My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 191

   Wang Qingwen and Wang Qingzhong are also a bit difficult to accept.

   Initially learned that Chen Ling and his wife sold peanuts and soybeans for less than 10,000 yuan this year, but they didn't think much of it.

   This year is too special for this year.

   Everyone can understand that, after all, a grain dealer like Wang Qingzhong makes a lot of money.

   But now it is said that two eels are also sold for more than 10,000 yuan...

   That feeling immediately changed.

   sounds like a joke, and it's hard for normal people to believe it.

  Although Wang Susu has always emphasized that they are two big red eels, they are different from ordinary eels.

   But no matter how different, it is also an eel.

  I really don’t know what to say.

   Just when the family was dizzy, another old man and a young man came over.

  The old man was also surprised and surprised when he saw Chen Ling here, and chatted enthusiastically.

   Wang Susu told his family that this is the professor.

  This is the professor? Professors look like this?

   Wang Cunye and the others suddenly looked strange and walked over quietly.

   At this time, Chen Ling was talking to Han Ninggui.

   "Professor Han, I thought Lynx was alone here..."

   "Haha, no, we're together. As soon as we had lunch at the pier, I went to the town government to open a letter of introduction."

  Have not seen him for half a year, Han Ninggui's hair is even more gray, but he is in good spirits, with a healthy complexion, a cheerful appearance, and his eyes are very bright.

   "A letter of introduction?"

   "Yes, we want to enter the mountain, we have to find a local guide to lead the way. It will be much easier to find someone with a letter of introduction from the town. Last time I tried to save trouble, so I suffered a loss in this regard."

   "Oh, so that's how it is..."

  Chen Ling also knew that the last time they ran into trouble in the mountains, the Lynx even went all the way to find them.

When    came back, he took the eel away.

   "Yeah, sharpening knives doesn't cut wood by mistake, some things really can't be troublesome."

  Han Ninggui nodded with a smile, and said, "Why are you here? Are you running all the way to the market?"

   "No, I'm accompanying my daughter-in-law back to her parents' house, and the family is here for a walk..."

  Chen Ling pointed to the big family next to him and introduced them.

  Han Ninggui smiled and shook hands with the two old men to say hello.

   praised Chen Ling calmly.

  Wang Cunye was immediately flushed with excitement and proud.

  My dear, college students are rare these days, but my son-in-law can get along so well with a big professor.

  Han Ninggui didn't have any airs, and the two of them chatted quite vigorously.

   "Teacher, I forgot to tell you, I just found something incredible here."

   After chatting for a while, Lynx suddenly remembered something and hurriedly shouted to Han Ninggui.

   "Huh? What did you find?"

   "It looks like a clouded leopard, just before them selling..."

   Lynx pointed to a few Harriers not far away.

   At this time, they were packing up and preparing to leave.

   "Go, go and have a look."

  Han Ninggui called the young man next to him as soon as he heard this, and walked over with the lynx.

  Chen Ling's family followed after seeing this.

Seeing so many people coming, the Harrier looked a little wary, and the two Harriers standing on the poles behind them also seemed to be afraid of Heiwa and Xiaojin, so they widened their eyes and slowly flapped their wings. , cried out uneasy.

   However, Han Ninggui has been engaged in field work all the year round. He is also a person who travels all over the country. He is naturally very good at dealing with people.

   quickly made the harriers put their guard down.

   "Where did the leopards catch them? Not far from here?"

  Han Ninggui asked.

   "I don't know, we didn't beat the leopard, but bought it from a medicinal farmer..."

   Old Harrier explained.

   This is an old man in his fifties, just like the other Harriers, wearing a dirty overcoat, a dusty face, a messy beard, and a heavy smell of sweat.

   As he spoke, he undid a bulging snakeskin bag, and slipped out a little leopard with various furs inside.

  Obviously, these harriers do business along the road, and when they encounter cheap furs, they will receive them, accumulate them, and sell them at high prices when they reach the right place.

   But Han Ninggui's attention was no longer on the fur in his pocket, instead he frowned and stared at the little leopard: "Why are you dead?"

  This is a dead clouded leopard, with many scars on his body, and he was seriously injured before his death.

   Lynx didn't make it clear, he thought it was a live clouded leopard, so he hurried over.

   "It was originally dead, it was like that when we bought it."

   The young Harrier said by the side.

   He is only seventeen or eighteen years old, still very young, but his complexion is dark, and he has been exposed to the wind and the sun for a long time at a young age.

   "Grass leopard?!"

  Han Ninggui was about to ask again when Wang Cunye suddenly exclaimed.

   turned around and looked at Chen Ling behind him, pointing at the dead clouded leopard, surprised.

   "This, isn't this the grass leopard we encountered yesterday?"

  Chen Ling was also very surprised. He stepped forward and looked at it. It turned out to be the one from yesterday.

   The scars on his body are not artificial, but the group of golden monkeys who were provoked yesterday.

  Look at his two dogs, they also gave a very clear reaction.

   "Brother, rich and noble, have you really seen this clouded leopard?"

  Han Ninggui asked excitedly.

   Lynx and his companions followed.

   "I've seen it, I met it yesterday morning. The grass leopard stole a monkey cub and was chased and beaten by a group of golden monkeys for a long time..."

   Wang Cunye didn't know why they were so excited, it was just a leopard.

   then described the scene he saw with Chen Ling yesterday.

   After the results were finished, Han Ninggui was even more excited.

   "Brother, what kind of monkey did you just say it was chased by?"

   "Golden monkey, there are people who call the monkey with the nose up."

  Wang Cunye gave him a suspicious look.

  How could this great professor be so surprised?

   "It's actually a golden monkey."

  Chen Ling added a sentence at this time.

   "Huh? Rich, do you know the golden monkey?"

   Lynx Strange Road.

   "Of course I know, I don't smoke so many golden monkey cigarettes for nothing."

  Chen Ling smiled.

  Han Ninggui doesn't care about anything else.

   As long as I think that the clouded leopard and the golden monkey are both possible to meet, I am very excited.

   then said to Lynx: "Xiao Lin, we have come to the right place this time, and there is a high possibility of getting precious first-hand information..."

   Clouded leopards and golden monkeys are all first-class protected animals.

   And in recent years, due to wanton hunting, the number is decreasing sharply, and the wild ones are even rarer, and have even disappeared in some places.

  Although it is not comparable to crested ibis and giant pandas, it is also close to being endangered.

   It is undoubtedly very important for practitioners like them to have close contact with these precious wild elves and obtain first-hand information.

   Lynx and the youth next to him were also very excited.

  The young man even carefully recorded it when Wang Cunye told about encountering the golden monkey and the grass leopard.

  This will not only help them understand the habits of animals, but also supplement the first-hand information in the form of stories, which can add luster to the record of endangered wild animals and plants.

   "Professor Han, are you sure this thing is really a clouded leopard?"

At this time, Chen Ling actually had a lot of doubts in his heart: "This little leopard is called a grass leopard in our place, as long as it is a female leopard like this, this one is small, but the big one is no more than four. Ten pounds..."

   "There is also a type of leopard called earth leopard, which is male. It is much larger than this grass leopard, and can weigh a hundred pounds at most."

   "The male earth leopard likes to hurt people, but the female grass leopard doesn't hurt people."

   "Hey right right right!"

  Han Ninggui smiled and nodded again and again: "That's how clouded leopards are. Their males and females are not so different."

"However, you said that the male clouded leopard can weigh more than 100 pounds, which is not very accurate. There may have been special individuals that can grow that big, but according to the current record, the largest clouded leopard is about 43 kilograms, less than 44 kilograms. , that is, less than ninety pounds."

   "This is the limit."

   "It turned out to be a clouded leopard. No wonder the old people told stories about earth leopards. These things are sneak attacks from trees, making people hard to guard against..."

  Chen Ling muttered.

   In his inherent impression, clouded leopards live in trees, and he thought there was no difference between males and females.

   So even if I knew about the earth leopard and the grass leopard, I didn't think about the clouded leopard.

   When he was still in a daze, Han Ninggui and the three had already started talking to Harrier.

  Want to buy this dead clouded leopard.

  These harriers have been listening for so long, and they also know that this thing is not a simple thing.

   A doomed asking price.

   In the end, Han Ninggui had to suffer a little blood before buying it.

   And I found out which village the medicinal farmer bought it from.

   But these harriers are very dishonest.

   At first, I said I couldn’t remember which stockade it was collected in.

   Later, he said that it seemed to be in Liangkou Village. After a while, he said that it seemed that it was not Liangkou Village, but Tianshui Village to the west of Liangkou Village.

  Han Ninggui had to give fifty dollars more.

   They then remembered that they bought it from a medicinal farmer in Tianshui Village.

   was picked up on the mountain by a medicinal farmer.

   The explanation this time is fairly clear.

  No way, this information is very useful for finding the trail of golden monkeys.

   You can only recognize it if you are pitted.

   After receiving the money, these harriers packed the goods and drove the horse team away.

   After the incident, Han Ninggui looked at Chen Ling and others, especially the strange eyes of his old husband's family.

   smiled helplessly: "For us people, being pitted is commonplace, and we have long been used to it."

   "In the first half of the year, we were doing research in the northwest, but we didn't open the letter of introduction, and we were tricked several times by the guides of several villages..."

   In fact, even if there is a letter of introduction, the money should still be given, and if you encounter unreasonable people, you will still suffer.

   There are too many places that can make a stumbling block, and it is impossible to recognize it.

   "Then it's not easy for you guys."

   Although Wang Cunye didn't know what they were doing these jobs for, but he had lived most of his life, how could he not be clear about it.

   "Who said no. By the way, brother, since you and Fugui are a family, and we are not outsiders, can you guide us for a few days?"

  Han Ninggui said here, and explained: "We will give you the money for the guide on a daily basis. These are supported by the state, but there are certain indicators. It is better to give it to our own people than to cheap others."

   "Are you convenient?"

   "Me? I can't."

  Wang Cunye waved his hand: "I have bad legs and feet, so I can't walk long distances. If I accompany you on the mountain for a long time, it's fine, but I won't be able to walk far away."

"But I can't do it, my second child can. My second child is a food seller. He often walks around, and he travels all over the surrounding mountains. He is very familiar with all kinds of mountains. If he is not busy, he can go with you a few times. God, but recently..."

   said and looked at Wang Qingzhong.

  Wang Qingzhong thought for a while, "I'm busy or not, how many days are you going to go?"

   "It's hard to say. It's not uncommon for two or three days to be lost, and ten and a half months to be added."

  Han Ninggui saw their embarrassment, and said, "We can look for it nearby first, but if we can't find it, we will think of other ways so as not to delay your business."

  Since there is a population of golden monkeys nearby, it is not difficult to follow the trail to find it.

   It’s just that the clouded leopard comes and goes without a trace, so it’s hard to say.

   "That's okay, I can show you a few days."

   Wang Qingzhong agreed.

   then added: "You all know Lingzi, you don't need to give me money."

   Such straightforward words made Han Ninggui and Lynx laugh.

   Lynx stepped forward and explained: "Brother, you don't have to be polite to us. This is a project approved by the state. If there is funding, you are making a contribution to the country. How can you suffer?"

   "Ah? I will contribute to the country by leading the way?"

  Wang Qingzhong was happy and grinned.

   Then the bobcat said to Chen Ling again: "Go to the rich and noble too, these two dogs in your family are smart, I have heard the sea say it several times."

"Row."

  Chen Ling readily agreed.

  Everything was settled, everyone chatted for a while, explained the location of Good Medicine King Village, and separated at the pier.

   Lynx and the others did not have many people this time. There were seven in total. Five entered the mountain and two were guarding their cars in the town.

   The car will be parked at the town hall in a few days.

  Today is a fair, there are too many people to go in.

  …

  Chen Ling and his party rushed back.

  Wang Qingwen and his wife had nothing to do on the weekend, so they also went back to the mountain.

   On the way, we talked about the eel again.

  Chen Ling could only helplessly explain.

   "Father, this is really nothing, didn't you see just now that people are willing to pay for a dead grass leopard?"

"There are even more powerful ones. There are only a few birds left in the world that the young man said. Now we have them in our country. They are national treasures. Foreigners want to buy them. Eel is nothing at all."

Wang Cunye smiled after hearing this: "That's amazing, who else can sell eels for more than ten thousand yuan? You can be your own, and Dad doesn't understand anything else, but I know that a great professor like this is not The average person can get a piece of it.”

   "We don't understand the meaning of what you hear from others."

   "That's you, who can chat with others, what else?"

   "If you want me to see, we can't find one in our county."

   The more my father-in-law said, the more proud he became.

   My mother-in-law and my eldest brother and second brother also agree very much.

  Chen Ling didn't know what to say.

   But seeing Wang Susu's happy look on his face, he sighed inwardly and gave up explaining.

  As long as the daughter-in-law is happy, nothing else matters.

   (end of this chapter)