Chapter 78 Let's Find You a Wet Nurse Xiao Song, Xia Sen and Duanmu, the three of them stood at the door of the warehouse, confronting the street thugs with wooden sticks in their hands. The street kid was holding a few fresh corn cobs in his arms and baring his teeth at the three of them. "When did you come?" Chen Ying spoke up and saved the three of them. Xiao Song was the first to react and ran behind Chen Ying, gasping for breath. "Brother Ying, Duanmu and I went into the mountains to check if the infrared camera on the southwest animal trail is still there. Xiao Song just got the newly distributed medicines and equipment from the foot of the mountain and brought some to you. Also, just after you left, several uncles from the small village sent us some newly harvested corn and potatoes, and Duanmu and I thought we were going to come in anyway, so we brought them to you." No wonder, he just came out of the shelter, why did Xiao Song and the others chase after him? I thought something happened. Let Xiao Song and the others go upstairs first. Chen Ying went to drive the street cat to the edge of the woods, poured it a dozen fresh corns and left it alone. Xiao Song and the other two were looking out from the balcony on the second floor. Seeing how Chen Ying and Jie Liuzi were getting along, Xiao Song was extremely envious.

"How did Brother Ying learn to communicate with animals so smoothly? Can I learn it?" "I don't think so. Maybe it's inherited from the bloodline. I heard from Brother Tingli that Brother Ying's father is a local, and his ancestor's totem is a ferocious beast." Duanmu spoke in a very serious tone, and Xiao Song was stunned. “Ah, is there really an ancestral belief in totems?” Xia Sen bit his cheeks so hard to hold back his laughter that they almost hurt. He looked away, trying to change the subject, but ended up seeing a clouded leopard leisurely eating rat strips not far away. "Look, that's a clouded leopard, right?" It was the first time for the young man to see the “little saber-toothed tiger” in person, and his eyes were shining. Fortunately there was a railing, otherwise he would have pounced on the clouded leopard. The clouded leopard finished eating the French fries, stretched, and disappeared in a few leaps. "Hey, you guys say, can I ask Brother Ying to let me stay here permanently? I can be in charge of hygiene and help out." "Tsk, if you can do it, I can do it too, why don't I be stationed here?" "Because of gender." Xia Sen shrugged. "Even if you don't mind, you should also think more about Brother Ying. You are a man and a woman, and you think there are not enough people slandering Brother Ying behind his back?" Little Song glared at him, then sat down angrily and stopped talking to him. Duanmu certainly didn't want Xiao Song to work at the first aid station. On the one hand, it was because of their gender difference. On the other hand, he was planning to find an auspicious day to confess his love to Xiao Song. If this works out, and she goes into the woods and lives alone, wouldn't that be a long-distance relationship? After chatting for a while and handing over the things to Chen Ying, the three of them went to the animal trail together. New potatoes, dried cowpeas and some bacon are a great dish to make stewed rice. There was not much to do, so Chen Ying simply prepared the meal in advance.

There are no wood stoves in the forest, and it is difficult to deliver gas tanks, so we use electricity. Thanks to the motherland's infrastructure, his first aid station was built and the electrical and network cables were brought in. In addition, solar panels and water heaters are installed on the roof to provide backup energy in case of power outages. I had just taken two bites from the bowl when I saw Jin Ya rushing towards me like the wind, with something in her mouth, swinging it back and forth. It quickly jumped up the stairs, put the thing at his feet, took two steps back and squatted. The golden cat following behind it also brought something over and placed it at his feet, then lay down and looked up at him. Chen Ying squatted down and fiddled with the animal that Jin Ya brought back. It was a civet cat with its cubs. Its neck was bitten off, but there were no obvious signs of tearing on its body. (Will the mother civet be jealous of this beautiful big tail?) Although it was brought back by Jin Ya, it was obvious that the wound on its neck was not left by Jin Ya. Next to me, the civet cat cub, whose eyes were not fully open yet, squeaked faintly. It looked like it was no more than ten days old and still a baby that had not been weaned. Chen Ying didn't bother to check the cause of death of the mother civet cat. He first found the incubator and put the cub in it. He then mixed milk powder with cubs and fed them. Only then did he have time to ask Jin Ya where she found the mother and cub. "Oh, in a tree hole." Jin Ya shook her head. "We found the mother's body there, along with the head of a cub." Chen Ying frowned. It looked like they were all eaten up by some animal. "I smell a very bad smell, a bit like the stuff you brought back before, but not quite the same." He brought it back? Could it be the work of a yellow-throated marten? It was normal that Jin Ya couldn't tell what the other thing was. It was already very capable that she could help bring the mother animal and her cubs back. They found a place to bury the mother animal and put a stone on top of it. Chen Ying is not being pretentious. The child is still there. You can't let Jin Ya and the others eat the mother beast. Throwing it away will easily cause unnecessary trouble, so it is better to bury it under a tree. Pressing the body down with stones can also prevent scavengers from smelling the odor and digging up the soil to find the body. I took a photo and sent it to the work group, asking if the little one needed to be sent to the nursery at the center for feeding. Nanny Mei didn't say anything in the group, but called him directly. "The center can take over at any time, but I personally suggest that you try to learn how to raise an orphaned animal. If you can let it live in the wild environment from an early age, maybe it can be returned to the mountains without separate wild training. Would you like to consider it?" "Of course I am willing, but I don't have an adult spotted civet cat here. How can I train it to hunt and survive?" "Don't you have a litter of civet cats there? See if you can get the mother civet cat to help." This pattern is completely opened up. But if you think about it, it seems to be possible.

The spotted civet cat looks somewhat similar to the civet cats, except that it does not have the scent glands of the civet cats. If giant pandas can find godmothers, it seems possible to find a wet nurse for the civet cat. Chen Ying asked right away, and negotiated with the mother civet cat using a piece of dried meat, and the final result was okay. The mother civet cat accepted the spotted civet cub. By the way, the mother civet still has a cub being raised at the foot of the mountain. Maybe we can find some time to ask Nanny Mei to bring the cub up? One is teaching, the whole nest is also teaching. The cub's critical period has passed, and he, a human, has help with food sources, so there is no possibility of not being able to feed it. After filming a video of a mother civet feeding her cubs, and focusing on a short video of a civet cub nursing, Chen Ying had a private chat with Nanny Mei about the issue of the civet cub going wild. "Don't worry about it. The big civet cat has already been decided where to go." Nanny Mei said that a large civet cat in a zoo in China suffered from depression because both of her cubs died. It just so happened that they had some large civet cubs that had been abandoned by their mother. After learning about this, they immediately filed a report and requested that the cub be sent to the big civet cat mother to be raised. "You're right. The mother civet has a very strong maternal instinct. She was a little anxious at first, but after two or three days of contact, she accepted the cub. Now she is watching it very closely, and even the breeder can't get close to it easily." Nanny Mei sent him a few photos of the cub and its foster mother, which were obviously captured from surveillance videos. The cub was so weak at first that it was doubtful whether it could survive, but now it looks stronger than its brothers. As expected, the nutrition I get from eating alone is incomparable to that from sharing with three brothers. In order to better observe the interaction between the mother civet and the civet cub, Chen Ying installed a camera under the floor. After the installation, I returned to the platform and turned on my phone. As soon as I called up the surveillance video, I saw Jin Ya coming over, sniffing, and opening her mouth towards the camera. "No, Jinya, you can't eat that..." Under normal circumstances, wild animals will not raise other animals' cubs, let alone those of different species. This is a novel, this is a novel, this is a novel!   (End of this chapter)