Chapter 3 3. Save the wolf

At the end of the prairie, the night sky occasionally reddened by fireworks is covered with thin clouds of smoke, and shivering stars are exposed in the changing haze. After we left Taiweiruo Village, we sent Zeren back to his Yuanmu. Zeren’s wife Renzeng Wangmo asked us to have a simple New Year’s Eve dinner, “Did you see wolves today?” I bit my tsampa and nodded: "We even helped the dead cattle dealer drag the cattle. It's really heartwarming. It's a pity that I still haven't seen Green." While rubbing tsampa, Renzeng Wangmu listened to Yifeng and I talk about what happened during the day, and said with relief: "Don't worry, look slowly, as long as Green is still alive, you will always meet. Oh, yes, you keep asking The wolf from the SWAT team heard that the price has been negotiated, and it will be sold to drug dealers."

We were both surprised: "When?" "It's only two days." The wolf's bad things happened one after another, and we couldn't even swallow the New Year's Eve dinner. Don't pass Zeren's family, let's drive back to the county seat. Yifeng's car drove slower and slower in the night, and finally stopped at a fork in the road. The left side was the direction back to the county hotel, and the right side led to the special police force.Yifeng lay on the steering wheel and asked, "Where are you going?" I sighed and looked to the right...

As the car was driving on the road, a wolf howling with a barking tone suddenly sounded in the night: "Hua ow——Flower, oh——flower!" It's Green!He found us back?Shocked, I rolled down the window and yelled, "Green! I'm here! Ow—Green!" Yifeng also yelled and searched, and the howling wolf sucked us in like a strong magnetic field... However, this voice came from the special police force! Oh... so it was the howling from the chained wolf.The two were disappointed and heartbroken.This wolf also grew up with dogs, so that the "accent" is similar to Green.Did he share Green's grief when his den was gutted by poachers?At this time, he didn't know whether it was the sound of firecrackers on New Year's Eve that aroused his fear when he was being hunted down, or the echo of the howling fireworks in the mountains resembled the chants of wolves, or the uncontrollable loneliness and longing for his relatives. Let out a dirge.

"Huaao—" He didn't know where his relatives were, whether they had been sold to a foreign land or had been massacred, were there any survivors?Will you find him?He tried his best to find the wolf's language, calling out one after another: "I am here, I am here..." The howling wolf was swallowed up by the dark field, and the only thing accompanying him was the iron chain covered with ice and snow.Under the desolate starry sky, no one cares about him except us. In the past few days when we were busy looking for Green, the drug dealer may have come, and he may be inspected like a commodity and bargained for.He had a premonition of his impending doom.He could not wait for the next spring, and his life-long captivity was about to come to an end. He had no companions, no relatives, no freedom, but only the fate of death. He sang an elegy for himself.

I rushed forward with enthusiasm, I couldn't care so much anymore, I pulled out my dagger, opened the door and got out of the car. "What are you going to do?" "Cut the collar! Let him run!" "Be careful of the Tibetan mastiff, be careful... the people inside..." Yifeng said it very hard, he is an honest man, and he has never done anything like stealing dogs.I am also a girl from a good family. I never thought that I would be against the "police uncle", but the "good" people will become "wolves" if they have "claws".

Both of us must have been crazy trying to save the wolf.The Tibetan Mastiff at night is more ferocious than any other time, but what is more terrifying than the Tibetan Mastiff is the person with the gun inside.Anyone who runs outside the SWAT team with a murder weapon may be regarded as a thug and shot. Yifeng parked the car on the side of the road outside the fence to meet him. I took off my gloves and tiptoed close to the wolf. In the darkness, the wolf seemed to have smelled us, standing by the wall and looking forward.I took out two pieces of air-dried meat, and before the Tibetan mastiff barked, I threw a piece in front of a Tibetan mastiff.I took a deep breath to warm my frozen hands, hugged the wolf's body, followed the protruding wolf's head with my left hand to touch the wolf's neck, dug up the collar with two fingers, and cut it off with my right hand in the dark.After a few cuts, I heard the sound of iron chains next to me, and the two Tibetan Mastiffs had already swallowed the dried meat, roaring and rushing up from both sides.The wolf dodged to the left subconsciously, and was hit by the Tibetan mastiff on the left. Even the wolf led me into a somersault. Fortunately, the chains of the Tibetan mastiff were not long enough, so I could only bark and struggle. I quickly got up, but I couldn't hug me anymore Stop the dodging wolf.

The flashlights in the SWAT team flickered, and someone yelled, "Who?! Stop!" "Run!" Yifeng shouted anxiously. As soon as I turned around, I heard two gunshots. My legs softened and I knelt on the ground.I didn't bother to check, I jumped into the car with one leg, and Yifeng kicked the accelerator.In the rearview mirror, the torch light was still flashing. A Tibetan Mastiff was dragging its chain to catch up with the road, and the sound of human barking was thrown away.My heart was beating violently, and my trouser legs were wet and sticky. When I touched it with my hand, it was blood!My left knee hurts...

"I got shot!" Yifeng's face turned pale, he gripped the steering wheel tightly, and drove all the way back to the hotel. The two of them managed to catch their breath evenly, and Yifeng rolled up my trouser legs for inspection with trembling hands, and asked tremblingly, "Is the bullet in it? Did it break any bones? Hurry up and go to the hospital..." On New Year's Eve, where is the hospital to work?It was the first time in their lives that they were shot, and the two were at a loss.The wound was on the top of the knee. I touched the wound, and it seemed that there was no foreign object. I tried to bend my leg, and the bone was fine, but with a little force, blood gushed out and flowed down the calf to the ground.Yifeng was dizzy, and hurriedly opened the first-aid kit.

Gritting their teeth to clean the wound, both of them were stunned, it turned out to be an inch-long knife wound!what happened? Thinking back carefully, those two "gunshots" seemed to be two kicks, and I knelt on the blade in a panic? Yifeng let out a long breath, and sat on the ground listlessly: "This is a big deal..." Thinking of shouting "I was shot" when I got into the car just now, I laughed out of embarrassment. Yifeng sullenly said, "Still laughing! The ligament would have been severed if the knife edge was lowered. Fortunately, you were not caught up by the Tibetan mastiff, or your life would be in danger."

When it comes to the Tibetan mastiff, I am even happier: "Haha, he didn't catch up with one of my four legs, stupid dog! No future!" Yifeng often said that I was a heartless optimist, with too many tears High, but the point of laughter is very low, it is not easy to beat me to tears, but I can laugh when encountering anything terrible. Yifeng helped me apply the medicine, and when he probed with a cotton swab, the bone was exposed: "This cut is too big, and it's on the joint, so I need stitches." "No need." I tore off a few band-aids, pulled the wound up and down to stick it firmly, straightened my legs and threw the bandage to Yifeng, "Wrap it up."

Kizuna was seriously ill, and had enough of laughing at embarrassing things, but when they thought about the failure of releasing the wolf, the two of them felt heavy again.Impulse can't solve the problem, what should I do? When he was at a loss, there was a knock on the door outside the hotel room. This sound was particularly piercing and shocking in the surprisingly quiet night.We were taken aback, quickly exchanged glances, Yifeng looked at the watch, it was past one o'clock in the middle of the night! "Who?" "Police! Open the door!" We gasped, our hearts beat wildly, and pumped all the blood from our bodies to our heads, our brains were about to explode in an instant!Our whereabouts exposed? !Are those people chasing the door?What are they up to? ! "What's up?" "Check the room! Open the door!" "Wait a minute." Yifeng tried to calm down, quietly and quickly hid the first aid kit.I limped and wanted to hide in the toilet, and Yifeng repeatedly pointed at my bed. I quickly got under the covers to cover my injured leg, and quietly turned on my mobile phone camera, just in case.Yifeng also messed up the quilt on his bed, took a breath and opened the door bravely. The three policemen who came in were all unfamiliar faces: "Take out your ID! Routine inspection!" One policeman carefully checked our photo registration documents, one policeman looked around the room, and one policeman began to question: "Where did you come from? " "Chengdu." "What are you doing here?" "travel." "Come to travel during the Chinese New Year in a world of ice and snow?" "yes." "Where did it all go? What did you do?" "Walk around on the grassland and take pictures of snow scenes." The previous policeman handed the registered ID card to the interrogating policeman, and he took the ID card and looked at us again: "Is that off-road vehicle below yours?" "yes." "Special areas, if you don't go to certain places, don't go." The policeman who was questioning returned his ID card to Yifeng, and turned around before leaving the house to emphasize, "Remember, don't run around." The door was closed, hearing the sound of footsteps, Yifeng quickly locked it, but the two of them could no longer feel at ease. Yifeng sat by the window and lit a cigarette: "Why have we lived here for more than ten days, and didn't come early or late, but why did we come for a routine inspection in the middle of the night today? It's such a small county, and there is only this one on the 30th of the year." The hotel is open, so it's too easy to track down two foreigners, not to mention our car is still parked in front of the hotel. What does the last sentence of the police mean... Do you think they found us?" "I do not know……" Once a person becomes nervous, he is like a frightened bird. Could it be that we cannot save the wolves, but instead we are being watched? Facing the last sentence of the police, we dare not run around anyway. Early in the morning, we drove to Tashi Ranch, deliberately using the slowest speed to bypass the gate of the SWAT team.The wolf is still there, walking around anxiously with the iron chain stretched, and he is about to be made into medicine.According to those people, digging out the wolf's tongue before it is dead, drying it and using it as medicine can cure asthma. While driving, Yifeng glanced at the wolf outside the car window, and smiled wryly: "I have asthma since I was a child, but I will not kill him to cure my disease." I patted Yifeng on the shoulder: "Not everyone thinks like you, and there are still many people who want to cure their greed." We didn't dare to stop... As soon as they entered the Tashi Ranch, Tashi's Tibetan dogs rushed up and surrounded the car, yelling.Yifeng honked the horn, and Tashi heard the sound and came out to see: "Ha, you are here, hurry up! Sit inside!" He raised his foot to drive the dog away. As soon as I got out of the car, Tashi noticed my leg: "Why are you limping?" Which pot is not opened and which pot is lifted, I am so embarrassed: "Don't ask, is there any wine?" Tashi laughed loudly and said, "Yes! Yes! For Chinese New Year, there is enough wine and meat!" The two of us got into Tashi’s tent and saw that the tent was very festive. The Tibetan New Year and the Spring Festival are on the same day. Relatives and friends have to visit each house, so every table is full of hospitality at any time. A variety of Tibetan delicacies such as hand-picked meat, blood sausage, and milk cakes. We sat on the ground: "Where are the family members?" "They all went back to the settlement to celebrate the New Year, and I was just guarding the cattle in the pasture. You are here, just to talk to me." Zhaxi took out the highland barley wine and placed three sea bowls, "I heard from Zeren that you have come a lot. Damn, I've been looking for wolves every day, what's up, have you found Green?" "No, not only did I not find them, but I found that the wolves were much less." Watching Tashi pour the wine, I suddenly remembered the past when Green was drunk, and my heart felt sour again, "Tashi, during the two years we left, Have you seen Green?" "I've seen it. It was the time I called you. It was about three months after you left the grassland. One morning I opened the pen to herd the sheep, but the sheep couldn't survive. When I looked around, I saw a wolf following you. Rolling around in the feeding place, and smelling your old clothes hanging on the fence, I looked very intoxicated. I felt familiar and called Green, and he immediately looked up at me, didn’t run away, but didn’t come over, and got down on the ground, Huddled in the grass and looked at me. My wife heard me call out from the tent, and also came out to call Green. He stood up excitedly, jumped a few steps forward, and stretched his neck to look at her carefully. After watching for a while, he seemed a little disappointed. , looked into the tent again. I simply walked towards him, but he retreated when I entered. I stopped and he stopped, and continued to look at the tent. I walked more than two hundred meters away from him, and he stopped looking. , turned around and ran, no matter how much I shouted, I couldn’t come back.” "Does he have 'eyes of heaven' on his head?" Yifeng asked urgently. Tashi shook his head: "It's two or three hundred meters away, and he's sneaking around in the grass. Where can I see him clearly? I think his movements and demeanor are very similar to Green. Oh, then I remembered what you said When I saw him again, I took a picture of it, and I quickly took a mobile phone to record a video. Just wait." Tashi found out his old mobile phone, and searched for a charger. I couldn't wait, and kept asking Zhaxi: "Did you see him eating and feeding? Where did he go? Are you sure he is Green? Is it 'like' or 'is'?" Tashi thought for a while: "Like...yes, it's just that he's a bit bigger. When I saw him before, he was a half-sized wolf. When I saw him again, he was already a big wolf. Judging by his movements , I think it should be. Think about it, none of my dogs barked, which means that they probably know him; besides, people’s clothes hanging on the fence can usually scare wolves. Come on, which wild wolf would do such a thing; also, after he ran away, I went over to see, although the dried meat that was fed was not eaten, but there was no toffee left, only the candy wrapper was left there..." The phone finally turned on, my heart beat faster, I turned over and got up to watch the video, just in time to bump into Yifeng's head, the two of them couldn't care less about humming, they held their breath and widened their eyes - in the shaking video, there could be vaguely Seeing a wolf the size of a grain of rice turn around and run away. "It's him! It's him! It's him!" We both patted the table and shouted, that figure was so familiar!Turned into ashes, I also recognize it! Perhaps for many people, wolves look the same, but those who have raised dogs can easily understand this feeling: Even if a large group of seemingly identical dogs are mixed together, the owner can tell which one is his own at a glance. "Wang".Getting along with wolves day and night, you will find that each wolf has its own unique posture, eyes, accent, habits, movements, temperament, and even raising its claws and tail.Green's sense of intimacy when facing people is something that wild wolves don't have. The wolf in the camera doesn't run away in panic, but leaves with a sense of loss, leaving behind a back that is drifting away.Since the last farewell on the mountain ridge, Green's back has been deeply imprinted in my mind. This video is the first time I've seen Green in the wild since we parted ways.I played it back over and over again, chanting his name, and I almost hallucinated--fantasizing that Green turned around and ran towards me again!This bad boy, how I want to hug him again. "Is there any more? How many times has he come back?" Yifeng asked. "Just once." Tashi said, "I haven't seen him since that time." After watching this video, I was not only worried, but even more worried: "Three months after returning to the wolves, why did he come back alone? Is he left behind, hungry, or expelled? Now two years have passed Is he still alive? Has he returned to the pack of wolves? Can he have enough to eat?” I suddenly remembered the howls of the yaks and the pack of wolves dragged away by the dead cattle dealer. …The more I thought about it, the more flustered I became: maybe he was kicked out of the wolves, and he was so hungry that he ran back to look for us, but was disappointed; maybe he had starved to death on the way home, or maybe this was Green The last image is up.The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became, and I almost wanted to go to Wolf Mountain immediately to find him. Tashi smiled and pressed me to sit down: "Don't be so pessimistic, no news is good news, don't underestimate the ability of wolves! But if you are so worried, I also blame him. Let's eat and drink enough. Let’s go to Wolf Mountain together to find him! Come, come! Do a bowl for Green Peace, Tashi Dele!” I made up my mind and quickly ate meat and wine to build up my strength.After calming down for a while, I realized that I had stood up too hard just now, and the wound on my knee was torn and oozing blood again.Seeing this, Tashi asked what was going on.While eating, Yifeng told Zhaxi all about seeing the special police selling wolves these days, having nowhere to find a leader, rescuing wolves from accidental injuries, and worrying about being inspected in the middle of the night. Tashi stared at my lame leg and laughed, "So you were so honorably wounded! Come on, make up for what you eat." He grabbed a lamb leg and stuffed it into my hand, and then he stopped slowly. Laughed and said: "Let me tell you, in this special place, police rounds are common, so don't be so nervous. You want to save wolves, I understand, but the method is wrong. You haven't come to me for so many days Ask, I'm messing around there. I know the wolf from the SWAT team. They confiscated it from the poachers earlier. The poachers had sold almost all of the litter of wolf cubs, and that was the only one left They confiscated it because of a wound on the leg, but they didn’t sell it. They didn’t know what to do with a live wolf, and there was no organization on the prairie to send it back. At that time, even if there was an animal rescue station, it would be good. It can be cured and then released into the wild. There is no way, the special police raised wolves as dogs, and they were afraid that wolves would hurt people, so they kept chained; wolves became more headaches when they grew up, and they were not easy to keep and dared not let them go! A few days... It is estimated that while the leaders were on vacation, those special policemen had a bad idea about wolves, saving wolves and selling wolves... Hehe! These grandchildren." Tashimi smiled and cut off a piece of meat and chewed it in his mouth. , Wiping the back of the knife with his thumb and pondering for a while, he took out his mobile phone and dialed, speaking in Tibetan and "Bang Ke... Bang Ke..." on the other end of the phone. When we were young, Tashi put down the phone and said to us: "Don't worry, I have asked a relative of mine who lives near the SWAT team to keep an eye on that wolf. They won't be able to sell it for a while! As for saving the wolf... ...You still have to use the proper method.” Tashi stroked his beard and laughed: “I’ll teach you a trick—to find the government if you have any difficulties! The troops can’t force their way, you can go to the county magistrate! If you don’t go to work, you can go home Find!" "This... can this work?" "If you don't believe me, try it! The violation of law and discipline will have a bad impact, and the government will definitely take care of it! Don't wait too long, you two will go after dinner." "Then when will you go to Green?" I was thinking about both ends. Tashi smiled and said, "Look at your lame leg, why are you climbing a mountain? Let's take care of it for a few more days." After dinner, we bid farewell to Tashi, and we went to the city to find a deputy county magistrate in Ruoergai. She was very happy to see us: "I have read your book!" Let's talk about it. "The ranks of the army are higher than ours..." The county magistrate frowned slightly, "But don't worry, I will definitely find a way and let you know the result." What I had been worrying about for days finally came to fruition.