147 Goodbye
◎She thought: Maybe she needs to say goodbye to her lion father.◎
The lion father never woke up again. He lay quietly on the grass, motionless, from day to night, from dusk to dawn.
Qiao Jinnian didn't cry, she just sat in the middle of the grassland, staying with her father.
Dad died in pursuit of prey, rather than letting his life fade away in the boring and long days.
There was no blood from injured animals here, so the grassland scavengers did not come here so quickly. But with the arrival of morning light, the scavengers with extremely wide vision finally saw a lion lying in the middle of the grassland.
“Ahhhh—”
“Wow wow wow—”
They circled high in the sky, calling out to their companions and telling them the latest developments on the grassland.
As more and more scavengers gathered around, they surrounded the area of grassland.
At this moment, if there was not a two-legged beast standing next to the lion, I believe that within half an hour, the lion father would be eaten and become food for these scavengers.
Qiao Jinnian turned around, looked at the animals around him, rubbed his legs that had long lost sensation, and slowly stood up.
This is not a time to be sad, yes, they are scavengers and they eat dead animals in order to survive.
However, Qiao Jinnian couldn't let them eat her father.
Qiao Jinnian would not recognize the law of the jungle on this grassland as long as it was related to her father.
So she stood up, raised the spear high in her hand, and swung it at the group of scavengers.
“Ahhhh—”
“Wow wow wow—”
This crazy move successfully drove away all the winged animals.
But they only moved away from the ground, and the sky was filled with darkness. Within three seconds, the animals that were driven away flew back to the ground.
There's no way they're leaving here.
Qiao Jinnian refused to believe it, so she continued to hold the spear and began to indiscriminately attack any animal standing in front of her.
However, there are so many of these animals that they are impossible to count.
She thought: Maybe she needed to say goodbye to her lion father.
She used a flint knife to cut off the dead grass around it bit by bit, forming a circle without dead grass around the lion father.
Just when she was about to cremate the lion father, she suddenly saw the lion father's long black mane.
She was a little reluctant to let it go, because that was the mane that had accompanied her growing up, provided her with warmth on countless nights, and was her favorite father's beard.
So, very selfishly, she sat down on the grass and with her flint knife she cut off the longest part of the mane on her father's face, bit by bit.
Because part of his mane was missing, the lion father's face was revealed, as if she was seeing her father's true face for the first time.
The lion father's face is slightly longer and a little thin due to old age, but still handsome.
She held the lion father's face in her hands, trying to remember this lion face firmly in her mind.
Impatient noises rang out again, as if urging her to leave quickly as they were still waiting for dinner.
This meant that they completely looked down on her as a two-legged beast. After all, she was only one person, while they had many, many more.
Qiao Jinnian stroked his father's back again, put away the mane, made a fire with flint, and set fire to the lion father's body.
The fire burned fiercely, getting stronger and stronger, making a sizzling sound and accompanied by a burning smell. In an instant, the scene turned into a sea of fire.
Seeing such a big fire, the scavengers that were noisy just now instantly realized that there was a prairie fire here. They screamed "Ahhh" and flew into the sky. They seemed to be reluctant to leave and circled for a while before leaving cursing.
The surroundings finally became quiet again.
Because she had dealt with the surrounding grass, the fire would not spread, so Qiao Jinnian sat nearby and watched the fire burn until it was completely burned out, leaving only a black mass.
After thinking about it, she dug a pit on the spot, piled the ashes at the bottom of the pit, and covered it with soil, using it as the lion father's tomb.
Looking around, Qiao Jinnian found the nearest tree and wrote on it words that only she could understand on the entire grassland - Tomb of Lion Dad Ryan, Daughter Qiao Jinnian.
In order to prevent her from getting lost, she found a plant with white flowers nearby, carefully transplanted it, and planted it here on her father's grave, hoping that it would not be trampled by animals.
After looking at the grassland again, Qiao Jinnian put on her backpack and looked towards the south. She thought: Father Lion must want to explore this grassland, so she would take her father with her and continue the journey they had not finished.
Sitting on the grass, Qiao Jinnian weaved hemp rope and horsehair together to make a cloak, which she put on her body. It was as if her father had always carried her everywhere when she was a child, and now she was going to carry her father on his back and move forward.
This time, she is going to travel across the grassland, carrying out her father's last wish.
This time, she would go hunting alone and sleep alone, without her father's company.
Touching the shawl covering her belly, Qiao Jinnian lay on a tree branch, looking at the starry sky. She didn't know what the future would be like, but she knew that she would live well and fully experience the meaning of life until the last moment of her life.
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