While Zhang An was strolling by the river, he walked to a reed field and sat up.
I took out a few crisp and tender reed cores and put them in my mouth. They tasted pretty good and sweet.
There were a few wild ducks floating on the river not far away, looking for food in the water.
Suddenly he heard a sound in the reeds beside him, and Zhang An thought it was a big fish stranded.
I got up and looked for it, and I saw several wild ducks emerging from the reeds.
Did he just lay an egg?
Wild ducks will build nests in the reeds along the river and lay their eggs inside.
Many people go inside to look for wild ducks every time they see them coming out of the river.
Zhang An had found it several times when he came to swim before.
Although I took the eggs home, I also had Wang Fang's meal of fried pork with bamboo shoots.
Because Wang Fang had never allowed Zhang An to play in the river, but it couldn't be stopped. Several friends of the same age went there as soon as he shouted.
Zhang An lowered his head and searched in the reed grass for a long time without finding it. He thought he was about to give up.
Looking further ahead, I saw that the water in front was already a little deep, and these ducks had actually built their nests so far away.
No wonder, this patch of reed grass is so big.
Zhang An pulled his pants onto his thighs, walked over and started looking for them.
During this search, we found three or four nests, and each one contained duck eggs.
I reached out and touched it, and it was still a little warm. The ducks must have been squatting inside and laying eggs just now.
Otherwise there would be no way it would still be hot in this nest.
Fortunately, no one had come to dig out this area, so Zhang An took out forty or fifty duck eggs from four nests.
However, Zhang An did not kill them all, and still left several eggs in each nest.
Because once the duck eggs in the nest are picked out, if the ducks come back and there are no eggs in the nest, they will not continue to lay eggs in this nest, but will build a nest in another place.
But as long as a few are left inside, those ducks will continue to lay eggs here.
The small backpack Zhang An brought out today was not big to begin with, and it was almost full when I put forty or fifty duck eggs in it.
In line with the principle of not revealing his wealth, Zhang An still covered it with a layer of grass.
I was lucky today. I came to set off the net and actually picked up a bunch of duck eggs.
Nowadays, eggs can basically be sold for 4 to 50 cents each, while duck eggs are even more expensive, usually 70 to 80 cents. The larger ones can be sold for one piece, which is the same price as goose eggs.
There is actually not much difference from later generations, but this is because the current output is small, while the output of artificial breeding farms in later generations is large, so egg food is entirely due to volume.
Of course, the price of local eggs and duck eggs is extremely high.
When I got home, my mother was still picking up the soles of her shoes.
"Mom, let me show you something good." Zhang An chuckled.
"What a good thing, you caught another fish?" Wang Fang responded to Zhang An while stringing the needle back and forth on the sole of the shoe.
Zhang An held the grass away from the basket, and a basket of green duck eggs was exposed in front of Wang Fang's eyes.
"Did you buy this? No, these eggs are from teal ducks." He looked at his mother looking at him.
"Yes, at the flooded pond, when I went to set the net, I found several water ducks emerging from the reeds. I went in to search and found several nests."
"Are they all water ducks? Don't let anyone's duck in the village lay the eggs. They will cause trouble later."
Wang Fang is still a little worried.
"No, Mom, no one in the village raises this thing. The water ducks don't have a home. They can't run away after raising them. Who knows how to raise them? And I read it right. There are seven or eight in that group.
Woolen cloth."
"That's good. Have you left any eggs in the nest?"
"Yes, there are three or four in each nest."
Mom looked at the basket of duck eggs and was obviously very happy.
Of course, if you sell this basket of eggs for dozens of dollars, how can you be unhappy?
The meat of this water duck is actually very delicious, and the egg laying rate is very high and the eggs are big, but it is very delicate and a little difficult to catch.
You can't catch this thing in the water unless you set a trap.
Someone in the village had raised ducks before, but they were fine when they were still young and would go home.
But when they grow up, they will not come back if they are released, or they will have to be kept in a cage. However, they grow slowly and the eggs they lay are not big, so they have to be taken care of regularly.
So later on, no one wanted to keep this thing, and they basically sold it or put it in the pot as soon as they caught it.
But Zhang An felt in his heart that he had some space, and he could try to get these ducks back and raise them when the time came.
The worst that can happen is that he will be locked up in the space for a few more days.
When I went to close the net at night, I found that there was nothing in the net, but it did not affect Zhang An.
Because there are fish or there are no fish, there must be fish here in Zhang An.
After all, lowering the net is just an excuse to bring out the fish in the space.
Although it is getting dark soon, you can still see it.
The group of ducks on the river not far away was still on the river, so Zhang An just did what he said.
Space spring water has an invisible attraction to animals, judging from the behavior of the three tigers and two pigs at home.
So Zhang An put some spring water into the water on the river bank and floated it along the river to the center of the river.
Sure enough, after waiting for a while, the ducks began to notice something strange in the water.
Then he slowly swam towards Zhang An.
If there is an animal next to Zhang An now, you can see Zhang An's body glowing.
Just when Zhang An was happy, a trace of coldness passed through his palm in the water, as if he had been licked by something.
He lowered his head and looked, holy shit, a big water snake was attracted to him.
No matter how hard Zhang An tried to drive it away, he couldn't get rid of the snake. He had to move it into the space first because he was afraid of scaring the ducks that were about to come over.
After the ducks swam over, Zhang An quickly caught all seven ducks and put them all into the space.
Then he found the water snake that he had just taken in and let it out again. Zhang An didn't like this guy very much, so he didn't want to take it in.
After a few ducks came in, Zhang An could actually see that they were very happy.
Why, these losers are actually eating fish in the pond.
And what they eat is fine-scaled fish, not grass carp.
This is all money, Zhang An's heart is bleeding.
It would be great if these ducks could stop eating fish and eat the grass next to them.
Unexpectedly, as soon as this idea came up, the duck stopped eating the fish in the pond and ran towards the grass and started eating grass.
Damn it, can I control it at will in space?
Then the idea came up that I wanted to pick a peach.
So a peach fell off the branch from the tree and floated into my hand.
This discovery surprised Zhang An. It saved Zhang An a lot of things, such as digging the fish pond by himself.
Although there is spring water to relieve fatigue, I am really tired.
After the ducks were full, they began to squat in the grass and sleep. Zhang An was extremely envious.
I got some fish fry in the space. Zhang An originally wanted to pick some grass carp and fine-scaled fry to take back.
But now there is no need to go to such trouble. Zhang An can bring up whatever fish he wants.
Although the fine-scaled fish can only grow up in a turbulent environment, with space at hand and spring water that has a magical effect on animals, there is no need to worry about their growth problems.
Just don't raise too much, just a little bit. Too much will easily attract others' attention.
After putting the fish fry in a small basin, Zhang An went back home.
When you get to the yard, put the fry directly into the pond.
The fish fry, which were originally in a panic, calmed down as Zhang An poured some spring water into the pond. Zhang An also took advantage of the darkness to get some water plants from the space and put them in.
After taking one look and feeling quite satisfied, I went inside.
As soon as they stepped up the steps, three tigers surrounded Zhang An, ready to play with Zhang An.
These three puppies are growing up so fast, they look different every day.
Although his physique has not changed much now, he has become slightly more ferocious, which makes Zhang An feel more and more that the male dog bred at that time must be unusual.
I don’t know why it was paired with a big gray dog.