Chapter 7: My Brothers and Sisters
According to the novel "Wolf Totem" that Han Bing read in his previous life, the estrus and production time of all animals have a lot to do with the environment in which they live. The gestation period of sheep is five months, and they naturally come into heat in autumn and winter each year, and give birth when the following summer arrives, which is a favorable schedule for both ewes and lambs, and is the result of natural selection in the evolution of the species. The estrus period of the wolf is generally at the end of winter, two months of gestation, the baby wolf is born to the spring when the flowers bloom, at this time many hibernating animals in the wild have begun to come out to forage, and the wolf pack has more opportunities to catch prey and feed the young wolf to grow. Wolves are stronger than humans, and the wolf cub can participate in hunting after half a year, when it is the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, the prey is also luxuriant, which is conducive to the growth of the wolf in contact with hunting, which is also the result of natural selection. However, their lifespan is generally only 12 to 14 years, so it is calculated that humans are currently 72 years old, and the wolf cub is equivalent to humans starting to hunt at the age of three or four, which is also very advanced.
This time, my mother went out for two days and came back, and there was nothing unusual after that. It's just that after a month, the belly starts to grow, and it is rare to go out to hunt for food. Fortunately, the wolves to which she belonged did not abandon her, so that her mother could still eat leftovers. During this period, the two sons were more diligent in laying traps everywhere, and had to provide enough nutrition for their mother, so that their future younger brothers and sisters could thrive in their mother's womb, so that they could protect the two useless brothers as soon as possible.
The weather is getting warmer, and the sunrise is getting earlier. Looking at the scratches carved on the stone wall, this was what Han Bing started recording on the day after his mother didn't return home at night. I counted it, and it was almost fifty, and it was not far from the day when my mother gave birth. Mom's belly is also round, I don't know how many twins it will be this time? It is strange that wolves, like tigers and lions, are animals at the top of the food chain, but wolves can give birth to 3-9 wolf cubs per litter, and lions and tigers generally have only one litter. In ancient times, human beings were not at the top of the food chain, but they also had one child, and the maturity period was as long as more than ten years, and the lifespan was as long as several decades. Could it be that God has already arranged for mankind to be the future co-ruler of the world? It is a pity that sheep are also one per litter, the difference is that the maturity period of sheep is less than two years, and the lifespan is only twelve years, which seems to be born to be eaten.
In any case, God has arranged the greatest, and it is just done. On a sunny spring afternoon when everything was recovering, my mother added seven younger brothers and sisters to Han Bing's brothers, three mothers and four sons. Let yourself out of bed for your mother and younger siblings who are in confinement, and these two people are busy adding firewood to make the fire a little more prosperous, so that the cave is warmer. Roast smoked meat to supplement my mother's nutrition. Give my mother some fruit wine to make her feel happier. Everything is to ensure that the newborn brothers and sisters can have enough milk to drink, so that they can grow up healthily as soon as possible, and the two of them need help too much.
My mother still doesn't have the habit of confinement, and she went out to hunt for food the next day after giving birth, and when she came back, the milk was still so full, and the seven little guys were competing for nipples with their eyes closed, which can see who is strong and who is weak, and the naturally strong genes are destined to be able to compete for grabs, and the mother's womb is thin and weak, and now it is still their turn to wait for others to eat, so they are still thin.
The brothers didn't want to let a little wolf cub die, and sometimes they artificially hugged the two wolf cubs who robbed the special fierce, so that the thin little one could eat first, although this would affect natural selection, considering this litter, it would not affect much. When they are older, the two of them can make meat porridge to replenish their bodies, ensuring that they grow healthier than the wolf cubs in the wild. This is the first batch of helpers for the brothers to fight the world in the future, but they can't wait for it.
My mother continued to bring back a piece of meat and bone every day, and her meal was very large at this time, and sometimes she needed to replenish it in the evening. Every time, Han Bing would roast the meat she got back to make a supper, accompanied by wild vegetables, and comprehensively replenish various vitamins. The drinking water is also boiled and tonic such as mountain spirits is added, with some minced meat, cooled and then fed to the mother and wolf cubs, and the wolf's den is often cleaned.
During the day, they continue to lay cloth traps, catch rabbits and foxes, and work hard every day to increase the reserve of prey. The two of them, who are more than a year old, are now about one meter tall, strong and strong, running and jumping in the mountains and wilderness like walking on the ground. Small animals that fall into the trap can be solved by two people, and there are several rabbits that are captured. The little boar was caught, and the little boar was disemboweled with a wooden stick tied with a stone knife, and the blood was cleaned, and finally the two of them tied their hind legs with a rope and dragged back to the cave on the ground. The front and back paws of the wild boar were bitten off by the mother, and after being roasted on the fire, the mother was fed with milk, and the other parts had become bacon and hung on the cave wall.
In order to get milk, the two of them deliberately ran to the river, the river had just thawed, and many big fish in it were floating on the water. In the early years of the Northeast, there was a saying that was widely circulated: stick and beat the roe deer and scoop the fish. It is said that in the sparsely populated Northeast region, the roe deer does not know people, does not know that people approach it to kill it and eat meat, without a little vigilance, waiting for people to be killed and stunned with a stick; And there are so many fish in the river that two fish can come up with a scoop of water. This river should be one of the sources of the Songhua River, which originates in Changbai Mountain, and is also called the Songhua River. There should also be the Songjiang River and the Erdaobai River in the north, and the three rivers will join the Baishan Reservoir in the northwest and then flow out to the north to form the real Songhua River.
The two of them did not have a water scoop, so many fish, all they had to do was to use a sharpened stick with a hook to tie it in, almost one by one, catch a few catfish and carp, drag them back and roast them. It's actually quite dangerous to go out so far, at this time, just after winter, many fierce beasts are hungry, especially bears are blind, at this time I don't know which breed will be alive, anyway, no matter what kind of encounter, I can only compete with the two brothers, Han Bing feels that he is likely to not be able to outrun the division, sacrificing the small self to complete the big self, which is heavier than Mount Tai.
The two of them also caught a few snakes, and there are not many snakes in the north that are highly venomous, and they are even more rare in the Changbai Mountain area. Further north, there is a pit viper commonly known as "flying on the grass" and also called "earth balls" and the same pit viper on Snake Island in the south is highly venomous, most of them are slightly venomous or non-venomous snakes, and the common one is the "pheasant neck" that Han Bing and Shi Zhan often encounter in the mountains, a slightly venomous snake. Adult snakes range from half a meter to one meter in length, and their meat is delicious, and these two are not lacking. This time it was the "pheasant neck", who had just woken up from hibernation, eager to forage for food, and his reaction was not sharp enough, so he was held down by these two little broken children with a branch, and then chopped off the snake's head with a stone knife, broke the skin of the head, and pulled it down, and the whole snake skin fell off. Chop the meat, put it in a bowl and heat it to cook is a bowl of snake soup, although it lacks oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, it is also a delicious dish, which has the effect of nourishing the skin and nourishing the skin, anti-fatigue, soft blood vessels, and preventing osteoporosis. The snakeskin has not yet fallen off, and can be used to make rope or water bags.
The meadow in front of the cave entrance was another detached scene, and the new young grass was spread into a verdant grass blanket. After a spring rain, the stalks of the grass that have absorbed water have been lifted up to welcome more sunlight. As the weeds become denser, the creatures in the grass gradually increase, and pheasants can often be seen flapping their wings and flying briefly. At this time, it was the season for pheasants to hatch their eggs, and Han Bing and Shi Zhan carried a sack and walked through the grass. First throw a few rocks into it, scare the grass and snakes, and at the same time scare the pheasants in the nest, and then find the pheasant nest where the pheasants fly up, collect eggs, and pick up dozens of them each time. They were carried back to the hole, and some of them were placed in a mud pot with hay, and the rest had to be boiled and eaten half-cooked. It is too difficult to boil eggs in a mud bowl, and the water should not be left in the water for too long, as the mud will melt away and turn into mud after a long time. You have to put the hot stones in and out again and again as soon as possible, put them in again, and clip them out again. Fortunately, wild eggs are very small and can be cooked, if they are eggs raised by later generations, the yolk can only be eaten raw.
In order to prevent the live rabbits from running away, the legs were discounted, because the two were too young to make a strong rabbit nest, the method was cruel, and the effect was good. From time to time, feed some grass and wild vegetables, put them in the pit and raise them, and kill them as you eat. If you have wild eggs, you have to catch pheasants to hatch them. These two people caught pheasants live in clumsy ways, either by the pheasant's sharp beak or scratched by sharp claws, and in the end they always had to use heavy codes in the troubled times, and only carnivorous chickens were brought back. No way, who made these two too small.
Later, Shi Zhan had a whim, let the rabbit with the broken leg come to hold the nest, anyway, the unlucky guy can only lie on his stomach, which is not lying down, let it lie on the mud pot egg, it stands to reason that the temperature is about the same, it should be able to surface.
With the best efforts of the poor brothers, the little wolf finally ended the lactation period, and the mother not only did not lose weight, but became thicker. There will always be a reward for paying, I forgot which philosopher said this, anyway, it makes sense. The little wolf first opened his eyes in less than a week, and after a week he began to crawl around, much stronger than these two brothers, and he couldn't even turn over in four or five months.
Shi Zhan often hugged and played with the little wolf cubs after feeding, and in his previous life, he wanted to raise a large dog, such as Erha, his daughter-in-law didn't do it, and finally raised a Chihuahua, is this his grandmother's dog? It's worse than an old hen! There's no way, it's not a matter of what I said, now it's okay, seven large dogs, or real wolf breeds or above, it seems that God can't look down on his daughter-in-law's practice, and he came here to compensate himself. Shi Zhan really likes these little guys, all of them are fleshy, fluffy, and look a bit between a dog and a fox, with a snout longer than a dog, ears are erect, and the eyes are obviously wolf characteristics.
After weaning, the brothers often roasted and chopped the bacon, mixed it in boiling water and boiled it, mixed some minced wild vegetables to feed a few wolf cubs. At the age of two months, it has just grown its fangs, and it is already able to eat independently, and there is no problem with chewing, and the wild wolf should also eat the meat puree that the she-wolf has returned from hunting. There is no shortage of meat, and it's okay to add two mountain eggs to the meat porridge, and there is no one else for this nutrition. The little wolf followed the two brothers around all day long, circling their buttocks. It's really going around the ass, this thing grows fast, it's already the height of their butts. All of them are strong and flexible, and they are full of energy. It is estimated that in a few months in the autumn you will be able to ride away, think about the two brothers riding wolves to the end of the world, I really have some expectations!