Chapter 19 19. Little Bunker and Carrot

Early in the morning, Fuzai squeaked his head around the basket, Xiaobudian immediately got up and stuck his head out, touching noses with Fuzai.The little one was able to stand up, Fuzai seemed very happy, he grabbed the basket and licked and bit the little one's ear. Speaking of this tarp basket, it was originally a car storage box with a zipper on it, and it used to be Little Green's cradle.Since Green's return, we've been keeping the basket folded up in the trunk of the car, reluctant to wash it.Yesterday, I put Fuzai into the basket, Fuzai sniffed the basket inside and out carefully, and actually lay down in it to sleep, as if he felt very at ease.The little one was very reluctant, even though I forcibly tied the little one in a basket to recover from his injuries, he would not move when someone was watching.But he doesn't seem to like this basket that much. As long as we don't look at it in the house, he will crawl out of the basket, to get under the bed and the cabinet, and he prefers the dark corners in the house.Fortunately, Fuzai was with him in the basket, so the little boy was at peace.

I saw that the swelling of the little boy's sprained leg had subsided, so I untied the noose and let him move around.Unexpectedly, as soon as this guy was released, he immediately arched under the low cupboard and never came out again.Fu Zai couldn't get in because he was so big, he scratched the cabinet anxiously. It has been two days and two nights since the little wolves were captured, and they have not eaten anything.Cubs in the wild open their eyes around twelve days old, while Fuzai and Xiaobudian are almost two months old. They have already seen their own wolf mother clearly, and they will never mistake anyone for their mother again.Coupled with being arrested and frightened, they are resistant to people.

I was distressed and anxious: "Send them back to the mountains as soon as possible. The longer you delay, the less hope you will find the female wolf. And if you go on a hunger strike like this, you will starve to death! Let them go back to find their mother as soon as possible while they still have strength. " "The two of them are so frightened and hungry, the little one is still limping, can they go back! Besides, there are no people in the pastures these days, poachers are hunting all over the mountains, and if they are captured, they will not be able to come back Solang said they can't release it now! And the wolf's den has been disturbed, can't the she-wolf go back to that den? Do you want them to be like those two motherless little foxes? We haven't found Green yet. !"

As soon as Yifeng mentioned the little fox, the wound in my heart began to ooze blood; and when Green, whose life and death was unknown, was mentioned, the wound in my heart burst open completely.I would never be willing to gamble with the little wolf's life.The little wolf who has been on a hunger strike for two days, if I let go like this, should I "let him live" or "let him die"? Right now, poachers are a big threat, and the little wolf's injury is a big worry, and there is an undisclosed reason for this—Yifeng can't bear them, so why not me.It's just that this idea is too selfish and too demanding. I have been suppressing it for two days and dare not reveal it.Ever since I took over the little wolf from the poachers, a long-lost sense of intimacy came to my heart.When the little wolf got into my sleeve and touched my pulse, my heart was already moving, as if I felt that little Green had returned to my arms.How much I want to go back to the years with Green on Wolf Mountain again, how much I want to keep them by my side, but can the wolf's ambition be kept?Little Green is an orphan, but Fuzai and Xiaobudian are not. Their mother is mourning for a child in the mountains, and their father may spend his whole life looking for the lost child.We keep Green as adoption, we keep them as plunder.

I looked at the two little guys with tears in my eyes, one was hiding at the bottom of the cabinet and the other was lying in front of the cabinet: "Okay, there are still four days, once the Fa conference is over, I will send them back immediately, and I must be willing when the time comes. We love the little ones again." A wolf is not as good as his own mother." The countdown to our relationship with the little wolf has begun... Since they stayed, they had to find a way to get them to eat.Yifeng went to Wangqingjia's place to drag the wounded sheep back and slaughtered them, and I cut some meat from the leg of lamb, preparing to feed the cubs as rations.Today, no matter what, this mutton must be stuffed into the little wolf's belly.Without food, they don't even have the strength to go back.

Zeren's nephew, Little Luobo, happened to be playing on Wang Qingjia's pasture. When he met Yifeng to drag the sheep, he followed him back, arguing to see the little wolf. "Bangke, bangke, little bangke! Wolf wolf, wolf wolf, little wolf wolf!" Little Carrot sang like a nursery rhyme. Seeing a stranger coming, Fu Zai kept shrinking under the bed.Little Luobo was overjoyed when he saw such a small Bangke, and got under the bed like a little wolf, reaching out his little hand to grab Fuzai's tail.The two little guys caught the other and fled, circling around the sundries in the cardboard boxes under the bed. From time to time, there was a "squeaky" wolf cry and a tender call from the carrot: "Good boy, don't run away." The child grabs the little wolf and hugs and kisses, then runs, and then catches...

"Carrot, don't scare the little bangke, the little bangke has tender bones, don't use too much force!" I looked under the bed, worried. "It's okay, let them play with how much energy a five-year-old child can have, and the little wolf's activities are also good." After a while, there was no movement under the bed.I took a peek and saw that Luo Bo was lying on his side under the bed and fell asleep, Fu Zai was curled up next to his stomach, the two little guys were exhausted. "Gululu", there was a sound of bowel sounds...Fuzai was the first to wake up from hunger. After tossing for a long time, he was hungry and tired.However, he seemed to be less afraid of this human child than before.He sniffed the mucus on the radish's clothes with his nose, stuck out a little bit of it with his tender tongue, and aftertaste it in his mouth. As soon as his eyes lit up, he immediately licked it.

"What's that?" Yifeng asked. "Egg whites, they crushed the eggs I rolled under the bed yesterday." "He's finally eating, great!" "Hush...be quiet." Radish also woke up. Seeing that Fuzai was licking vigorously, he smiled and gave Fuzai the egg yolk that was all over his hands. "Feed this to him." I took the opportunity to pass the mutton and milk to the radish. The radish delivered the mutton to Fuzai's mouth: "Fuzai, be good, let's eat..." Fuzai stared at the radish, his small eyes rolled around for a while, and then ate it.Feed him food afterwards and he's less repulsive.

Yifeng and I looked at me and I looked at you, and the stone in my heart fell to the ground.In the past two days, we have thought of many ways to make the little wolf eat, but we didn't expect that little radish would become familiar with him after playing with him for a while.Regardless of people or animals, it is really the easiest to communicate between simple children. Xiaobudian and Fuzi have very different personalities.Fuzai is extroverted, Xiaobudian is introverted, he is more guarded and passively resists us. Carrot grabbed the little one from under the cabinet and handed it to me.The little one neither struggled nor ran, and sat quietly on my lap, probably knowing that he could not run far with a limp, so he never expended any effort.Whether an adult or a child put the meat in front of his mouth, he just listened to his stomach calling, but kept silent.We forced mutton to his mouth, and he turned his head to hide and seek with the meat in front of him.

The little guy's eyes are very conflicting, and the distance and defense can be clearly read from his eyes.And whenever he got the chance, he would look out of the window, like a kidnapped clever child, selectively obeying, but always observing the escape route.Looking left and right, his gaze finally locked on to a direction, and the corner of his mouth seemed to have parted into a smile that was inevitable.He looked so intently, as if he was in darkness, and there was only light in that direction.Fuzai grabbed my leg with his paws, propped his neck on the chair, twisted his whole body to climb onto my leg and sat down, and also looked in the same direction as Xiaobudian.

I stared at Yifeng in surprise. Yifeng's lips opened and closed, there was no sound, two words, let me pronounce clearly - "Houshan". I nodded knowingly, and I sincerely admired these two little ones. How did they find that direction?I thought that if the little one hadn't suffered a leg injury and couldn't crawl that night, maybe they would have been able to find the wolf's den.My eyes stayed on the little wolf's eyes, and I couldn't move away as if I was bewitched.The setting sun on Wolf Mountain burns in the little wolf's pupils.How much do wolves have that we don't know yet?The more I can't figure it out, the more I feel that unstoppable curiosity is jumping. Inside the window of the hut, the two little wolves silently looked in the direction of home, and the two silently looked into the eyes of the wolf children. The grassland was silent, only the clock hands ticking, ticking... Going home, their eyes only went home. A drop of tear splashed on the back of my hand, and the temperature was fleeting. I gently stroked the skin on the hand where the tear splashed, and the slightly hot feeling seemed to remain in my heart. Luobo persuaded the little boy to eat meat again, but the method was a bit outrageous. He opened the little boy's mouth and stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth with his fingers.Although such rough feeding made the little one inevitable, he still dodged to vomit the food.Carrot pinches his mouth but doesn't let go. During the stalemate, Fuzai next to him suddenly yelled a few times and licked the little one's mouth.The little boy tilted his head and glanced at Fu Zai, and then he paused for two seconds thoughtfully, then he swallowed the meat in his throat, and stared at us challengingly. I was surprised that the little ones cooperated so quickly.I took the meat bowl and picked up a piece of meat. Before I could bring it to the little boy's mouth, he took the initiative to grab it and eat it, and the two little wolves threw themselves into the meat bowl and devoured it. The little radish danced and danced, and Yifeng and I were also pleasantly surprised and pleased. We persuaded the little one for so long and refused to follow. How did we figure it out now?I think back to Fu Tsai's performance just now - there must be words between the little bangkers! I vaguely felt that perhaps the little wolves were preparing for something, recuperating from their injuries, conserving their energy, and waiting for the best opportunity. The pot of meat was eaten up in a blink of an eye. Fuzai and Xiaobudian each had a pleasant cold war and jumped off the ground calmly. I felt the heat on my legs, and I saw that they had peed.These guys, can you be any worse? "Yifeng, Weiyi, come and help, the little one is stuck!" Luobo and Fuzai lay side by side on the ground in front of the cupboard with their buttocks pouted, and Luobo's little hand was holding a wolf's paw under the cupboard. what happened? It turned out that last evening, the two little wolves ate meat, and at night they began to grow wildly, quickly transforming the meat they ate into growth power.Fuzai slept with Luobo last night, while Xiaobudian was withdrawn and unwilling to get close to others, so he got into the cupboard less than eight centimeters high to sleep by himself.The next morning, when he woke up, he found that something was wrong, and he couldn't get out. "This guy grew up overnight!" Yifeng looked at it with a flashlight, "The bottom of the cabinet is high in the middle and the edge is low. He didn't feel it when he slept in the middle last night, but the edge of the cabinet leg is like a micrometer. 7.5 centimeters won't budge. The little wolf's forehead just got stuck. This cabinet sucks the wolf." "Wolves really grow when they see meat!" "Grow fast, don't get into small cracks!" The three of us had to empty out all the sundries in the cupboard, move the cupboard, and let the little one out. These days, Carrot lives in our hut and plays with the little bangke every day.At night he hugged Fuzai and slept on my bed.An adult, a child, and a little wolf were sleeping on the small camp bed. I was afraid that I would squeeze the little radish, and the little radish would be afraid that it would squeeze Fuzai. Only Fuzai enjoyed the crowding. The little one couldn't get under the cabinet anymore, and there was no small space to keep out the wind, so the little guy shivered from the cold at night.Yifeng fished the little one into his bed, it was dark and warm, the little one struggled for a long time, and finally settled down, in the middle of the night, he actually snored softly. The names of "Fu Zai" and "Little Budian" became more and more familiar to Carrot, and he even took the little fellows out of the house: when the wolf wolf digs the hole, he also helps plan it; when the wolf wolf eats, he also chews dry food; The wolf couldn't run anymore, so he put the wolf in the pouch of the little Tibetan robe. "Why didn't they take the opportunity to escape?" Yifeng's question has actually turned in my mind many times. I have been observing the behavior of these two little wolves after they left the house.I often think of the little wolf in the movie. Once he let go in the wild, he will "run away from camps, sheepfolds, human beings, dog smells, and livestock smells" with a clear purpose.But the two little wolves didn't seem to intend to do that.Maybe it's because we don't have livestock and a large number of camps here, or maybe it's because the dirt in the house still freezes the smell of Green's past, and it's more likely that it's because human children make them less afraid. "The little wolf has never left the back mountain. This place is still very strange to them, and they are not sure about finding their way home. We have to walk six hours from the hut to the back mountain, and the little wolf's physical strength is far from enough. What's more They have to pass through this wolf crossing beach in the middle, they have suffered from the swamp, perhaps for them, the most sure way is to recharge their energy and wait for the best opportunity." "Will the wolves find this place?" "not sure." Little Bunker and Little Carrot are childhood sweethearts together: Little Bunker knows that little radish is a human, but he doesn't think little radish will hurt them; little Luobo knows that little Bunker is a wolf, but he doesn't know why people hate wolves.The hearts of the children are not yet filled with hatred. I envy little radish, he was born and raised in the grassland, the little wolf and the child will grow up, maybe the friendship between the wolf and the human will continue in the grassland.Unlike us, when Green was released, he returned to the city and has been separated ever since. As soon as Fuzai and Xiaobudian started the eating precept, their appetites were astonishing, and they especially liked to tear and eat whole pieces of meat.We simply dragged the dead sheep to a cool place behind the house, and let them gnaw away.Every time when grabbing food, Fu Zai obviously has the upper hand, and he is the first to eat the sheep's heart all by himself.With the nunchuck gone, Fuzai showed his status as the absolute little wolf king. He gnawed on the soft meat of the sheep's belly, always squeezing the little one to the end. The half of the tongue sticking out of the dead sheep is considered soft meat. The little boy sniffed the sheep's nose and approached tentatively. He bared his front teeth and wanted to bite the sheep's tongue. The sheep's eyes opened suddenly, and the bulging eyes were facing the little one.This must be the first time Xiao Budian saw a dead sheep. He was nervous at first, but was so frightened by the sheep's eyes that the rabbit jumped up and turned around and ran away. After running for more than ten meters, he looked back with lingering fear, as if he was always afraid that the giant would wake up. Come and get him.It wasn't until he watched Fuzai eat deliciously that the dead sheep would not wake up, then he limped around behind the sheep's buttocks and ate the hindquarters. Lu Wang is four months old, much bigger than the little wolf, but he can't compete with the wild wolf brothers.He is used to the finely cooked meat in the food bowl, and he has never seen such a barbaric way of eating it. Fu Zai bit his dog's nose hard, and he stood back tremblingly, curling up his tongue and licking the nose slowly oozing out Here come the blood beads.After Fuzai and Xiaobudian had finished eating, Luwang dared to "go to the table" to pick up some minced meat. Although there is ready-made mutton, Fuzai and Xiaobudian are still keen to catch prairie rats.Living things will make the playful little wolf happy to hunt. Little Green's first hunt that year was also a mouse hunt. Rat meat can not only cure hunger, but more importantly, it is rich in taurine. Taurine can protect the liver, protect the heart and resist fatigue. The key is to improve eyesight, which can greatly improve the night vision of wolves. few nutrients.Although the hearts and livers of animals also contain taurine, only the king of wolves can enjoy this precious pimple, and rats are grass root supplements that wolves can eat.Therefore, mouse catching is not only the need of growing young wolves, adult wolves will also hunt a large number of prairie rats, night rangers must have a pair of good eyes! Fu Zai weighed six and a half catties before meals and ten catties after meals.Whenever they were full of food and drink, Fuzai and Xiaobudian sniffed and left marks everywhere on the hillside, and then snuggled together, staring at the direction of the back mountain, as if they were waiting for something.They also found a moor hole near the hut where they could hide. When they were tired, they would feel more at ease resting in the hole, and they were unwilling to enter the house again. In the middle of the night, I heard the howling of a baby wolf in the dark, but it was quickly swallowed up by the wind. Early in the morning, I went to see the hiding hole of Fuzai and Xiaobudian with apprehension. They were still inside, and the wolves had not come. Since that night, the little wolf hasn't howled again. Four days have passed, and a sheep has been gnawed to the bone by Fuzai, Xiaobudian and Luwang. Eating meat, sleeping, and looking at the mountains are the daily homework of Fuzai and Xiaobudian. The only thing that has changed is that they look at us with softer eyes, and they are more lively than when they were rescued.They still look back at me when I call their names. The little boy was able to stand upright on his hind legs and climb onto Fuzai's back, and his leg injury was much better.As I unwrapped the little one, he turned his back and kept staring at my hands.His breath was blowing on the back of my hand, I saw him so close, I thought he would lick me, so I cheekily moved the back of my hand to his mouth, and stuck out half of my tongue to imitate The way he breathed flattered him.Unexpectedly, after removing the bandage, the little boy moved his legs and feet, stared at my tongue, and walked away without saying a word. Fu Tsai's destructive power is comparable to that of Green when he was a child: he often dragged down our video camera, biting the wool cover of the microphone as prey; The sleeping bag tore out the down that filled the room, and dragged Yifeng's long johns into the hole between him and the little one to make a nest. One morning, I felt the tip of my nose was hot, and when I opened my sleepy eyes, I saw the face of a little wolf standing in front of my nose, with my shadow reflected in the clear eyeballs, and I called out in a daze: "Green?" He was lying on the side of the bed, tilted his head, and looked at me seriously with his small eyes. "Green!" I stood up excitedly, "You're back, mom misses you so much, Green! Hey, why... have you become smaller?" "What's your name?" Little Carrot in my arms rubbed his eyes with blurry eyes, "He's Fu Zai." Fu Zai next to the bed ran away in a hurry, and I became more awake, sweating on my brow.Recalling the way Fuzai focused on me just now, I feel a little regretful. If I wake up slowly, will he touch noses with me, just like Green did back then... Yifeng on the opposite bed was also awakened by me: "You... well, don't miss him too much." How can I not want to, I often look at Fu Tsai's figure in a daze.When Fuzai and Xiaobudian are looking at the mountain, I will walk over gently, sit carefully on the grass, and quietly accompany them to look at the other side of the mountain.I even tried to guess the whispers of the little wolves - are the poachers still in the mountains?Has our sister hidden herself?Are mom and dad still looking for us?Can we still go home? I know that if I reach out to touch them, most of them will go away, so I will put my hands on the ground, creep my fingers to get closer to them little by little, and park behind the little wolf or between human wolves, so that the little guys will relax. A tail or a paw would inadvertently rest on the back of my hand.Compared to hugging the flustered little wolf tightly, this kind of inadvertent touch moved me more emotionally. Listen, my little wolf, this steppe is so peaceful and quiet. How I wish they could be as close to me as Green was back then, but I understand how incomplete Green's childhood world is, and it is precisely because Little Green didn't know his own life experience that he fell in love with human beings without reservation.I can't keep Fuzai and Xiaobudian, this kind of longing for but reluctantly makes me sad. I thought to myself, how wonderful it would be if this were Green's child.In my dreams, I hope that one day Green will bring his children to reunite with us. Our whole family ran in the wilderness, and when we were tired, we sat on a high hill to breathe, overlooking the earth.Wolf grandchildren Wolf granddaughters will pester me to tell them stories?Hehe, I think I will become very chatty, like every grandma, telling grandchildren the embarrassing things about his father when he was a child-"When your father was a child, it was called endless scouring, and it was really a three-month-old wolf beggar." Like a dog, he has done everything from catching cats, catching chickens, and stealing fish. He ate toothpaste at home, and his mouth was full of foam. Grandma was so scared that he thought it was rabies, so he picked up a broom and gave it to your father. Sap, the green-headed buns that I played haven’t gone away for a week. Also, your father was a ‘two’ when he was a child, and he would always store up delicious food. In the summer, when he played with his grandma on the rooftop , especially like to eat old popsicles, but he was reluctant to eat them all at once, so he always left half of the popsicles and hid them in the corner of the roof. dried..." Son, upon hearing your embarrassing story, will the little wolf grandchildren roll on the ground laughing?Would you be so ashamed that you couldn't bear it, yelling: "Mom, stop talking!" Mom likes to see you blushing.Oh, by the way, you have hair all over your face, so you shouldn't be able to see your blushing. Thinking about it, I giggled with tears in my eyes, so that Fuzai and Xiaobudian beside me all tilted their heads and looked at me strangely. "These two little wolves will die if they can't find their parents." At some point, Yifeng stood behind me, "I still remember when you released Green, you cried and said to him , 'Child, mother is sorry for putting you in a place like this.'” I recalled the parting scene back then, and my heart still ached. Yifeng lowered his palm and touched my head: "It's been almost half a year since we returned to the grassland, and we haven't found Green yet. After that, the hope will be even slimmer... Do you regret it?" I nodded and shook my head, feeling overwhelmed. "Do you believe in fate?" Yifeng asked me, "If Fu Zai is the reincarnation of Green, and he is by your side again, you have a second chance to choose, will you let him go or not?" My tears blurred the shadow of the mountain, and I choked up: "I will ask him, whether to go or not to go..." Fuzai, little one, God can let you replace Green to accompany me, I am satisfied.I will definitely give you what you want most. The clouds in the sky slowly moved into the distance, occasionally revealing a few rays of sunlight.Time flows silently, washing away everything.The seven days with the two little wolves were fleeting.The herdsmen returned to Yuanmu one after another, and the poachers withdrew from the Langshan area. Little Carrot hugged Fu Zai and refused to let go: "Don't let little bangke go, I want to play with them! I'll raise them, and I'll give all the delicious food to wolf wolf, don't let wolf wolf go..." "Good boy, bangke is not a dog, little bangke must go back to the mountains." "Let them go back and they will die!" The children on the prairie somehow understood something. "But wolf wolf wants to go home, wolf wolf misses mother. Carrot also misses mother, right?..." "I don't have a mother!" I felt distressed for a while, no wonder this child always lives with Zeren.Seeing that little radish was crying into tears, we didn't dare to ask more questions. "Luobo is good. Fuzai and Xiaobudian will grow up next spring. When they grow up, they will definitely come back to play with radish." "I won't know them when they grow up." Carrot was tearful, pouted, and his jaw was crinkled into a walnut. "They'll know you." The moment Yifeng took Fuzai away from Luobo's arms, Fuzai's little claws hooked onto Luobo's scarf, stretched his neck, and licked the teardrops from the child's mouth. After climbing up the back mountain, we took the little wolf out of our arms. After a bumpy journey, the two little guys finally got their feet on the ground.Fu Zai's eyes got used to the sunlight for a while, and when he looked around, he was so excited that his vellus fluffed up.They turned their heads like lightning, stared at us in surprise, and ran away.Xiao BuDian raced against time to rush to the nearest Mozi cave, and plunged into it.Fu Zai followed closely behind, but stopped at the entrance of the cave. He found that we were not chasing.He raised one paw lightly, as if he didn't know whether to hide in the cave or escape into the mountains next, and he cast unbelievable gazes at us: How is it possible?People will let us go? The Mozi cave was twenty meters away from us. Fuzai hesitated, he was probably sure that if we chased him there, he would have time to hide in the cave.So he began to sniff around vigorously, raising his little nose and shrugging against the wind. After a while, Fuzai called into the cave, Xiaobudian stretched out his head to check, but we didn't move. The two little wolves ran wildly without hesitation!The point is clear, the goal is to go home!Disappeared in the valley in a blink of an eye. "These two little guys." My smile is slightly sour, how is this scene so familiar.It was also on the mountain ridge, and it was also a farewell to the wolf. In the past, Green went there three times, reluctant to part, but now the two little wolves do not miss it at all. During the seven days of getting along, although Fuzai and Xiaobudian finally agreed with us, they still remained wild and defensive.Of course, they are not to blame for this. They were taken away by others, so naturally they would not have illusions or gratitude towards people. In their eyes, people are always predators, and even if people treat them well, it is better to set them free. Wolf ambition, from the moment they opened their eyes and saw their real mother, they awakened the world. Wolves are afraid of people during the day.With us the big wolf would not show up, and we took one last look down the valley. "Let's go...it's gone." "Do you think they can find it? Are the wolves still here?" "Only the God of Wolf blesses you. Didn't Wang Qingjia say yesterday that you've heard wolves howling these nights? Maybe they've been looking for their children." The two chatted and walked all the way, and as soon as they walked back to the foot of the hut, they heard Lu Wang yelling at home.A motorcycle was parked on the hillside, and a masked figure wandered in front of our house. "Poaching?!" The two hurriedly took cover, and Yifeng took out his binoculars to look at him. The man had already spotted us, waving his robe sleeves from afar: "Ah Ruo! Come here quickly!" He pulled off his mask, "It's me!" We both breathed a sigh of relief, it was Zeren. "You released the little wolf?" Zeren asked. "how do you know?" "Luoba couldn't cry at home, so I went around to have a look." "What happened to the child's mother? Isn't she with the child?" "No, his mother married and moved to a big city. Radish is a child before marriage and stays with her natal family." "Oh, then the child should study next year, right?" "Hehe, when he grows up, we will send him to the temple, become a young lama, and study in the temple. This is our custom." Yifeng pushed open the door: "Come, sit inside." "Stop sitting." Zeren said with a smile, "Let me tell you some good news. The black-necked crane has laid two more eggs. Come and see with me?"