There is a famous Saint Bernard monastery at the foot of the Swiss Alps. The abbot of the monastery, old Fantis, is a learned and kind man. He has been engaged in charity all his life. He domesticated a life-saving dog with great height and strength, which was used to rescue people in distress when climbing and skiing. This life-saving dog weighs 80 Jin and is as black as charcoal. It was named Heilao. In the season when mountains are closed by heavy snow, people are often in distress in the mountains. Whenever Elder Fantis received a distress report, he put a food bag around Heilao's neck-it contained spirits, sausages, bread and other things, and let him smell the clothes of people in distress. Black old man ran into the mountain and tracked the smell of people until he found someone in distress. The victim saw the black old man as if he had met a savior. They used spirits to drive away the cold and wipe frostbite, and sausage bread to satisfy their hunger. Then Lao Hei led them out of the jungle and headed for St Bernard Abbey. If the person in distress can't walk, there are pens and paper in the bag with black belt. If the person in distress writes down the location, the black belt will be taken out and the ambulance personnel will rush to the scene. In the past few years, Black Lao has saved forty people. Very famous
It is a cold winter, and the Alps are covered with snow. Amateur mountaineer Watson disappeared in a small avalanche. Simon, director of the mountaineering club, took off a shirt before Watson entered the mountain and hurried to the elder Fontys for help. Elder Vantis immediately found the black mongoose, fed it three pounds of milk and three pounds of beef, and let it smell Watson's shirt. Heiliao knows all this. It stood in front of the elder, who personally hung the life-saving bag. Seeing that he was tied up, the black man squatted in front of his elders and stared at his master with wet eyes, looking serious and solemn. The elder kissed him like a warrior of death, hugged him, and made a cross on Hei Lao's nose according to the religious ceremony, wishing him a smooth expedition and a safe journey. The elder stretched out his hand with a gold ring on the cross, and the black old man put his hand over his nose and kissed it. Finally, the elder waved and said, "Go, son! This is the forty-first one! "
The black mongoose, like a bolt of black lightning, quickly shot into the snowy Alps. As usual, he is full of confidence in his task. The ancestor of this tenacious and brave purebred dog is a wolf. Its muscles are full of strength and its blood is full of the impulse to fight. It climbed up the rock, jumped over the gully, and under the guidance of smell information, it rushed to Watson's distress site accurately.
The black mongoose climbed three snow barriers, followed the smell that only he could judge, and finally found the amateur mountaineer Watson.
Beside a snow-covered bush, hoods, snow goggles, walking crutches, food bags and map bags are scattered. Watson, the owner of these items, was buried in the snow. Snow covered his body and he lay on his back.
Lying down, showing only one face. The snow sprinkled on his face melted and covered with a thin layer of ice shell, like a thin layer of transparent plastic paper. He closed his mouth and white snow hung on his eyebrows.
Heiliao squatted beside Watson. It's him. It smells the same as his shirt just now. It has settled down and needs to have a rest. The black mongoose sticks out its red tongue and gives off all the heat. At the same time, he is looking forward to Watson getting up, as usual, letting the people in distress take out the food in his life-saving bag, fill their stomachs, restore their strength, and follow him back.
The mongoose slowed down, but Watson didn't want to get up. It walked around Watson three times and began to arch the snow. Watson's huge body emerged from the snow and supported it. It grabbed Watson's trouser leg and dragged it forward for a foot, but he still didn't respond at all. Heiliao leaned up to Watson's nose and sniffed for a while. Suddenly he had a brainwave, stuck out his tongue and licked his face, and a biting cold spread from his tongue to his heart. It will lick the snow off Watson's eyebrows, melt the ice on his face, and then retract his tongue to accumulate heat. Black Lao has encountered many situations in 40 life-saving activities and is extremely sensitive to the subtle reactions of people in distress. Its cold tongue sticks out after it warms in the mouth and sticks tightly to Watson's face. It knows very well in its heart. As long as Watson wakes up, everything will be fine.
Watson collapsed in hunger and thirst, and lost consciousness under the condition of unable to struggle. Now, the heat of the black mongoose is transferred to his head through his tongue, which stimulates the brain nerves. He regained consciousness and gradually opened his eyes. Realizing this subtle change, Black Old retracted his tongue and stared at Watson seriously, just like a doctor saving a life and staring at a patient who was saved from death by him. Black Lao became happy and scratched the snow in his chest with his front paws.
Watson couldn't turn his stiff neck or open his eyes completely. His first thought was-Wolf! A long wolf face was half a foot away from his eyes, and he almost smelled the wolf's breath. He did smell a unique smell of wolves. Watson almost fainted from fright. He knows the nature of wolves. Aren't some hunters, herbalists and explorers eaten by wolves in the mountains? When the avalanche happened, all the cysts on his body were removed, and only a sharp dagger was tightly held in his hand. Now facing new dangers, forcing him to save all his strength, draw out his right arm covered with snow, raise a sharp dagger, and stab Haven in the chest with a cold light of "brush". ...
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Watson's misunderstanding made him make a mistake that he regretted for life.
Black liao eyeball straight spinning, in the case of unsuspecting suddenly suffered a fatal blow. This is something it has never encountered in previous life-saving activities, and it is also unexpected. In an instant, it understood what was happening in front of it. A sharp pain made it let out a wild and rough roar, which echoed deeply in the Alps valley.
The black mongoose jumped aimlessly around Watson, and the blood drops dyed the snow red. It was depressed, resentful, angry and painful, and the snowflakes splashed on its four feet sprinkled on Watson's expressionless face.
Suddenly, it spins, with red eyes, grinding hard palate, opening its mouth wide, revealing two sharp white canine teeth. Jumped at Watson's throat ... However, Black Lao suddenly stopped at Watson's chest, closed his mouth, and the fierce light in his eyes gradually dispersed. At this time, it suddenly felt a strong feeling. I hope to go back to its owner, old Vantiss. It stumbled along the route and walked to St. Bernard Abbey without looking back, dripping with blood. ...
Old Fantis finished his evening prayers and waited for Heilao to come back. Suddenly, there was a slight intermittent knock at the door, as if something was scratching. He opened the door, and with a bang, Heiliao rushed at him and fell at his feet. Blood was dripping on the ground, and blood dripped on the snow outside the door, extending into the distance. The elder was stunned. He immediately realized that the black mongoose had suffered misfortune, so he squatted down to turn it over and pulled out the dagger on its chest. Watson's name is engraved on the handle of this exquisite Finnish knife. The old man sat on the ground with tears in his eyes. Watson! Damn Watson! Watson is in distress! Didn't the nigger come to save you? How could you have the heart to kill it? The elder immediately took off his holy robe, wrapped the black mongoose, picked up its soft and heavy body, and gently placed it on the sacred table in the monastery and temple. The monks added ten candles, and under the bright candlelight, the elders who are proficient in medicine looked at the injury of the black mongoose. The tip of the knife didn't touch the heart, just cut off the artery and blood almost came out.
The elder kissed Haven's face, and Haven's wet eyes looked at him transfixed, as if remembering his life in recent years, and two tears welled up. The elder stretched out his hand with a golden cross ring, and the black mongoose stuck out his tongue feebly to accept the caress of his master. He just moved his head gently, put his lips on the back of his elders' hands, breathed his last breath, gradually closed his eyes and stopped breathing.
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Simon, director of the Amateur Mountaineering Club, came in with several partners and asked for the third time about the rescue of Watson by Hei Lao. Elder Vantis grabbed Watson's dagger, which was still stained with the blood of the black mongoose, and threw it in front of the bearer, growling angrily: "Your Watson is a dog, and my black mongoose is a human. If you want to find your dog, follow the blood of my black mongoose! "
Simon, they are confused. The monks told them about the black mongoose. Simon led the crowd to the temple, took off his hat to pay tribute to the black mongoose, and then left despondently.
Simon, together with the blood spilled by the black mongoose in the snow, they saved Watson.
Elder Fontys decided to bury Heilao in the monk's graveyard. 4 1 rescuer, including Watson, made voluntary donations to build a decent grave and a big stone tablet for Hei Lao. The funeral was extremely grand. Black Liao was lying in a cedar coffin, covered with ice lotus, and forty-one rescued people came to attend the funeral. Elder Wantis led the monks to do a requiem mass for Hei Lao, and then pulled down the silk curtain on Hei Lao's tombstone, which was engraved with the words "Tomb of Hei Lao, Dog for Saving Life", as well as the date of birth and death of Hei Lao, and the tombstone was also engraved with the names of 4 1 victims he had saved. The last part of the tombstone is engraved with Watson's words-A.D. 198 1 65438+ 4: 00 p.m. On February 8, the famous life-saving dog Heilao went to the Cedar Valley in the Alps to save me. I raised my stupid knife in the twilight and ended this glorious life. Let me dedicate the English poet Byron's poem to it-you have all the virtues of human beings, but there are no human defects.