When Shandan was seven or eight years old, he often went to shepherd sheep with his brother Tiedan'er, and the sheep ran all over the mountains and fields on the green grassland. The two of them didn't do it from time to time, and they were very bored.

There were white clouds floating in the blue sky, the iron eggs were taking care of the sheep, and Shandan was lying on the grass looking at the ever-changing clouds, which turned into a puppy and a boat, and it was this unpredictable cloud that gave her infinite reverie in childhood.

Shandan now lives in the world of reinforced concrete every day, and still yearns for the days when he lies on the grass at random under the blue sky, watching the clouds roll over and down in the sky, and squint to appreciate the colorful rays of the sun through his fingers - the cool breeze floats by, the quiet, the unrestrained makes people nostalgic.

There is also a fun game is to find a thatch circle into a circle, square round triangle as you like, put it in your mouth and coat it with a layer of saliva, and then find a kind of weed with milk called small apricot leaves, use the juice of small apricot leaves to point it, and then put it in the sun to see, that film can be transformed into countless colorful patterns.

Whatever you want, it's like anything, let your imagination gallop on the endless grassland.

Once, when the sheep were grazing leisurely, Shandan and his brother Tie Dan'er were looking for something to play with, and Tie Dan'er said that there was a wolf den in the past and now there was a nest of foxes, and asked Shandan if he dared to see it.

Tie Dan'er was three years older than Shandan, it was the age of being very naughty, Shandan was bold and careful to follow his brother under the instigation of his brother, tightly pulled Tie Dan'er's clothes, and carefully entered the fox hole, the hole was one person high, they didn't have to bow their heads at all, it was about a zhang deep, and it was dark and terrifying.

Near the entrance of the cave were leftover chicken and rabbit skeletons, and on the ground was a person's head, with black hair on it.

Tie Dan'er said that it was not long ago, and a person died in the grassland behind him, very young. The fox must have robbed the man's tomb and stole his head and came back to feed the little fox, and he was not afraid.

Tie Dan'er's curiosity was not satisfied at all, and he kept walking inside, the hole was very deep, and the more he went inside, the narrower and darker it became, and Shandan tightly dragged Tie Dan'er's clothes to go in step by step, and suddenly saw a few pairs of faint green and faint green points of light as he walked.

Shandan was so frightened that he couldn't make a sound, and Tie Dan'er whispered, "See? That's the little fox." He said, "Let's go out slowly, and the little fox will come out." "Tie Dan'er has been here more than once, and he is very familiar with it.

They walked out slowly, and sure enough, the little fox really followed, and when they reached the entrance of the cave, the little fox stopped going out, and stood there looking out, and the fluffy puppies were like newborn puppies, there were four or five, and they were very cute.

Shandan walked over gently, and they stepped back, always keeping a certain distance from Shandan, who wanted to play a little longer, but his brother said, "Mother Fox may bite us when she comes back, so we have to leave quickly." ”

They reluctantly got out of the fox hole. Tie Dan'er was afraid of being taught a lesson by his mother, and repeatedly told Shandan not to tell his mother that they had entered the fox hole. But she still couldn't help but secretly sue her mother, but the result was that Tie Dan'er didn't eat dinner, and she was beaten by her mother.

Then, Iron Egg tells a story about a fox. He said that when he was a child, there was a man in the village who took advantage of the fact that the mother fox was out foraging for food from the mountain, smoked the little fox with a cigarette, and carried it home, and since then the whole village has not been at peace, and the mother fox will come every night and howl miserably.

The chickens in the village became scapegoats, and it didn't take long for them all to be eaten by the foxes.

The fox has a particularly good sense of smell, it can sniff out who has captured her baby fox and will run around the family's roof every day. The howls continued, and the whole village was not at peace, and this situation lasted for more than half a year.

Tie Dan'er said: It is estimated that the mother fox has a new baby, so she gave up her hatred and stopped tossing.

Tie Dan'er said: "Fortunately, you didn't hurt the little fox, and fortunately, the old fox hasn't come back yet, otherwise, the situation will be unpredictable." If the old fox sees you in its nest, it may bite you to protect the cubs. If you are bitten by a fox, you can get rabies, which is a fatal disease!"

Shandan understood his mother's worries and strict discipline of his brother when he heard about it.

It is said that everyone hung the fox that caught and fell to death on the wall, and the iron egg began to peel the skin, and a fox skin can be exchanged for a few sheep!

First pick out the facial features, then reach in from the mouth, separate the skin from the flesh, and finally the tail should be gently stroked, and a complete fox skin will be removed.

Silver fox fur is not as valuable as red fox fur, but it is worth a lot more than sand fox fur.

The old cobbler could go through several procedures to make fox fur hats out of fox skin, but this craft has long been lost.

Everyone sells the fox skins and buys a few sheep to raise in exchange for money.

A complete fox fur would have cost two or three hundred dollars at that time.

And one raises only sells for seventy or eighty yuan.

Peel the fox skin, and then stuff the dry wheat straw into the fox skin, prop it up like a living fox, hang it under the eaves to dry, and in winter, naturally there are traders who collect the skin to buy it.