Chapter 359 Chen Lingxiu ventriloquism
When the four of them rushed to the reservoir, there were not that many swallows left.
The habit of this kind of bird is to flock in the morning and dusk, that is, you can only see them in the morning and evening when thousands of birds fly together, blocking the sky and the sun.
Now that the sun has risen high, the earth swallows have flown everywhere to look for food.
But they were not disappointed either.
There are really too many birds here in the reservoir. The water is warm in spring, the willow trees are green, the peaches and plums are in bloom, and the reeds are slowly growing.
There are not so many birds hiding inside.
As soon as people approached, countless water birds were startled and all flew up.
Yu Qian said nothing, picked up the slingshot and started shooting.
Not to be outdone, Zhou Weijun and his two men pulled up their slingshots one after another and began to shoot randomly at the frightened birds.
After just two glances, Yu Qian put down the slingshot and rushed excitedly towards the location of the birds. As he ran, he screamed: "Dear me, why are there so many lovebirds here?"
Chen Ling was stunned and thought, could you catch the bird if you just rushed over like that?
Zhou Weijun and Ma Wei laughed helplessly.
Then Zhou Weijun shouted to him: "Qi'an, come back quickly. You will go crazy when you see a bird. You don't bring anything with you. Can you catch it with just your hands? Come back and let Fugui find a way for you."
Yu Qian ran away with two muddy feet at this time, and waved to Chen Ling out of breath in the distance: "Fugui, come and help me, there are so many lovebirds, they will run away if you don't catch them. .”
Chen Ling couldn't help laughing when he heard this and shouted: "Lao Yu, come back quickly. We have a lot of these birds here. They are everywhere in the mountains. I will take you to catch a few more later."
"That, that Okay."
Yu Qian said, still looking reluctantly in the direction where the lovebirds were flying away, and then turned back in three steps.
"Fugui, what are you trying to catch?"
Hearing them shouting outside, Lao Niwai walked out of the house and asked curiously.
"My friend said we wanted to catch two red-billed jade."
Chen Ling smiled. Hong-billed jade is what they call the lovebird here. This kind of bird has bright feathers, is as big as a sparrow, and has a red beak. Yes, there is a white ring like a thrush around the eyes, the top of the head is yellow-green, and the bottom of the eyes to the back of the neck is green.
It is yellow from the mouth down, and turns orange-red when it extends down to the chest. The belly is gray-white, the ribs are yellow-gray, and there is a half circle of gold lines on the wings, which is extremely beautiful.
This kind of bird is only found south of the Qinling Mountains. It is similar to the native swallow. It is difficult to see it in the north because there is no environment suitable for their survival.
Lao Ni Wai Ba Da Ba Da cigarette, "Oh, look for the red-billed jade, go to the mountains to find it. Where there are more bamboos growing on the mountain, there will be more red-billed jade in the bamboo bushes. Wait for Xiao Man, when there are the most birds, and get it Go up the mountain to buckle the chicken covers and sieves, there are several of them.”
Yu Qian, who had just returned to the village entrance and stomped the mud on his feet, was stunned when he heard this, "Huh? Does this bird like to stay where bamboos grow?"
Lao Niwai grinned: "Yes, This bird lives low. When the weather is warm, it lives in the bamboo bushes. When it gets cold, it burrows into the bushes instead of building its nest on the top of the tree. It is easy to catch. "
Yu Qian became more energetic when he heard this: "Old man. Uncle, you just said that you have the most small man birds here. How many species can there be?”
“How many species?”
Lao Niwai threw the butt of his cigarette away. Shaking his head, he added: "Some live by the water, some run in the fields, and some fly into the mountains. When you get to Xiaoman, you can see that in just one morning's meal, you can hear no less than a dozen kinds of birds outside. Call.”
At this time, Zhou Weijun couldn't help but ask: "Uncle, why are there so many birds in Xiaoman here?"
"What else could be the reason for this? The sky is warm in Xiaoman, and there are bugs, food, and so on everywhere. Birds There's plenty for me to eat." Lao Niwai chuckled. He knew this old boy Zhou Weijun. He was led by Chen Ling to buy things at home last time.
"So that's it."
Next to him, Yu Qian suddenly realized: "Uncle, you know so much, you must be a master at catching birds."
"Hey, you master, who doesn't know this? Fugui has been catching birds in the mountains since he was a child. He knows better. He knows how to catch birds. Let him take you there."
Lao Ni waved his hand crookedly. This is something that all boys in the village know. I don’t know why these people from outside are so rare.
After hearing this, Yu Qian couldn't wait to take Chen Ling and go to the mountain to catch birds.
Chen Ling told him not to worry, because he didn't have everything with him, so he turned around and went to Wang Jusheng's house. Without saying a few words, he called Wang Jusheng to get a woodcutter, and went up the mountain with tools such as cotton thread.
Walking up the mountain, Zhou Weijun asked, "This bird is called a lovebird. Is this a pair of birds that will last forever? After one dies, the other will die in love?"
As soon as he said these words, Wang Jusheng couldn't help but laugh: "You call it lovebird, we call it red-billed jade, but there is no such thing.
Besides, these birds always flock together, and they were quite harmful to us boys when we were young. After we caught a few of them, they didn’t even lose their feathers, so we picked up some firewood and roasted them on the spot. They were scorched and the feathers were gone. When you break off the charred shell, the meat inside is pink and tender. "
Zhou Weijun swallowed his saliva and asked quickly: "Where's the taste? How does it taste? "
"It tastes very similar to sparrow. The more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes. "
Wang Jusheng shook his head and said that he and Zhou Weijun had become acquainted early. This old boy went to his house all the time last time and bought all his pickles. He was really crazy.
"Yes, Fugui, I haven't eaten it in these years, and I remember it tastes like this. ”
Chen Ling nodded: "Well, in fact, except for some special water birds, the taste of the birds roasted over firewood is basically the same."
"No, no, no, how can it be so different? , It’s because you have eaten 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. Coming.
Both Yu Qian and Ma Wei rolled their eyes.
Yu Qian finally understood why Chen Ling raised a lot of things at home, except for birds. It turned out that they caught and ate them while riding horses.
Lovebirds, although there are bird markets in the north, there are not many good birds.
To roast such a good ornamental bird and eat it seemed to him like a waste of natural resources.
However, Yu Qian soon stopped thinking so.
Because once we entered the mountains, there were so many birds. There were beautiful birds everywhere with nice calls.
The red-mouthed jade looks inconspicuous inside.
He even saw many rare birds flashing across the branches.
Let Yu Qian scream and exclaim all the way. After watching the east and west, his eyes were overwhelmed and his two eyes were almost not enough.
It's like a mouse falling into a rice vat.
I want every bird, I want to catch every bird, but I don’t know where to catch it.
They all walked near a bamboo forest, but Yu Qian raised his head and looked at the surrounding branches. He was no longer in a hurry to catch the red-mouthed jade, and just murmured in his mouth: "This is simply paradise. Now, I don’t want to leave now.”
There were so many birds in the mountains, and the lovebirds were nothing compared to them. He wanted them all.
"It's over, it's over, Qi'an is also fascinated by your place. Look at his eyes. Even after chasing this bird and this one, it's not enough."
Zhou Weijun took a look. Yu Qian's appearance suddenly smiled.
Ma Wei narrowed his eyes and said cheerfully: "Isn't that right? He is just like the monkey that entered the cornfield, trying to catch all the birds in one go, but he just grew two hands. , I can’t catch that many.”
As he said that, he turned to Chen Ling and said, “Fugui, he asked you to help catch birds, don’t forget to take his money. This kid from Qi’an buys birds and bird cages every year. It would cost tens of thousands of dollars, how much money did you save him?”
For these people who raise birds in the capital, not only are the birds expensive, but the cages are also expensive.
Not only do birds need to be raised, but cages also need to be raised.
Raising birds, raising cages, walking birds, and walking cages are beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
Sometimes just one cage would cost thousands or tens of thousands these days.
In the next twenty or thirty years, there will still be cages worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"Haha, if you say that, Lao Ma, I can give Lao Yu a trick..."
Chen Ling said to the big-faced Yu Qian: "Lao Yu, there are many birds in the mountains, just a few of us But you can’t catch many. I’ll catch a few red-billed jade later. After you come down from the mountain, you can ask the villagers in our village to catch them for you. That guy can catch them fast.” Yu Qian’s eyes lit up after hearing this, and he clapped his hands and shouted, “That’s right. Why didn't I expect that? The old uncle just now knows a lot. I heard that many people in the village know it."
Chen Ling said: "You came at a bad time. There are many people going out to work in the village this year. It would have been faster if young people came up to the mountain to catch birds last year.”
Yu Qian, however, was immersed in the joy of the upcoming harvest of bird catching, and his hands were excited. He waved his hand and said: "Don't be afraid. The veterans can help each other. It doesn't matter if there are too many young people. I will pay more when the time comes. It just so happens that Lao Zhou's crew is coming and I can stay in your village for a while."
He was able to see clearly, and then, a few people walked into the bamboo forest chatting and laughing, and began to prepare for catching the red-mouthed jade.
Although the red-billed jade does not build its nest in high places and only lives in low-lying bamboo bushes, 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 ignored by people even if they are right in front of them.
So you still have to make a trap to lure it.
The nest of the red-billed jade is difficult to find, but this bird is not difficult to catch.
The red-mouthed jade is stupid and the easiest to be fooled. It is easy to catch. Any kid in Chen Wangzhuang can be caught.
Chen Ling and Wang Jusheng just chopped down a few thin bamboos, cleaned some of the small branches on the bamboo poles with a knife, and then divided them into several small short sticks and bamboo pieces about 20 centimeters.
Then clear a small open space in front of you and dig a small rectangular pit.
It is best to make this small pit deeper.
The pit is covered with a few discarded roof tiles. These are old tiles that were replaced from the roof brought by Wang Jusheng's home.
Then they put bamboo sticks over the small pit and covered it with two tiles. One of the tiles was left open and propped up with bamboo sticks to allow birds to fall in.
Take another thin bamboo with good elasticity and insert it into the soil deeper.
Bending the bamboo stick as a source of elasticity and power is the key to the trigger device.
Tie the bent section of the bamboo stick with a thin rope, just hold the rope from the sole of the shoe. This rope is strong.
Tie a small stick as long as your little finger in the middle of the rope and stick it 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 deep enough to just maintain balance.
When Hong Zuiyu comes over and touches the bamboo stick, the balance is broken. The rope is instantly bounced by the bamboo stick, and will be buckled by the tiles into the small pit below.
This is actually the principle of hanging foot covers.
But the hanging leg trap hurts the bird.
It is the size of a red-billed jade sparrow, and the bird's feet are so small that it is easy to trap the bird's body instead of the feet. The trap may even be too powerful and the bird will be trapped to death.
This trap can ensure that the bird will not be hurt to the greatest extent, because it is locked in a deep pit below by tiles, and there is room for movement inside.
Chen Ling made a trap, scattered some millet around the tiles, then took out his hand and continued to make the next one.
At first, he and Wang Jusheng were doing it.
Later Zhou Weijun and Yu Qian also joined in.
As a man, he was like a big boy when it came to playing. When he got excited, he made more than ten traps in a row until there were not enough tiles.
After finishing it, Yu Qian felt that the three of them did not do as well as Chen Ling and Wang Jusheng, so he hesitated and muttered: "Fugui, is this okay? I think this trap is a bit too simple. , It’s too rough.”
When Chen Ling heard this, he just smiled at him: “Red-billed Jade is a stupid bird, so you don’t have to work hard to create such a good trap. This will do.”
"But you are worried that the trap is useless. If you want to see the effect quickly, I have a trick."
Not to mention the three Zhou Weijun and others, Wang Jusheng was also stunned after hearing what Chen Ling said and asked hurriedly: "Yes What's the trick? If you have one, show it to us."
Chen Ling smiled, waved to the four of them, and then led them to hide behind the bamboo forest not far from the trap.
"What are you doing here?"
"Don't make any noise, I'm going to lure the birds."
Chen Ling raised his finger and shushed, then blocked it with one hand. At the mouth, a burst of red-mouthed jade screams came from the mouth.
“啾啾啾~”, “啾啾啾~”
Loud and melodious bird calls came out intermittently from Chen Ling's mouth. If ordinary people were to listen, they would not be able to tell that these were bird calls imitated by humans.
At first glance, it sounds like a red-mouthed jade screaming in joy.
After Chen Ling let out such a burst of bird calls, the four people hiding behind him became suspicious. Can Chen Ling really lure the lovebirds here by hiding in the bamboo bushes and imitating bird calls?
Is this bird so stupid that it can’t recognize that its cries are imitated by humans?
But this suspicion did not last long, probably only about four or five minutes.
They were dumbfounded.
Because there are really two little birds with bright and beautiful feathers flying over, their tails raised up and down, jumping in the bamboo forest like sparrows, but they look happier than sparrows, and they have the same ADHD, While jumping, his wings flickered slightly, making him look extremely smart.
After these two flew in, 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 so impressed that Chen Ling suddenly stopped chirping, and the four of them hurriedly held their breaths.
Because those red-mouthed jades discovered the food next to the trap and slowly moved over.
Next, something happened that stunned Zhou Weijun and the three of them. They saw these red-mouthed jade fools gathered in front of a trap and started to peck at the grains.
This peck doesn't matter, the mechanism is triggered immediately.
The curved bamboo pole diagonally behind the trap suddenly bounced up with a "whoosh", and the tiles snapped and fell suddenly, covering two or three red-mouthed jade tightly into the small soil. In the pit.
The other ones were frightened and flew away in a hurry.
"Be a good boy, I've caught it now."
Yu Qian stood up suddenly, his mouth wide open in surprise. He was not in a hurry to catch the bird, but looked at Chen Ling with burning eyes: " That's awesome, brother, I want to learn this from you."
Zhou Weijun frowned and said, "This bird is called a lovebird, is it so stupid?"
Ma Weiye. Follow along and complain.
Feel like a waste of such a good name.
This is the problem with their writers, they like to find faults.
"The name was not chosen by anyone. Okay, now you 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 reached in with one hand, caught three red-billed jade fish respectively, and put them into the big-bellied fish basket.
Yu Qian admired Chen Ling's ability to catch and lure birds, especially the ventriloquist to lure birds, which was amazing.
In this regard, Chen Ling only said: "This method is actually for people to act as bird lures, or bird matchmakers, and they can deceive stupid birds like red-billed jade. Most birds are like that. But they are all smart, like magpies and crows, try it, it will be strange if they can deal with you.”
Yu Qian asked again which bird was stupider and easier to catch.
"What kind of bird is stupid? Turtle doves are stupid. Chickadees and pheasants are also very stupid. They are easier to deceive."
Yu Qi'an's face turned red when he heard this, and he sighed with admiration. He felt great. After hearing this, he caught Chen Ling and questioned him on the way down the mountain.
This is really fun to a certain extent.
(End of this chapter)