In 2017, a documentary called "Return to the Wolves" went viral, telling the true story of a beautiful painter Li Weiyi living with a steppe wolf, Green.
In human cognition, the wolf is a beast with a ferocious nature and extremely difficult to coexist with, but why is this wolf named Green always docile like a sensible child in front of Li Weiyi?
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" Data-track="7" > grassland and resolutely saved each other</h1>
When he first met the little wolf cub, Li Weiyi was only in his early twenties. Fang Hua zhengmao, red dress flowing, is a small and famous young painter.
In 2010, she came to the Ruoerge steppe alone to sketch. During a conversation with a local herder, she stumbled upon an orphaned wolf cub nearby.
It was the time of the wolf cub, when her father was beaten to death for stealing sheep, and her mother was quickly martyred for eating poisonous meat that people fed.
Of the nest of little wolf cubs left waiting to be fed, it was the only one that survived.
After hearing this tragic story, Li Weiyi, who naturally likes animals, inquired several times and found the herdsman's family who temporarily adopted this "little orphan".
At this time, the little one who has just been born for more than ten days is already dying.
"Baby, baby wolf!" No matter how Li Weiyi called, the little guy did not respond.
Looking at the frail little life in front of her, she racked her brains and learned the howl of a she-wolf.
Unexpectedly, the little wolf heard this wolf howl, and his ears suddenly jumped, and he immediately stumbled towards Li Weiyi's arms, as if her arms were the warmest place in the world.
Perhaps humans and animals are naturally connected, and at this moment, Li Weiyi made a "crazy" decision: she wanted to bring the little wolf back to her apartment in Chengdu to raise him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="9" > take good care of and stimulate nature</h1>
The matter of bringing back a wolf privately, Li Weiyi did not discuss it with anyone in advance. In order not to frighten her parents, she hid the little wolf in the painting room of the garden on the roof.
The little one who had just arrived in the new environment seemed to know her worries, and hid under the bed all day long, only to hear her call before quietly coming out.
But the good times were not long, and one day when Li Weiyi came home, he saw that the puppy of the family was leading his mother to the bed where the little wolf was hiding.
The puppy sniffed left and right, and suddenly barked at the bed under the bed.
Li Weiyi was shocked, and hurried forward to stop his mother who wanted to open the bed to find out, and took advantage of the excuse to take the mother and the dog out.
Suddenly, Li Weiyi knew that the little wolf could not stay here for a long time, so he took it to her boyfriend Yifeng's home. Unsurprisingly, Yi Feng reacted very strongly after learning the details, and resolutely disagreed with his girlfriend's introduction of wolves into the house.
But after listening to Li Weiyi's narration, he was deeply moved by the story of the little wolf and finally agreed to her idea.
In this way, under the joint upbringing of the two, the little wolf grew up very quickly. They named the little wolf "Green", the English consonant "green", which translates to green, in the hope that it will remember the colors of the grassland in life.
Li Weiyi treated Green as if he were his own child, staying by his side every day whenever he had time, bathing and combing his hair, playing with it, and often taking him to the roof to bask in the sun.
For the sake of Little Green's health, all nutritious foods such as meat, rice, and calcium tablets, Li Weiyi will buy it for him without hesitation.
As time passed, Green grew up peacefully in Yifeng's home, and his favorite thing was that his two owners played with him.
Sometimes when playing rises, the little guy will roll on the ground and sprinkle joy, showing his belly to let Li Weiyi and Yi Feng touch it to show absolute trust in them.
However, something worrying happened.
One day in May 2010, Li Weiyi accidentally cut his hand while cooking, and for a while the blood flowed non-stop, drilling heart-like pain.
Green sensed the strange appearance of his master and immediately came up to care for her affectionately.
And when the nose smelled blood, Green's eyes suddenly opened, as if greatly stimulated, and it began to lick the blood on Li Weiyi's hand excitedly, and the green light in his pupils continued to flicker.
Seeing Green's violent reaction, Li Weiyi was stunned, and the uneasiness in his heart suddenly increased, although he was usually very careful and never fed raw food to Green, he still could not block the bloodthirsty nature of the wolf clan.
Green did not belong to human beings, if he continued to feed in this way, he was afraid that he would destroy his nature, which was absolutely unacceptable to Li Weiyi, and all life should be respected and free.
The incident sounded a wake-up call for the two, and for safety reasons, Yifeng proposed to send Green to the local zoo.
However, when they went to the zoo to investigate, they found that the living environment there was too oppressive and lacked freedom, which was not conducive to Green's mental development.
For the next period of time, they inquired around and finally decided to send Green back to the Sorgey steppe, back among the wolves.
At this time, Green was only three months old, and due to the lack of personal education of the she-wolf, many survival skills lagged behind the cubs of the same age, and it was difficult to protect them from bullying after returning to the wolf pack.
Therefore, Li Weiyi made up his mind to personally cultivate Green to learn to survive, and step by step to stimulate his hunting nature.
She often took Green to the deserted suburbs, tied live chickens with ropes, and guided Green to hunt;
At home, she let Green bite, roll, and even be scratched many times, and insisted on not cutting the little guy's sharp nails;
She also accompanied Green to watch documentaries about wolves, imitating various wolf calls while watching them, in order to enlighten Green's sense of identification with the matriarch.
Under the unremitting efforts of Li Weiyi, Green's nature was gradually awakened, and every night when it was quiet, the balcony always heard the howl of Green's crazy wolf, and the miserable cry was clearly mixed with loneliness.
Li Weiyi knew in his heart that the time had come.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="11" > adapted to the grassland and returned to the wolf pack</h1>
In July 2010, Green returned to his hometown of Ruoerge Grassland.
The little guy left the grassland for a long time, and Li Weiyi was not sure that it would return directly to the wolves, so he first took it to live in the local Tibetan mastiff farm.
At the beginning, Green was always bullied by the Tibetan mastiffs with a blue nose and swollen face, Li Weiyi looked at them one by one, but she couldn't bear to help, she knew that this was the experience that Green had to face.
Sure enough, little Green didn't disappoint her.
On a scorching summer day, Green dug a sloping hole in the grass facing north and south, and the cave was so cool and comfortable that the sunlight could not shine directly.
The afternoon sun was scorching hot, and Green, who had been staying in the cave to recuperate, calculated the timing, taking advantage of the Tibetan mastiff's efforts to drink water to cool down, an arrow rushed out to overturn the basin of water and take it away, the Tibetan mastiff was anxious and angry, barking and chasing after it, Green flexibly ran back to the original cave to hide.
The bulky Tibetan mastiff saw that he could not squeeze into the hole, so he had to give up.
After several times of this, the Tibetan mastiff was played hot and thirsty by Green, and finally bowed to the wind and never dared to bully Green again.
With the arrival of autumn, Green has also entered adulthood, and at seven months it has become a strong and majestic male wolf.
After a heavy snowfall, Li Weiyi left the mastiff farm with Green and went to the depths of the grassland to look for wolves.
Due to the deteriorating weather conditions, Li Weiyi lacked enough food and cold supplies, and soon fell ill, so he had to return to the original mastiff farm for a while, leaving Green to continue to search for wolves, which was a few days.
One day, Li Weiyi was lying on the bed, when she suddenly heard a strange noise at the window, she struggled to support herself and sat up, and saw that Green was trying to hold the window and try to drill into the house.
After not seeing him for several days, Li Weiyi looked at Green in shock, and thoughts and worries surged into his heart, and he had mixed feelings for a while.
Green also quieted down, looking at his master's haggard countenance, as if he understood something, and after turning away for ten minutes, he grabbed a hare and put it by the window.
It turned out that it thought that the owner lacked food to look intimidated, so it did not hesitate to give the owner the food it had painstakingly found in the ice and snow.
After the Spring Festival in 2011, Li Weiyi, who had just recovered from a long illness, went out to look for Green to see how his "son" was doing.
This was the longest time they had been separated, and Li Weiyi was full of worry, calling Green's name as he walked. Soon, a gray shadow crossed the mountain beam and ran eagerly toward her.
It's Green! She couldn't help but shed tears and hugged Grimm's neck tightly and wept.
However, after a brief reunion, they are destined to face separation.
A few low howls came from the wolves in the distance, as if calling for their companions to go back.
Green hesitated, looking at the wolves, and then at Li Weiyi, who seemed very anxious.
Li Weiyi, who gradually calmed down, understood Green's embarrassment at this time, and she was fierce, grabbed a wooden stick in her hand, and drove Green away with tears.
But mother and son are deeply in love, And Green has just walked out not far away, and he reluctantly runs back to lick and kiss Li Weiyi.
After repeating this several times, Green finally disappeared into the end of the vast wilderness step by step.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="13" > bad news came unexpectedly</h1>
After returning to Chengdu, Li Weiyi could not let go of her thoughts about Green, she often asked people to inquire about Green's recent situation, and every year she would set aside time to return to the grassland and take a look at Green from a distance.
One morning in late 2014, Li Weiyi received news that Green had been arrested and was being chained and sold.
There was a roar in her head: Green grew up around humans, and he was not wary of humans, but he did not expect that this friendship endangered the life of the little one!
She told Yi Feng furiously, and the two of them immediately rushed to the Ruoerge Grassland. After coming to the scene, Li Weiyi breathed a sigh of relief, this wolf is not Green.
The two were then guided by the herdsmen and met Green, who had been separated for several months.
But to their surprise, Green did not pounce on them as gleefully as before, but instead took a half step back, his pointed ears stood vigilantly, his chest cavity was slightly undulating, and his dark green eyes were no longer clear, as if covered with a layer of muddy dust.
Li Weiyi was very surprised, how Green treated her so strangely now.
She didn't believe what was in front of her and hurried forward, trying to reassure Green as she had done before.
Who knew that Green had retreated one after another, never being close to her.
After questioning the locals, Li Weiyi learned that Green's two children, FuZai and Xiao Budian, had been killed not long ago.
It turned out that in recent years, the desertification of the land has become increasingly serious, and the Ruoerge grassland has also been unable to escape the doom of desertification. Gradually, the wildlife became homeless, and their tracks were completely exposed to the eyes of poachers.
As a result, one animal after another disappeared into the vast wilderness, including Grimm's children.
A dead cattle dealer told them that Fuzai had been beaten to death with a beating stick in order to protect his brother Xiao Budian, and that there were two lines of blood and tears in the corners of his eyes when he died.
Li Weiyi had mixed feelings in her heart, and she knew that her "son" Green was beginning to fear her.
Years apart, the feelings of the past have long been diluted by the years, until he saw the scene of the child being hunted and killed, and Green could no longer believe in humans.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="20" > to promote and speak out for love</h1>
After returning home, Li Weiyi could not wake up from his sadness for a long time.
After some discussion with Yifeng, she decided to make a documentary with Green as the protagonist to warn the world to love animals and respect nature.
They sorted through all the videos about Grimm on their phones, which took seven years to condense the more than 1,700 hours of material they collected into a 98-minute movie "Return to the Wolves.".
There is no professional team, no star special effects, the two sold the garage, day and night out to shoot themselves, just to give voice to the wild animals represented by Green.
On June 16, 2018, the movie "Return to the Wolves" was officially released nationwide.
Although the picture quality is rough and the material is single, every shot in the film directly hits the depths of people's hearts.
At the end of the film, the subtitle has only one sentence: "We can save a wolf, but can we change the fate of the wolf?" The audience burst into tears.
"Return to the Wolves" also conveys energy to readers in the form of books, which are divided into two parts.
In the second part, it is written that Green later became the Wolf King and had four children, but unfortunately only one daughter survived.
The Chinese words of the book vividly show the harmony and conflict between animals, nature and human beings, and deeply tap the hearts of readers.
Caring people want to donate money for Li Weiyi and the two, but they refuse, rather than material support, they hope to awaken the original intention of human beings to care for nature and respect life through movies.
The urban humans who live in reinforced concrete seem to have nothing to do with the wildlife of the distant grasslands, but now the convenience of science and technology has long bound us to the survival of wild animals.
Without buying and selling, there is no killing.
Today, Green is 11 years old, in order to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his return to the wolf pack, Youku launched the "10th Anniversary Edition of returning to the wolf pack", and more and more people followed the "wolf father" and "wolf mother" into Green's world.
With the efforts of Li Weiyi, the situation of wild animals has gradually improved, and the first wild wolf protection station in China, the "Ruoerge Wolf Ecological Protection Monitoring Station", was officially launched on July 29, 2020.
According to statistics, the local regional wolf pack has recovered to 200.
In the face of the interview, Li Weiyi shed tears: "Ten years, this road is really difficult. ”
She misses Grimm now: "Grimm, I want to hug you." If one day, Mom can hug you again, I hope that my call will no longer be forced, your eyes will no longer be entangled, and Mom hopes that you and your child are laughing in my arms, not crying and moaning. ”
After the listing ended, Li Weiyi decided to see Green again.
Soon after, she was at the foot of Wolf Mountain, and when she saw a wolf coming towards her, she felt familiar, but she did not dare to recognize it.
Yi Feng suddenly shouted, "Grimm, Grimm." ”
Li Weiyi shook his head for a moment and also sang "Legend", which was her and Green's code.
Unexpectedly, the old wolf in the distance actually reacted, it got closer and closer, and after many years they recognized each other again in the grassland, tears in their eyes.
Green shows us that even naturally bloodthirsty animals have their own blood and dignity, and are even full of humanity.