It must be admitted that with the monkey Polly, the old-fashioned vacation has become interesting.

Jian Jing's lunch was full of ups and downs. The whole time, she had to guard against the monkey's sneak attacks, and she had to be careful not to let it steal her hat and mobile phone, otherwise she would have to use all her strength to teach it a lesson in this vast jungle.

Fortunately, the knight lived up to his name, loyal and brave, and was very alert. When the monkey approached him, he barked wildly and didn't let the guy get close.

"Finally, someone can teach it a lesson." The one who applauded was another guest of the hotel, wearing a T-shirt and big pants, holding a telephoto camera in his hand, "Hello, my name is Li Min."

The pronunciation sounded very much like Liming. Jian Jing turned around and found that the upper half of his face was indeed very star-like, but the lower half was mediocre, and combined together he was just an ordinary handsome guy.

"Hello, Jane."

Li Shuaige was very familiar and introduced himself.

He was a magazine reporter. Because of the theme of wildlife protection, he came to interview Professor Lao and unexpectedly learned that they also opened a hotel.

After writing the report, he was obsessed with the environment here and decided to come again to write a special content about the wild luxury hotel to promote the couple.

"I am helping them after all, but it still hits my window with acorns every morning."

Jian Jing couldn't help laughing.

Li Shuaige sighed and sat next to her naturally, "Your dog is really good."

The knight knew he was complimenting it, raised his head, and moved his ears.

Jian Jing patted it on the back and said proudly: "Of course."

"So, you are not President Kang's daughter?" He looked like a local, but he spoke English fluently, almost like his mother tongue.

"No."

"And not her daughter-in-law?"

Jian Jing almost laughed to death: "No. Do I look that much like the president?"

"We are both beautiful." He praised.

Jian Jing couldn't help but sigh. She was in her prime, and President Kang was more than two years older than her, but there were no fewer men who praised President Kang than her, which shows that a woman's charm has no direct relationship with age.

President Kang still hasn't had a stepfather for so many years. President Kang really has a kind motherly heart [doge]

"Uh, Fina." A tall and thin young man came in and asked Fina stiffly, "Do you want to go with me to get the infrared camera?"

"Okay." Fina agreed readily, and asked Jian Jing, "Do you want to go for a walk in the forest with us?"

Jian Jing said, "Can we bring the dog?"

"Of course, I welcome this little guy." She rubbed the rider's head affectionately, and suggested, "You should change into a pair of trousers."

"No problem."

Jian Jing said to Kang Mucheng, changed into long-sleeved trousers, put on a hat and a water bottle, and took the dog out.

Fina introduced the man who was traveling with her. He was a forest ranger stationed here. His last name was Chen, so everyone called him Chen. In addition to cooperating with Professor Lao, he also took on patrol duties.

Jian Jing asked curiously, "Do you mean by patrol...are there any thefts here?"

"There are relatively few in this area. We have installed a lot of monitoring equipment, but it's hard to say about the deeper areas." Fina pushed aside the thin and sharp branches, "You'd better be more careful and don't leave the camp too far."

"What do they poach? Rhinos?"

"Yes, but the most common are pangolins." Fina asked, "I heard that people in your country like to make it into medicine and sell it?"

Jian Jing: "..." Her face hurt.

She changed the subject: "What do you usually do in your work?"

"Observe the situation of animals in the sample plot. We will set up infrared cameras to observe the number of animals. This mainly depends on mammals. For fish, we will take samples to estimate the population size in this area. Crocodiles need to be caught. We will put GPS on them..."

Fina introduced her work incessantly, and she knew everything about it, as if she loved this job very much.

Jian Jing listened attentively, with great admiration in her heart.

"Woof." Compared with the patience of his master, the rider seemed overly excited. He couldn't help but run to sniff the small animals, scare away some poor indigenous people, or stare at the mushrooms, as if he wanted to take a bite.

The ranger couldn't bear it and patted its head gently: "It's poisonous."

"Awooo." It shrank.

After more than an hour of walking through the jungle, they finally arrived at the sampling site. The ranger skillfully untied the infrared camera tied to the tree trunk, replaced the battery and memory card, and loaded his own device to check.

After a moment, he excitedly spoke a long string of words, probably in his native language, which Jian Jing could not understand.

Fina translated: "Oh, a civet appeared a few days ago. Do you know this animal?"

Jian Jing: "The one in the coffee?"

"Yes, look." She handed over the camera.

Jian Jing saw a strange civet, with a black body. It didn't look like a cat, but rather like a marten. Its eyes were round and flashed green under night vision.

"This is an endangered animal. I'm so glad to see it here." Fina was very excited and walked around looking for animal footprints and feces.

She taught Jian Jing: "Sometimes, we also use feces to infer the movement tracks and numbers of animals. Look at this footprint. I think it's a short-tailed mongoose."

Jian Jing couldn't tell at all, but she thought it was amazing.

Fina became more and more excited as she talked, and she led her deeper into the forest, learning more about plants: "This is yellow cow wood. The bark can be used as medicine. Local people occasionally use it to treat gastrointestinal diseases in animals. The leaves can also be eaten, and can replace tea..."

Jian Jing looked around and followed the principle of "what else can I do?" and asked: "Is there anything edible, delicious, and can be eaten directly?"

Fina blinked and looked at her in confusion: "Are you hungry?"

Jian Jing: "Just curious."

"Try this." The ranger handed over a piece of white grass and explained in a not very fluent way, "When I was a child, my family was poor, and I often dug this, uh, as..." He couldn't remember the word for snacks, so he had to say "food".

Jian Jing took it and took a tentative bite.

Sweet.

"Woo woo." The knight also leaned over to raise his head.

She generously gave half to the dog. It chewed it with a "crunch, crunch" sound, and it looked like it was enjoying it.

So Fina also took one and waved for her to follow.

The three of them and the dog continued to shuttle through the woods.

Jian Jing was just an outsider watching the excitement and took out her phone to take pictures everywhere. Suddenly, a long winding shadow flashed in the camera. She looked closely and said in astonishment: "Is that a snake? It can fly!"

"Golden Flower Snake, also known as Flying Snake, has a weak venom. If you like it, ask Chen to catch it for you to see. He can catch snakes... Chen?" Fina turned her head and saw the forest ranger Chen not far away, staring seriously... staring at a pile of shit and thinking.

Chen heard her cry, turned his head and said something, then translated it into English and explained it to Jian Jing: "It's the footprints and feces of the Indochinese leopard."

Jian Jing: "..." The key words are beyond the scope of the beginner card.

Fina translated: "Indochinese leopard. No way, Chen, are you sure?"

"Look."

The two of them discussed fiercely around a pile of feces for a while, then reached a consensus and told Jian Jing: "We must go back."

Jian Jing: "What happened?"

Fina said: "We mainly study birds and amphibians, because there are frequent human activities here, and large mammals will not approach. Especially the Indian leopard has a fixed range of activities, and it is impossible for it to invade this unfamiliar area without a special reason."

"What reason?"

"I'm not sure. Maybe a stronger animal has occupied its territory, or maybe it's frightened. In any case, we need to keep a close eye on it."

Jian Jing nodded and stopped asking questions. But she was thinking to herself, if they lost the fight with the animals and were driven out of their territory, they wouldn't be so serious. It seems that the key is being frightened.

Could it be... a thief?

They walked slowly on the way here, taking nearly an hour and a half. They hurried back, arriving in more than forty minutes. Fina and ranger Chen started working immediately. Jian Jing didn't want to interrupt them, so she went back to her room to rest.

"Knight, do you want to take a nap?" She called the dog.

The knight hesitated, scratching his fur with his hind legs.

Jian Jing stared at it.

Knight: "Oh my god."

Help! It's only been a short while, and it's already infested with bugs?

"Luckily I brought insect powder." She didn't care about her nap, so she grabbed the German Shepherd's ears and dragged him outside to get rid of the bugs and comb his fur.

In the next tent, Kang Mucheng poked his head out: "Are you back?"

"Yeah," she asked, "What are you doing?"

Kang Mucheng hesitated for a while, then waved to her.

Jian Jing went to the next room and saw President Kang lying on a rocking chair. A tall doctor was treating her red and swollen ankle.

"Ma'am, your injury is not serious, just a sprain. It will be fine after two days of cold compress." The doctor was about 40 or 50 years old, with slightly gray temples, but a clear-cut face and a gentle and elegant demeanor.

President Kang couldn't help but sigh.

"Boss, what's wrong with you?" Jian Jing was surprised.

"Oh, I saw you having so much fun in the water, I couldn't help but want to go down and take a picture." Kang Lei smiled bitterly, "Who knew I stepped on a crab, I got scared and sprained my ankle."

Jian Jing: "..."

Kang Mucheng had a blank expression: "I got worms when I went to the tropics, I sprained my ankle when I climbed a mountain, I couldn't adapt to the climate when I went abroad, I also had gastrointestinal dysfunction, heat stroke, altitude sickness..."

Kang Lei laughed dryly.

Jian Jing: =口=

What a poor boss, his physique is also terrible.

"Lei." A mature woman with tan skin came in with a tray, wrapped in the aroma of beef rice noodles, "I made this specially for you, don't be sad."

President Kang couldn't help but hold her hand: "Vanilla, you understand my heart too well."

She is Professor Lao's current wife, named Vanilla, and she is as fragrant and simple as her name.

"Mucheng, long time no see, I wonder if you still remember me." Mrs. Lao speaks very good Chinese and has a warm attitude, "This must be the leading actress of your Jinwu, Miss Jianjing, I have seen your "Rose Gold" and "Hide and Seek Children" and movies, they are all great works."

She was thorough and said to the doctor: "Cha Li, your room is ready, just like before, I have prepared a coffee pot and the best coffee beans for you."

"That couldn't be better." The doctor nodded and accepted her kindness.

Mrs. Lao had to introduce each other again: the observatory usually had no doctor, so if they were sick they would go to the city hospital, but considering that the hotel guests were usually not adapted to the wild environment, as long as there were guests, they would invite Dr. Cha Li to stay at the hotel for a few days, just in case.

President Kang said this was necessary.

"Woo." The rider's nose kept nudging Jian Jing's hand.

She held it.

Dog: "Meow."

Mrs. Lao noticed: "What's wrong with the dog?"

"Nothing, just hungry." Jian Jing grabbed its big ears, and said, "I'll prepare lunch for it."

"That's perfect, there are some leftover beef bones in the kitchen." Who can resist the innocent eyes of a dog? Mrs. Lao couldn't anyway.

To make rice noodles, beef bones and spices are used to make soup. The raw beef is boiled in the soup, and the bones are scooped out. They are soft and crispy, and the taste is fresh and fragrant. It is so delicious.

The knight buried his head in the rice bowl.

Jian Jing held the rice noodles.

Kang Mucheng: "Alas."