Chapter 31 Chapter Thirty

With the advent of several heavy snowfalls, the Zoige snowfield became thicker and thicker.Green's foraging became more and more difficult, and it was common for him to walk for several days without finding food.Green, who got nothing at night, returned to the mastiff farm and lived on some Tibetan mastiff dog food.The road was blocked by ice and snow, and the supplies outside were gradually unable to keep up. The limited meat was reserved for the pregnant mastiff, and there was not much dog food left. The mutton that Yifeng and I had saved for Green had already been eaten up, and the shepherd who sold me the sheep before was nowhere to be found, and the other herdsmen who asked about it refused to sell the sheep.I had to split our dry food and instant noodle cakes to fill Green's stomach.The human landfill a few kilometers away is a place Green himself found and frequented.The belly of a wolf is made for meat, but in extreme cases, he will eat anything he can find, even if the nutritional value of those things is extremely low, he will use his powerful gastric juice to squeeze out the last drop of nutrients.It is not the right of wolves to be picky eaters.

Sometimes Green would be pleasantly surprised to find some dry bones among the rubbish, and he would chew them up with his powerful teeth and eat them full, and then happily took a piece back to Senge.But Senger, who was used to eating dog food, couldn't enjoy Green's generosity, so Green would dig a hole in the field to bury his bones to store food.With luck, Green can also catch rats at the dump. However, the wolf's stomach is like a bottomless pit.Dog food, bread, and garbage were digested too quickly for wolves. After running for half a day, their stomachs collapsed. Green was so hungry that he ate ice and snow to appease his strongly protesting stomach.Dog food also doesn't provide as many calories as meat.At night, the temperature dropped to minus 20 degrees, and the ice and snow on the ground made Green's teeth chatter. He raised his two front paws alternately, and curled his furry tail to cover the cold paws.

Seeing that the food and clothing of Green, who has grown up, has become a problem, Yifeng and I were so anxious that we had to leave Green at the mastiff farm and drive to the county market in the snow and ice to wait for the meat. In the grassland in winter, we dare not use the car unless we have to. It is also because the road is blocked by ice and snow, and the gasoline at the gas station is not available. I can't take care of that much anymore.Cars adapted to running in the city, in extreme cold and hypoxic conditions, either fail to start for half a day or drive on dark icy roads, turn off the engine and lie down, which is very dangerous.Unable to drive, and unable to leave the car and walk, the originally convenient means of transportation has become the biggest burden, and travel is difficult.Once something goes wrong on the straight and desolate road, even if you wait for half a day, a car may not appear, and it may not be able to help if it appears.The two of them were so cold that their minds were numb, and they huddled in the car to take shelter from the wind.The mineral water froze into ice cubes, and it took half a day to warm it in my arms before I could barely drink it.

Since the tourist season has long passed and there are few tourists, the winter in Ruoergai looks deserted. Most of the shops in the county are closed, and there are even fewer people on the grassland far away from the county.We stopped and stopped and finally got to the county seat. After waiting for a long time, we finally waited for the cattle killer. We bought a thick beef leg weighing several tens of catties, bought a sack of potatoes, a sack of radishes, and bought out a small shop. All the instant noodles, jerky and compressed biscuits in the box.We happily returned to the mastiff field with rations.

Among the Tibetan mastiff companions Green grew up with, Heihu, Emperor, and Xiaobudian have long since been sold, and among the remaining three Tibetan mastiffs, Fengxue and Hongyan are pregnant.The mastiff breeders were afraid that the female mastiff would move their fetuses, so they specially built a heated delivery room to lock them up to raise their babies quietly, and they were not allowed to go out for activities.You must know that if you can give birth to two litters of good-looking Tibetan mastiffs, that is a lot of income.The only one left who can accompany Green is Senge. As the stud dog of the mastiff farm, Senge is often taken out by the workers to breed with the female Tibetan mastiff sent from thousands of miles away.Whenever Senger was dragged by the cold iron chain and disappeared behind the iron gate, Green anxiously turned around the fence, yelling "Yellow! Flower! Ow—" towards the gradually closing iron gate.The friends who grew up together left one by one, which formed a kind of fear in Green's heart. He always worried that his last brother would disappear from his life forever like the black tiger and the emperor.When he heard no more echoes from Senge, Green walked out of the delivery room of the female mastiff "Fengxue" in despair, and sniffed the deep and lonely snorting through the crack of the door.After that, he lay silently in the snow nest in front of the door until the tip of his nose was covered with snowflakes, until the ice and snow melted again, and there was nothing but loneliness in the empty place.We watched all this through the window shaking our heads and sighing, but there was nothing we could do.

I discussed it with Yifeng, there is not much food in the mastiff farm, and the wolf eats too much. Instead of waiting to starve, it is better to take Green to go to Wolf Mountain again.I told Yifeng my thoughts: First, from the perspective of seasons, spring and summer are the seasons for wolves to live apart and raise their cubs. The wolves in each family have a strong sense of protection and territory, and will not accept strange members.Only winter is the time when wolves gather, and the wolves are most tolerant at this time.They need new forces to join in, relying on collective cooperation to hunt and survive the winter.Joining the group in winter is also the best way to practice hunting skills.

Second, from the perspective of age, Green is more than eight months old now, and the half-sized wolf will not compete with the big wolf for status. The wolf pack is happy to accept this kind of member who can participate in hunting and understand submission.Once Green is sexually mature, the big male wolf will reject him.If he misses this best age to enter the group, Green is likely to become a lone wolf, and it is difficult for a lone wolf to survive for more than half a year. Third, from the perspective of food, summer is the season for herbivores. It seems that there are many "foods", but these "foods" are the most energetic time of the year and difficult to catch.In addition, there are many carnivorous competitors such as bears and birds of prey in summer, so carrion is hard to find, and lone wolves are more likely to starve.Only winter is the season of wolves. There are fewer competitors, and the frozen livestock provide a lot of food for the wolves. Whether it is a collective siege or a search for carrion, the strength of the wolf pack is definitely stronger than ours.

Fourth, in terms of living habits, wolves are animals that like to live in groups, and Green has lost all his partners. He urgently needs to find his own group, and he can no longer lose his identity among dogs and crowds. Fifth, from the perspective of external interference, spring, summer and autumn are the peak tourist seasons in Zoige. There are too many people and too many people. The interference of human activities on wild animals is complicated and unpredictable.Green doesn't know how to be afraid of people. If he gets close to tourists, what will happen? After listening to my analysis with a solemn expression, Yifeng nodded and said: "That's right, if you miss this winter, Green will have only two choices - either become a lone wolf and wander the wilderness, starve to death! Freeze to death! Get beaten to death! Or be taken back to the city by us, imprisoned in a cage, life is worse than death. In short, this life will be ruined." He was silent for a while and then smiled mysteriously: "Let me add another sixth for you. Didn't you say that the public Can a wolf become sexually mature in one year? Well, girlfriend...you can, this guy hugged my leg two days ago."

I blushed: "Isn't it because of Senge's influence? Isn't the Tibetan mastiff breeding all the time these days, maybe the smell is also a kind of stimulation to him." Yifeng laughed even more mysteriously, and whispered into my ear: "I've seen it, but I haven't matured it yet, so I need some time." "I hate it!" I pushed Yifeng away with a flushed face. We estimated the remaining gasoline in the windmill and decided to go to Tashi's pasture first. We need to buy sheep from Tashi, and we need to learn more grassland survival skills from Tashi, a native herdsman.Success or failure lies in this winter, no matter how hard it is, how cold or how dangerous it is, in order for Green to return to the pack of wolves, let's go to Wolf Mountain again!

Early the next morning, we put our packed luggage in the car.I remembered something again, and I took out a big bulging bag of dog food from the back of the room and stuffed it into the trunk.Yifeng asked me what was inside, but I didn't say anything. Senger was chained to a wall post in the middle yard.I took out the chain and put it lightly around Green's neck.Green opened his eyes and looked at Senge and me. He seemed to feel that this parting would never come back. He suddenly broke free from the chain and ran back to Senger. …I approached them, my throat hurt like I choked on a steel nail.I knelt down slowly, hugging Green with one arm, and Senge, who had grown into a lion, with the other. I put them together, and rubbed their noses with my forehead—human, wolf, mastiff Today I can match head and nose, but in the future, I will have a different fate. The wolf may return to the wilderness, life and death are unpredictable; I may return to the city and fall into the hustle and bustle;I closed my eyes and murmured: "This may be the last time the three of us hold each other together... Senge, my big boy, if we can meet again, I must remember that I still owe you a piece chocolate……"

Heavy snorting and whimpering came from the door of the delivery room, Feng Xue and Red Eyes were closed in the delivery room, and they and Green couldn't even say goodbye to each other for the last time.I know that every year the mastiff farm will dispose of some poor-looking young Tibetan mastiffs. I don’t know how many children with red eyes and snowstorms will survive.I thought of the territorial dog by the river, and I vaguely understood why Bailian had to organize a group of dogs to surround and bite the people in the mastiff field again and again—a few months ago, Bailian would also be the father of the dog, when One can imagine the grief and indignation he felt when he witnessed the cubs of the same kind being dumped by the river. I took a deep breath, put on the chain again and tugged at Green: "Let's go..." Green followed me out of the gate with three steps and three turns.Senge was left alone in the middle courtyard, and the flying snowflakes gradually blurred his figure. In the cold wind, there was the sound of Senge struggling with the iron chain and his baby-like whine... Wolf and Tibetan mastiff were originally the most classic parts of grassland culture. In the primitive nomadic era, wolves, mastiffs, and humans were mutually dependent and accompanied each other. Wolves protected the grassland, and mastiffs protected herdsmen and sheep.The wolf and the Tibetan mastiff were originally born from the same root, but the legendary God of War went to different destinies in just a few decades: the tragedy of the wolf is that it is hated by others, and its species is exterminated!The tragedy of the Tibetan Mastiff is that it is loved and imprisoned like machine parts!Human hate and love have evolved into a disaster!what can we do?What is the most important thing?The life of a wolf?What happened to a mastiff?Or the demise of a prairie tradition... The wolf is extinct, the mastiff is imprisoned, people, what else should I do? ... We finally arrived at Tashi’s ranch. Tashi and the old lady were very happy to see the visitors in the snow. They quickly tied up the dogs and walked out of the tent to greet them. The simple enthusiasm of the herdsmen gradually melted the ice in our hearts. Come. Seeing Green jumping out of the car, Tashi smiled in surprise: "Hey! Green has grown so big!" Tashi hurriedly took out a large piece of sheep's neck and raised it high and shouted at Green: "Don't grab it this time! "It's no wonder if you don't grab it!Green leaped into the air and threw Tashi down, snatched the sheep's neck, and ate it from afar.Tashi got up from the ground, patted the snowflakes all over his body and laughed loudly: "He still has this virtue!" I smiled and declared: "At least I didn't step on your mouth this time." Zhaxi laughed out loud, and a faint smile appeared on Yifeng's cloudy face along the way. Happiness is really the most contagious thing.Tashi and Yifeng who met for the first time shook hands, warmly invited us to enter the camp, and brought out a large can of highland barley wine, we must drink a few bowls with Yifeng.Grandma put butter tea, sugar, oil cakes, blood sausage, and lamb chops on the table.Tashi's wife was still shy and silent.It's just that I didn't see Xiao Tsering, so I found out after inquiring that he had gone to study in the city. We drank wine and ate blood sausage around the stove, and our bodies gradually warmed up.Tashi asked about the destination of our trip, our eyebrows that had just stretched could not help but condensed again, and we talked about Green to Tashi. Tashi looked out of the tent.After eating the neck of the sheep, Green was wiping his mouth intoxicated on the snow.Tashi said, "Put him in my pasture. I won't beat him. I have plenty of cattle and sheep." Yifeng and I were very moved, but shook our heads: "You can't just point to your cattle and sheep to eat just because you are kind." "Then what's the matter!" Tashi's face was blackened and reddened by the highland barley wine, "It's settled like this, stay! Weak lambs, sick sheep and old sheep who can't survive the winter will be given to Green." After finishing speaking, he poured wine , a table of people had a good drink. The next morning, when I got out of the tent, I saw Green taking a leisurely walk around the flock of sheep, with an idle demeanor like a retired old man inspecting his vegetable garden.I called him from a distance, but he glanced back and ignored me.Of course, the sheep that came out to graze early in the morning didn’t like a wolf watching them have a picnic. Several big rams stood up and pointed at him with their horns: “Bold enough to let the horses come over! Give you some color!” Green didn’t come close either. , as soon as the sheep showed its strength, he would back away with his tail between his legs knowingly, lying in the grass and yawning like a shepherd dog.The sheep began to move around after eating grass, and Green also stood up slowly, stretched his waist and followed from a distance, and then chose a grass to lie down to rest and half-closed his eyes to watch the sheep.At first, some sheep looked up at Green vigilantly while they were eating grass. Later, seeing Green laying idly on the snow and basking in the warm winter sun, the sheep gradually got used to Green's presence.The sheep seized the time to dig through the snow and graze. After all, the climate is harsh in winter, and the time for grazing during the day is very short. The pasture is too little and expensive, and the nutritional value is low. They must eat a lot of food to barely fill their stomachs. I yelled a few more times, but Green still turned a deaf ear, and Yifeng asked: "What is he doing? It seems that he has never seen a sheep before." I was noncommittal, looked up and saw Tashi riding on the horse, and asked him, "Would you like to go?" Where?" "Go to the city, give injections to cattle and sheep, and find a way to get you some gasoline." Tashi replied, and Yifeng quickly thanked him.As soon as I heard that Tashi wanted to catch sheep and give them injections, I immediately offered to help. Tashi laughed and quit, and the reason hit me hard: "You don't know sheep, and you can't catch them correctly. Five injections for a sheep." After speaking, he covered his smiling face with a scarf, wrapped his head tightly so that only two eyes were exposed, tightened the reins, clamped the horse's belly, and left in a hurry. Until the afternoon, Green was like a child obsessed with computers, guarding the sheep wholeheartedly.Yifeng looked through the binoculars: "Look at Grinduo being honest, as long as he is full, he will live in peace with the flock, hehe, shepherd wolf." "He suffered from sheep last time, God knows what he's thinking about." I always feel that it's not normal for Green to be honest. It was almost dusk, and the guard dog chained to the stake barked happily, and Tashi came back.He handed over half a barrel of gasoline to Yifeng: "Gasoline is very scarce, so I found these." Yifeng quickly took it and thanked him. There is no way for two modern people to be trapped in the grassland, and the herdsmen need to ride horses to help us find gasoline, Yifeng shook his head and smiled wryly. The three of us went into the account to drink tea, and the sun was setting.In the tent, Shu Zhaxi had the most hearty laugh: "You guys are too dependent on cars. I also have a motorcycle, but I don't like to use it. The car looks like you are driving it, but it is actually it. I'm enslaving you. Once you lie down, there's nothing you can do. My horse can endure bitter cold, understands emotions, and is spiritual. It can go anywhere on this grassland. It even saved my life at a critical moment. Can the car do it? There are too many cars lying on the plateau! The cars will use the names of horses, and horses never bother to use the names of cars..." "Yes, things made by human hands are indeed not as reliable as things made by nature." I took a sip of the highland barley wine and laughed, but I felt that Tashi's words were quite reasonable. Yifeng answered with a smile: "Tashi, you are right, that is indeed the beginning of slavery, but we are hopeless, you can still jump a few times, as long as you are just walking, riding, nomadic, relying on You're free, and when you need gas, money, houses, and other things...it's all over. Huh!" While chatting, the flock of sheep suddenly ran like a frying pan.We hurried out to see that Green "wolf entered the flock", and the sheep scattered and fled.A wolf who dared to openly kill the sheep came to the pasture, and the sheep were panicked.The two big dogs of Tashi's family watched the wolf attack helplessly. The dogs struggled frantically with the chain with their eyes wide open, and almost pulled out the wooden stake that was nailed half a meter deep in the ground at the other end of the chain. In just ten seconds of chasing, a medium-sized sheep was dragged by Green's hind legs and thrown to the ground. The sheep struggled to get up, but Green went around the horns from behind and bit down accurately on the throat.The victim had already been born, and the running sheep regained their calm, and gradually gathered together, looking at the predator with lingering fear, and the legs of the sheep kept trembling.We hurried over to see that Green was still biting the neck of the sheep and would not let go, swallowing the gurgling sheep blood in his throat. He rolled his eyes and stared at us with the pride of the winner and the vigilance of protecting the food. "This is the lame sheep!" Zhaxi exclaimed, looking at the leg of the lamb, "he really knows how to pick!" Sure enough, one of the sheep's hind leg joints was swollen, and the leg couldn't be straightened when struggling, which would definitely affect the speed when running.This guy Green followed the flock for so long during the day, so he was analyzing the situation, observing which sheep was easy to get, and then patiently conserved his energy until the evening when the sheep relaxed their guard, were tired from walking, and swelled from eating. Only then did he launch a surprise attack on the target he had long been optimistic about, and resolve the battle in an instant with the fastest speed and the least physical exertion. Tashi couldn't hide his excitement and said: "It's the first time I've seen the whole process of a wolf killing a sheep at such a close distance. It's amazing!" I winked at Yifeng, Yifeng understood, and quickly took out a wad of money and stuffed it into Tashi's hand. "What are you doing?!" Tashi shook off Yifeng's hand as if touching coals, his expression immediately turned from surprise to anger, "You underestimate me too much, do you still consider me a friend?" Yifeng stood awkwardly Locally, I wanted to say a few words, but when I saw that Tashi seemed to have been greatly hurt, I immediately shut up.I know that Tashi has a bold personality, and he doesn't have so many hypocritical excuses. At night, guarding the trophies, the contented Green sat on the pasture, pointed his nose at the starry sky, and sang loudly with his mouth curled into a tube. His natural crying voice was filled with a sense of accomplishment and pride—he hunted the first sheep. Yifeng put down the curtain of the tent, and said worriedly: "This is not good, this guy has tasted the sweetness, and it will be troublesome if he really treats this place as a big cafeteria." I nodded and said, "This big sheep is enough for Green to eat for a week. Let's seize this week to learn more survival skills from Tashi and Grandma, and strive to go to Langshan again as soon as possible." During this week of heavy snowfall, Green actually found another dead lamb that was born prematurely. He dragged the lamb to the wreckage of the big sheep and guarded his winter grain contentedly. Look at this kid.But we should go.I packed the lamb and the big lamb bones he had left over for the truck.Yifeng counted the supplies - several large boxes of compressed biscuits, instant noodles, mineral water, beef jerky and the like.Before leaving, grandma packed a large backpack of air-dried meat and oil cakes, and repeatedly reminded her to take care.Tashi tied up a big sheep and put it in the trunk of the car, saying: "Come back if you don't have enough to eat!" We shook hands gratefully and said goodbye. After driving again to the Dahe Bend near the territory, we were pleasantly surprised to find that the river had frozen over.Green stepped on it first, and we tried several times with trepidation and finally stepped on the ice. Only then did we realize that our worries were purely unnecessary, and the ice was so thick that a herd of yaks could pass through it! For me who grew up in the Chengdu Plain, when did I see such a thick and magnificent glacier?Green and I were bouncing around on the ice and making a fool of ourselves.Green glides briskly on the frozen river, sniffing and tearing something as soon as he sees something on the ice. It is garbage floating with the river stagnant and frozen on the ice. "Look at Green's footprints!" I happily pointed to Yifeng.Green wandered on the glacier like a ghost, and the flat snow kept the characteristics of Green's footprints clearly.When Green was trotting briskly, his two hind paws could land on the prints of his front paws accurately, and they were arranged in a neat line, like the catwalk of a trained professional model, with extremely coordinated movements.Because Green didn't lift his feet very high, the snow surface was dragged all the way behind the footprints, like a string of little tadpoles lined up. Only when turning, the tadpoles occasionally split into two lines. At this time, Green's front paws The trace of a missing finger is clearly visible. Yifeng followed Green all the way to observe carefully, and compared the other lines of dog paw prints I showed him, he was amazed: "Hey, I can distinguish Green's footprints now. Wolf paw prints are bigger than dog paw prints. That's a lot. Green's feet are like snow boots, which are very suitable for running on snow. You can see that one of my footprints sinks ten centimeters deep, while his four feet only sink five centimeters when they land on the same point. Centimeters deep. The ratio of paw width to weight is perfect, and the pressure is minimal! It seems that when cattle and sheep with small hooves get stuck in the snow and cannot run, it is most beneficial to wolves.” Yifeng compared the two paw prints of Green and the dog, and said, "They are both canids. Why is there such a big difference in the paw prints? Green's paw prints can be arranged in a row, but the dog's paw prints are not It’s two lines spreading out, each going its own way.” "It depends on the bone structure." I finally caught the opportunity to show off, "The wolf's sternum is very narrow, so his steps can often be together, and what is covered under the thick snow is always unknown—— —There may be thorns or holes, and the wolf steps on the same landing point when running, and each step can reduce the stepping on the unfamiliar snow surface. The running process is safer." Yifeng laughed and quibbled: "Then if a thorn is stepped on at a landing point, wouldn't all four paws be pierced?" "You know poverty!" I smiled and threw a large handful of snow towards Yifeng... Once the river was frozen, it saved more than an hour's journey, but the car couldn't drive the river, so we had to get out of the car and walk.On the opposite side of the river is Langshan Mountain, which looks even more magnificent under the sunshine after the snow. In front of the mountain is the open Langdu Beach, where many black spots are scattered, which is a group of yaks grazing. We brought sleeping bags, dry food, cameras, solar batteries, camp lights and other equipment, and the rest of the stuff was temporarily stored in the car and picked up when needed.There is also a wolf and a sheep, what should I do?If they are not led away, there will be bloodshed.We thought about it again and again, and it was better for me to hold Green, and Yifeng led the sheep up the mountain, and the two of them controlled the pair of enemies respectively. When he left Tashi Ranch, although Green had eaten lambs, wolves in winter had a strong sense of food storage. Even if they were full, they would still not be able to resist hunting down sheep that were readily available. You can feel relieved in front of your eyes, but who has the stamina to carry a dead sheep weighing more than 100 kilograms up Mount Lang on a plateau nearly 4,000 meters above sea level? We started walking, and as I expected, Green couldn't help stretching the iron chain and scratching at the sheep with his big belly. He couldn't hold the chain around his neck, so he just stood up, his front paws seemed to be beating. Beating like a war drum.And the sheep was unequivocal, "The spring breeze blows, the war drums are beating, who is afraid of a little wolf?" The sheep bowed its head and pointed at the wolf again and again, "Come on, Grandpa Yang will poke your two transparent holes!" He Yifeng had no choice but to try his best to persuade the fight all the way to Langdu Beach. As soon as he stepped onto the wolf crossing beach, the sharp-eyed Yifeng found a few fresh wolf footprints, which of course were not Green's. "It seems that a wolf really came." Yifeng touched the camera on his waist, and found that the excitement of the wolf track had made him forget his due fear. I stopped immediately and said to Yifeng with a serious face: "Don't be too happy, this wild wolf is not Green you raised, and it's the same thing whether they accept Green, let alone welcome us , You must be vigilant. When you enter a wolf’s territory, you must not yell, because the wolf’s hearing is super sensitive.” "Okay." Yifeng immediately lowered his voice. Seeing that Yifeng was able to accept my "education", I agreed with him on a few points: stop calling Green's name too much, and let him gradually forget the call of people; We mistakenly think that we are holding weapons; if we are sick or injured during our stay in the territory, we must evacuate immediately to avoid potential danger, because wolves have the nature of attacking the weak. After entering the area of ​​Langdu Beach and smelling the same kind, Green stopped fighting with the sheep, buried his head in sniffing the ground and yanked the iron chain all the way to the territory.I saw that Green had changed his interest, so I let go of the chain and let him patrol the Wolf's Crossing. Along the way, Yifeng and I didn't talk anymore. Walking on the plateau is equivalent to carrying a weight of 40 kilograms on flat ground. Besides, Yifeng and I each carried a heavy backpack of no less than 40 kilograms and led a sheep. Intensive physical work.The two of them walked in silence, it would be nice if they could breathe evenly. We buried our heads in asceticism for a long time, Yifeng sat down to rest on the spot, panting heavily, just raised his head to look ahead and was dumbfounded: "Huh?" I was also stunned. I was so busy walking just now that I didn’t notice a brand-new wire fence across Langdu Beach, going left to Langshan, and right to the distant mountains beyond sight!I took a deep breath and only left for more than half a month, and the last clean place, Langdu Beach, was also fenced!We were surprised to walk along the fence to the direction of Wolf Mountain. After walking for more than an hour, the barbed wire fence was still invisible, more fences were gradually added, and there was a brick livestock paddock.Yifeng and I had no hope of detouring. We had to lift a sheep weighing more than 100 kilograms, climb over the fence, and continue walking towards the Langshan territory. Our mood suddenly became heavy. The wire fence crosses the top of Langshan Mountain and passes beside the sacred prayer flags, marking that this sacred mountain has finally become a human mountain.Standing on the territory, the cattle and sheep grazing leisurely are tens of meters away. The spectacular "ice dragon" winding between the Wolf Mountains is full of funny skating sheep and dotted with cow and sheep dung. In the beautiful Langdu Beach The swans that wintered peacefully have disappeared.Cattle and sheep stepped on the thin ice and stepped on the shallow snow water that was originally clear, stirring up puddles of mud.Paradise turned into a bathhouse, fairyland turned into danger. We were dumbfounded. I didn't believe that the depths of the most desolate grassland would become so "prosperous", and the safest sanctuary for wolves became the most dangerous forbidden area.Green's originally hidden wolf cave was only 100 meters away from the nearest fence. The bushes covering the wolf cave had already been swayed by the crowding of cattle and sheep.There were no traces of wolves under the cow and sheep manure and hoofprints all over the ground, and the last territory of wolves was also lost. Green lingered in front of the wolf cave for a long time, unwilling to leave. He whimpered and groaned, digging through the collapsed cave soil, and looked into the cave again and again. His expression was like digging a relative desperately in the ruins after a major earthquake. like orphans.The homeland was shattered, and Green's desperately dancing claws dug out bloodstains in the dirty mud and snow.I couldn't persuade and couldn't bear to look at it anymore, I turned my face and leaned on Yifeng's shoulder, tears wet my clothes.In this human-separated territory, we no longer have the peace of going home.My mind goes blank...Green, where else can we go? After a long time, Yifeng and I returned to the observation point set up by Yifeng on the opposite side of Wolf Mountain with our heads down.A large cross was drawn on the door of the hut at the observation point with cow dung and soil clods. This may be an expulsion order, but we no longer have the mentality to understand it. "The expansion is too fast. It is completely different from when I came here more than half a month ago. It seems that this place has been used as a winter pasture." Yifeng said, tied the sheep into the house, and came back to sit with me. On the snow in front of the house.He looked at Green who was still standing in front of the wolf cave on the opposite mountainside, and asked me, "Do you think the wolves will come?" I shook my head in disappointment, feeling a sense of homelessness in my heart: "I don't know anymore, this is the most desolate territory where Green and I found the most wolves, and it is also the place where I place the greatest hope, the last safe zone I'm lost, and I don't know where else the wolf can go." "It's everywhere. How can there be more grass in the bare Wolf Mountain? Even here, cattle and sheep are herding. People are almost crushing the grassland." Yifeng even breathed heavily. In this kind of alpine meadow, there is only grass as the primary organism, which is the lifeblood of everything.In the most important three-level biological chain of the grassland, the lack of any link in the primary pasture, secondary herbivores, and advanced predators will be fatal.In the current grassland biological chain, the primary and advanced ecological links are missing, and the secondary wild herbivores are also missing. Only cattle, sheep and livestock are everywhere.When people are intoxicated by the happiness of herds of cattle and sheep, have they ever thought that any artificially raised animals only have the appearance of objects and lose the essence and essence of objects? .Nature is the nature of competition, and this competition law has been tampered with by human beings. Humans always reproduce the creatures that are beneficial to them and destroy the creatures they hate, but they ignore that nature will not easily create any life—— Wolves, which prey on old, weak, sick and disabled cattle and sheep, and herbivores that reproduce too quickly, complete the selection of the survival of the fittest in the laws of nature to ensure the continuation of the best quality genes and avoid species degeneration; wolves strictly control rodents, marmots, The rapid reproduction of rabbits and other animals harms the pastures; wolves clean up and digest the carrion and biological waste scattered everywhere to avoid outbreaks of diseases and plagues; wolves hunt large prey together in winter, and the remaining wolf food can help eagles Carnivores such as vultures, vultures, foxes, and bears survived the severe winter of food shortage.Wolves are the masters of grassland predators, and all animals depend on wolves to varying degrees. The wolf is not a vermin of the grassland. The most terrible thing in nature is not "beastry" but "man-made"!Which of the four major causes of grassland desertification is not a man-made disaster? Green stood quietly in front of me, staring at me intently.The brownish-yellow strands of the wolf-eyed man were tangled into a ball of withered grass. After guarding the wolf cave for an afternoon, Green finally came back.We were relatively speechless, only the sound of the whistling wind and the rolling sound of snow and sand in our ears. After standing still for a while, Green came over silently, lowered his head, and buried it under my armpit.I sighed, patted his back, and said softly: "I know you are uncomfortable, just come back, let's tide over the difficulties together." "Yes!" Yifeng encouraged, "I will find you a wolf cave in the future!" After the setting sun sinks in the distant mountains, two people and a wolf sit under the boundless starry sky of Zoige Grassland, listening to the heartbeat of the grassland... The grassland is alive, and the existence of wolves is the only self-healing and resistance to overgrazing in the natural cycle of the grassland However, if even this point of self-resistance is gone, the life in the grassland will be exhausted.However, the grassland in front of us is full of livestock and poaching. Under the greed and possessiveness of human beings, who else can respect the arrangement of nature and leave room for wolves to survive? "Zoige" means "the place that yaks like", but can the bare grassland still be called "Zoige"?Will the wolves come back to this wolf mountain?