1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 220: Trying Every Means to Pick the Best Bird's Nest
The cave wall is almost vertical. The only thing that can provide leverage is the cracks between the rocks. By holding onto the cracks with your hands, you can move up little by little.

At the beginning, the lower part of the stone wall was easier to climb. Although Liang Ziqiang moved slowly, he gradually climbed to a height of one person.

As we go higher, we find it increasingly difficult. Not only is it difficult to find a foothold with our hands, but it is also difficult to find a spot to step on with our feet.

After all, Liang Ziqiang has his own way of going out to sea to fish, but he is not good at climbing walls and running on rooftops!
The reason why he was able to lie on the cliff at a height of one person without falling down was due to his decades of experience in construction sites and long-term experience walking on scaffolding boards. His body balance ability is quite good.

Deng Zhaocai also volunteered to climb the other side of the rock wall. This guy has good physical strength, strong legs and thick arms, but Liang Ziqiang knew at a glance that this guy is worse at climbing than himself.

His frame and body were both relatively large, like a brown bear, and this size did not give him any advantage when climbing.

On the contrary, people like Liang Ziqiang, although not thin, are relatively tall and well-proportioned, and their body flexibility is obviously better than Deng Zhaocai.

Deng Zhaocai climbed a few times and then slipped down. He couldn't even climb up to a place as high as a person, let alone the bird's nest at a higher place. He could only stand there, sighing and rubbing his hands anxiously.

This is definitely not a solution. Liang Ziqiang lay there and thought about it. It has been proven that there is basically no hope of climbing close to the bird's nest just by physical strength.

He looked around and searched for a long time among the cracks in the rocks.

Got it!

Finally, his eyes were fixed on two large protruding rocks. Several meters above his head, there were two rocks facing each other, with a not-too-narrow gap in between.

An idea worth trying popped into my mind.

Liang Ziqiang slid down again and picked up the wooden stick and thick rope leaning against the stone wall.

There happened to be a thick rope on the boat, so he took it with him when he got off the boat, thinking that he might need it when climbing the rock wall.

The two thick wooden sticks were on the boat last time, used to beat fish thieves during night fishing. Later, Yang Xi and Yang Qing were beaten by these sticks. After the thief was caught, the two thick wooden sticks were kept on the boat. He had just thought of using the sticks to clear the way, but now they can be put to a new use.

Liang Ziqiang tied the rope to the middle of the thick wooden stick and tightened it again and again until it was very tight.

Deng Zhaocai didn't quite understand and asked, "What's the point of tying the stick? It would be useful if there was an iron claw. Oh, and the anchor on your boat can be used as an iron claw. Just hook it into the cracks between the rocks and it will be done!"

Liang Ziqiang wanted to beat him with a stick:
"What are you thinking? Take the anchor from the boat and let the boat run away with the sea? We don't have to go back. We can just stay in the cave and eat bird's nest every day..."

Although the fishing boat also has a cable tied to the tree pole on the beach, the iron anchor also plays a big role in the boat's docking. It's not that relying on the cable alone is completely impossible, but Liang Ziqiang has experienced the situation of being stranded on a wild island and no one can help him. He definitely doesn't want to experience it again.

Besides, the pliers are thick and heavy, and their shape is not real iron claws, so it is definitely not feasible to use them for rock climbing.

But having said that, Deng Zhaocai's idea is still worth commending. Next time, he can ask the blacksmith to make a special iron claw, which may make climbing easier.

Deng Zhaocai quickly figured out why Liang Ziqiang tied the rope to a wooden stick.

Liang Ziqiang tied one end of the rope and then tied the other end around his waist, also very tightly.

With a rope and a thick wooden stick, Liang Ziqiang began to climb up again. When he reached a height of one person again, he lay there, unable to move forward.

At this time, Liang Ziqiang aimed at the two protruding stones diagonally above his head and threw the wooden stick between the two stones.

He was good at this. Thanks to his usual experience in casting the net, he felt that he could still cast accurately.

There was a "clang" sound.

Well, the stick missed and bounced right off the rock and fell back down.

This is different from casting a net on the sea. To be honest, it is much more difficult than throwing a net. But Liang Ziqiang did not lose heart. Anyway, the other end of the rope was tied to his waist. He pulled it and picked up the wooden stick again.

Aim again and throw again...

He didn't know how many times he had thrown it and his arms were almost sore. Finally, he threw the stick in and it landed right between two stones and rested steadily.

Now, the rope hanging from between the two rocks has become Liang Ziqiang's magic weapon for climbing, and it also serves as his safety rope. If he fails to step firmly and falls, he will not fall to the ground immediately.

This idea that popped up on the spur of the moment is really reliable!
With the rope pulling him, he quickly moved upwards little by little, getting closer and closer to the several swallows' nests above his head.

Finally, we arrived at the first bird's nest.

Two swifts were lying in the bird's nest when they suddenly saw a humanoid creature pop up and kept looking into their nest. They were nervous and extremely angry at the same time and screamed at him several times.

Liang Ziqiang looked into the nest and found no baby swifts. It seemed that the two golden swifts were in love and had not yet reached the stage of having a baby.

It was just the end of February in the Gregorian calendar. According to his vague memory, it was indeed not the time for the young golden swifts to be born in large numbers.

In fact, golden swifts do not live on a certain island for a long time. They are a typical migratory bird with an extremely strong migration ability.

Every year, they fly from faraway South Africa to some of our islands around February.

Throughout February, they will be madly in love and making babies, and at the same time, they will prepare for a rainy day by finding a crack in a rock and frantically smearing saliva on the rock, taking turns to do so...

The bird's nest made with saliva is a baby room specially used for raising babies after the mother swallow lays eggs and hatches them in March.

Around June or July, they leave the islands in China with their babies and fly to South Africa. They will not come back until the following February.

Liang Ziqiang even felt a little strange. What if a "water dragon" rolled all the way from the deep sea to Longju Mountain in June or July? Wouldn't these swifts be afraid at all?
But on second thought, perhaps by the time June and July come, the swifts here will have already migrated abroad.

Besides, this cave is very deep and winding. No matter how hard the dragon sucks water, it can't get into the depths of the cave...

Perhaps it is precisely because the island is affected by the dragon's water-sucking ability that there are fewer other natural enemies and birds of prey, so it was chosen by the swifts.

Now that Liang Ziqiang saw that there were no little swallows in the bird's nest, there was no need to be polite.

If there were young swallows, he would take away the nests, which would cause the young swallows to fall to their deaths. The consequence was that all the golden swifts in the cave were wiped out by him, and after this year, no new swifts would appear.

How could that be possible? He also planned to come here every year in early March to pick bird's nests. This kind of wealth must be continuous. So when he climbed up, he had already decided that he would never pick any bird eggs or swift nests, but only the newly built nests.

The two swifts screamed a few times as a warning, but eventually they were afraid of people, so they flapped their wings helplessly and flew away from the nest.

The bird's nest was empty, and there were no eggs or baby birds inside.

Liang Ziqiang did not immediately reach out to pry it open, but instead took off the water bottle hanging behind his buttocks.

He brought it with him on the boat to drink. Now, he poured out a little bit of it and wet the bird's nest.

Breaking it hard would only destroy the whole nest. After soaking it, he gently picked it up and finally picked a complete bird's nest easily.

I put it in front of me and took a closer look. This bird's nest is really top-notch...

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