The legend of the silkworm god girl

Once upon a time there was a family with only two fathers and daughters. The daughter is not only beautiful, but also very smart.

On this day, the father had something to go to a distant land, leaving behind his daughter and a white horse. The horse was very strong, and he traveled thousands of miles a day as fast as the wind. What's even more peculiar is that this horse is very knowledgeable about human nature, and it understands human words. Everyone said that this is a "magic horse".

When the father went out, he told his daughter that the horse should be carefully fed and cared for, and that he would return soon. After the father left, the family was left with the horse and the daughter as the company.

Whenever she felt lonely, she talked to the horses. Although the horse cannot speak, it will nod its head and flick its tail in a very affectionate manner.

The days passed, but my father never came back. The daughter misses her father very much, and she is even more worried about what will happen to her father outside.

One day, she said to the horse, half-seriously and half-jokingly, "Horse, do you understand what I say? If you can go and get my father back, I'll marry you as a wife. ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as the girl's words fell, the horse broke off the reins and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

It turned out that my father was sick in a distant place, and he was worried about how to go back, but he was suddenly surprised to find that his family's horse was galloping. The father was so anxious that he didn't care about what to think about, so he got on his horse and rode home.

After arriving home, the father and daughter who had been separated for a long time were naturally very happy. My father felt that this horse had made a great contribution, so he added grass and fed it carefully. But what made my father feel strange was that there was a lot of fine grass, but the horses refused to eat a bite.

Whenever he saw his daughter coming in and out, the horse would not only roar for a long time, but also jump and make a sound of joy or anger. The father secretly asked his daughter what was going on. So the daughter told her father what she had said to the horse.

When the father heard this, he was very disturbed, and after pondering for a while, he whispered to his daughter: "Remember, this matter must not be publicized. If it were known that I had married my daughter to a horse, what would that look like? Do not go out of the house for a while, and do not go to the horse. ”

The next day, my father loaded crossbow arrows around the stable, and shot the horse to death while it was unprepared. Then he stripped off the horse's skin and hung it to dry on a large stone in the courtyard.

One day, my daughter was playing in the yard with her neighbor's female companion. She was very disturbed when she saw the horseskins drying on the stones, especially when she remembered the days when her father had been away from home...... I feel very sad in my heart.

Thinking about it, she reached out and stroked the mane on the horse's skin, and then the accident happened. The horse's skin suddenly lifted and swept her away like a gust of wind. The female companions were frightened and hurried to tell her father.

When the father arrived, the daughter and the horseskin that had been dried on the stone were long gone.

It turned out that the god horse skin swept away the lovely girl and flew straight to the southwest. Far to the southwest, there is a place called Big Heel, which is an inaccessible wilderness, and the mountains are full of mulberry trees.

But when she got there, the girl in the horse's skin lost her original form and became a silkworm in the shape of a horse's head that climbed on a tree. She eats nothing else but mulberry leaves. Later, she became the owner of this mulberry forest, and the Emperor of Heaven made her a silkworm god.

In the face of this encounter, the girl has unspeakable suffering, she misses her hometown day and night, and misses her father and female companion. At this time, she would constantly spit filament out of her mouth, carrying her long-lasting thoughts.

In the spring, you can see a beautiful young woman, kneeling on the branches of a mulberry tree, and constantly spitting out white and bright filaments from her mouth. People affectionately call her the silkworm god girl.