Leisurely Life: I Have Ten Thousand Acres of Grassland-Chapter 80 - 78: Waking Up to Pigs, Foxes, and Da Ying Going for a Walk Together
In the evening, after contacting the forestry bureau, Jiang Feng took care of the abandoned Da Ying in his room.
The little guy was a bit down after losing its companion.
The people from the forestry bureau said they had seen his livestream and told Jiang Feng to keep it for now.
Jiang Feng happily agreed.
As a large ranch, it was only reasonable to rescue some small animals nearby.
This Da Ying is a wild goose, mainly inhabiting lakes and marshes on grasslands.
Jiang Feng was not sure why it was left here.
It might have been abandoned by the flock, or maybe it was playing around and fell asleep deep in the bushes, missing the main group, and when it woke up, the flock was gone.
In the end, it could only look at the vast grassland and cry out:
"I haven’t gotten on the bus yet!"
"I haven’t gotten on the bus yet!"
Jiang Feng switched the livestream to his phone, filming the situation of the Da Ying in the cardboard box.
He made a nest in the cardboard box for the Da Ying, placing a cotton blanket inside to keep it warm.
"I called and talked to the people over at the forestry bureau. There is no rescue channel for a single Da Ying, so it can only be taken care of by individuals. Someone from the forestry bureau will come to inspect the situation in a couple of days." 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞
"The Da Ying will be kept at the ranch in the future."
Jiang Feng prepared a bowl of water for the Da Ying with a small bowl, and it went over to drink some.
[Can the ranch owner raise a Da Ying?]
[Official special approval, huh!]
[This is a second-class protected animal, just gotta say this is awesome!]
[First time seeing a streamer raise a Da Ying, no wonder he’s so popular now!]
Upon hearing this news, netizens were quite surprised.
Jiang Feng looked at the Da Ying in the cardboard box, feeling content, and laughed:
"Wild geese are a symbol of homesickness, poets used to mention them when writing about homesickness."
"I never thought it would actually be ’homesick’ now."
"It can only be kept until next spring when it can be released back to its flock."
After the Da Ying finished drinking water, it looked a bit bashfully at Jiang Feng.
This Da Ying was in its first day on the "job," still unfamiliar with the environment, so it seemed reserved.
But in a few days, it would be fine.
After all, it’s a wild animal; it can fly and run fast on the ground.
After wandering the ranch for a few days, it would know everything.
After taking care of the Da Ying, Jiang Feng still had to care for the cats and dogs. After a busy period, he ended another day’s livestream.
That night, Jiang Feng calculated the popularity value once more.
"The total number of people who watched the livestream for more than a minute today was 452,238, with an average viewing time of 2.3 hours, gaining a popularity value of 1,040,147.4."
"Current total popularity value: 1.95 million."
Today’s livestream of Da Ying flying south was quite spectacular, so the livestream’s popularity value broke through a million again.
However, the total popularity value was still too low for Jiang Feng to consider holding a lottery draw, so he washed up and went to bed.
The next morning, the employees went out to shepherd the cattle.
The ranch now operated as a corporate entity, maintaining the characteristic of collective responsibility along with modern corporate rotational systems; the development of the ranch was quite regular.
As the ranch owner, Jiang Feng didn’t need to do too much work, but he still had plenty to worry about.
Jiang Feng strolled around the ranch.
Trailing behind him was quite a large group.
Following him was the Little Border Collie, along with that Red Fox and Peppa.
The Da Ying was also following along. Although this Da Ying wasn’t big, it ran very fast, keeping close to the group.
Jiang Feng initially worried that this wild Red Fox would harm the Da Ying, but after watching it for a while, he found the Red Fox was very sensible, knowing what it could and couldn’t touch, and never harmed the ranch animals.
The wild fox was also a second-class protected animal, and being of the same level, they could coexist peacefully.
All these little fellows followed Jiang Feng, going wherever he did.
When Jiang Feng stopped, they would stop to rest too.
More and more people joined the livestream room.
With 800 million daily users on short video platforms, many people would come across highly trafficked livestream rooms while scrolling through videos.
Jiang Feng’s livestream was encountered by many people every day.
If the livestream happened to be particularly interesting, people would click to enter.
And now in the frame, there was a young man wearing black casual pants and a windbreaker, looking relaxed, followed by a puppy, a fox, a piglet, and a Da Ying.
This scene was just too unreal!
[Wow, woke up in a shock, seeing pigs, foxes, and a Da Ying running together!]
[What kind of celestial being is this streamer, all these animals follow him? Must be special effects!]
[I can see new viewers asking, all these animals are raised by the ranch owner; just scroll through his previous videos and you’ll find introductions!]
[Get used to it, there are loads of animals raised by the ranch owner!]
[The streamer has thousands of animals in his care; these few are no surprise!]
The barrage of comments kept rolling by.
The atmosphere in the livestream room was as relaxed as always.
Some artists even took screenshots of these scenes and hand-drew a painting.
A person with a Da Ying, a fox, a Border Collie, and a Little Pink Pig trailing behind.
This painting was inherently healing.
Some personal apparel brands even printed this painting onto hoodies, and the free and unrestrained style was favored by netizens.
Reality-based fairy tales resonate with people more than fictional ones.
Seeing the little guys closely following, netizens felt their hearts melting from the cuteness overload.
Nowadays, there are many cute pet livestreams, with some using action cameras to broadcast from a cat’s first-person perspective, attracting tens of thousands of viewers.
Younger people are increasingly fond of animals.
Jiang Feng walked all the way to the farmland outside the ranch.
What was once desolate land now appeared green, with many crops already growing.
The leaves of the carrots sprouted out; Jiang Feng went over, dug around both sides of the dirt, grabbed the leaves gently, and then gradually applied more force, pulling the carrot out of the ground.
The carrot was his own planting, remarkably well-shaped, slender and conical, and very symmetrical.
It was even bigger than an average carrot.
Upon seeing these carrots, the barrage immediately became lively.
[Streamer, asking for my friend; are these carrots for sale? I want to buy them!]
[I want to eat the ranch owner’s big carrot!]
[Hahaha, can’t look at the innuendo!]
[What kind of carrot are you referring to, big carrot or small carrot?]
[The ranch owner pulled out his big carrot and is showing it to the viewers!]
Various teasing comments ensued.
Looking at the carrot, Jiang Feng thought it was nice; he gave a strong twist, breaking the carrot into two parts, and then snapped off a few chunks.
Jiang Feng fed a piece to the Little Fox and Peppa, and since the Little Border Collie wanted some too, Jiang Feng gave it a piece.
While dogs love meat, they can also eat vegetables, and some native dogs just love eating cabbages, occasionally running to the fields to ’steal’ one to eat.
Jiang Feng picked off the freshest part from the carrot leaves and fed it to the Da Ying.
The scene of him feeding the four animals looked quite amusing.
Then, Jiang Feng moved on to the watermelon patch.
The watermelons he planted had ripened too.
"The watermelons are about ripe; it’s just right, it’s hot midday now, we’ll all need to wear short sleeves soon."
"Let’s have a watermelon to taste."
The watermelons on the ground were about the same size as the big ones in ordinary fruit stores, not particularly outstanding.
But Jiang Feng knew these were thin-skinned, crispy, seedless watermelons.
He knocked on several watermelons, listening to the sound to judge, and finally chose a ripe one, snapping the vine, and lifted the watermelon out of the ground.
"This one."
"My self-grown watermelon is sure to be good!"
He said with a confident smile.
Netizens immediately responded:
[One slice and it’s just the pink flesh!]
[Hopefully, the rind isn’t thicker than the flesh!]
[Hopefully, one slice and it’s all rind!]
[I still want to see the ranch owner’s big carrot!]
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