Chapter 596 Goshawk vs. Sparrow
Zhang An came back from the town just in time. The dew in the fields had been exposed to the sun for so long that it had evaporated into the sky.
It is just convenient for spreading the mosquito net you just bought into the field without worrying about getting wet by dew.
Then I moved the millet from home to the field, poured it into the spread mosquito net, and then spread it into a thin layer, waiting for the sun's favor.
It was just that the newly laid eight mosquito nets were not fully drying the grains. When they were only half dry, chirping sounds started coming from the surroundings.
Zhang An looked up and found that the annoying group of thieves from his hometown in the village had already smelled the smell and came over.
It's just that he didn't land directly at this moment, but stood high on the telephone pole by the roadside, watching Zhang An's family's millet drying in the field from a distance.
"You see, the noses of these thieves from home are sharper than dogs. They knew it as soon as we dried the millet."
Wang Fang was rolling out the rice with a wooden rake. Guzi on the mosquito net said through gritted teeth after seeing the sparrows flying over.
As farmers, there are few who don’t hate this stuff. When planting, they will dig up the soil and eat the newly planted seeds.
When it's time to harvest, they are snatched directly under the eyes of farmers. It would be false to say that they are not hated by people.
"It's okay, Mom, just leave them alone. It's okay if they don't fly down. If they really dare to fly down, I'll let Huatou come out and talk to them."
Seeing that they didn't fly directly. Come here, Zhang An doesn't bother to care about them, because at the moment he is busy moving the millet from home to the field, so that it can be fully dried early, and he will not waste the beautiful sunshine today.
And they are all standing on the wires now. Zhang An doesn’t want the flowers to pounce on them because the goshawk is too big.
It’s just that Zhang An didn’t pay attention to them, but they became more and more unruly.
When Zhang Jianguo and Zhang An led their horses home to carry the millet, the sparrows on the wire saw that there were fewer people in the field, and immediately spread their wings and swooped down towards the dried millet.
"Xiao An, a thief from home has flown into the mosquito net."
Wang Fang, who was rolling millet outside, called Zhang An towards home while picking up a wooden rake and driving away the millet eaters. sparrow.
It's just that she can't drive away these hateful things. If there are only one or two mosquito nets, then Wang Fang will definitely be able to see through them.
But now six of the eight mosquito nets spread in the field were covered with millet. As soon as she arrived, the sparrows flew to the other side.
And little Siqi in the field smiled very happily when he saw these sparrows flying around "Puff-Puff-Puff", and ran directly towards the sparrows.
He was too young and not sensible enough to know that these sparrows were bad things. He just thought it was fun to see them flying around.
But the little tiger following him had already pounced on the sparrow when he saw it landing.
How do you say that? Enemies are very jealous when they meet.
The thieves in my hometown are used to running wild in the village. The dogs in the village have long been at odds with them, and Xiaohu and the other dogs of Zhang An's family are no exception.
It’s just that they don’t have wings. Infantry versus air force, the dogs really have no choice but to be helpless and furious.
Even the civet cats, who are good at catching birds, are helpless if the thief in his hometown doesn't land on the tree.
Zhang An just came out from home with Dahei carrying a load of millet. When he heard his mother's words, he whistled.
Not long after the whistle sounded, Hua Tou flew down from the roof with his whole family in a scream of eagles.
Goshawks are definitely the dominant ones in the sky. The little sparrows will definitely feel like they are facing a formidable enemy when they see them. When they hear the hawk call in Huatou, they will be so frightened that they will not care about their heads and tails. What else can they do? Eat the millet and immediately fly into the sky.
They were extremely arrogant just now, but now they started to run away in panic.
In the village, people and sparrows have long been at odds with each other, and Zhang An has no intention of letting them go.
I just raised my hand and pointed at the panicked flock of sparrows, and the flower head was like a sharp arrow heading straight towards the sparrows in the air.
Hua Tou’s wife and children followed closely behind, chasing the thieves from their hometown who were chirping in the air.
There are quite a few sparrows in this group, at least thirty or forty. If there is only one flower head, maybe only a small part of them will suffer.
After all, no matter how powerful the flower head is, it still takes a little time to kill a sparrow, so that most of the sparrows can escape.
But there were three more sparrows like Huatou in Zhang An's house. All four of them chased after them, and those sparrows had no chance at all.
Just after flying for a while, he was caught up by the Big Mac behind him, basically one claw at a time, and then dropped from the sky.
Zhang An was very satisfied with this, but he did not call back the goshawks at home.
The thieves in his hometown were really arrogant during this period, and it was very annoying to chirp on the telephone pole at the door every day, so this time he made up his mind to let the Huatou family teach them a lesson.
Many people passing by had already stopped on the road in front of Zhang An's house, looking up at the scene of the goshawk fighting the birds in the sky.
Among them were villagers from the village, as well as tourists who came to play in advance and lived in the village. Many of them were attracted by the sound Huatou made just now.
"Hey, these sparrows are so pitiful. If they were thrown down like this, I'm afraid they won't survive."
Seeing the sparrows in the sky being killed one by one by the flower heads, Thrown down from the sky, a girl on the road said to her companions unbearably.
"Hey, girl, you are wrong about this. This is a thief from my hometown. He harms the crops in the fields every day. He is not worthy of pity."
The villagers were still very happy. He stared at the sky and heard someone pitying the thief from his hometown.
However, after seeing that the speakers were a few young girls in gorgeous clothes, I knew that they must have come from the city to play, so they just opened their mouths and denounced the bad behavior of the thieves in their hometown.
“Yes, yes, we can finally get rid of these hateful things. You don’t know that when my family was cutting rice in the field a few days ago, they were flying around. But they ate a lot of my grains.”
“My family is not the same. Some of the rice is eaten bare by them, which is really disgusting. I also forgot that there are eagles here in Zhang An. Otherwise, Zhang An would have been asked to take his eagle to help deal with these guys a few days ago."
Other villagers also agreed with the first person and would not give it to these thieves from their hometown at all. Any chance of exculpation.
"Ah, that's it. I'm sorry, uncles, but I have never seen so many sparrows. I didn't know they would harm crops."
The little girls obviously don't know the dangers of sparrows. But their three views were very correct. When they heard everyone talking about the crimes of these sparrows, they immediately understood that these sparrows were not good things.
“It’s okay, little girl, these birds are everywhere, some are good and some are bad, such as the swallows, we won’t say a word about them.”
The villagers saw them Several little girls were like this and quickly explained with a smile, for fear that they would scare them.
While everyone was laughing and joking, Huatou and the others also completed the battle quickly. Most of the thirty or forty sparrows were shot down, and only a few escaped.
At this moment, Huatou’s family is catching two sparrows and returning to follow Zhang An.
Zhang An was very satisfied with their performance, so he let them go back to their nests to enjoy their prey.
"Hello, are those eagles raised by our family?" Someone saw the goshawks that were showing off their power just now, but now they were interacting with Zhang An very gently, He immediately ran over to ask.
This is a young man in his twenties, about the same age as Zhang An, but he sounded very excited when he spoke.
"Yes, they are all raised by my family."
Seeing someone ask, Zhang An also smiled and replied.
"Really? That's great. I really liked the eagles you had just now. Anyway, you also have a few of them. Can you sell one to me? . ”
Unexpectedly, the young man took a fancy to a few eagles and wanted to buy one from Zhang An.
Few men can resist the temptation of raising an eagle, holding the yellow on the left and holding the sky on the right. What a scene that is.
If it were a wild goshawk, the young man might not have thought that way yet, but knowing that it was raised by Zhang Any and that it was so gentle, he could bear it.
“Well, you may have misunderstood, our eagles are not for sale.”
Zhang An was shocked and immediately rejected the other party.
"Brother, just sell one to me. No matter how much it costs, just ask and I will agree."
After being rejected by Zhang An, the young man became anxious and immediately took it. Use money-throwing tactics.
"Brother, I'm so sorry. I really have no intention of selling these eagles. Moreover, they have grown so big and have been raised by me. You really can't raise them if you buy them back."
Zhang An saw him Reluctant to give up, she explained to him dumbfounded.
“Ah? Is there such a thing?”
The young man was a little dazed when he heard what Zhang An said.
He didn’t know anything about raising eagles. He just saw that he liked it, so he had the idea of buying one.
"Of course, eagles are different from other animals. They only have one owner in their life, and they cannot be tamed by others."
Zhang An patiently explained to the man He didn't know if other eagles were like this, but Huatou was like this.
"So that's it, okay then."
The young man is not an unreasonable person who wants to get what he asks for. Once he understands it, he will no longer persist.
Afterwards, Zhang An sent him away, and then continued to lead Dahei to carry the last few bags of millet to the fields.
Of course, these are not the last few bags of millet at home. From morning to now, he has only moved about one-third out of the house.
Because the eight mosquito nets looked like a lot, Zhang An’s family had more new millet. All the mosquito nets, including the roof cover, only harvested one-third of the millet.
"Zhang An, do you still want the sparrows that your eagles killed? If not, I will pick them up and clean them up."
After Huatou's family returns to their nest, Seeing that Zhang An had no intention of picking up the sparrows on the ground, some villagers came over and asked.
"Uncle, go pick it up. It's troublesome to put away. I'm too lazy to do it."
Although the sparrows are in full bloom these days, Zhang An has no intention of doing so. They had to pick it up, so I let them pick it up themselves.
"Then I won't be polite."
As soon as the man heard that Zhang An didn't want it, he immediately happily went around picking up sparrows.
Of course, he was not the only one, there were two or three others who also went.
“It’s really convenient here, Zhang An. You can dry the millet directly in the field. Why don’t you let me dry it before your house is ready?”
Some people saw Zhang An's family drying millet in the field and ran up to chatter.
Nowadays, there is no free space for drying the millet, and everyone is looking for a place to dry the millet. Anyone who sees that Zhang An’s family can dry the millet directly in the field will be envious.
“There’s no point in waiting for my house to dry. Everything is empty today, so we can move here to dry it now.”
Zhang An only thought they wanted to dry the millet in the sun. In his own field, he said nonchalantly at the moment.
Their family has a total of six acres of farmland here, and the largest one is more than two acres, and it is also next to the roadside, which is very convenient. Now their family has eight beds of mosquito nets, which only takes up a small area. It's just part of it, the rest of it is still quite wide.
“I said that I would like to lend your mosquito net to my house for use. My house only has a rotten mosquito net, so I can’t get much sunlight at all.”
They were embarrassed to hear what Zhang An said. said.
Every household in the village has a mosquito net, but it is specially used to collect rapeseed, and it can only be used for one bed at most.
After all, before this, no matter what we dried, we dried it on the grain drying field. There was a cement floor there, so there was no need to lay anything for a cushion.
“Oh, this, wait until it’s dried at my house, you can come and get it.”
Only then did Zhang An realize that the other party wanted to borrow the mosquito net, but he readily agreed.
After all, in the village, no one uses all the tools. It is normal for everyone to borrow tools from each other.
Even if Zhang An lives in his own home, he usually goes to other people’s homes to borrow some things.
After drying the millet and rolling it into thin sheets in the morning, Zhang An stayed in the field. Apart from occasionally drying the millet, he was also afraid that the thieves from his hometown who were still alive would come back. After all, birds are food. Death is their nature.
As a result, after waiting all morning, I found that not even a shadow of a sparrow was seen, and the entire sky was extremely quiet.
Even some other birds that usually like to stay on the telephone poles were not seen again today.
It seems that after the big fight between Huatou and the others, they frightened other nearby birds, so they did not dare to come over.
But this can be considered a good thing. It is quiet and quiet, and it also avoids being exposed to the sun so much. I have to stay here specifically.
With Zhang An's family taking the lead, the villagers began to move the millet to the fields to dry, but it was only the fields closest to the entrance of the village. It was not cost-effective to move the millet further away.
Zhang An’s family has the most fields at the entrance of the village. After many family members came over to say hello, they pushed millet over.
Of course, Zhang An's family has no objection to this. Someone coming here to dry the millet is equivalent to helping their family dig out the remaining grain piles, and it also saves them a lot of trouble.
(End of this chapter)