Soviet novel Seven Wolves A prisoner raised seven wolves and successfully escaped from a Siberian prison to a small town in Lake Baikal.
In the autumn of p>184, Ivan Mikhail Ilyin committed the crime of cursing the chief executive, was sentenced to 2 years in prison by the Tsar's St. Petersburg court, and was exiled to Songguo village in Siberia to do hard labor.
Siberia is covered with snow for eight months every year, and the temperature is often between MINUS 4 and 55 degrees in winter. Surrounded by white snow, deserted and uninhabited, the nearest village is also more than 25 kilometers. If you want to escape, you must die on the snowy road.
Ivan is a well-educated and strong young man. He built his own wooden house for the winter on the hillside and began to adapt to the environment. Warden Rory stipulates that prisoners are free to hunt and plant for a living, but they are not allowed to have dogs and carpenters' tools to prevent prisoners from making dogs and pulling sledges to escape from Siberia. Rory was very bad. A prisoner's wife volunteered to come to hard labor with her husband. There were no villagers in Songguo Village. The prisoner's wife became the only woman in Siberia at that time. Rory killed her husband to feed the wolves and forced this woman to be his wife.
Ivan is very hardworking. After a hard autumn, he is rich. The cabin under the hillside is full of dried Mountain hare, squirrels, snow pheasants, snakes, fish, hedgehogs, snow frogs, loaches, pigs and badgers.
When winter comes, prisoners are forced into their shacks by the cold of minus 4-5 degrees. Ivan is young and not afraid of the cold, so he wandered in the forest on the pine cone ridge, which is as high as 1 meters, and picked up two snow pheasants that were hard with cold. But he met two robust Siberian wolves. A male wolf approached from the left, and a female wolf came up from the right. Their eyes were green with hunger. The male wolf came first, Ivan flew up, and the leather boots were like a heavy stone. The male wolf was kicked out more than 1 meter away and couldn't get up. He also kicked the female wolf with his feet, and the female wolf couldn't get up any more. This was because Ivan was too strong and the wolf was too hungry. Ivan put two snow pheasants on the wolf's mouth, and then went home and brought thirty or forty kilograms of frozen bass, which were separated in half and placed on the wolf's mouth. At this time, Ivan had confidence in conquering two wolves. At this time, Ivan had confidence in conquering two wolves, because the two snow pheasants he released for the first time were eaten up by wolves.
Ivan stood up, mustered up his courage and roared angrily.
"oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo"
This is a typical howling wolf. The sound waves broke through the almost frozen air, and there was a crisp echo in the pine green, causing the snow on the Siberian coniferous pine to fall one after another. Ivan wants to tell these two wolves-I'm a wolf too, I'm a stronger wolf than you, and I'm your wolf king.
On the morning of the fifth day, Ivan opened the thick wooden door of the shack, but saw two wolves crouching 1 meters away, forming an isosceles triangle with him. The wolf stared at him. These were two wolves that he had kicked. They came to the door with their sense of smell, obviously not for revenge, but for submission and begging for food. Ivan threw out the food and they ate it rudely. He named the male wolf Adam and the female wolf Eve. Wolves come to beg for food from time to time, and they all get enough. Three months later, Adam and Eve dispelled their doubts about Ivan, and finally settled down in the wooden house, and spent eight months of snow closure in Siberia with Ivan.
In summer, Adam and Eve return to the big forest in Songguoling. The following winter came, and on a snowy night, Adam and Eve brought their five young wolves. The little wolves were so attached to people that they crawled on Ivan's legs. Ivan was moved to tears and sighed, "Adam and Eve, since your family has defected to me, let's live with me!" "
The food crisis caused by seven wolves oppressed Ivan, so he had to burn a hole in the thick ice of Songguo River with firewood and fish with bait tied with hemp thread. Those fish who were in a panic under the thick ice suddenly saw the bright sunshine in the ice cave, and they all crowded to grab food. The first fish caught was a scalless catfish with a black robe, weighing 1 Jin. It only twisted its tail three times on the ice and was frozen. After all, it was freezing at MINUS 4 degrees. The wolves are hungry for food and compete with each other. In less than 3 minutes, the catfish enters the wolf's stomach. The smallest little wolf nicknamed Baby is the most naughty. He climbed up from Ivan's crouching back and sat on Ivan's dog fur hat, whining and expressing his excitement to his brother and sisters. Ivan caught a fish like a hill, weighing 5 kilograms. He made a row of branches, made a thimble with hemp rope, put the fish on it and dragged it back to the cabin by seven wolves.
Summer is coming again. Ivan drives the wolf to the pine green and releases it to nature. One day, he climbed onto the pine green and roared with a loud roar. Adam, Eve and the grown-up wolves all followed the sound. When they saw Ivan, they jumped and screamed with joy. The grown-up wolves were just fooling around. Adam and Eve, like two polite gentlemen, licked Ivan's right and left hands with their tongues, expressing their gratitude to the two-legged wolf king of Siberia. Ivan looked at his wolf army and had a brainwave: I can escape from Siberia.
Ivan works hard, like a mouse, desperately storing food in the hole. Soon the wind and snow rolled up all over the sky, and the cold came to Siberia. Adam and Eve led the grown-up wolves back to Ivan's cabin for the winter. He picked up the youngest baby and sighed, "Alas, children, your bones and muscles are still tender. Let's endure for another year!" " In this winter, Ivan consciously domesticated them to drag fish together. Every day, the wolves drag Ivan's fish back to the house from the ice of the Songguo River. Adam and Eve live on both sides, and there are five little wolves in the middle. Their movements are more and more coordinated.
Another summer came, and Adam and Eve returned to the pine green with their growing wolves. Then in winter, Adam and Eve led their children back to Ivan for the winter as usual. Ivan is very happy because the little wolves are as tall as their parents. Prisoners envy Ivan for having a wolf pack. Some people call Ivan the king of wolves with two legs. Warden Rory doesn't take it seriously either, because the Russian code stipulates that Siberian exiles are not allowed to have dogs, which means that besides dogs, dragons and tigers can be kept.
Ivan borrowed an axe saw from Rory in the name of building a house. In fact, he made a sturdy sled out of sturdy Siberian coniferous branches. The axe saw was returned, and the sled was hidden deep in the snow cave. Whenever late at night, Ivan calls out the wolves, carries on the trial dragging training, and gradually becomes handy. Ivan let go to prepare his escape plan, because in the Siberian winter of MINUS 4 or 5 degrees, which fool comes out and walks?
One night, there were few moon stars. The prisoners' shacks around Songguoling were as quiet as death. Ivan fed the seven wolves, loaded everything he could eat into the sleigh, and the seven wolves also put on their shafts. He decided to run away. Rory, after all, is a pawn of the tsar. He suddenly appeared in front of Ivan with a discerning axe in his hand.
"Brother Ivan, you borrowed an axe and saw to repair the house, so it turned out that you were building sledges. My hatchet is Russian law, and non-hiking fugitives can be executed immediately. "
Rory raised his hatchet shining in the moonlight and chopped his head at Ivan. It was so sudden that Ivan didn't have time to think, and he flew up, and Rory's hatchet was tumbling in the air. Both sides raised their heads, Ivan jumped like a basketball, grabbed the handle of the axe, waved his hand, and Rory's half head fell into the snow, and his body fell like a bag of millet. There was no time to bleed, the wound was sealed, and it was too cold. Ivan put Rory on the sleigh, together with the half head, which is the wolf's food!
As soon as Ivan raised his hand, Adam and Eve started first, and the sled rustled to the northeast. Running to the next afternoon in one breath, the wolves were really tired, and Ivan took off his sleeve and rested under a snowy slope. The seven wolves immediately snuggled together to warm each other and rest, and the hungry eyes followed Ivan's busy figure.
Ivan took Rory's body in his arms, stripped off all his clothes, and then made a cross. He said, "You hacked the prisoner to death to get his wife, and today I'm going to feed the wolf with your flesh and blood. This is a fair deal, and you really don't suffer at all!" Ivan lifted a hatchet and dismembered Rory, some wolves, and most of them were packed on sledges. He cut a snow hole with an axe, called the wolves to turn in, and saw them snuggling together, and then covered them with Rory's big fur coat to let them rest for a long time. Ivan ate some food, chewed a few handfuls of snow, and dug a snow nest to go in. The cat dozed in it, like a hibernating polar bear.
Ivan doesn't know exactly how many days and nights he rested, because he was awakened by Baby Wolf. After being licked by the baby, he got out of the snow nest and saw that all the wolves were lined up next to the sled. Eve had the Rory fur coat that was covered with the female fine mold and dragged it to the sled with her mouth. The wolves have obviously recovered their strength, waiting to be fed and set out. There is so much food on the sled, but no one dares to move, because they know that Ivan is their king.
The wolves' food is still Rory's meat.
Ivan let the wolf pull the sleigh, and his goal is Lake Baikal in the northeast. Watching the sun during the day and referring to the stars at night, I walked around for a week. Rory's corpse has been transformed into the energy of the wolves, but there is still half a furry thigh left, and this half of Rory's thigh has become a savior in danger.
It was a night trip in the afternoon. The wolf was in a good state of mind, so Ivan decided to travel all night. In the middle of the night, the bright moon is shining in the sky, according to the snowy Siberian snowfield. Suddenly, the wolves stopped and fled backward, and the sled dragged the wolves forward with inertia force. Adam gave a groan of horror. Ivan knew that he had met the devil, and it was definitely not the little devil that frightened the wolf. Looking closely, he saw a white thing approaching the sleigh. It turned out to be a Siberian tiger weighing 1 Jin, which is the terminal of Siberian wildlife food chain and the veritable king of Siberian animals. Its fur is worth thousands of dollars, and owning it can become a small landlord on the outskirts of Moscow.
Ivan holds Rory's iron axe, but he knows that the result of the fight will be doomed. He suddenly had a brainwave, lifted Rory's hairy thigh and threw it at the Siberian tiger. Obviously, the tiger was so hungry that he jumped into the air and bit it, then ran away.
Ivan prayed silently: Oh, thank you, Cataclysm!
Ivan whipped Adam, and the sled moved forward again, and the speed was fast. Perhaps the Siberian tigers put terror into the wolf's heart, and they accelerated their running, apparently avoiding the catastrophe that frightened them.
The sun rises in the east, the wolves slow down, and the sleigh glides slowly on the ancient and desolate Siberian snowfield. Ivan looked everywhere. He was looking for a warm resting place from the wind. Suddenly a gust of wind rolled up a dry snow, and a complete human bone was exposed on the snow swept by the wind. Obviously, this is a fugitive from Siberia. With a desire for life, he worked hard and finally failed to overcome the harsh nature. He came here and fell down, drawing a tragic end to his life. Ivan took off his dog's fur hat and waved at the bones, wishing the dead rest in peace.
Ivan and his wolves marched for another half month without stopping, and they almost ate all the dried animals with them. Hunger threatened him and the wolves. Adam and Eve's rope has been pulled very tightly, with the biggest load and the biggest physical consumption, and finally it staggered. Ivan had to carry them to the sleigh and rest with him. The sleigh was pulled by five young wolves, and it was up to the wolves to decide whether it was fast or slow.
Adam and Eve lay motionless under Rory's thick fur coat. The two old wolves were obviously exhausted from the ordeal. Soon, Adam groaned, shook his head, arched the fur coat that covered his head, and stared straight at Ivan, as if to say, "I can't do it!" " Ivan held out his hand. It stuck out its tongue lacking mucus, licked the back of Ivan's palm, then closed his tired eyes and soon died. Ivan touched Eve beside Adam. It was already hard, and it obviously died before Adam.
On a gentle slope sheltered from the wind, Ivan shouted at the wolves to stop moving, and unloaded the ropes for them. Five wolves crouched in the snow in a zigzag, and their eyes looked at Ivan indifferently. Ivan understood the wolves' eyes, which obviously meant: King Wolf with Two Feet, we are hungry, and we can't go any further!
Ivan ignored them, and he had an idea in his heart: in the kingdom of wolves, there is a rule not to tear the living companions, but they can eat the dead companions like sheep. Ivan cut off the heads of Adam and Eve with a hatchet, and placed two wolf heads on the snowdrift at the top of the slope, facing northeast. He took off his hat and prayed that Adam and Eve would bless him and their children to escape from Siberia. Then he chopped up the wolf meat, threw some of it to the wolves to eat, and carefully calculated the rest, which was estimated to last for three days. Ivan strictly controls the time, and can only rest for one night at a time, and must go on the road the next day, because delaying time is meaningless consumption and means death.
On the morning of the third day, before leaving from the campsite, Ivan left two pieces of wolf meat for himself, tore it with his strong chewing muscles, threw the last piece of wolf meat to the wolves and watched them finish eating. Then he reached out his hands, put his arms around five wolves, and made an emotional speech to these wild animals: "Children, you have eaten my meat accumulated in autumn, eaten the damn warden Rory, and eaten your parents. Now we are poor without any food, and we can't even find an ant in the snow-covered Siberia.
Next round, it's my turn! Children, you can eat me then ... "Ivan set aside tears and touched each wolf's head, but the baby licked the tears on Ivan's cheeks.
Ivan and the wolves continue to set out.
Ivan, who was sitting on the sleigh, only thought about good luck. He dozed off from time to time during the bumps, and was awakened by nightmares and good dreams. When he woke up again, he stood up in surprise. Ah, there was a crystal blue light in front of him, which was the blue light reflected by the sun on the vast ice. Oh, Lake Baikal. As long as we reach Lake Baikal, there will be villages and towns, people and normal people. Ivan waved his whip and lashed at the wolves. The sleigh, like an arrow, sailed towards the dazzling blue light ...
A year later, people gradually became familiar with a citizen named stepanov in Yelin brain or on the north side of Lake Baikal. He worked very hard as a helper in a restaurant, working two hours more than other helpers every day. The reward he wanted was that the meat and bones left by the diners belonged to him, because.
stepanov ── Is it Ivan Mikhail, the two-legged wolf king who tamed wolves and escaped from exile in Siberia? I should say yes.