Chapter 14: The Snow Wolf of the Plateau
"Whew~" The rustle of something running at top speed is getting closer and closer. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoSong Jie, who was asleep, suddenly woke up from his sleep.
It was quiet, and only his rapid gasping could be heard.
Laneige and the two of them slept quietly on the bed, still sleeping deep at the moment.
Song Jie stood up from the position of sitting in the chair, leaned his head towards the window, there was a dead silence outside, the clear moonlight shrouded the grass and trees, Song Jie squinted his eyes for a long time, and did not see any living creatures.
"Woo~~Woo~~~" A sound like a young beast snorting in pain after being injured suddenly sounded very closely, which startled Song Jie. Song Jie stood up straight, looked down with his forehead against the window, and finally saw a half-human tall hair ball next to the wall with a **** wound.
As if he heard a strange noise, Mao Tuan stopped his movements vigilantly, his ears were propped up, his big head looked around left and right, and he was quiet for a while, and when he saw that nothing abnormal had happened, he continued to lower his head **** wound.
It seemed to be a big dog, and the white fur on its right leg could be clearly seen in the moonlight, stained with blood, as if it had been bitten by something.
Song Jie took the backpack to the table, flipped through the package at the shimmer, and found a bottle of hemostatic spray and a roll of bandages, which he specially brought emergency items just in case, but he didn't expect to use it for the first time instead of using it on himself. Song Jie shook his head amusedly, took the spray bottle in his hand, put the bandage under his armpit, and gently opened the wooden door with his other hand.
The wooden door creaked softly, and the big dog with thick black hair jumped up sensitively, and its four white legs looked a little dazzling in the moonlight.
"Woo~~" The dog's ears were erected smartly, his eyes stared fiercely at Song Jie who pushed the door out, bared his sharp teeth in the direction where Song Jie was, and bent his two front legs slightly, making a sufficient posture of attack.
Song Jie himself likes canine creatures very much, so even though the dog looks fierce, he still smiles and slowly approaches, and shows the big dog what he is holding while approaching, "Don't be afraid, I'm here to help you." As he slowly approached the big dog, he squatted down, trying to keep it as tall as he could.
The dog had been in this aggressive posture for a while, and Song Jie was slow to approach it, and his left hind leg, which was one of the focal points, had begun to twitch slightly at the moment.
As if sensing that the person in front of it was not threatening, it gradually relaxed its body, nestled back to the wall, and continued to hum uncomfortably, its ears drooping.
Song Jie had reached the distance where he could touch it as soon as he stretched out his hand, looking at this human who was still trying to get close to him, it tentatively bared its teeth, and found that it couldn't scare this strange human away, so it lowered its head and lay on its two front legs.
Song Jie tentatively reached out and touched its head, almost instantly, its head was raised and turned in Song Jie's direction, and its ears looked like they were about to be propped up.
"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you." Song Jie did not withdraw his hand, but continued to soothefully follow the thick hairs on its head until it gradually relaxed.
This person touched it quite comfortably, it seemed that the bitten leg was not so painful, the whining sound in its mouth gradually weakened, disappeared, and its eyes slowly closed, it was so tired, it ran for a few days and nights, but it had nowhere to run, and there seemed to be something telling it that it could not leave this place surrounded by mountains, and if it ran out, it would leave here, and if it left here, it would be more difficult to live.
It has been driven to a desperate situation, staying here to hide and hide for dozens of days, but today it is still injured, and can only take advantage of the fact that those snow wolves will not come to the place where humans live and hide temporarily, but this mountain is probably still unable to stay.
Feeling the hand touching his neck, it didn't know when it stopped, and it opened its eyes strangely.
Song Jie was reaching out to move its injured leg, its leg was almost unconscious due to excessive blood loss, if it hadn't seen this strange person looking at its wound this time, I'm afraid it wouldn't have felt that he had just pulled its injured leg.
It saw Song Jie take the strange jar in his hand and spray it a few times on its wound, a tingling and cool mixed feeling made its eyes foggy, but it didn't feel the malice of this person, it snorted a few times, and didn't struggle.
The white strip of cloth was wrapped tightly around the wound and finally secured. As the pain subsided, it felt a sense of relief, and it seemed to regain some sensation in its right leg.
Song Jie rewarded it for not struggling just now, and reached out to rub its fluffy head. "Tell me about you, how did you get it? Hungry or not? But I don't have anything for you to eat. ”
Song Jie turned in a different direction and leaned against the wall, half nesting in its soft fluff. Feeling this slightly cool body, its eyes flashed, the ferocity in its eyes finally completely receded, its head rubbed against Song Jie's head, and slowly closed its eyes.
Relying on this big dog with the feeling of being wrapped in a stove, Song Jie quickly fell asleep again.
Song Jie woke up when the sun hit his face the next day, and he had already woken up, and he was half-squatting majestically to protect him.
Bang bang~
Song Jie squinted slightly, looked up, and Lanzhi was smashing the glass on the window with a nervous face, looking at Song Jie's face full of fright.
"What are you doing? Stay away from it, it's not a dog, it's a mastiff! Laneige's excited shouts reached Song Jie's ears through the poorly soundproofed glass.
At this moment, the big guy who looked like a hair ball was rubbing his short and thickly haired tail around Song Jie's waist, making him itchy and disgusted to push away this somewhat clingy dog head.
Its right leg seemed to be almost recovered, and Song Jie saw that its leg had stepped on the ground solidly, and he didn't tremble, seeing that most of its injuries would not affect its movements. Stretching out his hands to push it all away, "What are you rubbing around with me, go home quickly." Finally, he patted its head, Song Jie reached out and patted off the dog hair on his body and wanted to enter the house, but turned the doorknob to find that the wooden door had been locked.
The big dog's hot body came up again.
"Sister Lan, what is a mastiff? It's not fierce at all, look at it. Song Jie was a little helpless, and walked to the window again to talk to the inside through the window.
Laneige carefully identified the big dog rubbing against Song Jie, "This is definitely a mastiff, only the inner mountain has someone who can raise it, the conditions for domestication of this kind of big guy are extremely bad, so the temperament is also particularly fierce, the adult mastiff dog can force back the plateau snow wolf and protect the existence of the village, but this kind of mastiff only recognizes the owner...... "Laneige also felt a little strange, why did he only recognize the owner so sticky to Song Jie?"
The door of the wooden house was opened again, and Laneige welcomed Song Jie in. The mastiff followed in with no apparent vigour, and snorted disapprovingly as he passed by Laneige.
"No wonder, this mastiff has not yet been fully domesticated." Laneige looked at the dog carefully for a while, and when it looked at it, it was a little uncomfortable and pricked up its ears to look at Laneige with a fierce look.
"No, this kind of mastiff is only domesticated by the people of the Uchiyama to prevent the highland snow wolf from invading the village, and it shouldn't appear here." Laneige walked around the big dog with a highly nervous expression, but she couldn't come to any useful conclusions, and when she saw the bandages tied on the big dog's legs, she somewhat understood why this mastiff was close to Song Jie.
"You can't adopt it." After being silent for a few seconds, Laneige suddenly said to Song Jie decisively. "Do you know how dog trainers train mastiffs? That aside, do you have any food to feed it? In the entire Northland, only professional dog trainers can kill and stain blood to feed them meat, or they hunt for food themselves. ”
It seemed to feel that the woman in front of her didn't say good things about herself, and shouted at Lanzhi a few times with some ferocity, and was touched by Song Jie's head a few times and turned into an aggrieved hum.
"How are mastiffs trained?" Song Jie touched the big dog's head one by one, feeling the pulse under its dense fur. He only thought of the foggy eyes of this big dog yesterday, and swept away the fierce loneliness and despair.
"This ......," Laneige grimaced, "It's not easy to talk about, forget it...... Then I'll talk about it, mastiffs are also ordinary dogs, from a young age has been raised in a small stone trough, the height to the point that it can only reach the edge of the best efforts, only a little food every day, as its size grows, a little change to a deeper stone trough. Forever confined to a small space, suffering from hunger. Speaking of this, Laneige couldn't bear to say any more. Song Jie patted the big guy's head, looking at it with some admiration, it could still look so majestic in such a harsh environment.
"When the puppies are big enough, they are thrown into deep wells in the snowfield, and snow wolves salivate the good food in the wells and often congregate around the wellheads. It has to go through cold, fear, and despair before it can have the ferocity that belongs to the mastiff, and it will have thick fur after experiencing the baptism of wind and snow. Laneige looked at the mastiff, which was clearly already heavily furred.
"Is it over?" Song Jie patted the big guy on the back, "You're so good, you can stick to it like this, do you have a name?" Before it could snort twice in reply, Song Jie heard Laneige's voice again.
"It's not over," Laneige took a deep breath, "dogs that have been domesticated as mastiffs will be treated as aliens by the rest of the dogs, and the dog trainer will often throw the mastiff brought back from the snow into the dog pack until it is scarred by the attack, and then disperse the dogs to heal its wounds, because the dog trainer is the only person in its life who has given care and help to be able to gain their loyalty, this process is also called confession." They will be fierce and irritable, and they will be warriors who can compete with the steppe snow wolves. Ordinary residents like us are both loving and fearful of mastiffs, because mastiffs are very aggressive and can easily be bitten or even killed if they come into contact with them. ”
After listening to Laneige's words thoroughly, the smile in Song Jie's eyes retracted, hugged the big dog's neck tightly, and said, "You are awesome, you can call Dawn Okay, stay with me in the future, I won't hurt you." ”
It tilted its head, not quite understanding what the man was saying, but wagging its tail excitedly.
"This is supposed to have come out of the well for some unknown reason," Laneige sighed, "You still haven't been able to get the point, we can't get the meat it needs as ordinary people in the Northland." ”
"I'm always worried that so much may not get any good results, so it's better to take one step at a time." Song Jie half-lay on the big dog, following its black and shiny hair. "By the way, what about the eldest sister in this house?"
"The people here haven't seen mastiffs, thinking that they brought their pet dogs, and they didn't bother you, so they organized a few villagers to go up the mountain to find her man." Laneige hurriedly replied to him, "I originally wanted to go, but I knew more and was too scared to leave the house, why don't we look for it?" ”