During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, near Dongting Lake, there was a small fishing village, and at the end of the village lived a family surnamed Suo, only grandfathers and grandchildren. Grandpa So old man is a veteran fisherman who has spent his whole life in the lake begging for a living. His grandson, xiao han, is less than ten years old, and has been crawling and rolling by the lake since he was a child, and the water is excellent.
Xiao Han's parents were also fishermen, and three years ago, both died in a terrible storm. After that, the two grandchildren depended on each other for their lives. Fortunately, the children of poor families are well fed, it seems that the wind can grow as soon as the wind blows, and Xiao Han grows up healthy and happy.
On this day, Xiao Han followed Grandpa Suo Laohan and took a small boat to the lake to catch fish. When the net was collected, a big fish dragged the net into the bottom of the lake, and Suo Laohan hurriedly jumped into the water to chase the big fish. However, after waiting for a long time, I didn't see Old Man Suo come up. This time, has exceeded the limits of the human body, Xiao Han gritted his teeth, jumped into the water, dived to find grandpa.
Xiao Han repeatedly dived into the water dozens of times, but he did not find his grandfather, and even the fishing net was missing. Xiao Han panicked and shook the boat to dock and went to find his cousin to cry. The cousin hurriedly mobilized all the fishermen and searched for the place where the old man fell into the water. I was busy until the time of the palm lamp, and I didn't find the old man.
The cousin pulled the crying little han to his house. Xiao Han did not sleep all night, sitting on the steps of his uncle's house, looking at the lake in the distance in a daze. The next day, the cousin went to the lake to look for another day, but still did not see the body of the old man, so he had to give up. He returned home to comfort Xiao Han, grandpa was gone, he came to raise Xiao Han.
On the third day, the cousin was considering whether to build a crown tomb for Suo Laohan, when he suddenly heard a noise, and it turned out that Suo Laohan had come out of the lake. The fishermen who saw this scene were amazed and became noisy. They thought that Old Man Suo was not a human being, but had been hit by evil and had become a water monster. For it is impossible for a man to live three days at the bottom of a lake.
As usual, Old Man Suo smiled and greeted the crowd, and the crowd saw that he was not abnormal, so they stepped forward and hugged him home. Xiao Han saw that Grandpa had returned, ran quickly, and threw himself into Grandpa's arms and cried. Old Han Suo touched his head lovingly, smiled and said, "Isn't Grandpa back?" Well, good grandson, don't cry. ”
Xiao Han stopped crying, and was surprised to find that there was no water on Grandpa's clothes. He came up from the bottom of the lake, and it was impossible for his clothes not to get wet with the water. He asked his doubts out, and Old Man Suo smiled and said, "I learned the trick of avoiding water, and the water droplets don't stick to my body." ”
When the crowd heard the news, they were surprised again, and they exchanged words of discussion. When they arrived at home, everyone sat down around the old man and asked him to talk about what had happened in the past few days.
Old Man Suo cleared his throat and began to speak. He asked, "Do you remember that moon-watching eel?" Everyone nodded and said they remembered. That was two years ago, when one day Solao Han met a young fisherman who caught a yellow eel, as thick as a large python. Suo Laohan wanted to buy it to supplement his grandson's body and asked how much money it was?
The young fisherman smiled and said, "Uncle Suo, if you raise the money, you will see the outside world, right?" Sent to you. "Immediately take out the yellow eel from the fish basket and give it to Old Man Suo."
Back at home, Suo Laohan brought a large wooden basin, filled it with water, and raised the rhubarb eel in the wooden basin, planning to wait a few days to cut a piece of pork and stew it with the yellow eel.
The day was fifteen, the moon was big and round, and after dinner, the grandchildren sat in the courtyard to cool off. Suo Laohan was closing his eyes to recuperate, when he suddenly heard his grandson shouting loudly: "Grandpa, look quickly, Huang Eel looks at the moon and chants." ”
Old Han Suo stood up and approached the wooden basin to watch. This look was not tight, and he was startled to open his mouth wide and not close it. I saw the rhubarb eel coiled up in a circle, looking up at the bright moon in the sky, with its mouth open and a slight sound, as if it was chanting.
The neighbor heard Xiao Han's shouting, and also ran to see the strangeness, seeing this scene, extremely strange, could not help shouting loudly. After a while, the villagers all came to watch and see the strangeness. The rhubarb eel did not seem to be disturbed by the noise outside, and still went its own way, looking at the bright moon in the sky, and its mouth was open and made a slight sound.
The next morning, an old Taoist came to hear the news and wanted to spend five hundred taels of silver to buy the rhubarb eel, saying that it was this yellow eel, which absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon, and ate it to prolong life. Old Man Suo was shocked and refused to sell. Lao Dao thought that he wanted to keep himself to eat, and offered to eat together, one hundred and two silver and a bowl of soup and three pieces of meat, but also suo Lao Han refused.
Suo Laohan believed that it was not easy for the Moon Eel to cultivate painstakingly, and it was necessary to release it. Although five hundred taels of silver are touching, money can be earned, but conscience cannot be extinguished. At night, he quietly put the rhubarb eel into the lake. Later, the dragon king of Dongting Lake was chosen as a concubine, and the rhubarb eel was fortunate to be selected and became a partial concubine.
The day before yesterday, the person who tempted old man Suo into the water was a water demon. After Suo Laohan drowned, his soul was taken to the Dragon Palace by the Yellow Eel Spirit and taught him the Dao Fa, allowing him to seek revenge on the Water Demon in the future. The Yellow Eel Spirit launched the Dragon Palace Water Clan to search for the body of Old Man Suo, and after finding it, he pushed his soul into his body and sent him back.
After Suo Laohan finished speaking, everyone was amazed, saying that good people have good rewards, if it were not for Suo Laohan's release of the rhubarb eel, there would be no resurrection from the dead today.
Suo Laohan had Taoism and no longer became a fisherman, but became a celestial master who caught demons. He made a robe, made a peach wood sword, carried it on his back, cranked a bell in his hand, walked the streets and alleys, and shouted loudly. If anyone's family is unstable at home, ask him to come to the door to catch the demon and suppress the evil, often can achieve immediate results and receive miraculous results.
On the evening of this day, Old Man Suo was walking home, when he suddenly saw a black shadow flashing not far away, disappearing into the lake. Suo Laohan secretly raised a breath, read the trick of avoiding the water, and drilled into the water to chase after the black shadow.
This black shadow was none other than the water demon that had plagued him in the first place, a crab spirit. Crab Jing saw that he was desperately pursuing, so he simply stopped and fought with Old Man Suo. Old Man Suo pulled out his peach wood sword, chanted the incantation, and then threw out the peach wood sword. The peach wood sword roared away, splitting the head of the crab spirit.
Suo Laohan finally took revenge, picked up the dead crab, returned home, cooked the crab, and let Xiao Han eat it. Since then, the water has multiplied, and it can stay under the water for a long time. Suo Laohan captured many monsters in his life, and lived until he was ninety-nine years old before he died.
Sometimes, in the face of the temptation of money, many people cannot make the right choice, after all, money can blind people's eyes and make people lose their minds. At all times, something other than money must be taken into account, such as goodness, such as justice, such as justice, such as human nature. This story adopts an absurd penmanship, which lies in borrowing things to persuade people to be good, and has nothing to do with feudal superstition.
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