pasture leisure

Chapter 482
Zhang Chi was about to go back to the house, and just as he hung up the banner, he saw his sister running back with Xiao Pao.

"Why are you back?" Zhang Chi asked.

Sun Yanping was working there, and when he saw his wife came back, he immediately turned around and blocked his workbench with his body.

But Zhang Juan didn't come back to kill the carbine. Now she looked happy and shouted to her brother: "Come out and see, there are many birds in the pasture. Now the end of pests is here."

Zhang Chi's heart skipped a beat when he heard this.

"A bird is coming? What kind of bird?" Zhang Chi asked while walking towards the door.

Zhang Juan said: "Little bird, a bit like a little magpie...".

On Zhang Chi's side, his steps towards the outside became faster.

Sun Yanping was also curious. He also felt that his brother-in-law's expression was a bit uneasy. In his opinion, it was a good thing to have a large flock of birds appearing in the pasture. Birds eat insects, and eating up all the insects in the pasture is not a good thing. ?

With this question in mind, Sun Yanping put down his work, and walked out of the tool warehouse with his brother-in-law.

When he came to the door, Zhang Chi looked at the sky, and soon found that not far away, there was a cloud of 'grey smoke' drifting slowly above the grove.

Soon another cloud of light smoke rose from the woods, but this one was very small and light in color.

These are birds that originally lived in the woods, and they are dealing with intruders together.

It's a pity that these birds are not the opponents of the invaders at all, whether it is the size, the size of the flock, or the fighting power of the individual, they are not the opponents of the outsiders.

After a few touches, the birds in the woods immediately started to scramble, and they knew at a glance that they had been beaten to pieces and defeated.

"What kind of bird is this?" Sun Yanping also felt that something was wrong.

Zhang Chi said: "I don't know what the scientific name is, but these people call them European gray finch."

"Pest birds?" Sun Yanping asked again.

Zhang Chi said: "What kind of thing is harmful if it is not harmful in large quantities, not to mention this kind of bird, which always likes to flock in groups. They not only eat bugs, they also eat other birds' eggs, and the crops in the field , even grass seeds, and sometimes attack people. When they gather in flocks, the places they fly over must not be enough for all the birds to eat. So they were originally beneficial birds, but now they have become harmful birds.

These things swarm like locusts, and wherever they pass, as long as they can eat, there is nothing they don’t eat, and sometimes people are not spared.”

"eat human?"

"It's not cannibalism, it's pecking," Zhang Chi corrected his brother-in-law.

As he said that, Zhang Chi took out his mobile phone and began to notify Cannon.

As soon as Cannon answered the phone and heard Zhang Chi talking about it, he said: "These gray birds were also found in the pastures to the west, and I am preparing to catch them with the net here."

It is illegal to set a bird net, but when you encounter this kind of gray finches in the nearby pastures, you don't care whether it is illegal or not. Preventing them from harming your own farms and pastures is the most important thing.

Moreover, don't look at the fact that these birds are few, Zhang Chi has only seen this group so far, which spreads out to about ten square meters, but if you ignore them, the follow-up birds will come one after another, and by then it will be able to converge into a large number of birds. big group.

A few years ago, Zhang Chi once saw these birds forming a huge flock when delivering food. It felt like when you looked up, you didn’t see a flock of birds, but a cloud covering the sky. out of the sun.

And when the flock of birds flies not far above your head, the sound of the birds is like someone is by your side, scratching the glass with their fingernails.

Zi~zi~zi~!

Listening to it for too long can break your spirits.

"That's fine, I see, you can arrange it there," Zhang Chi said.

Seeing her younger brother put down the phone, Zhang Juan asked, "It's not illegal to catch birds here. We have already been punished for catching birds in our country."

"It doesn't work here, but it's more troublesome if you don't catch the birds. Many pastures here will catch them. If you don't catch them, this year's harvest will be useless," Zhang Chi said.

Zhang Chi's pasture is better. The farmers nearby must be in a terrible mood now, because at this moment, the crops in their fields are almost ready, and they can harvest in a dozen or 20 days.

If these gray sparrows are allowed to cause disaster, then their family will have to drink the northwest wind next.

Crack!Crack!Crack!Crack!
The flock of gray birds passed Zhang Chi's head at this moment, and the disturbing noise made Zhang Chi grin involuntarily.

"What kind of bird is this? It sounds so ugly."

Zhang Juan was quite happy at first, but she couldn't bear to hear the calls of these birds.

Zhang Chi said: "It's actually not unpleasant to sing individually, but when mixed together, as the number of groups grows, the sound becomes more and more unpleasant."

"Let's go, go into the house, don't pull you a bird's shit then." Zhang Chi said, and walked into the house first.

In the house, Zhang Chi continued to observe the group of gray sparrows, and saw them flying towards the house like a black net.

Zhang Chi hurriedly called Melika. He originally wanted to tell them not to come out at home, but when he called, he found out that Melika had also found this group of gray birds, and she had already made arrangements for them. .

Hearing what his wife said, Zhang Chi took Xiao Pao and his sister back to the house.

When they got home, Melika was standing on the porch with a telescope in her hand, continuing to observe the flock of gray finch.

"When did you get together?"

Seeing Zhang Chi approaching, Melika asked casually.

Just as Zhang Chi was about to answer, I didn't know, but the phone rang, and I picked it up to see that it was Miller calling. After answering the call, Miller was talking about the gray bird.

After Miller finished speaking, within a minute of hanging up, another phone rang again. It was Burris calling, still talking about the gray bird.

Everyone knows the dangers of gray sparrows, and they all understand that if they want to deal with this group of birds, it will definitely not work alone.

The reason is also very simple, think about it, your family catches birds, the neighbors do nothing, the birds are not stupid, they will definitely choose to fly to the neighbors.

Wait for the neighbor's house to catch it, and there is no movement on your side. Didn't the bird fly back again?

In this way, everyone has contributed, but the harm to the flock of birds is definitely not much, but if everyone in the whole town acts together, it will definitely be more effective than one family at a time.

That's what Burris meant when he called. Everyone acted in unison and set down the bird net together.

In fact, the most effective way is to poison, throwing poisonous bird food, attracting these ashes to eat, and then they will naturally lie down after eating.

But the disadvantage of this method is that not only gray finches eat, but also other birds or small animals, and even some children may eat these things by mistake.

So although this method is useful, almost no one uses it, because no matter whether it is a rancher or a farmer, who will poison their own place.

In the following time, Zhang Chi would receive a call from time to time, and the calls were all asking about the situation of the birds.

Zhang Chi quickly took his sister and brother-in-law with him. The three of them took the bird net together and looked for a place in the pasture to set up the bird net.

Surprised until it was almost dark, the three of Zhang Chi returned home.

Not long after arriving home, Zhang Jiaren and Zhang Youpeng also came back.

Obviously, the two of them were much more tired than the three of Zhang Chi.

"Master, you don't have to work so hard." Zhang Chi couldn't bear to see the tiredness on the old man's body, so he persuaded his grandfather and father.

Originally, I asked my family to come here to let the elders relax. Who knew that after coming here, grandpa and dad have been busy working on the ranch, and the cooking at home is done by grandma and mother. The real holiday is probably my sister. There are three people in this family.

"It's okay, if this person doesn't work, his whole body will rust. If you do some work, you can sleep well at night, that's all right, leave me alone." Zhang Jiaren smiled at his grandson.

Zhang Chi actually doesn’t understand. For Zhang Jiaren, life on the ranch is fresh now. He has also learned a lot from Cannon and other cowboys. Jiaren and Zhang Youpeng are happy.

Zhang Chi has no way to understand. Zhang Chi works hard, but his hard work does not mean that he likes to work hard, but that he has to work hard. If he has a choice, he would rather lie down all day and be served by someone than choose to deliver food .

But Zhang Jiaren and his father are different. They have worked hard all their lives, and they have already integrated work into their bodies. If they are free one day, and it is not the slack season, then they will be uneasy, and they always feel that this day is their own. not practical.

"Okay, don't worry about our affairs. Now your main task is to take care of Xiaomei. If something happens to my granddaughter, let's see if I don't take your skin off."

Zhang Youpeng said something to his son, then stretched out his hand and pulled it, signaling his son to stay away from his washbasin.

Zhang Chi had no choice but to walk away obediently when he saw it.

The dinner is very rich, the main food is meat, but it is not American style, but real Chinese stir-fry, such as stir-fried meat with celery, beef in sour soup, seven or eight big dishes filled the table.

For a long time, the people whose whole family has fallen into the meat pit have obviously reduced their consumption of meat. Even Xiao Xiao, who chanted slogans to eat meat at the beginning, doesn't like meat much now, especially beef. Whenever I want him to eat, Zhang Juan has to stare. It's not at all like when I first came here, I can't wait to sleep with a grilled steak.

After dinner, everyone was chatting and watching TV in the living room. Zhang Chi felt bored, so he simply went out of the house to see where he had put the bird net to see if there was nothing to gain.

Going to see it at this time is actually not very useful, because the birds will find a place to rest at night, and the gray finch is not a nocturnal bird, so looking at the bird net at this moment is actually Zhang Chi wanting to find something to do for himself.

When he came to the bird-catching net, Zhang Chi found that there were still some gray finches in the bird-catching net. The number was not large, but it was this small number that attracted some small animals to come and enjoy the delicious food, so that Zhang Chi Chi found that some gray finches had only some indigestible parts of their bodies left.

(End of this chapter)