Suddenly, a "ah" sound was heard in the breeding room. Several hairs of the male parrot were pecked off by the female at once, leaving a small bald spot on its back, which was very eye-catching among the bright purple-blue color.
Chen Ling withdrew his gaze from Jiang Yu's face, feeling fortunate to be interrupted. This way, the old man wouldn't have the chance to deliver another straight shot!
He looked nervously towards the source of the sound.
The male parrot knows how to seek benefits and avoid harm. Seeing that he can't coax his partner, he simply flies towards his owner, dives into the other's arms with his head, and hooks his clothes underneath with his powerful claws.
The female parrot showed no fear of Chen Ling. Just like last time, it folded its wings and landed on the young man's shoulder, staring down at the trembling male parrot.
Chen Ling was like a wooden stake, his limbs stiffly fixed in place, "Sister Qian, they are not going to fight again, are they?"
Under the current circumstances, once the war is triggered, he will be the first to suffer.
Qian Qing was unsure, "I've never encountered this situation before." She cleared her throat and coaxed the female parrot in a gentle voice, "Be good, come here and let me hug you, okay?"
The female parrot ignored her and buried her head, with her beak only centimeters away from the male's head.
Chen Ling was afraid that the hair on Xiaolan's head would be lost, so he protected it with his hands.
Qian Qing smiled awkwardly and explained, "It's a temper tantrum. After macaws form a pair, before the baby parrots are hatched, the female is responsible for laying eggs and hatching, while the male is responsible for protecting the home and finding food."
Chen Ling: "You mean, the female is blaming the male for being irresponsible?"
In nature, there is also a sense of responsibility between animals. This is reflected in the nurturing of young birds by big birds, the care of cubs by mother bears, and the teaching of cubs by mother wolves.
It is not common for parrots to be willing to stay with the same bird for their entire lives. Once their feelings are fixed, they will be there for life, even longer than some humans.
It’s no wonder that the female parrot was so angry. She probably thought she had met the worst macaw.
Chen Ling looked at the male parrot in his arms with concern and asked Qian Qing, "Is their relationship going to break down?"
"No." Qian Qing said, "Put the parrots on the ground first and let them communicate on their own."
Chen Ling let go, but the parrot's claws tightly hooked onto the clothes below.
"You are a bully at home, aren't you usually very noisy at home?" He is more than noisy, he is simply a bully.
Jiang Yu suddenly said, "Go down."
The macaw shrank even more, raised its head pitifully, the light flickering in its small black eyeballs, and reluctantly loosened its claws, sliding down the hem of the young man's clothes to his trouser leg, and then slowly fell from the trouser leg to his shoe.
Chen Ling's mouth twitched. Why would he deliberately delay time? Who taught him that, Master
Seeing the male return to the ground, the female parrot immediately flew to the ground, folded its wings and called to the male twice. Little Blue tilted its head, hesitated, and approached slowly with a slightly flattering attitude, using its head to touch the feathers on the female's neck.
Chen Ling: "Little coward."
Qian Qing: "It's really well behaved and smart." She thought carefully and said, "I remember when Mr. Zhao first brought it back to North City, it wasn't so smart. Mr. Chen, how do you usually educate it? Do you have any special training methods?"
"No..." Chen Ling recalled the relationship between his master and the parrot, "Just talk to it more and buy it more delicious food."
Qian Qing said with a bitter face: "It's not that simple... You must have other ways."
"Really not." Chen Ling didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Maybe it's just that it's smart. After being with humans for a long time, its IQ has been affected, and it has unknowingly improved?"
Qian Qing: “…”
She waved her hand and decided not to ask after thinking about it. From the young man's expression, she knew that he was not hiding something and refused to tell her, but that he himself did not know it clearly.
Xiao Lan rubbed against the female parrot and calmed her down. She proudly lifted her tail and called out to Chen Ling, "Go back, go back, let's go back."
Chen Ling squatted down and scraped its beak, "You don't want your young wife anymore?"
The parrot didn't understand, but it spread one wing, held the female in its arms, and said to Chen Ling: "Go back, go back."
Qian Qing's face turned green. They were trying to kidnap the treasure of the base! Bandits
"No." She squatted next to Chen Ling, "Would you stay here together? Your baby will be born in about twenty days. During this time, you need to stay with your partner."
The parrot suddenly seemed to stop saying anything else and just kept repeating the same thing over and over again.
Qian Qing was extremely worried. She had originally thought that she could harvest a male parrot and two parrot eggs, but now, she only got back a little trouble.
Jiang Yu, who was standing behind the two of them, measured the distance between Chen Ling and Qian Qing's shoulders with his eyes like a fine ruler.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, reached out and grabbed Chen Ling's shoulders, pulling him up from the ground.
Chen Ling didn't feel anything was wrong, but his calf was slightly numb. He lowered his head and stomped his feet twice.
When he looked up again, his thoughts had already formed, and he said to Qian Qing shamelessly: "Sister Qian, do you think this will work..."
"No." Qian Qing knew what he was going to say and interrupted him first.
Chen Ling refused to give up: "How about letting the female parrot go back with us? I promise to take good care of it, and when it lays eggs, you can take the eggs back to the base to incubate them."
"No, no, no," Qian Qing said, "This is absolutely impossible, Mr. Chen. This is the only female hyacinth macaw in our North City. If you really take it away, I won't be able to explain to my superiors."
"What if we introduce two more?" When Jiang Yu didn't speak, he was like a shadow and it was easy for people to ignore his existence, but as soon as he opened his mouth, his presence became strong.
Qian Qing stared at him blankly, stunned.
After a while, she turned around, her heart beating a little faster, and she unconsciously became reserved: "Sir, do you know the price of a purple-blue macaw? The starting price of a male has risen to 300,000 now, and females that can lay eggs will be even more expensive. Our base is extremely poor, so how can we afford to introduce more."
Chen Ling also felt that what the ancestor said was too big, and quietly hinted: "Let's think of other ways."
Jiang Yu looked at him in silence for a moment, then nodded indifferently, "Yeah."
Qian Qing breathed a sigh of relief and said to Chen Ling, "Let's go out and talk first."
Chen Ling turned around and gestured to Xiao Lan, signaling it to behave. But it was unknown whether the little guy had misunderstood. When the three of them walked out of the breeding room and Qian Qing was about to close the door, the two parrots flew out from the half-person-wide door gap with their bodies turned sideways at an astonishing speed.
The two parrots were very smart. They knew they would be caught, so they kept hovering close to the ceiling and refused to come down.
Qian Qing was stunned for two seconds, and then he immediately notified other staff at the base and asked them to bring tools to catch the bird.
Help came quickly, some brought net bags, some brought retractable feeders for feeding dangerous birds, and some even brought anesthetic guns.
The anesthesia gun was the final choice, and it would only be used after it was confirmed that other methods could not catch the parrot. Chen Ling was frightened by the cold needle tip on the anesthesia gun, and opened his hands and shouted to the parrot: "Xiao Lan, come down."
The parrot's voice was sharper than before, "Go home, go home, Master, Master."
Chen Ling was in a dilemma, knowing that it was determined to kidnap the new bride from the base.
Qian Qing gestured to the staff member holding the net bag.
The staff crouched down to reduce his presence, quietly raised the long pole, and wanted to attack from behind. However, before he started to move, the two parrots suddenly did a 360-degree turn and dived, hitting the staff's hair with their beaks.
"Your hair..." Qian Qing half covered her mouth, too surprised to react.
You know, this colleague usually likes to brag about his shiny, black and smooth hair. But now, his thick black hair has been taken away by two parrots, leaving only a sparse baldness.
The secret that the staff had covered up for so long was exposed, and they were so angry that they threw the net bag to the ground and left.
By the time everyone recovered from their shock, the two parrots had already flown away along the corridor.
Chen Ling dared to guarantee that this escape operation must have been led by Xiao Lan, because it was the only one who entered from the outside to the inside twice, so it was so familiar with the route, and it did not hesitate when it encountered a fork in the road, and it could choose the correct exit every time.
"I suspect it was planned a long time ago," Chen Ling said.
Jiang Yu followed beside him, hummed softly, and shifted his steps slightly, with his arm only about a fist's distance away from the young man.
Qian Qing and others quickly ran past the two of them, and did not forget to pull Chen Ling along as they passed by, hoping that he would follow them to think of a solution.
What could Chen Ling do? Their little guy was now a wild horse that had broken free from its reins and would never turn back. It was useless even if he shouted at the top of his lungs.
The two parrots had a clear purpose, which was to leave the base. When they saw that a window was not closed, they moved in unison and crawled into the window gap.
Although the female parrot is older, it is always locked up and is not in a good mood. It has little interest in eating.
But Xiao Lan is not like that. He eats a lot and lives a comfortable life. Occasionally, Zhao Xunchang and Chen Ling would take him out for a walk… His body became fatter as his heart relaxed. He was stuck in the middle of a place where he should have easily passed, and he flapped his wings desperately.
Chen Ling saw its buttocks and kicking legs stuck in the window from a distance. Just as he was getting anxious, the female parrot suddenly fell back and used its head to push the window open.
As soon as Qian Qing and his group arrived at the window, the two parrots flew away and circled outside the window as if provoking them.
Xiao Lan kept calling out, "Master, Master."
Once the parrot flies away from the base, it is not easy to find it again. Qian Qing directly snatched the anesthetic gun from his colleague and aimed at the female parrot.
"Don't!" Chen Ling rushed over and blocked the scope, "I'll do it."
He pushed the window open completely and said to Qian Qing, "Step back first."
Qian Qing looked at the young man's determined face, then looked at the two parrots outside the window. After hesitating for a long time, he compromised and retreated with the others.
Chen Ling stretched his hand out of the window: "Come here."
Xiao Lan refused and stared at Qian Qing and others warily, as if facing a great enemy.
Qian Qing looked at the other staff members and said, "Step back a little more."
When the humans retreated to a relatively safe distance, the female parrot returned to the windowsill under the guidance of the male. They leaned against each other tightly, like two big trees growing together, and no one could separate them.
Looking at the two parrots' black eyes, Chen Ling sighed, "Sister Qian, is it really impossible? Perhaps we can build a temporary breeding room in Yuhe Mountain. Qian..."
The conversation suddenly stopped.
The funds that the Jiang family injected into Yuheshan cannot be moved at will. After thinking about it, they can only find ways to take more orders in the future. Chen Ling gritted his teeth and said, "I will pay for it. If the base is not assured, you can also send staff over."
Qian Qing hesitated, shook his head and said, "This matter is too big, I can't make the decision."
"Then I will talk to the person who can make the decision." Jiang Yu looked at her, "If possible, I hope you can contact the person in charge of the base now."
Qian Qing was intimidated by the man's aura. Her brain stopped working and she nodded mechanically.
It was not until the call was connected and she heard the voice on the other end of the receiver that she came to her senses and began to narrate what had happened in a stammering voice.
The person in charge was a middle-aged man with a wealthy appearance. He had just returned from a meeting at the Forestry Bureau. When he came down from upstairs and saw the staff blocking the corridor, his brows slightly frowned. But when he saw the two parrots nestled on the human's shoulders, one on the left and one on the right, he could no longer lose his temper. He was only afraid that they would all fly away at once.
Jiang Yu extended a hand to the person in charge and shook it immediately before separating.
After a brief self-introduction, he said directly: "Hengjiang Group has a public welfare ecological project recently. I wonder if Mr. Qiu has heard of it."
Chen Ling was surprised and vaguely guessed what the ancestor wanted to do.
Hearing the words "Hengjiang Group", the person in charge's eyes lit up, "Of course I've heard of it." The smile on his face became more genuine, "The group's operations department for this project just contacted me not long ago, saying that they are interested in donating funds to our base so that we can introduce a batch of new equipment."
Perhaps because she was annoyed by the two people's nagging, Xiao Lan started to clamor to go home again.
Chen Ling pinched its beak to stop it from speaking, but the other female opened her mouth and made a strange sound. It didn't sound like an ordinary call, but rather like she was imitating Xiao Lan's pronunciation.
Jiang Yu looked over without emotion, and the two parrots suddenly became quiet.
Seeing the man's intimidating presence and his extraordinary attire, the person in charge suggested, "Why don't we borrow some space to talk."
Jiang Yu: "Please lead the way."
The person in charge turned his back and walked towards the elevator, intending to go to the office upstairs to talk. It was fine when he was outside, but as soon as he entered the elevator, he began to feel uncomfortable all over, cold, and the biting cold desperately drilled into his body, spreading along his blood vessels, attacking his internal organs.
He shuddered and hugged his arms awkwardly: "The air conditioning in the elevator is a bit strong."
Jiang Yu: "Not bad." He did not restrain himself as usual, "Mr. Qiu, you are standing facing the air vent of the air conditioner."
The person in charge looked up and saw that the cold air was blowing towards him. He moved to the side. To be honest, it didn't work very well, but as a grown man, he couldn't keep complaining about the cold, lest people misunderstand that he was weak.
On the fourth floor of the office, the two entered without further greeting. The person in charge got straight to the point and said, "I don't know what Mr. Jiang meant by suddenly mentioning Hengjiang Group. Are you also from Hengjiang Group?"
"I guess so." Jiang Yu said, "All things have spirits. I believe that Deputy Director Qian has already explained it to you in detail over the phone. If you insist on separating the two parrots, or forcibly keep the other one, I'm afraid it will not be good for anyone."
When they took over Xiao Lan's breeding qualifications from another base, the other party had already explained to him that Xiao Lan had a high IQ and was highly dependent on Zhao Xunchang. They hoped that they could handle it appropriately and not rashly bring it to the base.
Hyacinthus macaws are endangered species and cannot be kept by private individuals. Besides, Zhao Xunchang is an old man in his sixties, so how can he take care of such a delicate species
So the next day after the handover was completed, they came to the house and took Xiaolan away.
It was because of this rash decision that the parrot was almost killed.
At that time, Xiao Lan's personality was not as lively and noisy as it is now. After being locked in an ecological chamber made of glass, it began to go on a hunger strike and self-mutilate. Its body became weak and its resistance decreased, which gave the virus an opportunity to take advantage of it. It was almost impossible to save it.
"Mr. Jiang, you are right, but..." The person in charge was shaken by the past. He said with embarrassment, "It has already set a precedent to entrust the male parrot to Mr. Zhao. If there is another one now, I really can't report it to the job."
"Hengjiang had planned to double the funding for the base. Secondly, I will send extra people to help you contact a foreign breeding base and import two more." Jiang Yu put his hands on his folded knees and leaned back. "Mr. Qiu, please consider it carefully."
The person in charge was stunned by the pie falling from the sky!
Seeing through the remaining confusion in his eyes, Jiang Yu spoke again, "According to what Chen Ling said before, Yuhe Mountain is considered a breeding pilot, and we will ensure the health and safety of the parrots. After the eggs are laid, you can send someone to take them away for artificial incubation. Of course, you can also let the chicks stay with their parents and wait until the right time to take them away."
The conditions are too tempting.
The person in charge swallowed a few times and said, "Wait a moment, I need to make a phone call."
I don't know who he was communicating with, but after he hung up the phone and came out of the lounge in the office, the person in charge's attitude changed.
He smiled and said to Jiang Yu: "We agree to what you said before, but the female parrot must be equipped with a monitor, and the base must determine the parrot's location, safety, and physical condition at all times."
Jiang Yu: “Okay.”
The person in charge felt relieved, but still had some concerns.
Glancing at Jiang Yu, he rubbed his hands nervously, unable to suppress his curiosity, "Mr. Jiang, excuse me, what position do you hold in Hengjiang Group? What you just said, what if the person in charge of this project in Hengjiang disagrees..."
"Don't worry, I'll keep my word." Jiang Yu stood up from the sofa, "I believe we can have a pleasant cooperation."
"Definitely." Touching his arm which was covered with goose bumps due to the coolness, the person in charge looked at the air conditioner in confusion and left the office with Jiang Yu.
Because the door was locked, he lagged behind by a step. When he looked up, he saw the man's straight shoulders and back. The clothes seemed simple, but he had just noticed that the inner edge of the cufflinks had an intricate European double-sided embroidery, indicating that this was a special custom-made piece from a luxury brand.
The current person in charge of the Jiang family is Jiang Shengxing, a middle-aged man in his early fifties. It seems impossible that he is the same person as the man walking in front of him.
It is unlikely that his son will be like this either. He was lucky enough to have met Jiang Shengxing's eldest son once. His features were not as deep as Jiang Yu's, and his pupil color was also different. Most importantly, the eldest son's temperament was relatively gentle, and he was definitely not as intimidating as Jiang Yu.
If we must make a comparison, the eldest son is a warm jade, and Jiang Yu is like a cold knife buried in a glacier. Beneath the seemingly calm surface, there are endless dangers.
"Mr. Qiu."
A man's hoarse voice came from the front.
The person in charge suddenly came to his senses, stopped all the inappropriate speculations in his mind, and quickly walked into the elevator with its double doors open.
As the elevator descended floor by floor, he felt that the temperature around him seemed to rise. Although Jiang Yu's face was still expressionless, the look in his eyes softened.
The problem has been solved perfectly, but because the breeding pilot project has not been officially completed and the female parrot has not yet been equipped with a monitor, she cannot go back with them for the time being.
Chen Ling grabbed Xiao Lan and tried to persuade him for a while. Xiao Lan reluctantly agreed, then hid in the cabin with the female parrot and fiddled with it for a while, waving goodbye to his new wife for the time being.
After leaving the breeding base, he stood at the gate of the zoo, took out his mobile phone to call Wu Weiwei, and found that there were already five missed calls.
Four of them were from Wu Weiwei, and the other one was from an unfamiliar number, probably from Li Hongyu.
Handing the parrot on his shoulder to Jiang Yu, Chen Ling walked to a quieter place and called back. The beep only lasted for a moment, and two people walked towards him from his left.
Wu Weiwei was annoyed that Li Hongyu was walking too slowly and kept urging him: "Brother Chen is right in front, can you please hurry up?"
Li Hongyu looked at him and said nothing.
One is impatient and the other is slow-tempered, so when they get together they are most likely to quarrel and fight. Wu Weiwei simply left Li Hongyu and ran towards his brother Chen.
Chen Ling hung up the phone and asked him, "Why are you here? When did he arrive?"
"We arrived a long time ago," Wu Weiwei said. "At about 8:30, Li Hongyu called to ask if we were at Mr. Sun's house or at Yuhe Mountain. After I told him the address of the guesthouse, he came over."
Li Hongyu walked over and nodded, "Mr. Chen."
Chen Ling smiled at him and said, "Let's go to the Sun family first."
Sun Peifeng didn't sleep well last night. Yesterday, when they ran down from the upstairs to chase the weasel, they tied up Sun Zhi and threw him on the floor.
Soon after Chen Ling and the others left, he felt uneasy and asked his wife to find a nylon rope to tie him up again. In order to stop him from talking too much, Sun Peifeng also taped his mouth.
Even so, he still couldn't remain calm. At the slightest noise, he couldn't help but go into Guan Sun Zhi's storage room to check.
After a night, Sun Peifeng had deep bags under his eyes and his eyes were bloodshot.
Mrs. Sun came down from upstairs. "Did Mr. Chen call to say how long it would take for them to arrive?"
"It's said there are still five minutes." Sun Peifeng glanced towards the second floor, "Is Jiayu still not awake?"
"No, but he slept soundly and I saw that his complexion looked better." Mrs. Sun was not too worried.
The wild ghost was forced out and Wong Tai Sin was also asked to leave. My son should have been unconscious only because he had been mentally exhausted after being possessed twice. He just needed to have a good rest.
Sun Peifeng nodded, "That's good."
The video doorbell at home rang. Without waiting for his aunt to open the door, Sun Peifeng rushed to the entrance, opened the door of the unit on the ground floor, then went out of the house and waited anxiously outside the elevator.
A short period of more than ten seconds seems unusually slow today.
With a "ding" sound, the elevator arrived and the door opened.