Plants have many natural enemies, even if they have legs.

After Xia Lunong changed back to human form, he watered the prickly ash tree with infinite sympathy.

The prickly ash tree gently touched his arm with a branch, and the branch wrapped around him softly.

Seeing its well-behaved appearance, Xia Lunong gave it a little more supernatural power, turned to Yan Xinian and asked, "Can't you catch the sheep that was chewing its leaves?"

"It was dark and the forest was too dangerous, so I didn't think about catching it." Yan Xinian said, "I think we can catch it now."

Xia Lunong gave a suggestion with sparkling eyes, "Then let's catch the sheep to avenge the prickly ash tree?"

The prickly ash tree "rubbed" beside it and raised its crown, and shook its branches, and the whole tree agreed.

Yan Xinian looked at him, then at the prickly ash tree next to him, whose expression was exactly the same as his, and nodded, "You can give it a try."

Xia Lunong immediately said, "Then I'll go find Kong Zhi. Kong Zhi flies high and can see far, so it's easier for him to catch sheep. Was it one sheep or a group of sheep that nibbled the prickly ash tree's leaves last night?"

Yan Xinian said, "It was one, but the sheep was mixed in with the flock, so it's not easy to find. You'll call Kong Zhi later, and he'll know which one it was."

Xia Lunong nodded, turned around to find Kong Zhi, and just after taking two steps, there was a muffled "dong" sound behind him.

He turned around and saw that the prickly ash tree had pulled itself up again, shaking its leaves and following him.

When he turned around, the prickly ash tree shook its crown, as if it was holding its head high and sticking out its chest.

Xia Lunong smiled and took it to the car fight.

Kong Zhi was getting out of the car, his hair was a little messy, and his face was expressionless.

Seeing Xia Lunong, Kong Zhi raised his eyelids, "I know, I'll go after I brush my teeth."

"Okay."

Kong Zhi finished brushing his teeth, came back and stood by the car to take off his shirt.

Xia Lunong said, "I'll go too!"

The prickly ash tree behind jumped up, without making a sound, but seemed to have the same purpose.

Kong Zhi paused and said, "Find the rope, sit on my back later."

Xia Lunong hurried back to the car to get the rope.

He often sat on Kong Zhi's back, tied the rope and drove it easily. With Kong Zhi's cooperation, it took two minutes to tie it.

Xia Lunong looked into Kong Zhi's yellow eyes and asked, "I use the human form?"

The golden eagle looked at him, nodded, and lay down.

Xia Lunong used her hands and feet to climb onto his back. When she was halfway up, she felt a pulling force from behind.

She turned around and saw that it was the prickly ash tree that stretched out its branches and grabbed his clothes.

Xia Lunong was confused. "Why, you want to go too?"

The prickly ash tree shook its branches slightly and nodded its crown.

Xia Lunong was even more confused. "But Kong Zhi can't carry both of us." The prickly

ash tree pulled his clothes to stop him from moving.

Xia Huoqu heard the noise and walked down from the driver's seat. His eyelids were wrinkled because of fatigue. "What's wrong?"

"The prickly ash tree wants to go with us." Xia Lunong pointed at the prickly ash tree that was pulling his clothes and felt a headache.

He had discovered that the prickly ash tree was particularly naughty, and the more mature it was, the naughtier it became.

Kong Zhi followed Xia Lunong and looked back at the prickly ash tree. He wrote on the ground with his claws: take it, hold it, retract the thorns

Xia Lunong looked at the prickly ash tree, "Kong Zhi agreed to take you, retract the thorns."

The prickly ash tree paused for a while to react, then retracted the thorns and let Xia Lunong go.

Xia Lunong looked at the prickly ash tree. The prickly ash tree's IQ was really high, so high that it was a bit disturbing.

The prickly ash tree didn't feel that the atmosphere was wrong. It jumped back and raised its crown, as if it was looking up at Xia Lunong.

Xia Lunong climbed onto Kong Zhi's back, secured herself with a rope, and shouted, "All right!"

Kong Zhi took a few steps, flapped his wings, flew up, circled in the air, and then swooped down, directly grabbed the prickly ash tree horizontally.

The branches of the prickly ash tree trembled, and the leaves rustled in the wind, like a silent scream from the prickly ash tree.

Kong Zhi ignored it and flew up the mountain with it.

Xia Lunong sat on Kong Zhi's back, squinting her eyes and trying to find the goat's trace.

Kong Zhi circled around the mountain and soon flew in a certain direction.

He flew for a long time, and Xia Lunong belatedly saw a few beige blocks in the forest. They were the figures of goats.

Kong Zhi flew very fast, and in just a few breaths he was above the goats.

The goats noticed the danger in the sky and scattered in all directions.

Kong Zhi targeted one of them and chased after it.

Xia Lunong hugged Kong Zhi's neck and looked down, and soon found something unusual about the goat - the goat had an extra horn on its head.

It was indeed very easy to recognize.

The prickly ash tree that Kong Zhi was holding seemed to have seen it as well, and its branches were shaking excitedly.

Xia Lunong immediately understood that this was the goat that was chewing the leaves of the prickly ash tree.

"Wait -" Xia Lunong thought of another question, "Kong Zhi, how are you going to catch goats if you're holding the prickly ash tree?!"

Kong Zhi answered Xia Lunong's question with action.

He dove down, and when he was more than a meter off the ground, he spread his claws and threw the prickly ash tree directly down.

The prickly ash tree gathered its crown and rolled on the ground, then immediately extended its branches to fix it, and its roots, like a stream, drilled into the soil and pulled it up.

In the blink of an eye, the prickly ash tree on the ground stood up, and then jumped up again, jumping up and down, chasing after the goat that was desperately running away.

Kong Zhi flapped his wings and chased the goat in mid-air.

The goat ran very fast, but was chased by Kong Zhi and fled for his life. Several times, he almost couldn't stop and crashed into the tree.

The prickly ash tree seemed to understand, and jumped "dong dong" to try to pass the goat from the corner.

It jumped and extended its roots, trying to catch the goat.

The goat was disturbed by it and became more and more panicked, confused and stumbling around.

Kong Zhi found the right opportunity, dived down, stretched out his claws, grabbed the goat's hair on the back, grabbed the goat, and flew directly into the sky with the goat.

The goat struggled desperately, bleating under Kong Zhi's claws.

Kong Zhi was shaken by it and flew unsteadily.

Xia Lunong sat on Kong Zhi's back, holding Kong Zhi's neck tightly, her heart pounding in her chest, and it felt like it was about to jump out of her throat.

This goat is too difficult to deal with.

If he had known earlier, he should have used the beast form, which would not be so heavy, and Kong Zhi would not be so burdened.

Now everything is too late, Xia Lunong can only hold Kong Zhi's neck firmly and take care of herself, so that Kong Zhi will not have to be distracted to deal with him.

Compared with Xia Lunong's nervousness, Kong Zhi seems to be much calmer.

He flew unsteadily but kept flying upwards at a very even speed, and his rhythm was not interrupted by the goat at all.

When he flew to a height of more than 20 meters, Kong Zhi aimed at a relatively empty place and suddenly released his claws.

The goat under his claws fell freely and hit the ground with a "bang". Its four legs twitched for a moment, and it could not move.

Xia Lunong's eyes widened.

The small prickly ash tree that rushed to the side of the goat below raised its crown, and the whole tree stood there in a daze, looking a little stupid.

Kong Zhi fell to the ground.

Xia Lunong quickly untied the rope and climbed down from his back, "I will change back to beast form later?"

Kong Zhi nodded, "Hey!"

Xia Lunong climbed down from Kong Zhi's back and discussed with the pepper tree, "I will tie you to Kong Zhi's back later?"

The pepper tree shook its crown, obediently put away all the thorns, and then rolled the crown tightly into a ball.

Xia Lunong did not waste time, and directly tied the pepper tree horizontally to Kong Zhi's back, and then tied the goat, who was only breathing after falling, to Kong Zhi's back, and specifically instructed the pepper tree, "Watch it later, don't let the goat fall." The pepper tree's

crown shook lightly, and the dense roots suddenly stretched out, forming a large net in the blink of an eye, trapping the goat firmly inside.

Xia Lunong gently touched its crown, "Well done!"

Xia Lunong took off her clothes and stuffed them on Kong Zhi's back, then changed back to a cat and was held in Kong Zhi's mouth.

Kong Zhi took a few steps and flapped his wings to fly back to the temporary camp.

Xia Huoqu and Yan Xinian had already cooked and packed up the eels they caught last night, waiting for Xia Lunong to come back and cook.

"They really caught the sheep." Seeing them coming back, Yan Xinian stood up and responded, "I'll take care of the sheep first."

Xia Lunong changed back to human form and quickly put on his clothes and pants, "Brother Xinian, you drain the sheep's blood later. We will have eel stewed with sheep's blood in the morning. Don't worry about the rest for now, let's deal with it when we get back to the base."

"Okay." Yan Xinian carried the sheep, "It's a good opportunity to let them get the sheepskin and see if we can get a few more sheepskins to make a few sheepskin jackets."

Xia Lunong had never encountered winter since she woke up. She was stunned when she heard this, "Is winter very cold now?"

"Not that cold, about ten or twenty degrees Celsius below zero?" Yan Xinian squinted, "The coldest time last year was probably this temperature. I don't know how it will be this year."

Xia Lunong pondered for a while, "Down jackets should be about the same time?"

"It depends on the situation. Wearing a down jacket is not as convenient as wearing a leather jacket when going out." Yan Xinian said, "Down jackets are not breathable and are prone to sweating. If you encounter danger when you are out, you may get hooked or bumped into by accident, and the down will run away. That's bad."

Yan Xinian and Xia Huoqu prepared the dishes. Xia Lunong had nothing to do, so she squatted aside to help them and chatted.

Yan Xinian saw Kong Zhi coming over and smiled, "Speaking of which, it's almost autumn. Kong Zhi, do ornithological people like you shed down when you molt?"

Xia Lunong turned her head and looked at him curiously.

Kong Zhi paused, "Yes."

Yan Xinian laughed, "It's hard to imagine you changing down. Can your down be collected to make down jackets?"

Kong Zhi said lightly, "If the hair you shed can be used to weave sweaters, then my hair can be used to make down jackets."

"I can't, my hair is too hard." Yan Xinian said, "Your brother Huoqu can, his hair is soft. Xiao Nong can also do it, but he is too small. Even if he plucks his hair bald, he may not be able to weave a collar. Hahaha."

Xia Huoqu looked up at Yan Xinian, "As long as you are willing to shave it off, we don't mind if your hair is a little hard."

"No, I don't want to give up myself." Yan Xinian looked up and saw Huajiaoshu coming over, seemingly listening to them attentively. He smiled and said, "Little Huajiaoshu has no hair to pull, but it can contribute some branches to make knitting needles for us."

Huajiaoshu didn't understand what knitting needles were at all, but nodded seriously, making everyone laugh.

Xia Lunong looked at the little guy and laughed so hard that tears were about to flow out. She reached out and touched it.

Yan Xinian killed the goat, and the goat's blood flowed out into a large basin of salt water.

Xia Lunong stirred it for a while, waited for it to solidify slightly, and then took it to the pot to cook.

Huajiaoshu followed him closely. I don't know when it started, but it was not afraid of fire at all.

Xia Lunong poured cold water into the pot, used a knife to gently cut the coagulated sheep's blood a few times, and began to cook sheep's blood tofu.

Blood tofu should be cooked over low heat, and the water should be kept half-boiled to cook fresh and tender blood tofu.

While the blood tofu was cooking in the pot, Xia Lunong asked Kong Zhi to watch the fire, and he went to the car to break off a few pepper branches with fruits.

Unexpectedly, when he turned around, the small pepper tree stood in front of him without knowing when, and the crown of the tree lowered slightly, looking aggrieved at the pepper branch in his hand.

Xia Lunong looked at the crown of the tree and then at the pepper branch in his hand, wondering if he had seen it wrong.

A tree, no matter how humane it is, cannot show grievances.

However, he just felt that the pepper tree was aggrieved inexplicably.

The man and the tree looked at each other for a moment, and the little prickly ash tree suddenly bent its side branches down in front of Xia Lunong. The end of the branch snapped and broke off, leaving only a little skin attached to the paper.

Xia Lunong pointed at herself uncertainly and asked, "Is it for me?"

The tree crown actually nodded in agreement.

Xia Lunong smiled and said, "Thank you."

The little prickly ash tree stood in front of him. Perhaps it sensed his smile, or knew that he was in a good mood, but it stretched its branches forward, swept away the prickly ash branch that Xia Lunong was holding, and threw it to the ground.

Is this - a fight for favor?

The smile on Xia Lunong's face deepened, and she reached out and gently touched the trunk of the prickly ash tree.

That morning, Xia Lunong specially stewed eel blood tofu, adding the little prickly ash specially supplied by the prickly ash tree.

The whole dish was spicy, numb, fragrant and fresh, and several people ate it until sweat came out of their noses.

After breakfast, they packed up and left this temporary camp, and Yan Xinian drove to the depths of the valley.

When they entered the outside of the peach forest, there were already buzzing bees flying around.

These bees were smaller than the ones that built their nests on the banyan tree, but each one was still as big as a longan, and the stinger on the tail even had a metallic sheen, which looked very scary.

For safety, the four of them squeezed into the cab, and the glass on both sides was tightly closed to prevent them from being surrounded by the swarm of bees.

Xia Lunong put her face against the glass, watching the bees flying outside one after another through the glass, and suddenly said, "I have a bold idea."