The legend of the snail girl

The farmer picks up snails

Once upon a time, there was a lonely young farmer who made a living by farming the land for his landlord. Every day, he went home to work hard at sunrise and sunset. One day, he picked up a particularly large snail in the field. He was very surprised and very happy. He took it home, put it in a water tank, and carefully raised it with water.

The snail girl cooks

One day, the farmer went to work in the field as usual in the morning, but came home to find fragrant rice on the stove, delicious fish and vegetables in the kitchen, and boiling hot water in the teapot. Two days, three days... Every day, the farmer decided to get to the bottom of the matter. The next day, when the chickens were crowing, he went to work as usual, carrying his hoe. As soon as it was dark, he hurried home to see which kind person it was. He could see smoke curling up from the chimney on the roof of his house from a distance, and he quickened his steps to see for himself who was cooking. But when he crept close to the door to look in, there was no movement at home, walked in the door, I saw the food on the table fragrance, the stove fire is still burning, the water is boiling in the pot, has not had time to scoop up, but the enthusiastic cook disappeared. Another day passed. The farmer got up very early again, the chickens crowed, and went home before dawn. The smoke was not yet rising, so the young man crept close to the fence and hid in the dark, watching intently in his house. After a while, he finally saw a beautiful young girl walking slowly out of the water tank, her clothes did not have a little wet because of the water. The girl moved to the stove and began to cook.
The young man really saw, quickly ran into the door, went to the edge of the water tank, a look, he picked up only an empty shell. He looked at the empty shell again and again in surprise, then went to the stove and asked the young girl who was cooking rice: "Excuse me, this girl, where do you come from?" Why are you cooking for me?" The girl did not expect him to appear at this time, was shocked, and listened to his interrogation of her own history, and did not know what to do. The young girl tried to get back into the tank, but was blocked. The young farmer asked again and again, the young girl had no choice but to tell him the truth, she is the field snail girl. The young man liked the girl very much, and later they got married.

Leech essence gets in the way

The leech spirit liked the snail girl very much, and when he saw the snail girl and the farmer were so good, he was jealous and decided to snatch the snail girl away. So he pretended to be a fortune-telling man to deceive her blind mother-in-law from the shell of the snail, with the shell of the snail, the snail girl was unable to get out of his hole, the farmers and their partners went to save the snail girl to the hole of the leech spirit, but they were defeated by the leech spirit, and then they thought of a way to sprinkle salt on the leech spirit, the leech spirit was most afraid of salt, and finally died in pain.

Happy ending

Tian snail girl and farmers lived a happy life, a year later gave birth to a fat boy, blink of an eye 5 or 6 years old. One day, he played water by the river, after being scolded by the companion's children is the child of the snail essence, "Battlements, battlements, battlements, which amu snail shell, ding, ding, which Amu snail essence." His son listened to the words of others and hid his mother's shell, and the girl was never able to return to the snail.