Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 519 The Little Fairy in Distress (asking for monthly ticket)

The evening dinner is scheduled to start at 6:30.

After seeing off the last batch of visitors at 5:30, except for the staff on duty at necessary posts, everyone else gathered on the right side of the small square in front of the office building.

The table was a firewood and coal table brought from Xiaozhai Village. The pot was placed in the middle and the dishes were placed around it. The stove underneath could also provide heating.

This kind of multifunctional stove has been very popular in rural areas in the past two years, while most of the stoves in cities are electric ones, and the names are also nice, such as the stove heating table.

There are at least fifty or sixty staff members at the management station and the research and study base, and that’s not including those on duty. If all staff were present, the number would exceed three digits.

Chen Ying was not stingy and directly sent ten stoves up and set up ten tables. The people from Xiaozhai Village who came to help also stayed to eat together.

"Brother Ying, a pig, two sheep, five chickens and five geese, that's all the money. The village chief said that the vegetables are all grown by our villagers, so we don't charge any money."

Chen Ying took a look at the vegetables loaded onto the agricultural tricycle, including cabbage, radishes, potatoes, pumpkins and so on, filling up the entire vehicle.

There was still fresh soil on the radish, and it was obvious that it had just been pulled out of the ground.

Chen Ying knew that Dao Meihua had helped the village with many projects this year and had also assisted in two charity live broadcasts to help farmers. The village chief had said several times that he wanted to give him money as a thank you, but he had declined. If she still insisted on giving him money, the village chief would definitely feel bad.

"Okay, then you can thank the village chief uncle for me. By the way, your sister Meihua asked someone to get a lot of simple packs of cigarettes from her home. Go back and give them to the village chief uncle for me later and ask him to help distribute them. The rest will be placed in the village committee office. Anyone who wants to smoke can go and get it. But you have to watch out, and don't let the children smoke."

In the past, many people in their village liked to smoke leaf tobacco. Later, after restrictions were imposed on tobacco cultivation, everyone started smoking low-quality cigarettes.

Chen Ying herself was not interested in this thing, but that was the custom in the countryside. When meeting someone, they would smoke one before starting to talk about things.

Conditions have improved in recent years, but ten years ago it was not uncommon for people to take turns smoking one cigarette.

At seven o'clock, before the meal officially started, Chen Ying put some of the offal and minced meat into a basin and fed it to the little ones who were taken in at the back.

The few little guys were rescued during the heavy snow some time ago.

Some were sick from the cold, and some were injured while looking for food in the snow.

There were two musk deer, a yellow-throated marten, a leopard cat and two civets in total.

Except for the forest musk deer, which is a vegetarian, the other four are carnivores. Although civets are omnivores, they love birds very much, and they love them so much that they want to hide those little guys with beautiful feathers in their stomachs.

Chen Ying gave the ripped cabbage leaves to the musk deer, and divided the mutton bones, chicken and goose necks, internal organs and some meat equally among the other four.

After walking around and observing the conditions of the sheltered animals, Chen Ying was about to go back with the empty basin in his hand when he suddenly felt some movement in the empty animal house at the end.

The leopard cat that ate the fastest chewed and swallowed the broken bones, then looked up at Chen Ying and glanced in the direction he was looking at.

"Do you know that big guy?" The leopard cat squatted down, licking its right front paw which had just healed from an injury, and chatted with Chen Ying.

"That big guy came yesterday. He looks weird. I have never seen anything like it in the mountains."

After hearing what it said, Chen Ying walked over curiously to see which little cutie had come to her door.

The last animal house is for small animals. Since there are no animals living there for the time being, the doors of the outer and inner houses are not closed and the surveillance cameras are not turned on.

Chen Ying turned on the light, and a black shadow flashed by quickly and hid behind an artificial stone platform in the corner of the outer house.

Squinting and taking a closer look, I saw a furry tail slightly raised and trembling.

Judging from the shape of the tail, it is obviously a cat, but the cat breeds in Jiamugou Mountain definitely do not have such long hair.

The lynx has long hair, but the lynx's tail is completely different from this cat's tail.

Could it be someone's pet cat that ran here?

Chen Ying gently pushed the door open and called out twice in a low voice. Three or four minutes later, half of a little furry face appeared.

The hair on the head that came out was made into tangles by mud and water, and there were broken leaves and weeds wrapped around it.

Just this small half of the face already made Chen Ying "shocked like a cat"!
Perhaps feeling Chen Ying's friendliness, the little fellow finally came out from behind the stone platform, raised his little furry face, and looked so aggrieved that it was so pitiful and adorable.

Her golden brown eyes were watery, as if she was about to burst into tears any moment.

After seeing the full appearance of this little cutie, Chen Ying finally recognized that it should be a Norwegian Forest Cat with a relatively pure bloodline.

The price of this cat in the pet market is not low, and most people cannot afford to raise it, let alone raise it well.

Because cats are wild cats in the forest, they are good at climbing, jumping and hunting. They need a larger range of activities, and they are also introverted and independent. They don't like to interact with their owners. If you can keep them, you must have a courtyard garden, or the room is large enough to give the little cutie enough space to move around.

There must be people raising cats in China, but are there any rich people in Jiamugou who can afford to raise such a cat?

He squatted down and beckoned the little cutie to come closer. After observing carefully for a while, the other party walked up to him and stretched its head to sniff the empty bowl.

Unable to find food, the cat meowed in grievance, and actually lowered its head to lick some blood.

This bite almost drained all of Chen Ying's blood.

He reached out and picked up the little cutie. The little cutie didn't struggle at all and was so docile that he didn't seem like a forest cat.

The noisy crowd outside made the little cutie shrink a little, but Chen Ying held him gently in her arms, which made her feel a little more at ease.

"Brother Ying, you...did you go down the mountain and buy a cat? No, it's only been a short time. I've never seen this cat before. Is it a Persian cat?"

If you are not a professional, it is very likely that you cannot tell the difference between cats.

In particular, the Norwegian Forest Cat and the Siberian Cat are both cold-resistant species of wild forest cats, and are endemic to special areas. They are very rare in China. "No, I found it in the last animal house. It must have come here to find food. This is just a Norwegian Forest Cat. From the appearance, it has a relatively pure bloodline. Few people in China raise them. Even if there are, they are probably as small as eyeballs. It is almost impossible to see them outside."

Chen Ying had just asked the cat in the animal house where it came from, but it refused to answer and just meowed that it was hungry.

As soon as Chen Ying came out, she immediately got some fresh chicken and heated it up slightly before feeding it to it.

Even though these little cuties’ ancestors were forest hunters, they have stomachs that cannot eat cold food.

They are expensive, have big appetites, are difficult to raise, and must be provided with enough space to move around, not to mention that combing their hair can make even a tough guy cry. These factors combined have become the reasons that limit domestic cat lovers from owning a long-haired cutie.

There is no way such a valuable little cutie would come to the mountains by himself, so...

"No way, it's so cold, the snow hasn't even melted yet, and someone is already climbing the wild mountain?"

In the past two years, the trend of hiking through primeval forests has swept across the country, and any mountain with a little fame in China has been measured by people on foot.

But most hiking enthusiasts choose the time according to the conditions, and most of them go hiking in the summer when it is dry and rainless.

It rains a lot in their area in the summer and due to geological reasons, mudslides and floods are prone to sudden disasters, so April, May and September and October are the peak hiking seasons for experienced hikers.

Most of those who choose to hike in the mountains in July and August are beginner hiking enthusiasts.

After all, although there is a lot of rain in July and August and mudslides are more likely to occur, the climate is warm, the grasslands are lush, the wild flowers are blooming, and the scenery along the way is pleasant, making it the best time to take pictures.

But Chen Ying has been working in Jiamugou for several years, and this is the first time he has heard of someone going into the mountains in January. Even the locals would not choose to climb the mountains during this period. Does this person have a little habit of seeking death?

After sitting down and feeding the long-haired cutie, Chen Ying also started to fill her own stomach.

We were all comrades in the same trench, so there was no need to say polite words. Although everyone was divided into ten tables, they jumped around and in the end no one sat in their original seat until the end.

"After the Spring Festival this year, we will send off three retired forest rangers and transfer two more to fill the vacancies. The remaining vacancy will most likely be open to the four villages for recruitment."

The webmaster took a sip of wine and pulled Chen Ying aside to reveal the personnel plan.

"I thought that many college graduates from our villages have returned home in the past two years, so I wanted to recruit a local young person with a high degree of education to supplement the team. Now everything is based on technology. In the past, we had to rely on our feet to measure the mountains and forests, but now we can't complete the exploration mission without knowing how to operate a drone. There will definitely be more advanced equipment issued in the future, but our old team members have a low level of education, so it is difficult for them to use it."

The stationmaster is a smart man. He has sensed an upcoming opportunity from the rapid changes in the Jiamugou Management Station in the past two years. He does not want to lose this opportunity, but it is difficult for him to move up with his own abilities. So he hopes to take advantage of Chen Ying's momentum and drive the entire management station to a higher level.

The maintenance station is good, so how could he, as the person in charge, not be good?
The two of them were chatting quietly with their heads leaning against each other when the little furry cutie finished eating the chicken and ran back to rub against Chen Ying's calf.

Well, it’s time to go to bed after eating and drinking.

The maximum weight of a Norwegian Forest Cat is nine kilograms. This one is still a kitten, so it probably weighs only four or five kilograms. It looks so big, but it's actually all made up of fur. In local terms, it's just puffy!

Chen Ying picked it up, and the little guy began to doze off while holding Chen Ying's arm.

A little cutie who doesn't like to be close to humans actively seeks a hug from humans. It's obvious that it has suffered a lot during its days of wandering.

After eating and cleaning, everyone went home.

When Chen Ying wanted to keep the cute long-haired boy, she found that she couldn't because the cat stuck to her.

He was reluctant to leave the kitten at the care station, but there was no other way. The first aid station was full of ferocious beasts. Although the Norwegian Forest Cat's ancestors were wild cats and good at hunting, this little guy was obviously a specially bred pet cat. It would not be scared when facing the big cats in its own home.

Just as Chen Ying was engaging in a sweet tug-of-war with the little cutie, the management station received a call from the police station at the foot of the mountain. Someone reported that his pet cat was lost and provided concrete information to prove that the pet was worth tens of thousands.

According to market conditions, a Norwegian Forest Cat with impure pedigree can be purchased for a few thousand yuan, and a purer one is only around fifteen or sixteen thousand yuan. Only a forest cat with a certified pedigree that is imported from abroad can be worth tens of thousands of yuan.

"Officer Chen said the person who called the police was a foreign friend who was here for tourism. He wanted to let his pet run wild, but ended up letting it run away..."

Everyone turned their eyes to the little cutie who was sleeping with his mouth open and a little pink tongue showing.

If it is really a little cutie, it is not impossible for it to be worth tens of thousands, after all, it is so beautiful.

"Brother Ying, the police station sent me some photos. Come and take a look. Why do they look a little different?"

Chen Ying picked up Xiao Ai's phone and took a look. "That's the cat. It doesn't look like it because the photo was retouched, and its previous owner took good care of it. But think about it, a cat that has been rolling around in the wild for so many days, how could it still maintain its exquisite appearance?"

The cat in the photo has smooth fur and exudes a fairy-like aura.

In real life, the cat’s hair is tangled, there are few clean spots on its body, and its face is covered in mud, just like an urban cat that has returned to the countryside after the Chinese New Year.

The little cutie's owner soon arrived at the mountain, and with her came a young man.

They were classmates when they were studying abroad. The man started his own media after returning to China. This time he invited his friends to come over for the New Year and took some videos of traveling with cats.

"My friend's cat was scared away." The man laughed bitterly. "We came down from the snowy mountains and planned to go northwest to see Jiuzhaigou in winter. When we arrived here the day before yesterday, we found the scenery here very beautiful, so we stayed here to play for a few days before leaving. That day, I took Meidi to the mountains near the B&B and encountered a big cat. Meidi was scared and ran away in a panic. We couldn't find it no matter how hard we tried."

They thought the cat would come back later, but they never saw it again after it ran away. After all, it was worth tens of thousands of dollars, and they couldn't just throw it away. After two days of searching, they called the police at the suggestion of the host.

"Was it scared away by a big cat?" Chen Ying was not interested in the itinerary of the little cutie's owner. He grasped the key point in the other party's description: a big cat.

You should know that the Norwegian Forest Cat is not small in size. With its double coat, it is classified as a medium to large cat. The big cats that its owners and friends talk about are definitely not smaller than it.

From this point of view, we can rule out leopard cats. Lynx and snow leopards will not go down to such a low altitude at the foot of the mountain. The only two guys left are golden cats and clouded leopards.

Most of the golden cats in Jiamugou are near the first aid station and a little further south, and the place where the two people live is strictly speaking on the edge of the territory of Xiaojin and Dajin, so there should be no third golden cat active here.

Therefore, the final suspect cat should be the clouded leopard boy who often wanders in the mountains and forests like a prodigal son.

(End of this chapter)