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The air in the mountains is much fresher than that in the village. In fact, as far as the air in the village is concerned, it is not comparable to Ludao, a city with the best air quality in the country. It’s just that since yesterday, firecrackers have been going off.
The air is filled with the smell of burning sulfur and saltpeter.
, Zhuo Yue, who was used to staying in Ludao where fireworks and firecrackers were not allowed to be set off all year round, was not used to it. Now the air suddenly became so good again, coupled with the chirping of insects and birds coming from outside the car, and the unknown
The famous beast occasionally made one or two sounds, and Zhuo Yue soon fell asleep.
He didn't know how long he had been sleeping, but Zhuo Yue felt his nostrils itching and sneezed uncontrollably. When he woke up, he found that Jiang Li was holding a fluffy little guy and using its tail to rub his face.
Whisking it up and down.
"Ah, what kind of animal is this? Why does it look like a cat?" What is it if it's not a cat? The black and yellow stripes on its body, and its big bright eyes, it is a cat. But how could a cat appear in this deep mountain forest?
In?
"It's called an ocelot. You can see it has black and yellow stripes, but if you look closely, you can see that the stripes are much shorter than those of a domestic cat, and are mixed with small black spots. However, it is very, very close to a domestic cat.
Close relatives, much closer than gorillas to us humans. Among many cat breeds in the world, there are
Many of them have leopard cat blood, aren't they cute?" Jiang Li smiled and handed the little guy to Zhuo Yue. The Zhuo family had cats. When Jiang Li went to Zhuo's family, he didn't see the cat, but he saw the cat.
There was a bag of cat food under the glass cabinet in the corner of the hall, so Jiang Li judged that Zhuo Yue was definitely not repelled by cats.[
"Ocelot? This is a protected animal. You are really good. There is this one here, and it is not far from the village. It is so small. It has just been weaned, right? Where is its mother? Aren't you afraid that its mother will get angry with you?" Although the name contains
The word "leopard" means "leopard", but this little leopard cat is so cute. Zhuo Yue couldn't put it down as soon as he hugged it. It has big round eyes, a pink nose, and a pink tongue that occasionally sticks out when it yawns.
, people fall in love with it as soon as they see it.
"I picked it up right under the eyes of its mother." Jiang Li shrugged.
"How is it possible that its mother didn't fight you tooth and nail?" Zhuo Yue didn't believe it.
"Would you believe me if I said that it was brought to me by its mother?" Jiang Li didn't know how to explain it. Anyway, he heard the cry of a kitten and found it in a bush.
I saw a kitten being held in the mouth of a cat-like cat.
The big cat, which was much larger than the average cat, held it in its mouth. The big cat was not afraid when it saw Jiang Li. Instead, it took the kitten to Jiang Li's feet, put it down, and then kept looking at Jiang Li until Jiang Li
He bent down tentatively, and then the big cat turned around and walked away.
This is simply unbelievable. Ocelots are not afraid of people. This is not surprising. In mountainous areas, some people have been taking wild ocelots home and training them into domestic cats, because they are more agile than domestic cats and can catch mice better.
There have always been domestic cats that left their owners' homes and ran into the mountains and forests, becoming wild cats and hybridizing with ocelots. Therefore, it is difficult to strictly distinguish between wild cats, domestic cats, and ocelots. The three of them intersect with each other.
Jiang Li doesn't know about other places, but in the countryside around Jiang Li's hometown, humans and ocelots have lived in harmony for thousands of years. No one hunts ocelots, and some just want to keep one or two to help catch them.
Rats and mice almost never kill ocelots. And if ocelots accidentally run into the village, the village will
Most people will throw some food to them. They mainly catch rodents and occasionally catch small birds for food. The harm to poultry is extremely small. Like domestic cats, ocelots are considered to be the most common species in Jiang Li's hometown.
Psychic creatures, and in this area, it is customary for dead cats to be hung in baskets on trees.
What is strange to Jiang Li is that the oestrus period of ocelots is the same as that of domestic cats, which is in spring. The kittens are not born until the end of summer, and four to five weeks later, the kittens are already active and half the size of big cats.
The little leopard cat in front of me is obviously only a week or two old. The timing is obviously wrong. Even the last batch of babies born last year should be almost as big as a domestic cat by now.
After listening to Jiang Li's story, Zhuo Yue also found it incredible. After thinking for a long time, she smiled and said, "It seems that even the ocelot mother realized that you have too many secrets, so she entrusted her child to you.
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Jiang Li's heart moved. He remembered what the old people in the village often said. If a person is about to die, his cat will be restless and stay with the person's side, spinning around. If scientifically
The explanation is that when a person is about to die, his body will emit a certain smell, which will alert the cat. This
Smell diagnosis methods have been studied in many large hospitals. Some people have also trained dogs to help people diagnose whether they have cancer. There is also a dog raised in a nursing home. Whenever it clings to a certain place for a long time,
When you are around an old man, who will pass away in less than a week, everyone says that he can smell the breath of death.
Maybe his body has gone through two light baths, which is different from ordinary people, and this kitten may have some hidden dangers. The mother cat intuitively knew that she could not feed it, so she gave it to herself? Now look
Come on, this is the only way to say it
It made sense, but I couldn’t tell Zhuo Yue. He just shrugged his shoulders and said, “Whatever, since its mother entrusted it to you, let’s keep it. It happens that there is a cat missing at home. In the past, Ting Ting was still young and there was no cat at home.
Dare to raise her, now that Ting Ting is big, you can raise her."
After getting out of the car, Zhuo Yue found that he was very energetic, so he took Jiang Li's hand and looked at the time: "How is it possible? I only slept for less than an hour? Why do I feel like I had a full sleep?"
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"That's because the air in this mountain forest is good and there are many negative ions. Of course, you can sleep peacefully and the sleep effect is good." Jiang Li smiled. He would not tell her that sleeping in the fire, as long as two hours, is enough to withstand the disease.
It is comparable to the effect of sleeping for seven or eight hours for ordinary people.
The two sat on the big rock next to the woodyard for a while. Zhuo Yue was worried that the kitten was hungry, so he urged Jiang Li to go back. Jiang Li also didn't say when Shao Hanyun would arrive because Shao Hanyun was coming today.
, but if we set off from Ludao early, we will arrive in the afternoon. It is almost half noon now. It is time to go back to eat, so we go back to the village.
The arrival of the kitten made little Jiang Ting very excited. She was very busy, helping the kitten build a nest out of cardboard boxes, and taking out the milk bottle she used when she was a child. She gave the kitten hot milk to drink. If not
Her mother drank it, and she still
He wanted to use the little quilt he made to make a nest for the kitten. Later, Jiang Li's mother went to find an old cotton trousers that Jiang Li wore when he was a child and put it under the carton. Little Jiang Ting gave up.
Stop arguing with her mother.
"Ah, this is still open-crotch." Zhuo Yue pursed her lips and smiled at Jiang Li.
"You're not much better. How dare you say that you didn't wear crotchless pants when you were a child?" Jiang Li chuckled, and his sly eyes swept towards Zhuo Yue's chest and lower body. Zhuo Yue's face turned red and his body trembled.
Twisted, ran to play with the kitten with little Jiang Ting, and ignored Jiang Li.
As Jiang Li expected, Shao Hanyun was really in a hurry. The Jiang family had just sat down at the dining table to have lunch when Jiang Li received a call from Shao Hanyun, saying that they would be at the expressway exit in another thirty or forty kilometers. It seemed that she
She also worked hard and found the exit by herself without asking Jiang Li where she should get off the expressway.
"My friend is here. I'm going to pick her up. So, brother, don't eat it yet. Go and talk to the families. Tell them that if my friend asks, tell them that they are preparing for spring and want a lot of food.
There are many people from Quinone Lake and Chaxiang City who are ready to pay a large price to purchase large quantities of osmanthus trees. Well, let’s just say they have this intention and the contract has not been signed yet.” Jiang Li suddenly thought that he had forgotten something.
,Based on the current number of osmanthus trees in Shuikeng Village, at the end of the year in the entire village, only a few hundred kilograms of osmanthus can be sold for sale, excluding the ones for personal use. If it is turned into osmanthus nectar, it will only be about a thousand kilograms.
, this is far from enough to feed a company, so there must be a hope there, and there must be a competitor there, making Shao Hanyun feel that it would be a pity if this piece of meat is lost.
"There's no need to say, hey, I'm talking about Ali, are you good at calculating? Don't tell me, in autumn, businessmen from Kunhu came to us and said they wanted to collect all our sweet-scented osmanthus trees.
Of course, we stopped buying them. Only the Jinshui family sold dozens of trees, and there were also a few families whose children needed tuition fees for school, and those who couldn't make up the money at the moment also sold a few trees. Oh, by the way,
There are also Shankeng Village, and people from Kunhu have also gone there. I think I might as well just go to Shankeng Village and make an agreement with them. If the two villages join forces and defeat Guizhi next year, then three years later,
The osmanthus production in our two villages will definitely reach a big level." When Jiang Hai heard this, he stopped eating. He grabbed a few steamed cakes from the table and stuffed them into his mouth as he walked. [
"Brother, although Shankeng Village is close to us, it still takes more than two hours to walk. If we go around it from the main road, it will also take more than two hours. This is the Chinese New Year. I think we should call you.
The village chief discussed it." When Jiang Li heard that his elder brother was going to Shankeng Village, he quickly stopped him.
There are only more than 20 miles of mountain road from Shankeng Village to Shuikeng Village. It is the kind of narrow path. If it is a gentle transition road, a motorcycle can also go on it. However, at least half of the more than 20 miles of road is
That kind of rock steps, I don’t know when this road was built. Jiang Li only knew that it was very old, and it was every few miles along the road.
, there is a pavilion, and that pavilion has a history of at least two or three hundred years. There is even a pavilion with the words "such and such county in the Ming Dynasty" written on the beam. It's just that it's very old and a bit...
It was blurry, and only the two characters "Da Ming" could be clearly seen. The other characters were vaguely guessed.
Jiang Li's grandmother's home is in Shankeng Village. Every year when her uncle sent off the festival, she would walk on this mountain road, carrying pastries, bacon and glutinous rice, and walk for more than two hours, then have lunch and go back again.
When Jiang Li went to pay New Year's greetings, he always took this route with his father. However, after Jiang Li went to college and his grandparents passed away, Jiang Li did not go every year.
"It's okay. I asked Jin Shui to drive me there. This is a matter that concerns the whole village. He will make this trip." Jiang Hai finally swallowed the steamed cake in his mouth, said something, turned around and ran out.