Chapter 88: Animals that ran back on their own

On the stone mountain, the sacred vine seemed to be reborn. Even the rough surface became much smoother, and the vines were as crystal clear as jade carvings.

Under the stone mountain, the Teng tribe was slowly rebuilt after being destroyed.

Bamboo and wooden houses soon sprang up, and the altar was repaired. Chishao carved totem patterns on the altar again.

New raw materials for totem poles have also been found. After drying in the shade, they will be carved with a large number of totem patterns and then erected around the altar.

Jiang Xuan even used clay to make three tripods that were more exquisite and larger than before. After drying in the shade, they could be fired and placed on the altar.

Jiang Xuan even made a new hydraulic medicine-pounding device for Chishao. With the experience from the first time, this time it was done more smoothly and more perfectly.

Thanks to the efforts of everyone in the Teng tribe, everything is slowly recovering and even becoming better than before.

"The leader is back!"

Jiang Xuan was sealing the roof of the new bamboo house when Da Jiao ran over excitedly, shouting as he ran.

"What's back?"

Jiang Xuan held a large piece of bark in his hand. He covered the roof with the bark, trying to make it smooth, and then looked at Da Jiao.

"Our domesticated unicorn and pheasant are back!"

Da Jiao finally finished his words, his face full of joy.

"Is there such a good thing?"

Jiang Xuan was very surprised by this.

At that time, in order to avoid the attack of the Mosquito Tribe, Dajiao didn't want the domesticated animals to be taken by the Mosquito Tribe, so he released them all.

When they came back, the cave had become empty, and even only a few of the big bugs were left.

No one expected that the unicorn and pheasant, which had not been completely tamed, would come back! "It's true, Chief, I can take you to see it."

Da Jiao was obviously too excited. He just wanted Jiang Xuan to see this miracle as soon as possible.

"Okay, I'll go after I finish covering these pieces of bark."

Jiang Xuan spread large pieces of bark flat on the roof, pressed them down with bamboo, and then tied the front and back ends of the bamboo with rattan, so that the bamboo would tightly clamp the bark and prevent it from moving.

When he's done, get down from the rooftop and follow Big Horn to the area where the animals are tamed.

When Jiang Xuan arrived in front of the row of caves, he found that the fence doors of two of the caves had been repaired, and several unicorns and colorful pheasants were locked in the caves.

"Chief, look, these unicorns and colorful pheasants all ran back on their own. I dug up some insects and led them into the cave, then locked it up again."

Jiang Xuan looked at the unicorn and the colorful pheasant in the cave and asked Da Jiao, "When did they come back?"

Da Jiao said: "At noon."

Jiang Xuan asked doubtfully, "That's not right. If they wanted to come back, why didn't they come back a few days ago? Why did they choose to come back together at this time?"

"This...I can't figure it out either."

Da Jiao scratched his head. He also felt that this was unreasonable.

Jiang Xuan asked again: "When they came back, did you do anything special?"

Da Jiao thought about it carefully, then looked at a wooden stick and a large bamboo tube on the ground and said, "I remember now."

"I was sitting here, missing the domesticated animals, so I held the big bamboo tube that I used to feed them and tapped it with a stick for a while."

Jiang Xuan asked again: "Every time you fed them, did you knock on this big bamboo tube?"

Da Jiao nodded in astonishment and said, "Yes, that's right."

Jiang Xuan smiled and said, "So that's how it is."

"Chief, are they flying back because I knocked on the bamboo tube?"

Jiang Xuan nodded and said, "Yes, it's because you knocked on the bamboo tube."

"These unicorns and colorful pheasants have lived in our tribe for quite some time. They are used to being fed and regard the sound of knocking on the bamboo tube as a signal for feeding."

"When you let them go, it's hard for them to eat as easily in the jungle as when they are fed by someone."

"So they don't move away from the area and hopefully get fed again without having to go out of their way to find food themselves."

"So when you knock on the bamboo tube, these unicorns and pheasants will come back, just to be fed."

After listening to Jiang Xuan's explanation, Da Jiao finally understood what was going on.

But soon, Dajiao asked again: "Chief, since knocking on the bamboo tube can make the unicorn and the seven-colored pheasant come back, why don't the five-colored duck and other animals come back?"

Jiang Xuan said: "Colorful ducks like to live by the river. It's too far from here, so maybe they didn't hear it. Next time, you can bring a bamboo tube and a stick to the river and knock on it to see if the tamed colorful ducks will come back."

"As for the bamboo rats, gray rabbits, and those big insects, they are naturally more vigilant and difficult to tame. Besides, there is abundant food in the forest now, so it should be difficult for them to come back."

Da Jiao said: "It's good that some of them can come back. I will go dig some insects and try to lure the colorful duck back."

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Jiang Xuan nodded and said, "Let's give it a try. Theoretically, the five-colored duck should be as easy to tame as the seven-colored pheasant. It should appear when it hears the sound."

Da Jiao nodded heavily, then went to dig insects with excitement.

He loved the animals he raised as deeply as Gan Song loved his crops.

After all the hard work, even if only one colorful duck comes back, Dajiao will feel it is worth it.

Da Jiao immediately found a few tourists with whom he had trained animals before, and took them to dig up a lot of insects. He also caught a lot of small snails, small fish, shrimps, water plants and other things from the river.

They first fed the unicorn and pheasant in the cave, and then took the remaining food and some rattan baskets with lids to the reeds by the Flying Fish River.

After Dajiao walked to the reeds, he first placed the snails, small fish, shrimps, and water plants on the ground.

He hugged the big bamboo tube, looked around first, and then started to knock it rhythmically.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

While beating the horn, he and the tourists looked nervously into the tall reeds.

Unfortunately, after knocking the horn for a while, there was no movement in the reeds.

"Will those colorful ducks no longer be here?"

One tourist sat on the ground in frustration, apparently no longer holding out any hope that the colorful ducks would fly back on their own.

"Knock a little longer..."

Da Jiao didn't want to give up, so he continued to knock hard.

When he had almost given up all hope, suddenly, a fat colorful duck flapped its wings and flew out from the reeds.

“Ga ga ga…”

This colorful duck pounced directly at the food on the ground and ate it happily with big mouthfuls.

Immediately afterwards, a few more colorful ducks couldn't hold back and flew over.

"I'm back, I'm really back!"

Da Jiao's eyes were filled with tears of excitement. Then, together with the other tourists, they quickly caught the colorful ducks in rattan baskets and took them back to continue training them.

(End of this chapter)