Seeing that the old monkey's eyes kept wandering back and forth between Monkey Xiaopeng and Monkey Xiaoyou, Sangsang simply took Monkey Xiaopeng by the hand and walked towards the old monkey. None of the adults tried to stop her.
"Here you go! You can hold it! But you can't take it away!" Sangsang handed Monkey Xiaopeng's little furry hand to the old monkey.
The old monkey looked at her. Facing the human cub, its eyes were much less vigilant. Its big hand was loose. It did not hold Monkey Xiaopeng's hand as Sangsang had expected, and let its little hairy hand slip from its hand.
"Why don't you hold it for a leash?" Sangsang put his head very close to the old monkey, and the two faces were only about ten centimeters apart.
The old monkey pouted and turned away, showing no intention of paying any attention to her.
Sangsang chuckled and reached out to touch the long hair on the old monkey's chest. "You're a good monkey! I won't ask you to hit people anymore, okay?"
The old monkey still didn't respond and let Sangsang chatter in its ears.
"Your hair is so long. Can I braid it for you? I will be gentle and won't hurt you!" Sangsang said as he started to braid it.
She recently learned how to braid hair, but everyone in the family has short hair. The only one whose hair is slightly longer than her neck is Ningxia. Even if she had the courage, she wouldn't dare to do it.
"Wow! You're so beautiful!"
Sangsang buried her head in the work very seriously, and after a while she exclaimed in surprise. When Liu Qingtian heard her voice, he quickly stepped forward and tilted his head to look.
Then everyone applauded in support.
"Hehe, look, my sister thinks you're pretty too!"
The old monkey had no intention of lowering his head to look at the braids covering his chest. Sangsang even went a step further and put her hand on the top of his head. Only then did he finally push her away impatiently.
"Alright, alright~ I won't mess with you anymore! Let me give you a name! Monkey Xiaopeng and Monkey Xiaoyou both have names now!"
Seeing that she let go of its head, the old monkey looked at Liu Ximu in the yard, ignored her and let her climb onto his arm.
"Well, just call me Monkey Beauty, okay? Monkey Beauty!"
Sangsang held the other person's face while speaking, forcing the old monkey to look at her, "Hou Meili! That's your name! Hou Meili!"
This finally annoyed the old monkey. It angrily freed its face from Sangsang's hands, then exerted some strength to push her away, forcing Sangsang to take two steps back.
"Sangsang! Don't bother it, come back!"
"Okay, okay! Monkey Meili, I'm going to take Monkey Xiaopeng away! Goodbye, Monkey Meili!"
His ears were finally quiet, and the old monkey could finally focus on the injured monkey in the yard.
The yard was full of injured monkeys, and there were even many frozen corpses.
"Don't think too much." Seeing Ningxia's sadness, Le Zheng quickly comforted her, "Although they saved you, it wasn't entirely for the sake of saving you."
Ningxia turned to look at him, her face full of confusion.
Le Zheng continued, "These two gangs are fighting for territory. This group of monkeys came to Mo Ning after the Fiery Sun Moon, and the leader is the old monkey.
Because District 1 was going to be established as a residential area, a large number of wild animals were shot and driven away from the mountains. Your area still has no owner, and it has been occupied by those monkeys."
"Where did those wolves come from?"
Le Zheng touched his nose. "Our sentry post goes up the mountain to survey all year round, and we've never seen a large group nearby. I suspect it's the wolf pack that was driven out from Area 2 when Xiaojie was injured. There were over a hundred wolves, and quite a few of them escaped."
"Isn't Forest District 2 next to City District 3? How could such a large pack of wolves hide there without being discovered?"
"The forests we patrolled were much safer. We didn't know about the areas outside the patrol area, where no one was active. The wolves are deep in the mountains, and their activity isn't in our area, so we haven't seen them before.
If the Chocobo experts hadn't discovered that the area was suitable for living, this balance wouldn't have been disrupted."
Ningxia didn't know what to say for a moment. Survival, whether for the innocent wolves, for her, or for the monkeys in the yard, is not an easy thing. It's just the law of the jungle.
"But if it weren't for them, I would have been dead." Ningxia said calmly.
Le Zheng's hand tightened slightly as he supported her, "I know, and I'm grateful to them, but I just hope you don't feel too burdened seeing so many injured monkeys. You two should just take what you need.
If it weren't for you that night, this group of monkeys alone wouldn't be able to take back this territory."
Ningxia turned around and looked directly at Le Zheng, "Thank them for what?"
"What...what?" Le Zheng was stunned.
"You said you are grateful to them too. Thank you for what?" Ningxia was determined to take this opportunity to make things clear.
Le Zheng panicked and quickly avoided her sight, "Thank you... Thank you for saving you... After all, this is within the squad leader and our jurisdiction... Besides... You... You are our friends..."
Le Zheng's voice became lower and lower. Ningxia turned away in disappointment and felt a little irritated. The two of them fell into silence.
The monkeys in the yard have been almost cured. Groups of furry heads huddled together, looking at the strips of cloth on their bodies with great curiosity.
"Your...comrades...are you going to take them away by yourselves or should I bury them for you?" Ningxia looked at the dozen or so monkey corpses in the yard and spoke to the old monkey.
I don’t know how smart it is, but Ningxia feels that it can fully understand what I say.
The old monkey looked at Ningxia deeply, and called the monkey group to leave, without planning to take his little friend and little friend Monkey Xiaopeng away.
The monkey corpses on the ground were also taken away. Ningxia stared at their receding backs in a daze for a long time.
"Let's go, pack up and I'll take you to the medical point. Go back to the sentry post before dark today and arrive at the medical point before tomorrow night." Li Gang spoke to Ningxia and the other two.
Ningxia felt the burning sensation on her legs and nodded, "I'm going to have to trouble Brother Liao with these kids at home."
Lao Liao quickly expressed his opinion, "Don't worry about what you do. Don't worry about leaving it at home on sunny days. We are here for you!"
Ningxia called Lin Yi, who was packing her luggage, to her side and said, "I'm going to stay at the medical center for a few days. Your uncle Liao and the others are careless. You should be more careful and take good care of Sangsang and Qingtian at home."
Lin Yi nodded repeatedly, "Sister Xia Xia, don't worry, I will take care of the family."
Ningxia then took the cloak he handed over and tied it tightly, held the little monkey in her arms, hid him under the cloak, and then sat on the cart with the help of Le Zheng.
The horses from Mu Yuanqing's house were led out. Xiao Jie cooked a large pot of cooked food for them to soothe their frightened hearts, and now they had returned to their previous docile state.
Lin Yi and Xiao Jie had also covered the cart with a thick layer of hay, and on top of that was a thick cotton mattress. In the corner was a small bundle of rations for the horses.
After the three of them sat down, they let Li Gang and Le Zheng lead the horses pulling the cart to the sentry post. Only when they reached the main road did Li Gang and Le Zheng get on the cart.
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