Chapter Three Hundred and Twenty - The Bear and the Fox
After digging the cave, the next thing to consider is food.
The sky is gradually getting dark, and for Greenland, it has now entered winter. Snowstorms have begun to rage, and the land is covered with cold white snow and a blanket of silver.
Xu Qiaoqiao stood in the snow. She was obedient this time and stayed in the cave obediently, waiting for her mother and the others to come back with food.
The five-month-old Arctic fox cubs look much stronger and not as weak as when they were born. After more than three months of migration, they have grown more or less.
After Xu Qiaoqiao got into the cave, she realized that her brothers and sisters were not here. The Arctic fox's cave was very complicated, winding and winding, and one hole might be connected to other holes of different sizes.
awesome!
Xu Qiaoqiao drilled through all these caves and sighed sincerely in her heart.
Mom and the others came back soon. In the dark night, the scene of a large group of Arctic foxes traveling together was very spectacular, and each Arctic fox had a faint light shining in its eyes.
Xu Qiaoqiao was bored, so she poked her head out of the ground and saw everyone coming back together.
The temperature is gradually dropping and the bad weather has made food more scarce. Especially for such a large family of Arctic foxes, the amount of food needed is very large. In a normal Arctic fox population, there will be food grabbing.
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Maybe there will be a "separation".
When children become independent, Arctic fox cubs will leave their parents and start living independently, but this family is obviously different, perhaps because they encountered migration.
Xu Qiaoqiao tilted her head. She was now five months old. She had an inexplicable intuition about this kind of thing, which seemed to be in her ancient memory.
If that's the case, all the questions she had thought about before were in vain.
Because she might not live with Lily's mother in the future, Xu Qiaoqiao looked at the sleeping family. Only her mother slept next to her, and the other Arctic fox relatives were sleeping in their own caves.
No, I won't really leave.
This was an inexplicable premonition. Xu Qiaoqiao didn't know why she had such thoughts. She suddenly thought of her brothers and sisters, and she suddenly became much colder during this period.
Lily’s mother’s kiss before going to bed every night is gone.
My uncle doesn't come to make trouble with me much recently.
Could it really be what I guessed?
Xu Qiaoqiao had a pitiful feeling in her wet eyes. She hummed a few times, slowly crawled over, kissed Lily's mother's eyes, and licked her hair with her tongue.
She was now unable to sleep due to the conjectures she had just made.
Lily's mother is very gentle, her uncle is also very naughty, but has a good personality, and her father is very stable. The other relatives of the Arctic fox are all very good-natured and love to play. After living with them for so long, Xu Qiaoqiao said that she doesn't feel so reluctant to part with them.
It's a lie.
I hope I won’t leave you in the future. If Junjun is really a polar bear, I will find a way to deal with the relationship between you.
Xu Qiaoqiao curled up into a ball and nestled in Lily's mother's arms. If it's not handled well, if it's not handled well, then...Mom, I'm sorry, your daughter is about to elope with a "strange" polar bear.
In the next few days, Xu Qiaoqiao's guesses were only partly correct, that is, Pangda's father and Lily's mother had indeed become much more indifferent to their children. They went out to look for food without Zai Zai's share.
The cubs still live together, but they all dug their own burrows.
It's right next door to my parents.
Uncle Victor also has the same attitude. He will not make trouble with his nephews and nieces, except for Xu Qiaoqiao.
This is something that makes Xu Qiaoqiao relatively happy. His uncle's attitude toward him has not changed. Lili's mother and Pangda's father's attitude has become a lot colder. However, because Xu Qiaoqiao still hasn't mastered her hunting skills, she still cares about him.
The way to care is to take Xu Qiaoqiao out to hunt with him.
However, her uncle still took her.
"Quack." Uncle, what are we learning today?
Xu Qiaoqiao looked at Victor with her round eyes, swung her big tail, and slowly followed her uncle.
Although her father and mother said they wanted to teach her to hunt, in fact, it was Uncle Victor who was teaching her.
They are basically a hands-off shopkeeper.
And this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that every night her mother's good night kiss before going to bed is really gone, that is, Xu Qiaoqiao will only respond when he takes the initiative to kiss her.
All of this made Xu Qiaoqiao feel a little aggrieved for the time being. She suddenly went from being the favorite of the group to a pitiful egg that no one liked. She didn't like this gap, but it seemed that no matter how hard she tried, it would be of no use.
However, Uncle Victor is an exception.
Uncle Victor narrowed his eyes, stretched out his paws and rubbed his cute little niece's head, and quacked a few times: "Hey, it's a secret, you'll know later."
So mysterious.
Xu Qiaoqiao suddenly became curious.
So he didn't say anything and followed his uncle into the pine forest. Two arctic foxes left two sets of footprints on the snow.
After a few minutes, Xu Qiaoqiao finally understood what the secret meant.
——It turns out that I have to follow the polar bear to pick up leaks!
Xu Qiaoqiao:!!!
Stimulate!
She looked at the polar bear in front of her that was looking for food. The hair on its body was all yellow, and it looked like an adult polar bear just by looking at its body. He looked hungry, pawing left and right, and even scratching.
Those trees.
Xu Qiaoqiao:......
This polar bear doesn’t feel very reliable.
Xu Qiaoqiao turned to look at Uncle Victor. The two of them were hiding behind a relatively thick tree, watching the polar bear furtively.
"Uncle, I feel that this polar bear is unreliable. Look, he is still hungry." Xu Qiaoqiao rubbed her uncle's ear and spoke softly.
After all, if the polar bears are hungry, the arctic fox will also be on their diet. The situation is very critical now.
Uncle, why are you so brave?
Uncle Victor kept smiling. He turned his head, responded to Xu Qiaoqiao's actions, and kissed her ear: "It's okay, it's okay. Just keep watching and you'll be fine. If it's a big deal, just run away. There's no need to worry about this distance.
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Seeing her uncle's confident look, although Xu Qiaoqiao was still very confused, she still listened to her uncle's words and followed the polar bear.
Then they slowly walked out of the woods. Probably due to good luck, the polar bear hunted a seal. Seeing the other party feasting on it, Xu Qiaoqiao drooled shamefully.
Woohoo~ I’m so hungry.
"Zi Liu~" Victor also took a sip of saliva. It was obvious that he was also very hungry.
In other words, does this count as eating the other party's leftovers?
Xu Qiaoqiao thought of these things when she saw the polar bear biting the seal.
The polar bear eats very quickly, eating large pieces of meat one bite at a time. The seal is quickly finished, leaving only the meat on the bones.
After the polar bears leave.
Xu Qiaoqiao saw Uncle Victor take a lunge, swish out and start chewing on the seal's bones.