Chapter 178: Goodbye Red Ear
"This red ear doesn't come out on its own, how can we find it?" I looked at such a large red pine forest, and I felt a little at a loss where to start.
"If you can't find it, just shout, it's so human, if it hears someone shouting it nearby, it will definitely come out." Jiang Zhi doesn't think this is a problem.
I looked at him dissatisfiedly and said, "Why didn't you say it earlier, we started shouting when we entered the red pine forest yesterday, what a pity if we missed it." ”
Jiang Zhi looked at my puffed nose and said with a smile: "Daughter-in-law, don't worry, as long as the squirrels in this forest are not dead, it will be the same wherever you shout." There must be a little squirrel to report back to you. ”
Think about it, Jiang Zhi is right, the red ears have a lot of eyeliner, and the last time we entered the red pine forest, it is estimated that a squirrel sent a letter to it, and it came out to drive us away.
"Then I'll try it now?" I'm still a little unsure, isn't it silly that I just shouted in this uninhabited place.
Jiang Zhi looked at me encouragingly and nodded at me.
I put my hands to my mouth in the shape of a trumpet, and then I took a breath and shouted, "Where are you, Redear, your old friend has come to see you." ”
The only thing that answered me was the snow from the canopy that was shaken down by my voice, fluttering down. I comforted myself by saying that it was thanks to being in the woods, and if it was on the snowy mountains, it would be an avalanche if I didn't get my throat right.
I didn't react, and the squirrel didn't come out, so I shouted a few more times, but I still didn't see the small animal I wanted to see. turned around and complained to Jiang Zhi: "What kind of bad idea are you, it's not easy to use." ”
Jiang Zhi said to me funny: "You don't want to think about it. The last time we came, the red ears appeared a few hours later, and this time it was so cold. I guess there are no squirrels standing guard, you shout now, you can't give the squirrels some time to send the message, and you have to give the red ears some time to come over. ”
Actually, I didn't believe it in my heart, and I felt that Jiang Zhi was fooling me, but I had no other way, so I had to do it first. "Alright, let's just wait here."
I looked around me and felt that it would be a waste of time to wait. Although the red ear is very possessive of the things in the red pine forest, as long as it doesn't come, I collect it a little, and it shouldn't be too careful.
"It's a waste for us to wait. Why don't we put away all the messy pine branches around here. It's also a good place to rest. "I gave myself reasons.
"Okay, listen to my daughter-in-law." Jiang Zhi doesn't care whether the reason I'm looking for is true or not, far-fetched or not, as long as it's what my daughter-in-law said, then do it.
Then we went to pull the pine branches from the snow, and the pine branches that fell from the canopy were all broken at the roots, and they were so big and long that I couldn't pull them up. Looking at it again, Jiang Zhi was a little slow to collect alone. If the red ears came after a while, it would be a waste of this opportunity. So I used a great force charm on myself, turned myself into a female version of Popeye, and joined the ranks of collecting rags again.
When you have something to do, you don't feel like time flies. When we finished picking up the pine branches in the surrounding hundreds of meters, I looked at it, and more than an hour had passed, and there was still no movement around us except for the sound we made.
It looks like we'll have to wait, so what's next? I'm thinking about it.
Do you want to go farther away to harvest pine branches? Still is......
Just when I was struggling, Jiang Zhi reminded me, "It's 3 o'clock in the afternoon now, and it will be dark in a while, why don't we experience a picnic?" ”
It's okay for me to think about it, but I have never experienced the fun of setting up a fire to barbecue in a snowy mountain forest since I was a child. When you get there, you can give it a try.
That's it, and then I will ask Jiang Zhi to clear a clearing in the forest, since you want to barbecue, it must be close to the ground, and it is impossible to bake on the snow.
Jiang Zhi is a good comrade, take out the shovel, in the place I chose, began to clear the snow, he has great strength, and will work, after a while, I will see the ground, (you must know that the snow in the pine forest is nearly a meter thick, we Jiang Zhi usually suspend on the snow), really as I thought, the jagged grass has yellowed and withered under the snow, it is estimated that when the snow melts, they will also rot, as fertilizer to nourish the roots to grow again.
Jiang Zhi dug a circle with a diameter of 2 meters there, and we planned to barbecue in this circle. When digging in the middle, Jiang Zhi also dug up the corpse of a squirrel, one of which was starved to death, the little squirrel was skinny, and its fur was incomplete, and it looked very miserable.
Jiang Zhi found a place with thick snow, dug a small pit and buried it. Such a squirrel is really worthless, there is no half of the meat on the body, and the fur can no longer be used, so it can only be buried and disposed of.
I took out the tools for the wild barbecue from the ring, set up a shelf, and we were going to roast the leg of lamb to eat, this is handled in the ring, just take it out and put it on.
Jiang Zhi lit a fire at the bottom of the shelf with the dry wood in the ring, and then I also took out a small pot and prepared to cook a haggis soup.
The fire was relatively strong, and it took more than half an hour for the mutton soup to be cooked, and the surface of the lamb leg was also cooked, Jiang Zhi flattened the golden and crispy layer of roasting on the surface with a knife, and took out a few big steamed buns that had just come out of the pot as the staple food, and we ate them in the snow.
This meal is a special taste.
After eating and drinking, there was finally movement in the trees outside, and after a sound of brushing, Red Ear reappeared in our field of vision, this time it came alone, without any men.
I looked at the red ears that were plump compared to the summer, and greeted them with a smile, "Hey, red ears, long time no see, you're a little slow, we've all finished eating, do you want to make do with something." "I was polite, after all, they were coming just in time for us to eat.
Red-Ear stood on the trunk of the tree, and after listening to my words, he really thought about it, and got down from the trunk, and squatted down by the fire, as if he had agreed to my proposal, and was waiting to eat.
I'm a little embarrassed, looking at the leg of mutton on the shelf, the mutton soup in the pot, and the steamed bun in my hand, which one can this squirrel eat?
I know that squirrels feed on nuts, but when food is scarce, they also eat insects, mushrooms, and other omnivorous food. Is this roasted lamb the same as bugs?
I carefully took out a small dish and handed it to Jiang Zhi, Jiang Zhi willingly flattened a piece of mutton and put it in, I put the small dish in front of Red Ear, signaling that this was for it to eat.
Red Ear circled around the plate, sniffing and sniffing at the meat, and finally baring his teeth and gesturing at me.
"Oh, the freshly roasted meat is hot, okay, okay, I'll blow it for you." I understood its dissatisfaction, and it was also very aggrieved, it was so hard to invite the squirrel to eat, and I had to be responsible for blowing the cold when the meat was scald.
"Okay, it's not hot, you can taste it." I put the cold meat in front of it again, and then said, "Actually, just in this weather, it will be cold after a while, and your mouth is quite anxious." ”
Red Ear's answer to me was a bared of teeth, "Okay, okay, okay, you can eat, I won't bother." ”
After that, I put a little mutton soup for Red Ear, broke a small piece of steamed bread and put it on a plate.
Watching the red ears relishing the food on the plate, I knew that it was not doing well this winter.
When it's done eating and adding its little paws, it's free to talk to us.
I guess it didn't expect us to come to see it now, and the hostility towards us has decreased a lot. It also used its unique way to explain to us the reason why it is so down.
Originally, they stored a lot of food in the autumn because of the weather last winter, (no wonder, in the summer, I didn't let me pick some mushrooms, it turned out to be used for the winter.) But because of the habit of squirrels, they have a habit of burying things in the ground and digging them out to eat when there is no food in the winter. Who knows that this year's snow is bigger than last year, and the snow is thicker than last year, and many squirrels want to dig up some reserve food after eating all the food stored in their nests, but their small bodies can't dig the ground, so many squirrels are starving to death. Some of the frail squirrels were frozen to death by the cold weather.
Red Ear is the leader of this pine forest, but no matter how great his ability is, he can't remove all the snow in the pine forest, so he can only watch his companions die in such a large number.
Jiang Zhi and I took a look at each other, and we both knew what we were going to do with so many pine nuts in the fall, just for these little guys.
Red Ear is the first spirit beast in the cultivation realm that we found in this world, and Jiang Zhi and I attach great importance to it, and we don't want it to be so fragrant and soul-saving.
"That red ear, we have some pine nuts here, do you want it?" As I spoke, I took out a bag of pine nuts from the ring and opened the bag for Redears to see.
After the red-eared guy was full, he regained his arrogant virtue, and the big eyes looked at the pine nuts, and there was no specific expression.
"Red-eared, you have to always remember your identity, you are the head of these little squirrels, you have the responsibility to take care of them, now that we are such friendly and kind humans to help you survive the cold and hungry winter, how can you still be so indifferent, even if you yourself are not rare, you also have to think about your subordinates, but also for your daughter-in-law and children,......"
Red Ear listened, and suddenly shook his head and called Jiang Zhi a few times.
Jiang Zhi said helplessly: "Although she is my daughter-in-law, but I can't help it, I think you still agreed, or she can ink you overnight, you must know that the teacher is a natural political worker, as long as she thinks it is right, she will ink with you over and over again, until you also agree with her point of view, I remind you as a person who has come over, it is better to surrender as soon as possible, don't do useless struggles." (To be continued......)