Tibetan Mastiff Notes

Chapter 32 Wolf kills wolf (9)
The old wolf put down the dead female wolf, and began to bite the female wolf's body as if venting. It tore open the female wolf's skin, pulled out the internal organs, then raised its head and howled to the sky. covered in blood.I immediately understood that after the old wolf was expelled by the new leader of the clan, its beloved wife, the original mother leader, abandoned it and chose to stay in the wolf pack. This was done with consideration.The new leader occupied the female wolf, which was a great insult to the old wolf, because in the world of wolves, strict monogamy was enforced.The concept of marriage is very strong in wolves. As long as they are a couple, they must swear to die together until they die of old age, but this female wolf did not do so. Although the old wolf was expelled, the hatred in her heart forced it to come back again.

Now that the old wolf has completed his mission of revenge, he chooses to leave.Before leaving, he looked back at me, with deep eyes, without the awe-inspiring murderous look of the past, looking sad, and then slowly disappeared into the vast snow field with his wounded body.

I don't know where this old wolf is going. No pack of wolves is willing to accept it. It can only rely on its own strength to make a living in the harsh nature. Maybe it can survive this winter by luck, or maybe it can't. In a few days, people will find the frozen body of the old wolf in the nearby snow.

The female leader of the immigrated tribe was killed, and the morale was severely hit. The local female wolves quickly gained the upper hand, and they turned over the entire wolf den and the nearby land.I feel that these female wolves may not only sneak attack the wolf dens of the immigrant clan, they seem to be looking for something, just like me, they came with a certain purpose.In the confusion, I saw the "Three-Eyed" wolf cub excitedly grab a gray thing from under a snowdrift of rotten tree leaves, and ran away quickly. It looks like Grid, but it looks like the little wolf cub that was also taken away by the wolf.

Before the pups could open their eyes, they were shivering from the icy snow, and seemed to be breathing. These were the pups born to the injured female wolf that Uncle Duoji saved. Four of them died, and three of them died. Only it survived by luck.Since the little wolf cub is here, Gege should be there too. Gege is much stronger than the little wolf cub, so he must still be alive!

A burst of ecstasy surged in my heart, I held the gun tightly in my hand, and waited nervously, as soon as I saw a certain wolf with Ge Ge in its mouth, I shot the wolf to death, and then quickly snatched Ge Ge over.Before I was ready to shoot, I saw Uncle Duoji running towards me quickly, beckoning as he ran, with a very anxious expression on his face. I knew something must have happened, so I gave up waiting and ran over to ask: "What's the matter?" Uncle Duoji Said: "Let's go, the male wolf is back! It's dark!"

I had a premonition that something was wrong, so I hurriedly retreated with Uncle Duoji. When we ran outside the forest, we saw wolves in the distance roaring like thousands of horses galloping towards us.Uncle Zhaximu pulled Dahei vigorously. Dahei didn't like Uncle Zhaximu at first, but after being stimulated by the wolves, he couldn't bear it anymore and roared wildly.

Dahei's approach is really unwise. She was just angry that I failed to bring Grid back, but she didn't consider the consequences of such a large pack of wolves.Fortunately, the team of wolves didn't chase us in the direction we retreated, and didn't care about Dahei's roar. Instead, they were swept into the woods like the wind and rushed towards the wolf's den.A deep pit was stepped on the snow covered with paw prints one after another, and the powder of snow splashed everywhere, and the jungle trembled amidst the galloping wolves.

28. The female wolf sends back the little mastiff to Gege
These male wolves were all wounded in the fierce battle. In order to save the destroyed wolf den, they decided to let us go, and we were lucky enough to get a chance to retreat quickly.After going through that big scene of wolves fighting and the later scene when the wolves rushed back into the woods, I decided that I would never break into the territory of the wolves so recklessly again. No matter what, none of us can come back, and even Dahei can't save his life.

I was terrified of my arrogance and bravery. I thought that I had killed a few wolves, and my mind was full of incomparable heroism. This is really scary, but fortunately everyone is fine.Uncle Dorji was also amazed. Before we set off, he expected that the number of wolves would not exceed thirty. We just went to have a look, and we were not prepared to act. How could we expect to encounter such a grand scene?He has lived for most of his life, let alone met, never even dreamed of it.

We were all in a cold sweat, and no one spoke on the way back.Dahei can't do anything, there are too many wolves, and a female mastiff who is still in the confinement period can't play a big role at all.Dahei also wanted to rush over to fight the wolf, but she knew more clearly than me that heroism would only bring more trouble and harm to her master.

I didn't find Gege, but I firmly believed that Gege must still be alive, so I felt a little sullen.Dahei was also full of anger, and walked ahead angrily along the way, refusing to talk to anyone, she was angry with herself, maybe she was also a little angry with me, right?We had to give up the idea of ​​continuing to search for Gege. Whether it is local wolves or immigrated wolves, their numbers are too large. In order to survive this cold winter, the wolves had to condense into one A powerful group that cannot be resisted by man.

For the past few days, I have been very discouraged. I thought that Grid might be finished. No matter which wolf it is, after a vicious fight, it is impossible to accept a different kind of cub, let alone this The cub's own family is also the enemy of their wolf family.

There has been no snow in the past few days, but the weather is getting colder and colder. The snow on the ground has been frozen into a hard shell. If you step on it, your feet will not sink.The weather is very cold. In order to keep out the cold, the sheep also need to eat more food to maintain body heat. There is not much hay stored, and everyone is a little worried.Worry is worry, discouragement is discouragement, but vigilance cannot be lowered. Although wolves need a period of rest after a big battle, it does not mean that they will not attack the flock.

The weather is cold, there is not much food, and there is not much food for the wolves to eat. There are many dangers. I am very worried about this small remote village, so I insist on climbing up to the lookout every day to look around.In the past few days, there was no movement. After dinner on the third day, Uncle Dorji and Gesang were warming up the fire and making buttered tea in the house.I climbed up to the observation deck and looked into the distance, and suddenly found several black spots in my sight.

The black dot was getting closer and closer, like a few wolves, moving towards the entrance of the village.My heart tensed, I hurriedly jumped off the platform, picked up my gun and ran out, rushed to the back of the snow bunker I built at the entrance of the village the day before yesterday, and looked outside, as long as the wolf approached, let him be 21, I would shoot .

Several wolves got closer and closer, and the leader wolf became more and more clear in my sight. I found that the wolf seemed to have wounds on its body. Although the wounds had healed, there were obvious scars, especially on the lower part of the neck. On the vital part, a large piece of fur was bitten off, revealing a red scar, which was a little scary.I am familiar with this scar. It is a bit like the she-wolf that gave birth to a cub that Uncle Dorji rescued a while ago. The she-wolf got closer and closer, and I found a black mass in its mouth. There is also a little yellow hair exposed, like a ball of meat.What are these wolves up to?As soon as I was nervous, I pressed my finger tightly on the trigger and aimed at the head of the leading female wolf, but I also had a feeling that these were local wolves. It seemed that the visitors were not unkind. On the contrary, it seems to have sent us something.Hesitantly, I let go of the finger on the trigger, vaguely feeling that what the she-wolf is holding in her mouth seems to be a little mastiff, Gege?

Uncle Dorji came out of the house at some point. He didn’t hide or hide. He called me over and asked me to put down the gun, because the leading she-wolf found me, and saw that I was holding a gun in my arms. He stopped and didn't go any further.I put down the gun and stood up. Uncle Duoji came over and called out to the female wolf. He also howled twice like a wolf. He didn’t understand wolf language, but he just wanted to draw the female wolf closer. See what's in her mouth.

The small pack of wolves stopped and stopped moving forward. Only the female wolf approached us alone, standing about ten steps away from us. After putting it down, he immediately took a few big steps back.

Dahei ran out early in the morning, because Uncle Duoji was afraid that she would miss Gege too much and mess around, so he kept dragging her. Now when Dahei saw the she-wolf put down the things in her mouth, he couldn't bear it anymore and tried hard Breaking free from Uncle Duoji's hand, he roared excitedly and rushed over, kicking the little thing with his mouth.We were all pleasantly surprised to find that the little mastiff Gege was sent back by the female wolf!

Gege was still alive and kicking, not only did not become thinner, but grew stronger, staring around with a pair of small round eyes, when Dahei picked it up, Gege seemed to be still a little attached to the she-wolf , yelling at Dahei dissatisfiedly, struggling with his four calves.When the wolves saw Dahei rushing over, they all retreated nervously. The female wolf in the lead was also a little scared, but she didn't retreat. Instead, she boldly took a few steps forward and refused to leave. Intimate, eyes look a little teary, as if looking forward to something.

I felt that the female wolf seemed to have something to hide, so I asked Uncle Duoji: "What does the female wolf want to do? Why isn't she leaving? Haven't those wolves already rescued their cubs?" Uncle Duoji thought for a while, Said: "Maybe it wants us to return the other three wolf cubs to it. How does the mother wolf know that the cubs were born prematurely, and the three died within a few days after birth. In the end, this one can only live It’s a miracle to come down.” I said, “Yes, maybe the little wolf cub in the end grew stronger after eating Dahei’s milk, otherwise, it might have died a long time ago.”

I don't know if the female wolf understood what we said, but it still refused to leave, watching the big black mother and daughter making out pitifully.Dahei bit Gege in his mouth distressedly, licked and arched, and finally he couldn't bear to be seen by others, so he ran into the house with his mouth in his mouth.

At the beginning, when the three little wolf cubs died young, I suggested to Uncle Duoji to throw the three dead little things as far away as possible, so that when the female wolf came back to look for them again, she would be so distressed that she would take all the blame. our heads.Uncle Dorji refused, so he dug a hole in the open space next to the house, buried the three wolf cubs, and said that they died at such a young age, and left their corpses in the wilderness, alas... What else do you want to say later, But I didn't say it, maybe Uncle Duoji felt that if I said it, I would not agree with him.He is an old shepherd over half a century old, and I am a passer-by who does not belong to the prairie. I have no way to deeply understand the various relationships among prairie, people, wolves, sheep and mastiffs, nor can I understand the kind of relationship between human beings and mastiffs. Wolves have both hatred and close relationship.

Uncle Dorji still remembered the place where the wolf cubs were buried. He walked over and smashed the frozen ice and snow bit by bit with a pipe and pot. Come over and have a look, luckily it’s a heavy snow day, it’s all frozen hard, and it’s not rotten.”

The female wolf had a premonition and walked over slowly, with a sad expression on her face, and a strange humming sound from her nose.It put its head out and sniffed the three frozen little wolf cubs. There was still a faint scent of mastiff milk on the mouths of the little wolf cubs, which was completely preserved by the frozen ice and snow.

The female wolf arched her cubs sadly over and over again, and the three cubs were still lying there quietly. The sad wolf should have howled to the sky, but the injured female wolf did not howl, confirming her own innocence. After the baby could no longer survive, it took the three little ones out of the snow pit.

Two young female wolves came to help, and they bit the dead bodies of the three cubs in their mouths and left.The female wolf's leg injury hadn't fully healed yet, and it limped as it walked, slowly disappearing from our sight.

I felt a very depressing atmosphere. Although I knew that wolves played the most critical part in the biological chain on the prairie, I still couldn't accept Uncle Dorji's kindness and friendliness towards wolves.Anyway, it will still come to eat the sheep of the herdsmen when they are unbearably hungry, causing the herdsmen to lose a lot of property. In this case, as a herdsman, he should have a kind of hatred for wolves, and the various performances of Uncle Duoji make me feel, This is a strange old herdsman.In this strange old herdsman, preventing wolves and helping wolves, killing wolves and saving wolves, these seemingly inconsequential things are so strangely combined, contradictory but natural.

I said nothing, picked up my gun, and walked back into the house.

I don’t know if it’s because Ge Ge has eaten wolf’s milk these days, it was always bullied by the prince, but now it is no longer willing to endure the bullying of its elder brother, when the prince wants to grab the tits with it again, Ge Ge suddenly slammed He rushed over and pressed the prince tightly under his body.The prince refused to admit defeat, and the two siblings scuffled together.

Uncle Dorji noticed my abnormality, and he didn't want to argue with me. He just lit a bag of cigarettes, smoked for a while, and began to talk to himself.He is used to expressing his thoughts in this way, and he does not expect anyone to understand and agree with him, so he said to himself: "The wolf is the most important animal on the prairie, not to mention its contribution to the pasture. Well, it eats wild rabbits and rats, and keeps a large piece of fertile pasture. Everyone knows these things. Let’s just talk about wolves and humans, sheep and mastiffs. Do you know why two groups of wolves fight? Maybe Many people think that it is because wolves are selfish and want to drive each other out and occupy places with the most abundant food sources. Yes, wolves are selfish, but it is this selfishness of wolves that has helped our herdsmen a lot. If the wolves that moved here are not driven away, our herdsmen will lose more cattle, sheep and livestock. Those wolves will not only eat but also rob, but the local wolves will not. They must keep the herdsmen's sheep so that they can In winter, share some food from the herdsmen. Do you know why the local wolves do this? Because the local wolves live on the same prairie as our herdsmen, and they are already familiar with each other, so they don’t come to steal easily The herdsmen's sheep eat wild food by themselves even in the winter. Only when they can't find food, they will come to the herdsmen's sheepfold to find food, and the herdsmen can tolerate it. These local wolves know that sheep are important to the herdsmen. They just want to barely fill their stomachs. We herdsmen sometimes let wolves take away one or two sheep. As long as the wolves don’t kill and bite the sheep in large numbers, we don’t care about it. Herdsmen also have their own reasons for doing this. The truth is, it’s not easy for wolves or humans to make a living on this prairie, and it’s snowing! Everyone gets what they need, and they don’t hurt each other too much. If the wolves live well, the sheep can eat more. We Only the herdsmen can live in peace. Now the number of wolves is decreasing day by day, and many places where grass should have grown have become deserts..."

Uncle Duoji said a long paragraph, he didn't bother to think about it, he just sighed from the bottom of his heart, it was really not easy to say such a long paragraph in one breath.He was a little tired, sighed, knocked the soot in the cigarette pot, and said: "Why does Dahei sometimes see a wolf standing on the hillside, but she doesn't bite? She understands these reasons in her heart." Now! She knows what is most important to us herdsmen. As long as those wolves don’t take the initiative to attack their flocks, Dahei will sometimes let those wolves go. He knows what the owner needs and what he can do. This is the real mastiff!"

I listened to Uncle Duoji's words in silence without saying a word, and felt ashamed. Although I also knew the importance of wolves on the prairie, I always despised wolves because of their cunning and ferocity. Emotions are buckled into a naturally formed biological chain.

Only a selfless person can look at all things without prejudice, without darkening or adding color, to describe each side in a true and fair way, and to record every thing and phenomenon in nature. This is difficult and difficult. Only people like Uncle Dorji, who have no desires, no demands and no selfishness, can do it.I am ashamed of myself for not being able to do this!It is also possible that I will never be able to treat the whole world fairly and fairly like Uncle Dorji.

On the prairie in winter, once the snow falls, everyone has nothing to do. Apart from sitting in the house all day warming up, my only pleasure is to climb to the observation deck and look into the distance.Loneliness is the best way to temper a person's patience. I am not impatient, but I can't explain it clearly. I always feel that there is an invisible thing entangled in me. It is an ominous premonition that I can't get rid of. I can't get rid of it, I can't get rid of it, the calmer I am, the more I feel the reality of this premonition.

A few days later, the blizzard came again, bigger and more violent than the previous snowstorm. The feather pillow as big as the whole sky was torn apart, and the snowflakes fluttered down one after another. The falling snowflakes were blowing all over the sky again.

Strong winds and blizzards from morning till night.The next day, the snow hadn’t stopped. I opened my eyes from my sleep, looked out the window, and saw the snow level line almost flush with the window!

I leaned down to the window and looked out in disbelief. It was a real thing. The snow was flying violently, and the loose snow piled up to the height of the window sill. I hurried to open the door, and just opened the door a crack. All of a sudden, a pile of snow collapsed in from outside the door, forming a hill inside the door.

(End of this chapter)