Chapter 11: The Story



It's called a vigil, but in fact it's daylight, and I can't move forward under the wind and snow, and I'm ready to stay here for a day or two.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, when my eyelids were fighting, and I couldn't hold it anymore, I woke up the two of them to change shifts, closed my eyes, and slept in the dark.

When I woke up, it was night, and the rain cloth was blowing and hunting, and although it was very tightly blocked, there was still wind drilling into it.

Except for me, who had just woken up, everyone else sat in a circle eating and drinking, lit a stove of solid fuel, and sat around to make a fire.

I got out of my sleeping bag and wiped my face with snow outside the cave, and then I felt that my nerves were clear, the snow was very strong outside, and the wind was blowing harder, and God really didn't care for me at all.

When I walked to the fire, the four of them were bored and were telling stories, and as soon as they saw me passing, Feng Guang handed me a piece of sauced beef and said, "Boss, you have a lot of knowledge, why don't you tell us a story?" ”

The night was cold and windy, and there was no other pastime, so I said, "What kind of story do you want to hear?" ”

I really don't have much to say about what happened to me, but the folklore I read in the book can be said to be a relief or two.

Yan Dachuan roasted his hands, his hands were full of oil and water from the sauce beef, and he said: "What else is there to choose from, just relieve boredom." ”

I thought about it, remembered a story, and told it to everyone.

It was during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and little Japan went straight to the Central Plains, and the people everywhere were struggling to make a living.

In the Longnan area, there is a small village at the foot of a mountain near Qinba.

The village is close to the mountains, and the people of the village often go up to the mountains to hunt.

At that time, New China had not yet been established, and there was no wolf fighting policy, so there were many mountain wolves in the deep mountains and old forests.

There is an orphan in the village road, and his parents killed him when he called Little Japan to sweep up, and he escaped by hiding under the well, vowing to avenge his parents. But at that time, the New Fourth Army had not yet reached the Longnan area, and the people in that area had no guns or bullets, and there was basically no hope of revenge.

One day, the orphan followed the people of the village up the mountain to hunt, and the old hunter killed a she-mountain wolf, and the orphan searched for the trace of the she-mountain wolf and found a wolf den. In those years, there was a shortage of soldiers, and even the wolf cubs did not live well, and there was only one wolf cub in the wolf hole, and he was hungry and screaming.

The orphan's heart softened, and felt that this little wolf was just like himself, lonely and pitiful, so he took the little wolf home to raise, although there was no meat and milk, but the wolf's vitality was extremely tenacious, and he actually survived.

When I said this, Yan Dachuan couldn't help but interrupt me and said, "Boss, did the wolf cub repay the favor and bite the little Japanese who entered the village to death?" This story is so cheesy, you say the beginning, I know the end. ”

Feng Guang on the side also nodded.

I snorted and said, "You know a fart, do you want to listen to it, don't listen and pull it down." ”

Now that the wind and snow are raging, what is the meaning of five big men, staring at each other with big eyes? Feng Guang and Yan Dachuan are not as casual as fat people, they can take out a deck of playing cards from their bags at any time, and they don't tell stories to pass the time at the moment, is it possible to be in a daze?

As soon as I said this, the two immediately apologized, and Feng Guang said: "No matter how bad it is, we can listen to it, boss, you continue." ”

So I went on with them.

The beginning of this story is quite vulgar, and I don't know if it's true or not, it's included in a folk culture story, generally this kind of story, most of them are true, plus acquired processing, so it's hard to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

The little wolf can generally hunt alone for about half a year, just a year later, a group of devils entered the village, but as most spectators expected, the scene of the wolf saving the master did not appear, and the orphan's village was directly slaughtered, because at that time Little Japan implemented the three-light policy, that is, burning, killing, and robbing, with this evil behavior to deter the Chinese who tried to resist.

Of course, the orphan did not survive and died under the bullets, but the wolf escaped and escaped into the mountains.

Later, when the Japanese heard that there was ginseng in the mountains, he sent a small team to dig it, but he did not come back for several days and nights. Dazuo thought to himself: Could it be that the Eighth Route Army was hidden in the mountain and wiped out his subordinates?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible, so he sent a small team into the mountains to investigate, and told them not to go too deep, mainly to check whether there were any traces of recent human activities in the mountains.

Soon, the squad came back, all with earth-colored faces and urine, and reported to Dazuo: "A big hole was found in the mountain, the hole was full of corpses, wearing imperial army uniforms, unrecognizable, incomplete corpses, very terrible. ”

When Dazuo heard this, he was furious: Most of China has been subdued by our imperial army, who dares to kill the emperor's soldiers!

Immediately with people and guns, nearly 100 people rushed into the deep mountains and came to the place reported by the soldiers.

I saw a big pit on the ground, the pit was full of stumps and broken arms, due to a few days of decay, crawling with maggots, flying full of mosquitoes and flies, disgusting.

One of the traitors came up with an idea: "The enemy is fierce, we must not disperse, we must defeat them in one go." ”

Dazuo led a huge team of 100 people and began to sweep the mountains and forests, but the strange thing is that they only saw traces of humans at the beginning, which were all traces left by the previous hunting and firewood in the village, not new, that is, no one has been active in the mountains recently.

What about his own men?

At this moment, a soldier reported that he had found a lot of wolf footprints, and he was afraid that there were wolves nearby, and asked Dazuo if he wanted to move forward.

Dazuo said that we have guns and people, what wolves are we afraid of, bastards! kicked the soldier far away, and the group continued to walk deeper, bound to find out the eight roads hidden in the mountains.

Who knows, Balu didn't wait, but what was waiting was the wolves.

The wolf is a very strategic animal, when they hunt, it is never a simple fight, often set a trap for people to jump into, so China has described the wolf as treacherous since ancient times.

By the time the Japanese found out, the wolves were already very close, and before they could release their guns, they were grabbed by the wolves, and their wrists were bitten off. There are many people in Japan, but there are more wolves, wolf howls everywhere, a group of Japanese, almost all of them were bitten alive, and the only one left was the Chinese traitor.

He was scared and urinated, but strangely, the wolves did not attack him, and the traitor waited for the wolves to leave, and then rushed down the mountain in a frenzy.

Later, no one dared to go up the mountain, whether it was the Chinese or the Japanese, the Chinese were afraid, and the Japanese felt that it was unnecessary, they came to conquer the Chinese territory, not to help the Chinese exterminate the wolves.

That mountain became taboo, in the late stage of the Anti-Japanese War, a group of Japanese troops retreated from Longnan, and at that time they were suffering defeat, and when they passed by that mountain, they heard this rumor, and they were unwilling, and thought: It is just a defeat in the hands of you Chinese, and even wolves dare to ride to the head of the imperial army.

The leader then took the retreating Japanese soldiers to kill the wolves, but once they went, they never came out again.

The people in the vicinity said that they must have let the wolves in the mountains gnaw them, and they even told their children not to go to the mountains.

Since no one goes into the mountains anymore, no one hunts firewood anymore, the plants in the mountains become more and more dense, and finally once, a bold young man wants to go into the mountains to dig ginseng, he carries a medicine hoe alone, and he is frightened, but in order to sell ginseng and buy food at home, he can't care so much.

No one knows what happened to the young man when he went into the mountains, but he came out safely and dug up a ginseng plant, and when people asked him what was the matter, he said that he had seen wolves, but there were not many wolves on the mountains.

The people in the village didn't believe it and said, "Why aren't there many, I heard that there are hundreds of wolves besieging the Japanese." ”

The young man thought for a moment and said, "I saw one." ”

Some people covet the young man's old ginseng, so they also have the courage to dig ginseng in the mountains, and the result is also peaceful, and then there is a story in the local area: said that the wolf that besieged the Japanese back then, in fact, there was only one, that was a fine unicorn roar, maybe it was the little wolf adopted by the orphans back then, otherwise, why pick the Japanese to bite?

After I finished speaking, Feng Guang said: "Boss, your story is too superstitious. ”

I asked him where he was superstitious, and he said how could wolves still distinguish between Japanese and Chinese?

I asked him, "Have you ever had a dog?" ”

Feng Guang was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting me to bring the topic to dogs, he shook his head and said, "No." ”

I then gave him an example.

Many people who have ever owned a dog must have had such an experience. Dogs love to bark at strangers who come to the house, but if it is your loved one, even if the dog has never seen it, it will behave meekly and enthusiastically, this is not an exception, but a common phenomenon.

Scientists have done research on this, and believe that everyone has their own biological smell, and the smell between relatives who are related by blood is very similar, dogs can distinguish more than four million kinds of tastes, and can clearly and accurately distinguish each person's body odor, it is by body odor to distinguish, which are strangers, which are the owner's relatives.

Dogs were domesticated by wolves, and wolves have a sense of smell that is no worse than that of dogs.

After I finished speaking, I said: "That place is called Wolf Mountain, the most peculiar thing is that even now, the Japanese can't enter, as soon as Japanese tourists enter the mountain, they will definitely disappear, for this reason, some people also went into the expedition and installed a monitor on their body, but as soon as they entered, the monitor failed, so now there is a sign in front of the mountain: it is strictly forbidden for Japanese friends to enter." ”

Yan Dachuan smashed his mouth and said, "This is a bit like a supernatural story, I suspect that it is not the wolf that is doing the blame, but the ghosts in the village who are doing the trick." ”

Feng Guang strictly adhered to the spirit of materialism and retorted: "Maybe it's a kind of genetic teaching, the first generation of wolves taught the little wolves, and they killed the Japanese when they saw them, so it was passed down from generation to generation?" Don't underestimate the intelligence and smell of animals......"

Speaking of this, Feng Guang muttered, "Maybe that long neck will also find us along the smell." ”

He reminded me of this, and I subconsciously glanced towards the entrance of the cave, and the cave was covered with a rain cloth, and the light of the fire made it look yellow, but I was stunned at first glance...... On the rain cloth, a black shadow with a long neck is clearly projected......