Dashan Makes a Living 1984

Wang Tianxiao quickly adjusted after experiencing the depression at the beginning.

He is the leader here, and he often tells himself that other people can be depressed, but he can't, otherwise everyone's energy will be lost, and they will not be so motivated to do things.

"Haha, don't worry everyone, it's just a flock of birds, we living people can still be scared to death by these little house sparrows."

"Boss, those are not little house sparrows. They are cunning, just like they are organized and disciplined. We can't do anything about them. They play us around."

"Haha, yes, it's so powerful."

Seeing Mi Xiaoqing's aggrieved look, Wang Tianxiao couldn't help laughing. Looking at her, he thought someone bullied her.

"Boss, I really can't ignore it. These birds like to come here in groups. If this group tastes the sweetness, I'm afraid they will bring more groups after a while, and we will really have nothing to eat by then." Soon."

Wu Wenhua said worriedly beside him.

"Ok, I know."

Wang Tianxiao signaled everyone to wash up first, and eat later, and he will come to find a way about the bird problem.

Everyone has no choice but to disperse separately, but the mood is still not high.

Wang Tianxiao continued to wait for Liu Yuan at the mountain pass.

Liu Yuan and Wang Tianxin went to the mountain to collect the cage in the morning. They went there for about two hours, and they should be back soon.

Sure enough, a few minutes later, figures of an old man and a young man appeared on the mountain road.

There were two snakeskin bags, one big and one small, Liu Yuan carried the big one, and Wang Tianxin carried the small one. The two came back talking and laughing against the sun, very much like the cowboys returning from hunting in the movies.

From a distance, Wang Tianxin waved to Wang Tianxiao, and Wang Tianxiao also waved back a few times.

Now under his guidance, Wang Tianxin has become much more stable, and the relationship between the two has also been greatly improved. He can basically be sure that Wang Tianxin will not walk on the same old path as before.

It is a good progress.

"Brother, look, today's harvest is good. There are a total of sixteen rabbits and two pheasants. You say these guys can never be caught?"

Wang Tianxin shook the backpack behind him enthusiastically, showing the results to Wang Tianxiao.

"What is this? It's winter, and it's still rare. When spring starts next year, there will be people running all over the mountains and plains. If you want to catch them, you can catch them from morning to night."

"It's not interesting to catch rabbits all the time. When you can get a pig's egg like you, that will be exciting."

Pig eggs is a name for wild boars here.

In fact, this appellation was originally used for male wild boars that were about two years old, but as they were used more and more, people no longer carefully distinguished them, so they habitually barked.

The last time Wang Tianxiao met that wild boar was purely accidental, and the wild boar was injured, so it was much simpler.

If you really want to hunt wild boars, it is not as difficult as him, but you must prepare in advance.

Wang Tianxiao has no plans to hunt wild boars right now. He will be more confident in preparing things to hunt wild boars after he is done with all the work in his hands and will not be idle.

He smiled and said to his younger brother that he wanted to hone his internal skills. With the current three-legged cat's ability, let alone hunting a wild boar, he might not be able to catch even a small roe deer in the wild.

Wang Tianxin still felt that he was underestimated, slightly unconvinced.

"Okay, okay, Tianxin, you take the wild things to the warehouse, Uncle Liu and I have something to talk about."

"Okay."

Wang Tianxin took the things on Liu Yuan's back, and walked towards the warehouse one by one in each hand.

Liu Yuan took out the smoke pot from his waist, sat cross-legged on the boulder, knocked the cigarette ash, and asked with a smile, "What's the matter, you're going to arrange work for me again?"

"Haha, you always look at me like that. How dare I arrange work for you. I have something to ask you."

"Looking at you like this, there is nothing good. Tell me, let me hear what it is first."

"It's like this. When Old Wu and the others came back just now, they said that some birds came to the mountains recently and ate up the seeds we had so hard to sow. Take a look, what can we do to solve this problem?"

"Bird."

Liu Yuan smiled, "Birds also want to eat. If you sprinkle it on the ground, you can't stop them from eating."

Wang Tianxiao smiled wryly: "Uncle Liu, if we continue to eat like this, then we will be useless."

"Then what do you want to do?"

Wang Tianxiao pondered for a moment, and said: "I still hope to focus on repelling the birds, but we can't take care of everything in such a large area of ​​the mountain. So after thinking about it, we should deal with the most troublesome group first. Dongbugu, as for other guys such as crows, blackbirds, and magpies, there is no need to pay special attention to them if they are not doing well for the time being."

"That's right," Liu Yuan took a puff of smoke, and comfortably exhaled the thick smoke, which was scattered on the mountain road by the wind. "Dongbugu is the most troublesome, and you can't catch it all."

"Tell me, if we make a trap, how about hanging a net?"

Liu Yuan glanced at Wang Tianxiao, and asked lightly, "Do you really want to hang up the net?"

Wang Tianxiao thought for a while, then nodded: "Let's hang it up for a while, there is no other way for now. After the group of winter cuckoos are gone, our seeds will basically go underground, so we can just remove the net."

Wang Tianxiao knew why Liu Yuan asked.

It is indeed a cruel thing to hang a net.

For birds.

This involves a very tangled issue, whether birds are considered enemies of humans.

For human beings, birds are insignificant and will not cause any harm to the human body, so later generations have the saying that birds are friends of human beings.

But at the same time, this kind of resident birds in winter does not hibernate, and they need a lot of food supplements. Once human food or other crops are swept away by them, they will indirectly harm people's interests.

Therefore, people in the mountains have an ambiguous attitude towards birds.

Generally, they don't kill deliberately, but they don't indulge blindly.

For rarer birds, rangers not only cannot hunt, but also have the duty to protect them.

Just like the big bustard I met in Ziwuling.

Anyone who encounters a bustard and is hunted down is a prisoner.

There are also some birds, although they do not need protection and are not rare, people generally do not hunt them, such as owls and kestrels.

Because their food is basically all kinds of rodents and small birds, and there is no conflict with humans, and even has an indirect protective function for human interests to a certain extent.

The rest of the birds depend on what to eat.

Birds that eat insects are also not hunted by people in the mountains.

Only those birds that eat food or grass seeds, humans will find ways to hunt and kill them every year.

Lightly use a slingshot, or a bird cage, or even a house cat to hunt and kill.

In severe cases, it is hanging nets or poisoning.

Poisoning is the direct spraying of pesticides.

The pesticides in the early years were relatively poisonous. They were usually mixed with seeds, and they often decomposed after a growing season. By the time of harvest, they were basically decomposed.

but……

Not absolutely.

Because there are so many people who have been injured by pesticide residues, the use of many highly toxic pesticides was abolished later.

In addition to the possible harm to the human body, the use of pesticides is likely to have a huge impact on the surrounding ecology.

For example, if rodents and birds in the field eat poisonous seeds, they will be poisoned to death in the ground, and weasels or large birds that eat them will also be poisoned to death because they eat them, so they will be poisoned to death. A huge toxic death chain is formed.

This situation continued until less toxic pesticides were slowly developed in the later period, and then it was effectively resolved. For many years in between, many birds in the mountains were completely extinct due to the existence of pesticides.

If pesticides are chemical or biological damage, hanging nets is a physical massacre.

The so-called hanging net is to hang a very thin net on the path where the birds often fly.

Because the eyesight of birds is generally not very good, they may be able to see things that are moving all the time, but for very thin nets, they can't see clearly at high speed, and they often hit the net directly and get caught.

In panic, they will struggle more and more tightly until finally they are completely tied tightly and become a mummified corpse on the Internet.

In later years, this kind of netting was illegal, but it was still repeatedly banned.

The reason is simple, because the relevant departments cannot judge the motive of hanging the net.

Many people who hang nets think that they are just using nets to isolate their own land, not for netting birds, so they have little responsibility for them.

In the end, the big deal is to remove the net, and generally there will be no punishment.

In this day and age, there is no control over hanging nets, and in many cases, the law has not even noticed the stage where birds need to be protected. In addition, birds in this day and age are generally still flooded, and there are so many of them that there is no place to go without protection.

Liu Yuan saw that Wang Tianxiao had made up his mind, so he nodded and said, "That's fine, just hang around and have a look. But the whole mountain is so big, how are you going to stop it?"

Wang Tianxiao smiled, "I have my own way."

Unlike the good industrial production in later generations, the productivity in this era is weak, and it is very difficult to find large-scale bird nets. Therefore, it is destined not to block the net like the traditional way, and one block is several hundred meters.

The method Wang Tianxiao adopts is not so much hanging nets as laying nets.

More like a trap for birds.

Because there is no place that sells this kind of net in the town, Wang Tianxiao plans to go to the city to look for it tomorrow, and send the wild things to Wenyuan Hotel by the way.

In the afternoon, he went to the field with others to check, and found that those white winter cuckoos were really annoying. Relying on his flexibility, he played a game of chasing and running with people.

Although there are some slow-moving ones in the process, they will be caught by the dogs and killed directly.

It is not easy for dogs to catch birds, but the dogs in the mountains run very fast, and there are too many birds, they are often disturbed and take off together, which affects the speed of take-off and gives the dogs a chance to fly. Take advantage of this opportunity.

Because Dafeng hurt his body last time, he was not fully recovered yet, so he was locked in the station and was not allowed to come out. Only Dahei and Aying ran outside.

The two dogs seem to have some subtle feelings, each smelling each other's buttocks, Wang Tianxiao reckons that it won't be long before there will be a second generation of dogs in Changzhan.

The prosperity of the dog is also something he likes to see.

Just like stags thrive.

Lying on the kang at night, I chatted with Li Yali about how many things happened recently, and while talking, I talked about my son's full moon.

Today is the 27th day for my son, Wang Peng, and the full moon will be three days away.

Qingcheng regards the child's full moon as very grand, almost on the same level as weddings and funerals, and even worse than marrying a daughter.