Chapter 64 Two-in-one search for new meal tickets
This time, Jinhua quickly realized that he was abandoned again. Having learned from the last lesson, he did not wait or delay at all. As soon as he realized what was happening, he immediately ran after the enemy.
Mom, mom, wait for me!
But Jinhua's mother was determined to get rid of Jinhua. She chose a rainy night to wash away most of Jinhua's scent. In addition, she ran away without stopping, so Jinhua returned empty-handed again.
Without any bloodshed, he suddenly possessed two territories of a male tiger and a female tiger as powerful as a male tiger - both of which were good places with abundant prey and fertile soil. If you didn't know him, you would think Jinhua was a great tiger.
But Jinhua doesn't want it, it wants its mother or meal ticket back.
The sun rose and set, and Jinhua went out with heavy steps to catch prey.
The tiger that had been protecting it is no longer here, and it still has three hungry cubs waiting to be fed. It must catch food so that it can have enough milk to ensure that its children do not starve to death.
——Yes, it doesn’t expect to be well raised, just don’t let it starve to death.
Perhaps God wanted to give this parasite a chance to prove herself, and everything went smoothly this time.
Being downwind, the breeze brought the scent of the sika deer to Jinhua's nose, reminding her of the location of the prey. Oh, it was facing away from it!
The golden flower crawled forward with bated breath, and the sika deer seemed to be too absorbed in feasting on the delicious grass leaves to notice the predator getting closer and closer to it.
Jinhua pounced forward suddenly, and its strong hind legs allowed it to close the final distance like a missile. Its sharp teeth easily bit through the deer's throat like a knife through tofu, and the deer's spine was also broken by the powerful impact. The deer was not dead yet, but it could not stand up.
Blood spurted out from the hole in its neck like foam, and the deer's four hooves twitched before finally calming down.
Jinhua pressed the sika deer to death.
It wasn’t easy. Today, the almost four-year-old Tiger opened his first store.
Jinhua jumped aside proudly, licked his paws, combed the whiskers on his lips with his paws, swung his tail happily, praised himself from head to toe in the unique way of cats, and then took cat steps to tear open the deer's chest.
The thick, boiling blood plasma and the steaming internal organs, plus the meat being one that he had beaten himself, seemed especially fresh and sweet. Jinhua ate so much that beads of blood hung on his beard and his throat let out a satisfied snoring sound.
After eating the internal organs, she ate the limbs and even the head. Jinhua was barely 80% full. That was okay, at least the cubs had a supply of milk for the day.
Let’s talk about tomorrow’s things tomorrow. Jinhua yawned and dragged her steps back home to feed her baby and go to sleep.
Jinhua: There is a little growth, but not much.
In this way, Jinhua managed to raise her three cubs until they were more than two months old. Although they were not as chubby as when she was a baby, at least they survived.
It's strange to say, despite the careful care taken by Jinhua, a ferocious and hunting tigress, only Jinhua survived among the three cubs. Jinhua, a lousy tiger mother who had no food to eat and was not well fed, actually raised all three cubs. One has white hair on its neck, one has a few spotted hairs on the tip of its tail, and one has a black spot on the tip of its nose. Each cub has its own unique features.
Maybe this is why tiger cubs are so easy to raise.
But good luck doesn't always favor Jinhuahuhu.
Soon, the Northeast entered the rainy season.
Since July, rain has been falling from the sky like a broken bead curtain, and gloomy clouds have covered the sky like a blanket, sometimes even for several days in a row. For crops, abundant rain is beneficial to their growth, but for golden catfish, which does not have excellent hunting skills, it is a severe test.
The continuous rain caused water to accumulate in the cracks of the rocks on the ground. Herbivores could drink water by lowering their heads, without having to risk their lives to drink from streams or rivers where predators might be lying in ambush. As for eating - there was grass everywhere in the mountains, so it was not a problem at all.
Therefore, they usually hide in concealed dens, and the continuous rain will wash away their traces, making it difficult for even keen and experienced hunters to find them.
Sometimes, Jinhua would finally bump into a sika deer or roe deer, and was about to catch up with it. However, during the chase, he was not careful and stepped on the slippery moss and mushroom caps that had grown wildly due to the rain. He fell so hard that his eyes were red and his face was bruised. He didn't get to eat and his back was sprained.
Jinhua went back to her previous life of going hungry for nine meals in three days, but as an adult tiger she could still resist, the three cubs couldn't. They howled at the top of their lungs, biting and scratching Jinhua's nipples, causing her face to become deformed due to the pain.
Before long, the cubs began to lose weight at a speed visible to the naked eye, and they always lay listlessly in the corner of the cave and slept.
Fortunately, the rainy season in Northeast China is not long. By mid-August, the continuous rain has completely become a thing of the past.
It has to catch its prey.
Jinhua licked his paws and went out hunting with full confidence.
After walking for several miles, it didn't see a single rabbit, but its sensitive ears detected a faint sound coming downwind, and it tiptoed around it.
It's a litter of wild boars.
Jinhua drooled as she looked at the plump wild boar cub.
When its mother and Fanticket Tiger were still around, it loved to eat these little desserts. The piglets, which were just born, have a scent of milk and their meat is elastic and soft. They are so tender that they seem to melt into water as soon as they are put into the mouth. They are so fragrant.
But with Jinhua's poor hunting skills, let alone snatching the favorite cub from the ferocious wild boar couple, being able to kill the weak little sika deer was already a great improvement after growing up.
It looked at the boar's mountain-like body and two long fangs, and planned to leave with regret.
First is a pig, second is a bear, and third is a tiger. Wild boars have bad tempers, especially male boars whose fangs are as sharp as sharp swords. They charge around with great lethality. Even a powerful one like Jinhua's mother may get hurt during the hunting, and then choose to hunt sows without fangs.
It can't take any risks now, it still has three cubs to raise.
Alas, I really hope the cubs can grow up quickly, so that Yihu can catch a prey for it and it won’t have to rush for food every day.
But things did not develop as it expected. The breeze carried the smell of tiger into the wild boar's den, and the wild boar jumped out as if it had been struck by lightning.
When he saw a skinny tigress staring at his wife and children with a fierce look in her eyes, her eyes immediately widened into copper bells.
Before Jinhua could react, the wild boar came over like a black whirlwind, its fangs flashing coldly.
Jinhua was forced to fight, and the tiger and the pig fought each other.
Although Jinhua has grown a lot during this period of time, Rome was not built in a day after all. Moreover, this is a wild boar king weighing nearly 500 kilograms. In addition, she has not eaten much for a long time, resulting in lack of energy. Jinhua soon fell into a disadvantage.
It wanted to leave, but the more anxious it became, the more confused it became. The female wild boar took the opportunity to rush over and hit it. Jinhua was caught off guard and the boar bit its front paws. It howled and struggled free. The round holes bitten by the wild boar became two wide and deep grooves due to the violent tearing, and the bones were faintly visible.
It is the end of summer and the sun is still hot. The rain water remaining on the ground has evaporated, and the whole forest is as humid and hot as a steamer. In addition, Jinhua is in a hurry to catch prey and feed her cubs and has no time to rest. Her injured paws soon became infected and inflamed from stepping on the wet mud where leeches are rampant and the grass where mosquitoes breed.
Even though it tried very hard to heal itself by licking its saliva, it was unable to stop the wounds from getting worse. The two wounds, which were so deep that the bones could be seen, quickly festered and the edges swelled like a rotten peach. It was extremely painful when it moved and it couldn't land at all, let alone catch those nimble animals.
In this situation, Jinhua could only pick up some leftovers from other predators, or the rotten corpses of diseased people, but she was not a vulture, and could not enjoy digesting the rotten meat that emitted a foul smell. Not only was her milk thin and tasteless, but the bacteria in the rotten meat caused her to have diarrhea and stomachache, and her already weak body collapsed even further.
The tiger cubs are in the growing period. Normally, in addition to drinking milk, they also need to eat some minced meat. But now, their mother only has a few drops of milk, so where does the minced meat come from?
Finally, on a damp, dark, rainy night, Black Nose stopped breathing, and soon after, Flower Tail's belly stopped rising and falling.
In the end, Jinhua became just like its mother, with only one cub left.
Jinhua wailed in pain towards the dark forest, but his mother and Fanticket Tiger were in their new territory hundreds of miles away and could not come to help him.
But if no action is taken, the remaining white scarf will probably follow in the footsteps of its younger brothers and sisters.
Besides, it is already autumn, and all animals in Northeast China have to accumulate thick fat at this time to resist the severe cold in winter. But now, it is skinny and its cubs are dying.
With her last resort, Jinhua decided to take a risk. She came to the wild boar's den again - she planned to bite a piglet to death and drag it away when the wild boar was out - with her limping leg, she obviously could not catch up with any herbivores that were good at running and jumping.
It was very strange that the wild boar's den was empty. It followed the smell and finally found the wild boar's new home in the crevices of rocks in another forest.
The wild boar disappeared, perhaps he met with an accident, or perhaps he met a prettier sow and left home. In any case, he disappeared. Without this sword-bearing guard, the sow and the piglets were just moving pieces of meat in the eyes of predators - for example, there was only one piglet left in the pigpen.
Maybe that's why they moved.
There is really no way to avoid tigers!
Jinhua's hair stood up with excitement.
Originally, one piglet was only enough for one meal, but now it can be packed away together with the sow and can feed them for a week!
Although a sow weighing two or three hundred pounds is also worthy of the tiger's caution, this creature has no fangs or horns, so as long as you are cautious, you can still fight it - if you don't fight, it will die together with its cubs.
Unexpectedly, before it launched an attack, the sow chased after a two-legged beast.
Jinhua took the opportunity to bite the piglet to death and ate it all in just a few bites - a piglet that was only a month old weighed only about twenty pounds, and apart from the hair, bones and skin, there was actually not much to eat.
Jinhua hesitated for a moment, but still followed the sow's trail - it would have been fine if it hadn't found the opportunity to package the sow together before, but now it was really unwilling to give up.
This might be the most prey it could catch before its leg injury healed.
And when the last cub is bitten to death, the sow will definitely move far away or find a new boar. With a lame leg, it can neither walk far nor have strong fighting power, so it will be difficult for it to succeed again.
And, maybe, it can take advantage of this opportunity?
Seeing the sow banging against the tree, Jinhua was quite happy. "Go ahead and bang it, bang it for a while longer. I'll bang you until you're dizzy and exhausted all your strength, then I'll be able to deal with you better!"
It gnashed its teeth slightly, imagining the delicious taste of the sow's tender meat sliding down its throat. Such a lot of meat would be enough for it to have a good rest for a week, and it also carried a sense of revenge, which made the tiger even more fascinated.
As for the two-legged beast, it didn't intend to bite it to death.
Both Jinhua's mother and Fanticket Tiger had warned it that the last thing to mess with in the forest was not the wild boar king with long fangs, nor the aggressive brown bear, but those skinny-looking two-legged beasts.
These two-legged beasts have fire-breathing tubes, and can kill even a black bear with one shot. They can set all kinds of snares and traps that even wild boars cannot escape from. They are also more vengeful than wolves. Once they kill one of them, the beasts will come in groups to seek revenge on them.
——Although it didn't see what was so powerful about this two-legged beast that was chased to the ground and climbed up the tree, it still planned to listen to its mother.
A sow and a piglet were enough to keep it and White Collar well fed for a week.
The sow was hitting the tree slower and slower, and seemed to be about to run out of strength. Before it could stand up, it saw the sow being hit to death by a punch from another female biped that suddenly jumped out.
One punch! Hammered to death!
Jinhua's tiger eyes suddenly widened. She looked at the biped's legs which were thinner than a sika deer's legs, then at the sow whose head was dented by the blow, then at the female biped, then at the sow again - even her mother couldn't deal with the female wild boar so efficiently! ! !
Fortunately, it didn't act rashly! !
It quietly crawled down again. It had a limp on one leg so it made a lot of noise when walking. It planned to wait quietly for the two to leave before sneaking away.
But don't dare to provoke it, its skin is not as thick as that of a sow wild boar.
A little wild donkey foal came over with a clatter, and rubbed its head against the mother biped's face, acting coquettishly.
Jinhua saw the mother biped take out a water bag from her arms, then took out a basin, poured some white liquid into the basin, and let the little donkey lick it.
Jinhua's nose moved, and she keenly smelled that it was the same milk that she fed to her tiger cubs.
Bah, still drinking milk at this age! Even its cubs have never drunk so much!
Jinhua looked at it with a sour look.
The little donkey kept shouting "Oh oh" with joy. The mother biped waited for it to finish drinking, and then stuffed something into its mouth, which made the little donkey kick its feet with joy.
The female biped gently patted the donkey that was jumping around, then squatted down and took a look at the donkey's leg. With her sharp eyesight and rich experience of injuries, Jinhua could tell at a glance that the hoof must have been seriously injured, but it has recovered a lot now.
Jinhua licked her front paws which were swollen and hot, as if she had been stung by a swarm of wasps at the same place. The festering wounds gave off a foul odor, and she felt very jealous.
It felt that it was no worse than the wild donkey, so why couldn't it find such a great meal ticket - even the female biped was not the donkey's mother!
Its claws popped out of their sheaths and it angrily and silently vented its anger on the grass roots on the ground.
The female Two-legged Beast seemed to have sensed something and her eyes suddenly turned towards it.
Jinhua froze in place instantly, with her ears stretched back like airplane ears.
After Song Ruan and Ning Yuan discussed the distribution of wild boar meat, they began to cut the wild boar meat on the spot. They put some of it into Ning Yuan's big backpack, covered it tightly with firewood, and asked him to carry it back first and explore the way at the same time.
She hid some of the rest in the middle of a bundle of firewood, wrapped it with a dense layer of branches, and tied it tightly with hemp rope to ensure that nothing was exposed. She let the donkey drag it. She also hid some in her own backpack, which she also covered with firewood and wild vegetables. She also collected some pieces of meat that had been drained of blood in her own small space.
A pig weighing more than 200 pounds can only produce more than 100 pounds of meat after removing the head, hair and bones. This distribution is about the same. However, the bloody internal organs and the pig head will be easily discovered if they are taken back, and it is not easy to deal with them. She put them into the space with a little disgust. Suddenly, she heard some movement beside her ear. She swept her eyes sharply and saw a furry ear in the grass.
A skinny Siberian tiger with a badly injured front leg was looking at her nervously, with its limbs lying on all fours in a gesture of submission, its ears stretched into airplane ears, as if it was afraid that she would suddenly rush up and smash its head like a pig's.
A big Mimi that looks quite pitiful.
Just right.
Song Ruan used pig intestines as a rope, tied a pig's leg at one end, and wrapped the rest of the rope along with other internal organs around the pig's head. He threw it over with force, and it landed right in front of Da Mimi.
Big Mimi was frightened by this "Pegasus Meteor Hammer" and stepped back to avoid it, but she could not resist the temptation of fresh flesh and blood. She slowly approached her with her ears open, stared at her closely, then bit her and dragged her away.
Like a stray cat, it ran very fast with a limp leg and disappeared in a few seconds.
Feeding the Northeast Golden Tabby was just a good deed, and Song Ruan didn't take it to heart.
She took advantage of the few people around to move the wild boar meat back home. She smeared some of it with salt and hung it on the roof, and cut the rest into strips half a finger wide and hung them in a cool and ventilated place. There was a lot of wild boar meat, and at first glance it looked like a thick pink curtain, which was quite spectacular.
When the meat strips were about 80% dry, Song Ruan carried all of them up the mountain in a basket and found a remote and deserted place to roast the meat.
First, build a square rack like a stove, make a fire in the middle, put the meat strips on the four sides, brush them with honey and sauce while turning them. Soon, the rich aroma spreads around like a bomb, making you salivate.
This is also the reason why Song Ruan wants to go to the mountains to roast. With such a strong smell, if she makes it at home, it will be clearly known to the whole village - she doesn't want to attract onlookers.
Unexpectedly, grilling on the mountain did not attract other people to watch, but instead attracted more exotic things.
Song Ruan was surprised to see the lame Northeast Golden Tabby cat that appeared again, gropingly. It seemed that it didn't dare to get too close because of the fire. It squatted behind a big tree and peeked out furtively. Its eyes looked at her pitifully, and its ears trembled as it swallowed saliva.
Song Ruan:? ? ?
She tentatively threw a piece of pure meat that had not yet been coated with sauce over.
The Northeast Golden Tabby pounced forward, then limped back behind the tree. Soon, the sound of meat being torn and swallowed was heard from behind the tree.
A few seconds later, the Northeast Golden Tabby poked its head out again and continued to look at her pitifully.
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