Chapter 3 "The Story of Reynard the Fox" Reynard the Fox teaches Ethan Grande to catch fish

Isanglan was secretly doused with boiling water by Reynard Fox, and he was in such pain that he sat at the gate of Reynard Fox's house and moaned.Reynard Fox came out of a side door and came up to him. "Oh, my dear uncle, I love you so much! I can't bear you to be out all alone on such a cold night! If I could keep you company, the night might be too short for you." Some." Ethan Grande didn't have the energy to answer.He just moaned and trembled and grumbled. Then, the fox and the wolf walked forward in the dark silently without saying a word. I don't know if it was a coincidence or a trick by Reynard Fox, they came to a nearby pond.

It was the severe winter season, and the pond was frozen.There was a hole in the ice that the farmers had made to give their animals water. Reynard looked around the ice hole.There is also a bucket for drawing water next to the hole. "Ha ha," he said to himself, as if hopelessly, "this is a very good place to catch eels!" These words immediately aroused Esanglan's greed, and he suddenly forgot the pain of being scalded just now. "How can we catch eels?" asked the wolf. "Just use this guy," said Reynard, pointing to the bucket, "tie it up with a rope and sink it into the water. But you must be patient, it will take a long time to lift the bucket up. At that time, the bucket It's full of the best unagi you've ever tasted."

"Let me catch it!" Ethan Grande said eagerly. "Since you want to catch, then, good uncle, start to catch!" said Reynard, "I will not tell the monks, and they will not know that you have broken the obligatory fast tonight." "But we don't have any rope to tie the bucket, and I have a little bit of thread here that won't help." "Hey, there's a way!" exclaimed Ethan Grande, "Reynard, you tie the bucket to my tail. I'd like to squat like this and let a lot of fish swim into the bucket. So, who And won't take our eels away."

Reynard Fox secretly smiled, and immediately tied the bucket firmly to Isangran's tail.Ethan Grande sat on the ice and let the bucket sink into the ice cave. At this time, Reynard Fox hid in a bush farther away.With his mouth between his front paws, he watched the wolf's movements half asleep. The nights are getting colder.The water in the bucket tied to the wolf's tail gradually froze.Poor Ethan Grande felt the bucket was getting heavier and heavier, and thought it was full of fish. Finally, the ice was so hard and thick that Ethan Grande couldn't move.Then he became anxious and cried out:

"Reynard, the bucket is probably full, right? I can't move anymore! There's too much in it, please help me!" "Besides, it's almost dawn, and there will be danger in a while." Reynard laughed loudly in the distance, showing a sarcastic expression. "I can't chew more than I can chew!" he said. It is really daylight and people are getting up. A wealthy lord of the village, accustomed to hunting at dawn, came out in search of game.He rode toward the pond with his dog, and there was an uproar in the fields. "Wolf! Wolf!" cried the lord's followers, "he is chained, kill him!"

A large group of people ran towards the wolf.The hounds lead the charge, and the lord is at the forefront. Needless to say, the Reynard Fox had already run away as soon as he heard the sound of hunting. After the lord got off his horse, he raised his sword and ran towards the wolf.By this time the hounds had surrounded him. However, after the lord stepped on the ice, his foot slipped, and the sword missed the wolf's body, but cut off a part of his tail that was frozen in the ice.The wolf thus escaped. Ethan Gran was in severe pain, jumping around, and finally got rid of the hunting dogs.In addition to leaving a part of his tail in the ice, he also had skin injuries and lost a lot of hair.

He is in great pain.But when he thought of the beautiful tail that had been lost, his pain was unbearable. In the end, a doubt loomed in his heart -- which also added to his pain: he wondered if his nephew Reynard was playing tricks on him?