Chapter 177: Cat Leader Is Amazing
Yun Jiao poked the cute wood carving: “My good friend.”
Yun Chen Bei looked at the wooden doll in her hand. Humanoid wood carvings were much harder to sculpt than animal shapes, and even so, his master had given him a lot of guidance to finish it.
Before that, three pieces of wood had been wasted.
Yun Chen Bei patted her head: “I’ll carve better ones for Jiao Jiao in the future.”
Yun Jiao nodded happily, no longer feeling so reluctant to part with it.
She had her Fourth Brother, and she would have many beautiful doll wood carvings in the future.
Old Mu was not here; he had gone out. Yun Jiao and Wang Hongfei stayed to accompany Yun Chen Bei for a while before leaving.
When they left, Big Black, almost eagerly, carried the two little fat dogs and brought them to Yun Jiao.
Its once majestic, glossy, and lustrous fur was now messy, and its ears and tail were still damp.
It was obvious that the two little fat dogs had chewed on them.
Big Black: Next time they bring their cubs, it’s running away!
Yun Jiao laughed with schadenfreude.
“Huh? Isn’t there a cat too?”
Wang Hongfei didn’t see the cat. That tabby cat looked quite dominant.
Speak of the devil, the Cat Leader emerged from the bamboo forest.
“Holy crap!”
Wang Hongfei’s eyes widened as he looked at the cat.
Because the tabby cat was currently carrying a large, fat mouse and walking over.
How big was it?
It looked only a little smaller than the tabby cat.
“A bamboo rat! This cat actually caught such a big bamboo rat!”
Yun Jiao squatted down. The Cat Leader, bravely and proudly, carried the bamboo rat to her and directly dropped the fat mouse from its mouth.
There were still bloodstains around its mouth. Yun Jiao touched its belly and knew that the big cat had eaten its fill before returning with prey.
“Meow~”
The tabby cat very dominantly pushed the fat bamboo rat closer to Yun Jiao.
The human, the cat has brought back prey for you.
Yun Jiao stroked the tabby cat’s chin: “Cat Leader, you are amazing.”
After spending some time together, Yun Jiao knew that cats liked to be praised.
As expected, the Cat Leader’s tail wagged very happily.
Wang Hongfei was dumbfounded: “This… this is a gift from the cat to you?”
Yun Jiao nodded: “Yes.”
Wang Hongfei: “We also have a cat at home, which is a bit bigger than this tabby cat, so why hasn’t it gone hunting?!”
Of course, the cat they kept was an orange cat, and the only reason it looked bigger than this tabby cat was its plumpness.
This tabby cat, however, was strong. From its walking posture, one could tell the explosive power in its muscles.
Yun Jiao: “Cat Leader is amazing.”
Then she added: “Big Black is also amazing.”
They could both go out hunting and provide for themselves.
The Cat Leader would often bring back prey home, and many people in the village knew about it, envying their big tabby cat.
On the way back, Wang Hongfei looked at the tabby cat from all sides.
“No wonder they call it Leader, it’s a male cat. My big fat orange cat is female, so next time I’ll bring her to set up a matchmaking. If she can have kittens as excellent as this tabby cat, who can hunt and provide for themselves, that would be even better.”
Wang Hongfei’s thoughts were beautiful.
After the bamboo rat was brought home, the tabby cat was praised by Granny Yun, and she gave it a few dried fish.
The Cat Leader was not hungry but still ate some, making Granny Yun even happier.
“Grandma, I’m going to find Mom.”
She was bored staying at home as a child, so she put on her light yellow bucket shoes, picked up her tide pooling tools, and prepared to go out.
The weather had turned cool, so she was wearing long sleeves and long pants, and couldn’t wear slippers.
Wang Hongfei also carried a bucket and followed behind her: “Jiao Jiao, Cousin Uncle will go with you.”
Heh… he hadn’t been tide pooling yet.
Yun Jiao skillfully opened the chicken coop door. With a few clucks, the chickens, ducks, and geese that often went out with her waddled out in a line.
Then they followed Yun Jiao.
Wang Hongfei watched from behind, greatly surprised.
“Did you raise all of Jiao Jiao’s chickens, ducks, and geese?”
Yun Jiao nodded: “Yes.”
The chickens, ducks, and geese had now completely molted.
The size differences were also evident.
The geese were the largest and quite domineering.
Among the five geese, there were two ganders and three geese.
All the ducks were female. Grandma also said she had chosen well; the female ducks would be used for sea duck eggs in the future.
There were more chickens, four roosters out of ten chickens, and the rest were hens.
They followed Yun Jiao, eating seafood or bugs and grasshoppers, and also had vegetable leaves or grass every day. Their diet was balanced with protein and they grew to be large.
Perhaps she had some talent for animal husbandry, as none of the chickens, ducks, and geese she raised had died so far. They were all lively and had survived to the present, and were larger than those raised by other families.
“Why are you carrying a basketball?”
Yun Jiao: “To see if the orca will come today.”
Since everyone’s arms were strained the last time they went out to sea, they hadn’t gone out for several days, and her father and the others were busy with farm work.
Yun Jiao took the opportunity of tide pooling to bring her basketball to play with the orcas.
It was in the nearby sea area.
They had been playing for several days.
“Orca?! Is it the same big orca I know?”
Wang Hongfei, not being from this village, was unaware of much of the news.
He felt as if Yun Jiao was speaking in riddles.
Yun Jiao walked along the coast to the tidal flats. Seeing no orcas, she decided to go tide pooling first.
If she encountered small shrimp or small fish on the shore, the chickens and ducks following her would stretch their necks and gobble them up.
Yun Jiao found a spot to stop and then tapped the bucket with a small stick.
Dong dong dong…
Hearing this sound, the chickens, ducks, and geese that had been following her scattered to find their own food.
The children had grown up and no longer needed Yun Jiao, their ‘mother,’ to help them find food.
The chickens’ claws were adept at digging for things in the ground, and they would peck at anything edible.
They could eat it mixed with sand without any problem.
The ducks and the big white geese preferred to eat snails or clams. Their flat beaks were surprisingly strong, capable of crushing and eating snails or clams with thin shells.
For the tougher ones, they were also smart and would peck them against stones to break them.
In short, Yun Jiao didn’t need to worry about them.
Even the two dogs at home knew how to find things in the tidal flats.
Their sense of smell was keen. Although they didn’t use air vents to find things like humans, they would press their dark noses to the sand and sniff around. When they found something, they would happily dig with their paws.
They couldn’t catch the fast ones, but they were accurate with slower-moving ones, like cat’s eye snails and clams.
Then, with something in their mouths, they would trot happily towards Yun Jiao.
This mode of tide pooling was unprecedented. At least, Wang Hongfei had never seen anyone tide pool like this before.
For a moment, he was mesmerized.
“No, these dogs you raised are like spirits.”
They were still so small and already knew how to help find things.
Yun Jiao squatted by a reef puddle and discovered something in the crevice beneath the reef.
“No, I’ve been teaching them for a long time.”
She had also taught them very hard.
