Volume 1: Candle Dragon in the South China Sea Chapter 13: The White Fox Repays the Favor (2)
After finishing this, I continued to smoke a cigarette, and after a while, Chen Haoyue and the fat man walked over while eating.
Leaving me on this deserted mountain road, these two guys are still in the mood to eat?
I asked angrily, "Why did you two go?" Why made me wait so long. ”
The fat man wiped his mouth and said with a smile: "There were quite a lot of people queuing up at a small shop selling fried chicken on the side of the road just now, and we also got over and queued for a long time, just to taste what it tasted like." ”
After the fat man finished speaking, he took out a chicken leg from the paper bag and handed it to me, the chicken leg was still steaming, and the smell of cumin and pepper filled the air. Seriously, after a day in the car, although the scenery along the way is good, the stomach is hungry.
I was about to put this delicious chicken leg into my stomach, but the white fox in the distance did not run far, hid behind the tree, revealing its fluffy tail, and two dark eyes stared at the chicken leg in my hand.
I looked up, the little fox's front paws kept scratching as if it was coquettish to me, I couldn't bear it, and reluctantly threw the chicken leg to it.
The little fox was not afraid at all, and after watching me feed it, it also boldly walked towards me. I took another bottle of water from Chen Haoyue's hand and poured some for it, the little fox raised his head, raised his front paws and landed on the ground, nodded his head at me slightly, his eyes were a little moist, and tears flowed.
I thought it was a little funny when I saw it, and I thought to myself, even a fox knows how to be grateful these days.
The fat man and Chen Haoyue got into the car, and the car horn sounded at me, and the little fox was frightened and fled in a hurry.
I watched the fox's back gradually disappear into the mountain road, and looked back at me from time to time.
The sun is setting towards the sky, the earth is bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun, and the burning sunset is gradually dimming.
It's not early, it's better to hurry first, I didn't think much about getting into the car, and the fat man drove towards the village.
The plan could not catch up with the change, the car did not arrive in the village at night, the fat man could only drive the car to a nearby town, and the three finally decided to find a hotel to stay in, after all, it was dark and it was not too late to enter the village tomorrow.
After all, the guest house is in a small town, and there is neither air conditioning nor bathroom in the room, which is inevitably a little simple, but the weather in the south is unbearable, so I have no choice but to go outside to cool off, sit on a piece of marble and smoke, and look at the vast starry sky.
How silent the night was, the moonlight sprinkled evenly on this country town, and the earth slept quietly, and the smoke of the breeze swirled, watching the smoke slowly fall under the deserted streets, and the whole street was silent.
Not far away, the lights are bright, and behind every light is a warm family, and the family sits together for dinner in harmony. Through the faint light of the fire, it was a gentle dream.
As he extinguished his cigarette and was about to get up to go back to bed, a few fireflies flapped their wings and lit up the country road in front of him.
I was a little curious, followed the fireflies, and soon came to the small river not far away, the river was crystal clear, a few small fish kept swimming with their tails, I picked up a handful of clear spring with my hand, and drank it to taste sweet and delicious.
I remember when I lived with my grandfather when I was a child, I would go down to the river with my friends to fish every time after school, and although my grandfather told me not to go to that dangerous place, it was really the happiest time of my life.
The small river in the countryside is generally prolific billfish, commonly known as "river fish", this fish is native to the strong vitality, the reproductive ability is amazing, can adapt to any water environment, but it is strange, as long as it is caught and put into the fish tank to raise, the white belly will surface in a few days, and the dead warped.
There are many billfish, and of course they are the most difficult to catch, with smooth scales, a long, flat body, and extremely fast swimming speeds, which require a net or bait to catch.
But grandpa has a clever trick, without any tools, just use the common dog tail grass in the field, hang a corn at the end of the tail, and put it in the river with many fish, the billfish is greedy by nature, and the vigilance is poor, and the billfish that has been hungry for a few days will eat it violently when it sees fresh corn kernels.
Why use dog tail grass, because there are barbs at the end of the dog tail grass, after peeling off those fine hairy branches, there are dense barbs left, hang a few tender corn on the barbs, and the billfish will be hooked by the barbs as soon as they bite the bait, as long as they are carefully lifted slowly, they will generally not run away.
But dogtail grass generally grows in places with a lot of snakes, how can it grow so much here? I was a little confused, but I didn't care about that.
In this way, I went to the bud rice field to find a tender corn, pulled out a few dog's tail grass, carefully hung the tender corn kernels on the barbs, and after guarding for two hours, although I ran a few halfway, I finally caught five or six billfish.
It's a lot of fun, and it's kind of reliving childhood memories. When I was about to release the fish back into the river, all of a sudden, a white figure appeared from behind me, and before I could run far, I crouched beside me.
I was immediately startled, and collapsed on the grass, and when I calmed down, I opened my eyes slightly to see that it was the white fox that I had rescued in the afternoon.
The little fox shook his head, his two dark eyes stared at me stupidly, his fluffy tail cocked high, and his petite body looked very cute.
After looking at it for a while, his eyes turned to the fluttering billfish in the plastic bag.
This fox actually followed me all the way, a little curious, but immediately understood, and poured all the billfish in the plastic bag to the little fox.
Watching the little fox gobble down these fish, it seemed that I didn't know how hungry I had been hungry for a few days, and I sighed, I didn't know how many starving animals there were in the world.
I'm going to turn around and leave, after all, I've been playing for so long, in case the fat man and Chen Haoyue find out that I'm not in the hotel, and let them worry that it's my fault.
Seeing that the moonlight was still a little bright, I hurried back in three steps and two steps, and after walking for a while, I saw that I was about to reach the town, and I didn't know what soft things I stepped on, and I screamed in my heart that it was not good, but it was too late to find out.
I looked down and saw that, as I expected, a turquoise snake was biting my calf.
With a numbness and burning sensation in his legs, his body slowly lost sensation, consciousness gradually disappeared, and he fainted weakly to the ground.
I don't know how long I lay down, but when I gradually woke up, I opened my eyes vaguely, and the fat man and Chen Haoyue were sitting next to me, and there were several doctors in white coats next to me, wiping my forehead with a cold towel while holding ointment and applying ointment to my legs.
When I opened my eyes, I saw that all the poison on my legs had dissipated, but to my surprise, the white fox was lying next to me, and with a convulsion of his body, he lost his breath and died after a while.
I asked the fat man what was going on, and the fat man said: It turned out that when I was bitten by a poisonous snake and fell unconscious, the fox ran to the door of the hotel and kept scratching the door.
But what was even more surprising was that the fox actually spoke in a hurry, and led the fat man to the river, where I was lying.
After seeing that I was bitten by a poisonous snake, the fox took out a bite with the poisonous snake and drove away the poisonous snake, but I was still unconscious, and the fox actually sucked out the snake venom with its mouth.
After listening to the fat man's words, I understood that after a sad heart, it turned out that the fox knows how to repay the favor, I saved its life in the afternoon, and now it uses its own life to save me, I remember that the little fox's body twitched just now, and I don't know how much pain it endured, I held it in my arms at once, but the body was cold and soft, and there was no heartbeat in the chest.
I was a little sad, let the wind blow on my face, tears also fell to the ground, Chen Haoyue and the fat man also came over to comfort me, and after I buried the body of the fox, respectfully kowtowed three times in front of its grave, thank you for saving my life.
That night, I had a dream in which the little fox came to me and said to me, "Benefactor, thank you for saving my life, and for not giving me food and water, for I have nothing to repay you but to save you." Thank you for your benefactor, and I hope your benefactor will be safe and secure for the rest of your life. ”
I gently caressed the snow-white smooth body and held it in my arms, tears of gratitude in my eyes again.