Snowball didn't get too close, but lay down a short distance away, gazing at the little tiger with its big eyes, looking quite gentle.
After watching for a while, Xue Tuan started looking around, and when she spotted Shen Xingmian, she began to whine and act coquettishly.
Seeing its behavior, Shen Xingmian knew what it wanted to do: share the cooked meat with its new companion.
Snowball isn't stupid; on the contrary, it's become increasingly intelligent thanks to the space it's been nurtured, and it has its own preferences.
As soon as it saw the meat basin being released, which was still full, Xue Tuan immediately grabbed it in its mouth and tentatively took two steps toward the mother tiger.
The cooked meat smelled delicious; no spices were added, it was just the natural meaty aroma of the small animals raised in the space.
Even Shen Xingmian, smelling the aroma, wanted to take a bite; how much more so for the little tigress who had always eaten raw meat in the wild?
Even though it had just eaten a piglet, it still couldn't help but twitch its nose, and its steps, which it wanted to take to hide, never came again.
Snowball put the meat bowl on the ground and pushed it forward with its paw, indicating that it should eat.
Lured by the aroma and unaware of any danger, the little tigress tentatively picked up a piece of meat and hid to the side to eat it.
After finishing eating, he looked at Xue Tuan, then at Shen Xingmian, and then at the meat in the bowl, and suddenly became bolder.
It slowly strolled to the edge of the basin, lowered its head, and began to enjoy its meal in a leisurely manner.
But after eating only half, it couldn't eat anymore. It lay lazily on the ground and began to clean itself with its tongue.
What a clean and well-behaved baby!
Snowball lay down next to it, watching it intently, but not getting too close, afraid of scaring the little guy.
Fearing something might happen, Shen Xingmian also sat down beside her, intending to watch for a while.
Once the tigress cub has adjusted and there are no signs of stress, she can go about her own business.
The main purpose of this trip into the mountains was to find a wife for Xue Tuan. Now that Xue Tuan seems quite satisfied, this motherly heart can finally rest easy.
Hopefully, the two of them will get along well in the future.
But what color would the cubs born from a white tiger and a yellow tiger be? I seem to have heard before that although white tigers look cool, they are actually yellow tigers with albinism.
Thinking about it this way, it seems like my sophistication has vanished instantly.
I wonder if this little tigress will dislike Snowball...
But then I thought, there's no tiger more ferocious and sturdy than Snowball in all the mountains around here. Marrying into their family would be a win-win situation no matter how you look at it.
Shen Xingmian was quite proud of this; Xue Tuan was being raised so well by her that there was no way her future wife would dislike him.
Sure enough, after the little tigress finished cleaning herself up, seeing that neither the human nor the big guy opposite her were making any moves, she tentatively got up and took a stroll around.
After looking around for a while, it finally realized that it liked the environment here very much, found it comfortable, and the meat tasted better than outside.
It would be happy if it could stay.
The little tigress was very clever and quickly realized that as long as she got along well with the big guy on the other side, she could eat that delicious meat every day.
So it crept closer to the snowball without leaving a trace, wondering if it would be attacked.
No.
Sure enough, tigers that share their meat with their own kind are truly wonderful!
Before long, the two tigers snuggled together, and the smaller one yawned and fell asleep next to Snowball.
Shen Xingmian was very pleased to see this. Although he had the idea of going home, he couldn't bear to disturb them because they were so harmonious. He decided to give Xue Tuan a day off so that it could get to know its future wife.
She doesn't plan to mine anymore; without snowballs, it would be very inconvenient for her to walk in the mountains, and she doesn't want to make things difficult for herself.
Since the bumper harvest of grain outside, planting in the space has been temporarily suspended, and instead, medicinal herbs have been planted and allowed to grow freely.
Shen Xingmian would occasionally urge the birth of a batch of products, but she wasn't in a hurry, which was completely different from her previous eagerness to hoard things.
She felt like she could finally take a break.
Before, she possessed a priceless treasure and wished she could shoulder the burden of feeding everyone in the Northern Territory. Now that they are able to support themselves, she can finally put down her burden.
In fact, this kind of thinking is more influenced by the country she used to live in and her current family. If she were alone, she wouldn't have that kind of awareness.
There's no one in the world she cares about. What does it matter to her whether other people live or die?
I played games in bed for a while, but I don't know if it's because I haven't played for so long, but it seems like my addiction has completely disappeared, and I actually found it boring.
That's really strange.
She used to think that when she had free time, she would play like crazy for a long time.
After finding it all rather dull, she stopped torturing herself.
She released all the workers in the space and arranged for them to work in the military camp by her grandfather.
Those people were very happy, saying that they never expected that General Shen would personally arrange the work for them. This was an incredible blessing, and they left one by one with smiles on their faces.
This also shows that the reputation of the Northern Army is indeed getting better and better.
Many people came to join us, hoping to make a name for themselves, and they were all assigned to the army, making the army's population larger and more intimidating.
This has created a virtuous cycle.
Shen Xingmian was a little bored, so he used his mind to observe the two tigers and found that they were indeed getting along well and had started licking each other's fur.
Ugh, really, so mushy!
As for the leopard and its two cubs, they were practicing hunting on another hilltop, their target a poor rabbit.
Shen Xingmian immediately rescued the rabbit and replaced it with a rooster that was crowing wildly.
She was someone who absolutely hated noise, and the noise-generating machine in the space—the rooster—had become a major source of anxiety for her.
If she hadn't wanted to keep them to hatch chicks, she would have killed them all!
Replacing the little rabbit now can be considered doing a good deed.
Once the tigress cub had adapted to the new environment, Shen Xingmian took them out with her and decided to let her come along so they could run home together.
I don't know if tigers have their own unique language, but anyway, she didn't have to put in much effort, and the little tigress had already followed along very obediently.
It's still small, not as big as Snowball. Snowball runs a distance and then stops and turns back to wait for it for a while.
They ran and stopped intermittently, and by the next morning, they had arrived home.
Shen Xingyan and Shen Jun were overjoyed to see the new animals arrive. Although they each got a leopard cub, they kept it in their space most of the time and only called it over to sleep with them at night.
They were all very happy to see the new tiger cubs.
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