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- "Oh, you crow's mouth by the river, it's really snowing. Forget it, I can't go hunting. Brother, let's find a new show." Yan Yuan walked outside and looked at the bustling Manyao Feixue, holding the sweet potato in her hand, kept eating, but there was still a trace of disappointment on her face.
"It's not that we don't have anything to play with. Let's catch sparrows today." Jiang Bian said with a smile.
When sparrows were still a production team in rural areas, they were classified as one of the four major pests. In fact, from the perspective of farmers, it was not unreasonable to do so.
Due to the era of mass production, forests have been severely destroyed, and raptors such as eagles have declined rapidly, resulting in a sharp increase in the number of sparrows. This had a very serious impact on agricultural production at that time.
I heard from old people on the riverside talking about the grand sparrow sparrows at that time. It is said that one time after a thunderstorm, someone found that the ground in Heron Mountain was full of electrocuted sparrows, and he picked up dozens of baskets of sparrows. It can be seen how alarming the number of sparrows is.
King Turtle also often said that one year the production team finished dividing the grains, packed the grains from the bottom of the warehouse in a wooden barrel and placed them on the brigade's grain-drying flat to dry, and a large group of sparrows immediately surrounded them. The Turtle King himself covered the bucket with a fishing net and caught hundreds of sparrows. A big tooth festival was held in the production team canteen that night. Meat was really rare at that time. Every time Turtle King talks about it, he always sighs.
This is not the most serious thing. The most serious thing is that when the production team sows grain seeds, these sparrows will always come to join in the fun. In the daytime, he is a sparrow, and in the night, he is a mouse. In that era, there was a lack of food and clothing, and every household struggled to hold on to whatever food they had. Naturally, it was difficult for these beasts to store enough food. At this time, seeing large tracts of grain in the fields, one can imagine their excitement.
When sparrows arrive, they are a large black mass. When they burrow into the field, they can eat up a piece of grain seed. At that time, materials were scarce, and there was no such thing as mulch film. The production team just used some moss to cover the grain seeds, but how could they escape the eyes of sparrows?
Once these sparrows are allowed to succeed, the production team's production will inevitably be completely destroyed. At that time, I tried my best to get in. Making straw, setting off firecrackers, and tried all kinds of methods, but none of them worked. The sparrows are also very smart. They can adapt to any trick after one or two attempts. In the end, the production team had no choice but to arrange for days of guarding until the grain seeds in the rice fields turned into green seedlings.
Therefore, people in that era tried every means to eliminate sparrows, but the number of sparrows was always very large. It was not until the emergence of highly toxic pesticides that the sparrow population was slowly controlled.
In the 1990s, a strange thing happened in Helu Mountain. All the sparrows disappeared overnight.
The sparrow in Heron Mountain is a kind of light gray sparrow. This kind of sparrow suddenly disappears in the entire Jinlu County and even the entire region in a certain year. No one knows why.
Until now, no trace of this sparrow has been found along the river.
However, in the past few years, there have been more sparrows in Heron Mountain, and they are not the light gray sparrows before. This sparrow has some spots on its feathers, darker fur, and is slightly smaller.
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"Isn't the sparrow a protected animal?" Xiao Yalin said.
Jiang Bian smiled awkwardly, "In our mountainous village, nothing should be protected except for animals. For example, wild boar is also a protected animal. It is a second-level protected animal, but in our mountainous village, that beast is a scourge. There is no hunting now. Groups of wild boars in the Heron Mountain sometimes come to the fields to look for food. In one night, a large area of ??land will be destroyed by them. Therefore, the villagers will set up some traps around the fields. As long as you are trapped, just eat the meat."
"If you are caught doing this, you will be punished." Xiao Yalin said.
"Why? Our crops were damaged by wild boars. Who should we ask for compensation? The wife of Lao Liu's family went to dig sweet potatoes in the field and encountered a herd of wild boars. She was almost killed by wild boars. Is it possible that the lives of our villagers in the middle of the mountain will be ruined? Not as valuable as those wild boars?" Jiangbian asked.
Xiao Yalin asked, "Didn't it mean that farmers around the reserve will be compensated for their agricultural losses?"
"Compensation? In my life, I have never heard of anyone receiving compensation if their crops were damaged. Therefore, our village can only rely on ourselves. Whoever wants to take away our jobs, we will kill them." Jiang Bian laughed.
"The mountains are high and the emperor is far away, who will really care about the affairs of this small mountain village? On the contrary?There are many sparrows in this mountain. Yan Yuan said.
Xiao Yalin does not necessarily want to stop Jiangbian from catching birds, but she is a little worried that Jiangbian will be held accountable for doing such illegal things in the future.
"That's true. In recent years, the labor force in the village has gone to work in the city. There have been more and more big trees in the Helu Mountain, and the shrubs have squeezed the Helu Mountain so much that there is no gap. There have also been more wild animals and wild birds in the mountain. Get up." Jiangbian said.
"Tell me. How to catch birds?" Yan Yuan asked.
"It's very simple. Use wooden sticks to prop up the bamboo basket, and a rope attached to the wooden stick. Then put a handful of rice under the bamboo basket and hide it aside. Wait for the sparrow to get into the bamboo basket and pull the rope. The sparrow is caught.¡±
I found a bamboo basket from my house by the river, which was used to sift the sand when building the house. They were put away by Jiang Fengshi and others in the small hut behind the house.
Jiangbian carried the bamboo basket to the foot of a big tree, then propped it up, sprinkled a handful of rice underneath, and then put the thin rope in the snow and hid it. Several people hid behind the door to observe. .
After a while, several sparrows flew down from the big tree.
Although it was snowing heavily outside, the big trees covered the ground tightly like a big umbrella.
The sparrow flew to the ground, but did not go directly under the bamboo basket. Instead, it walked around and chirped non-stop.
It seems that they are very interested in the food under the bamboo basket, but they still have not lost their wariness.
"Brother, what's going on? Why didn't the bird fall for the trick?" Yan Yuan asked in a low voice.
Xiao Yalin and Liu Ruxuan also looked at the riverside, and they also wanted to know the answer very much.
"They are testing. Don't worry. They will go in after a while." Jiangbian said confidently.
"Can this little bird have such a high IQ?" Yan Yuan asked, his voice a little loud.
Those sparrows seemed to hear the noise and flew to the tree in a hurry.
"Keep your voice down." Liu Ruxuan pinched Yan Yuan.
"Ouch!" Yan Yuan suppressed his throat tightly, but from his painful expression, it can be seen that Liu Ruxuan really hit hard this time.
A few sparrows waited for a while and then flew down from the trees.
The snow outside the house is getting heavier and heavier. From the fine snow foam at the beginning, to the heavy snowflakes flying down.
The snow everywhere seems to be slowly thickening at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This time, a few sparrows went one step further. A bold sparrow walked under the bamboo basket.
"A sparrow has entered, brother, hurry up." Yan Yuan was very anxious, fearing that the little sparrow would fly away immediately after eating the rice under the bamboo basket.
"Don't be in a hurry, wait a moment. Look, although the sparrow has entered under the bamboo basket, it is still pacing around the edge of the bamboo basket. If you act too hastily, it will definitely escape, and the few nearby ones will The sparrows will naturally be scared away. After being frightened once, they will not be fooled again," Jiangbian said.
When I was catching sparrows by the river as a child, I often made this mistake. The child was impatient. When he saw a sparrow burrowing under the bamboo basket, he immediately pulled the rope. But I didn't expect that sparrows are very timid animals. Although their IQ is not high, they are not without it at all.
"You are so anxious about everything," Liu Ruxuan said. As soon as her words came out, she could feel the language errors in them. Her face turned red with embarrassment, and she reached out and pinched Yan Yuan again.
"Mother, I didn't say anything just now." Yan Yuan said innocently.
"It's not because of you that I said the wrong thing." Liu Ruxuan rolled her eyes at Yan Yuan.
"You didn't say anything wrong? Didn't you say it very well?" Yan Yuan said with a smile.
Although Jiang Bian and Xiao Yalin were not very experienced in certain aspects, they could still tell where Liu Ruxuan's speech was wrong just now. On the side, he pursed his lips and kept laughing.
Liu Ruxuan rolled her eyes at Yan Yuan and said, "You still said you wanted me to strangle you to death."
At this moment, Jiangbian suddenly pulled the rope in his hand.
The bamboo basket was immediately lowered.
When Yan Yuan and Liu Ruxuan were bickering, several sparrows had already gotten under the bamboo basket and enjoyed this rare delicacy together, but they didn't know that they had slipped into a trap set by the river.
The sparrows that were resting on the tree jumped out of the tree in a panic, and flew towards the Heron Mountain as if they were fleeing.
The few sparrows that were covered were very panicked, and they were chirping and scurrying around under the bamboo basket, trying to find a place to escape. But the bamboo basket is very tight and there are no gaps at all.
"Oh, brother, you are really a master, you can cover so many at once. Let me count them, 1, 2, 3, 4. Oh, there are 7 in total! How come there are so many? Wasn't that the total just now? Are there only four?" Yan Yuan asked in surprise.
Jiang Bian smiled and said, "Just now when you and your sister-in-law were arguing, a few more flew down from the tree."
Yan Yuan was very satisfied with Jiang Bian calling Liu Ruxuan "sister-in-law" and extended his thumb to Jiang Bian. I don't know whether he praised Jiang Bian's skills or that Jiang Bian's "sister-in-law" was good.
Liu Ruxuan was not happy with this title, "Jiangbian, you can't call me random names. You should call me sister Ruxuan. I'm not your sister-in-law! I don't want to marry a man like your brother." Huh, if you perform better in the future, you can consider it."
Xiao Yalin frowned and looked at the sparrows under the bamboo basket, "Brother, what should I do with these sparrows? Do you really want to eat them? You see they are so cute, do you really have the heart to eat them?"
Riverside didn¡¯t know what to do with it. Although I often caught sparrows when I was a child, I only caught them for fun, although the sparrows were usually raised to death in the end. Sparrows are very irritable. When raised, they won't eat food at all, and they will always struggle and die in a short time.
(To be continued)
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