Emperor Penguin Bird Breeding Online

The snake skin obtained by accident is too big, even if it is folded up, it cannot be stuffed back into the house.

After sending Ba Snake away, the Snake Turtle returned to the main stream of Beihe River. There were much fewer lantern fishes here than yesterday. Originally, Song Wen wanted to catch a few to study, but seeing this, he had no choice but to give up.

After guarding Ba Snake nervously for a day and a night, Song Wen and the others were so exhausted that they even cooked a few rattan melons for breakfast.

Yi tied up the mouth of the rooster, which had been noisy all morning, with animal skins, and while the snake and turtle continued to move forward, they could go back to the house to catch up on sleep.

After recovering enough energy, the snake tortoise had already led them away from the tributary where the Ba snake was active. There were far fewer dead trees on both sides of the river bank in this area, and it looked like a large piece of low grassland. Seen from a distance , You can also see several small hills located deep in the grassland.

There is a small swamp next to the river bank. The swamp is frozen solid by ice and snow. You can see the obvious cracks on the ground. There are a few withered wild lotuses on the frozen soil. Song Wen's eyes lit up and he quickly let the snake turtle stop.

Ah Da is still struggling with the matter of the snake, and did not go outside the house with Song Wen to observe the surrounding situation. The snake turtle is not in a hurry to go back to sleep in the shell, so there is no need for someone to guard it outside. If something happens Things, the snake tortoise is enough to remind them.

"Didn't Naba Snake want to give us snake eggs?" Ah Da opened his mouth wide, listening to Yi shattering his dream of eating snake eggs. "It actually wants us to raise cubs for it? Is it wise?"

The orcs will not eat intelligent creatures, but as long as they are not intelligent, even giant snakes are just bigger food for them.Of course, huge creatures like giant snakes are not easy to hunt, and their aggressiveness is much stronger than other wild animals, and ordinary orcs have no ability to provoke them.

Ah Da thinks that his strength is already one of the very powerful group of people in the Black Crow Clan, but he never dared to hunt any giant beasts in person, even if he accidentally encountered them, he would try his best to avoid them. way to go.

"Why does it give us snake eggs?" Ah Pang pouted his mouth. Although his body has grown a lot, his round face has not changed much. Recently, his facial features have also changed. As the body grows slowly, it is estimated that after a while, the outline of a cub will completely become a teenager.

Yi untied the rooster that had been tied up for a whole day and lay slumped on the ground. Hearing this, he turned his head and grinned at Ah Fatty with a malicious smile, "Maybe it's to see us eating meat." Many, we plan to let us feed it cubs, especially cubs like you, which are fat and tender, which is Ba Snake's favorite food."

Ah Fatty's hair was all blown up, and he jumped behind the emperor penguin beside him. Although he knew that Yi was trying to scare him again, he thought that Ba Snake had swallowed a penguin much bigger than him in one gulp. Bird, Fatty couldn't help swallowing with difficulty.

Ah Da next to him obviously took Yi's words seriously, and immediately jumped up bluffing, "We gave it so much food, and it still wants to eat us?" His eyes were full of accusations against Ba Snake , I no longer have the idea of ​​coveting snake eggs.

"What are you talking about? Naba Snake gave the cub to be our bodyguard." Song Wen just heard this when he opened the door and came in, and glanced reproachfully.

Yi looked back innocently, Song Wen was a little helpless, he had asked the snake tortoise just now, and he knew that the snake had the ability to hunt by itself from the moment it broke its shell, and with the snake by their side, ordinary ferocious birds and beasts would not dare to approach them They are much more threatening than the snake turtles with no attack power.

This is also a gift from Ba Snake to thank them for providing a large amount of meat. Just because it is willing to give them uncracked snake eggs, it can be seen that Ba Snake is really grateful to them.Or there may be snakes and turtles, Ba Snake also believes that they can raise their cubs well.

Ah Fatty secretly heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this, and sure enough, what Yi said could not be taken seriously, he turned his head angrily, planning to break up with Yi for a day.

Ah Da also patted his chest. Seeing Song Wen rummaging for tools in the corner, he hurried over to help, "What are you doing?"

"Dig the lotus root."

"Lotus root?" Several people in the room realized that the snake tortoise seemed to have stopped.

Yi stepped forward to help take out a few bone shovels, and cleaned out an empty rattan basket by the way. Song Wen waved his hand and greeted, "I'll take you to find something to eat."

They had just consumed half of their meat, and even if they still had food in storage, they still needed to replenish it, not to mention seeing the wild lotus root, how could Song Wen let it go like this.

The swamp where the wild lotus grows is a bit far from the shore. Song Wen didn't let the snake and turtle go directly, but pushed out a bamboo raft that he made in his free time before. When using the remaining bamboo, the amount of bamboo is not enough, and some light dead wood is added to it, which can barely carry two people, and the heavier one will sink.

Sitting on the bamboo rafts and paddling across did not need to wet their clothes, and it was also convenient for them to carry things.

Ah Fatty couldn't stay in the air for too long, Song Wen didn't let him go with him, after all, after leaving Snake Turtle Island, any place outside might not be safe for the cub.

Ah Hen sneaked into the water and fell behind the bamboo raft. Ah Da changed into a beast shape one step earlier, flew to the edge of the swamp, found a place with hard frozen soil, and after thinking about it, he went to inspect the surrounding area Walked around to make sure there were no dangerous animals lurking around.

When he got closer, he found that the wild lotus area was larger than Song Wen expected. Some of the dried lotus leaves were buried in the snow, and only a few stalks were left standing tenaciously in the swamp.

Although the swamp has been frozen hard, if you are not careful, you will still fall into the mud under those cracks. The rhizome of the wild lotus is buried very deep, and there is no way to pull it out when leaning on the bank. The permafrost on the surface was chopped up to touch the rhizomes below.

"Is this really edible?" Ada looked at the shriveled and blackened wild lotus, feeling very puzzled. This place is not far from where they lived, and Ada had stayed near here before, but in his memory I have seen some gorgeous lotus flowers blooming in this swamp, and some small birds like to suck the flower juice in those lotus flowers, but I don’t know that these roots buried deep in the soil can still be eaten.

"You'll only find out after digging it up." Song Wen wasn't too sure, after all, most of the plants in this world were different from what he knew, and he wasn't sure whether the lotus root was growing under the wild lotus.

Yi didn't ask much, picked up the bone spade and dug under a dry lotus stalk.

It is not an easy task to use bone tools to excavate the extremely hard frozen soil, and it takes a lot of strength. A few hard knocks can always break the mud on the surface.

Ahen's speed was slower than theirs. It didn't use its beak and wings to climb up the frozen soil. Instead, it bounced up from the water like a black cannonball and fell heavily to the ground, making a huge noise. It was the first time Ah Pang saw an emperor penguin go ashore like this, and he was so surprised that he stood on the high reef and applauded Ah Hen with his wings.

Perhaps hearing Ah Fatty's cheers, Ah Hen stretched his neck, let out a long cry reservedly, and then took small steps, swaying towards the direction where Song Wen and the others were.

The permafrost near the river is not very solid, and a large crack was formed when Ahen smashed it so hard. Fortunately, there are more aquatic plants here, but it firmly supports the fat emperor penguin, so that it will not hurt Ahen. He fell back into the water again.

After digging up the top layer of frozen soil, there was a smell of rotten earth from the mud below the swamp. The smell was not too strong, but it made Song Wen a little worried. Those lotus roots buried deep in the soil would also rot, right? ?

After making the gap more than one meter wide, Yi grabbed Song Wen who wanted to go down to the ground, cleaned up the mud on the bone spade, and said, "I'll go down and have a look."

Song Wen couldn't resist him, so he could only tie a rope around Yi's waist, lest the muddy ground would be too deep and drown people. Before Yi went down, he had already probed with a wooden stick, and he was able to find some hard roots. There seems to be a place to stay further down, but there is no need to worry about danger.

Ah Da was lying on the side and poking his head to watch. The silt under the permafrost had accumulated here for an unknown amount of time. As soon as Yi entered, most of his body was buried. Fortunately, the silt here is not deep, so just bend down and explore Get what they need.

It didn't take much effort, Yi took out a lotus root as thick as an arm, wiped away the mud on the surface, and could see the white porcelain-like lotus body below, "Is this it?"

The lotus root has only three sections in total, and it's not long, but it doesn't look much different from what Song Wen remembered, "Yes, this is it."

Even Ada who has limited mobility can do the job of digging lotus roots, but the permafrost is too hard, and it takes a lot of effort to dig a hole, and every wild lotus can be dug There are not many lotus roots, and there are no more than two at most. Sometimes, after working hard to break open the permafrost, only one thin lotus root can be dug.

But for other people who don't know the actual production of lotus root, they are not disappointed. On the contrary, after knowing that this thing can be eaten like rattan melon, they are very motivated to work, and they don't care about being soaked in dirty and cold water. There is nothing uncomfortable in the silt.

This swamp is very large, but there are not many places where wild lotuses grow. Song Wen did not dig up all the wild lotuses. Even so, it took almost two days, and the dug out lotus roots were piled up. Two rattan baskets, Song Wen was already very satisfied with this amount.

On the same day, Song Wen cut fresh lotus root and made soup. The meat of the lotus root is not too glutinous, and it tastes crunchy. I don’t know if they didn’t wash it clean enough. A carnivorous person like Yi took a few mouthfuls, and in the end all the lotus root meat went into the stomachs of Song Wen and Snake Gui.

After passing through the swamp, you can slowly see sporadic greenery just emerging from the snow on both sides of the river bank, which is the trace of spring.