1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 221 Successful and Triumphant Return
The bird's nest in Liang Ziqiang's hand was light and not as heavy as an ordinary bird's nest.

Unlike what people imagine, this bird's nest is not crystal clear and white like jade, but a little gray mixed in the white.

This is because when swifts build nests, they do not use all of their own saliva, but add a little feathers.

The first round is mainly saliva, with a small amount of feathers. If this is taken away, the two swifts will make a second bird's nest before the chicks are born.

Since there is not enough saliva in the second round of bird's nest, a lot of feathers will be mixed in, and the entire bird's nest will be gray-black.

Therefore, the one Liang Ziqiang has in his hands now is definitely the best bird's nest.

As for the finished products that people usually see, they are as white as jade and spotless. They are the products of purification and processing after all the feathers and impurities in the bird's nest have been removed with a magnifying glass.

There is no such thing as a bird's nest picked on site that is purely white.

Since this cave was discovered, Liang Ziqiang's target of picking must be the first round of bird's nests. Firstly, this is the best quality, and secondly, it is not appropriate to pick the second round of bird's nests, which will cause the young birds to be homeless.

At this moment, Liang Ziqiang had a snakeskin bag tied around his waist, which was usually used to hold fish catches, but now it was just right for collecting bird's nests.

After putting this top-quality bird's nest into the snakeskin bag, he continued to climb to the next bird's nest.

So, one after another, the swift couples who were immersed in their love were horrified to see a human head emerge from the cliff, and then destroy their nest with their own hands...

Such presumptuous scenes were repeated in the cave. In a blink of an eye, five or six top-quality bird's nests were put into Liang Ziqiang's snakeskin bag.

The swift couples that were forcibly driven away flew to other nearby cracks in the stone walls, landed there, and watched Liang Ziqiang demolish his house, all screaming.

At first, there were only one or two couples, but later, more and more couples whose homes were destroyed gathered on the stone wall and started to curse and attack together. The shouting and cursing were one after another, noisy and lively:

"Damn you! Are you so immoral!"

"Saliva, that's my saliva, what do you want it for?"

Liang Ziqiang turned a deaf ear to the criticism and took two more...

On the contrary, Deng Zhaocai, who was standing on the ground, became uneasy as he listened to the increasingly intense and harsh shouting and cursing.

Who could remain indifferent? He also wanted to be the target of abuse!
No, seeing that Liang Ziqiang has already picked seven or eight, he must take some action.

The methods were ready. He had a thick wooden stick in his hand, and he also had a rope.

At this moment, he quickly followed suit and tied one end of the rope to the wooden stick and the other end to his waist.

After tying it, I realized that my waist was completely different from Liang Ziqiang's. It was much thicker, so it took a lot of rope to tie it up. After tying it twice, I found that the rope had become much shorter than Liang Ziqiang's.

After everything was ready, Deng Zhaocai straightened his waist and began to climb up the stone wall again.

This time he finally climbed to a height of one person, and then began to throw sticks into the crevice in the rock where the wooden stick could be stuck.

As a result, his journey was a bit bumpy. Liang Ziqiang just missed the target again and again, but Deng Zhaocai was different. Every time he threw the stick once or twice, it would fall and hit his own shoulders and legs.

Deng Zhaocai, who was already shaky lying there, was also extremely pitiful. In the blink of an eye, he was hit by the wooden stick and rolled down from a height of one person, sliding all the way to the bottom of the stone wall.

He fought again with tears in his eyes, continued to climb up, threw again, and was smashed back to the ground...

This happened again and again, and Liang Ziqiang's eyelids were twitching and he felt numb.

This guy definitely didn't come to the cave to pick bird's nests, he came to get beaten.

After a lot of twists and turns, Deng Zhaocai finally threw the stick steadily and stuck it in the crack between the two big rocks.

Then, he finally started picking a few bird's nests.

If someone stood on the ground and looked up at this time, it would be quite funny. Liang Ziqiang was tall and well-proportioned. He climbed in the air hanging on a rope, and he looked as light as a swallow. As for Deng Zhaocai, what was that? A flying elephant in the sky?

This scene was tiring to watch. Not only was it tiring to watch, but Fatty Deng Zhaocai himself was even more tired.

When he got close to Liang Ziqiang, he actually heard him breathing heavily, and the sound in his throat sounded like a furnace.

Liang Ziqiang was fine. He was sweating but still hadn't caught his breath. He glanced at Deng Zhaocai:

"What's wrong? You look strong, but why are you out of breath? Where did the strength you usually have for fighting and beating people go? Are you suffering from kidney deficiency recently or something?!"

Deng Zhaocai didn't like what he heard and shouted:

"Hoohoo! Who has kidney deficiency? You think I'm Li Liang! Hoohoo! You don't know, I went to see Li Liang recently and found that his forehead was dark and he had a pair of big circles under his eyes. Once when he was walking, his legs went weak. If I hadn't helped him, he would have fallen flat on his face. Hoohoo!" Deng Zhaocai said more than a dozen "hooooo" in one sentence, which made people's ears disabled. However, the content of his speech was still quite explosive, so Liang Ziqiang didn't care too much about the details and said in surprise:

"No way! Li Liang is so weak? Did Yuan Xiaomei suck his blood or something..."

Deng Zhaocai said worriedly:

"Who knows? Ten times a night! Yuan Xiaomei is such a troublemaker. I feel like if she continues like this, she might really be unlucky in marriage..."

"Ugh! Go slap yourself in the face! How can you curse your friend like that?" Liang Ziqiang felt that this was a serious matter.

"I'm not cursing him, but Brother Qiang, if you ever meet him, you should try to persuade him..." Deng Zhaocai said seriously.

"I'm trying to persuade them. They're getting too close to each other, how can I persuade them? I never do anything immoral!"

Liang Ziqiang, who claims to never do anything immoral, chased away a pair of swift lovers who were just getting close to each other and took away a bird's nest...

More and more golden swifts were displaced by their harm, and the stone wall was filled with curses.

But what is strange is that all the swifts that lost their nests stayed on the steep cliffs after flying away, and not a single one of them fell to the ground.

Deng Zhaocai was surprised and asked, "Isn't the ground much more stable? Why are they all hanging on the stone wall and not coming down?"

"You really don't know that golden swifts never touch the ground from birth to death. Otherwise, how could you see them drinking water and making babies in the air on the boat?!"

The feet of the golden swift are very special. They can hardly walk steadily on flat ground, but they can hook themselves on the cracks of rocks and hang themselves on the stone walls.

Therefore, the golden swift is known as a bird that spends its entire life in the air. They once held a record of flying in the air for 10 months continuously. During these ten months, they eat, drink water, defecate, and make love, all in flight.

Oh, and their brains can be used for half flying and half sleeping, flying and sleeping at the same time...

As the two of them moved along the stone wall throughout the cave, more and more bird's nests were picked. Deng Zhaocai alone had picked more than a dozen, not to mention Liang Ziqiang, who had already picked more than thirty.

The two of them had already taken over all the light in this area, and Deng Zhaocai tried to move further away.

At this moment, there was a sudden crisp "click" sound, and Deng Zhaocai screamed "Oh shit".

The whole sturdy body fell down!
This guy was too heavy, and the wooden stick above his head finally couldn't bear it and broke!
To be honest, the stick was actually quite strong. Liang Ziqiang was considering using it to beat the thief, so he chose the thickest and strongest wood. Unexpectedly, the fat man still broke it.

"Be careful, grab the stone quickly!" Liang Ziqiang reached out to pull Deng Zhaocai in a hurry, but failed to catch it.

Deng Zhaocai was about to fall straight down, but fortunately he quickly hugged a big rock on the stone wall and slowed down his falling trend.

Finally, it rolled along the stone wall a few times and fell to the ground.

Liang Ziqiang was a little confused, and shouted to the ground:

"Can you get up? Did you fall anywhere?!"

Deng Zhaocai struggled to get up, slipped a few times, and replied thankfully:

"Luckily there was a thick layer of something on the ground, something really soft, maybe bird droppings. Such a thick layer of bird droppings? It stinks to death, ugh..."

Deng Zhaocai squatted there and started to retch.

Who can stand being covered in old bird droppings?

Liang Ziqiang now felt weak in his hands and feet, and his stomach began to feel very hungry. He had not eaten anything since breakfast.

Although there are still a lot of bird's nests in the cave that have not been picked, it seems that we can't continue picking today.

He pulled the rope and slid down the rock wall.

After reaching the bottom, I just ignored the wooden stick stuck between the big rocks above my head and let it stay stuck. I could still use it the next time I came to collect bird's nests.

The two returned along the original route to the cave entrance.

Liang Ziqiang shook the snakeskin bag in his hand. Compared with the bags he usually used to hold his catch, this one was much lighter. It was so light that it seemed to have no weight at all.

But Liang Ziqiang knew that these dozens of light bird's nests would be worth a lot of money. The banknotes might be heavier than this small bag of bird's nests...

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