When Qiao was nine years old, her mother died, leaving her and her four-year-old brother. I ask the girl. After the mother-in-law’s nephew’s heart, Haziao’s son-in-law can be cruel! This year, in the deep winter of the twelfth lunar month, once the mother called Akyao, carrying a bamboo basket and challenging the north wind to go out and cut the grass of sheep. When the winter is cold, where is the grass? Qiao escaped from morning to sunset and found a hillside from the river. No trace of young grass was found. She was cold, and she was afraid of it. She sat on the side of the mountain and cried. Cried and cried, suddenly heard a voice above my head saying: "Cut the grass, half-mountain ditch"! Cut grass, half-mountain moat! " Qiao raised his head and saw a white-headed bird fluttering in a ravine. She got up, wiped her tears, and followed the bird with the white-headed neck. Turning around the corner, the bird with the white-headed necks disappeared. I saw an old pine tree standing at the entrance to the ravine, and a green lush elephant covered a large umbrella and covered its mouth. Qiao opened the branches, walked around the pine trees, and suddenly his eyes lit up when he saw a curving stream flowing. The stream is red and green, beautiful as a spring. Qiao saw the grass, as if taking a child, and quickly squatted down and cut it. She walked and cut, and walked further and further, unconsciously, leaving to the end of the stream. She cut off a bamboo basket with grass, got up and licked the sweat on her forehead, but saw a place near the front: there was a white aunt in a white dress holding a finely beaten basket in her hands. She waved. Aunt in white with a smile said Qiao: "Little girl, really rare, come to our house for a few days! " Qiao looked up and saw a different world in front of him: on the side of the mountain there were a number of neat houses, white powder walls and white tiles, there was a short forest in front of the house, the leaves were greener than palm trees, there were many white aunts. One after another squatted in a basket, laughed and sang, collecting tender leaves in low forests. And Qiao is very happy and just stayed here. Aqiao later went with white aunts, collecting young leaves on low trees during the day, and at night fed white beetles with leaves. Slowly, a small worm grows, spitting out silk to form a small white snow-white nut. Aunt in white teaches Akiao how to turn these snow-white walnuts into a shiny and bright silk thread and how to use a tree to dye silk thread: blue dyed blue thread, red children"s dyed red silk thread, yellow children"s dyed golden silk thread. ... . Aunt in white also said Akiao: “These white worms are called“ Tien worms, ”and the leaves that feed the worms are called“ mulberry leaves, ”these five-color silk threads are designed for the emperor’s embroidered dragons and weave women for eteniya brocade. Qiao lived in a ditch of a ravine, and together with white aunts they collected mulberry leaves, fed worms and collected silk together. The days passed quickly, and three months passed. On this day, Qiao suddenly remembered his little brother and asked him to come here on a good day! The next day, at dawn, she did not have time to tell her aunt in white, she went home to go to the child. When he left, Qiao also picked up a sheet of white paper, strewn with eggs. In addition, I installed two bags of mulberry trees, went all the way and lost all my way. I thought: tomorrow I will be back with a mulberry tree. Qiao returned home to see he was old, and his younger brother had grown into a young man! When I saw that Haziao was back, I was happy and upset to ask: “And Qiao, how did you return at fifteen? ” Where have you been in these years? ” When Qiao listened, she told her how to climb a mountain and how to meet her aunt in white. The neighbors knew, and everyone ran to her, saying that she had met the immortals. Early the next morning, Qiao wanted to return to the ditch to watch. Just leaving the door, looking up and seeing a green forest along the road, the mulberry tree left by it grew into a tree, she went through the forest and went into the gorge. The old pine at the mouth of the ravine is still covered like an umbrella, and if you want to enter, you will not find a way. Qiao looks at an old pine tree, and suddenly a bird with a white neck flies out from behind an old pine tree, shouting: "Qiao steals treasure! Aqiao steals a treasure! " When Akyao remembered that he had left, he did not say a word to his aunt in white, but he also took a worm egg and two bags of mulberry trees. Therefore, she returned home, hatching the eggs of heavenly worms, feeding them with delicate mulberry leaves and planting worms at home. Since that time, worms have appeared in humans. Later, people connected the word "worms" and called it "silkworm". It is said that the aunt in white robes that Qiao met in the mid-level ditch is a silkworm woman who specializes in cocoon.
