Wang Tianxiao said with a wry smile.
Ordinary wild animals are fine, but golden pheasants are very dangerous.
It's not that we're trying to boost the morale of these beasts and diminish our own prestige; these creatures are strong fighters, cunning, and fierce. Once they set their sights on you, they're really not easy to deal with.
"Then what do you suggest we do? Should I suggest we throw them into the mountains?" Liu Yuan asked.
Wang Tianxiao hesitated for a moment, "Forget it, since we've already brought it back, throwing it out again would only ruin its life. How about this, we don't need to lock this young drake up. We'll just make a nest for it outside and feed it for now, and then we'll make further plans after we find the old drake."
"That works too. Then leave it to me."
"Yes, thank you for your hard work."
Golden birds generally don't build their nests on flat ground; they mostly build them on tall trees or cliffside.
They are natural enemies of many animals and birds, but many animals and birds are also natural enemies of their young.
This includes many snakes, weasels, badgers, jackals, and so on.
Building bird nests at a high place can significantly reduce the likelihood of this danger.
At the moment, Liu Yuan obviously couldn't build a nest for it on the cliff, so he made a wooden frame and put the nest on the frame. This would protect it from the wind and rain and also prevent Xiao Diao from running out on its own.
We're just waiting for its wings to grow or for the giant to find it.
They usually feed them with birds they catch.
To everyone's surprise, more than a week has passed and Da Diao still hasn't found Xiao Diao. However, thanks to Wang Tianxiao's daily feeding, Xiao Diao has become familiar with him.
He knew that he could touch Diao's head with his hand and wouldn't be pecked in return.
As he watched the little wither's wings gradually recover, he began to wonder if this wither was an abandoned child of the great wither.
Carnivores need to hunt for food to survive, so the competition is quite fierce. Often, the weak, injured, or disabled members of the species are driven away or even eaten.
If this little golden pheasant was already injured, then it would be quite reasonable for it to be abandoned by its parents.
Otherwise, given Jin Diao's keen eye, he certainly wouldn't have gone so long without discovering Xiao Diao here.
If that's the case, then it's fine. The little guy is being raised by himself, so it's not a big problem.
Putting aside everything else, there are plenty of birds in the mountains, and seeing that Jin Diao's wings are gradually improving, perhaps after recovering and growing a bit bigger, he can return to the blue sky.
However, it's not so friendly to the other animals at the facility.
The dogs could barely hold on due to the bloodline suppression, but the two leopard cats, Ah Zhen and Ah Qiang, became timid and hesitant after Xiao Diao arrived. They no longer dared to run around and would carefully sneak around the house every time they came out to play.
Although they are carnivores, when they encounter golden pheasants, they can only be used as snacks.
Wang Tianxiao has no solution to this at the moment.
It leaves the baby shrimp outside every day, hoping that the adult shrimp will find the child quickly.
"Shopkeeper, tomorrow is Laba Festival. I checked and it seems the station doesn't have any beans. Why don't you go to town and buy some cowpeas and soybeans, and also some corn and millet? I'll make Laba porridge for us."
Wang Tianxiao was playing with Xiao Diao's life when Li Yali came out carrying a laundry basin. She just couldn't stay idle; as soon as Wang Peng fell asleep, she would immediately find something to do.
Many things have changed in this life and the next, but his wife's temperament remains the same, which is what Wang Tianxiao is most grateful for.
“Alright,” Wang Tianxiao rubbed Xiao Diao’s head, stood up, and Xiao Diao gave him a defiant look before slowly walking to the eaves and lying down on the hay prepared for it to rest.
It was just tough on the two kittens.
The little dwarfs have already blocked their way home. I bet when they come back, they'll be cowering on the side again.
How many do you want to buy?
Li Yali shook the bed sheet in her hand and roughly calculated in her mind, "Let's buy about 10 or 20 kilograms of each. There are a lot of people at our station now, so we can eat more after it's cooked."
"Okay, I'll go in a bit."
Laba Festival is a grand festival in northern China.
Every year by the Laba Festival, the days have become longer. There is a saying that goes, "After the Laba Festival, the days grow longer by a fork handle," which means that by the Laba Festival, the sun sets much later.
Unlike the understated celebrations in the south, the Laba Festival in the north is quite interesting.
Basically, the Lunar New Year celebrations begin from the Laba Festival.
There are many stories about the origin of the Laba Festival, and different places have different traditions.
But there are two most common types.
One explanation is that the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is the day Buddha attained enlightenment, so Buddhists would serve porridge on this day, which is called Laba porridge.
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Another belief is that red beans can ward off evil spirits, so on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, people cook porridge with red beans and other beans to eat, so that evil spirits cannot get close to them.
Even though it's the same Laba porridge, the ingredients used in different places vary.
The most complicated Laba porridge has about thirty or forty kinds of ingredients, and many of these ingredients are shaped before being used to cook the porridge.
For the people of Qingcheng, especially the poor, Laba porridge is not so complicated.
Generally speaking, it is made by cooking common foods such as cowpeas, red beans, soybeans, Job's tears, sorghum, buckwheat, corn, millet, and yellow millet together. After cooking, it becomes very thick, almost like a thick soup.
After the porridge is cooked, a water vat is prepared in advance, and the porridge is ladled into the vat, usually filling it completely.
In Qingcheng, where winter temperatures drop to minus twenty degrees Celsius, porridge placed in a pot will quickly freeze into solid blocks without spoiling.
Every morning when people eat, they scoop out a piece from the jar, heat it in a pot, and then they can eat it. They continue to eat it until the New Year.
It also symbolizes abundance year after year.
Even though this traditional custom is not upheld as much now, people still make a lot of Laba porridge, determined to leave some behind and not eat it all.
People in this era value rituals.
The festive atmosphere of the New Year gradually intensifies starting from the Laba Festival, unlike in later generations when the festive atmosphere becomes less pronounced, and many people go to bed early even on New Year's Eve.
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