Chapter 41 after ha mandin came home

After listening to the story told by the Snake Queen, Ha Mandin was amazed and unbelievable. He was very envious of the ending of Prince Zhan's reunion with his relatives.He resolutely begged the Snake Queen and said: "Please be merciful, send an assistant to help me, let me go back to my hometown and reunite with my family." "Oh, dear Har Mandin! Don't you understand? Once you get home, just go into the bathhouse and take a bath, and it will kill me. It's a matter of my life." "I swear to you, when I get home, I will never go to the bathhouse. If I have to take a bath, I will only do it at home."

"Even if you swear eleven million oaths to me, I will not believe you. Because you are a human being, and human beings are the most broken promises. Your ancestor Adam once swore an oath to God, how much God trusts him , not only created himself, but also commanded the gods to respect and worship him, what happened? He still broke his oath and became a dishonest person.” Ha Mandin was very disappointed after hearing the snake queen's answer, and couldn't help crying.The snakes on the side felt that he was very pitiful, and they all sympathized with him and wept with him. They all pleaded with the snake queen on his behalf, saying: "Please be merciful to the Lord, and send any of us to send him home. He swears a poisonous oath that he will not go into the bathhouse for the rest of his life."

In front of all the snakes, Ha Manding swore a poisonous oath, promising not to bathe in the bathhouse after returning home.Sure enough, the Snake Queen changed her mind, appointed a snake, and ordered: "You take Ha Mandin home." "Of order." The assigned snake happily agreed, and immediately led Ha Manding away from the snake queen, walking and walking, after a long journey, finally drilled out from a dry well and sent him back to the ground. Ha Mandin returned to the ground and was ecstatic to see the sun again. He hurried back to the city before dark, came to his house, and knocked on the door.

His mother opened the door in response, and when she saw her son coming back, she couldn't help yelling, threw herself on him, and cried bitterly.When his wife heard her mother-in-law crying, she ran out quickly to see that her husband had come home. She was very excited, greeted him, blessed him, and kissed his hand. The mother, son, and husband and wife reunited after a long absence, and walked into the house happily. As soon as they sat down, Ha Mandin hurriedly asked his mother about those partners who had gone up the mountain with him to collect firewood and trapped him in the warehouse.

His mother told him: "That day they all came to see me and told me that you were eaten by wolves in the mountains. Now they are all in business and become bosses, and their lives are quite good. The life of our mother-in-law and daughter-in-law , all rely on their support, and it has never stopped for so many years." "Mom, you go to them tomorrow and just say that I'm back and invite them to have a gathering." The next day, Ha Mandin's mother went from house to house to invite his former companions according to her son's instructions, and said to them, "My son is back. Come to my house to meet him and have a talk."

"Okay." They agreed, but they looked at each other in dismay, all pale with fright.Later, each of them gave Ha Mandin's mother a set of embroidered silk clothes, saying: "Please bring these sets of clothes to your son! Please tell him that we will definitely visit him at his house tomorrow." "Okay, let's do this." Ha Manding's mother bid farewell to them, returned home, gave the clothes they presented to her son, and explained the reason. The former woodcutters, hearing the news of Ha Mandin's safe return, felt restless and in a dilemma. In desperation, they had no choice but to invite a few highly respected colleagues in the business field to ask them for advice and discuss how to solve the difficulties. method, explained their past dealings with Ha Mandin and the reasons for their infringement of his rights, and finally said: "What shall we do with Ha Mandin now?"

"Each of you should give him half of the property." The colleagues frankly advised them and tried to find a way. They all agreed with the suggestions of their peers, so each of them took half of their money and invited them to Ha Mandin's house, greeted him affectionately, kissed his hand, handed him the money and said: "Take it ! This is your share of the windfall we made. Now we all come to apologize to you." Ha Manding took the money and said happily: "Let the past be the past, it doesn't matter. Everything is predestined and we cannot escape." "Please! We will walk with you, chat, and then go to the bathhouse to take a bath."

"No need. I swore that I would never go to the bathhouse to take a bath in my life." "Since that's the case, then come to our house to play and be our guest." "Okay." Ha Manding happily accepted the invitation of his partners and went to their homes as a guest. The companions regarded Ha Manding as a guest of honor, each took turns entertaining him, and everyone had fun together.They were very close, and it took seven days of merriment before they finished one round.Later, with the money in hand, he suddenly became a rich businessman with both property and shop, and all the businessmen in the city came to fawn on him.He told them about his experiences and encounters, and everyone was so envious that he was promoted as the leader of the business world.From then on, he lived a happy life without worrying about food and clothing.

One day, Ha Mandin went out on business and passed by the bathhouse. The owner of the bathhouse saw him and was very affectionate. He rushed up to greet him, hugged him, and said, "Please, please! Come into the bathhouse and take a bath! Let I will serve you well and wipe your back for you." "I'm really sorry. I made an oath that I would never bathe in a bathhouse." He resolutely rejected the boss's invitation. The boss was not happy, so he made a big vow, saying: "If you don't come into my bathhouse to take a bath, I will divorce my three wives."

Hearing the boss' vow, Ha Mandin felt embarrassed and was in a dilemma. He said, "Brother, are you going to make my son an orphan? Are you going to let my family be ruined?" The owner of the bathhouse didn't care about these things, he just leaned over and kissed Ha Manding's feet, and said, "Please take a bath in the bathhouse, it's really out of respect for you in my heart, if anything happens, I will take care of it alone .” So, several servants in the bathhouse and the boss worked together, pushed and shoved Ha Mandin into the bathhouse, stripped him naked, and sent him into the bathroom.

Ha Mandin was sitting against the wall, and just as he was washing his hair, twenty rough men rushed up to him and shouted at him viciously: "You daring villain! You dare to oppose the king, get up! Come with us to the king." They yelled and put Ha Mandin under guard, and at the same time sent someone into the palace to report. Soon, one of the king's ministers, with sixty attendants, rode to the bathhouse to meet Ha Mandin.The minister greeted and blessed him, saying: "You are very welcome to enter the palace for a stroll." So the king's ministers entertained Ha Mandin with a feast.After the meal, the minister ordered to reward him with two sets of gorgeous clothes, each worth five thousand gold coins.Then talk to Ha Mandin, the minister said: "Young man, tell you, our king is the king of Persia, who rules the vast area of ​​the seven continents, but unfortunately he is terminally ill, there is no cure, and he is dying. According to ancient books , the king's life is in your hands, only you can cure his illness. It is really a destiny that you came today, this is the grace of God." After the minister finished speaking, he and his confidants took Ha Mandin into the king's bedroom. After listening to the minister's words, Ha Manding was a little puzzled, and followed them with curiosity.After walking through the seven palace gates, he entered the bedroom.The king was seen lying on the bed, with the veil covering his face, moaning.Accompanying him are hundreds of county kings and thousands of chiefs. They all sit on golden chairs, with heavily armed guards standing behind them. Ha Mandin had never seen such a majestic occasion, and he was shocked by the king's imposing manner.Uneasy, he walked to the dragon bed, knelt down and kissed the ground, and prayed for the king respectfully.Afterwards, the prime minister came to receive him, seated him on the golden chair at the right hand of the king, and made a banquet.The princes, ministers, civil and military officials who were sitting had meals with him.After the banquet, everyone washed their hands and took their places again. At this time, the prime minister stood up slowly, and the others followed him solemnly.He approached Har Mandin and said to him: "Only you can heal the king, so we are all willing to serve you. We will give you whatever you want, even if you want to share half of the land, we will agree." After he finished speaking, he took Ha Manding's hand and came to the bed. Ha Mandin lifted the king's veil and saw that he was dying, with only a gossamer-like breath left. He couldn't help feeling deeply desperate, thinking that the hope of saving the king was very slim.The prime minister kissed Ha Mandin's hand again, and said: "We let you treat the king's illness, and we can satisfy all your demands immediately. Healing the king's illness is the ultimate goal of our coming to you." "Although I am the heir of the sage Dornier, I am very ashamed. I have not inherited any of my father's career, because I have only studied for thirty days and have no knowledge of medicine. If I really have a skill, Naturally, he is willing to obey and heal the king's illness." "Don't be too self-effacing! We know that your medical skills are superb, and doctors from all over the world can't match them. Therefore, it is you who can cure the king's disease." "I don't know what disease the king has, and I don't know how to prescribe it. How can I treat it?" "The medicine the king needs is all in your hands." "If I really have such a medicine, I will dedicate it to the king." "You know best what medicine the king needs. To tell you the truth, the medicine he needs is the Queen of Snakes. You know where she lives, and you have seen her and been with her." After listening to the prime minister's words, Ha Mandin finally understood the reason. It was all because of the catastrophe he caused by trespassing in the bathhouse.He was so remorseful that he hated himself for not keeping his oath. In desperation, he had no choice but to reluctantly deny it, saying: "How could the medicine that the king needs to take be the Snake Queen? I have never known her, and I have never heard of this name." "Don't deny it! We have evidence to prove that you know her. You have lived with her for two years." "I really don't know her, and I've never seen her. It's the first time I've heard of this miracle from you." The prime minister brought an ancient book, opened it and looked at it carefully, and then read: "The snake queen will meet the same man. This man stays in the palace for two years and returns to the ground. After that, if this person enters the bathhouse to take a bath, his The color of your belly will definitely turn black." After the prime minister finished reading, he said to Ha Mandin: "Look at the color of your belly yourself!" Ha Mandin opened his clothes and saw that his belly was black, but he argued, "My belly was born black." "I have already sent people to spy on people taking a bath in every bathhouse. If they find that their belly has turned black, they will report to me immediately. When you were taking a bath, they found that your belly had turned black, so they came to report to me. Today can be Let me meet you, it was really easy. Now the only thing you have to do is: tell us where you came back to the surface from? You only need to point out the place and let you go home, we The Snake Queen can be caught. We've got plenty of men here to catch her." After hearing the prime minister's words, the princes and generals present rushed up, threatened Ha Manding, and forced him to point out the residence of the Snake Queen.Ha Mandin repented in every possible way that he shouldn't have entered the bathhouse, and felt sorry for himself.He still defended: "I've never seen anything like that, I've never heard of anything like that." The prime minister saw that he was too soft, so he decided to be tough and tortured him.They undressed Ha Mandin, and flogged him so hard that he was beaten so badly that he was nearly suffocated.After the torture was almost over, the Prime Minister said to him again: "We have the evidence in hand, proving that you know where the Snake Queen lives. Why do you deny it? Quickly tell us where you returned to the ground, and I will send someone to catch her." , will never implicate you." Then, the prime minister pretended to be kind, helped him up, and rewarded him with a set of expensive clothes. Ha Manding couldn't help the prime minister's hard and soft tactics, had to surrender, and said helplessly: "Okay, I will show you that place." The prime minister was very excited, and immediately ordered the horses to be prepared, and led his officials to set off with Ha Manding.Ha Mandin led the way on horseback, ran all the way, and when he came to the foot of the mountain, he jumped off his horse.Ha Mandin sighed and sobbed and led them into the cave to the treasury. "That's where I got back to the surface," he said. The prime minister sat down on the ground, lit incense and lit a fire, and then muttered incantations.He is not only a virtuous Mr. Yin and Yang, but also a wily and calculating magician.Every time he recited a mantra, he added some incense.After he finished reciting the three mantras, he shouted triumphantly: "Snake Queen! Come out now." Following the prime minister's roar, a door on the side of the treasury opened automatically, and then there was a sound like a thunderbolt. The sound of landslides and ground cracks stunned a large group of people, and some died of fright on the spot.Soon, a giant snake as big as an elephant came out from the gate, with many fireballs spewing out from its eyes and mouth. On its back was a red gold plate inlaid with jewels and jade, and sitting on the plate was a snake with a human face. , Golden Snake Queen. She shook her head and looked left and right, her sharp eyes fixed on Ha Mandin, and she sighed sadly with tears streaming down her cheeks: "Ha Mandin! You broken oath, you have made me miserable! Didn't you swear to never go to the bathhouse? Where is your conscience? Oh, forget it, forget it, it's your fault It's useless, anyway, this is a preordained thing in the previous life. It seems that God arranged for me to die in your hands, obviously to trade my life for the king's health." Hearing the snake queen's accusation, Ha Manding was speechless, and cried bitterly with his face covered in shame. The cunning prime minister listened to what the snake queen said, and wanted to reach out to catch her.The Snake Queen sternly yelled: "Stop, you disgusting fellow! If you dare to strike, I will turn you into ashes with one breath." Then she turned her head and called Ha Manding, saying: "Come on, put me on the plate you brought, and go against me. Anyway, I'm destined to die in your hands, and I can't escape." According to the Snake Queen's instructions, Ha Manding lifted her up, put her on a plate, put it on her head, and then went down the mountain. On the way back to the city, the Snake Queen spoke quietly to Hal Mandin, and she said: "Ha Mandin, although you have violated your oath and done such immoral and bad things, because this is the arrangement of fate, I can't blame you entirely. I want to advise you a few words. Listen to me!" "Snake Queen! If you have anything to say, please tell me. I'm sorry, no matter what you tell me, I will do it." "If you take me back to the prime minister's mansion, the prime minister will tell you to kill me and chop me into three pieces. Don't do it. You can't kill snakes by reasoning. Let him kill me himself. Wait until he kills me. After chopping it into three pieces, you will hear the king's order to call him into the palace. Before leaving, he will put me in a copper pot, put the pot on the stove, and then he will say to you: 'Ha. Manding, come and cook the snake! Remember: after the water boils, you use a spoon to scoop out the foam on the soup and put it in the bottle I gave you. After it cools down, you can drink it. I won’t lie to you. After drinking it, it can cure you of all diseases .Then, you boil it again, and after the second froth in the soup, you scoop them into another bottle, don't move, wait for me to come back to drink, and I will heal all my wounds after drinking it. disease. ' He will definitely give you two bottles before he starts, and you do as he says.When the water boils for the first time, you scoop up the froth in the soup and put it in the first bottle, but you must not listen to the prime minister and drink it; what you have to do is to continue cooking and wait for the second When the first soup foams up, you scoop it into a second bottle, and when it cools, you drink the second soup's foam.Do you understand? After you drink the foam from the second bottle, your soul will be enlightened, and you will suddenly become a master of academics without a teacher! When the prime minister comes back and asks you for a second bottle of foam to drink, just give him the contents of the first bottle, and you will see clearly that he will never end well. Finally, you put the boiled snake meat into a copper plate and send it to the king's palace.You give the king a piece of meat first, and then cover his face with a veil, and when he sleeps until noon, you give him a glass of wine.Ha Mandin, please do as I tell you, and be careful not to be careless, so that you will heal the king and be rewarded. " Ha Manding listened to the Snake Queen's instructions while walking, and went all the way to the city, and came to the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion. The prime minister told Ha Mandin: "Follow me!" The two of them entered the mansion, and the rest of the people dispersed separately. Ha Manding carefully put down the Snake Queen on his head, let out a long breath, and the prime minister immediately ordered him: "Kill the Snake Queen for me!" "I've never killed a snake. I won't. If you must kill her, do it yourself." The prime minister took the Snake Queen out of the plate without hesitation, and killed her with one blow.Ha Mandin couldn't bear to see the prime minister's atrocities, and couldn't help crying.The prime minister laughed as if nothing had happened, and scolded: "You coward! Why cry when you kill a snake?" He laughed loudly and chopped the snake queen into three pieces, and put them in a copper pot. When it was placed on the stove and was about to be lit, the king's imperial envoy rushed to him and said to him: "The king summons you to enter the palace immediately to obey orders." "Obey!" The prime minister hurriedly stood up, took out two glass bottles and handed them to Ha Manding, and ordered: "Come and cook the snake meat! After the water boils, when foam floats in the soup, scoop it out. It's in one of these two glass jars, and when it cools, you drink it and you're cured of everything. Then, you go on cooking it again, and scoop it out again when the soup starts to froth a second time , put it in the second glass bottle, don’t move! Drink it when I come back. Because I have a backache, drink it, maybe it will cure.” After the prime minister finished speaking, he went into the palace with the imperial envoy. Ha Manding lit the fire and boiled the snake meat according to his instructions, waited carefully until the water boiled and the foam floated in the soup, then scooped it out and divided them into two bottles.Later, when the snake meat was cooked, he put it on a plate, blew out the fire, and waited for the prime minister to come back. Soon, the prime minister hurried home and asked, "How did you do it?" "As you ordered." "What about the froth in the first glass bottle? What did you do with it?" "I drank it all." "I don't see any changes in your body?" "Hey! Master Xiang, my whole body is on fire. It's so hot." "Give me the second bottle of froth. Maybe it can cure my back pain!" The cunning prime minister concealed his malice.He poured the first bottle of crema into his mouth without hesitation as the second bottle of crema, and swallowed it in one gulp.However, as soon as he finished drinking, the bottle fell to the ground, his body gradually swelled up, he couldn't stand upright, staggered and fell to the ground dead.His end is exactly the end of the villain.A prime minister who harms others will end up harming himself, and his fate is just like the ancients said: he lifts a stone and smashes himself in the foot. Ha Mandin was stunned by the scene in front of him, and dared not drink the second bottle of foam for fear of being poisoned.Later, he remembered the Snake Queen's instructions, and thought to himself: "If the second bottle of froth is poisonous, the prime minister will not let me keep it for him to drink." So he murmured to himself: "God bless! I resolved to drink it." Ha Mandin decisively and bravely drank the froth in the second bottle, and a miracle happened: God made his heart overflow with infinite wisdom, and opened his eyes to increase knowledge for him. Very happy. He put the snake meat in a copper plate and walked out of the prime minister's mansion with it. On the way, he looked up at the sky, and he could see through the seven heavens at a glance, and everything in the sky was unobstructed; the complex celestial phenomena of the Milky Way universe system, such as the movement of celestial bodies, planets and stars, and other intricate phenomena were listed in front of his eyes.He was inspired by this, and immediately became a university student proficient in geometry, astrology, astronomy, and mathematics, so he knew all kinds of principles of eclipses, lunar eclipses, and changes in the universe; The mineral deposits buried in the ground came into his eyes, and he was inspired by this, and became a master of medicine, alchemy, gold touch and other spells, and thus possessed the magical power of turning iron into gold and stone into silver.He came to the palace full of ambition, knelt down before the king, kissed the ground, and reported to him unhurriedly, saying: "The prime minister lost his life unfortunately, may His Majesty not be sad, and wish His Majesty long live long live!" The king was very sad when he heard the news of the prime minister's death, and couldn't help crying.The princes and generals who accompanied him on the left and right also wept mournfully because of the death of the prime minister.The king asked the prime minister the reason for his sudden death, and said: "The prime minister was by my side just now. He went back to the prime minister's mansion to see if the snake meat was cooked so that I could fetch it for me to eat. Why did he die suddenly? Why? What has happened to him?" Ha Manding narrated the situation where the prime minister died after drinking the froth when he went home, his body was swollen, his stomach was swollen and he died.After hearing this, the king was very worried and sighed: "The prime minister is dead, what should I do?" "Your Majesty, don't worry," Ha Mandin said, "I can treat your illness and guarantee that you will recover in three days." The king's mood improved, and he said happily: "As long as it can cure my disease, I don't care even if it takes a few years." Hal Mandin acted at once, put the plate of snake meat in front of the king, fed him with a piece of snake meat, and then let him lie down to sleep, covered his face with a veil, and then sat on the bed Before, concentrate on waiting.The king slept from morning to noon, and the snake meat had been digested in his stomach. Ha Mandin woke him up, gave him a glass of wine, and then let him sleep again. In the early morning of the next day, after the king woke up, Ha Mandin ate him another piece of snake meat, let him sleep again, and then gave him wine to drink. In this way, within three consecutive days, the king ate three pieces of snake meat, and the medicine showed a miraculous effect. His skin gradually shriveled, all the scabs all over his body fell off, and he was sweating profusely.At this time, his disease has been cured, and his health has recovered.Hal Mandin rejoiced secretly, and said: "Your Majesty must go to the bathhouse to take a bath." So he went with the king to the bathhouse, and had a good bath. When the king returned to the palace, he was full of energy and spirit, and his body was as strong as an iron tower. Not only did he recover from his illness, but his vitality was also fully recovered.He gladly put on his rich and beautiful clothes, and sat on the throne, with Har Mandine beside him, and they ate together. In order to celebrate the complete elimination of the king's illness, the whole country rejoiced.Hundreds of civil and military officials from the court gathered together, worshiping and wishing, and it was very lively.After the ceremony, the king announced to his ministers: "Dear ministers, this is Ha Mandin who has rejuvenated me and cured my disease! I appointed him as prime minister. From now on, you must obey him and support him, which is equivalent to Embrace me, and do not disobey his commands." "Obey." The ministers stood up and agreed to the king's words at the same time. They rushed to Ha Mandin, kissed his hand affectionately, greeted him, and congratulated him on being promoted to prime minister. The king gave Ha Mandin a suit of fine jewels, each of which was worth at least five thousand ducats.He also rewarded him with 300 menservants, 300 beautiful maidservants, 300 Ethiopian girls, 500 mules laden with wealth, and countless livestock and livestock, the list goes on and on.In addition, the king asked civil servants, generals, gentlemen and common people to pay him tribute. Surrounded by his ministers, Ha Mandin rode to the mansion given to him by the king.He was sitting in the nave, receiving congratulations from his colleagues one by one.All officials, civil and military, came to meet and present gifts one after another. They all humbly complimented him, kissed his hand, and said some good words. When Ha Mandin's mother and friends heard the news that he was promoted and made a fortune, they rushed to bless him and envied his good luck. Congratulations to him one after another.Soon, he led his subordinates to raid the former prime minister's house and took his property into his own. Ha Manding suffered a lot in the first half of his life, but God has eyes and finally let him get rid of ignorance, and became a master who is proficient in medical science, astronomy, geometry, astrology, alchemy, gold, and spiritualism. , so it is famous all over the world. One day, he chatted with his mother and asked, "Oh my god, when my father was alive, he was a great master. Please tell me, after his death, did he leave behind any classics or objects?" Hearing his son's inquiry, his mother got up and took out a box, handed it to him, and said, "Your father's classics, there are only five fragments left in this box. Take it and read it carefully!" Ha Manding opened the box, took out the broken book inside, read it over and over again, feeling that he was still getting enough, and asked again: "Mom, these five pages are just part of a book, where is the rest?" "When your father was alive, he took all his books on a trip to give lectures. Unexpectedly, the ship was in distress during the voyage, the ship sank, and his books fell into the bottom of the sea. God bless, your father survived, and there are only five people around him. The pages of the book have not been lost. When he returned home with these five pages, I was pregnant. He said to me: "Honey, these five pages of books, you should treasure them carefully. If you give birth to a son in the future, When he grows up and asks about my inheritance, you will take out these five pages and give him these five pages, and tell him that all his father's inheritance is these few remaining pages, and nothing else.'” Ha Mandin learned about his father's life experience from his mother.He was full of emotions, and took over the five-page broken book from his mother as if he had found a treasure, as a family heirloom.He often feels sad about his father's life, and always reads the residual books left by his father, from which he understands the true meaning of scholarship and knowledge.Ha Mandin devoted himself to studying hard and finally became a contemporary academic master.He was a noble official, decent, and lived a leisurely and happy life until his death in his later years.