Text/Murong Zijun
Yusan was a hunter, the family was relatively poor, this day he only beat a few pheasants from the mountain, suddenly heard a wailing sound, he looked at the sound, saw a fox was caught by the hunter's clip on one leg, the leg looked not lightly injured, the fox begged and sent out another cry to him, hoping to save his life. Yusan suddenly felt pity and carefully removed the clip to save the fox.
Yusan saw that the fox's injuries were somewhat serious, so he took the fox home and gave it healing medicine. When his wife Liu shi saw that the fox fur was white, she said to her husband that the skin of the white fox was very valuable, and as soon as Liu's voice fell, the fox suddenly appeared in human form and said: I will remember your goodness in the future, and after saying that, the fox will disappear.
From then on, the fox often sent some rice to yousan's family, and after a long time, yusan let the fox live in his house for some time, and later befriended his brothers. Because the Yousan family was poor, it turned out that his father owed dozens of taels of silver to the neighbors, and his father did not pay off the debt until his death. On this day, the neighbor asked Yousan to pay off the debt for his father, or else mortgage his sixteen-year-old daughter to him as a concubine. Yusan couldn't agree to marry the girl to a neighbor.
The girl was very sad about this, how could she be willing to marry an old man in her sixties and seventies, so she cried day and night. When the fox found out, he secretly went to the neighbor's house and stole the contract that Yousan's father had borrowed money from that year, and burned the contract in front of Yousan. So Yusan's daughter was very grateful to it, and since then, the family has never treated the fox as an alien.
Later, for some reason, the fox suddenly fell in love with the daughter of a rich man in the village, and the rich man invited several Demon Exorcism Taoists to drive it away. Yusan asked the fox, "Why confuse the daughter of the people?" The fox replied, "I have been cultivating for a hundred years to become a human form, so I also have the seven passions and six desires like humans."
Besides, the girl likes me too, and I didn't force her, so you don't care about it. The reason I couldn't escape from that time was because it was the day of the fox's doom, and if on other days, the hunter's clip would not help me.
After a short pause, the rich man declared to the outside world: If anyone can subdue the fox spirit, he will be rewarded with a hundred and two gold. Yousan's wife, Liu Shi, knew that the rich man offered a reward of one hundred and two gold to kill the fox, so she encouraged her husband and said: We should seize this opportunity to make a fortune, but we must not lose the opportunity given to us by heaven, and you must quickly find a way to kill the fox spirit.
Yusan shook his head and said, "Can't do this, I already worship my brother with him, how can I betray my brother for money?" Although I once saved its life, it did not help our family less, without which our daughter would have been mortgaged to be a concubine.
Liu Shi scolded her husband: You are really naïve, the fox spirit can now confuse other people's daughters, in the future it may also confuse our daughters, the other day I saw it and our daughter have talk and laugh, and give our daughter silver to let her buy new clothes to wear, I see that the fox essence's motives are not pure.
Yu San thought for a moment and said, "The fox spirit ordinary people can't subdue it, and so many Daoists can't help it." Liu said: You two often drink together, and it doesn't prevent you at all, so you put poison on its wine glass in advance, so we can easily kill it.
In fact, the conversation between the husband and wife has been overheard by the fox, and the fox's spirituality is very strong. Moreover, when the husband and wife were talking, the fox had already arrived at the courtyard of the house, but it did not appear. Without stopping for a few days, the fox swung from the gate of yousan's house to drink, and Liu Shi received it very warmly, and quickly went to cook several dishes.
After a while, the wine and dishes were brought to the table, and Yusan poured wine into the fox's wine glass, which had already been smeared with poison, and the fox raised the wine glass and sneered: "Dude, if I drink this glass of wine, will I die immediately?" Yusan's face immediately turned red when he heard it. The fox said, "I have always been very grateful for your saving grace, so I have done my best to help your family, we have been dating for two years, have I harmed you and your family?" And I am two brothers, your daughter is my daughter, I do not have a single evil thought.
Saying that, the fox took a gold ingot from the sleeve of his coat and put it on the table and said: In fact, I have already prepared a dowry for your daughter, but your daughter has not yet escaped the nightmare of being forcibly married by the neighbor's family, and she is not yet engaged, so I have not given you this generous gift, but I did not expect that you and your wife could betray your brother for money.
Yu San blushed for a while at this time, and he could not say a word of sophistry. The fox stood up and threw the wine glass in his hand to the ground, and in an instant the wine on the ground rose up with white foam, and the fox said angrily: I dare not associate with you anymore, even if I give the gift money to the girlfriend in advance, the fox will disappear after saying it.
Yusan regretted it at this time, when his wife came over and asked, "What about the fox spirit?" You're such a waste to let it go. You San was furious, so he suddenly overturned the table, and the dishes and bowls were smashed to the ground. Then he grabbed his wife's collar and slapped her a few times and scolded: It's all a good idea from you, how do you want me to behave in the future? At this time, Liu Shi knew that the matter had been exposed, and the hundred and two gold had also flown, so she sat on the ground and cried.