Two or three days ago, the domestic servant (yōyōng) caught a little fox from the mountain. To this day, it doesn't eat anything fed to it.

On the bare oak forest, the lonely moon is exposed. Fox sat alone in the nest, with his neck upturned and howling. This is a clear and sad voice.

Masataro stared at the fox. He thought Fox might be calling his mother-mother-how poor Fox is!

In the middle of the night, Akita barked and Masataro was awakened. Mom and dad slept soundly. Masataro got up quietly and looked at the barn with wide eyes. I saw a big fox swaggering towards Akita Dog, with a trembling chicken in its mouth.

Akita's dog jumped on him, and the old fox quickly turned and ran away. Akita chased the darkness. Before long, dogs will bark in the distance.

At this moment, another old fox appeared quietly. When the little fox saw the old fox, he kept humming and rubbing his nose against the old fox's body. It wanted to go with the old fox, but it was caught by the chain just after two or three steps. This was repeated twice before the old fox found the chain. It bit hard with its teeth, and it took a long time to realize that it was futile, so it lay on the ground and nursed the little fox.

I don't know when, the fox father who led the dog out came back. Its neck is straight, pay attention to them. After a while, Father Fox let out a cry of alarm. Mother fox had to leave her children. The two old foxes looked back again and disappeared into the dark forest.

Later, the old fox never came again.

"Probably think can't save the fox, dead. It's better to untie the little fox early. This is really pitiful. " Masataro thought.

Strangely, although the little fox still doesn't eat, he grows up day by day.

At noon that day, Masataro casually walked to the fox's nest and suddenly heard a crack (kā). There is nothing around, but the footprints of foxes are clearly printed on the warm ground.

"Ha ha! How dare you come during the day! " Masataro suddenly understood the reason why the fox appeared during the day. "Yes, the dog is tied during the day!"

But how did they escape so fast? I disappeared as soon as I heard the sound!

Masataro looked under the floor and got a fright. Four green eyes stared at him. Those are just Fox's parents. They stared at Masataro for a while, then quietly climbed up the brick that led from under the floor to the upper room, climbed to the place where the kitchen stove was put, and disappeared.

The old fox made a nest under the floor!

Masataro found that the previous two old foxes were dark diàn, probably because they remembered the little foxes and obviously lost weight.

Masataro really wants to untie Fox. Just then, the old fox began to do something unusual, which made him give up the idea: the old fox realized that he couldn't stop biting the chain anyway, so he bit the stake tied to the chain. Masataro thought it might be better for the old fox to rescue the little fox with his own strength.

Masataro decided to send food to the hungry old fox. Whenever he cooks oily tofu at home, he leaves some under the floor; Pour a glass of milk into the broken bowl under the floor every day. A month later, the old fox and Masataro got to know each other. Sometimes when there is no one else at home, Masataro's door will knock gently. Two foxes squeezed in through the crack of the door, licked Masataro's hand and walked slowly around the room. When the fox sees Masataro, he will lick his hand gently with his rough pink tongue.

The old fox never forgets to save the little fox. Gradually, the stake was bitten very thin. How happy the old fox was when he rescued the little fox with his own strength! Masataro's eyes welled up with tears at the thought of these.

One day, Masataro came home from school, passed the barn and looked into the fox's nest, but he didn't even see the fox's shadow. He hurried to ask his mother, who told him that the fox had been taken away by Mr. An Tian. Masataro was in a hurry. He said the fox must be returned to its parents. Say that finish, ran towards Mr. An Tian's ranch on the other side of the mountain.

Masataro ran and ran, and accidentally stepped on the snow on the edge of the cliff. As the snow fell, he lost consciousness. I don't know how long it took, but Masataro felt his face warm. He struggled to open his eyes and saw a big fox licking his cheek. Another fox squatted on his chest, warming his body.

The next day, Masataro invited the fox back and went to the valley with his father to set him free.

The little fox just ran out of a dozen meters away, and the old fox came running from nowhere, jumping around the little fox happily, and then swishing towards the depths of the forest together.

Facing the dazzling morning sun, the foxes' footprints are shining with golden light, extending all the way to the depths of the dense forest.