Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

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 reached out and snatched it away and carried it on his back.

Sicui reached out and grabbed the basket: "No, it's dangerous to walk on this road. It's not safe for you to carry this. 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 grabbing it, 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 go up this trail, there is no other way."

Hearing what the girl said, Gu Siwei stretched his head and took a look, and found out that in the middle of a group of small bushes, there was a trail that seemed to be someone coming out.

"You guys are really good, you can even find it in a place like this."

Gu Siwei now really admires his sister and daughter-in-law. Look at this place. People like him don't even know there is a cheat, but they can actually find it.

Sicui didn't take any credit after hearing this. She 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. , there is no time to care whether there is justice here.

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.

Keep walking along this trail. The road is not straight, but winding and winding. Half of the trail requires climbing with hands and feet, and the slope is more than 60 degrees.

Originally, the difference between the cliff and the water surface 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 up when he entered. When he stood at the door, he couldn't see the river, but he could already hear the sound of water flowing 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 almost one meter and a half wide, and the narrowest part is only forty or 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. , which 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 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 to quack.

"So many?" Gu Siwei laughed.

Sicui said: "There's not much here. It's only this small. 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 mother geese and ducks did not fly back home at night..."

Sicui felt that there were a little few eggs here. After looking at it, 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 basket.

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: "It's just a few eggs in total. My basket can't even hold 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 take a look at some eggs that may be about to hatch into ducklings 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 didn't see anything and his eyes were dazzled.

When Sicui saw it, she thought, okay, she had to do this herself, so she first recruited Hu Yanping, and then asked Gu Siwei to come back, and then she became the first platoon soldier from the last position.

In the end, the fact was that it was still Sicui who picked up the eggs, and she could only pick them up. Although the place was big enough for Siwei to pass by, there was no way, there were 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. She would take a look at them after picking them up. If there were no problems, she would put them in the basket. If there were any problems, she would put them back to 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, and she had obviously rubbed duck and goose droppings.

This is inevitable. If you find it too 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 living in the countryside.

"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. 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 even 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 looked at it 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 that specializes in eating pests on trees. Don't step on the nest," Sicui said.

Hu Yanping asked: "This bird is called Xiaoshanzhao? What is its scientific name?"

Sicui said: "How do I know this? When the older generation taught them, they called it 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 there was no nest, and it was quite big. Except for geese, other waterfowl here didn't seem to be able 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 his back.

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 one that is hatching and put it in, and 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 for questioning, suddenly a screaming thing rushed towards him.

A big goose!

No, it’s a swan goose!

The eggs Gu Siwei picked up belonged to someone else, not a goose made by his family.