Golden Footprints by Japanese writer Kubota yansui, translated by Liu Yongzhen.

I know. It's in China primary school textbooks. All immigrants who transfer to other schools have to study.

Golden footprints

Two or three days ago, the servant at home caught a little fox from the mountains. To this day, it doesn't eat anything.

Above the bare oak forest, the lonely moon was 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, the fox may be barking, mother-mother-how poor the fox is.

In the middle of the night, Masataro was awakened. Akita dog barks incessantly. Mom and dad slept soundly. Masataro stood up quietly and looked at the barn with wide eyes. I saw a big fox swaggering towards Akita Dog with a trembling chicken in his mouth. Akita pounced on him, and the old fox quickly turned and ran away. Akita chased after him in the dark without much effort.

At this time, another old fox appeared quietly from nowhere. When the little fox saw the old fox, he kept humming and rubbing his nose against the old fox's body. He wanted to follow the old fox, but after two or three steps, he was entangled in the chain. This was repeated two or three times before the old fox found the chain. He bit with his teeth for a long time, but it was useless, so he lay on the ground.

I don't know when, the fox father who led the dog out came back. He straightened his neck and looked at them. After a while, Father Fox gave a warning cry, and Mother Fox had to walk away from her child. The two old foxes looked back again and soon disappeared into the dark forest.

Later, the old fox never came again.

"I probably gave up because I thought I couldn't save Fox. It is better to untie the fox as soon as possible. It's pitiful to go on like this. " Masataro thought.

But something inexplicable happened again. Although the fox still refused to eat the food given to him, he didn't die.

At noon that day, Masataro casually walked to the fox's nest and suddenly heard a click. But there is nothing but a fox. The fox's footprints were clearly printed on the wet ground.

"Ha ha, how dare you come during the day! What a bold guy! " Masataro suddenly understood the reason why the fox came during the day. "No wonder the dog is chained during the day."

However, how did the fox escape so fast? It's strange to escape without a trace at the first sound!

He was startled when he looked under the floor. Four green eyes stared straight at him. It's fox's parents. They stared at Masataro for a while, then quietly climbed up the brick that led to the upper room under the floor, 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 two old foxes were darker than before and obviously thinner, because they were thinking about the little foxes and couldn't get enough to eat. Masataro wanted to untie the chain for Fox, but at this moment, the old fox began to do something unusual, which made him give up the idea of letting Fox go. That is, the old fox realized that he would bite the chain no matter what, and he would bite the stake tied to the chain whenever he had the chance.

Masataro decided to send food to the hungry old fox. Whenever cooking oily tofu at home, Masataro will leave some, throw it under the floor, and pour a glass of milk into an iron bowl every day. A month later, the old fox and Masataro became friends. When the fox sees Masataro, he will lick his hand gently with his rough pink tongue. Sometimes when no one else is at home, Masataro's door will ring gently, and two foxes will ring slightly.

One day, when Masataro came home from school, he passed the barn and looked into the bird's nest. There is not even a shadow of the fox. 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 he must return the fox to the old fox. Then, he went to Mr. An Tian's farm beyond the mountain.

On the way, Masataro accidentally stepped on the snow on the edge of the cliff, and fell headlong with the snow, losing consciousness. I don't know how long it took, but Masataro felt warm on his face. He struggled to open his eyes and saw a big fox licking his cheeks and lips. The other squatted on his chest, warming his body. ......

The next day, Masataro called the fox back from the pasture 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 to the depths of the forest together.

Facing the dazzling sunshine, the fox's footprints, shining with golden light, have been extended to the depths of the jungle.

I took a taxi myself. It was very hard. Some places can't be paused, so they are used.