Chapter 119: The Legend of the Wolf King

Walking down from the patio of the Spirit Snake Cave, the road surface is getting steeper and narrower, and the three steps and one corner are five steps and one undulation, which confirms that the rumors are true.

They struggled to the bottom exit before they saw the sun they hadn't seen for a long time.

Xu Qing stood at the foot of the mountain and looked at the whole mountain, only to find that the scenery here is pleasant and majestic. This mountain is undulating for dozens of kilometers, like a green dragon lying between the two mountains, which is more upright and majestic than the one behind. The vegetation on the mountain is dense, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, much like the undeveloped primeval forest, and the mist on the mountainside is like a fairyland, very quiet and deep. The existence of the Spirit Snake Cave is not visible from the outside at all. The gurgling stream slowly flowed out of the mouth of the Spirit Snake Cave and converged into a shallow and narrow stream that flowed deep into the valley.

The Qinglong Mountain, where the Spirit Snake Cave is located, is opposite the Wolf King Mountain, and the scenery is also very charming. The valley formed between the two mountains is sometimes empty and sometimes narrow. There are more than 10 acres of grass slope not far from the entrance of the Spirit Snake Cave, the terrain is flat and the vision is broad.

And the place where Qin Ruhai plans to build a campsite and an amusement park is here.

"Sister Fang, you see how spacious it is? There are nearly 20 acres of open grass slopes, and there are campsites and recreational accommodation facilities and places between the two mountains, which can extend one-day tours into short-term tours, so as to provide ample time for long-distance tourists. Now let's go to the Wolf King Mountain to see, although there is no Spirit Snake Cave, but the stretching empty grass slope and open vision is another feature, Qinglong Mountain is a little limited by its view, but each has its own advantages. ”

Then, they slowly climbed up the mountainside of Wolf King Mountain.

Qin Ruhai lay on the soft green grass and said with a smile: "There is also a very interesting legend in Wolf King Mountain. The old people in the village said that when they were young, there were more than a dozen wolves entrenched here, but they never entered the village to harm the livestock and the people. Everyone did not dare to go out, let alone work in the field, after three or four days, some bold villagers went to Qinglong Mountain to observe the situation, this time it was clear that there was more than one wolf there, there were about twelve as many as that, but they did not have the slightest intention of attacking them, wandering through the woods of the opposite Wolf King Mountain, all lazy and docile. When the villagers heard the news, they still didn't feel at ease to work in the fields. The village chief was anxious, and when he saw the hoeing and irrigation, he did not see the villagers going out to work, so he found the town chief and asked to kill the wolves. Later, the militia was dispatched and brought shotguns into the mountains to shoot him. When disaster struck, six wolves were shot and killed that day, and the remaining six fled and went into hiding. And that night, something happened in the village, killing three people and injuring countless livestock. Judging from the injury, it was caused by a wolf attack. The next day the town asked the county government, invited a large number of police officers and militiamen, and began to search the mountains, seeing one shoot one, see a pair kill a pair, after most of the day of hunting and shooting, none of the six wolves survived, all died on their guns. The village is too peaceful and settled, and life and farming have returned to normal. Half a year later, a septuagenarian grandfather herded sheep through Wolf King Mountain and accidentally found a wolf cub, the size of a domestic dog, lying under a tree and dying. He took pity on him, and took it home at night to hide and raise it. He has no children and no daughters, he is a five-guarantee household in the village, and everyone is not very close to him, and it is precisely because of this that he has the honor of raising wolf cubs to grow up. But as the wolf cub grows up day by day, contradictions and problems ensue. The villagers soon found out that he had stolen wolf cubs, and the village chief persuaded him to hand them over or kill them on the spot. But he had already had a relationship with the wolf cub and resolutely refused to listen to persuasion. The village chief was afraid that the wolf cubs would grow up and harm the villagers and livestock, but he did not dare to forcibly take them away, so he reported the matter to the town. The mayor of the town was resolute and must eliminate the hidden danger, so he took the police officers to find the uncle and asked him to hand over the wolf cubs, otherwise he would be forcibly taken away. The old man said something that brought tears to the eyes of everyone present. Originally, the wolves lived in harmony with everyone, the well water did not interfere with the river water, they foraged in the mountains, never invaded the village, and many sheep herders who went to Qinglong Mountain to graze sheep did not have an accident, but on the night of the hunting of wolves, the village had an accident. Since you can't tolerate it, then I will take it back to the mountains, and you will be clean, and I can get along with it day and night, and if it hurts someone in the future, I am willing to pay for it, and I only hope that you will let it live. On the same day, the uncle packed up the food guys, rolled up the bedding, and took the wolf cub to the Wolf King Mountain, and he has not returned to the village since then. Some villagers sympathized with his plight and often ran to help with flour and vegetables, but they were all refused by the uncle, and they never received a single aid from the villagers. He and the wolf cubs lived in seclusion in the cave of the Wolf King Mountain, relying on hunting for a living, and winter was the hardest time for them, but they never returned to the village to seek any help. But fortunately, the wolf cubs were always able to catch hares, pheasants and pigeons from the mountains, and they survived with great difficulty. Three years later, the villagers often saw a wolf roaming the opposite hill to forage for food, but they could not see the uncle following him, and no one responded to his shouting for most of the day. Everyone knew that the uncle was dead, but no one dared to go over to find the uncle's body. The wolf cub has grown to the size of a lamb that is about to be slaughtered, but it has never entered the village or harmed the villagers who are herding sheep. Strange to say, since the wolf in Wolf King Mountain, there are many fewer pheasants and crows in the villagers' fields, and there is no need to worry about them stealing corn and potatoes and destroying crops. At first, everyone was only suspicious because there were many paw prints like dog paws in the field, but then someone saw the wolf hunting pheasants. This wolf left a good impression in everyone's hearts, did not hurt anyone, did not enter the village, and secretly helped them drive away pheasants and crows, and was no longer so hostile and hateful to it. The wolf cub gradually grew into the wolf king, and was very large, taller and more ferocious than the wolves before it, almost the size of a newborn calf. Seeing this situation, some people began to think crookedly, and secretly contacted the hunter to trap the wolf king, but they were all recognized by it and escaped. The older people in the village, tired of their treatment of the unaggressive and threatening wolf king, began to speak out against the trapping. The wolf king was frightened and disappeared for several months, and the villagers began to think that he had been ensnared and sold elsewhere or killed in the mountains. It wasn't until the wolf king appeared again in the dense forest in the mountains that everyone was relieved. Since then, the village has set up a rule, whoever dares to hurt the wolf king in the future will be against the whole village, and in the future, his family's weddings and funerals, big and small affairs, and no one in the village will participate. The wolf king was treated well by the villagers, and slowly had contact and agreement with it, and some bold and enthusiastic villagers took one or two chickens and ducks to Qinglong Mountain during the New Year's Festival, and secretly released them into the mountain, hiding aside and peeking. At first, the wolf king ignored it and didn't go down to the wolf king mountain to cross the ditch to hunt. But after a few days, the chickens and ducks released into the mountains were nowhere to be seen. The villagers were not sure whether they had been eaten by the wolf king, and then put down the two chickens to hide and peek at them, and soon the wolf king saw the movement and heard the sound, and quickly ran over from the opposite hill and took a chicken back. The news of the wolf king eating chicken soon spread all over the big and small lanes, and more and more people slowly joined in this relief and almsgiving activity, today this family will release a chicken, tomorrow that family will put a duck, anyway, every day there are villagers who voluntarily send live animals over. In the past, the wolf king would return with something in his mouth, and then he could stay for a while. Some of the brave villagers, putting down the chickens and ducks, began to stop dodging and peeking, but stood not far away and waited for the wolf king to come over for a good meal. Seeing that the villagers had no malicious intent, the wolf king did not wait to leave, and quickly ran over to hunt for food, biting and eating on the spot, and was not in a hurry to leave after eating, and watched the villagers feed for a while before slowly walking down the mountain. In the eyes of the villagers, the wolf king slowly became an oversized pet dog, no one thought it was a wolf anymore, and the villagers and the wolf king became good friends and neighbors. With the help of the villagers, the wolf king easily endured one cold winter after another. It wasn't until one day that the wolf king no longer took the initiative to come over to eat, and everyone slowly saw that it was old and couldn't travel long distances. With this close relationship, some villagers began to change the place of release, and no longer put live animals, and put the leftover meat and bones and slaughtered chickens and ducks at the foot of the Wolf King Mountain, waiting for the Wolf King to come down the mountain to eat. The wolf king is old, and he is blind in one eye, and his movements are a lot slower. Later, the wolf king hardly went down the mountain to eat, and he couldn't even see his shadow. Half a month later, the villagers toured the mountain and found its body in a cave at the top of the mountain, next to a 'tomb' made of stones and clods. The wolf king's corpse still has residual heat, and it looks like he has only been dead for a short time. I could vaguely see the uncle's clothes through the cracks in the stone pile, although they were covered by dust, but no one doubted it. It was the wolf king who buried the bones of the uncle, and the reason why he didn't choose to leave was that he was reluctant to raise the owner who grew up with him. In that cave, the villagers spontaneously organized and properly buried the bones of the uncle and the wolf king, and later sealed the hole with cement, and erected a monument for them outside, writing the words 'tomb of the wolf king and his master Liu Minghao', and named this mountain 'Wolf King Mountain'. Since then, the village has set up a rule prohibiting villagers from making noise and frolicking in Wolf King Mountain, and not damaging the cave and the tombstone outside the cave. ”

After listening to this story in detail, Xu Qing's eyes were already red and swollen.

Qin Ruhai was immersed in the story, and it was not until the end that he found out that Xu Qing had just cried, and then he thought of his life experience, and he was also a little sad. He had a similar experience with Liu Minghao in the story, and was also ostracized and ridiculed by the villagers, so he almost finished telling the story with his eyes closed and tears in his eyes.