56 Father and Daughter
◎Walking up to Qiao Jinnian, Ryan licked her rain-soaked hair.◎
The lion at the edge of the territory continued to roar because there was no response from this side.
Ryan didn't want to pay any attention at all and continued to sleep on the ground with his mouth wide open, making an irritable "whoosh whoosh" sound, as if he wanted to go up and beat up those invaders, but he didn't want to go.
This hesitation is really strange.
Even Sister Sa couldn't sit still anymore. She stood up straight and looked into the distance, wanting to see what was going on. However, the territory lions hadn't gotten up yet, so it was better for her not to take the initiative to meddle in other people's business.
Finally, Reiner couldn't lie still any longer and paced back and forth in front of Ryan irritably, growling from time to time: "Roar, woooo ...
This roar was met with an increasingly impatient roar from Ryan: "Roar--"
Reiner was roared again, his whole lion face wrinkled, his eyes blinked rapidly, just like a puppy being scolded by his father.
Perhaps he couldn't stand it anymore, Ryan said to Reiner: "Roar——"
Reiner received the order and immediately ran towards the edge of the territory.
Qiao Jinnian was also very curious, but Reiner ran too fast and she fell behind him. She ran hard and only then saw from afar the two lionesses standing at the edge of the territory, not daring to step in.
Two lionesses walked forward, obviously knowing Reiner. They rubbed their heads against Reiner and sniffed each other's scent, looking very intimate.
Then, Reiner brought two female lions and six cubs and walked towards the big tree where Ryan was lying.
Qiao Jinnian was panting and tilting his head to look at the two lionesses, not knowing whether he knew them or not.
After all, lions all look pretty much the same to Qiao Jinnian. Unless they have obvious markings on their bodies, such as Scarface has a scar on his face or Brokentail has a missing piece of his tail, it is really hard to tell them apart.
However, these two lionesses gave her a particularly familiar feeling. Could they be two of the five lionesses in the valley lion group?
The answer was soon revealed, because when the two lionesses saw her, they actually came over and rubbed their heads against her to show their intimacy.
Qiao Jinnian was certain that if these two lionesses knew Ryan, her, and Reiner, then there was only one possibility, because they were from the original Scarface Valley Lion Group.
It’s just that Scarface and Golden Retriever were defeated. After the valley lion group changed its territorial lion, all the cubs were bitten to death. So, the current cubs should have been born to the new territorial lion.
At the beginning, two of the five lionesses did not respond to Ryan, and the attitudes of the other two were very hesitant. Qiao Jinnian suspected that these two were the lionesses with more ambiguous attitudes.
When they came to Ryan, Ryan's attitude towards them became even stranger.
They walked up to him and wanted to get close to him, but he rejected them.
Ryan raised his head and roared towards the sky: "Roar--"
Afterwards, the two lionesses seemed to be frightened and lay on the ground in a gesture of submission.
However, Ryan opened his mouth wide and continued to roar, but he would not attack them. Instead, he turned his head away, indicating that he did not want to pay attention to them.
This is even more strange. Male lions are usually very nice to strange female lions who want to reproduce their offspring, or they just live in peace with them. But they are rarely so impatient with other female lions.
Qiao Jinnian looked at the two lionesses and felt that she might have found the answer, because the two lions seemed to be about the same age as Reiner. Is it possible that these two are Ryan's daughters and Reiner's sisters?
But why would Ryan dislike his own daughter?
No, it should be that when Ryan took her to the lion group in the valley to get milk, they ignored Ryan, so it is definitely not the lion father's problem.
In the end, Ryan simply turned a blind eye and didn't look at them. He stood up and rubbed the grass on the ground in front of them with his front paws, making a sound of expulsion while rubbing: "Roar--"
The two lionesses felt very aggrieved, but there was nothing they could do. The territorial lions only drove them away and did not hurt them, so they could only leave the lion group with their cubs.
Only Reiner watched them leave the lion group and walk towards the east.
Perhaps, after the two sisters leave, they will cooperate with each other to raise the six cubs together.
I don’t know what happened to the lion pride in the valley. Why did both lionesses leave the pride and run away with their cubs? Could it be that the territorial male lion was defeated by other lions again?
That's unknown. Now they are two different lion groups that have nothing to do with each other, and Ryan will not interfere in the internal affairs of the neighboring lion group.
I originally thought that the matter would end here, but the next day, when Qiao Jinnian was cooking, there was suddenly lightning and thunder in the sky, and a dark cloud appeared above his head. Finally, heavy rain came pouring down, and in an instant all the animals on the grassland became drowned rats.
All the animals that were grazing or hunting stopped what they were doing and just closed their eyes to rest for a while.
Because it is raining, it is best not to do anything and conserve energy. Rain is resting time for all animals. Even if there is a carnivore standing next to them, herbivores no longer have to worry about losing their lives at any time.
When Qiao Jinnian saw the lightning, she didn't dare to stay under the tree. She could only squat down and use a large leaf to block her head, trying her best to block the rain over herself and her father the lion's head.
The little lions snuggled up to their mother, and the animals that could dig holes, such as the honey badger, all went into the holes.
About an hour later, the heavy rain stopped and the ground became muddy. The animals began to shake the rain off their bodies, trying to dry their fur.
Ryan stood up, walked a little further away, shook his hair dry, looked back at Qiao Jinnian, growled, and walked forward.
Qiao Jinnian was unwilling to do so and wanted the lion father to take her with him, so she said, "Awoo—"
But the lion father ignored him and walked forward on his own.
Qiao Jinnian noticed that he was actually walking towards the west, which was the direction the two sisters had gone that day.
So, Qiao Jinnian begged Brother Lion to take her to see what Ryan was going to do.
Reiner was obviously very curious as well, so he carried his sister on his back and ran forward quickly.
Later, when Ryan turned around, he shouted helplessly at the two siblings: "Roar, roar--"
Although it was the sound of expulsion, Qiao Jinnian didn't care. She continued to rub Reiner's shrunken ears, patted his back, and signaled him to continue following.
Seeing that the cub was disobedient, Ryan ignored it and continued walking forward.
After a while, they came to a swamp. The rain had increased recently, and the grass here was irrigated by the rain. The grass was lush and there were many antelopes that loved water.
Then, Qiao Jinnian saw Ryan using the long grass as cover, walking towards the water, preparing to capture an antelope.
Qiao Jinnian and his sister didn't dare to make a sound. They just watched from a distance to see what the lion father was going to do.
However, Ryan stood motionless in the grass in the middle of the water, quietly lying dormant, waiting for the antelopes to come over and graze.
Soon, a lone antelope came to within two meters of Ryan.
At this moment, Ryan pounced, aimed at the antelope's neck, and grabbed its throat.
This is the fastest way to hunt, and there is no need to even chase across the grassland.
Qiao Jinnian guessed that it was because the grass was slippery and it was not a good time to chase prey, so Ryan adopted this dormant and waiting hunting method, which was indeed efficient.
The antelope lost its life before it even realized what was happening.
However, Ryan did not eat the antelope. He just bit it to death, then held the antelope in his mouth and walked further west.
Reiner continued to carry Qiao Jinnian and followed behind until everyone saw the two lionesses.
The two lionesses, or Reiner's sisters, let's call them Laelina and Laelia.
The sisters Lina and Liya failed to take refuge in their father's territory, so they had to come to the edge of this swamp, where they lay and watched the cubs playing around.
Suddenly, they looked up and saw their father and brother. Their father was holding an antelope in his mouth.
Ryan didn't waste any words. He walked up to them, placed the antelope directly in front of the two sisters, and growled: "Roar--"
Lina and Liya wanted to go up and rub against their father, but were rejected because Ryan turned around impatiently and walked towards home.
Walking up to Qiao Jinnian, Ryan licked her hair that was wet from the rain.
The heavy rain just now still soaked her to some extent, so the leaf was almost useless, but it was better than nothing.
After licking her, Ryan let her ride on his back.
So the family of three walked back the way they came.
It turned out that Ryan just came to visit the two sisters and bring some food to his daughter.
So, the lion father is the most soft-hearted, even though he is very annoyed with his daughters.
Based on this, Qiao Jinnian had roughly guessed what had happened. Perhaps when Ryan was expelled from the valley territory by Scarface and Golden Retriever, the two daughters chose to stay with the lion group instead of going with their father.
However, in the lion world, if the lioness originally belonged to that lion group, it would be a very normal thing, and Ryan had no reason to be angry, so there was only one possibility.
That is, the two sisters did not originally belong to the Valley Lion Pride, but they were brought to the Valley Lion Pride by Ryan. So when Ryan was expelled, the two sisters abandoned their father, which made their father angry.
Then, there is only one truth, that is, Ryan raised the three siblings Reiner, Lina and Leah alone, and then formed an alliance with Scarface and Golden Retriever. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain where their mother went. The mother must have had an accident. If she had a mother, Ryan would not have formed an alliance with other lions.
Then, Reiner was kicked out of the lion group when he was three years old, and Ryan was expelled by Scarface and Golden Retriever because he was liked by all the female lions.
At that time, Ryan was betrayed by his brothers and rejected by his daughters, so he felt lonely, right?
After all, he is a rare good father who can raise his cubs alone!
Thinking of all this, Qiao Jinnian couldn't hold back her tears. She lay on her father's body, hugged his long mane, and began to cry loudly: "Wuwuwuwu, Dad, don't worry, I won't leave you, wuwuwuwu——"
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