"Morning Ga, if you don't catch the bird... to Ga..."
Gu Heju almost understood Xu Chen's intention at this time and couldn't help but remind him.
After working hard and waiting for more than an hour, the trap was destroyed twice in succession and the birds were scared away. It is estimated that this method is useless.
Xu Chen got up with a twitching face.
At the same time, his stubborn temper was also aroused.
If it hadn't been for a group of long-legged cranes causing trouble, there might have been a chance of success.
And he was convinced that his plan was feasible.
Although these primitive birds were more vigilant, they were far less likely to have contact with humans after the population explosion of that era, so their vigilance was obviously much worse. At least these cranes just ate all the small fish that were used as bait under the cloth.
Already.
Wild ducks are small, so if you want to eat them, you have to get in. Then the opportunity will come.
So under Xu Chen's command, Gu and Ju once again used weeds to pierce more than a dozen small fish and shrimps, and then changed positions to continue setting traps.
This time the waiting time was longer. After the three of them hid for more than half an hour, some water birds started to fly over to look for food.
Perhaps due to being frightened the first two times, very few long-legged cranes came, and many of them were wild ducks and geese that landed one after another. Slowly, the river bend began to become lively again.
Several wild ducks discovered the fish and shrimp under the trap and began to get closer to observe.
Xu Chen suddenly became nervous and excited.
It's been two hours since I left the house, and I haven't even had a chance to make a move.
But now the opportunity seems to have come.
Several wild ducks circled around the trap several times, probably not seeing any danger. Finally, one couldn't help but get in and start eating. While eating, he quacked and called out to his companions, so the remaining ducks followed suit.
Go in.
In the distance, wild ducks kept flapping their wings and rushing over.
Soon after, Xu Chen pulled hard, and the long rope suddenly bounced out of the water plants. The moment the short stick flew away, the huge rattan basket came down.
Some wild ducks escaped from under the cover of the cane basket, but there were still a few trapped inside, flapping their wings and screaming in fear.
"Boom~~"
The sudden change caused the entire river bend to explode instantly.
Hundreds of wild birds, large and small, flew up into the sky and flew around in panic.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Almost as soon as the rattan basket fell, Xu Chen stood up from the grass, rushed into the water like a rabbit and held the rattan basket tightly.
"Wow~"
Gu and Ju both exclaimed at the same time. After staying for a moment, they rushed out from the grass. They jumped up and held down the rattan basket, their bodies trembling slightly with excitement.
The long wait finally paid off.
A few wild ducks were still struggling and screaming under the cane basket, but they were unable to shake the cane basket in the slightest.
The three of them didn't let go, and kept pressing the button for more than ten minutes. After the wild ducks inside finally exhausted their physical strength, they slowly stopped. Xu Chen then ordered Gu to take back the rope, and then opened a gap in the rattan basket.
He reached in and grabbed a wild duck, folded its wings and tied them with a rope.
Then he followed the same pattern, and soon all the wild ducks inside were caught and tied into a bunch.
There were five in total, all mallards.
"Quack, quack, quack..."
The caught wild duck struggled and screamed in fear.
"Quack, quack, quack..."
Gu and Ju each caught two wild ducks, laughing so hard that they howled like ghosts and wolves.
Xu Chen also held one in his hand and smiled from ear to ear. He stroked the soft and smooth feathers of the wild duck with his hands and felt a happiness of the great beauty of life.
Catching five at once was far beyond his hunting plan.
Originally, according to his idea, the wild ducks were large, and he estimated that he could only catch one or two at a time.
But he didn't expect these wild ducks to be much less vigilant than he thought.
Although he ran away a few, he was very satisfied.
If he hadn't rushed up quickly enough, the rattan basket would have been overturned by the group of wild ducks, and his efforts would have been wasted.
"Let's call it a day and go home!"
This success has greatly frightened the flock of birds, and the chance of success in continuing to cast the net is very low. In addition, after catching these wild ducks, they still need to find a place to raise them. Once the duck cages are ready, we can take our time.
If you want to have a stable supply of eggs, five ducks are obviously not enough.
Soon the three of them packed up and left the river bend, happily carrying a few quacking wild ducks home.
The river bend became quiet, and after a long time, water birds slowly came down to feed.
Mother and a group of women were sitting in the yard spinning and weaving in the sun.
During the autumn and winter last year, we harvested several hundred kilograms of ruderalis several times.
The most primitive spindle spun thread at an extremely slow speed. One person could only spin half a kilogram in a day, and weaving was even slower.
More than twenty women had to take care of everyone's food, drink, and collect food. There was less work in winter, and the output was pretty good for a while. Dozens of pieces of cloth were accumulated, and hundreds of kilograms of hemp thread were spun.
But since moving down the mountain, there have been more things to do, including cleaning up houses, making straw mats, and clearing wasteland for farming. In addition, food is scarce in spring, and women spend more time collecting wild vegetables to ensure food supply, so they spend more time spinning and weaving.
It's even more fragmented.
However, the yards and houses have been almost tidied up recently, and the farmland has been a little idle after weeding once, so a group of women began to seize the time to spin and weave again.
But if you want to weave hundreds of kilograms of burlap into cloth, it will probably take a long time.
A group of women were chatting and laughing about their work, when they suddenly heard a squeaking sound outside the door, and then the little wolf also followed suit. When they were surprised, they saw Xu Chen and the other two people were all wet.
When they came in, in addition to the rattan nets they were carrying, everyone was holding a few quacking wild ducks in their hands.
"Bird quack!"
Seeing the three people returning home with their loads, a group of women were surprised and happy. Some people quickly dropped their spindles and came over to help catch the wild ducks.
Two tool men who were working on weaving baskets also dropped their work with surprised faces and came around to see what was strange.
In the morning, Xu Chen carried a cane basket and said he wanted to go out to catch birds. They thought Xu Chen was just bored and having fun, but they didn't expect that in less than half a day, he actually caught a few wild ducks.
Duck is the name given by Fang Yun to this water bird with a flat beak and short legs.
In the past, they all called Bird Quack.
However, after Xu Chen started touching bird eggs, these wild birds began to have new names. The long-legged ones were called cranes, and the long-necked ones were called geese. But that was it. Xu Chen simply made a rough distinction based on their body characteristics.
, it is impossible to teach them the subdivided names of bar-headed geese and mallards. Anyway, they are all birds, and everything they eat is meat. There is no need to distinguish them so clearly.
Just like fish, all fish are called fish. There are only differences in size, not names.
"I'll kill Ga!"
The man with the tool was very enthusiastic and ready to untie the rope and help with the slaughter.
Xu Chen quickly threw away the rattan basket to protect the duck and said: "Don't kill it, raise it!"
Then all the men and women fell silent.
Xu Chen raised horses, wolves and monkeys.
It is indeed fun to raise these small animals, but it is just fun. The ponies are okay, they only need to eat grass, but the wolves and monkeys have to eat the same food as people every day, especially a group of monkeys, big and small.
There are more than ten of them, and they consume at least five adults' food every day, and they get angry when the food is bad.
Although a few beatings will do the trick, it is still annoying in the end, and it is a waste of food and is of no use.
At present, there is already a shortage of food, so Xu Chen wants to raise wild ducks.
These wild ducks still need to eat food every day, and it is mainly fish and shrimp. So in the future, people will have to be specially arranged to fish fish and shrimp from the river to feed them.
"Chen Ga, Mo Yang Ga!" an older woman reminded worriedly.
"Moga Moga!"
All the women nodded in agreement.
Even Ye had a puzzled look on his face, his little head clicking like a chicken pecking at rice.
After raising wolves and monkeys, they can be of some use after all. They can help look after the yard and even occasionally help carry some things.
But these ducks seem to have no use except for quacking.
In addition, wild duck meat is much more delicious than fish.
I eat fish every day recently, and these ducks look so fat...
Although I slept with Xu Chen last night, my little savage cousin's heart that was hurt by being left out has been completely healed.
However, raising ducks is really useless, it is better to eat them.
Ye licked his lips and felt like he was drooling. A group of children gathered around him and called Ah Qi Gaga.