Chapter 12: The Great Immortal of the White Fox
The magpie's father stumbled on the mountain and rolled for a while, and when he was about to fall off the cliff, he was rescued by the big black man with two big hands, and then helped him up again. The magpie's father turned back from the death line of his broken bones, and in an instant he was grateful, and when he grabbed the big black man and was about to ask him his honorable name and who he was, suddenly a dog barked and .......
The big black man didn't say a word to him, and he slipped into the mountains and disappeared. Suddenly, a snow-white wild fox appeared in front of the black man's whereabouts.
The sun has not yet risen, this deep mountain old forest, under the fumigation of the damp swamp gas overnight, slowly rises from the wild grass and shrubs in the early morning, the white mist is more and more, denser and denser, thicker and thicker, and gradually spreads and spreads, in the mountains, among the trees, in the crevices of the branches, on the treetops, shuttling elegantly, delicately.
The dark green and vigorous jungle is magnificent and fresh under the damp morning dew. The milky white morning mist lingers in the meantime, sometimes hidden and sometimes appearing, sometimes thick and sometimes light, in the moment of fading the white fog, the ten thousand deep mountains appear more and more solemn and dignified.
A few crisp, melodious bird calls were heard, bringing some life to the silent mountains. Suddenly, the weeds are boiling, the birds are singing, the flowers are gorgeous, the trees are vying for glory, and a round of red sun rises from the eastern mountain, sprinkling ten thousand golden rays to the vast earth, sprinkling to the lush mountains, and thousands of creatures are bathed in bright sunlight.
The magpie's father grabbed the branches of the bushes with both hands and looked at the back of the big black man from afar, and disappeared little by little with the snow-white wild fox in the deep mountains and old forests, clouds and fog barriers, and then slowly let go of his hand and walked eastward, avoiding the dangerous cliff and strange rocks, and then stopped and turned back to look at the peak of the honeysuckle picking just now, and after a while, he was afraid that his legs would be weak and he squatted down again.
I don't know where the basket of medicine has fallen, and all the baskets of honeysuckle picked all morning have been scattered, and not a single branch ...... gone. He felt that he had encountered this morning's life and death incident, as if he had experienced hundreds of years of world events, which made his heart tumble and full of emotion!
He thought: "If it hadn't been for this big black man who grabbed me with both hands just now, I would have fallen off that cliff and broken to pieces, and I would have died in the sky! My wife and children were still in the dark, thinking that I was still collecting medicine in the mountains. Suddenly, they were faced with such a terrible thing. There is still an 80-year-old mother in the family, and the children have not yet started a family and have not yet given an explanation, so what will they do if they leave the world with a kick of their limbs? How will they live in the future? I work every day in the world, farming, collecting medicine, and working tirelessly, and the family is still poor and cannot have enough to eat. They were happily waiting for me to go back for breakfast, but when they got back, it turned out to be a corpse. How sad should the old mother, wife, and children be? Immediately the house hung up white cloths, wore linen and filial piety, and wept and cried for my funeral. There was a stir in the village! They would all make noise that I had gone up the mountain to collect medicine and fell to my death at the bottom of the cliff. At that time, the people in the village will go to help with the funeral, dig the grave, make the coffin, pay tribute to the dead, and then carry the coffin to the cemetery to help bury it, and it will become a pile of soil. ……”
The more the magpie's father thought about it, the more terrible it became, as if he had already died once. For a moment, he had an epiphany. He thought, "This man fights for this and that while he lives, he will not become a pile of dirt in this field when he dies." Therefore, it is better for people to live in harmony and not fight with each other, and it is better to leave some thoughts for people after death. Live your life to do more good deeds, help more people, can help one person, help one person, can help ten people, help ten people. How good a young man is like just now! As soon as he stretched out his hand to save a life, this young man is so good-hearted! People say, 'Saving a person's life is better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter,' and I hope this young man will be blessed and prosperous in the future...... But where is he from? Why has he never seen such a man in the neighboring village? What is his name? What is he doing here? Why did he suddenly appear in this deep mountain forest? And it just so happened that he came and bumped into him? It's like a myth. …… Could it be that he is not a human being? Is he a god in the mountains? He suddenly flew over and rescued me? I used to hear that after a long time of life, a fox would become an immortal and wander around in the form of a human, could it be said that he was a fox fairy? This is also possible, or how could it come and go without a trace, and some of the people have not yet gotten up in this early morning...... Why did he end up in the mountains? By the way, there was a fox just now, and the fox was white, like a thick snow falling from the sky in the middle of winter. …… Oh, that's right! This white fox is most likely to become an immortal, and the fox fairy stories I have heard before are all transformed by the white fox. ……”
The magpie's father sat alone on the mountain, frightened and dreaming. Because this big black man came too suddenly, and his walk was not conventional, especially in this early morning, the sun had not yet come out, the deep mountains and old forests were full of clouds and mist, and the silence was abnormal, and the magpie's father rolled on the hillside for a while, and his brain was a little dizzy, which made him feel more and more that this big black man was not a person, but a god, and it was the god who saved his life.
After the magpie's father sat on the mountain for a while, he didn't have the heart to look for it anymore, so he slowly grabbed and helped him down the mountain.
When I returned home, as soon as I entered the yard, my wife saw that the magpie's father came back empty-handed, and the basket he was carrying was gone, and his face was pale, his spirit was sluggish, and he was covered in dirt, so he asked softly: "Hey, old man, what's wrong?...... What's wrong? Where's your basket?"
The magpie's father was silent for most of the day, and walked into the house weakly and sat on the edge of the earthen kang. The wife saw that something was wrong with the old man, so she followed into the house, staring at the old man, waiting for the old man to speak. Several girls also saw that their father was a little strange when he came back this time, and they all gathered around and asked anxiously, "Dad, what's wrong with you?"
Then the old man gasped and said, "I will hardly see you again!"
When the three daughters heard this, they immediately became anxious, and tears came out of their eyes, and they all eagerly urged their father to ....... The magpie's father told them slowly, fifteen-ten, what had happened on the mountain in the morning. The three daughters immediately burst into tears. They all said: "Dad, don't go to collect medicine in the future, you are already old, this is too dangerous!
The old man nodded, and then told them that when he was preaching, he met a big black man, rescued him, and described in vivid pictures the appearance and disappearance of the big black man for a long time, and the appearance of a white fox. So the girls all agreed that it was the white fox fairy who saved their father, and the magpie's mother also nodded her head in agreement, and added mysteriously: "It seems that this fox fairy is not only in ancient times, but also now!
Since then, the family has been grateful to this fox fairy and regarded this fox fairy as a life-saving benefactor.
However, there was no change in the body of these two stunned people, and there was no qualitative leap, so they unknowingly became fox fairies.
The story spread quietly in Magpie Village. Magpie Village is full of legends, the ancestors of Magpie Village are rescued by magpies, this time there is another white fox to save people, the people of Magpie Village heard what happened to the magpie's father, they were immediately convinced, and they all knew that there was a white fox fairy hidden in the mountains of this Magpie Village. This white fox immortal is a true immortal, not a monster, does not eat people, does not harm people, and saves people.
So the men of Magpie Village went up the mountain to work in the field in the hope of seeing the true face of the fox fairy, and the women quickly knelt down and chanted silently when something unsmooth, praying that the white fox fairy would appear and save them from this disaster.
And this stunned man who has become a white fox immortal is still in the dark, Magpie Village has already burned incense and worshipped, begging him to manifest his spirit, and he is still carrying a hoe to the field to plant crops! On this day, under the guidance of the old man Li under the moon, he walked towards the magpie house in Magpie Village.
The old man Li pushed the bicycle in front of him, followed behind in a daze, and entered the yard of the magpie's house one after the other. The magpie's mother watched the old man under the moon, Old Man Li, leading a young man into the yard with a cart, and came out to greet the guests. With a smile, he asked the old man under the moon, "Are you here?" This is the ......?" "The old man under the moon" Old man Li smiled at the magpie's mother and said, "Here it is! This is the young man I talked to you about." ”
Immediately, the magpie's mother opened the curtain for the old man Li under the moon and welcomed the two of them in. As soon as the second stunned man appeared, there was a sudden surprise in the room!
The magpie said, "Ah! is that you?"
And the magpie's father was so amazed that his jaw was about to drop. The two eyes were wide and round, and they had already rushed from their faces to their foreheads, and they couldn't close their mouths for a long time.
At this time, the second stunned man also fell into great surprise, why is this old man so familiar? Where have you seen it?
The magpie's father and the second stunned man stared at each other for a full three minutes, and the family felt very strange, so the magpie pushed her father, and suddenly the magpie's father knelt down for the second stunned son with a "plop" sound, and hurriedly shouted in his mouth with both hands: "The white fox fairy has appeared! Thank you for the life-saving grace of the white fox fairy!"
Suddenly, the whole family was stunned! The second stunned man hurriedly went over to help the magpie's father, and the magpie also ran over to help her father, and said, "Dad, what's wrong with you?" The "old man under the moon" Old man Li was also stunned on the side, and smiled for a while and said, "Which one are you playing?"