slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 356 Chapter 360 Two Heavens

evening.

At the intersection leading to Sijiaping and Zhanbituo Farm at the entrance of the town, a few people were sitting on the side of the road, and two young people looked in the direction of the town from time to time.

There are five people in this group, two of them are gray-haired old people, a man and a woman seem to be an old couple, and the remaining three are young people in their twenties, about the same age, three people They all wear glasses and look polite.

It's just that the bodies of the three young people are a bit thin. If it wasn't for their looks and height differences, they would look like three brothers.

The faces of the three young men were a little irritable, they couldn't stop looking at the entrance of the town, and one of them was still talking about why he didn't come here from time to time!Such words.

"Xiao Wu, don't worry, since he said he would take us with him, he will definitely come." The old man sitting on the suitcase beat his leg lightly, and said to the short-eyed young man.

After hearing this, the short young man distinguished and said: "Teacher, I'm not worried about myself, but you and my teacher's wife are both so old, and your health is not good. In addition, it's almost a day, and there are planes and cars. , I’m afraid that your two bodies won’t be able to take it anymore.”

The old man smiled and said: "What is this? When I was young, I stayed with my teacher in the old forest in the southwest for a month or two. You have also been to that old forest, and you know that staying there in midsummer is a kind of fun. What does it feel like..."

Listening to the old man's eloquent talk, the short young man couldn't help slandering in his heart: You also said that when you were young, now you are almost seventy, how can you have the body of a young man!
Before the old man finished speaking, the old lady next to him opened her mouth, smiled and said to the old man: "Don't be brave, you are so old, you still have a hard mouth. First, drink some water, and give the medicine along the way." have eaten".

After speaking, the old lady stood up, took out a small medicine box from her small bag, poured out two or three medicines from it, put it in the palm of her hand and handed it to the old man, and handed the water bottle to the old man with the other hand.

Seeing the old man swallowing the medicine, the old lady also looked towards the entrance of the town, looked at the deserted road, and couldn't help complaining: "Why do these people have no sense of time at all, didn't they agree to arrive at 03:30?" Why, why is it almost four o'clock and there is no one around?"

The old man smiled and said: "Something may be delayed there, we are here to hitchhike, not hire a car, just wait patiently, maybe it will come soon."

The tallest of the three young men looked at the old man, and asked aloud, "Mr. Shang, are you really sure that those birds have not been discovered by outsiders?"

The old man laughed twice and said, "What if someone finds out, and what if no one finds out?"

The tall young man didn't know what to say, being discovered and being discovered for the first time were two completely different concepts.

To put it simply, if the bird has already been discovered and named, then this trip will be like picking up people’s teeth. If it has never been discovered before, then the first to discover it will be both fame and fortune. If you ask the school for funds, you can come up with it and talk about it.

The old lady smiled and said to the tall young man: "Xiao Wang, you have been with me for many years, don't you know about this thing, and you haven't compared the things from Professor Zuo in the database this time? You, if you care about it, you will be chaotic!"

This group of people came here because of a picture of Zuo Boguang. The next day after receiving the picture, that is, this morning, this group of people took a plane for more than three hours from the southern coastal city to the provincial capital, and then I changed another car and went to the county, took another taxi and arrived at the entrance of the town. I didn't even have a formal meal along the way.

Both the old man and the old lady are doing bird research. In the field of bird research, the old couple are at the forefront of academics. It can be said that they have devoted their entire lives to the protection and research of Chinese birds.

The reason is that Zuo Boguang heard that the birds in Canghai would actually help people grow things. Driven by curiosity, he took a photo of the bird and sent it to an old man thousands of miles away. He wanted to ask Ask the old man what kind of bird it is.

Unexpectedly, the old man and the old lady were stunned when they saw the picture, because they had never seen this kind of bird in their decades of bird research.

It looks a bit like the lovesickness bird that is common in the south of the Yangtze River, but the lovesickness bird does not have a beak as long as the bird in the picture. The mouth of the lovesickness bird is about half the length of the head, but this kind of bird has a beak that is as long as the lovesickness bird. twice as long and flatter in shape.

In today's society, people always feel that they have a deep understanding of nature, but for many scholars, the creatures in nature are far less discovered than undiscovered.People think that they have a good understanding of the earth, but in the eyes of many scholars, human beings still have a long way to go to truly understand the homeland on which they live.

The old couple received the pictures from Zuo Boguang, and after a little comparison, they felt that they had found a new species of bird, so they rushed over in a hurry, and with the help of Zuo Boguang, they were ready to wait for Zhang Jiusheng to send it to him. When the vegetable team returned to the village, they took a ride to Sijiaping.

It's just that it's almost half an hour before the agreed time, and the convoy hasn't shown up yet, which makes these people a little anxious.

A group of people were waiting impatiently, when there was a sound of cars coming from the direction of the town, four small trucks lined up and turned out of the town, driving towards them.

The pickup truck is very small, the front looks like a van, the body is not big, and the load can be two or three tons at most.

When the convoy came to a stop next to the crowd, a rough man in his forties rolled down the window and looked at the crowd on the ground.

"Is it Professor Shang?"

The old man immediately said, "It's me!"

"Come up!"

Hearing what the old man said, the driver opened the door and jumped out of the car.

"Just put your luggage in the back compartment, and everyone sits in the car separately, but two of the five of you in our four cars have to squeeze together," the driver opened his mouth and said.

The old man smiled and said: "It's okay, I will trouble you a few times."

"Don't talk about troubles, we get along well with Professor Zuo." After speaking, the driver shouted at the drivers of the cars behind: "Come and help!"

Several jumped down and hurriedly put their luggage into the back compartment of the first car. The old man sat in the cab of the first car, and the old lady got into the second car. The short two squeezed together. Anyway, there are no traffic police here, and no one is checking for overloading.

The rear compartment is quite wide, but it's the beginning of spring now, huddling in the rear compartment for an hour can freeze a person to death, and the driver dare not let the guests of Sijiaping Village suffer this crime.

The old man got into the car and chatted with the driver while looking at the surrounding scenery.

“This area looks so desolate”

The driver smiled and said: "Just wait until you get close to Sijiaping Village. This place is full of yellow land. I don't know how many years it has been deserted. Not to mention anything else, the road under our feet was built last year. It was originally a road. Small dirt roads, running cattle and carts can't walk side by side, let alone running cars... ".

The driver master is also a chatterbox. Just as the old man asked a question, he chattered a lot.

"By the way, what are you going to Sijiaping Village for?"

The old man said: "I watch the birds."

"Watching birds?" The driver was very curious.

But after thinking about it for a while, I became calm. There are many monsters in Sijiaping Village, and there are not many people in this group.There are two old men in the village who don't go home during the Chinese New Year. They wander around the village all day, either fishing or playing chess.They were just two old blind wanderers, so it would be strange to have a few more bird-watchers.

The old man opened his mouth and asked, "How is your income? Are you satisfied?"

"What's your dissatisfaction!" The driver said with a smile, "It's close to home, and the work is easy. I can earn 5000 yuan a month!"

"It's a little bit of money, isn't it?" The old man heard that it was only 5000 yuan, and felt that the income was a little bit little.

The master driver smiled and said: "We can't compare with others. The small truck has a blue license plate, and we have a C license, so we can't drive a big truck. Besides, even if we drive a big truck now, we will get more money in a month than us." , but it’s hard work to eat and sleep in the car. We guard the door of the house like this, and this income is already considered good. It’s not hard work to spend half a day at home after delivering the goods every day.”

The old man quickly figured out the driver's background, and he knew that the man next to him was a man who had no intentions, drove and was easy to satisfy.

It's just that the old man doesn't know that the salary of people here is generally very low. The average person's monthly income is only about [-] yuan. The job of a driver can be said to have made many people greedy.

It can't be compared with the developed coastal provinces and cities, where a house costs several million. The best part of the county here is only [-] square meters per [-] square meters, and the consumption level is different.

An hour later, the driver saw two trees at the entrance of Sijiaping Village in the distance, so he said to the old man next to him, "Here, that's Sijiaping Village over there!"

The old man looked up, feeling extremely disappointed in his heart.

Because from here, Sijiaping Village is still not green at all, it is completely the same as the road, it is all bare loess, and there is no feeling of greenness and vitality in the photos.

"Where is Sijiaping Village? No way!" said the old man.

The driver smiled and said: "If you are going to Sijiaping, you must be right. I have been running this road for almost a year, and I can run down with my eyes closed."

"Why can't we see the trees or the forest?" the old man asked.

The driver laughed twice: "Here, if you want to see the forest, you have to stand on the ridge of Sijiaping Village. Where can you see it here? If there are forests here, how can anyone be willing to move out? ".

The old man smiled and did not respond, but the disappointment in his heart was clearly written on his face.

The driver master didn't speak when he saw it, but smiled and continued to drive his car.

When the car climbed to the last four hurdles, the old man became restless, because two completely different scenes appeared in his line of sight.

On his left is the endless loess slope, the sky is high and the earth is wide.

But on his right hand side is a piece of emerald green, woodland creeks, small wild flowers all over the mountains, among which there will be a sea of ​​flowers appearing in his eyes from time to time.

The old man knew the sea of ​​flowers at a glance, some of them were white plum blossoms in early spring, pink peach blossoms, golden winter jasmine flowers, pink and white pear blossoms, and each plant was colorful and colorful, fluttering in the wind like competing for beauty, and it seemed like a valley. The decoration looks like a paradise.

Just separated by an earth beam, it can be said that there are two heavens of ice and fire.

Looking up and looking around, the sky and the earth in the left hand are so vast that it makes people think of the vastness and majesty of the desert.

But looking down at the valley, there is a gentle and moving Jiangnan. A small stream like Bailian is embedded in the sea of ​​green trees and flowers, and finally hidden behind the green hillside, like a dream.

"This, this, there is such a scene here!" The old man couldn't believe his eyes a little bit, and after rubbing, he was shocked and speechless as he looked at the completely different scenery on both sides.

Just when the old man was about to say something, he looked up and saw seven or eight large tractors moving on the slope, and the huge iron plow hanging from the back of the tractor dragged out a road farther along the valley. Parallel ditches.A piece of dark loess was left behind, and the turned and unturned loess showed completely different colors.

The driver master said: "There is plowing over there. This year, Sijiaping Village is going to do a big job. It will cost a lot of money just to hire these tractors for a week. Alas, it is a pity that I am not from Sijiaping Village. ".

Speaking of this, the driver could not help but feel a little lost.

(End of this chapter)