Chapter 114 The beauty of life
"Chenga, the birds won't catch them... it's time to...
Gu Heju almost understood Xu Chen's intention at this time and couldn't help but remind him.
After waiting for more than an hour, the trap was destroyed twice in succession and the birds were scared away. I guess this method should be useless.
Xu Chen got up with a twitching face.
At the same time, his stubborn temperament was also aroused.
If it weren't for a group of long-legged cranes making trouble, they might have a chance to succeed.
And he firmly believed that his plan was feasible.
Although these birds from the primitive period were more vigilant, they were far less likely to contact animals and humans after the population explosion in that era, so their vigilance was obviously much worse. At least these cranes just ate all the fish that were clothed as bait.
The wild duck is small in size and must get in if you want to eat it, then the opportunity will come.
So under Xu Chen's command, Gu Heju and his wife used weeds to penetrate more than ten small fish and shrimps, and then changed their positions to continue setting up traps.
This time I waited longer. After the three of them hid for half a small amount, some water birds flew over to find food one after another.
Perhaps because of the first two times, there were very few long-legged cranes, and many of them fell one after another, including wild ducks and geese. Gradually, the river berth began to become lively again.
Several wild ducks discovered the fish and shrimps under the trap and began to observe them.
Xu Chen suddenly became nervous and excited.
It has been two hours since I left the house, and I have no chance to take action.
But now the opportunity seems to have come.
Several wild ducks circled around the trap for several times, probably not finding any danger. Finally, one of them couldn't help but get in and eat it. While eating, they also called to greet their companions, so the remaining few wild ducks also followed them in.
Wild ducks flapping their wings in the distance kept rushing towards them.
When he said that, Xu Chen pulled his hand hard, and as the long rope suddenly bounced from the aquatic plants, the moment the short stick flew off, a huge vine basket was covered.
A wild duck escaped under the vine basket, but a few of them were covered in it, flapping their wings and shaking in fear.
"Boom~~"
The sudden change made the entire river berth look like a blasting nest in an instant.
Hundreds of wild birds of all sizes were singing and flying in shock.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Almost the moment the vine basket fell, Xu Chen had already stood up from the grass, rushed into the water like a rabbit and pressed it tightly.
“Wow~”
Gu Heju and the others exclaimed at the same time. After a moment of staying up, they rushed out of the grass. They jumped up and held the vine basket down, and their bodies were trembling slightly with excitement.
The long wait finally yielded results.
Several wild ducks were still struggling and shouting under the vine basket, but they could not shake the vine basket at all.
The three of them didn't let go, and pressed it for more than ten minutes. After the wild ducks inside finally exhausted their strength, they slowly calmed down. Then Xu Chen ordered Gu to take back the rope, then lifted the vine basket, reached in and grabbed a wild duck, folded the wings and tied them with a rope.
Then the method was done, and soon all the wild ducks inside were caught and tied up in a bunch.
There are five in total, all of them are mallards.
“Gagahahaha…”
The caught wild duck struggled and cried in horror.
“Gagahahaha…”
Gu Heju each grabbed two wild ducks, laughing so hard that he howled.
Xu Chen also grabbed a smile in his hand and couldn't stop smiling. He stroked the soft and smooth feathers of the wild duck with his hands, feeling a kind of happiness in life.
The five people were caught at once, which was much beyond his hunting plan.
According to his idea, the wild duck was large and probably could catch one or two at most at a time.
But unexpectedly, these wild ducks were much less vigilant than he thought.
Although he ran a few, he was already very satisfied.
If he hadn't rushed up fast enough, the vine basket would have been overturned by these wild ducks, and that would have been wasted another vain.
"Go away, get home after work!"
This success has greatly frightened the birds, and the chances of continuing to go offline are very low. In addition, if these wild ducks are caught, they have to find a place to raise them. After the duck cage is ready, they will take it slowly. If there is a stable supply of poultry and eggs, the five ducks are obviously not enough.
Soon the three of them packed up and left the river bay, happily carrying a few clamoring wild ducks back home.
The river bay became quiet, and after a long time, water birds slowly fell down to find food.
Mother Ba and a group of women were sitting in the yard basking in the sun and spinning and weaving cloth.
Last autumn and winter, hundreds of kilograms of coarse hemp were harvested several times.
The most primitive spindles have extremely slow spinning speed. A person can only spin half a pound of them in a day, and weaving them even slower.
More than twenty women had to take care of everyone eating, drinking, defecating, and collecting food. There was little work in winter. For a period of time, the yield was pretty good. They accumulated dozens of pieces of cloth and spun hundreds of kilograms of twine.
But since I moved to the foot of the mountain, I have more things to do, such as cleaning up the houses, weaving straw mats, and clearing land and farming. In addition, food is lacking in spring, women spend more time collecting wild vegetables to ensure food supply, so the time for spinning and weaving is even more scattered.
However, the yard and houses have been almost cleaned up recently, and the farmland has been removed once, and I have been a little more leisurely, so a group of women have begun to seize the time to spin and weave cloth again.
However, if you want to weave all the hundreds of kilograms of coarse hemp into cloth, you will probably have to be busy for a long time.
A group of women were talking and laughing at work, but suddenly they heard a quarrel outside the door, and then the little wolf also started to scream. Just as they were surprised, they saw Xu Chen and the other two coming in wet. Apart from the vine net they were carrying, each of them was still holding a few quarrels of wild ducks in their hands.
"Bird gaga!"
Seeing the three people returning home with a load, a group of women were surprised and happy. Someone quickly threw the spindle in his hand and came to help catch the wild duck.
The two men who were weaving baskets also lost their work in surprise and looked strange.
In the morning, Xu Chen carried a vine basket and said he wanted to go out to catch birds. They thought Xu Chen was just bored and fun, but they didn't expect that in less than half a day, they actually caught a few wild ducks.
The duck is the name Fang Yun gave to this kind of water bird with a flat beak and short legs.
In the past, they all called Bird Gaga.
However, since Xu Chen started to touch bird eggs, these wild birds began to have new names. The long-legged ones are called cranes and the long-necked ones are called geese. But that's all. Xu Chen just made a rough difference based on his body shape characteristics. It is impossible to teach them the subdivided names of the bastard geese and mallard ducks. Anyway, they are all birds, and they are all meat when eaten, so there is no need to divide them so clearly.
Just like fish, all fish are called fish, only the size is different, no name is different.
"I'll kill you!"
The man with tools was enthusiastic about untiing the rope and wanted to help slaughter.
Xu Chen quickly threw the vine basket to protect the duck and said, "You can't kill it, raise it!"
So all men and women became quiet.
Xu Chen raises horses, wolves and monkeys.
It is indeed a bit interesting to raise these little animals, but they are just fun. It’s okay to say that the pony only needs to eat grass, but the little wolf and monkeys eat food like humans every day, especially a group of monkeys, with more than ten large and small, and consume at least five adults’ food every day. They also get angry if the food is bad.
Although it would be enough to beat a few times, it was still annoying. It was useless to keep food and waste it.
Now that the food is scarce, Xu Chen wants to raise wild ducks.
These wild ducks still have to eat food every day, and mainly fish and shrimps. So, in the future, people will have to be arranged to go to the river to catch fish and shrimps to feed them every day.
"Chenga, don't raise gha!" an older woman reminded worriedly.
"Moga Moga!"
All the women nodded and agreed.
Even Ye was confused, and his little head was like a chicken pecking at rice.
The little wolf and monkey are still useful in the end. They can help you see the yard and even occasionally help you get some things.
But these ducks seem to have nothing to do except clamor during meetings.
In addition, wild duck meat is much better than fish.
I have eaten fish every day recently, and these ducks look so fat...
Although I slept with Xu Chen for a night last night, my savage little cousin's heart was completely healed.
However, it is really useless to raise ducks, so it is better to eat them.
Chapter completed!