Chapter 4 3. The story of the pig turtle coming ashore

I don't know when, Oshima was forgotten by the emperor.The merchant ships of the Han people gradually decreased, and only sporadic fishing boats came and anchored from the surrounding small islands.The people of Oshima gradually forgot about the emperor. On the land, there have been thousands of battles with the wheel and the change of dynasties, but Oshima is still walking around the earth slowly.According to the saying "one day in the sky, one year on earth", the Big Island is not much different from heaven.Every year, some peasants who lost their land on the mainland flee to the Big Island to plant the land of the Dashima people and have children with the Dashima.by boat

The wandering Taoist priests came to the big island and turned into immortals. They ate the leafless flowers and corpse weeds that bloomed on the blue mountain. Everyone danced with the Taoist priests, with purple lights on their heads.The people of Dadao are generous and hospitable, and even the oldest "Ji" family on the island does not know who gave birth to the first ancestor with Han blood, so no one mentions the history of "Ji Dehu". This year, a step-family member got a son in old age. This old gentleman is full of grief and joy at the moment: the son was finally born, but his wife died.The family members were busy delivering the baby first and then burying the corpse. Mr. Ji sat there in a daze, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.People ran from house to house, discussing how to organize weddings and weddings together.

At this moment, a pig tortoise opened the small back door of the successor's house and entered the courtyard; through the backyard, opened the small side door at the back of the house, and entered the house again; passed through a room, Another door was opened, and another room was entered.There is a cradle on the floor of this room, and there is a baby in the cradle. The baby closed its eyes and was wrapped in a small soft quilt. The pig tortoise walked over gently, nuzzled the cradle with its nose, and sniffed the baby's face. , the baby woke up, and laughed out loud when he saw the pig turtle!

The laughter startled the witch who had to wash the corpse after delivering the baby.She said to the female corpse: "It's terrible, how come you can laugh when you are born?" After she finished speaking, she hurried to the baby's room, and saw the pig turtle as soon as she entered the door, she turned her head and ran back in fright, and then she took A group of people came, and they all crowded at the door, but no one dared to enter the house, and everyone knelt down. The pig tortoise immediately left without looking up, humming as he walked.People forgot about the baby and followed the pig turtle, trying to see if it had a pig's head or feet.It really trotted all the way into the mountain like a pig, and when it reached the edge of the deep pool, it jumped in with a "plop", splashing huge waves.Only then did people think of the baby again, and ran back to see that the baby was still sleeping and couldn't smile at all.

The witch said: "I can really see that the tortoise is a female." Immediately, the story about the sow tortoise coming ashore to meet the baby boy was made up by the quick talker. The witch said again: "Let's think about it better. Although the child's own mother died when he was born, he has summoned a goddess to be his mother. In the future, he will be the master of great fortune and wealth. But think again, It's also scary: why did this baby boy laugh out loud because of a female pig tortoise?! Or how can the sow tortoise be hereditary to hook up with men? The boy grew up to be lustful."

But someone made fun of her: "Auntie, if you say this child is lustful, why didn't he laugh out loud when he saw you? After all, you are a white woman, and you are much better than that pig turtle." The witch didn't change her face: "Why do you see that the turtle is a turtle in the child's eyes?" The quick talker made up a new story: the laugh came from the turtle, not the child. Whether the pig turtle came ashore to be a mother, to be a wife, or to carry a child into the water, or whether life in the water is boring, has become a topic of discussion on the dinner table of the people of Dadao.One day, during dinner, a family had an argument over the relationship between the pig turtle and the baby. Suddenly, the little grandson said, "Didn't the pig turtle go ashore and cause chaos in the world? Where is the chaos?"

In a word, the adults were all stunned.