The flower bull did

Do bulls like to fight?

Ferdinand doesn't like to fight with other bulls.He likes flowers.

'You're eighter a fighter or you're meet.Right?'

If the runaway bull has to go to the show again.What will happen?Can he survive by his own way?

While other boy bulls fought with each other,showing who is the winner.Young Ferdinand found a red flower and wanted to watering the little bloom.

He was peaceful and said,he did't want to fight.

His father was choosed to go to the show.He also said,the bulls were borned to fight.And he would win at the last,came back to teach Ferdinand all his skills and secret.

Young Ferdinand started to wait.As time went by,the truck which he saw his father's last face came back with nothing.Ferdinand was lost.And,he decided to run away from the bull farm.

He jumped on the train.He arrived at a hill,where a shadow of human in his view.But he was too tired to run any more.

The next day,when he waked up,a girl came to him.He was nervous.But the girl said:'I'll take care of you.'He smelt the fragrance from the girl,a white blossom.

And she has done that.Ferdinand found out the new place was a wide green valley.Hills,grass,trees,and flowers.He is free ,safe,abundant,and peaceful.

He liked smelling the fragrance from the flowers.

He liked eating carraot,sleeping with the girl,playing with the dog...

As time went by,Ferdinand grew up as a giant bull.Owing to the fear of a beast,Ferdinand was too big to go to the flower festival.Couldn't bare the disappointment and full of curiosty,he decided to go to the town.

However,just like a teenager who want to have a try,curious,exciting,clumsy,careful and and not not knowing what would happen.Then a series of chaos happened.Ferdinand finally saved the baby while he made his mother frightened at first.

People take bulls as beasts.Bulls are violent and ready to fight.Ferdinand is a bull.And Ferdinand made a series of chaos.So,Ferdinand is dangerous and should be caught.A rumor was said that Ferdinand had ate a baby.

Then,Ferdinand was caught,and sent to the bull farm again.

He met his peer again.Of course,they all grew up with huge size.

They were still fighting with each other,waiting to be choosed to the last show as the strongest bull with glory.

Ferdinand said that he did't want to fight at all.

During the days in the farm,his kindness to other bulls was turned out to be needed.Thouth they kept competting with each other.Talking about 'fight' each day.

One of the bull always ran without directions.His sight was covered by his hair.Ferdinand helped him to make the hair up on the head,enjoying a new haircut.

One of the bull felt sad for another bull who was sent to become meat.Ferdinand reassured him.He did feel better though they looked like competiors.

When they were despised by the horses in the neighbourhood,they even cooperated together as a team of bull.Though their figures were giant and somewhat clumsy,they could dance in a powerful style.

However,'fighter or meat' made the bulls hardly ever enjoyed laughing.They aknowledged that fighting was the only way to survive.Ferdinand wanted to leave this place,with a new friend ，a goat.And 3 hedgehogs that he had gave some things to them and they could stop stealing like thieves.

Ferdinand run away again.Just like his childhood,run and jumped on a train,went to the valley in the distance.

But there were some changes in the routines.

A room he crossed with 53 swords,a statue of the bull against the bullfighter,and one of the photos on the wall that Ferdinand almost ignored.

He 'met' his father again.

He stood in his final photo as a strog bull.Only his horns remainded.He never came back again.

What's more,there were a lot of horns of other bulls on the wall.

They were gone on the show.No one really won at the last.No one really lived in the flesh with glory as the most successful fighter.

Are bulls borned to fight？The loser is weak, and shameful ,in dangerous all the time.The winner is safe,successful,and happy after the last fight.

The rule was set by human.A rule became a belief.And the bulls took the rule as the world,while taking the belief as their lives!

Unexpectly,the bullfighter choosed Ferdinand to be his last show.The bull who wanted to fight，whose horn was breaked in the confrontation with Ferdinand,was sent to the slaughterhouse.

What would Ferdinand do?Would he go to the show,fight with a humanbeing?He decided to run away with his guys.

Don' t you get it?Look at me!I'm already done!

Oh sure.That makes total sense.

You're eighter a fighter or you're meet.Right?

That‘s right.

It does't have to be that way.

You're more than just a set of horns.Come with us.

So I can snift flowers and pal aroud with goals?

No,that's my thing.

You can live your own life now.

But not if you give up.

Go away.

Wow.I thought you were a fighter.I guess I was wrong.

Though the slaughterhouse was horrible,the bulls came out at last.The animals left the farm,driving the trunk on the road against mem,crossing the town.People were shocked ,enven frightened. The runaway animals kept running,struggling to get on the train.

However,Ferdinand was caught.He helped the peer but the situation made him choose to give up his run.

Ferdinand went to the show at last，just like his father.

The same way.The same building.The same show.

Would the same destiny happen again upon Ferdinand?

The goat coach said to Ferdinand,just to fight for once.

Still,Ferdinand didn't want to fight any more.

He just wanted to avoid the sharp knives.It did hurt!

Ferdinand avoid the knives again and again.People almost felt somewhat boring and out of their expectation.

He has avoided a bullfighter‘s attack.And suddenly the sword pricked his skin.

Ferdinand felt pain and angry!He put up the bullfighter by his horns with fury eyes and trumbling nose!

Would Ferdinand attack and kill the bullfighter?

He suddenly felt a soft red folwer right beneath his hoof.He put the bullfighter down.

Ferdinand looked down to the flower.Snifting the flower gently.He felt the ordinary moment that snifting the flowers in the wide green valley.

That's his favorite thing.THAT'S HIMSELF.

He did not want to fight.

He chose his way.

Ferdinand set down and accepted the bullfighter's choise.Even the bulls' destiny were determined.

People changed their thoughts.

'LET HIM GO!'

They wanted to see the courage and power in a fight.And this show is enough.

The bullfighter accepted the audience's suggestion.His last show ended up with glory——a bull with peace and a bullfighter never fought without anger、power and danger.

Killing a peaceful bull was not a show with courage,wisdom,excitement.That was not a fight.

The flower bull did.

Survive.

Finally,Ferdinand met his girl again.

And his peer went to the wide green walley together.

Living in the flesh in their own way.

《爱花的牛》

费迪南是一头小牛犊的时候，周围的小牛，还有爸爸，都认为公牛就是要战斗，要赢，赢得最高的荣耀。

可是，他爱花。他说，我不怕。我知道，我喜欢花。

爸爸被挑选去赛场一去不回。害怕的、失望的、压抑的费迪南趁机会跑出了公牛饲养场。

他遇到了一个小女孩。在远方的山谷里，得到了很多的照顾，陪伴，新的好友。山谷里有很多花花，有很大的空间，美丽的景色。

费迪南渐渐长大了，成了一头体积很大的公牛。

就像青春期的少年，对于自己喜欢，想要，但又被告知不能去的地方，费迪南好奇地、笨拙地、小心地、又出乎意料地出了一系列状况。人们对公牛有着刻板印象的恐惧，甚至有谣言说费迪南吃掉了一个婴儿……虽然这个状况是费迪南引起的，但他最后保护了婴儿。

费迪南又被送到了公牛饲养场。

童年的伙伴都已经长大。都仍然在比较，战斗。费迪南仍然表态不参与这些战斗。他发现了天天喊战斗的同伴们隐藏的一面：帮助伙伴把遮住眼睛的头发撩起；倾听安慰伙伴对被送去屠宰场的对手的担心。甚至因为邻居3匹马的挑战，内斗的牛牛们还能搭档跳舞，像个团队那样。

这些天天斗争的公牛，也有不好斗，需要支持和团结的一面。

费迪南在逃走的时候，再次和爸爸“相遇”——一张图片和仅存的牛角。甚至满墙都是牛角。啊，原来没有哪头公牛真的赢了人类，没有哪头公牛获得了“赢到最后”的荣耀，没有哪头公牛活着回来。而公牛却都觉得，在斗争中胜利就是赢，就拥有荣誉，还可以活下去……

不是这样的，这是没有牛赢的战斗。人类定下了规则。规则变成了信念。公牛们把规则当成了世界，把信念变成了人生！

可是，费迪南还是被选中去参加斗牛士的最后一场表演。他的对手在顶角角力中，角断了，也被送去屠宰场。费迪南选择了逃走，还有他的牛伙伴。

“要么是斗牛，要么是牛肉。对吗？”为什么要斗，要赢，因为输就是死。

他安慰一直以斗争胜利为荣的牛，你可以去过你的生活。前提是你不放弃生命。

一群动物团结一心，开车逃离了公牛饲养场，穿过城市中心，躲到火车站，奋力赶上火车。

费迪南被剩下了，形势所逼，他放弃了跳上火车的机会。他最终还是走上斗牛场，像爸爸一样走过这条路，面对公牛的命运——斗争与死亡。

羊教练对他说，你就战斗一次。

费迪南不想战斗。

他对那些尖矛躲呀躲呀，他不想战斗。观众都快觉得无聊了。

他刚躲开了斗牛士的剑，却被剑刺伤了。费迪南觉得疼，大怒，用角把斗牛士挑起来。愤怒的眼神，喘气的鼻子，瞪着斗牛士……

就在他怒不可遏时，他感觉到了踩在脚下的花花。他把斗牛士放到一边。

费迪南闻了闻花，仿佛在山谷里那些闻花香的时刻。

自由的他。温和的他。安宁的他。这就是他。

斗牛士再次对他伸出剑。

费迪南放弃战斗，就要死去吗？

他选择了不战斗。他坚持了自己的原则和本性，接受这些结果。

人们转而要求斗牛士放过这头不一样的公牛。人们和斗牛士所要观看的战斗，是勇敢地迎战的勇气、力量、智慧、应变，杀掉不战斗的公牛，并不是赢。

费迪南和小女孩再次相遇了。

爱花的牛做到了活着走出斗牛场。

他坚持他的原则，离开了这个坑了无数牛的信念和“表演”。

费迪南和他的同伴们，重新在山谷生活。

以他们各自的方式生活着。

故事讲完了。