble. Then Old Man Zhong ignored Feng Xiu and refused, but said that this was the live bead he had specially found, which was very good for Feng Xiu. If Feng Xiu doesn't want to make him die with his eyes open, then eat the live bead.

Feng Xiu was forced to endure the fear in her heart and swallowed the living beads. She felt the living bead slide across her esophagus, causing a feeling of nausea, but when she bent down and vomited, she couldn't vomit anything.

Old Man Zhong saw Feng Xiu eating the living beads, closed his eyes with a smile. Feng Xiu hurriedly went to explore his father-in-law's breath and found that Old Man Zhong was not dead, but fell asleep.

I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect since I took the live bead, but Feng Xiu always felt stomachache, especially at night, Feng Xiu often covered her lower abdomen and moaned. She felt something growing in her belly. She remembered the live bead she ate before and shivered.

Days passed day by day, and Old Man Zhong remained unconscious. Feng Xiu has not eaten well and has not been able to sleep well recently, but for some reason, she suddenly gained weight and her belly is getting bigger and bigger day by day.

This day was the 49th day that Feng Xiu swallowed the live beads. At night, Feng Xiu had unbearable abdominal pain. She lay on the bed and hugged her stomach and moaned constantly, and fainted in pain. When she woke up again, it was already dawn. She found that there was an egg on the bed. The egg was snow-white all over, as big as Feng Xiu's hands. Feng Xiu realized that the egg was born by herself and was immediately panicked.

She thought of the living bead that her father-in-law asked her to eat, and immediately came to Old Man Zhong's bed with the egg, trying to wake Old Man Zhong and ask him what was going on.

Before Feng Xiu could wake up Old Man Zhong, she found that the eggshell had cracked and a chick emerged from the egg. At the same time, Old Man Zhong was completely swallowed.

Feng Xiu was almost scared by all this. She threw the chick on the ground and turned around and ran out the door.She was thinking about who to ask for help when she suddenly saw an Taoist priest at the entrance of the village. So she dragged the Taoist priest back home, pointed to the chick on the ground, and told the Taoist priest what happened.

Taoist frowned after hearing this, and then looked carefully at the chick on the ground and the old man Zhang lying on the bed, raised his hand and stroked his beard, and explained everything to Feng Xiu.

It turns out that Old Man Zhong’s soul lived in the body of the chick.

Taoist said that Old Man Zhong should know some magic. The living bead he asked Feng Xiu to eat was specially treated. After the living bead was conceived in Feng Xiu's body, Feng Xiu would give birth to a body without a soul. At this time, Old Man Zhong's soul would be transferred to a new body to achieve the purpose of living for a long time.

However, Old Man Zhong was not good at magic, and there was no idea what went wrong in the middle. Feng Xiu should have given birth to a human-shaped body, but it turned into a chick. Now, Old Man Zhong's soul is trapped in the body of this chick. Unless the chick dies, he will not be able to be liberated.

After saying that, the Taoist priest committed evil deeds and turned around and left.

Feng Xiu felt dizzy after hearing all this. She didn't expect that her father-in-law, who was usually gentle and taciturn, did such a thing to her.

After careful consideration, Feng Xiu buried the human body of Old Man Zhong, which was considered to be a filial piety for her husband. Then she cleaned up the soft and soft house and left the village. Before leaving, she never looked at the chick again.

Later, people in Shuangzhai Village said that there was a very human rooster in the village. It looked about the size of a big dog. Later, people killed it and stewed the soup. Every household in the village divided a bowl. The delicious chicken soup tasted always made the villagers miss it.