Tongxin Village Primary School has more than 50 students from the first grade to the sixth grade. Teacher Zhao and another teacher Yan teach six classes, and all subjects are covered.
When Mr. Zhao told everyone that we would go to Haijiao Zoo as usual this year—no, it should be called Lingyuan Zoo now—the primary school students cheered.
The senior students were still discussing: "I'm going to see Shasha, it must still remember me."
"Nonsense, it's obviously lightning..."
Because they go there once a year, they even named the animals. It's just that everyone's starting point is different, and it's easy to fight.
On the podium, Teacher Zhao repeatedly emphasized the precautions and time for going out the day after tomorrow.
On the third day, the students of Tongxin Primary School gathered in front of the teaching building and lined up in two lines, with the latter student pulling the hem of the previous one.
But in a group of students, Teacher Zhao saw a strange face, "Little classmate, you are not a student of our school, where are your parents?"
This child looks like a fourth grader. He looks white and tender, and he is cleanly dressed, but the expression on his face is not very happy. Mr. Zhao basically knows all the children in Tongxin Village, but he has never seen this child.
"Teacher, he is my cousin. He came to play at my house yesterday. My parents told him to come with me." Another child raised his hand and said.
"Zhang Shun, this is your brother? Doesn't he have to go to school?" Teacher Zhao was a little helpless. Zhang Shun's parents had to go to work in the fields every day. In the past, if there were relatives and children living here, Zhang Shun might not be able to attend class. He persuaded him repeatedly. We must let Zhang Shun come to school. Now it's better, Zhang Shun doesn't skip class, but brings relatives along.
"That's right, my brother is on vacation! He is a student of Experimental Primary School, and they are on vacation!" Zhang Shun said proudly.
The other students didn't notice anything wrong, but looked at Zhang Shun's brother enviously. Teacher Zhao felt that something was wrong. How could the school be on holiday at this time, but he didn't say anything, but asked Zhang Shun's brother gently, "Then let's go outdoors with us today. What's your name?"
"My name is Zhao Bo." The child said in a low voice.
Of course, Zhao Bo didn't come here because the school was on holiday. He fought with his classmates at school, was ordered to go home by the teacher, and then was thrown to the countryside by his parents, who said they would make him suffer.
Zhao Bo rarely came to Zhang Shun's house, and he never stayed overnight, but Zhang Shun occasionally went to his house to play. Only one day here, Zhao Bo died of pain, no air conditioner, no computer, mobile phone confiscated, nothing to play, cousin can play with mud, what the hell is going to the zoo today...
Teacher Zhao explained the precautions to Zhao Bo again, and asked Zhang Shun to take his cousin with him, and then announced the departure. Everyone lined up and walked to the main road first, and then waited for the bus.
Before arriving at the zoo, Zhang Shun couldn't help but happily introduce his old friend to his cousin, "Cousin, there is such a big lion in the zoo, which is very loud, and there are monkeys..."
Zhao Bo was very impatient to hear Zhang Shun muttering, "What's the matter, there are a group of lions in the city zoo, tigers, crocodiles, camels, giant pandas..."
Zhao Bo counted a lot of animals in one breath, and then added: "Hmph, I don't even like to go, the zoo is nothing fun."
Zhang Shun was very yearning to hear that, and was also very surprised that Zhao Bo didn't like to go to the zoo. If he lived in the urban area, he would like to go to the zoo mentioned by his cousin every weekend.
When Zhang Shun's classmates heard Zhao Bo's words, they racked their brains to find out the difference in the Lingyuan Zoo, but after much deliberation, Zhao Bo reported all the animals there, and Zhao Bo reported more of the animals that weren't there.
In the end, he could only say in anticipation: "...there is a cape park next to the zoo."
— This is really nothing to brag about in the zoo. They go to the zoo every year and see no animals growing, but the lions are getting thinner every year.
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The students twittered and chattered all the way to "Haijiao Park Station", got off here, and went to the nearby Lingyuan Zoo.
The zoo hadn't opened yet, and the gate was locked. Teacher Zhao took out his mobile phone and called Duan Jiaze. Not long after, Xiao Su ran over to open the gate.
"Hello, Teacher Zhao, our garden director is taking care of the new birds." Xiao Su and Teacher Zhao shook hands, "I'm Xiao Su, this time I'm here to accompany you to visit."
"Thank you, I'm sorry to trouble you." Teacher Zhao said with a smile. In fact, they are already familiar with the way here, and in the past, Haijiao Zoo would not specially ask people to accompany them.
But after walking in, Teacher Zhao knew why. It's not that the zoo values them particularly, but at first glance it seems that there are no other employees at all.
The conditions of the cages in this zoo are very simple, unlike the larger zoos, which are completely separated from tourists by glass. Visitors here are easy to climb over the guardrails, and it is safe to have staff watching.
But in front of him, all he could see was a male breeder who was busy feeding the monkeys not far away, and Duan Jiaze was also said to be taking care of the poultry, no wonder he simply let Xiao Su follow them...
Teacher Zhao and Teacher Yan naturally have a set of explanatory notes, and they visited the cages step by step and explained them to the students.
As soon as he walked to the opposite side of the cage and saw the animals inside, Teacher Zhao was startled and asked Xiao Su: "Have you introduced new lions?"
"No?" Xiao Su is also a newcomer, so she doesn't know very well, "The director said that these are all left from Haijiao before, so there shouldn't be any."
"No?" Mr. Zhao and Mr. Yan looked at each other. Last time he didn't come in to look at it. Looking at it now, the spirit and momentum are quite different from before. The fur on his body is clean, smooth, and shiny, and his eyes are very energetic. Although he is lying there, he is not as listless as before.
Under the watchful eyes of the children, the lion stood up and roared loudly, ten times more domineering than before. It scared a junior elementary school student who came here for the first time to cry.
Xiao Su knocked on the railing with a stick, and the lion turned around and lay back, and then comforted the child, "Don't cry, look, the lion doesn't roar anymore."
Teacher Zhao was even more surprised. The lion was not so obedient before. The breeder at that time was not formal at all, and the lion couldn't even fix a place for excretion.
"Is this what you trained?" Teacher Zhao asked.
"What's the training?" Xiao Su said blankly, "I'm not a breeder, I'm the accountant." And although she helped feed them these few days, she never fed large animals.
"Trained by someone else? Then I think it listens to you." Teacher Zhao said with a smile.
Xiao Su scratched her head, also confused, "I don't know, maybe the head of the garden asked someone to train me, and it's my first time knocking, I think they all do this."
Both of them are not experts, and they didn't go into it at all. Mr. Zhao started to tell everyone the story of the lion, what is the hometown of the lion, and what are its habits.
Although the students were happy, the older children came here a lot, so they didn't listen to Mr. Zhao very much. They lay on the guardrail in small groups to watch the lions.
"Look here, Thunderbolt!"
"Wow, it has grown up, I really want to touch its fur."
Zhang Shun's cousin, Zhao Bo, was also startled by the lion's roar just now, but quickly went back to make amends, "What is this, I have seen several lions roaring together, the sound is much louder than this..."
Teacher Yan asked Xiao Su from the side, "Your garden has reopened, have you introduced any new animals?"
"Yes, we have introduced a lot of birds, and one came today. There are also sea... um, ornamental fish." Xiao Su almost slipped her mouth and revealed the aquarium. Ever since Duan Jiaze said that, they would jokingly call that tank of ornamental fish.
"Then let's go see the birds later!" Teacher Yan said.
After visiting the only beast in the garden, Xiao Su took them to the birdhouse.
The breeding place of this bird is also very simple, as can be seen from its name of the bird shed. It's just in a shed with a rough fence, with many birdcages hanging up and down at random.
You can see from a distance, Duan Jiaze is standing in the shed playing with a bird, that bird is the only one that has not entered the cage, it landed on Duan Jiaze's arm, the color is as bright as fire, and it is quite big. nice.
Teacher Zhao adjusted his glasses, "Is that a parrot?"
Teacher Yan: "The mouth doesn't look alike."
They are not professionals either, and after two sentences of discussion, there is no further discussion.
Compared with what I saw last time, there are dozens more cages in the birdhouse, making it even more crowded. But when they got close, Teacher Zhao discovered a detail, that is, the doors of all the birdcages were not closed.
The outer fence can be passed through with one arm, and the birds don't fly away without closing the cage? Could it be that this is also the result of training
Looking at the side, next to the bird shed, the big cage where a pair of peacocks lived next to each other didn't even close the door. The two peacocks swayed, walked into the bird shed, and squatted at Duan Jiaze's feet.
The colorful birds are still very attractive, especially the peacocks. The children are excitedly shouting to them: "Open the screen! Quickly open the screen!"
Duan Jiaze said hello to Teacher Zhao, and after his introduction, he said hello to Teacher Yan.
The two teachers sighed: "Compared with before, there are still changes here. There are more lion spirits and more birds. What kind of bird is this in your hand? It's so beautiful?"
"Birds can also be raised free-range, the training is really good!"
"This is the Golden Crow..." Duan Jiaze chuckled.
That's right, what is squatting on his shoulders now is the last three-legged Golden Crow in the Three Realms, Lu Ya's original form—shrunk down and put away the third leg.
"Golden Crow? This species is so fresh, it must be very rare, so beautiful." Teacher Zhao boasted.
"Yes, it's very rare." Duan Jiaze saw Lu Ya's head raised, he didn't know how arrogant he was, and echoed a few words, "By the way, we actually have a little show for you little students."
As expected, the name has been changed and the owner has been changed. It's really a big difference. Now there are still performances. In the past, at most, it made monkeys do somersaults.
"That's great," Mr. Zhao clapped his hands. "Students, please be quiet. The elder brother said that the little birds have a show. Do you want to watch it?"
"Think!!" the primary school students shouted in unison.
Zhang Shun yelled the loudest, and he still tugged on Zhao Bo's sleeve, "Cousin, do the birds in the city zoo also have a show?"
Zhao Bo said disdainfully: "Why not, the parrots there can still talk and count."
Zhang Shun stared at a parrot in the birdhouse, "Maybe ours will too..."
"Dao Jun, it's up to you." Duan Jiaze whispered, raised his hand, and let Lu Ya fly.
Lu Ya rolled his eyes at Duan Jiaze—it felt like killing chickens with a sledgehammer, but who made them small, even he, Daoist Lu Ya, had to take the lead in performing arts. In order to get Lu Ya to sit on the stage (?), Duan Jiaze had to spend a lot of time talking.
Lu Ya flew around the birdhouse, and saw those parrots, starlings, orioles... one by one, jumping to the mouth of the cage, and then flew out with flapping wings, circling with Lu Ya. As Lu Yafei made several laps, all the birds were out of the cage and followed him in circles.
At first, they flew along the walls of the shed, and later they had a route, shuttling between the gaps of the high and low birdcages, as if to show off their flying skills.
"Wow-"
This scene is really a little spectacular.
Wild geese flying south are also in groups, and sparrows are also in groups on the treetops. But groups of different birds fly in such a neat formation, and even show off their skills, which has never been seen on TV.
Zhao Bo, who originally pretended to look elsewhere to show his disdain, forgot to pretend and stared at the group of birds without taking his eyes off it. He felt very sorry that his parents confiscated his mobile phone, otherwise he would take a picture of the scene in front of him and show it to his classmates when he returned to school, it would definitely be an eye-opener for them.
Duan Jiaze was happy to see that the program he had arranged was good, and coughed to remind him of the next step.
Lu Ya made a U-turn and landed on Duan Jiaze's head. Duan Jiaze also tried to smile, not to let people see that Lu Ya was scratching his head on purpose.
The remaining dozens of birds also scattered in all directions, one or two flew out from the gap in the fence.
Teacher Zhao screamed, just about to say that they were going to fly away, but saw that the birds did not fly to the blue sky, but landed on the heads and shoulders of the pupils one by one.
All of a sudden, there was a louder cry.
The primary school students cheered and screamed, and some of them didn't dare to move, for fear of scaring away the birds on their bodies.
There was a colorful parrot parked on Zhao Bo's body, but he was so excited that he was still bored at the beginning, "Shunzi, look! My parrot!"
There was also a bird on Zhang Shun's body, it was a chubby pearl bird, but he didn't recognize it, "I, this one is so cute, teacher, what kind of bird am I?"
"Ah! I can't see my head, what kind of bird is on my head?"
Even a squirrel was parked on Mr. Zhao's shoulder. He kept shouting in disbelief, not knowing how this was trained.
But there were more than 50 students, and all the birds in the aviary perched on one person, and there were a few students who didn't. Seeing that everyone had birds on them, but I didn't, I almost cried and rolled.
Teacher Zhao and Teacher Yan hurriedly held the bird on their bodies, just like that, there were still two students missing.
"Woooooooo—I want it too, I want it too!"
"Teacher, why didn't I, oh, the little bird doesn't like me..."
Teacher Zhao looked at Duan Jiaze for help.
"Don't worry, classmate," Duan Jiaze took a bamboo pole and drove the two peacocks out, "This belongs to both of you!"
For a moment, the poor little girl became the object of everyone's envy.
The two children were overjoyed.
The two seemed to be quite human, and they were each following a student, and the male peacock even fluttered its tail feathers and opened its tail——
The colorful and fancy feathers unfolded among the crowd like a fan, and the peacock raised its head to show off its gorgeous colorful feathers, which caused bursts of exclamation and onlookers.
"Kids, please pay attention, you can pet the birds, but you can't pinch them, otherwise they will fly away." Duan Jiaze reminded, "Next, these birds will accompany you to visit the zoo and be your escorts until You get out of the zoo—as long as you love them, okay?"
Duan Jiaze was thinking about how to use limited resources to attract tourists. Naturally, he wanted to play with flowers from animals. This was an experiment.
Projects such as animal escorts are not easy to promote, otherwise there will be insufficient manpower to ensure the safety of the birds, and if there are too many, it will not be so precious. It is feasible to interact with a small number of tourists randomly. Just looking at the enthusiastic responses of these children in front of you, you will know that it is very attractive and can increase the rate of returning.
Right now, facing Duan Jiaze's question, the fifty or so people shouted like five hundred people, "Okay!"