morning.
The sun hasn’t risen too high yet.
The wide surface of Shanzhong Lake is full of water birds, playing and looking for food. The cool mountain breeze blows, the bamboo forest rustles, and the water birds chirp. It is a beautiful scene in early autumn.
Chen Ling and his son, together with a group of children from the village, rowed a boat and quietly approached the reeds on the southeastern shore of Shanzhong Lake with two small buckets of fish.
There was also a boat behind them. They were people from the provincial TV station. After completing the filming, they also came with them to watch the little red-crowned cranes.
"Uncle Fugui, I saw it. I saw the little crane, hiding under the legs of the big crane."
Liu Nier's eyes were sharp, and the other dolls were still lying on the side of the boat, paddling in the lake. When he arrived, he had already seen a small red-crowned crane in its nest.
"Please keep your voice down. The big red-crowned crane will come over and peck you soon, and I won't care about you."
Chen Ling was pulling on the collar of his brat at this time. .
Otherwise Ruirui is dishonest and always crawls around on the boat and looks around.
He was not that interested in red-crowned cranes, he just wanted to play with the little kid paddling beside the boat.
"Hey, please keep your voice down. Uncle Fugui, have you seen it? It's in that direction."
Liu Nier shrank her neck, lowered her voice, and pointed at Chen Ling. Looking inside the reeds.
"I saw, there are two little cranes in this nest."
Chen Ling's eyes are much better than those of the little monkeys like them, and he has already seen the red-crowned crane that looks like half a bowl. The situation of the lair can be seen at a glance.
Soft and fine thatch, clean, tidy and comfortable, the cracked eggshell has been taken out of the nest by the big red-crowned crane.
Inside the nest are two little red-crowned cranes that have just hatched. They are furry and look a bit like little ducks at first glance, and their bodies are yellowish brown.
This is the protective color of small things. They hide in the reeds and are difficult to distinguish.
If you don’t look closely, you won’t be able to see anything inside.
Because they are too small, they cannot stand for a long time. The two little red-crowned cranes cuddled tightly next to the mother crane, looking pitiful. In fact, their small black eyes were very smart and peeked at everyone.
There was no vigilance or alertness in his eyes, and some were just pure curiosity and ignorance.
"Where is the little crane?"
I heard that there were two little red-crowned cranes. The little kids playing in the water suddenly became energetic and got up with their little heads twitching. , looking for the location of the little crane.
“Wow, I saw it too. The little cranes are so beautiful. I really want to take them home.”
“Please keep your voice down. It will scare the little cranes, and the red-crowned crane will Move your home away, and you will no longer be able to see it like a crane.”
Chen Ling hissed at these little devils, "Liu Nier, bring over the small bucket of fish. We are going to start feeding fish to the crane."
Red-crowned cranes eat fish and shrimps. Although the little red-crowned crane has just broken It doesn't take long for it to be in its shell, but it still eats these things.
"Uncle Fugui."
Chen Ling held Rui Rui with one hand and it was difficult to hold it, so Liu Nier lifted the small bucket of fish from the stern of the boat to him.
In the bucket are small fish such as loach, mountain catfish, and wheat ear fish that he specially caught.
It is raised by water canals under the mountain.
For the red-crowned crane, this is delicious food.
"Okay, don't move around for now. I'll feed the cranes twice to see what happens, and we'll feed them together again."
Although it's delicious, Chen Ling is also afraid of red-crowned cranes It would be irritating to see too many people approaching, so he carefully put down Ruirui, squatted down slowly, grabbed a handful of small fish from the small bucket, and threw them towards the reeds.
Crash.
A handful of small fish fell into the water.
The red-crowned crane that was close by squawked and glanced at them for a few times, then walked up to them with its long legs and tentatively ate two small fish.
As soon as you eat it, you will know it is good food.
Suddenly they were squawking excitedly and loudly, and several big red-crowned cranes also stepped over to fight for it.
“Very good, they are not afraid, then we can feed them together.”
These red-crowned cranes have not been with people for so long in vain. People are kind to them and have never hurt them, so they are not so wary and defensive about people.
Plus the bribes and temptations of food.
Their friendliness towards people has increased rapidly, and they no longer resist people's approach.
So Chen Ling's boat and a boat belonging to several people from the province and Taiwan slowly entered the reeds.
All adults and children grabbed small fish to feed the red-crowned cranes.
The big red-crowned crane ate happily and did not forget to take care of the little crane.
Three families composed of six red-crowned cranes built three large bird nests, each with one or two small cranes.
These little crane babies are fluffy and very cute.
The fur color is orange and reddish. At first glance, it looks a bit like a duck, but it has a long pointed beak, long legs, and is not small. It looks quite healthy.
When the big red-crowned crane comes back from eating, they nestle next to the male and female cranes.
When the mountain wind blows, the reeds sway and the reed flowers float. Their eyes are still a little bit unable to open due to the wind, and their cute appearance is very interesting.
At this time, the mother crane will feed the bitten loaches, small fish, etc. to the baby crane, which looks very attentive.
“Wow wow wow, the little crane is eating.”
“Uncle Fugui, give me some more food, the crane is not enough.”
Mostly children, There is no one who doesn’t like feeding small animals something to eat.
They were more excited than anyone else when they saw the red-crowned crane feeding its little cranes and the cute little cranes starting to eat.
Throw a small fish or loach over, and cranes will rush to eat it.
There really is nothing more fun and enjoyable than this.
"Yes, the little crane here eats the fastest. The crane finished it after feeding it twice."
"Catch some more fish and feed it, Uncle Fugui."
The little kids pestered Chen Ling and started acting coquettishly. Ruirui didn't care about this. He opened his dark eyes and looked at Xiaohe unblinkingly. He had already been fascinated by it.
It took a long time to raise my little head: "Dad, catch it!"
"If you don't catch this one, you will die if you catch it. Dad will catch the little egret for you when you go back later... "
Chen Ling smiled and touched the back of his head, "Those egrets are bad guys. If they dare to peck us, they should be captured and locked up in a cage. Do you think so?"
The brat was quite easy to fool at the moment. He nodded vigorously and said, "Okay."
In fact, during the brooding period, both red-crowned cranes and egrets have a strong sense of territory.
Once it feels threatened, it will launch a fierce attack on any uninvited guest who breaks into its territory.
And a large group came together, very united.
Chen Ling and the others were attacked when they came over just now, but they hid quickly, and the people from Provincial Taiwan could not hide in time, and there was a lot of bird droppings on their heads and clothes.
“Hahaha, your little baby is so adorable.”
Several people from the provincial station laughed.
"Oh, he is also a naughty one."
Chen Ling shook his head and said to the kids: "Okay, the weather is getting hot. Let's come back in the afternoon. We don't want to disturb you all the time. Come and feed these cranes in the afternoon.”
The little kids still listened to Chen Ling’s words. After he said this, they all followed him in the boat to the shore.
“Uncle Fugui, there are small gourds on your thatched house.”
"Well, it's too small and won't grow big. When it first grows, the gourd is still tender and the mountain donkey spoils it a lot. Let's plant it again next year."
Into the bamboo forest, from Provincial Taiwan Recently, people have been guarding the red-crowned cranes in the thatched house here.
Food and drink are placed, mainly for drinking. Two cylinders of water and a kettle for boiling water must be prepared.
Although it is autumn, the weather is still very hot, and the afternoon sun makes people anxious.
You can’t survive without drinking water.
The thatched house in the bamboo forest is very beautiful, surrounded by gourds, wild flowers, and wild grapes, all grown by Chen Ling.
The small fenced yard has a small gate, and inside there are piles of firewood made of dry bamboo. "By the way, there is no firewood at the bottom of the mountain. I have nothing to do today, so I just came to the mountain to collect firewood."
The lake surface of Yamanaka Lake has no cover, it is relatively hot, but it is still very cool in the mountains and forests. of.
"Uncle and grandpa, we will also help you collect firewood."
"Okay, okay, there is a hatchet here. Let's not go down the mountain. Let's chop some bamboo first. You guys help me take Rui Ruiha with me."
Chen Ling smiled and took out one from the bamboo house. The dark wood chopper went to the bamboo forest to look for dead bamboo.
In the bamboo forest, bamboos die every year for various reasons. It is very common and there are a lot of them.
"Dad, Huanghuang."
As soon as I found two withered yellow bamboos next to each other, which were quite big, I heard my son shouting.
Turning around, I saw the brat pointing at a place with an excited expression on his face.
The little kids whispered: "Uncle Fugui, there is a bamboo rat over there, moving young bamboo into the hole."
"Oh, it's a bamboo rat."
Chen Ling suddenly realized that Ruirui was smart, but he couldn't tell the difference between a rat, a bamboo rat and a weasel.
If you teach him the word "rat" or "bamboo rat" in person, he will be able to pronounce it vaguely.
If only he encountered these things himself.
The unified shout is ‘Huang Huang’.
I have no choice. I have played with weasels since I was a child and even hugged them on the bed, so I am naturally familiar with 'Huanghuang'.
Even when Chen Ling brought those badgers home, he called them ‘Huang Huang’.
I don’t think there is any difference.
"Good guy, there is another nest here. I haven't seen so many bamboo rats in a few days."
Chen Ling just turned around and was about to chop the bamboo, when there was another bamboo rat in front of him with four small paws. There was a bright green bamboo gnawing at it.
This thing has sharp teeth and a sharp mouth, even more powerful than a mouse. It is good at chewing bamboo.
After a while, bamboo chips were flying, and a section of young bamboo that was more than half a foot long was chewed off and dragged into the hole.
“That’s right, uncle, look, there are holes here too, why don’t we dig up bamboo rats? There are shovels at the thatched house.”
The little kids come up with ideas as soon as they come up with them, and they start to have bad ideas when they see something interesting.
“If you don’t dig, let’s collect the firewood first.”
Chen Ling pointed to the bamboo rat hole on the ground covered with thick dead bamboo leaves: “This thing is harder to dig than us. It’s still hard to dig up mice after autumn. I’ll show you a new way to play and catch them all.”
“Wow, really?”
“Really, you guys. My little aunt is coming back soon. I’ll take you to have some fun before your summer vacation ends.”
"Great, Uncle Fugui, you are such a good man."
Then the kids shouted together: "Uncle Fugui is a good man, Uncle Fugui is a good man..."
Let Chen Ling It sounds embarrassing and a headache.
But there is one thing that Chen Ling really takes to heart.
That is because there are more and more bamboo rats on this mountain, and there is a tendency for them to overpopulate.
Bamboo rats are not as annoying as mice.
But these little chubby little beasts are not all good. At least they do much more damage to bamboo than other little beasts.
If they are ignored and allowed to develop, this beautiful bamboo forest may be destroyed by them.
Needless to say, this is a new hidden danger.
“Crayfish are out of season soon. I’ll call Sun Yanhong over then and get some bamboo rats to try. I just happened to figure out how to eat bamboo rat pot last winter.”
Chen Ling thought in his mind.
……
Click, click.
Chen Ling was chopping dead bamboo, while Liu Nier and the others took Ruirui, chasing the bamboo rats and pulling the bamboos to find the bamboo elephants.
The so-called bamboo elephant is also called the bamboo shoot insect.
They look similar to the black, ant-like weevils that breed in flour.
It’s just that the bamboo elephant is much larger than the weevil. It’s about the size of a cicada, is red, has a hard body, and has a carapace like a scarab beetle or a beetle.
According to Professor Han, apart from the south of the Yangtze River, there are only a few of them in the western section of the Daqinling Mountains.
But no matter how you say it, in the eyes of the dolls, this is a delicious snack no less than cicadas and grasshoppers.
I caught it and grilled it. The meat was very delicious.
They tinkered with Ruirui, using thin bamboo branches and tough and slender grass stems to wear bamboo elephants and let them fly buzzing, saying that they would eat after playing, and everyone had a great time.
Ruirui was also very happy.
With these brothers, he doesn't have to worry about Chen Ling at all.
Chen Ling chopped a bunch of bamboos and tied them into bundles. He felt that there were still a few bamboos, so he put them back to the bamboo house and continued to collect firewood on the Western Mountain.
The little kids continued to follow.
This time, instead of chopping bamboo, Chen Ling allowed them to collect firewood. Before, he was afraid that the bamboo would hurt them and scratch their hands.
They collect firewood in the mountains, and some villagers take tourists up the mountains to play and pick early-ripening wild kiwis, wild grapes, or figs and other wild fruits to eat.
Also catch birds, rabbits and so on.
There are indeed more things on the mountain this year.
Not to mention common ones such as hares and hedgehogs, various sika deer and grass deer appear in groups.
It attracted a group of outsiders to exclaim and chase.
Having a great time.
Of course.
Some people have fun, and some people have trouble.
For example, after Wang Lihua and Wang Liguo, the two sons of Aunt Wang who were neighbors of Chen Ling's family, returned to the village, they were envious of the fact that the villagers were now receiving tourists from out of town to make money, and they also joined in the fun.
But they are too greedy.
You have to pay for food, accommodation and entertainment. When you get to the mountain, two children who came to play picked up two little hedgehogs and they also wanted money, and they asked for a lot of money.
It made people angry all of a sudden. The husband and wife had a big quarrel with the brothers and almost got into a fight.
The scene was very embarrassing.
When Chen Ling came over carrying firewood and leading a group of children, other outsiders were also helping to talk, scolding the Wang Lihua brothers.
As for the other villagers, they just watched the fun and didn't care about them, nor did they say a kind word to them.
In the end I had to go down the mountain in despair.
"Oh, these two bastards are just like Chun Yuan and his old man Wang Lao. The figure behind him spat disdainfully.
Chen Dazhi looked at Chen Ling: "Wealthy, you have a long-term view. You told the brigade in advance what rules we have to abide by, otherwise we will all be like them, getting into the eyes of money and catching people. Damn it, who will dare to come to our place in the future?”
Wang Laishun asked Chen Ling for his opinion back then. Chen Ling only said to pay attention to hygiene and not to rip off customers, but he didn't pay much attention to anything else.
Wang Jusheng and Wang Lixian's family were the first to receive outsiders. At that time, they were Zhou Weijun and his group. Naturally, they obeyed Chen Ling's advice. The people behind them followed suit, and in the past half year or so, Several tourist events.
Chen Ling put down the firewood with a smile and took a kettle to feed his son water: "You can't see the long-term. No one is a fool. If you catch someone and pit them to death, it's like slaughtering an animal. Who would be happy with this?"
After hearing this, some outsiders asked: "Then why is it so expensive to stay at your house? Isn't this also a scam?"
"Haha, at my house, the price is always the same at my house. It hasn't changed since the beginning of the farm. I don't care if people go there or not. I won't lower the price when there are fewer people, and increase the price when there are more people. No. Ranging the price up and down at random, do you think this can be considered a rip-off? ”
"Well, it seems that it really doesn't count." (End of Chapter)