Chen Zhen didn't give up and asked many shepherds. All of them said that wolves could fly. He also said that even if the wolf died, its soul would fly back to Tengri.
Later on, Chief Harabala was " liberated " and released from the cadre review class in the flag. He was restored to his original position. Chen Zhen quickly brought Beijing's Haoyan to visit, and only then did he find out how the " flying wolf " had " flown " into the stone circle. Director Ha came from Inner Mongolia Public Security School and could speak fluent Chinese. He said that the case had long been closed. Unfortunately, his scientific conclusion did not hold water in the grasslands. Most herdsmen did not believe it at all. They believed that wolves could fly. Only some of the more cultured and experienced hunters were convinced by his investigation and judgment. Chief Ha smiled and said," If we respect the beliefs and customs of our people, it's not entirely wrong for a wolf to fly into a stone circle. Wolves fly in the air for at least a certain distance."
He continued,"That day, all the herdsmen were in a state of panic. They all thought that Tengri was angry and was going to bring disaster to the Elun Grassland." The horse herd was thrown on the mountain and they all ran back to take a look. The old man and the woman knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Tengri. The children were so scared that the adults did not dare to cry no matter how hard they hit them. Director Wu Liji was afraid that it would affect production, so he was anxious. He gave me a death order to solve the case in two days. I gathered all the officers present and asked them to protect the scene. However, the scene had already been destroyed. The clues on the ground outside the stone circle had all been trampled away by the sheep and people. I had to use a magnifying glass to look for clues inch by inch on the wall. In the end, he finally found two blurry wolf claw prints on the northeast corner of the outer wall. Only then did they solve the case. Guess how the wolf got in?
Chen Zhen shook his head.
Director Ha said," I think there must be a big wolf standing outside the wall. It's using its back paws to push the ground and its front paws to support the wall. It's using its body as a springboard for the wolves." Then, the other wolves rushed up from dozens of steps away and jumped onto the big wolf's back. They then stepped on the big wolf's shoulder and jumped into the sheep pen. If one looked from the inside, wouldn't the wolf look like it had flown in?
Chen Zhen was stunned for a long time and said,"The wolf in Elun is really smart." As soon as the stone circle was built on the grassland, the wolf thought of a way to deal with it. The grassland wolves were really smart…It was true that the herdsmen said wolves could fly. As long as the wolf jumped up, the distance it moved in the future could be counted as flying distance. The wolf fell from the sky and landed in the sheep pile, scaring the sheep half to death. The wolf pack was really satisfied this time. They had eaten their fill in the sheep pen and were satisfied with killing. However, the wolf that was left outside was unlucky. It could not eat anything. This wolf had a high style and was quite family-oriented. It must be the leader of the wolves.
Chief Ha laughed out loud." No, no. According to my judgment, the wolf outside has also flown in and eaten enough." You don't know that the wolves in the grassland have a strong sense of collectivity. They are very close to each other. They won't leave their brothers and family behind. When the wolves inside had eaten enough, they would set up a springboard to send out a big wolf that had eaten enough. Then, he would build a wolf ladder for the hungry wolf and let it in to eat its fill. The two bloody claw marks on the outer wall were left by the wolves inside when they used it as a springboard. Otherwise, where did the bloody claw print come from? When the first wolf was used as a springboard, it had not killed the sheep yet. Its claws were clean and there was no blood. Am I right? Think about the situation at that time. The wolf really played people. The wolves all entered the stone circle and started a massacre. The stone circle was clearly built to block the wolf, but now, it blocked the sheep dog outside. Cilengdorji's dog must have been so angry that his nose was crooked. The dog did not dare to learn from the wolf and flew into the sheep pen to fight with the wolf. Dogs were much dumber than wolves.
Chen Zhen said: I am also much more stupid than the wolf. However, there was still a problem. How could the wolves retreat safely? I mean, what about the last wolf? Who would be the wolf ladder for it?
Director Ha was amused and said,"People are indeed more stupid than wolves." At that time, no one could figure out this problem. Later, Wu Chang entered the sheep pen with the thick sheep blood and looked carefully to understand. It turned out that there was a pile of dead sheep in the northeast corner of the wall. There were at least six or seven of them. Everyone judged that the last wolf must be the most capable and energetic alpha wolf. It picked up the dead sheep by itself, piled them up against the wall, and used them as a springboard before jumping out. Some people said that a wolf couldn't do this heavy work. It must have been done by the last few wolves. Then, they flew out one by one. Later, Field Leader Wu invited the team leaders of each team to analyze and demonstrate how the wolves jumped in and out. Only then did the ranch slowly calm down. The field department also did not criticize or punish Cilengdao Erji. Director Wu criticized himself. He said that he had been too careless and underestimated the wolf.
Chen Zhen felt his hair stand on end. Although he completely believed in Director Ha's scientific conclusions, after that, the grassland wolf appeared more in his dreams as a flying monster. He often woke up from his dreams in a cold sweat. In the future, he no longer dared to look at the legends of the grasslands with a curious eye. He also began to understand why many Western scientists still knelt piously in churches.
After a few days, Chen Zhen thought of ways to inspect the two burial grounds of the brigade. One was on the north side of the Chagan Tolgoi Mountain, and the other was on the northeast side of the Black Stone Mountain. On the surface, these two burial grounds were not much different from the other pastures and terraces. However, the difference was not small. The two burial grounds were far away from the ancient path of nomadic migration. They were located in the desolate corner and the northern part of the grassland divine mountain. They were close to the wolves and Tengri, which was convenient for souls to ascend to heaven. Moreover, the terrain there was bumpy and full of potholes, making it easy for the ox cart to move around.
In the Elun Grassland, for thousands of years, when a herdsman passed away, some families would take off all the clothes of the deceased, then roll up the corpse with a felt and tie it up tightly. There were also people who would not touch the clothes of the deceased. Then, he parked the deceased on the bullock-cart. Then, he tied a long piece of wood to the shaft of the ox cart. When it came to the dawn tiger, the two male elders of the clan would each hold one end of the long horizontal wood and ride the horse. They would drive the carriage to the Heaven Burial Ground and whip the horse to run faster. When the dead were thrown off the ox cart, that was the place where the soul of the dead returned to Tengri, symbolizing the end of the bumpy life of a member of the ethnic group on horseback. If the deceased was wrapped in a blanket, the two elders would dismount, untie the blanket, and place the deceased on the grass, naked and facing up, as if he or she had just arrived in the world. At this moment, the dead belonged to the wolf and the god. As for whether the soul of the deceased could ascend to Tengri, it depended on the good and evil of the deceased when they were alive. Generally speaking, the result would be known after three days. If the body of the deceased was gone after three days and only the bones were left, then the soul of the deceased would have ascended to Tengri. If the victim was still there, the family would be panicking. However, there were many wolves in the Elun Plains, and Chen Zhen had never heard of any dead person whose soul could not ascend to Tengri.
Chen Zhen knew about the sky burial in Tibet, but before he came to the Mongolian steppe, he did not know that the Mongols also carried out sky burial. Moreover, it was not carried out by giant eagles, but by wolves. Chen Zhen felt even more fearful and curious. He got the general location of the Heaven's Burial Ground from the boss of the truck that sent the materials to the factory. He immediately found an opportunity to sneak into the Heaven's Burial Ground twice. However, due to the heavy snow, he did not see the scene he wanted to see. It was not until the winter was about to pass that he finally found the hoof prints and wheel tracks on the snow that led to the Heaven Burial Ground. He walked along the wheel tracks and saw an old man who had died of illness. It seemed that he had just landed here. The hoofprints, tracks, and footprints were still fresh. Even the snow had not been blown away by the wind. The old man was as serene as a child, lying on his back on the snow. His whole body was covered in a thin layer of snow foam, and his face seemed to be covered with a layer of white gauze. His face looked relaxed and pious.
Chen Zhen was stunned. The fear in his heart along the way was gradually replaced by piety and holiness. The dead were not going to " die ", but to attend a banquet in Tengri, to be baptized by the holy water again, to welcome their new life. For the first time, Chen Zhen truly believed that the Mongolians worshiped the wolf totem. At the end of a person's life, they would treat their body as a naked and open sacrificial offering, thus freeing themselves so cleanly and thoroughly. Who could doubt the sincere admiration of the Mongolians for Tengri and the grassland wolves?
Chapter 4 (5)
Chen Zhen did not dare to stay in this sacred place for too long for fear of disturbing the souls of the dead and blaspheming the sacred beliefs of the grassland people. He bowed respectfully to the old man and led his horse out of the Heaven Burial Ground. He noticed that the last part of the track was crooked, as if it were still bumping in front of his eyes. Chen Zhen used his own stride to roughly measure the last step of the deceased. It was about 40-50 meters. It condensed the turbulent and bumpy life journey of the grassland people. Life was so short, and Tengri was so eternal. From Genghis Khan to every shepherd, the strongest voice in their lives was: Longevity Heaven! Longevity Heaven! Longevity Tengri! On the other hand, the grassland wolves were the stairway for the souls of the grassland people to ascend to the Longevity Tengri.
Three days later, when there was no panic in the family of the deceased, Chen Zhen finally felt relieved. According to the local custom, the herdsmen who had to go to the Heaven Burial Ground for verification might have already known that outsiders had come to the forbidden area from the footprints and hoof prints of strangers, but none of the herdsmen blamed him. However, if the soul of the deceased did not ascend to Tengri, then he would be in a different situation. Chen Zhen's curiosity and interest began to conflict with the totem and taboos of the grassland people. He carefully herded the sheep and worked to get closer to the grassland people he was more curious about, mysterious, and admired.
Spring had arrived a month earlier than usual. After a few warm winds, the Elun Grassland was already a bright yellow. The autumn grass that had been buried under the snow for the entire winter was completely exposed, and sparse green shoots actually appeared on the warm slope that was facing the sun. What followed was a long dry and warm day. When the animal husbandry teams entered their respective spring lambing pastures, people were busy with grassland fire prevention and drought resistance.
Liang Jianzhong was still a step too late. The migrant workers of the large fleet of infrastructure teams in the field were all blinded by the excitement of the Gasmail production team selling yellow sheep at the purchasing station. They pestered the hunters for the location of the hunting ground. The hunters said that they had dug up all the frozen sheep. They took the Northeast Guandong Candy to lure Bayar, but the little guy pointed them to an empty valley. Later, most of these people were outsiders from the northeastern agricultural area, and they still found the fatal weakness of the Mongolian people in the grasslands-wine. He got the shepherd Sanjie drunk with the northeast kaoliang liquor and found out the exact location where the frozen yellow sheep was buried. They were one step ahead of the wolf pack and Liang Jianzhong. When the yellow sheep had just emerged from the snow, they set up camp beside the enclosure. Within a day, they had captured all the frozen sheep, regardless of their size, good or bad. They were then transported overnight to the Baiyin Aobi Commune purchasing station by four-wheeled carts.
For several nights in a row, the stables of the second team heard the miserable and angry howls of the hungry wolves in the mountains, echoing in the empty valley for a long time. The horse keepers were all nervous. They stayed around the herd of horses in the mountains day and night, not daring to leave. They scattered their lovers in various yurts. They were so stifled that they whipped the cows and horses, howling and singing endlessly.
Not long after, the notice from the field office regarding the restoration of the grassland's annual wolf cub hunting tradition was officially issued. This year's reward was much higher than previous years, this was specially added by the military representative Bao Shungui. It was said that the purchase price of this year's wolf pup skin was especially high. The soft, beautiful, noble, and rare wolf skin was the best material for making women's leather jackets. At this time, it had become the favorite of the wives of the officials in the northern provinces, and it was also the hard currency for the lower-level officials to get through the back door.
Old Billig was silent all day, smoking one pack after another. Chen Zhen accidentally heard the old man muttering to himself," It was time for the wolf pack to be ruthless.
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