Portable space

When I came to the edge of the pool, the rocks broke out of the water, scaring the ducklings and geese floating on it to scatter.Zhang Taiping clapped his hands, and it slowly climbed up from the water.

When in the mountains, it just makes people feel a little big, and it has a huge visual impact after going up.The rock-brown armor quilt is engraved with two ancient and vicissitudes of seal characters. The old village chief is a rough man who grew up in the countryside. Literati like Teacher Shao first feel the vicissitudes of time and the heaviness of history. , this golden age turtle has survived for an unknown number of years!

"Can you estimate how old it is?" Teacher Shao asked in shock, pointing to the huge rock. There is still a big difference between hearing that it is huge and seeing it with your own eyes.Hearing is just a concept, but seeing it with your own eyes is shocking.

Zhang Taiping shook his head and replied: "The two oldest people in the village can't tell how many years it has lived. They all say 'a thousand-year-old king and 8-year-old tortoise'. Although it is not that exaggerated, it must be three or four hundred years old. There are, just more or less."

Old Mr. Shao nodded. He is engaged in research in this field, but the golden longevity turtles he has come into contact with before are at most the size of a washbasin. The specific age has to be studied carefully before conclusions can be drawn.

"Is this really dug up from an underground spring as Brother Wang said?"

"It's so naive. When digging this pond, a spring was dug near the foot of the mountain, and I found it. There were many villagers present at the time, and they all saw it with their own eyes."

"If it was really dug up from an underground spring, then this spring water would be amazing. It must have been connected to a rather spectacular underground river, otherwise a small underground spring wouldn't be able to raise such a big guy. .”

"Underground underground river?" Zhang Taiping's heart moved. Since there are big things like rocks, I don't know if there are other things. If there are, it would be good to lure them with space spring water.

"Yes, it is an underground underground river. It's just that a large underground river usually appears near a large river or lake, and rarely appears in a mountainous area." Mr. Shao added.

The old village head said: "Then this is strange."

Old Mr. Shao smiled and sighed: "Nature is full of wonders, and the mysteries in it are not well known to people. There are always exceptions to everything."

After seeing the rock, the three of them walked back again, and when they got to the house, Fan Ming's treatment for today had just ended, and he was talking with Cai Yazhi, when he saw the three of them, he asked, "Is this the old gentleman looking for me?"

Mr. Shao couldn't help feeling that the Internet is a magical thing. He saw many photos uploaded by Fan Ming on the Internet, and thought he was a middle-aged man who liked to travel and was at least 30 years old. A little girl with white teeth.

"I'm the one who came looking for you. I saw the photos you uploaded about Butterfly Valley on the Internet. I want to come over and learn about Butterfly Valley."

"This matter, please wait a moment." After finishing speaking, she turned around and ran into her room, and came out again after a while, and handed Mr. Shao a beautiful book and said, "Here are some butterflies I collected in the valley. Take a look at the specimen first, and if you have anything else to ask, you can ask brother Zhang, he also went there together, and he understands it better than me. I’m going to take a bath first, and I feel itchy all over my body.” Said After that, he ran into the back room in a hurry.

"This is.?" Old Mr. Shao was a little confused.

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "He has such a character, he is hot-tempered. If Mr. Shao wants to know anything, just ask me."

"Haha, that's the best." Mr. Shao smiled and opened the notebook given by Fan Ming, which contained colorful butterfly specimens.After only turning a few pages, Mr. Shao's expression became excited, "Red liquid nymph! It's really a red liquid nymph!" The old man was so excited that he was surprised like a child seeing something he likes. cried out.

Zhang Taiping can understand his feelings. People who devote themselves to academics can often retain a childlike passion and love for the things they study in their hearts.

After a long while, he shouted again excitedly: "This is, this is the golden-spotted swallowtail, and I saw the golden-spotted swallowtail here." Then he cooled down and said, "Oh, it's a pity that it was made It would be nice if the specimen was alive."

I have heard of Zhang Taiping, the famous name of the golden spotted beaked butterfly, because this butterfly is the only butterfly in China that has been designated as a first-class protected animal, and has the reputation of "the queen of butterflies".

He stretched his head and saw that the body length of the golden spotted beaked swallowtail butterfly was about 30mm, and the wings spread more than 110mm.The scales on its wings shone with faint green light.There is an arc-shaped golden-green spot on the front wings; there are several golden spots in the center of the hind wings, and a crescent-shaped golden spot on the rear edge. Abnormally beautiful.

"This is not a specimen that was caught while alive, but a dried specimen that was picked up on the ground when I was in the valley." Zhang Taiping defended Fan Ming, but he didn't want her to be killed. State animal protection charges.

Mr. Shao breathed a sigh of relief after hearing what Zhang Taiping said: "So that's the case." Natural life and death and man-made killing are two completely different concepts.Natural life and death is the cycle of heaven, no one can escape, there is nothing to regret, but if you are killed by someone, you will commit a crime.

The old village chief asked next to him: "Are these butterflies very precious?"

Teacher Shao said: "Of course it is precious." Then he turned to the page with the golden-spotted swallowtail butterfly, pointed to the exquisite specimens on it and said, "This is a national first-class protected animal, and its number is even greater than our national treasure, the giant panda." Rare. Do you think it is precious or not?"

"That's amazing." Although the village head didn't have the above concept of butterflies, he still knew about the famous national treasure giant panda. This butterfly can be compared with pandas, so it is naturally a remarkable existence.

Zhang Taiping chuckled lightly and said, "A batch of butterflies came to the orchard in the valley behind me a few days ago, do you want Teacher Shao to take a look?"

"That's right? Then what are you waiting for? Let's go, hurry up and see if there are any precious varieties in it."

Zhang Taiping led the way, Mr. Shao and the village chief followed.

The flowers in the orchard haven’t faded yet, clusters of pink and white are different, which can be regarded as a beautiful scene, but Mr. Shao who came in was not in the mood to appreciate the enchanting peach blossoms in March, and stared directly at the flowers in the flowers All kinds of butterflies look at each other.

After turning around, I didn't find any particularly rare and rare varieties. At that time, there were several varieties that even Mr. Shao had never seen.Overjoyed, he quickly took out the pen and notebook he carried with him to record the appearance and characteristics of this butterfly.Go back and search for some information. If he can find a kind of heart, it will be of great help to his current research.

I turned the garden around several times and looked at almost every kind of butterfly before stopping.Although I didn't see the golden-spotted beaked butterfly again, I was not disappointed. Didn't it mean that there is a huge valley in the deep mountain that is full of butterflies? Since there are dried specimens there, there must be some that are still alive.

"Today is really a worthwhile trip!" Mr. Shao said with a smile on his face.

The village head also said with a smile on his face: "As long as you think it's worth it, that's fine."

"It's worth it."

After returning to the yard, Mr. Shao said: "I saw the beautiful scenery here, and wanted to live here for a day or two to feel a leisurely life. But now it seems impossible, with such a huge I found that my heart can’t calm down anymore. I need to go back early to study it, and check some information to make sure. I have to leave in advance.”

The old village head was surprised: "So urgent?"

"I can't wait, I can't wait to fly back now." Teacher Shao said with a smile.

After Fan Ming came out, Mr. Shao said to Fan Ming, "Girl, can you let me take your notebook back and use it for a while?"

Fan Ming shook his freshly washed wet hair and said generously: "If you want to use it, go there, let me put it here just for a good look." There is no hair dryer or the like here, after washing your hair Drying in the mountain breeze is the most comfortable thing.

"Then thank you very much." Mr. Shao thanked Fan Ming and then bid farewell to Zhang Taiping and the old village head. I'll be bothering you."

The village head must be sure that the more people come, the better, and said happily: "You are warmly welcome to come anytime. After my brother goes out, he will also publicize our village."

Teacher Shao raised the specimen folder Yang held in his hand and said: "You don't have to worry about this, Brother Wang. There are so many rare species of butterflies here, it's hard not to be famous." Then he said to Zhang Taiping: "We will tell you in a few days. Maybe I have to go to the Butterfly Valley in the mountain to investigate, and I may have to trouble my little brother to lead the way."

"No trouble." Zhang Taiping waved his hand and said.During this period of time, he happened to be thinking about going to the mountain for a while, to bring out some fish species from the lake in the mountain, and if possible, to attract some waterfowl.

After Teacher Shao left, the village chief also left immediately.

Fan Ming asked, "Who is this?"

Zhang Taiping rolled his eyes and said: "This is the person you attracted and you don't even know it?"

Fan Ming stuck out her tongue embarrassingly.

"It's an old professor who studies butterflies from Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University in Yangling." Zhang Taiping still explained to her.

"Oh, it's a teacher."