Folktales, single sticks and white snakes

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In ancient times, there was such an old bachelor in his fifties, which was particularly idle. Ever since he had eaten snake meat once at a wine-and-meat friend, he had often gone up the mountain to catch snakes. Go home and peel the skin and steam it and eat it. Gradually, he was able to distinguish which snakes were poisonous and which were not. Sometimes! The people in the village found a snake in their home but did not dare to move, so he called the old single stick to help, and every time the old single stick went happily. Because I can have a good meal again. Later, there was little trace of a snake in a radius of tens of miles, and people said that they were frightened by the old single stick. One day, the old bachelor ran to the mountain again to look for snakes, and it took a day to find two small snakes, one. It is green patterned, and one is red patterned. Seeing that it was getting dark, he had to finish his work and go home. Just as I was about to walk back, I saw an old man with white clothes and white hair standing on the side of the road. Although it was getting late, it could still be seen that the old man was full of vigor and vigor, and his white beard fluttered with the majestic peaks. The old bachelor thought to himself, where did this come from? This is really a sour rotting literati, so late, still sentimental, not hurrying home to sleep. He was about to ask, but the white-bearded old man opened his mouth first and asked him what he was holding in his hand. The old single stick, replied, were two small ropes. , ready to go home steamed and eaten. Old people, who else is in his family? He said he was a bare stick, his parents had left early, and there was no one else in the family. The old man invited him to his home and said that there was good wine and good food. When this old bachelor heard it, and there was good wine and good food, he first pretended to shirk it, and then promised the old man. The old bachelor followed the old man as he walked and chatted. After a while, I walked to the front of a low cave. He bent down with the old man and went in. Oops, I didn't expect the lights to be on in the cave, and the tables and chairs and benches were all available. And it looks very elaborate. It's like a family with a little money. The old man beckoned the old bachelor to sit down and shouted at a room inside. Green clothes and red mud came to the guests, and took out good wine and good dishes. Only to see two young women coming out of the house. Oops. This is beautiful, about fifteen or sixteen years old, one wearing green clothes, one wearing red clothes are fairy-like looks. They were alone with the dishes. It is wonderful to hold a man with a glass of wine and move around. He looked at this old bachelor, because he had never seen such a beautiful woman in his life. The two women put down their drinks and retreated. The old bachelor's eyes were staring straight at them as they left. That eyeball. It was estimated that a gust of wind would blow his eyeballs to the ground. The old man was not angry when he saw this. Say to the old bachelor, those two are his granddaughters. The old bachelor came back to praise the granddaughter of the old man, who was simply a fairy daughter. The two were drinking wine while chatting in the north and south of the sky, and the half-drunk old man called on his granddaughter to cook two bowls of noodles and bring them up. The old bachelor said that this dish has eaten a lot, well, well, it is very full, well, don't cook it anymore. The old man said, that's not okay. What a noodle. You want to taste it, but it is difficult to be generous, the old single stick is waiting to eat noodles, and by the way, admire the granddaughter of the old man with a few eyes. The noodles came, and the old bare stick ate a few sticks with chopsticks. Click, click, click. It tastes really good. The old man advised him to eat more, but he couldn't eat because he had drunk too much wine. Then the old man persuaded him to have a few more glasses of wine. The old bachelor fell asleep on the table drunk. The next morning, the old bachelor woke up. I opened my eyes and saw myself lying on a big ugly rock. The cave was the first dark, surrounded by dusty cobwebs, and nothing else. Hey, what's going on? The old bachelor's heart was in his heart, and he scratched his head. Last night it was clearly at the home of an old man with white hair. How did you come to such a place? The old man and the fairy daughter were gone. He wondered. But I couldn't figure out what was going on. I had to get up shakily and walk back to the house. Arrived at home. The old single stick just remembered it. Yesterday I caught two small snakes, and they were gone. At this time. His stomach suddenly ached, light at first, and more painful it became the further back he went. Then he couldn't stand the pain. Rolling on the ground, his shouts grew louder and louder, tearing his heart and lungs. The neighbors around them smelled the sound and ran over. Seeing the old single stick is rolling on the ground while shouting stomach pain, it is uncomfortable. A neighbor hurriedly found a Langzhong from the village, and Langzhong came to take a look, hurriedly asked someone to tie him up, and poured him a bowl of medicine to treat his stomachache. Only to see several small white snakes spit out of the old single stick's mouth, oh, that was horrible and disgusting. However, The bare stick immediately stopped hurting. Those little white snakes. Like wings, it quickly flew up to the wall and disappeared in the blink of an eye. The old bachelor, remembering the old man last night, vigorously advised him to eat noodles. Could those noodles be small snakes? Remembering that the clothes worn by the two women yesterday were the same as the two little red and green snakes and snakes they had caught, it was not only creepy. Since then, this old single stick has never dared to catch a snake again. After the villagers in the surrounding tens of miles heard about this incident, they did not dare to catch snakes anymore. They all respected the snakes.