During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, a family in Nanjing kept a big yellow dog for ten years. The whole family had deep feelings for him, but the big yellow dog was particularly kind to the hostess and always liked to be with her.

As the saying goes, "Chickens are no more than six, dogs are no more than eight," which means that the life span of a dog is at most eight years, and a dog that lives for ten years is equivalent to a centenarian!

The big yellow dog in this family is now very old. When it has nothing to do on weekdays, it will lie under the wall to bask in the sun, eat less, drink less, and live like this, as if there is something unfinished, and it refuses to leave.

Later, when the hostess became pregnant, the big yellow dog showed strange behavior. He no longer lazily basked in the sun and followed the hostess all day long. You could say it never left her.

Moreover, the big yellow dog does not allow others to approach the hostess. If someone approaches her, she will bark and sometimes even chase the male owner.

The family thought that the big yellow dog had mental problems and should not be far from death, so they let it go.

Ten months passed like this, and although the spirit of the big yellow dog was getting worse day by day, he persisted in repeating this matter, following the mistress all day long.

Until noon that day, the hostess suddenly felt something abnormal in her body, as if a child was about to be born. The husband hurriedly invited the midwife to deliver the baby. In order not to affect his wife's delivery, he tied the big yellow dog in the yard with a rope.

As soon as the big yellow dog was tied up, it began to be restless and bark in the delivery room. The male owner had to come out to comfort him and let him not affect the female owner's production.

The midwife had been in the room for more than two hours, but the child refused to be born. The male host stood outside the door and paced back and forth anxiously.

Unknowingly, the big yellow dog bit the open rope with its mouth, and ran directly into the delivery room. When the male master was about to drive him away, the female master said, "Forget it, just let him stay by my side. I've been used to it for so long."

Who knew that after the dog came in, he kept circling around the mistress' bed, occasionally making a dog bark or two, and his expression was even more nervous than before, and the mistress did not know why it was like this.

After a while, the hostess felt a sharp pain in her abdomen, and it seemed that the child was about to arrive.

The midwife hurriedly prepared to deliver the baby. As the hostess shouted, everyone did not hear the baby's cry, but the midwife's scream.

It turned out that at this critical moment, the big yellow dog suddenly pounced on the midwife, and the midwife was thrown to the ground.

The male owner didn't know what was going on inside, but he just heard the midwife calling for help and the fierce barking of the big yellow dog, and rushed in with a dash.

After rushing into the room, the male host was shocked by the scene in front of him. He saw a big snake under the female host. The snake's head had been bitten by the big yellow dog, and the snake was tightly entangled in the big yellow dog's stomach.

The male host was so frightened that he hurriedly helped the midwife on the ground and asked, "Where's the child?"

At that moment, the big snake and the yellow dog were already dead, and the midwife finally recovered from her panic. She pointed to the big snake and said, "Where is the child? It's obviously a snake!"

The male host sat on the ground. Fortunately, the female host woke up soon after and saved her life.

This matter quickly spread to the village. Later, an old Taoist priest passed by here. After hearing about this matter, he analyzed it for everyone.

Fortunately, she had been kind to the yellow dog in her previous life, and the big yellow dog was unwilling to die. She was waiting for this day to repay it!

After the family found out, they were very grateful to the big yellow dog, and finally understood that its strange behavior was to protect his mistress.

The male owner found a good place outside to re-bury the dead big yellow dog, and also set up a tombstone for it, which read: Tomb of the righteous dog.