Chapter 4 Chapter Four

(...The light in Fu Shan's eyes gradually faded, he raised his gun and fired three times into the air.) In fact, the story I told has an inseparable blood relationship with me.I have written many people and events in Shangzhou in my previous works, including family members and many old relatives, but I have left out my grandfather.My grandfather's father, that is, my old grandfather, disappeared in that bandit riot and wolf disaster. Whether he died of bandits or wolves, the old grandmother died and let it go.The neighbor in the old city named Shuncheng took my grandma away, and my uncle grew up to be a hunter.Life was originally piled up with a lot of days, which seemed to be stagnant, with no wind and clouds and no waves, but in fact it moved secretly according to its laws, and people lived in it, and the two families multiplied like this , like a weed, tillering and tillering, is already a fluffy clump.My uncle married a wife and gave birth to my uncle, and my grandma married into the Qian family in Xijing City and gave birth to my father and then my grandson.My mother went back to Shangzhou once when I was six years old, and found her natal family based on my grandma’s will, but since then, my mother has never gone back, and I still don’t know the peasant relatives who are still in Shangzhou. But there is always the story about the two families told by my mother in my memory.It was also when my mother returned to Shangzhou that time and learned about the situation of my uncle's generation. She said that my uncle took him to harvest wheat in the field when he was seven years old. Hungry and thirsty, I was sitting on the sheaf of wheat and taking off the lid of the earthen pot to eat soup when I heard someone crying.It was a very sad cry of a woman. My aunt put down the rice jar and went to check. It turned out to be a wolf sitting in the dirt ditch in the wheat field and howling. It was crying against the bottom of the ditch. , suddenly jumped up and threw her down.The uncle heard his aunt call "My son..." When he ran closer, he saw the wolf pressing down on his mother. The mother's hair had been torn off by the wolf, and a bunch of hair was hanging in a clump with the flesh and blood of the scalp. On the spiny jujube.My uncle didn't faint from fright, and didn't run away. He jumped down the ditch and grabbed the wolf's tail with both hands. The uncle said: "Don't eat my mother, wolf, don't eat my mother!" The wolf turned around and looked at my wolf. Uncle, the triangular white eyes gleamed, the wolf really stopped biting his mother, its half-foot-long tongue stuck out to lick the corner of his mouth, the corner of his mouth suddenly lifted, revealing his awl-like teeth, and with a puff, he picked up his rear neck and go.My uncle woke up and saw her uncle being carried away by a wolf. She cried out loudly. That day my uncle was out hunting and was not at home. Villagers from far and near came to chase him with sticks and shovels. The wolf had short front legs and long rear legs and went uphill very fast. However, going downhill didn't work. The people downhill shouted and shouted, and the wheat harvesters on the uphill rushed down from the slope when they heard the news. The wolf panicked.Perhaps the uncle is very fat, weighing more than 50 catties. It is already difficult for the wolf to run with him in his mouth. Suddenly, what uncle saw was a beam of red light, it was really a beam of red light, and the wolf ran away.The uncle was snatched back from the wolf's mouth, leaving three bloody holes on the back of his neck. Although he applied castor grass and pumpkin pulp afterward, the scars never disappeared. "When he is in a hurry, his scar turns red," said my mother, "as long as his scar turns red, no one will bother him anymore."

This is all I know about my uncle's family. I have been to Shangzhou several times, because of the different generations, what is my uncle's name, and what is the village? I have no idea what it means to recognize relatives It's not big, so I never had the idea of ​​looking for a visit.I just said that it is impossible to know that kind of relatives in this life, but I didn't expect to meet them unexpectedly on the last trip to Shangzhou. That day, I lazily attended an economic and trade conference in Shangzhou as a reporter.In the huge auditorium, the commissioner of the State Administrative Office is giving a report on the current situation of Shangzhou. He said that Shangzhou has an area of ​​18,000 square kilometers, divided into seven administrative counties, one municipality directly under the central government, and 573 towns. The total population is 2.21 million. Since ancient times, it has been known as "seven mountains, one water and two fields", 2.26 million mu of arable land, 890,000 mu of forest coverage, 35 small and medium power stations, large iron, antimony , four coal mining areas, one national road running through the four counties, and 14 county-level roads. Although it is not a wealthy area, it produces all kinds of grains and miscellaneous grains, especially mountain products, such as wood, bamboo, asparagus, lacquer, and fire paper. , walnuts, fungus, honey. "Fifteen more wolves," he said at last.And fifteen wolves? !This sentence shot into my ears like an arrow. In all the government work reports I heard, no leader has ever mentioned that there are wolves when introducing his family background!However, when the commissioner of the Shangzhou Administrative Office said this sentence, his tone was calm, without deliberate tone or humorous expression, which surprised and amazed me.After the meeting, I went to interview the commissioner.

"You mentioned wolves in your report," I said, "and fifteen wolves?" "Yes, fifteen wolves." "Are you talking about the wolf at the State City Zoo?" "No, it's a wild wolf." "How do you know it's fifteen?" "I sent someone to conduct a census. We numbered these wild wolves. There are fifteen wolves." "So, the wolf is a property of Shangzhou?" "Of course!" the commissioner said proudly, "If there were no wolves, what would Shangzhou look like? People in your provincial capital don't understand the mountains. Let me give you a simple example. Children in the mountains cry at night, adults For generations, people have coaxed children to say, 'Don't cry, the wolf is coming!' The children would stop crying. If there were no wolves, think about it..."

"I know that, wolves are scary to children," I said, "wouldn't it be better without wolves?" "The child is going to cry all the time!" I laughed: "You are an eco-environmentalist!" "I'm a commissioner!" he said, and he really told me the truth. "You know that there are hares, badgers and yellow sheep in the mountains of Shangzhou. The yellow sheep in Shangzhou is exported to the outside world, but the number of wolves has decreased. You must think that there will be more yellow sheep. No, yellow sheep are also gradually increasing. It is not because of being hunted, but because of their own illness. The wolf eats the gazelle, but the gazelle is living robustly while the wolf is eating the gazelle. Growing up in fear, if there were no wolves, human beings would have no fear. If children say to adults in the future: 'Mom, I'm afraid,' adults will be even more afraid of children's fear. You have been to the oil field Well, I have worked in the oil field for five years, if a well crew has no lesbians, the men will not repair toilets, do not groom themselves, gradually lose their sexual urges, and live like giant pandas.”

"Oh, I heard that the Giant Panda Conservation and Breeding Base in Shangzhou has successfully artificially inseminated a giant panda and is already pregnant?" "Yes," the commissioner took off his glasses, and was still playing with a pencil for reviewing documents. "The reason why the giant panda has become a national treasure is because it has gradually lost its ability to adapt to the living environment, lacks sexual desire, and has extreme estrus. Short, difficult to conceive, and nine out of ten pregnancies are difficult to deliver. Think about it, now that there are more and more people, and the forest coverage is getting less and less, which originally brought a fatal crisis to the survival of wolves. If you want to continue hunting, One day wolves will be the same as giant pandas, so we issued regulations prohibiting wolf hunting."

I have never really seen a wolf, I only saw one in the zoo in Xijing City, and on the day of the visit, the wolf lay down in the shed and could not come out, and only put the long broom-like tail on the door of the shed .But with professional sensitivity, I know that I have encountered a very good writing subject.At that time, I thought to myself that in this world, there may be quite a few people who have never seen a wolf with their own eyes, but I am afraid that there is no one who does not know the name of wolf and the story about the bloody smell of wolf.As a person who has a blood relationship with Shangzhou and was deeply educated by the natives who experienced the wolf disaster, I have a different point of view from the commissioner.He is a foreigner, and he and his family have never been harmed by wolves; I just feel that it is a relief to me that there are only fifteen wolves left in the entire Shangzhou.However, from a rational point of view, I cannot disagree with the Commissioner's point of view.According to reports, on this earth, hundreds of biological species are becoming extinct every year. If the speed continues, what a terrible situation humans will face.And a commissioner, who is now generally eager for quick success and instant benefits, can mention the protection and banning of hunting in the government work report. If this is not unique in China, it is rare and rare. As a person, I should respond enthusiastically and actively cooperate up.Of course, what amazes and fascinates me even more is that it has only been so many years since a danger that threatens human beings may become a landscape for people to appreciate. The connotation of this has suddenly stimulated my desire for creation that has been dead for a long time!I suggested to the Commissioner, can you let me see the relevant files of these fifteen wolves, and if possible, I can take photos of these fifteen wolves.The commissioner clapped his hands loudly, even grabbed my shoulder vigorously, and praised my good idea. He said that the fifteen wolves hadn’t created any files yet, they were only numbered, and all of this was first-hand. The hunter who conducted the census has the materials, "I will inform the hunter to come and see you."

In this way, I dismissed the idea of ​​returning to Xijing immediately after the copious interview, and settled down as soon as I came, and temporarily stayed in the state city, waiting for the commissioner's arrangement.I reckoned that I was about to engage in an important job, and I was completely immersed in the awareness of the nostalgia and protection of wolves for a while. It can be said that I became a Buddha immediately, and suddenly became an ecological environmental protectionist.I swore never to kill and became a vegetarian, but two things happened immediately after that made me more enlightened.One is that I was wandering around the courtyard of the hotel, and I clearly saw a young woman peeping through a window on the first floor, but when I approached, it turned out to be a lilac tree.The second is passing through the street garden in Zhoucheng, I pinched off a rose flower stem, and the whole rose shook violently, the broken stem suddenly became thick and black, and then a white juice sprayed out, and the blooming rose The flowers also shrank immediately, and the petals fell off one by one.This surprised me a lot. Does everything have life and soul?Then I thought: What is the so-called immortality of the soul?What is the reincarnation that grandma used to talk about before she was alive?Is it true that when a person dies, the soul and body separate and float in the air?If it can correspond, when a bee meets a bee mixing the pollen of one plant with the pollen of another plant while floating, the soul makes a bet, and a new plant is born, and when the new plant finally dies Then, the soul floats in the air again, just when a boar and a sow are mating, the soul is injected again, and a new pig is born.If this is possible, then all living on this earth are equal, I am a human being in this life, can I deny that I am not a pig in my previous life, and in my next life, I may be a wolf, a fish, or a plant of grass And a big tiger with a white forehead and hanging eyes.The more I think about it like this, the more nervous I become, I know that I don't look like a descendant of Shangzhou at all, or in other words, I simply betrayed my ancestors and developed a kind of feeling towards wolves that even surprised me. affinity.

After staying in Zhoucheng, I suddenly felt a sense of relief, and Xijing was far away from me.When I get up in the morning, I don’t need to drink the snot-like oatmeal, I don’t need to swallow five vitamin C and two vitamin E capsules according to my wife’s request, and I don’t have to brush my teeth and wash my feet before going to bed at night. The strange thing is The mouth ulcers I had suffered for many years were much better.However, on the third afternoon, when I anxiously went to the administration compound to find the commissioner and asked when I could see the census hunter, the commissioner clapped and said that he was looking for me, "It's terrible, Shangzhou will A big event has happened!" He shouted, "Did you know that this is going to cause a sensation all over the country, the only giant panda raised in the Laochengchi Giant Panda Conservation and Breeding Base has entered the labor period!"

"Oh." I said. "You don't seem excited?" "Of course it's a happy event! But I'm more eager to take pictures of fifteen wolves." "But this matter is urgent. You should go to interview and record the condition of the baby in detail, so as to tell the people of the country." I rushed off.As a result, the giant panda died in dystocia, and the pitiful mouse-like cub that was born also died within two hours. This was the most frustrating time in my interviewing career, however, I miraculously met my uncle there.