Chapter 29 29. A big wolf came late at night!

On September 7th, in the evening, smoke was lazily rising from the chimney of the Wolf Mountain Lodge, and Yifeng and I tidied up the house. Suddenly, there was a "crash" outside the house, the fence shook, and two shadows, one yellow and one black, flashed past the window one after another. I was startled: "Who!" Yifeng and I hurried out of the house.The two shadows had reached the foot of the index finger mountain, and two jumping spots could be vaguely seen in the twilight. The black spot behind was Qiao Mo, and the yellow spot that Qiao Mo was chasing was the same color as dry grass, so he couldn't see it without moving.Intuitively, it should be a wolf. Only wolves on the grassland have such a perfect concealment color.

"Green? Aww—" I howled loudly, and I no longer had to worry about disturbing the herdsmen when I howled in the wolf mountain hut. "Is it still there? Can you see it?" "Yes, it's the wolf! It's right in front of Jomo! Call him! Green!" Yifeng held up the binoculars and tightly caught Jomo's position. The twilight slowly pushed the shadow of the mountain over, engulfing our field of vision, and we could barely see anything in front of us. We could only tell that the black spot did not move, and Joe Mo became a buoy for wolves. "Green!"

"The wolf is right in front of Jomo, at the foot of the mountain, about ten meters away, the wolf is watching the dog, and the dog is watching the wolf..." Yifeng's phone rang suddenly, and he subconsciously lowered his head and touched the phone to connect... "Damn it! Harassing phone calls." Yifeng raised his binoculars to scan again - the wolf heel was lost, and Qiao Mo was returning. The two stretched their necks to see the last ray of twilight, and then entered the room in frustration.I slammed my phone on the bed: "How many times have I told you, turn off the mute!"

The lights are on, the windows are dark, and the wolf mountain hut turns into a lone star falling into the mortal world in the night. We moved back the day before yesterday. Although the old wolf still wanted us to stay in Zeren Yuanmu, September 5th is an auspicious day selected by the Living Buddha for the herdsmen to relocate. Zeren and the others want to move back.What's more, there are too many shepherds in Yuanyuan, and there is no chance of encountering wolves.The wolf that caught the fish hasn't shown up for more than half a month, so it doesn't make much sense for us to stay in Yuanmu.We still miss the wolves in the wolf mountain, and it is even more important to stay here close to the mountain.

For this, the old wolf was helpless: "It's a pity, I can't stop you..." On the day of the relocation, I saw the fox neighbor nest near Zeren’s house that I hadn’t seen for a long time.To be exact, they are no longer a litter, just one big and one young—the mother fox took the only remaining child to teach him how to catch pikas in the pasture.Herdsmen said that wolf traps and fox medicine killed many foxes during the foot-and-mouth disease, a disaster that made dead cattle dealers and poachers rich.The herdsmen I met along the way were complaining about the heavy loss of their cattle and sheep.

The saddest news for us is that in the days when everyone was suffering from foot-and-mouth disease, Nanka's father passed away. His last wish was to be buried in the sky. I don't know if my father's last wish will come true. On the second night after moving back to the hut, we heard howling wolves from the direction between Wolf Mountain and Zeren Ranch. Yifeng said that the wolves knew we were back and were welcoming us, but I always felt that the melody was more like crying, like the wind in the dark night, and I don't know where the soul returns.Maybe it was because of my low mood, thinking that it was crying for the death of Nanka's father.

"It's right to move here," I said, "we haven't seen a wolf for more than half a month, and a wolf appeared as soon as we came back. Did you notice that this wolf ran past the window today, and Jomer just chased him They ran, but didn't call. They were still looking at each other at the foot of the mountain, do you think they met old acquaintances. That should be Green?" "Jomo never growls at wolves, which doesn't explain anything. If the wolf is Green, it's so close to the hut, and there is no outsider interference, why doesn't it come in after passing through the house? I called him like that in his familiar jacket , why didn't he come back?"

"Oh...so...a passing wolf again?" "..." The fire sighed and dropped a cloud of ashes.When I first arrived in the grassland, I believed in my sixth sense, but after nine months of waiting, I gradually became less confident in my own judgment. Yifeng put the flashlight in his bag, put on a headlamp and cloak and went out to pick up cow dung.I lay listlessly on the head of the bed, with my hands behind my head, staring at the eaves in a daze. "Come out, come out!" I ejected and jumped out of the house in two steps. Yifeng stood beside the pile of cow dung, held up a strong flashlight, and dared not move his head with the headlamp on.In the thin night, two beams of light shot towards the foot of Wolf Mountain at the same time, converging in one place, and a pair of green eyes shone in the circle of light, staring at us without hesitation.That's where the wolf disappeared in the evening, didn't he go at all?

My head buzzed, my pupils dilated, and I drifted away for a moment as if hypnotized by those eyes. "I was loading cow dung just now. I have a cat waist, and the headlight just hit these eyes. I will immediately aim it with a strong flashlight and call you out..." Yifeng's voice changed with excitement. "Shout!" I suddenly came to my senses, and aroused the most direct stress response, "G-Lin!" The green eyes are shaking up and down slightly, he is walking!Welcome to our light! "G-Lin!" The beam of light tightly locks the wolf's eyes, he is still approaching us!The whole world no longer exists, we only have those green lights in our eyes.

"Green is back! Green!" Yifeng's voice choked. "Green..." My tears blurred the two green stars into four or six... For two years, I almost watched the stars and the moon set, looking forward to this reunion moment all night and all night.is it you?This is no longer a dream, I grabbed my cheeks and let go hastily, no, even if it is a dream, I will never wake up! As the wolf got closer, he could already see the two dim lights dragging their long light tails.When crossing the swamp, the water reflected a clear shadow with pointed ears and a drooping tail. It was a wolf!Our hearts were running wildly, shouting and shouting.

The wolf has already walked down the hillside to the northwest of the hut, stepping on the dry grass in small steps. In the silent wilderness, this small sound is infinitely amplified, slowly, slowly... getting closer to us... I feel as if There was a familiar wild scent. Only a few tens of meters away from us... The green light disappeared with a "swoosh"! He turned his head and stopped looking at us?Did he hide behind the sheepfold?He turned away? The two of us hurriedly shot around with the light of the flashlight...it disappeared, no matter how we shouted and listened...no sound...the two stars disappeared into the night like a gust of wind, leaving no trace. Is it Green?We saw with our own eyes that he followed the light and greeted the shout, how could he suddenly disappear! We were frozen back into the house by the night wind, and the two talked excitedly, and called Lao Lang to tell him the news. After making the phone call, Yifeng thought it over and added a piece of clothing: "No, I have to search behind the sheepfold again!" "You go first, I'll follow." I took out the winter Tibetan robe that Green was familiar with, put it on, and hurriedly tied the belt. As soon as I turned to the back of the house, I saw Yifeng's flashlight shining in front of me. "What are you dawdling about! The wolf ran away, and was lying in this grass nest just now! It blinked again." "Why didn't you call me?!" "Where is the time!" When I left the house, Qiao Mo also came out, running in front of me all the way.At this time, she rushed forward to sniff the grass nest. I looked at the direction where the grass fell, and shouted: "Go there, chase!" "Wow! Wow!" After sniffing the grass nest, Qiao Mo suddenly stopped in front of us domineeringly, barking at us uncharacteristically. I froze on the spot, trapping Jomo with a circle of light: "She won't let us chase?" Qiao Mo's bright red eyes stared at us behind the light of the flashlight. When I took a step, she blocked it and kept her body in front of my feet.She barked decisively one after another, as if to convey a message to us: "If you continue to chase, I cannot guarantee your safety!" Amidst the barking of dogs, my fiery mind was finally sobered up a little by the evening wind.Yes, chasing wolves in the dark at night is too dangerous. I turned back the light of the flashlight and carefully inspected the grass nest where the wolf was lying down just now. I knelt down and took a deep breath. There was a faint scent of wolf.The grass has been suppressed for a long time, and the grass surface is struggling to straighten up.On a tall grass stem hangs a bunch of wolf fur that falls off in different seasons, like a tiny prayer flag trembling in the light. This grass nest is on a gentle slope to the northeast of the hut, only twenty meters away from our window.During the day, I can see the grass from the window. At night, the lights in the house are turned on, and the glass is reflected into a one-way mirror at night, so I can no longer see the outside situation.The wolf is lying here, and the wolf is in the dark, and we are in the house at a glance.You can see my bed here. I was sitting by the bed just now and I was discussing the wolf with excitement with Yifeng who was opposite me... About half an hour or so we went out to search again, only to find that the wolf hadn't left. There is no food, no water, and no companions on the hillside, only the sound of wind, human voices, and a window with an orange light.For half an hour, a lone wolf was lying so close to human settlements, what was he thinking? "Remember? This is where Green used to spend the night..." "Jomo is a good dog, really a good dog!" After that night, Yifeng kept praising her, "The wolf is starting to approach us, this is a good sign, he will definitely come again! We must wait for him." Yifeng is too optimistic, this good omen is just so short-lived. September languished in a long wait.I would sit in that straw nest every day, hugging my knees and looking up at the wolf mountain stupidly, like a wolf-watching stone in the wind and rain. During the day, lying in the grass nest, I realized that the view here is so good. I can see the hut when I lower my eyes, and I can see the oldest old cave of Green when I raise my head.There is a valley between the human mother's house and the wolf mother's house, and he is nostalgic for these two homes.When Green grew up, he didn't like being locked in the house. He always went out for night trips, and every time he came back, he would lie down in this straw nest.When the wind blows, the wolf's mane dances with the strong grass; when it snows, the wolf and the grass nest are covered in the same color.I still remember him stretching out in the grass nest in the soft pink dawn light.I still remember that I deliberately teased him with a piece of meat through the glass, but he turned his butt to the window, looking disdainful of being "molested".I still remember that after he slaughtered our sheep, he put the sheep's head in the grass nest as a pillow, and licked it when he was happy to sleep. Green, my memories are still there, what about yours? Every night, he came back here.He is not alone here, and he can see the person he wants to see as soon as he opens his eyes. In the window, her bed was still in that direction.If the person in the window is still snoring, there are countless stones around here that can be picked up and thrown in to wake up that big slob.Green also thought so back then, right? In the same place, I came back here again, and the grass has gone through several cycles.What about you, are you back too? The wolf never came again... The epidemic was finally brought under control, and the meat joint factory resumed production.Herdsmen's life is back to normal. The resident birds kept nesting under our newly built roof, and the migratory birds began to migrate. The pair of black-necked cranes took their late-born chicks to Langdu Beach to look for food.In lonely days, only the three members of the black-necked crane family accompanied us.Whenever you see rows of migrating black-necked cranes passing overhead.The couple of cranes would raise their wings and sing in the sky. The companions had all left, but they couldn't leave, and the late-born little cranes couldn't fly yet. When the end of the month was approaching, we went to help Zeren's family repair the satellite pot. Zeren's daughter-in-law told me: "On the second day after you moved back to the hut, a big wolf came to Yuanmu's house and ran directly into the yard. The two dogs refused to leave him. The wolf stood up and lay down. Looking into the house from the window, I was the only one in the house at that time, and I was terrified. I thought the wolf was going to enter the house, so I drove him away with a stick. After a while, the wolf ran out of the window of another room and stood on tiptoe. Looking around the house, I threw out all the air-dried meat hanging in the house, but the wolf would not eat it. The wolf walked around the yard, and he searched every room. He seemed very anxious. He also entered the sheep pen without killing the sheep, and then left. I called you, but I couldn't get through!" "What does that wolf look like?" I called up the video of the hot mom captured by the riverside surveillance, "Do you see if it is this wolf?" "No, this wolf is too delicate. The wolf I saw was bigger than her, with a white mouth, a big male wolf!" Zeren's daughter-in-law's words were like a basin of ice water, poured over my head.It seems that I was really wrong, the old wolf was right, when we lived in Zeren Yuanmu, there was really more than one wolf near our residence! I regret…… I organized the timing clues in my sketchbook: On September 5th we moved back to the cottage. On September 6, Zeren's daughter-in-law saw a wolf running back to Yuanmu to search anxiously. On the same night, we heard a sad wolf howling from the direction between Langshan and Zeren Yuanmu. On the evening of September 7th, Jomo chased the wolf that passed by our hut to the foot of the index finger mountain, and the two looked at each other.That night, the wolf approached us in response to our lights and calls, but disappeared inexplicably.Half an hour later we found the wolf lying in the grass nest on the hillside behind the house. I circled and sketched the clues I wrote down over and over again, what the hell is going on here?What is that white-billed male wolf in Zeren Yuanmu Souwu anxious about?Is he the fish catcher we've been waiting for?Why such a bold and abnormal move all of a sudden?Was he the same wolf that lay in the grass nest at the back of the hut?is he green The scattered questions are inexplicable, and no strong proof can be found.