Chapter 177
The snow leopard cubs were still roaring.
Shi Wen call out to them, "Stop making noise."
The three little ones circled around in place, somewhat unwilling, but stopped making a sound.
After the cockatiels stopped chirping, they looked down at them and muttered, "That scared the hell out of me! That scared the hell out of me!"
Shi Wen: "..."
The voice was indeed the one he had heard before. He never imagined that his lifelong wisdom would lead to such a huge blunder because of a parrot.
Zhu Ji looked at the cockatiel in front of him. "I didn't expect your ranch to have parrots here. Was it frightened by something?"
Shi Wen, "How could I possibly guess that? Let me build a ladder and catch it."
Shi Wen went to the storeroom, brought over a ladder, climbed up, and caught the cockatiel.
Perhaps because the little guys were watching from below, the cockatiel didn't struggle and obediently let Shi Wen hold it in his hand.
Shi Wen touched it, I found my hand covered in feather dust—this must be the keratin layer that shed during feather growth.
With so much feather dust, has it been escaping from its owner's home for a while?
Chapter 177
After Shi Wen caught the cockatiel, he told Yan Kexing and posted it on his WeChat Moments, asking whose parrot it was.
Friends on WeChat Moments responded enthusiastically, but no one claimed it.
[That parrot is so beautiful.]
[It must be a parrot from nearby, otherwise how could it fly all the way to your ranch?]
[Brother Shi, could you please post this in the group?]
Shi Wen everyone's comments and reposted it in various WeChat groups, asking everyone to help spread the word.
No one knows where the parrot came from yet; people speculate that it may have flown over from someone's home in N City.
I just don't know why it could fly so far, all the way to Shi Wen's ranch.
He gently grasped the cockatiel in his hand, looking into its eyes. "Where did you come from, you little rascal?"
The parrot stared at him innocently, remaining silent, and never again uttered anything like "scared the hell out of me."
Zhu Ji: "Parrots don't have the intelligence to explain their origins, do they?"
"That's hard to say. Some parrots are quite clever and really know what they mean." Shi Wen rubbed the parrot's belly and stared into its eyes. "This guy doesn't seem to be cooperating. I wonder if he's up to something and is afraid to say."
Zhu Ji casually remarked, "What bad things could it possibly do? It's so small, it probably couldn't beat all the little guys in your house."
Shi Wen: "I'm not so sure about that."
Just as they were speaking, a clear eagle's cry suddenly rang out from the sky.
Shi Wen hearing the sound, the cockatiel trembled in Shi Wen's hand.
It trembled so violently that Shi Wen could feel the vibrations coming from your hand.
He glanced down and saw that the cockatiel was a little ruffled and curled up in fear.
Their Steppe Eagle, Chasing Clouds, had already flown over by then. It swooped down and pecked directly at the cockatiel.
The cockatiel was terrified and tried to escape by kicking away Shi Wen's hand with its claws.
Chasing Clouds.
They're so fast! If a cockatiel were to get Chasing Clouds, its head would probably split open.
Shi Wen reacted quickly, opening his arms and embracing the steppe eagle.
The cockatiel, still shaken, perched on Zhu Ji's shoulder, its beady eyes fixed on Chasing Clouds: "That scared the hell out of me!"
Shi Wen: "..."
Zhu Ji: "..."
They finally understood why the cockatiel was making such strange noises; it was being chased by a steppe eagle.
Shi Wen, holding Chasing Clouds, asked the cockatiel in surprise, "What did you do? You angered Chasing Clouds."
The cockatiel remained silent, perched on Zhu Ji's shoulder, pretending not to understand.
Zhu Ji took it down.
Chasing Clouds was very well-behaved Shi Wen Shiwen's arms, but after seeing the cockatiel, it couldn't suppress its domineering aura, flapping its wings and trying to peck at it.
The steppe eagle's flapping wings were so powerful that Shi Wen had to hold it with both hands. "Alright, alright, let's not argue with it, okay? Let's go eat some meat first."
Zhu Ji: "Even the Chasing Clouds is so angry, what did the cockatiel do?"
Shi Wen, "We'll find out soon enough by checking the security footage. We'll see where this parrot came from, and if it did something wrong, we'll ask its owner for compensation."
Chasing Clouds roughly understood the meaning of those words and calmed down in Shi Wen's arms.
Shi Wen hurriedly carried Chasing Clouds back and fed it several pieces of mutton and fish.
Zhu Ji also brought the cockatiel back into the house, but the cockatiel didn't receive such good treatment. Shi Wen they not only didn't give it meat, but also covered it with a fruit basket.
The creature seemed to know that Chasing Clouds wouldn't peck at it anymore, and it perked up, shouting inside the fruit basket, "Unfair! Unfair!"
Zhu Ji tapped the fruit basket lightly with his finger and laughed, "Unfair my foot! You come to the ranch to cause trouble and harass the natives, where's the unfairness?"
The cockatiel was still shouting, "It's not fair!"
Zhu Ji simply pinched its mouth gently to stop it from making a sound.
Once Chasing Clouds and the parrot had quieted down a bit, Shi Wen went to check the surveillance footage.
The Chasing Clouds's nest is near the beehive, and the bees are a significant part of their property. It's necessary to find out where this parrot came from, whether someone brought it there, and whether someone is after their bees.
Shi Wen and Zhu Ji were watching the security camera footage in the living room, while Chasing Clouds was squatting nearby.
Shi Wen estimated the time and turned the surveillance footage back a little.
Soon, they saw the cockatiel appear near the nest of the Chasing Clouds.
It was hot at midday, so the Chasing Clouds didn't fly away but rested in its nest.
It was taking a nap with its eyes closed; it looked like it was about to fall asleep.
Birds flew around, occasionally bumping into Chasing Clouds.