THE NIGHTJARS

 Jiaosu Xu, often cross the ocean to do business. Once, he was suddenly blown away by a gale. When he opened his eyes to look, he saw only a deep and reckless mountain ahead of him. He hoped that there were people living, so he tied up the boat and boarded the shore with dry food and dried meat on his back. Just into the mountains, only to see both sides of the cliffs are holes, densely packed, like a beehive; holes are also faintly heard the sound of talking. Xu Mou came to a hole outside, stopped to sneak a look inside, there are two night fork in the hole, sharp teeth like two rows of halberds, eyes glittering, as if two bright lights, they are using sharp claws to tear the raw venison to eat. Xu was frightened out of his wits, and hastily tried to dart down the mountain; but the nightjars had already discovered him, and stopped eating the meat, and chased him out and caught him into the cave. The two nightjars were talking to each other, sounding as if birds and animals were screaming, and they scrambled to tear Xu's clothes, wanting to eat him. Xu was so scared that he hurriedly took out dried food and dried beef from his pocket and gave them together. The two nightcrawlers shared the food and ate it very well. After eating, they came back to rummage through Xu's pockets. Xu waved his hand and said there was no more. The nightstalkers were angry and arrested Xu again. Xu begged them, "Let me go, I have a rice pot on board, I can cook something to eat." The Night Fury couldn't understand him and was still full of anger. Xu gestured to them with his hands again, and the nightjars seemed to understand a little, so they followed him back to the boat and took the rice pot back to the cave. Xu Mou lit a bundle of firewood and cooked the leftover venison that the nightstalkers had eaten, then handed it to them. The two nightjars ate happily. When it got dark, the nightjars blocked the entrance to the cave with a big stone, as if they were afraid that Xu Mou would escape. Xu Mou curled up his body and lay down far away from the nightjars, deeply afraid that he would not be spared from being eaten by them.

 After dawn, the two nightcrawlers went out and blocked up the hole on their way out. A while later, they brought back a deer and gave it to Xu Mou. Xu Mou peeled off the skin of the deer, took water from a stream deep in the cave, and boiled several pots of venison. Soon came a few more nightjars, and together they devoured the venison, pointing to the rice pots, which they seemed to think were too small. After three or four days, one of the nightjars brought a large pot on his back, similar to those commonly used by the people. So the night fork each sent wolves and elk and other prey. After cooking, they called Xu to eat with them. Stayed a few days, the night fork gradually and Xu Mou familiar, out of the hole is no longer blocked, get along as if the family. Xu Mou slowly able to guess the meaning of the nightcrawlers from their voices, but also often imitate their voices, learn to speak nightcrawlers. The nightjars were so happy that they took a female nightjar to be Xu's wife. Xu was scared at first and didn't dare to move at all; she spread her legs on her own accord and Xu made love to her. She was very happy. From then on, she often left cooked meat for Seo to eat, and became as close as husband and wife.

 One day, the nightstalkers got up early, all with strings of beads around their necks, and went out in shifts as if they were going to serve some honored guest. They told Xu to cook more meat. So Xu asked the nightshade what was going on, and the nightshade said, "Today is the festival of heavenly life." When she had finished speaking, she went out and said to the nightjars, "Seo Lang hasn't got any bone tuts yet." So the nightjars each took off five jewels, and gave them to the witch; and the witch took off ten of her own, making a total of fifty, and made a string of wild hemp, and put them on and hung them round Xu's neck. Xu Mou took a look, a pearl can be worth a hundred or so silver. After a while, the nightjars went out. When Xu Mou had cooked the meat, the nightingale came and asked him to go, saying, "Let us go and greet the Heavenly King." Xu followed her to a large cave which was several acres in size. There was a stone in the cave, smooth as if it were a table; all around it there were stone seats; one at the top was covered with a leopard skin, and the rest were covered with deer skins. Twenty or thirty nightjars sat side by side on the buckskin stone seats. A short while later, a gust of wind blew, the dust flew, the nightjars all ran out in a panic. Only to see came a tall guy, look like a night fork, striding into the cave, open legs sitting on the leopard skin stone seat, eagle-like eyes to scan around. Night Forks followed into, standing in formation on both sides of the east and west, all tilted their heads, crossed their arms into a cross, that big Night Forks one by one point once, asked: "Crouching Eyebrows Mountain are all here?" The Night Forks agreed in unison. The big nightjar looked at Xu and said, "Where did this one come from?" The Mother Nightjar replied that it was her husband's son-in-law. The nightjars again praised him for his skill in cooking meat. Immediately two or three nightjars, ran over and fetched the cooked meat and set it on the stone table. The big nightjar held his hands and ate his fill, praising the flavor and ordering Xu Mou to offer him cooked meat more often. Then he looked at Xu Mou and asked, "How come the bone protrudes are so short?" The night forks replied, "He has just arrived and has not yet prepared it." The eldest nightjar then took the string of beads from around his neck and plucked ten of them and gave them to Xu Mou; each was as big as a finger and smooth and round as a projectile. The Mother Nightjar hastened to take them and put them on for Xu, who also crossed his arms and thanked him in the Nightjar language. The big nightjar then left the big hole and flew away on the gale. Only then did the nightjars enjoy the rest of the cooked meat, and then dispersed.

 Xu had been living in the Land of the Nightjars for over four years when the Mother Nightjar suddenly went into labor and gave birth to two boys and a girl in one birth, all of whom were human-looking and did not resemble their mother. The nightjars loved the children and often teased them. One day, the nightjars went out to hunt for food, leaving Xu sitting alone in the cave. Suddenly a female nightjar came from another cave and wanted to fornicate with Xu, who refused. The witch was so angry that she tackled Xu to the ground. When Xu's wife came back from outside and saw this, she was furious and fought with the witch, biting off one of her ears. After a while, the husband of the witch came back, and, after some persuasion, called the witch back. From then on, the nightwife often stood guard over Xu, never leaving him for a moment.

 After another three years, the children could walk. Xu often teach them to learn to speak human language, gradually they can all speak a little, in the babbling process of learning to speak, showing a human temperament. Although they are children, but climbing mountains and mountains like walking on level ground. They are very attached to close to Xu, very father and son.

 One day, Mother Night went out with a son and a daughter, and did not return for half a day. At that time, the north wind was blowing, and Xu was in a sad mood, thinking of his home; he took his son to the sea, and seeing that the old merchant ship was still there, he talked with him about going home with him. The son wanted to go to his mother to say a word, Xu Mou persuaded him to stop. Father and son boarded the ship and arrived at Jiaosu in a day and a night. When they returned home, his wife had already remarried. Xu Mou took out two pearls and sold them for tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the family became very rich. The son was named Xu Biao. At the age of fourteen or fifteen, he could lift thousands of pounds and had a reckless and combative character. The marshal of Jiaoshu was surprised to see his bravery and made him the chief of the army. Just in time for the border war, Xu Biao bravely fought, made a war hero, at the age of eighteen was appointed vice general.

 At that time, there was a merchant who went out to sea for business and also encountered a storm and was blown to Wolmi Mountain. When he reached the coast, he saw a young man. The young man was shocked to see the merchant, and when he realized that he was Chinese, he asked him where his hometown was. The merchant told the boy. The young man then dragged the merchant into a small stone cave in the valley, which was overgrown with thorns; the young man instructed the merchant not to go out, and then he left. After a while, he brought venison for the merchant to eat, and introduced himself, saying, "My father was also a native of Jiaozhou." When the merchant asked him, he realized that he was Xu, whom he had known before when he was doing business abroad. The merchant then said, "Your father is a friend of mine. His son is now a vice general." The young man did not understand what vice general meant. The merchant said, "It is a Chinese official name." The teenager asked again, "What do you mean by official?" The merchant said, "When he goes out, he rides in a sedan chair, and when he goes home, he lives in a high building; when he calls out from above, the following people answer in unison; and when they see him, they can only look at him with sideways glances and stand sideways. --This is called an official." The young man listened with envy. The merchant said, "Since your father is in Jiaosu, why do you stay here for a long time?" The young man then told the merchant the truth. The merchant advised him to go back to Jiaozhou. The young man said, "I have often thought so too. But my mother is not Chinese, and her language and appearance are very different; besides, if our kind were to find out, we would surely be brutalized. Therefore hesitate." Then he went out of the cave of stone, and said to the merchant, "When the north wind rises, I will see you off. Trouble you to go to my father and brother and give them a message."

 The merchant hid in the little stone cave for almost six months. Sometimes peeping out from the thorn bushes, he saw that there were always nightjars walking around in the mountains, and he was so afraid that he did not dare to move at all. One day, when the north wind was rustling the dead leaves, the young man suddenly came to the rocky cave and led the merchant hurriedly to the sea. And he instructed him, "Don't forget what I asked you to do." The merchant promised repeatedly. The young man put some more cooked meat on the table in the cabin, and the merchant sailed the boat back. After the ship returned to Jiaosu, the merchant came to the vice general's residence and recounted in detail what he had seen. Xu Biao was very sad to hear this and wanted to go in search of his relatives. His father was worried that the sea was rough and the demons were gathering, the risk was too great and the fate was unpredictable, so he tried to discourage him. Xu Biao chest thumping, sadness, crying, his father how to persuade can not be persuaded. Xu Biao reported the matter to the marshal of Jiaosu, and took two soldiers to the sea by boat.

 The ship encountered a head wind and drifted in the waves for half a month. Looking around, the sea was so boundless and misty that it was impossible to tell north, south, east and west. Suddenly came a huge wave, the boat was overturned. Xu Biao fell into the sea, with the waves floating and sinking. After a long time, he was dragged by something to a place where there was a house. When he looked at the thing dragging him, he saw that it looked just like a nightjar. Xu Biao spoke to him in the language of the nightjar. The nightjar was surprised and asked where he was going, so he said he was going to Wolmi Mountain. The nightjar said happily, "Wolmi Mountain is my hometown. I am sorry for offending you just now! But you have left your original course by 8,000 miles. This is the way to the Poison Dragon Kingdom, and it is not the way to Wolmi Mountain." So he found a boat to send Xu Biao, and the night fork pushed the boat along in the water, as fast as an arrow off the string, and in the twinkling of an eye had sailed a thousand miles. After one night, the boat had reached the northern shore. Only to see a teenager facing the sea looking away. Xu Biao knows that there are no humans in the mountains, suspecting that the teenager is his own brother; closer to see, really good. So pulled his hand and cried. After crying for a while, Xu Biao asked about the situation of his mother and sister, and his brother said that they are very good and healthy. Xu Biao wanted to go with his brother to see his mother and sister, but his brother stopped him and left in a hurry alone. Seo Pyo turns back to thank the night fork, but the night fork is already gone. Soon after, the younger brother comes with his mother and sister, and when they see Xu Biao, they both cry. When they saw him, they both cried. Xu Biao told them what he had come for. The mother said, "I'm afraid you'll be bullied if you go." Xu Biao said, "I have been an official in China, very honorable, no one dares to bully." The idea of going back was finalized, but it was difficult to cross the sea because the wind was blowing against the sea. Mother and son a few people are at a loss, suddenly saw the ship's cloth sails to the south drumming, whistling. Xu Biao said happily: "really God help me." So one after another on board the ship, wave by wave, like an arrow; three days arrived at the shore of Jiaosu, see them people are scared to flee. Xu Biao took off his own clothes and pants and gave them to the three of them to put on.

 Upon arriving home, Freakso saw Xu and was so angry that she cursed him, hating him for running away without consulting her. Xu Mou hurriedly apologized. None of the family members came to see the mother of the Lord without trembling with fear. Xu Biao advised his mother to learn to speak Chinese, wear brocade clothes and eat good food and delicious food, and she was very happy. Both mother and daughter wore men's clothes, which were very much in the style of Manchu clothing. After a few months they knew a little bit of Chinese. The skin of her younger siblings also became fairer and fairer. The younger brother's name was Xu Bao and the younger sister's name was Xu Yuel, both very strong and vigorous. Xu Biao was ashamed that he did not know how to read and write, so he made his younger brother read. Xu Bao was very intelligent and could understand the scriptures and history books after learning them once. However, he did not want to study literature in order to make progress; so Xu Biao still told him to draw a strong bow and ride a strong horse, and later he passed the examination for a martial arts scholar, and married the daughter of a guerrilla general as his wife. No one dared to marry her because she was a fae. It so happened that Yuan Shouwei under Xu Biao's subordinate died of his wife, so Xu Biao insisted on marrying his sister to him. Xu Yier could draw a hundred-stone strong bow and shoot small birds from a hundred paces away without missing an arrow. Whenever Yuan Shou Bei went to war, he always went with his wife to the battlefield. Later, Yuan Shou Bei served as a general in the same province, and most of his achievements were due to Xu Yier. Xu Bao was thirty-four years old when he hung the general's seal. His mother used to follow him on his southern campaigns, and whenever he met a strong enemy, she always wore armor and carried a sword in her hand to receive her son, and when the enemy saw her, there was no one who didn't retreat and run away. The emperor made her a baronet by imperial decree. Xu Bao submitted a letter of resignation on behalf of his mother, so he was changed to a lady.