Chapter 15: Picky Eater? It’s your fault if you let it go hungry…

After Song Keling resolved her "emotional" problems, she quickly got into the busy work of finishing the project.

As it turns out, she is indeed more suited to freedom.

Dating is a form of socializing. Although she doesn't reject or object to it, it does waste energy and time.

The disadvantages far outweigh the advantages for her.

After adding some filters, Xu Xinlei updated the platform's dynamics with a high-definition photo of the snake's front face.

Although the video of the little snake was successfully recorded, due to Song Keling's restrictions, it was only a few seconds from beginning to end. Even with repeated editing such as mirroring, cutting angles, etc., it was only about ten seconds long, which was not enough to make up a video.

But she wanted to continue the previous popularity.

So, I posted photos before posting videos.

After the afternoon class, Song Keling went to the cafeteria and ordered some tofu rice cake to take away.

This is one of the benefits of saving time on “socializing with people.”

She can pack her dinner and take it back to the dormitory to eat, and she can take care of the little snake while eating.

Instead of spending a long time sitting in the cafeteria, eating and answering questions that sound insignificant and irrelevant.

Song Keling happened to meet Zhu Caixia while waiting for her meal in the second cafeteria.

Why do I say coincidence? Because the afternoon course is an elective course.

The two of them had different courses, and there were several cafeterias in Xinda, so it was really luck that they met in the same cafeteria at this time.

When Zhu Caixia saw Song Keling, she immediately asked if she had read the group assignment she had given her.

Song Keling remembered that it was already very late last night when she saw Zhu Caixia's WeChat message after finishing her work in the laboratory. She thought about replying to the message today, but she was too busy to remember.

Song Keling said, "I'll do it later when I get back."

"Okay, no rush, I'm just worried you didn't see it." Zhu Caixia smiled, and her eyes were attracted by some movement. She looked at Song Keling, who was holding a textbook in one hand and a mobile phone in the other, and her clothes pockets were moving.

Zhu Caixia asked curiously, "Keling, what's moving in your pocket?"

Song Keling took a look and replied, "Rat."

A mouse?! Zhu Caixia shuddered immediately and took a step back, feeling a little numb. "You, you put a mouse in your pocket?"

"It's covered in a bag." Song Keling didn't explain much. The fewer people who knew that she was temporarily keeping the rescued snake in the dormitory, the better.

Song Keling's tofu rice cakes were ready. She took the takeaway bag, had her aunt scan her card, and said to Zhu Caixia, "I'll give you your homework when it's done tonight."

"Okay, okay, bye~"

"bye."

Song Keling returned to the dormitory and put her dinner on the table first. Then she went to wash her hands. After washing and drying them, she came out and took out Qianqian's dinner - a small plastic bag containing white mouse pups.

The little mouse is all red and has no visible hair on its body yet.

Seeing that Qianqian had swam over after hearing the noise, Song Keling opened the breeding box, picked up the baby mouse with long tweezers and placed it in Qianqian's path.

Yesterday when she was having dinner, Qianqian sat on the box and stared at it for a long time without moving.

Song Keling thought it must be hungry.

I also said that I would reward it with food when I fed it the medicine, so today after school I went to the laboratory first and brought back a little mouse to feed it.

Qianqian spit out thin black words, and when she felt there was an "obstacle" ahead, she moved to the side and swam slowly towards where Song Keling was.

Until finally, it stuck its little head firmly onto the breeding box with a "pop".

It wants to see what food humans eat today.

It tastes sour.

Qianqian tilted her head and studied it for a while, but didn't quite understand. She looked up at the human and asked, "Why are you eating spoiled food? Can't you find any other food?"

Snakes need a sense of security to eat.

After putting down the long tweezers, Song Keling sat down a little further away with the tofu rice cake in her hand. Then she opened her laptop and logged into WeChat on the computer to download the file.

She looked at the materials collected by the team members.

Not very comprehensive.

Song Keling then logged into the video data website again, searched for a blogger, and watched the popular science video uploaded by him at twice the speed, recording keywords while watching.

After hearing the noise coming from the laptop, Qianqian twisted her body and swam to the corner of the breeding box near where the sound came from, and took a closer look out of curiosity.

Due to the posture, the two cute golden scales above the eyes are gently pressed on the forehead.

It was looking at the screen and there was a docent talking about insects, leaves and so on.

Qianqian felt that this was a good time to learn human language, so she adjusted her long body and tail, curled up comfortably, slightly tilted her neck and head, and watched the video carefully.

Song Keling took a general idea and took the tofu rice cake, which was no longer so hot, and started eating.

At the same time, don't forget to take a look at the condition of the breeding box.

Upon looking, I saw the baby mouse was leisurely gnawing its claws in the corner, while the snake and the mouse each occupied the diagonal line, and they began to keep to themselves and live in peace.

Perhaps because she had seen this scene many times before, Song Keling didn't feel that surprised when she saw it again.

The only difference is that.

Qianqian, who was looking at herself not long ago, is now looking in the direction of the notebook that is emitting a faint fluorescent light.

"Why aren't you eating?" Song Keling poked the feeding box with her finger, making a slight noise.

When the little fellow heard the noise, he turned around alertly and looked over. His red vertical pupils were bright and energetic, and the horn scales that were originally pressed down immediately stood up again.

I don’t know if it’s because I’ve raised it for too long or because it’s been well nourished, but it’s less stunning than before. It’s just very pretty and adorable.

"Are you still not hungry?" Song Keling continued to speculate, "Or maybe you attacked someone not long ago and your venom hasn't recovered yet, so you're worried you can't kill the little mouse?"

Qianqian didn't understand the following long string of words, but she already knew the meaning of the word "hungry". It was only then that she realized that her attention was attracted by the glowing screen and she forgot what she was supposed to do.

What were you going to do?

It glanced at the human who was eating, turned around, and moved a little faster than slowly. It instantly exerted force to tightly wrap its tail around the mouse cubs that were living peacefully in the corner, then swam in front of Song Keling and put them down.

Song Keling: “?”

As soon as the snake's tail loosened, the baby mice that had not been strangled immediately stood up and tried to run away.

But he couldn't run away.

It was swept mercilessly by the thin white snake's tail and swept to the corner of the breeding box near Song Keling.

Song Keling slowed down her eating of the tofu rice cake, wondering what Qianqian's behavior meant to her snakes: was she picky about food? Did she dislike it?

After all, Qianqian did not show any cautious or vigilant attitude, which means that the current environment is safe for it to hunt.

Is it like what the senior student joked before, that the young lady is embarrassed and doesn't want to swallow food in front of her?

Thinking so, Song Keling tried to pick up the box of tofu rice cake and eat it with her back to Xiang Qianqian.

After eating a few bites, I looked back and saw Qianqian still huddled nearby, looking up at me.

When Qianqian saw her coming, she immediately took a bite of the little mouse that she had wrapped around her tail, and then let go.

The toxin takes effect quickly.

The poison injected was more than the previous time, and the mouse cub stopped struggling after a while.

Qianqian pushed the killed mouse towards the human, and then nudged it with her head to the corner in front of the human. Her meaning was quite clear: Eat this, don't eat that spoiled food anymore.

Song Keling finally understood the general meaning from those beautiful red vertical pupils.

Qianqian meant to give it to her to eat.

But what Song Keling understood was: Okay, it’s been bitten to death, you can take it away and study it.

After all, Song Keling had snatched a rat from Shekou before, but she was unlucky and happened to encounter Qianqian's sensitive emotional period, so she was threatened in all kinds of ways.

Now that the relationship between the man and the snake has eased, Qianqian may have thought that she threw the mouse in for it to bite.

Is Qianqian trying to please her?

Realizing this, Song Keling was a little flattered. She quickly finished her tofu rice cake, then put on disposable gloves and used long tweezers to put the poisoned mouse into a sealed bag, planning to take it to the laboratory for analysis in the evening.

As for the little snake not eating the little mouse, it doesn’t matter, it will be the same if you change the food.

Song Keling was originally doing the final work on the project, and her seniors were also very busy, so the lights in the laboratory were brightly on all night.

Despite being very busy, Song Keling still found an opportunity to extract samples and separate out those strange unknown toxins.

This time, Qianqian injected a large dose of poison, and the little mouse died completely after being bitten for only two or three seconds. This directly proves that the little snake is indeed highly venomous, and the LD50 may be below 0.3mg/kg (median lethal dose, 50%, half lethal dose, the smaller the number, the stronger the toxicity).

In addition to unfamiliar toxins, it also contains mixed toxins, just like cobra and eye king.

Song Keling suddenly remembered that when Qianqian was crushed by falling rocks and couldn't move, when she raised her head slightly, her neck was slightly flattened, like a cobra.

But isn’t Qianqian a kind of viper?

If you really want to study toxins, extracting samples from dead mice is obviously time-consuming, labor-intensive, and inaccurate. It is better to directly extract snake venom for separation and purification.

Time flies fast at times like this.

Song Keling returned to the dormitory at half past ten.

She first glanced at the child in the breeding box, and after making sure that he was curled up obediently in the shelter, she took out a transparent sealed plastic box from her sweatshirt pocket.

The box was filled with cotton and two small gray and white quail eggs placed side by side.

She asked for this from her senior student in the laboratory next door.

Qianqian doesn’t want to eat mice for the time being, so try changing the food and she will stop eating eggs.

It lives in the jungle and will probably eat it.

If she can eat it, that's the best. If not, she will ask her senior to see if she can give her a quail...

If the bird doesn't eat it, she will try to get some fish, such as loach and eel. If that doesn't work, she will go to the woods behind the school to look for wild frogs.

After all, being picky about food is a child's business.

It's your fault if you let it starve...

Song Keling used long tweezers to place the quail eggs one by one into the hidden groove so that Qianqian could eat them directly. Then she turned on a small desk lamp, closed the lid of the breeding box, and went into the bathroom to take a shower.

By the time I finished taking a shower, the lights were off.

Song Keling came to the desk in her pajamas and saw Qianqian had climbed to a high place where she was hiding. Her beautiful curvy body was stretched out, and she was slightly sticking out her tongue, as if she was curiously watching the quail eggs.

She smiled, didn't disturb the little guy, opened her laptop, connected to the mobile hotspot and started working on the group assignment.

Song Keling's headphones were broken after being soaked in water, and she had forgotten to buy new ones.

Fortunately, the two rooms in the dormitory are separated by an atrium, and the two closed doors provide good sound insulation.

She can play the music out loud without worrying about disturbing her roommates, just control the volume.

Song Keling was writing a field internship report, so the video only played sound in the background window, without any picture.

Qianqian didn't know that she just climbed down from her hiding place excitedly after hearing the noise. She didn't want to observe two boring eggs, she wanted to start her "learning course" in human language!

It was discovered at night, and it was very interesting with pictures and text.

It likes to remember the meaning of words while watching the moving pictures, which makes it feel like it has finally gotten the hang of it and that human language is just like that.

However, Qianqian adjusted various angles but could not see any picture from the glowing screen.

Who is speaking?

Qianqian looked at the human typing, then at the fluorescent screen, then at the human, then at the screen again. Her little head moved back and forth several times, and doubts were about to overflow from her beautiful red vertical pupils.

Finally, it lifted its thin tail and tapped the box, making a slight rustling sound.

When Song Keling is concentrating on her work, she is rarely disturbed by external noises, except for the movements in the breeding box.

As soon as she heard the slightest noise, she turned her head to look at the computer before she finished typing.

He met Qianqian's scrutinizing gaze looking at him through the breeding box.

Song Keling curled her lips. Seeing that there was nothing wrong with the child, she looked away and was about to continue with her work, but then she remembered something and looked at the quail eggs that were dodging the fire.

The two egg ash beads were sticking out like decorations embedded in the wall, and they were still intact.

Song Keling murmured to herself, "I don't like eggs either. I'll ride my bike over there tomorrow to look for frogs."

frog?

Qianqian immediately tucked her tail in with some excitement. She knew the word! She had seen it in a cartoon today: green and gray food that hopped on four legs.

It used to be able to swallow it in one bite!

But now I don’t want to eat it.

It's so disgusting... It's slippery and ugly.

It wants to eat the red one now. The white and black one last time smelled so sweet and fragrant. It must be delicious.

Qianqian looked around on the desk but couldn't find the delicious food. But she wasn't very hungry at the moment, so the thought quickly passed and she looked back at the screen.

The sound inside is still there, but there is still no picture.

Qianqian was a little anxious and a little fierce. She opened her bloody mouth towards Song Keling and signaled her to help her with the picture.

But when the little snake opens its mouth, it is not eating.

It looks like a yawn.

Its entire body is snow-white, with a round head, red eyes, and two small golden-green scales on top. When it yawns, it is so adorable.

Song Keling couldn't help but smile and moved closer to "talk" to it, but she stopped halfway when she remembered something.

I finally understand why people become obsessed with playing with things.

Taking care of a beautiful little snake really affects my study and work efficiency.

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Come on, there will be another update in the early morning.

I'm currently working on JJ's National Day event. In three or four days, I'll be able to get a beautiful avatar! Hehe