Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 358 Mystery Solved
Chapter 350 The Ninth Mystery Solved
Wei Wei took the biggest one, which was as long as her small palm, and said, "Thanks to you and Miao Wa yesterday, with such long teeth, one bite would kill her."

Li Junge said with a smile: "Life is secondary. Wild boars like to bite their faces the most. Disfigurement will be a big deal!"

Wei Wei hit Li Junge with the boar's teeth: "Oh, you're so annoying and scary!"

Miao Wa put the meat strips into the bamboo basket with everyone, and said with a smile: "Although I was a little frightened this time, the harvest was huge. Erpi, I caught a few more chickens this morning. If I didn't want to Seeing that there is so much meat at the bottom of the mountain, I really can’t bear to let it go.”

Li Junge said: "It is estimated that these have to be taken out. Now you don't have to worry about logistics. Everyone can watch the scenery and study the floating fish in these two days."

When everything was in order, Li Junge and Miaowa pushed the raft into the stream, and everyone got on the raft, Li Junge and Miaowa each with a penny, went to the upper reaches of the Dushui River.

After passing the section where the stream was tightened due to the collapse of the mountain, the Dushui Creek regained its width and gentle flow, and suddenly became gentle again.

The riverside is sometimes muddy, sandy beaches, and cliffs, with old trees and vines, lush forests and bamboos, and the scenery is also beautiful.

When passing through the cliff, the bamboo tip trees and vines drip water into the stream from time to time, which is very pleasant to hear.

Occasionally, a thin stream of mountain spring hangs down from a high place, and sometimes a branch is separated, buried between the thick moss-covered stone crevices, and emerges in an unexpected place.

When passing through the mud, there are often groups of egrets and old storks basking on the top of the trees in the distance. Nearby are dense water citrus, silk grass, and iron wire grass, which pile up on the bank to form huge green trees. The fur ball is like a giant's fur slippers.

When passing through the sand, some old turtles and tortoises were startled and crawled towards the water's edge, and then disappeared with a "plop", leaving only a crooked trace on the sand, mixed with the footprints left by many wild animals. Together, it is like an abstract freehand painting.

These are not the best views, but the most eye-catching ones are the blooming rhododendrons and lilies along the banks of the river, red, pink, yellow, and white, showing off their vitality in this inaccessible valley. , from the water's edge to the mountainside.

When the two bamboo rafts turned a bend and entered a straight river, the spectacular scenery in front of them shocked the entire group into silence.

Only Weiwei's camera shutter clicked.

The bamboo raft slides gently across the water, and the rhododendron bushes extending to the middle of the mountain on both sides are like beautiful women who welcome people along the road. The ones in front just pass by, and the ones behind them come again, making people dizzying. , or place it below.

It wasn't until after this period of direct communication that everyone let out a sigh of relief and laughed at the same time.

Teacher Zhang had been holding his glasses with his hands before, and then he put them down: "God, did the camera just take pictures? This is too beautiful!"

Looking back, seeing the cameraman holding the camera on the tripod and gesturing OK to him, Teacher Zhang breathed a sigh of relief, and said excitedly: "Hahaha, Professor Ding, I said that we can still make beautiful films for "Approaching Science" Well, these few episodes of Lijiagou will definitely change the audience's impression of us making horror movies."

Professor Ding said with a smile: "Oh, I've been looking at the water, did you pay attention to the floating fish just now?"

Everyone laughed, and Professor Li teased with earnestness: "Old Ding, you are being harsh. You can't ask others to do what you can't do yourself."

Everyone laughed wildly again.

The bamboo raft came to a magical terrain, here is a small lake, and there is a mouth in the Dushui River connected to it, if the Dushui River is a vine, this small lake is like a leaf on the vine.

The river water flows in slowly from the upstream side of the mouth and out from the other side, forming a gentle circulation in the lake.

A lot of stiff peach blossom fish and some flower petals were sent out from that side, and then washed downstream with the stream of Dushui Creek.

Professor Ding said: "It seems that the famous hall is in this lake, let's go in and have a look."

The mouth of the water was not big and shallow, and the bamboo raft couldn't move forward after a certain distance, so everyone began to abandon the raft and go ashore.

The water in the lake is exceptionally clear. Professor Ding estimated that the visibility should be more than five meters, and the bottom of the water is composed of small rocks.

There are also stones on the shore, which are relatively large and have been untouched for a long time. The stones are covered with thick lichens and mosses. There are some saxifrage, dandelion and other low grasses growing near the water, and some dendrobium pines are hanging on the trees. dill and the like.

Walking through the water inlet, there is a clear lake in front of you. Except that the bottom of the water cannot be seen within an area of ​​one or two acres in the center, you can see underwater stones in the rest of the place.

There are almost no aquatic plants at the bottom of the lake, only sprigs of spirogyra.

But the scenery by the lake is beautiful, surrounded by a circle of low rhododendrons, mostly yellow and white, with a small amount of red, like a beautiful wreath embedded in a large mirror.

Between the stone gaps by the lake, there are occasionally a few small clear springs flowing into the lake, and the water volume is not large.

The video camera and camera were set up again, and this spectacle was also a rare sight.

At a water's edge, several rotting tree trunks were fallen, half protruding into the water, as if a floating pole of a net cage had been placed on the water.

There are several white rhododendrons and yellow rhododendrons in full bloom on the bank, and the petals and pollen blown into the lake with the wind, are blocked by the tree trunks fallen in the water.

This is a small hard-hit area. Many peach blossom fish turned over here, and were blocked by tree trunks, no less than forty or fifty.

Professor Li said: "The answer to the mystery has been revealed, and it is these flowers that caused the trouble."

Teacher Zhang said: "Is this azalea? Isn't Rhododendron also called 'Yingshanhong'? Why are most of the Rhododendrons here yellow and white?"

Professor Li explained: "Rhododendron is a large genus in the plant kingdom. There are more than 900 species in the world, and there are more than 500 species in my country. The species range from large trees measuring 30 to [-] meters, and small shrubs ranging from [-] to [-] centimeters. Rhododendrons are non-poisonous, but if you encounter yellow and white ones, be careful."

After speaking, he pointed his hand around: "Yellow Rhododendron contains toxins in both plants and flowers. People will be poisoned if they eat them by mistake. White Rhododendrons contain tetracyclic diterpenoid toxins, which are distributed throughout the plant. Even pollen and nectar are poisonous. It can cause vomiting, dyspnea, numbness of limbs, etc., and in severe cases can cause shock, which seriously endangers human health."

Teacher Zhang was dumbfounded: "Then we ate so many peach blossom fish..."

Professor Ding said with a smile: "There is a question of quantity here. The big white rhododendron is also a famous dish in central Yunnan. A little poison is more serious for small fish, but it is not poisonous even for big fish. There is nothing to be afraid of. "

Professor Li smiled and said: "Look over there, they are all here to play the autumn wind."

Sure enough, I saw egrets parked on the big trees opposite, each with bulging crops, and there were a few standing by the water under the trees, too lazy to focus on the water. When peach blossom fish floated by, I remembered Think about it.

Looking around the lake and looking towards the water outlet on the opposite side, there is a cliff, where countless small holes have been dug out at a height of more than ten meters from the water. Countless nimble birds with emerald green feathers are busy coming in and out, and sometimes passing by The person on the surface of the water picked up a small fish and flew back to the cliff to eat it.

This made Wei Wei very happy. This kind of large-scale kingfisher habitat was common in Jiachuan 20 years ago, but it is rare to see it today.

After the film crew finished filming the material, Li Junge took down the pot, fished a few dazed peach blossom fish into it, and poured some water from the stream by the lake into the pot with a kettle. He recovered and started to swim vigorously.

Teacher Zhang said with a smile: "Come on, let's take a look together and see how to explain this phenomenon to the audience friends."

Li Junge said with a smile: "This small lake should be the spawning ground for peach blossom fish. The water quality is good and the bottom is full of gravel, which is especially suitable for it to breed here."

Lin Zhao said: "After spawning, fish need to eat a lot to supplement nutrition."

Professor Li said: "It coincided with a large number of yellow and white rhododendrons blooming, and the petals, pollen, and stamens were blown into the lake."

Professor Ding said: "It happens that the water flow in this lake is gentle, so that rhododendrons can gather in large quantities in the lake. In addition, there is not much organic matter and food shortage. In the eyes of peach blossom fish, these flowers are undoubtedly excellent food."

Uncle Medicine Master said: "But these things are poisonous. The peach blossom fish is already weak after laying eggs. If they eat these things, they will be poisoned. The amount of poison is not fatal, so they lie on the water surface."

Professor Li said: "When the peach blossom fish was sent out of the lake and flowed into the Dushui River, the toxicity had just degraded in the area around the Swallow Cave, and the fish naturally regained their activity."

Professor Ding added: "Actually, even if these stiff fish in the lake are not sent out of the lake, they will wake up automatically after a while in the lake. Or the phenomenon is not over until the fish school leaves the breeding ground."

Teacher Zhang laughed loudly: "The mystery of this episode has been completely solved. This episode is good. Rhododendrons are everywhere in the city. Many people don't know whether it is poisonous or not. They are afraid of it. Now I understand that only the yellow and white cuckoos are poisonous, while the red ones are not poisonous."

Lin Zhao smiled and said, "Then can these peach blossom fish be eaten?"

Professor Li also smiled and said: "Although the birds did not get poisoned after eating them, after all, they just ingested the cuckoo toxin, and it was the time when the content was the highest. It is a bit different from the ones we caught yesterday. It is best It's better not to eat it, besides, are we short of meat now?"

Professor Ding laughed loudly: "Xiao Zhang, we have completed the task ahead of schedule, right? Then shall we go back or stay here for a day or two?"

Xiao Zhang looked at the lake and flowers, and sighed: "It's a fairyland on earth, why don't we stay for a day? Well, yes, we still need to add impact materials, such as kingfishers, egrets, everything will be shot If you go in, you have to explore further upstream, um, there is nothing wrong with this excuse..."

Everyone laughed, and Professor Li said: "Dushuixi is really beautiful in April and May. It's an eye-opener to travel all the way, Piwa, when are you going to develop tourism for this stream? I will definitely Bring your wife over here to have fun."

(End of this chapter)