In the midst of the Cultural Revolution, when Huang Xiaodong was ten years old, he captured a talking red fox. It promised to fulfill his wish if he would set it free. Huang Xiaodong asked for a hunting rifle, and the red fox kept its promise to give it to him. However, when his mother asked the red fox to conjure up her missing father, the red fox refused. When Huang Xiaodong was sixteen years old, he looked for the red fox again, but found that Tian Daniu, the benefactor who had saved them, had the red fox hanging on his shoulder, and the red fox was dead. Huang Xiaodong was shocked and aimed his gun at Tian Daniu. However, he only shot the red fox in disguise. Tian Daniu was actually the red fox in disguise, and he washed Huang Xiaodong's sins with his death.
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In the 1960s and 1970s, the Cultural Revolution was in full swing.
In a small mountain village, there lived a ten-year-old boy named Huang Xiaodong. He was clever and liked to set up traps in the mountains to catch small animals.
One day, he caught a red fox in a rabbit trap buried in the valley. When he was about to put the fox into his animal skin bag, the fox spoke with tears in its eyes: "Huang Xiaodong, please let me go."
Who is talking to me? Huang Xiaodong looked around and saw no one. He wondered in surprise, could it be that the red fox had become an immortal and could speak human language? After being stunned for a moment, he looked at the red fox tentatively and said, "Are you talking to me?"
The red fox said, "Yes. I am almost an immortal. If you just let me go, I will satisfy you with whatever you want."
Huang Xiaodong thought for a moment and said, "If you can give me a shotgun, I will let you go." As soon as he finished speaking, Huang Xiaodong really had a shotgun in his hand. So Huang Xiaodong let the red fox go.
When he got home, Huang Xiaodong told his mother about the strange thing that happened to him. His mother didn't believe him, so Huang Xiaodong showed his mother the hunting rifle that the red fox had transformed into. His mother said, if the red fox can really transform into anything it wants, go and tell the red fox to transform your father into something for me to see.
After listening to his mother's words, Huang Xiaodong really ran to the valley again, but this time the red fox did not show Huang Xiaodong his father.
When he got home, his mother asked Huang Xiaodong, "Where is your father?"
Huang Xiaodong said, the red fox said it had never seen my father, so it couldn't make him appear. But as long as it could see a photo of my father, it could make him appear. Do you have a photo of my father at home? I'll take it to the red fox to see.
Seeing that Huang Xiaodong was serious, the mother believed him a little. She found a photo of Huang Xiaodong's father and was about to give it to Huang Xiaodong, but then she put it away and said, "When it gets dark, we'll go see the red fox together."
At night, the mother and son groped their way to the back of the mountain in the dark. Huang Xiaodong was about to call Red Fox out when several flashlights shone on the mother and son at the same time. It was the basic militia of the brigade led by villager Tian Daniu. Tian Daniu asked him what the mother and son were doing in the mountains in the middle of the night without lights?
She and her son were unable to answer for a moment, and Tian Daniu and the militia insisted that they would not do anything good, and they took her and her son to the militia department of the brigade.
In the militia department, Tian Daniu interrogated her and her son whether they wanted to cause trouble?
Her mother and son said no.
Ask them if they are superstitious?
She and her son still insisted that it was not the case.
Seeing that they could not get any information out of him, the militiamen took away his father's photo and sent his mother and son back home.
Story evaluation
Set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution, this story tells a story about superstition, revenge, and redemption. Huang Xiaodong's innocence and curiosity are attracted by the mysterious power of the red fox, while his mother's longing for her late husband is exploited by the red fox. The militia in the story represents the political atmosphere of the time, and the crackdown on superstition reflects the social reality of that era. Huang Xiaodong's growth process is full of tragedy, and his revenge action ultimately leads to a greater tragedy. However, the final revelation of the red fox brings redemption and a glimmer of hope to the story. This story deeply depicts the complexity of human nature and the cruelty of the times, while also exploring the themes of fate and choice. However, the story is a bit abrupt in some plots, such as the red fox's ability to transform and the sudden appearance of Tian Daniu. If it can be portrayed more delicately, it will make the story more fascinating.
In the midst of the Cultural Revolution, when Huang Xiaodong was ten years old, he captured a talking red fox. It promised to fulfill his wish if he would set it free. Huang Xiaodong asked for a hunting rifle, and the red fox kept its promise to give it to him. However, when his mother asked the red fox to conjure up her missing father, the red fox refused. When Huang Xiaodong was sixteen years old, he looked for the red fox again, but found that Tian Daniu, the benefactor who had saved them, had the red fox hanging on his shoulder, and the red fox was dead. Huang Xiaodong was shocked and aimed his gun at Tian Daniu. However, he only shot the red fox in disguise. Tian Daniu was actually the red fox in disguise, and he washed Huang Xiaodong's sins with his death.
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After returning home, Huang Xiaodong asked his mother if she still had a photo of his father. His mother said no, there was only this photo of his father at home.
A few days later, Huang Xiaodong asked Tian Daniu for the photos.
Tian Daniu said, "Are you looking for death? If you want to, wait until you grow up."
Huang Xiaodong stared at Tian Daniu with his eyes as big as apricot kernels.
Tian Daniu looked at Huang Xiaodong's ridiculous expression, patted Huang Xiaodong on the head and said, "Don't accept it. Come back to me after you turn sixteen."
Tian Daniu left. Huang Xiaodong secretly made up his mind that he must get the photo back, let the red fox conjure up his father, and bring him home to make his mother happy. If Tian Daniu didn't give him the photo of his father, he would kill him.
In the blink of an eye, Huang Xiaodong turned sixteen. The day after his birthday, Huang Xiaodong went to Tian Daniu to ask for a photo of his father.
Tian Daniu was not at home. His wife told Huang Xiaodong that Tian Daniu had gone hunting in the back mountain.
Huang Xiaodong found the back valley and told Tian Daniu why he came. Tian Daniu looked at Huang Xiaodong, patted his bald head and said, "You are a great man. I didn't make a mistake about you. But I can't go back now."
Huang Xiaodong said anxiously: "It's okay if you can't go back. Tell me where you put my father's photo, and I will go to your house to look for it."
"It's been six years. Where did I put it? Let me think about it…" Finally, Tian Daniu remembered and told Huang Xiaodong where his father's photo was in his house, and asked him to go home and ask his wife to find it for him.
After finding his father's photo, Huang Xiaodong did not forget to take the brand new hunting rifle that the red fox had conjured up for him, which he had never been willing to use, and ran quickly towards the valley where the red fox was.
Halfway through the journey, he met Tian Daniu who was walking home. On the pole of the hunting rifle on Tian Daniu's shoulder hung a red fox.
Huang Xiaodong recognized that the red fox hanging from Tian Daniu's gun was the one he had saved. However, the red fox was already dead.
The red fox was dead, and he was still hoping that the red fox would turn him into his father! Huang Xiaodong stood there in shock, his mouth open, unable to utter a word.
Tian Daniu didn't know how Huang Xiaodong suddenly became like this, and asked in surprise: "Huang Xiaodong, what's wrong with you?"
Huang Xiaodong subconsciously took the shotgun from his shoulder and pointed the gun at Tian Daniu.
"Huang Xiaodong, what do you want?…" Tian Daniu stepped back in shock and tried to run away…
"Bang——" Huang Xiaodong's hunting rifle fired. Tian Daniu fell headfirst onto the hillside…
Story evaluation
Set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution, this story tells a story about superstition, revenge, and redemption. Huang Xiaodong's innocence and curiosity are attracted by the mysterious power of the red fox, while his mother's longing for her late husband is exploited by the red fox. The militia in the story represents the political atmosphere of the time, and the crackdown on superstition reflects the social reality of that era. Huang Xiaodong's growth process is full of tragedy, and his revenge action ultimately leads to a greater tragedy. However, the final revelation of the red fox brings redemption and a glimmer of hope to the story. This story deeply depicts the complexity of human nature and the cruelty of the times, while also exploring the themes of fate and choice. However, the story is a bit abrupt in some plots, such as the red fox's ability to transform and the sudden appearance of Tian Daniu. If it can be portrayed more delicately, it will make the story more fascinating.
In the midst of the Cultural Revolution, when Huang Xiaodong was ten years old, he captured a talking red fox. It promised to fulfill his wish as long as he set it free. Huang Xiaodong asked for a hunting rifle, and the red fox kept its promise to give it to him. However, when his mother asked the red fox to conjure up her missing father, the red fox refused. When Huang Xiaodong was sixteen years old, he looked for the red fox again, but found that Tian Daniu, the benefactor who had saved them, had the red fox hanging on his shoulder, and the red fox was dead. Huang Xiaodong was shocked and aimed his gun at Tian Daniu. However, he only shot the red fox in disguise. Tian Daniu was actually the red fox in disguise, and he washed Huang Xiaodong's sins with his death.
three
Huang Xiaodong returned home, knelt down in front of his mother and said, "Mom, please forgive me for being unfilial and not being able to take care of you until the end of your life."
Huang Xiaodong's mother didn't know what had happened. She pulled Huang Xiaodong up in shock and asked, "Son, what happened? Tell me quickly."
"I didn't know what was going on, so I killed Tian Daniu." Huang Xiaodong said with tears in his eyes.
Huang Xiaodong's mother also started crying: "Oh my God, this is a matter of life and death. My child, you can't kill anyone, why did you kill Tian Daniu? He is such a good man!"
Huang Xiaodong said, "Mom, since I killed someone, it's no big deal. But you can't side with Tian Daniu. Not only did he take my dad's photo, he also killed the red fox, preventing it from bringing my dad back to life. This means my mother and I will never see my dad again in this lifetime. Tian Daniu deserves to die."
"Son, don't talk nonsense. Tian Daniu is a great benefactor to our family." Huang Xiaodong's mother said.
It turned out that six years ago, when Huang Xiaodong told his mother about the red fox turning into his father, someone heard it and reported it to Tian Daniu. At that time, it was the most revolutionary period of the Cultural Revolution. If anyone was caught practicing superstition, they would either be beaten to death or have their skin peeled off. It was Tian Daniu who stopped Huang Xiaodong and his mother from meeting the red fox in time and took away the photo of Huang Xiaodong's father, saving them from the disaster. Because Huang Xiaodong was young at the time, Tian Daniu and Huang Xiaodong's mother did not dare to explain the situation to Huang Xiaodong, which led to the tragedy of Huang Xiaodong shooting Tian Daniu today.
Huang Xiaodong was extremely shocked and regretted it after knowing the truth. But just at this moment, Tian Daniu appeared at Huang Xiaodong's door again.
Huang Xiaodong knelt down and kowtowed in horror: "Uncle Tian, Huang Xiaodong is sorry for you, please let the God of Hell take my life."
Huang Xiaodong's mother also knelt on the ground trembling with fear and begged: "His uncle, please be magnanimous and forgive Huang Xiaodong. I will ask him to turn himself in to pay for your life. Please stop scaring our child."
"What nonsense are you talking about? I, Tian Daniu, will not die."
Tian Daniu told them that the red fox had known that Huang Xiaodong would shoot him subconsciously when he was angry. So the red fox conjured up a Tian Daniu. The person Huang Xiaodong shot was actually the Tian Daniu that the red fox conjured up, not the real Tian Daniu. No matter how powerful the red fox was, it was impossible to revive Huang Xiaodong's father who had died many years ago, but what it could do was to eliminate the sins that Huang Xiaodong had committed due to his impulse by transforming into Tian Daniu.
Story evaluation
Set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution, this story tells a story about superstition, revenge, and redemption. Huang Xiaodong's innocence and curiosity are attracted by the mysterious power of the red fox, while his mother's longing for her late husband is exploited by the red fox. The militia in the story represents the political atmosphere of the time, and the crackdown on superstition reflects the social reality of that era. Huang Xiaodong's growth process is full of tragedy, and his revenge action ultimately leads to a greater tragedy. However, the final revelation of the red fox brings redemption and a glimmer of hope to the story. This story deeply depicts the complexity of human nature and the cruelty of the times, while also exploring the themes of fate and choice. However, the story is a bit abrupt in some plots, such as the red fox's ability to transform and the sudden appearance of Tian Daniu. If it can be portrayed more delicately, it will make the story more fascinating.