Evening.

At the intersection of the town's entrance to Sijiaping and Zhanbitou Farm, several people were sitting on the side of the road, and two of them were looking in the direction of the town from time to time.

There were five people in this group, two of them were old men with gray hair, a man and a woman looked like an old couple, and the remaining three were all young people in their twenties, about the same age, all three of them wore eyes and looked polite.

It's just that the three young people's bodies are a little thin, if it weren't for the big difference in appearance and height, they would look like three brothers.

The faces of the three young men were now a little impatient, and they kept looking towards the town, and one of them was still muttering from time to time why he hadn't come yet!

"Xiao Wu, don't be anxious, since people said that they would bring us, they will definitely come," the old man sitting on the suitcase gently slapped his leg and said to the short-eyed young man.

The short young man listened and said: "Teacher, I'm not worried about myself, but you and your sister are so old, and your health is a little bad, plus it's almost a day away, and it's an airplane and a car, I'm afraid you two can't bear it."

The old man smiled and said, "What is this, when I was young, I stayed with the teacher in the old forest in the southwest for a month or two, and you have also been to the old forest, so you know what it's like to stay there in the middle ......of summer."

Listening to the old man's eloquent talk, the short young man couldn't help but slander in his heart: You also said that when you were young, now you are almost seventy, how can you have the body of a young man!

Before the old man's words were finished, the old lady next to her opened her mouth and said to the old man with a smile: "Don't be reckless, you are so old, and you are still a dead duck with a hard mouth." First, drink some water and take the medicine with you."

After speaking, the old lady stood up, took out a small medicine box from the small bag she was carrying, poured out two or three pills from it, put them in the palm of her hand and handed them to the old man, and handed the kettle to the old man with the other hand.

Seeing that the old man swallowed the medicine, the old lady also looked at the entrance of the town, looked at the empty road, and couldn't help complaining: "Why don't these people have any concept of time at all, didn't they say that they would arrive at half past three, why are they almost four o'clock now and there is no one in sight."

The old man smiled and said: "There may be something delayed over there, we are hitchhiking, not hiring a car, wait patiently, maybe it will come soon."

The tallest of the three young people looked at the old man and asked, "Teacher Shang, are you really sure that those birds have not been discovered by outsiders?"

The old man laughed twice and said, "What if you are discovered, what if you are not discovered?"

The tall young man didn't know what to say, and being found out and the first time he found out were completely two thoughts.

To put it simply, if the bird has been discovered, and the name has been famous, then this time to pick up people's teeth, if it has never been discovered before, then the first to find out is fame and fortune, whether it is to ask the school for funds in the future, you can take it out and talk about it.

The old lady smiled and said to the tall young man: "Xiao Wang, you have also followed me for many years, don't you know anything about this thing, this time Professor Zuo sent something, you haven't compared it in the database?

The day after receiving the picture, that is, this morning, this group of people flew from the southern coastal city to the provincial capital by plane for more than three hours, and then changed cars to the county, and then took a taxi to the entrance of the town.

The old man and the old lady are both doing bird research, and in the field of bird research, the old couple are at the forefront of academics, and it can be said that they have devoted their lives to the protection and research of Chinese birds.

The reason was that Zuo Boguang heard that the birds on this side of the sea would actually help people grow things, and driven by curiosity, he took a photo of the bird and passed it to the old man who was thousands of miles away, wanting to ask the old man what kind of bird this was.

Who knew that the old man and the old lady were stunned when they saw the picture, because they had never seen this bird in their decades of bird research.

It looks a bit like a common acacia bird in the Jiangnan area, but the acacia bird does not have the long beak of the bird in the picture, the beak of the acacia bird is about half the length of the head, but this kind of bird, the beak length directly reaches twice the length of the acacia bird, and the shape is also flattened.

Nowadays, people always feel that they have a deep understanding of nature, but for many scholars, the creatures in nature are far less discovered than undiscovered. It is thought that the earth is well understood, but in the eyes of many scholars, humanity is still a long way from truly knowing the home on which we live.

The old couple received the picture from Zuo Boguang, and after a little comparison, they felt that they had found a new species of bird, so they hurried over, and with the help of Zuo Boguang, they were ready to wait for Zhang Jiusheng's team to return to the village to take a hitchhike to Sijiaping.

It's just that now it's almost half an hour before the agreed time, and the convoy hasn't appeared yet, which makes these people a little anxious.

A group of people were waiting for a hurry, when there was a sound of traffic coming from the direction of the town, and four pickup trucks were turning out of the town in a row and were heading towards them.

The pickup truck is small, the front of the car looks like the front of a van, the body is not large, and the maximum load is two or three tons.

When the convoy drove to the side of everyone, it slowly stopped, and a rough man in his forties rolled down the window and looked at the people on the ground.

"Is it Professor Shang?"

When the old man heard this, he immediately said, "It's me!"

"Come up!"

Hearing the old man say this, the driver pushed the door out of the car and jumped out.

"Just put the luggage in the back compartment or something, and the people will sit in the car, but two of the five of us will have to squeeze in the four cars," the driver said.

The old man smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm sorry for you."

"Don't talk about the trouble or anything, we usually get along well with Professor Zuo" After speaking, the driver shouted at the drivers of the cars behind: "Come and help!"

A few jumped down and put the luggage in the back compartment of the first car, the old man sat in the cab of the first car, the old lady sat in the second car, and the two of the three young people in the back squeezed it, anyway, there is no traffic police here, and no one checks for overloading or anything.

The place in the back compartment is wide, but it is only early spring, and shrinking in the back compartment for an hour can freeze people, and the driver does not dare to let the guests of Sijiaping Village suffer this crime.

The old man got into the car and talked to the driver while looking at the surrounding scenery.

"This one looks too desolate"

The driver smiled and said: "It's good to be close to Sijiaping Village, it's all yellow earth, I don't know how many years it has been deserted, not to mention anything else, just the road under this foot was made last year, it was originally a small dirt road, and the cattle can't run side by side, let alone run the car......."

The driver's master is also a chatter, the old man just asked, and he said a lot of things suddenly.

"By the way, what are you doing in Sijiaping Village?"

The old man said, "I look at the birds."

"Watching the birds?" the driver was curious.

But after thinking about it for a while, it became calm, there are many monsters in Sijiaping Village, and there are not many people in this group. There are two old men in the village who don't go home for the Chinese New Year, and they wander around the village all day long, either fishing or playing chess. It's two old blind wanderers, and there's something strange about a few more people who go to see the birds.

The old man opened his mouth and asked, "How is your income?"

"What's not satisfied!" the driver said with a smile: "It's close to home, and the work is light, and the income is four or five thousand yuan a month!"

"That's a little bit of a profit, isn't it?" When the old man heard that it was only four or five thousand yuan, he felt that this income was a bit small.

The driver smiled: "We can't compare with others, the small truck license is a blue card, we take a C license, and we can't drive a big car, and now even if it is a big car, a month to get more money than us, but the food and accommodation are in the car is also fortunate, we are guarding the door of the house, there is already a good income, every day after the delivery of goods and a small half a day at home, it is not hard."

The old man quickly figured out the bottom of the driver, and knew that the man next to him was a person who had no scheming, and was easy to satisfy.

It's just that the old man doesn't know that the salary of people here is generally very low, and the average person earns only 3,000 yuan a month, and the job of the driver master can be said to have made many people covetous.

It can't be compared with the developed coastal provinces and cities, where a house costs millions, and the best area in the county here is only 700,000 yuan for 100 square meters, and the consumption level is different.

An hour later, the driver saw two trees at the entrance of Sijiaping Village in the distance, so he said to the old man next to him: "Oh, there is Sijiaping Village over there!"

The old man looked up and felt extremely disappointed in his heart.

Because from here, Sijiaping Village is still not green at all, it is completely no different from the road, and it is all bare loess color as far as the eye can see, and there is no green and vibrant feeling everywhere in the photo.

"Is that Sijiaping Village?" said the old man.

The driver smiled and said: "If you want to go to Sijiaping, then it must be right, I have been running this road for almost a year, and I can run down with my eyes closed."

"Why can't you see the trees, you can't see the forest?" asked the old man.

The driver laughed twice: "Here you want to see the forest, you have to stand on the ridge of Sijiaping Village to look, where can you see here, if there are forests here, where are there people willing to move out."

The old man smiled and didn't respond, but the loss in his heart was still clearly written on his face.

The driver didn't speak when he saw it, smiled and continued to drive his car.

When the car climbed to the last four hurdles, the old man was not calm, because there were completely two different scenes in his sight.

On his left hand side is an endless loess slope, the sky is high and the earth is wide.

On his right-hand side is a verdant woodland stream, with small wildflowers all over the mountains, and from time to time a sea of flowers will appear in his eyes.

The old man knew at a glance that those flowers were white plums, pink peach blossoms, golden spring flowers, pink and white pear blossoms, and one by one the purple and red, like competing for beauty and beauty, and decorating a valley into the appearance of a paradise.

Just separated by a beam of earth, it can be said that it is two heavens of ice and fire.

Looking up, the world between the left hand is so wide that it makes people outrageous, and people can't help but think of the vast and majestic desert lonely smoke.

But looking down at the valley, there is a gentle and moving like the south of the Yangtze River, a stream like Bai Lian is embedded in the sea of green trees and flowers, and finally hidden behind the green hillside, like a dream.

"This, this, there is such a scene here!" The old man didn't believe his eyes a little, rubbed them, and looked at the different scenery on both sides, speechless.

Just as the old man was about to say something, he looked up and saw that further along the valley, seven or eight large tractors were constantly moving on the dirt slope, and the huge iron plough hanging behind the tractor dragged parallel soil ditches on the ground. A dark loess was left behind, and the turned and unturned loess showed a completely different color.

The driver said: "There is ploughing over there, and these four Ping villages are ready to do a big job this year, and it will cost a lot of money just to hire these tractors for a week." Alas, it's a pity that I'm not from Sijiaping Village."

Speaking of which, the driver couldn't help but feel a little lost.