Chapter 8 South China Tiger (VIII)
Sugar oranges are not only friendly to humans, but also to tigers.
Whether before or after reincarnation, she never took the initiative to attack her own kind.
When the tiger was first reintroduced to the wild, it was lonely and could not adapt to the rules of wild tigers, so it rashly broke into the territory of Mulan next door.
The rewilding team was on high alert and held a hasty meeting to discuss whether to anesthetize Mulan first or to cover the tangerines with sacks.
When they sneaked into the forest with tranquilizer guns and colorful sacks, they saw the tangerine wagging its tail and leaving Mulan's territory unharmed.
After all, our Queen Mulan only fights tough battles.
I don't have the energy to hit a sweet girl who has a bright smile, a tail that shakes like a propeller, and greets you with "How are you? Can you play with me" before you even get close to her.
Faced with the petite and soft tangerine, she didn't even start her emperor engine.
Yu Yiyun: ...Why did you attack me? Am I not sweet enough?
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Later, Shatangju gradually adapted to the solitary living habits of wild tigers and had not seen any of its kind outside Zhen'an for a long time.
It was a rare opportunity to meet a little tiger who could play with him. Shatangju quickly became familiar with Yu Yiyun, and they chased each other and rolled around in a ball.
Until Mulan's roar came from outside the territory.
"roar--!"
Shameless tiger dealer!
Give my baby back!!!
When Yu Yijun heard Mulan's voice, he immediately rolled over and got up, and yelled at Shatangju twice.
'My aunt called me home for dinner, so I'm leaving.'
"Hmm..." Sugar Orange's ears drooped, and the whole tiger suddenly lost its sweetness.
"Aoao!" I will come to play with you next time.
"Hmm!" Really?
"Ahhh!" It's true, the one who deceived the tiger is a kitten!
Yu Yijun made a promise with Shatangju, waved goodbye to Zhen'an, and ran towards her aunt with her short legs.
Zhen'an was obviously reluctant to give up the happy parent-child time, but he didn't dare to chase after him.
Mulan is a respectable tiger with a sense of boundaries and will not easily trespass into the territory of the Tangerine.
She was furious now. If Zhen'an dared to show up, his handsome face would definitely be scratched to pieces.
Zhen'an was so scared that he could only follow the tiger cub from a distance, watching him run out of the territory and reunite with his 'legal' guardian tiger.
Yu Yijun turned around and saw his melancholy expression of "a tiger in an empty nest is as lonely as the snow", and was speechless.
It feels like after a couple divorces, the child is awarded to the mother and the father can only take a peek at the child when he or she has time.
I've already said it, I'm not your tiger!!!
Yu Yiyun yelled at him and urged Zhen'an to get away quickly to avoid being caught by Mulan again.
Zhen'an turned around dejectedly, with his ears and tail drooping, and returned to the depths of his territory.
"Moo——"
Mulan could smell Little Tiger from a distance and made a sound to call the cub, urging him to come out quickly.
Yu Yiyun quickened her pace, ran back to her aunt, and rubbed against her like a spoiled child.
"Huh?" Mulan lowered her head and sniffed, asking him what the smell was on him.
"Ahhh!" Auntie, I made good friends!
Mulan did not comment on "good friend tiger".
Although she shares a partner with Shatangju, the male tiger is just a tool for the female tigers to reproduce.
As long as they do not invade each other's territory or compete for survival resources, there is no hostility between tigresses, let alone the time for jealousy.
The male tiger will only affect the queen's hunting speed.
On the way home, Mulan kept teaching the tiger cub a lesson, telling him to stay away from a certain scum tiger who was "good for nothing except being handsome", so that he wouldn't become a loser when he grows up.
The tiger cub cried out "aww" with a good attitude, but in fact it went in one ear and out the other.
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This year, the cold winter came exceptionally early. In late November, the first snow fell in the Qinling Mountains.
When the cub saw snow flying all over the sky for the first time, he ran around in the snow excitedly and rubbed himself into a white creamy glutinous rice ball.
Mulan shook her fur, shaking off the snowflakes all over her body, and once again revealed a look of care for the little stupid cat.
After the first snow, the temperature in Qinling Mountains dropped below zero, and the grass and trees on the mountains withered.
Most herbivorous animals will reduce their foraging or even stop foraging, and for tigers that do not have hibernation skills, finding food will become particularly difficult.
Mulan looked up at the snowflakes, then looked down at the fat tiger cub, and couldn't help but feel worried.
What should I do if the baby I worked so hard to fatten up becomes thin due to hunger?
The tiger cub frolicked all over the ground, rolled a few circles in the snow, then returned to the cave and began digging a hole with its claws.
Mulan saw him using all four claws to dig for a long time, but the hard soil was only scratched superficially and the hole he dug was less than one centimeter.
"Huuuu!"
It’s useless, let me do it!
Mulan pushed Xiaohu aside, used her own claws, and quickly dug a half-meter deep pit.
The tiger cub circled the pit a few times, then jumped back into the pit, howling at Mulan.
Not enough, dig deeper!
Tigers have poor stamina, and Queen Mulan is no exception. She is already exhausted and out of breath.
Amid Xiaohu's repeated calls of "Auntie is great" and "Auntie is the best," Mulan gradually lost herself and stood up again to widen the pit.
The pit was dug. Mulan saw Xiaohu bring some soft hay and spread it underneath the pit. She wondered what it was for.
The first snow was not heavy. It fell all night long and the hay at the bottom of the pit was already covered with white snow.
Mulan likes to challenge herself, so she chose a territory that is located at a higher altitude. The temperature in winter is basically below zero degrees, and can even reach minus ten degrees at night.
Yu Yiyun took advantage of the fact that the weather was not too cold and jumped up and down frantically to chase the chickens.
After two months of practical training, Yu Yiyun's hunting ability has improved.
Not only can you catch chickens, you can also catch hares.
Given the reproduction rate of wild rabbits, as long as Yu Yiyun can keep catching them, there will be enough for him and Mulan to eat until the beginning of next spring.
However, the size of the pit dug by Mulan was limited.
Yu Yiyun plucked the chickens and rabbits he had caught to minimize the space they took up, and arranged them neatly on a pile of grass covered with a thick layer of snow.
At first, Mulan was puzzled when she saw that he caught the chicken but did not eat it, but put it into a deep pit.
However, her tiger cub had done so many confusing things that Mulan was too lazy to care about it after just a moment of confusion.
The next day, the wind was still blowing, but the snow had stopped.
Mulan seized the opportunity to find prey while she could and brought back a wild boar.
The two tigers had a hearty meal, with most of the wild boar meat still left.
As was her old habit, Mulan would leave her prey where it lay until she had finished eating it.
Today, something is unusual.
After the tiger cub had eaten, he went to the wild boar again.
Mulan thought he was not full and wanted to have more food.
But the tiger cub was seen tearing off the wild boar meat with great effort, draining the blood, and putting it into the hole that had been dug earlier.
——I’m sorry, brothers and sisters in the garbage picking alliance.
Yu Yiyun secretly said in her heart:
The cold winter has arrived and the landlord has no surplus food.
The tiger cub worked hard for most of the day but didn't get much meat.
In the end, Mulan couldn't bear it anymore and helped him tear the meat into pieces.
The huge wild boar was reduced to nothing but its internal organs and skeleton.
The big pit dug by the tiger cub was basically filled up.
I found some hay and covered the surface of the meat pit.
Then, the little fat tiger jumped to a high place and picked up uncontaminated snow from the rocks, covering the ground with a thick layer.
When the meat in the pit was completely frozen, the tiger cub "Nianni" acted coquettishly to Mulan and asked her to help push a large flat rock over and put it on the pit.
It can prevent the ultraviolet rays in the sun from melting and spoiling the frozen meat, and it can also prevent it from being eaten by other animals.
When the audience in the live broadcast room saw the tigress and her cub busying around together, they all shouted, "No spirits are allowed after the founding of the People's Republic of China."
[How did he become a spirit? Our Fat Tiger has always been very smart~ Besides, it is normal for animals to store food for the winter, right? ]
[It is normal for animals to store food, but tigers don’t have this habit! ]
[Mulan just doesn't have this habit. Many tigers will bury the uneaten meat and continue eating it at the next meal.]
[Is the point about burying the meat? The point is that they made a natural refrigerator! ]
[+1, the refrigerator looks very useful. It makes me want to try it.]
[Who would have thought that I would learn the techniques of preserving fresh meat from these two tigers...]
In the blink of an eye, several days passed.
The second heavy snow fell heavily, wreaking havoc on the jungles of the Qinling Mountains.
Winter has always been the season with the highest mortality rate for wild animals.
Not every animal can store enough food and fat to survive the winter before the severe cold comes.
Even tigers at the top of the food chain have to starve in this season... right?
The weather was too bad to go out hunting, so Mulan lay in her den, nibbling on the frozen meat that the tiger cub brought to her mouth.
At first, the germaphobic tiger was a little resistant to the food dug out from the pit.
After taking a bite, I found that the meat stored by the tiger cub did not stink, and the taste was almost the same as fresh meat. It was instantly delicious.
Alas, the child was not raised in vain~
Mulan hugged her baby cub with satisfaction and licked its fur affectionately, doting on it to the core.
Who would have thought that just after licking the fur, Yu Yijun saw that the wind and snow outside were gradually stopping, and rushed out of the cave with the meat in his mouth.
"Huh?" Baby, where are you going to hang out this time?
"Ahhh!" I'm going to find my good friend Tiger, and then go home for dinner in the evening~
"...Roar." Mulan howled dryly. There was nothing she could do about him, so she had to go out hunting when the wind and snow stopped.
Even though she didn't understand Xiaohu's thoughts at first, she understood them now.
The pit can store meat, but the food inside is limited and can only be used as an emergency measure at best.
If you add some meat to the prey you catch, you can eat meat when it snows and you don't have to starve.
Yu Yiyun completely believed in her aunt's hunting ability. Even in winter, she was still the absolute king of this forest.
In comparison, what made Yu Yiyun even more worried was——
After becoming good friends with Penghu, Yu Yiyun often visited Shatangju's home.
The two territories were very close to each other, and the biggest threat on the way, the jackal, did not dare to get close to the tiger cub for fear of accidentally disturbing the tiger's den.
The weather is getting colder, and the time for the sugar oranges to give birth is getting closer.
In such a snowstorm, Yu Yiyun was afraid that her baby would freeze to death in the cold wind right after giving birth.
“Ahhh!”
Before Yu Yiyun arrived at the territory, he called out to greet his good friend Hu.
As a result, Hao Penghu did not show up, but Zhen'an showed up, looking dusty and dirty, obviously having been wronged by someone.
This time, Tiger eliminated Mulan as the first suspect.
After winter, hunting in Zhen'an became difficult, and there hadn't been any cats sneaking around to steal cubs for a while.
His territory is large, including an area near the foot of the mountain where the temperature is relatively high.
Zhen'an always stays there every winter.
The moment Yu Yijun saw him, she smelled an unusual scent.
really.
The second litter of tiger cubs of Shatangju were born in a cold winter with snow all over the place and no grass growing.
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