Dad is old and sick, so he can't do heavy work or plow the fields. Seeing that other people's homes are planting, their own land has not been cultivated. Dad was so anxious that he shoveled the plow into the ground and shouted, "Snail, snail!" " Hurry up and plow! "
Snail drill ignored at home and didn't come out.
The cow listened to his father's cry and ran to the field and said to his father, "Dad, Dad! I'll help you plow! "
"son! You are too young to plow! "
The cow said, "Dad! You teach me, I can learn! "
Dad sighed and said, "Alas! Tell snails to plow the fields, and the big ones won't come, and the small ones will come! " -Now every time children in southern Shaanxi catch a snail to play, they keep shouting: "Snail, snail, plow the field, the big one won't come, the small one will come!" It was handed down at that time.
Dad had no choice but to put the cow on the plow and teach it to plow. Niu is very attentive, listen and teach. Once they learn, they will become the best animals in the world. Dad taught him how to push and pull the mill.
Later, when his father died, the ox either plowed the fields all day or pushed and pulled the millstones. Snails still sleep at home all day, doing nothing, and need cattle to feed them.
As the saying goes: "Lazy people are lazy in body and mind", which is the truth. Snails are sleepy all day. How can they be sleepy? If they can't sleep, they will think that there will be no sun. It suddenly occurred to me that there was no hook or pillar in the sky. If it collapses, can it survive? More think more afraid, more afraid more think, this is thinking:
Isn't it safe to build a small stone house by the bed and get into it when the sky falls? Strange, the snail's strength is coming! Move stones, transport bricks and build stone houses in darkness and ignorance. People see him in such pain and ask:
"Snail, snail, what are you busy with?"
The snail said, "build a stone house!" " "
"What are you doing in the stone house?"
"The sky is falling, hide!"
People laughed at him and said, "Snails and snails suffer in vain, and the stone house can't stand the sky falling!" " "
But the snail doesn't trust everyone and is still busy repairing the stone house.
After the stone house was built, he still slept with his cot on his back all day, doing nothing, and even eating was brought to him by the ox.
The cow was sad to see her brother so lazy and afraid of death, so she went to persuade the snail to say, "Brother, brother! Let's go to farm together! "
The snail is very angry and weak. He said, "You are not afraid that the sky will fall and kill you. You go, I won't go! " "
The cow was angry and laughed at him and said, "If you don't plow, I won't plow. What can I eat when I am hungry? "
"You love farming, you farm, I'm afraid the sky will fall and I won't go!"
Seeing that the ox couldn't wake up his younger brother, he was a little angry and said, "I don't think the sky will fall and kill you, and you will starve to death in the future!" " "
The snail got angry as soon as he heard that his brother dared to curse him for "death". He grabbed a stone and threw it at the cow, scolding: "You unruly thing, how dare you scold your brother ..."
Scolding is a trivial matter. This stone hit the cow's mouth and knocked out all the teeth in the cow's mouth, so the cow has no teeth yet.
This annoyed the ox, and it didn't want to hit the post when it hit the snail. The house crashed with a clash, and the beams of the brick roof collapsed together. The snail was so scared that he thought the sky had collapsed and plunged into the stone house and never dared to step out of it again.
The cow doesn't want to live with such a brother anymore, so she lives in another place.
Since then, no one has fed snails. Hungry, I had to find some moss and tender grass to eat, but I still dared not go out of the stone house, so I crawled around with my stone house on my back. So back to back, crawling, squeezing his body into the size of a fingernail, but he still didn't wake up.
Now Ankang people have a two-part allegorical saying: "Snails carry houses-suffering for nothing!" This is what I'm talking about.