Purple Yawu

Guest officers, today we will tell a story about "greed".

In ancient times, there was a doctor, Li Changfeng, who opened twelve pinellia halls, famous in Hongzhou.

Li Changfeng has a daughter who went to worship in a temple one year, and became ill after returning. Although his father knew that she had been poisoned, he didn't know what kind of poison she had and how to cure it. Many doctors came, but none of them could cure my daughter.

Until one day, a rich and handsome son came and easily woke up his daughter and recovered her body.

Li Changfeng was very grateful, so he wanted to reward the young man, but the other party refused to accept it, and only said:

"Doctors save lives and heal the wounded, not for fame and wealth."

Li Changfeng only had such a precious daughter. In order to express his gratitude, he took this young master as his apprentice. The apprentice was named Fang Jue, and he studied with Li Changfeng for many years.

One day, Li Changfeng walked over with two cages holding something that Fang Jue had never seen before.

Fang Jue asked in confusion: "Master, what is this?"

Li Changfeng said that this is a honey badger, which he spent a lot of time getting from Nanyang, and he had to rely on them to pick the snake mushroom.

Fang Jue is overjoyed: I have been lurking for many years, and I finally waited until this moment.

It turns out that the spirit snake mushroom is the root of Banxiatang's reputation. This medicine is priceless, but others can't get it. Fang Jue coveted it for a long time, so he intentionally stunned Li Changfeng's daughter and broke into Banxiatang.

Li Changfeng explained: "When picking snake mushrooms, bring a honey badger to avoid poisonous snakes. Honey badgers are greedy for honey, and you must reward it after the work is done. But remember, don't be greedy, and only bring one at a time. Honey badger, pick a elixir."

Fang Jue nodded in agreement.

Later, when Li Changfeng went to the mountain to pick snake mushrooms, Fang Jue plotted secretly and used honey to attract honey badgers, leaving Li Changfeng with nothing to protect, and was bitten to death by a group of snakes.

After that, Fang Jue took over Banxiatang.

At this time, the palace was paying tribute, and Fang Jue planned to go up the mountain to collect herbs. He wanted to pick two snake mushrooms, one for tribute and one for sale.To be on the safe side, he brought two honey badgers.

After Fang Jue collected the medicine, poisonous snakes gathered everywhere, so he released the honey badger.

But the two honey badgers lingered together and ran to the side.

Fang Jue ended up with the same ending as Li Changfeng.

It turned out that the honey badgers he brought with him at that time happened to be a male and a female, and they were in estrus, so they went to the side to enjoy themselves.

"Insufficient and insufficient, there is nothing to do in life. If you want the world's hearts to be satisfied, unless you are Nanke Yimengxi."

——Sure enough, in this world, honey badgers are not the only ones who cannot escape "greed".

The author has something to say:

The inspiration for this story comes from a folktale. If you are interested, you can search for "Li Changfeng" and "Banxia Tang". The honey badger is also quite cute.