Chapter 198 Delighted with this Trick
The macaques were too boisterous; it was impossible to let the little kids go in and feed them. Some of the fruit mooncakes were taken by Lü Jiamu to feed the macaques, and the rest were taken by Ming to give the ring-tailed lemurs a taste of something new.
Speaking of macaques, White Brow had somewhat recovered physically, but it still wasn't possible to reintegrate him into the troop. They had tried to let him meet his old monkey companions through the cage, and while the other monkeys were fine, Black Claws really saw red, and they bared their teeth at each other fiercely.
So, once the animal hospital was complete, they planned to let White Brow stay there for a while, enjoying a patch of forest all to himself. When a new group of macaques becomes accustomed, they would then let him join them to see if there was a chance he could blend into the group.
They would also take a couple of mooncakes for White Brow, so even if he couldn't see his monkey friends, he could eat mooncakes to get a feel of the Mid-Autumn Festival's spirit of reunion.
After finishing the mooncake-making with the kids, Fang Ye went to the tiger exhibit!
Lan Li was live broadcasting with a drone outside the tiger exhibit.
In the back house, Bao greeted Fang Ye, "Hello, Director, the mooncakes for the tigers are ready!"
Fang Ye laughed and said, "Alright, give them to me. I'll take them to the tigers now!"
The mooncakes made for the tigers had pigskin crusts and were filled with beef. Jiaojiao's mooncake was larger, about 20cm in diameter, filled with several big chunks of meat. Ice Cake's mooncake was smaller, 10cm in diameter, with the beef chopped into small, suitable pieces.
Placing the two meat mooncakes on a plate, Fang Ye carried them down the staff passage into the exhibition area.
The drone followed Fang Ye, and he greeted the live-stream viewers with a smile, "See the mooncakes I'm holding? These are fresh meat mooncakes for the tigers! The outside is pigskin, and the inside is beef!"
"Hahaha, even tigers get mooncakes, that's something I didn't expect."
"The director is so thoughtful, those mooncakes are filled with love!"
Fang Ye glanced around and, not seeing any tigers near the water pond, wondered, "Where could they be at this moment?"
Jiaojiao was laying relaxed on her side on the grass in front of the moat, with Ice Cake playing on top of her. Visitors on the other side of the moat were excitedly snapping photos and shouting, "Jiaojiao, I love you!"n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
"Jiaojiao, look this way! I'm taking a photo of you and Ice Cake!"
"Wow, both the big and little tigers are so beautiful!"
"Ice Cake is so cute!"
Jiaojiao raised her big head, gazing with her amber eyes serenely at the visitors outside who were shouting her name. Her tail tip flicked unconsciously in the grass.
She actually enjoyed watching the visitors. Before, it was incredibly boring to stay in the concrete cage every day, with only a few visitors occasionally providing a bit of novelty, allowing her to gaze curiously for half the day.
But sometimes the visitors weren't so friendly!
When the weather was hot and oppressive, she would lie on the ground and not want to move; that's when visitors would knock on the railing to scare her or pick up small stones to see if they could hit her to make her move. Those were times that made her very irritable.
Now there were no visitors throwing stones at her. She could lie down wherever she wanted to watch the action. And when she lost interest or it got too noisy, she could retreat to the forest to rest. If it was hot, she could take a swim in the pond; in short, life was very comfortable!
And she had the added company of Ice Cake.
Ice Cake's hind feet were on the grass, his front paws moving up and down on Jiaojiao's shoulders as if he found her body warm and soft to knead, triggering his instinct to knead milk.
Though he no longer drank milk!
After kneading for a bit, he climbed onto Jiaojiao's pristine white belly, slumped on top of her, his forelimbs encircling her back and belly, his chin resting on Jiaojiao's behind, blinking his blue eyes, looking bored.
Visitor expressions at this moment: ⊙▽⊙
"Ahh, Mama's body is so comfortable!"
"The little tiger is so adorable; I really want to give him a smooch."
Suddenly, Ice Cake noticed Jiaojiao's tail flicking unconsciously and immediately focused on it, clambering down from her behind with his paws still gripping the fur near the base of her tail.
Jiaojiao couldn't help but turn her head to look, and she let out a gentle roar!
Then she turned her head back again.
At this moment, Ice Cake climbed down from her and pressed his paws on the tip of Jiaojiao's tail, biting it with his mouth and lifting it up, raising one of his front paws to pat the tail.
Jiaojiao helplessly looked back at him again!
The visitors laughed nonstop, "Ha ha, the little tiger is so pleased with this little mischief!"
"Walking on the edge of Mommy's anger."
"Only a little tiger dares to be so naughty! If it were anyone else, tiger mommy would have slapped them away with a paw."
"That's not necessarily true, I think the zookeeper could also do it."
"Tiger Mommy is still very gentle."
Jiaojiao wasn't angry, since Ice Cake couldn't really hurt her tail, and playing with it was no big deal.
However, this time when she turned her head, she saw Fang Ye, who was smiling and waving at her, "Jiaojiao! Ice Cake!"
She got up from lying on her side, flicked her tail, throwing Ice Cake off with a little tumble, and walked toward Fang Ye.
Ice Cake, a bit dazed, shook his head and saw Fang Ye. He also happily ran over!
"The zookeeper is here!"
"It looks like the zookeeper is going to feed the tigers mooncakes."
Smelling the scent of meat on the tray, Jiaojiao raised her head and wanted to bite the mooncake, but Fang Ye used his arm to block her and pushed her head away with a laugh, "Good girl, be good, wait a moment and you'll get to eat!"
Jiaojiao, acting like a kitten begging for affection, rubbed her fuzzy big head against his arm, walked from his left to his right side, and then stood up, with her huge tiger paw resting on Fang Ye's shoulder.
The visitors let out a gasp, "My goodness, that tiger is huge!"
When lying on the ground it wasn't apparent, but now that she stood up, she was really tall!
Especially seeing this with no railing in close proximity, the visual impact was too strong.
Viewers in the live stream also began discussing, "Well, how are you going to tackle that, you wouldn't win even with ten tackles!"
"Why did the tiger suddenly stand up? Does it want to pet the zookeeper?"
"Ha ha, the zookeeper usually likes to pet the tigers, today the tigers want to pet the zookeeper!"
"Look how hungry the kid is, hurry up and feed it!" Experience tales at empire
Fang Ye leaned to the side, slipped from under the tiger's paw; if Jiaojiao's weight of over 300 pounds pressed down on him, his slim frame wouldn't be able to handle it.
"Good girl, be patient! I'll put it down on the ground for you to eat."
He set the tray down on the grass near the visitors, placing Ice Cake's little mooncake to one side, rubbed Jiaojiao's head, and spoke affectionately, "Alright, eat up!"
Jiaojiao's tongue first licked the pork rind a few times, then bit it off with her teeth, swallowing a large piece of pork rind without much chewing, and then started eating the meat pieces scattered on the ground.
The pork rind was a bit tough for Ice Cake to handle, so seeing this, Fang Ye tore off the pork rind and held it up to Jiaojiao's mouth so that Ice Cake could eat the meat directly.
Watching the two tigers eat meat so appetizingly, Fang Ye, with his arm around Jiaojiao's head, smiled and greeted the visitors, "Thank you all for coming to our zoo for Mid-Autumn Festival! Happy Mid-Autumn to everyone!"