The three of them hurriedly mounted their horses and followed Dorji to the west through the reeds, then to the south around the soda beach, especially to the place where it was difficult to leave the footprints of horse hooves to hurry home. Along the way, the three Beijing students were a little nervous. Not only did they not feel like they had won, but they also felt guilty. They were afraid that the owner would go crazy and lead the soldiers to track them down and risk their lives.
However, Chen Zhen thought of the lamb that had been taken away by the she-wolf and felt a little balanced. As a shepherd, he had finally avenged the lamb that had been killed. Taking out a pack of wolves was equivalent to protecting a flock of sheep. If they did not find and take out these seven wolf pups, then they and their descendants would harm countless livestock in the future. Digging a wolf's den was definitely an effective method of survival for the people of the Mongolian steppe. Digging out a wolf's den was equivalent to destroying a small group of wolves. Although it was difficult to dig out these seven wolf pups, it was still much easier than fighting seven big wolves. However, why did the Mongolians not slow down the wolf plague even though they had invented this fast and effective method of killing wolves? Chen Zhen raised this question to Dorje.
Dolkey said: The wolf is too smart, it will pick the time to lay wolf cubs. It was said that wolves and dogs were a family 10,000 years ago. In fact, wolves were much more cunning than dogs. Every year, dogs would give birth half a month after the Spring Festival, but wolves would give birth in the beginning of spring. At that time, the snow had just melted and the sheep had just begun to lay lambs. Picking up lambs in spring was the busiest and most tiring time of the year for Mongolians. The sheep were divided into two groups, and all the labor went to the sheep. She was so tired that she didn't even want to eat. How could she have the strength to dig out the wolf? After picking up the lambs, people were free, but the wolf cubs had grown up and no longer lived in the wolf cave. Wolves usually did not use the wolf cave. They only used the wolf cave when the female wolf gave birth. The wolf cub would open its eyes once it was a month old, and in another month, it would be able to run around with its mother. If he went to dig out the wolf now, the wolf cave would have been empty long ago. If the wolves gave birth in summer, autumn, and winter, when people had the time, everyone would go and pick out the wolf cubs. The wolves would have been beaten up long ago. There was another benefit to wolves giving birth in the spring. The female wolf could steal lambs and feed them to the wolf cubs. Young lamb meat was a good food for wolf pups. As long as there was lamb meat, the mother wolf would not be afraid of not having enough milk. Even if she gave birth to more than ten wolf pups, she could still feed them...
Yang Ke patted the saddle and said," Wolf, wolf, I really admire you. You still have to pick a time to give birth." That's right. It's too tiring to pick up lambs in spring. I follow the sheep that lay lambs. Every day, I carry a big felt bag to transport lambs. I can hold four or five lambs at a time. I run back and forth more than ten times a day. I'm exhausted. If it wasn't for the fact that it was our first time digging out a wolf for novelty, who would have spent so much effort! In the future, I won't go to a wolf's den again. I have to sleep when I go back today.
Yang Ke yawned repeatedly. Chen Zhen suddenly felt extremely sleepy and wanted to return to his bag and sleep. However, the topic of the wolf made him reluctant to give up. He forced himself to ask, Then, why were the old herdsmen unwilling to take out the wolf cubs?
Dorki said,"The local herdsmen all believe in Lamaism. In the past, almost every family had to send someone to be a lama." The lama did good deeds and did not allow killing. Killing more wolf cubs would also reduce one's lifespan. I don't believe in lamas. We, the Mongols of the northeast, don't feed the wolves even if we die. Even if the wolves wipe us out, I'm not afraid. After we Mongol people in the northeast learned how to farm, we are just like you Han people. We also believe that we can rest in peace.
He was getting further and further away from the wolf hole, but Chen Zhen always felt that there was a ghost-like cold wind following him, making him uneasy along the way. He vaguely felt fear and uneasiness from the depths of his soul. He grew up in Dadu City and had nothing to do with wolves before, but he actually decided the fate of seven Mongolian wolves. The mother of this wolf pup was too fierce and cunning. This wolf pup might be the offspring of the wolf king or a purebred Mongolian grassland wolf. If it weren't for his persistent obsession, these seven wolf pups would definitely have been able to escape this calamity and grow up healthily. In the future, they would have become warriors of the grasslands. However, due to his arrival, the fate of the wolf pup had completely changed. From then on, he had formed an indissolvable bond with the entire grassland wolf pack, and thus formed an indissolvable enmity. The entire wolf family of the Elun Grassland, under the leadership of that intelligent and tenacious female wolf, would chase after his soul in the darkness of the grassland at night and continuously bite his soul. He began to realize that he might have made a big mistake.
It was already afternoon when they returned to the yurt. Chen Zhen hung the bag containing the wolf cubs on the blindfolded Hana wall. The four of them sat around the stove, heated the tea, and ate the roasted meat while discussing how to deal with the seven wolf cubs. Dorji said," Is there a need to discuss how to deal with the wolf cubs? You guys came to see me after tea. It won't even take two minutes."
Chen Zhen knew that he was about to face the most difficult problem-raising wolves. When he first had the idea of raising wolf cubs, he had predicted that this move would be opposed by almost all herdsmen, officials, and educated youths. Whether it was in terms of politics, religion, religion, ethnic relations, psychology, production, or safety, raising wolves was definitely a bad thing with ulterior motives. In the early days of the Cultural Revolution, the caretaker of the Beijing zoo merely kept a baby tiger in a cage with a female dog that had fed it until it was big. This became a major political issue. It was said that this was promoting the theory of class reconciliation, and the caretaker was investigated and criticized. If they kept the wolf next to a herd of sheep, cattle, and dogs, wouldn't that be blatantly disregarding friend and foe? In the grassland, wolves were the enemies of the herdsmen. They were also the gods and totems that the herdsmen, especially the elderly, respected. They were the carriers of their souls. Gods or totems could only be worshipped. How could they be raised like domestic dogs and slaves? From the perspective of religious psychology and production safety, raising a tiger will bring disaster and raising a wolf will bring disaster. If he really raised the wolf cub, would Abba Bilig no longer recognize him as a Han son?
However, Chen Zhen did not have any intention of blaspheming the gods or the religious feelings of the Mongolian people. On the contrary, it was precisely because of his respect for the Mongolian wolf totem and his obsession with the profound and mysterious subject of wolves that he was more and more eager to raise a small wolf. Wolves were so elusive that if he didn't raise a real, tangible wolf, his understanding of wolves could only remain at the level of the ordinary folk tales, or the common understanding of ordinary people, or even the national prejudice of the Han people who hated wolves. Starting from the first batch of educated youths who left Beijing in 1967, a large number of mainlanders and guns and ammunition from the mainland continued to flood into the Mongolian grasslands. The number of wolves on the grassland was decreasing. Perhaps in a few years, people might not be able to find a wolf cave with a nest of seven wolf pups. It was impossible to get a wolf pup from the herdsmen. If he wanted to raise a wolf, he had to catch it himself. He could not wait any longer. Since he had caught the wolf cub this time, he had to raise a wolf. However, in order not to hurt the feelings of the herdsmen and the elderly, Chen Zhen had to find some excuses that the herdsmen could reluctantly accept.
Before he dug out the wolf, he thought hard for many days and finally found a seemingly reasonable reason: Raising a wolf was a scientific experiment. It was for the sake of mating with a wolfdog. Wolfdogs were extremely famous in the Elun Plains. The reason was that there were five or six wolfhounds in the border defense station. They were tall and powerful, and they ran extremely fast. Hunting wolves and foxes was always fast, accurate, ruthless, and almost certain. Once, the border guard station's station chief Zhao rode a horse, bringing two soldiers and two wolfhounds to the animal husbandry team to inspect the militia's work. Along the way, the two wolfhounds caught four big foxes in one breath, almost catching one when they saw one. The hunters in the team were stunned as they inspected the work and skinned the foxes along the way. Later on, the herdsmen wanted to get a wolfhound to raise, but at that time, wolfdogs were scarce military supplies. No matter how good the relationship between the army and the people was, the herdsmen would not want a wolfhound pup. Chen Zhen thought, Weren't wolfdogs the offspring of a male wolf and a female dog? If he raised a male wolf and mated with a female dog, wouldn't he get a wolfdog? Then, he would give the wolfdogs to the herdsmen. Wouldn't that win the possibility of raising wolves? Moreover, the Mongolian prairie wolf was the best wolf breed in the world. If the experiment was successful, it was possible to cultivate a wolfdog of better quality than the German and Soviet military dogs. This way, he might be able to develop a brand new animal husbandry industry for the Mongolian grasslands.
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