When the maid brings desserts made with several tropical fruits, it heralds the end of the dinner.

This dessert is not special in Chu Tianjiang's opinion, because those fruits are very common in the tropics, but they are very unusual in Moscow. The Moscow authorities actually control only the area around Moscow, and even the southernmost tip of the Russian territory is thousands of kilometers from the tropics. After the catastrophe, when more than eighty percent of merchant ships and ninety percent of aircraft were destroyed, it was not easy to transport fruit from the tropics to Moscow and keep it fresh. If it had been shipped by air, and it had only arrived recently, the cost of this plate of salad would have been equivalent to dozens of tons of flour.

"Mr. Joseph, I am only concerned with talking to Alexei, and I don't know what you have done in the past."

"My past?" Chu Tianjiang smiled reluctantly and said, "I don't have anything to talk about in my past, and it's not suitable for this kind of elegant occasion. ”

Instead of getting angry, Clara's eyes lit up. "If you say that, I'm even more interested. I've heard that your past is very unusual. ”

Zhang Xiaogang kicked Chu Tianjiang and asked him not to shirk.

"In that case, I'll tell you a story." Chu Tianjiang knew that even if he pretended to be deep, it still inevitably aroused Clara's interest. Chu Tianjiang's mind quickly turned and said: "You know, when I was very young, I was adopted by a pack of wolves and lived with wolves, until Alexei's father found me and brought me home, I broke away from the wolves. ”

"You're a wolf child?" Clara looked surprised, but Chu Tianjiang was sure that it was pretending.

"The story I'm going to tell is about wolves." Chu Tianjiang let out a long breath, and his expression was very deep. "I was adopted by a she-wolf who had just lost her cub, and although scientists believe that lactating she-wolves adopt human babies because the baby can suck milk and make the she-wolf feel comfortable, I don't think so, because the she-wolf completely treats me as her cub."

"Is this a story about motherly love?" Clara was a little disappointed.

"No, it has nothing to do with motherly love." Zhang Xiaogang has long said that Clara is infertile, and it is very likely that she will be sterilized the day after tomorrow, so topics related to "maternal love" are definitely not popular with her. "It was five years before I could follow the wolves. Unlike many people who know the truth, wolves rarely get together. For most of the year, a male wolf and a female wolf form a family, preying on small animals to nurse their young. It is only in winter, when conditions are at their worst, that the wolves come together under the call of the head wolf to hunt large prey, such as reindeer, and work together to survive the difficulties. When spring comes, the wolves will once again be separated as families as small animals that can be easily hunted are out in the air. ”

"Is it family-related?" Clara asked again, this time with a little interest.

"Not really." Chu Tianjiang smiled and said, "The first time I participated in the collective hunting of wolves, it was a winter that was even colder than previous years. The reindeer have long since moved south, and to the south is a place where humans live, and although there are many domesticated reindeer, they are protected by hunters. ”

"You met the Hunter?"

"Nope. The head wolf is an experienced old wolf, who knows the power of the shotgun and knows that the Dao must not provoke humans. Even if the domesticated reindeer are successfully killed, the wolves will not be able to enjoy it. If you anger humans and are hunted down by humans, the wolves will be wiped out. ”

"That ......" Clara was not only interested, but also deeply attracted.

"The wolves wandered in the forest for several days, capturing only a few wild mice and hares. Everyone was hungry, and the celestial bodies were getting colder. If this continues, and no big prey can be caught, I'm afraid all wolves will starve to death. At this time, the other wolves began to suspect the head wolf, and several very strong male wolves began to provoke the head wolf, wanting to take the position of the head wolf, and then lead the wolves south to find food. ”

"How's the head wolf?"

"The head wolf is not the strongest, but it is the most intelligent and the most experienced. The challenge of the other male wolves was defeated by the head wolf. ”

"This ......"

"After another three days, all the wolves were so hungry that they could not walk, and a few of the weaker wolves could not even stand up, and the heavy snow never stopped, even the wild mice and hares hid, and the wolves could only feed on moss, and all the wolves were desperate."

"You're just waiting to die?"

"It's not waiting for death, it's waiting for an opportunity. The head wolf knows very well that it is not only wolves that need food, but also other predators, such as brown bears and Siberian tigers. The cold and blizzards will also affect the other beasts in this forest. Of all the large predators, wolves have the strongest tolerance. A strong wolf can starve for half a month, while a Siberian tiger can endure for up to five days. ”

"This ......"

"The head wolf knows that when food is scarce, the beasts will attack each other and kill other beasts, and this is the opportunity that the head wolf is waiting for."

"You've waited for this opportunity?"

Chu Tianjiang nodded and said, "That night, the first wolf woke up first, and then the other wolves also woke up. I don't know where the strength of the road came from, and the wolves who were already dying of hunger all got up, followed the head wolf, and rushed to the place of the fight as fast as possible. ”

"Fighting, what fights with what?"

"A Siberian tiger and a brown bear."

"What!?"

"The brown bear must have been hibernating, but the bear den was buried too shallow and was spotted by a passing Siberian tiger, which then attacked the brown bear. If it weren't for a sneak attack, the already hungry Siberian tiger would definitely not be a match for the brown bear, which was already fat and fat before hibernation. In addition, brown bears are a bit sluggish when they wake up from hibernation and are not as dexterous as Siberian tigers. By the time the wolves arrived, the Siberian tiger had already bitten through the brown bear's neck. Although the brown bear is not dead, it will not be long before it dies from excessive blood loss. ”

"You ...... You guys attacked the Siberian tigers? ”

Chu Tianjiang smiled and said, "This is the stupidest thing to do. Although the Siberian tiger had already exerted a lot of physical strength in the situation at that time, it was definitely no match for the wolves, but the first rule of nature was to protect oneself, not sacrifice for the collective, and the wolves were no exception. The Siberian tiger is five times larger than the strongest male wolf, and even when exhausted, it can easily bite or even kill a male wolf. In addition, the Siberian tiger has sharp claws, while the wolf's weapons are only teeth, and claws are useless. ”

"This ......"

"Actually, the wolves just need to be patient, and the head wolf thinks the same way. The brown bear weighs 300 kilograms, and the adult Siberian tiger can only eat a maximum of 40 kilograms of meat, and it won't be long before the rest of the bear meat will freeze, and the Siberian tiger will not eat frozen meat, at least not until it starves, so as long as the wolves wait patiently and wait until the Siberian tiger is full and leaves, they can enjoy a bear meat feast. ”

"Oh!" Hearing this, Clara seemed to lose interest.

"It's a pity that the wolves didn't wait."

"What!?" Clara's eyes immediately widened.

"Just as the brown bear fell, the three strongest male wolves burst out of the bushes where they were hiding and attacked the Siberian tiger, which was about to devour the bear's meat."

"Are they crazy?"

"They're not crazy, they're smart." Chu Tianjiang let out a long sigh and said, "After angering the Siberian Tiger, the three male wolves immediately turned around and fled, rushing straight into the bushes where a young she-wolf was hiding, luring the Siberian Tiger over, and that she-wolf is the daughter of the first wolf!" ”

"What!?"

"In a wolf pack, as long as you obey the head wolf, all the offspring can stay and become part of the wolf pack, and many wolf packs are actually the offspring of a couple."

"This ...... What happened? ”

"The young she-wolf is very weak and seriously lacks combat experience, and is not at all an opponent of the Siberian tiger, and even runs away without knowing the way."

"And then...... And then what? ”

"The head wolf rushed forward, bit the hind legs of the Siberian tiger, and fought desperately with the Siberian tiger."

"Yes...... However, it is no match for the Siberian Tiger. ”

"Yes, no wolf can defeat the Siberian tiger alone, not even a weakened Siberian tiger. It was at this time that the three male wolves turned around and killed them. It's just that the Siberian tiger has turned around and bit the neck of the head wolf. ”

"Head...... The head wolf is dead? ”

He didn't die, he still desperately bit the hind legs of the Siberian tiger, and the three male wolves took this opportunity to bite the throat and two front paws of the Siberian tiger respectively. At that time, the air was full of the smell of blood, and other wolves rushed up and desperately tore at the Siberian tiger. ”

"This ...... This ......"

"The Siberian tiger was bitten alive and had its belly pierced before it could breathe. The wolves not only ate bear meat, but also tiger meat. ”

"None?"

"I also had a full meal, but bear meat is better than tiger meat, probably because brown bears have more fat on their bodies." Chu Tianjiang smiled and said, "A few hours later, the head wolf died. The male wolf that bit the Siberian tiger's throat became the new wolf, and the first thing he did was to drive away the other two strong male wolves and then take over the first wolf's wife. It's just that the she-wolf didn't obey. When the wolves left, it stayed behind to guard the carcass of the head wolf. When the wolves returned, it had starved to death. The carcasses of the brown bear and the Siberian tiger were next to him, but he did not eat a single bite, and he ended his life on a hunger strike. ”

Clara was silent, her expression complicated.

Zhang Xiaogang's eyebrows jumped a few times and said, "What about the little she-wolf?" ”

"Taken over by a new head wolf, he gave birth to his first litter of wolf cubs the following spring."

"It'...... Why does it do this? ”

"This is the law of survival in nature."

At the end of the sentence, Chu Tianjiang's tone was cold, without any emotion, and Clara was silent again.