Covenant of the Wolf King

In the autumn of 1965, Meng Xiangxiang, a veteran of the reconnaissance company, returned to Qingfeng Village in Northeast China, where he became a mountain hunter under the guidance of the old hunter Meng Laoshuan. In this special era, he relied on the acumen of a scout and the wildness of a hunter to carve out a unique path of survival in the mountains and forests. The novel is one million words long, spanning from 1965 to 1978, and has gone through the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution and the great changes of the times. Meng Xiangxiang not only has to face the life-and-death threats of wild boars and black bears, but also establishes a unique alliance with "Old Hui", the wolf king of Qingfengling, that transcends species; he deals with three women with very different personalities - the gentle and tough Yue'e, the fierce and straightforward Cuihua, and the bold and persistent Xiufen. He has grown up from a hunter to a "villager", adhering to the advanced concept of "sustainable hunting" in the era of "man can conquer nature", and finally entered medical school during the wave of resumption of college entrance examinations, completing his transformation from a mountain hunter to an intellectual. The work combines Northeastern folk customs, hunting culture, legends of man and wolf, and the changes of the times. It depicts a man's long game with mountains and forests, with beasts, with women, and with fate in a cold yet tender style. The smoke of the shotgun, the desolation of the howling wolves, the warmth of the fire bed, and the coldness of the ice and snow are intertwined into a vast picture of the Northeast - this is an epic about survival, dignity and choice, and also the last hunter legend of an era.