I became incredibly cute after dressing up as an animal!

Lan Xiaoxiao's eyes narrowed as she smiled.

My younger cousin also lay down next to Zhang Wang's feet and played with Zhang Wang's feet.

Elephants around them flapped their ears, sending out signals of joy through the air.

Half an hour later, the rain poured down.

Zhang Wang went back to his car to take shelter from the rain.

Meanwhile, the giants of the grasslands calmly eat leaves in the rain, and baby elephants drink milk under their mothers' bellies.

Time flies.

My little cousin is already a year old. He can eat tree leaves and runs very fast. When I took Lan Xiaoxiao out to play in the first year of junior high school, it was a bit difficult to shake him off.

My little cousin is so cute and clingy to Lan Xiaoxiao and Chu Yi. He's always so enthusiastic and energetic, running around with his nose twitching. Sometimes even Lan Xiaoxiao can't keep up with him.

Sure enough, even an elephant that's one or two years old is considered an "undesirable" animal.

Will one become more mature as they get older?

A few years later.

Lan Xiaoxiao: It seems not.

The tusks of a first-year junior high school student begin to protrude a few centimeters when he is four or five years old. They grow longer every year, and by the time he is ten, they have grown to a meter long. With two long tusks, he looks very intimidating.

When Zhang Wang came last time, he measured the height of the first-year student. The student was 3.8 meters tall, which is a very good height. His weight was estimated to be around seven or eight tons.

He's still two years away from turning twelve and becoming an adult, but his tusks, height, build, and weight are already quite impressive; he looks like an adult elephant.

I can't even imagine how enormous it must have been during the prime of its life.

Having grown up so much since the beginning of junior high, Lan Xiaoxiao knew that what was coming was bound to happen.

Male elephants are not driven out as soon as they reach adulthood at the age of twelve.

Instead, the family gradually distanced themselves from it after it grew up, around nine or ten years old.

For example, today, Chief Mary was unusually harsh on Chu Yi, making Chu Yi walk to the very back.

The first elephant is not allowed to approach the inner part of the herd; it must be kept at the very back and edge.

This is the signal to begin the expulsion process.

Lan Xiaoxiao and Chu Yi were mentally prepared, so they accepted it naturally and didn't blame Grandma Mary for her sudden fierceness, which was normal.

Next, Mary and the other elephants may suddenly charge and collide with the first elephant.

Lan Xiaoxiao had explained all of these to the first-year students.

"When they turn around, just run; you don't need to run towards them."

Distancing, driving away, collisions, and audible warnings will all be gradually strengthened year by year.

From age nine to fifteen.

Many male elephants, if treated this way for years, will leave during this period.

Male elephants become exceptionally aggressive during their mating season, a period also known as the raging season. During this time, they will kill any calves they can see, attack other males, and may even force females into their folds.

The male elephant's fighting power during its berserk phase is astonishing; if it is not driven away, it will threaten the chieftain's position.

Moreover, to avoid inbreeding, the matrilineal family would work together to drive them away.

In short, everything is governed by the laws of nature.

Lan Xiaoxiao gave a lot of science lectures to the first-year junior high students.

Chu Yi said, "I can control myself. I would never harm any of the family's elephants, much less you."

Lan Xiaoxiao: "Of course I believe you, but don't be sad that Grandma Mary and the others are starting to drive you away; it's the natural order of things."

"I am not sad. I am grateful to them for taking me in. I know the love they have shown me over the past ten years."

It talks a lot to Lan Xiaoxiao but less to the other elephants in the family, but it can feel everyone's affection for it.

The first-year students are now developing a sense of family and kinship.

For the past two months in the first year of junior high, I've always walked at the very back of the line and haven't moved forward.

Lan Xiaoxiao also walked behind and talked to it.

This continued for two months, and the expulsion escalated.

While it was eating leaves, Mary suddenly snapped at Chu Yi and told it to go away and eat.

He also quietly walked away in the first year of junior high school.

Its two tusks are over a meter long and very conspicuous. Every time Mary sees its murky eyes, she pauses for a few seconds before approaching it fiercely.

In the first year of junior high, I never resisted and just silently walked away.

Although she was mentally prepared, Lan Xiaoxiao still felt a little sorry for Chu Yi.

Chu Yi wasn't going to leave. It didn't want to be a lone, wandering male elephant. It wanted to follow Lan Xiaoxiao and stay far away from the family. There would definitely be conflicts in the future.

In the first year of junior high, it was like slowly boiling a frog in lukewarm water, or boiling the elephants of the Mary family.