Sixty years ago, there were only about 30 households in Litun, but there were hundreds of wild wolves active in the surrounding area, which often entered and left the village, attacked the sheep and disturbed the villagers...
During the Great Leap Forward, all the tun laborers, including women, had to wear stars and moons to do farm work, and villager Wang's sister-in-law tied her unattended three-year-old child to the window frame every day before leaving the field. One evening, a wolf broke into the yard, two paws lying on the windowsill, and poked a big hole in the horse manure paper window with his mouth, and the child was frightened and cried. Uncle Sun, a neighbor, heard the rush to come and see, and seeing this, he slammed the pig's food bowl with the crutch in his hand, and shouted loudly. The wolf looked back at the old man, and walked out of the courtyard with steady steps without hurry. The poor child was even frightened by hunger and fainted on the kang, and later left with neurasthenic sequelae, and affected his physical development, and he never grew tall.
Villager Chen Degui makes a living by walking village alleys, sharpening scissors and grabbing kitchen knives. One evening he went to the loess pit of Laoguan Road and sat down to smoke and rest, and two hungry wolves pounced on him, he threw the tobacco bag pot, took scissors and stabbed a wolf into the shoulder blade, and the wolf fell immediately; Another wolf pounced on him again, and before he could draw scissors, he choked the neck of the wolf with his bare hands. When the people arrived, he was seen lying with the wolf, his hand was still on the wolf's neck, the wolf was strangled, he fainted and was rescued by the villagers who rushed in.
In those years, the lives and property of the villagers were threatened by wild wolves. The sheepfold of the production team was attacked by wolves, and forty or fifty sheep would die in one shot. The wolf entered the flock and bit to death one by one, putting them down one by one, until they bit the breeding sheep, I don't know if it was the smell or some other reason. If the wolf sees a sheep running alone, it will pounce, bite the neck of the sheep, and then throw it on its backbone, find a hidden place and eat the sheep.
Local people talk about wolves changing color, but wolves do not hurt people as long as they have enough food. One summer day in July 1967, the county town organized a propaganda team to go to the countryside to perform, several carriages in the village put together as a stage, villagers gathered around the courtyard to watch the show, everyone concentrated on watching the vigorous childhood, villager Liu De turned back and found that there were two wolves sitting straight behind the crowd, also watching the show with interest, he jumped up from the stool in fright and shouted, the crowd exploded, and the wolf turned around and walked away in small steps, and from time to time looked back at the stage and the crowd, it seemed a little reluctant.
Every year, before Xiaoman, the village friends go to the river in groups of three or five to hunt birds. Once, seven or eight children came to the river with iron clamps, and buried the birds' clamps one by one around the puddle, so busy that no one noticed that two wolves were basking in the sun on the other side of the river, which was only four or five meters wide. The children buried their clamps and looked up to see the wolf, everyone ran away, ran more than ten meters away and looked back, and the two wolves lazily moved away.
In the early sixties, there was such an amazing scene on the old pass road, two kilometers east of Litundong: the migration of hundreds of wolves. At sunrise on this day, the head wolf appeared, followed by a wolf with a wolf's tail on his head in a line and marched forward, they walked leisurely until after sunset, the wolf's team disappeared into the twilight. Some people have analyzed that the reason for the large-scale migration of wolves may be the increase in the residential population, and when the harvest is poor, the livestock is reduced, and the wolves do not have enough to eat.