Chapter 135 Qinling Giant Panda (Twenty-one)
"This snow is really heavy, 250... No, where is Chang Geng's location?"
"Wait a minute, let me check it out. 250's real-time location... woc! Why did he come to Yaoyao's territory?"
"Yaoyao?"
Upon hearing the name, the staff on duty panicked for a few seconds, but quickly calmed down.
"It's okay, Chang Geng runs pretty fast. Yao Yao is old, so he may not be able to catch up with him."
"Alas, Yaoyao is already 18 years old in the blink of an eye. Can he survive the heavy snow this year?"
"In any case, staying in the wild is Yaoyao's own choice and we should respect him."
Before Chang Geng showed up, Yao Yao was the panda that caused the most headaches for the conservation team.
Back then, the giant panda protection team did not have the complete equipment that it does now, and finding pandas depended entirely on forest rangers and volunteers patrolling the mountains.
Pandas have a strong sense of hiding, and sometimes you can't find any trace of them even if you search all the mountains.
Therefore, when Yaoyao was found by the protection team, he had already passed his first birthday.
The one-year-old bear showed extreme aggressiveness, causing volunteers to be afraid to approach it.
Later, the protection team worked with Yaoyao for half a year, and gradually let Yaoyao relax his vigilance by imitating the calls of pandas and applying scents on his body.
Later, they analyzed the situation carefully and felt that Yaoyao might simply be annoyed with them and didn't want to bother with them.
From that year on, Yaoyao became active in the reserve and became the overlord.
Whether fighting for territory or pursuing a spouse, he is the winner with the upper hand.
Gradually, Yaoyao grew older and was injured more and more often in fights.
Once, he was bitten by his love rival and was seriously injured. He was unable to move for three days.
The rescue team rushed up the mountain and took Yaoyao to the rescue station for treatment.
After a comprehensive examination by veterinarians, the conservation team concluded that Yaoyao was too old and seriously injured, and it would be very difficult to release him into the wild.
Just leave him in the shelter and let him enjoy his old age.
The protection team prepared a clean cage for Yaoyao, decorated it beautifully, and planted the bamboo that Yaoyao liked to eat while waiting for him to move in.
But Yaoyao was disdainful of the "nursing home" and after his injury recovered, he insisted on returning to his own territory.
The protection team was unable to keep Yaoyao and had to release him back into the forest.
Two years later, the team kept a close eye on Yaoyao, fearing that he would get injured again.
To everyone's surprise, Yaoyao showed great adaptability after returning to the mountains.
Not only did it drive away all the young bears that coveted its territory, it also drove away jackals, bears, tigers, leopards, etc. that wanted to target it as prey.
He seemed to want to use practical actions to tell the humans who tried to keep him in captivity: I don't accept you keeping me.
Yaoyao was born in the mountains, grew up in the mountains, and planned to be buried in the mountains in the future.
Even though Ying Xiong is old, he is still a local overlord.
"Eeyee!"
Yu Yiyun knew very little about the Beipo pandas and was unaware of Yao Yao’s glorious achievements when he was young.
Even so, it does not affect Zhima Tangyuan's admiration for Yaoyao.
Having seen how Yaoyao forced the black bear back with his roar and momentum, Yu Yijun was deeply shocked and would come to visit the strong and healthy Yingxiong every now and then.
Yaoyao didn't bother to pay attention to him at first, but later he got annoyed and drove him away once or twice.
Laughing, who is Yu Yiyun?
In the past six lifetimes, no beast has ever successfully driven him away!
The so-called shameless bear is invincible.
When Yaoyao was chasing him, the sesame dumplings ran faster than rabbits and the elderly Yaoyao couldn't catch up at all.
When Yaoyao got tired of chasing, he returned to his habitat and ate bamboo.
The sesame dumpling dog came back sneakily, babbling and complaining, "You are so fierce, you scared the baby."
The 70-year-old bear was tricked by the evil Tangyuan several times and finally gave up on expelling it.
He could feel that the young bear had come to his territory, but had no intention of competing with him for the territory.
There was no essential conflict of interest, so Yaoyao simply treated the sesame dumplings as an empty background.
The northern slope of the Qinling Mountains is indeed colder than the southern slope, and the temperature has been dropping for several days in a row.
The snow from the mountainside to the top shows no signs of melting, as if covering the mountains with a pure white quilt.
Yu Yiyun was tired of eating bamboo and wanted to eat some meat to warm himself up, so he had to expand his search range.
He was hunting all over the mountains and plains, and happened to meet a pear monkey who was looking for food all over the mountains and plains.
In the cold winter, there are only a few fruit-bearing trees in the mountains and forests.
As the new leader, the pear monkey must demonstrate the ability to manage the family and find enough food for the monkey group.
In its monkey group, there are several cubs left behind by the previous leader.
Male golden monkeys generally do not expel or kill the offspring left behind by the previous leader, and treat them as family members.
Monkeys, like humans, attach great importance to their young.
Some monkeys would even steal other monkeys' babies to enjoy themselves, just like what Yu Yiyun did.
The pear monkey's choice to accept the baby means that it must find more food and allow the mother monkey with the baby to secrete milk to feed the baby.
"Eeyee."
"geigeigei."
When the old friends met again, they were all in a depressed mood, as if life had worn away their edges.
Seeing that the pear monkey had lost weight, Sesame Tangyuan sighed and said a few words of comfort, but suddenly thought: Wait, monkeys don’t need to hunt.
In winter, prey hides, but plants don’t.
Yu Yiyun was very familiar with the vegetation distribution in Qinling Mountains. Having climbed all the way from the south slope, he knew which fruit trees were distributed where.
"Yiyi~" Monkey, come with me!
"Gei?"
The pear monkey didn't understand, but when he saw Sesame Tangyuan running a few steps, then stopping and waiting quietly, he immediately understood what he meant and ran after him.
After running along the mountain road for more than half an hour, Yu Yiyun finally stopped and signaled the pear monkey to lower its head.
After the snow, the sky cleared up and many red berries grew beside the mountain path, reflecting the sunlight and casting lovely shadows.
"Eeyore." Eat this.
"geigei!"
The pear monkey raised his voice, but he didn't sound very excited.
Sesame Glutinous Rice Ball stretched out its paw, grabbed a berry and stuffed it into its mouth.
As soon as my teeth broke the peel, I spat it out because of the bitterness.
"Eeyore." It's so bitter. No wonder it wasn't eaten by the birds.
"geigei." I say this tastes worse than poop.
I spit out all the red berries in my mouth. The sesame dumplings I ate were too bitter for my liking, so I took two bites of snow to rinse my mouth.
The snow melted into water in the mouth, and the taste was surprisingly lightly sweet.
"???"
Yu Yiyun glanced at the red berries and a bold idea popped into his mind.
He picked a few more red berries and put them in his mouth and chewed them.
The pear monkey silently looked at his good friend the bear, wondering if he was suffering from pica.
The red fruit is particularly unpalatable. In winter, it would rather chew on grass roots and tree bark than touch that thing.
Spitting out the red berries in his mouth, Yu Yijun picked up the bamboo shoots and took a big bite.
Sure enough, the bamboo shoots turned out incredibly sweet, sweeter even than autumn pears.
"Yiyi." Monkey, you try it.
"geigei." Take it away! I don't want to eat poop!
Poor Pear Monkey tried hard to resist, but was still stuffed with a few crushed berries.
It spat out the berries, and its mouth was filled with bitterness.
Just at this moment, Yu Yiyun broke off half a bamboo shoot and stuffed it into its mouth.
"gei?" The pear monkey widened his watery eyes like grapes, as if the door to a new world had been opened in an instant.
During the winter when plants are scarce, golden monkeys eat lichens, leaves, and buds to fill their stomachs, and bamboo is naturally included in their food list.
For golden monkeys, bamboo is just a helpless choice when there are no wild fruits. They will only eat it when they are extremely hungry.
After traveling across the Qinling Mountains for so long, it realized for the first time that bamboo could be so delicious.
"Eeyee!"
While the pear monkey's worldview was being shattered and reshaped, Yu Yiyun picked handfuls of red berries.
In winter, the mountains are covered with snow, which acts as a natural refrigerator, keeping the berries fresh.
You can eat sweet bamboo throughout the winter!
Seeing how enthusiastically he was at picking berries, the Pear Monkey also imitated the Sesame Rice Balls and picked a lot of berries, intending to go back and let his family members taste them.
On the way back, they chose different roads and unexpectedly found many oak trees.
Quercus is one of the most common oak trees in Qinling Mountains, and its fruiting period is around November.
The fruit is round or oval in shape, rich in starch and suitable for satisfying hunger.
"gei~geigei~"
The pear monkey accidentally discovered the oak bushes and danced with excitement.
With so many acorns, the new Monkey King won’t have to worry about his family suffering from hunger and cold in the coming winter!
Yu Yiyun was equally excited.
Although he didn't like eating acorns, the fact that there were so many of them in this forest meant that...
"babble?"
Where is the cute little squirrel?
Squirrel: Oh no! The Japanese invaders have entered the village.
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Zhima Tangyuan turned on the "cute detector" and searched for a while, successfully found the cute little squirrel with a big furry tail, and considerately provided wake-up service.
He also raided the squirrel's house and gave the squirrel's acorns, which were stored there for the winter, to the pear monkey.
Anyway, the little squirrel has a warmer place to spend the winter, so it doesn't need acorns anymore.
The little squirrel was so angry that he died on the spot, and his last words were very dirty.
After eating and drinking his fill, the evil bear returned home with his arms full of red berries.
Taking this road home, you will pass by Yaoyao's territory.
Giant pandas like to live alone. Normally, when they smell the scent of another bear marking its territory, they will politely avoid it.
Yu Yiyun is different.
Social gangsters have no sense of boundaries!
He held the red berries and happily prepared to share them with Yaoyao.
Stepping into Yaoyao's territory, Yu Yiyun smelled a strong smell of blood.
"babble?"
He was so frightened that he didn't care about the berries. He spread his paws and ran as fast as he could towards the cave where Yaoyao often slept.
Outside the cave, the snow was covered with messy footprints and a few bloodstains, which were reflected by the snowflakes in a shocking way.
Yu Yiyun didn't have time to figure out which animal the footprints came from, and rushed into the cave to check on Yaoyao.
"Woof!"
When Yaoyao heard the noise, he mistakenly thought that the beast that had been driven away had returned, and he forced himself to make a ferocious roar.
"Eeyee."
Yu Yiyun made a sound to greet and identify herself.
Yaoyao recognized that it was the shameless bear next door, and the roaring stopped instantly.
Yu Yiyun took a few quick steps and went deep into the cave.
In the darkness, Yaoyao was lying there with a few tufts of gray hair on his mouth. He looked like a jackal from the mountains.
He didn't seem to have been fatally wounded, but he had a bite on his hind leg, which was deep enough to definitely affect his normal movements.
Even if pandas do not need to hunt, pandas that cannot walk on their hind legs will inevitably become the target of hunters.
Yu Yiyun made a judgment instantly, turned around, and decided to go down the mountain to ask for help from the little man.
"Woof."
Yaoyao roared in a low voice to stop Sesame Dumpling.
He seemed to guess what Yu Yiyun was going to do.
Given my current age and physical condition, if I were taken to a shelter, I would never be able to come back.
Yaoyao lowered his head and licked the wound on his hind leg, silently showing his determination.
——I was born in the mountains and I will be buried in the mountains.
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