Chapter 15 Picking up duck eggs by the river
While Zhang An was wandering by the river, he walked to a reed field and sat up.
Pull out a few crisp and tender reed cores and eat them in your mouth. They are not bad, sweet and refreshing.
There are several wild ducks floating on the river not far away, looking for food in the water.
Suddenly he heard a sound in the reeds beside him, and Zhang An thought it was a big fish stranded.
I stood up and looked for it, and there were actually a few wild ducks emerging from the reeds.
Could it be that the egg has just been laid?
Wild ducks will build nests in the reed grass by the river and lay eggs inside.
Many people go inside to look for wild ducks every time they see them coming out of the river.
Zhang An has found it several times before when he came to swim.
Although I went home with eggs, I also had Wang Fang's meal of fried pork with bamboo shoots.
Because Wang Fang had never allowed Zhang An to play in the river, but this could not be stopped, and several friends of the same age went there as soon as he shouted.
Zhang An lowered his head and searched in the reed grass for a long time without finding it, thinking that he was not about to give up.
Looking further ahead, the water in front is already a bit deep, and these ducks have actually built their nests so far away.
No wonder, this piece of reed grass is too big.
Zhang An pulled his pants onto his thighs, walked over and started looking for them.
Three or four nests were found during this search, and each one contained duck eggs.
I reached out and touched it, and it was still a little warm. The ducks must have been squatting inside and laying eggs just now.
Otherwise it would be impossible for this nest to still be hot.
Luckily, no one came to dig out this area, and Zhang An took out forty or fifty duck eggs from the four nests.
However, Zhang An did not kill them all, and still left several eggs in each nest.
Because once the duck eggs in the nest are picked, the ducks will not continue to lay eggs in this nest when they come back and there are no eggs, but will build a nest in another place.
But as long as a few are left inside, those ducks will continue to lay eggs here.
The small backpack Zhang An brought out today was not big to begin with, and it was almost full after putting forty or fifty duck eggs in it. ,
In line with the principle of not revealing his wealth, Zhang An still covered it with a layer of grass.
I was lucky today. I came to set the net and actually picked up a bunch of duck eggs.
Nowadays, eggs can basically be sold for four to five cents each. Duck eggs are even more expensive, usually seven or eight cents. The larger ones can be sold for one piece, which is the same price as goose eggs.
In fact, it is not much different from that of later generations, but this is because the current output is small and the output of artificial breeding farms in later generations is large, so egg food is entirely due to volume.
Of course, the price of local eggs and duck eggs in later generations is extremely high.
When I got home, my mother was still picking up the soles of her shoes.
"Mom, let me show you something good." Zhang An chuckled.
"What a good thing, you caught another fish?" Wang Fang responded to Zhang An while stringing the needle back and forth on the sole of the shoe.
Zhang An held the grass away from the basket, and a basket of cyan duck eggs was exposed in front of Wang Fang's eyes.
"Did you buy this? No, these eggs are from teal ducks." He looked at his mother looking at him.
“Yes, at the flooded pond, when I went to set the net there, I found several water ducks emerging from the reeds. I went in and found several nests.”
"Are they all water ducks? Don't let anyone's duck in the village lay it. It will cause trouble."
Wang Fang is still a little worried.
"No, Mom, no one in the village raises this thing. This water duck has no home, and it will run away and cannot go home. Who knows how to raise it? And I read it right. There are seven or eight in that group."
"That's good. Have you left any eggs in the nest?"
"Yes, three or four in each nest. .”
Mom looked at the basket of duck eggs and was obviously very happy.
Of course, this basket of eggs is sold for dozens of yuan, how can you not be happy?
The meat of this water duck is actually very delicious, and the egg production rate is very high and the eggs are very big, but it is very delicate and a little difficult to catch.
You can't catch this thing in the water unless you set a trap.
Some people in the village had raised ducks before, but they were fine when they were still ducklings and would go home.
But when it grows up, it will not come back if it is released, or it can only be kept in a cage. However, it grows slowly and the eggs it lays are not big, so it needs to be taken care of regularly. So later on, no one wanted to raise this thing, and they basically sold it or put it in the pot as soon as they caught it.
But Zhang An felt that he had some space, and he could try to get these ducks back and raise them.
The worst thing is that I will be locked up in the space for a few more days.
When I went to close the net at night, I found that there was nothing in the net, but it did not affect Zhang An.
Because there are fish or there are no fish, there must be fish here in Zhang An.
After all, lowering the net is just an excuse to bring out the fish in the space.
Although it is almost dark, you can still see it.
The group of ducks on the river not far away was still on the river, so Zhang An did as he said.
Space spring water has an invisible attraction to animals, judging from the behavior of the three tigers and two pigs at home.
So Zhang An put some spring water into the water on the river bank and floated it along the river to the center of the river.
Sure enough, after waiting for a while, the ducks began to pay attention to something strange in the water.
Then slowly swam towards Zhang An.
If there is an animal around Zhang An now, you can see Zhang An's body, he is glowing.
Just when Zhang An was happy, a trace of coldness passed through his palm in the water, as if he had been licked by something.
He looked down and saw, holy shit, a big water snake was attracted to him.
No matter how hard he drove, Zhang An couldn't get rid of the snake, so he had to put it into the space first, because he was afraid of scaring the duck that was about to come over.
After the ducks swam over, Zhang An quickly caught all seven ducks in one go and put them all into the space.
Then he found the water snake that he had just taken in and let it out again. Zhang An didn't like this guy very much, so he didn't want to take it in.
After a few ducks came in, Zhang An could actually see that they were very happy.
Why, these losers are actually eating fish in the pond.
And what we eat is fine-scaled fish, not grass carp.
This is all money, and Zhang An’s heart is bleeding.
It would be great if these ducks could stop eating fish and eat the grass next to them.
Unexpectedly, as soon as this idea came up, the duck stopped eating the fish in the pond and ran towards the grass and started eating grass.
Damn it, can I control it at will in space?
Then the thought arose and I wanted to pick a peach.
So a peach fell off the tree and floated into my hand.
This discovery surprised Zhang An. It saved Zhang An a lot of things, such as digging the fish pond by himself.
Although there is spring water to relieve fatigue, I am really tired.
After the ducks were full, they began to squat in the grass and sleep. Zhang An was extremely envious.
I got some fish fry in the space. Zhang An originally wanted to pick some grass carp and fine-scaled fry to take back.
But there is no need to go to that trouble now. Zhang An can bring up whatever fish he wants.
Although the fine-scaled fish can only grow up in a turbulent environment, with space at hand and spring water that has a magical effect on animals, there is no need to worry about their growth problems.
Just don’t raise too many, just a little bit. Too much will easily attract others’ attention.
After putting the fish fry in a small basin, Zhang An went back home.
When you get to the yard, put the fry directly into the pool.
The fish fry, which were originally in a panic, calmed down as Zhang An poured some spring water into the pool. Zhang An also took advantage of the darkness to get some aquatic plants from the space and put them in.
After one glance, I was satisfied and went into the house.
As soon as they stepped up the steps, three tigers surrounded Zhang An, ready to play with Zhang An.
These three puppies are growing up so fast, they look different every day.
Although his physique has not changed much now, he has become slightly more ferocious, which makes Zhang An feel more and more that the male dog bred at that time must be unusual.
I don’t know why it was paired with a big gray dog.
(End of this chapter)