I raise furry animals and fly them to my motherland.

Chapter 66 Neighborhood Committee Mediator
The gray drongo is a little language genius and can imitate the calls of other birds.

When birds of prey that eat small birds approach, the gray drongo will imitate the calls of other birds to notify them and protect birds that have no competitive relationship with itself. This shows that the gray drongo has a very kind nature.

Xu Ying squatted down and asked the meerkats, "Gray Curly Tail has been working with you for so long, but he only recently started making false police reports. Don't you find it strange?"

The angry meerkats looked at each other in confusion when they heard this, as if this was the case.

[Then it shouldn't tease us, making us feel uneasy every time we dig for food.]
[Yeah, we can't tell if the alarm is real or not, but we have to run when we hear it. If it's real, we'll be dead.]
This is very similar to the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." If a person was teased like this, he would have lost his temper long ago.

"What the Gray-tailed Sparrow did is indeed unethical, but there may be a misunderstanding. How about I help you communicate?"

"After all, didn't it help you several times when it served as a sentry to scout the air situation for you?"

Xu Ying felt like she was reasoning with a group of children: "It would definitely be better to have it help keep watch, right?"

[That's true, it has helped us before, but now it's too much.]
As a migratory bird, the gray drongo will fly from the northwest to Southeast Asia to spend the winter before winter comes.

It is already early November, but the gray drongo has not left the desert yet. It is estimated that it will spend the winter here.

"Now that winter is coming, it might be afraid of running out of food and is eyeing the food you dug up. However, this method is not very ethical."

Xu Ying glanced at the Haloxylon ammodendron tree where the gray curly-tailed drongo was and said, "Can I help you communicate with it?"

The meerkats looked at each other and nodded their heads.

The gray-tailed sparrow was hiding in a nearby tamarisk tree at this time, poking its little head out to secretly look at Xu Ying and the meerkats.

After being discovered by Xu Ying, it immediately hid among the leaves.

"Gray-tail, why didn't you go south for the winter? Did you fall behind?"

Xu Ying's words hit the sore spot for the gray drongo. It poked its head out, nodded aggrievedly, and chirped softly: "The other migratory birds are flying south for the winter. I'm injured and missed the last group to fly south. I'm left alone and can only stay in the desert."
It turned out that I missed the last train of the "Spring Festival travel rush".

Xu Ying continued softly, "Are you worried that there won't be enough food in winter, so you came up with this idea to steal the meerkats' food?"

The gray curly-tailed cat nodded guiltily.

"If you're short of food, you can communicate with them. You can help them keep watch, and they'll share their food with you. You're just a little bird, so you can't eat much anyway."

The gray curly-tailed croaker tilted its head.

I was afraid that if I told them they wouldn't agree, and then when they saw me around, they wouldn't come over to dig for food, and I would have nothing to eat.
"You can't resort to robbing, that can only solve the problem temporarily, but it will only intensify the conflict."

The intelligence of most adult animals is similar to that of kindergarten children. Xu Ying needs to explain things clearly so that they can understand the reason.

If Xu Ying had not communicated and mediated, both parties would probably have suffered losses today.

"If things get serious, not only will you not be able to get food, but you'll also attract their hatred and endanger your life." [The bird was wrong.]
The gray drongo lowered its head, and its feathers had become quite bald due to the fight.

Xu Ying waved at it: "Come down, I'll apply some medicine and disinfect your wound, so it will heal faster."

The gray drongo landed obediently in Xu Ying's palm and let Xu Ying apply medicine on it.

The gray curly-tailed cat looked up at Xu Ying's serious face: "You're so kind. You're so gentle."
It was the first time that Xu Ying was praised by a bird, and her face turned red with embarrassment.

Under Xu Ying's mediation, the gray drongo and the meerkat reached a cooperation agreement. The gray drongo helped to keep watch, and the meerkat shared food with it, on the condition that the gray drongo would not make false alarms again.

Qiao Yuxi observed Xu Ying's communication from the side, finding it quite amusing. She whispered, "Stationmaster, you look like a mediator for the Animal Community Residents Committee."

Xu Ying was stunned when he heard this, then he laughed. It was true, but the demands of the little animals were actually not as complicated as those of humans, and there were not so many twists and turns. This ideological work was still easier than that of the neighborhood committee, and there was no need to consider any personal relationships.

"I feel more like a kindergarten teacher trying to stop two kids from fighting."

What is kindergarten?
The meerkat poked its head out curiously, its long, curved claws looking like they had manicures done.

"A kindergarten is a school for humans, helping to care for and train human cubs."

After saying that, Xu Ying touched the meerkat's paw with his finger: "Did you find a glove? Can you give it to me? I'll exchange it for mineral water."

The most precious thing in the desert is water. As for food, meerkats have a unique diet, eating scorpions, centipedes, and venomous snakes. They are said to be immune to all poisons, and Xu Ying is helpless.

"That glove is very important. It can put the bad guys in jail."

[Gloves? Of course!]
[But we don't need mineral water, we just want to ask you for a favor.]
"We keep having half of our pups die while we're raising them. I wonder if there's something wrong with the way we're raising them. As a veterinarian, you should know more about this, right? Next time our queen gives birth, can we send her puppies to you so you can teach us how to raise them?"
The meerkat family is a matriarchal society, with the female leader being the queen. The other males and females in the family must give priority to taking care of the queen's children and ensuring their good birth and upbringing.

"Of course~"

Xu Ying successfully obtained the gloves after reaching a cooperation with the meerkat family.

She checked the message on her phone and Chen Su said that she and her colleagues had rushed to the coordinates she sent.

When Mo Bailing took her to find traces of fire, she had already taken photos and contacted Chen Su at the police station and sent the location.

Chen Su just sent a message saying that he has collected evidence in the area where there are traces of life.

Xu Ying asked Chen Su to wait for her and she would go over to meet him immediately.

Before leaving, she had one more important question for the meerkats: "By the way, you said you saw several people with hunting rifles randomly hunting wild animals in the desert. When did you see them? Where?"

The meerkat scratched his head: "It was recently. I can't remember how many days it was, but I remember the first time I saw those people with hunting rifles, our queen's cubs had just opened their eyes and are now almost weaned."
Xu Ying calculated based on the meerkat's birthing period: "Meerkat pups open their eyes around ten days after birth and are weaned within two months, so that's about a month and a half."