Niu Lang only has an old cow and a plough, and he goes down to the field every day at dawn to cultivate the field, and when he comes home, he has to cook and wash his own clothes, and his life is very hard. Who expected that one day, a miracle would happen! When Niu Lang returned home from work, as soon as he entered the house, he saw that the house had been cleaned, his clothes had been washed clean, and there were hot and fragrant meals on the table. Niu Lang's eyes widened in surprise and he thought: What is going on? Have the immortals descended? Anyway, let's eat first.
After that, for several days in a row, every day, Niu Lang couldn't stand it, and he must get a water out. On this day, as usual, Niu Lang went out the door early in the morning, in fact, he took a few steps and turned back, did not enter the house, but found a hidden place to hide, secretly observing. Sure enough, not long after, a beautiful girl came, and as soon as she entered the door, she was busy cleaning up the house and cooking, and Titus was industrious! Niu Lang couldn't help it, and stood up and said, "Girl, why are you here to help me with housework?" The girl was taken aback, blushed, and whispered, "My name is Weaver Girl, and I'll help you when I see that you're having a hard time." Niu Lang was overjoyed to hear this, and hurriedly continued: "Then you can stay, we share weal and woe, and build a happy life with our hands together!" The weaver girl nodded with a red face, and they married, male cultivator and female weaver, living a very happy life.
After a few years, they had two children, a man and a woman, and the family had a very happy life. One day, suddenly the sky was cloudy, the wind was fierce, the thunder and lightning were mixed, the weaver girl was gone, the two children were crying non-stop, and the cowherd was so anxious that he didn't know what to do. In a hurry, the dark clouds suddenly dispersed again, the weather became windy and sunny again, and the Weaver Girl returned home, but her face was full of sad clouds. Only to see her gently pull Niu Lang and take the two children into her arms, saying, "Actually, I am not a mortal, but the granddaughter of the Queen Mother's mother, and now, the people from the Heavenly Palace are going to take me back, so take care of yourself!" After saying that, tears fell like rain and flew away.
Niu Lang put his arms around the two young children, wanted to cry without tears, and stood stupidly for half a day. No, I can't let my wife leave me like this, I can't let my child lose his mother like this, I want to go to her, I must get the Weaver Girl back! At this time, the old cow suddenly spoke: "Don't be sad! You kill me, put my skin on, and weave two baskets with two children, and then you can go to the Heavenly Palace to find the Weaver Girl. Niu Lang said that he did not want to treat this partner who had accompanied him for decades, but he could not do it, and there was no other way, so he had to endure the pain and tears to do as he said.
When they arrived at the Heavenly Palace, the Queen Mother did not want to recognize Niu Lang as a granddaughter-in-law in the world, and did not let the Weaver Girl come out to see him, but instead found seven masked, tall, fat, and thin women who were exactly the same, and said to Niu Lang: "You recognize it, and if you recognize it, let you meet." Niu Lang was dumbfounded, but the two children in his arms jumped and ran to his mother, it turned out that the blood relatives between mother and son could not be stopped!
The Queen Mother had no choice, but she was still unwilling to let the Weaver Girl return to the human world, so she ordered the Weaver Girl to be taken away. Niu Lang was anxious and led the two children to catch up. They ran and ran, tired and refused to stop, fell down and got up again, and when they saw that they were about to catch up, the Queen Mother pulled out the golden hairpin on her head in a hurry, and drew a wide galaxy in the middle of them. From then on, the cowherd and the weaver girl could only stand at opposite ends of the milky way, looking at each other from afar. And every year on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, thousands of magpies fly back and build a long magpie bridge over the Milky Way to reunite the cowherd weaver girl's family again.
