I frowned and went to the stable with Yunwen to check on Sanfu. I touched its back and it neighed and cried agitatedly. I could tell there were three scratches on it, which looked the same as the wounds on the wild boar's body that penetrated the tendons and bones. I just heard Yingchun say at the dinner table that those wild boars and piranhas were hunted by the ugly monster. So there was no need for further proof that the culprit of this wound could not be anyone else but the "ugly monster" of the mermaid.

"Zhou Bo, what should we do? It tried to escape several times during the summer solstice, but it always came back to find me. It trusts me very much and is very important to me. I really don't want anything to happen to it." Yunwen said.

"Don't worry. I'll try to negotiate with Bailu and ask her to persuade Yingchun to look after that mermaid friend and see if things can get better." I said.

"Okay, I'll listen to you. I just hope they won't hurt my best friend, please." Yunwen took my hand, held it tightly and said.

Afterwards, I did have a private chat with Bai Lu. I told her about the situation and she said she would talk to Yingchun about it. But she also asked me to pay more attention to my communication with Yingchun and not to anger her. If I was more accommodating to her, things wouldn't get any worse. She also reminded me not to let Yingchun become psychologically unbalanced again and that I should remember the lesson I learned. Basically, all she said was to persuade me to accommodate Yingchun.

Her sister, who was lost and found again, is naturally precious again. This is both her suggestion and her condition, so I can only agree. In this way, I can protect Sanfu and let Yunwen feel at ease.

In the following days, I basically spent my time recuperating and did not do any major work. Apart from resting in the bathroom, I did some arm rehabilitation and occasionally went to water the fields. In addition, I tried my best to be careful to maintain the stability of this relationship. If I went to Yunwen's Plum Room on the second floor one day, I would definitely go to Yingchun's Ju Room immediately. I kept this rule in mind to calm Yingchun's temper and prevent her from getting angry and resentful.

The advantage of doing this is that I can enjoy all the good treatment in peace and I don't have to worry about food. Every time the food is running low, Yingchun and Bailu will take the mermaids out hunting. I heard that the piranhas in the lake area have become extinct and even the fish eggs are gone. They have recently moved to the seaside to catch big sea fish, conger eels, octopus, and even dragged back a killer crab.

Those on land would go hunting in the wild boar piles and even found a herd of bison, but they failed to kill them because the bison were too united and it was too time-consuming and labor-intensive, so they gave up.

The mermaid had no natural enemies outside, and food was endless. Almost every meal was fresh meat and fish. They ate so much that their teeth were choked. After eating for nearly a month, they were almost vomiting. It was obvious that Yingchun and Bailu had gained a lot of weight and were well fed.

Yunwen and I don't like to eat meat so much. Yunwen used to be a flight attendant, so even if there was meat, she would only taste it a little. No matter how delicious it was, she would not eat too much. She was careful to be moderate. She mostly ate wild vegetable roots and some black fungus. I eat more than Yunwen, but I always feel that these are not naturally hunted, but come from too much human effort, so I feel uneasy eating them, so I just eat a little to satisfy my taste buds.

This hunting method directly wiped out the piranhas in the pond area. It was a bit too much. It was the so-called over-hunting, which was definitely not a way of survival.

However, the Song sisters don't mind these things. They just want to satisfy their appetites. Bai Lu is better and knows medical theories. But since her sister likes it, she doesn't stop her. She just hopes to raise her sister to be plump and white.

A week after Bailu came back, perhaps because of the medicine I prepared, her cough was basically cured, and she didn't have that terrible conjunctivitis again. This was a little comforting to Yunwen and me. The wound on my shoulder blade was also slowly recovering with care. After almost a month, only a scar was left, and she can move around again. However, as the saying goes, it takes a hundred days to recover from a broken bone, so to have no problems at all is still a bit lacking.

Days passed, and during this period, the mermaid expressed more and more hostility towards me. After all, Yingchun was intimate with me and looked down on it. Every time it saw me, it would stare at me for a long time, as if it would tear me to pieces the next moment. I really wanted to tell it, damn it, I would rather not be jealous of it and let it spend more time with Yingchun, but the situation would not allow it. I could only spend more time with Yingchun to make her psychologically balanced and not be jealous of me and Yunwen again.

I can only take care of one side and not the other.

Yunwen was not feeling well either. She could be tolerant and generous about other things, she could not care, not mind, give in and compromise, but when it came to me, she was unwilling to back down even a step. As a result, she was physically and mentally exhausted during this period, and she competed with Yingchun openly and secretly every day, fearing that I would be won over. Despite my repeated consolation and oaths, she remained cautious.

The war between women is destined not to be one that men can intervene in. I can only mediate occasionally, control the momentum and prevent it from going too far, and I just live like this. It's just that Yunwen's endless fighting for me makes me secretly happy every time. Having such a beautiful girl who is vigilant every day to protect me, even if it's troublesome, doesn't it make me feel honored?

More or less.

One day, more than a month later, I was picking up the bones and preparing to throw them out of the yard, only to find that there were no scavengers coveting these bones with meat left. The mermaids had broken the food chain of the natural system outside. I looked at the bones and fish bones piled up outside the door, and realized that one day, we were not much different from the Bigfoot on the top of the mountain.

It is better to be sloppy and tyrannical than to follow the rules of nature.

At this moment, the bones and fish bones were emitting a foul stench outside the door, and only flies were willing to pay attention to them.

"Ugly monster, let's get some pork today. My sister said to stew some dumplings for dinner." Yingchun's voice came from behind me, and she looked like she was getting ready to go out with the mermaid.

I quickly stopped her and said, "Yingchun girl, we still have some pork left to eat. We have killed three or four in this month. If we kill more, the species will become extinct. We can't over-hunt. Destroying a species will cause a big disaster. Do you understand the butterfly effect?"

She stared at me impatiently and said, "I'm not asking you to kill them, why are you so anxious? The wild boar meat has been there for a few days and can't be eaten. We need to get fresh ones. If you don't like it, just don't eat it tonight. You're idle all day long, aren't you a jerk?"

I tried to stay calm and said to her, "Okay, let me put it another way. Wild boars are not domestic pigs. We can eat some unless we have no choice, but we can't eat too much because all wild animals are full of germs, influenza, plague and even viruses. It's not good if we get sick from eating them. Let's stop eating in moderation, okay?"

Yingchun looked at me, and suddenly pointed at me and laughed, laughing more and more happily, and said: "Brother Zhou Bo, are you kidding? Virus? I think you are inferior to me. Seeing that I, an ugly freak, can do so much for me, you can't do it. You feel that your status is threatened, so you stop me, right? Okay, I promise that if I eat, you will have a share. Just think of it as me supporting you, okay?"

I smiled helplessly, then pulled her arm and pointed at a pile of stinking, rotting meat and bones outside, and said, "Look, this is the wild animals we eat in a month. If you keep eating like this, there will only be 7 or 8 wild boars in a herd. If you keep going like this, several herds of wild boars will not be enough for you, let alone other animals. Once all the animals are eaten, there will be nothing left. Do you think we can survive? Without animals, there will be no grass to eat, and the grass will grow wildly. Too much grass will affect the trees and forests, and breed a large number of microorganisms, pests, and parasites, which will cause large-scale insect disasters and cause diseases. Do you understand? I didn't say you can't eat it, I just said you should eat it in moderation."

Yingchun snorted, shrugged, and said, "You're just a fool."

Then she insisted on leaving, and I held her again. She shook my hand off and screamed loudly, which also caused an angry tearing sound to come out of the throat of the mermaid behind her.

I sensed something was wrong and turned around to look, but I saw it rushing towards me, as fast as a flash of white lightning!