There was a monk in Gangnam who raised many chickens. Since monks could not kill, he raised chickens only to eat eggs. Although strictly speaking, this is not a qing cultivation, but then again, the egg is not a real creature. Moreover, the monk was not willing to become a monk, but only to eat a mixture of food.
At that time, the world was in chaos, rebels and thieves were running rampant, and the people were fleeing for their lives. Once, when I heard that the rebel army was about to fight here, all the people around them fled to other places. Sure enough, not long after, the thieves hit here.
The defenders of the city were outnumbered, and soon the city fell, and the remaining remnants of the soldiers, seeing that the general trend had gone, gave up their resistance one after another and scattered to flee for their lives. The enemy soldiers chased after them all the way, leaving only some old, weak and disabled soldiers who could not move, so they mixed with the people and pretended to be refugees to go to the countryside to beg for food and drink.
One of the enemy soldiers was named Ye Tianxiang, who did not follow the team due to some injuries. But he was also a foreigner with a different accent, and he did not dare to pretend to be a refugee to go to the village to beg for food, for fear of causing unnecessary trouble.
Then, in order to find stuttering, he unknowingly came to this temple. But the temple was empty, and he thought that those monks must have seen the soldiers in chaos, afraid that the swords and guns would have no eyes and would harm themselves, so they went to hide elsewhere.
Ye Tianxiang was extremely hungry at this time, so he looked everywhere for food. It was found that the turnip cabbage in the backyard vegetable garden of the temple grew very well, and there were many chickens. So he plucked a radish and a cabbage, killed a chicken, and prepared to stew it.
Fortunately, the pots and pans were still there, so he found some dry firewood and made a fire, so he put the chicken into the pot and grunted and stewed. After a while, when the chicken was cooked, he ate a beautiful meal.
After eating and drinking, Ye Tianxiang just lay on the bed and took a nap, but he heard a woman's voice shouting: "Ye Tianxiang!" ”
At this time, he was sleeping in a daze, so he casually responded, and suddenly woke up. When Ye Tianxiang woke up, he felt very surprised. I thought, how can any woman in this place know my name?
He walked around the temple with curiosity, and saw no woman. He suddenly felt a little frightened, wondering if he had encountered some monster. Thinking of this, he was too frightened to dare to sleep anymore, but took the knife and sat there waiting.
In the middle of the night, he suddenly heard a "hissing" sound, he suspected that there was a snake infestation, but he looked around the house and saw nothing, but the "hissing" sound kept ringing. He listened carefully again, and the sound seemed to come from the backyard.
So he had the courage to go to the backyard to look for it, but he saw a woman's head on a big tree in the backyard. The scene was very strange, and he was scared out of a cold sweat.
The woman's head kept swinging in the tree, and there was a tree hole in the tree that was more than a person's height, and the woman's head was drilled out of the tree hole, and it seemed to be very painful.
Ye Tianxiang asked the woman from afar if she was hiding in the tree hole and her head was stuck, and the woman nodded a few times. Ye Tianxiang put his mind at ease, secretly laughing, thinking to himself, people are scary, scared to death. If he could save this woman, maybe she would still be able to make a promise!
But the night was dark, and it was still a little scary. Ye Tianxiang wanted to find a fire stick and light it to take a picture. But when I came to the stove, I found that I had boiled the chicken and burned all the firewood and grass, and in desperation, I planned to use the plucked chicken feathers to illuminate.
Chicken feathers burned with a foul smell, but it didn't take care of much. He made a torch out of chicken feathers, and when he walked under the tree, he found that the tree was indeed hollow, with a small tree hole on the top and a big tree hole below, and a pair of feet exposed underneath.
Ye Tianxiang saw that the small tree hole was very small, and it couldn't drill into a person's body at all. He couldn't understand how the woman had gotten in and why she had gotten stuck.
He was about to use a knife to split the tree to save the woman, when he suddenly found that the feet exposed by the tree hole below were actually heels outwards, and the woman's head was facing him.
At this thought, Ye Tianxiang suddenly felt creepy and asked in a trembling voice, "You... Are you a demon or a ghost? ”
The woman didn't answer either, but struggled in pain. Ye Tianxiang suddenly noticed that the woman had scales on her neck. He expected that the woman was eighty percent snake demon.
So he ignored three seven twenty-one, hurriedly picked up the door latch and hit his head. Because the woman's head was stuck and could not move, she could not even hide, she was beaten to the head full of blood, her mouth was still "hissing" and screaming, and her outstretched tongue was thin and long, really the same as the snake core.
Ye Tianxiang had been a soldier for a long time, his strength was not small, and he did not have the heart of pity for Xiang Xiang and cherished the jade, so he took the door latch and rained down, and when he boarded, he beat the woman to the head and bled. Seeing that the woman was no longer moving, he picked up the waist knife and cut off the woman's head with one knife.
As soon as the head was cut off, he only listened to the "fluttering" sound under the tree hole and rolled out a clump of snakes. Bulging, although he had no head, his body was still writhing.
Ye Tianxiang simply cut open the snake's body, but a monk rolled out of it. Ye Tianxiang understood that most of this monk was afraid of the random soldiers, hiding in the tree hole, and then being swallowed by this big snake with a woman's head, but then stuck in the tree hole and could not come out. Ye Tianxiang was afraid for a while, so he set fire to both corpses.
Later, Ye Tianxiang met an old man who took him in, and he told the old man about it. The old man said to him, "This is a beautiful snake!" Then the old man told him the legend of the beautiful snake.
In the Jiangnan area, due to the humidity of the ground, there are many snakes and insects. In the past, the countryside was not polluted, and these reptiles multiplied very quickly, so many legends were generated, and the most terrifying one was the beautiful snake. The beautiful snake has a human head and a snake body, and will call people by name in the deserted suburbs. At this time, you must not agree, once you agree, the beautiful snake will come to take people's lives at night.
It is said that once upon a time, a scholar answered the call of the beautiful snake and stayed at the monastery at night, and the old monk gave him a box and asked him to put it on the pillow. When the beautiful snake came, a golden light flew out of the box, but a flying centipede flew out to get rid of the beautiful snake, and the student was saved.
As for why this beautiful snake could not harm Ye Tianxiang, listening to the old man, he should have been suppressed by chicken feathers. Snakes are afraid of chicken feathers, which is also an ancient saying.
It is said in a book that "chicken feathers burn smoke, and all poisonous snakes will die when they smell their breath, and all mirages are the same, and those who are powerless are not exempt." The beautiful snake must have smelled the smell of roasted chicken feathers and couldn't use it before it was killed by Ye Tianxiang.
