After returning home, at the dinner table, Yue Erpao was unusually listless and had no appetite. His sickly appearance frightened Jin Qinghua and quickly touched his head: "Maybe he has a fever. His face looks so ugly."
"Ms. Jin, it's okay. Erpao wants to lose weight. He will eat when he is hungry."
These words made Yue Erpao cast a resentful look.
By the early morning of the next day, the old Taoist priest had asked Lan Ruling to take them into the mountains. Since the boat of the boat people's couple was too big, they all carried their luggage and rented a small black-peng boat to go to the denser river. After passing countless villages, When there are no more people around, Baixiangou has arrived.
If you look closely, you will see that there are four or five wild mountains all around Baixiangou, with jagged rocks, lush greenery, caves, and flowers. It’s like giant animals sitting together, forming a semicircular river beach. The jagged riverbanks connect the wild mountains. , like a hedgehog lying in a ball in the valley.
Half of it is a river beach and half of it is a pool. The blue sky enters the water and the mist fills the mountainside.
On the highest mountainside, one can see a row of plank roads extending from the foot of the mountain to halfway up the mountain like ladders, with thatched roofs hanging out of holes as big as fists hanging on the mountainside.
"That small cave is my meditation place. If I want to understand the Taoist scriptures, I will come here to meditate. No one will disturb me. It is very quiet. After a while, we will go into the cave and wait. Counting, if the hedgehog It’s still here, it’s time to give birth to the pups, and they should run out to prepare the food for the pups to eat.”
"Most hedgehogs are photophobic and only active at night. We may not see any movement even if we wait for a day, so we have to be patient."
After saying that, the old Taoist priest led everyone up the plank road and walked into the thatched house where he practiced Taoism. It was originally a half cave, but he bound it tightly with wooden boards to form a thatched cave house, and the roof was covered with stone flakes and weeds. Only the eaves are exposed, which is hidden and safe.
Yue Guanchao looked at the thatched cave house, which was about the size of two or three private houses. It had a carved stone bed and stove, as well as a stone bench and table, but there was nothing else.
"Old Taoist priest, have you really suffered so much? Why don't you even lay out a straw mat?"
There was only a stone-carved pillow on the stone bed, and nothing else. Yue Guanchao looked at the old Taoist priest, and he was a little curious about him. You can say that he has no desires and desires. This old Taoist priest always likes to eat something good. Things, but things involving spiritual practice have become extremely difficult, which he really doesn't understand.
"Then why can't I bear the hardships? I can bear the hardships of living in the open air. Having a stone house and a stone bed is enough for me."
"If you encounter those mandrills, they won't be here too, right?"
Yue Guanchao remembered that the old Taoist priest did mention the thatched house when he was young.
The old Taoist priest shook his head and retorted: "That's not true. That mountain is still going southwest. I only went there to collect herbs, and then I accidentally entered the mandrill territory. Mandrills don't dare to come here!"
"Why?"
"Could it be that the White Immortal can defeat the Mandrill!"
"Yes, the white hedgehog is a disciple of the White Immortal. Ordinary apes, mandrills, wild beasts, etc. don't dare to provoke him."
After saying that, the old Taoist priest closed his eyes and meditated, and stopped talking to these young people. He became quiet for a moment, and there began to be faint rustling sounds around him. They stayed there all day, and finally heard the chirping after sunset. The old Taoist priest Hearing this voice, he opened his eyes instantly: "The hedgehog is coming."
Yue Guanchao stopped being careless, picked up the telescope, opened a small opening near the door, stretched out the telescope and peered down.
Tonight there are few stars in the moon and the sky is fine. The moonlight casts into the pool and reflects like broken glass. The nearby mountains and bays are bright. Even without an oil lamp, you can see the flowers and bushes underground. There is a constant noise of crickets and insects all around. In this night In the restlessness, some grass beside the pool suddenly swayed.
With such great force, at least wild cats and dogs must be moving around in it. Yue Guanchao became nervous instantly, stared at the movement in the grass, and calmed down.
In the blink of an eye, the grass parted into the green hills, and a white hedgehog ran out from it.
This hedgehog can be considered a psychic just because of its size!
An ordinary hedgehog is half the size of an arm, but the one in front of you is bigger than a domestic cat. It is round and round, with yellow and white quills covering its waist and back. Its eyes are as red as gems, and its exposed nose is red and round, with a white and red nose. The white hair on his abdomen is really unique.
The belly of this white hedgehog was bulging, and it looked like it had a baby. It was bumping up and down when it walked, and something was trembling, making it very difficult to walk.
"Since you're about to give birth, why are you running out here? Isn't it safer to give birth in a shack?"
Yue Guanchao felt that most domestic animals would usually return to a familiar shack when they give birth, but the white hedgehog was completely different.
"Hedgehogs love to be clean and usually lick their fur. White hedgehogs cherish their fur even more. They are afraid of laying cubs in their nests and dirtying their nests, so they simply go to the river to give birth to their cubs. Then they will lay their cubs directly in the river. Just clean up and go back."
Before the two of them finished speaking, the hedgehog had already begun to collect fallen leaves and dead grass and velvet vines nearby. It dug its small claws back and forth to dig out small holes in the ground. The fallen leaves piled up and became a temporary nest.
Then, the hedgehog nestled into its nest, the thorns on its body kept exploding, it raised its neck and chirped, there was another noise in the grass, and a gray hedgehog also appeared around.
This hedgehog is bigger, about the size of a domestic dog. Its eyes turn black, like black buttons inlaid on gray fur. Its claws are black and shiny, looking majestic. Its eyes are bright and lively, constantly surrounding the white hedgehog. He walked around in circles, his eyes alert, and he made a weird purring sound.
"What does it smell like? This is it!"
While Yue Guanchao was observing carefully, a smell came into his nose. He looked at his companions around him, and they all smelled the same thing. They looked at each other in confusion and didn't know what they meant.
"This is the breath emitted by hedgehogs. It can drive away poisonous beasts and insects for miles around. As long as the beasts smell this smell, they will not dare to show up. The closer they get, the more dizzy and numb they will become. This smell will stop them after they lay their cubs. It will disappear, just be patient."
The old Taoist priest could bear it. Yue Guanchao couldn't leave the opening. He couldn't hide the breath, so he could only be forced to inhale it. It smelled like old musk and rotten wood burned together. When it reached the throat, it became The spicy smell of blood makes people retching.
"It's really delicious."
"Smell is enough to repel wild beasts, but this smell also has pros and cons. It may attract wild beasts that are not afraid of them."
The old Taoist priest paused and his tone became solemn: "Like a fake wolf and a dog!"
False wolf dog, also called badger badger, is a kind of wild beast badger in the countryside. It can be divided into wolverine, pig badger, dog badger, honey badger and ferret badger. Among them, in rural areas, wolverine, pig badger Badgers, mostly dogs and badgers.
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