Once upon a time, in a mountain village, there was a family surnamed Yi, three generations of grandparents and grandchildren, the old man was called Yi Laosan, and he was an experienced hunter in the village when he was young.

Later, there were fewer prey in the mountains, and the third child was also old, so he changed to collecting medicine, and took his son up the mountain to collect medicine all day for money, and his life was passable.

After his son Yifu became married, he gave birth to a son named Yibao.

Yifu saw that his father was old, so he asked the old man to rest at home and go up the mountain to collect medicine by himself.

The family, who had a very smooth life, did not expect an incident to happen, which suddenly made the family's life lose peace.

One day, Yifu went up the mountain to collect medicine as usual, and in order to pick a medicinal herb on the cliff, he accidentally fell off the cliff, and when he was found, he had already lost his breath.

lost his father at an early age, lost his husband in middle age, lost his son in old age, and the three major misfortunes in life all fell on the family at once. Yi Laosan's family cried to death, but they couldn't recall Yifu.

After the burial of Yifu, the family's life has to go on. As time passed, Yijia's life gradually returned to peace, but God didn't seem to pity this family who had just recovered from their grief.

For some reason, the youngest grandson Yibao had a strange illness, and the low-grade fever continued to go away, and the family's savings were all spent, and it did not get better. The family frowns every day, if Yibao has three longs and two shorts, the family really can't live.

At this time, there was a rumor in the village that a white fox appeared in the mountains. Yi Laosan is still a little in awe of the white fox, and he always feels a little bit like a mortal creature.

After a few days, there were more and more rumors about the white fox, and some people even said it clearly, when and where they saw it, the size of their body, and what their face looked like.

So there were young people in the village who did not believe in evil and planned to go up the mountain to look for it, because they had heard that this thing could be sold for a good price.

According to the third child, he didn't have the idea of fighting this white fox at first, and there were hundreds or thousands of ordinary prey he hunted when he was young, but he was always a little timid about such creatures.

But seeing the listlessness of his sick grandson, there was nothing valuable at home to change the dressing, he stomped his feet and muttered: "God, I am doing this for my grandson, punish me if you want to punish me, don't blame my grandson." ”

It snowed that day, and in the evening, Yi Laosan took a clip and called the family's big yellow dog to set off.

Foxes like to go out at night, according to the third child with the experience of hunting when he was young, he knows where the fox likes to hide, if the white fox comes out to hunt at night, it will definitely leave traces on the snow, so he braved the snow to find.

According to the third child and Rhubarb looking for it, he suddenly saw Rhubarb's ears stand up, as if he had found something, he estimated that the white fox was nearby, and began to find a place to set up a clip.

At this time, Yi Laosan saw a white shadow flashing in front of him, and Rhubarb immediately chased after him, but after a while, Rhubarb ran back.

Yi Lao San knew that Rhubarb was old, and he didn't blame him, and was about to continue looking for the fox's den, but he didn't expect Rhubarb to jump out with a "Wang" sound.

When he looked up, he saw a white fox standing on a large rock not far away.

When the white fox saw Rhubarb running, he didn't run immediately, but waited for Rhubarb to come to him before he dodged and ran backwards.

This time the rhubarb didn't catch up, and ran back in frustration.

After repeating it several times like this, Yi Laosan suddenly understood something, and immediately called Rhubarb to come back and continued to look around the same place.

Sure enough, behind a bush of weeds, I found a hole, and as soon as the third child picked up the weeds, he saw a white thing popping out of it.

Yi Lao San stepped forward to take a closer look, and it turned out to be a little fox cub, also with white hair.

He hurriedly took off his clothes, wrapped the fox cub, and thought: It turns out that the white fox just now wanted to lead me elsewhere, but I was afraid that the fox cub would be caught, so I caught the small one, went home and locked it in a cage, and waited for the big fox to take the bait.

Yi Lao San returned home, found a cage, locked the little fox in, and tied the cage door to death with a rope. He knew that the big white fox would definitely follow, but he wouldn't come home tonight, only outside the village. Tomorrow night, the big fox will come with him, and tomorrow he will put a clamp in the yard.

After getting up at dawn, Yi Laosan found that there were three hares that had been bitten to death in front of the cage. He didn't know if he was trying to please himself, or if he wanted to feed the little fox.

But Yi Lao San didn't give the little fox a little food and drink, he just wanted to let the little fox cry when he was hungry and thirsty, and attract the big white fox, so that he could catch the big fox.

Two days later, the little fox cub could no longer scream, and in the evening, it was only heard once or twice in the middle of the night.

This night is the full moon, Yi Laosan hid in front of the window and stared at the yard, suddenly saw the white fox come in, found the cage, pulled for a long time and did not open the cage, around the cage straight circle.

Suddenly, something happened that Yi Laosan couldn't dream of. I saw the white fox walk to the door, his body lying on the ground, his head lying on his two front paws.

Yi Lao San was stunned for a moment, I don't know what this white fox is going to do? Seeing that the white fox was lying on its stomach and not moving, he walked out of the door with a stick, but the white fox still did not move.

Yi Lao San walked lightly to the white fox, only to see a pair of white fox eyes looking at him calmly, without the slightest sign of wanting to run.

Yi Laosan raised the stick and was about to knock it down, but found that the white fox's body trembled, but he didn't hide to the side, just closed his eyelids.

Yi Laosan immediately understood that this was the white fox deliberately sent to the door to die, in order to let himself let go of its cubs.

Poor white fox, he couldn't find a way to save his cubs, he just wanted to exchange his life for a life.

Thinking of this, Yi Laosan's arm also softened, and he couldn't bear to do it, so he let out a "sigh" and threw away the stick.

At this moment, he remembered the scene when his son died, the old couple cried to death, and his wife cried and kept saying: "God, take my life in exchange for my son's life!"

Yi Laosan opened the cage and released the little fox, as soon as the cage door was opened, the little fox threw himself at the white fox, and the third child looked at the hot eyes, and couldn't help but cry.

The white fox hugged the little fox and looked at Yi Laosan, he waved his hand at it and said, "Let's go, don't be in this mountain, let others catch it and not necessarily let it go." ”

The white fox turned on one side, the little fox jumped on the back of the big fox, the white fox jumped to the gate with the little fox on his back, turned around again, hugged the two front paws, and made a gesture to Yi Laosan, and then turned around and ran to the mountain with the little fox on his back.

Yi Lao San turned around and returned to the house, thinking about his sick little grandson, sighing, I don't know how long it took to fall asleep.

The next day, he got up early and opened the door, but saw a pile of rare herbs on the ground, all of which grew on the cliff and no one could pick them. Yi Lao San suddenly thought in his heart that this was sent by the white fox to the little grandson, so he hurriedly asked his wife to fry it for the little grandson to eat.

Within a few days, the little grandson's spirit came up, the low-grade fever was gone, and he began to dangle in front of Yi Laosan again.

According to the direction of the white fox, the third child bowed three times, and two lines of old tears unconsciously flowed from the corners of his eyes.

There is a Fengjiazhuang at the foot of the mountain, and there is a courtyard in the village, and the owner is called Fengcai, and his wife Ji lives together. Feng Cai's father died three years ago, and only the younger two lived. The two of them respect and love each other, the man ploughs and the woman weaves, and their lives are sweet.

One morning, the sky was overcast and dark.

At this time, Feng Cai and Ji were both preparing to eat in the main room. The two heard that someone had entered the courtyard, and when they looked up, it was the old man who was walking towards the main room, so frightened that the little two had seven souls out of their bodies, and hurriedly closed the door tightly with a "clang", and they didn't dare to come out. Isn't this a big daylight to live and hell?

When the little couple was frightened, they suddenly heard the old man shouting excitedly: "Cai'er, I am your father, you don't have to be afraid." Since you buried me, the grave robbers opened the grave, and I don't know how long it took for me to come back to life like a dream. At that time, I was afraid that you were afraid, and you never dared to go home, and wandered outside. Now, my body is becoming less and less useful, so I came home. ”

As he spoke, the old man had already walked outside the main room. After hearing this, the young couple peeked out through the crack in the door again, and made sure that it was their father, and his face was the same as before he died.

The young couple were filial sons, so they had to open the door and welcome their father into the house. The two looked at their father, but they didn't see any accidents, and their hearts were much more stable.

Ji hurriedly fried a few more dishes for his father, and Fengcai knew that his father liked to drink a few cups, so he hurriedly went out and bought a pot of wine and came back. Just because Fengcai didn't drink since he was a child, the neighbors felt strange. Feng Cai then told everyone happily that his father had come back alive, and explained his father's words again.