Chapter 23 023:Motherly Love

Children in mountain villages have nothing else but to climb trees. The two of them hid the rabbit bag in the bushes and quickly climbed up the big catalpa tree.

The catalpa tree is a tree that is difficult to branch. Its trunk is high and straight, making it impossible for wild animals to climb up except for cats.

As soon as the two climbed up the tree branch, they heard a shrill meow and an animal jumped out of the woods behind them.

At first glance, it looked like a cat, but it was a little bigger than an ordinary cat, and its body was covered with dark spots. After it came out, it just jumped lightly and climbed along the trunk to the catalpa tree.

"Oh my god, this guy is coming up." Wang Tiancheng was shocked.

Wang Tianxiao also didn't expect it to be such a coincidence. There were so many trees nearby, and it just ran to the tree where the two of them were hiding.

He held the gun tightly in his hand, ready to shoot it at any time.

The two brothers were nervous. When the guy who came up saw two people hiding behind the leaves, he was so frightened that he fell down the tree. He grabbed the branches and hung them in the air.

It bared its teeth and kicked hard with its little claws. It took a lot of effort to pull up the branch and then climbed up and lay down on the branch. It growled lowly at the two of them with a vigilant look on its face.

Under the moonlight, the two of them discovered that this guy looked like a little raccoon cat.

Despite its fierce appearance, in the eyes of the two brothers, it was just a bitch. Not only were they not afraid of it, they actually wanted to touch it.

"This is a leopard cat." Wang Tianxiao finally remembered the name of this little guy.

It is a wild cat with a wide distribution. In this era, the number was very large. People hunted them in large numbers just to obtain cat skins. Later, the number became smaller and smaller, and the wild species also declined a lot.

Ocelots have not been included as protected animals in later generations, but artificially bred ocelots have emerged and can be used as pets or to participate in competitions. A good one can cost tens of thousands of yuan.

"It seems to be injured." Wang Tiancheng said.

Wang Tianxiao also noticed that the leopard cat had a tear on its body and half of its body was stained with blood. It looked very miserable.

He was probably injured by the jackal just now.

Now it was hiding in the tree, looking down with vigilance and guarding against the Wang Tianxiao brothers. Its big eyes were full of anger and tension, and its hair was standing on end.

"Look below."

A jackal slowly walked out from behind the bushes. It turned out that it was not because of his old age, but because his back leg was bitten off by someone unknown, leaving only half of it, so he was abandoned by the jackals.

Wang Tianxiao secretly wondered why the jackal was chasing the ocelot. They belonged to the same level of the food chain, one was fierce and the other was flexible, so they would not easily quarrel.

After the jackal came out, he sniffed the ground first and soon found the ocelot in the tree.

The ocelot's body was injured, and blood kept dripping on the fallen leaves. The jackal's sense of smell was extremely sensitive, so it naturally couldn't hide it.

When the jackal discovered the ocelot, it naturally discovered the two brothers in the tree. It didn't panic, but circled around the tree a few times, then squatted down and started licking the wounds on its legs.

"These beasts just want to sit back and wait. It's just like what was written in the novel. They are smart." Wang Tiancheng said in surprise.

Wang Tianxiao didn't speak. He was thinking about why this jackal was so fearless. No matter how ferocious it was, it was alone, but there were two people on his side.

Moreover, it is still disabled, and its combat effectiveness must be greatly weakened.

No matter how you look at it, you are no match for him.

Does it have other partners down there and is it just fishing?

It's not impossible, these guys are very smart when it comes to food.

"Wait and see." Wang Tianxiao looked at the east through the gap in the trees. It was still early before dawn.

But they were willing to wait, but the ocelot couldn't wait.

Seeing the jackal licking its paws below, it quietly climbed behind the tree trunk, slid down gently, and jumped up suddenly into the woods.

The jackal escaped from its prey without paying attention, and hurriedly pursued it.

Ignoring the two people in the tree.

The two brothers waited for a while, and as the sky gradually grew brighter, they slipped down from the tree, groped towards the outskirts of the forest with their bags in hand.

It was dark before and I couldn't see clearly, but when it got light I realized that they were actually less than a hundred meters away from the outer edge of the mountain forest, so I walked outside. But after walking for a short distance, I heard two tender cat calls.

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Following the sound, the two slowly pushed through the bushes, and soon saw two kittens with their eyes just opened in a bush. They were wet with dew and looked very pitiful.

"It's probably the ocelot's child."

Wang Tianxiao could probably guess the reason why the ocelot and the jackal kept going in circles. He must have hoped that his children would not be eaten by the old jackal.

"Brother, look over there!"

Wang Tiancheng suddenly screamed.

Wang Tianxiao looked in the direction pointed by his younger brother and found that the ocelot he met at night was lying in the fallen leaves dozens of meters away from the child, covered in blood and twitching desperately.

The two hurried over and saw that the ocelot's neck had been completely torn open, its trachea had been bitten off, and a piece of flesh had been torn off its back. Although it was still alive, it could not hold on for long.

Behind it, there is a long blood trail. It seems that it has endured great pain and trials by running here.

Wang Tianxiao felt sad.

They were not real hunters, and they could not be particularly ruthless. Especially when they knew that the ocelot was bitten like this because of their children, they felt even more unbearable.

With its speed and ability, it was impossible for a jackal to harm it if it wanted to escape. But it just couldn't let go of its children, so it always lingered nearby and eventually lost its life.

When the ocelot saw the two brothers approaching, it immediately turned into vertical pupils, as if it wanted to warn the two of them, but because it was too weak, its pupils began to scatter again in an instant.

I didn't even have the strength to lift my head.

"Brother." Wang Tiancheng couldn't bear to look at it anymore.

Wang Tianxiao handed the gun to his younger brother, then picked up the ocelot and put it next to the two children. The little ocelot squinted and gently smelled its mother. It seemed to be repelling blood, but it soon recognized the smell of its mother and began to squeeze.

Then he rubbed it into the ocelot's arms.

I still think about my mother feeding them.

The ocelot mother stretched out her tongue to lick her child's fur, but she only moved her mouth a few times and could not fully extend her tongue.

It shed tears.

Wang Tianxiao once raised a cat. Cats would shed tears when they were sad or wronged.

This ocelot mother must be very sad right now.

It's dead.

The two little guys don't know yet, and they are still rubbing each other in their mother's arms.

"Brother, I'm so pitiful."

Wang Tianxiao sighed, he couldn't see this either.

Maybe when he was young, he didn't take it seriously when he saw this scene, but he had a soul that had gone through vicissitudes of life in his heart, especially after experiencing the pain of the death of his mother and wife. Looking at this scene again, he felt sad and uncomfortable.

"Tiancheng, dig a hole and bury the ocelot mother."

"Um."

Wang Tiancheng handed the gun to Wang Tianxiao and began to dig holes.

Because of the cold weather, the ground was frozen solid. Wang Tiancheng dug with a dagger for a long time before he dug out a small hole big enough to put the ocelot in. He put some pine needles and leaves underneath, and then gently picked up the mother ocelot.

Put it into the pit and whisper: "You are a respectable mother, rest in peace."

Wang Tianxiao watched quietly as his brother buried the mother ocelot. The ocelot's fur was severely damaged and it would not fetch much money.

What's more, he secretly didn't want to hurt a heroic mother who sacrificed for her children. Perhaps the reason why people distinguish animals is that people have emotions besides rationality.

"What should I do with these two little guys? I'm afraid it will be difficult to live here." Wang Tiancheng was kind-hearted and began to worry about the kittens again.

Wang Tianxiao had already planned, "Take it back and raise it. This kind of leopard cat is not much different from an ordinary cat. If you raise it since childhood, you should be able to raise it... Wait, Tiancheng, stand up quickly and stand behind me."

Wang Tianxiao's body suddenly straightened up, and he looked ahead warily, holding the old-fashioned gun tightly in his hand, with blue veins popping out.
Chapter completed!