Farmer's Ruyi Manor

Chapter 4 Catching Pheasants at the Foot of the Mountain (2)
So he stood up, thumped his waist, and then looked around, maybe he could get something back.There is a small river next to the foot of the mountain, which is probably left from the top of the mountain. The spring is on the mountain. Generally, this kind of water is sweeter.

When I was in elementary school, I liked to run up the hills to pick all kinds of wild fruits. When I was thirsty, I would find a small hole where water would emerge and drink water with both hands.The water is really sweet, I don’t know how much better than the current tap water. Later, when I grew up a little bit, I realized that the hole where the water leaked was a spring, and the water in my uncle’s house was brought home from the spring on the mountain. .

The dense weeds and some unknown small trees growing beside the small river, for Xiao Ting, who can't tell the difference, are green weeds and trees. As for the grass and the trees, I really don't know.Xiao Ting knows that spring is the time when all things recover, maybe chickens will hatch eggs, and there may be pheasants.

When chickens hatch their eggs, they usually nest there and don't go anywhere. Relatively speaking, pheasants may be the same as domestic chickens, she guessed.Domestic chickens are very territorial. They usually go out to look for food during the day and go home at night. If other chickens invade, they will drive them away. They are prone to fights. When I was young, I often saw chickens fighting, and many of the chickens lost their hair.

Xiao Ting thought that maybe she could catch a pheasant and go home, she really wanted to eat meat.But in the absence of anything, how can we catch pheasants?This is a difficult problem.I remember that I used to read books that put wine in the food of the chickens, and the pheasants would get drunk after eating, so it was easy to catch; some said to use sound to trap; and it was said that the eyesight of the pheasants was not very good before dawn. , easy to catch.However, according to the current situation, these three scenarios are unlikely to be realized.

First of all, there is nothing at home, let alone alcohol; second, the sound traps, we don’t have that condition; third, it’s very bright now, and I looked up at the sky, it was about 10 o’clock in the morning, and my eyesight was good.It is estimated that everyone has gone out to look for food now, and it is really difficult to find it.Besides, the pheasant can fly.

Xiao Ting thought about using a rope to wrap the pheasant's feet, but the rope can be twisted, the key is that after the rope is made, it is not very good at how to do it.What about using a basket of wild vegetables?Xiao Ting glanced at the basket in her hand. In fact, it can be called a flat bamboo dustpan in modern rural areas, but I just made something that can be carried at both ends of the dustpan.But this dustpan has an advantage. When I was a child, I used it to catch fish in the river, and it was very easy to use.But no matter what, you shouldn't think about fishing at the moment, let's do it secretly later.

I remember that when I was a child, Lu Xun wrote about catching birds in his article "Young Runtu". , just pull the rope tied to the stick from a distance, and the bird will be covered under the bamboo plaque."

So is it possible to use a similar method now?So Xiao Ting quickly found some longer and more resilient grass.When it was pulled out again, even the earthworm was pulled out, Xiao Ting burst into tears in fright, and instantly hated the whole world.Since she was a child, she has been afraid of such soft things. She knows that earthworms are beneficial insects and will not bite people, but she is afraid, as long as they are soft things, she is afraid.

I remember when I was in college, the rain would not stop in the spring. At the end of spring and the beginning of summer, there would always be earthworms crawling out of the lawn on the campus, and every time it scared her, she screamed loudly.But my girlfriends always complain that I wasn't scared, but you were scared.Whenever this happens, Xiao Ting always feels wronged, it's really not bad for her, she didn't mean to be afraid.

Just when Xiao Ting felt that the whole world abandoned her, resented this inexplicable world, and even hated God who brought her to this inexplicable world, she thought of the so-called home she came to this world, and the food she ate during this time The color of the things and the clothes on her body could not be seen, and after the rags were patched, she cried and greeted the whole family, and wanted to cry out all her grievances and dissatisfaction.The whole two eyes are red and thumping like a rabbit.

After crying for a long time, she became thirsty and her stomach growled, reminding Xiaoting that if she wants to eat delicious food, she must do it herself.

So she sorted out her emotions, and spent about [-] minutes rubbing the rope for more than two meters, and then stopped. Looking at the red palm, she felt a burning pain.When I came to this strange world, it was not easy to twist the rope, and I was very inexperienced. I guess when I was stupid, I didn't do anything, and I couldn't do it, so my hands were not very flexible.

Xiao Ting quickly poured out the wild vegetables in the basket, and tied one end of the rope to the basket.After searching for a long time in the weeds by the river, I saw a few places similar to bird nests, Xiao Ting's eyes lit up instantly, there were actually pheasant eggs, haha, so handsome, so lucky, I found several nests Xiao Ting almost couldn't help laughing out loud when she picked out more than a dozen or less eggs. She was so lucky. Even if she couldn't catch a pheasant, she didn't have to worry about her 2-year-old brother being undernourished. And become mentally handicapped.

Xiao Ting didn't see a single pheasant at the moment, and probably went out to look for food.The mother goes out to look for food, and may also come back to hug the nest. , although she knew that brooding chickens would never leave their eggs, and they could only be fed, but who knew if it would be the same here, forget it, even if they went out to look for food, they would come back, she thought about it, maybe That's right.Xiao Ting compared the several nests just now, and finally set up a branch on a place that looked slightly larger than the other nests, and when she buckled the basket, she knew that she had made a mistake. Two.

That rope should not be tied to the basket, it should be tied to the branch.The good thing is that the basket she is holding now is a bit similar to the dustpan that was covered with bamboo in the countryside when I was a child.Then when the time comes, gently pull the branch, and the semicircular dustpan (basket) will automatically buckle down. It is made of bamboo, and the weight is not very light.Maybe you can actually catch one.

When Xiao Ting found out that she committed a crime, she was a little speechless and embarrassed. In her heart, she would never think that it was her fault.Then he quickly untied the rope, tied the rope to the branch, fastened the basket to the branch again, and gently inserted the numbers into the soil above the nest, and pulled the rope to hide about two meters away. Watching from a distance.For the convenience of watching, we moved the weeds and the like two meters away to the side, so as to make a way for easy viewing.

Just as her legs and feet were numb, she found a pheasant with a white mouth, a red-black head, a blue neck, and a long tail slowly walking towards the nest.Before that, Xiao Ting was afraid that the pheasant would find that the eggs in the nest were gone and would become vigilant, so she put back a few more eggs from that nest.

(End of this chapter)