Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 418: Druids also have the skill to deliver children?
Is there really a wolf, or is it just "the boy who cried wolf"?
The commotion over there was quite serious. Suonan hesitated for a moment and decided to go over and take a look.

Chen Ying and Dao Meihua also followed, but as they were outsiders, they did not dare to get too close and stopped after about seven or eight meters.

"Brother Ying, are there really wolves there, or are they just making up an excuse?"

Chen Ying squinted and looked into the distance, then looked at the flock of sheep that the family had penned together.

“Probably both.”

Chen Ying raised her hand and pointed at the flock of sheep. "Look carefully. The sheep are not grazing leisurely. Some young rams are alert. And his two dogs have been watching the fence in front. This shows that some animals have come to steal the sheep in the middle of the night."

However, it is still unclear whether so many sheep were eaten, or whether they were eaten by wolves.

Other herders have used surveillance methods, but this family is either unable to afford it or just doesn't know how to do it. Chen Ying didn't see any cameras or the like on their ranch.

Two boys riding ponies nearby chased after them and stopped beside Chen Ying.

"Uncle, what are you looking at?"

Chen Ying tilted her head and smiled, "Auntie is asking me why they don't have any cameras installed at home."

"I know." The younger child raised his hand to answer, "The youngest son in his family is lazy and often steals things to sell. In the past, the village thought that their family was not well off, so when they installed surveillance cameras, the village classified them as a five-guarantee family and installed them for free. But then his youngest son took the cameras and exchanged them for money, saying that they were not helping his family at all, but were just spying on them."

Chen Ying and Dao Meihua looked at each other helplessly.

There are such people, and there are quite a few of them.

The poverty alleviation policy is good, but people are too greedy and wish the country would take care of it for them.

When the villagers found out, they criticized them by name and then ignored them.

"I think they installed the iron spikes on purpose to force the villagers to pay them to buy sheep."

"Mao Cuo, shut up and stop talking nonsense." The older boy stopped the younger boy, "Don't make up stories about other people's families. Those problems are handled by the elders."

Chen Ying gave the older boy a thumbs up, "Right, listen to your brother."

They didn't go over to join in the fun, but they didn't really have nothing to do either.

Chen Ying had a mysterious feeling in his heart. He thought that the guy who ate the sheep might not have left.

"I'll go bring Xiao Jin over. You guys wait here for me."

Chen Ying returned to the car and opened the trunk door.

Xiao Jin was sleeping in a ball on the foot mat in the back seat. When he heard the door open, he looked up, opened his mouth, yawned, and stretched.

"Xiao Jin, come here and help me. I'll treat you to meat after this. As much as you want."

Xiao Jin rolled his eyes, stood up, shook his skin, and jumped out of the car.

A child wanted to get closer, but Chen Ying smiled and refused, "This is a wild animal, not a house cat. Please stop the child."

Suonan's wife came out, and Chen Ying held Xiao Jin's back and was putting a camera on it.

"Sister-in-law, please buy me five pounds of beef or mutton. I'll ask Xiao Jin to help me find something, and I'll pay him later."

"Okay, his second brother's family is slaughtering a sheep today, I'll ask him to leave some for you."

Patting Xiao Jin's butt, Chen Ying mounted the horse and led the way, and Xiao Jin followed like a golden-red lightning.

The children nearby were jealous and followed with their ponies.

Although Xiao Jin is an arboreal animal, he can run quite fast, but unfortunately his endurance is not good enough.

Chen Ying laughed twice, stopped and carried Xiao Jin onto the horse.

The horse was a little scared, but Chen Ying's breath soothed it. After calling out twice, the horse finally suppressed its fear and ran.

Fortunately, the distance was not far. After stopping, Chen Ying immediately dismounted and put Xiao Jin on the ground. The horse walked a few steps to the side anxiously, avoiding the area where Xiao Jin was standing.

"I was careless. I forgot that Xiao Jin is still a deterrent to herbivores."

Although it is impossible for golden cats to prey on horses, the natural oppression between herbivores and carnivores means that only animals of huge size can suppress the other.

Instead of riding over there again, Chen Ying took Xiao Jin to the place where the dead gazelle was hung and let it sniff whether there was any scent of other animals.

Cats have a very good sense of smell, but they are not as obedient as dogs.

But Xiao Jin is different, because Chen Ying has the cat in his hand.

It walked carefully along the iron net for a few meters, sniffed, and seemed to have discovered something.

He lowered his head and searched carefully all the way, but the direction was not where the family's livestock were.

Chen Ying followed behind Xiao Jin, and on the screen of her mobile phone was a picture of it trying hard to sniff the grass.

Suonan was standing outside the crowd. When he turned around, he saw Chen Ying was followed by a group of half-grown children and a not-so-"normal" cat.

The cat made an S-shaped turn on the grassland, bypassed a nearby yurt, and entered a red brick house not far away that was built more than 20 years ago.

That was the old distribution room, divided into two rooms. The left side housed the distribution box and some electrical equipment, while the right side had more than a dozen square meters of replaced consumables.

Consumables are basically cleaned once every half year, and the next cleaning time should be after National Day.

The doors of both rooms were locked and only the electrical maintenance team had the keys.

But the ventilation windows of this old-style house are not wooden glass ones, but red brick hollow walls that extend one-third of the height from the roof down.

(It is ventilated and breathable, and can keep out rain, and people can't get in.)
After all, it has been a long time, and one or two red bricks were broken, but they were not repaired. Only two cameras were installed in the corners of the house on both sides.

Generally speaking, no one will look at what this camera is recording unless something is missing or the equipment is damaged.

Chen Ying raised his chin and asked the young boys around him.

"Is there anything else in here?"

"They cleaned it up last time, but they left two big cement cylinders, which were left over from the previous pipeline laying. I heard from my dad that the cement cylinders were too heavy and it was not cost-effective to transport them back, so they were left here so that they can be replaced directly if needed in the future."

Chen Ying nodded and asked who had the key to the room.

"We don't have it, only the electrical engineering team has it. Oh, by the way, they seemed to have been here today, but they went to the next door to check the circuit and didn't go into the utility room. Uncle, do you want to come in? I have the engineering team's phone number at home."

This kid is so smart!

The kid rode back to call his father, while Suonan followed and asked what happened.

"I suspect there is something in here, which may be the culprit that killed the sheep." Chen Ying explained while asking the children to move away.

If it was really as he guessed, he would be guilty of a great crime if the other party became desperate and hurt the children.

"Sonam, find someone to help set up the net here, and after the door is opened, follow my instructions."

The construction team arrived quickly. Although they didn't quite understand what was going on, they still opened the door with the guarantee of the village chief who came with them.

Chen Ying didn't let anyone else in. He picked up the medical kit, fully equipped, and slipped in.

Xiao Jin was faster than him and squeezed in as soon as the door was opened a crack.

Chen Ying saw Xiao Jin standing at the mouth of the cement cylinder, looking inside vigilantly.

Chen Ying didn't rush over. He picked up his mobile phone and observed through the camera on Xiao Jin's chest. Sure enough, there was a pair of eyes inside the cement cylinder staring at the outside.

The cement cylinder was less than one meter in diameter and nearly four meters long, with one end against the wall and the other less than one meter away from the wall. Therefore, the light was not very good, and we could only see that there was an animal inside, but we couldn't see clearly what it was.

After listening to the sound carefully, Chen Ying had some guesses in his mind.

He approached the cement pipe cautiously and turned on the flashlight on his cell phone to take a look.

Hiss, it was just as he guessed.

He stepped back to the door and opened it a crack.

"Suonan, help me put two kilograms of meat in a basin. It must be fresh. Dao, please go to the box in the car and mix the animal milk powder with a bottle of milk, no, two bottles."

Chen Ying thought back to what he had just seen, there should be at least two cubs.

Dao Meihua didn't ask anything and just turned around and ran. Suonan's nephew ran after her, helped her get on the horse and ran towards the car with her.

The owner of the tent next door readily brought the meat from his house.

A group of people gathered outside, but they were very conscious not to make any noise, and even stopped two or three meters away from the house.

It was unknown what Xiao Jin said to the other party. About five minutes after Chen Ying put the basin of meat in the pipe, the lynx mother, who was so thin after giving birth that it made people feel distressed, stuck her head out of the pipe. She stared at Chen Ying for at least three minutes before coming out, smelling the meat in the basin, and then starting to swallow it in big gulps.

Chen Ying took the opportunity to take some photos and sent them to Suonan who was waiting outside.

After receiving the photo, Suonan quickly found the village chief and the team leader of the engineering team and said, "Look, there is a lynx giving birth inside. It is not in a very good condition. It is probably hungry."

The specific situation can only be known after Chen Ying's inspection.

When the simple herdsmen learned that the big cat was weak due to giving birth and could not find food, they turned around and brought fresh meat from home without saying a word.

Two or three pounds, five or six pounds, in a short while, two large milk buckets were filled.

Chen Ying came out again and put another two kilograms of food in. Generally, an adult lynx can eat four or five kilograms of meat with bones in a day and night. This mother lynx probably hadn't eaten for two days, and her stomach was flat.

Without disturbing Lynx's meal, Chen Ying slipped out and called Qingye first, asking them to send someone to take a look and do a registration.

This lynx is in good condition except for being hungry. It does not meet the conditions for shelter. It is likely to be entrusted to local herdsmen for care, and its cubs will be released on the spot after they can move around.

Qingye will bear the food expenses required during this period.

After confirming the basic situation, Chen Ying came over to explain to Suonan and the others, and asked for their opinions on whether Qingye should send people to be stationed here, or whether they should take on the care and Qingye should bear the expenses.

"We'll be fine. Once the experts come and see them, and confirm that they don't need to be taken away, my brother and I will take care of them."

Suonan agreed without hesitation.

"You don't have to come alone, Suonan. Our village committee will take care of this." The village chief looked at the team leader of the engineering team and said, "Team leader, don't lock the door for now. There's nothing inside. No one can steal the big cement pipe, right?"

There is no problem for the engineering team, as long as the distribution room is not opened, if they need to store items in the utility room, they can temporarily store them in the distribution room.

Chen Ying took the two bottles from Dao Meihua and went back into the house.

The well-fed lynx mother was much less wary of Chen Ying. After licking the bottle mouth, her eyes lit up and she wanted to continue, but was patted on the head by Chen Ying.

"Go and get your kid out quickly. Look at your stomach, it's so empty. Your kid must be starving."

The lynx mother hesitated for half a minute, then obediently took the cubs out. As expected, she was not mistaken, there were only two.

As thin as a mouse.

Chen Ying frowned. This might be a new mother. She didn't choose the right place to produce the worm. There was no food to hunt around. Could it be that it thought it could just prey on livestock?
I guess it just barged in, and after the birth, it found that every herdsman was keeping a close eye on their livestock, and there were dog guards on patrol, so it couldn't find a chance to attack even if it wanted to.

Chen Ying put the two bottles close to the cubs' mouths. The extremely hungry cubs bit them tightly and ate in big mouthfuls. Chen Ying was afraid that they would choke if they ate too fast.

Fortunately, after drinking the first two sips of milk, these two cats mastered the technique and sucked the bottle obediently, which was so adorable.

"How many sheep did you kill?" Chen Ying asked the lynx mother while feeding her cubs.

"One, and it was snatched away before I could finish eating it."

"Robbed? Who robbed it?"

"Those damn guys, relying on their large numbers to bully me. When my cub grows up, I will bite them to death."

Chen Ying thought about it and guessed that it might be a wolf.

The diets of wolves and lynxes overlap to a high degree. If the lynx is not pregnant, the wolves may not attack it.

But looking at the lynx's miserable appearance, it was probably because it was about to give birth but was targeted by a pack of wolves, so it rushed into the pasture in a panic.

The specific situation is unclear, and the village may need to assist in investigating the surrounding situation. If there really is a wolf pack, we must strengthen vigilance, and the best way to deal with it is to drive away the wolves in advance.

Chen Ying thought about it, called Suonan and the village chief to the door, pointed at the vigilant lynx mother in the house, and told them her guess.

"A wolf pack? It's possible. We saw one last year. This year, it appeared before autumn. Maybe the wolf pack in the nearby grasslands has grown a lot."

Suonan also nodded. "Since the grazing land was returned to grassland, the number of Przewalski's gazelles has increased a lot. There are also more wild rabbits and rodents nearby. I guess it has attracted a lot of foxes, wolves and the like."

Foxes are a little better, but wolves are a very worrying creature. Not only are we worried about livestock, but also about human safety.

Children of herdsmen love to run on the grassland. What if they accidentally run too far and encounter a pack of wolves?
Besides, wild animals are afraid of people, but if they encounter a mad wolf, you can’t reason with it.

The village chief hurriedly went to arrange the patrol, and temporarily handed it over to Suonan to be in charge for two days. After the Qingye expert came, they would decide on shifts or assign someone to take care of it.

The two little cubs were finally able to eat their fill.

The mother lynx gently cleaned their bodies, then took them back and hid them. She then lay at the mouth of the pipe, looking at Chen Ying silently.

Chen Ying took the opportunity to touch it.

There are some scars on my body, but they are not serious. They would have healed if I had come two days later.

The biggest problem is food. Now someone just needs to feed them. I estimate that in two or three months they will all move away.

I didn't expect that an idea of ​​eating for free would lead to such a big thing.

Although the fact that the lynx mother was raising her cubs certainly could not be hidden for too long, without him, it was unlikely that the two sides would be able to communicate peacefully.

Moreover, the mother lynx is extremely hungry and will definitely attack the livestock, which is likely to cause dissatisfaction among the herders.

But now things are good, the wolves have to take the blame. The lynx mother who gave birth to cubs under the siege of wolves is so beautiful, strong and pitiful. Now even the food problem is solved, a happy lynx life!
At noon, I had lunch and drank some wine at Suonan's house. In the afternoon, I waited for Qingye's people to come and check on them. They confirmed that the mother lynx and her cubs were in good condition and that they only needed to be fed regularly afterwards.

"Bone-in meat, lamb, beef, or rabbit meat is fine. If it's rat meat, you need to peel the skin and remove the internal organs before feeding it."

There are so many pikas on the grassland that they are almost overrun. Before, we couldn’t eat the pikas ourselves, so we had to collect them together. Now the children have something to do, they can be responsible for catching them, and the adults will collect them and feed them to the lynxes.

When Chen Ying was chatting with the lynx mother in the afternoon, she heard it say that two litters of foxes had given birth to cubs nearby, and they came here for the abundant rabbits and rodents.

It originally wanted to come here and force its way into an underground cave to give birth to its cubs, but it accidentally provoked a pack of wolves.

"Those guys have no shame at all. Seeing that I am about to give birth, they want to force me to give birth on the grassland, and then kill me and my cub together. Humph, I will not let them have their wish."

The lynx mother would rather break into human territory, even if it means dying at the hands of two-legged beasts, than use her own body and her children's bodies to fill the stomachs of those damn creatures.

After comforting the emotional mother, Chen Ying said goodbye to it.

"I don't live here. My home is far away from here, on the other side of the snow-capped mountains."

The lynx mother sighed regretfully. She thought she could find a long-term job for herself, but forget it. It is better to rely on herself than to rely on others.

The lynx mother did not show the slightest sadness about Chen Ying's departure. For her, every time the flowers bloomed and the snow fell, there were friends who met and left. As for separation, the lynx mother was already used to it.

At night, Dao Meihua drove directly to Heyuan Center.

There was a guesthouse at the center, where they would spend the night and go to the rest stop when daybreak came.

The next day, Chen Ying woke up and saw that it was already half past seven.

He also had to pick up supplies at the rest stop, and there were also some small reagents, medicines, and medical equipment that he needed to pick up in person.

It was almost twelve o'clock when they finished their work. After a quick lunch, the two of them rushed to the rest stop with their full loads of supplies.

The road outside the rest stop has been tidied up a little, probably because a road roller came by and cleaned up the potholes. Although it is not paved with asphalt, it is much better than the previous dirt road which was full of potholes and worse than a country road.

Driving all the way to the rest stop, Chen Ying almost threw Xiao Jin out due to an emergency brake. The dog howled in anger and scratched the back of the seat cushion with one claw.

“Why did you build two more houses?”

The original rest stop consisted of a row of bungalows and two pens that were built later.

But now, in less than a month, two rows of concave-shaped prefabricated houses have appeared on the opposite side. Behind the prefabricated houses is a small solar power station.

“In fact, I think solar energy is not as good as wind energy here.”

Dao Meihua got out of the car, looked around, pointed to the side close to the national highway, and said that there was a wind power plant there, and the amount of electricity should be considerable.

The plateau has abundant sunshine and wind resources, and these two are currently the mainstream clean energy sources. The only limitation is their instability, so matching energy storage equipment is needed.

The cost of photovoltaic power generation is not high, and the rest station and its several partner units can raise funds and bear the cost independently.

However, the capital required to build a wind turbine is at least seven or eight million yuan, not including the energy storage system and related equipment.

This is not a project that can be played by private individuals.

Chen Ying just listened and didn't respond.

"Come on, I'll take you over there to have a look."

Dao Meihua will definitely stay here for a few days before leaving. Chen Ying looked at the old house on the left, then at the brand new prefabricated house on the right, turned the steering wheel, and went over to take a look first.

The noise he made when he drove over was so loud that people from both houses came out to check.

"Brother Ying, Brother Ying is back."

Sun Qihai saw Chen Ying and ran over to hug him.

"What's wrong? Why are your eyes like this?"

After Chen Ying greeted him, she looked at him over his shoulder and frowned.

"Did you not sleep for a long time or what?"

"No, I just stayed up all night last night." Sun Qihai rubbed his eyes, which were a little dry and painful. "Yesterday, a group of Tibetan wild donkeys suddenly gave birth in the swamp. I and a few classmates watched over them all night and didn't come back until around six this morning. There are still a group of people guarding over there now."

"Why did the Tibetan wild donkey suddenly come here and give birth?"

"Not only Tibetan wild donkeys, but also Tibetan antelopes and wild yaks. It's like seeing a ghost. There has never been a record of Tibetan antelopes giving birth here. Tibetan wild donkeys are possible. The most surprising thing is that more than a dozen wild yaks also gave birth here. You don't know that people from our provincial animal husbandry and veterinary bureau have come."

Sun Qihai quietly pulled Chen Ying and said, "The house on the left is sponsored by the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau. They said they are going to do research on wild yaks and so on here."

Chen Ying narrowed her eyes slightly, feeling it was ridiculous.

Dao Meihua next to him also looked at him thoughtfully.

(End of this chapter)