When the leaves began to turn yellow, Damao had grown from a bald little chick into a larger chick that was not so bald.
In fact, there is no need to emphasize baldness.
Heath carefully combed the down feathers of his chick, making them look fluffy, soft and downy, and chirped at Yuying's feet to show his courtesy.
When Yuying was working, he would help by picking up a small vine branch or pressing the river mud with his paws. When Yuying was taking a break, he would look for an opportunity to come closer and, relying on his round and cute fur ball appearance, would snuggle into Yuying's arms.
The hormones of the early spring made Heath instinctively move closer to the object that stimulated his hormones, and in the last lingering heat of late summer, Yuying, who was shirtless, allowed him to happily and contentedly touch her skin.
Can you call their feathered male courtship behavior shameless
Qi Guang attributed Damao's behavior of following him to the imprinting instinct of a baby bird.
Although Da Mao has grown a little, he is still a big ball of fur that is no taller than his knees and as big as an emperor penguin chick. His small wings flutter and are not proportional to his kiwi-like body, making people doubt whether he can fly in the future.
When Qi Guang was shelling the dried corn, Damao would chirp and rub against his arms, put his paws on his knees and curl up, seeming very satisfied with this "nest".
The relatively high body temperature of the chick warmed Qi Guang's skin, like a hot water bottle that was just the right size. The weather in late summer and early autumn was beginning to get a little chilly, so Qi Guang adjusted the position of Damao on his knees, not rejecting this natural warm baby.
After the corn is basically dry, the corn kernels need to be removed from the corn cobs.
One reason is to save space as much as possible. After all, Qi Guang is the only laborer, and the area of the cellar and granary that can be built is limited, and there must also be space to store vegetables, dried meat and other food.
Secondly, corn cobs have many uses. Not only can they be used as fuel reserves in the winter, but they can also be chopped up and used to make cages for chicks. They can also replace sawdust in poop pits and are a great compost material.
After being exposed to the sun for many days, the corn has lost most of its moisture. The kernels have become shriveled and feel hard like pebbles.
Hand rubbing is the most basic way to thresh corn. You can rub off a lot of corn kernels by rubbing hard in the direction. If you can find the right gap, you can poke a whole row of corn kernels with a small wooden stick. It is very friendly to people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
A more labor-saving method is to rub two corn cobs together vigorously. The corn kernels shrink in size after drying and are not so stable on the corn cobs, so the corn kernels can be rubbed off relatively easily.
There are more advanced ones like the threshers in the system mall, with an electric one costing 50,000 points and a hand-cranked one costing 10,000 points. To be honest, with Qi Guang's current savings, he can barely buy a cheap hand-cranked thresher.
But ten thousand points is not a small number that can be squandered casually.
Qi Guang looked at the system mall and closed it again, and reiterated the survival rules to himself again.
If you can rely on yourself, don’t think about relying on the system. Every point should be saved and used effectively.
Moreover, husking corn is a very quick job once you get used to it. The work is monotonous but not boring, and he has a cute little helper who is always helpful.
As soon as Qi Guang took out the dry corn, the chicks dozing on his knees shook their down feathers and jumped down.
Big Hair, who still had some slight bald spots, picked up a corn cob from the corn pile, hugged it, rolled to the side, and clumsily used his wings, claws and small pointed beak to pick out the corn kernels one by one.
He was so well behaved that he didn't steal a single one.
After picking a corn cob, Da Mao would roll the bare corn cob in front of Qi Guang, puffing out his chest and belly and chirping. The way he flapped his wings proudly to seek credit was worthy of Qi Guang's petting.
After touching its head and then its round belly, Damao would contentedly roll another corn cob, preparing for the next touch.
Heath is a feathered male, a Phoenix male whose genetic instinct tells him to be independent and support his family. Even if the hardware does not allow him to do so and he can only eat and drink for free, he will work hard to be worthy of every bite of Yuying's food.
Heath has fully confirmed the fact that he and Yuying are stranded on Earth. Although there are many doubts about Yuying and the live broadcast, and there are many unreasonable things in the survival in the wilderness, these do not affect his understanding of their current situation at all.
Wandering in the wilderness, isolated and helpless, the cold season is approaching.
At this time, food was the most important treasure than anything else, but Yuying shared her precious food to feed the baby bird.
Maybe it had been done in the beginning to fatten him up for reserve food, but lately Heath could taste the flavor of meat in the corn paste he was fed.
No one would feed the already scarce meat to the grain reserves.
Heath judged that he had probably avoided the danger of being blamed by Yuying, and his current status should be more like a pet.
Humans are the most social creatures that feel lonely among all the intelligent species in the universe. After living alone in the wilderness for a month or two, a chick is a precious comfort.
Heath could understand Yuying's loneliness.
Although he was a chicken who was hated by the natives.
Heath was picking up corn kernels when he suddenly felt the wind blowing his down feathers. He immediately tensed up and got ready. When the claws of evil came, he flapped his wings and jumped up to give the stinky cat a kick.
The cat puffed up its tail and looked at the shameless bird that was pretending to be pitiful and trying to get into the arms of the two-legged beast as if it was terrified. It gritted its teeth and licked its claws, wanting to swallow it in one bite.
Let the wolf in!
There is nothing worse than letting a wolf into the house!
It was clearly caught to feed the two-legged animals with snacks, but how come it was kept by the two-legged animals when it had a fight with the dogs next door without them noticing
The cat's eyes were gleaming with anger, and it wished it could skewer the sparrows and roast them.
Heath squatted in Yuying's arms, chirping and trembling, looking pitiful. There was no sign of the ferocity that could bite a cat so hard that it bleeds.
Although he can.
The Phoenix bird is a top predator, with sharp claws and beak that can be called a natural weapon. Even if a young bird pecks at it hard, it will be very painful.
The most important thing is that Heath has learned the fighting skills of his ancient ancestors without any instruction. He can not only peck, but also bite and twist the neck with his mouth. One bite will draw blood on the spot. The pain is so severe that the cat will doubt its life. From then on, it will be afraid to be too presumptuous to him.
Heath's beak is not a smooth pointy beak, but a sharp sawtooth shape. Here you can refer to the beak of a common species on Earth, the white goose, to understand the sour taste of a chick biting it and then twisting it hard.
And geese are herbivores, while Phoenix birds are at the top of the food chain... omnivores.
It was best to eat meat, but if there was no meat, it would just chew grass and eat fruit. With its completely non-picky eating habits, it outlived a large number of its contemporary enemies and became one of the earliest birds to evolve into a feathered animal species in the physiological sense.
The weak, pitiful and helpless little chick was shivering in Qi Guang's arms, and the cat that was eating lemons from the tree was baring its teeth and glaring at him ferociously.
What a Shura scene.
The audience applauded and said they loved the drama of the furry creatures competing for favor.
Tearing open a bag of snacks, this fight for favor is more exciting than a web drama.
I like it when I start tearing it apart right away!
I also want to be envied by the furries... Yingying is a winner in life and needs no explanation.
Some viewers were even so absorbed in the drama that they were ready to start a quarrel over whether it was the cat or the mouse.
Our Da Mao is so well-behaved and young, but still he is bullied by the cat. I feel so sorry for him qaq.
Rub the big hair, he must have been scared just now.
Such a small cat is so scheming! Our cat has been bitten before!
Bai Lian's scheming is beyond explanation! I feel sorry for my cat who is too naive. Yingying, you need to open your eyes!
Our Da Mao was swallowed by a cat before! It was still a baby!
The big cat is bullying the little Chuchu! Bah!
The flying comments made Qi Guang feel as if he had accidentally walked into the scene of a quarrel between some young handsome guys. There were also people who were fanning the flames and their tone seemed to have its own sound effects.
Tear! Tear louder!
Qi Guang felt that this was the way to arrange the stars.
He put down the half-rolled corn cob in his hand, rubbed the big fur on his knees soothingly, and waved to the cat with its fur standing up in disdain a few steps away, "Come here."
If he doesn't resolve the internal conflicts in the family (not really), he won't be able to work well.
I really hope that Big Hair and the Cat can understand his desire as a two-legged creature to survive, and let him store food for the winter in peace.
The cat glanced at Qi Guang out of the corner of its eye, then turned its head to the side and pretended not to see it.
snort!
Qi Guang thought about it and waved his hand again, "Be obedient and come here."
The cat meowed, as if to say, "Why did I come here?"
Very fierce.
"Ahem." Qi Guang lowered his head and looked into Damao's small black eyes. He chose to take Damao off his knees first and patted his knees again, "Be good..."
Before he could even finish the second half of the sentence, the cat appeared and pushed away the aggrieved chick, rested its big head on Qi Guang's knees, and skillfully purred for wanting to be petted.
Qi Guang scratched the cat's chin.
The cat squinted in comfort.
Qi Guang stopped and tried to pick up Da Mao, who was squatting obediently on the side.
The cat opened his eyes in a second.
stare--
Qi Guang looked at Damao's black eyes, and Damao blinked and made soft chirping sounds.
Under the murderous eyes of the cat, Qi Guang firmly hugged Damao.
"Be good." Qi Guang held Damao in one hand like a baby, and used his free hand to stroke the cat's fur. "You must get along well. Good children should not quarrel."
Upon hearing this, Damao barked twice in response, his little voice was soft and tender, and he was so well-behaved and adorable.
Look, look, I'm so well-behaved. Am I particularly suitable to be a long-term home companion (pet)
"Right." Qi Guang rubbed the two new tufts of hair on the big cat's head and repeated to the cat, "We can't quarrel or fight."
The cat refused to cooperate and yawned loudly, then raised its chin to signal the two-legged beast to scratch faster.
Tsk, next time you'd better refrain from touching this bird in front of the bipeds, otherwise the bipeds won't be so enthusiastic about petting it.
As for how Mao and Jiu were confronting each other behind the scenes like a battle between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law (?), that was beyond Qi Guang's knowledge.
In short, on the surface, after Qi Guang's mediation, Mao and Jiu reluctantly shook hands and made peace, but in front of Qi Guang, they were clearly separated and ignored each other.
Qi Guang was very satisfied.
As long as there is no fighting, no quarreling and it doesn't affect him, and he can do his work well, that's enough.
The last tail of summer is gradually slipping away in the busyness (and competition for favor), and the sudden drop in temperature after a rain heralds the arrival of autumn.
The corn had been threshed and dried again before being bagged. Qi Guang specially exchanged some large snakeskin bags from the system mall to better preserve the hard-earned food.
As soon as the temperature dropped, Qi Guang put on a small woolen vest and half woolen trousers - when the weather gets colder, he can add a section of the trouser legs to make them long trousers. The half woolen trousers are just right for the current temperature.
It seemed as if autumn had arrived overnight.
The forest changed from lush green to golden yellow. The leaves on the branches became fewer and fewer every day, but the fruits on the branches became riper every day.
During this harvest season, Qi Guang’s winter house was completed.
It was not a very beautiful house. The small one-room house looked like a shoddy and dilapidated building, but it was the best reward for Qi Guang's hard work throughout the summer.
Throw flowers to celebrate! Yingying has a new home!
Watching Yingying build the house all the way, it was really not easy.
Getting rich and becoming well-off was all the result of Yingying's blood and sweatqaq.
Seeing Yingying working so hard, I was very moved even though I knew it was a simulation...
I won't say anything more, I'll give Yingying a big bash! Salute to celebrate the completion of Yingying's hut!
I'll contribute my krypton gold to Yingying! It's better to raise Yingying than to play games! Raising Yingying is a hundred times more fun than playing games!
Yingying never lets us down! She will definitely get better and better in the future!
[Heaths]: Congratulations. [Starship]*n
[Heaths]: Come on. [Starship]*n