Chapter 52: The Old Ox Guarding the Love of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl
As soon as Zhang Shan traveled through time, she was faced with a difficult choice: either plow the fields to death and be skinned and eaten, or make full use of her own value and find a fairy wife for Niulang.
Cowherd, do you have to marry this wife?
Under the gaze of the cowherd, Zhang Shan quickly shut her mouth.
"Strange, am I so hungry that I'm dizzy? Why do I feel like the old ox can talk?"
The cowherd stared at Zhang Shan for a long time, shook his head and left.
Zhang Shan breathed a sigh of relief and subconsciously lowered her head to chew the grass on the ground. After chewing it for two bites, she realized that she had fallen. However, the grass did taste delicious.
Anyway, she is a cow now, and it is normal for cows to eat grass. After preparing herself mentally, Zhang Shan ate the grass with peace of mind.
As we were eating, we came to a lake. The water was clear and sparkling. The closer we got, the greener the grass became...
When Zhang Shan raised his head, he saw seven beautiful fairies playing and frolicking in the lake, with their clothes hanging on the shore not far away.
These little fairies are really generous. In the previous life, the original owner also discovered these fairies and called the Cowherd with bad intentions. The Cowherd stole the Weaver Girl's clothes, and the Weaver Girl could not return to heaven. In order to get the fairy clothes back, the Weaver Girl gave herself to the Cowherd and gave birth to two children for him.
One day in heaven is one year on earth. When the other fairies found that the Weaver Girl had not caught up, they reported it to the Queen Mother, who sent heavenly soldiers to capture the Weaver Girl and bring her back to heaven.
The Cowherd couldn't bear to part with his beautiful fairy wife, so he asked the original owner to find a way to save the Weaver Girl. However, when he learned that the original owner's skin could reach the sky, the Cowherd killed the original owner without hesitation.
The Queen Mother could not stop Cowherd from ascending to heaven, so she could only draw a line of Milky Way to stop Cowherd from going any higher.
In order to help the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd meet, the Weaver Girl's sisters called on magpies to build a bridge for the two to meet.
The Weaver Girl in the sky can see the Cowherd every day, and the Cowherd on the ground brags to the sky every year. Zhang Shan thinks that this is retribution for the original owner. Why would he harm the fairy for no reason?
"Vega, there's a lustful cow staring at us over there!"
Zhang Shan: …
She is not a sex cow, she is a yellow cow!
The fairies had never seen a cow before, so they were not afraid but very curious. They approached Zhang Shan cautiously and stirred up the lake water to tease her. Zhang Shan thought, if the fairies knew that this was a yellow cow with intelligence, would they be scared away?
Zhang Shan felt the cowherd approaching, so she turned around and ran away.
"Hey, why did it run away?"
"Stop making trouble, go back quickly after washing!" one of the fairies in red reminded.
On the way back, Zhang Shan saw the cowherd as expected.
Cowherd: "Old cow, why did you walk so far?"
At this time, Niulang also saw the sparkling lake with colorful rays of light, and there was an emotion in his heart that was difficult to conceal.
Zhang Shan saw that things were going to get bad, so she opened her mouth and bit the cowherd's clothes.
"Old Cow, please let go!"
Zhang Shan definitely won't give in. You have no food to eat and you still live in her cowshed. Why do you want to marry a fairy and let her suffer with you?
Until the sunset glow disappeared, Niulang felt lost and felt like he had lost something important, and tears kept flowing down his face.
"Cowherd, did you steal my bucket?"
When the voice of Cowherd's sister-in-law came, Cowherd's face was gloomy. He was driven out of the house by his brother and sister-in-law. There was nothing around him except the old ox. He had to borrow other people's buckets to get a basin of water.
Thinking of this, he looked at Zhang Shan with even more displeasure. Somehow, the cowherd felt that this old ox would help him get married and let him live a good life.
But nowadays, this feeling is becoming less and less.
"Old Cow, when do you think I should get married?"
Zhang Shan thought to herself that he was destined to be single for the rest of his life. He had a dirty face, yet he still wanted to live off his wife. What a pipe dream!
The cowherd returned to the cowshed with the old ox in a dejected mood. The grass in the cowshed had been turned into a mess by his sister-in-law. There was a puddle of water on the ground, and the bucket was gone.
Niulang dared not say anything and could only clean up silently. Zhang Shan sat in the moonlight, watching Niulang busying around.
Who among her family members would understand? She has become a cow and her territory is being taken away by others?
At night, the cowherd lived in the cowshed, and Zhang Shan lay outside the cowshed.
To be honest, she could escape now, but since the cowherd didn't steal the fairy's clothes today, she couldn't be sure whether he would steal them in the future.
How about I give a suggestion to the Queen Mother? Having her magic power restricted by a piece of clothing really lowers the level of a fairy.
But she can’t go to heaven except for her skin!
Thinking of this, Zhang Shan unknowingly came to the lake.
"Old pervert! Big sister, you see, I told you that old pervert would come back."
Zhang Shan...
She had never been so speechless.
But she still corrected: "I am a yellow cow, not a pervert!"
"Oh! She can talk!"
To be honest, she can also do somersaults. Do you want to see it?
The fairies thought Zhang Shan was interesting and planned to take her to heaven. Zhang Shan also wanted to go to heaven, and the first thing she did after going to heaven was to increase the workload for the fairies. After all, they were still too idle.
Zhang Shan became the "pet" of the fairies, who would bring her some peaches from time to time to feed her. At first, Zhang Shan refused, but she was old and her teeth were not good, so she could only live off the fairies.
The cowherd in the mortal world has nothing except a cowshed. The girls look down on him and are unwilling to marry him, so the cowherd remains single all his life.
Before he died, he still dreamed of marrying a beautiful wife who looked like a fairy and having a pair of smart and well-behaved children...