Chapter 6 Chapter Six

(... Shi De didn't dare to let Expert Huang live alone anymore, and let Expert Huang go to his room. In this way, the hunter who had been living in Expert Shi's room moved into my house in the guest house.) The guest house is actually a converted warehouse with five beds in it. I haven’t been able to talk to the hunter. After he came in, he smiled at me, hung the shotgun on the wooden peg on the wall, and followed by The dog came in with a roll of wolf skin in its mouth, and the wolf skin was placed on the bed. It straightened up on its hind legs, arched its front legs to bow to the wolf skin, and wheezed as if saying something.The hunter waved his hand, and the dog turned and went out.He opened the wolf fur, sat up against the wall and fell asleep.I was taken aback by how weird he and the dog were.The moonlight shone in through the window, the four hooves of the wolf's fur hung down beside the bed, and the wolf's head with its teeth bared was resting on the head of the bed.I looked at the hunter. He had thick eyebrows and a big nose, big cheeks, but a small and rosy mouth, and his appearance was a bit funny, especially the two legs were very thick and short, and the roots of the legs looked bloated. You can't imagine why such fat legs can become a hunter.The hunter leaned against the wall and opened his mouth to make a loud sound, as if there was always phlegm in his throat, which was obstructing his breathing. "Hey, hello," I yelled a few times, wanting him to lie down and sleep well, and the phlegm might go away, but he still didn't move, and the sound was like rolling thunder, and he still blows from time to time.On the far side of the yard, Expert Huang's wild laughter and crying came from Shi De's room, and Fugui outside the door yelled twice.All of a sudden, when the silence fell, the hunter shuddered. He opened his eyes and saw that I was still sitting on the bed under the moonlight, with a puzzled look on my face.

"Comrade didn't sleep?" he said, "Did I sleep soundly?!" "No, I can't sleep." I said, "It's only four o'clock, and you woke up." "The wolf's fur is on the rise!" "Wolf fur?!" He told me that it was the wolf fur that woke him up, "Look, look!" Although the moonlight was bright, I couldn't see the change of the wolf's fur.He turned on the light, and the golden-yellow ridges on the wolf's fur really stood on end.People's hair will stand on end when they are frightened, but after the death of a wolf, the soul floats away. How can the hair on the peeled off wolf skin still stand on end? "Have you ever eaten donkey whip? Soak dried donkey whip in warm water, it will swell up and hang across the edge of the basin," he said, "There must be something wrong with the wolf hair when it is ruffled!" He was weird at first, and then said I was a little horrified when I said this, and immediately got out of bed to put on my shoes and put them on backwards.

"What happened to you?" "I……" "Go to sleep, go to sleep." How could I sleep, the more he treated me calmly, the more scared I became, and my face turned pale.He came in and patted me on the shoulder, calling "Fugui, Fugui!" Fugui came in from the door and said three times: Wang!Wang!Wang!He jumped and turned around, took the shotgun on the wall in his hand, and hurried out.After more than ten minutes, he came back and said, "It's okay, it's okay, it's the number seven and number eight wolves migrating." "Wolf migration?"

"They weren't here in the first place. They came to Daqingya probably because of the giant pandas. Once the giant pandas die, they should go back to Dashun Mountain." I was even more confused, not knowing what he was talking about, and suddenly remembered what the commissioner told me about the fifteen wolves. It was necessary to ask the hunter in front of me what the seventh wolf and the eighth wolf would be. Can you also know the fifteen wolves?But the hunter had already turned off the light with a click, and the room was filled with soft moonlight again, "Sleep, sleep, you didn't sleep well in the middle of the night after tossing." The man leaned against the wall, his head hooked down.Of course I lay down, but I was still not sleepy, and my thoughts slipped to Xijing again, and I felt depressed for a while, but there were footsteps in the yard again, and it was that expert Huang singing: "For the king, sit on the chair with the buttocks backward, for Putting the stomach in front, taking one step back and two steps as if he hadn't walked, eating a bucket of shovels and ten liters of shovels is too much... The singing below was suddenly covered, and the words were slurred, followed by Shi De in a low voice. reprimanded loudly: "Go into the house, come in, everyone is asleep, what are you singing!?"

I heard a long sigh from the hunter. "Aren't you asleep?" "He's really crazy." "The giant panda teased him. He could have been a researcher from now on, but now it's all over... I'm afraid it's his fate." "...Where there are wolves, there should be hunters, and if there are giant pandas, there should be experts. But if you become a hunter, you don't have wolves, and you become an expert, but the panda dies. Is this fate?" "What people do is what they are born to do. It's like having a home and buying a table at home, because the table must have a teapot. You go to the street store to buy a teapot. If you have a teapot, you must have cups for drinking tea. I went to the store to buy another cup, that’s the reason. Now that the teapot is broken, it’s gone, and the teacup can’t hold tea, of course. God created man to do whatever he needs to do in the world.”

I was proud of my momentary performance, but the hunter's expression was obviously gloomy. He leaned up and lit a cigarette, smoking very hard, and finally threw the cigarette butt on the ground.The cigarette butt was still burning, emitting an unpleasant choking smell. He rolled out of bed. I only said that he wanted to stamp out the cigarette butt, but he quickly found a bottle of wine in the skin bag he brought and bit it off with his teeth. He took a sip of the bottle cap, wiped the mouth of the bottle and handed it to me: "I can't sleep anymore, let's have a drink."

I took a sip and passed it to him, and he drank it and passed it to me. "You don't look like a city person!" This was his greatest compliment to me.I laughed: "Really? Mutton is mutton because it has a smell of mutton, but you said: This mutton is good and has no smell!" He laughed loudly, pointed at me and said, "This shows that it is from the city It’s over!” Just like that, our relationship became close, and we each sat on our own beds, passing the wine bottle back and forth, seeing that most of the bottle of wine was gone, I thought, the pear tree outside the window had bloomed again snowy.

"Aren't you on base?" I said. "Do I look like an intellectual?" "...they don't have eyebrows and beards like yours." "I just lack a big mouth. I have a big mouth, I want a square mouth, hum..." He stuffed his fist into his mouth, but he couldn't get it in.He leaned over and said softly, "I am familiar with Director Shi De, and I came from Xiong'erchuan a few days ago." "Xiong'er River? Xiong'er River in Zhen'an County?" "Do you still know the Xiong'er River in Zhen'an? Have you been there?"

"I haven't been there, but my old uncle's house is there." "What's your last name?" "My surname is Fu." "Aren't you from the state capital, provincial capital?" Who would have thought that meeting my uncle would be so bizarre!If this meeting was written as an article and published in the newspaper, readers would think it was a cheap fabrication, but in reality the adventure just happened.My uncle's name is Fu Shan.That night, I told all the stories I knew about the Fu family, and my uncle kept adding and explaining, talking about how when he was young, he saved his uncle by pulling the wolf's tail, but he himself was caught by the wolf. After leaving, my uncle stripped off his clothes, and sure enough there were three red scars on the back of his neck. The scars were not small depressions as I imagined, but swelled high, like nail bubbles on the door of a building. The red is shining with porcelain light.

"The wolf and I have had an enmity for generations!" "Have you counted how many wolves have been hunted?" "You are so old, can you tell me how many bowls of rice you have eaten?" Uncle's eyes were full of heroism, and he winked at me cunningly, "I didn't expect you to be a big intellectual! You have to deal with people every day in your job, and you may not remember all the people you have dealt with, but everyone who has met you will remember you." "So," I got a little excited, "all the wolves in Shangzhou should know uncle?!"

"Maybe so. There are two wolves on the cliff on the left. They migrate in the middle of the night. I went out to see them. The two stupid guys were so frightened that they ran away, but they only circled. They looked like prisoners on the execution ground. How confused! Look at them, I say go, go, the government is protecting them!" "You didn't hit them?" "No." "Uncle knows we can't hunt wolves now." "Of course." "Can……" For a while, I felt sad for my uncle.Now is no longer the era of heroes. Although he is a hunter, he can no longer hunt wolves. For almost a century, tigers, lions, even bison and wild bears have been extinct in Shangzhou, but there are wolves!I looked at the polished shotgun, I looked at his outfit, and I was like: Well, why are you still dressed like this?But I didn't say it.Uncle grabbed the wine bottle and never let me drink again.In the distance, the crying and laughing of Expert Huang clearly came in through the crack of the window and seeped in from the four walls. My uncle told me that he was the captain of the wolf hunting team in Shangzhou. When the number of wolves was getting smaller and smaller, the commissioner found him and gave him a task, which was to let him travel all over Shangzhou in nearly a year. , census how many wolves still exist.In the process of the census, except for the direct harm to life, a wolf must not be hunted and killed.You can't ignore the words of the Commissioner.He went on the road for a census, and found fifteen wolves in total, and numbered them one by one in the order of discovery.The fifteen wolves are: No. 1 gray-spotted wolf, No. 2 white wolf, No. 3 old wolf, No. 4 one-eyed wolf, No. 5 lame wolf, No. 6 gray-haired black-eyed wolf, No. 7 bald-tailed wolf, No. 8 No. yellow wolf, No. 9 fat wolf, No. 10 red-backed wolf, No. 11 white-hoofed wolf, No. 12 bow-waisted wolf, No. 13 miscellaneous wolf, No. 14 little blue wolf, No. 15 hanging belly thin Wolf.It was after his census that the commissioner had the first-hand information and was determined to stop the wolf hunting team and the production of wolf pens in the pen factory, and suggested that the relevant departments formulate and promulgate regulations to protect and ban wolf hunting.After his census report, the commissioner asked the people in the office to keep him to participate in the establishment of the Ecological Environment Protection Committee as a hunter.He grabbed the opponent by the collar, picked it up like a chicken, and cursed: If he can't be a hunter, what kind of hunter is he? Running in dense forests and ravines, not eating on time, not sleeping on time, even sleeping without taking off clothes, sitting against the wall for a night, if you want to wear a suit or Chinese tunic suit, sit in the office all day talking, smoking and drinking tea, reading File, what kind of hunter is he still? ! He said that he changed from a captain of a wolf hunting team to a major participant in the prohibition of wolf hunting. All the hunters had objections to him, and he felt that he was ridiculous and ashamed.What made him even more uneasy about food and sleep, and what made him feel guilty was that after the promulgation of the regulations, almost all hunters fell ill, an inexplicable strange disease: people were aging and weak very quickly, and their expressions were in a trance.He really didn't know how to explain it to his former team members, and he didn't know how to convince himself.Shangzhou has left their generation of hunters behind, what else needs them to do, so they are in constant fear. "I was born for wolves!" he said. The color of wine spread on my uncle's face, which was as black and red as an eggplant. He looked at me pitifully, with white gums gathering at the corners of his eyes.Oh my god, a pair of ears moved on both sides of my uncle's bald head. What kind of ears are these? Long and pointed, protruding upwards, higher than the eyebrows.It was said in the photo book that people with this ear shape are smart and stubborn, but the idea that suddenly entered my mind was that my uncle was a wolf in his previous life, and maybe after years of dealing with wild beasts, he has gradually made his image comparable to that of wild beasts. Approximate.What my uncle said makes sense. People who have been engaged in a profession for a long time will rely on this profession to live. This is alienation.I have met many retired leading cadres in Xijing City. Although they were busy with work and complicated personnel when they were in office, they were so majestic, strong and healthy. Alzheimer's disease.My mother is already eighty-five years old, and she is a housewife all her life. When she was in her seventies, I wanted to hire a nanny, but she firmly opposed it. At the age of eighty-three, seeing that she could no longer work, I said to hire a nanny. She cried, crying very sadly, saying that she was useless.The nanny invited me, but she couldn't get along with the nanny. She wanted to blame this and that. On the day the nanny left the house in a fit of anger, she looked so happy that she cooked four dishes for me in the kitchen.Thinking of my mother, how could I not understand my uncle!Comparing my heart to my heart, if there are no newspapers, magazines and publishing houses in the world, then I, who learned writing in college and worked on writing for more than ten years, can I not feel empty and panic? "That's right, uncle," I said to him, "but the commissioner is thinking about the whole Shangzhou. What he's worried about is the destruction of the natural ecological environment of Shangzhou. Director Shi De and the others have to pay such a high price to breed a giant panda, it will be too late, we don't want the offspring to become experts in artificially breeding wolves." Uncle looked at me, as if saying "You can be a commissioner", and stood up, but when he stood up, he staggered and almost fell, I hurried to help him, thinking He sprained his ankle suddenly. The ankle was not sprained, and he said, "Am I really dying?" "what you mean?" "Bones." "With such a strong body, he can kill a cow with one punch!" Is that right? Uncle's neck was stiff, the scar on the back of his neck changed color, his legs jumped onto the bedside table, silently like a cat, and what was even more surprising was that he jumped from the bottom of the east wall to the bottom of the west wall. , jumped from the base of the west wall to the base of the east wall, bouncing back and forth like a rubber ball, and finally separated his limbs and stuck his whole body off the ground to the wall.I have never seen such a good kung fu person, shouting: slow down.He fell off the wall, rolled on the spot, and sat on the ground, and my applause immediately rang out. In an instant, the wooden pegs on the earthen wall loosened. Who knows why the wooden pegs became loose, and the hanging gun fell down heavily, standing upright on the left side of the uncle's body, and then fell down.Uncle didn't reach out to grab it, but watched it fall to the ground.His heroic spirit immediately faded from his face, and his neck gradually softened, with sunflowers hanging from his head at night.His mood changed so quickly, beyond my expectation, I thought he was a rough man, but he was more sensitive than me!He must be watching TV, when there are cooking dishes on TV, he can smell the cooking smell, and when he cuts his hair, he feels that his hair also hurts, his body is full of itchy flesh, and he can't stand being poked and touched by others, I completely rely on my body I used my experience to speculate on him, and even wanted to use it to laugh at how inappropriate he was as a hunter, but his slumped appearance made me dare not, so I just said: "Hey, uncle, I have to beg you!" Uncle ignored me. "Can you take me to Shangzhou again, let me take pictures of those fifteen wolves, and leave a record?" Uncle looked up at me, his mouth wrinkled like a small black hole. My thoughts are selfish, because I want to use my video camera to take pictures of the only fifteen wolves left in Shangzhou. He is too cruel.Uncle closed his mouth tightly and let out a long breath from his nostrils, and then reached out to grab the shotgun lying flat on the ground.At this time, I saw that what my uncle grabbed was not a shotgun but a snake, a soft and slippery snake, I was so startled that I wanted to scream. "Oh?" Uncle was taken aback in doubt. I quickly covered my mouth, because what my uncle was leaning on was a shotgun, I was blinded by it, and he was already leaning on the gun to prop himself up. "Okay." He promised me. I immediately took out my camera and proposed to take a photo of him. He opened the door and pulled Fugui in. He put the gun on his back, even washed his face, and stood at attention for me to take the photo.He said that this may be the last time he will take pictures of hunters.However, when I was taking photos of the last hunter in Shangzhou, the light of the camera couldn’t flicker. I thought it was because the battery wasn’t enough, so I fiddled with trying to take pictures at other places, but the lights were fine, and I thought it was the contact of the lights. No, I checked and checked, there was nothing wrong with it, but I couldn't flash the light on him.The uncle was very regretful, muttering that this is the day to tease him, but he couldn't take a picture after washing his face.I am still puzzled about the camera lights that night. It may be that my uncle has some special function, or he is nervous and exudes some kind of magnetic force that affects the camera. It is hard to believe, but it was true that night. It is true.