Chapter 239 The snowy owl chicks are about to hatch.
In the next few days, He Qianqian's family continued to go to the fields with their children.
Not every farm work is suitable for youngsters to do. For the few jobs they can do, they are only allowed to do them for half a day to get some exercise.
The exposure to agricultural knowledge and the development of working habits are permeated into every day of accompanying the father and mother.
The rest of the time, the cubs played on the big trees at the edge of the field.
The adults spent the whole day in the fields, sowing, fertilizing, weeding, thinning out seedlings, planting sweet potato vines, planting potatoes, pruning fruit trees, etc.
When the important and urgent work in the fields was almost done, Azhu and his team crossed the isolation zone of the core residential area and went to the periphery to continue burning the grass and reclaiming the land step by step according to the plan.
Flat plots of land with deep soil were developed into new farmland.
Slopes or ridges with a lot of gravel can be planned as orchards to plant economic fruit trees such as durian, grapes, hops, apples, cashews, rubber, etc.
For the entire Cuiluan Valley, we will try our best to maintain the original ecology and make reasonable development on this basis.
As for the passage from the valley to the outside world, it is currently through the air or underwater.
When the cubs grow up a little more, we may consider digging a ground passage to connect directly to the outside world.
This place will be the territory of Ye Qianmu and He Qianqian's family for generations to come.
It’s actually quite good that there is no external access, it’s a relatively closed paradise.
The cubs grow up freely and happily here, and there are countless grassy and gentle slopes where they can frolic freely.
The main theme is to indulge one's nature and be infinitely happy.
Not only the cubs were free to roam, even the three goats captured from the Golden Cat Tribe lived a relaxed and happy life here, taking walks by themselves all day long.
On the first day when the goats arrived, Ye Qianmu and his companions specially built a sturdy sheepfold. A stone house was built in the sheepfold to protect against wind and rain.
The goats were kept in the sheepfold for three days to allow them to get familiar with the environment.
On the fourth day, they are released. The cubs will drive the goats to the mountains to graze and play, forming a daily routine, fixed time, and fixed route.
One day when the cubs didn’t want to go herding the sheep, the three lambs came out of the sheepfold by themselves, went to the familiar hillside grass to eat grass and bask in the sun, and went to the stream to drink water when they were thirsty.
At dusk, they also know to return to the sheepfold as quickly as possible.
Even if you shout at the goats from a distance, they will happily run back home.
In the evening, the goats are fed with cereals or corn kernels, and some grass from weeding the fields.
Next to the sheep pen, there is a poultry pen, where Qingyu and Xiaobai raise pheasants, wild ducks and geese.
Xiaobai Xiaobin is responsible for feeding the birds on daily basis.
But Xiaobai and Xiaobin go back and forth to the Golden Cat Tribe every day. If they are delayed by something, whoever is free will feed the cats when they are not around.
When Azhu and his colleagues weed the fields on a daily basis, they would also collect the grass that goats and poultry like to eat and send it here.
During this period, Ming Gongyao and Hu Ling also followed Azhu to farm or reclaim wasteland.
Do it yourself and quickly accumulate farming and agricultural planting experience through hard work.
Farming is not something you can understand by just reading a book or listening to a few words from others. You must comprehend and accumulate knowledge through labor in the fields.
Even though they wore straw hats when going to the fields, they still got tanned.
In He Qianqian's eyes, the most handsome man in the world, Hu Ling and Ming Gongyao, were losing their white complexion and handsomeness day by day, and their tanned bodies were darker than before.
Every evening when He Qianqian was having dinner, she would look at the two people sitting in the dark at the table and sigh:
She could obviously make a living with her looks, and she was originally a beauty to behold, but now it’s hard to describe, it’s a waste of a gift from God.
It's all false that people who are naturally beautiful won't get tanned.
There is no head that cannot be tanned by the sun.
Her stunning mermaid husband was tanned into a farmer.
Even though the lights were off and it was pitch black, it felt just like before, but...
When the males were joking and playing, they no longer teased Hu Ling for looking effeminate and like a female.
Hu Ling was quite satisfied with this, feeling contented and at ease, and also felt that he had more masculine charm.
Every day, he would still find the right opportunity to show his presence around He Qianqian, make her laugh, listen to her sweet voice, and even if she scolded him a few times, he would still sleep well and happily.
As the winter wheat turned yellow and was ready for harvest, Jianze's twenty newly forged sickles were finally put to use after being sharpened.
On February 2, He Qianqian's family, who were harvesting wheat, suddenly received the long-awaited good news:
Snowy owl chicks are about to hatch.
Is there anything more important than the hatching of a baby snowy owl? Of course not.
He Qianqian threw down the sickle, turned around and ran towards the hot spring canyon.
The kids are Qianqian's followers. Without saying a word, they follow her in a mighty procession.
Lingye and others handed the sickles to Azhu and the others, and followed to watch the snowy owl cubs hatch.
After just a short delay, Qianqian and Zizi disappeared.
As a family, this is a moment that cannot be missed.
What's more, snowy owls are different from other animals in that they have imprinting phenomena.
In other words: when the protozoan of birds is just hatched, it will open its eyes and regard the first moving creature it sees as its mother, thus forming a lifelong attachment to it.
For the intelligent higher-level Snow Owl Orcs, there is also a phenomenon of atavism.
Snowy owl chicks will also imprint the first face they see deep in their souls.
It is said that on the day Qingyu hatched, Jianyu was also holding Jianze and staying by the incubation bed.
The first person Qingyu saw was probably Jianze, and from then on they were inseparable and became good friends who grew up together.
He Qianqian built a bridge with vines across the isolated river.
The cubs crossed the river, running faster than the other. They all wanted their snowy owl brother or sister to leave a lasting impression on their soul at first sight.
Even though He Qianqian transformed into a beast and ran breathlessly all the way, she unexpectedly became the last one, and the cubs all ran ahead of her.
Afraid of encountering danger on the road, after all, this was already the outer edge of the isolation zone, He Qianqian flicked her hand and released the Lang tree vine, allowing him to chase to the front of the team to protect the cub.
Ye Fengba, who was crawling in the front, looked back and didn't see her mother, so she crawled back immediately without hesitation.
Return to He Qianqian's side and stand shoulder to shoulder with her:
"Mother, I'll accompany you. Run slowly and don't fall."
He Qianqian felt warm in her heart: "Don't you want to be the first one to see little Snow Owl brother hatch?"
"I do want to, but if you miss your brother, you can still have your sister."
She tilted her head and thought for a while, then said:
"No matter who my brother sees first, he will definitely love mother the most."
He Qianqian pursed her lips and smiled, thinking that the female cub was comforting her.
Because she was afraid that her mother would miss the hatching of all 12 snowy owl chicks, she said that no matter who they saw first, they would definitely love her the most.
Such a lovely aunt, He Qianqian couldn't wait to hug her and kiss her.
But what Grandma didn't know was that not all 12 chicks would hatch at the same time, and no matter how slowly they ran, they wouldn't miss all of them.
While running, suddenly there were huge winged tiger and snowy owl beasts circling in the sky.
Jianze and Xiaobin didn't catch up with He Qianqian, and they were afraid that she and her cubs would run around in the woods and get into an accident, so they flew into the sky to keep watch.