In the first month of the 23rd year of Guangxu (1903), it was snowing heavily for days, and the hungry wolves had been besieging the Mugang shack for ten days. Hungry wolves howled day and night, changing one after another, as if it had settled down on this lonely wooden shack.
There used to be more than 30 people in this wooden shack by the Songhua River at the foot of Changbai Mountain. The lumberjacks evacuated from the mountain farm on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month on and went home for the Chinese New Year. During the logging, the homeless lame Zhang Zhang and Li Wu guarded the shack by . But on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, no one went up the mountain. The shack has long run out of food, and the two survived by hunting wild animals, which led to a siege by wolves, and finally they only survived by killing wolves.
★Fighting a wild boar leads to wolves stalking
Lame Zhang and Li Wu are both from Shandong who went through the Guandong alone, but they are from two counties and do not know each other. When the wooden gang evacuated, the two voluntarily stayed behind to guard the shack. Fortunately, there are still surplus grain, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar in the shack, as well as two jars of old-fashioned knife wine. As for the fish meat, before leaving, the shopkeeper of the Mubang said with a grinning smile: "God can't starve a blind pheasant, you two Shandong guys are not as good as a blind pheasant, right?" There are wild beasts in the mountains, and fish in the rivers. If you want to eat meat, go to the mountains to fight, and you want to eat fish. There are some nets hanging outside the shack.
The two of them couldn't be idle without logging. Li Wu said, "Uncle Zhang's legs and feet are not good, so look at the shack. I'm going to fight a roe deer for the New Year." Not far from walking into the Lin Haixueyuan, Li Wu suddenly shuddered, and squinting around, it turned out that three wolves surrounded him from three sides behind him. Li Wu touched the dart bag at his waist and suddenly stopped: The New Year's Eve will not kill wolves. He admires wolves. The first housekeeping skill that Dad taught him was the 24 style. The wolf has the friendship of half division!
Five or six wild boars were feeding on the weeds in the snow. Li Wu looked back and saw that the three wolves were sitting in the snow in three places and watching him. The master is testing me! With a flick of his hand, a piglet fell to the ground with a dart in the neck. The biggest wild boar found that the murderer was Li Wu, and it slammed into it like lightning, and Li Wu escaped. He knew that the big wild boar was covered in armor and was invulnerable to swords, so he took the opportunity to wave his hand, and the steel dart shot through the dung gate, and the big wild boar fell to the ground. Li Wu kicked the pig and shouted at the three wolves: The pig is yours!
When it was dark, Li Wu dragged back a big wild boar with tusks, at least two hundred pounds. The lame Zhang looked at Li Wu, his clothes were neat and tidy, and there was no sign of fighting, he asked: There have been wolves howling around you recently, haven't you encountered wolves? Li Wuyi smiled: After killing two pigs, the little pig fed three wolves, and the big pig came back. Lame Zhang thought to himself: Under the siege of the three wolves, the fierce pig was killed by his hands. This child is not weak.
★Fish in the river, encounter wolves coveted
The next day, Lame Zhang said that there should be fish in the Chinese New Year, and there will be fish every year! Let's go down the river to fish? Li Wu readily agreed.
The two came to the ice surface of Songhua River , and when they waved their ice shackles to cut out the ice eye, they looked up. Five or six wolves were sitting around them, staring at them calmly. The lame Zhang said: The landlord has made a profit. Li Wu puzzled: what is the landlord, what is the profit? Lame Zhang said: In winter, the Songhua River Snow Road is the hunting ground for wolves. Isn't the wolf not the landlord? Anyone who passes by the Songhua River Snow Road will be bitten or killed. Isn't this a profit?
In a few moments, a series of three ice holes are chiseled. To string the net, you need to use a long pole to pull the net rope from the first ice hole to the second ice hole until the third ice hole. As far as the distance between the ice eyes, the wooden pole needs to be as long as possible, so that the long pole can be pulled out from the ice eye at the other end and the fishing net can be dragged into the river. On the ice, however, there was only a limp, one-person-high wooden stick carrying a fishing net.
The ice bracelet chiseled the ice cave.
Lame doesn't mind saying: You pick up the stick in the middle, and then pass it to the third. I am waiting for you there. After that, he inserted the wooden stick tied with the net rope into the ice eye, aimed at the ice eye in the middle and shouted: It's over! As soon as the wrist was exerted, the wooden stick actually swishly shot at the middle ice eye, which was fifty paces away.
Li Wu marvels: Underwater darts, master! He just stretched out his hand to catch the wooden stick shot from under the ice, when a lame cry came from the terminal ice eye: Thread the pole, I'm waiting! Li Wuwu was shocked, and when he looked back, the lame Zhang was sitting on a horse, squatting and smiling, and was already guarding the third ice eye. Li Wu secretly sighed: What a light energy! As soon as the wrist is hard, he shouts: It's over!
The five wolves were still sitting in the surrounding snow, staring at them. Lame Zhang said, the wolf won't let us go if he can't eat the fish.
At that time, there were many fish in the Songhua River, and there was a saying of "scooping up fish". It took only one bag of cigarettes to go down the fishing net into the river, and the two of them actually walked out dozens of fish half a foot long. Lame Zhang scattered the fish in all directions and let the wolf feed himself, while Li Wu slid the second net into the river, and soon he harvested more fish. The lame sheets filled a basket, and the rest were thrown to the five wolves, so that they were able to return to the shack without hindrance.
★To get firewood and water, you need to pass the Hungry Wolf Pass
In the first month of this year, the snow in the mountains Dalian is endless. Hungry wolves had difficulty hunting, and sniffed the smell of wild boar skins to find the wooden shack. As a result, the big wild boar skin that Li Wu hung on the branches became a delicacy that the wolves competed for. But there are more wolves and less skin. The hungry wolf does not want to leave, so he waits around the shack. A daring wolf even went to scratch the door of the wooden gang's shack. The sound of scratching, scratching, and biting was heart-stopping.
Li Wu said worriedly: What if the wolf bites the door? lame said,The wolf was so hungry that he wanted to enter the house to beg for food. Li Wu said that we have nothing to eat, how can we satisfy them? Lame Zhang smiled cruelly: Then they will eat us, and they will not leave until there is no more scum from both of us. Li Wu was not afraid of wolves, but his hair stood on end when he was lame.
The temperature in the mountains is low, and the stove in the shack cannot be separated from the fire for a moment. But the wooden scorpions are piled up outside the shacks, and they have to carry water into the river. The wolves are waiting outside the door, and it takes the courage to go out to fetch firewood and carry water. The two of them went out to hold firewood in a group, and a few wild wolves took the opportunity to sneak into the shack, toss the pots and pans upside down, and finally found a piece of wild boar meat, and the wolves immediately scrambled to bite. The two struggled to drive the hungry wolves out of the shack. From then on, when the two of them went out to fetch firewood and carry water, one person must be kept at the gate.
The next day, Lame Zhang insisted on carrying water, and Li Wu guarded the goal. Hungry Wolf saw Lame Zhang walking away and was about to snatch the door, but was kicked and punched by Li Wu, and he was kicked out ten steps away. The hungry wolf refused to accept it, grinning and howling. Li Wu picked up a big axe and swung it twice. The hungry wolf smelled the rust gas and immediately gave up the attack.
Lame Zhang hurried back with two buckets of river water. Several wolves bullied him, carrying a load of water on his shoulders and crippled his legs, wanting his life. Li Wugang wanted to help but heard the lame shout: Look after the shack door. After a few horizontal kicks and vertical kicks, a few wolves were kicked to the ground one after another. The water in the two buckets was not spilled. Li Wu secretly sighed: Uncle lame is not lame!
★The wolves were trapped and couldn't hunt, so they had to kill wolves to survive
Probably because it was really difficult to hunt in the snow in the mountains, a dozen wolves guarded the shack and refused to leave, even if the brush pot spilled from the shack The water froze into ice, and the hungry wolves scrambled to chew it.
One day, when Li Wu was out hunting alone, seven or eight wolves followed him. After a long time, Li Wucai finally encountered a few roe deer,With the help of the bushes and branches, Li Wu used his light power to fly away, and when he saw that it was approaching, he waved a dart, and a big roe deer fell to the ground.
The seven or eight wolves that followed it also surrounded the other roe deer. However, Daxue squatted deep, and the roe deer had long legs, and quickly escaped from the encirclement. The wolf, however, could only jump forward in the deep snow, and soon became exhausted and breathless. Behind a wolf is a snow ditch.
The wolves did not catch up with the roe deer, but instead focused on the roe deer that Li Wu had hunted, so they howled and surrounded them. Li Wu saw that there were too many wolves and that he was too far away from the shack. So he threw the roe deer on his shoulders into the snow, and said proudly, "I'll send it to you!" Clap your hands and walk away. Seven or eight wolves howled and rushed towards the dead roe deer in the snow.
Li Wu returned empty-handed, and in his crippled eyes, he had to tell the truth: he hunted a roe deer to feed the wolf. Lame Zhang said, you can't resist coming back? Li Wu said that there were too many wolves and it was difficult to carry the roe deer back home. Lame Zhang said: I have run out of food, what should I do? Li Wu listened to the wolf howling outside the shack and said: I can only eat wolf meat hot pot! Just when I was about to go out to hunt wolves, Lame Zhang said first, "You're tired, I'll come!" After saying that, he pushed the door and walked out. Hearing the scream of a wolf, the lame Zhang had dragged a dead wolf into the shack.
★Killing wolves, wolves trapped in wooden shacks
From then on, the two hunted a wolf for three or two days, and threw the wolf skin and wolf bones outside the shack to feed the wolves. The wolf is probably the only beast with the same kind of corpse in the forest sea and snowfield. They did not refuse, whether it was the wolf skin thrown by Li Wu or the wolf claws and wolf bones thrown by the lame Zhang, they all fought to the death.
Since then, the wolves have refused to leave this wooden gang shack.Li Wu and Lame Zhang didn't care, no matter which group they changed, they were all hungry wolves anyway, and none of them were vegetarians. Later, the wolves became more and more surrounded. The two stood at the door of the shack and watched, some wolves were unfamiliar, and some wolves seemed familiar. The strange wolf is naturally new. Deja Vu must have been the first to besiege the shack.
Lame Zhang suddenly wakes up: Those familiar wolves are probably because we killed its family members, so they linger to seek revenge on us! Li Wu didn't care: maybe they were addicted to eating the wolf skin and wolf bones we threw out!
★The wood gang finally returned, and the wolves retreated
That year was too snowy and too cold. Many beasts and wolves in the old forest starved to death.
Changbai Mountain in the forest, sea and snow.
On the 20th of the first lunar month, the Mubang brothers who went home for the Chinese New Year finally returned to the shack with food and other daily necessities. But the shopkeeper changed to a new person. This evening, it was because the original shopkeeper quit the wood industry and waited for the new shopkeeper to take over.
Since then, the food shortage will be resolved and the wolves will recede. However, for the first two nights, the wolves lingered, howling from near darkness until dawn. Brother Mubang asked: What do you two rely on to live without food for so many days? The two said lightly: Kill wolves and eat meat. ( About the author: Wang Tianxiang, native of Qingdao, Shandong, senior journalist and writer, has lived in the forest, sea and snow in Northeast China for more than 50 years, published 42 novels and other monographs, wrote more than 200 episodes of TV series, and created a history , culture, scenery, documentary and other special TV films, published hundreds of articles in various newspapers and periodicals, and published more than a thousand online articles.)
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