The Return of Gratitude Volume 2

The next day, Qin Xiu took him to find Prell, and received a double surprise, Prell was with his mother.

Archer watched Prell rolling around and acting like a baby beside his mother, and he could feel that this was a very happy little leopard. Of course, to be precise, she was no longer a little leopard, and her body was only a little smaller than her mother. However, since he is still with his mother, it means that he has not yet reached the stage of adulthood and self-reliance. Hearing Qin Xiu say that Little Leopard will only stay by his mother's side for a year and a half, Archer feels that Prell's good days must be coming to an end.

Prell is very happy, so happy that sometimes she is a bit annoying. When her mother preys on the sidelines, she makes trouble and follows to catch the prey. Leopards hunt by ambushes, and when she jumps out, she hunts ass!Archer looked worried about their mother and child, you said it would be great if she could catch something, but this guy is not sure, he turned around to play with his tail after scaring the prey away.After finally catching a tortoise, I lay down on the grass and turned it over and scratched it with my claws. When I got tired of playing, my mother ran away as soon as I yelled, and the tortoise, which was so dizzy, poked its head out and cocked its legs. Push and push, turned over with difficulty and quickly escaped.

They've been with Prior for five days, and they haven't seen the guy really catch anything.She eats and drinks every day, plays and acts like a baby, scares small animals, walks around little turtles, and climbs acacias.

Prell is not as vigorous as his mother in climbing trees. Her mother seems to train her to climb trees. She always jumps to the highest point and encourages Prell to climb up. Prell is clumsy and falls down when he climbs. Which of the leopards I saw in the movie was not agile, it was the first time I saw such a stupid leopard who laughed so hard.

Qin Xiu also dislikes Prell very much. His current shooting focus is on Prell's handsome and capable mother.Archer probably sympathized with Pryor's constant falling from the tree, and secretly encouraged the little guy behind him, especially seeing Qin Xiu take pictures of Pryor's mother standing on a high branch, very proud posture, Then he sneered coldly at Pryor, who was crawling and crawling below, and turned away with a look of disgust, which was really chilling.

Archer also hated Prell: "You fight for your breath!"

Hearing his voice, Prior turned his head back, his tail raised, and he had a "come play, come play" look on his face.Archer ran away with his trousers in his hands.

The only use of Prior to them was to locate her handsome and vigorous mother. The leopard's whereabouts were very secretive, but fortunately there was Prior, this guy was afraid that others would not see her all day long.For example, when Qin Xiu took photos of Prell's mother hunting, Prell always came to make trouble. Qin Xiu waved his hands and shouted angrily: "Idiot! Get away!" Finally, he finally got rid of Prell who was obstructing his eyes, and successfully captured Prell. In the picture of his mother jumping off a branch and accurately catching an impala, Qin Xiu looked down at the vigorous golden figure recorded in the camera and was very satisfied.

But Archer suddenly heard the low whine of a leopard coming from the grass. Following the sound, Prell's mother dragged the impala to a hiding place, but suddenly turned her head and roared behind her, but the target of his roar was not someone else. The animal, but Pidianpidian followed Pryor.

Prell was obviously frightened by the way her mother grinned, but she still didn't understand it very well. Seeing that her mother buried her head and began to bite the prey again, she leaned forward again, and this time she was driven away fiercely by her mother.

Pryor tried several times, but he didn't know where he offended his mother, so he rolled around beside his mother, but his mother seemed determined not to allow her to come close. The hungry and deflated Pryor could only lie in the distance, watching his mother finish eating, Only then did he crawl over carefully, and was finally allowed to eat some leftovers.

Archer didn't understand what was going on, Prell used to eat with his mother, why did the mother suddenly treat her daughter so fiercely?Is there a food shortage because of the dry season?

Qin Xiu didn't speak, and got into the car.Archer was a little worried about Little Prell, and asked Qin Xiu: "Didn't you major in biology at Yale? Is this normal?"

"Normal." Qin Xiu pulled the joystick and started the car.

It's time for Prior to stand on his own.

The relationship between Prell and his mother became more and more estranged. His mother no longer shared prey with Prell, and no longer accepted Prell's coquetry. Archer gradually understood that leopards are solitary animals. Leaving Prior, Prior had to live on his own.

The day has finally come.

Without any warning, Archer watched Prell's mother turn and leave. Prell followed behind her mother, but her mother turned her head and yelled at her. He was scolded in place again.

This went back and forth many times, and my mother never softened her heart. Slowly, even Prell realized that her mother was really going to leave him.

Archer watched Prior's mother walk out of sight, and for a moment he hoped that Prior's mother would come back, even though that wasn't in the leopard's nature.

As dusk fell, Pryor had been under the tree, and Qin Xiu drove away. Archer didn't know whether Qin Xiu planned to continue to follow Pryor's mother or follow the lions, but obviously he was interested in the clumsy and weak Pryor. I'm not interested at all.

After a while, the stupid leopard was no longer visible in the rearview mirror.The car drove smoothly on the flat plains, and there were still many unknown scenery and wonders ahead, but Archer felt very sad. He heard Prior's call. Without his mother, the stupid leopard who had been living happily ever after had no idea at all. don't know what to do.

The modified off-road vehicle stopped suddenly. Archer didn't know what Qin Xiu was going to photograph. He looked around and saw no animals around him for a while. He turned his head to look at Qin Xiu in surprise. Qin Xiu held the steering wheel and took a deep breath: "You are worried about her, let's shoot her."

For several days, Prell just wandered around, broke into the hyena's territory and ran away in fright, jumped on the tree and shook the branches for several times before climbing up the shit, so embarrassed that he was dying.A few days later, Prell began to try to hunt, catch and run, once she aimed at a zebra, and when she rushed out, the frightened zebra herd scattered, and this stupid leopard was caught by the galloping zebra herd I was so frightened that I was so dizzy that I lay on the ground and dared not get up.

Archer felt that if animals could laugh, the surrounding prairie would be filled with laughter one after another.

Prell hadn't eaten for a long time. That night they went back to Harold's hut to supply supplies. Qin Xiu sat under the eaves, soaking his feet in cold water, and wiped the dust accumulated on the lens with his head down. The golden-haired Archer Dozing off at Qin Xiu's feet, suddenly there was a "pop" in his ear, Archer woke up with a jolt, Qin Xiu slapped a flying mosquito on his calf with a gloomy face, and scratched his calf, Archer looked at Qin Xiu. Xiu poured water on his calves, and one or two wet leg hairs glistened in the sun. Archer swallowed, and heard Qin Xiu's cold and sinister voice: "I don't want to shoot a hungry dog. Dead leopard."

In fact, the word "shoot" should refer to shooting, but at that moment, the image of Qin Xiu slapping Prell on the tree with blood splashing on the spot appeared in Archer's mind...

When they returned to the prairie, they could clearly feel the approach of the dry season. There was more sand and dust on the prairie, and the air was very dry. But seeing Prell again, Archer found that Prell had become different.

Her eyes were different, and hunger forced her to fight for survival.Archer's eyes lit up when he saw Prell crawling like his mother in the grass. This was the first time that Prell was lurking.

The process of lurking was very long, and Archer watched Prell creeping towards him quietly as if hiding, his posture was not at all like the little leopard who was hot for 3 minutes a few days ago.It all happened very quickly, from the moment Prior sprinted out of the ambush to the impala in less than a second or two.Qin Xiu took down the camera in surprise, and couldn't believe that the stupid leopard brought him a series of wonderful shots.

Archer looked at that photo, the vigorous golden figure in the golden grass seemed to be printed out of the same mold as her mother!

Although Prell didn't finish the meal (the hyenas gathered around and snatched the prey away), it was quite a victory for her, and she tried a few more times in the afternoon, each time falling short. A little bit.

The next morning, Pryor, who was hungry and panicked, recharged his batteries and went to the next battle. He was successful, and the clever Pryor dragged the prey to the tree. Archer watched her clumsily trying to get the prey to the tree. , It took a lot of effort, and finally climbed up, but a prey accidentally fell from the branch, and a group of hyenas had been surrounded under the tree. Poor Prell could only watch himself from the tree. The prey that was finally caught by hard work was divided up by the hyenas.

Archer squatted beside the car in frustration, took off his hat and grabbed his curly hair, thinking to himself, why are you so hardworking?

Fortunately, there were not many hyenas, and Prell could wait for the hyenas to leave and sneak down to eat some leftovers.Archer saw that she was gobbling up a little bit of meat, and knew that she was really hungry. He didn't know what Prell was thinking about eating the leftovers, whether he would miss being with his mother Carefree and free days.Although this meal was not enough for her to be full, fortunately she did not have to starve to death.

After learning to hunt, Prell began to learn to climb trees. She seemed to realize that this is an important skill for a leopard.

Qin Xiu was obsessed with filming Prior climbing trees. Sometimes the two of them would sit on the hood of the Ford car without doing anything, play a blues tune played by the saxophone, and watch Prior climb from the tree. From jumping, falling all over the head at the beginning to becoming addicted to jumping, there were ugly moments, Qin Xiu accidentally recorded them, and there were wonderful jumps, but Qin Xiu missed it instead. Rael still has various dissatisfaction.

Behind the big tree is the burning sunset, and the leopard just jumps and jumps on the tree day after day, she climbs faster and higher, until she jumps so lightly and beautifully that Qin Xiu can't bear it Move the lens away.

Prell is happy and free in the tree, except when hunting and drinking, she never leaves the tree.Eating in the tree, playing in the tree, sleeping in the branches, Archer knew that for the first time since his mother left, Prior felt safe and happy.

Whether the sweet female voice or the slow-tempo BLUES with piano accompaniment is not suitable for the grassland under the sunset, except... when the silhouette of Prior is strolling on the branches.When she was lying on the branch with her long curly tail swinging down gracefully, as if gently scratching the orange sunset, Archer had the illusion that he saw a young and beautiful lady waltzing alone. She lifted her skirt Corner, to smile at them.

He was genuinely happy for Prior, who had become a proud leopard.

In the blink of an eye they had been in the Serengeti for almost a month, and the dry season was beginning to show its brutality.Looking back at the previous photos now, you can see that the withered and yellow scenery on the grassland spreads at a speed visible to the naked eye.At this time, there are no large numbers of migratory animals in sight.Due to the effects of global warming, the dry season in the grasslands is becoming more and more difficult.

He and Qin Xiu rested at Uncle Harold's place for two days, restocked supplies and drove back into the grassland. The strange thing is that they didn't see Pryor for three consecutive days, but at this time the grassland was already hot enough to have a mirror effect. , most of the animals are gone, and everyone is looking for water.

Archer drove to follow the herd as it headed toward the only nearby low-lying waterhole that wasn't dry, surrounded by water-drawing animals.Several hippopotamuses were completely exposed to the sun, and their skins were already dry and cracked. They could barely cover their skins with wet mud to cool down.

Qin Xiu was originally photographing a herd of elephants, but he suddenly froze. A dirty leopard appeared in the camera, limping and carefully squeezed into the puddle, lowering its head and licking the water eagerly. It turned out to be Prell.