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Story 4: The Legend of White Snake
The Legend of White Snake
Author: Anonymous
During the Qingming Festival, the banks of the West Lake are filled with red flowers and green willows, and there are many tourists on the broken bridge. It is really a beautiful picture of bright spring. Suddenly, two beautiful girls quietly rose up from the bottom of the West Lake. What happened? How can a person rise from the water? It turns out that they are two snake spirits who have transformed into human forms.
Even so, they have no harmful intentions. Just because they are envious of the colorful life in the world, one of them changed their name to Bai Suzhen and the other to Xiaoqing and came to the West Lake. play.
But God suddenly lost his temper, and it rained heavily in an instant. Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing were soaked and had nowhere to hide. They were worried when they suddenly felt an umbrella above their heads. When they turned around, they saw a gentle, fair-skinned lady. The handsome young scholar held an umbrella to protect them from the rain. Bai Suzhen and the little scholar met each other’s eyes, and both blushed in unison, admiring each other.
Xiaoqing saw this and said hurriedly: “Thank you! May I ask your guest’s name?” The little scholar said: “My name is Xu Xian, and I live by the broken bridge.” Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing also hurriedly introduced themselves. . From then on, the three of them met frequently, and the relationship between Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian became better and better. Soon after, they got married and opened a “Baohetang” drugstore. They lived a wonderful life!
Since “Baohe Tang” has cured many difficult diseases and provided medicines to the poor for free, the business of the pharmacy has become more and more prosperous. More and more people from near and far come to Bai Suzhen for treatment. People regard Bai Suzhen as Affectionately known as White Snake. However, the prosperity of “Baohe Hall” and the happy life of Xu Xian and Bai Niangzi annoyed one person, who? That is Monk Fahai from Jinshan Temple.
Because people’s diseases were cured by White Snake, fewer people came to Jinshan Temple to burn incense and pray to Bodhisattva. As the incense was not strong, Monk Fahai naturally became unhappy. On this day, he came to the “Baohe Hall” again and saw the White Snake treating people. He couldn’t help but feel jealous. When he took a closer look, oh! It turns out that this white lady is not a mortal, but a white snake!
Although Fahai has a little bit of magic, his mind is not right. After seeing the identity of the White Snake, he wanted to break up Xu Xian, the White Snake and his wife, and bring down the “Baohe Hall” all day long. So, he secretly called Xu Xian to the temple and said to him: “Your wife is a snake spirit. Break up with her quickly, otherwise, she will eat you!”
When Xu Xian heard this, he was very angry. : My wife is kind-hearted and her affection for me is deeper than the sea. Even if she is a snake spirit, she will not harm me, not to mention she is pregnant now, how can I abandon her? When Fahai saw that Xu Xian was not fooled by him, he became angry and imprisoned Xu Xian in the temple.
In “Baohe Hall”, White Snake is anxiously waiting for Xu Xian to come back. One day, two days, waiting left and right, the white lady was very anxious. Finally, she found out that Xu Xian was “kept” by monk Fahai of Jinshan Temple. Madame Bai quickly took Xiaoqing to Jinshan Temple and begged Fahai to release Xu Xian. When Fahai saw the White Snake, he sneered and said, “Bold snake, I advise you to leave the world quickly, otherwise don’t blame me for being rude!”
Seeing that Fahai refused to let go, the White Snake had no choice but to pull off her head. The golden hairpin swayed in the wind, setting off a huge wave and heading towards Jinshan Temple. When Fahai saw the water flooding Jinshan Temple, he quickly took off his cassock and turned it into a long embankment, blocking the entrance to the temple.
When the water rises by one foot, the long embankment becomes one foot high. When the water rises by one foot, the long embankment becomes one foot high. No matter how big the waves are, they cannot get over them. In addition, Bai Niangzi was pregnant and could not defeat Fahai.
Later, Fahai used deceptive tactics to put Bai Niangzi into the golden bowl and pressed her under the Leifeng Pagoda, killing the loving couple Xu Xian and Bai Niangzi. Torn apart alive.
After Xiaoqing escaped from Jinshan Temple, she practiced martial arts in the mountains for decades, finally defeated Fahai, forced him into the belly of a crab, and rescued the White Snake. From then on, she lived happily with Xu Xian and their children, never to be seen again. separated.
