Chapter 77, The Lion
Sleep here?
Ye Kai looked around the neighborhood, and the houses in the distance were continuous, and they all looked very good, all of them were modernly decorated. This is the best renovated house Ye Kai has seen since he came to Africa.
Are there people living in so many houses?
"Do we have to live in tents all the time?" Ye Kai asked.
Phyllis waved her hand gently and said with a smile:
"Of course not, the house hasn't been cleaned up yet, it's just a place for you to rest for a while, and you can live in your room at night. ”
"Well, no problem. ”
I don't know how long I'm going to stay here, so I can't stay in a tent all the time.
Walking past the tent, Phyllis was introduced next to each other.
"This is the treatment room, the veterinarian has been here for three years, and this time I went back to spend Christmas with my family, and I don't know if I will come again. ”
Chen Zhai immediately said: "I will do a good job in the treatment of all animals, and I will not embarrass the previous seniors." ”
Chen Zhai is a practicing veterinarian who graduated from animal science and became a volunteer just after graduation, and I don't know what his parents will think. However, if you can enter the international rescue organization, you will not be short of money, and you may be a rich second generation.
Many of these houses were inhabited by injured animals, and at the back of the houses were long iron fences surrounding a vast grassland.
"Inside are animals that have recovered well and are ready to be released into the wild. Phyllis said.
Ye Kai saw several elephants walking together inside, and there were ostriches, giraffes, zebras and so on in the distance.
"That's a lot of animals. Chen Zhai was pleasantly surprised.
Sure enough, it's still fun abroad, and in China, it's either to rescue kittens and puppies or to inject domestic pigs, and it's just a few years of learning this major in vain.
Phyllis laughed, thinking that the new veterinarian was funny, and she felt a sense of youth.
"Let's go, let's eat. She said.
The kitchen, not far from the treatment room, was a separate house, about thirty or forty square meters, and in addition to the cooking area, there was a long table.
It has the function of both kitchen and dining room, and in addition to cooking and eating, washing dishes is also here.
Ye Kai and the others walked into the kitchen, and the other people at the base were already sitting at the table, Hong Wenlin and Miles were chatting in a low voice, and Song Leyong was watching short videos in China.
"Oh, you're finally here. ”
Song Leyong turned off his mobile phone, warmly beckoned a few people to sit down, and even politely pulled out a chair for someone.
After a few people sat down, Ye Kai said with a smile: "Thank you, it looks like you're already hungry." ”
"You're right. ”
Everyone smiled and started eating.
The meals are all Chinese-style, roasted chicken with potatoes, green vegetable soup, stir-fried green vegetables, and stir-fried meat with fungus.
It's all home-cooked taste, and whoever has time in the base can make it themselves, and there is no special chef. However, when chatting, I learned that the chef's job has always been Song Leyong's job.
He had never cooked before, but after going abroad, he gradually learned how to be a good chef.
A moment of silence was observed for a colleague who had tried a dish.
"What should I do after eating in a while?" Ye Kai said.
"Feed the animals inside the fence and check their condition. Phyllis put down her chopsticks and said, "But you have been on the plane for so long, you don't have to worry about any work today, let's rest for two days first." ”
"I don't have to rest. Chen Zhai said immediately.
Ye Kai shrugged his shoulders, he didn't care, it didn't matter how long it lasted. His body is several times stronger than Chen Zhai, who looks like an otaku.
Phyllis didn't say yes, but said.
"There's nothing you need to do right now, Sean has a lot of freedom in his work, and you, Chen. I hope you're the easiest we've ever had here, and you don't need to work too hard if no animal is injured. ”
The normal hunting between animals, the base will not care, the meaning of their existence is to protect animals from being hunted by humans, not to save animals everywhere angels.
Once poachers start poaching, it's hard for an animal to survive.
So it's not going to be very busy here.
Phyllis introduced the two first-time visitors: "Song and Miles are both breeders, and there are two other patrols that drive out every morning and come back in the evening. ”
"Is Big Brother Red also a patrol team?" asked Chen Zhai.
Hong Wenlin nodded and said, "Yes, but today they are all gone, and I will only work tomorrow, so don't go around after you eat, go and rest." ”
That's all there is to the base, and they have basically told Ye Kai and Chen Zhai.
After eating, the two returned to the tent where they were temporarily resting, Chen Zhai said it well when he ate, but when he returned to the tent, he lay down and began to sleep, and after a while, he began to snore.
Since it was daytime, Ye Kai couldn't sleep, and when he went out, he saw Phyllis standing outside the fence.
"What are you looking at?" Ye Kai asked as he approached.
Phyllis looked back and saw that it was Ye Kai, smiled at him, and continued to look into the distance.
It was Song Leyong who was feeding a group of elephants to drink.
It was a very large plastic bottle, ten times larger than a baby bottle, and the mouth of the bottle was a huge silicone nipple. The baby elephant is biting on a pacifier and drinking happily.
Phyllis put her hands in her pockets and a motherly smile on her face.
"It's called Mkalica, it's beautiful, isn't it?"
"When the mother of the baby elephant was killed for being hunted for ivory. Without a mother, a baby elephant cannot survive alone, so we rescue the most such baby elephants here. ”
Ye Kai propped his hand on the stake of the fence and asked curiously, "Are there a lot of poachers?"
"There are a lot of them this season, and the poachers have been cruel lately, we didn't find a single injured animal, most of them died. ”
Both of them fell silent, and even the purring of the baby elephant could be heard in this position.
Phyllis suddenly asked Ye Kai, "Do you want to see the white lion?"
"Is there one?"
Ye Kai said in surprise, he thought there were only these herbivores here.
"Of course, come with me. Phyllis turned her head and walked towards the house not far away.
It turns out that the carnivores are all inside these houses, and the houses have two doors, one is a small door from here, which is as big as a normal door. The other was a door that opened to the grassland behind them.
Some animals are not able to survive on their own, so they need to be treated here before being released.
Ye Kai finally saw the white lion.
This is not a little guy, this is a beautiful lioness in her youth, her head immediately stood up from the ground when the two entered the door, and she looked at Ye Kai with bright eyes.
There is also an iron gate after entering the door, and the keeper feeds her outside the iron gate to prevent some carnivores from suddenly pounce on the keeper.
But this lion won't.
Ye Kai saw that her limbs were wrapped in gauze.
She doesn't have claws.