War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 793

At the door of the rescue station, Wei Ran and Jima looked at each other, and said in unison, "Let us help too."

"What can we do too"

Sui Sui, who reacted a little slower, rushed to answer. As for the Katenka sisters, they had silently taken out a pair of plastic-sealed medical rubber gloves from their pockets and put them on their hands.

Biran, the person in charge of the aid station, was stunned, looked at his younger sister Maya, and nodded with a smile, "I'll prepare tools for you, Maya, you can take Aurora to prepare food for them. "

"come with me"

Maya held the tassels with one hand, greeted Katenka sisters with the other hand, and led them into the red brick three-story building surrounded by barbed wire in the middle.

The first floor of this building is like a small slaughterhouse. On the hooks hanging from the top of the head, there are sheep that have been skinned. A few uncles who look about 60 years old are holding knives Split the lamb.

"Are these prepared for wild animals?" Sui Sui took the mask from Maya and put it on, and at the same time asked curiously about her doubts.

"To be precise, it is prepared for those animals that have lost their ability to prey. Those who can still hunt are directly given to them as live sheep. Like those eagles that have their feathers clipped, before the new feathers grow They can only rely on artificial feeding."

While talking, Maya found a few pairs of long-sleeved kitchen gloves from the cabinet near the door and distributed them to sisters Sui Sui and Katenka, and at the same time kept explaining, "Even my parents' Most of the sheep raised in the pasture are also prepared for these poor little guys."

"Your family is really rich." Sui Sui couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"It's far from what you thought it would be"

Maya picked up a meat cleaver and a piece of mutton, and explained while cutting them into long strips, "Many of the sheep raised in my parents' ranch are problematic ones collected from nearby herdsmen's homes in autumn. Sheep, they're cheap."

"What kind of sheep is the sheep in question?"

Anfisa imitated the former, picked up a piece of meat and a knife, and asked curiously while dividing it.

"For example, sheep with natural disabilities, such as ewes who cannot give birth to lambs, or sheep with hooves infected with germs or simply too old to be culled, these sheep are very cheap."

Maya said here with a smile, "Of course, the sheep that entertained you yesterday were all healthy sheep, and my father raised some extra for himself to eat."

"Is it the same for those cows and horses?" Anfeya helped Suisui ask the question she wanted to ask.

"They are not"

Maya pointed to the direction outside the door, "In addition to managing the rescue station, my brother Biran is also doing beef and dairy cattle breeding. Those horses were raised by my father for the sheep-catching competition. Playing can also make him some money.

It's just that most of the money they earned was put into this aid station, and with some official funding, the little guys here finally didn't have to go hungry. "

"So you didn't just invite us to come and play, did you?" Sui Sui, who was holding a butcher knife in her hand, asked with a smile, apparently guessing the other party's unspoken intentions.

Maya smiled gently, "This is Jima's suggestion to me, and because of this suggestion, I decided to bring him to my house."

"So hot springs."

"I'm just worried that if you tell the truth, it will be difficult for you to refuse. After all, there were so many people there, including Inta's friends."

Maya put down the meat knife in her hand, "Aurora, we are friends, so I can't make things difficult for you, right?"

"So the scumbag didn't fart in the hot spring?" An Feiya asked her sister in a low voice.

"He's a scum, but he's not an idiot." Anfisa responded in a low voice, "I guessed that at the time, that scum wouldn't do such disgusting things."

Aurora smiled and glanced at the whispering Katenka sisters, and also casually nailed the greasy meat cutter on the wooden pier, "Don't worry Maya, I will bring enough fat The sheep feed the injured little animals outside! I'm even sure to find a long-term meal ticket for each of those little animals!"

"What do you want to do?" Maya asked curiously.

"Who doesn't want to raise a protected animal?" Sui Sui took off her greasy gloves with a smile on her face, and muttered in Chinese, "Even if it's cloud raising a protected animal!"

"What are you talking about?" Maya asked blankly.

"Nothing!" Sui Sui pointed to the two or three pieces of mutton that she had just cut with her own hands, "Are these enough?"

"These feed a peregrine falcon at most"

Although Maya said so, she still grabbed the meat strips that the four had just cut into a tin bucket, "Next, do you want to feed the fox, the wolf or the golden eagle first?"

"Children only do multiple-choice questions!" Sui Sui waved her small hand, "Come one by one, and feed those who don't eat meat."

"Let's go!" Maya picked up the bucket and walked towards the nearest area with Sui Sui and the Katenka sisters who were still holding a large piece of mutton in their hands.

Just when these girls were using the mutton in their hands to get those foxes, Wei Ran and Ji Ma followed Bi Ran and the two girls who were concentrating on their work at the entrance of the rescue station, and carefully cut the raptors' quilts. The eyelids were stitched, then the glue was cleaned off their feathers, and a numbered plastic ring was attached to each of their legs.

Compared with the few girls who are going to find a way to help wild animals solve the problem of eating well, the work of Wei Ran and others is much simpler.

Under their busy schedule, the raptors reopened their eyes and spread their wings, and then they were coated with anti-inflammatory drugs, and after being carefully identified by Biran and his staff, they were classified according to various factors such as health status. .

Also helping in this protected area are those helpers from Inta, but their jobs are more inclined to patrol in the protected area.

Of course, after there was no external threat, these hunters who grew up in the polar circle also put all their interest in learning how to ride a horse.

Near noon, Sui Sui, who took a lot of photos with a saiga born at the rescue station, also negotiated with Maya about their plan to slaughter the sheep. With the help, all of them were admitted to the wards at all levels of the aid station.

After eating a sumptuous lunch on the second floor of the aid station, Uncle Suo Silan who came with him warmly extended an invitation, "Jima, do you want to go to my sheep hunting arena?"

"Uncle Soslan, is there any competition recently?" Sui Sui asked excitedly.

"There is no game this season"

Soslan explained with a smile, "The sheep picking competition is usually held in spring or summer every year. How about it? Children, do you want to play?"

"Didn't you always want to learn?" Wei Ran deliberately squeezed Jima.

"Of course!" Ji Ma stammered and patted his chest and replied, "I will definitely learn to ride a horse! Don't forget, I am also a qualified hunter."

"Then let's set off now! Jima, remember to call those friends from Inta!" As Suo Silan spoke, he was already riding on the horse with swift movements.

Hearing this, Ji Ma immediately greeted the Inta hunters who had just had lunch and had not had time to leave. With the help of the staff at the rescue station, they awkwardly sat on their horses.

Under the leadership of Uncle Suo Silan, more than 500 people rode horses and left the rescue station slowly towards the direction of the farm.However, the place where they finally stopped was about [-] meters away from the farm, on a flat open space surrounded by wooden railings and about the size of two standard playgrounds.

Unlike the surrounding barren desert desert, pastures and rescue stations, this open space is not only barren of grass, but even a large rock cannot be seen.As far as the eye can see, on the ground covered with a little snow, you can still clearly see a large number of dense horseshoe prints.

At both ends of this open field, there is a circular concrete platform wrapped with waste car tires. The height of the concrete platform is also about the same as a stirrup.

Just when Ji Ma was about to ask where he should learn from, there were no.

At the head of the group of horses, Maya's brother Anton rode on the back of a maroon horse, holding the rein and whip in one hand, and carrying the corpse of a black sheep in the other hand, and rushed straight to the field In the middle, he stepped on the stirrups and stood up straight, swung his arms and threw the black sheep in his hand forcefully.

Almost at the same time as the sheep landed, the horse herd that had been automatically divided into two teams rushed over like a swarm, and Anton, who threw the sheep, also controlled the mount to run towards the crowd without slowing down at all, so he controlled Watching the horse gracefully leap over the waist-high wooden railing.

"Jima, Victor, and friends from Inta, do you want to go in and have fun?" Anton stood on the stirrup and greeted warmly.

"Let me figure it out?"

Ji Ma swallowed hard. In such a short time, the black sheep's body had already been picked up from the ground more than once by the galloping knights, and thrown to his companions more than once. Even from the high-speed running horseback to snatch the sheep carcasses in other people's arms.

Even, everyone could clearly see that in the fierce snatching that had just started, several horses had already been thrown to the ground, and several knights fell off their horses.But regardless of horses or people, they don't have any protective gear at all except for a hurdling vest representing different teams.And those who fell off the horse immediately got up, hugged the horse's neck and jumped onto the horse's back.

"This looks more exciting than rugby!" Sui Sui exclaimed with her eyes rounded, and sisters Katenka and Wei Ran beside her also nodded subconsciously.

Indeed, as she said, if I insist on making a metaphor, American football can only be regarded as a collision between heavy infantry at best, but this game of picking sheep is more like a bloody fight between light cavalry.

Seeing that no one wanted to participate in the competition, Anton, who was just joking, naturally would not force it. Instead, he took out a tweeter from the horse's back and slowly introduced the rules of the competition to everyone.

Obviously, this highly ornamental and visually impactful game is a "performance program" specially arranged for everyone.

Of course, it was precisely because of the excitement that Ji Ma's naive idea of ​​participating in the sheep picking competition was completely frightened away.

(End of this chapter)