The story of the snail girl

Farmer picks up snails
Once upon a time, there was a lonely young peasant who made a living by farming for the landlord, ploughing at sunrise and returning home at sunset, and worked hard. One day, he picked up a particularly large snail in the field, and he was very surprised and happy, so 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 fields as usual in the morning, and when he came home, he saw fragrant rice on the stove, delicious fish and vegetables in the kitchen, and boiling hot water in the teapot, and the next day he came back again. Two days, three days...... Every day, the peasant decided to make things clear, and the next day the rooster crowed, and he went down to the field with his hoe on his shoulder, as usual, and as soon as it was dark he hurried home to see which good Samaritan it was. He had seen smoke curling from the chimney on the roof of his house, and he quickened his pace to see for himself who was cooking the fire. But when he tiptoed close to the crack in the door and looked in, there was no movement in the house, and when he walked in the door, he saw that the food on the table was fragrant, the fire in the stove was still burning, and the water was boiling in the pot. Another day passed. The peasant got up early in the morning, and the rooster crowed and went to the field before dawn. Before the smoke of the cooking stove had risen, the young man crept close to the fence wall, hid in the shadows, and watched everything in his house with full attention. After a while, he finally saw a young and beautiful girl slowly coming out of the water tank, and her clothes were not slightly wet from the water. The girl moved to the stove and began to cook on the fire.
The young man saw it very clearly, and hurriedly ran into the door, walked to the water tank, and saw that the snail he had picked up was only an empty shell. He looked at the empty shell in amazement, then walked to the stove and asked the young girl who was cooking on the fire, "May I ask you, girl, where are you from?" Why do you want to help me cook?" The girl did not expect him to appear at this time, and was astonished, and when she heard him interrogate her origins, she did not know what to do. The young girl tried to get back into the tank, but was blocked in her way. The young farmer repeatedly asked, but the young girl had no choice but to tell him the truth, and she was a snail girl. The young man was very fond of the snail girl, and later they got married.
The grasshopper spirit stirs up the situation
The grasshopper spirit liked the snail girl very much, and when she saw that the snail girl was so good with the farmer, she was very jealous and decided to snatch the snail girl. So pretending to be a fortune teller, he deceived the snail shell from her blind mother-in-law, and with the snail shell, the snail girl was received by the locust essence and could not get out of his hole, and the peasants and their partners went to the cave of the locust spirit in order to save the snail girl but were defeated by the locust essence, and then they thought of a way to sprinkle salt on the locust essence, and the locust essence was most afraid of salt, and finally died in pain.
Happy ending
The snail girl and the farmer lived happily ever after, and a year later gave birth to a fat boy, who was 5 or 6 years old in the blink of an eye. One day, he was playing in the water by the river, and was scolded by his companion's children for being a child of snail essence, "Buttress, buttress, buttle, which mother's field snail shell, ding, ding, ding, which mother's field snail essence." His son listened to the words and hid his mother's shell, and the snail girl could never be turned back into a snail.