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Huang Jue
A tailless old granary dog who is secretly a god; he frees a captive fox king and later becomes an oracle for the official who spared him.
Huang Jue, "Yellow Stump", is the god who frees the thousand-year-old fox king in the story of Zheng Hongzhi. He turns out to be a tailless dog from the county granary. Spared by Zheng, he foretells his promotions and dangers for years, and leaves when Zheng's good fortune is used up.