Lao Zhang is a bare stick man, his parents have died when he was not yet an adult, leaving Lao Zhang and his sister to rely on each other for their lives, and then the sister married, leaving only Lao Zhang alone in the family.
Lao Zhang has no financial resources, can only rely on scavenging to survive, the girls in the village are far away from marrying outside, Lao Zhang can not get a daughter-in-law, can only beat bare sticks.
However, Lao Zhang is more optimistic, and it seems good for a person to eat enough for the whole family to live in Lao Zhang, although it is relatively lonely, but he has become accustomed to it.
Lao Zhang's sister often came back to see Lao Zhang, washed and cleaned up the house for him, and every time she came, she would always bring him a bunch of food, not to mention that the eldest sister was like a mother.
However, Lao Zhang's sister did not hurt this younger brother in vain, after all, after Lao Zhang developed later, the first thing that came to mind was his sister's family.
But how did Lao Zhang, a scavenger, develop? What's going on here?
Accidentally saved the fox's family
Lao Zhang's nephew wanted to marry his daughter-in-law, Lao Zhang deliberately changed into clean and neat clothes, and also bought two fat geese and a pot of good wine to go to his sister's house to congratulate.
Over the years, the sister's family has treated him well, and Lao Zhang has looked at him in the eyes, so this time he went not only to attend his nephew's wedding, but also to thank his sister and brother-in-law for taking care of him over the years.
My sister's family is on the other side of the mountain, over the mountain and then walk a mile, it will arrive, although in these years, no one has heard of any wild beasts on the mountain, but for safety, Lao Zhang still brought a small shovel for self-defense.
After coming to the sister's house, the home has been full of guests, the sister and brother-in-law warmly received Lao Zhang, the sister also blamed him for the chaotic repayment of money, the old Zhang was full of relief to look at his sister, although it is said that it is a random spending, but this money is spent to the sister He is very happy.
In the evening, the guests who ate the wedding feast gradually dispersed, and the sister and brother-in-law had the strength to rest, and Lao Zhang accompanied the two of them to drink a few glasses of wine and went to sleep.
The next day, Lao Zhang was going home, and his sister prepared a pile of food for him and filled his back basket with it. Lao Zhang said goodbye to his sister's family and rushed to the mountain with a basket of things on his back.
The sky is overcast, it seems that there will be a heavy snow on this day, Lao Zhang looked up at the sky, the pace under his feet is getting faster and faster, I hope to be able to rush home before dark.
Lao Zhang just went up the mountain, a large piece of snow has begun to fall, as the snow is getting bigger and bigger, covering all the previous roads, looking at the white expanse around, Lao Zhang has been confused for a while about which side to go.
Lao Zhang walked around without finding the intersection of the downhill mountain, and he was a little flustered. In order to avoid taking the repeated path, Lao Zhang took off his neck and hung it on the branches, and then continued to look for a way down the mountain.
But when he saw the neck cover hanging from the branch again, he realized that he had entered a dead end and had been circling in this place all along.
Lao Zhang was a little embarrassed for a while, if he didn't find a place to hide from the blizzard, he was afraid that he would freeze to death on the mountain tonight, but all around was a white expanse, where to find a hiding place to hide from the snow and wind?
In this weather, the beasts are hiding in their own caves and dare not come out, and Lao Zhang does not dare to find the cave, for fear that if one is not careful, he will accidentally break into the cave of the wolf or the black bear, and it will be over.
Lao Zhang searched for half a day, or did not find a place to hide, the snow on his body accumulated more and more, in desperation, Lao Zhang came to a big tree to temporarily avoid the blizzard.
Although it can't cover any wind and snow, it is at least better than staying in the open snow.
Not long after sitting down, Lao Zhang suddenly heard a few strange cries, at first he did not care, thinking that he heard it wrong, but as the sound got closer and closer, Lao Zhang immediately raised his head to check.
It turned out to be a fox, not very big, if it weren't for the dark eyes looking at Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang might not have been able to find it, because this was a fox with a snow-white body.
This white fox is not big, it whimpers and whimpers, it sounds a little sad, lao Zhang saw the white fox, not afraid, just felt a little strange, the white fox on the snow day is not in the cave, running out to do something.
The white fox sniffed in his direction, and it turned out that it smelled the scent of flesh, so it ran out of the cave.
Old Zhang watched the white fox's nose twitch, stared straight at his back basket, then understood the fox's intentions, looking at the strange and pitiful, Old Zhang was soft-hearted, so he took out a piece of roast meat from the back basket and threw it to the white fox, the white fox was vigilant, and then picked up the roast meat and immediately ran back to the bush next to the big tree.
Lao Zhang found that the original white fox's cave was next to the big tree, he opened the bushes to take a look, only to find that the original white fox was a female fox, just gave birth, the little white fox in the cave is sleeping sweetly.
Lao Zhang looked at the lonely fox mother and son, and couldn't help but be moved by compassion, he opened his back basket and took out a piece of pig lung, this pig lung is not small, enough for this white fox to eat a few meals.
Moreover, the size of the roasted meat just now was not small, lao Zhang took out the pig's lungs, threw them to the white fox, and then continued to return to the tree.
After a while, the white fox came to Lao Zhang's face and stared directly at Lao Zhang, who felt a little strange, was this white fox not full?
Two pieces of meat so big, did it all eat, Lao Zhang looked at the white fox in disbelief, decided to go to its cave to see, opened the bushes and looked inside, the piece of roast meat was eaten by the white fox only a small piece, but the pig lung was still fine and did not move.
After Lao Zhang read it, he didn't feel a little angry and funny, he pointed at the white fox and said, "You little fox, you can't be so greedy, you haven't finished eating, and I want it again!" ”
The white fox couldn't understand what Lao Zhang was saying, it had the audacity to come forward, and after approaching Lao Zhang, it was holding the corner of Lao Zhang's pants, and Lao Zhang looked at this fox and couldn't help but be a little funny.
Subsequently, Lao Zhang took a chicken leg out of the back basket and handed it to the white fox. Strangely, the white fox did not go forward to take away the chicken leg, but still tugged at the corner of his pants.
Lao Zhang was a little puzzled, after he put away the chicken leg, he stood up and looked at the white fox, and after the white fox saw him get up, he happily circled around him, and then ran to the back of the tree.
The white fox turned back to see that Lao Zhang did not follow up, and immediately ran to the front of Lao Zhang, and lao Zhang finally understood its meaning, so he picked up the back basket and followed behind the white fox.
The White Fox repays the favor
The white fox took him to a cave, and it turned out that behind this big tree, there was a big cave, and there was even firewood in it, which seemed to be not a cave for animals.
Lao Zhang was excited to see this cave, and with this cave, he no longer had to worry about being frozen to death.
Lao Zhang excitedly patted the little head of the white fox and said happily, "It turns out that you wanted to save my life, thank you for bringing me here, otherwise I would really be frozen to death tonight." ”
Lao Zhang took out the chicken leg and handed it to the white fox, who took the chicken leg and jumped and jumped all the way around Lao Zhang, and from time to time rubbed his head against Lao Zhang.
Lao Zhang lit the firewood, hung up the cotton clothes and hats on his body and dried them, fortunately, the new cotton clothes made for him by his sister were still dry, Lao Zhang changed into new cotton clothes, took out the cooked food made for him by his sister, and feasted around the firewood pile.
Old Zhang, who had eaten and drunk enough, finally warmed up, and he checked the food in the back basket, but fortunately, his sister brought him a lot of food, even if he was trapped in the cave for a week.
Lao Zhang was ready to sleep against the root of the wall, but his back was particularly painful, Lao Zhang turned around to see what it was, it turned out that there seemed to be something inside this earthen wall, it looked like a big jar, Lao Zhang wanted to dig it out just to use this jar to cook things.
He took out a small shovel and carefully dug out this big jar, which was really not small, and this jar was quite beautiful, and the pattern was quite beautiful.
Lao Zhang turned the big jar over, ready to pour out all the soil in the jar, but he didn't think that a bunch of good things fell out of the big jar.
There's a lot of gold, and some women's rings, which don't look like modern things, they should be antiques.
Lao Zhang looked at the white fox with joy and said excitedly, "You are really a lucky star, not only saved my life, but also let me find so many good things!" ”
The white fox seemed to understand Lao Zhang's words, rubbed Lao Zhang, and then turned his head and left.
After a night, the snow stopped, and Lao Zhang was ready to go down the mountain to go home, he gave all the meat in the basket to the white fox, and then went down the mountain.
After returning home, Lao Zhang did not leave these things privately, he handed them all over to the local government, which immediately sent archaeologists to investigate the cave.
In order to thank Lao Zhang, the government department also specially awarded him a bonus, he gave half of the bonus to his sister, and the rest of the bonus was kept by himself to run a chicken farm, and also helped his sister buy a house in the county.
epilogue
Lao Zhang's kind deeds not only changed his fate, but also repaid his sister's family for taking care of him. There was also the white fox, who also completely became Lao Zhang's friend, and often came to visit Lao Zhang, who lived very happily in his old age.