Chapter 172 Storytelling
Chai Yi smiled and said, "Is that so? Ahh, I seem to have been to Hangzhou, yes! I have been there. But that was many years... uh... before..." Chai Yi refers to the past here, of course, before he has arrived in this world.
"When did it happen before? When did it happen for many years?" Gu Zuya asked curiously.
Chai Yi smiled bitterly and said, "Of course, it was many years ago, and I can't remember when exactly. Hello! Is this question important?"
"It doesn't matter!"
"..." It doesn't matter and it's so high-sounding.
Tang Bohu was gnawing on the crabs. He heard them talking and couldn't help but smile: "When it comes to crabs, I still think the crabs in our place are more delicious! They are spicy and delicious. I will take you to eat when I have time! It seems that there is a story related to crabs in our place. But I forgot what I told you."
Chai Yi felt speechless when he heard this, but Xiao Nie smiled and looked at the crab in his hand and said, "It's better for me to tell you the myths and stories about us! The name of the story is "Legend of Leifeng Pagoda""
Chai Yi naturally knew the story of Leifeng Pagoda. When he was a child, he often told him stories to make him fall asleep, so he naturally told this. However, what Xiao Nie said was different from what he knew!
"Legendly, there was a maid in West Lake who had been practicing for thousands of years. They met a man who opened a pharmacy in the rain, named Xu Xian. The two became husband and wife from this life, but the white snake and green fish are the incarnation of the fairy. They don't know the etiquette in the world, and often lose Xu Xian's face, which makes him feel very embarrassed, but he feels helpless.
Fortunately, there was a Taoist monk named Fahai in Jinshan Temple. The monk saw through the original form of the two fairies and handed over a bowl with magic power to Xu Xian, asking Xu Xian to cover the heads of the two fairies when they were unprepared. The two demons showed their true form and were captured by Fahai. The green fish tried to escape but was defeated by Fahai and returned to the original form. The white snake was trapped by the monk at Leifeng and would never be reborn. Later, the monk Fahai also left a verse: "The water in the West Lake is dry, but the rivers and lakes cannot rise. Leifeng is knocked down, and the white snake is born. How could this water in the West Lake be dried? So the white snake demon could only keep Leifeng forever and suffer all the torture. It was quite pitiful to think about it. Xu Xian was rescued by the monk, and since then he changed his mind and practiced good deeds, and later married and had children, and his son won the top scorer.
It’s also considered a good person.”
Gu Zuya angrily heard this, "That Xu Xian is so unconscienced? Although the White Snake is a fairy, he is in love with him and has never harmed him. He can't stand other people's behavior and should have their husband and wife leave. Why do you help the evil monk to let his wife suffer under the Leifeng Tower? Why do you still marry your wife again? Why are you still having a lot of children and grandchildren, and enjoying all your wealth? Is there any reason for this story? Ya'er doesn't like this story at all! This story is the worst story Ya'er has ever heard."
Xiao Nie didn't expect Gu Zuya to be so moved, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
Chai Yi smiled and said, "Ya'er, this is just a myth! Why are you so cares about it? Why don't you listen to the version I told?"
"If the story is more miserable than this, I won't listen!" Gu Zuya said with a snorkeling.
"It must be better than this!" Chai Yi was stunned for a moment, thinking about how the story was told, and he told his grandmother in her tone. What are the stories of the birth of two snakes, meeting with broken bridges, robbing grass from Emei, flooding the golden mountain, and escaping from the sea of Fahai, and escape from the sea of Fa, which was much more vivid and touching than the one Xiao Nie told. Not only Gu Zuya listened with relish, but Xiao Nie was also immersed in his eyes.
"It seems that what the prince told is the real story!" Xiao Nie couldn't help feeling a little ashamed.
When Gu Zuya heard the couple's ending together and the fairyland, she smiled and said with a smile: "This story is so good! Brother Yi, did you change it randomly after listening to it?"
Chai Yi shook his head and said, "No! This is what my grandmother told me! Maybe it's slightly different from Xiao Nie's story! But it's almost the same!"
Gu Zuya picked up a crab and said proudly: "That Qingqing girl took the Samadhi True Fire to burn Fahai. It's so satisfying! Haha. Fahai was chased to heaven and no way to go, it's so exciting! Who told him to break up the other couples! It's really worth it! It's not easy for the other couples to get together. Even if the human demons cannot be together in different ways, Bai Suzhen did not hurt people? Besides, if they can practice Taoism and become immortals, they will not always be monsters. By the way! Did he hide in this crab shell in the end? Didn't it come out?"
Chai Yi felt strange in his heart: Didn’t they find the pattern in the crab shell that looked like a monk? He hurriedly picked up a crab and peeled off the crab stomach and found a trace that looked like a meditating monk. He had both form and spirit, and was very beautiful.
Chai Yi smiled and handed it to Gu Zuya and said, "Look, the Fahai has been hiding in the crab for a long time, just like Bodhidharma has been facing a wall for nine years, leaving this shadow. Look, is this a monk?"
Gu Zuya took it and looked at it in the light. She couldn't help but scream in surprise and said naively: "Sure enough, there is a monk, there is indeed a monk, Brother Yi. It turns out that this is not a story. There must have been such a thing before! Otherwise, how could there be a monk!"
Tang Bohu felt unbelievable, but after opening the crab to watch it for a while, he couldn't help but be amazed. Gu Zuya said happily: "There is such a strange thing in the world. There is a monk in this crab. Why didn't anyone pay attention to it? Haha, it's really interesting! If you tell this to others, it will definitely be a hit!"
Xiao Nie had never heard of this version of the story, and was also intoxicated by the love story of the White Snake Xu Xian for a while. She sighed and quietly looked at Chai Yi's distinctive face. She just thought in her heart: "This white snake is grateful to the woodcutter's life-saving grace. She dares to turn into a human and marry him as a wife. I... I am a slave, but I am not even as good as a fairy. If I count it, I can only be considered the Green Snake maid. If I do it, I am still a Green Snake maid. I am busy with others, but I am still a Green Snake!"
When Xiao Nie thought of this, he secretly twitched himself: "Oh! Are you thinking about something? The green snake has never thought about her boyfriend!"
Seeing that no one paid attention to her expression, she couldn't help but think in her heart: "The Green Snake did this without regrets, really just out of sisterly love? She...has she liked that young master Xu Xian? If she confessed her love to Xu Xian and Bai Snake was brothers and sisters with her, would Xu Xian...would marry her into the door?"
"Hey! Xiao Nie, what are you thinking?" Chai Yi saw Xiao Nie in a daze, and couldn't help but pat her on the shoulder.
Chapter completed!