Chapter 212 Young Birds Need to Grow
By the lakeside, in the reed-woven thatched hut, Chenbei saw the clouds.
During this period, the clouds often came here because he knew that the significance of these big red birds to the tribe was more important than the hunting that came back with a lot of loads.
"Chief, you're finally here!"
Yun was also very excited. After waiting for nearly two months, he finally waited until the young bird broke out of his shell. It was difficult for anyone who had not experienced it personally.
"Thank you all for your hard work."
Chen Bei smiled on his face and greeted the totem warriors one by one. He could accurately call out everyone's names and their family situation.
This made these totem warriors flattered and said they were not working hard.
Chen Bei said to Yun: "What's going on over the bird's nest now?"
Yun Ruru said, "There are six nests over there, a total of 32 eggs, and a total of thirty young birds hatched. After the young birds are born, at least one big red bird will be left for each nest to guard them, and six rounds will go out to find food."
There are twelve red birds, six males and females. A pair of them occupy one nest. Some nests have more young birds, while others have fewer young birds.
"Six big red birds guarding their nests, which is a bit troublesome."
Each of these adult red birds is about five meters tall, which is very large because they are carnivorous and have strong combat power.
There are usually only fifteen members of the hunting team guarding here. It is almost impossible to subdue six large red birds without hurting the young birds.
Yun thought for a while and said, "Why do I go back and bring all the hunting teams here, bring all the fishing nets, ropes, and set up traps. I should be able to catch these big red birds back."
Chen Bei touched his chin and thought for a moment, and said, "No hurry yet. These young birds have just hatched and are too fragile. At least they can grow feathers and eat them alone and take them back to the tribe to raise."
Chen Bei also thought of the experience of raising birds in his previous life. Even if most birds have the ability to move, they will not eat without the help of their relatives, and would rather starve to death.
"I'll observe it first, it's best to find a way to catch these big red birds back to the tribe."
Although it is difficult to tame adult big red birds, it is still OK to catch them and keep them in captivity and let them carry the young birds.
"Everyone listens to the leader."
Yun can only hunt, and as for taming these animals, his experience is much worse. This is the job of a breeding team.
It's getting late.
On that day, Chen Bei lived in the thatched hut and observed these big red birds, while thinking about how to catch these big red birds and young birds back to the tribe.
In the evening, the big red birds returned to their nests one after another.
Chenbei found that when each of them came back, they would hold some food in their mouths, and some birds would hold them back and forth several times.
Some birds will ruminate when feeding young birds because they are too small and have poor digestive abilities and can only eat such foods.
Some birds take their young birds to eat directly. Of course, they will find some food that young birds can swallow, or tear them apart and feed them to the young birds.
These big red birds are obviously the latter way of feeding.
The next day, Chenbei followed the clouds into the reeds on the lakeside, climbed onto a big tree, and observed the situation in the bird's nest from a distance.
The bird's nest is hidden in the reeds and is relatively hidden. This big tree is the only place to be observed from a distance.
"Chief, look, there is a big red bird guarding every nest."
Chen Bei carefully observed and found that this was true. These big red birds squatted in their nests and protected the young birds with their wings, and they were simply indefinitely.
When the red bird that goes out to feed is full and brings the food back, the full red bird will replace the red bird in the nest and let the red bird go out to find food.
Some of the food brought back by these big red birds are bugs, some are fish, and some are shrimp.
They carefully tore the insects, bite the shrimp shells, tear off the meat from the fish one by one with their sharp beaks, and feed the young birds.
"Boom!"
The weather changes rapidly in spring and rains a lot. Chenbei observed it all morning and suddenly it started to rain.
Before coming down from the tree, Chenbei saw the big red birds spread their wings, blocking the entire nest, and gently pressing the young birds' heads back under their feathers with their mouths.
The rain continued to fall, hitting the wings of the big red bird. Although the feathers of the big red bird have certain waterproofness, after a long time, the layer outside will slowly soak.
Whenever the rain falls a lot, these big red birds shook their heads, shake their wings, and shake the rain down, repeating this way.
The big red bird spreads its wings, allowing the rain to soak itself, protecting the young birds under its wings.
Chen Bei showed a kind smile on his lips, and these big red birds also had feelings.
He quickly climbed down from the tree and ran to the nearest thatched house, and shook off the water droplets on his hair. Fortunately, the animal leather jacket he wore had certain waterproof functions.
Chen Bei wiped his face and said to Yun: "These big red birds seem to have a deep relationship with each other. If they bring the young birds back to the tribe alone, they may not be able to keep them alive."
"What should I do?" Yun scratched his head.
"If you observe for a few more days, you can always come up with a solution."
"Come on, I'll invite everyone to drink some wine and drive away the cold."
Chen Bei took out a few pots of wild grape wine from the animal skin bag, and then took out some wine glasses made of animal horns and distributed them to everyone.
This wine was brewed by Chenbei the year before yesterday. The brewing method is very simple. It is to crush the wild grapes, put them in the wine jar and seal them, maintain the appropriate temperature, and let them ferment naturally, and even wine koji are not needed.
Because there is no rock sugar, this wine has a not good taste and is sour and astringent, but after drinking too much, I get used to it.
The rice wine made from rice will taste much better than this wild wine, but the Mang tribe did not produce much rice in the past two years, and most of it was used to keep the seeds.
If the year is good this year, the rice yield of the Mang tribe will be much higher than in previous years. At that time, Chenbei can try to brew rice wine.
In my previous life, Chen Bei saw his parents making wine chorus and brewing rice wine. It didn’t look very difficult. If you try it a few more times, you should be successful.
Everyone in the thatched cottage got a glass of wild wine. After drinking it, they were not used to this taste, but because it was given by the leader, they had to pretend to be happy.
Chen Bei did not expose them, but did not pour them out again, but instead poured them himself.
In this primitive tribal era, it was already good to have a drink, so how could I ask for too much?
Sometimes, it is also a pleasure to taste the sour taste.
In the next seven days, Chen Bei was observing these big red birds. He watched the young birds grow rapidly and grow feathers quickly, which would become different almost every day.
These young birds grew much faster than Chenbei expected.
After being born for more than ten days, these young birds were already covered with feathers and could stand by the nest and chirp around, even spread their small wings to learn to fly.
“It’s almost time.”
Through observations over the days, Chen Bei had already made plans for how to capture these big red birds and young birds.
He found that these big red birds were active during the day and slept in their nests at night. Although they could see things at night, their ability to move was obviously much worse than during the day.
Chenbei’s plan is to take advantage of the night to attack these big red birds, take them all in one pot, and move them back to the tribe together with the bird’s nest!
Chapter completed!