In the previous article, when I was in my second year of primary school, I once escaped from a wolf's mouth. After this incident, the villagers were worried. Because every family has children, if a wolf sneaks down the mountain again, the consequences will be really unimaginable.
For this situation, the villagers didn't come up with any way for a while, so they could only take one step at a time. In the evening, wolves howl on the hillsides on all sides, and if one wolf howls, more wolves will soon respond. The wolf howled one after another, and the barking man's scalp tingled. Before it was dark, the villagers closed their doors early and did not let their children go out to play.
But just a few months later, tragedy struck again.
The man of one family worked in the fields during the day, and after a day's work, he came home and sat down on a chair and never wanted to get up again. At this time, he remembered that his water cup was still on the ridge and forgot to take it back, he originally wanted to get it himself, but he really didn't want to move. So he asked his 9-year-old son to fetch it, thinking that the place where he was working was not far from home, and that nothing would happen to the child.
So his son went to the field to get a glass of water, but he went for half an hour, and still no one returned. It was supposed to be only 10 minutes to go back and forth from that place, but now he hasn't returned for half an hour, and the man realizes that something might be wrong.
So he went into the field to look for his son, but he saw no man in the field. So he went back to the village and went from house to house asking his son if he was playing at his house, but the answer was "no". At this time, he panicked, so he desperately called his son's name in the village, and when the villagers saw him like this, they quickly asked what was the matter, and he told him that he had asked his son to take the water cup.
When some villagers heard this, they said: "Oh no, the wolf has been making a lot of trouble recently, could it be that he was bitten by a wolf?" "If something like this happens, it must not be delayed any longer. So the old man with prestige in the village hurriedly gathered the villagers and asked everyone to take the good guys and go up the mountain to search for people.
Since the surrounding area is full of mountains, the search area is too large, so it is natural for the villagers to search for the nearest mountain to the land first. Soon the villagers went up the mountain with their things and searched for them all over the mountain. Because it was late at that time, it was even darker as soon as I entered the mountain forest, let alone looking for someone, and even I would lose my way.
After several hours of searching, it was finally difficult to continue, so the villagers began to retreat in groups. When the villagers all withdrew, only the couple who lost their children were still searching for them in the mountains, and the villagers did not listen to them after several persuasions, so they simply stopped persuading them, because they also understood their feelings.
Early the next morning, the villagers found the couple still shouting and searching for them on the mountain. The villagers were very sympathetic to them, so all the villagers did not go to work, and they all went to the mountains to help find people. In this way, all the villagers searched the mountain for three days, but in the end they found nothing. The villagers are also tired, and the work of the production team has fallen a lot, and they have to catch up with the schedule, so in the end everyone returned to their posts to work.
Every day, when the villagers saw the heartbroken expressions of the couple and the couple, they didn't even know how to comfort them, because everyone knew very well in their hearts at this time that this child was basically a bad luck.
Half a month later, a villager was collecting firewood at the foot of the mountain and suddenly found a water cup and a child's shoes, so he searched further and finally found a scene that made his heart tremble. In a clearing in the bushes, there was a pile of gnawed bones, and among them was a skull, which at first glance was clearly a child's.
So the villager hurriedly ran to the village, rolling and crawling all the way, and he himself could not remember how many falls he fell. When he returned to the village, he told the story and everyone came to the place where he had found the bones. When the man who lost the child saw the cup, he immediately recognized it as his own. Walking further in, when he saw that scene, he could no longer suppress it, and burst into a hoarse cry. After hearing the man's cry, the woman also wanted to look inside, but the villagers, fearing that she would not be able to bear the blow, stopped her and asked several women to carry her home.
After this incident, the man was mentally devastated and began to be in a bit of a trance. The villagers could always hear him muttering to himself, "I really shouldn't have asked my son to get a water cup, I should have thought of it." ”
Things have come to this point that the villagers can't take it anymore. So they consulted together and decided to take the initiative to exterminate the wolves.
This matter was led by my uncle, who had joined the army before and had fought in war. So my uncle went to apply for a gun from the militia captain, and the captain also heard about the incident in our village, so he was very happy to issue a gun. In addition to the guns issued by the militia captain, there are also three guns in the hands of the local hunters, adding up to a total of 5 guns.
Every day during the day, five people, each with a gun and four or five hunting dogs, went to the mountains to search for wolves. In my impression, the local dogs in the countryside used to be very large, and they looked fierce and spirited. I don't know why the earth dogs are getting smaller and smaller now, and they don't look like dogs anymore.
In order to support this operation, the production team also recorded 10 points for each person who went out to hunt wolves during the day, which was the same as other normal workers, and if a wolf was really hunted, an additional 10 points were added. During the day they went to the mountains to hunt wolves, and at night they made gunpowder projectiles. This kind of projectile is about the same size as the marbles that children play with now, and they are stuffed with gunpowder, which will happen as long as they are squeezed by external forces, and its power should not be underestimated. This gunpowder projectile will be hidden in the heart and lungs of the pig (pork cannot afford to use it), and then the pig's heart and lungs will be thrown out in the wild, as long as there is a wolf to eat, once it bites the projectile, it will definitely blow the wolf's mouth in half.
But wolves are more cunning than everyone thinks, and since the village organized people to hunt wolves, wolves are basically rare to see around our village. The food that was thrown in the field at night was not touched at all. So this group of players has been empty-handed until one day.
In the late autumn of 1965, firewood was a very precious thing for the villagers at that time, and the demand for firewood was very large, not only every household had to burn firewood, but also the brick kilns in some production teams had a greater demand for firewood. Therefore, many people will go up the mountain to collect firewood as soon as they take a break, which can earn some extra money.
Because everyone regards firewood as a treasure, they all race against time to collect firewood on the mountain, so that a large number of people begin to gather firewood on the mountain as soon as autumn. Soon, the mountain was cut down and there were no shrubs, only large trees remained, so the view from the mountain became very good.
One morning, the man who was collecting firewood in the early morning spotted a wolf and quickly reported it to the wolf hunting team in the village. The team members quickly brought their guns and released five hunting dogs, and as soon as the hounds came up the mountain, they smelled the smell of the wolf that had just been left, so they all became very excited. From time to time they run wildly, and every now and then they stop and bark wildly.
Finally, they locked on the wolf's tracks, and the hounds chased after the wolves, and the team members ran after the hounds. After running for a long time, the wolf's strength gradually weakened, so he was approached by the hounds, and finally surrounded by hunters and hounds.
The wolf bared its teeth and roared in a low voice, and the hounds did not dare to step forward in all directions, and the wolf took a step back, and they took a step back, and the wolf took a step back. In the end, my uncle found an angle, picked up his rifle and shot at the wolf. After the gunshot, the wolf fell. When the wolf fell, the hounds swarmed up.
My uncle kicked away the hound in front of him with his foot, and scolded in his mouth: "The dog fights people, why didn't you go up just now, and I didn't know until I killed it." The uncle grabbed the wolf's head and stabbed the wolf's neck, and soon the wolf's blood gushed out. Then the uncle dragged a wolf's leg and walked around the mountain. The purpose of the uncle is to warn the other wolves through the smell of wolf blood.
In the evening, the howls of wolves sounded all over the mountains, and they seemed to mourn and grieve.
From that day on, the wolves were literally extinct on our side, and no one has seen them again.