Long ago, there lived a young man, called Lisheng, who
had just married a beauty. The bride was very willful.
One day, she had an idea that a coat of fox fur would
look pretty on her. So she asked her husband to get her
one. But the coat was rare and too expensive. The helpless
husband was forced to walk around on the hillside. Just
at the moment, a fox was walking by. He lost no time to
catch it by the tail. "Well, dear fox, let's make
an agreement. Could you offer me a sheet of your skin?
That isn't a big deal, is it?."
The fox was shocked at the request, but she replied calmly,
"Well, my dear, that's easy. But let my tail go so
that I can pull off the skin for you." So the delighted
man let her free and waited for the skin. But the moment
the fox got free, she ran away as quickly as she could
into the forest.
The story can be well used for reference that it is
hard to ask someone to act against his own will, even
though only a little sometimes.
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