The grievances between grandpa and a wolf in the mountains

This is a story I heard from my deceased grandfather.

It happened probably in 1963. The location of the story is in a remote mountain village in Wulian County, Shandong Province. 1963 was the second year after three years of natural disasters. At that time, the rural areas were really short of food and clothing. Most people were hungry all day long. Some people went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger.

The same is true for my grandfather. In addition to the large population in the family, it is impossible to fill everyone's stomach. So grandpa decided to lead the whole family up the mountain to discuss life, because the mountain is relatively pheasant There are a lot of hares, and there are still some vacant land for planting. At that time, countries that cut trees and other will not intervene.

My grandfather used to be a soldier, and at that time, the country did not strictly control guns, so there were many people with guns. Of course the grandpa also has it, and it is a moderately formal rifle.

In this way, the grandpa took the whole family to the mountain to live in. At that time, there was an old hunter who went with the grandpa, that is, the family lived in this mountain together. At that time, few people in the mountains dared to go in, because there was a local legend that wolves and wild boars often appeared in this mountain. You must know that this was not groundless. At that time, there were indeed many wolves and wild boars in the mountains, and many crops were ruined by wild boars.

But due to the lack of food, my grandfather had to bite the bullet and go up the mountain, and asked the villagers to help build a stone house, and lived here ever since.

Don't say anything, at that time there was a lot of game in the mountains, plus grandpa had good marksmanship, basically every day he could hit a hare or a pheasant.

Sometimes I can get a wild boar, and slowly my grandfather also used the fur to sell some money to subsidize the family, and he also opened up two acres of land in the mountains, and also raised some poultry such as chickens, ducks and sheep, plus his own breeding The food and vegetables in China can basically be self-sufficient, which is much richer than living down the mountain. Gradually, the grandfather's family fell in love with life here, and they never encountered the legendary wolf.

But one day an accident happened.

Winter is here, and the temperature in the mountains is no better than under the mountains. At that time, the winter was also extremely cold, and the cold was biting. The snow in that year was also unusually large, and the temperature in the mountains was too low, so the snow melted slowly, and there would be snow basically throughout the winter.

My grandfather knew that winter in the mountains is not as good as in the village, so I made sufficient preparations for the winter and filled the stone houses with firewood for heating.

It was the morning when it had just finished snowing. My grandpa was going out hunting as usual. He heard a barking dog as soon as he walked out of the house and followed the sound to search for it. At this time, my grandpa was surprised to find that there was a puppy in the woodpile. At that time, there was a guard dog missing in the house, so my grandpa took the puppy to the house and went hunting in the mountains. .

The delivery was good that day. I hit two hares, one bird of unknown species, and when I returned home at night, my grandfather gave the puppy he picked up something to eat. After a few days of peace.

But after a while, strange things happened.

My grandpa found that he had one missing chicken and there were blood stains on the ground. At first, my grandpa thought it was dragged by Huang Daxian, so he didn't care much because there were still a lot of Huangdaxian on the mountain.

However, the chickens disappeared for several days in a row. This made my grandfather feel weird, so he looked for traces everywhere. At this time, grandpa found a problem. The dog's paw prints on the ground were more serious than those of the dog he picked up. Much bigger.

A thought suddenly flashed in the mind of grandpa, could it be that a wolf is coming? So my grandfather told the old hunter who moved out. The old hunter said that the wolf is a very intelligent and rational animal. It usually doesn’t go down the mountain easily, and if it goes down the mountain, it usually steals things. Will leave soon, instead of coming to the same place multiple times, it is easy to get trapped.

At this time, the old hunter took a look at the dog next to grandpa, and then asked about the origin, grandpa told the truth, at this time the old hunter said you might have offended the wolf ,The one you picked up should not be a dog, but a wolf cub. In fact, as far as ordinary people are concerned, it is really impossible to distinguish between little wolf pups and puppies.

After hearing these words, my grandfather suddenly realized, and asked the old hunter what he should do. The old hunter said that the wolf came to steal your chicken as a reminder of this matter. Put the little wolf cub at the door, and the she-wolf should take him away. So Grandpa took advantage of the night and put the little wolf cub outside the stone house. He heard a scream in the night, and then fell silent.

The next day, the little wolf cub disappeared, there were many footprints on the ground, and the chicken was no longer lost. Grandpa thought it would just pass.

However, when Grandpa went out again on the third day, he found a dead rabbit at the door. Grandpa did not know what was going on, so he picked up the rabbit. Later, there were dead rabbits for three or four days in a row. Grandpa was very strange, so he went to ask the old hunter again. At this time, the old hunter said, this should be the wolf who pays you back to accept it.

So grandpa accepted the rabbit with peace of mind. About a week later, there were no dead rabbits at the door. The matter was calm, and grandpa’s house never lost a chicken.

Later, living conditions improved. Grandpa led the whole family and moved back to the village, ending the family's life in the mountains.

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