Chapter 9 Autumn Fish Fat Frost Falls
Bai Lan nested in the mud cave under the stone for half a month, and the snake's tail could grow a section.
However, it will not be able to shed its skin before the winter of this year.
Because the nutrients in his body are spontaneously replenishing the body tissues of the snake's tail, and the nutrients are insufficient and he cannot grow again.
Now autumn is really here.
Every day when the sun rises early, Bai Lan has to bask in the sun for a long time to warm the body, invigorate the blood and soften the body.
The sky is cloudless, and the migratory birds of geese migrate to warmer places. The grass and trees in the mountains are gradually withering and yellowing, and the fruits in the dense forests in the distance are fragrant, and one or two wild monkeys can be seen jumping happily from time to time.
The aquatic plants on the edge of the pond have withered, and the old willow branches and leaves conform to the laws of nature, and the fine pieces of withered yellow willow leaves have fallen to the ground.
On the edge of such a waterhole, there is a short-tailed white snake that looks very strange.
I saw this white snake holding a withered yellow pampas grass in its mouth, and then climbed for a long time into a stone cave on a cliff, and after a long time, climbed out again, came to the shore of the pond and bit down the withered yellow pampas grass to circulate again.
This white snake is naturally white.
Birds can nest in plants and trees, and ants can build caves and stone nests.
Although snakes don't understand the casting of nests, Bai Lan understands.
He sent the grass back and forth into the cave every day, and built a simple grass nest for himself in the deepest part of the cave, the withered yellow grass is the most dry and warm, and it is very easy to obtain, and it is a good material for casting the nest.
Bai Lan now goes into the water every day to swallow a small fish, and after experiencing spring and summer feng shui breeding, today's fish is the most fat and delicious.
During the month, a lot of animals have migrated to the valley.
Bai Lan found a lot of rats swimming between the roots of the rocky trees, and the taste of these rats was comparable to that of fat fish.
There was also a nest of foxes in the bushes to the east, and the wild boar that had come to drink water also settled in the valley.
In the sky, there are also birds that often wander, and even Bai Lan saw an owl living in the northwest line of the sky.
Most of these animals need to drink water, and the valley is also the only source of water in the peaks within a radius of tens of miles.
Of course, for this endless mountain range, tens of miles are not worth mentioning.
Bai Lan often hides at the water's edge, watching all kinds of creatures either cautiously or fearlessly, and even sneaking to drink water in this waterhole.
Bai Lan couldn't stop those animals from migrating, all he could do was to try to grow, grow thick enough and big enough, and then no matter how many creatures there were in this whole valley, it would be his food.
The nest in the willow tree has not been occupied for a long time, and a new resident has arrived, a crow couple.
Crows are birds that are generally lifelong companions and appear in pairs. Bai Lan didn't want to eat them, because he was too young.
But he thought that after hibernation, the crow would lay its eggs!
Bird eggs are the best tonic for snakes that have just hibernated, replenishing various nutrients in the body, and are extremely delicious.
Bai Lan's lair was ready, and he was going to fill his stomach in the last month of autumn, eating as much as he could.
In autumn, the sun is always very light, and it always takes a long time to feel a trace of warmth, but often at this time, a gust of autumn wind blows through and blows away that warmth.
Bai Lan has been in the water for no more than an hour every day, and his body will stiffen after staying in the water for a long time.
Every time he hunted the fat fish with great speed, he went ashore to rest, and never stayed in the water for long.
After eating for a month, Bai Lan's body length finally exceeded one meter long, and the widest part of his body was that his head was already two and a half fingers wide of an adult.
By this time, it was already cold.
As soon as Bai Lan came out of the mud hole, he felt that his body was cold, his mind was heavy, and his skin and flesh were stiff.
It's time to hibernate!
On a frosty and foggy day, Bai Lan was gone.
He plugged the mud hole under the boulder with a pebble rolled up by his tail, which was his first nest.
The cunning rabbit has three holes, and the snake also has to leave a way back for himself.
Bai Lan raised his head and looked at the crow standing on the branch on the willow tree, and the crow immediately flew up, and the noisy sound of "quack" looked very vigilant.
The piercing crow made Bai Lan's mind dizzy, and he wanted to eat the crow directly.
However, Bai Lan was still sensible, and he crawled straight into the stone cave that had been prepared, and his body was coiled into a ball and nested in the thick and warm pile of cattails.
The cave stretched more than ten meters deep, and the entrance was narrow enough to be the size of an adult's fist, so Bai Lan didn't worry about any birds or foxes getting in and eating him.
The quiet and dim environment in the cave is very reassuring, and the bats in the cave have long been cleaned by Bai Lan.
He nested here in isolation from the world, no longer had to think about hunting, worried about his safety, and his mind was completely relaxed.
Bai Lan recalled that he had been reborn as a snake for more than half a year, from the fear and anxiety of the newborn to the current leisurely and peaceful, he had changed a lot, becoming more and more like a snake.
Thinking of immortality, thinking of becoming a demon, he also stupidly tried to meditate in the moonlight and tried to perceive the legendary aura of heaven and earth, but none of them were found, but he exposed himself at night to increase the danger.
He is like an ordinary snake, who survives his childhood without danger and grows into a snake.
Outside the cave, on the willow tree, the crow sometimes started a rough voice, and one or two unpleasant crow chirps rang out in the silent deep mountains.
The grass and trees covered with hoarfrost are silent, the deep mountains and small pools are shrouded in mist, the foxes huddle in the bushes to keep warm, and the ants under the boulders are silently busy finishing work and returning to their burrows.
On this day, the mountain fog is thick, the frost is hazy, and the early sun shines all over the mountains and is stained with frost.
The frost falls, everything is finished, the beasts return to their nests, and autumn ends.
Bai Lan also entered a state of hibernation and suspended animation in the stone cave.
What the creatures of the outside world are like is none of his business.
In winter, the water vapor in the mountains is heavy, and there is a lot of rain and snow.
A cold air from the far north rushed southward into this endless mountain, and the temperature plummeted by more than ten degrees overnight, and many snakes with good cold tolerance and had not yet hibernated were frozen to death.
The mountains were shrouded in cold clouds and mist, and the cold wind blew countless snow-covered vegetation.
Layers of snow gradually accumulate on the ground in the mountains, and the branches of plants, trees and trees have become ice sculptures, which are beautiful and fragile. The world of ice and snow has descended.
Two white cranes walk in the mountains on the winter snow, the sun rises in the east, the red sun shines so that the white cranes breathe, and the clouds and cranes walk.
In the jungle, a flower-faced tiger stepped on the snow to hunt, it roared and roared in the mountains and forests, the beasts were frightened, many beasts were frightened and ran away, and the tiger began to choose its prey.
In a huge cave, a huge black bear is lying on a stone that resembles a stone bed for hibernation, with layers of animal fur underneath it.
A white rabbit poked out of its hole to find herbivory food to fill its stomach, and a snow-white fox approached silently behind the white rabbit, stepping on the snow with its slender hands and feet.