The Vash Continent is full of wind and snow all year round, the same every day.
The Washi Continent was named by Meng Jiuzhao because the Washi tribe lived here.
I don't know if other corners of this planet are as cold as this place. Since he was born, he has grown in a field of pure white, and white has become Meng Jiuzhao's most familiar color.
However, this year's Vash Continent seems to have undergone a small change.
Meng Jiuzhao was the first to discover this: Louis has lost his hair!
That night, Meng Jiuzhao slept under Black's wing as usual, and Louis crawled under Bai's wing to Meng Jiuzhao as always, and then hugged Meng Jiuzhao as usual, and Meng Jiuzhao, who fell asleep and fell asleep, let the two Cover yourself with wings.
In the early morning, Meng Jiuzhao was woken up by the heat.
Then he grabbed at random, vaguely feeling that he seemed to have pulled something off, but he was too sleepy at the time, so he continued to sleep. Until he woke up and saw a handful of fluff in his hand, he suddenly became sober.
Black's body is now full of scales, these hairs are naturally not his, then...
Meng Jiuzhao immediately saw Louis rolling aside.
"Chirp?" Louis asked puzzled after he checked the wing up and down.
"Sorry Louis, I fell asleep yesterday and grabbed all your hair. It hurts, right?" The Kantas cub's hair is very fine and dense, and it grows very firmly, so it doesn't easily shed (it was previously contributed to Meng Jiuzhao's work) The wool of the sweater is still a total of 3 shed in a year ==///), once the cub loses hair, it is a very serious matter, the small hair loss site may expand until alopecia areata, and may even die in the end! This is why Bai was so sad when he found out that he was losing hair.
Black and White are shedding their hair because they are about to become adults and their bodies are preparing for the changeling, but Louie is a real cub!
"Chirp~" Louis said that he didn't feel any pain at all.
Meng Jiuzhao looked at him with even more guilty eyes. He believed that Louis must be pretending because he was afraid of feeling guilty.
To express his apology, Meng Jiuzhao skipped class that day. He found Xuehua to ask him how to reweave an old sweater, and then spent a day tremblingly changing his old sweater into Louis's size, and put it on for Louis.
Louis, who was wearing Meng Jiuzhao's old clothes, was so happy that he wandered around the tribe all day, showing off his new clothes everywhere.
Well, close your eyes and imagine a chicken in a sweater.
In short, Louis is exactly what you imagined now o(╯□╰)o.
He himself thought it was beautiful, and he didn't take off his sweater when he went to bed at night. Bai tried to take it off forcibly but was pecked by him, so everyone had to let him sleep in that horrible sweater.
Then, the next day, something even worse happened, and the stupid hair on the top of Louie's head fell off.
Things got worse. Regardless of his objection, Meng Jiuzhao forcibly took off his little sweater, and a lot of fur fell off along with the sweater, making it fluffy all over the floor.
Louie became a skinny chick.
Things are getting worse.
Meng Jiuzhao had no choice but to tell the cause of the incident. He was very scared when he said it. If because of him, the healthy real Kantas cub Louis was broken, how angry would Black and Bai be
He was ready to be scolded. From birth to now, Meng Jiuzhao had never been scolded. He didn't know that being scolded was so sad.
Unexpectedly, Black and Bai did not blame him at all.
"Don't be afraid, baby, Louis will be fine." Blake hugged the timid Meng Jiuzhao, rubbed his head, "Louis' hair is very strong, you can't grab it with your strength."
Bai became a prototype, and started licking Louie's chick up and down. After eating a mouthful of hair, Louis, whose hair was finally smoothed out, looked really thin and lonely.
They didn't go out to look for food today, Black and Bai hurriedly hugged Louis and found Em next to him.
The Em family is still the neighbors of the Black family. After seven years of development, not only the Black family's lair has expanded several times, but the Em family's house has also expanded.
"Yo! Blake, you guys came so early today, I want to tell you good news, I'm a... grandpa!" Seeing Blake, Em couldn't help but share the good news with him.
"This is the baby born to the grandson of the sixth cub of my brother's fourth litter. Look, isn't it cute?" Em carefully pointed to the grass nest beside him.
"..." Meng Jiuzhao was embarrassed.
"What's wrong with Louis?" Soon after realizing that the expressions of Black and Bai were not quite right, Em approached them, and then saw Louis being hugged in Black's arms.
You know, Chicken Louis has always been as strong as a snow pig, so he won't let his father hug him easily, but now he is obediently curled up in his father's arms, which is not right in itself.
"Louis has lost his hair!" Black immediately said what he was anxious about, and after explaining the cause and effect, he began to look at Em expectantly.
There is a reason why Blake chose to ask Em. Em, who has raised dozens of litters of rabbits, is a well-deserved parenting expert in the tribe!
As soon as the parenting expert Em heard Black's question, he stopped smiling and became serious.
He walked up to Black and looked up at Louis who was being held in Black's arms (← Black is now a head and a half taller than Em 囧).
He carefully looked at the roots of Louis' hair, and then seriously confirmed with Black about Louis's recent diet.
"...can eat half a horned ox in every meal... and occasionally eat the fruit that the baby gave him after the meal... that's all..." Black recalled, and then reported Louis' recipe to Em to know.
Em was eerily silent for a minute.
If he hadn't asked specifically today, he would have no idea that Louis is such a big eater!
"I have checked carefully. There are no small red bumps or bugs on the surface of Louis' skin. It should not be a skin disease. According to your description, he has no symptoms of loss of appetite, and there is no other discomfort in his body, so it should be It’s not sick.” Em said slowly, “Actually, my dad has lost some hair these days. I asked him, and he said it was because it was too hot to sleep near the fire at night. Is it because it's hot?"
Meng Jiuzhao was enlightened all of a sudden!
Yes! This is it!
Living in such a cold place for a long time, he almost forgot that long-haired animals will shed their hair in spring and summer! By the way...Meng Jiuzhao has never felt hot when he grew up in this place~ Isn't it because of the "heat" that he pulled Louis' hair off that night? Then, the next day, he knitted Louie a very, very, warm, warm sweater—
At the end of the day, Louie lost his hair because of the heat.
Meng Jiuzhao decided to make a comb for Louis.
The simplest one should be a wooden comb, but it seems that only the three small saplings in front of Andy's house can provide wood for wooden combs in the tribe. Whenever he passes by and wants to pick a leaf or a branch, Xuehua always looks at it. , so, the wooden comb can't be done. Meng Jiuzhao thought for a long time, and finally chose a brush.
A kind of shrub is produced here, with almost no stems, only conspicuous leaves, and their leaves are similar to pine needles. Except for the crunching grass on the Vash continent, this kind of shrub is tenacious and easy to obtain, but because the leaves are sharp and easy to pierce the mouth, so Herbivore orcs are not willing to eat them unless they have to.
Meng Jiuzhao carefully picked hundreds of "pine needles" of the same length, neatly stacked them with his left hand, and then took a straw rope with the other hand to tie them firmly at the root. A simple brush did this. up.
He tried brushing it on his own hair, and it worked, but it was a bit easy to open, so he added an extra straw rope to hold it in place, and he used it on Louie that night.
Louis was very happy to be brushed, because it was so comfortable, Louis, who always slept later than Meng Jiuzhao, fell asleep snoring halfway through being brushed. Meng Jiuzhao was about to take back the brush, when he turned around and saw the expectant eyes of the two fathers—
So, the filial son Meng Jiuzhao sweated profusely as a scrubber all night.
The three-headed Kantas all expressed how comfortable it is to brush their hair, so this activity passed a resolution to officially join the family love maintenance activity of the Black family after dinner, and became a regular repertoire of the bald cubs.
In the future, Meng Jiuzhao also benefited a lot from this activity and developed his abdominal muscles. That will be the future.
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Abdominal muscles and so on are a matter of future. From this day on, Meng Jiuzhao began to pay attention to the changes in the tribe.
There is a small river not far from the tribe, and there are many crunching grasses growing around it. Sita often takes the cubs to pick crunching grasses and play nearby. Meng Jiuzhao pays special attention to the ice of the river when he goes there. The next time he passed by, he noticed that the edge of the river began to melt, and there was a faint sound of flowing water under the ice; the three young saplings at the door of Andy's lair also seemed to be more energetic, and the thin brown trunks turned blue. A lot; and when eating, Meng Jiuzhao noticed that there were a lot more hairballs on the ground, and everyone started to shed hair.
…
Meng Jiuzhao used a slate to record in detail the daily discoveries, and also recorded the growth of Louis' hair. Thirty days later, after Louis finally stopped losing hair, he carefully observed Louis' newly grown hair.
It was a kind of hair that he had never seen on Black and Bai before. It was hard and thick, but not as fine as before. Compared with the old hair, the new hair can obviously help evacuate body temperature better.
The original Vash Continent was snow-white even in summer, and even in summer, the glaciers were only partially melted. According to the tribe's existing season division method, it is far from summer now, but in just a few months, here But there has been a huge change: the ice layer on the ground has become thinner, tenacious vegetation has drilled out, and the ground is a new green. The originally frozen river has completely broken through the shackles of the ice layer. A block of ice remained at the edge of the riverbed, which widened even further.
With the help of the above changes, Meng Jiuzhao was finally able to confirm one thing:
It's getting hot!