The Bai People's King Marrying off His ...
The King and the Empress of the Bai people had three daughters.After the three daughters grew up,the King wanted to arrange their marriages.The eldest daughter would marry the leader of the eastern tribe,the second daughter would marry the leader of the northern tribe,and the third daughter would marry the leader of the Western Hills.The first and the second daughter agreed with their marriages,but the third girl didn't obey her father's arrangement.She wanted to find a suitable husband,so she quarreled with her father.
One day,she came to Fengyu Bazi and heard the local people say that there was a tiger on Luoping Mountain in the west.The tiger often came to the Bazi to eat humans and animals.So people did not dare to go out.They did not dare to go up the mountain to collect firewood,which made their life very tough.After the archer Boba knew it,he was determined to kill the tiger for people.Carrying the crossbow on his back,he went to Luoping Mountain and looked for the tiger for three days and three nights.Finally he found the fierce tiger.As soon as the tiger saw him,it bared its fangs and showed its claws and sprang at him aggressively.Boba saw the ferocious look of the fierce tiger and unhurriedly drew his bow and shot the tiger in the chest to death.The local people told the story to the third daughter and asked her to go back to the King and asked a reward for Boba.With everyone's entrust,the third daughter told the story to her father truthfully.The King felt that Boba was an amazing archer,and immediately gave gold and silver to Boba and sent the third daughter to praise him for his contribution to the elimination of pest.With her father's instructions,the third daughter brought gold and silver to Boba and said to him,“Brother hunter,this is a gift from my father,the King,for your killing the tiger.Please accept it.”
Boba saw the presents and replied,“I can't accept it!”
The third daughter was puzzled and asked him,“Why don't you accept it?”
Boba said,“It is everyone's duty to relieve the sufferings of the people.”
With that,he turned to go.The third daughter was moved by Boba and had a lot of affection for him,so she forced him to stay for a while.After having a long talk,they found that they were in perfect sympathy,so they fixed their marriage.
However,the King had already promised to marry off his daughter to the Hei King,the leader of the Western Hills.And the wedding ceremony would be held on the 10th of June in the lunar calendar.
On that day,the Hei King brought several loads of gold,silver,treasure and betrothal gifts,and a large group of people came to greet the princess.The King was very happy when he saw it.He called for the third daughter to come out and meet them.But she had a plan and fled to a far away place to hide so that they could not find her in the palace.Suspecting that the King of the Bai People was deliberately making things difficult for him,the Hei King immediately lowered his face and cursed the King,“How dare you cheat me?Hand over the girl quickly or your palace will have a falling out!”
The King of the Bai People had to beg,“Please give us three days to find her out!”
The Hei King said angrily,“All right!If you cannot find her out in three days later,don't blame me for not being kind and righteous,and a great disaster will befall you.”
Then,a group of people of the Hei King waited at the King of the Bai People's house for three days and three nights.
On the third day,when the noon came,they still could not find the third daughter.The fierce Hei King had a vicious attack,leaving behind a pair of armor and locking the water outlet of Tiejia Mountain(Tiejia means the armor)on the north side of Fengyu Bazi.At that time,the sky was dark with clouds rolling and the rain was pouring down.The water flooded the fields of Fengyu Bazi.Many people and animals were drowned and people cried everywhere.So Boba flew to the mouth of Tiejia Mountain,splitting the armor with a sword,letting the flood flow out and rescuing the people.
When the flood stopped,Boba immediately jumped on the cloud and looked for the Hei King.Boba fought with him and finally killed him.Then Boba wanted to return to Fengyu to find the third daughter.Looking down through the clouds,he found the girl was captured by the demons into the ravine behind the mountain.He hurried to the front of them with the wind,stopped them at the heart of the road,and began to fight with the wedding party.The demons could not resist for a moment and quickly fled to Heiyun Mountain.After Boba rescued the girl,they climbed over the mountains and walked back to Fengyu Bazi.
In the evening,they passed by the pass of Luoping Mountain.It was very dark and it was really difficult to walk,so they had to stop at the top of the mountain.In the middle of the night,there was a heavy snow.They could hide nowhere and froze to death in the snow.
Soon after the snow stopped,a pair of golden phoenix flew out of Luoping Mountain.It was said that they were Boba and the third daughter.