Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a person who piled towards the mountain, traveled thousands of miles to Wutai Mountain to worship Manjushri Bodhisattva, I don't know how long he walked, and finally came to Wutai Mountain.

But it was dark, and he didn't find a place to live, and in the darkness he saw a little light in front of him, like a star in the vast night sky, and he approached the light, and sure enough, there was a family.

He shouted at the door tiredly, and after a while, someone opened the door, and the man came forward and bowed his head and said, "I am on the road, and I want to borrow a night in the house tonight, I wonder if your house will take it in?" ”

The master replied with a smile: "Please come in!" ”

The man folded his hands and muttered, "Good, good." So he followed his master into a hut, and when he was settled, and the man had finished his supper and was about to go to sleep, suddenly a young woman with all her flowers came in.

The man looked at this bewitching woman and didn't know what to do.

The woman smiled and twisted her waist to approach him, and asked sweetly, "I don't know where Xianggong is going?" ”

"I'm going to Mount Wutai. How far is your land from Wutai Mountain? ”

He didn't dare to look at the woman, but lowered his head and asked.

The woman smiled and said, "Close by, far away in the sky!" As he spoke, he moved his hands and feet......

The next morning, when the man awoke, he found himself lying in the middle of a forest of aspen trees with his head resting on a rock.

Legend has it that the woman who showed off the flowers and branches was a thousand-handed fox, because this happened at the foot of the Fanxian Mountain of Wutai Mountain, so people built the Daxian Temple on the top of the mountain, also called the Fox Immortal Temple, which is a small temple on the Fanxian Mountain, on the hill opposite the Shuxiang Temple. It is a temple of Buddhism and Taoism.

Fanxian Mountain, also known as Fanxian Mountain, the word Fanxian is said to be sealed by Emperor Kangxi himself.

Fanxian Temple can ask for a signature, and many people are asking for children and marriages here.

Although the road up the mountain is not easy to walk, but the incense here is still very strong, here is a request, the pilgrims who come to this Fanxian Temple are admired, and there are many who are willing to come.

Because Gang Wenbin was not easy to raise when he was a child, Gang Wenbin's grandfather also came here to seek a piece of peace and blessing, and Gang Wenbin has not had any dilemma since then.

And Yan Wenbin also saved a white fox, and now Yan Wenbin is still reluctant to give up on that fox.

Lao Hu's family lives near Huitouwan, and there is a family behind the village, the mother and son depend on each other, and the son is called Wang Liang, who makes a living by collecting firewood.

He hunted firewood and grass in the mountains for a day, and then picked up the market the next day to exchange for some rice, flour, oil and salt to maintain his life, and the cycle went on and on.

Seeing that the New Year is approaching, watching the rich people killing pigs and sheep and being very busy, Wang Liang is even more early and late to return, ready to earn a few more money, pull new clothes for his mother, and let her old man have a decent New Year.

After Wang Liang came back, as soon as he entered the courtyard, he shouted into the house: "Mother, our family will be rich today." ”

The mother hurried out of the house, only to see her son's firewood pick, one end was dry firewood, the other end was tied to a snow-white thing, and the two eyes were shining blue in the dark.

Wang Liang slowly put down his burden and said: "When I walked back today, I saw this fox walking crookedly in front of me, and finally fell asleep under a big tree, as if he was drunk.

Wang Chengliang didn't care about eating, so he went to the yard to sharpen his knife.

The mother held the oil lamp and carefully looked at the fox, it was really a good fur, and suddenly, the mother shouted to her son: "Cheng Liang, come quickly!"

Wang Liang didn't know what was going on, so he hurriedly dropped the knife and ran into the house.

It turned out that the fox had woken up, and its eyes were staring at the old mother with pity, and large tears rolled out of its eyes.

"Wang Liang, it seems that it understands human nature, and it is sad to know that you want to kill it."

"What about human nature? Not a fox yet. ”

"Child, you can't say that, people live in one breath, and even a fox can't catch up when they die, you see how pitiful it is crying, let it go."

"Mother, let it go, how are we going to celebrate the New Year?"

"Silly boy, isn't the year still easy? Poor days have been poor, rich days have been rich, listen to my mother's words, let it go quickly. ”

Wang Liang is a filial son, and he listens to whatever his mother says.

While untying the rope for the fox, he said: "My mother has a good heart, you can go back to the deep mountains and old forests, be careful in the future, there are not many good people like my mother." ”

At this time, Lao Hu's grandfather took Lao Hu to collect rent, because Lao Hu's family is a landlord, as long as it is on the territory of the Hu family, whether it is farming, hunting, fishing, or chopping firewood, they have to pay rent.

The family didn't have any extra money, so they handed the white fox to Lao Hu's grandfather, although Lao Hu's grandfather did not have a good reputation in the vicinity, but seeing that the family was poor and miserable, plus Lao Hu liked it very much after seeing a white fox, Lao Hu's grandfather took the white fox home.

That year, Gang Wenbin's grandfather happened to be in trouble and was taken care of by Lao Hu's grandfather, and Gang Wenbin also worked as a long-term worker in Lao Hu's family, but because Lao Hu's grandfather forced the Gang family to sell Leng Bingyan at the price of three bags of rice, Lao Hu's grandfather was also very guilty, so when Gang Wenbin was very young, he grew up with Lao Hu.

Lao Hu brought the white fox home, and the first thing he looked for was Yan Wenbin, who also looked at this snow-white fox curiously, and liked it very much.

The Hu family was a landlord at that time, the landlord refers to the family owns land, and its members do not participate in labor, the largest landlord in feudal society is the emperor, who owns the land of the whole country, and the others are divided according to the rank and the like, from the big landlord to the small landlord, and finally to the lowest-ranking peasants, and the lower level pays regular taxes to the superiors

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Lao Hu's grandfather also saw that the fox was snow-white, if you peel off the white skin of the fox, you can make a good fox fur coat, at that time, the Empress Dowager Cixi was greedy for sex, and she liked the coat made by the snow-white fox very much, and Lao Hu originally wanted to give this coat to his superiors to offset the taxes paid.

But Yan Wenbin didn't want Lao Hu's grandfather to kill the white fox, and in the end, Yan Wenbin's grandfather had no choice but to go to the grave and take out a lot of good things and give them to Lao Hu's grandfather, and Yan Wenbin took the white fox home to raise.

In the end, Yan Wenbin saw the white fox looking at him with tears in his eyes all day long in the iron cage, and Yan Wenbin released the white fox.

When the white fox leaves the iron cage, Gang Wenbin also gives the white fox shortbread, the shortbread is named after the special fat crisp, which is characterized by golden yellow, clear layers, crisp but not broken, oily but not greasy, crispy and palatable, adding sugar, flour, lard, peanuts, black sesame, sweet potato, honey, etc., the price is expensive, Gang Wenbin is reluctant to eat, and finally was taken away by the white fox.

The white fox looked at Yan Wenbin with tears in his eyes, and then turned around and ran, but ran out for a while and came back, using his furry head to constantly take advantage of Yan Wenbin's little face, showing his white teeth as if he was smiling at Yan Wenbin, and finally turned around three times, and reluctantly left Yan Wenbin.

Although Yan Wenbin was four years old at the time, ten years old after changing his life, his body did not improve because of the change of life, and he still did not possess his body.

At that time, Yan Wenbin's grandfather and Yan Wenbin's master couldn't find a way to rescue, just when the two elders looked at the terminally ill Yan Wenbin and fell into helplessness, the white fox appeared, and there was a piece of jade pendant hanging in his mouth, after Yan Wenbin took the jade pendant, he opened his eyes in a daze, watching the white fox return to his side, and Yan Wenbin still gave his favorite shortbread to the white fox.

It turned out that this is a fox spirit who has been cultivated for thousands of years, and his soul can be attached to the human body to treat people and eliminate disasters. Later, it came into the hands of Grandpa Hu.

The white fox saw that Lao Hu's grandfather was already holding a knife and was about to kill himself, and looked at Yan Wenbin with tears in his eyes, Yan Wenbin seemed to understand his thoughts at that moment, hugging Lao Hu's grandfather's thigh on the ground, and not letting Lao Hu's grandfather hurt the white fox alive or dead.

Later, the white fox sensed that there was a disaster for Yan Wenbin, so he went to the tomb to take the blood jade from the jade coffin under the Guanyin Temple, and appeared in front of Yan Wenbin with the blood jade.

Yan Wenbin's grandfather was grateful to the white fox, but the white fox kept pulling the trouser leg of the grandfather with his mouth, and then ran directly to the door, Yan Wenbin's master and Yan Wenbin's grandfather knew that the white fox would definitely be able to find the secret recipe for Yan Wenbin to live, so he followed the white fox to the bloody ground under the Guanyin Temple and dug out a blood-red coffin.

At that time, the white fox sat on the blood coffin and screamed non-stop, and Yan Wenbin's grandfather and Tong Wenbin's master and old Taoist priest touched the blood coffin with their hands, and they all felt that the blood coffin was very cold, as if they put their hands on the coffin.

But the white fox asked them to leave with the coffin and the jade statue inside the coffin, and the two didn't understand why, but the white fox asked the two of them to go to the back of the jade statue with the birthday of Yan Wenbin on their backs, and then smuggled the coffin home.

It's strange to say, many people feel that the blood coffin is very cold, but Yan Wenbin lying in the coffin said that he was lying in it and his whole body was warm, the original pale and thin body, after lying in the coffin for a period of time, the little face was very ruddy, after Yan Wenbin was four years old, he lay in the coffin, until he was eighteen years old, and then put the jade statue in the coffin.

In order to suppress the jade statue in the coffin, his grandfather built a gilded statue of the god Jizo in the small house behind his family's hall, and the eyes of the god stared directly at the jade coffin, but Grandpa Yan Wenbin used a red cloth to cover the eyes of the statue of the king of Jizo.

Now Yan Wenbin saw the fox tail behind Lao Hu, and did not kill Lao Hu, and for this reason, every year the snow-white white fox will come to see him, and every time Yan Wenbin will feed the white fox with shortbread.