Song Tan sometimes felt that the little bit of spiritual energy she gave might be too much for Dabai's physique, so it has grown taller and stronger in recent months.
Now it stands there, cackles a few times, and flaps its little wings. When the big black dogs in other villages see it, they tuck their tails between their legs and step aside.
Now, standing in the chicken coop with its huge body, it makes the little chicks with their messy fur looking up at it look particularly delicate and pitiful.
It stood there with its wings spread out, and there was a fierce look in Doudou's eyes, which made Qiao Qiao stunned for a moment.
Then he asked, "Dabai, what are you doing?"
Hearing the movement of its owner, Dabai made a "click" sound, then flapped its wings and dived into Qiao Qiao's arms.
A rough goose-like sound came out of his throat and the strong man shed tears, as if he had suffered some great injustice.
However, just as Qiao Qiao was about to touch it to comfort it, he saw that Dabai seemed to have gained courage again, and now he rushed towards the chicken coop again, flapping his wings!
This chicken coop is a neat little red brick house built by Song Youde and his father in early spring. The house is used for keeping warm at night, and they have a sunshade outside for eating and drinking.
The chicken usually runs around all over the back mountain. The fences around it are very high, and with Dawang and Dabai watching over it, there is no need to worry about weasels or other people coming to steal it.
They eat a lot, poop a lot, and run a lot every day. Song Tan has imagined countless times what it would taste like to stew them in a pot.
Now, the chicks were all standing in the shed outside, and the chicken coop was pitch black. Qiao Qiao was just about to stick his head out to take a look, but he saw Dabai had already made a "click" sound, stretched his neck and rushed in.
Although the entrance to the chicken coop was made small to make it easier to catch chickens, its fat butt was stuck.
But this did not prevent Dabai from squeezing in successfully.
All I heard was a strange mixture of gurgling and cackle sounds inside. Not long after, I saw Dabai's goose beak sucking hard on a furry neck, and then, with one step at a time, it dragged the things inside out!
The guy has a round head, a small pointed mouth, a white top of the head, two white bags under the lower eyelids, and mottled fur on his body.
Even after walking a long way, the tail feathers were still dragging in the chicken coop and not fully exposed...
Qiao Qiao was stunned.
Then he watched as Dabai opened his mouth with a "click" sound, and the little guy next to him hung his head, curled up into a ball, his fur half exploded, but he didn't dare to move.
A few long tail feathers dragged on the ground, looking particularly pitiful and yet particularly familiar.
He was stunned for a while—
Isn’t this the long-tailed pheasant that was held under the feet of Sanbao and Sibao in the vegetable garden a few days ago
Why are you in the chicken coop
Qiao Qiao squatted down and looked at the pheasant carefully. The pheasant's small eyes also looked at him carefully. The man and the pheasant looked at each other, and soon they each gathered their eyeballs together.
It wasn't until Dabai made a "Ga" sound and slapped his big brother hard that Qiao Qiao finally reacted, and then turned around twice in confusion:
"I, I'm going to go find my sister."
He stopped feeding the pigs, Da Wang and Da Bai, and threw down the two buckets and ran back.
Now we have moved to my grandfather's house, but it took a while to bring the person over. When we heard that the pheasant had run to the chicken coop, the whole family, young and old, rushed over.
At this moment, under the watchful eyes of everyone, the pheasant remained as obedient as a farmer squatting in the field, not moving at all.
When he saw so many people coming, he just made the same "gu" sound as he did in the vegetable garden before.
It seemed to have become numb. It even lowered its head and pecked at the grass in front of it, swallowing something.
This time, even Song Tan was a little speechless—
"Is this the pheasant we saw in the vegetable garden?"
"I think so." Wu Lan said solemnly, "Look at the way it eats, it's exactly the same as the one in the vegetable garden."
Zhang Yanping asked quietly from behind: "But why does she live in a chicken coop? Why? Isn't freedom important?"
Everyone looked at each other.
Song Tan: …
She had some guesses... Could it be that the leaves, stalks and roots of the vegetables she fed the chickens every day attracted this pheasant
After all, there are only a few treasures watching over the vegetable garden, and they work so hard but can only eat one or two bites, which is not enough to fill their stomachs.
Living in the chicken coop, I just eat and drink with the chickens every day. Although the quality is not as good as that in the vegetable garden, it makes up for the quantity!
I haven’t seen you for a few days, and your head looks even rounder!
But the problem is, although the long-tailed pheasant is beautiful, it lives in a chicken coop. Whether its long tail feathers can stretch out is one thing, but whether it affects other chickens is more important!
But if we drive them away again, this mountain is not completely covered with nets, and pheasants can fly and flutter, so can't they come and visit us at will
Song Tan took out his phone painfully:
"I'll report this to the branch secretary."
She took a photo of the overly well-behaved pheasant "Kacha" and then contacted the other party directly.
Not long after, the village party secretary sent a voice message: "Don't move, don't hurt this pheasant, it's a protected animal. Release it if you can!"
What she said is, if she could release the animals, why would she need to report it
Long-tailed pheasants are rare, but they do exist!
Song Tan explained the situation clearly, but the village party secretary did not respond for a long time.
After a long time, there was only one sentence -
"Wait a minute, I'll be right there."
The village office was some distance away from here, and Song Tan originally thought he would have to wait for a while, but he never expected that the young branch secretary would drive directly over here.
When she groped her way to the back of the mountain, she was also stunned:
"You really didn't catch this?"
"Why would I catch it?" Song Tan was helpless: "If you can't eat it or keep it, what's the point of it looking pretty?"
"But now it lives in my chicken coop. Look, so many people are watching it and it won't leave. To be honest, the last time it stole leaves from the vegetable garden, it was held down by two dogs. Today it appeared in the chicken coop again. It's obvious that it wants to take root!"
"Wait," Zhu Jun stopped her, "Your dog is catching pheasants in the field? You need to teach it a lesson!"
Song Tan looked back innocently: "How to educate?"
Ah this.
The young branch secretary was also stuck.
After a pause, she asked again, "How do you know for sure this is the one in the field?"
Can't there be two
Song Tan was uncertain at first.
But if you look closely, you can see that there is a white hair on the back of this guy's head growing outwards, which is particularly eye-catching, so you can be sure of it.
Oh my goodness!
Zhu Jun was also very troubled: "Try to get it outside the net..."
Song Tan took two steps forward, stretched out his hand to grab the pheasant's neck and threw it out of the fence. Zhu Jun was very nervous:
"Be careful, Guoyi!
Give me some face!
!”
However, as soon as he finished speaking, the pheasant that was thrown out flapped its wings in mid-air, and then made two "cuckoo" sounds, and then fluttered back to the chicken coop.
This time it didn't even lie down, but walked to the sink and drank two sips of water, then squatted down again steadily.