"Snail Girl"
A long time ago, there was an orphan in a village. A kind neighbor adopted him and made him grow up. When the young man reached his twenties, he built two thatched huts near the village and began to live independently. No matter whose family encounters difficulties, he will enthusiastically help them. Everyone praises the young man as a hard-working and kind-hearted child.
He goes out early and comes back late every day to farm hard, but he is too busy working in the fields to take care of the work in the house. He often eats cold rice and leftovers. One day, the young man came home from work and saw a big snail on the roadside. Out of curiosity, he took the snail home and kept it in a water tank.
The next day, the young man went to work in the fields as usual, but when she got home and prepared to cook, she found that the hot meal was already on the table. The young man thought that kind-hearted neighbors did it for him. Unexpectedly, for several days in a row, the young man came home from work and wanted to eat delicious meals. So, the young man thanked the neighbors, but the neighbors said it was not him. The young man was very puzzled and determined to get to the bottom of it.
This morning, the young man picked up his hoe and went to work in the fields again. He did not wait until evening, but came back early and hid outside the fence to watch what was going on in the house. I saw a beautiful girl coming out of the water tank and busy making fire and cooking. After a while, the fragrance of food wafted into the room. The young man quickly opened the door and entered the house, went straight to the water tank, and saw only an empty shell of the big snail lying quietly in the water tank. The young man walked up to the girl who was cooking and asked: "Girl, where are you from? Why do you want to help me?" When the young man suddenly broke in, the girl didn't know what to do. She wanted to go back to the water tank, but then The young man blocked his way, so he had no choice but to tell the truth.
It turns out that the girl is a white-water plain girl in the Milky Way in the sky. Because the Jade Emperor had no parents until the young man was a child, he sympathized with him and because he was willing to help others, he sent her to dress up as a snail to help the young man. The snail girl said: "I originally wanted to help you for a few more years and wait for you to live a prosperous life and marry a wife before leaving. But you suddenly broke in today and found out my identity. I can't stay in the world anymore." The young man regretted it very much, blamed himself for being too reckless, and repeatedly asked the snail girl to stay. The snail girl pointed to the snail shell in the water tank and said: "I leave the snail shell to you. If you use it to hold food, a lot of food will come out. You can use this food to help the villagers." Suddenly, a gust of wind blew in the sky. There was a strong wind, and then it started to rain heavily. After the storm, the snail girl had disappeared. The young man looked at the snail shell blankly for a long time, feeling an indescribable feeling in his heart.
Later, the young man used the snail shell to hold grain. The shell was always full of grain, and the family had more and more grain. But the young man still worked hard and gave a lot of food to the villagers. The villagers who received help were very grateful to the Tianluo girl. They built temples and ancestral halls to commemorate this helpful Tianluo girl.