there are wolves

There are several steps by the lake, and a layer of stone slabs is laid under the steps to allow citizens to have close contact with the lake. There are protective fences beside them. Luo Xunyi is sitting on the middle step, going out from the shopping bag. dig something.

Facing the evening wind blowing directly on the water, carrying moisture, it was still a bit cool, Yu Wangran closed his school uniform jacket tightly, and sat down beside him, with a shopping bag in between.

"Drink?" Yu Wangran asked in surprise.

"Well, don't you know how to drink?"

Luo Xunyi took out the cans of beer, glanced at him, and said with a smile, "I see, I bought you a few bottles of juice."

Yu Wangran twitched the corner of his lips, and said, "Don't be funny, you can't drink me."

Luo Xunyi's eyes lit up, "Really?"

"Lie to you"

"Haha, good very good very"

As he spoke, he opened a can and handed it to him, opened another can and held it in his hand: "Cheers, nice to meet you, Mr. Xiaoyu"

Yu Wangran rested his head on his right hand, and touched him with the wine jar in his left hand, with a lazy smile on his lips: "I'm glad you're happy."

Luo Xunyi was indeed very happy, raised his head and downed a can of beer, and squeezed the can in his hand with a little force.

Yu Wangran only took two sips, he didn't expect him to drink so hard, but it's not in his character to blindly compete with others like an idiot, so he took the can out of his hand and put it in an empty plastic bag , muttering: "It is everyone's responsibility to protect the environment"

Luo Xunyi laughed, stretched his right arm and hugged his shoulder vigorously: "You are such a strange person"

The contact was short and urgent, Yu Wangran didn't have time to respond, so he pursed his lower lip and didn't speak.

Unknowingly, the sun had already set, and the night covered the sky like a big net, engulfing the city without anyone noticing.

Luo Xunyi picked up a stone and threw it hard towards the surface of the water. The surface of the lake rippled far away, and then returned to calm.

"The difference between natural and man-made is here. Throw a stone into a natural lake, and the stone will sink to the center of the lake. The water is thick and the sound is very deep. This lake makes a clacking sound. The water is very clear. What does that mean?" nothing"

Yu Wangran put the wine jar down, hugged his arms tightly to block a bit of the increased cold wind, sighed lightly, and didn't answer his words, firstly because he was never good at answering people's remarks, and secondly because he thought this topic was quite boring.

Luo Xunyi glanced at him, and then said: "On our grassland, throwing stones into the lake is considered disrespectful to the river god. Once found, it will be hung on the cliff for a day and a night, and maybe it will be punished." The wolves that came out to feed at night ate them"

Yu Wangran suddenly turned to look at him and said, "Huh?"

Luo Xunyi smiled, opened a drink and said unhurriedly: "The rules on the prairie, my father died like that, and the next day there was only a pile of bones left by the cliff."

Yu Wangran stared at him dumbfounded, the topic was so fast-paced and changed a thousand times, no one else could keep up and react in time.

"grassland?"

Luo Xunyi took a sip of beer and said, "Well, I'm from Xinjiang, and I lived in the Kanas grassland since I was a child. Didn't you notice that I look more... like a foreigner?"

"...Are you not Han?"

"Ujirke Baita Clan"

Poor Yu Wangran has read a lot of poetry and books, but he has never heard of this ethnic minority. He looked at him for a while without saying a word, swallowed his saliva for a long time and said, "You just said that your father..."

"died"

Luo Xunyi looked up at the night where a few stars appeared from time to time, and said calmly: "Eat by wolves"

eaten by wolves...

For Yu Wangran, who grew up in the city, this sentence is similar to 'being taken away by aliens', it is thousands of miles away from his life, far beyond his cognition.

He buried his head and didn't speak. He just felt uncomfortable all over. He didn't expect the atmosphere to be drawn into such a...very sad and embarrassing situation.

Luo Xunyi suddenly laughed twice: "Just kidding, kidding, are you serious?"

Yu Wangran: "...Are you sick?"

He seldom swears, and even if he does, it's a slander. It's the first time that he scolded a person for being mentally ill like this, because he was really angry when he was deceived by his lies.

Luo Xunyi's smile subsided a lot in an instant, and he said again: "Just kidding."

"all fake?"

"what?"

"Is everything you said just now a lie?"

"Oh, the part of the cliff is fake. I am Tuva, and I made up the Ujir Baita tribe."

Yu Wangran squinted at him suspiciously: "Are you really from Xinjiang?"

Luo Xunyi tilted his head and glanced at him with a helpless smile, then took out his ID card from his wallet and showed him: "The ID number starting with six is ​​from Xinjiang, trust me?"

Yu Wangran took a closer look, and it really started with six.

Luo Xunyi put away his ID card, and smiled happily as if thinking of something funny: "We both really mean to introduce ourselves and show our ID cards."

However, Yu Wangran didn't want to talk to him, his attention was all on the Xinjiang prairie.

"Then you said that you grew up in the grassland, is it true?"

"Well, in Baiqiao Village, Kanas, my ancestors have always lived in the village, but my grandfather is a herdsman, who lives on the mountain all year round and rarely goes back to the village. I followed him to herd sheep and horses on the mountain since I was a child."

Yu Wangran's curiosity and longing for the grassland were aroused by him, he lifted the plastic bag aside, moved his buttocks and sat down next to him, hugged his knees and asked, "You live on the mountain all year round? In winter? what to do?"

He suddenly approached, Luo Xunyi leaned back slightly, stared at him for a moment with his dark eyes in the night, the calm lines on his lips seemed to be blown by a gust of wind, and suddenly smiled in circles: "You Want to hear it?"

"Well, you say"

Luo Xunyi said: "We live on the mountain all year round. We drive sheep and horses to find grazing grass and forest belts on the mountain all the year round. On the other side of the mountainside, we can graze wherever the water and grass are good. We wander all the year round and never go down the mountain. With yurts and food, we temporarily live in places with abundant water and grass, and after ten days and a half months, we get up and look for the next grazing spot.”

"Why do you keep changing places? Could it be that the grass will be eaten up?"

Luo Xunyi put down the beer, took out a cigarette case from his pocket and lit one, exhaled a long puff of white mist before continuing: "No, but the herdsmen on the grassland can't guard a place to eat forever, in that case, Sooner or later, the land will be barren, and the water and grass are a gift from God. The herdsmen are all passers-by. Passers-by cannot occupy a piece of land and not leave it to others. This is the law on the grassland.”

Looking at him while talking, he smiled and said, "It's true."

Yu Wangran was immersed in the faithful herdsmen and the lawful grassland he described, and made up the scenes contained in his words with the help of books and what he saw on the Internet.

"Do you have wolves there?"

Luo Xunyi was biting his cigarette, and his eyes were blinded for a while. Instead of answering his question directly, he took off his sleeve to expose his right arm, and showed him a glaring scar on his bicep, still speaking in such a flat tone: "wolf bites"

It can be clearly seen that the scars were formed by the teeth of ferocious beasts. There are two scars in total, one deep and one shallow, penetrating into the flesh several inches deep, and it is shocking to see.

"how did you make it?"

Luo Xunyi put on his clothes, flicked the cigarette ash, and said, "This is a she-wolf, it seems to be... When I was eight or nine years old, there was a heavy snowfall on the mountain, and it happened that dozens of pups fell out of the flock. The sheep were very naive and stupid at the time, fearing that they would freeze to death, so they were caught and built a small yurt for them, and a fire was lit to keep them warm. As a result, the wolves came that night. The wolves are spiritual and can eat The soft is afraid of the hard, and there are hounds around the flock of sheep, so they rush to the lambs warming in the small yurt. People on the grassland are light sleepers. Atta rushed out first, and then I woke up. At that time The lambs were all killed, and the wolves were retreating with the sheep in their mouths, tsk... At that time, they were very tigers, and they chased them out with a steel fork, stabbed a wolf to death, and almost lost their arms. The second When Tian Ata sliced ​​open the wolf, he found a wolf cub lying in its belly, still alive, and it is also the law on the grassland to kill the living and not to kill, so I raised the little wolf, and later... ...Go to school in the city, leave Atta and the grassland, and let the wolf go.”

Luo Xunyi raised his head and squinted his eyes slightly to look at the dark night sky: "The wolf is really human, it can understand everything you tell it, I raised it, and it has been by my side all the time. I let it go and it goes"

While he was talking, Yu Wangran had already taken out his mobile phone to look up what he meant by 'Ata' according to his pronunciation, it was Grandpa.

"Then when did you leave Xinjiang and come here?"

"Five years ago, I can't remember too clearly, I left after Atta died"

"Come here, didn't continue to go to school?"

Luo Xunyi licked his lower lip and glanced at him, then said with a smile, "I'm already twenty and still in high school?"

Yu Wangran shook his head: "No, intuition"

Luo Xunyi said: "Well, after a few years of delay, I found out that I can't do without studying. I'll finish high school first."

"What did you do in those years?"

Luo Xunyi tilted his head and looked at him, his unfathomable eyes were filled with an intriguing smile.

Yu Wangran was also quite surprised how he asked this sentence. This question undoubtedly developed towards 'inquiring about other people's privacy'.

Luo Xunyi took out his phone and checked the time: "It's past seven, can we stay a little longer?"

Yu Wangran jumped up all of a sudden, took out the cell phone that had been secretly set to silent, and as expected, he missed several calls, so he ran to the shore in a hurry.

"No no no I have to go back"

Fasten the button and help the bicycle up, sit on the saddle and ask him: "Aren't you going home?"

Luo Xunyi stood on the steps facing him, shrugged with his hands in his trouser pockets, and only smiled.

Yu Wangran stepped on the pedals and watched him want to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, just looked at him for a while.

"Be careful on the road"

Luo Xunyi said.

Yu Wangran nodded and rode his bicycle away.