英語故事:Tiger Son

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     Once there was an elderly widow, Chen Ma, who lived with her only son inside a forest in the Shanxi Province. Her son was one of the tiger hunters licensedby the local magistratedesperate situation -- an old woman left all alone. She went and imploredthe magistrate to provide her with compensation for the loss of her son, who was her only source of support. The magistrate decreed that henceforth, she would have a small share of profits from the kill of each tiger by the hunters. Needless to say, his decision was not taken well by the hunters, who had plenty of mouths of their own to feed -- both old and young.

     So, when the hunters succeeded in killingthe tigress that ate Chen Ma's son, they decidednot to give her a share of the profits. Instead, they brought her the tigress' newborn cubwith tears.

     After the hunters left, the tiger cub wobbled to where Chen Ma sat and lay at her feet. She bentdown to rub his ears and he licked her shoes with his soft tongue.

     The elderly widow looked at the tiger baby and sighed. "They told me to butcher you, to salt and smoke your flesh for my meat supply. Your skin would make warm boots for my feet; your bones are good for making Tiger Bone Wine to ease the pain in my jointsthe rope from the little tiger's neck and fed him a paste of cooked roots with her fingers. Her son had a good supply of grains and roots in the attached shed and she planned to stretch the food out to last the winter.

     When the store of the firewood was running low, Chen Ma was unable to keep her bedroll on top of the kang warm (a kang is a bed base built of bricks with space for a small fire). So she slept curling against the baby tiger, whose soft fur was cozyand warm.

     Once ever so often, women from nearby villages would bring sewing for Chen Ma to do. She was very handy with a needle. They paid her for her laborwith dried venison and small sacks of grain. At first they did not find the little tiger's presence alarming; he was no bigger than a piglet. However, when spring came, he had grown into the size of a calfanyone who dared to harm her beloved pet.

     "I've lost both husband and son. This tiger is the only companion I have now. I shall go to the magistrate and request to adopt him as my son."

     The hunters thought the old woman had become mad and jeeredat her. But since she was so determinedhall.

     "Venerable Mother," said the magistrate. "Your request is most unusual. Are you not afraid that some day the tiger might revertto his wild nature and devouryou?"

     "Honorable sir," replied the old widow with tears in her eyes. "What is there to fear? I have lived too long. The only worry I have now is being left utterly alone. Please let me adopt this young tiger, for he has become like a son in my affections."

     The kindlymagistrate did not have the heart to refuse such an ancient woman's pleading. So he had his assistant draw up a document for the tiger's adoptionpendent made to hang around the beast's neck. The words "Fu Chee" were engravedon the pendent meaning Tiger Son. To show her deep gratitudewhenever the tiger became playful. Reluctantly, she allowed Fu Chee to make his home inside a cave nearby.

     However, the affectionate tiger came back to visit his adopted mother often, always bearing a gift in his mouth -- a dead deer or a large piece of tree branch. Also, he still liked to lick her shoes and to have his ears rubbed. Chen Ma's needs were being cared for just as if her natural son was still alive!

     After Chen Ma died at the ripe old age past one hundred, the hunters noticed Fu Chee guarded her tomb nightly. They left him unmolested as he had never attacked any humans or domestic animals. This went on for a number of years and then one day the tiger was seen no more.

     Out of deep respect and admirationfor the filial tiger son, the hunters erecteda small stone monument at Chen Ma's tomb with Fu Chee's story engraved on it. Henceforth, Fu Chee became a household legend in that part of Shanxi Province.

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