Chapter 105 Sure enough, all men are pigs
"It smells so good." Brother Nan finished his daze and walked over. "What are you eating behind my back?"
"Smoked rat."
"You actually stole the yogurt rat!"
".I don't eat it, I smoked it for her."
"It looks like a smaller roasted rabbit." Brother Nan squatted in front of the pot and poked the dried rat with his hand.
"Would you like to try one?" Li Mu picked up one. "The rats in the mountains are different from the rats in the city that live in the sewers and eat garbage. They don't have that many bacteria."
Brother Nan hesitated for a moment and looked at the smoked rat. "Did you add salt?"
“No seasoning at all.”
"Then don't eat."
Brother Nan lost interest instantly.
Li Mu got up silently, went back to the house to get a rope, tied up the smoked rats one by one, and hung them in a ventilated place under the eaves.
"Can dried rats also protect houses?"
"No, it's hung here to dry."
"Air-dry~"
"Yes, the moisture in the dried rat can be preserved for a long time without going bad after it dries up."
“When can we eat?”
"If Master Yogurt wants to eat it, you can have it tomorrow morning."
"But I want to eat dried fish in the morning."
"Then you can eat it at noon. Take one with you when you go out to patrol the forest. If Master Yogurt doesn't want to catch mice, you can eat a dried rat."
"Yes!"
The kitten looked at the hung dried mouse with sparkling eyes.
A group of little cubs also looked up at the hanging rat, especially the tiger brother and sister, who didn't blink their eyes and were drooling.
Li Mu smiled, picked them up and walked to the second floor, "Be patient, you can eat meat after a while."
"How long will it take?"
"soon."
After putting the tiger cub into its mother's arms, Li Mu walked back to the yard.
Brother Nan was lying on a recliner in the yard, browsing his phone, while Sunou was lying in Brother Nan's arms, watching with him.
The three little wolf cubs went back to the wooden hut to sleep, with half of the body of one of them sticking out of the door.
During this period, the wolf cubs grew a lot, and the wooden hut built for them before was no longer spacious enough, but the wolf cubs liked this hut very much and would rather sleep in it even if it meant squeezing in.
The three little golden eagles also flew back to the roof to sleep.
After they learned to fly, they didn't want to live indoors anymore, as they felt they couldn't fly as they pleased. Now they live in a nest on the roof with Xiaomei and Xiaoshuai.
Looks like I need to build a new nest for the little ones.
Li Mu looked around the yard and had a rough plan in his mind.
late at night.
After Li Mu wiped the kitten's claws clean, the kitten jumped onto the bed, lay down in the corner beside the bed, and turned to look at Li Mu:
"When is the next Beginning of Autumn?"
The kitten was very satisfied with the sumptuous meal tonight.
"Mr. Yogurt, you're already thinking about the next time right after the Beginning of Autumn?"
"The beginning of autumn is a good time to gain weight, eat rats, hot pot, and fish!"
“You can eat these at other times.”
"Different."
"What's the difference?"
"Hmm," the kitten lowered his head and thought for a moment, then raised his head again, "It's just different!"
"That's it."
Li Mu lay on the bed and turned off the lights.
"Mr. Yogurt likes the sense of ceremony of festivals."
“What about the sense of ceremony~”
"Master Yogurt, do you understand what a sense of ritual is?" "Master Yogurt doesn't understand."
Li Mu grinned: "The sense of ritual is what makes a certain day different from other days, and a certain moment different from other moments."
Afraid that the kitten didn't understand, Li Mu continued to explain:
"For example, on the day of the Beginning of Autumn, people will have a good meal to gain weight. In fact, the food can also be eaten on weekdays, but the mood is different when eating on weekdays and on this special day. Doing specific things at a specific time will make people happier."
"Mr. Yogurt is very happy today!"
"Is it because we caught so many mice?"
"Yes!"
"Let me teach Master Yogurt how to count."
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"If you don't say anything, I'll take it as your consent."
"Meow~"
The room gradually became quiet.
Hearing that there was no sound, Brother Nan withdrew his ear from Li Mu's bedroom door, turned around and went back to the room, his eyes rolling around.
The next morning, it was another good day.
After breakfast, the two people and the cat went out to patrol the forest.
Li Mu wanted to build a new nest for the cubs today, so he did not play while patrolling the forest like he did in the past, and returned to the forest ranger yard at three in the afternoon.
After Li Mu changed into work clothes, he went out with an electric saw, rope, gloves and other equipment.
"Li Mu, where are you going?" The kids playing in the yard ran to his feet.
In the past, Li Mu would never go out after coming back from patrolling the forest. This abnormality aroused the curiosity of the cubs.
"I'll go to the woods and get some wood to make you a new nest."
Animal cubs are different from human cubs and grow very fast. So this time he decided to build a permanent wooden house for the animals that can accommodate them even when they grow up.
"Wow! New den!" The little wolf cub jumped up happily.
"We want a new den too!" The tiger brother and sister had long coveted the wolf cubs' wooden hut.
"Okay, I'll make a new nest for you all." Li Mu squatted down and touched them one by one. There was a lot of space in the yard anyway.
"Li Mu, we want a new nest too." The little golden eagle also clung to Li Mu and rubbed against him.
"You have to learn to build your own nest, otherwise how are you going to find a partner in the future?"
"It's okay if the nest built by our parents is not good?" The third little golden eagle still remembers the rainy night when the nest built by their parents fell apart.
".Okay, but you also have to learn how to build a nest."
"We have a new nest too!" The little golden eagles happily spread their wings and flew around in the yard.
Li Mu shook his head, not knowing whether the little golden eagle had heard what he said.
Li Mu put the chainsaw into the bed of the pickup truck, and carried a group of excited kids into the car. Brother Nan drove the car steadily towards the forest area.
The thing that is most abundant in the forest is wood. A storm will blow down many trees and even uproot some trees.
"There's one over there." Brother Nan ran towards a big tree lying on the ground.
"This tree fell too long ago, and the wood is a bit rotten." Li Mu walked over, took a look and shook his head.
You still need to find solid wood to make a nest for the cubs.
"Oh." Brother Nan scratched his head and continued searching in the woods.
The cubs were walking and playing in the woods, chirping and making a lot of noise.
"Li Mu, come quickly!" Brother Nan waved from a distance, "There's one here, it must have fallen not long ago."
"This is Liaodong Oak. Its characteristic is that the wood is hard and it is a good material for making furniture." Li Mu walked to Brother Nan and saw a tree more than ten meters high lying on the ground with its roots exposed, but it was not dead yet.
"It must have been blown down by the storm a while ago."
"Hey, just say that Brother Nan has good luck." Brother Nan looked at Li Mu with a proud face.
"Yeah." Li Mu responded unconsciously. He was thinking about how to bring the fallen tree back.
"Hmph, it's true that men are all big pigs!"
Brother Nan glared at Li Mu who was perfunctory and said, "I'll go get the chain saw from the car."
(End of this chapter)
