74 Bow and Arrow
◎ Taking advantage of this opportunity, Qiao Jinnian turned over, rode on the bull's head, grabbed the bull's horns, and tied him up.◎
Since coming into this world, this is the first time that Qiao Jinnian has left her lion father and lived independently.
Of course, she was surrounded by so many good friends, and none of them followed the lion group, but followed her to the lion group. So when they saw her about to leave, they automatically followed her.
In fact, Qiao Jinnian hopes to gain experience on her own. Perhaps it is time to say goodbye to her friends.
Everyone walked together all the way to the river. Qiao Jinnian sent the cheetahs back to their original habitat. Freckles was almost due to give birth, and with her brother by her side, life wouldn't be so difficult.
In fact, cheetah mothers will raise their children alone, but Xingxing did not leave when Freckles was about to give birth. Instead, she accompanied her sister all the way.
The strange thing is that Xingxing is also a male, but he has no interest in his sister. Maybe Xingxing is more attached to his family because he was abandoned as a child. Who knows? Or maybe Xingxing has seen how lions live together and learned something rare.
Animals' personalities are constantly changing, and some animals can change their personalities several times in their lifetime if they experience something that changes their habits.
Putting her head close to Xingxing, Qiao Jinnian pointed at Freckles and said, "Take good care of your sister and expand your family. Be good, and when I come back from my training, I'll come find you! Meow——"
Star and Freckles both came forward and rubbed against her, with understanding in their eyes. They probably knew that she was preparing to set off alone.
This place is the western grassland where they once stayed. There are rock circles here, and Freckles can find a place behind the rocks to give birth to her cubs.
There are dots on this grassland, and dots also know freckles and stars, so everyone can take care of them when necessary.
As for Allen, Qiao Jinnian took Allen and introduced him to the herd of elephants next door, hoping that they could get to know each other.
Of course, the elephant herd is a matriarchal group, and Allen is not their son-in-law. Moreover, Allen is a disabled elephant, so they will not accept Allen. However, at least when Allen encounters trouble, the elephant herd may also provide some help from their compatriots.
But when Allen saw that she was leaving, he became a little irritable. He walked back and forth on the grassland many times, shaking his nose and huge body. This was a sign of depression. Allen must be unhappy.
There was no way, Qiao Jinnian touched Allen's nose. She couldn't take Allen with her to travel. Allen was too big to go to many places. She wanted to go to the easternmost canyon to explore the farthest boundary of this grassland.
Qiao Jinnian patted Allen's injured nose and said, "I'll come back to find you. Be good and don't fight with the hippopotamus and rhinoceros. If you have any problems, go to the elephant queen. She's very good. Moo——"
After giving the instructions, Qiao Jinnian continued on her journey with the jackal family and the honey badger. Of course, Stripe carried her luggage, which also included three guinea fowls that laid eggs and were her favorite food.
These are the friends and luggage that she needs to bring with her. The jackal family is her younger brothers, and the honey badger is her best friend. They no longer have their own habitat and have been with her for several years. Stripes is just a poor little guy who helps her carry the luggage.
Along the way, the little jackal brother smelled the scent of his brothers and led the way in front, because Qiao Jinnian told him that they had to follow Sa Dadan from a distance.
Finally, after walking for several months, they finally found the temporary territory of the three brothers Sa Dabing.
There is a very big elephant plum tree here, and the tree is full of fruits. Yes, the kind of fruits that will turn into fruit wine after being stored for a long time.
Qiao Jinnian supported her head on the hand, suspecting that Sa Dadan was very curious about the fruits here. After all, they were all drunk last time.
Knowing that they were staying here temporarily, Qiao Jinnian didn't bother them. He planned to go out and gain experience on his own, and then come back to see them after a while to see how they were doing.
When the three younger brothers came back, they seemed to smell a familiar scent and sniffed around. In the end, they found nothing and were a little disappointed.
At this time, Qiao Jinnian was standing on the tallest tree, watching them from afar.
Qiangzi integrated into the group very well. Although he was only two years old, he ate a lot. Every time he cooperated with his brothers to hunt, he worked very hard and had a fierceness from the inside out.
Fortunately, there are three of them, not just one out to train alone, so the survival rate would be higher.
After leaving this territory, Qiao Jinnian continued to head eastward. At the easternmost end of the grassland was the narrowest and longest canyon.
Along the way, Qiao Jinnian was thinking about making a bow and arrow for himself, suitable for long-range attacks, but first they needed to hunt a buffalo.
However, this is too difficult. Even for a male lion, it is not easy to hunt a buffalo alone.
Perhaps, before she could hunt the buffalo, she might be pierced by the buffalo's horns.
But she has to learn to grow up. No one can help her, and she can't always rely on the protection of the lion group.
She took her spear, thought for a while, and tied a hemp rope between two trees. She tied it low so that it was hidden in the grass and could not be seen at all unless you looked carefully.
She had to do this to protect herself from being attacked by the buffalo's horns.
She asked Cloak to lure the buffalo over. Cloak was very good at this job. The buffalo was fooled and ran towards them. The buffalo was not paying attention and was tripped by the hemp rope she tied it with.
No matter how heavy the tonnage is, it is very dangerous if the body loses balance.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Qiao Jinnian turned over, sat on the bull's head, grabbed the bull's horns and tied him up.
The reason why lions like to hunt buffaloes is that there is a lot of meat. Although buffaloes are very dangerous, they are indifferent to their own kind. If one is caught, the others will just watch from a distance and will not come forward to rescue it.
So, the buffalo lay there mooing for a long time, but no one of its kind came to rescue it.
Finally, he stopped shouting. This was the first time that Qiao Jinnian slaughtered a buffalo with her own hands. She was a little scared. She had only used traps to kill prey before, but this time she would use the spear as the weapon in her hand.
But she must grow up, because she needs to become strong enough to survive in this world where the strong prey on the weak.
When the spear was covered with blood, Qiao Jinnian's face and body were all covered with blood splashed from the buffalo, which made people feel very uncomfortable.
Qiao Jinnian waited until the buffalo died before going to the river to clean the blood off his body.
Such a big buffalo can feed several adult lions. However, at this time, Qiao Jinnian only has the jackal family around her to share food with.
After getting the beef tendons he needed, Qiao Jinnian started to make a fire by the river. Wild animals are afraid of fire, so this would provide some protection.
Sure enough, when the hyenas saw her little lion, they wanted to steal her food but they only dared to watch from afar, fearing the fire.
Qiao Jinnian roasted a lot of beef jerky for herself, added salt, wrapped it all in leaves, put it in a hemp rope bag, and carried it on her back. She also boiled a lot of water for herself and carried it on her back.
Unlike lions, who can eat a lot of meat at one time and can eat it once every few days, she has to eat three meals a day and can eat it directly when she is hungry.
A family of jackals were gnawing on the cow's leg nearby.
I really can't roast it anymore. There is too much meat. The honey badger mostly eats scorpions and has no interest in buffalo meat.
Stripes and Chick solve their own food problems.
Well, there was still a pile of meat left, so Qiao Jinnian threw it directly to the hyena queen so that they would not keep surrounding her.
These hyenas will not stop until they achieve their goal, so it is better to satisfy them with a big piece of meat.
The hyena queen was not polite either. She led her tribe to eat the meat with big mouthfuls. Their bite force was very strong. Soon, such a large piece of buffalo meat was eaten up by them.
After Qiao Jinnian saw them leave, she picked up her luggage, packed the chick, and put it back on Stripe's back, letting him carry it.
After everyone had eaten their fill, Qiao Jinnian finally remembered where she would sleep at night.
In the past, she had always been with a pride of lions. Wherever the lion father appeared, it was a warm and safe harbor. However, this was in the wild, and without the protection of a pride of lions, Qiao Jinnian had to find a rock and a cave inside it. She placed thorny branches at the entrance of the cave as a safety guard.
However, she always felt that the cave was a little damp and was afraid of insects, so she lit a torch and smoked it inside for a while, which made all kinds of insects run away.
This time, the honey badger was very excited and came forward to eat with the guinea fowl happily.
Qiao Jinnian was still afraid of the insects, so she built a stove in the cave and kept the fire lit all night so that she would feel safe when sleeping.
Missing her lion father, Qiao Jinnian pulled the honey badger out of the cave and held it in her arms to sleep.
I don’t know if Sister Sa is going to have a baby. How many brothers and sisters will she give birth to this time?
Through the tiny gap in the cave entrance, Qiao Jinnian couldn't sleep. She looked at the round moon in the sky and the unreal starry sky. Everything seemed unreal. Why were the stars so bright here? Why was the sky so blue? Why did the air smell of rotting leaves and the fragrance of green grass at the same time?
Why is she here? Are there other humans here? Like primitive people?
The next day, Qiao Jinnian decided to stay here first and deal with the beef tendons. Based on her experience in dealing with hemp ropes in recent years, although she didn't know how to deal with them, she figured it out herself. She scraped the meat off the beef tendons cleanly, and then dried them at the entrance of the cave. After drying, she began to slowly crush the beef tendons and then soaked them in water.
In short, the tendon obtained in this way seemed to be usable, so she tried to make a bow and arrow with flexible wood, and used the torn tendon rope as the bowstring.
As for arrowheads, she just sharpened the wood into points and made a lot of them in a row.
Everything was ready, so Qiao Jinnian found a place to try out his archery skills.
The first one to try was the bird in the forest, but she obviously overestimated herself. It was not that easy to shoot a bird.
After several years of training, her aim was pretty good, but there was still a big difference between a bow and an arrow and a spear.
So, she was not in a hurry to leave, but tried to familiarize herself with her weapons first, so she might as well start by picking fruits.
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