Folk tales: Taoist vs. Python Essence

The following story is from the Southern Song Dynasty Hongmai Zhiwei novel collection "Yi Jian Zhi", with slight changes when translated.

In Chongren County, Fuzhou, Jiangxi, there is a peasant woman named Liu Yuniang.

Liu Yuniang is as her name suggests, she is only seventeen or eighteen years old, born like a beautiful jade, and anyone who sees her will like her.

However, Liu Yuniang is already married, so those who have ideas don't think much about it.

One morning, Liu Yuniang went to the back of the house to dry her clothes, and when she collected her clothes in the afternoon, she found that the clothes were missing, and then she herself was gone.

The family waited for half a day, did not find Liu Yuniang back, so they came out to look for it, and as a result, they looked around four times several times, and they did not find Liu Yuniang.

Was Liu Yuniang blown away by the wind?

The family looked into the distance again, found that there was no service, and went to the neighbors to ask, and everyone said that they did not see it.

Liu Yuniang's husband even went to her mother's house and asked if anyone had seen her return, and everyone in the family said no.

That's weird!

Liu Yuniang's family had no choice but to report to the officials, and those clothes were not worth a few dollars, but Liu Yuniang's big living person was gone.

The county order sent the local government to take charge of this matter, but Li Zheng went everywhere to see and ask, and did not find Liu Yuniang.

The county order was also very angry, he directly offered a reward for the arrest, asked if anyone had seen Liu Yuniang, and provided clues.

As a result, half a month has passed, and there is no clue.

Could it be that Liu Yuniang was eaten into the stomach by the monster?

Everyone didn't understand, but there was nothing they could do.

Liu Yuniang's husband's family, about ten miles below Bashan Mountain, Bashan is very high, dangerous and abnormal, and few people climb it.

Usually only a few woodcutters, in order to chop wood for a living, will venture to climb on it.

One day, a local woodcutter went up the hill to cut firewood, and he climbed very high and cut a lot of firewood.

Feeling that it was enough, the woodcutter went down the mountain carrying firewood.

When we reached the mountainside, the woodcutter saw that between the cliffs, there seemed to be a man, no, two people, one dressed in black and one dressed in red.

The man in black should be a man, the man in red should be a woman, and the man in black is holding a woman in red, and he should be laughing.

The woodcutter saw the color of the two men's clothes and suddenly thought that Liu Yuniang had lost it, and the county court was offering a reward.

He saw that the clothes worn by these two people were very similar to liu Yuniang said in the county court, so he put the firewood on the ground, and then climbed up along the mountain road and vines, wanting to get closer.

Unexpectedly, he had just approached the two people a little, and the two seemed to notice and turned and entered the stone cave.

The woodcutter took a closer look and saw that the cave was very deep, and it was obvious that the two men were living in it.

The woodcutter did not dare to rush in, and since it was already late, he went down the hill carrying firewood.

After coming down the mountain, he told Liu Yuniang's family and also said his thoughts, he thought that the little asshole had kidnapped Liu Yuniang, it must be to play a rogue, after all, Liu Yuniang was very beautiful, but probably because of fear of sin, so he had to hide in the cave.

After dawn, the woodcutter took Liu Yuniang's family and went to the cave to check it out again, but everyone saw that the cave was dark and cold, and they did not dare to enter it.

After some discussion, the woodcutter said: This cave looks too deep, it is still dark, I can't see five fingers, I'm afraid it's not a place where people can live, maybe there are any basilisk fox spirits in it, it's best to find a mage.

The crowd thought it made sense, so they went down the hill and began to visit where there were mages.

There is a person in Anle, surnamed Zhan Sheng, everyone calls him Zhan Sheng, Zhan Sheng can do some spells, and his skills are very high.

After Liu Yuniang's family heard about it, they told the county order, and the county order immediately sent someone to invite Zhan Sheng.

After Zhan Sheng came, the woodcutter told the situation, and the county order asked him to deal with the monster in the cave.

So the people, led by the woodcutter, came to the cave.

After watching Zhan Sheng go up, everyone hid in the distance and watched, lest they be injured by the monster by mistake.

Zhan Sheng spread his hair, held a short knife in his mouth, and walked slowly, as if he were drawing a gossip map under his feet, and everyone knew that he was already doing it.

Immediately, Zhan Sheng threw a piece of cloth into the hole, and then threw a square towel, but the monster in the cave noticed it, and immediately spewed out a green gas, like fireworks, blowing off the cloth and the square towel.

Zhan Sheng looked at it, was taken aback, he took off his hat and clothes, and continued to throw it into the hole.

Unexpectedly, the hat and clothes were still blown out by the green qi of the monster inside.

In desperation, Zhan Sheng jumped directly into the stone cave naked on his upper body and with a knife in one hand.

The cave is not big from the outside, but when you go inside, you find that there are three or four houses inside, and there is a large stone on one side, like a large bed.

There was a woman on the bed, sleeping on her back, and on her body was a very large snake, which looked like a python had become a sperm and was courting the woman.

Maybe the python essence wants the woman to help her give birth to a small snake!

After Zhan Sheng saw it, his heart was not afraid, and one of them went to the stone bed, and when the python saw him, he struggled to resist, but it was too late.

Zhan Sheng's short knife in his hand suddenly soared, and he took the knife in his hand and slashed at the python several times, and the python broke into five or six knots and rolled down below.

Originally thought that the python spirit was dead, but I did not expect that the python that broke into six sections was automatically connected after landing on the ground, and it was resurrected again!

Only to see the lower part of it coiled up, holding its head high, stretching out the snake letter, and roaring at Zhan Sheng, revealing its three-foot-long fangs.

Zhan Sheng shook gently, and the long knife turned into a short knife again, and he straightened up and fought with the python.

The python essence is very fierce, and when it sees Zhan Sheng far away, it sprays venom, and when it is close, it bites with fangs.

Zhan Sheng was not afraid, taking advantage of his small body and flexibly fighting.

Soon, he jumped to the head of the python, and the short knife became longer again, and directly stabbed down, piercing the python's head and breaking one of its fangs.

The python rolled in pain, and then used its body to surround Zhan Sheng, trying to roll zhan sheng up.

Zhan Sheng looked at it and widened the short knife, like a large shield, and the body of the python could not roll him.

Zhan Sheng bounced, his body flew out like an arrow off the string, away from the python, the short knife in his hand turned three times at the same time, only to see seven strands of sword qi shooting at the head of the python, the python could not dodge, the sword qi in his right eye, and the blood gushed out.

At this moment, the python spirit became even more angry, and it began to go crazy, rampaging through the stone cave.

Zhan Shengsheng accidentally injured the woman, threw out a small bowl around his waist, covering the woman, and sure enough, the rubble could not hurt the woman, and was directly shaken open.

At the same time, Zhan Sheng's short knife cut through his fingers, and blood dripped onto the blade, only to see that the knife suddenly flashed red, and Zhan Sheng was going to use a big move.

As he found that the women were getting weaker and looking dying, he feared that the women would miss the time for treatment.

The python was still charging, as if it were going to kill Zhan Sheng.

But Zhan Sheng's short knife had soared to a length of one inch, he jumped into the air, and split the python essence, only to see that the python essence did not hum a sound, it had been split by the sword light, directly exploded the flower, and the flesh and blood flew everywhere.

Zhan Sheng's body was covered with snake blood, and it was unusually cold.

The python essence was completely dead, and Zhan Sheng restored the short knife to its original form, still tucked around his waist.

He read it and returned to his waist pocket according to the woman's bowl.

There were several pieces of clothing on the stone bed, and Zhan Sheng immediately took two clothes, quickly helped the woman put them on, and then jumped out of the stone cave with the woman in her arms.

After leaving the cave, the woman was still pale and her eyes were closed, as if she were dead.

However, there were still ups and downs in the pulse, and it was clear that she was still alive.

Zhan Sheng had a lot of snake blood on his body, not only cold, but also poisonous gas, Zhan Sheng luck healed his wounds, and it took most of the day to recover.

When he woke up, he took a sip of water and sprayed it on the woman's face, and the woman immediately opened her eyes, and she came back to life.

Zhan Sheng took the woman to the bottom of the mountain, and the people carried the woman back.

This woman was none other than Liu Yuniang, who had been abducted for more than a month and had suffered too much.

The next morning, Liu Yuniang's body recovered most of the time, and she told her about her experience.

It turned out that when she went to collect her clothes that day, there was a scholar outside the fence, who looked very polite, spoke very politely, and was still a beautiful man.

Shusheng asked Liu Yuniang questions, but he couldn't hear clearly, so Liu Yuniang came out of the fence and approached Shusheng.

Unexpectedly, just close to the student, the student squirted over, she had no consciousness, only knew to follow the student.

Shusheng is in front, Liu Yuniang is behind, the two go faster and faster, crossing the water to climb the mountain, like walking on the ground, Liu Yuniang is like the shadow of Shusheng, she doesn't know anything.

When they arrived at the cave, Shusheng took out something for Liu Yuniang to eat, and then hugged her and kissed her...

After the middle of the night, the student turned into a python.

However, Liu Yuniang saw it in her eyes and remembered it in her heart, and she wanted to refuse, but her body was not under her control and was at the mercy of the python.

It was still early that the python had not reached the breeding season, so Liu Yuniang was still like an ordinary person.

Plus Jensen had already saved her, so she quickly returned to normal.

Hearing Liu Yuniang say this, the crowd asked Zhan Sheng again: If there is still a snake spirit in the stone cave, what can be done?

Zhan Sheng nodded and said: This is also possible.

In this way, I used a spell to seal the cave, so that even if there is a snake spirit, it cannot come out of the cave, and everyone can rest assured.

So he drew a few charms and pasted them on the large stone at the entrance of the cave.

Since then, there has been no snake spirit in the local area.