My 1995 Small Farm Chapter 359

   When the four arrived at the reservoir, there were not so many swallows.

  The habit of this kind of bird is to flock in the morning and evening, that is to say, you can only see them flying together in the morning and evening, covering the sky and the sun.

   Now that the sun is high, the swallows have flown everywhere to look for food.

   But they weren't disappointed either.

  There are too many birds on the side of the reservoir. The water is warm in spring, the willows are green, the peaches and plums are blooming, and the reeds are slowly growing.

   There are not many birds hiding inside.

  As soon as the person approached, countless waterfowl were startled, and they all flew up.

  Yu Qi'an picked up the slingshot and hit without saying a word.

   Zhou Weijun and the two were not far behind, they pulled up their slingshots one after another, and started aiming and shooting randomly at the frightened birds.

  After taking two aimings, Yu Qi'an put down the slingshot, excitedly rushed towards the place where the flock of birds were, and yelled strangely while running: "My boy, why are there so many lovesick birds here?"

  Chen Ling was stunned for a moment, wondering if you could catch the bird just by rushing over in a daze?

   Zhou Weijun and Ma Wei laughed helplessly.

   Then Zhou Weijun shouted to him: "Qian, come back quickly, you will go crazy when you see a bird, you don't bring anything, can you catch it with just your hands? Come back and let Fugui find a way for you."

  Yu Qi'an ran into the mud at this time, and waved to Chen Ling out of breath in the distance: "Fugui, come and help me, there are so many lovesick birds, they will run away if they don't catch them."

   Chen Ling couldn't help laughing when he heard the words, and shouted: "Old Yu, come back quickly. We have a lot of these birds here, and they are everywhere in the mountains. I will take you to catch a few more later."

   "Then, that's fine."

  Yu Qi'an said, still very reluctant to look at the direction where the lovesick bird was flying away in the distance, and then walked back three steps at a time.

   "Fugui, what are you trying to catch?"

  Hearing them shouting outside, Lao Niwai came out of the house and asked curiously.

   "My friend said he wanted to catch two red-mouthed jades."

Chen Ling smiled. The red-billed jade is what they call the lovesick bird. This bird has bright feathers and is as big as a sparrow. Green from below the eyes to the nape of the neck.

  It is yellow from the mouth down, and becomes orange-red when it extends down to the front chest, the abdomen is gray-white, the ribs are yellow-gray, and the wings have half a circle of gold thread, which is very beautiful.

   This kind of bird is only found in the south of the Qinling Mountains. It is similar to the swallow. There is no environment suitable for their survival in the north, so it is difficult to see.

Old Tired Wicked Baba Dabata Cigarette Roll, "Oh, catch the red-billed jade, go to the mountain to look for it, where there are many bamboos growing on the mountain, there will be more red-billed jade in the bamboo bushes, wait for Xiaoman, when the birds are the most, take the chicken cover and sieve to go up the mountain Buckle it, one buckle is several."

  Yu Qian, who had just returned to the entrance of the village and stamped the mud on his feet, was stunned immediately, "Ah? Does this bird like to stay where bamboo grows?"

  Lao Ni grinned crookedly: "Yes, this bird lives low. When it's warm, it lives in bamboo bushes. When it's cold, it burrows into the bushes. It doesn't nest on the top of the tree, so it's easy to catch."

  Yu Qi'an regained his energy when he heard this: "Old man, you just said that you have the most birds here, how many kinds can there be?"

   "How many? That's too many to count."

Lao Niwai threw away the **** of his cigarette, shook his head, and said: "Some live by the water, some run in the wild, and some fly to the mountains. Come to Xiaoman, you can hear it in just one morning's time eating. There are no less than a dozen kinds of birds chirping outside."

  At this time, Zhou Weijun couldn't help asking: "Uncle, why do you have the most birds in Xiaoman here?"

"Why can this be? Xiaomantian is warm, bugs, food, etc. are everywhere, and there are many things that birds can eat." Lao Niwai smiled, Zhou Weijun knew this old boy, and he was led by Chen Ling last time I went shopping at home.

"So this is ah."

Beside   , Yu Qi'an suddenly realized: "Old man, you know a lot, and you must be a master at catching birds."

   "Hey, what a master, who doesn't know about this. Fugui went to catch birds in the mountains since he was a child. He knows more. He knows how to catch all kinds of birds. Let him take you there."

   Lao Ni waved his hand crookedly, this is something that all the boys in the village can do, I don't know why these people from outside are so rare.

  Hearing this, Yu Qi'an couldn't wait to pull Chen Ling to go to the mountain to catch birds.

  Chen Ling told him not to worry, he didn't bring everything with him, so he turned to Wang Jusheng's house first, and without a word of gossip, he called Wang Jusheng to get a hatchet, cotton thread and other tools and went up the mountain together.

  Walking up the mountain, Zhou Weijun asked again, "This bird is called lovesickness bird. Is this the only pair of birds in a lifetime? After one dies, the other will die in love?"

  As soon as he said this, Wang Jusheng couldn't help laughing: "You guys called the lovesick bird, we call it the red-billed jade, but there is no such thing.

Besides, these birds have always been in flocks. When we were young, we male dolls did not suffer much. After we caught a few, they didn't even lose their feathers. They picked up some firewood and roasted them on the spot. They were scorched and their feathers were burnt. Once the burnt black shell is broken, the meat inside is pink and very tender. "

  Zhou Weijun swallowed his saliva and asked, "How about the taste? How does it taste?"

   "This taste is quite similar to sparrows. The more it is roasted, the more chewy it becomes."

  Wang Jusheng shook his head and said, he and Zhou Weijun have known each other for a long time. The old boy went to his house last time and bought all the pickles in his house.

   "That's right, Fugui, I haven't eaten it in the past few years, I remember it tastes like this."

  Chen Ling nodded: "Well, in fact, except for some water birds and other special ones, the taste of roasting birds with firewood is basically the same."

   "No, no, no, how can it be the same? It's because you eat too much delicious food now, and you don't like this roasted bird meat. I still think the roasted pigeon meat is more delicious."

  The three of them had a heated discussion about the taste of bird meat.

   Let Yu Qi'an and Ma Wei roll their eyes at the same time.

  Yu Qi'an finally figured out why Chen Ling's family kept a lot of things, except that they didn't have birds. It turned out that they caught them and ate them.

  Acacia birds, although there are birds in the northern bird market, there are not many good birds.

   Such a good ornamental bird, actually roasted and eaten, in his opinion, it is a bit reckless.

  However, Yu Qi'an soon stopped thinking so.

  Because as soon as you enter the mountain, there are too many birds, and there are beautiful birds with nice songs everywhere.

  The red-mouthed jade looks inconspicuous inside.

  He even saw many rare birds flashing past the branches.

  Let Yu Qi'an yell and scream all the way, exclaiming constantly, looking east and west, his eyes are overwhelmed, his eyes are almost not enough.

   It's like a mouse fell into a rice jar.

  I want any bird, I want to catch any bird, but I don't know what to catch all of a sudden.

They have all come to a bamboo grove, but Yu Qi'an looked up at the surrounding branches, not in a hurry to grab the red-billed jade, and just murmured: "This is simply heaven, I'll be here soon!" I don't want to leave."

  There are so many birds in the mountains, the lovesick bird is nothing compared to him, he wants everything.

   "It's over, it's over, Qi'an is also fascinated by your place, look at his eyeballs, after chasing this bird and chasing this, it's not enough."

   Zhou Weijun laughed when he saw Yu Qi'an's appearance.

Ma Wei squinted his eyes and said cheerfully: "Isn't that right, he is just like the monkey that entered the cornfield, trying to catch all these birds, but he grew two hands, so he can't catch so many what."

Then he turned to Chen Ling and said, "Fugui, he asked you to help catch birds. Don't forget to take his money. Qi'an spends tens of thousands of dollars on buying birds and bird cages every year. You can save him money." How much money did you pay?"

   These bird breeders in Beijing are not only expensive for their birds, but also for their cages.

   Not only the bird needs to be raised, but also the cage.

   Raising birds, raising cages, walking birds, walking cages, the gameplay is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

   Sometimes there is only one cage, but now there are thousands or tens of thousands of years and months.

   In the next 20 or 30 years, there will still be cages worth hundreds of thousands.

   "Haha, Ma, if you say that, I can give Lao Yu a trick..."

Chen Ling said to Yu Qi'an's big face, "Old Yu, there are many birds in the mountains, and we alone can't catch many. We will catch some red-billed jade later. After you go down the mountain, let the villagers in our village catch them for you. That guy catches fast."

  Yu Qi'an's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he clapped his hands and shouted: "That's right. Why didn't I expect that? The old man just now knows a lot. I heard that many people in the village know it."

   Chen Ling said: "You came at a bad time. Many people in our village went out to work this year. It would have been faster if young people went up to the mountains to catch birds last year."

Yu Qi'an, however, was immersed in the joy of the upcoming harvest of bird catching, and waved his big hand excitedly: "Don't be afraid, one veteran will be worth two, and it doesn't matter if there are fewer young people. I will pay a little more when the time comes. The crew of the show is coming, so I can stay in your village for a while longer."

  He could see it, and then, several people walked into the bamboo forest talking and laughing, and began to prepare for catching the red-mouthed jade.

  Although the red-billed jade does not nest in high places, it only lives in low bamboo bushes and shrubs, but it is not easy to find its nest in the bamboo bushes in the green spring.

   Their nests are relatively small, and sometimes they are overlooked even if they are right in front of them.

   So still have to make a trap to lure it.

  The nest of the red-billed jade is hard to find, but this bird is not difficult to catch.

  Red-mouthed jade is the easiest to be fooled and easy to catch. Any kid in Chen Wangzhuang can catch it.

  Chen Ling and Wang Jusheng just chopped a few thin bamboos, cleaned up some small branches on the bamboo poles with a knife, and then divided them into several short sticks and bamboo pieces about 20 centimeters in length.

   Then clear out a small open space in front of him, and dig out a small rectangular pit.

   This small pit should be deeper.

  The pit was covered with a few pieces of discarded roof tiles, which were old tiles brought from the roof brought by Wang Jusheng's house.

   Then put bamboo sticks on top of the small pit, and then cover with two tiles, leaving a gap in one of the tiles, propped up with bamboo sticks, this is to let the birds fall in.

   Take another thin bamboo with good elasticity and insert it into the soil, it should be inserted deeper.

  Bend the bamboo stick as the source of elasticity and power, which is the key to the trigger device.

   Tie the bent part of the bamboo stick with a thin rope, and just put the rope on the sole of the shoe. This rope is strong.

   Tie a small stick with the length of a little finger in the middle of the rope, and get stuck under the tile, on the bamboo stick that supports the tile.

   As for whether the small bamboo sticks supported under the tiles can withstand this force, don't worry.

  Chen Ling inserted it into the soil, but not too deep, just maintaining balance.

  When Hongzuiyu came over and touched the bamboo stick, the balance was broken, and the rope was instantly bounced by the bamboo pole, and it would be buckled into the small pit below by the tiles.

  This is actually the principle of the sling.

   But slings hurt the bird.

  The size of a red-billed jade sparrow, the bird's feet are so small, it is easy to catch the bird's body instead of the foot, and even the trap will kill the bird if it is too strong.

  This trap can ensure that the bird will not be injured to the greatest extent, because it is locked in the deep pit below by the tiles, and there is room for movement inside.

  Chen Ling made a trap, sprinkled some millet around the tiles, then pulled out his hand and continued to make the next one.

  At first, he and Wang Jusheng were doing it.

   Later, Zhou Weijun and Yu Qi'an also joined in.

  Men, they are like big kids when they play. After getting excited, they set up a dozen traps in a row, and they stopped when they ran out of tiles.

After finishing it, Yu Qi'an felt that what the three of them did was not as good as Chen Ling and Wang Jusheng, so he hesitated and muttered: "Fugui, is this okay? I think this trap is a bit too simple and rough. "

   Chen Ling just smiled at him when he heard the words: "Hongzuiyu is an idiot, you don't need to work hard to make such a good trap, this one will do."

   "But you are worried that the trap is useless. If you want to see the effect soon, I have a trick."

   Chen Ling let alone Zhou Weijun and the three of them. Wang Jusheng was also taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly asked: "What tricks do you have? If you have any tricks, use them quickly and let us see."

  Chen Ling smiled, waved at the four of them, and then led them to hide behind the bamboo forest not far from the trap.

   "What are you doing here?"

   "Shut up, I'm going to lure the birds."

  Chen Ling raised his fingers and hissed, then covered his mouth with his hand, and let out a red-mouthed jade cry.

   "Jiujiu~", "Jiujiu~"

  A loud and melodious bird call came out intermittently from Chen Ling's mouth. If ordinary people listened to it, they would not be able to tell that it was a bird call imitated by humans.

   At first glance, it was a red-billed jade screaming for joy.

   After Chen Ling uttered such a burst of birdsong, the four people hiding behind him became suspicious. Chen Ling just hid in the bamboo bushes and learned the birdsong. Can Chen Ling really lure the lovesickness bird over?

   Could it be that this bird is so stupid that it can't tell that the sound is imitated by humans?

   But this suspicion didn't last long, probably only about four or five minutes.

   They were dumbfounded.

Because there were really two beautiful little birds with bright feathers flying over, their tails cocked back and forth, jumping around in the bamboo forest like sparrows, but they looked happier than sparrows, and they were like ADHD. It can't stop flicking its wings slightly, looking extremely clever.

  After these two flew over, several red-billed jades soon flew to the bamboo forest one after another.

   "I didn't expect it to work."

  The three of Zhou Weijun were overwhelmed with admiration, but Chen Ling suddenly stopped singing, and the four of them hurriedly held their breath.

  Because the red-mouthed jades found the food next to the trap, they slowly moved over.

  Next, Zhou Weijun and the three of them were stunned. They saw these red-billed jade foolishly gathered in front of a trap, pecking at the grains.

   This peck doesn't matter, the mechanism is triggered immediately.

  The curved bamboo pole at the oblique rear of the trap bounced up suddenly with a "swish", and the tiles clattered and fell down suddenly, covering two or three red-billed jade tightly into the small pit.

  The other ones were frightened and flew away in a hurry.

   "I'll be good, I've caught it now."

  Yu Qi'an stood up abruptly, opened his mouth wide in surprise, and was not in a hurry to catch the bird. He just looked at Chen Ling with fiery eyes: "You are so awesome, brother, I want to learn this from you."

  Zhou Weijun frowned and said, "This bird is still called a lovesick bird, is it so stupid?"

   Ma Wei also complained.

   Feel like a waste of such a good name.

   This is the fault of their writers, they like to criticize randomly.

   "It's not up to people to name it. Well, now we can go out and pick up birds."

  Chen Ling clapped his hands, got up and went out, walked to the trap and gently lifted the tiles, carefully stretched in with one hand, grabbed the three red-billed jades, and put them into the pot-bellied fish basket.

  Yu Qi'an admired Chen Ling's ability to catch and lure birds, especially his ventriloquism to lure birds.

In this regard, Chen Ling only said: "This method is actually to use people as bird lures, or bird matchmakers, and they can also fool stupid birds like red-billed jade. Most birds are clever, such as Magpies and crows, try it, it will be strange if they can understand you."

  Yu Qi'an hurriedly asked which bird was more stupid and easier to catch.

   "What kind of bird is stupid? The turtledove is stupid. Titmouse and pheasant are also very stupid. They are easy to deceive."

  Yu Qi'an only blushed when he heard it, and praised him again and again. He felt that he was overwhelmed with knowledge, so he caught Chen Ling and questioned him on the way down the mountain.

   This really loves to play to a certain extent.

Chapter end