In ancient times, there was Baishan County, where the residents all liked white-skinned girls very much. Whether it was weddings or funerals, white objects were used to decorate them. Everyone saw white as beautiful.
However, among this group of white-skinned people, a couple gave birth to a very dark baby girl. Out of maternal love, his parents did not listen to the midwife's persuasion to abandon the dark baby, and insisted on raising the baby girl, and gave her the name "Nianbai".
But as the baby girl grew up, the longer her facial features became, the better she looked. However, her skin was still dark and not decent. Walking in the crowd was like standing out from the crowd.
Every day outside, the women laughed at her, and the boys looked down on her, saying that they would never marry such a black woman like her in the future. One day, the girl who couldn't bear it cried and ran into an alley she'd never been in before.
A very handsome man stood in the alley, dressed as a scholar. After seeing the girl run over, he said to her kindly, "I can help you turn white, but you have to pay a certain price."
"Really? Can I really turn white? can I no longer tolerate the discrimination and ridicule of these people?"
"Of course, I never lie."
In the man's deep eyes, the girl unknowingly got lost in it and nodded like a ghost. After the man saw the girl nod and agreed, he took out a small bottle from his arms and said to the girl, "This is the ointment that can make you white. You dig out a little ointment every day and apply it to the back of your hand.
After saying that, the man waved his robe and sleeves, and the girl returned to the door of her house in a daze.
Nianbai followed the man's instructions and applied a little of this ointment, which exuded a strong odor, to the back of her hand every day. After two days, she found that her skin looked much whiter, and even her parents said the same. After all, they only cared about whether their daughter could get married in the future.
At the same time, there was a theft of corpses in the county seat, and many newly buried graves outside the city were dug up, and the corpses disappeared without a trace. The county magistrate was very angry because his grandmother was among the stolen corpses, but no matter how the county magistrate checked, there was no clue at all.
Seven days after the girl got the ointment, when she appeared on the street again, everyone found that the girl was much whiter than before, as if she had changed into a different person, and they asked her if she had used any secret whitening recipe, but Nianbai only said that he had only stayed at home for seven days without going out, which surprised everyone.
After avoiding everyone who came to ask about her whitening secret recipe, the girl came to the shabby house outside the village. She saw the man again, but this time he seemed to be cooking something, and there was a person lying in front of him?
The girl used the moonlight to see clearly that the body lying in front of the man was actually a corpse with dirt. There were very obvious traces of burns on his chin. Could it be that the thing she's been smeared with these days turned out to be... corpse oil?
The man felt that the girl had arrived, and a ferocious smile appeared on his face. He took out a short knife from his arms and walked towards the girl, saying as he walked, "You applied my corpse oil and fulfilled your wish. The price you have to pay is to become my sacrifice."
The girl was horrified and turned to leave, but because of excessive fright, her legs seemed out of order, and she couldn't move no matter how much she moved.
The man said, "Stop struggling, you can't run away."
Obviously, the girl was spelled by the man.
The girl was scared and cried. At this time, apart from crying, she could only cry because she couldn't move at all.
Her cry was loud. Was it a cry of fear or a cry of regret?
I think it's a little more regretful. After all, if I didn't want to turn white, I wouldn't have caused such a tragedy.
The man has already walked to the girl's side, the tip of the knife has approached the girl's throat, and the cold air is pressing.
The girl closed her eyes and accepted her fate.
Suddenly, a roar like thunder fell from the sky: "You demon, you do a lot of evil, still don't stop?"
Just when the young girl thought she was certain to die, a middle-aged man fell from the sky.
He was dressed in a Taoist robe and held a huge sword in his hand.
The man shouted, "Why do you want to spoil my good deeds?"
The Taoist priest said with awe, "You have done all the things that hurt the world and the world for your own selfish desires. The poor way will do the right for the sky today and eliminate the harm for the people."
The man sneered: "That depends on how many catties you have."
After saying that, he threw the dagger in his hand at the Taoist priest, and the Taoist flashed his body, and the long sword went straight out. The swordlight was like electricity, and the two fought together.
After about fifty rounds, the man was visibly timid and wanted to escape.
This man has done many evil deeds and harmed so many innocent people." The crime is extremely evil. How could the Taoist priest let him escape easily and speed up the dance of the long sword?
The Taoist priest naturally understood this principle. The Taoist priest gathered the swordlight in one place, and the man began to struggle. His body began to rotate with the Taoist's long sword.
The Taoist priest put away his long sword and said, "Infinite Life Buddha! Evil people must be rewarded, it's not that the time has not come for not reporting. You have done many evil deeds and killed many innocent people. Today's execution is retribution."
At this time, Nianbai, who was standing by the side, was already at a loss for fear. The Taoist priest said to her, "Your body is poisoned by corpses, and your life is at stake. You must follow me back to the mountain to practice, and the Taoist method will resolve it."
Nianbai knew that beauty was important, but life was more important. Harming one's body in order to become beautiful was definitely not worth the loss, so he decided to follow the monks to practice.
The next day, there was a letter on the county magistrate's desk explaining the process of stealing the corpse and the whereabouts of the culprit. The county magistrate immediately sent someone to the dilapidated house outside the village to transport the murderer back to the county yamen, and posted a notice announcing that the murderer had been arrested and the case was solved.
After Nianbai practiced with the Daoists, the corpse poison on his body gradually disappeared under the dissolution of the Daoist method, and Nianbai returned to his previous skin tone. Although black, he was healthy.