I Have a Safari Park

After a while, Fang Ye finished ordering the hamburger, then sat down and complained to Gu Shi: "Mr. Gu, I just came out of the airport and saw pictures of blue peacocks on the aisle. It is obvious that the hometown of peacocks in Yunnan is green peacocks. , how do you get a portrait of an exotic peacock at the airport?"

Gu Shi was too lazy to correct the title problem: "It's normal. When I was doing research in the stockade in Xishuangbanna, there were blue peacocks walking around and statues of blue peacocks everywhere. I took blue peacocks and blue peacocks. The photo of the green peacock was shown to them. The Dai people who danced the peacock dance did not know the green peacock. They believed that the blue peacock was a peacock native to Yunnan and a totem they had always admired.

Only a few old people know the green peacock! "

Fang Ye couldn't help but feel sad: "Hey...now the number of green peacocks is really too small! There are only five or six hundred left, and they are facing extinction. Maybe people in the future really only know blue peacocks but not green peacocks. Peacock."

Gu Shi showed a wry smile: "How can there be as many as 500?"

Fang Ye was shocked: "Ah? Is there any less? I saw a paper evaluating five or six hundred animals."

Gu Shidao: "The five or six hundred you mentioned was a few years ago. Now that the hydropower is built, it has dropped sharply. We are doing an investigation on this recently, although the results have not yet come out. , but the assessment is that there are only more than 200 left."

He sighed and said, "In 1995, there were still 800-1100 animals in the survey. In fact, this number is problematic now, because the traffic was inconvenient at that time, and some places may not have been counted, and the number should be more. ."

"I rely on..."

The urgency of this matter is not enough to describe with burning eyebrows, Fang Ye hurriedly finished the hamburger in three or two bites: "Let's go!"

...

First go to Gu Shi to get some tents that need to be prepared for going to the mountains, anti-mosquito bites and anti-snake bite drugs.

Then take the bus all the way to Xinping!

The fan who emailed Fang Ye was named Li Shi. Fang Ye sent him a letter before he got on the plane, so Li Shi picked him up there after he got off from Xinping Station.

The village of Li Shi's family is in the mountains, the roads are not very good, and it takes half a day to get there by car.

And it was getting late today, so Fang Ye and the others found a hotel to stay first!

The next day, I got into a tattered pickup truck that Li Shi borrowed from the villagers. The road was fine at first, but then it became a rough dirt road.

The surrounding trees are lush and there is a feeling of being far away from people.

After bumping for a long time, after passing through a farmland, I finally came to the village.

The bamboo buildings with the characteristics of the Dai people are scattered around, like a big tent on a high place. Although it looks a bit old, it still shows a poetic beauty.

In fact, it is not only for aesthetics, but in the mountains in the south, the humidity is heavy, and the building is several meters above the ground, so it is not easy for the humidity to come up.

There are also free-range chickens strutting on the ground, bowing their heads and pecking from time to time, looking leisurely.

Fang Ye jumped out of the car, rubbed his bumpy buttocks, and sighed, "Hey, it's finally here!"

Li Shi proudly pointed to a bamboo building and said, "That's my home! How about it, it's pretty."

A villager looked like he was about to go outside with a basket on his back, when he saw Li Shi grinning, revealing a mouth of jagged yellow teeth, and then looked at Fang Ye and the two of them, and said hello in a local accent: " Ah Mao is back, bring your friends to play?"

After saying hello, he smiled honestly at Fang Ye and the others, and was ready to leave.

Fang Ye saw a lot of wrinkles on the fellow's face, maybe fifty or sixty years old, and couldn't help but chat with him about the green peacock: "Fellow, I want to ask you something, do you know the green peacock?"

"Why are you asking the old peacock?" The villagers looked a little wary, seeing Fang Ye and their eyes not being so friendly.

Li Shi hurriedly said to his fellow villagers, "They are experts! They came here specifically to protect the old peacock, not to hunt birds."

Fang Ye was a little puzzled: "Old Peacock?"

Gu Shi explained: "These fellows, they call the wild green peacocks in the mountains the old peacocks, and the golden peacocks."

"Oh!" The fellow relaxed, "I rarely see old peacocks now!

Thirty or forty years ago, this old peacock had a lot of pheasants. They often flew to the village and competed with our chickens for food. The pheasants liked to call in the morning, and the old peacock liked to call at night. Ah, many trees have been cut down outside and planted with rubber, and there are fewer and fewer old peacocks and pheasants. The pheasants can still be seen occasionally, and the old peacocks are too rare. "

When the fellow told the story of the past, he felt a little uncomfortable standing and talking while carrying the basket on his back, so he squatted on the ground, and Fang Ye and the others also squatted down!

"Twenty years ago, there was an old peacock that would come to the field to eat, and we didn't chase it away. We worked in the field every day, and we could watch it move on the side, and sometimes even open a screen for us. , can be beautiful, ah, ah, ah.

We all love it and it's a pleasure to see it every day at work! Too bad we never saw it again! "

Speaking of this, there is a bit of melancholy expression!

He stood up and said to everyone, "Come to my house and show you a photo!"

Fang Ye was surprised: "You still have a photo of a green peacock!"

"Then a photographer will come here and take a lot of pictures of the old peacock! After the pictures came out, they also gave me two."

While talking, he came to the home of the fellow!

From the cabinet, I carefully took out two faded and wrinkled photos: "Here, this is it!"

A photo is far away, and only a head of a green peacock can be seen sticking out of the field.

Another photo is more clear. The green peacock stands elegantly in the golden wheat field, with a green neck, scales like copper coins, erect feather clusters, and a long tail. Although the photo has faded a little, it still does not affect it. Beautiful demeanor!

The villager rubbed the photo with his rough fingers and sighed: "I heard people say that old peacocks can occasionally be seen on the edge of the river beach, but this hydropower station is about to be built, and our stockade and our farmland will be flooded. It's gone. We can go, but where can the old peacock go?"

Listening to the deep reluctance in the words of the fellow, everyone was silent for a while!

After coming out of the fellow's home, Gu Shidao said: "The fellow said that the number of green peacocks decreased sharply thirty or forty years ago. In addition to the reduction of habitat, poisoning is also a reason. In the past, the farmland was not treated with pesticides, but the highly poisonous ones started to be used in the 1980s. Many green peacocks were poisoned when they went to the farmland for food.”

"Eh……"

Fang Ye and the others did some research in the village and asked for clues about the green peacock.

Then let Li Shi drive a broken pickup and take them to the hydropower station to see.