"We don't want it. It's your own cub, so go and take care of it yourself. At most, we'll bring you some more beef later."
However, Du Ruo did not think of taking the little clouded leopards in. With a wave of his hand, a gentle force surged out and pushed the two little clouded leopards back to their mother.
Then he left without looking back, carrying Xiang Yuanyuan on his back.
"What? Can't bear to part with you?"
Du Ruo didn't look back, but he also felt Xiang Yuanyuan's regret.
"No, I just feel it's a pity. The two little guys are so cute..."
Xiang Yuanyuan lay on Du Ruo's back. Although she said that she was fine, her tone was full of regret.
"There are very few clouded leopards in the wild. It would be better to let them breed naturally outside. I have seen them. They are two female leopards. If I take them home, they will not be able to breed naturally. It's a pity."
Du Ruo smiled and comforted Xiang Yuanyuan. He didn't care about protecting animals at all. If he really wanted to find an excuse to adopt the animal, he believed that no one would make trouble for it.
"Is that so? Then we really shouldn't adopt them. Let them breed outside. Hehe, when we go back to the mountains in ten or twenty years, there might be a lot of clouded leopards to pet."
After listening to Du Ruo's explanation, Xiang Yuanyuan immediately dispelled the regret in her heart. Keeping wild clouded leopards in captivity because of her own selfish desires is far worse than letting them reproduce freely in the wild.
After hearing this, Du Ruo just smiled and continued on his way without saying anything.
In fact, Xiang Yuanyuan's idea is completely impossible.
Clouded leopards are small cats that hunt small prey such as monkeys, rabbits, squirrels, etc.
Hunting small animals means that they cannot live in groups, because the animals they hunt are small and can basically only meet their own needs.
That's why the clouded leopard mother sent her cub away. On the one hand, it was because she trusted Du Ruo, and on the other hand, it was to find a long-term meal ticket for the little clouded leopard cub.
Even if Du Ruo does not adopt them, after a while, when the clouded leopard cubs grow up a little, the mother clouded leopard will teach them hunting skills and then drive them away.
This is the nature of cats, just like stray cats will give their kittens away.
However, Du Ruo did not explain, but asked Xiang Yuanyuan to maintain an optimistic attitude.
……
For the next few days, Du Ruo stayed at home thinking about the kite form and bird platform form that he had learned from the red falcon on Guangmingding.
Although the Red Falcon's hunting was just a glimpse, with Du Ruo's current martial arts skills, a little insight plus his own exploration would be enough.
It only took a few days for Du Ruo to fully master the two forms, which greatly advanced the progress of "Three Flowers and Five Qi".
Finally, of the twelve forms of Xingyi, only the swallow form and the dragon form remained.
The shape of a swallow belongs to water, and Du Ruo has already mastered the meaning of water and the forms of flying birds. It seems that as long as he sees it in real life once, he will be able to fully comprehend the shape of the swallow. Now he just needs the finishing touch.
As for the dragon form, Du Ruo already had some clues, but it seemed that he was still missing an opportunity. Moreover, he had a feeling that this opportunity was not only a matter of comprehension, but also that his current level of "spirit" concentration seemed unable to support him to truly master the dragon form.
In this case, Du Ruo is not in a hurry and can just wait quietly for this opportunity to appear.
As Du Ruo's martial arts attainments deepened, the New Year arrived as expected.
Xiang Yuanyuan and Du Ruo also spent less and less time in their rented yard. Xiang Yuanyuan followed her mother to learn how to fry meatballs and make egg dumplings, and also prepared some special foods for the New Year.
Du Ruo and his father started hanging lanterns, pasting Spring Festival couplets and the like. His father has already resigned from all his positions in the village and is waiting to take his mother to travel around the country next year.
He will only come back if Xiang Yuanyuan becomes pregnant and needs their care.
As the New Year approaches, the originally deserted village begins to become lively, with cars parked in front of every household.
There are also many children in the village having fun everywhere.
The village, which used to be quiet at around eight or nine in the evening, is now bustling even after ten o'clock.
Of course, Du Ruo's house is definitely the most lively one.
As the saying goes, a poor person in a busy city has no one to care about him, but a rich person in a remote mountain area has distant relatives. With Du Ruo's fame on the Internet.
Many people from nearby villages and towns have recognized Du Ruo. Soon after, some relatives who were not related to him at all and whom Du Ruo had not had any contact with for many years, even those whose names Du Ruo could not even remember, showed up.
Nowadays, let alone young people, even people in their fifties know that traffic is money. So there are rumors outside that Du Ruo is now rich and making a lot of money.
In addition, Du Ruo built the house and bought the car, and the new car of his father that his mother promoted everywhere was also bought by Du Ruo, which further confirmed it.
So these days, people often come to the door with gifts, and the usual routine is to praise them first, praise Du Ruo, praise Xiang Yuanyuan, praise the car, and praise the house.
Then they played the victim, saying that business was not good, the children had to go to school, and the financial pressure was great. In short, the final purpose was two words: borrow money. They didn't intend to write an IOU, but only said that they would pay the money back as soon as possible. They just wanted to borrow 300,000 or 500,000 yuan.
What’s even more infuriating is that there are quite a few people who say that they have had bad luck recently, have lost a lot of money, and will not be able to celebrate the New Year, and then they ask to borrow money.
At the beginning, Du Ruo would chat with them for a while out of courtesy, but as there were more and more people like this, Du Ruo simply didn't show up.
He let his father and mother take care of everything, while he took Yaya to have fun in the village.
"Uncle, is it really okay for us to blow this up?"
At this time, Yaya and Du Ruo were squatting on the side of the main road in the village. There were also a few children who had returned from the city or town squatting together. Of course, there was also Maomao, who was covered in dirt. In front of them was a pile of cow dung that was not yet dry and was still wet.
There was a family in the village who raised a cow, which was sold during the Chinese New Year. This pile of cow dung was dropped by the cow when it was being loaded onto the truck.
I don’t know what happened, but no one cleaned it.
Originally, Yaya used to play with these kids. She would either fight with the big geese in the village with a stick, or follow the older kids to fry cabbage in the vegetable garden with firecrackers. No one knew where they bought the firecrackers.
It just so happened that someone came to Du Ruo's house today, so Du Ruo came out and played with them by setting off firecrackers.
"It's just frying cow dung. What's the problem? We used to fry cow dung when we were kids. It was exciting."
Du Ruo said this with a smile, then picked up the biggest firecracker from a big kid nearby and stuck it into the cow dung.
The cow dung was of just the right hardness and softness, and the firecrackers were very smooth when inserted into it. To achieve the best effect, Du Ruo even took a small stick and poked the firecrackers into it.
"Here, it's plugged in. Now you just use the incense to light the fuse. I tell you, when this explodes, it's going to be spectacular."
Du Ruo inserted the firecrackers, then motioned to the older child next to him to light them, while he was still describing what it would be like to have firecrackers explode cow dung.
The older child next to him usually lives in another place with his parents and only comes back to the village during the Chinese New Year. Du Ruo doesn’t know his name, but he is very brave and does not have the worry that Yaya has. Instead, he is eager to try. When he hears Du Ruo say that it can be lit, he puts the incense in his hand on the fuse without hesitation.
"Chichi~~"
For safety reasons, the fuse of today's firecrackers is still quite long, and the explosion time is actually extended. It is completely different from the firecrackers with white fuses that Du Ruo played with when he was a child. So after being lit, the firecracker makes a hissing sound and a wisp of smoke comes out.
The older boy who lit the fuse originally wanted to light it and run away, but when he saw Du Ruo didn't move and was still slowly adjusting his shoelaces, he retracted his foot that was about to run, and the few of them just watched the fuse burn.
"I'm just fixing my shoelaces, what are you waiting for?"
Du Ruo saw that the fuse was burned out, but the children showed no intention of running away. He said something and immediately turned around and ran out.
The movement of Du Ruo standing up was like a nimble monkey leaping up, and the force of his hips while running was like a tiger out of a cage.
The speed of the movement and the graceful posture made the children stunned. Behind Du Ruo was the swift Maomao. After Du Ruo stood up, it followed closely behind him. Although it was a little slower, it did not hesitate.
"Run!!"
The older child was smarter. When he saw Du Ruo running away, he let out a strange cry and then started running.
"Run!!!"
The other children only came to their senses at this time and tried to get up with strange cries.
But it was too late. No matter how long the fuse of today's firecrackers is, it would take at least three seconds for them to not explode.
"boom!!!!"
With a loud bang, the firecrackers in the cow dung broke apart.
It has to be said that today's firecrackers are far superior to the ones Du Ruo played with as a child, both in terms of sound and power.
The firecrackers exploded, and the cow dung that the people were surrounding disappeared. It wasn’t that it disappeared, but that it scattered like fairy flowers.
"Bah bah bah!!"
"Wow~~ Ugh~~"
"Woooooo~~"
Several children who were screaming and trying to escape just now were now crying and vomiting on the spot, and many were even holding things in their mouths.
“Hahahahahahahahahahahaha~~~~~”
Only Du Ruo stood more than ten meters away, looking at the children covered in cow dung, laughing so hard that he fell backwards. (End of this chapter)
