2 Food

◎Suddenly, she felt a pain in her head, and instantly felt dizzy. Her entire body lost balance and fell backwards.◎

After the lion finished drinking the water and turned away, the animals that were sure there was no danger came back one after another.

The gazelles had already surrounded her and didn't take her seriously. After all, even if she was a carnivore, she was too small now and couldn't cause much harm to them.

Qiao Jinnian smiled bitterly and shook his head, then he followed their example and lay down by the river. He really wanted to lower his head and drink a sip of the river water, but he couldn't get over the thought in his heart.

Won't there be parasites after drinking this water?

After drinking enough water, the animals left and went to the grassland to graze.

Qiao Jinnian observed for a while and saw some animals eating a kind of white flower. Thinking that flowers were better than grass, at least they should be able to fill their stomachs, she followed them and picked flowers to eat.

After a long time of effort, Qiao Jinnian finally climbed under the tree and found that the gazelles would lower their heads and eat the flowers that fell from the tree. The reason why the flowers fell was that many birds ate the center of the flowers and threw the rest down the tree.

Qiao Jinnian had no choice but to pick up the petals and eat them, as at least this thing was not poisonous.

She smacked her lips. The taste had a floral fragrance, but overall it was bitter. However, she had no choice but to swallow it because she seemed to have no teeth yet...

Yes, she just realized that she didn't even have teeth, so God must have been testing her on purpose. Throwing such a small child like her into this grassland full of dangers, wasn't it a punishment for her?

But since it has come to this, she has no choice but to live well. Just like she said in her previous life, as long as she has a healthy body, then everything is worth it.

After swallowing about ten flowers, Qiao Jinnian's burning stomach finally subsided.

The gazelles were eating the flowers on the ground in big mouthfuls while looking at her with their big eyes. It seemed that they were still somewhat interested in her, after all, they had never seen her before.

Now that he saw that she was eating flowers like him, he seemed to have finally confirmed that she was also a herbivore. His attitude became more intimate, and he even moved closer to her and came over to get close to her.

So, Qiao Jinnian tentatively raised her hand and touched his head, and he didn't mind.

However, the sky was once again covered by dark clouds, and it seemed that it would start raining at any time. So Qiao Jinnian had to quickly leave the dark clouds and climb to a dry place.

It seems that it rains here every day, with thunderous roars, but it stops after about an hour or two each time. Moreover, it only rains on one side while the other side remains dry.

To return to the bushes where he came from, he would have to pass by the tree where the lion was resting. Qiao Jinnian was not afraid now, after all, he had already proved that he was not on the lion's menu.

Of course, she didn't see the lion eating, but every time he came back, he would go to sleep. He must have eaten outside before coming back.

Qiao Jinnian found a comfortable piece of grass for herself, lay down and fell asleep to keep her energy up. She decided to continue looking for food tomorrow.

Perhaps because there is a top predator here, Qiao Jinnian always feels that the surroundings are quiet. Therefore, because of this lion, she feels very safe here.

Children are prone to sleepiness, and she slept for an eternity. Unfortunately, this time she woke up earlier than usual because she was awakened by hunger...

When she opened her eyes, it was still dark. She looked down at the grassland in the distance. The red light before sunrise illuminated the sky, forming a natural red curtain. Next to this curtain, there was a tree standing there alone. The grassland was extremely vast, and the scenery was so beautiful.

Soon after, the sun slowly rose, like a huge egg yolk, dyeing the sky golden. In the middle of this golden curtain, a black silhouette suddenly appeared.

It was the huge lion, walking towards this side slowly and steadily. At this moment, Qiao Jinnian was suddenly not afraid of him at all, because he looked very lonely at this moment, just like her now.

Not knowing what happened to him, Qiao Jinnian felt that she felt loneliness and depression from him, although there was no expression on his lion face.

Qiao Jinnian remembered that top predators like lions usually move around at night. Because the temperature is too high during the day, they sleep and rest under the shade of trees all day in order to maintain their physical strength.

He didn't sleep, but lay on the ground, looking into the distance, and from time to time lowered his head to lick his huge front paws.

The fiery red sunlight was reflected in his golden lion eyes. At this time, his ears would twitch slightly, and he would vigilantly observe the movements around him.

However, he obviously did not notice that there was a human cub next to him.

Qiao Jinnian didn't know what was happening to her, and she slowly crawled to his side.

To be honest, he smelled a bit smelly, like blood, the smell of not having taken a bath for a long time, and also the peculiar smell of a lion.

It was still dark, and she had no way to go out and look for food. She could only watch the grassland become full of life again in the morning light, very bored, and then she would set out again to look for something to eat.

"Gurgle, gurgle—" Qiao Jinnian's stomach rumbled again at an inopportune moment.

Sure enough, the sound was so clear in the quiet morning, but the lion didn't care at all.

Just as she thought, he was completely indifferent to her existence, just like a human seeing a moth flying by, harmless and indifferent.

Originally, Qiao Jinnian was worried that he had disturbed the lion's observation of his surroundings and would cause his dissatisfaction, but he lowered his head and continued to lick his big paws.

Qiao Jinnian has never kept a pet because her mother said that pet fur is bad for her health. She has only seen real lions in videos.

Now, next to her lay a real lion, a huge, majestic lion with a black mane, even bigger than she had imagined, weighing several hundred pounds. She was so small in front of him that she could be ignored, probably no bigger than his front paws.

Not attracting any attention, Qiao Jinnian lay aside and carefully observed the lion's body. He found a huge scar near the spine, which must have been caused by a bite from another animal.

She really wanted to reach out and touch him, and ask him if it hurt, but unfortunately, she couldn't speak the lion's language, and she hadn't grown teeth yet, so she probably couldn't even speak human language. At the moment, she probably only had the skills of crying and laughing.

The birds began to chirp and sing, and the grassland became lively again, a scene full of vitality.

Qiao Jinnian planned to go to a tree farther away today to see if there was anything to eat. She remembered that the fruits on some trees were edible.

But when people want to part with friends, do they have to say goodbye?

So, she believed that humans are polite animals, so she crawled in front of the lion, looked at him and said, "I'm going to find something to eat. I'll be back soon. Bye!"

After he finished speaking, Qiao Jinnian realized that he really couldn't speak. The words he spoke had strange pronunciation and articulation, but fortunately, he was a lion and couldn't understand Chinese anyway.

Hearing her sudden sound, the lion raised its head and looked at her, its ears twitching, obviously because it heard her talking, and then it ignored her, apparently treating her as air again, except that this time the air still made sounds.

Qiao Jinnian ignored him and just climbed hard towards the tree in the distance. That tree looked completely different from the one here. Maybe there was something edible there.

While climbing, she was thinking that since they all knew each other, it was not polite to always call him Lion. So, she should give him a name. Forget it, the English word "Lion" is pronounced "Lion", so she might as well call him Ryan. It is simple and easy to understand, and she is the only one who knows this name anyway.

Ryan, Ryan, she repeated it in her mind a few times and thought that the name sounded okay.

She found that her eyesight was not very good, probably because she was a baby. It took her several hours to finally climb to the tree. She found that there were many plants dropped in the air on the tree, which looked edible.

She wasn't sure, but she saw the bird eating it, so she picked one up from the ground. Unfortunately, she had no teeth and couldn't bite it.

He picked up a slightly pointed branch from the ground, poked the bark open a little, and sucked the juice out directly with his mouth.

The taste is a little sweet, but very light, similar to a non-spicy radish. In short, it is edible.

In order to survive, she sat under the tree and kept peeling and sucking the bark.

In fact, what she did was very dangerous. After all, this place was too far away from Ryan, and other dangerous animals might come and eat her as food.

Fortunately, she ate for several hours and didn't see any dangerous animals, only a small insect bite that left a bruise on her.

After a while, there were a few more monkeys on the tree. They were unusual monkeys with black and white hair. They were sitting on the tree and eating fruits.

Just like the gazelle, the monkeys began to observe her sitting under the tree while eating, to confirm whether she was of the same kind as them. Seeing that she was eating the fallen fruit, they ignored her and continued to hold the fruit and chew it.

Qiao Jinnian's mouth was tired from eating so much. Looking at the fruit that was full of holes from her sucking, she was speechless. She wondered whether she should find another fruit to take back as a reserve food. After all, it was not easy to come here.

She now regards the lion's territory as her home, because it is safe with the lion there, and that is where she came from.

She raised her head and wanted to see if there was any way to get another one down. The one she had just picked up was gone on the ground, and they were all hanging on the tree.

As she was looking around, she suddenly felt a pain on her head. She felt dizzy and lost her balance, falling backwards.

His forehead hurt so much that Qiao Jinnian reached out and touched his head, only to find a big swelling.

She was lying on the ground, and when she looked up, she met the eyes of a black and white monkey.

The monkey had just thrown a fruit and hit her on the head. It looked a little guilty, and after making a frightened cry, it quickly shrank back, jumped from one tree to another, and ran away quickly.

The other monkeys also looked at her. One of them, holding a fruit, quickly jumped onto another tree and ran away.

Qiao Jinnian: "..."

Touching the big bump on her head again, she had to put the fruit in her pocket and go back, otherwise it would be very dangerous here when it gets dark.

By the time she returned to Ryan's tree, Qiao Jinnian was exhausted. It turned out that it was better for people to walk upright. It was too tiring to walk like this. She even suspected that her knees would fail prematurely.

"I'm back, Ryan!" Qiao Jinnian talked to Ryan to herself.

He ignored her, but he didn't yell at her either, and that was enough.

Qiao Jinnian returned to his own bush, put the fruit behind him, and fell asleep.

However, in the middle of the night, she suddenly felt a cramp in her abdomen, which was so painful that she broke out in a cold sweat. She struggled to get up and found a place to solve the problem.

After the problem was solved, Qiao Jinnian began to wonder if the fruit was poisonous, because she was obviously having diarrhea...