Chapter 25 25. Wolf, very naughty

Evening, cloudy.Tashi brought back Caidan, the last family of herdsmen, and the herdsmen around Langshan settled well. "Yifeng, come and help." Tashi and Duoji were busy placing the mats and small tables on the grass, and then went to the tent to move the tableware. While helping to move, Yifeng asked, "What are you guys doing?" "We're going to have a picnic," Dorje replied. "You are nomadic on the grass all year round, what day isn't it a picnic?" "That's different. It's not a picnic if you put a tent on your head." Holding something in his hands, he raised his chin towards the yak herd and said with a smile, "It's only counted if you look at the sky and step on the ground. Just like them. "

"Hehe, that's it, it sounds strange and profound." The herdsmen with a radius of dozens of miles are rarely gathered together. Each family took out tsampa, oil cakes, milk tea, dried meat, and blood sausage to share.Aunt Duoji cooked the mutton, put it in several large pots and placed it on a small table. Collectors like to cook the meat until it is cooked on the outside and raw on the inside. The degree of deliciousness not only has the aroma of cooked meat, but also retains the tenderness of raw meat. "Ka Suo (eating meat)!" Tibetans are bold and bold, and eating and drinking to their heart's content is the most sincere response to the owner of the food.

Sitting next to Yifeng, Zhaxi breathed a sigh of relief: "After four or five days of running, no one has been left behind in our village. Did you know that the national highway collapsed again, several bridges were broken, and the government is still rushing to clear it?" Well...the road back to Chengdu may not be repaired for two or three months." Here's the latest we've heard from the outside world. "Is there any news along the way? When will the heavy rain pass?" "I don't know, the mobile phone is not working, let alone the Internet. People of the older generation on the grassland have never seen such heavy rain. There are more and more natural disasters these years, which is not a good thing." Tashi grabbed a piece of lamb chops and said Big bite.

Our big black dog has been struggling with the iron chain since Tashi returned to the camp. Now the black dog didn't know how to get rid of it, but stood behind the crowd and stared at Tashi.People chased her away, but after a while she turned back, still looking at Tashi, and when Tashi looked at her, she wagged her tail vigorously. I asked, "Does this dog know you?" Tashi laughed loudly: "She knows the meat in my hand, right?" Among the people at the table were Duoji's family, Zeren's family, Tashi's family, Wangqingjia's family, Tashi's younger sister and Caidan's family who had just arrived.The core area of ​​the wetland is relatively closed, and many people have never walked out of the grassland in their entire lives.Among these Tibetans, the two Han Chinese, Yifeng and I, were particularly conspicuous.Everyone chatted in a hurry, and Duoji acted as an interpreter for us.

"Wei Yi, is your fox dog entrusted to the neighbors to take care of?" Rigzin Wangmo asked. "No, I sent him to his parents. The neighbors are not very familiar." "How come the neighbors don't know each other well? Don't you people live door to door in the city?" Rinzeng Wangmo pointed to a table of people, "Our neighbors who are dozens of miles away often visit us, and we are very familiar with each other. What's the matter? Call to help." "Yes, it should be like this..." I thought of Tashi running hundreds of miles in the rain to gather neighbors for refuge, and I felt ashamed.Why do we live so close in the city, but our hearts are so far away.

"Yifeng, are you used to living in the grassland?" "I'm used to it, but it's just that the water is inconvenient and I can't take a bath." "Isn't it convenient to take a shower in the city?" "Convenient, there is a water heater, as soon as the faucet is turned on, hot water will flow out." "Don't you need to burn cow dung?" "There is no cow dung in the city." "If you don't burn cow dung, how can you live in winter! How can you cook?" "With air conditioning, it won't be cold in winter. There is a gas stove for cooking."

"Does the air conditioner use electricity? Can the solar panels support it?" "Electricity is always available. We don't use solar energy. There is no sun in Chengdu." "Why, isn't the sun in the sky?" Herdsmen's question is so simple, but it is difficult for us to answer.Is the distance of 500 kilometers from the city to the grassland really two worlds? "I know that," said Tashi, who had stayed in the city before. "When I first went to Chengdu, I always carried an umbrella because I thought it was dark and it was going to snow heavily. Later I realized that it was called smog. Every day in the city In this way, there is no sun to be seen."

"I went to the city last year too," Zeren said with a chuckle, "I also took a bus. I didn't know that it was a credit card. When I got on the bus, I handed the money to the driver. The driver said he didn't charge the money. I said happily' Thank you" and sat down at the back. On the way, the driver kept looking at me in the rearview mirror. The buildings in the city are densely built, and the streets are winding. I can't get lost on the grassland for dozens of kilometers. It’s hard to get lost in the neighborhood.” "The city is not doing well. There is no sun, and the grass can't grow well!" Everyone's eyes turned to Zeren again, "The grass doesn't grow well, what about the cattle and sheep? What about the animals? What do the people in the city rely on?" Life?"

"Who says the city is bad!" Duoji's eyes widened and he rushed to talk, "Life in the city is very good, you can go wherever you want on the main road, there are gas stations everywhere, the cars are more expensive than the one, and the buildings are more repaired than the mountains. It’s even taller, and it’s all made of concrete! No need for grass or grazing. Animals are all in the zoo, and you can see them if you pay, even African giraffes and elephants!” When it comes to cities, Duoji’s eyebrows are beaming, “ There are so many things to do in the city, bars, game halls, cinemas, Internet cafes... you can buy everything you want in the supermarket, and there are all kinds of food and drink on the street until midnight, which is delicious! There is also the airport , You can go to the sky by plane! The women in Chengdu are very beautiful, with fair skin, no plateau red, wearing high heels, miniskirts, and showing thighs!"

The old people laughed and said nothing while eating tsampa, the girls had blushing cheeks, straightened their skirts, and whispered to each other, and the boys were yearning: "The city is so good, why do you come back?" Dorje shrugged his shoulders and said with a silly smile: "Well... my mother is in the grassland, and my family is here too. The grassland is big enough to run around and sing at will, and you don't have to guess when you talk to friends... What do people in the city think? I don't understand." A soft light of happiness appeared on Duoji's mother's kind face.Perhaps, after Dorje has experienced the precipitation of the years, he will understand more reasons why he is nostalgic for the grassland.

"What about you?" The young people looked at me and Yifeng, "Aren't you bored after traveling for so long? There's nothing here." Besieging the city... I smiled: "We are here to travel..." Travel is to let yourself go out, and travel is to find yourself back.And what kind of self will we find back, and how can I describe the helplessness behind the bustling life in the city?There, dense high-rise buildings, turbid traffic, fur and luxury goods, more and more cities, more and more unsafe food, more and more scarce resources, what we consume eventually consumes ourselves.Perhaps, living in the city is life, and living in the grassland is life.I don't want to live in a small space and watch the world through the screen of my mobile phone every day.In the prairie, we have fewer things, but our hearts are wider; in the prairie, there is no Wi-Fi, and we can interlock our fingers; in the prairie, the seasons are stranded, and I find that my time is so abundant, and the world around me is so concrete .We have more time to care about the people around us, and feel each other in the simplest way, that is, we are "together".In the prairie, no one will teach you that it is too unrealistic to "earn the road" when you are young. What is the reality?What could be more realistic than life and vitality! After drinking for three rounds, I don't know who knocked the lamb's shoulder blade with the leftover leg bone of the lamb, making a crackling sound.Then, someone began to tap the dishes again, and people clapped and clapped in agreement.Accompanied by this rhythm, Duoji played Xuanzi while drunk and sang his own song.The long tune echoed in the field for a long time... People were full of smiles.It is right that Dorje did not stay in the city. This kind of singing belongs to the prairie. The dimly lit blues bar cannot contain its vastness, and the noisy discotheque city cannot accommodate its melodiousness. After drinking to our heart's content, everyone chatted about their own things. I listened to the discussion of "Bang Ke, Bang Ke" at the other end of the table, and turned my head to Tashi: "Are they talking about wolves?" "Yes!" Tashi laughed, "Caidan said he suffered from being dumb today." "What's wrong with being dumb?" "Today we moved to the place. On the way Caidan was driving a truck to transport sheep, a wolf happened to run across the pasture road. The brakes on the muddy ground were not smart, and he was hit. Caidan got out of the car to look, and the wolf was dead. He picked up a wolf for nothing. A dead wolf happily carried the dead wolf to the back of the truck. The sheep in the truck were afraid of dead wolves, and kept bleating and bleating all the way. Only later did they hear the sheep screaming louder and louder in the back of the truck. It was loud, and there was the sound of knocking on the car. It didn't feel right. When I stopped and looked again, the dead wolf jumped out of the car and ran away. A sheep was mostly eaten, and another sheep was hanging on the rear railing of the car, dying. , knocked on the guardrail of the car with sheep's hooves. It is estimated that the wolf was trying to drag the sheep out of the car. Caidan thought he had got a big deal, but he lost two sheep for nothing." Yifeng and I were worried when we first heard that the wolf was killed, but we were surprised when we heard the result: "The wolf was not injured?" "It's okay, I was very energetic when I ran, and I couldn't catch up." As long as the wolf eats to its fullness, it recovers quickly.We are relieved, we never thought that the wolf would have such a hand! Yifeng suppressed his smile and picked up the wine bowl and Tashi's bowl of noodles: "This is called Pengci in the city." "Pengci? Qia Zile (what do you mean)?" "A kind of stunt show." I laughed.That wolf is definitely not a professional householder of Pengci. I think it should be an accident. At the beginning, the wolf was hit by a car and he was really dizzy. There is no reason to hold sheep in the sheep's nest.Anyway, I was so dizzy that I couldn't escape, so I simply decided to wait in the car and eat enough before leaving, and the medical expenses, nutrition expenses, and mental damage expenses were all "flesh compensation".Caidan suffered from a dumb loss indeed. Yifeng greeted across the table: "Caidan, leave those two dead sheep to Bangke, we'll buy them." "Okay, I'll throw the dead sheep into the mountains tomorrow morning," Caidan smiled, "I'll give it to you, no money." Yifeng threw a wine bowl at him: "Thanks, brother." Tashi laughed and said, "How many dead cattle and sheep have you collected in the grassland? You don't have much money, right? I have already said that you can't collect all the dead cattle and sheep on the grassland even if you go bankrupt. " Yifeng and I just smiled and said nothing, it was indeed a bit difficult to do this with our own strength, and we spent all the money from selling the house and manuscript fees in the past six months.At the beginning, the herdsmen saw that we bought dead cows and didn't transport them away, but just let them stay on the pasture for wild animals. They didn't understand, and they often sold them to us at a price of one or two hundred yuan higher than the dead cattle dealers. The hunting of cattle and sheep by wolves mostly occurs in the severe winter and spring famine seasons. In this season, the cattle and sheep that died of freezing, starvation, disease, and disease were originally food for wolves, but these food were dragged away by dead cattle dealers, and wolves only had to hunt Cattle and sheep.However, the cattle and sheep killed by wolves are often taken away by the dead cattle dealers. The hungry wolves cannot eat meat and have to hunt again, causing a vicious circle, and the loss of herdsmen is even greater. Half a year has passed since we started to leave food for wild animals, and the herdsmen found that the incidents of wolves harming livestock were much less than in previous years.The herdsmen gradually understood that we used 800 yuan to compensate the herdsmen for their losses, and leaving a dead cow in place without human disturbance actually has three advantages: the wild animals have food, the herdsmen have reduced losses, and we urban residents Can eat less harmful food. The herdsmen understood our behavior, and sometimes they found that small dead cattle and sheep would be sent to us directly, and the large dead cattle would be given priority to us at a lower or equal price to the dead cattle dealers.Human nature is good, and no one wants to intentionally harm others, but human nature also seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages. It is understandable that herdsmen should minimize the loss of livestock.However, it is a good thing that people are still willing to support us when it has little impact on their own interests, and the herdsmen show more and more kindness and care to us—giving milk cakes, dry food, and tsampa. We often talk about protecting wild animals, how to protect them?Making sure they have something to eat is the first step in protection. The "Wild Animal Protection Law" stipulates that the local government should compensate for the losses caused by wild animals, but no one has implemented it.We can only do our best.It is our dream to save food for wild animals so that they can all survive.Maybe one day our strength will run dry too.But I can't hold the "big reason" to kidnap the herdsmen morally, let alone let others pay for our dreams, unless we can let people discover the meaning of this matter for everyone's benefit, and make it our common wish , is possible for a long time. Caidan's "Pengci Wolf" incident made the wine table a joy. Once the topic of wolves was opened, other herdsmen also rushed to chat about their stories with wolves. A herdsman said: "When I was grazing sheep, I drove away the wolf that was holding the sheep in the front field, and an eagle snatched a lamb in the backyard. I went to the backyard to chase the eagle, and the wolf in the front field came back to grab the sheep. As a result, when I chased away the wolves and chased the eagles, I didn't keep the sheep on either side, the wolves were very naughty!" Some herdsmen haven't seen wolves for two or three years, so they have nothing more to say in the chat.The other herdsmen continued: "There are a lot of wolves in my place, and three wolves got into my sheepfold! Three!" There was a hint of complacency in his words, as if the existence of wolves in his place was something to be proud of. Look, we The ecology of Yuanmu is better than yours, and my grazing story is more exciting than yours. "What are three wolves? My wolf story is scarier than yours. Last winter, there were a lot of wolves in Xiaman Township. A man was riding a motorcycle home. On the road, he met a pack of wolves. There were seven or eight wolves. , There were more than ten wolves, blocking the middle of the road. The man was very scared, so he called his family and said that I was surrounded by more than a dozen wolves, and I was afraid that I would not be able to return. When the family got the news and ran to pick him up , he has been eaten by wolves, and there is only one shoe and a bloody bone left, which is hot to the touch." As soon as the story was finished, the dinner table was completely quiet, especially his sentence "the bones are hot" made people feel a sense of fear spontaneously. "This... I am in charge of Man Township, why don't I know whose family is dead?" "Did I say Haman Township? No, I said Doma Township. You heard it wrong." The herdsman said further away. "My daughter-in-law is in Doma Township, and she didn't..." "That's in Nenwa Township, I remember wrongly." "boast!" Everyone burst into laughter, the atmosphere suddenly relaxed, and everyone began to talk at once again. Sometimes, before one herdsman finished his wolf story, another would interrupt. Everyone's wolf story was different. Some are scary, some are funny, some are simple, and some are funny. The stories are different, but the people who tell them all have the same expression - beaming. Yifeng and I did not interrupt, just smiled and listened to their chat. "Wolf is our enemy." I often hear such words in the chats of herdsmen.Herdsmen and wolves have long competed for food and living space, and few herdsmen would express their love for wolves.But "enemy" is a neutral word, unlike the characterization given by us Han people - "wolf" and "vermind beast", which have the meaning of belittling opponents.Enmity is two sides, you can hate the enemy, you can also respect the enemy.The colloquial language used by the herdsmen when they talked about this "enemy" made us even more surprised and warmed up - almost every time after listening to the herdsmen talk about encounters with wolves or how wolves "made bad things", the herdsmen always laughed and scolded: "Bang Ke Pretty spicy!" (Wolf, very naughty!) Wolf, very naughty?Why do we Chinese describe wolves as cruel, bloodthirsty, cunning, and greedy, but the herdsmen who really fight, fight, and dance with wolves use the words we describe children as "naughty" to wolves? ! Tashi accompanied Yifeng and I to drink a bowl of wine, and asked, "Is Green's Doma still there? We're talking about wolves, and I want to tell you about Green." "Yes," Yifeng brought Doma from the tent and showed it to Tashi, "we keep it all the time." Doma is a coil made of bunches of red wool, which looks like a ring of scarlet hair around the wolf's neck, which is very conspicuous. Green, who was six months old, came into contact with people and was repeatedly chased and beaten. From time to time, some people would find us to make troubles on the grounds that wolves would bite sheep, threatening our lives.In desperation, Tashi took us to seek asylum from the Living Buddha. After the Living Buddha knew about it, he loved Green very much. He asked Tashi's wife to make a red coil for Green and wear it around his neck. A strand of golden thread that symbolizes religious significance, this is Doma.The Living Buddha also warned the herdsmen not to embarrass the two Han people and the wolf.And this Doma greatly eliminated the threat from humans before Green returned to the wolves.After Green returned to the wolves, Doma also stayed. (Because it involves religion, this matter has not been mentioned in the previous book.) Tashi stood up holding Doma in his hands, and said loudly to the herdsmen: "Ah Ruo, Tashi, please help me, we two Chinese friends are looking for a released wolf, the name is Green, and Green is the Living Buddha himself. Blessings, you all tell your relatives and friends, if you see a wolf in the future, please be careful and see if it is him. This wolf has a scar on the forehead and a toe missing from the paw print. If you see it, notify immediately I, whoever has a mobile phone, will take a picture. Please, everyone!" "The wolves blessed by the Living Buddha were raised by them!" "I heard that the Living Buddha blew three breaths on Doma, who blessed the wolf!" The herdsmen commented in amazement. They said that the Living Buddha usually only blows one breath to bless the herdsmen or release other animals, but he even blew three breaths to bless a wolf!The living Buddha's great love for Green made everyone admire him, and they looked at our Green with admiration even more.Although we don't know much about religious rules and customs, we heard that even such details have been spread from the conversations of the herdsmen. It seems that many people knew about it at the beginning.Where all people believe in religion, the influence of gods is far greater than that of laws. All the people respected the torma one after another, put it on their foreheads in admiration, clasped their hands together and chanted, and were proud of a handful of torma.Everyone readily agreed to help find Green, and some herdsmen even asked Green's name in detail and memorized his characteristics in detail. Yifeng simply opened his notebook and showed everyone Green's previous videos and photos. We didn't expect Doma to have such miraculous power. We had so many eyes to help us pay attention at once. We were hopeful again, we were very happy, and we quickly got up to thank everyone. From the time everyone entered the table until the table was dismissed, our big black dog kept staring at Tashi.Tashi couldn't stand her stare, so he threw a bone to her, but the black dog didn't eat the bone, and still looked at him enthusiastically. "Whose family does this dog belong to?" Tashi asked. "It belongs to my family, we just took it in." I told the origin of the black dog. Tashi stroked his beard, squinted his eyes and looked at the black dog for a long time: "This dog seems familiar." He thought for a while, and tried to shout at her: "Qiangmu!" The black dog's eyes suddenly lit up, its tail wagged, and it almost wanted to pounce. "Qiangmu! Qiangmu!" Every time Tashi yelled, the black dog would wag its tail, and Tashi said in surprise, "Weiyi, this dog is an old acquaintance with us! Have you forgotten? You brought Little Green with me When we lived on the ranch, this dog played with Green every day. She was only five or six months old at that time. We don’t recognize her now, but she still remembers us. Look at the white hair on her chest. Remember? " Thinking of Green's childhood, and looking carefully at the black dog in front of him, the scattered spider threads in his memory suddenly became threads.I suddenly remembered that there was such a wandering little bitch on the Tashi Ranch, about the same age as Green, who always sneaked to play with Green.They searched for food together, went down the river to catch fish together, and rummaged through the sheepfold together, even if Green stepped on her back to climb the dirt wall while rummaging through the sheepfold, she was willing. After more than two years, when I met her again, she was already an adult dog. No wonder she has been wandering outside our hut these past few months, eating our food, and looking at us with such sad eyes. It turns out that she recognized me, but I didn't realize it.In the past, I was afraid that the temperament of wild dogs would be difficult to figure out, so I was always a little bit born.When I think of this past event, I feel a lot closer to this dog. "After Green left the Tashi Ranch, the dog still liked to hang out with foxes and wild wolves. He violated the taboo of a watchdog and was not welcomed by the owner, so he kicked her out. It has been wandering for two years. A prairie dog will choose her master. By the way, a prairie dog can only understand Tibetan, so you have to speak to her in Tibetan.” "Qiangmu" means "bitch" in Tibetan. Since she can understand the Tibetan pronunciation, I named her "Jomo" according to the meaning of "black dog", because she has always been silent, so there is no Hear her bark. "Jomo!" I said her name and stroked her head for the first time.Every time I yelled, her tail swung violently, like saying "arrival", no more, no less.Jomo licked the backs of our hands wildly.I always thought she was very cold, but I didn't expect her to be so enthusiastic. It seems that it was really caused by a language barrier in the past. "Joe Mo, here it is!" (Joe Mo is good!) Yifeng and I rubbed her neck, she is Green's youngest!After wandering for two years, Jomo can survive... My confidence is fueled again. Green, son, all the friends you grew up with are back, where are you being naughty?