"Is it a wolf head?" I was immediately surprised. After getting to know Qingqing, I may have experienced many things that I couldn't understand. I always thought that there would be a person buried under that lonely earthen grave. To Qingqing,
A very important person. Because I can see the deep sadness she showed when she was cleaning up the debris in front of the lonely grave.
"A wolf head." Qingqing looked at the top of the hill again. Under the reflection of the full moon above, there seemed to be the shadow of a lone wolf standing on the top of the mountain. Qingqing looked at it silently for a long time, then turned around and said to me
Said: "I never tell people about the past, because if I tell people, maybe no one will believe it."
"What exactly?"
"I was raised by it." Qingqing slowly told me the truth. This was indeed something unbelievable, but her expression was solemn and serious. I didn't think she would have such a quarrel with me at this time.
joke.
Like many people, when she was just born, Qingqing could not remember the specific process at that time. However, when she was learning to speak and becoming sensible, what she faced was a huge wolf. If she had not come into contact with reality later,
In this society, she doesn't even know that there is a concept of mother in the world, and she won't doubt her close relationship with the wolf.
It was a female wolf who lived alone. She raised Qingqing in the most primitive way of animals. It sounded like a fantasy. No one could imagine how a weak girl like Qingqing could be raised by a wolf.
He was raised by his parents and lived in this barren mountain with a harsh environment.
But she did survive.
Hearing this, I suddenly realized that the unknown animal tooth on Qingqing's neck might be a wolf tooth? The female wolf must have died in the end and was buried here. Probably out of nostalgia, Qingqing left it behind
one of its teeth.
"No." Qingqing shook her head and said, "When I was very young, this tooth was already worn on me."
In fact, like some people, I am not disgusted with animals like wolves. On the contrary, I admire and like them. Wolves may be the most distinctive and unique among all animals. If one has really come into contact with wolves,
People may know that they have a wild charm.
Qingqing still has vivid memories of her childhood life. At first, she could not speak or use any human communication methods to communicate with the female wolf. Under the care of the female wolf, she grew up to five or six years old.
"It is indifferent." Qingqing raised his head slightly, seeming to recall all the details about the past in his mind: "It never had any expression. I don't know what it was thinking. It has always been so lonely."
When Qingqing was five or six years old, a hunter outside the mountain lost his way and accidentally discovered Qingqing when he passed by here. At that time, the female wolf was looking for food elsewhere. Qingqing was frightened. She had never seen it before.
Extraordinarily, in the eyes of young Qingqing, that might be a more terrifying creature than the wolf.
Qingqing, who was five or six years old, was taken away by this hunter and left the barren mountain where he had lived for several years. It was a long time ago now. The hunter lived on the outermost edge of the mountain, with several neighbors who were also hunters.
The hunter who took in Qingqing had no children. The couple were actually very kind people, but Qingqing's feelings for them were quite complicated.
Qingqing, who had just left the barren mountains, was not used to normal life. She liked to crawl on the ground and eat raw food. The Orion couple slowly changed her habits. Although the living conditions in the Orion family were relatively difficult, they were different from the life in the barren mountains.
In comparison, it is quite happy.
But Qingqing was not happy. She slowly learned to walk on two feet, slowly learned human language, and slowly understood how to understand other people's words and expressions. However, she often thought about that lonely bird.
Wolf. What that huge and ferocious animal brought to her was actually a deep memory.
People's ability to adapt should be considered very strong. After about a year, Qingqing gradually adapted to the new life. However, in the winter of the second year, something happened that made her devastated.
It was the coldest time of the year, and heavy snow would completely block the road into the mountains, commonly known as mountain closure. In that environment, the hunters had all rested. Unless the weather was particularly good, they would catch some occasional fish nearby.
Rabbits and badgers coming out of their nests. Before the winter, they have stored enough food rations. They can do nothing all winter and stay peacefully on the steaming kang, smoking cigarettes and drinking tea. That is actually a day.
A kind of lazy happiness.
At this time, Qingqing would often stand by the window, staring at the heavy snow in the sky in a daze. She would not forget the past days. She clearly remembered that this time of year was the most difficult season for her and the she-wolf.
Food is quite scarce and the temperature is very low. Like the hunters, the female wolf forages for food very frequently in late autumn. She hunts and eats desperately in order to accumulate enough fat for the winter, and more importantly, there is green.
"When it snowed and it was very cold outside, I hugged it tightly." A little more tears appeared in the corners of Qingqing's eyes: "Maybe you don't know that kind of warmth."
She missed the she-wolf very much. Although there was always a bright charcoal fire burning in Orion's home, nothing could replace the warmth that the she-wolf gave her.
In this way, Qingqing, who had been in a daze, stayed silent from afternoon to night, and then fell into a deep sleep. She rarely dreamed and always slept deeply, but on that snowy winter night, she rarely dreamed a few times.
Waking up from her sleep, she had always had a premonition that this night would not be so peaceful.
Late at night, the dogs raised by several hunters suddenly started barking together. The barking was accompanied by the sound of howling wind and snow, which woke up everyone who was sleeping. Qingqing was very alert. At the moment she was awakened, all the thoughts in her heart
My emotions seemed to be touched by something invisible.
"I could feel it coming at that time." Unknowingly, Qingqing burst into tears again, gritted her teeth tightly and said, "It may have been looking for me for a year."
Qingqing burst out crying at that time, and the crying was very painful. She struggled to jump out of bed and was about to rush out. But Orion's wife hugged her tightly. Orion's senses are very sensitive, and he had noticed it from the barking of the dog.
With an abnormal aura, he picked up the shotgun and ran to the window. At the same time, several other hunters were also ready. Under the reflection of the moonlight and snow, they saw that very close to them,
A wolf stood quietly.
A very big wolf.
Qingqing kept crying in the house. She finally saw it, and her cries spread through the crack in the door. The huge wolf slowly approached, approaching the house where Qingqing was.
Several hounds rushed over like a whirlwind, barking at the female wolf and jumping back and forth anxiously. In contrast, the wolf was calm.
The wolf is a very complex animal, as stoic as a camel, as cunning as a fox, but as loyal as a dog. Listening to Qingqing's story, I can almost think of that snowy winter night many years ago.
A huge wolf, indifferently faced the attacks of several hounds, and several loaded shotguns hidden in the dark.
Qingqing cried and shouted that she wanted it to leave and leave now. But the wolf heard Qingqing's voice and became more and more unwilling to leave. It was confident and aloof, and jumped up in the heavy snow. Its
The teeth and claws flashed a ray of cold light, and that faint cold light was like a light talisman, engraved in Qingqing's memory.
Qingqing couldn't tell the story of what happened next. To her, it was very cruel. In the end, the wolf died quietly in front of the hut. Several hunters did not dare to leave the house and could only shoot from the window.
Under normal circumstances, it would have many opportunities to escape.
But it doesn't go.
When everything calmed down, all the noise disappeared, and the wolf lay in the snow. The moment the hunter opened the door, Qingqing rushed out of the house with bare feet and rushed towards the wolf that had fallen on the snow.
wolf in.
At this time, the wolf was already dead. It died after a very bloody fight and had no life left at all. It was still very big, but skinny and green, and fell on it, crying loudly, with eyes full of tears.
It was tears, and she couldn't see the wolf at all. However, in her impression, the wolf didn't seem to be dead.
"I can feel that there are tears in its eyes."
In the eyes of the hunter, this incident was not worth mentioning. It was just a wolf that had nowhere to look for food in the heavy snow and accidentally broke in here and was killed. But in Qingqing's heart, it was equal to her past life.
, and her dream was instantly shattered.
This incident made Qingqing's feelings towards the Orion couple become complicated and indescribable. She was grateful that they gave her a new life, but she still could not forgive what happened that winter.
At that time, the young Qingqing begged the hunters to bury the wolf in the place where it once lived. She knew that she could never live with it again, and she just wanted to send it back.
The wolf skin and wolf meat were divided by the hunters, and the last thing left was the wolf head. In this way, the wolf head was buried under the big tree in the barren mountain.
After hearing this, I still have questions. Where did the wolf tooth necklace Qingqing wears come from? Although she grew up with the female wolf, I believe that it is definitely not a female wolf.
teeth.
However, I don't want to ask any more, because the deepest pain in Qingqing's heart has been touched.
"Those things are not all in the past. At least now, you are fine, which is enough." I comforted her. I couldn't think of any fancy words, so I used the simplest words to try to calm her down.
The old magic stick slipped back at some point, lazily huddled up and took a nap not far away. When Qingqing and I were talking in a low voice, he suddenly jumped up from the ground, pointing hurriedly and excitedly into the distance, big
Call out.
"Quick... look... look over there..." The old magic stick wanted to rush over at that moment, jumping up and down and saying to me: "That's...