Chapter 22 Chapter Twenty Two

(...The wolf cub was still howling on the river floor, I suddenly picked it up and swam across the river.) I was able to bring the wolf cub back, and I was surprised by my behavior when I walked into the town. My uncle and the bad guy were whispering behind me. They must be talking about my weirdness. Instead of throwing away the wolf cub, he brought it into the room in the dark and tied it to the foot of the bed with a rope.Of course my uncle didn’t come out after entering his room, but Fugui and Cuihua ran out of my room in excitement. They barked at the wolf cub first, but the wolf cub was surprisingly quiet, with his eyes wide open. Later, Fugui went to his uncle's room and took the wolf fur mattress. The wolf cub jumped on it immediately, and the fur on the wolf fur stood on end suddenly, and it seemed to be swaying in the absence of wind, softly like a bird in the field. There were pieces of mullaz grass, and the wolf cubs chirped and rolled on the wolf skin.Rotten head and I have been watching, we have no words for a while, Rotten head is vigorously stroking its hair, small sparks are radiating from the hair.The unconcealable fear of the rotten head gave me a kind of pleasure, because after all, I passed the night of the Zhoucheng Hotel. I handed him the cigarette, but he said, "Do you want to raise wolves?" I didn't answer, I smoked my cigarette, and he said: "If you can raise it, people in ancient times slowly raised wolves into dogs." We left the town early the next morning, and I bought a chicken made of bamboo on the street early. The wolf cub was put in a cage of his own, which was covered with a coat so that the landlord and no one in the town could see it.The old man knew that we were leaving, and he was in a very good mood. He specially boiled a can of strong tea for us to drink. The bad man said: "I will remember you!" The old man said: "You will not remember. The enemy will not remember me , but I remember the enemy’s words. On the first day, the enemy put me on a tiger bench, and I didn’t say anything...” The rotten head said: “On the fifth day, if you still want to say it, the enemy shot you to death!” He chuckled and said, "You young man! Xiangxiang, bring some steamed buns to the comrades as dry food!" The woman put a sieve of steamed buns one by one into the bosom of the rotten head, and said, "It's really good!" Are you leaving?" His eyes were red.

Of course I was holding the shotgun, and I didn’t make it clear that the gun would still be kept by me in the future, but my uncle also understood that I confiscated the gun.He didn't have that hunting suit when he got up in the morning, and thanks to the fog in the town street in the early morning, we didn't say hello to anyone, and no one paid attention to uncle.As for where to go next, the rotten head only said to go along the road. After a hundred miles of this road, it should be in Shanyang County. Wolves don't have a fixed home, so let's go there.The bad words made me suspect that it was my uncle's idea. My uncle can check out 15 wolves. He knows where the wolves live. Although wolves don't have a fixed residence like humans, the area where they move is relatively stable. .In my idea, if the hedgehogs can go directly to Shanyang County as soon as possible, I can hand over the wolf cubs to the county government, and they will send them to the Zhoucheng Zoo to feed them, but I don’t want to tell bad people about this idea, nor Willing to hand over the wolf cub cage to Lantouti.

This day was the worst day. Uncle's mood seriously affected my mood. Although the bad guy deliberately said funny things, neither my uncle nor I could cheer up.I once had a meal at a mountain family’s house at the foot of Yanzhi Slope, but there was nothing to feed the wolf cub, and it didn’t even drink water anymore. The more active Fugui and Cuihua are, the more depressed it is. I worry about it is dying.Walking to a place at the mouth of Sanchagou, when it was dark, people were so tired that they were falling apart, but there were still no villages in the distance, so they sat by the roadside and ate the last steamed man, dog and cat, and gave it to the wolf cubs. , it still does not eat. "It would be nice to have a woman who gave birth to a baby," said the rotten head. "People can grow up on wolf's milk, but if a wolf eats human milk, I don't know what the wolf will become." In the dark, he talked from milk to woman's milk The value of women: golden milk before marriage, silver milk after marriage, and pig milk after giving birth. If there are outsiders and no outsiders, as long as the child cries, the milk will be pulled out and stuffed into the child's mouth.

"You don't know how to live without telling nasty jokes!" I said. "Well," he said, "how many countries are there in Africa?" "Who knows?" "Let's discuss whether we can subvert Mauritius and split a country into two countries?" I was so angry that I ignored him, and kicked Cuihua, because Cuihua kept grabbing the wolf cub with her claws, and the wolf cub howled in anger. "Do you keep the wolf cub with you?" "Of course I have." "Then it will starve to death." "Let it die faster." "But……"

He leaned over and whispered, saying that there is a wolf catcher with a wolf. Uncle is in a bad mood, so he must think he has this wolf cub with him.I wanted to take the wolf cubs with me, and once I brought the wolf cubs with me, I reminded my uncle that he couldn't shoot wolves any more. At this time, there were several lights in the dark mountains on the other side of the river. They were lanterns and torches. They gathered together from different places and began to speak human words, but they couldn't make out what they were saying, and there was a buzzing.Tonight, what kind of family on the mountain invites relatives and friends to eat long noodles for parents' birthday, or gathers people to drink and play money, but we have to settle down in the wild.There is a stone cave next to the Bian Road. I went in and took a look. It was sheltered from the wind and the tide. Lantou spread his bedding outside and let me sleep in it, but the cave was deep and wide, and the cave was turned on the left side. You don't know how deep it is, but a few bats flew out, and my uncle threw the rotten bedding inside, and he spread the wolf skin by the entrance of the cave.The rotten head first yelled into the cave a few times, saying "it's okay, it's okay", and then he was busy using stones to support the stove, shouting to get firewood to boil water in the big aluminum vat.The hunter who has been a hunter has a very strong ability to live, and the rotten head quickly set up a stove. There is no water in the cave, and there is only a wet mark on the cave wall. He uses a knife to dig a hole in the wet wall. Well, insert a leaf into it, and there will be a thin vein of water on the tip of the leaf immediately, and the firewood is the dead leaves and weeds grabbed outside the hole by hand.But when I lit it with a match, the phosphorous surface of the matchbox got wet and I couldn't wipe it off. My uncle passed the match in silence, sniffed it in his ear, and just scratched it on a stone, and the flame burned. Like a shy flower, trembling appeared.

"Uncle is really good!" I said. "Your uncle is very good, he spread pancakes on the bluestone board!" "You're the one who talks too much!" said the uncle, "Can this bit of firewood boil the water?" Uncle was finally willing to speak, and I immediately said happily: "Let's go collect firewood."Rotten and I went out of the hole, and went to a field under the moonlight, where there were corn stalks piled up on the edge of the field last autumn, and we each hugged a bundle.Rotten is a glutton, muttering that since we have so much firewood, it would be nice to have edamame or something, "It would be nice to have braised pork and wine!" I taunted him.He still put down the corn stalks and ran away. After a while, he came over with his arms bulging. It turned out that he had secretly planed more than a dozen tender potatoes that had just grown in a potato field.

It was the rotten head who wanted to eat baked potatoes, so he stayed outside the cave for a long time, and when he returned to the cave, the water in the aluminum vat was already steaming and he didn't see his uncle.At that time, I also thought that my uncle was going out to relieve himself or something, and I didn't think about it at all. I cooked a pot of instant noodles and cooked a few potatoes, but my uncle still didn't come back.Lantou shouted at the entrance of the cave: "Captain, captain, are you Xijingsheng?!" There was still no movement, but Cuihua came back with a field mouse in her mouth, and she was not rich.

"My uncle is gone?" I became nervous. "Fugui is gone, his bedding is gone, he put the instant noodles here, obviously he left on purpose." "But the gun's still there," I said. "You confiscated the gun!" The bad guy and I still can't believe that uncle will leave us, why did he leave us, just because I accused him?Where are the wolf cubs, where are the wolf cubs, and what's worse, the wolf cubs and the bamboo cages in which the wolf cubs were held are gone. "I said don't bring wolf cubs, but you have to. He must be unwilling to act with us because of wolf cubs!"

But I found that the stones on the stove were completely black. When I leaned over to look, there was a line of words written in charcoal: I am not worthy of being a hunter, and I am not worthy of taking pictures with you. , You have to stay, bad guy, and you must assist Ziming to complete the work.Uncle is still your uncle, and I couldn't take you home to have a look, so let's wait for a future opportunity.There is also Jin Xiangyu on the stone. The departure of my uncle was a heavy blow to me. If I hadn’t seen him, I would not have been able to come down to look for wolves and take pictures of wolves. If he left like this, wouldn’t it leave me like a fish? on the beach?I got angry all of a sudden, stomped on the fire, and started cursing: I just left without saying a word, even if I don’t recognize my nephew, is this worthy of being a hunter and a man? !Lantou took Jin Xiangyu and sniffed it up to his nose, and kept saying: Fragrant.Hearing my complaints, he said that the captain is the man. I said to go and go, but he didn't go.I said: "If you leave the butcher, do I want to eat even the hairy pig?" The bad guy didn't like to hear it, and asked who was the butcher, how did the captain become a butcher, and you didn't kill him without your uncle. Wolf, if you meet a wolf, you will bury it in the wolf's belly!I was also angry: For those who don’t die, it’s better to die in the belly of a wolf than to die in the bed. It’s also an honor to put the grave in the belly of a wolf.I said coldly: "Are you going?" The bad guy said: "I listen to the secretary." I said: "I'm still a secretary, you can go if you want, I can't find the wolf, I can cancel the photo shoot Work, go back to Zhoucheng and report to the commissioner!" The rotten head said: "Report about your uncle?" I said: "Of course." The rotten head said again: "Punish your uncle?" I said: "Who broke the law? Whoever will be punished!" The rotten head said: "You are the one who turned into a wolf. You protect the wolf so much. Are the wolves your comrades? Why did we come out? It's all for the treatment of diseases. Didn't you see your uncle in Shenglong Town How good is your spirit, have you become weak after coming out of the town?" I said, "I protect the wolves for the sake of people. If all the wolves are killed, the people will become weaker?" The rotten head must be He couldn't compete with me, he said: There are three things to say, and you literati will say it cleverly!In the end, we were all exhausted from the quarrel, and we sat down, and the bad guy gave me an ultimatum: he can accompany me to complete the task, but I am not allowed to report the truth about my uncle to the commissioner.I agreed, but I also agreed to two chapters for him: one, no longer kill wolves in the future;

I walked out of the cave and looked around for the dead wolf cubs, but found nothing.I went back to the cave and ate instant noodles and baked potatoes, and fell asleep in a sullen mood. I always hoped that my uncle would come back, or that the wolf cub that had not been thrown to death and was abandoned somewhere could be found.Tianming continued on his way, and when he arrived at a village, he asked if there had been any wolves nearby. The villagers were surprised by the sudden mention of wolves: Yes, I forgot about wolves if I didn’t mention wolves. Why haven’t we seen wolves in the past few years?I went to a town again, and the townspeople said, let alone now, when there were many wolves in the past, wolves did not come to the town, because every house in this town was forging iron, and the fire was burning day and night. Wolves are afraid of fire, but in the east of the town There is a fur shopping station where people from Beishan often go there to sell goat, fox, golden pheasant, and wolf skins.The bad guy and I found the buying station, but the buying station closed down a year ago, and the three board-fronted rooms were locked tightly. There was a spider web embroidered on the door knocker, and a fat spider was spitting out a thread. hanging.Rotten caught the spider, pulled its legs, and I said: Are you so cruel?The bad head said: What's the matter, the government has not issued regulations to protect spiders!The two of us talked loudly at the door, and a few people came over and asked if we were here to sell animal skins? "Why isn't the buying station open?"

"Is there no supply!" "The people from Beishan are not coming?" "How much money can you earn by collecting those hare skins and golden pheasant skins!?" "And what about the wolf skin?" "Where are there wolves now? Draw wolves on the ground. Where did you come from?" "Zhoucheng." "I heard that the workers in the several military factories in Zhoucheng have been laid off. There is no war, and the factories will be closed. The workers who process cowhide are not as good as our farmers now. Is that true?" "That's right." "I heard that the state has promulgated a regulation prohibiting the killing of wolves, and a batch of wolf breeds will be released to Shangzhou from other places. Is that true?" "That's right." I answered casually, and after answering, I thought: launch a new wolf species?Hey, where did this come from, how could there be such an idea, this idea is still a good idea, it is quite valuable!We left the buying station, I asked if it was feasible to introduce new wolf species, and he said that he only knew that Ukrainian pigs were imported from the Soviet Union, and plush rabbits were imported from Angola, but he had never heard of wolves being introduced. , foreign things are more powerful than Chinese ones, what is the new wolf species like, if it is introduced and released, can it still be used for hunting?I didn't discuss with him any further. We were staying in the town that night, and I impulsively wrote a long letter to the commissioner, briefly reporting my situation after I came out, and emphatically suggesting that if we only protect the remaining ten It is difficult for five wolves to make the wolf pack develop. Can a batch of new wolf species be captured and bred from other places and released to Shangzhou?What about building a new ecological environment?It can be said that I am proud of having such a suggestion. If such a suggestion can be realized in the end, it will be regarded as my most important contribution to the improvement of the ecological environment in Shangzhou.When I wrote the letter, the rotten head went out for a stroll, and he giggled when he came back. I asked what he was laughing at, and he said that he passed by the east end of the row of houses in front, and there was light in the window, and there were chickens crowing I looked through the window and saw that chicken dealer was hugging a chicken and using an X to make the chicken's asshole.During the day, I saw the chicken dealer, who was so old with dark spots on his face, but he still had this energy. I said, "Fuck off, why are you watching all the dirty things!"He asked me what I was doing, and I said to write a letter, and he said: Do you miss your wife too!Secretary, we have been digging through mountains and forests all day long, and my secretary didn't find you a woman. If you want, I'll take a knife and gouge a hole in my leg and you can do it!I said shut up your stinky mouth and go to sleep, don't affect my writing to the commissioner.The bad head heard that he was writing a letter to the Commissioner, his face turned black, and he asked: What did you write?I knew what was going on in his mind, but I didn't tell him the contents of the letter, so he pretended to be asleep and snored loudly.After the letter was written, I fell asleep, and I heard the rotten head calling me softly, but I didn’t make a sound, so he sat up, turned on the light, and secretly read the letter I wrote. What he was worried about was that I had reported it. Uncle shot and killed five wolves, but I didn’t write about it, so he went back to sleep, and for comfort, he took off his trousers under the quilt, threw it with his hand, and hung it on a wooden peg on the opposite wall.