Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 323 Tonghua Phoenix and Shikang Frog

Chapter 320 Four Tonghua Phoenix and Shikang Frog
Li Junge sighed and said: "In fact, this is both an advantage and a difficulty. The soil and water climate in Shuzhou, family farming is enough to solve food and clothing. But except for the plain of Shudu, other places have high mountains and steep slopes, so it is difficult to achieve intensification and scale. In addition, the way out is closed. , transportation costs are too high, and today, when the country is transforming from an agricultural country to an industrial country, it is much more difficult to achieve a well-off society and become rich than other places in the country.”

Professor Ding patted Li Junge on the shoulder and said, "Piwa, you are on a good path now. If the mountain is not enough for people, we will invite people to come to the mountain. Therefore, Lijiagou eco-tourism must be developed and digested locally. It's the right path."

Professor Li also said: "That's right, the current momentum of our Lijiagou is very good. Try to increase the added value of agricultural products, increase the value of per unit yield, offset the transportation costs and still have a surplus. This way is not bad!"

Li Junge smiled at the two professors Ding and Li: "Then it depends on the support of the teachers of the Agricultural University. With the ability of me and A Yin, the entire township is struggling, lacking funds, talents, and technology. Anyway, I am Pi Wa, but I really want to rely on you!"

Ding and Li laughed loudly: "It's still the same sentence, Dun Dun's food has the same standard as last time, these are nothing!"

In the afternoon, on the way, Uncle Orion found two chicken nests, one with four or five wild eggs.

Li Junge picked up the eggs and beat them with a bright flashlight, but no embryos were formed inside, so he smiled at Uncle Orion: "Fortunately, there are a few eggs, and I can make fried rice with eggs tonight, otherwise I can only eat rice with soy sauce gone."

Uncle Yaoshi smiled and said, "Actually, bibimbap with lard and soy sauce is pretty good. I used to go to the mountains to bake potatoes and use mountain spring water. Now let's count sauerkraut as a meal."

Uncle Orion shook his head and said: "It seems that our forest ranger team has to buy more equipment. Now that I am a mountain patroller, compared with Piwa, I always feel like a beggar..."

After setting up the tent in the pine forest, Li Junge had just cooked the rice, and Wei Wei took him to the edge of the forest for a walk to see what he could take pictures of.

Soaking the unfinished wind-salted chicken legs in water to remove the salt, Li Junge and Wei Wei walked towards the edge of the forest together.

Next to the pine forest is a deep valley, under which grows a huge paulownia tree. The top of the canopy is higher than where Li Junge and the others are, and the two of them can just see part of the canopy up close.

The valley is leeward to the sun, and the paulownia has begun to bloom. It is still some time before the full flowering period, but a small number of purple flowers that cannot bear the loneliness have begun to bloom.

A group of colorful birds are playing among the flowers.

Weiwei said to Li Junge: "Hurry up and hide, that bird is afraid of people!"

The two lay on the thick pine needles, and Wei Wei gently took out the rice pocket, the camera artifact, and put it in front of her body, put on a telephoto lens, and began to search among the paulownia trees.

The flock of birds are big and small, with thin and long beaks that curve downward.

The feathers on the forehead, the top of the head, the chin, and the throat of the slightly larger ones are purple-blue; the back, chest, sides of the head, and sides of the neck are scarlet; behind the ears and on the sides of the chest are each a spot of purple-blue, set off by the surrounding vermilion Very eye-catching; the waist and abdomen are bright yellow; the center is two long and thin purple-blue tail feathers.

The color of the small one is slightly worse, but it is not bad. The upper body is olive green, the waist is yellow, the throat to the chest is gray green, the rest of the lower body is greenish yellow, and the tail is shorter than the big one.

This bird is much more beautiful than the red-billed jade lovesickness bird. If Xiaomei sees this, she might be so happy.

This bird is very small, not as big as a tung flower, and weighs only a few grams, but it is very energetic. It walks back and forth among the tung flowers, shining brightly in the setting sun.

And they often make difficult movements, like hummingbirds, they can vibrate their wings and hover in mid-air, stick their long and curved mouths into flowers to suck honey, then turn around and fly away to another place. in front of a flower.

The direction and focus of Weiwei's large lens often can't keep up with their speed, and they get tired of sweating in a short while.

Li Junge smiled and said: "It seems that you are quite familiar with this bird, there are also in the north?"

Gritting his teeth to compete with the birds, Wei Wei said, "There are none in the north, but I know them. The main reason is that their flying posture is too strange. What do you call this kind of bird?"

Li Junge smiled and said: "We call it Tonghuafeng. This bird is beautiful because it is beautiful, but it is too difficult to raise. It needs to be adjusted by a master like grandpa. The main thing is to change it from eating nectar to eating powder. You have to let it change from being afraid of people to not being afraid of people; when you catch it, you have to prick the flying feathers to prevent it from bumping into the cage, which is impossible for ordinary people.”

Wei Wei was surprised instead: "This bird can still be kept? I always thought it only eats nectar!"

Li Junge said: "I saw someone raising this in Miao Village when I was young."

Weiwei nodded and said: "Its scientific name is the blue-throated sunbird, also known as the 'Oriental hummingbird', hey, if I go to Miao Village to find Grandpa Yu to learn from it, can I also make an article on artificial breeding of blue-throated sunbirds?" What about the thesis?"

Li Junge rolled his eyes: "Let's spare them. If someone learns it, it won't take long for this bird to be caught from common to endangered depending on how beautiful it is."

Weiwei also realized this problem, nodded again, and said, "Forget it, alas, the light won't work in a blink of an eye, let's go back."

You can take pictures of blue-throated sunbirds when you go out for a stroll, and Weiwei was very happy all the way back.

When he came to the camp, Uncle Orion said, "Where did you go? Waiting for you to cook!"

Li Junge said: "I saw a group of tung flower phoenixes on the edge of the cliff, and Weiwei couldn't walk, and lay there for a long time to take pictures."

Uncle Orion said: "What's so good about that thing?"

Wei Wei was about to go crazy again: "Uncle Orion, you hit people like this again! I took a lot of effort to catch a few shots! You're throwing cold water on me again!"

Uncle Orion laughed and said: "Oh, I'm sorry, I mean, this thing likes to drill into the middle of the bean rack when the green beans are blooming. You can squat in the green bean field at that time, and you can shoot whatever you want shoot!"

Wei Wei immediately turned anger into joy: "Really? Hahaha, it still has this habit?! It seems that I still have to learn more from you!"

In the past few days, the walnut body has become stronger and stronger. Li Junge tried cooking an egg yolk, added some to the rice soup, gave it to Weiwei to feed it, and started frying rice by himself.

This meal was simple. The chicken legs were torn into shreds and fried rice with wild onions and eggs. Everyone had a messy meal.

Li Junge was quite embarrassed: "Professor Li, Professor Ding, tomorrow's breakfast really only has potato porridge and sauerkraut."

Professor Li said with a smile: "It's good to eat and drink every day, and it's good to change the stomach. I have worked in the field for decades, and I can eat comfortably and sleep well this trip!"

The moon rose from the pine forest, and everyone lay in the soft pine needles, drinking Ophiopogon laoyin tea cooked by Uncle Pharmacist and chatting.

Professor Ding held the cup and said with a smile: "The bright moon shines among the pines, and the clear spring rocks flow upwards. Hahaha, it's really the right time!"

Professor Li said: "Actually, the fried rice with eggs tonight is really good. It has a taste of a field trip. Since I set off until now, I feel like I'm eating out every day!"

Everyone laughed, and Uncle Orion said, "I didn't expect to find wild eggs so early, it's only at the end of February!"

Wei Wei asked: "Didn't this happen in previous years?"

Uncle Orion said: "I didn't pay special attention to it, but over the past ten years, the time for wild animals to go down the mountain has been getting later and later, and the time for returning to the mountain has been getting earlier and earlier. Now the pheasant lays eggs, and I saw the salamander two days ago. Everything seems to be ahead of schedule."

Professor Ding, Professor Li, and Wei Wei thought of a problem at the same time, looked at each other, and said in unison: "Global climate warming!"

Professor Ding slapped his thigh: "It should be like this. It seems that global climate change has also affected Shushan."

Professor Li also said: "For a subtropical climate area like Jiachuan, the impact is not bad, and it can even be said that species seem to be more prosperous, but for the equator and the poles, the impact is too great."

Weiwei nodded and said: "It actually has a great influence on the north of our country..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard several long beeps of "beep—beep—" from the depths of the forest.

The sound was loud, like a cow bleating in the open and quiet pine forest.

Li Junge and Uncle Orion applauded at the same time: "Good food!" "Good food!"

Weiwei worried: "What is this? Are you going to hunt it? The sound is so loud, will it be very fierce? You have to be careful!"

Li Junge laughed loudly: "It's okay, you sleep in your bed, and you'll know when you get up tomorrow morning!"

After several people were asleep, Li Junge picked up a net bag and a bright flashlight, and went to the stream with Uncle Orion.

The stream in the middle of the mountain is not wide and the water is not deep. It is still early in the rainy season, and there is only a trickle in the stream, and most of the stream stones are exposed outside.

The two went down to the stream along the edge of the ditch, and searched slowly with flashlights.

After a while, Li Junge's flashlight caught a big frog, bigger than a fist, at least two or three times heavier, with a dark brown body, rough skin, and some small warts on its back.

The big frog was illuminated by the flashlight and remained motionless.

Uncle Orion walked over gently, stretched out his hand nimbly, and pinched the big frog between his fingers.

Li Junge happily took the big frog and put it in the net pocket.

It took more than an hour to search upwards along the stream, and a dozen of such big frogs were caught.

The harvest was quite fruitful, and the two began to walk back. On the way, Li Junge laughed and said, "I really want to raise this thing. When Professor Li and the others arrive at the Miao Village, ask them to check the suitable location in the mountain and block a section of the mountain stream." , raising a bunch of them, it’s so beautiful just thinking about it!”

Uncle Orion smiled and said, "Block the mountain stream? Don't bring in a bunch of wild animals! Everyone likes good meat, and it won't be enough for the leopard to eat!"

Li Junge rolled his eyes: "Why are you all like this? I raise chickens and you say I feed eagles, and I raise this and you say I feed copper leopards, why don't you let people?!"

Uncle Orion laughed loudly: "If you hadn't recruited the pock-headed golden retriever, your wild goose farm would have caused trouble for those two birds? I think what everyone said is quite reasonable!"

Li Junge couldn't help being angry: "Don't underestimate me! Maybe someday I will recruit a few money leopards to watch the scene, don't you believe it?!"

Uncle Orion was even more delighted: "You are still pretending to be a mountain runner! Have you ever seen a group of leopards with coins? How many more!"

Li Junge was caught by Uncle Orion for a moment and wanted to go crazy: "I was originally a mountain runner! In terms of age, I ran earlier than you!"

Uncle Orion waved his hand in front of him: "It's been used for a long time! It's not so good! You can pretend to be an expert in front of the city people, and return a few money leopards! Hahaha I laughed so hard..."

(End of this chapter)