Chapter 115: The Panda Who Eats Dirt
"If it's really a giant panda, do you still hunt it?" Su Yang found himself struggling again, this is the conflict between modern and primitive ideas. In modern times, the panda is a national treasure, and there are not many of them in the world, and it has become a kind of culture.
And now the giant panda is just a beast that can be hunted for primitive people, which means danger and meat.
That's it, haven't the descendants already given the answer, wait until it's almost extinct and then find a way to protect it, the main thing is that he has no ability and can't violate the current law of survival.
"Let's see if the panda is aggressive first!"
He ran very fast, like a crazy run, mainly because it was cold, running was more comfortable than standing, and everyone's situation was similar.
The speed is fast, such as Xia Bu, they have already gone to the front, but suddenly Xia Bu turned back again, saying unintelligible syllables, after Xiao Xia's indirect translation, Su Yang finally understood, it was said that he was going to hunt wild boars and go over there, which was really a coincidence.
"Sue, front." Hua Rong smelled the smell, this talent often made Su Yang sigh that it was given to people by mistake, but it is not necessarily a good thing that the sense of smell is too developed, he has a strong memory, and he is already very advantageous, so he does not envy others.
With Huarong biting the smell, there were traces on the snow, and it didn't take long for them to really catch up, and after some distance, Su Yang could also see clearly, the cliff was a giant panda Yes, but the fur was not black and white, but black and light yellow, in addition, he was also chubby, with dark circles, and he walked in the way of eight characters.
Another point is that the pandas he saw were larger, about the same size as adult black bears, and normal pandas were one size smaller. Maybe it's different from the environment in which it lives, and it's not called a giant panda now, but someone from the Shenlong clan said that it was called an earth bear, probably because of the color.
"Don't be impulsive, everyone, wait for now."
There is a bamboo forest in front, which is more in line with the characteristics of giant pandas, but according to common sense, pandas should be omnivores now, no different from the rest of the bear family, how can they eat bamboo. Could it be that giant pandas do not have the habit of hibernation and can't find anything to eat in winter, so they gradually develop an appetite for eating bamboo?
But it's not quite right, there is probably a bamboo forest in front of it, it is a big bamboo, even if the panda has a good appetite, it is difficult to bite it, even if the claws are sharp, they can't be broken.
However, an incredible scene happened, he saw that the panda did not eat bamboo at all, but was picking up the snow, and after the snow was removed, he continued to dig the soil underneath, and from time to time grabbed a piece of soil and sent it to his mouth.
"No, could it be that I'm dazzled, pandas in the primitive period ate soil?" Su Yang rubbed his eyes, he couldn't believe it, this was subverting his understanding, could it be that he was mistaken, this was not a giant panda, but a close relative?
At this moment, Xiao Xia suddenly said: "Wild boar, eat, eat." ”
"Wild boars eat pandas, no." Su Yang was shocked again, what's wrong today, didn't he wake up, or was he frozen, and his head was not clear?
"No, it's not, it's eating, eating this." Xiao Xia scraped the ground with her hands.
This made him suddenly understand that Xiao Xia was saying that wild boars were also digging in the ground, which was normal, but then when he knew that wild boars were also digging at the bottom of the bamboo to eat, he finally reacted, where is this digging soil to eat, but digging winter bamboo shoots.
He actually forgot about this, he can also dig bamboo shoots in winter, but he couldn't determine the specific date before, and now he can judge according to wild boars and giant pandas, any bit of ration in winter is very precious, and bamboo shoots naturally have to be dug up.
"Let's go, go scare those two pandas away."
In the end, he decided to let them go, but if the panda resisted, then only the bayonet would be red, and he took fifty people with him, full of confidence.
"Roar!" Pabu and Xia Bu, the double cloth combination has long been holding back the fire, they can't beat the brown bear before, and the panda in front of them can give it a go. When the savages were besieging the saber-toothed tigers, Xia Bu happened to be out during that time, and he didn't catch up with the good times, and now he urgently needed a battle to determine his position in the tribe.
"Archers, spear-throwers, don't be impulsive." Su Yang was really worried, and directly hit the real fire.
But he immediately realized that he was wrong, they had just rushed out, and the two pandas who were eating soil and were digging bamboo shoots ran away directly, running fast, but visually half slower than the brown bear, but they could also reach a speed of thirty per hour, but if they really wanted to run down, they would definitely be able to catch up gradually.
It's just that he has faded the mind of hunting pandas, and hurriedly told everyone to stop, came to the bamboo forest to check, and sure enough, he saw the bamboo shoot shell, which was yellow, probably because the soil was not broken, and soon he planed out a bamboo shoot, which grew on the bamboo root like a whip, only a dozen centimeters long, round, larger than the radish sold in modern times, and after the shell was peeled off, the bamboo shoot meat inside was still quite large, about a pound of weight.
Wild winter bamboo shoots with more than three catties in the shell are relatively rare, and when they are sold, they are also in the shell, which is more expensive than pork.
This will dig a large bamboo, similar to Nanzhu, the root whip has a thumb thick, relatively hard, the big old root even has an arm thick, can not be used as a whip, if it is replaced by another kind of wild bamboo only the size of the middle finger, its root is about the ring finger thick, very developed, but also relatively soft, as a whip to hit people is very painful.
That kind of wild bamboo will only grow bamboo shoots in March and April, which is considered spring bamboo shoots, and will be found and dug when spring begins.
"Do you see this, the earth bear eats this, the wild boar also eats this, of course we can eat it too, now everyone digs together and digs the soil along this bamboo root." Then he did it himself, instructing everyone how to dig bamboo shoots to prevent primitive people from digging up the bamboo to death, or affecting the growth of the next year.
At the same time, he is ready to select some bamboo for transplantation, of course, not to transplant now, but it is necessary to cut off the roots in advance, that is, to cut off the bamboo whip, the so-called bamboo whip is the stem under the bamboo, all over the bamboo forest, if the bamboo forest grows close to the slope, cliff, the bamboo whip can come out directly, exposed to the air to grow, green and yellow.
There are only two ways to transplant bamboo, one is to intercept the bamboo whip and bury it in other places, and the other is to dig out the bamboo with roots for planting, but the upper end of the bamboo should be cut off to reduce the absorption of nutrients by the bamboo branches. The transplanting season is either in the spring before the bamboo shoots grow or in the fall.
As long as the water in the land is sufficient, or not too dry, the bamboo can be transplanted and survived, at first some relatively small new bamboos will grow, and then the bamboo shoots will grow bigger and bigger, and within a few years they will grow into a bamboo forest.
Bamboo is full of treasures, and Su Yang personally loves bamboo, so he is ready to plant it along the river on a large scale in the spring and autumn of next year, and live the life of a prophet of peach blossoms outside the bamboo and a plumbing duck in the spring river, well, plagiarized the verses of the descendants of the Su family again.
After coming back to his senses, now it's better to figure out how to eat bamboo shoots, he can't wait.