Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 314 What did the monkey say?
After lunch, after a few minutes of rest, the team continued on their way.

Fearing that Cheng Xinxin would be bored, Cheng He made her a simple slingshot.

Just take a random tree branch, tie a rubber band at both ends, and pick some unripe fruits at random, and you can use them as bullets.

It's no problem for Cheng He to drive this kind of road. It's not hard at all for him to teach his children how to shoot a slingshot while driving.

Cheng Xinxin learned quickly and was very interested in this kind of non-technical stuff.

The bullets are in her small pocket, sitting in the bamboo basket behind Cheng He, and she can aim and shoot at any time.

Anyway, it's just for fun, it doesn't matter if you don't aim correctly, what you hit is what you get.

Sometimes when he hits right on the wrong side, he can actually hit a leaf, which made Cheng Xinxin laugh out loud.

Lao Yang is also a slingshot enthusiast. Seeing that Cheng Xinxin played with a slingshot at such a young age, although she still couldn't aim, her posture was cute and she laughed from time to time.

The process of rushing was boring, and the people who came over from Taohua Village were joking and joking, at least they could divert their attention a little.

But Lao Yang and those animal experts basically walked in silence.

To be honest, Lao Yang is really a good player, regardless of his age, but he walked with the team for a day, and he just kept up.

Cheng Xiaohu saw that Cheng He had been carrying a child on his back for a whole day, so he ran over and said, "Uncle Heizi, are you tired from carrying a child all day? How about I carry it for you?"

A child, no matter how young, weighs dozens of kilograms, it’s okay to carry it for a while, but it’s a bit difficult to carry it for a day.

Therefore, he wanted to share the burden for Cheng He and carry him for a while.

Cheng He said with a smile: "It's okay, there's no need to replace me, I still have some strength."

More than that?
Now that there are outsiders, Cheng He himself has not shown his strength.

Carrying a child is still out of the question.

Another person asked Cheng Xiaohu: "Xiaohu, let's have a rest at night, what should we eat?"

Although they all brought dry food, they must also want to eat some game when they enter the mountains.

Anyway, the wages for this trip are based on time, so it doesn't matter if you spend some time doing foreign work.And it is not advisable to hurry at night, because most of the time is idle.

Cheng Xiaohu said: "You can fight whatever you want? There are not many things in the mountains now, so eat whatever you have."

Today's trip, I don't know if it's because of too many people, anyway, I didn't encounter anything along the way.

Or maybe it was because they were singing and roaring all the way, the sound was too loud, scaring those wild things away.

So, this group of people started chattering about the past again.

One guy said, "When I was a kid, my dad hunted a wild badger. It was delicious, and the meat was tough. Too bad I never saw it again. Tell you, I'm thinking about that now."

"At that time there were many things, but now there are few things. These things are protected and can't be encountered."

"Yes, I can't meet you."

"I used to always see some strange things, but now the woods are much quieter."

Not to mention ordinary villages, even deep mountains like Xiaolian Mountain can be noticed, and many animals are gone.

There are some things that the old people have seen and hunted, but the young people have only heard about it.

For decades, those things were either eaten up or escaped, and the woods became more and more empty.

I don't know what these forests will look like in a few decades.

Cheng Xinxin sat in the bamboo basket behind her, looked around, and when she heard a sudden "thumping" sound from a certain branch, she immediately turned her head away.

When she saw clearly that it was a monkey, she immediately shouted in surprise, "Dad, there are monkeys over there, there are monkeys over there."

She has been to the mountain several times, but she has never met it before. This is the first time she has seen it, so she is very surprised.

I've only seen them in zoos before.

Cheng He looked up and saw that it was a black monkey, which seemed to be an adult, jumping up and down among the branches, very cheerful.

Cheng He smiled and said, "Yes, monkey."

Monkeys are social animals, and there must be others nearby.It's just that they are on their way now and don't have time to find these.

He remembered that Cheng Xinxin had learned English words for monkeys in kindergarten, so he tested her by the way: "Xinxin, what do monkeys say?"

Cheng Xinxin was stunned for a moment.

So she quickly pricked up her ears and listened attentively. After a while, she said, "Dad, it said: squeak, squeak..."

She also imitated the monkey's "squeak" movement, baring her teeth and claws.

Cheng He burst out laughing.

With Cheng Xinxin behind him, he couldn't see what the child was doing.

He was still wondering why the child didn't make a sound for a long time. He thought it was because she forgot the English word, and now he was thinking about it.It turned out that I heard what the monkey said!
The brain circuits of children are different from those of adults.

Taking her out, the boring journey became very enjoyable.

Cheng Xinxin didn't know what her father was laughing at, but she always felt that his father was very happy, so she also laughed happily.

Happiness seems to be contagious.

After walking far away, the monkey's voice became less and less visible, Cheng Xin reluctantly waved her little hand to the monkey, and said in a milky voice, "Monkey bye!"

When the sun was setting, Cheng He proposed to camp and rest.

Lao Yang is getting old, let him rest earlier.

Anyway, there is still a long way to go, not bad.

Now, they are already within the range of Xiaolian Mountain, but they are still a little far away from the top of the mountain where the brown giant panda lives.

It will take at least an hour or two to get there tomorrow.

It is not advisable to walk at night in the mountains at night, and you will encounter various unexpected situations, so, while there is still light, set up camp early.

It happened that the terrain here was fairly flat.

Having expected to spend the night in the mountains, Cheng He brought a tent and other things.

Cheng Xinxin stood by the side, watching her father set up the tent.

She has spent several nights in the mountains, and now she accepts it very calmly, and doesn't think it's a big deal.Anyway, as long as there is Dad, nothing is a problem.

When Cheng He set up the tent, the rest of the people had already started to light the fire, tidy up, and look for water.There are many people, enough staff.

There was nothing serious about going out this time, so someone brought a pot.

Bring a pot, build a stove casually, light a fire, and you can drink hot water. This is a good way to relieve after a day of sprinting in the wild.

Cheng Xiaohu and the others had already discussed along the way, and they would go hunting for a while during the break.

He ran over and said, "Uncle Heizi, let's go and see what we can get. You don't have to go, just eat with us later."

Cheng He was busy setting up the tent, and said, "How dare you?"

"What are you sorry about! Uncle, just rest here, you are tired after a day with your heart, we will come soon."

"Hey, thank you then. I'll bake for you later."

"Okay, that's the deal." Cheng Xiaohu said, picked up the thing he was carrying and ran away.

"You guys, be careful." Cheng He confessed loudly.

"Well, don't worry." The people over there had already run away.

In the mountains in spring, it was still very cold in the middle of the night. Cheng He himself found a pile of dead branches nearby, lit a fire from someone else, and lit a fire.

For the sake of the children, he brought the tent, but the rest of the young people were too lazy to carry it. They still only brought an ordinary quilt to sleep on, and the two of them squeezed together.

It doesn't matter if it's cold, anyway, if you start a fire, you are young people who can handle it.

Cheng Hesheng got on the fire, put the rice cake he brought over on a stick, roasted it over the fire, and let Cheng Xinxin eat something hot.

Cheng Xinxin obediently sat on the rock beside her, waiting for her father to bake it for her.

Rice cake is originally a slightly sweet food, and it can be eaten as it is, or it can be eaten with radish sauce.

But now, Cheng He took out the condiment bottle he brought and sprinkled some on the rice cake.

The baked rice cakes are dipped in seasonings, which is a bit like eating crispy rice in a snack bag. It is crunchy and delicious.

After finishing it, he handed the branch covered with rice cakes to Cheng Xinxin, and said, "Be careful it's hot."

Cheng Xinxin took it, and after hearing that it would be hot, she said coquettishly, "Dad, blow it up."

Cheng He took it again and said, "Don't you know how to blow it yourself?", while still blowing it to her seriously.

Cheng Xinxin sat on the rock, with her elbows resting on her knees, her cheeks resting on her palms, and she watched happily as her father blew rice cakes on her.

Cheng He blew on it for a while, and it felt almost cold. He put it on his lips to test the temperature, then handed it to Cheng Xinxin, and said, "Eat, baby."

Cheng Xinxin immediately took it, put it in her mouth and bit it, it was crunchy with a bang.

She asked curiously, "Dad, is this the kind of rice cake we eat at noon?"

"Yup."

"Then why is it different?"

The one I ate at noon was obviously a bit soft, but now it is so crispy.

"That's because Dad baked it, so it's crispy." Cheng He replied.

No matter how simple the child's question is, he will seriously answer it.

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