[I just realized now that the snow leopards come to their camp every day to eat. It’s probably not because they can’t catch prey, but because they are just lazy...]
[Snow Leopard: You can make a living by being cute, so who has nothing to do but jump up and down to catch rabbits... Are you tired? 】
[Snow Leopard: You mean just now? I have been fed a little fat recently. I need to exercise to maintain my figure...]
Zhao Xinqing looked at the barrage, shook her head and said with a smile:
"The hunting ability of snow leopards is indeed very strong."
"You can dig out a bird's nest more than ten meters long by stepping on a straight pine tree trunk."
"But the prey you see today are mostly caused by the lack of powerful predators in the red pine forest."
"If the snow leopard is captured for two days, the number of small animals in the red pine forest will be very seriously affected. It is impossible to feed the snow leopard for a long time."
"And..." Zhao Xinqing shook the fish skin bag filled with snow leopard prey in her hand and said:
"I don't know if you have noticed, but it is full of lean meat and cannot add fat to the snow leopard."
"So, under natural conditions, snow leopards will not come down to the red pine forest to catch too many rabbits. Their main food is argali."
"Of course, for snow leopards, fish is also very good, but fish are generally not caught in high mountains, so snow leopards are very rare for the food in our camp."
Barrage:
【……】
[Why did the snow leopard catch so many rabbits today?]
Zhao Xinqing spread her hands:
"I guess they are feeding me and Su Bai in reverse."
"She didn't eat a bite, she stuffed it all into my bag."
The snow leopard is very smart. After observing Zhao Xinqing's movements of storing prey in a fish skin bag yesterday, Zhao Xinqing did not need to handle today's prey. The snow leopard directly took it into the fish skin bag on the ground...
At 3:30 in the afternoon, Su Bai and Zhao Xinqing finally cut down three pine trees. Carrying the prey caught by the snow leopard, which was full of fish skin bags, they rolled the pine trees down the mountain.
It took the two of them another hour to drag the three pine trees along the gentle slope and waterway to their camp.
The snow leopard followed the two of them all the way. He was obviously hungry and wanted to go to the camp for a meal.
Zhao Xinqing and Su Bai settled the pine trees and took out beef from the bamboo shed to feed the snow leopards.
Snow Leopard smelled the beef handed over by Zhao Xinqing and immediately noticed that the degree of corruption in the beef was beyond his acceptable range.
Leopard's face was full of disgust and he refused to eat at all. He turned to look at the snack food.
Snacks: "???"
Barrage:
[Hahahahahaha...]
[Snow Leopard: This one is not fresh anymore, I want to eat that one!]
[Snow Leopard: The heifer looks tender at first glance...]
Zhao Xinqing smiled bitterly and returned the four birds that Snow Leopard caught today to Snow Leopard.
These four birds still have some fat on their bodies.
The snow leopard seemed a little disappointed, but did not harass the snackers. Instead, it squatted in the catnip bush and ate the bird absentmindedly.
Su Bai and Zhao Xinqing continued to stew beef soup.
By now, the beef soup has lost its delicious flavor and exudes an unpleasant taste just like the turtle meat and fish from the past few days.
Although it is relatively light, it is acceptable and edible.
But it was hard to describe how much I enjoyed it, so I could only frown and swallow it reluctantly.
As for the rabbits and squirrels caught by the snow leopard, the two of them did not eat them.
They only peeled the skin and removed the internal organs, and the edible internal organs were stewed with the beef. The meat was hung in a bamboo shed until food was really scarce.
Su Bai mused while eating some smelly beef:
"No, we can't bet on the cold wave time. We have to find a way to fish."
"Otherwise, if this cold wave is different from what we expected and it will take several days to end, won't we really be hungry?"
It was still five o'clock at this time, and it started to rain lightly outside again.
The snow leopard had finished eating the four birds and had left their camp. Before the rain, it went back to its nest on the mountain to take care of its babies.
When Zhao Xinqing heard Su Bai's words, her beautiful eyes lit up and she asked:
"Is there any way to fish?"
Su Bai nodded and said:
"You can try to obtain food in cold waters through automatic fishing devices and fishing traps."
"It's just that... the fish harvest is very unstable, and there are various uncontrollable factors."
Barrage:
【Then what are you waiting for? Get it together quickly!】
[Dr. Zhao has been bleeding heavily these days, you have to get two big ones to replenish Dr. Zhao’s body!]
[That’s right! Otherwise, what if Dr. Zhao is not full and feels bad and doesn’t continue to complete the “Four Generations Under One Roof” project with you? 】
Su Bai sighed, got up and found several long and tough bamboo poles, which were leftover materials from the previous production of water diversion pipes.
He explained to the live camera:
"Under the cold wave, although the chances of fishing are slim, they do exist."
"Now the river water is very cold, and most of the fish in the water have stopped eating and have hid in the deep water."
"But when the sun appears and the upper river water begins to warm up, the fish hiding in the deep water may come up and warm themselves in the shallow water illuminated by the sun."
"In this case, the water temperature has a chance to temporarily reach conditions that revive the fish's desire to eat, thus creating some opportunities for us to fish."
Barrage:
【It makes sense!】
[As expected, he is indeed the king of wild fishing. Even under extreme conditions, he can still come up with some solutions! 】
[Then here comes the question: Why haven’t you been fishing these past few days? Is it because you don’t have time? 】
Su Bai looked at the barrage and sighed:
"I don't have time, it's just a concern."
"It's more that the reality is not ideal."
He went on to explain:
"This river is very wide, so the deep water area is in the center of the river."
"When fish come up from deep water and use the sun to warm themselves, they will also be in this area."
"So, I need a very long bamboo pole to reach this water."
"However, the longer the bamboo pole is, the more unstable it is and can easily be broken or torn off by fish."
"Secondly, the automatic fishing device will be placed by the river for a long time, and the chances of breaking the line, decoupling, and losing the hook will be greatly increased."
"In this case, I will definitely not be able to use the hooks in the hook bag. Otherwise, after two days of fishing, all the hooks will be lost. How will I survive the next three hundred days?"
"A lot of time and energy have to be wasted to make temporary fish hooks."
"The most important thing is that after the cold wave passes, this thing will be useless."
"so……"
Su Bai shrugged and said:
"I would not use an automatic fishing device if there were other options."
Barrage:
[Then...what are you going to use as a hook?]
【Let me guess! Use bamboo!】
[Bamboo shouldn’t be very durable, right? And it’s too light! It will float!]
【I guess, use horns!】
Su Bai looked at the barrage, smiled, and found a cow leg bone from the bamboo shed.
This is the cow leg that the snow leopard dragged to the camp that day. It had been chewed by the two men until only the bones were left.