Chapter 144 Two-in-one Songsoft Zoo
"Hello, dear tourists. You are now entering our tiger park tour area."
Song Ruan waved a small homemade flag in one hand and held a loud speaker snatched from the team leader in the other hand. He stood in front of the backyard and gave a very formal introduction.
This piece of land was obviously very different from the previous ones: it was usually unobstructed, but now it was fenced with a few thick firewood stumps to form a simple fence, with two layers inside and outside, separating the backyard into a separate little world. Jinhua was lying on his side in this little world with a white scarf on, his tail swinging leisurely.
Song Ruan raised the loudspeaker in his hand a little closer, called out "Hello, hello, hello" twice, and said loudly: "Tourists in front should not crowd and keep a safe distance from the tiger. Tourists behind should keep up quickly and don't miss this wonderful scene."
"As you can see, the one lying before you is the king of all beasts from the mountains of Northeast China - the Siberian tiger Jinhua."
"The Siberian tiger is the largest carnivorous cat species in existence. Its fur is brown-yellow in the summer and turns light yellow in the winter. You can tell from Jinhua's fur now that the Siberian tiger is an excellent hunter..." Song Ruan paused here, then continued calmly, "They are agile and have sharp claws and teeth. They have almost no rivals on land. In addition, they can swim and climb trees. They are all-round predators and are well-deserved 'kings of the jungle'."
"Jinhua is different from other common Siberian tigers. Earlier this year, Jinhua helped us catch Dieter and saved the country from losses. She was awarded the title of 'hero tiger'. Just like her name, she is a shining hero flower, a bright and beautiful flower of the times. Although she is just a tiger, her patriotism and heroism are worth learning from. She is also our eternal friend."
Jinhua stood up from the yard, flicked her tail majestically, and walked over with dignity, her chin held high.
Did you hear that? I, Jinhua, and Niupi are applauding.
A group of children screamed with excitement.
Adults who came along with us were also invited to unconsciously join in the atmosphere and applaud.
Jinhua's mustache twitched proudly, and his tail curled elegantly behind him.
It sounds good, I love listening to it, please talk more about it.
The children were clinging to the fence, chattering one after another:
"The big tiger is so powerful!"
"The big tiger is so majestic!!"
"I like golden flowers!"
Jinhua then became even more proud. He stretched his body, lowered his waist slightly, gathered energy in his dantian, and let out a majestic roar towards the sky.
"roar!!!"
It pierces through the clouds and splits the rocks, soaring into the sky, it is very domineering.
The children all looked at the reserved and majestic Jinhua with sparkling eyes, and exclamations came one after another.
"The zoo provides a portion of wild boar meat for each child. You can throw it in and experience the joy of feeding the tigers. Those who want to experience it can queue up here."
Song Ruan raised a hand to signal.
When the children heard this, they ran to Song Ruan as fast as if their feet were greased, and huddled together anxiously.
"I want to feed!"
“I want to feed too!!
Song Ruan: "No points will be given to those who don't line up properly, and no points will be given to those who push and fight each other."
Swish, swish, swish!
A neat line appeared in an instant. All the children stood quietly and well-behaved in a row, with their heads tilted up and bright, ingratiating smiles on their faces, just like a row of neatly arranged sunflowers.
Everyone has never seen their group of monkeys, who climb up roofs, fish in rivers, slip on ice and dig holes in the snow, so well-behaved.
Song Ruan took out a basket from the side, picked up a piece of meat with the tongs, and stuffed the meat and the tongs into the hands of Hu Tou, who was the first in line.
"Throw it in," she said. "Throw it higher."
Children these days have to collect firewood and make fire. He uses the fire tongs as skillfully as if they were his wide receiver. With a deft move of his wrist, the piece of meat flies high in the air like a bird and spins into the yard.
Jinhua jumped up swiftly, grabbed the meat into her mouth deftly in mid-air, and swallowed it in two bites.
"Wow!!!"
The children exclaimed again.
Jinhua was even more proud, and for the next piece of meat, it pounced, jumped, or bit from the side, showing off its various skills - it was not easy, as it used all its hunting skills to its full potential.
Song Ruan looked at the attention-seeking Jinhua and smiled faintly.
This is what it’s like for a new employee.
This is because it has never seen the world before, so it is excited. In the future, when there are more people watching the feeding, I guarantee that it will not move until the meat is right in front of its mouth.
——As for why he was so sure, the internet celebrity wolf used to eat all kinds of egg yolk pies, but later on he became more picky.
Will we perform for tourists at that time? Oh, I'm afraid it was the tourists who performed for it that attracted the golden flower lady's attention.
Meanwhile, Granny Sun quietly pulled Tiedan's collar, who hadn't gotten his turn yet, and whispered to him with a sly look in her eyes, "Don't feed your meat to the tigers. It's meat. Why don't you take it back and let us have a meal with it?"
Tiedan was unhappy on the spot. He had eaten several good meals of meat during the recent New Year, so he was not so hungry. Besides, feeding the tiger was so rare and majestic. Most importantly, everyone fed the tiger, but he was the only one who secretly took Jinhua's meat back. How embarrassing!
Even though Tiedan is young, he is still a little boy who needs to save face, especially with Xiaofeng watching him!
Tiedan was immediately unhappy and howled, "I don't, I don't!! I want to feed Jinhua, I want to feed Jinhua!!"
Mrs. Sun was afraid of attracting Song Ruan's attention - this girl was very fierce, and she would beat everyone, regardless of whether they were old or young, and she had no idea of respecting the elderly and loving the young.
So he wanted to cover Tiedan's mouth anxiously: "You unlucky child, why are you howling!"
Tiedan suddenly slipped out of Grandma Sun's hands like a loach, and slithered to Song Ruan's side, shouting: "I won't!! I want to feed Jinhua!!"
Although she didn't hear the whole story, she had been neighbors with Grandma Sun for so long and had seen a lot of fun. As soon as Grandma Sun slapped her thigh, Song Ruan could guess what she was going to do.
From Tiedan's few words, it was not difficult for her to guess what good thing Grandma Sun was going to do.
So he put away the smile on his face and said with a straight face: "The meat here is all caught by Jinhua herself in the mountains. I just took it out for the children to experience the feeling of feeding the tiger. It is not exchanged for you. You are not allowed to take it away privately. If you want to take it away, please discuss it with Jinhua."
Just at this moment, the show-off Jinhua was startled again and roared to the sky, with her bloody mouth opened, and a fierce aura rushed towards him.
Grandma Sun couldn't help but shudder, and her previous momentum disappeared. She lowered her eyebrows and muttered, "If you don't allow me to bring it, then don't bring it... Just talk to me nicely, why call Jinhua?"
Song Ruan snorted coldly, she shrank her neck and stopped talking.
Tiedan happily ran to the meat rack, and Song Ruan handed him the tongs holding the meat.
After feeding the tiger, Song Ruan took them to the donkey shed to visit the good things:
"What you are seeing now is a large ungulate animal, a wild donkey. Of course, it is still just a cub."
Hay was also prepared next to the donkey shed for the children to feed the donkeys.
After all, the good stuff is not as aggressive as the golden flower, so this time you can feed it at a close distance.
Although there were only two animals, it was already dark after the children fed them one by one.
Okay, it’s time for Songkran Zoo to close.
Song Ruan waved her hand and drove the cubs out: "Alright, alright, today's business is over, and the animals need to rest. Tomorrow Jinhua and Bai Weibo will have to set off on their journey. We need to get a good night's sleep tonight, and everyone should go home quickly."
The children were reluctant to leave and kept clinging to the door frame.
"Sister Xiao Song, Sister Xiao Song, please play for a while longer!"
"Yes, yes, Sister Xiao Song. Jinhua will be leaving tomorrow, please let us take one last look at her!"
Song Ruan had a heart of stone and blasted them out like chickens.
The little chicks were unwilling to go out. Some held on to the pillars, some held on to the door frames, and they were so shameless as to seem to be determined to stay here until death.
Since they are free now anyway, the adults are happy to watch the show, sitting aside leisurely with their hands folded.
Song Ruan looked at the group of clingy kids who refused to leave. Suddenly, she changed her expression and said with a smile, "Don't you want to leave?"
The children were stunned by Song Ruan's sudden change of attitude. They didn't know why they suddenly felt uneasy, but they still answered, "Yes!"
The smile on Song Ruan's face deepened, and she looked gentle and kind: "Want to stay and continue playing?"
But for some reason, the children suddenly felt their spines getting thicker and colder.
The seventh sense that warned them was far less attractive than the zoo. The children hesitated for a moment, but finally couldn't resist the temptation and nodded again: "Yes!"
"Did everyone have fun today?" The smile on Song Ruan's face became even warmer, like a caring older sister.
Sure enough, it must be their illusion. Sister Xiao Song is so gentle and kind-hearted, like a fairy from heaven, so why do they think her smile is like Grandma Wolf?
It's really wrong.
The children condemned themselves in their hearts, and then because of that little bit of guilt, they reacted more enthusiastically.
"Happy! Happy!"
Although everyone knew that Song Ruan had a big tiger at home and saw it occasionally, the feeling given by Song Ruan when he did it so seriously was different.
It's just like those Mina Lin restaurants in later generations. They also serve tofu, but they put the tofu blocks neatly on a plate, pour sauce on it, sprinkle a pinch of chopped green onions on it, squeeze black pepper juice and tomato sauce on the edge of the plate, and press some with the back of a spoon to pull out a slice. The ingredients are still the same, and the taste is almost the same, but they dare to charge you hundreds of dollars.
It’s mainly the sense of ceremony and the atmosphere that are different.
In terms of equal substitution, what Song Ruan did was not much different.
The main reason is that children these days have little knowledge and are easily fooled, especially those in rural areas. They have never seen a four-wheeled car, let alone been to a zoo.
So even though Songruan’s zoo is built in a simple and perfunctory manner, at least there are animals, procedures, and interactions. The owner also acts as a tour guide and introduces things, so the sense of ceremony is full. In the eyes of children, this is a zoo.
The children were particularly enthusiastic, and they shouted and expressed their feelings enthusiastically:
"There's a big tiger!"
"There's a wild donkey!"
“You can also feed!”
“This is my first time at the zoo!”
“It’s so fun!”
"When I grow up, I will go to the zoo again."
Song Ruan listened to the children's tender but happy voices and smiled: "Children in the capital also go to the zoo, but they don't just visit the zoo, they still have one thing to do. Do you know what it is?"
The children shook their heads in agreement and said in unison, "I don't know."
"What is it, Sister Xiao Song?"
The children were chattering away, as lively and active as hungry little birds.
Song Ruan looked at these innocent little birds who had never experienced the evil of human nature with a gentle smile, then she suddenly stopped smiling and said sternly in front of the confused eyes of the little birds:
"All the children present today, go back and write me a 200-word essay about your experience visiting the zoo, and give it to me when I return from the capital."
The children, who were still immersed in the joy of visiting the park, were suddenly shocked when they heard the sad news. They opened their mouths half-open.
What, what?
In the children's eyes, Song Ruan's beautiful face looked like a ferocious female demon.
Some clever kids wanted to run away.
Song Ruan didn't even raise her eyelids, and said slowly: "You have to pay eighty cents for the ticket to go to the zoo, and you have to pay to feed the animals in the zoo. Now not only do I not charge you for the ticket, I also let you feed them for free. Now I just ask you to write a small review. Isn't that too much?"
Ah, it sounds like there is really nothing wrong with it, but... the children's faces are wrinkled and their mouths are flat like those of geese.
Just, don’t want to.
Song Ruan tilted her head and reminded them casually, seemingly without any threat: "Good kids, don't try to run away. I will still be your teacher when school starts in the spring."
Children: …
All the children were petrified on the spot, like people who had been pinched with a needle or chickens whose necks were strangled.
Hu Tou stammered, "Xiao, Xiao Song sister, but, but we can't recognize so many words."
Two hundred words!
One, two, three, four, five... twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-five...
Hu Tou was quietly counting on his fingers. He used both hands but still hadn't finished counting to two five one. He felt so dizzy that stars were circling in his eyes. He weakly raised his doubts, trying to ask Sister Xiao Song to take back her decision.
The smile returned to Song Ruan's face, and her tone was gentle and considerate.
"Is that so? Then each of you can take "visiting the zoo" as the topic, and prepare a 200-word speech - you don't have to write it, just speak it out loud, and it only takes two minutes. When I come back from the capital, we will organize a small speech contest, and you can all go on stage in front of me."
The children's eyes had lost their light, just like charred quails that were flying freely in the bright, cloudless sky, but were suddenly struck by a bolt of lightning on their heads, smashing them to pieces.
The little quails looked at their parents with expectant eyes, hoping to get their parents' help.
The parents looked away for a while and then looked away as if nothing had happened.
Xiao Song, the educated youth, is an educated person. They still remember that she got the first place in the teacher exam by a large margin, and she will officially become a teacher next year. It is right to listen to her.
Even though the Little Red Guards did a lot of evil in schools in those days, teachers still had a very high status in the hearts of parents, especially those in remote areas that were less affected by the movement. Especially when it came to studying, whatever the teacher said was the truth.
After all, respecting teachers has existed in this land for thousands of years and still has a strong influence, and no one wants their children to be blind.
Besides, didn’t you hear the educated youth Xiao Song say that even the children in the capital are like this? That’s the capital, where the big leaders are, so there must be some advanced reasons.
Follow the capital!
Nowadays, people have unconditional trust and support for the Party and the Central Committee.
Tiedan looked aggrievedly at his grandmother who had always loved him, and Grandma Sun turned her head away silently.
What are you looking at her for? Don't look at her! For matters like this, you should listen to your teacher! Practice your speaking skills more and become eloquent, so that you can achieve success in the future.
Mrs. Sun even took the initiative to hide it in there, and asked her grandson to write it, but she couldn't be asked to write it.
Song Ruan was familiar with the carrot-and-stick policy, and after giving everyone a stick, he offered sweet dates and began to paint a rosy picture: "Everyone knows that I am going to the capital. I will bring back some special products from the capital, and then I will give them to the child who gave the best speech."
Wow! ! !
After these words were spoken, the eyes of the children who were originally frowning brightened.
A speciality from the capital! !
Not to mention the children, even the adults are eager to try out these things from the capital!
Song Ruan saw the children rubbing their hands eager to try and nodded with satisfaction.
"Do you guys want to stay and play?" she said caringly, "Experience more, feel more, maybe you can write two more articles."
The children's faces changed, and they turned around and ran away, as if there was a ghost chasing them.
Why are you asking me to stay? I just said it, and I haven't even really stayed, but I've already been assigned a 200-word speech. If I really stay, who knows what more tasks I'll have to do.
This won’t do. Absolutely not!
No child likes to learn!
The children dispersed, and Song Ruan folded her arms and looked at the villagers, smiling: "Do you want to participate in parent-child activities together?"
What are you talking about! What are you talking about!
For them, illiterate peasants, to participate in such activities, wouldn't it be embarrassing just to grind the millstone naked and go around in circles?
The villagers woke up one by one and laughed and quickly refused: "Oh no, no, Teacher Song, we are too old to participate in this kind of activity."
Look, those who are being dominated have started to call the teacher in advance.
Song Ruan looked around like an eagle, and everyone he scanned was like a teacher asking questions in class, but you knew nothing. The key was that you made eye contact with the teacher and then shrank back and lowered your head.
"Oh, my meal isn't ready yet, I have to go."
"Yes, yes, yes. I haven't cooked yet either. If I don't go back now, my old man will starve to death."
"I haven't carried any water today."
Everyone ran away in a hurry, as if they would be caught and cooked if they ran a little slower.
Song Ruan snorted coldly and closed the door.
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