Chapter 149 146: Hanging the Net to Kill the Birds

Wang Tianxiao quickly adjusted after experiencing the initial depression.

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

"Haha, don't worry, everyone, they are just a group of birds. We adults can still be scared to death by these little house sparrows."

"Boss, those are not some little house sparrows. They are cunning, just like they are organized and disciplined. There is nothing we can do about them. They are playing tricks on us."

"Haha, yes, so powerful."

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

"Boss, you really can't ignore it. These birds like to come in groups. If they get a taste of the sweetness from this group, I'm afraid it will bring more groups over time. By then, we will really have nothing to eat.

Soon."

Wu Wenhua said worriedly beside him.

"Ok, I know."

Wang Tianxiao motioned for everyone to go wash up first and eat later. Regarding the bird problem, he would figure out a solution later.

Everyone had no choice but to disperse, but the mood was still not high.

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

Liu Yuan and Wang Tianxin went to the mountains to collect cages in the morning. They have been there for about two hours and should be back soon.

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

There were two snakeskin bags, one big and one small. Liu Yuan was carrying a big one, and Wang Tianxin was carrying a small one. The two of them came back talking and laughing against the sunshine, just like the cowboys returning from hunting in the movies.

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

Now, under his guidance, Wang Tianxin is much more stable, and their relationship has been greatly improved. He is basically certain that Wang Tianxin will not go down the same old path as before.

This is a good progress.

"Brother, look, today's harvest is good. There are a total of sixteen rabbits and two pheasants. Why do you think we can never catch all of these guys?"

Wang Tianxin enthusiastically shook the backpack behind him and showed Wang Tianxiao the results.

"What does this mean? This is winter. There are quite a few of them. When spring comes next year, they will be running all over the mountains and plains. If you want to catch them, you can catch them from morning till night."

"It's no fun to catch rabbits all the time. When can I catch pig eggs like you, that will be exciting."

Pig eggs are a name people here give to wild boars.

In fact, this name was originally used for male wild boars that were about two years old, but gradually it was used too much, and people no longer took the distinction seriously, so they used to call it randomly.

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

If you really want to hunt a wild boar, it's not as difficult as him, but you have to be prepared in advance.

Wang Tianxiao has no plan to go hunting directly yet. Once he has finished all the things at hand, he has settled down completely, and then prepares things to hunt wild boars, he will be more confident and will not go in vain.

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

Wang Tianxin also felt that he had been looked down upon and was slightly unconvinced.

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

"Good."

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

Liu Yuan took out the cigarette pot from his waist, sat cross-legged on the boulder, and while smoking the ashes, he asked with a smile: "What's wrong, are you going to arrange work for me again?"

"Haha, you always look at me like this, how dare I arrange work for you? I have something to ask you for."

"Looking at you like this, nothing good can happen. Tell me. I'll hear what it is first."

"It's like this. Lao Wu and the others came back just now and said that some birds came to the mountains recently and ate up all the seeds we finally scattered. Let's see, what can we do to solve this problem?"

"Bird."

Liu Yuan smiled and said, "Birds also want to eat. If you scatter it on the ground, you can't stop them from eating it."

Wang Tianxiao smiled bitterly and said: "Uncle Liu, if we continue to eat like this, we will become white."

"Then what do you want to do?"

Wang Tianxiao pondered for a moment and said: "To deal with the birds, I still hope to focus on driving them away, but it is impossible for us to take care of every part of the entire mountain. So after thinking about it, we decided to deal with the most troublesome ones first.

Dongcuckoo, as for other things like crows, blackbirds, magpies, etc., they are not doing well for the time being, so there is no need to pay special attention to them."

"That's true," Liu Yuan took a puff of cigarette and exhaled the thick smoke comfortably, which was blown by the wind on the mountain road. "Dongbugu is the most troublesome, and there is no way to catch it."

"Tell me, what if we make a trap and hang a net?"

Liu Yuan glanced at Wang Tianxiao and asked calmly: "Do you really want to hang up the Internet?"

Wang Tianxiao thought for a while and nodded: "Let's hang it for a while. There is no other way for now. After these winter cuckoos leave and all our seeds have basically gone underground, we can just remove the net."

Wang Tianxiao knew why Liu Yuan asked.

It is indeed a cruel thing to hang up the net.

For birds.

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

For humans, birds are insignificant and will not cause any harm to the human body, so later generations have said that birds are humans' friends.

But similarly, these resident birds do not hibernate in winter, so they need 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 toward birds.

Generally, they don't kill deliberately, but they don't blindly indulge.

For relatively rare birds, rangers not only cannot hunt them, but also have the responsibility to protect them.

Just like the bustard encountered in Ziwu Ridge.

If anyone encounters a bustard and is hunted, he will be in jail.

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

Because their food is basically various rodents and small birds, they do not conflict with humans, and even have an indirect protective function for human interests to a certain extent.

It depends on what the remaining birds eat.

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

Only those birds that eat food or grass seeds are the ones that humans try to kill every year.

It can be hunted with a slingshot, bird cage, or even a domestic cat.

In serious cases, they may be hung up or poisoned.

To poison is to spray pesticides directly.

Pesticides in the early years were relatively toxic and were usually mixed with seeds. They often decomposed over a growing season and were basically decomposed by the time of harvest.

but……

Not absolutely.

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

In addition to possible harm to the human body due to pesticide residues, the use of pesticides can also have a huge impact on the surrounding ecology.

For example, if rats and birds in the field eat poisonous seeds, they will be poisoned to death in the ground, and mustelids or large birds that feed on them will also be poisoned to death by eating them, so

A huge chain of poisonous death was formed.

This situation lasted until less toxic pesticides were slowly developed in the later period, and was effectively solved. For many years in the middle, due to the presence of pesticides, many mountain birds were completely extinct.

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

The so-called hanging net is to hang a very fine 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 constantly moving, but for very fine nets, they cannot see clearly when flying at high speeds, and they often hit the net directly and get caught.

In panic, they will struggle harder and harder until they are finally completely tied up and become a mummy online.

In later years, this kind of hanging was illegal, but it was still prohibited.

The reason is very simple, because the relevant departments cannot determine the motive of hanging up the network.

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

In the end, the worst case scenario is to dismantle the net, and generally there will be no punishment.

In this day and age, there is no control over hanging nets, and in many cases, the law has not even noticed that birds need protection. In addition, birds in this day and age are generally so abundant that without protection, there will be so many of them that there will be no place to go.

Seeing that Wang Tianxiao was determined, Liu Yuan nodded and said, "Okay, it's okay to hang on and take a look first. But the whole mountain is so big, how are you going to stop it?"

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

Unlike later generations, which had very good industrial production, the productivity of this era was weak, and it was very difficult to find a large-area bird net. Therefore, it was destined not to be blocked like the traditional way, which was hundreds of meters long.

The method used by Wang Tianxiao is not so much hanging the net as laying the net.

More like a trap for birds.

Because there is no place selling this kind of net in the town, Wang Tianxiao plans to go to the city to look for it tomorrow and deliver the wild things to the Wenyuan Hotel.

In the afternoon, he went to the fields with others to check, and found that those white winter cuckoos were really annoying. They used their flexibility to play a game of chasing each other with people.

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

It is not easy for a dog to catch birds, but dogs in the mountains run very fast, and there are too many birds. They are often frightened and take off together, which affects each other's take-off speed, but gives the dog something to worry about.

Take advantage of the opportunity.

Because Dafeng was injured last time and has not fully recovered yet, he was locked up at the station and could not be let out. The only ones running outside were Dahei and Aying.

The two dogs seemed to have developed some subtle feelings. They were both smelling each other's butts. Wang Tianxiao estimated that it wouldn't be long before the station's second generation of dogs was born.

It is also something that he likes to see when dogs are prosperous.

Just like the prosperous deer.

Lying on the kang at night, Li Yali and I chatted about many things that had happened recently. As we talked, we talked about our son's full moon.

My son Wang Peng is already 27 days old today, and he will be full moon in three days.

Here in Qingcheng, a child's full moon is viewed with great grandeur, almost as grand as a wedding or wedding, or even, to put it mildly, more grand than marrying off a daughter.
Chapter completed!