mandarin duck
Li Feng saw what was in the water and quickly called the people back. This is really serious.
I saw the first two swimming in a mess, just like ducks, but the color of their feathers was much brighter than that of ducks. Li Feng suspected that they might be mandarin ducks. He was quite happy at first, but he didn't expect to see mandarin ducks here. He was just thinking about catching it and bringing it home to be raised, but when he saw clearly what was chasing him in the water behind him, it really shocked him.
What was in the water was none other than water snakes, and there were more than one. The fast-moving things were about to catch up with the two mandarin ducks in front of them. Li Feng was also worried that these mandarin ducks might actually become a pair of ghost mandarin ducks. When they got there, the two mandarin ducks actually flapped their wings and flew up, and the water snake in the water also jumped out suddenly. The people watching were shocked, how could this snake be so tough
Li Feng's understanding of himself was greatly reduced now. He originally thought they were two little mandarin ducks being chased by snakes, but he didn't expect these two could still fly. Why didn't they fly earlier? It would have hurt him. He was worried for a long time, and he originally wanted to capture him and raise him.
"Uncle Li Feng, what kind of bird is that? It's very beautiful." Lu grabbed one of Li Feng's hands and pointed at the two small black dots that had already flown away and asked.
"That's a mandarin duck." They are in pairs, and they only envy the mandarin ducks but not the immortal lovebirds. He didn't say the rest of it, and even a kid wouldn't understand it. Instead, he would ask more questions.
"Oh." Seeing Li Feng's concise answer, Lu didn't feel embarrassed to continue asking, so he agreed and was pulled aside by his mother.
"As you can see, this water is actually very dangerous. We can pick bird eggs, but we must be careful. Of course, I don't agree with picking them now." Li Feng pointed at several water snakes that had disappeared without a trace. people say.
The tribesmen were all discussing there. They had all seen it just now. They were also very afraid of creatures like snakes, especially now that most of them were women and children. They were probably born with a fear of such soft, cold-blooded long creatures. , they are not willing to go down the river to look for bird eggs at all now. It would be fatal if they encountered one. Snakes on land alone frightened him, let alone in water where it was difficult to run and walk.
"Why do those snakes live in the water?" Someone asked. The snakes they saw were all on land, and they had never seen them in the water. They probably didn't pay attention to them, or they were directly attracted by them. Think of it as waterweed or something.
Li Feng raised his head to look at the sky, then touched his chin, "Snakes can live on land or in water, so we have to be careful. It's best not to go into the water first." Wait until winter when snakes hibernate, but this Do water snakes also hibernate? He really didn't know this, but he probably knew it, since they were all snakes.
"I didn't expect there to be snakes in the water?" Suo jumped to Li Feng's side and pointed at the shadows in the river, which he didn't know were aquatic plants, reed roots or reed poles. It turned out that there was no danger here, but they hadn't yet. Just realize it.
"Well, there are a lot of dangerous things in the water, so we still have to be very careful. We are not familiar with this water." Li Feng looked at the large tracts of reeds in front of him. There are so many snakes and insects and so many unknown things. He didn't think he would know them all. If there was something poisonous, it would be too late to regret it. Therefore, he thought they should concentrate on picking reed hair. After all, the reeds on the shore were much safer from snakes and insects. They also don’t like places near the shore, where it’s too easy for various animals to come to drink water and disturb them.
Now there is no need for Li Feng to remind the tribesmen that they are calmly picking reed hair on the shore. Although the eggs are tempting, life is more important. They know the power of snakes. People who are bitten by snakes die in ten cases. , they are no less afraid of snakes than ferocious tigers, leopards and jackals.
"Li Feng, that pair of birds just now were called mandarin ducks?" Li Yi followed Li Feng step by step. Of course, he was not idle with his work. It seemed that Li Feng liked the pair of birds when he saw them just now. Looks like, why don't you catch two for him next time you see him
"That one seems to be a mandarin duck," Li Feng said with some hesitation. When he saw it before, his first reaction was that of a mandarin duck. One was bright and beautiful in color. Although the other one was much duller in color, its body shape was similar to that of a duck. . He had seen mandarin ducks before, they were all in the zoo. The reason Li Feng is not sure now is because the pair of mandarin ducks seem to be much more beautiful than the ones he saw in the zoo. Although they are also quite embarrassed, the feathers and the color of the feathers are longer and the color is better than those in the zoo. pretty.
"Well, the name is very nice." Li nuzzled to Li Feng's side, and then pointed to the reeds in front of him, "There should be a lot of them here."
"It should be so. Yuanyangs live in groups. These two may have been separated." Li Feng returned. No matter what her name was, he would call her Yuanyang when he saw it now. Who knew they looked so similar? Still in pairs. However, when it comes to chasing, the snakes here are really tough. They can actually jump up and pounce in the water. Moreover, the water snakes are not small at all. I don’t know how the two wild mandarin ducks escaped before. I came here and didn’t know to fly earlier
"Then do you think there are any mandarin duck eggs among the eggs we picked up?" Duo heard it and came over to join in the fun.
Li Feng looked at the eggs of various colors, big and small, and in different shades of white and green in the basket in front of him, "There should be some." Do you want them to hatch them? It's just that he doesn't know which kind of mandarin duck eggs are. To be more precise, with so many eggs here, he can probably recognize wild duck eggs, which are more reliable. Others know they are bird eggs, but what kind of bird eggs are they? He really doesn't know yet.
"That kind of bird is really pretty." He pulled the eggs in the basket and thought about which one was the mandarin duck egg. It would be great if they could hatch.
"That's right, let me tell you, these couples are very loyal, and they are unswervingly committed to love." Li Feng hurriedly explained after hearing Ruo's sigh, showing off his 'advanced' knowledge by the way. , of course, their chats are all internal voices, and others are not allowed to listen. You can't be too high-profile, you have to be low-key, low-key, and low-key.
"Isn't it just a pair of birds? Is it such an exaggeration?" Ruo Ke didn't believe Li Feng's words. They were just a pair of wild birds, although they were good-looking.
"Tch, you don't know this, right? These mandarin ducks are born in pairs, male and female. If one of them is missing, the other one will die of missing you. They are the most typical love birds. ." Li Feng touched the eggs in the frame and sighed. Since ancient times, there are really many monsters and ghosts who only envy mandarin ducks but not immortals.
"Really? They are really like this, so great." Ruo didn't believe Li Feng's statement. He had never known that such an animal existed
"Of course it's true. I don't believe you try it next time. If you take one away, the other one will stop eating and go on a hunger strike." Li Feng said while urinating the baby who had just woken up in his arms, with a few words in his mouth. Don't forget to whistle to diuretic.
After hearing the sharp whistle, the baby finished shushing very quickly. After waking up, the baby has a lot of energy, especially now that his nutrition has kept up. Not only does he have the same strength every day, but his strength is also getting stronger day by day. Big, sometimes those fingers would grab Li Feng's hair and not let go, causing Li Feng half-death pain. He had to be coaxed to get the little baby to let go. Therefore, Li Feng now wanted to cut off all the hair, preferably bald, so that the baby could see how you could hold on.
I don’t know why, babies like to grab other people’s hair, especially those with long hair, and they won’t let go. But almost all the people here have long hair. There is no haircut, so they can only keep it. , it can keep you warm in winter, especially it can protect your ears.
"Oh, baby, be good. Release your hands quickly. Daddy will find something else for you to play with." Although his hair was already tied up like a ponytail, the baby's little hands were pulled out from Li Feng's head. A few strands of hair came out, and I tried to put them into my mouth while pulling them, which made Li Feng want to cry without tears. The baby's strength was so great that Li Feng could only try to open the baby's little hands with his own hands while coaxing him softly. His head had to rotate with the baby's strength, but Li Feng was exhausted to death. .
The key thing is that this baby doesn't know how uncomfortable his father is at all, and he keeps holding on to him, smiling with his mouth drooling, and stuffing his little hand holding his hair into his mouth.
"Oh, son, be good, you can't eat this." Li Feng finally freed the hair from the baby's hands, and quickly stuffed the few strands of hair behind his ears, and had to coax the hair out of his hands. Ready to cry son.
"Haha, baby, just give your father a hard time!" The people watching were gloating. The baby is so good when he's good, and he's also very naughty when he's naughty. After all, he's a boy, so much better than that girl. Move a lot? If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't walk or run, I'm afraid it would be even more noisy.
Li Feng rolled his eyes and didn't bother to pay attention to him. He wanted to find something for the baby to distract him, but there were really no toys here. He could only take out the small fruits that he had given to the baby before and let him hold and chew them. Watching the baby blinking his eyes, holding a small mango-like fruit in his chubby little hands and gnawing there, the four teeth that had just emerged were worn out after grinding for a while, and then his little mouth puffed out, like a little rabbit. Moving and sucking the juice from the fruit.
Li looked on and smiled. The baby looked most serious and cutest when he was eating. Usually when they want to distract the baby or coax him, they will find something that the baby can eat. As long as there is food in hand, the baby will be diverted immediately; sometimes tears are still hanging on the face. , but I had already started eating in my mouth, and I couldn’t think of crying.
"Baby, can you give uncle some of this fruit?" Ruo teased the baby next to him, then stretched his hand in front of the baby and pretended to take the fruit in the baby's hand.
The baby opened his big, watery eyes that were ready to cry because the hair in his hand had just been snatched away. Then he looked at the big hand in front of him with his innocent, black eyes like a puppy, and then turned his eyes to look at this. Finally, when Ruo's fingers pinched the fruit in the baby's hand, the baby was stunned, but his little hands still held the fruit tightly, and then looked at Ruo with his big eyes.
With a mischievous smile, he pulled the fruit out of the baby's hand little by little. The baby was shocked. He turned his head to look at his father with a pout, and then looked at the other father standing next to his father. , and finally turned around to look at Ruo who had put the fruit to his mouth. His mouth narrowed and his eyes closed, and the tears rolled down. While crying, he stretched out his little hands to grab the fruit that belonged to him. .
But I couldn't reach it with my short hands, but I still didn't want to give up. The delicious food in my mouth was just taken away. I could only cry loudly while still trying to take it back without giving up, my eyes still following the food in my hand. If you don’t let go of the fruit, the baby’s eyes will follow wherever the fruit is taken, not to mention how cute it is.
Li Feng and the others all watched Ruo teasing the baby at first. After all, the baby's reaction was quite cute. Who would have thought that the baby would be teased to tears, and Ruo seemed addicted to it and was unwilling to let go. As a result, Li Feng gave me a few free sanitary eyes and then snatched them away.
Wiping the tears on the baby's face, he quickly stuffed the fruit back into the baby's hand. The baby held the fruit in his two little hands and then shrank in Li Feng's arms and twitched. Li Feng looked distressed and pressed hard. He twisted his arm a few times.
Suo was so pinched that he jumped on his feet. "Hey, you can't just blame me. Don't you want to watch the fun yourself?" Suo rubbed the flesh on his arms and quickly moved away. Then he returned to Bu and let Bu rub it for him. Rubbing his arm, really, Li Feng was really willing to be cruel. His arm must have been swollen. They obviously wanted to see the baby's reaction, but in the end it was not him who was the culprit. He was the ultimate culprit. Poor one
Ruo pretended to lie on Bu's shoulder and pretended to cry, "Okay, you made the baby cry. Look, the baby is afraid of you now." Bu patted Ruo's shoulder and scolded with a smile.
He raised his head and looked at the baby in Li Feng's arms. He was nestling in Li Feng's arms, holding the fruit and sobbing while still nibbling on the fruit. His mouth was covered with juice and he was still unwilling to let go, just like the little one who was protecting the food. Rabbit-like.
"Haha, why is the baby so cute? Come and give me a kiss, uncle." Li Feng rushed over and kissed the baby's bulging cheeks before the baby could react. It was so loud.
The people next to you were all looking at you. They didn't see that the baby hated you just now. Li Feng and the others didn't give you a good look. They actually took advantage of other people's babies. This uncle is a typical one. Whip a piece of candy
"Okay, stop playing and get to work. I have something to do when I get back later." Moreover, the journey is quite far, so it's better to go back early to avoid encountering wild beasts on the road. Although the chance is quite small, It's not like it's not.
"Okay, I got it." Ruo Ye knew that it was time to be busy with serious things, so he just wanted to tease the little nephew to relax, so as not to get bored by working like this all the time.
"Oh, by the way, Li Feng, how come there are so many eggs here? Don't birds generally not lay eggs at this time?" Looking at the baskets of eggs picked up by the tribesmen on the shore, it was very strange. I was confused. I wanted to ask just now, but was distracted by the snake chasing the mandarin duck and forgot about it. Then I remembered.
"Oh, this, these mostly have more eggs from wild ducks, and there are also those from other birds, but there are just fewer of them." Li Feng changed the position of the baby in his arms. It was too tiring to keep using the same position. , the baby is also a little heavy. "Most people think that birds stop laying eggs in autumn, but this is not the case with this wild duck. He has two egg-laying peak periods a year, usually from March to May in spring and in autumn. October to November. And these wild ducks lay eggs almost all year round, but they lay less eggs in winter or other times." Before, he had always thought that birds generally flew to warmer places to spend the winter in autumn. , and egg laying is naturally impossible during migration.
However, later he went to interview a family that specialized in raising wild ducks and found out that the wild ducks not only tasted delicious, but also had many uses. Needless to say, the feathers and various duck downs were definitely keeping warm. Duck meat is also delicious, has less fat, and is full of game flavor without the fishy smell of domestic duck.
The key is that the egg production of this duck is really not comparable to that of ordinary oviparous birds. It does not have the obvious egg-laying seasonality of other birds. It can lay eggs almost all year round, so as long as the wild ducks are still here, they will be able to lay eggs at any time. Wild duck eggs can be found everywhere, it’s just a matter of how many. Of course, safety issues are also very important.
In the past, people raised wild ducks not only for meat and duck down, but also for selling wild duck eggs, which are full of game. When I was doing the interview, the boss made a whole duck feast, including duck meat, duck heads, and duck feet. , duck necks, duck eggs, everything that can be eaten from ducks, including braising, roasting, steaming, slag, etc. are all cooked within the time limit. After all, it is for them to promote, so there is no secret. , of course the secret recipe will not be known to Li Feng, but Li Feng has also learned a lot of these tips.
It’s just that wild ducks are hard to catch now. After all, these ducks can’t run, swim, or fly as well as domestic ducks. One has no guns, and the other has no arrows. It’s hard to catch even if you want to eat them. At present, I can only rely on these eggs to satisfy my hunger. Of course, it would be better if they could hatch them. It would be much better than now where I can only look at them but cannot touch them and eat them.
Now he misses all kinds of duck feasts made by that family so much that he is drooling like a baby. Li Feng wiped what looked like saliva around his mouth, and then took a deep breath. If there is no duck, we will eat duck eggs. Go home and make a whole-egg feast. Of course, you still have to leave some to try to hatch. You have to be motivated. As long as they can hatch, it will be enough to just raise ducks. By then, Li Feng would be the first person to tame domestic ducks, and the domestication of animals began with him.
"Then can we come over at any time to pick duck eggs?" Ruo stood nearby and listened, then came over to interrupt.
"Why are you everywhere?" Li Feng pulled his head away with one hand. "If the wild duck doesn't fly away, I think so. This way we can still come over and have a look in the winter." Li Feng I don’t know what the winter here is like. If it’s too cold, the nature of the birds will cause them to automatically find a warm place to spend the winter, and then fly back next year.
I don’t know how many birds and wild ducks there are in the reeds in front of me. After all, they all live in groups, and there will definitely be no shortage of various eggs. Judging from the fact that they can find so many near the shore, There are really a lot of them here, but it’s a pity that they can’t enter and dare not enter. You will definitely get lost as soon as you enter, even if you have a boat. This is just like a forest on land. However, the forest is much better than here. You can also rely on plants to tell the direction in the forest. Here, they are all reed people. Everyone will be dizzy.
"Hey, I'm asking you hello very seriously, don't ignore my presence." Suo called from the side. Although Li Feng had already answered him, he felt that Li Feng was ignoring him, and it was definitely not because of him. He asked Li Feng before answering. It must be what he suddenly wanted to say. It was really sad.
Li Feng was too lazy to pay attention to him. He was now going to search the shore to see if he could find duck eggs or other eggs. Wild ducks also like to find a soft, thatched place on the shore to lay their eggs. They are all now He was habitually searching in the reeds, but forgot about this. Of course, he just remembered it.
Li Feng asked Lai Mo and the other children to look around, but not to go too far, because they would go back soon. He also gave each of them a reed pole and asked them to push away the grass. Slow down and be careful. There are too many poisonous things in snakes, insects, rats and ants, so it’s better to be careful.
Don't tell me, Li Feng was right. Not long after, he heard the cheers of the children. It seemed that they had found a place with eggs. Of course, there were so many females inside that might have hatched eggs. People came together and were scared away.
Li Feng and the others rushed over together. In the grass on the shore and on the embankment on the shore, there were many dead branches and trees. There were a few to more than a dozen nests. The embankment was very long. , there will be no shortage of eggs. However, it is getting dark now, and they cannot wait too long. Once they have collected almost all the eggs nearby, they have to go back quickly, especially Lu Mao and the others. They picked a lot. Li Feng has to go back quickly and get these Mao Weng shoes out, so that he can teach others, and then he can collect more reed hair, so as not to miss the growth period of the reed hair, and then the gain outweighs the loss. For so much It's really not worth it if duck eggs cause frostbite or freeze to death. After all, the body is the capital of revolution.
Moreover, they still have various kinds of meat that can still support them. They don't have to rush to pick up eggs. They can have them at any time. This reed hair doesn't wait for anyone. When it matures, you can only see the sky full of it. The reed hair blew with the wind.
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