Chen Zhen yawned and said," There are more and more people in our school who are suffering from mental weakness. One girl has already returned to Beijing due to illness. If this continues, half of us educated youths will be beaten back to the pass by wolves in a few years. If I die, I won't feed my body to the wolves. It's better to burn it to death.
The old man's laughter didn't stop. If a person died and still wanted a coffin, how many oxcarts could be built with that old wood?
Chen Zhen said,"When I die one day, I don't need a coffin. I'll just cremate it."
The old man smiled and said,"That still requires a lot of wood to burn. It's a waste." We Mongolians are thrifty and revolutionary. If we die, we will lie on the ox cart and head east. When the cart falls, we will be fed to the wolves.
Chen Zhen also smiled,"But, Abba, besides letting the wolf bring the human soul to Tengri, is it also to save wood?" Because there were no trees on the grassland.
The old man replied,"In addition to saving wood, it's also to" eat meat and return meat."
Meat? This was the first time Chen Zhen had heard of it, and his sleepiness instantly disappeared. He quickly asked,"What do you mean by eating meat?"
The old man said,"The people of the grasslands have eaten meat for their entire lives and killed many creatures. They have sinned." When a person died, he would return his flesh to the grassland. This was fair. His soul would not suffer anymore and he could also go to Tengri.
Chen Zhen smiled and said,"That's fair." If I don't get beaten back to Beijing by the wolves in the future, I might as well feed myself to the wolves. A pack of wolves ate a person, and it didn't even take a meal. It might be faster to feed the wolves than to cremate them.
The old man was amused, but then a worried expression appeared on his face. In the past, there were not many Han people in the Elun Grassland. There were 130 to 140 yurts in the entire pasture, and 700 to 800 people were all Mongols. With the cultural revolution, more than 100 of you educated youths from Beijing came. Now, there are these old soldiers, drivers, big carts, and housebuilders. They all hated wolves and wanted wolf skin. Once the gun was fired, the wolves would be gone. You couldn't feed them even if you wanted to.
Chen Zhen was also amused." Dad, don't worry. Maybe there will be a big war in the future and an atomic bomb will be thrown. Humans and wolves will die together. No one will have to feed each other."
The old man made a circle and asked," What kind of bullet was a round bullet?
Chen Zhen tried his best, but he couldn't make the old man understand…
When they were about to reach the dead horses at the northernmost part of the bubble, the old man Bilig reined in his horse and let Bayar hold the shaft horse and stop the horse. Then, he brought along two sets of wolf traps, a small pickaxe, a bag for storing dried horse dung, and other tools, and brought Chen Zhen to the dead horse. The old man rode on his horse and stopped to look around. The dead horses had obviously been moved. Bite marks could be vaguely seen on the horses under the thin layer of fresh snow, as well as paw prints beside the horses 'corpses. Chen Zhen couldn't help but ask, the wolves came again?
The old man did not answer and continued to observe. After looking at a few horses, he said,"The big wolf pack hasn't come yet. Wu Liji's estimation is really accurate. The big wolf pack is still north of the border defense road." This pack of wolves could really keep their cool.
Father, what's with these paw prints? Chen Zhen pointed at the snow.
The old man said that these were most likely the paw prints of a fox, and there was also the paw print of a female wolf. Some female wolves with cubs had to protect their cubs and move around alone. The old man thought for a moment and said,"I originally wanted to fight the alpha wolf and the big wolf in the wolf pack, but now that these foxes are causing trouble, it's not easy to fight the big wolf and the alpha wolf."
Then wouldn't our efforts be in vain?
It's not a waste of effort. Our main task is to confuse the wolf pack. It thinks that people have set traps and has no time to surround it. It wants to eat horse meat in various ways. As long as the wolf pack comes over, it will be easy for us to surround them.
Chen Zhen asked: Abba, is there any way to catch a big wolf?
How could there not be? The old man said,"Let's put all the clips we brought down. The bottom is a little harder. We'll only clip the wolf, not the fox."
The old man rode his horse around twice and chose the first pinch point next to a dead horse. Chen Zhen hurriedly dismounted and shoveled the snow. The old man squatted down and used a small pickaxe to dig a circular pit about 40 centimeters in diameter and 15 centimeters deep on the ground that was not too deep. There was also a small pit in the pit. Then, he put on a pair of gloves covered in horse intestine oil, placed the steel clip in the round pit, and stepped on the steel springs on both sides of the steel clip that looked like two giant tweezers. He forcefully opened the tightly closed mouth of the steel clip and broke the mouth full of steel teeth to the bottom. He broke it into a round mouth that was close to the ground and ready to bite. Then, he carefully placed a cloth cushion that looked like an embroidery frame between the small pit in the pit and the steel clip. Then, he used a small iron rod at the edge of the steel clip to pin the tiger's mouth and insert it into the button of the cloth cushion.
Chen Zhen watched the old man complete this set of dangerous and laborious movements with trepidation. If he made a slight mistake, the steel clip might break his hand. The old man raised his foot and squatted on the snow, panting. He was sweating profusely. He carefully wiped his sweat with his hoof sleeve, afraid that the sweat would fall on the horse. This was the first time the old man had brought Chen Zhen out to use a trap. Chen Zhen finally understood how the steel trap worked. As long as the wolf's paw stepped on the suspended cloth cushion, the cloth cushion would sink, and the small iron rod would slip out of the cloth cushion's buckle. At that time, the steel spring would use the strength of a few hundred pounds to suddenly close the steel clamp's mouth, breaking the wolf's paw that stepped into the clamp. No wonder the wolf was so afraid of steel clips. This guy was really something! If the grassland wolf was not afraid of the sound of the steel clamp, then he might have died the first time he entered the wolf formation.
The only thing left was how to conceal and disguise it. There could not be any mistakes in this process. Old man Billig said slowly,"You can't cover the clamp with snow, it's too heavy and will collapse the cloth, and if the snow melts out of the sun and the clamp freezes inside, it won't open." Give me the dried horse manure.
The old man took the cloth bag, grabbed a handful of dried horse dung, and rubbed it evenly on the cloth pad. The dry and light horse dung slowly filled the steel teeth of the wolf. At this moment, the cloth cushion was still floating in the air, and it was not afraid of the steel clamp freezing inside. Then the old man hooked the iron chain on the clamp to the skeleton of the dead horse and said that it could be covered with snow now. He instructed Chen Zhen to shovel the snow and cover the steel plate springs and iron chains of the steel clip. Then, he carefully covered the horse manure with floating snow. Finally, he gently swept the snow with broken sheepskin, connecting it seamlessly with the surrounding snow.
The fine snow was still falling. After a while, all the traces on the snow would be gone. Chen Zhen asked,"Why can this trap only trap the wolf and not the fox?" The old man said: I inserted the iron rod a little deeper. The fox is light and can't be stepped on. The wolf was big, and it would explode with a stomp.
The old man looked around and measured the distance with his feet. He chose another pinch point about two steps away. He said,"You can do this clip. I'll watch you."
Why were the two traps so close to each other? Chen Zhen asked.
The old man said," You don't know, but some wolves are also very cruel to themselves. If their legs are clamped, they will bite off their legs and tendons, and then run away with three legs." I gave it two clips. As long as I clamped one leg, it would be in so much pain that it would pull the chain desperately and turn around. As it turned, its hind legs would step on the second clip. This place was just enough for the chain. If the wolf's front and back legs were clamped, even if it could bite off both legs, how could it run with the remaining two legs?
Chen Zhen's heart twitched, and the hair on his scalp stood on end. The war between humans and wolves on the grasslands was truly cruel. Humans and wolves were using cruelty to attack cruelty, using cruelty to retaliate against cruelty, and using cunning to fight against cunning. If he were to repay evil like this, he would definitely become ruthless and become cold-hearted and ruthless? Although Chen Zhen hated the cruelty of wolves, his hands couldn't help but tremble when he was about to personally put a cunning and cruel steel clip on the wolf. This trap was too well-hidden. It was placed in front of a fat dead horse that was extremely tempting. There was only the smell of horse meat, horse oil, and horse manure, and there was no smell of human or rust. Chen Zhen believed that no matter how cunning the wolf was, it would still fall for it. It would be beaten to a pulp by the steel clips, then skinned and thrown into the wilderness. Moreover, this was only a small trap in a big trap. The big trap was not just about a few wolves. He recalled the countless Han armies of the Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties that were lured into the depths of the grasslands and fell into the carefully designed traps that had no flaws, resulting in their complete annihilation. The ancient grassland cavalry did not rely on brute force to sweep through advanced countries. The grassland people were indeed the defenders of the grassland. They used the military talent and wisdom they learned from the wolves to firmly defend the grassland and resist the attack of the iron and fire behind the Han army. The old man was right. Chen Zhen's hands were still trembling.
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