Speaking of the fox fairies in the family of the Five Immortals, there are countless strange and strange facts.
As early as the Xia Dynasty, there was a folk legend that Dayu married a nine-tailed white fox when he was controlling floods.
This shows that as early as five thousand years ago, the Chinese began to I adore the fox.
In the past superstitious concepts, it was generally believed that foxes were spiritual and could cause mischief, become monsters, and become immortals, so they were called fox monsters.
In the old days, there was the Santai Temple in Tianjin, and there was also a statue of Grandpa Hu in the Tianhou Palace.
Believers often went there to offer incense and worship.
Before liberation, there used to be a logging farm in the Daxinganling area in Northeast China.
This lumberyard is located deep in the mountains and old forests.
It is located in a remote area, and there are not even half a house around the courtyard.
During the day, the lumberjacks all went into the mountains to cut trees.
At night, they return to the field, eat and sleep.
Several years passed like this, always following the rules, without any incident, and not a single strange thing happened.
One New Year's Eve, the loggers were preparing to go home for the New Year.
According to previous practice, during the Spring Festival, one person must be left in the forest farm to guard to prevent fires, and this time is no exception.
Everyone drew lots to select a worker and asked him to stay in the field this year to watch the field and inspect the night.
On New Year's Eve, the left-behind workers were bored sitting in their houses, thinking about making dumplings for themselves to get into the New Year atmosphere.
He brought meat, vegetables and flour from the kitchen and started working in the house.
While doing it, I hummed a little tune to kill the loneliness in my heart.
Just as the worker was making great efforts in making dumplings, there was suddenly a rapid knock on the door.
He turned around and asked, "Who is it?"
No one said a word outside the door.
The worker couldn't help but mutter in his heart: "There is not a single house in this area for more than ten miles, and all the workers have gone home to celebrate the New Year.
No one should come here at this time.
How can there be a knock on the door?"
He took out something from the house A logging ax was standing by the wall to defend himself.
Then he stepped forward and opened the door to check.
It turned out that there was a little daughter-in-law standing at the door.
She was wearing a red cotton jacket and red cotton trousers.
She was holding a baby in her arms and holding her head in her hand. donkey.
The young daughter-in-law wore a large headscarf to cover her face, and because she was standing outside the house without any light, she could not see clearly.
The worker was confused and asked: "Who are you?
Why are you alone in the mountains?"
The young daughter-in-law timidly replied: "Our family lives outside the mountains, and my husband and I were originally going back to our parents' home to celebrate the New Year.
We were passing by this mountain road, but we unexpectedly got separated from our husband.
After walking around in the mountains for a whole day, we lost our way again.
In the middle of the night, we lost our way.
We have no idea what we are doing, and my children and I are both.
We were cold and hungry.
When we came here, we saw light and knew that there must be people living there, so I came over and thought of using your place to rest.
I beg you to show mercy and take us in for the night, so that we won’t be eaten by wolves.
"The worker is also kind-hearted. , he gave up his worries and let the little daughter-in-law into the house.
The worker asked the young daughter-in-law to come into the house, sit down on the bed, and said: "It's not safe in the mountains at night, and there are often wild animals.
You and your child will stay here for one night, and then go out to find your husband at dawn tomorrow.
Maybe He has already arrived at your mother's house."
He said while continuing to make dumplings.
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"It's just right.
You are tired and hungry now.
Let's eat dumplings together.
It's the New Year."
The worker settled the little daughter-in-law, then brought the wrapped dumplings into the kitchen and put them into the pot.
As soon as he put the lid on the pot, he suddenly remembered that he was just eating dumplings and had not gone to inspect the wood at night, so he hurriedly put on his cotton farmer's clothes and hurried out of the door.
When he returned to the house after his inspection, he found that the little wife had disappeared, leaving only the swaddled baby on the bed.
When the worker saw this, he became angry and thought to himself: "How did this woman become a mother and leave her child here without caring about her, but she didn't know where she went.
When I saw her later, I had to say something nice to her."
He Getting angry, he walked to the kitchen.
As soon as I walked to the door, I found the little wife in front of the stove, opening the lid of the pot and grabbing dumplings to eat.
The worker yelled: "The dumplings are not yet cooked, don't you worry about choking?"
He shouted and walked forward quickly.
At this time, the little daughter-in-law heard the noise and turned around suddenly.
Under the light of the stove fire, a strange furry face was revealed, with sharp teeth on the tip of the nose and a beard.
The worker was so frightened that he took a closer look and found that the little daughter-in-law was actually a fox, staring at him with a wink and half a dumpling in her mouth.
After all, the worker had been logging in the mountains for many years and had developed a lot of courage.
Seeing this situation, he couldn't help but feel angry.
He picked up the sharp ax on the wall, raised it above his head and struck the vixen hard.
When the fox saw the ax whizzing down, he was so frightened that he quickly dropped the dumpling, jumped past the worker and fled out the door.
At this time, the ax also fell on the ground, missing the fox's body and only cutting off half of its tail, causing blood to flow all over the ground.
Then I saw that the fox had already fled away with a swish, and only the cotton-padded clothes and trousers and the headscarf were left on the ground.
Only then did the workers realize that the fox must have stolen these clothes and put them on, and came to eat the dumplings while he couldn't see clearly at night.
The more he thought about it, the more hateful he felt, so he simply opened the door and chased after him, but in the dead of night and the vast snowfield, there was nowhere to chase him.
He gritted his teeth and returned to the house.
He saw that the child was still wrapped in a quilt and lying on the bed, but there was no child.
The swaddling clothes were actually a big goldfish, and the little donkey tied at the door had turned into a four-legged bench.
After the New Year, the workers and the forest farm manager came back one after another, and the workers told everyone about the incident.
Everyone was in disbelief when they heard this.
But every Spring Festival from then on, no one dared to stay alone to guard the forest farm
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