In the winter of 1958, there was heavy snow on a wild mountain in Harbin. The mountain was remote, with only a few scattered villages around it. Hunters in the villages generally did not go into the mountain to hunt, because there were fox spirits on the mountain. The society at that time was not as atheistic as it is now, but believed in ghosts and gods, especially the elderly in the Northeast.
There are indeed wild fairies on this mountain. This mountain belongs to the territory of the fox fairy among the five fairies. There is also a litter of little foxes living on the mountain. There are six little foxes in this litter. They can't even open their eyes when they are just born. They squeak one by one. Their mother brings them food every day and tells them stories.
Yes, you heard it right. The fox told stories to her children, and the stories were about the deeds of Mr. and Mrs. Hu from Northeast China when they were young. Of course, these little foxes basically could not understand what their mother said. Animals also need qualifications to become wild fairies. Many animals are born with intelligence. Such animals generally become powerful wild fairies. The mother fox did not notice that there was a little fox in the litter whose eyes lit up every time he heard these stories, as if he was very yearning for it.
Time flies, half a year has passed quickly, summer is here, and the little foxes have grown up a lot. Today is destined to be an extraordinary day, because the mother of the little foxes has never come back since she went out. Uncle Snake next door said that she was captured by a Taoist priest. At that time, the little foxes didn’t know what it meant for their mother to be captured. Five of them still lived carefree in the cave, but the little fox whose eyes sparkled when listening to the story half a year ago took on the responsibility of finding food.
Spring went and autumn came. Two years passed in the blink of an eye. The little fox had grown into a strong male fox with great hunting skills. He was regarded as the dream lover by the female foxes within a radius of ten miles. However, he did not accept the confession of any fox because he was very smart. He knew that he would become the demon in his mother's mouth when he was a child. At that time, he thought to himself that I am destined not to be an ordinary fox.
One day, the male fox finally met an animal like himself, a rabbit that was as smart as himself. The rabbit was very timid and hid in the cave every day. At first, the male fox just went hunting. In the past, the male fox relied on his wisdom to make sure that no animal could escape. But this rabbit was an exception. It was also very smart and could talk to the male fox. When the rabbit started talking, the male fox was also shocked. It didn't expect that there would be someone other than itself who could speak human language, and this one was a rabbit.
Although the male fox was very smart, he usually stayed with a group of animals that were satisfied with just eating and drinking, which inevitably made him feel lonely. When he met the rabbit, he decided not to eat her, so he asked the rabbit: "Have you eaten..."
The rabbit seemed very timid, hiding in its cave and not daring to come out. However, it probably knew that the male fox had no hostility, so it stammered, "No, no, I haven't eaten yet."
The fox was delighted to hear what the rabbit said, as if he was happy to have met a confidant, so he asked, "Are you afraid of me?"
The rabbit still hid and said, "I, I, I'm not afraid."
The male fox asked curiously, "Why are you stuttering if you are not afraid to speak?"
The rabbit answered, "I have been like this since I was a child. They all call me little stutterer."
The fox was very happy to see the rabbit was willing to talk to him. Just as he was about to say his name, he was stunned and realized that no one had given him a name since he was born. He thought about it and realized that he was a fox and the second child in the family, so he said, "My name is Hu Er. Let's be friends from now on, okay?"
The rabbit seemed to have never thought that the fox wanted to make friends with her. She was very nervous and didn't dare to speak. Although she was smarter than ordinary people, she was timid. She often heard horrible news about someone being caught and eaten by a fox. However, the rabbit didn't dare to refuse the fox's kindness, so she nodded.
From then on, the male fox would bring carrots to the rabbit's house to play with her every day except when he went hunting. The rabbit was quite scared at first, but after a while, the two of them got to know each other better and the rabbit was no longer so scared, although she still stuttered when she spoke.
One day, the stutterer ran to the fox's house and called out to the fox. He looked a little angry and stammered, "Hey, hey, you, don't eat it, eat it, Ah Huang, it, and I, we have a good relationship." Ah Huang is also a rabbit, and has a good relationship with the stutterer.
When the fox saw the rabbit like this, he thought to himself, that Ah Huang just talked to you for no reason and walked so close to you, he must be killed. Of course, the fox would never say this out loud. For some reason, the fox didn't like the stutterer playing with other male rabbits, so that the male rabbits that played with the stutterer would disappear the next day.
Hu Er looked at the angry little stutterer and asked, "Little stutterer, why can't I eat Ah Huang?"
The little stutterer said without thinking: "I, it has a good relationship with me, I don't, don't want you to eat it."
Hu Er then asked: "His good relationship with you doesn't seem to have anything to do with my desire to eat him."
The little stutterer shook his head and said, "You, you, you." The little stutterer seemed to want to say something, but the little stutterer, who was not good at speaking to begin with, stuttered even more when he got anxious. Hu Er straightened his face and said to the little stutterer seriously, "Little stutterer, you know, you and I are different from them. We may become monsters. People with different philosophies cannot work together. Moreover, this world is a society where the strong prey on the weak. If I don't eat it, I will starve to death. One day, I might be eaten by someone. This is the cruel world."
Little Stutter had never seen Hu Er speak to him so seriously about these great principles before. He was confused for a moment and did not understand everything. However, he knew that his good friend Ah Huang was eaten by Hu Er. Tears immediately flowed down his face. He pointed at Hu Er and cursed, "You, you big bad guy. I, I won't pay attention to you." Then he turned and ran away. Hu Er looked at Little Stutter and said nothing. Hu Er didn't know what he was thinking at the time. He just felt that he and Little Stutter were from the same world, and he seemed to have fallen in love with Little Stutter, this timid and stuttering rabbit.
Later, although the stutterer was still very angry, he would still come out to walk and chat with Hu Er when he had nothing to do. At that time, many animals in the mountains knew about this strange combination, a fox and a rabbit could actually live in peace and be good friends. Hu Er seldom hunted because of the stutterer, but often went down the mountain to steal chickens and dogs, and rarely harmed the animals in the mountains. Suddenly, the animals in the mountains were jubilant, because Hu Er was very powerful, as long as he set his eyes on the prey, basically no prey would escape.
Just like this, five years passed, and the relationship between Hu Er and Xiao Jieba grew stronger and stronger. Every day, Xiao Jieba would skip to Hu Er's house to wake him up, and then skip to take Hu Er to pick wild fruits and feed him carrots. At that time, Hu Er thought that even if he could not become a demon, it would be nice to live such a life forever. It was nice to live a simple life every day.
Suddenly one day, a piece of bad news came that the little stutterer was caught by a hunter. Hu Er was shocked. In the past, there was a legend about monsters on the mountain, so no hunter dared to go up the mountain. Now it seems that maybe it has been too long since monsters appeared, and those humans have forgotten that there is a monster like him in the mountain.
Although Hu Er had been following the stammerer to eat carrots in recent years, his practice had never fallen behind.
Wang Jianguo was very happy today because he had caught a big fat rabbit. Wang Jianguo is 35 years old and is a rural man. When he was young, he had long wanted to go into the mountains to hunt some game to eat, but the elders at home had always opposed it. Wang Jianguo was a little scared at first, so he didn't dare to go. However, due to poor harvests in recent years, he hasn't tasted meat for almost half a year. But today he was really lucky. As soon as he entered the mountain, the rabbit ran up to him stupidly and stared at him. Wang Jianguo was scared at first, but he couldn't scare the rabbit away. Wang Jianguo caught the rabbit immediately.
Little Stutter was also very happy today, because she finally saw the legendary human. She was originally going to ask the bad guy Hu Er to accompany her to dig carrots, but she didn't expect to meet the legendary human halfway. She was so lucky, and he seemed very kind and took her home. Little Stutter looked at Wang Jianguo in front of her and asked Wang Jianguo: "Big brother, are you a human?"
Wang Jianguo, who was originally in a good mood, trembled all over when he heard someone talking to him. He looked around and saw no one, so he yelled, "Who is it? Who is playing tricks?"
"Yes, yes, I, yes, I, I, I am a little kid, stuttering with laughter." The rabbit jumped for joy when he saw the human's appearance.
Wang Jianguo almost fainted when he saw the rabbit in front of him talking. But even if he didn't faint, he was so scared that his whole body went limp. He immediately knelt down with his legs, banged his forehead on the ground, and yelled: "Great Rabbit, I don't recognize the great man. I didn't mean to disturb you. You are not a villain. Don't kill me, don't hurt me."
The stuttering boy looked at the trembling Wang Jianguo in front of him and asked, "You, you are, afraid of, me."
Wang Jianguo had cursed his father countless times in his heart, why didn't he tell him there was a monster on the mountain, but he didn't realize that he ignored the old man's warnings every day. Wang Jianguo now saw the "great immortal" in front of him asking him, how could he not answer, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, no, I am not afraid, I am in awe. I didn't expect to see a great immortal today. Great immortal, you take a rest first, I will quickly prepare food to entertain you, what do you think?"
The innocent little stutterer naturally didn't realize anything, he nodded and said, "Okay, okay, you, humans, are really, really good."
When Wang Jianguo heard the stutterer agreed, he immediately crawled out of his house. What was he doing? Did they really think that Wang Jianguo was going to find food for the innocent stutterer? Wang Jianguo ran to his neighbor's house to borrow a gong, and then started to hit it hard. Soon, more than a dozen villagers came to ask about it. Wang Jianguo immediately said that a monster had run into his house, and hoped that everyone would help. The rural people were simple and honest, and very united. When they heard this, they immediately took sickles, hoes and other tools from their homes to prepare to "capture the monster".
The little stutterer saw that the sun was about to set outside, and suddenly he was a little worried whether Hu Er would worry about him. However, the lazy guy should still be sleeping. The little stutterer was still jumping around in the small house. Although it was just a rural area, everything was new to the little stutterer who had never been down the mountain.
"Bang." Suddenly, the door was kicked open. Little Stutter looked at the door and saw more than a dozen people rushing in with hoes. Without saying a word, they hit Little Stutter on the head.
As the sky darkened, a dark shadow rushed down the mountain at a very fast speed. Its target was Yangliu Village, the village where the hunter who had captured the stutterer lived. Yangliu Village was very lively at this time. The square in the center of the village was burning with fire. Two guys dressed as Taoist priests were chanting spells with talismans in their hands. In the middle of the square, there was a stone pillar with a big rabbit tied to it. However, the rabbit's skin had been plucked out alive, with its muscles and tendons exposed. It was bloody and trembling constantly while being tied to the pillar.
There were more than 40 villagers discussing how to deal with this "audacious" monster in the square. The young people all said to burn it with fire, while the older ones advised to let the rabbit go. However, no matter how they discussed, even the rabbit's skin was peeled off, which showed that her fate would not be good. However, many people also said that the monster was nothing more than this.
Suddenly, something strange happened. A dark shadow suddenly rushed into the crowd from the east end of the village, and then there were screams of humans.
The little stutterer was tied to the stone pillar and was no longer in her right mind. She was so naive that she did not expect that the curious human would beat her up and even peel off her skin. She felt pain all over her body. Without skin, even a little wind blowing on her nerves would make her feel so painful that she wanted to die. Just when she felt that she was about to die, a familiar voice suddenly appeared in her ears.
"Silly boy, how did you end up like this?"
It was Hu Er's voice. The little stutterer, who was slowly losing consciousness, tried hard to open her eyes. She saw Hu Er, who had transformed into a human form, a handsome young man in his twenties, but covered in blood, with a lot of broken flesh at the corners of his mouth. When the little stutterer saw Hu Er, all the grievances in her heart burst out at once, and she burst into tears.
Hu Er looked at the little stutterer he had just rescued, and felt an indescribable feeling in his heart. The little stutterer was now covered in blood, and his originally snow-white fur had been scraped off alive.
"I, I, I, I just want to see someone." The little stutterer said to Hu Er. Hu Er looked at the little stutterer and asked, "Did you see him?"
"Um."
Hu Er originally wanted to tell Xiao Jieba that these were humans, but when he saw the look in Xiao Jieba's eyes, he said, "What you see are not humans, but a group of beasts. Real humans don't eat animals, and they live in peace with us animals, just like you and me."
The stuttering man, who had originally looked gloomy, suddenly had a different light in his eyes when he heard Hu Er's words. He said to Hu Er, "Hu, Hu Er, I, I really want to see, that kind of human being."
Hu Er's eyes flashed with sadness, and he said, "I want to see it, too."
Little Stutter began to tremble all over. Hu Er wanted to hug her when he saw her like that, but he saw that her skinless body was covered with nerve endings. Just a touch would make Little Stutter feel so painful that he wanted to die. Little Stutter also felt that he might be dying soon. He looked at Hu Er and asked, "Hu, Hu Er, am I going to die, die, am I?"
Hu Er looked at the stuttering boy, took a deep breath, and said, "No, you won't die. You will just become a human being."
"Yes, yes, is that so." The little stutterer looked at Hu Er with his eyes fixed and said, "Then, in that case, can I still eat carrots with you?"
Hu Er looked at the stuttering boy's clear eyes and said, "It's OK. Trust me."
After hearing what Hu Er said, the stuttering boy's eyes dimmed, and finally became dead silent. She was dead.
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In a bamboo forest on the edge of a small village in Zhongjiang County, Deyang, Sichuan,
"Damn it, that snake is so cruel, it's really trying to kill me."
If someone was there, they would definitely be shocked, because a fox actually spoke. The fox was covered in blood and had many wounds on its body. This fox was Hu Er. Hu Er had just had a fight with someone from the Chang family because the monster from the Chang family ate a chicken in his territory without his consent. Although it sounds a bit exaggerated, it is a matter of dignity. It doesn't matter if it's an ordinary snake, but the monster has to say hello to you no matter what it does in your territory. This is the rule.
But the monster from the Chang family was not weak either. It had beaten him so badly that he was covered in wounds. Hu Er shook his head and was about to turn around and leave the village to recuperate in his cave when he suddenly heard a little girl's voice from behind.
"Ah, it's a fox. What a cute fox."
When Hu Er heard this, he thought, damn, I am covered in blood, how can I be cute? Thinking of this, he turned around and looked over. It was a little girl, who looked about seven or eight years old. She was wearing a pure white dress and looked very cute. The most important thing was her eyes, which were so clean and innocent. These eyes were exactly the same as those of the little stutterer.
Just when Hu Er was in a trance, the little girl had already walked up to Hu Er and touched his forehead. It was a shame for a wild fairy to be touched on the head by a human, but for some reason, he felt a sense of peace when being touched by the little girl, as if nothing had anything to do with him. He felt very calm, just like the feeling when he ate carrots with the little stutterer.
"Little fox, please don't leave, come home with me and be my friend." The little girl looked at Hu Er and asked happily. Hu Er was stunned for a moment, shook his head, and then turned around and walked away. However, before he had taken ten steps, he heard a little girl crying from behind. Hu Er turned around and looked at the little girl sitting on the ground crying. His heart softened immediately. He walked back to the little girl and licked her little face. The little girl giggled all of a sudden, hugged Hu Er's neck and said, "Little fox, come home with me."
Then she turned around and ran onto Hu Er's back. Hu Er was big enough to carry a little girl on his back. Hu Er was worried that he would scare her family if he followed the little girl back home. But he was obviously overthinking it, because the little girl's family was a family of horsemen and also worshipped the fox clan. When they saw the little girl taking Hu Er home, they were shocked at first, but they were relieved after Hu Er explained to them.
Hu Er told them that he wanted to take the girl as his apprentice, so the couple happily agreed. Hu Er also learned the girl's name, Han Ke'er.
Time flies, and ten years have passed quickly. Hu Er has been certain that Han Ke'er is the reincarnation of Little Stutter. Although she doesn't stutter, her eyes and the feeling she gives him when she speaks are exactly the same as Little Stutter. Moreover, after so much time, Hu Er was horrified to find that he actually fell in love with Han Ke'er. Hu Er was also shocked at the time, because human-demon love will not have a good result, and the fox tribe will not allow it. Although his status in the fox tribe is still high, even the tribe leader cannot fall in love with humans. This is an iron rule, otherwise he will be sentenced to death.
So Brother Hu began to deliberately avoid Han Ke'er. Han Ke'er was pretty and smart. She had been the most beautiful girl in the class since she was young. Naturally, there were many people pursuing her, but no matter who confessed to her, they would get a "good guy" card. Some people even suspected that Han Ke'er was a lesbian because she had never been in a relationship from elementary school to high school graduation. Even her parents were a little worried.
Han Ke'er is not a lesbian. She has a favorite person, no, it should be said that he is a fox. She fell in love with him at the first sight, even though Han Ke'er was only eight years old at the time. Perhaps it was destined that Han Ke'er found Hu Er when she graduated from high school and told him that she liked him. Although Hu Er wanted to say "I like you too", he never dared to say it. Hu Er refused because he knew that a human-demon love would not have a good ending.
During those days, Hu Er originally wanted to keep a distance from Han Ke'er, thinking that the little girl would forget about him after a while. However, he did not expect that Han Ke'er actually wanted to catch a very evil demon during the days when she was not with him, and she almost lost her life (when she just met Wu Jiu). Hu Er had no choice but to return to Han Ke'er to protect this little girl.
Six years passed quickly, and Hu Er and Han Ke'er finally started dating. The two had a love relationship that was destined for two lifetimes, so how could they avoid it? Hu Er took Han Ke'er to hide in the mountain where he and Xiao Jie Ba were born, but the Hu family soon found out about it, and then they captured the two and refined them into blood foxes according to regulations.