103 Wilderness Survival
◎The wolf on patrol suddenly let out a long howl.◎
Xiaohua was no longer so nervous after the wolves retreated.
The Wolf King and Silver Wolf, who were closest to it, also restrained their aura and tried hard to control their instincts. After their wolf eyes swept across the giant python, they didn't look at it again.
The Wolf King and Silver Wolf were both certain that they could defeat the python and that it posed no threat to the wolf territory.
After Ye Zhizhi solemnly introduced Xiaohua to the wolf mother and the wolf king father, he obtained their consent to let Xiaohua be their guest.
However, the nest cave was too small for Xiaohua, and it was filled with the strong smell of wolves, which was too stimulating for Xiaohua, so she was determined not to go in.
What's more, the wolf is not very familiar with Xiaohua and is not of the same species. It would be bad if it felt offended and couldn't control its instinct to attack.
After all, animals have a strong sense of territory. The appearance of predators from other species in the territory will be regarded as a provocation. The wolf pack's acceptance of Xiaohua entering the territory is already a good control of their instincts. Ye Zhizhi cannot ask for more.
Ye Zhizhi took Xiaohua for a walk in the wolf tribe's territory, and inspected her previous captive breeding results.
Yin Yi and the others also followed along.
Although the place was still filled with the strong scent of wolves, with the little cubs and the wolves that lived with her day and night following her, Xiaohua slowly controlled her instinct to escape and happily wandered around in the woods.
This is the little cubs' pack territory!
Ye Zhizhi looked at the medicinal plants that were growing well, and then went to patrol the three farms.
The wolves had been taking care of the three farms, but due to the lack of plants, they didn't seem to have enough to eat. The prey looked very thin and not plump at all, but there were quite a lot of them.
Ye Zhizhi estimated that the wolves would not go hungry during this rainy winter.
Xiaohua stayed in the territory for two days and was about to leave. There was no place in the wolf pack's territory suitable for Xiaohua to spend the rainy season and winter. It had to return to its own den, which was in the central area, far away from the wolf pack's territory.
Xiaohua has memorized the cub's territory, and will come back to find the cub after the rainy season and winter are over.
Ye Zhizhi thought about the many dangers along the way from the territory to Xiaohua's nest, and he was really worried.
Although she knew that Xiaohua was not that weak, and that it could come out alone to find her in the spring and go back alone again, she still couldn't help but worry.
So she decided to walk with Xiaohua for a while.
Xiaohua thought the cub was going to go back with it to live in the nest together, and she was so happy that she almost rolled herself into a dough stick. Later, she realized that it was just to keep it company for a while, and her scales dimmed in an instant.
Ye Zhizhi couldn't bear it, but still didn't give in.
She still wanted to stay in the wolf den and be with the wolf mother.
No one knew what the five wolves, Silver One, Two Brown, were thinking, but they eventually followed along.
Xiaohua's way back was different from the direction taken by Ye Zhizhi and the others. It did not go through the swamp, but went in another direction, and finally crawled into the deep water of a mountain stream.
Xiaohua went back by water.
Ye Zhizhi didn't know how to get there by water, and it didn't seem like she could get back to the hill where Xiaohua's nest was, but she thought of the underwater cave where the black python had taken her and Xiaohua that day.
The waters in this vast mountain forest may seem unrelated on the surface, but the underground water network is connected together.
If that's the case, it would be faster to go by water.
After sending Xiaohua away, the first thing Ye Zhizhi did when he returned to the nest was to get close to the wolf mother and hug her clingily.
Before, when Xiaohua was around, she had to save face, so how could she let Xiaohua see her childish side? Now, she is just a child who can't leave her wolf mother!
The wolf king who was pushed aside: "..."
The silver wolf licked Ye Zhizhi with great indulgence.
However, the warmth did not last for a few days, because the wolves had to go out hunting to store food for the upcoming rainy season.
Ye Zhizhi did not go with him, but made various preparations.
She discovered that the herbs were never enough, so she plucked off as much as she could, dried them in the sun, and made medicinal powder, and then continued to dry them for firewood.
There had been no firewood collected in the territory for some time, so there were a lot of dry branches and dead leaves.
Then get the animal skins.
Perhaps due to improper production, the animal skin quilt and animal skin clothing she had made before were a bit rotten and no longer warm.
Ye Zhizhi could only start over.
One of her weapons fell into the water and could not be found, and the other one had a bent blade and could not be used. Ye Zhizhi had no choice but to find a hard stone and wait until the rainy season to slowly grind it to see if it could be sharpened again.
Fortunately, she still had the green thorns she had brought back earlier, so she could continue to use them as weapons.
Ye Zhizhi did not go out hunting with the wolf pack, but acted on her own, mainly looking for medicinal herbs.
According to her speculation, the prey from the three farms, plus the food reserves from the wolves' hunting, would be abundant during the rainy season and winter. She wanted to take advantage of this time to get more medicinal herbs back.
Of course, if he sees prey, Ye Zhizhi will fight back.
Now she can hunt alone easily.
For example, today, Ye Zhizhi carried a large bundle of herbs in one hand and a colorful wild rooster he had hunted in the other. He jumped and ran briskly in the forest and quickly ran to the nest.
When she arrived outside the territory, there was an old wolf waiting in front, who helped her get the things back to the den.
Speaking of which, their tribe still had no cubs born this year, and the three little black wolves that had gone out hadn't returned yet. Ye Zhizhi had specially set up three breeding farms to prepare for the possibility of cubs being born this year.
Who would have thought that even with these three farms, there still wasn’t a single cub to be seen.
If this goes on, when will her wolf sister come out?
Ye Zhizhi thought about the wolf mother and the wolf king father. Animals should have the instinct to reproduce. When there is enough food and a good living environment, the birth of cubs is natural. But for some reason, the wolf king father and the wolf mother still have not given birth to cubs.
Could it be that both the wolf father and mother have decided that the current pack is not suitable for the birth of cubs? Could it be that there is a problem with their relationship?
Ye Zhizhi couldn't figure it out. She thought, why not not occupy the wolf mother during this rainy winter?
Ye Zhizhi made this decision with great difficulty. For Wolf Sister, all sacrifices were worth it.
Ye Zhizhi ran around outside, sometimes running two rounds in a day.
She also needs to pick more comfrey. The bracelets and anklets woven with comfrey need to be replaced, and her clothes need to be soaked in comfrey juice.
This is her self-defense weapon when she travels in the mountains and forests, which can prevent her from being bitten by poisonous insects.
Ye Zhizhi built a fire outside the nest to smoke the meat and fur.
When she returned, she brought back a pile of salt rocks, which she could use to make coarse salt, which she could use to cure meat and then dry it into jerky.
You can also make cured chicken, cured rabbit, and the kind with salt!
This year, her food is more abundant.
Ye Zhizhi felt happy just thinking about it and became more motivated to work.
After the wolves went out a few times, they quickly filled the food storage hole. During this period, Ye Zhizhi also reaped a lot of rewards, and her living space was soon filled with food and daily necessities.
When the wolves came back from their last hunt, they actually brought back a wild boar. The boar was a little small, only three or four hundred pounds, and it was not yet an adult. No one knew how the wolves had hunted it.
Yin Yi, however, was still thinking about the wolf girl's greedy look towards the wild boar. At that time, there was no condition to make a fire, so she did not get it to eat and gave it all to the wolf and the snake.
How could Yin Yi not sense Wolf Sister's desire for wild boar? Even though wild boar meat was not as delicious as venison in the eyes of wolves, Wolf Sister still wanted to eat it.
This time, when he saw a lone wild boar outside, Yin Yi immediately remembered the look in Wolf Girl's eyes when she looked at the wild boar, so he took Er Zong and the others to hunt the wild boar.
Sure enough, when the wolf girl saw the wild boar, she was really surprised, and her whole body was filled with joy.
Yin Yi decided to hand over the wild boar to Ye Zhizhi for disposal.
Ye Zhizhi was sharpening his knife and letting the wolf skin the wild boar. He had already thought of many ways to cook the wild boar.
Ye Zhizhi asked the wolf to tear the wild boar meat into pieces and marinate part of it with the coarse salt she had obtained. She wanted to make bacon and pork jerky.
At this moment, she did not care whether the dagger with a curved blade could cut the meat or not. She had already boiled it and roasted it before. As long as she forgot where it came from, everything would be fine. Ye Zhizhi used the dagger to cut the meat into small pieces, put some plants in it, and stewed it.
Get some more, cut into slices, soak in salt water and then wash, apply some vegetable juice on it, and grill it.
Of course Ye Zhizhi didn't eat alone. Each wolf took a bite, and the wolf mother, wolf king, and father got the most. In the end, only one piece was left to satisfy their craving.
Although the wild boar meat was a bit hard to chew and had a fishy smell, she had good teeth and the smell was much lighter after being marinated. She ate it with relish and felt unsatisfied even after her belly was full.
This is pork!
Ye Zhizhi welcomed the rainy season during such fulfilling days.
This rainy season was also spent in a busy manner. When she thought that winter would also pass in such a dull, monotonous yet fulfilling way, an accident happened unexpectedly.
The first snow had just fallen, and the ground was not yet covered with white when a wolf patrolling outside suddenly let out a long howl.
Ye Zhizhi understood the meaning of this voice. It was not a warning of danger, but a call to the wolves.
She saw the wolf king, the wolf mother and the other wolves running out of the cave and rushing into the snow.
Ye Zhizhi, who was left alone in the cave, couldn't help stamping her feet. She also wanted to go out.
But the wolf was worried that she would not be able to adapt to the cold climate outside, so he did not take her with him. But she also wanted to know what happened outside!
Ye Zhizhi decided to go out by herself. She wrapped herself in a fur cloak, put on a fur hat with difficulty, and then took small steps and moved towards the cave.
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