13 Hatching Eggs

◎Because I have never seen this kind of operation before, it seems to be magical.◎

One of the baby elephants was killed, and the mother elephant was bound to take revenge, but just as she was rushing forward, she remembered her other child and slowed down her pace. She couldn't bear to lose another child.

Yes, if she went to seek revenge on the lions, the other lions would pounce on her and bite the other baby elephant to death.

Qiao Jinnian was very distressed when she saw this. On the one hand, she felt that the baby elephant was so pitiful and that the elephant mother must be very sad. On the other hand, she was afraid that the elephant mother would trample Ryan to death.

The final result was that the mother elephant had to leave with her other child.

The lions then began to eat the baby elephant on the spot.

This feeling was very complicated. After all, she was not an animal on this food chain, so of course she could stay out of it. But it was precisely because the lions could not find prey here that they targeted the lone elephant.

This scene looked too cruel. Qiao Jinnian didn't want to watch it anymore, so she asked the baboon leader to put her on the ground.

Feeling a little depressed, Qiao Jinnian knew that she had no right to interfere with the natural laws of the animal world. She was just a bystander who had strayed here.

No, perhaps as a member of the human race, humans are destroyers of nature. Without human destruction, nature would have its own complete ecosystem, and a balance would be maintained among all organisms.

Therefore, she should not interfere in the affairs of animals. Moreover, as a human cub, she might not even be able to survive without Ryan.

Ever since Ryan bit the cloth on her back, Qiao Jinnian has been looking for suitable plants nearby. She has never seen ramie, and she doesn't know if there are any plants in this grassland that are more suitable for making linen. Even if she finds one, she doesn't know what to do with it. She is confused and feels useless.

When Ryan came back, his stomach was full and he was obviously very satisfied with today's hunt. The baby elephant was just enough for the lions to eat.

With Ryan guarding the river, Qiao Jinnian finally dared to go further.

When she arrived at the river, she pulled up each plant to take a look, mainly to see how resilient they were.

Some well-fed baboons had nothing to do, so they came over to see what she was doing. They saw that she was just pulling out plants continuously. She had to struggle for a long time before she could pull out such a small plant by the roots. The baboons felt speechless and simply helped her pull it out.

"Thank you." Qiao Jinnian could only thank them.

As they walked further and further away, Qiao Jinnian said to Ryan, "Ryan, I want to go over there and take a look!"

Ryan came over slowly and carried her to explore further.

This is what they often do after dinner recently.

That day, Qiao Jinnian pulled out a plant. This plant had large leaves and yellow flowers, and there were many such plants in this area.

Qiao Jinnian wanted to break it, but it was not that easy, so she was a little skeptical that these plants could be used to make clothes.

Because of the drought, the plants were a little dried out. Qiao Jinnian peeled off the skin of the rhizome of the plant, and the material inside did look like hemp-like fibers, but she didn't know what to do with it. So she relied on her imagination and took the fibers back and spread them out in the sun to dry, hoping to see if they would be stronger.

The baboons thought this was an interesting job, and they all rushed over, shouting "Wow wow wow" and started pulling out the plants.

Even the ostriches came to see what they were doing.

Seeing that they really helped her a lot today, even though she herself didn't know whether it would succeed, she still wanted to grill fish for the baboons to express her gratitude.

However, today she did not see a single fish in the mud pond by the river.

The baboon leader also came over to look for fish. The water level in the riverbed had dropped, and it was clear at a glance that there were no fish in the river.

Strange, Qiao Jinnian thought about it carefully. The last time, the fish seemed to be burrowing into the soil on the shore, so, could the fish have burrowed into the soil?

So she started digging the soil on the shore with stones to see if the fish had gone in.

I heard that there is a kind of fish that wraps itself in mud and hides under the ground until the rainy season comes.

But this stone is not easy to use at all. Qiao Jinnian is a little depressed. She is really not good at anything and has no tools. If she can walk, at least her hands can be freed and she can do more work. For example, she can find a more handy tool.

Sighing, Qiao Jinnian thought that he was free anyway, so he calmed down and, with a feeling of Yugong moving mountains, slowly sat down by the river and dug the cracked ground.

Her hands were sore from digging, and she felt she couldn't go on like this, so she found a longer stick nearby and sharpened the front end of the stick with flint. Sure enough, it was more suitable than the short stone.

Seeing her digging here, the baboons lost interest and ran away long ago. But when they saw her using stones to carve sticks, they became interested again, because they had never seen such an operation before and it seemed very magical.

She kept digging until she reached a depth of about 30 centimeters. She actually dug out a fish wrapped in mud. The fish's body was folded up, with its tail and head pressed together.

The baboons were stunned, even Ryan was surprised.

This fish is the same one we saw last time. It has a very long body. It turns out that the fish was just about to burrow into the soil.

Without saying a word, Qiao Jinnian quickly went to light a fire, prepare the fish, and start grilling it.

This time, she roasted it better than last time, at least there was no burnt part. She broke off a piece for herself and gave the rest to the baboon leader, letting him divide it.

Now she mainly drinks milk and eats fruit. She can also occasionally eat some fish that does not require much chewing. At least the nutrition is acceptable.

The baboons had a very strong learning ability. After seeing her dig out the fish with their own eyes, they actually taught themselves and dug out another fish and brought it to her to grill.

Qiao Jinnian was already quite free, so he sat aside and slowly grilled the fish.

In fact, she was a little worried that she would disrupt the baboons' diet. They mostly ate fruits. For example, she recently learned to eat a kind of red fruit with them.

When she first arrived at the grassland, she saw the bright red fruits, but she didn't dare to eat them.

At first, the baboons did not eat the fruits when they came. However, recently the fruits turned yellow and burst open, so the baboons started to pick the fruits and eat them. Then she also started to hit the fruits with her slingshot and eat them.

She suspected that the baboons didn't eat the fruits before because they were poisonous when they were not ripe and could only be eaten after they were ripe. This was what she learned from the baboons. In short, her diet expanded by one more category.

The two sides get along very happily. These baboons, who are considered very cruel in outside legends, are actually very smart and studious, and they also admire the strong.

Lions and baboons have always been enemies, but Ryan gets along with these baboons in harmony and ignores each other.

On the contrary, she, a human who was mistaken for a lion cub, got along well with the baboons.

The ostriches also seemed to have adapted to the environment here. Qiao Jinnian had never known which ones were male and which ones were female. However, after a few months, she saw that except for the one with black feathers, the other five ostriches had all laid eggs!

Qiao Jinnian: "..."

So, she finally knew that only one of these ostriches was a male, and the others were his wives.

I don’t know what to say. They really started to treat this place as their home. It hasn’t been long and they started hatching eggs.

However, what is gratifying is that Qiao Jinnian saw with his own eyes one night that the female ostrich was incubating the eggs during the day, and the male ostrich would take turns incubating the eggs at night. Fortunately, he is still a good father.

The female ostrich lays a new egg every two days. The ostrich father and mother look very busy, eating and laying eggs every day.

Qiao Jinnian's main activity lately has been to watch ostriches hatching eggs.

However, some of the ostrich eggs had a foul smell, and Qiao Jinnian thought they must be rotten eggs.

After more than a month, the ostrich father and mother incubated the eggs separately. Many eggs rotted prematurely, and only a part of them were successfully hatched into baby ostriches.

Strangely enough, the baboons didn't steal the ostrich eggs. Qiao Jinnian remembered seeing a video saying that animals often steal ostrich eggs to eat, but she went to check every day, and except for the rotten eggs, the number of eggs was not less at all.

She was puzzled and could only think that there was a huge lion group here. Maybe the lions were guarding here, so it was safer.

In that case, when food is scarce during the dry season, lions do not target ostriches, but instead attack larger and more difficult to hunt giant animals.

She turned her head and looked at Ryan who was sleeping soundly under the tree. Could it be because of Ryan?

Perhaps, Ryan thought these ostriches were her pets?

Ahem, Qiao Jinnian felt that she seemed to have taken things for granted. How could a lion have such complicated thoughts? Maybe they were just too lazy to fight with the ostrich. The ostrich's toes were really powerful, and they were so hairy, and there wasn't much meat, so they didn't want to eat them.

The little ostrich doesn't need any help. It pecks the eggshell into pieces bit by bit and crawls out by itself. It's so tiny.

Newly hatched ostriches can eat with their mother and are very easy to raise.

Qiao Jinnian tentatively tried to touch the little ostrich, and the mother ostrich wouldn't peck her. These little ostriches looked like ducklings, but they were much bigger than ducklings. They walked in a wobbly manner, which was very cute.

Qiao Jinnian felt that life here was pretty good, mainly because she liked her neighbors very much. Seeing so many little friends being born at once made her feel much better.

The plants she had dried in the sun last time were torn into thin threads bit by bit while she was sitting by the river when she had nothing to do. The project was not large, but her strength and energy were limited, so it took her a full month to complete it.

So, next, she would start to weave cloth with these fine threads, but the question was how to weave?

At this moment, she felt a little regretful that she did not specifically look up these wilderness survival skills when she watched those videos.