No.174 A white elephant confesses the Lord (plus 1)
After eating, a group of large men leaned to the side, smoking a dry cigarette or picking their teeth comfortably.
As for the matter of cleaning up the pots and pans quickly, it was taken over by Kang Langxiang.
In the chat, Wang Mingyuan also briefly told a few people about the purchase of morels, and after explaining it clearly, they all said that they were capable.
The happiest thing is Zhang Shouli and Zhang Shouyi, they have seen some in the forest in the past few days hunting. Just collected back, the weather is also very good, dry and put it away, you can make a little money first.
As for the things in the sinkhole, we can't let them all go, we should still do what we can, such as cutting down some of the trees that Wang Mingyuan marked and needed to be cut down, and cutting the shrubs and weeds that need to build roads leading to various places.
Moreover, it is too easy for two big men to feed a baby elephant goat's milk and let go of a few goats that do not need to be supervised at all, so that they can find something to do and not be so boring, and it can be regarded as preparing for the development of farm work first.
At this moment, the baby elephant got up from the quagmire and walked towards several people.
A group of people were so frightened that they hurriedly stepped aside, for fear that if it shook off the mud on its body, it would all suffer.
"It's milk again!" Zhang Shouyi's care in the past few days has figured out some of the rules of the baby elephant's routine, and he stood aside and said.
"I'm going to milk the goat!" Zhang Shouli made an excuse, took a bamboo tube from the stone on the side, and quickly flashed people.
Seeing this, Kang Mo greeted him, who knows, as soon as the little elephant saw him, he retreated again and again, his ears opened all of a sudden, controlling his inflexible nose, and he looked very vigilant, and the next second, his head was lowered and he rushed head-on.
Kang Moxiang could only quickly avoid the side.
This is a presence of hundreds of kilograms at birth, growing for a few months, and growing fifteen or sixteen kilograms every month, and now it is more than two hundred kilograms, which is about the same as a cow.
Don't look at the ivory yet, think that it is not enough to be young, after all, where to put the body, it is really going to be hit, and the small body of a human being can't bear it.
Wang Mingyuan once saw a keeper in a video of the elephant herd in the park to put pumpkins as food, and the huge pumpkin on the baby elephant, which is smaller than the white elephant, simply collided with its head on the ground, and immediately broke into several pieces.
As an mahout, Kang Moxiang knows too well what the baby elephant's every move represents, and knows its power even better.
Seeing Kang Moxiang step aside, the little elephant didn't pay attention to him, and continued to walk towards Wang Mingyuan, making a soft chirp similar to a dog's barking, yes, the cry of the baby elephant is not as high-pitched and loud as that of an adult elephant, it is indeed very similar to a dog's barking.
Wang Mingyuan wanted to dodge, but Kang Moxiang shouted at this moment: "Don't hide, it has no intention of attacking you, it is very peaceful, it should want to be close to you." ”
Intimate?
It's covered in mud......
Wang Mingyuan hesitated.
But I heard Kang Moxiang say: "It is difficult for many people to establish an intimate relationship with elephants, and it is very rare to find situations like this, so there are mahouts who use elephant hooks, chains, clubs, etc., to make young elephants succumb...... Elephants are very intelligent, although they are wild and untamable, but there are also particularly spiritual, don't hide, this can be a good opportunity! ”
Is there any such claim?
Wang Mingyuan struggled in his heart, if it was really as Kang Moxiang said, this was indeed an opportunity!
Isn't it just to wipe the mud, what's the big deal, just wash it!
It's a big deal to find that the momentum is not right, and with your own reaction, you should still be able to dodge.
Wang Mingyuan gradually let down his vigilance, and even beckoned to the baby elephant.
The baby elephant ran a few briskly steps, stopped in front of Wang Mingyuan, and clumsily stretched out its long snout towards Wang Mingyuan, constantly curling, trying to catch something.
In just a moment, Wang Mingyuan's pants, the corners of his clothes and the back of his clothes were covered with stinking mud wherever he touched them.
The trunk of an elephant is the place where the muscle composition of the body is most complicated, and it is also the place where it has the most functions.
Don't look at the flexible trunks of many elephants, but it is important to know that baby elephants have to spend a long time training and experience accumulation from birth before they can barely master the use of their noses.
Finally, the baby elephant's trunk passed through Wang Mingyuan's ribs and wrapped around his arm.
At this time, it refused to let go, and began to exert force, trying to pull Wang Mingyuan.
"Follow it......" Kang Moxiang spoke again.
Wang Mingyuan could feel that the baby elephant was indeed not hostile to him, so he moved his steps with the pull of the baby elephant.
But soon, Wang Mingyuan realized that something was wrong, the little elephant retreated into the river, and it continued to retreat, obviously pulling him into the quagmire!
What can I do?
Wang Mingyuan was a little speechless, he used his strength to break free, but found that the baby elephant was getting tighter and tighter, and then he was directly dragged into the kneeless river!
It's cold water!
"I'll go, why don't we go over?" Wang Mingyuan was shocked, and he didn't dare to imagine what he would be made into in the quagmire: "Uncle Kang...... Help me figure it out! ”
"Anyway, it's all in the water, if you touch it and play with it, it may let you go!"
Kang Langxiang giggled from the side.
Wang Mingyuan hurriedly did as he was told, stretched out his hand and pressed directly on the head of the baby elephant, and patted it.
Seeing that the little elephant didn't resist at all, Kang Moxiang's eyes on the side suddenly straightened: "It's really a god!" ”
Wang Mingyuan poured water on the baby elephant and asked, "What's the matter, Uncle Kang?" ”
"You don't know, generally when taming elephants, to test whether the tamed elephant is tamed, usually first grab some rice and sprinkle it on the elephant's head, if the elephant does not show hostility, then dare to touch it with his hands, touch its head if it is still so not resistant, it means taming and admitting the Lord!
I heard Lang Xiang say that you didn't have much contact with this baby elephant, but you just brought people here for treatment, and after only two days of getting along, you just helped it apply some mud, drench it with some water, and feed it goat's milk once......
But if it's because of these, Zhang Shouyi and his brothers have done more, they have been taking care of them for the past few days, it stands to reason that this little elephant wants to recognize the Lord and recognize them.
I asked the two of them before, this little elephant only comes to them when they want to eat, and they keep a distance at other times, and they are not allowed to touch it, so it means that they don't recognize the two of them, why did they suddenly recognize you?
God, God really! ”
Kang Moxiang said, he actually folded his hands and saluted Wang Mingyuan to show respect.
The Dai people believe in Buddhism, which is already a very high etiquette, especially for a junior like Wang Mingyuan.
Wang Mingyuan's hand was still rolled by the baby elephant, so he had to accept it in a daze: "Could it be that after it was injured, the first person to see it was me, I heard that many animals will behave in this regard." ”
"Probably!" Kang Moxiang nodded, and then said solemnly: "But I prefer to believe that this is God's guidance, and in the future, I will listen to you for everything!" ”
Belch......
Wang Mingyuan had nothing to say.
In fact, he was very suspicious in his heart, and it was very likely that it was because he rushed over as soon as he saw the baby elephant fall off the cliff, found a knife, and cut off the very deadly vines around its neck, which is the reason why the baby elephant behaved very close to him.
"In fact, there have been similar rumors about the baby elephant confessing to the Lord in the past, about a little girl who saved a baby elephant that was hunted and cut for ivory and was seriously injured, and since then, the baby elephant has been with the girl until finally the elephant herd returns and blends in.
It was a male elephant, and even if he had regrouped after leaving the herd, he would come to look for her once a year when he passed by the girl's village.
Although it is just a rumor, seeing the current situation, I am afraid it is true! ”
Zhang Shouzhong rolled up a dry cigarette and squatted aside, looked at the person and the elephant in the stream with interest, and said while smoking.
What else can Wang Mingyuan say?
I can only think that I am lucky.
He poured water on the baby elephant one after another, washing the mud on its body, and the baby elephant also thought that Wang Mingyuan was playing with it, acting very cheerful and enjoying, and finally let go of his nose, sucked water and sprayed it on Wang Mingyuan's body.
Wang Mingyuan completely let go of it all of a sudden, he put the watch in the bag, reached out and grabbed the electric baton in his trouser pocket, moved his mind, put it in his personal space, and simply messed around with the baby elephant, until Zhang Shouyi and his brothers came back with a bamboo bucket of goat's milk, and when they saw the scene in front of them, they were also stunned, and shouted: "It's strange!" ”
As if he had smelled the familiar smell of goat's milk, the baby elephant stopped playing, turned his head to look at the two, and let out a cheerful and flattering elephant chirping.
"Glutton!"
Wang Mingyuan smiled: "Two uncles, give me the bamboo tube, I'll feed it!" ”
Zhang Shouyi handed over the bamboo tube first.
The bamboo tube containing goat's milk has been specially processed by two people, the lower half of the cut out of a long oblique mouth, trimmed smooth, drilled a small hole at the bottom of the upper half, blocked with a straw pole, as long as the grass stem is pulled out, the goat milk will be left along the oblique mouth, which is convenient for the baby elephant to suck, and it is also convenient.
Wang Mingyuan immediately pulled out the straw pole and stuffed the oblique mouth into the mouth of the baby elephant.
For this feeding method, the baby elephant has long been familiar with it, and it sucks very cooperatively.
After a while, the baby elephant sucked the milk of the two bamboo tubes clean, and Wang Mingyuan asked, "Do you want to squeeze some more and let it eat at one time?" ”
"It's almost, if it squeezes it again, it won't be able to eat, it's wasted, it's already wandering around the forest, picking up some tender leaves and grass, don't worry about starving!" Zhang Shouli replied.
Wang Mingyuan looked at the little elephant's body, which scars had been scabbed before, and the scabs in the small parts of the wounds had already fallen off, and the recovery was quite good, and it was estimated that it would not take long to be intact.
He left the baby elephant and went to the hot spring, the baby elephant followed slowly, step by step, but he keenly felt that the water temperature was different, and he didn't follow up the hot spring, but he still naughtily inhaled cold water and sprayed at Wang Mingyuan, the nose that was not too controlled was not accurate, it looked more like a mess, but he drenched a lot on the people next to him, and hurriedly avoided it farther away.
Wang Mingyuan immediately laughed when he saw the embarrassed appearance of several people......