Dashan Makes a Living 1984 Chapter 149

  Chapter 149 146: Hanging nets to slaughter birds

  Wang Tianxiao quickly adjusted after experiencing the depression at the beginning.

  He is the leader here, and he often tells himself that other people can be depressed, but he can't, otherwise everyone's energy will be lost, and they will not be so motivated to do things.

   "Haha, don't worry everyone, it's just a flock of birds, we living people can still be scared to death by these little house sparrows."

   "Boss, those are not small house sparrows. They are cunning, just like being organized and disciplined. We can't do anything about them. They play us around."

   "Haha, yes, it's so powerful."

  Wang Tianxiao couldn't help laughing at Mi Xiaoqing's aggrieved look. Looking at her, he thought someone bullied her.

"Boss, I really can't ignore it. These birds like to come here in groups. If this group tastes the sweetness, I'm afraid they will bring more groups after a while, and we will really have nothing to eat by then." Soon."

  Wu Wenhua said worriedly beside him.

"Ok, I know."

  Wang Tianxiao signaled everyone to wash up first, eat later, and he will come to find a solution about the bird issue.

  Everyone has no choice but to disperse separately, but their emotions are still not high.

  Wang Tianxiao continued to wait for Liu Yuan at the mountain pass.

  Liu Yuan and Wang Tianxin went to the mountain to collect the cage in the morning. They went there for about two hours, and they should be back soon.

   Sure enough, a few minutes later, figures of an old man and a young man appeared on the mountain road.

  Two snakeskin bags, one big and one small, Liu Yuan carried the big one, and Wang Tianxin carried the small one. The two came back against the sun, talking and laughing, very much like the cowboys returning from hunting in movies.

   From a distance, Wang Tianxin waved to Wang Tianxiao, and Wang Tianxiao also waved back a few times.

  Now under his guidance, Wang Tianxin is much more stable, and the relationship between the two has also been greatly improved. He can basically be sure that Wang Tianxin will not walk on the old path before.

   is considered a good progress.

   "Brother, look, today's harvest is good, there are a total of sixteen rabbits, and two pheasants, you say these guys, why can't they be caught forever?"

  Wang Tianxin shook the backpack behind him enthusiastically, showing the results to Wang Tianxiao.

   "What is this? It's winter, and it's relatively rare. When spring comes next year, there will be people running all over the mountains and plains. If you want to catch them, you can catch them from morning to night."

   "It's not interesting to catch rabbits all the time. When you can get a pig egg like you, that will be exciting."

  Pig egg is a name for wild boar here.

  Actually, this appellation was originally used for male wild boars that were about two years old, but as it became more and more used, people no longer carefully distinguished them, so they habitually barked.

  The last time Wang Tianxiao met that wild boar was purely accidental, and the wild boar was injured, so it was much simpler.

   If you really want to hunt wild boars, it is not as difficult as him, but you must prepare in advance.

  Wang Tianxiao has no plans to hunt wild boars right now. He will be more confident in preparing things to hunt wild boars after he is done with all the tasks in his hands and will not be idle.

  He smiled and said to his younger brother that he needed to hone his internal skills. With the current three-legged cat's ability, not to mention hunting a wild boar, he might not be able to catch a small roe deer even if he put a small roe deer in the wild.

  Wang Tianxin still felt that he was underestimated, slightly unconvinced.

   "Okay, okay, Tianxin, you take the wild things to the warehouse, Uncle Liu and I have something to talk about."

   "Okay."

  Wang Tianxin took the things on Liu Yuan's back, and walked towards the warehouse one by one.

  Liu Yuan took out the smoke pot from his waist, sat cross-legged on the boulder, knocked the soot, and asked with a smile, "What's wrong, you're going to arrange work for me again?"

   "Haha, you always look at me like that. How dare I arrange work for you. I have something to ask you."

   "Looking at you like this, there is nothing good. Tell me, let me hear what it is first."

   "It's like this. When Lao Wu and the others came back just now, they said that some birds came from the mountains recently and ate up the seeds we had so hard to sow. Look, what can we do to solve this problem?"

   "Bird."

  Liu Yuan smiled, "Birds have to eat too. If you sprinkle it on the ground, you can't stop them from eating."

  Wang Tianxiao smiled wryly: "Uncle Liu, if we continue to eat like this, then we will be useless."

   "Then what do you want to do?"

Wang Tianxiao pondered for a moment, and said: "I still hope to focus on repelling the birds, but we can't take care of everything in such a large area of ​​the mountain. So after thinking about it, we should deal with the most troublesome group first. Dongbugu, as for other guys such as crows, blackbirds, and magpies, there is no need to pay special attention to them if they are not doing well for the time being."

   "That's right," Liu Yuan took a puff of smoke, and comfortably exhaled the thick smoke, which was scattered on the mountain road by the wind. "Dongbugu is the most troublesome, and you can't catch it all."

   "Tell me, if we make a trap, how about hanging a net?"

  Liu Yuan glanced at Wang Tianxiao, and asked lightly: "Do you really want to hang up the net?"

  Wang Tianxiao thought for a while, then nodded: "Let's hang it up for a while, there is no other way for now. After the group of winter cuckoos are gone, our seeds will basically go underground, so we can just remove the net."

  Wang Tianxiao knew why Liu Yuan asked.

  It is indeed a cruel thing to hang a net.

   For birds.

  This involves a very tangled issue, whether birds are considered enemies of humans.

  For human beings, birds are insignificant and will not cause any harm to the human body, so it is said that birds are friends of human beings in later generations.

   But at the same time, this kind of winter resident bird does not hibernate, and it needs a lot of food supplements. Once human food or other crops are swept away by them, they will indirectly harm people's interests.

   Therefore, people in the mountains have a vague attitude towards birds.

  Generally, they do not deliberately kill, but they do not indulge blindly.

  For rarer birds, rangers not only cannot hunt, but also have the duty to protect them.

   It's like the bustard I met in Meridian Ridge.

  If anyone encounters a bustard and is hunted down, he is a prisoner.

   There are also some birds, although they do not need protection and are not rare, but people generally do not hunt them, such as owls and kestrels.

  Because their food is basically all kinds of rodents and small birds, there is no conflict with humans, and even has an indirect protective function for human interests to a certain extent.

  The remaining birds depend on what to eat.

   Birds that eat insects will also not be hunted by people in the mountains.

   Only those birds that eat food or grass seeds, humans will find ways to hunt and kill them every year.

   Lightly use a slingshot, or a bird cage, or even a house cat to hunt and kill.

   Serious cases, hanging nets or poisoning.

  Poisoning means direct spraying of pesticides.

  Pesticides in the early years were relatively poisonous. They were usually mixed with seeds, and often decomposed during a growing season. By the time of harvest, the decomposition was basically complete.

but…

   is not absolute either.

  Because there are so many people who have been injured by pesticide residues, the use of many highly toxic pesticides was abolished later.

  The use of pesticides may not only cause harm to the human body, but also easily cause a huge impact on the surrounding ecology.

For example, if rodents and birds in the field eat poisonous seeds, they will be poisoned to death in the ground, and weasels or large birds that eat them will also be poisoned to death because they eat them, so they will be poisoned to death. A huge toxic death chain is formed.

   This situation continued until the development of less toxic pesticides in the later stage, and then it was effectively resolved. For many years in between, many birds in the mountains were completely extinct due to the existence of pesticides.

  If pesticides are chemical or biological damage, then hanging nets is a physical massacre.

  The so-called hanging net is to hang a very thin net on the path where birds often fly.

  Because the eyesight of birds is generally not very good, they may be able to see things that are moving all the time, but for very fine wire nets, they can't see clearly at high speed, and they often hit the net directly and get caught.

   In panic, they will struggle more and more tightly, until finally they are completely tied tightly and become a mummy on the Internet.

  In later years, this kind of netting was illegal, but it was still repeatedly banned.

  The reason is very simple, because the relevant departments cannot judge the motive of hanging the net.

  Many people who hang nets think that they are just using nets to isolate their own land, not for netting birds, so they have little responsibility for them.

   In the end, it is a big deal to remove the net, and generally there will be no punishment.

  In this era, there is no control over hanging nets. In many cases, the law has not even noticed the stage where birds need to be protected. In addition, birds in this era are generally still infested, and there are so many of them that there is no place to go without protection.

   Seeing that Wang Tianxiao had made up his mind, Liu Yuan nodded and said, "That's fine, just hang it up and have a look. But the whole mountain is so big, how are you going to stop it?"

  Wang Tianxiao smiled, "I have my own way."

   Unlike the good industrial production in later generations, the productivity in this era is weak, and it is very difficult to find large-scale bird nets. Therefore, it is destined not to block the net like the traditional way, and one block is several hundred meters.

  The method Wang Tianxiao adopts is not so much hanging nets as laying nets.

   More like a bird trap.

  Because there is no place that sells this kind of net in the town, Wang Tianxiao plans to go to the city to look for it tomorrow, and send the wild thing to Wenyuan Hotel by the way.

  In the afternoon, he went to the field with others to check, and found that those white winter cuckoos were really annoying. Relying on his flexibility, he played a game of chasing and running with people.

  Although there are some slow-moving ones in the process, they will be caught by the dogs and killed directly.

It is not easy for dogs to catch birds, but the dogs in the mountains run very fast, and there are too many birds, they are often disturbed and take off together, which affects the speed of take-off and gives the dogs a chance to fly. Take advantage of this opportunity.

  Because Dafeng hurt his body last time, he was not fully recovered yet, so he was locked in the station and was not let out. Only Dahei and Aying ran outside.

  The two dogs seem to have developed some subtle feelings. They both smell each other's buttocks. Wang Tianxiao reckons that it won't be long before the second generation of dogs in Changzhan will be born.

  Dog Ding is thriving, which is also something he likes to see.

  Like a thriving deer.

  Lying on the kang at night, chatting with Li Yali about what happened recently, and talking about her son's full moon.

  My son, Wang Peng, is already twenty-seven days old today, and the full moon will be three days away.

   Qingcheng regards the child's full moon as a very solemn event, almost on the same level as weddings and funerals, or even more grand than marrying a daughter, to put it bluntly.

  (end of this chapter)

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