The deaf mother-in-law answered while clearing the dishes:
"That's a long story."
"Things passed down from our ancestors should have happened at the end of the Han Dynasty."
"If the snow corpse hadn't appeared, I would have almost forgotten it."
Xuezhi should be named Xu, but everyone has forgotten his name and just calls him Hanhu.
During his lifetime, he was the son of an Orion in the mountains:
He is three meters tall and extremely powerful.
It's easy to tear apart tigers and bears with bare hands.
Xue Zhi's parents died young and he was a bit stupid. He couldn't even make a fire and cook the most basic things.
After his parents passed away, whenever he caught a wild animal, he would eat its hair and drink its blood.
I didn't know how to build a house in the winter, so I spent the night huddled in a cave.
Sometimes I really can't find a cave, so I just lie down in the wind and snow holding the captured beast.
The old woodcutter Bodhisattva in the mountains was kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see him suffer, so he adopted him by his side.
Although Snow Corpse Hanhu is confused, he can still tell who is good to him.
Be respectful in front of the two old men and never dare to disobey them in the slightest.
The old couple had no children, except for one daughter named Cuilan, who had been born in pink and jade since childhood.
Although I dare not say that she is unparalleled in elegance, Xiaojiabiyu definitely deserves it.
With the care of his family, Xue Zhi no longer has to sleep in the open without clothes.
In order to repay his kindness, Xue Zhi wears the animal skin cotton-padded jacket that Cuilan sewed for him every morning and goes into the deep mountains and old forests.
Hunt the largest beasts.
With his inhuman brute strength, he can hunt more prey every day than others can in a month.
When he carried the prey back and looked at the smiles of the woodcutter and his wife, this was the happiest moment for Xue Zhi.
Of course, his sister Cuilan helped him treat his wounds distressedly, which also made him feel warmer.
Thanks to Xue Shihanhu's efforts, the family is not worried about food and clothing, but there is always no problem with food and clothing.
However, this happy life did not last for several years.
When Cuilan reached the age of marriage, matchmakers from eight villages from ten miles away came to her doorstep.
The old woodcutter and his wife loved their daughter and just let her choose her husband's family.
But after many years, Cuilan didn't like any of them and still lived with the old man.
The old couple were anxious, and Cuilan finally revealed her thoughts after questioning her several times:
"I want to marry my brother so that I can always be with my parents and serve them throughout my life."
The brother he refers to naturally refers to the ignorant Xue Zhi Han Hu.
It turns out that the girl has long been secretly attracted to this brother who, although stupid, takes good care of her and her parents.
When the two old men heard this, not only were they not angry, but they were very happy:
Being kind-hearted, they are also worried that their daughters will get married and they will be left with no one to take care of them after they die.
Now my daughter has taken the initiative to propose it, which just meets her wish.
"Huzi, let me ask you, are you willing to marry Cuilan as your wife?"
Hanhu scratched his head and asked naively: "Isn't Cuilan my sister? Why do you want to be my wife again?"
The old couple looked at the stupid Han Hu with some helplessness:
"Cuilan will only be your sister, but she will eventually marry someone far away and you will never see her again."
"If I become your wife, I can stay by your side and wash and cook for you all my life."
Hanhu understood something this time and shouted loudly:
"If I can't see Cuilan, I will be so worried that I can't eat or sleep!"
"I don't want her to be my sister anymore, I want her to be my wife!"
The news that beautiful Cuilan is going to marry her silly brother spreads like wildfire.
The young people nearby who had been thinking about her all sighed sadly:
A flower was stuck on the cow dung.
After the news spread completely, it angered the local bully Hu Ermao.
Hu Ermao was born into a landlord's family and had been a troublemaker in his hometown since he was a child.
Coupled with the fact that he has an elder brother who works as a police officer in the county government, it becomes even more lawless.
He had long coveted Cuilan's beauty, but he was afraid of the bravery of Snow Corpse, so he didn't dare to use force.
Now that the beauty is about to marry someone else, Hu Ermaogou jumps over the wall and brings people to snatch Cuilan overnight.
But they really overestimated themselves and underestimated the power of Snow Corpse Silly Tiger:
The dozen or so people brought by Hu Ermao were torn into pieces by Hanhu before they could get through the door.
There was only one boy who was smart enough to run back early to report the situation.
Such a tragic incident occurred in front of their house, and the old woodcutter and his wife were completely panicked.
A neighbor kindly reminded me:
"You guys should run away quickly. If the Hu family gets the news, I won't be able to spare you."
As a result, the family fled overnight, planning to cross the mountains to seek refuge with relatives in other places.
Unfortunately, she is old and Cuilan is frail.
At dawn the next day, the boss of the Hu family and his men caught up with him after getting the news.
A fight.
Seeing the bravery of the snow corpse, the boss of the Hu family asked people to lure him away, and he left with a few people to capture the woodcutter and his family.
When Xue Zhi returned from killing the person who led him away, the old couple had already been hacked to death by the boss of the Hu family.
Cuilan couldn't bear the humiliation and jumped off a cliff to commit suicide.
That night, everyone in the mountain heard the sad and angry roar of the snow corpse.
On the second day, all sixteen members of the Hu family who lived in the county town were massacred by snow corpses, and none of them were dead.
After taking revenge, Snow Corpse Hanhu buried the old woodcutter and his family in the valley with the help of the villagers.
He knelt in front of the grave and remained motionless despite the roar of the wind and snow. No matter how much the villagers tried to persuade him, it had no effect.
This kneeling lasted for nine days. After nine days, the snow corpse turned into an ice sculpture.
The kind-hearted villagers were afraid that someone from the Yamen would destroy his body, so they simply buried it with snow.
Later, a general named Xu Chu led his troops to attack here.
He said that Xue Zhi was his uncle's brother and had saved his life.
So he went to the emperor and named Xue Zhi "the brave general".
They also erected monuments and built temples in the mountains for people to worship day and night.
In the following years, hunters who encountered danger when entering the mountains were rescued by the appearance of snow corpses.
As time went by, everyone said that the snow corpse became a real person and turned into a mountain god to protect the entire snow mountain.