Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 510 - 466: Beating my cub at 3 a.m. and not even calling me!
Chapter 510: Chapter 466: Beating my cub at 3 a.m. and not even calling me!
Mama Panda is in confinement, truly living the life of having food served and bamboo shoots handed to her.
Little Sen and two assistant keepers chop bamboo and dig bamboo shoots every day, their faces barely able to contain their smiles.
Aside from feeding, they really haven’t interfered with Mama Panda caring for her cubs at all. Even when the panda cubs occasionally cry out from hunger, their hearts tighten, and they shed tears while biting their fists on the side, but they never actively interfere.
But with so many years of experience raising multiple children, Mama Panda surely has some know-how.
As long as food keeps coming, she takes care of the two little cubs with ease.
Perhaps knowing the difficulty of raising cubs alone in the wild, Mama Panda took the initiative to seek help at the first aid station.
On the third day, the center’s leadership also came to take a look, but didn’t dare get too close, only watched from the monitoring room before sending in plenty of nutritional supplements and, invariably, money.
"I estimate Mama Panda won’t leave here until the cubs can move independently. This money is for buying nutrients like nutrition powder to supplement food. You all must take good care of them."
After sending off the leadership, Chen Ying took a new stainless steel bowl from the storeroom, cleaned and disinfected it, then put in some fruit. Then Professor Bai placed the bamboo tips he had personally dug and cleaned into the bowl.
Little Sen, the slyest, went to the kitchen upon seeing this, took out a freshly made steamed bun from the morning, and put one in.
The two keepers exchanged glances; one took a bamboo cake, the other made a "Kanto stew" with bamboo tubes.
Xiao Shen, normally not responsible for giant pandas, saw it and cried out in protest, accusing them of unfair play, and ran off to discuss with Old Gao over the phone, representing their bird-keeping friends, and placed a red envelope full of money inside.
They don’t know what to feed, so they just gave money to save up for the cubs’ upbringing fees, planning to buy the best fruit when they grow older.
In the afternoon, people from the protection station came, bringing lots of toys all prepared for the little cubs.
They were first stored in the warehouse, to be installed in the forest once the cubs are able to move around.
"By the way, Mr. Bai, Brother Ying, the station received calls from many travel agencies these past few days, hoping to visit on the day the two cubs reach a hundred days old, and wanting to organize a hundred-day banquet for the cubs."
Secretary Xiao Yu added, "I’ve heard too, the station chief is quite troubled. Wants the traffic but doesn’t want to disturb the cubs."
Chen Ying actually considered this issue; satisfying them is easy, just live-stream.
This coincidentally happens before the November snow blocks the mountain. In November, climbing the mountain means dealing with icy roads, and the viewing trails become slippery, which generally stops tourist studies. Plus, it’s a school and work period, so not many people will come.
"So, let’s arrange it for the last weekend of October. We’ll hold a two-day banquet for the two cubs. You don’t need to worry about the money; I’ll have someone coordinate with the station’s finance. But you need to arrange the chefs and venue ahead of time. It’ll be held at the station, with outdoor broadcasting."
By the end of October, there’s essentially no rainy days, perhaps occasional light snow, and setting up a canopy will suffice.
Aside from the panda cubs, other cubs were born in the mountains too, but they just don’t have the same fame.
At three months, giant panda cubs have just learned to crawl, but their future beauty is already apparent.
Like human babies, before they know how to run around, that’s when they are the cutest. (From the sentiments of their parents)
After the "100-day celebration" ceremony, Chen Ying opened an account for the babies in the name of the first aid station, with the first funds being the gifts from their godparents.
The next morning, Dao Meihua called Chen Ying, asking him to contact a number.
"This is a small fund established in the name of Jiamu Gully First Aid Station, specifically for rescuing orphaned animal cubs. Previous directed donations can also be injected into this fund, operated by professionals."
Being from a business background, while engaging in commerce, the Dao family never forgot about the attention and contributions towards wildlife protection.
"This fund is jointly named under my aunt and me; each of our year-end bonuses will allocate one percent into the fund."
Chen Ying hissed in astonishment.
One million is ten thousand, not to mention these two goddesses’ bonuses far exceed this amount.
Although Dao Meihua stated clearly it’s limited to year-end bonuses, the first aid station only rescued so many cubs in three to four years, and there are already national subsidies and center disbursements, so the actual amount needed to be supplemented by them is minimal.
The protection station edited the video of the two twin cubs’ "100-day celebration" and uploaded it to the official account, while announcing another video will be released on their hundred-day mark. After that, whether they can be seen again will depend on fate.
Their mother is a feral cat, and the two little ones are feral cats too. Once they are able to move, they’ll definitely leave the bustling environment of the first aid station.
The area up to the Old Northern Gully belongs to Great Bai and Jiaojiao’s territory, while Mendun’er’s territory is adjacent to Great Bai’s, on the other side of Old Bear Gully.
Judging by the siblings’ care for their mom and Mama Panda’s age, she’ll likely choose to settle north of Big Bear Gully, toward Snow Mountain’s direction.
That place is pretty good, not too close or far, and rarely visited.
Highest elevation is about 3800 meters, with an expansive arrow bamboo forest.
Between this mountain west of Old Northern Gully and another, there’s a small creek two meters wide. Even when snow blocks the mountains in winter, there’s no worry of water shortage. freeweɓnovel~cѳm
The only hassle is that area also belongs to the tiger’s domain. Though the tiger only appears once in a year or two, no one knows if it’ll show up this winter.
In the past, Chen Ying and the others used to intervene in animals’ wintering choices, but now they’ve learned to respect animals’ decisions.
If Mama Panda chooses to leave with the cubs, she certainly has the confidence to raise them well.
Moreover, during winter, Chen Ying can still visit occasionally, bringing steamed buns and bamboo shoots to feed the family of three.
However, Little Sen secretly asked him whether this giant panda with these two cubs would have the same forgetfulness as Sesame.
For this reason, Chen Ying specifically applied for a collar, and when they left, he decisively put it on!
It’s a bit early to think about that now, the most important thing is to take good care of Moon Mother and son.
Ten days after the two cubs were born, their shoulder straps, limbs, and ears gradually turned black, and you could see what they’d look like when they grow up.
From now on, both of them are male, and Second Cub is about the same size as his brother, just slightly quieter.
Big Zai has the demeanor of Mendun’er’s three kids, a fresh-out-the-oven Whistle Spirit number four.
The situation looks pretty good so far, so Chen Ying urged Little Sen and Mengmeng to quickly get their tasks done, while he and two auxiliary keepers, plus outside guidance from Mr. Fan, would be enough to care for Cat Mother and the two babies.
Then, on the third morning after Little Sen and Mengmeng left, Jinya rushed over like crazy to find Chen Ying.
Leopard Brother and Leopard Sister, who were sunbathing on the roof, were startled and nearly slipped off.
Luckily, the design of the confinement room included soundproofing to minimize external noise impacts on Mama Bear’s family, otherwise the panda might’ve rushed out to give Jinya a big surprise.
"Hurry, hurry, they’re fighting. A street rat and a giant black and white bear are fighting."
Chen Ying hurriedly soothed Jinya, "Don’t rush, take it slow, what’s exactly going on?"
"Little Jin and I took the cubs to Old Bear Gully, planning to catch a small deer for a change, but as soon as we got there, we saw a huge black and white bear sitting on the opposite side eating. Then the street rat suddenly rushed over and roared at it, and they started fighting."
"Besides the street rat, did you see the young female bear and the cub?"
"No, didn’t see them. I told Little Jin and the cub to find the young female bear. Don’t know if they’ve found her or not."
Jinya was very anxious, circled around twice and rushed out again.
Leopard Sister and Leopard Brother had already left first. When they left, they sniffed at the crack in the door and Leopard Sister even rolled over in Mama Bear’s eating spot.
Chen Ying didn’t understand what this meant, but he believed Leopard Sister wouldn’t act without reason.
After greeting Professor Bai, he picked up the visit box and chased after them.
When he got to Old Bear Gully, he hadn’t even seen the gully yet, but he heard the bear’s roar.
It sounded somewhat familiar?
Curious, he rushed forward more than ten meters, and saw Leopard Brother and Leopard Sister lying on stones staring ahead, while Mendun’er sat beside them, clutching a tender bamboo shoot.
"What’s happening? Why are you here watching the commotion?"
"Don’t go over; those two used to often fight. They won’t hit each other seriously, don’t worry."
Mendun’er hummed while eating, "That bear must be the dad of the two cubs Mother Panda gave birth to, I guessed it."
Then Chen Ying realized that the panda fighting was most likely the male panda that had previously occupied this territory.
Back then, it was chasing Sesame and its mom away, and Chen Ying thought they had parted ways midway, unexpectedly it would come back.
Is it coming for Cat Mother and the children?
Don’t male pandas typically don’t recognize others after leaving? Has this one changed?
Could another affectionate wild cat emerge in the panda circle aside from Great Bai?
While he pondered over this briefly, the two fighting had already separated.
There were minor injuries, some fur was even plucked exposing skin, but if they meant to fatally harm each other, there wasn’t any.
The street rat cursed as it walked back, and in the direction it ran off, a half bear head could be seen hiding behind a tree.
Little Jin and the lynx cub are likely hiding in the trees over there.
The male panda was standing on the ground, staring fiercely at the street rat’s back, and after calming down for a while, skillfully crossed the river from a stone pier.
Leopard Brother, Leopard Sister, and Mendun’er scattered immediately; Jinya didn’t forget to bite Chen Ying’s trousers before leaving.
"Let’s go, let’s go, this guy is very fierce."
It seems like everyone doesn’t want to mess with it.
Chen Ying hesitated for a moment, then retreated according to their flow.
Only, his speed wasn’t as fast as the animals’. Two or three minutes later, he heard a bear’s roar behind him.
When Chen Ying turned around, he saw the bear glaring at him with fierce eyes, seemingly ready to jump over in the next moment.
What’s going on? Isn’t it said that giant pandas generally don’t conflict with humans?
Is it because it lost its wife and children that it’s turned against the world?
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