Liu Wei didn't want to disturb the villagers, but when he set up the tent, he found Anna standing aside stupidly, so he remembered that he was in a hurry when he left, and he didn't prepare a tent for Anna.

"Tonight, you sleep in the tent, I'll let Chubby accompany you, and I'll go to the villager's house for the night!" Liu Weidao.

Anna looked at the tent spread out on the ground and asked, "What's the matter? Can't sleep? This tent is enough for three people!"

Liu Wei didn't expect the Russian girl to be so open, and smiled: "We just met, it's not good!"

Anna smiled slightly, thinking that Liu Wei was a righteous gentleman, and worried: "I sleep outside alone, what if there is a beast?"

"This is the village, usually few wild beasts enter the village directly, even if there is a sneak in, Fat will find out, and then it will scream to remind me, you just need to stay in the tent and don't come out!"

Anna tugged at the prosaic tent and wondered, "Can you defend against the beasts?"

"Don't worry!" Liu Wei said confidently, "This is a military science and technology that your country can't make!"

I thought to myself, the system provides, I don't know what civilization left behind, and the wisdom of contemporary human beings may not reach that level.

Liu Wei turned off the live broadcast, instructed Chubby to say a few words, and went to a villager's house where the lights were still on.

There was a knock on the door.

The door was unlocked, it opened automatically, and the family inside was sitting in front of the stove eating, and at the same time turned their heads and looked at Liu Wei with surprised eyes.

Liu Wei explained his intention with a smile on his face.

The older women in the family were very friendly and invited Liu Wei to have dinner with them, and Liu Wei paid a certain fee.

He felt that in a foreign country, it was safer to use money to buy peace of mind.

The man in the family accepted Liu Wei's money with a smile and was very polite to Liu Wei.

The man took Liu Wei to the next room, turned on the light, and there was only a simple bed in the room, on which was covered with a blanket embroidered with a red pattern that had not been washed for a long time.

Liu Wei's attention was fixed on the photo on the wall next to the bed.

The man followed Liu Wei's gaze, pointed to the photo and said in English: "Lion!"

Liu Wei nodded, "I know the lion!"

There are several pictures of lions hanging on the wall.

Liu Wei noticed a photo that was obviously different from other lions, and after getting the man's consent, he took it down, and looked carefully, and the lion in his hand was an African lion, while the other photos were all Asiatic lions.

He asked curiously, "Did you take this picture?"

The man shook his head, "It was sent by an expert!"

"Expert?" Liu Wei pondered, "An expert in the study of lions?"

The man nodded.

In the past, the indigenous people did not have the opportunity to see African lions, and the two places that lions experts must visit are the African savannah and the Gir National Park in India, where the world's last two subspecies of lions live.

Liu Wei guessed that perhaps the villagers in front of him had gone out to look for Asiatic lions with the experts who had come here to look for Asiatic lions.

He asked curiously, "Have you ever seen a lion?"

The man nodded, "I've seen it several times, and once I killed my buffalo!"

After speaking, he walked outside the house, Liu Wei followed, and he took Liu Wei to the relatively simple cattle pen at home.

Outside the cattle pen is a dense meadow, and on the other side of the meadow is the bush where Liu Wei is about to go, where Asiatic lions are most likely to appear.

The man points to the fence of the cattle pen.

Liu Wei found that several places had been renovated.

"What do you do with the cow that was bitten to death?" asked Liu Wei.

"Give it to him, and the local government has given us some compensation!" He said casually.

His tone and face showed that he didn't care, which was completely different from the state of the villagers when they encountered Siberian tigers in the Northeast, even if they would receive subsidies from the government, but the indigenous villagers in front of Liu Wei had a little smile on their faces.

Thinking of the lion hanging next to the bed in the house, Liu Wei guessed that the family was Hindu, and in fact, more than 80% of the people in India believe in Hinduism.

The Asiatic lion is an animal closely associated with religious kingship, and in Sanskrit, the lion is called the Sanghapi, which means "monks".

In the Buddhist scriptures "Nirvana Sutra" and "The Treatise on Great Wisdom", there are descriptions of lions, and the lion is generally recognized as the symbolic animal of the Buddha Shakyamuni.

Buddhism originated in India, and according to the distribution of the lion subspecies, from the Middle East of India to the Mediterranean coast, the lion subspecies distributed are all Asiatic lions, also called the Persian subspecies.

The Asiatic lion is also a symbol of royal dignity and power, and in the 3rd century B.C., Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan Empire carved the image of a lion on a stone pillar in Sharrant (one of the most important Buddhist relics in India, where Shakyamuni first spoke to his disciples at the Bamboo Grove Monastery in Sharrant) to promote the message of non-violence, tolerance and respect.

Ashoka may have been one of the first rulers to promote the idea of animal protection, and at the beginning of the 21st century, the coat of arms of the Republic of India was based on the Asiatic lion on Ashoka's stone pillars.

However, with the progress of social civilization and the more scientific thinking of human beings, it gradually submerged the symbol of power of the Asiatic lion, and began to hunt this species for economic benefits, and the skyrocketing population of India also robbed the Asiatic lion of its living space, causing it to almost become extinct.

Just like the crested ibis in China, relying on the few remaining breeds, although the number of Asiatic lions is increasing, due to the low breeding population base, which has led to genetic decline, the Asiatic lion is no longer what it used to be.

In a way, Asiatic lions are more precious than African lions.

Liu Wei looked at the smiles of the indigenous villagers, glad that they can now have a tolerant mentality, and with the protection of the state, the Asiatic lion may be able to survive on the earth for a while.

"Do you like lions?" Liu Wei asked the villagers.

The villager smiled and nodded, "I touched an old lion!"

"Oh!"

Liu Wei was surprised, although it is said that the elderly lion does not like to move and has a calm personality, it is a very dangerous thing for humans to touch it.

The man recounted: "When the lions were biting my buffalo to death, I watched it eat the buffalo, and when it was done, it came to me, and I thought it would attack me, and I was so nervous that I didn't dare to run, for fear of being pounced by it."

I didn't expect it to stop for a while when it walked past me, I reached out and touched it, it didn't attack me, and then it left!"

After listening to this, Liu Wei smiled and said, "Maybe it's thanking you!"

Can you lead me tomorrow? I want to find the lion, and I'll pay you!"

"Of course you can, but it's dangerous, you can't get close, you don't need money, I want to see it too, I haven't encountered them recently!"

Liu Wei patted the man's shoulder, "Don't worry, I'm also an expert!"

After the two chatted, Liu Wei went back to the house and went to sleep.

The next morning it was Anna who ran to the house to wake him up, and she was excited to learn from the villagers that she was going to look for a lion today.

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