In the past, there were many wolves in Ningxia, and there were many stories and legends about wolves. I came to Ningxia to work in the 60s of the last century, when there were very few wolves. But the animal will never disappear.
a) Encounter with a vicious wolf.
At that time, I worked in the Qingtongxia Engineering Bureau. On the banks of the Yellow River, there is a place called Xihekou, where there is a large quarry, and two quarrying boats work day and night to mine pebbles from the ancient Yellow River road, and then transport them to the mixing yard to mix them into concrete and pour the barrage dam. I work as an electrician on a construction site.
Once after the middle class, it was nearly midnight, I and the Henan girl Sha Ailan and I went back to the dormitory two miles away, surrounded by the dark ancient winter, we walked on foot by the faint starlight, but always felt that there was something behind us, we stopped, looked back, and found that there was a wolf shadow not far away, and the two eyes were clear and sent out a blue gaze.
Eighteen-year-old Sha Ailan was frightened, hugged me tightly and didn't let go, I broke free of her hands and said let's run. Sha Ailan hugged me again and said, "You run faster than me, and I will not be eaten by wolves if I fall behind!" Sha Ailan then pleaded: "Brother Ning, as long as you don't leave me, as long as you can save me, I will definitely marry you in the future." So we both held pliers and electrician's knives and looked back at the wolf.
The wolf has always been at a distance of about ten meters from the two of us, and it does not dare to attack rashly, and we do not dare to fight back easily. Half an hour passed, and the two of us retreated to the iron bridge at the mouth of the West River, and there were street lamps on the bridge"The sound of iron finally scared the wolf away.
However, the Henan girl changed her mind, and later she married another young man.
b) Dealing with wolves.
Once, when I was on the night shift with Sha Ailan, a yellow wind blew in the middle of the night, and a transmission line broke down. The barren slopes and wilderness, overgrown with weeds and dark and swarthy, I walked forward one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the flashlight battery was insufficient, and I could only emit a faint light.
The fault point was finally happened by me, and I was relieved that the fault was dealt with and the power supply was restored. On the way back, I had the misfortune of encountering another wolf.
This time the wolf was very close to me, and I shook its eyes with a flashlight, and it was not afraid at all, and kept circling around me, and I also stared at it in circles. I saw that it was not big, and it looked like a small dog, but the tail of the broom showed that it was a vicious wolf. So I attacked it with a vice in one hand and a snail knife in the other, and the wolf just jumped around and dodged, but could not get rid of it. After a long time, my heart became empty.
I saw the foot buckle under the pole and thought to myself, I climbed the pole, what else can you do to me? So he quickly put on the buckles of his feet and climbed onto the telephone pole. I'm safe, the hungry wolves can't eat me, so they will naturally retreat. I was wrong, the wolf kept circling around the pole, looking up at me from time to time, it wanted to fight a long war with me; I smashed its head with pliers, cones, and electrician's knives, and it dodged with cleverness, and I ran out of ammunition; After a long time, my feet became numb and began to tremble. The hungry wolf saw hope, and stood under the stalks to look at me, only to wait for me to hold on and fall ......Am I really going to die in the belly of a wolf?!
Just when I was feeling hopeless, I noticed a flashlight in the distance, and my colleagues arrived, probably thinking that I had been electrified, but who knew that I had encountered a bad wolf. Amid the shouts of his colleagues, the wolf slipped away disappointed.
3) Cruel maternal love.
There are many Ningxia people at our construction site, and they have to go home to harvest wheat during the wheat harvest season. So at this time, the construction site has a three-day holiday. Lao Xia is a native of Tongxin County, and I know him very well. He said that there were a lot of wolves in his hometown, and asked me if I dared to see it, although I was afraid of wolves, but my curiosity ** me, I decided to go back to the countryside of Tongxin County with him.
The countryside of Tongxin County is unusually barren, and only the ripe wheat shows a few bright colors! During the day, I helped his family harvest wheat, and in the evening I wandered around the hillside with him. There are so many wolves here, and from time to time I see packs passing by in front of my eyes. But they were timid, and they departed far away; It is not so much that people are afraid of wolves, but that wolves are more afraid of people. The reason for this is that most families here have shotguns. What wolves fear most is the deafening sound of gunfire.
I asked the old summer wolf to steal livestock? Lao Xia said that unless he was extremely hungry, he would not steal livestock. I asked, "What do wolves feed on?" Lao Xia said that they hunted grass foxes, hares and voles for a living. I asked the hunter again if he was going to fight the wolf? Lao Xia said that it is rare to fight, this thing can't be beaten, otherwise they will keep harassing you.
We were walking and talking, and it was getting dark, and suddenly we noticed a small thing with hair in front of us, and when we got closer, we saw that it was a little wolf cub, and it was probably hungry before it came out of the wolf den alone. Lao Xia wanted to take it home, and I asked what was the use of it? Lao Xia said that you will watch a good show tonight.
Lao Xia led me to an abandoned and dry water cellar, and found a long wooden stick and a ball of thin wire; According to his will, we put the four legs of the little wolf cub with a thin wire ** on a stick**, and then put the stick across the water cellar. After the trap was set up, we dodged it.
At night, a she-wolf howled and ran, first looking around the dry water cellar more than two meters deep, and then carefully climbed on the long wooden stick, approaching the young wolf cub like a tightrope. I conclude that it bites the wire constantly, and over time it will fall into a trap. But it pondered for a while, and ran away with the little wolf cub in its mouth!
Lao Xia and I went to the edge of the water cellar, shone it with a flashlight, and found four bloodstained wolf paws at the bottom of the cellar. Yes! The she-wolf kept biting the wire and actually bit off the four little claws of the little wolf cub! What a cruel she-wolf! I exclaimed!
Lao Xia disagreed with me, he said seriously: "This is not the cruelty of the she-wolf, the she-wolf can only save the child by biting off the four claws of the wolf cub, there is no other way, so this should be called cruel maternal love!"