Chapter 9: Abnormality
Jin Mang looked at the salt that Qingfeng brought back, and unexpectedly, the salt was snow-white and delicate, not coarse salt that had not been extracted as expected.
"Where does the salt come from?" She asked with a wink.
"Of course, the salt is mined from the salt mines." Qingsui didn't want to say anything.
Jin Mang tilted his head to watch Qingfeng pour the snow-white salt from the skin bag into the jar, and asked, "What does the salt mine look like?" ”
- The jar used by Anze humans is not a clay pot, but a jar kneaded from the eggshell left by the old bird, which is more durable and less fragile than the clay pot.
Qingfeng shook his head and shook his head, "I don't know, there are salt tribes who watch the salt mine very closely and won't let us see the salt mine, but ......"
He looked at Qingsui and said ambitiously, "When this split season is over, we can consider seizing that salt mine." ”
Qingsui frowned slightly, "Let's talk about it then, Jin Mang is still so young......"
Hearing this, Qingfeng's expression also became heavy, yes, the salt I got this year is less than in previous years......
After having salt, Qingfeng and Qingsui increased their hunting again. It turned out that their husband and wife hunted about 50 kilograms of prey a day, before Qingsui was alone with Jinmang, but the amount of hunting did not decrease, after Qingfeng came back, the total amount of prey hunted by the two of them every day added up to 100 kilograms, and sometimes it could reach 200 kilograms.
As before, Jin Mang was stuffed with a lot of food every day. In just half a month, she felt that her weight had increased by at least five pounds.
- Although she didn't know how much she weighed now.
Qingfeng and Qingsui looked at Jin Mang very closely, for fear that she would be eaten by the fierce beasts that broke into the territory, but they would not restrict her too much, and she was able to move freely within a certain range of not exceeding a certain range around them.
Jin Mang was uncomfortable with this natural and wild environment at first, but soon enjoyed it.
She gets along very well with the small animals in the territory, and when Qingfeng and Qingsui don't know it, she also tries to eat a lot of foods that are not usually on their diet, such as some nuts or starchy foods.
- Jin Mang has eaten Anze's white potatoes and potatoes, the size is a little different, but the taste is not much different, it may be a pure natural and pollution-free relationship, and it is sweeter.
This is actually a bit outrageous, you must know that in the absence of technological interference, the original varieties of most plants are relatively unsatisfactory. Just like those modern fruits and vegetables, they are all new varieties that have been domesticated and cultivated from generation to generation. The original fruits and vegetables do not taste as good, the yield is not as high, and the sweetness is low.
But the plants on Anze's side are a bit strange...... Jin Mang thought with some uncertainty: it seems that the practicality is better than the modern variety in her impression?
However, although the yield of white potatoes is not low, there are not many survivors when they grow in the wild and there are many towering trees competing for nutrients.
During the winter months, the territory tends to be very quiet, but this year there are some exceptions.
Along the way, Jin Mang had already encountered a python and a hedgehog, and just now he faintly heard the roar of a brown bear in the distance......
Aren't these all hibernating animals?
Such an abnormality reminded Jin Mang of the split season in the mouths of Qingfeng and Qingsui.
What is the splinter season like?
Jin Mang, who was thinking like this, didn't know that the split season was already quietly coming.
When Qingsui wrapped her in two layers of clothes and put a bear skin on the outside, Jin Mang noticed that something was wrong.
This year's weather is just too cold.
In previous years, she wore at most two layers of clothing, and never covered an animal skin outside.
On such a cold day, Jin Mang said that of course she had to stay in a comfortable cave and not go out, but Qingfeng and Qingsui took her out to inspect the territory.
The couple is not very keen on patrolling the territory, and often only marks it once every two or three days, and occasionally outsiders invade, as long as they don't go deep into the center, they don't particularly care. But as the weather gets colder, they go out to patrol their territory almost every day, sometimes once in the morning and once in the evening.
The wind outside was too cold, Jin Mang sat on Qingsui's neck, and the 10,000th time disgusted that her hair was not warm and soft at all, otherwise she could have slept directly on it.
With a yawn, Jin Mang looked up unconsciously, and then couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"Father and Mother!" She shouted.
"Shhhh Qingsui said softly.
Qing Feng's eyes looked at the melee in front of him for a moment, his body tense and in a state of readiness, but his voice was inaudible: "When they are finished, we will go and pick up the bargain." ”
Well?!
Jin Mang's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but glance at the brown bear fighting with the wolves, and then at Qingfeng, who didn't look like he was joking at all.
No way?
As far as she knows, her parents don't take the initiative to provoke predators, and they rarely put each other into their recipes.
Not only is it a matter of risk, but there is also a very important reason - the meat of predators is more difficult to chew and requires more teeth than hoofed animals.
The top predators on land will consciously protect their teeth, after all, they are not killer whales, and they can gnaw old when their teeth are rotten, and the beasts don't know what filial piety is and what is a mother's treasure.
But what does it mean to look at Qingfeng...... He was going to eat the meat of these wolves and brown bears?
Jin Mang couldn't help frowning.
Moreover, if I remember correctly, the place where the wolves and brown bears fought was not in their family's territory, and Qingfeng was planning to invade someone else's territory?
If you encounter a domineering lord beast, you will see this behavior as a provocation, and there is a high probability that there will be a conflict between the two sides.
Usual...... Qingfeng will try to avoid this as much as possible.
Because they were downwind, neither the wolves nor the brown bears noticed their arrival, and when the only two or three gray wolves fled and the injured brown bears began to eat, Qingfeng pounced, pressed the brown bear down from the back in one fell swoop, and then smashed it down with a heavy punch, so that the other party gradually lost his breath without resistance.
Jin Mang couldn't help but hold her breath when she saw it, and she didn't come back to her senses until Qingfeng and Qingsui dragged their prey to her.
"Mangmang, you can only walk back by yourself, okay?" Qingfeng and Qingsui were full of prey on their shoulders and hands, and they couldn't spare their hands to hold Jin Mang, and their expressions were a little worried.
You must know that their family's territory is not ordinarily large, not to mention more than 500 square kilometers, and it is not a small challenge for Jin Mang, who is only two years old, to go from the edge to the center.
But Qing Feng and Qing Sui couldn't care about these at this time, they had to bring their prey back quickly, otherwise whether it was the smell of blood or the smell of cubs, it would attract strong enemies.