Spring, summer, autumn and winter, five or six years have passed.

Zhang Tianci is already a little boy who is scurrying up and down the yard. The old couple is very fond of God, no matter how frugal they are, they don't lose their children, and under the careful care of them over the years, Xiao Tianci has now grown into a fat boy with a tiger head and a tiger brain.

Xiao Tianci can walk at a very young age, and his hands and feet are very flexible, but he can't speak all the time, and he often makes a strange sound of "babbling" in his mouth, but he can't say a word. His father said that it sounded like a wolf's howl, so he called him Wolf Cub, and Wolf Cub became a god-given nickname.

It wasn't until he was three years old that the wolf boy shouted "Mother" from his mouth, and his mother Aunt Qin was so excited that she cried for most of the day. At this point, the wolf cub began to learn to speak.

The Zhang family was very poor and lived at the foot of the mountain outside the village. The wolf boy likes to run to the mountains to play, climb trees, dig birds' nests, play is a day, people don't learn much, but he will learn all kinds of birds and beasts. At first, his mother was very worried about him and didn't let him run away, but she couldn't look at him, and after a long time, she got used to it and let him go.

The livelihood of the Zhang family depends on Zhang Laohan, who goes out to the mountains early in the morning to pick herbs, and then goes to some pharmacies in the county town to deliver them and sell them for a small amount of money. He picked up some rags in the county town and sold them back in the village. Just go out early and return late to ask for some livelihood.

As the wolf cub grows up day by day, Zhang Laohan also likes this child more and more, no matter when he comes home, this child is like a spirit, he can always know in advance, and welcome him to come nearly a mile to pick him up. Lao Zhang was very strange and asked him how he knew that his father was back, and the wolf boy said that he could hear his father's footsteps from a distance.

One of the little wolf's favorite things is to listen to his Abba Zhang Laohan tell him stories. What "Ancient and Modern Heroes", "Yellow Emperor Zhan Chi You", what "Jingwei Reclamation", "Yi Shooting Nine Days", "Xingtian Dance Ganqi" and other stories, the wolf boy likes it very much, and he tells him stories every day when he has nothing to do.

Once, when the wolf boy asked him how he knew so many stories, his father picked up a tattered book from the pile of old goods and said, "It seems from the books, my father used to work in a big family, and he learned a lot of words with Mr. Teach, and then he would read some books." When the wolf boy grows up, he must learn to read and read, so that he can become a learned person in the future!"

The wolf boy took the book, flipped through it in his hand, and asked very seriously: "I want to learn to read and write, do I have to ask my husband to teach me?"

His father and his mother looked at each other for a moment, and then said to the wolf boy: "The wolf boy is still young, and when he grows up, he can go to the school to study." ”

Zhang Laohan thought to himself, except for one or two large families in this village who invited a teacher to teach their children, there was not even a private school, let alone a school. There is a primary school in the county, but it is too far away, and the tuition fee is extremely high, so it is not something that ordinary people can go to. Thinking of this, I could only shake my head and sigh.

One day, near noon, the wolf boy was digging a bird's nest in the tree behind the house, and suddenly he hurried home and said to his mother, "Daddy is back, and he is carrying a sheep, and he is very tired, so let's go and help him." ”

His mother put down her work, looked out the door, and saw nothing, so she said in disbelief, "Really, where is it?"

The wolf boy couldn't help but say, picked up Aunt Qin, who was suspicious, and walked out, who knew that this time he walked out of most of the mountain road. When she saw Zhang Laohan walking on the mountain road with a goat on his back, Aunt Qin opened her mouth in surprise.

It turned out that when Zhang Laohan went up the mountain to collect medicine, he found a female goat that was chased by a wolf and fell off the cliff and was injured. The sheep's leg was broken, and it was still bleeding from its back, and it was struggling and wailing in the grass. Lao Zhang saw that the sheep could still give milk, so he bandaged the wound of the sheep with morning medicine, carried it back, and prepared to keep it at home, so that he could drink goat's milk every day.

Since then, the wolf cub has discovered this special function of the wolf cub, that is, the wolf cub's ears are very smart, and no movement can escape his ears. When his father came home, he knew hundreds of meters away. The pheasant in the house was lost, and he could tell where he was hiding when he heard it, and he was not wrong. He often told his mother that there was a fight in the village, a guest from a foreign country, a dog that gave birth, and how many males and females could tell. His mother didn't believe his nonsense at first, but when she went into the village to inquire, she couldn't help but be amazed that there was really such a thing.

This specialty of the wolf cub has also played a big role for the people of the village. Because Qingmu Village is on the edge of the mountain, some foxes and wolves and beasts in the mountain often sneak down the mountain, sneak into the farmhouse, prey on poultry and livestock, and several farmers are harmed every year, everyone is angry and hateful, but there is no good way.

Although these beasts are secretive, they can be heard by the wolf cub, and the wolf cub will tell his mother. His mother asked Zhang Laohan to buy a small gong and put it at home, and told the people in the village that when wild beasts enter the village in the future, they will ring the gong to warn, please pay attention to precautions.

At first, everyone was unimpressed, but when they found out that this was the case, they immediately organized the hunters according to the situation predicted by the gong and drove the beasts away. After doing this a few times, nothing like this happened in the village again.

In the blink of an eye, the wolf cubs are almost 8 years old, and they are still crawling and rolling in the mountains all day long, or they are wandering around the village, there is no shape, his father teaches him to read a few words after returning home every night, and his father and mother can't take care of him during the day, so he is left to play crazy all day long.

One day, his mother looked for him for a long time and saw no one, and finally found the wolf cub sitting on the big grinding plate at the entrance of the village in a daze. went up to call him, and he said, "Mother, don't make trouble, I'm in school." ”

"What kind of discipline are you going to study when you sit here alone? His mother laughed.

"Mother, don't laugh, it's the gentleman in the school who is teaching. He read to his mother seriously: "Women are chaste, and men are good." If you know it, you must change it, and you must not forget it. ”

His mother went back and told Zhang Laohan about it, and Zhang Laohan was shocked when he heard this, and said: "I heard that several big families in the village invited a gentleman from the city some time ago to set up a private school in the village ancestral hall to teach the children of these families. ”

"Oh, then my son can really hear the teacher's lecture, his ears are sharp. His mother said.

"That's good, my son is very talented, and he is so studious, he will become a great tool in the future," Zhang Laohan sighed.

The next day, Lao Zhang bought a tattered copy of the "Thousand Character Classic" from the market and handed it to the wolf boy, saying: "Son, this is what the teacher talks about in class, you have to study hard, and when you talk about new books in the future, Dad will find you again." ”

"Thank you, Dad" The wolf boy took the book and went away happily, and in a few days, he was able to read and recite the whole book.