Chapter 4: Wolf Girl (Part 2)

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  The village chief stood far behind Leizhen's mother, although he was over sixty years old, but still sharp-eyed and sharp-eared. He carefully observed the mother wolf, whose ferocity had been exposed due to fright, and the wolf den that she had been carefully protecting. After a moment of contemplation, the village chief spoke in a low voice: "Lei Jia's big sister, don't be afraid, and don't turn your head back, we're all here. Can you hear what I'm saying?"

  Lei Zheng's mother nodded slightly.

  "Take a closer look, it's a mother wolf that has just given birth to her cubs." The village chief looked at the mother wolf's obviously swollen udder and said: "A mother wolf gives birth to a litter of wolf cubs, with at least four or five in each litter. But there is only one cub in its den, it seems that it didn't eat your child because it was hungry, but because it was uncomfortable from being too full, wanting Leizhen to help suckle the excess milk. It has been nursing Leizhen for so long, Leizhen's body already carries its scent, it has taken Leizhen as one of its own wolf cubs."

  Although it was unbelievable, seeing Lei Zhen being carried away by the mother wolf for seventeen or eighteen days and still full of energy, Lei Zhen's mother nodded.

  "I think it's because there's a hint of your scent on Lei Zheng's body that the mother wolf allowed you to get so close. Otherwise, as outsiders, we wouldn't have been able to get near it."

  The village head thought for another half day before continuing: "If the mother wolf is forced to desperation, she will bite her own wolf cub to death. If everyone rushes up together, this mother wolf can't escape, but that would only harm Lei Zheng."

  "There is only one way for you to get Lei Zhen back."

  Looking at the little wolf in his arms, Lei Zhen revealed a happy smile. Although his mother was anxious, she clearly knew that whether it was insight or intelligence, the village chief was much stronger than her. She had to remember every word the village chief said and do everything according to his words.

  "Wolves also understand human nature. You have the scent of Lei Chen on you, it should know who you are. Go negotiate with it and see if it's willing to return Lei Chen to you."

  Lei Zheng's mother stared blankly at the wolf in front of her, whose eyes had already revealed a hint of unease and nine parts of wildness due to the village chief's appearance. The village chief had undoubtedly given her an enormous problem - she was alone and didn't understand wolf language, so how could she negotiate with the mother wolf and ask it to return her son?

  "Don't take it as a wolf." The village chief stood behind Leizhen's mother and reminded her carefully: "Just think of her as a woman who took your son, liked him, and really regarded him as her own son."

  Thinking back to when Lei Zhen was a full moon, he didn't catch anything in his hands. His mother only felt her knees go weak. If this female wolf doesn't return her son, will Lei Zhen really become like the "Full Moon Grab" ritual predicted, unable to learn or do anything, and turn into a monster that is neither human nor wolf?

  Lei Zheng's mother suddenly raised her arm with force, and at the same time the village chief secretly thought it was not good. Lei Zheng's mother pointed to the wolf that had been staring at her and shouted loudly: "I have been standing here for so long, but I haven't seen your mouth move. You are also a widow like me! You have your own children, why do you still want to snatch this widow's son? I'm not just one or two... I rely on my son to carry on the family line, I rely on him to support me in my old age. I cannot let the Lei family become extinct in my hands..."

  As for the pitiful part, Lei Zheng's mother was already crying uncontrollably. She pointed at the wolf in front of her and wailed: "I've said so much, do you understand or not?! Please... return my son to me... okay? He is my everything!"

  The she-wolf gazed quietly at the woman in front of her, who was crying uncontrollably. The woman's tears of sorrow and despair fell from her face, tracing a series of short but beautiful trajectories in the air before landing heavily on the hard ground.

  I don't know when it started, but the vigilance and wildness in its eyes gradually turned into a deep and incomprehensible color, and its throat emitted a low hum.

  It lowered its head, with a complex gaze, looking at Lei Chen who was huddled together with the little wolf. In the suffocating tension that almost made Lei Chen's mother's heart jump out of her chest, it placed the tip of its nose on Lei Chen's face and gently rubbed against it. Perhaps feeling ticklish or liking the warm breath from the mother wolf's nostrils spraying onto his face, Lei Chen actually let out a laugh as simple as can be in this absolutely eerie moment, lying in the wolf den.

  Lei Zheng's mother bit her lip to death, using all her strength to prevent herself from making a frightened scream, because at this moment, the she-wolf actually opened its mouth and bit down on Lei Zheng. Lei Zheng had just passed his first birthday, let alone being bitten by the she-wolf's teeth that could crush a wooden stick, even if he was licked by the she-wolf's tongue that could scrape off all the meat residue from the bones, Lei Zheng couldn't bear it!

  In the end, the mother wolf bit her own cub that was rolling around with Lei Zheng, picked it up in her mouth and quietly retreated to the right, backing away a few steps.

  Lei Zheng's mother's body trembled non-stop, and under the village chief's indication, she carefully approached the wolf den with movements that would not provoke the wolf, looking at a person lying in the wolf den, who had no playmates and was already dissatisfied, seeming to be on the verge of crying. When her hands finally held the child who had been lost for over ten days but then found again, she savored the touching feeling between mother and son connected by blood, experiencing the complex emotions that had reached an extreme after a series of twists and turns. Lei Zheng's mother really went crazy.

  At this time, the mother who had experienced great joys and sorrows in life, and had made an absolute effort to find her son, tightly hugged her son, and facing the she-wolf standing by, kept repeating the same sentence: "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you..."

  The mother wolf was quietly lying there, quietly gazing at the child being held in its mother's arms after being struck by lightning. In its eyes, a light flickered that could be called "sadness" from a human perspective.

  The village head stopped the villagers who were holding various weapons and wanted to rush into the valley to hunt down the mother wolf. In the midst of everyone's cheers, Lei Zheng's mother finally managed to force a smile on her face, and she could finally take her son home. Not far from walking, she suddenly heard a villager's exclamation: "Look, that mother wolf hasn't given up yet, it's following us!"

  "Don't worry," the village chief said, taking a glance at the mother wolf following far behind everyone. He let out a soft sigh and continued, "If it can return the child to you, it won't take them back again. It's probably reluctant to part with Lei Zheng, wanting to see us off, after all, it has been nursing Lei Zheng for so long."

  In this way, the mother wolf followed the villagers and Lei Zheng's mother all the way to the entrance of Xiaoshan Village before walking away alone.

  After a few days, on one night, Leizhen's mother suddenly heard a sound similar to knocking at the door outside. When she lit the oil lamp and put on her clothes to open the door, she was surprised to find that the person who knocked on the door had disappeared, but under the door frame, there was an additional wild rabbit with several tooth marks on its throat, and its body was still slightly convulsing.

  Every few days, different game would be delivered to her doorstep, and without exception, each of the animals had several deep bite marks on their necks.

  Faced with this situation, the village chief said to Leizhen's mother: "It seems that the female wolf really regards Leizhen as her own cub. She is worried and afraid that the child will go hungry!"

  Looking at the child in her arms, who seemed to have lost a few pounds for no reason, Lei Zheng's mother showed a bitter smile on her face. Her husband had died young, and the pressure of life had already affected her physical health. With two daughters, she was forced to wander around every day, and after constant beatings, she could no longer breastfeed Lei Zheng.

  A one-year-old child can only drink porridge made from a mixture of wheat flour and corn flour every day, how can Lei Zheng not lose weight quickly?

  The village chief, who had already roughly guessed the reason for the matter, silently shook his head.

  As night fell again, a wild wolf with its mouth full of prey quietly slipped into the front of a mud-brick house in a small mountain village. It put down the prey in its mouth and, as it stood up on its hind legs, used its forepaws to scratch at the tightly closed wooden door. To its surprise, the door that should have been tightly shut was pushed open by it.

  A head with a hint of suspicion and anticipation slowly made its way through the door, its two eyes emitting a faint green glow in the dark space. Soon, its attention was drawn to Lei Zhen lying on the kang, and it involuntarily walked to his front.

  When it poked its nose and gently rubbed against Lei Zheng's face, Lei Zheng, who was still asleep, let out a soft "heh heh" laugh. When something soft was stuffed into his mouth, Lei Zheng instinctively began to suck hard, savoring the long-forgotten sweetness and fragrance, causing him to stretch out both arms and tightly hug the thing that had been brought to his lips, sucking even harder.

  The mother wolf stayed in the room belonging to humans, and her animal instincts clearly told her that there were human beings in another small room of this mud-brick house, who were even secretly watching her. This feeling made the mother wolf uneasy all over, but looking at Lei Chen tightly hugging herself and making an effort to suckle, she finally chose to quietly lie down beside Lei Chen until he had enough milk and was full, then jumped down from the kang, looked at the door curtain of the small compartment that had not been lifted with complex eyes, and without making a sound, slipped through the gap in the door and disappeared into the distance, immersed in the black vast wilderness.

  Lei Zheng's mother walked out of the compartment, accompanied by two wide-eyed little girls. Under the faint moonlight filtering through the window, Lei Zheng's mother looked at him with a complex gaze, his face full of satisfaction and sound asleep. She gently wiped away a milk stain from the corner of his mouth, and after a long silence, she whispered: "Son, remember, from today on, you have two mothers now. She is also your mother, your wolf mother!"