Chapter 30 The Mother of the Child

Although there was no food at all, not even tree seeds and grass seeds, his body was much warmer, his people were more energetic, and his hands, feet, and thoughts were also active. He was going to peel off the tiger skin unharmed......

He carefully skinned the tiger, which had no food in its stomach and no feces in its intestines. Alas, it turned out that it was just as hungry as I was, looking for food to eat.

He set aside its entrails and the others, brought firewood and grass and stuffed it into the skin, and sewed it up with a sheepbone needle of his own making.

It is often said that the tiger is not powerful, but it is really a lifelike tiger. He went out and found a way to remove the hooves from the door of the sheepfold. Take it back and sew it on where it was broken so that it looks undamaged on the outside.

On this sunny day, Su Wu boiled the tiger bones into soup, improved the life of the sheep, and drove the four sheep who were skinny and had no strength to rush to the side of the pen to clean up

Clean the sheepfold and throw in any hay left.

He saw the sheep munching on them, and said to them, "You unfortunate creatures, you are pitiful enough to follow me." As long as the weather is clear and it doesn't snow, I won't let you starve to death!"

Although the sun rises as usual here, it is still cold, icy and snowy. Su Wu got up early in the morning, ate a big bowl of tiger meat and soup, warmed his whole body, put on the wolf skin cotton robe given by Mei Ga, put on a homemade warm coat, and set off to find something to eat.

With a rope on his shoulder, his skateboard, and a cane of his own making, he crossed the sparse birch road in front of him, heading for the pine and cypress forests in the mountains in the distance.

By the time he arrived at his destination, it was already noon. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the climate is relatively warm. The snow on the pine and cypress trees was swept away by the wind, and the leaves were dark green, and the snow in the woods was not thick.

Ever since he discovered this place, whenever the weather is clear, he has come here and threshed pine and cypress seeds. Now, after many snowstorms, the seeds have fallen to the ground, and there is no way to find them in the thick hay.

He had just taken off his skateboard when suddenly, he heard a bird's call, followed the sound and quietly looked for it, and saw a gray bird with wings more than four feet long, carrying a snow-white thing in its mouth, flying up to the branch of the tree in front of him, which was not too high.

Su Wu stood still and threw his cane towards it with all his might. It dropped something and flew away, and the white thing fell to the ground and fluttered its wings as if it were injured. He pounced on it and grabbed it.

It turned out to be a bird with snow-white feathers all over its body. The bird was hot and its feathers were thick, so it was no wonder that it could survive in this alpine land. He twisted its neck under its wings, and after tucking it into a leather bag, he searched for the great bird.

The fact that they can live here proves that there must be something to eat here. He crept into the woods, looking around with his head tilted and his eyes staring...... Subconsciously found that on a tree pole, two small yellow eyes were staring at him.

He wiped his eyes and looked at it seriously, and it turned out that it was a face as round as a cat's face, and a big gray bird was looking at him. Isn't this what people often call the owl, also known as the owl?

But the owl I saw was black-colored, and its wings were not as big as the bird, and it came out in the dark to pounce on food, and if it saw anyone, it flew away in a panic. How is this thing not afraid of people......

No, the owl's eyes are green, bigger than this thing's eyes. And lo and behold

Look at the tree on which it stood, a short-leaved pine tree with a large crown and a thick body, and it stood on a branch more than a foot above the ground, without any nervousness.

He waved his cane to let it go, but it moved its wings and tilted its head in anger.

Su Wu shouted loudly: "Hey-" The sound shook off the dead leaves on the birch trees on the side in the silent woods. It still doesn't go.

I must seize it, something so big that it can at least solve the problem of food and clothing for a few days.

He pulled down his gloves, tucked up his wolfskin robe and tightened it at his belt, and covered his eyes with a sheepskin hat, and crept up the tree......

When it saw him coming, it pricked its wings in anger and struck at him with its hard mouth, but it only knocked off his hat.

When he climbed the branch, it flew up and landed on the branch next to it, looking hesitantly at this side, and roaring ......in despair.

Su Wu climbed up the branch and found that there was a large tree hole in the middle of the thick and small branches, and in the body of the tree, there was a large tree hole that covered the branches and feathers.

He gently uncovered it, and in the nest of thick hay and many feathers, there were two large white birds' eggs. His eyes lit up, it was a good thing, but it was a good meal.

At home in Chang'an, he was tired of eating eggs, and he hated them when he saw them! But in the five months since he came here, even food is a rare thing, let alone eggs! He looked at them greedily and caressed them with his hands......

The bird on the other side saw his actions and flapped its wings and flew over. Su Wu used a branch to pair

Fu, it had no choice but to fly back to the branch next to it, and looked at it in distress and refused

Abandon. He read in its eyes love, helplessness, and pity.

He felt as if he was a robber snatching the child of a powerless mother...... This reminded him of the scene when he and his father were in Daijun, and he once led a team to inspect the border with his father:

On that day, they met several horsemen who robbed Han Chinese children...... A scene of a mother crying and screaming desperately to protect and be killed...... Although the Lianghu people were annihilated at that time, the mother's desperate efforts to protect the child made him unforgettable for the rest of his life.

Su Wu looked at the anxious and helpless appearance of the gray-white bird, lifted the egg, let it look at it and gently put it in the nest, covered it, and slipped down the tree to hide and sit not far away

place to look at it.

When he saw him go down from the tree, he flew back quickly, opened the lid with his mouth, and the two children were still there, and put the lid on it, and flew back and forth in the woods around his house twice, patrolling and flying into the depths of the woods without danger.

He followed it towards the forest, and it became more and more difficult to walk, and there were leafless dry vines everywhere under his feet, and it was difficult for him to move forward. He stood still and looked around carefully, and found that under the roots of the mountain not far away, there was a towering deciduous tree in the sun.

This tree is three or four thick for adults, and the surrounding trees are sparsely pulled, this is the thickest and largest tree I have ever seen in my life.

With his gloved hands, he tore the dry vines from the road and came to the tree: it was as if there had been a fight between animals, and the dry vines on the ground had been crushed

It was mediocre, with a lot of frozen blood on it......

His heart suddenly rose to his throat and he wanted to retreat, but his ankle was grasped by a black-haired claw sticking out of the haystack beside him. He was frightened and hopeless, so he had to tremble and admonish himself: Don't be afraid, don't be afraid......

Trembling, he leaned over to pick up the hay, and it turned out to be a wounded bear, lying on his laurels. He reached out and pulled it, and suddenly heard a scream in the distance.