Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 480 Huihui protects his cubs, and Guigui prepares for winter

Huihui has been very annoyed these past two days and he even wants to run away from home.

The big golden cat that can make a strong sound always comes to squeeze it, and its comfortable nest is occupied by the other cat.

Huihui lay on the branch and sulked for a while, then he heard the golden cat's buzzing sound again.

It held its head with its two paws in annoyance, thought for a while, and decided to leave home for a while.

That macho guy always sticks to Jin Ya’s mother. Huihui doesn’t want to meet him, so he runs to Uncle Leopard to leave a message, then sprints into the woods.

Xiao Jin watched Huihui leave silently on the platform, then looked at Fat Jin who still treated him like a baby, let out a breath in annoyance, lay down on his side, rolled twice, hugged his tail, closed his eyes and went to sleep.

Fat Jin had been making trouble at the first aid station for several days and finally pissed off Jin Ya. After chasing Fat Jin and beating him up early in the morning, Fat Jin finally returned to normal and stopped crying.

"You decided to stay?"

"Yes, Dad. I've been to many places, but this place is still the best. I've already picked out a territory. There's only one female cat with cubs in that area. The previous male cat is old and is definitely no match for me. If it knows what's good for you, I won't chase it away, but it can't snatch things from me, or I'll bite it to death."

Fat Jin showed his four sharp teeth, and his smile was very villainous.

"Dad and Mom Jinya can hunt in my territory, and I can protect you."

Xiao Jin raised his paw and slapped it on the head, "I'm not old enough for you to support me."

Xiao Jin is just in his prime. Fat Jin is the first cub he and Jin Ya rescued when they were adults. To be precise, Fat Jin can call them brothers and sisters.

Fat Jin stretched hard and prepared to leave to patrol his territory.

"I will take care of that little hairy guy. Don't worry, Dad. I'm very capable."

Xiao Jin nodded, held Fat Jin's head and licked it perfunctorily.

"Go ahead, come back if you need help."

Fat Jin made a "hmm" sound and soon disappeared, shaking his little fat body.

Huihui has been in the wild these days, settling down not far from the litter of golden kittens. It likes to hunt slightly larger prey, and one meal can last for two or three days.

The uneaten meat was thrown into the forest between its temporary nest and the nest of golden cats. Perhaps because of its scent, the meat was stained with its scent, so other carnivores, except for the golden cat with its cubs, only licked it a few times and did not dare to eat more.

When it was lost for the first time, the golden cat mother didn’t dare to eat it. Later, when she found out that it was Huihui who did it, she became less polite.

In the past two days, it has been mainly taking the cubs to practice hunting, going out early and returning late every day, but the food caught is not enough to feed all five cats, so Huihui's "feeding" solved a large part of its problem.

In their spare time after eating and drinking, the mother golden cat will find a comfortable place to lie down and take a nap. The four kittens are not small in size, so they flutter on the grass in the forest and bite each other as a training for hunting.

After the heavy snow some time ago, it was sunny for several days in a row.

The snow in the forest melted and the ground was a little wet and cold.

Cats don't like wet environments. The place where the kittens were playing was on a creeping branch. After playing for a long time, the creeping branch broke, revealing several small pits with faint water sheen.

A takin passed by and paid no attention to the kittens playing around.

These little guys can't even break the skin of the thick-skinned and tough takin, so what's there to be wary of?
As for the lynx Huihui, the takin quickly trotted away after noticing its presence.

The four kittens huddled together and watched the takin fly away. After a moment's silence, they prepared to go back to sleep.

At this moment, a silly mountain rat flashed by nearby.

The kittens can't do anything to the big takin, but they are not so bad that even mountain mice can provoke them.

The four of them didn't need to make any sound, and they coordinated instantly to block the mountain rat's escape route in all directions.

The mountain rat was anxious to dig a hole to hide, but before it could do anything, a huge monster fell from the sky and bit off its neck.

The sudden change made the four kittens scream. The two that reacted the fastest crawled to find their mother, while the other two arched their backs, their fur exploded, and they used the "Cat Fury" skill towards the intruders.

Fat Jin held a fat mountain rat in his mouth and glanced at the two kittens.

It was very playful and on a whim wanted to scare the two little guys who dared to show their teeth and claws at it.

However, before the mother golden cat could come to rescue her cubs, Huihui arrived first and charged directly, knocking Fat Golden Cat more than a meter away, and even the mountain mouse flew away.

Huihui stood in front of the two kittens, opened his mouth towards Fatty Jin, and showed his sharp teeth.

Fat Jin was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses, jumped up and started cursing.

"Meow, I'm just joking. Why are you so fierce? I'm your brother. If you dare to yell at me, I'll tell mom about you later."

Huihui looked at it with an expression of disbelief.

It has seen many naughty brothers. The cubs of Aunt Erniu's family are already naughty enough, but this is the first time it has seen someone as shameless as Pangjin, and it doesn't know how to deal with it.

At this time, the mother golden cat had already arrived at the scene. Without saying a word, she gave her answer directly to Fat Jin.

A few big guys slapped him, and Fatty Jin yelled and said he would fight back if you did it again.

The mother golden cat had almost calmed down, but after hearing what it said, she became even more furious. It was no longer something that Dabidou could handle, so she had to use both her claws and teeth to make it suffer severely.

Huihui protected four kittens and watched a big show.

After the mother cat calmed down, she took her four cubs back to the cave to sleep.

Huihui didn't care whether Fat Jin was injured or not, he turned around and ran home.
It has to talk to its mother first and can't let this bad guy confuse right and wrong.

There were several thin claw marks on Fat Jin's body. Although they were not fatal, they were very painful.

But it doesn’t matter. It has many such wounds on its body and they will be gone in a few days. Now let’s go and find that fat and tender mountain rat.

When it licked its wounds and went to look for food, it couldn't find the mountain rat anywhere.

Fat Jin was disheveled in the wind and was confused. Could it be that the mouse it had bitten before was just something it imagined?

Just as Fei Jin was thinking hard, a leopard cat on a tree a little further away licked its mouth, burped, then disappeared with a few jumps and swung its tail, leaving behind only some bones and bits of mountain rat fur.

Huihui returned to the first aid station and happened to see the two-legged creatures having dinner.

When it's cold, yak beef soup pot is the best choice. Paired with frosted radishes and green vegetables, and some vegetarian dishes such as bean curd and vermicelli, it is very comfortable to eat hot.

"From the first to the third day of the Chinese New Year this year, Mengmeng and I went to visit the elderly on both sides of the family and will be back on the fourth day. Lao Gao said he had to go back for a blind date this year and will probably be back on the eighth day."

Lao Gao finally couldn't bear it anymore and agreed to a blind date under the pressure of his elders. It is said that from the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month to the 5th day of the first lunar month, except for New Year's Eve and the first, second and third days of the first lunar month, there were two blind date dinners every day.

"Brother Ying, what are you and Sister Meihua planning?"

Chen Ying paused and cleared his throat a little embarrassedly.

"I plan to confess to her on New Year's Eve." "Oh, no wonder you didn't let Professor Bai and the others come back early. Did you plan this a long time ago?"

Chen Ying nodded shyly, "The teacher plans to come back after New Year's Day to celebrate the New Year. I'm going to pick him up and his wife, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to confess to Meihua."

"So how are you going to confess? Do you want us to give you some advice?"

Mengmeng and Xia Sen were extremely excited. Seeing Chen Ying and Dao Meihua were about to get married, they were happier than if they had gotten married themselves.

Xiao Shen also got involved and gave several suggestions, all of which were the tricks that graduate students in their school used when confessing their love.

"Ahem, I've already arranged that. You'll know when the time comes. Come on, eat quickly, and then do whatever you need to do after eating."

Chen Ying's ears turned red. She put down her chopsticks and ran to tease Jin Ya.

Jin Ya: What are you doing, Two-legged beast? I want to sleep, stop making trouble!
After the mountain patrol was completed, Chen Ying and his friends' lives slowed down.

Rescued animals are not available every day. Most of the birds and simple treatments are directly diverted to the Bird Research Institute and the Management Station.

I sleep until I wake up naturally every day, then go out for a walk and check if anyone has set traps or anything in the woods.

In fact, there are very few people setting traps now, especially since several surrounding villages have started tourism projects. Everyone is spontaneously protecting the surrounding ecological environment. If anyone goes into the mountains to do something, there will be countless eyes watching them.

Near the end of December, Chen Ying finished her work and went to Yunnan Province with her backpack.

I still live in the Dao family's villa on the mountain, and this time I found that Dao Meihua and her little niece also live here.

There is a garden and a small open-air hot spring pool between the two villas.

It was already midnight when I arrived. After waking up from a nap, I went downstairs and saw a pretty little loli following Lao Gao.

"Uncle Gao, will this little bird die?"

"No, it just has a broken wing. It will recover after taking some medicine and resting. But you and your brother can't scare it. Let it rest and recover."

"Okay, I'll keep an eye on my brother and stop him from messing around."

The little girl stood on tiptoe and held onto the edge of the table, watching Lao Gao bandage the injured bird's wings.

Chen Ying deliberately made a noise, fearing that her sudden appearance would scare the child.

Lao Gao didn't even raise his head, and directly asked Chen Ying to help pass the splint to him.

This splint was specially designed by him when he was recuperating here. It is suitable for fixing the wings of small birds.

"What's wrong with this little thing?"

"Are you the magical uncle they are talking about?" The little girl did not answer Chen Ying's question, but asked him curiously, "Can you understand what animals say? Then can you understand what turtles say?"

Chen Ying was confused and looked at Lao Gao.

Lao Gao suppressed his laughter, lowered his head to avoid Chen Ying's gaze and asked.

After all, she was Dao Meihua's little niece. Chen Ying felt embarrassed to ignore the little girl and half-knelt down to look at her at eye level.

"Your little turtle? Is there something wrong?"

"It won't eat. Mom says it wants to hibernate, but Dad says it's warm here and it doesn't need to hibernate."

Chen Ying thought about it and asked the little girl if her home had any heating or other equipment.

"No, Mom said it's warm here and doesn't need heating."

Chen Ying sat down cross-legged and took out his mobile phone to check the weather. He saw that the temperature difference was quite large. It was only about 7 or 8 degrees in the morning and evening. The temperature was a little higher at noon, close to 20 degrees.

"Young turtles will enter a shallow hibernation at 10 to 15 degrees Celsius. At this time, their appetite decreases, their movements slow down, and they are preparing for hibernation. They spend most of their time in a state of sleeping and waking."

"If the temperature drops below 10 degrees Celsius, the turtles will go into deep hibernation. Just like we like to have a suitable temperature when we sleep, they will sleep soundly when the temperature is 5 to 10 degrees Celsius. When the temperature returns to above 15 degrees Celsius, they will come out of hibernation and start eating and moving around."

"Look, the temperature has been fluctuating recently, so your baby turtle should be sleeping and waking up at times. Go back and help your parents set up a hibernation room for the baby turtle, and then you don't have to worry about it. It will wake up on its own next spring."

The little girl nestled in Chen Ying's arms very familiarly, looked at the temperature on his mobile phone, and nodded repeatedly.

"Okay, I have prepared a house for the baby turtle to spend the winter. But my parents are both at work, uncle, can you help me decorate the room for the baby turtle?"

"Of course, it's an honor to serve the little princess."

The little girl smiled with her eyes curved, hugged Chen Ying's neck, and kissed his cheek softly and sweetly.
“Uncle is so nice!”

The girl pulled me to the villa opposite, and when I entered the house, I saw Dao Meihua having a video conference with someone.

The little girl did not disturb her work and took Chen Ying to the toy room on the first floor quietly.

Unlike ordinary people who raise turtles by just getting a turtle box, the little girl has a special sunroom behind her toy room. A slope is made in a corner of the house with an area of ​​about two square meters, which is specially used to raise her beloved turtle.

The slope was covered with a thick layer of river sand, and then clean water was added, which just reached the turtle's back.

There is a platform next to the wall, and there is a slope too. The turtle can climb up to the platform along the slope to bask in the sun.

Its hibernation place is placed under the platform, which is a little distance from the water surface, and the sand can absorb water vapor and become moist.
Chen Ying asked the gardener of the villa to bring some soaked and crushed coconut soil, which was spread thickly, about five centimeters thick, and then sprinkled with soaked Chilean sphagnum moss on top of the coconut soil.

The moisturizing effect of this sphagnum moss is much stronger than that of ordinary moss.

The girl personally performed the entire process of setting up the turtle's hibernation nest, and Chen Ying only provided technical support.
After everything was arranged, Chen Ying helped the little girl check the three baby turtles she raised.

"They are in good health. Try to reduce feeding during this period so that they can start hibernation after their intestines are cleaned."

Fearing that the little girl would worry, Chen Ying wrote several precautions for her on colored paper, posted them on a whiteboard, and then hung them on the wall above the small platform where the baby turtles spent the winter.

When they finished their work, they found that Dao Meihua had already finished her work and was sitting in the toy room with a tablet, providing silent company.

"Sixth Aunt, come and see this hibernation nest that Uncle Chen and I made for the little turtle."

Dao Meihua put down the tablet, took a look, and gave a thumbs up.

"Wanwan is really amazing. When the little turtle hibernates, Wanwan should also pay more attention. Don't let the little turtle end hibernation early, and don't let the temperature drop too low, otherwise the little turtle will freeze to death."

"Yeah, I know. Uncle Chen told me that we can buy a lamp to keep the little turtle warm."

The little girl looked at Dao Meihua eagerly, "Sixth Aunt, Wanwan doesn't have a shopping account. Can you buy a heating lamp for Wanwan's little turtle? I'll return it to you after I get the New Year's gift."

Dao Meihua chuckled and reached out to touch her nose.

"Okay, then I'll place the order for you, and you can pay me back when you have money during the Chinese New Year."

Chen Ying watched the two of them shopping for heating lamps online, her eyes gradually becoming distant.

(End of this chapter)