The story takes place during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, when an old man came to the door to beg for food, and after seeing the mark on his body, the widow rushed to eat dog food, so she escaped the disaster.
Twenty miles from Yulin County, there is an unknown small village, the people in the village are simple and simple, life is stable, most of the villagers are honest farmers, and they have never caused any trouble in their lives.
There is a widow named Yan Jiangxue in the village, who is born beautiful, beautiful as a flower, and has a kind heart, treats people kindly, often helps the villagers solve their worries and difficulties, and has a good name in the village.
Yan Jiangxue's husband Ma Yu is a butcher in the village, this person is exquisitely skilled, the ancient road is hot, the work is fast and good, people near and far like to find him to work.
Since becoming related to Yan Jiangxue, in order to let his wife live a good life, Ma Yu has worked harder and harder, often running to far away places to do work, so he has accumulated fatigue and died.
After her husband's death, there were often men who came to the door to try to take advantage of Yan Jiangxue, which made her overwhelmed, and she had no choice but to move to live outside the village, which gained a piece of peace.
The villagers knew that after she moved outside the village, she would often bring some small snacks to see her, Yan Jiangxue was not ambiguous, often prepared some snacks in advance for them to take away, and the people in the village, out of gratitude, gave her a yellow dog for self-defense.
One day, when the wife of the village king butcher came to see Yan Jiangxue, she told her that there was a person in the village who had been brutally occupied because he opened the door to the bandits in the middle of the night, and asked her to be careful, and Yan Jiangxue nodded in agreement.
At night, Yan Jiangxue was tired and was preparing to fall asleep, when suddenly a rapid knock on the door woke her up, thinking of Madame Wang's warning during the day, she instantly tensed up.
The people outside the door saw that there was no response inside, knew that they were scared, and stopped for a long time before they said weakly: "Kind people, give me something to eat, I am starving to death!" ”
Yan Jiangxue heard this voice so old, thinking that he should not be a bandit, so he opened the door and let him in, after the old man came in, Yan Jiangxue hot the rest of the food and brought it to the table.
Who knew that the old man did not eat, but stared at Yan Jiangxue with a strange gaze, Yan Jiangxue inadvertently glimpsed the old man's neck with a rat-shaped mark, his face changed in an instant, and he immediately ran to the yellow dog kennel to eat dog food, and the yellow dog was also awakened by her move.
The old man saw that Yan Jiangxue was so agile, he instantly became angry and corrupt, stretched out his sharp claws and grabbed Yan Jiangxue, and the yellow dog next to Yan Jiangxue swooped forward and bitten it, but was slapped away by the old man.
At this time, Yan Jiangxue, who was full of dog food, slammed into the pillar next to the kennel, and the blood flowed out instantly, she wiped it on the wound with her hands, and then spit the dog food in her mouth full of saliva on her hand, and threw it at the old man with blood.
The moment she threw the old man, the old man screamed bitterly and seemed to have suffered pain that he should not bear, and she took this opportunity to run back to the village, and the villagers responded and directly knocked the old man out of his original form, which turned out to be a rat essence.
After consultation, the crowd directly threw the rat essence into the stove and burned it, and then bandaged Yan Jiangxue's wound, seeing that everyone looked at themselves confusedly, Yan Jiangxue smirked and explained the reason.
It turned out that when she was very young, she once brought a bowl of rice to a beggar with only nine fingers, and after the beggar had eaten, he handed her a strange book, which recorded all kinds of wonderful Taoist methods, and among them there was a record of the rat essence, and as soon as she saw the rat pattern on the old man's neck, she understood everything, and broke the vitality of the rat essence with dog food and blood, which made it beaten back to its original form by the villagers.
After listening to it, the villagers sighed and expressed their admiration for Yan Jiangxue, and said that they wanted their children to study well, and later, nothing strange happened in the village, and Yan Jiangxue lived without illness until he was more than ninety years old before he died.
Editor's note: Yan Jiangxue in this article was originally out of kindness to call the old man into the home to serve food, did not think that the old man was actually a rat essence, if it were not for Yan Jiangxue's early adventures, there is a high probability that he would be killed. In daily life, we must have an extra eye and carefully observe the things around us, only in this way can we avoid the dangers that may occur in time.
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