Chen Zhen was so anxious that his face turned pale. The old man looked at Chen Zhen and heaved a sigh of relief. Why don't the two of you go and take a look tomorrow? The smell of the wolf cave is strong. Bring the dog around a few more times and you'll definitely find it. The new hole was not deep. If the mother wolf carried the wolf cubs into another big wolf hole, it would be difficult to dig. It was still up to luck to get the wolf cubs. If I can't find it, I'll go. Only when I go will I dare to let Ba Ya crawl into the wolf hole.
Little Bayar said very skillfully, I can definitely get through the hole you just mentioned. He had to be fast to get into the wolf cave, or he would suffocate to death. If you bring me there today, I'll definitely take out all the wolf pups.
Back at the yurt, Yang Ke was still waiting for him. Chen Zhen told him Billig's judgment and idea twice, but Yang Ke still looked very worried.
In the middle of the night, Chen Zhen was awakened by a fierce barking. It turned out that Erlang had returned. It seemed that he was not surrounded by wolves. Chen Zhen heard that it was still running outside the bag, busy guarding the protective ring. He really wanted to get up to feed it and bandage its wounds, but he was too sleepy to turn over. When Erlang stopped screaming, he fell asleep again.
When Chen Zhen woke up in the morning, he found Yang Ke, Liang Jianzhong, and Dao Erji drinking tea and eating meat by the stove, discussing the matter of picking out wolf cubs. Dorki was the cowherd of Group 3. He was twenty-four or twenty-five years old and shrewd. He studied until he graduated from junior high school and returned home to herd. He was also the team's accountant and was a famous hunter in the animal husbandry team. His father came from a semi-agricultural and semi-pasturing area near the northeast. Not long after the establishment of the ranch, he moved his whole family here. He was one of the few Mongolian families in the brigade who came from the northeast. In the Elun Grassland, the customs of the northeastern Mongols and the local Mongols were very different, and they rarely intermarried. The northeastern Mongolians in the semi-agricultural area all spoke fluent Chinese with a northeastern accent. They were the earliest Mongolian teachers and translator for Beijing students. However, the old herdsmen, such as Billig, hardly had any contact with them, and the educated youth did not want to get involved in the conflict between them. Yang Ke had invited Dorji over early in the morning. He must have been worried that he would be fooled or in danger again, so he asked Dorji to be his consultant and bodyguard. Dorji was a hunter who would not release his eagle until he saw the rabbit. If he could come, he would have more confidence in getting the wolf cubs.
Chen Zhen hurriedly got up, put on his clothes, and greeted Dao Erji. He smiled at Chen Zhen and said,"You dare to go into the wolf cave to dig out the wolf?" You have to be careful in the future. The female wolf has smelled you. Wherever you go, the female wolf will follow.
Chen Zhen jumped in fright, his woolen clothes in a mess. He hurriedly said,"Then we really have to kill that female wolf. Otherwise, will I still be alive?
Dorki laughed and said,"I'm just scaring you!" Wolves are afraid of people. Even if they smell you, they won't dare to touch you. If the wolf had such great ability, I would have let the wolf eat me long ago. When I was thirteen or fourteen years old, I also crawled into a wolf hole and dug out wolf pups. I'm still alive and well now.
Chen Zhen breathed a sigh of relief and asked,"You're our team's model wolf hunter. How many wolves have you killed over the years?"
Not counting the wolf pups, there were a total of 60 to 70 of them. There were seven or eight more litters of wolf cubs.
There should be at least 50 to 60 of them in seven or eight nests, right? Then you've killed almost 120 to 130 wolves. Have the wolves ever taken revenge on you?
Why didn't he take revenge? It has been ten years, and my family's dogs have been killed by wolves.
You've killed so many wolves. What if you kill all the wolves and the person dies?
The Mongols from the Yi Alliance are similar to you Han people. When a person dies, they don't feed the wolves. The Mongolians here were too backward.
It was a custom here to feed a dead person to the wolves. In Tibet, a dead person was also fed to the eagles. If you kill all the wolves here, won't the people here hate you?
There were too many wolves, how could they fight them all? The government had called on the herdsmen to fight the wolves, saying that killing one wolf would save a hundred sheep, and taking out ten wolf cubs would save ten flocks of sheep. I haven't killed many wolves yet. There was a wolf-hunting hero in the Bai Yin and Bi Commune. In the spring of the year before last, he collected five wolf pups, which was about the same as what I collected in ten years. There were many outsiders in Baiyin and Bi, and there were many Mongolians in the northeast. There were also many people who hunted wolves, so there were fewer wolves in their area.
Chen Zhen asked,"How's the animal husbandry production there?"
Dorkey replied,"It's not good. It's far worse than our ranch." The pastures there were not good, and there were too many rabbits and rats.
Chen Zhen put on his leather robe and hurried out to see Erlang. He was eating a dead lamb that had been skinned outside the pen. Every three to five days in spring, there would always be lambs that died of illness, cold, and starvation. They were good dog food. The dogs on the grassland only ate dead lambs that had been skinned and never touched live lambs. However, Chen Zhen found that while Erlang was gnawing on the dead lamb, he couldn't help but look at the live lamb jumping around in the circle. Chen Zhen called out to it, but it did not raise its head. It lay on the ground and ate, only wagging its tail gently. Huanghuang and Isle had already rushed over and placed their claws on Chen Zhen's shoulders. Yang Ke and the others had already bandaged Erlang's wound, but he seemed to hate bandages. He kept trying to bite it off and even used his tongue to lick the wound. Looking at its spirit, he could still bring it up the mountain.
After drinking tea and eating meat, Chen Zhen went to ask his neighbor Guan Bu to herd the sheep for them. Liang Jianzhong saw that Chen Zhen and Yang Ke seemed to be about to dig out the wolf cubs. He also wanted to dig out the wolf cubs, so he went to ask Guan Bu's son to release a day's ox for him. In the Elun Plains, it was a very glorious thing to find a pack of wolf cubs.
The group of four brought along their tools, weapons, food for the entire day, and two dogs as they ran towards Black Rock Mountain. This year's spring cold current came like an avalanche and left like silk. Four or five days had passed, but the sunlight still could not break through the thick clouds. The dark grassland also made the herdsmen's faces gradually fade away from the purple color and become ruddy. The grass sprouts under the snow slowly turned yellow, like chives covered in blankets. There was no bit of photosynthesis, and even sheep did not like to eat them. Dorji looked through the clouds and said happily," The weather had been freezing for so many days that the wolves had run out of food. Last night, the dogs in the camp were barking loudly. The big wolf pack had most likely arrived.
The four of them followed the hoof prints left by the two of them the day before and rushed for more than two hours before arriving at the thorny ravine. The shovel in the middle of the wolf cave was still there. There were a few fresh paw prints of the big wolf on the platform of the cave entrance, but the sealing soil and stone at the cave entrance did not move at all. It seemed that the female wolf ran away when she saw the shovel at the cave entrance. The two dogs immediately became nervous and excited as soon as they arrived at the hole. They lowered their heads and sniffed everywhere. Erlang was even more anxious, and his eyes were filled with the desire for revenge. Chen Zhen stretched out his hand and pointed at the nearby hill, shouting "Chirp chirp" twice. The two dogs immediately split up and sniffed the wolf's footprints. The four of them walked to another exit of the wolf cave. There were also fresh wolf paw prints beside the entrance, and the soil and rocks blocking the cave were also intact. Dorji asked the three of them to split up and look for other exits. The four of them had not turned around twice when they heard Erlang and Huanghuang's roars coming from behind the north slope. The four of them no longer cared about finding a hole. Chen Zhen quickly pulled out his shovel and ran towards the north slope together.
As soon as they passed the top of the slope, the four of them saw two dogs barking wildly on the flat ground at the foot of the slope. Erlang was digging the soil while barking, and Huanghuang was also helping Erlang dig the soil, causing the soil to fly everywhere. Dorji shouted,"We found the wolf cubs!" The four of them were so excited that they rushed all the way from the top of the slope to the two dogs. The four of them got off their horses. The two dogs did not give way when they saw their masters coming. They continued to dig the soil desperately. Erlang also put his big mouth into the hole from time to time, wishing to take out the things inside. Chen Zhen walked to Erlang's side, hugged his back, and pulled him out of the cave. However, the scene in front of him almost made him lose his breath. On the flat ground, there was only a small hole about 30 centimeters in diameter. It was far from the big wolf hole he had seen before. There was no platform at the entrance of the cave. There was only a long pile of broken soil that was scattered on the snow. The two dogs had already trampled on the pile of soil.
Liang Jianzhong pursed his lips and said,"This is not a wolf cave. At most, it's a rabbit cave, or it's an otter cave."
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