Chapter 322 The Uncanny Workmanship of Nature
While Gu Siwei was waiting to see how Sicui got up, Sicui began to give orders to the grass flowers and cubes on the tugboat.
"Flower, square, go, go over there!"
Sicui stretched out his hand and pointed.
Caohua and the direction were immediately understood, and they dragged the boat towards the mountain to the west of Ghost Face Cliff.
When they arrived at the river bank, Gu Siwei was wondering. Sicui had already started to carry a small basket on his back. He looked like he was about to get off the boat.
Before the basket could be carried on his back, Hu Yanping stretched out his hand to snatch it and put it on his back.
Sicui stretched out her hand to grab the basket: "No, it's dangerous to walk on this road. It's not safe for you to carry this, so I'll do it."
How could Hu Yanping be willing to do it? He directly said: "No, no, I will carry it."
When Gu Siwei saw it, he could only say: "You two, stop fighting, Sicui, let Yan Ping carry it."
Only then did Sicui let go of his hand.
"Lead the way" Gu Siwei also put his own basket on his back and said to Sicui who had already got off the boat.
Sicui smiled and pointed her finger: "No need to lead the way, just follow this trail, there is no other way."
Hearing what the girl said, Gu Siwei stretched out his head to take a look, and found out that in the middle of a group of small shrubs, there was a trail that seemed to be someone coming out.
"You are really capable, you can even find places like this."
Gu Siwei now really admired his sister and daughter-in-law. Look at this place. People like him didn't even know there was a cheat, but they could actually find it.
Sicui didn't take any credit after hearing this, she just opened her mouth and said with a smile: "How did we know this way? Grandpa Tao Yisheng didn't tell us."
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Now Gu Siwei understood. After thinking about it, he figured it out. Except for himself and Tao Yisheng, most people really didn't have such ability. When ordinary people passed this river, they would probably be dumbfounded by the scenery on both sides.
, where is the time to care whether this place is right or not?
Only people who often move on cliffs, such as Gu Siwei and Tao Yisheng, can discover it.
In fact, this is what people like Gu Siwei, who are willing to flatter themselves, think so. The real situation is that only mountain herb collectors like Tao Yisheng know many things that others don't know.
Now that Gu Siwei saw Tao, he was the first to get in.
The shrubs grow very tightly. The good thing is that there are no thorns on the branches and leaves of these things. The bad thing is that they are too dense. From time to time, they will scratch the clothes and sometimes even scratch the skin.
Walking up this trail, the road is not straight, but winding and winding. Half of the trail requires climbing with both hands and feet, and the slope is more than 60 degrees.
Originally, I saw that the level difference between the cliff and the water was only five or six meters high, but now I found that Gu Siwei's estimate was a bit too optimistic, and the road was also ups and downs.
Just when Gu Siwei was about to ask Sicui how long it would take to arrive, Gu Siwei discovered a mountain similar to a cave.
"You can see it if you drill through it," Sicui said.
Gu Siwei was really curious. The cave was not high. Gu Siwei couldn't straighten his back when he entered. When he stood at the door, he couldn't see the river, but he could already hear the sound of flowing water in the river.
There is almost a big fold in the entire cave. Gu Siwei felt that it was Z-shaped. The cave was not long, only about twenty steps. After passing two folds, he suddenly saw the entrance of the cave.
bright.
Standing at the entrance of the cave, Gu Siwei looked at the scene he saw and couldn't help but admire: "Nature is so miraculous."
If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, it would be hard for Gu Siwei to believe that such a place was actually formed by nature.
Gu Siwei saw his ducks and geese. These guys were crowded together on a platform that protruded from the mountain.
The platform is not very wide, but it is not very narrow either. The widest part is about one meter and a half wide, and the narrowest part is only forty to fifty centimeters. People can get by if they are careful.
The best thing is that the outer edge of the platform is relatively high, while the inner edge is relatively low. In this case, even if ducks and geese lay eggs on the edge, they are not afraid of the eggs rolling into the river, because the eggs can only roll inward, not out.
, this is the result of strictly observing the principle of gravity.
Now there are a lot of eggs on the table, the big ones are goose eggs, and the smaller ones are duck eggs. Gu Siwei took a rough look and found that there must be at least more than a hundred eggs.
Of course, in addition to the eggs, there were also geese and ducks incubating the eggs. These guys were quite vigilant. When they saw Hu Yanping starting to quack, they started quacking loudly.
"So many?" Gu Siwei laughed.
Sicui said: "There's not much here. It's only such a small amount. Maybe some lazy guys laid their eggs in the grass. And some of these eggs were not laid in the past two days. Weren't they kept for hatching? So at least three
More than ten eggs have been left here, and some of the geese and ducks in the family did not fly back home at night..."
Sicui felt that there were a little few eggs here, and after looking at them, she said, "I want to see who laid the eggs in the grass!"
Gu Siwei didn't respond. He squatted down with a smile on his face, carefully climbed onto the cliff platform, and began to pick up eggs from his backpack.
At this time, Hu Yanping followed Gu Siwei's example and squatted down, but he was behind Gu Siwei, so there was nowhere for him to pick up the eggs, so Hu Yanping complained after a while.
"Brother-in-law, can you make way, you have picked up all the eggs, what should I pick up?" Hu Yanping said.
Gu Siwei smiled and said: "There are only so many eggs in total. My basket is not full of them, so don't follow me."
"Then I came here in vain?" Hu Yanping was a little unhappy.
Gu Siwei ignored him and continued to collect eggs.
Sicui said from behind: "Brother, don't pick up all the eggs. You have to look at some eggs that may be about to hatch into ducks and goslings. Don't pick up these eggs."
Gu Siwei said: "Then you should pick it up, I don't know how to tell the difference."
Sicui said: "There is nothing difficult to distinguish. Just hold the egg to the sun and take a look."
When Gu Siwei heard that it was so simple, he took an egg and pointed it at the sun, but he saw nothing and his eyes were blurred.
When Sicui saw it, she thought, okay, she had to do this by herself, so she first recruited Hu Yanping back, and then asked Gu Siwei to come back. Only then did she go from being the last to become the first platoon soldier.
In the end, the fact is that Sicui is still the one picking the eggs, and she can only pick them up. Although the place is big enough for people to live in, there is no way, there are geese and ducks hatching eggs on the table.
Sicui is also very sensible. She picked up the eggs that the ducks and geese didn't care about. After picking them up, she would take a look at them. If there were no problems, she would put them in the basket. If there were any problems, she would put them back in their original positions.
If you pass by ducks and geese, you will also feed them some food you brought.
Gu Siwei waited for his sister to crawl over, and then crawled back again. He found that the girl's knees were white and green, obviously she had rubbed duck and goose droppings.
This is unavoidable. If you think it's dirty, then you have no choice but not to pick up the eggs.
However, when doing farm work, you will inevitably encounter these people who poop and pee. People who are too clean are not suitable for rural life.
"Let's go back and take a look in the grass on the other side to see which lazy guy laid an egg in the grass," Sicui said.
Gu Siwei was not qualified to mention anything now, so he just obeyed the girl's arrangement, so Hu Yanping in the back row became the front row, Gu Siwei was in the middle, and Sicui was at the bottom. The three of them returned to the place where the boat was tied up.
We got on the boat and went directly to the opposite side.
The mountains on the opposite side are relatively gentle. The area near the water is about ten acres, and it is full of long grass. This area is soaked in water during the rainy season, and when the water is wet, it will emerge from the water.
, and it is precisely because of this that a lot of nutrients have accumulated in this place, including some blind fish and shrimps that did not run away when they emerged from the water, and rotted here and became fat.
If the ground is fertilized, the grass will naturally grow well.
If the grass is good, there will naturally be herbivorous things. It is a bit difficult to think of wild sheep and other things here, because there are three quiet walls and one river. As for large beasts, it is even less likely to come, so this place has become an ideal place for some water birds.
Habitat.
Gu Siwei and the others climbed up the cliff, but before they had taken a few steps, Hu Yanping started shouting.
"There is a bird's nest here." Hu Yanping pushed aside the grass and pointed out the bird's nest he found to Gu Siwei and Sicui, with a look of excitement on his face when he pointed it out.
Gu Siwei took a look and didn't recognize any bird's nest. Sicui seemed to recognize it, so she stretched her head and took a look before explaining to Hu Yanping.
"This is the nest of Xiaoshan Claw. It is a beneficial bird. It specializes in eating pests on trees. Don't step on the nest," Sicui said.
Hu Yanping said: "This bird is called Xiaoshanzhao? What is its scientific name?"
Sicui said: "How do I know this? When the older generation taught me, they called me Xiaoshanzhao. If you go back to the village and ask them, they will also tell you that it is called Xiaoshanzhao."
"It's definitely not called this. It's not called this as its scientific name. How unpleasant it sounds." Hu Yanping felt that the name was a bit bad and too vulgar.
After hearing this, Sicui immediately retorted: "What's wrong? It's so good, Xiaoshan Claw!"
Gu Siwei suddenly felt that it was a bit like two children saying goodbye, but he didn't want to talk to them. Children will definitely grind their teeth when they are together, not to mention that it is usually the brother-in-law who grinds his teeth, not his sister, so he
not worried.
Walking forward, Gu Siwei found a goose egg. It was obviously a goose egg because it had no nest and it was quite big. Except for geese, other waterfowl here seemed to be unable to lay such large eggs.
, most waterfowl are probably not as big as this egg.
"I saw one".
Gu Siwei picked it up, shook it towards Sicui and put it in the basket behind him.
Sicui said: "Take a look."
"You read it and put it back?"
"Don't put it here, put it where it was just now, find something that is hatching and put it in, they will hatch," Sicui said.
Gu Siwei then decided to learn this method of looking at eggs from his sister.
Just when Gu Siwei was about to take the egg in his hand to Sicui and ask questions, suddenly a screaming thing rushed towards him.
A big goose!
No, it’s a swan goose!
Chapter completed!