Chapter 22 22. Neighbors with wolves

In about a week, the wolf cubs had completely replaced their fur, and they were even more energetic when tearing meat. It is estimated that their new teeth had already grown.Scud grows stronger and can run faster than ever.I don't worry anymore, hot mom is a competent mom. Today, the big wolves are not at home, and the little wolves are practicing catching rabbits in the valley. It's crazy to say, are these hares tired of working today, and insist on drilling into the valley where the wolves' lairs are lairs?It turns out that there are three temptations here - large alfalfa, clean water and leftover meat.Rabbits have to eat meat, especially in the season when there is no grass in late winter and early spring, the hares can dig out the pupae under the snow to satisfy their hunger.During the spring famine, we once photographed wild rabbits eating meat in the monitoring of feeding dead cattle and sheep to wolves in the snow.At first we thought the hare mistook the wool for hay, but it turned out that this guy did pick out some places with little oil to eat dried meat.The physique and stomach of wild rabbits are far better than those of domestic rabbits. In order to survive, they have no more choices.

It's summer now, the wild rabbits don't eat much meat, they just open up meat occasionally, and there are many beef jerky left over from the coyotes in the wolf valley, the most important thing is that the meat contains the salt necessary for the survival of rabbits.Taking advantage of the absence of the big wolf, the rabbits boldly dispatched. Rabbits dare to steal the meat of wolves, such a situation is rare! Among this group of rabbit bandits, the old rabbit is the most cunning, he picks up a bit of meat, and he dodges as soon as he kicks his legs, so the little wolves don't want to catch up with him.But the young rabbit was a bit greedy, looking around, always wanting to pick a good bite of meat, so the rabbit died for the meat, which just provided the little wolf with a chance to practice his skills.

Scud is the best at catching rabbits. Not only is she fast, but she is also more pragmatic. She only picks those half-sized rabbits that can't run fast, no matter how close the old rabbits are, she will not waste her efforts.Because those old rabbit spirits always like to sit in a "chamber shape", hide the most elastic hind legs under their stomachs, and every time they eject and escape when the little wolf is still a few meters away from him, which severely hits the little hunter. self-confidence.Despite good timing and good prey selection, Scud's success in catching a bunny is still very low, nine out of ten.

Fu Zai is more greedy, always trying his best to chase fat old rabbits. He probably thinks that he needs a big guy to feed the three brothers and sisters. The little one is not very agile, so he can't catch up with the rabbit, but he knows to cooperate with his brothers and sisters. After catching the rabbit, Fu Zai will not treat him badly. The pupils of the hare's eyes are small, and the bulging eyeballs are set on the angular head, which is fierce and fierce at first glance, even in death. Xiaobudian loves to eat rabbits, but he can't bear to eat rabbit heads.Yifeng said: "The little guy must have been frightened by the dead sheep's eyes when he was gnawing on the sheep's head in the hut, which left a psychological shadow." Indeed, he seemed very afraid that he would accidentally meet the dead rabbit's eyes, or so Let’s just say, no matter whether it’s a rabbit or a marmot, he won’t eat anything that has eyes and can stare at his head!As long as the dead rabbit's head is aimed at him, he turns around and runs away.

Every time we see him frightened like this, we are both funny and worried about the future of this doll.Little one, please calculate the area of ​​the shadow in your heart.You can't stand the rabbit staring at you. We will hit the yak in the future, and the ox stares at you. What should you do? In the days when Houshan was guarding the wolf's lair, we often guessed, which wolf was the one who fed the water bottle to the young wolf?Which one is the hot mom's "Ruyi Wolf King"?Because according to the organizational structure of the wolf pack, the target of Hot Mom is the wolf king of the wolf pack.

patriarch?Certainly not, he was always polite and respectful to Qi Fen and Long Lang, bowing his head and obeying his ears. Dragon wolf?Impossible, after all, he has a disability, so he may not be qualified for the position of "chief rudder". So the most likely is seven and a half?Seven and a half is in the prime of life, and he often raises his tail flatly. Both the dragon wolf and the elders show their stomachs to him very respectfully.When we first met Qifen and a half, we were impressed by his sharp eyes and calm demeanor. I guess he should be the wolf king, right?But... I always feel that I don't look like a hot mom's husband at seven and a half.I don't seem to have seen the hot mom act particularly close to him. Not only that, once when he was close to the scud at seven and a half minutes, the hot mom drove him out of the parenting circle viciously, and bit him firmly on the ass a mouthful.

Seeing this scene, I immediately felt balanced: "Hehe, it seems that the hot mom will bite the little wolf if you get close to it, and it's not just me." In addition to these familiar wolves, I suspect that the wolf king may be among the four wolves in the Zhongfeng Mountain Col.They are always active on the outskirts of Wolf Mountain, hiding at day and night, appearing like ghosts, and they often disappear without a trace before we enter the mountain every morning.We can feel them, but we can't always see them.In the early morning, we often see Qifen, Yuanlao, Longlang and other wolves staying behind to guard the den happily carrying and storing some prey, and eating with the cubs.The food was obviously brought by the four wolves at night.

Yifeng said: "They are like a tribe. The old, weak and sick stay at home to take care of the children, and the young and strong go out to hunt and support their families." "Well, Qi Fen is not the chief helmsman. There is no reason why the wolf king and his wife stay at home and enjoy their happiness. Qi Fen should be the head of the Yoying Hall or the captain of the wolf den, and the four wolves who went out to hunt The leader among them will be the wolf king, because the wolf king wants to command the battle." It is indeed a pity to go to the wolves for so long without seeing the wolf king, but the four wolves only go home late at night or early in the morning to bring back food and see their children.Only one time, during the day, Yifeng's camera captured a mysterious big wolf prowling in the grass on a grassland far away.Judging from the back exposed on the grass, his waist has slumped. We guessed that his stomach must have fallen heavily, and he came back with a full belly.The big wolf stopped when he reached the Langdutan Grassland, and he didn't intend to go into the mountain.

As soon as she saw the big wolf coming back, Hot Mom got up from the hillside of the wolf's lair and ran quickly to the pasture on the Langdu Beach, wagging her tail between her legs and greeted the wolf happily.Hot Mom ran up to the big wolf, licked the big wolf's mouth coquettishly and beggingly, and ate the food that the big wolf regurgitated for her. The big wolf was hidden in the grass, most of its body was covered by the tall grass and frost heave mounds, so it was hard to see its face clearly, but judging from the body that was a head taller than Hot Mom exposed on the grass, it was a big male wolf .After feeding Hot Mom, he left in a hurry.

After a while, Hot Mom licked her lips and turned back, then chewed the food finely and fed it to the little wolf. On July 7th, the little wolves were extremely excited, especially in the evening, when Fuzai and Scud rushed to the top of the mountain one after another as if they had been injected with stimulants.Qi Fen and Hot Mom also ran wildly with them.The elder still watched them play cheerfully. Whenever the little wolf ran past him, he stuck out his paws to trip him.Longlang couldn't run fast with limp legs, and the little boy couldn't move very well, so the two of them wrestled together and squabbled together, yelling like a dog barking from time to time.

"Why are you so excited today? Is there something good?" It is rare for Yifeng and I to see the scene where the big wolf and the little wolf are playing wildly. We couldn't help observing for a while, and forgot the time to go out of the mountain. After six o'clock, a rain cloud covered the mountain, and it rained heavily in the mountains. We hurriedly packed up our equipment and hid in the tent. When the rain stopped, it was already dark.There is no moon, and we can't see the mountain road. Even if we brought a flashlight, we don't have the courage to walk on the wolf mountain at night.We discussed and discussed, and no one dared to make a decisive decision to evacuate. The more we discussed, the later it was. In the end, the two of us had to stay on the mountain.At least we are familiar with the area around the tent. If you walk in the dark in the mountains at night, you may encounter something. We hope that the moon will come out soon, at least let us see the things around us clearly, but the dark clouds are in the sky, and God is simply blind.The temperature is also getting lower and lower. The area inside the hidden tent is only two square meters, and we didn't want to be bored inside, but the grass outside was wet and we couldn't sit on it, so the two of them rubbed their hands outside the tent and circled around the tent to keep warm.Our hiking boots got wet, and the toes were extremely uncomfortable in the wet shoes.Yifeng wanted to build a bonfire to roast, but unfortunately the cow dung we picked up was soaked by the heavy rain. I took off my shoes and socks and hung them by the side of the tent to dry. I stepped on the soft long grass barefoot, flicking and bouncing. Although the grass surface was wet, it was very comfortable to walk on. "Yifeng, try it." Yifeng took off his shoes, it was so sour! All my sense of enjoyment was gone, and I hurriedly covered my nose: "Take it farther away, quickly take it farther away, it will kill me!" I didn't let go of the hand covering my nose until Yifeng put the shoes seven or eight meters away . "Just wait for the moon to come out." Yifeng rubbed his hands, "I don't know what little wolf does at night." "They were too noisy during the day, they might be sleepy now." Before the words were finished, a little wolf in the valley barked like a kitten, with a strange tone.After a while, the other little wolves also started chirping and booing. "Hey, listen, they haven't finished their troubles during the day!" Yifeng was very happy, "It's such a cute voice, it's the first time I heard the little wolf humming in the middle of the night in Wolf Mountain." "Hurry up and get the tape recorder!" Then there was a gentle guiding voice: "Wow——" The little wolf also yelled: "Wow, ow, ow, ow." "Mother Wolf is teaching the pup how to speak." I whispered into Yifeng's ear.This kind of joy is no less than hearing a child call parents for the first time. "This is not the first time the little wolf has howled, maybe he has called 'Mom and Dad' a long time ago." Yifeng grasped my thoughts, "Don't you remember? When Fuzai and Xiaobudian lived in our hut, I also howled one night, and that voice should be calling for Mom and Dad.” "Oh, yes... At that time, it was a baby crying with a milky voice. Compared with that time, they are now a child's voice." I pricked up my ears to appreciate the howling of the little wolf at night. Some cubs bark badly, and their parents are correcting their tone.A little wolf just wanted to howl longer, but he choked back when he was short of breath, coughing all the time.Some little wolves prefer to let their own whimpers go wild, chaotic, and there is a burst of "chirp, blah, blah" on the opposite mountain, as if the little wolf's seven aunts and eight aunts are all chattering. Arguing: "You are wrong, listen to me." "You are wrong, don't listen to his nonsense." We couldn't tell who was who at all.Hot Mom's voice is still the most gentle and pleasant, and also the easiest to be recognized by us. As soon as she guides her, the little wolf imitates her.The little wolves hang their throats on the echo of the silent night.The cry became more and more beautiful, and gradually he was able to make a long sound.They are comparing each other whose voice is higher. The more Yifeng and I listened, the more interested we became, discussing secretly. "It's really worth staying today. I said why they are so excited today. It turns out that there is a concert tonight." "This concert may be the cub's coming out of the nest." I feel that every time the wolf howls is intentional. "Out of the nest?" "It's almost the same. The little wolf is four months old. He can learn to hunt with the big wolf, and he doesn't have to stay at home anymore." "You mean they're leaving?" "Hush—listen! There are wolves in the distance answering the wolf pups. Maybe the hot mom is teaching the children how to greet the wolf uncles and aunts in the distance. Our little wolf is about to come out of the nest, so shout to the neighbors nearby. A word, let them take care of you." I was intoxicated by myself, imagining, "Well, this is calling uncle... this is calling aunt... this is..." "Call him the second uncle." Yifeng continued with a smirk, "The mother tongue taught by Wolf Mother is the standard. You taught the wolf howl when we Green were young. The teaching was so poor that we almost couldn't learn it." group." Yifeng interrupted my imagination, I was about to be angry, but when I heard the words behind, I became sad again.The little wolf was trying to imitate the tone of the mother wolf, and Green was doing his best to imitate me in the same way, even imitating the song I often hum.If Li Jian heard that the song he wrote attracted wolves, I don't know how he would feel.I smiled, and I seemed to hear Green's humming voice in my ears again: "Woo-oo-oo-oh-oh-oh-" Oh, Green, the singing is still there, what are you from "Aw Star"? Where did you go? No, there seems to be a real melody in the howl of a wolf, and the tone is vaguely familiar!I stopped Yifeng's rambling, turned my ear to listen carefully, and it was gone.Is it hallucination or real? "Did you hear the sound just now?" "No, what's the sound?" Yifeng was at a loss. Is that my hallucination?My breathing was a little short: "Do you dare to call Green?" "..." As soon as they finished speaking, both of them fell silent with a guilty conscience, returning to the state of reality—we are in the mountain of wolf den, surrounded by wandering wolves and beasts, who has the guts to stand up and shout like that?Having said that... don't we dare to stand here? Isn't it too courageous? "I think it's better not to make a sound." Yifeng made a rational suggestion, "Just listen quietly." Still want safety first!Just when I was hesitating, a long voice sounded from behind us, in the center of the mountain: "Oh——" "Listen, those four wolves have also started shouting to the side of the wolf den!" Yifeng grasped a new point of interest, he held up the tape recorder and walked a few steps in the direction of the sound, "Guess what they shouted?" .” I smiled: "Hehe, they are in charge of hunting, maybe shouting: 'Little wolf, little wolf, let's eat!'" This is the line from Yifeng often recited. As soon as I said it, he was happy. He stood over there and giggled, and the smile gradually became a little stuck... After a moment of silence, he suddenly proposed A creepy question: "Where's the rice?" My heart was trembling when I heard it, and I always felt that the question that Yifeng handed over from the dark was gloomy and chilly, blowing my back chilly.It seemed to feel that a furry wolf paw was slowly touching my back along the spine from the back of my neck, and was licked back to my neck by a wolf tongue from the back of my neck. My back straightened involuntarily. "Where are you? Stand over here." My scalp was stiff and my hands and feet were cold. "Don't scare me. You can't make such jokes in the middle of the night. The wolves here have always been very kind to us." "When you raised chickens, you were kind to the chickens, and in the end you stewed him...I...don't...scare...you," Yifeng's trembling voice became heavier, "I just want to understand—— Are you sure they didn't treat us like Tang monk meat? Is there a dinner party for this ceremony?" Yifeng became more and more nervous as he spoke, "Why are those wolves so excited today? Their...good thing...isn't it Let's..." "Stop talking!!!" My chills rose, I took two steps back towards the tent, and scanned the surroundings of the black hole. Could it be that the old saying "the moon is dark and the wind is high and the night kills people" is true?Although we have been in contact with wolves for several years, we are not afraid of wolves because we understand them, but in the dark, we can hear wolves howling in the middle of the night. This is not a 3D movie, nor is it surround sound, but the wolves are really around you in the darkness around me.He can see you, you can't see him.The howling wolf that I thought was cute just now felt weird.too horrible!Suddenly I regained my primal instincts. "How about... we... enter the tent?" Yifeng's trembling voice seemed to be three or four meters away, but I couldn't see him, only a light green fluorescent light on his tape recorder was looking at me to the right of the float. "I'm here." I suppressed my voice and wanted to call him again.Suddenly…… "Aw—" A shrill wolf howl was not far behind us!And this howl of a wolf turned into a gloomy sentence in an instant: "Here - there - food -" As soon as I shivered, the hairs all over my body stood up! The two scrambled to retract the tent, and hurriedly pulled the zipper door shut.Curled up in the tent and covering his mouth tightly, Yifeng, who was still in a bad mouth before, didn't dare to speak out.I hugged my neck and curled up in the tent, my carotid artery throbbing. Is it the wind outside or the sound of footsteps, rustling—rustling, swishing—the tiny noise is like a ghost saw sawing through my frozen gallbladder bit by bit.I kept leaning against Yifeng, and Yifeng was also trembling.This is different from hearing wolves howling in the hut. At least the hut is made of bricks. This tent... In the words of the herdsmen: Your kind of tent is useless on the grassland. It’s meager. Can shoot through, dare to take it to Wolf Mountain? My forehead was sweating, and my tongue was bitter. Could it be that I was scared out of my wits?I didn't dare to lean my back against the tent, for fear that a mouth would suddenly protrude from behind the thin tent cloth, and with a whimper, it would bite at me through the tent cloth.The two of us leaned back to back, and Yifeng was facing a small zippered window of the tent, staring at the window. He probably felt that even if he was bitten, he had to see clearly and die clearly.I resolutely refused to look, for fear that when I turned my head to look out the window, I would run into my face with a wild wolf. After two minutes that seemed like half a century, the wolves stopped howling.The wolf howl heard at the nearest place just now was never repeated.It was very quiet outside, with occasional crows laughing, and there were only three sounds in the dark tent: the ticking of the watch, the sound of breathing, and the sound of a heartbeat. Not long after, the moon came out, and through the tent cloth, it illuminated the tent brightly, and we could see each other's faces clearly.I found that Yifeng's eyes are much bigger than before, and his hair is much more fluffy. After waiting for more than an hour, there was indeed no movement outside, not even the crow smiled.The wolves seemed to think they had played enough with us and didn't intend to scare us anymore. Yifeng threw a biscuit out, but nothing happened.He peeked out secretly by the moonlight: "It seems to be gone." I gradually withdrew my soul into my body: "That wolf is too naughty, can't he stand a little further away and howl? He doesn't play with his heartbeat like this." After observing for a while, Yifeng opened the windows on the four sides of the tent to allow more moonlight to come in.Then he put a piece of biscuit that he didn't want to throw away just now and gnawed it into his mouth: "I'm so scared and hungry. Hey, if we are really hit by 'Missy' in the tent, can the outdoor store help us settle the claim?" Yifeng It seems to have relaxed. I let out a long sigh of relief. After eating the biscuits, Yifeng became more courageous, opened the tent door, and got out.After a while, Yifeng's voice came from outside: "Hey, where is my shoe? Where is the other shoe?" "Let's look for it tomorrow. It was pitch black in the first half of the night, so I might not know where you left it." "I have to find the shoes, otherwise the wolf will come and I won't be able to run fast!" "You can run past wolves with your shoes on? If wolves really come, you might as well smoke him away." I said angrily, I had had enough of his masculinity in the tent just now. "Don't worry, I'm cleaning up." There was the sound of Yifeng washing his feet in the puddle outside. "Hey, come out and see, it's so beautiful!" Yifeng shouted again, "Hurry up, you will regret it if you don't come out. Hurry up!" "Wait a minute, my feet are numb." When I got out of the tent, I took a deep breath. The air was filled with the smell of moist grass and the smell of years from the mud. This is the smell of the wetland.I stood on the hill and was amazed by the night. The clouds bloom and the moon rises, Langshan is clear and clear, and the cool mist swims on the grass beach. Under the moonlight, every grass is silver-blue. This is a blue grassland... The dragonfly on the grass blade, There are dewdrops hanging on the wings, and there is a moon hidden in each dewdrop.People walked by on the grass, and the dragonfly flew up low, its crystal wings fluttered with a rustling sound, and circled around.Even the dragonflies at night can’t fly high. They rest lazily on my head, body, and hands, rubbing their big eyes with their slender forelimbs, and turning their heads to brush the slender “eyelashes”.This makes it easy to think of goblins in magical stories. "Sorry, little ones, I woke you up, go back to sleep." I gently lifted them with my fingertips and put them back on the grass.When the sun comes out tomorrow, they can dry their wings and fly high. When the moon occasionally slips behind the clouds, the stars light up.In the night sky after the rain, the floating clouds were like a veil in the Milky Way. Looking up, the vast starry sky seemed to be spinning above my head, dragging me into the interstellar space.Oh, we are already in this starry sky, so we have such a vast universe, as long as we raise our heads. The parents in the city should be sound asleep. I really hope to send them a dream, telling them that what my daughter saw on the grassland, the starry sky at three o'clock in the morning is the most beautiful in the world. meteor!So many shooting stars!They flitted across the night sky, like the eyes of wolves in flight... Which one is Green's eye? I hastily closed my eyes and prayed, for fear of missing that moment of brilliance... "..." "What wish did you make?" "I won't tell you!" "Well, I'll know if you don't tell me." At dawn, we found that one of Yifeng's shoes hanging on the grass was indeed missing. Could it be that the rustling sound near the tent that we heard last night was really a wolf coming?Is that the wolf howling behind us? "Why doesn't he pick up my shoes?" I was a little disappointed, "He has really strong taste!" Yifeng only had one right shoe left, so he had to find a plastic bag to cover his left foot. One foot was high and the other was low. He walked over with black eyes: "Let's go back today and come back in the afternoon. I haven't slept all night. I can't take it anymore. I won't dare to spend the night at Wolf Mountain again, it's too scary." "It's not you who scares yourself!" We do need a break.I packed up my equipment, and looked at the advective fog and the silent valley slowly stretching on the field with nostalgia.The little wolves next door haven't woken up yet, have they?I will miss the night of Wolf Mountain...