A long, long time ago, an old woman lived in a village. This old woman is weird! I want to know everything, I want to hear everything, I want to see everything!
If the neighbor's house cooks something, as long as the smell floats over, it will shamelessly walk over, and it must open the lid of the pot to see; If someone else's field is planted with crops, if she does not know what to plant, she must secretly dig up the seeds to see; She walked on the road, and if there was a sound of talking from the houses of the people on the side of the road, she would go under the eaves of the houses and stand there eavesdropping; If someone is talking, she has to participate.
The people of the village were really annoyed by this strange old woman.
One day, the old woman was walking on the road and walked past a man with a large pocket on his back.
"Hey, who is that? Where did it come from? Where are you going? What's in that big pocket? ”
One question after another appeared in the old woman's mind.
"What are you? Where did it come from? The old woman asked.
"Who I am, sooner or later you may or may not know." The man said.
"Where are you going with such a big pocket?" What's inside? The old woman asked again.
"It's something very precious! If you want it, take it. But there is one condition: you must not open it until you get home. If you open it halfway, something will fly out there and you'll be out of luck. The man instructed.
"Okay, okay. I must not open it until I get home. The old woman said as she picked up her pocket and walked home.
She had just taken a few steps, and when she looked back, the person was long gone.
At this time, she happened to walk to a pasture, she was tired and wanted to sit down and rest, so she sat on the grass. At this time, there was a clicking sound from inside the pocket.
"Ah, what sound?"
The old woman immediately picked up the bag and looked at it. She wanted to see if there were any holes in the bag, but there was not a single hole in the bag.
So he looked at the mouth of the bag again, which was tied tightly. "What are you doing so tightly? I'll open a slit a little bit and see, it's okay! ”
The old woman said as she loosened the mouth of the bag and looked in with her eyes.
As soon as she let go, she felt something fly out and snap into her eyes.
"Ugh!" She cried out, and suddenly her eyes couldn't see anything.
At this time, various sounds such as thumping, quacking, cooing and so on sounded in the ears.
When she opened her eyes, there were all insects all around, what locusts, wasps, gadfly, mosquitoes, flies; Moths... Hundreds of bugs flew around her.
The old woman was in a hurry, she tightened her pockets, and then began to catch the worms again. But those insects were surrounded by black pressure, she couldn't catch them, and the old woman was tired and panting.
At this time, a serious voice sounded in her ears:
"You usually want to hear everything, want to see everything, want to know everything. That's why you've gotten into trouble, and there's no other way. You are responsible for your own trouble! You better turn into a bird and destroy all the bugs you release! At that point, you can be a human again! ”
The old woman wanted to cry, but she couldn't cry, and her body suddenly became smaller and turned into a wooden bird with a long mouth.
Since then, the woodpecker has landed on the trees, specifically eating the bugs on the trees, specifically looking for those that she released to eat.
This story tells people: Don't go out of your way to inquire about things that others don't want to tell you. Not everything is something you should know. Excessive curiosity often mistakes themselves!