Savage Secret

() I was stunned: what is this?Ghost lamp?I remember listening to the old people in the village when I was young, that in the deep mountains, old forests, suffocation, or places where many dead people are buried, there will be ghost lights at night, which are lonely ghosts looking for the way home... Later, I went to school Only then did I realize that it was phosphorus fire, a normal phenomenon in the oxidation process of corpses.Could it be that these two green cold stars in front of me are ghost lamps?

These two ghost lanterns were floating in the air, showing no intention of moving, but my heart was shocked, and I immediately thought that the appearance of ghost lanterns or phosphorous fires has strict requirements on the weather. It must be hot in summer and the air humidity is low. But it's winter now, and the fog is as thick as rain. It's impossible for ghost lights to appear in this environment.And the color is wrong, the color of the ghost lamp is light blue, definitely not miserable green.

It must be the eyes of the beast, I immediately reached for the gun, but in this moment, the two lights disappeared.

There is a reflective film in the eyes of many animals. This film makes their eyes look particularly bright during the day, but at night they have another very strange look: the eyes of white rabbits are scarlet at night Yes, the cat's eyes are yellow and green. The eyes that appeared in front of me just now were more than two feet above the ground. Not to mention cats, even leopards are not that big.Then there is only one possibility: wolf!

When I think of wolves, my heart goes crazy. Wolves are notorious for their ferocity and cunning. The ancients have known this for a long time. Almost all the idioms with the word wolf are derogatory.What worries me even more is that wolves live in packs and have a very strict hierarchical structure. Wolves usually attack their prey in groups under the leadership of the leader.I really can't imagine what would happen to me if a pack of wolves suddenly appeared.

Wild animals are afraid of fire, but I dare not light a fire, for fear that instead of scaring away the wolves, I will attract Chang Kun's group of people who are more ferocious than wolves. After much deliberation, I still think it would be better to climb a tree.After I ate my food randomly on the tree branch, I lay down on it, ready to rest for a while.

As soon as he closed his eyes, those two miserable green eyes unconsciously appeared in his mind, and he also thought of the strange incident of a wolf carrying a pig that he had personally experienced.

It happened in the autumn of 1980.

One morning when I was still sound asleep, I was woken up by a lively sound outside. I got up and walked outside the door, only to find that it was just dawn.But it was already very lively outside the gate, a sharp female voice was yelling, and one could tell it was Zhang Er's wife from the sound.I don't know where Zhang Er's daughter-in-law's hometown is, and she is not very popular in our village. To be precise, she is too unfriendly because she likes to swear.

In the first few years when she came here, she often quarreled with others without saying a word. When she quarreled, she would point fingers and jump up and down. Coupled with her sharp voice, she was really powerful. The women in our village Leng is no one can quarrel with her.When she swears, the words are a string of words, like the continuous flow of the Taotao River, or the uncontrollable flood of the Yellow River, and there is a rhythm, which is comparable to those who talk about cross talk and storytelling.Every time I have to scold the [-]th generation of my ancestors, the language and words are low-level, dirty and shameless, and it is unspeakable. The Wang family on our street was scolded so hard by her that she almost committed suicide by drinking pesticide.

Invasive alien species can wreak havoc on native ecosystems!People in our village avoided her when they saw her. If they really wanted to pass by her house, they were in a hurry, and no one dared to look at her more.

At first everyone thought that we could always hide if we couldn't be provoked, but we were all naive, we couldn't even hide.

Later, Zhang Er's daughter-in-law may be too lonely, or seeing that no one in our village has scolded her, or she may be afraid that others will forget her, so she simply took the initiative, often because of some trivial matters or no one at all. Cursing while walking in the village!If there is no one she suspects, she will scold the whole village all morning. If there is someone she suspects, she will stand at the door of someone's house and scold them all morning.

In a word, Zhang Er's wife is the nemesis of our village!

I don't know who's bad luck happened again today, and this nemesis was upset. When I opened the door to go out, I saw Tian Yuan, who was still a baby at that time, was running with a group of friends and Zhang Er's wife, Zhang Er's wife scolded Wherever they went, they would gossip wherever they went, perhaps in the eyes of Tian Yuan and his group of children, watching people swearing was a very happy thing.

I pulled Tian Yuan over and asked him what was going on.Tian Yuan laughed and said to me, "Her family's big fat pig was stolen last night!"

Hearing what Tian Yuan said, I knew that the village would not be quiet anytime soon!This woman can scold for days without a trace, but now that she lost a pig, she still doesn't want to vomit?Sure enough, Zhang Er's daughter-in-law scolded for half a month.In the past, I only admired her superhuman eloquence, but now I admire her strong perseverance a little bit.

After about 20 days, Zhang's second daughter-in-law stopped scolding, but another news quickly caused a stir in the village: two more pigs were lost in the village one after another.

People in our area have the habit of repairing the pigsty outside the door. Usually, after the stone is built, a wooden door is installed, and then it is closed with a bolt or an iron chain.It's not absolutely safe, some very restless pigs will smash the door, or throw the stone off and run out, but they can be found around the village.However, the three pigs lost for more than a month were never found and disappeared without a trace.

For farmers, a pig is half a year's grain, which is a big deal.

When Zhang Er's wife's family lost a pig at first, everyone thought that someone was retaliating against her family, and they still held the mentality of watching the popularity. After two more incidents of pig loss occurred later, people realized that the matter was far from that simple.

The villagers, who were all in danger, began to discuss taking turns to be on duty at night, squatting at fixed points, and must catch the pig thief and beat him to death.At this moment, my pig was also lost, and it was very strange.That morning, when my mother got up to feed the pigs, she found that the door of the pigsty was open, and the largest of the four pigs was missing.

The biggest one is a sow, which has been fed for several years and weighs four to five hundred catties. If you want to remove it, you need at least a few people. It cannot be carried away, and you must have a car.The strangeness is here. Because our family moved here later, we live on the edge of the village. The road is a dirt road. There are a few families in a street. Every family has a car, but there are no new wheel marks on the road!

The pig seems to have been taken away by something!

Everyone immediately thought of wolves, because there have been no tigers in our area for a long time, but we still see wolves occasionally on the mountain.But it seems unreasonable to say that wolves take pigs away. After all, wolves are not eagles and golden eagles, and they can't fly. How can they take away a pig weighing four or five hundred catties?If the wolf killed the pig and dragged it away, there should be traces on the road, but there is nothing!

At this time, an old man in a village stood up and said, "Don't think about it, the pig was not carried away by the wolf, nor was it dragged away by the wolf, but... was carried away by the wolf!"

What the old man said made everyone even more puzzled. In everyone's impression, they only knew that wolves were fierce and cruel, but no one had heard that they had a super load-bearing capacity!Furthermore, how big should a wolf be that can throw a pig of three or four hundred catties on its back and carry it away?

Whether it is done by humans or wolves, seeing is believing.So the village sent out more people, all the people who could be dispatched, everyone copied guys, squatted around, determined to investigate the whole matter to the bottom.We have already discussed that if it is a human being caught, they will be disabled first and then sent to the police station. If it is a wolf, they will be beaten to death directly.

In this way, everyone kept watching for more than ten days, and the mystery was finally revealed. It was indeed the wolf who did it, but the process was amazing!

It was a foggy, rainy and cold autumn night, around twelve o'clock, many people were asleep, only a few of us vowed to catch pig thieves, because this kind of rainy night is most suitable for thieves to act.

At that time, blue-brick and large tile-roofed houses were still popular. Lao Niu and others climbed on the eaves wearing coir raincoats. Although the rain was not heavy, the clothes were soaked inside and out. Niu was discussing going down to get some wine to keep out the cold, when he suddenly heard someone calling from below, it was Yicai guarding another street.

As soon as Lao Niu and I slid to the eaves, and before we touched the ladder leaning there, Yicai couldn't wait to say: "A wolf has been wandering outside the village for a long time, and now it slipped to the intersection we were guarding. I want to come in!" Lao Niu and I were afraid of missing the show, so we didn't get off the ladder, climbed up again, and walked along the roof to the street guarded by Yicai and the others.

Several people had already gathered there, and everyone was arguing softly: some said it would be fine to just beat the wolf to death, while others said they wanted to see how the wolf stole the pig, and Lao Niu and I supported the latter.The reason is very simple. We have never believed in the saying that a wolf carries a pig. It is impossible for a wolf to have such great strength. We even suspected that this wolf just ran into our village by mistake, and the pig-stealer was someone else.

Furthermore, there were more than a dozen people present at the scene, all young and middle-aged, and there were several guns. If it was the wolf that carried the pig away, we were capable enough to kill it.In the end, we prevailed.

Climbing on the eaves, watching those two light green eyes getting closer and closer as its body swayed, my heart beat faster. That was the first time I saw a wolf!I just feel that it looks no different from the big wolfhound fed at home, except that its eyes are gloomy and its tail doesn't wag like a dog.The wolf was very careful when running, and looked back after a few steps.

Then, I saw the weirdest scene in my life: After two laps on the street, the wolf ran to the door of a pigsty and pawed at the wooden door blocking the pigsty with its beak and paws for a while, but failed to open it. The family installed a lock on it.The wolf ran to another pigsty and repeated the same method. This time it was lucky and the wooden door opened.

The wolf spirit turned its head to look around, and jumped in. The pig inside grunted a few times, and then came out side by side with the wolf!

Now, everyone couldn't help it anymore, and stuck their heads out one after another, wanting to see what was going on. After a look, everyone was dumbfounded. The saying that a wolf carries a pig is self-defeating. I got insight: that wolf didn’t have natural supernatural power, nor was it unstoppable by bravery. It just held the pig’s ear in its mouth and swung its tail left and right. He ran after it obediently, without even humming!

Who would have imagined such a bizarre thing if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes?

However, things became very tragic after that: it was all because the scene was too exciting, and everyone was just watching, but no one shot. It wasn't until the wolf ran away with the pig in its mouth that everyone reacted. It was too late to go down the ladder, so I ran to catch up on the roof.It was raining that night, and the roof was too slippery. When chasing, one person accidentally rolled down and broke his bone. Their pig was killed...