Chapter 18: A Pair of Ravens
Qiu Hao couldn't help but be suspicious of the little gray wolf, but they are still young now, and they are waiting for half a month, and if the situation is not right, they will have to deal with it, Qiu Hao threw this idea into his mind, thought of the purpose of this trip, and asked: "Zhiling, I need a kind of bird, turn it into a spirit bird, and use it to warn and probe the way, you can help me refer to it!"
"The system searches for data comparison and judgment, and analyzes that most of the birds that meet the requirements of the host are resident birds, and the following five kinds of birds are provided: one pigeon, two crows, three parrots, four wrens, and five starlings."
Qiu Hao was puzzled: "The crow is smart, I know, so I won't talk about it, but why is the pigeon number one, and why is there no eagle?"
"The problem of affinity, the best standard refers to the existing poultry, the second is the quasi-poultry, and the wild birds of prey are the last."
"That's not right! Wrong! Many people have eagles, and they are very good at hunting and probing, so why did they come to you, and the eagles are the worst?"
"There are many factors to consider, success rate, safety issues, trainability issues, eagles are birds of prey, and their position in the biological chain is too high, resulting in their hearts being very ambitious, just like tigers, they can give in violently, but once they are turned into spirit birds, they may be difficult to control, and maybe they will lead to disasters."
"Ahem... According to your theory, it is indeed the most suitable poultry, but I am not reconciled, how can I know if I can't do it without trying? After all, poultry are very frustrating, and when I think of this, I think of chickens, ducks, and geese...... Alas! Qiu Hao sighed, he was also afraid that the spirit beast he had cultivated would cause trouble to the society, and he would blame himself.
"For safety reasons, it is recommended that the host should try to find domestic animals in the future, and the beasts are not safe."
"Don't talk about that, by the way, what do you mean by 'quasi-poultry'?"
"Quasi-poultry are birds that have good social habitation, are willing to get close to humans, and have the potential to become poultry, but have not really tamed, such as crows, parrots, starlings, wrens, swallows, ......"
"Oh, your theory, that's weird!" Qiu Hao shook his head and said.
In this way, Qiu Hao began to look for these five species of birds in the huge flower and bird market, and just turned around and found that among the five species of birds, in addition to crows, there are more than four other species.
Crows are rarely raised, Qiu Hao found only a few dozen crows, but I didn't expect these crows to be divided into three kinds, one is the ornamental jay, this crow's body is not black, but has brown and blue feathers, quite good-looking, and one is the raven, it is said that this kind of crow is mostly seen in the western part of the country, the body length can grow to sixty centimeters, it is a very large crow, not only fierce temperament, but also very intelligent, the last one is an ordinary crow.
The price of gray parrot juveniles is about 5,000 yuan or more, the price of wren juveniles is several hundred yuan, starlings are cheaper, dozens of hundreds of yuan, as for the pigeons respected by Zhiling, there are meat pigeons, carrier pigeons, ornamental pigeons, the price fluctuates greatly, dozens to tens of thousands of yuan.
Since there is already a pair of small scarlet-breasted parrots at home, Qiu Hao gradually dispelled the idea of buying gray parrots, and he is also afraid that this kind of talking bird will expose his secrets, so starlings and wrens are not suitable, only pigeons and crows are left, Qiu Hao hesitated slightly, and finally chose crows, because crows are smarter than pigeons and have stronger combat effectiveness.
Qiu Hao walked into a pet store, this store has just come, his target is a pair of adult ravens, the body is already half a meter long, the weight is about the same as a chicken, just the cage that holds them is the size of a cupboard, at this time the two ravens are jumping in the cage, looking at Qiu Hao inattentively, Qiu Hao smiled, and asked the owner of the store: "Boss, how much is the raven?"
"A pair of six thousand, don't sell a single one!" The owner of the store is a young man, and he is still addicted to the Internet, so he just looks up and says a word.
"Then I'll buy it." Qiu Hao didn't bargain, and directly took out sixty old man's heads.
The owner of the store was surprised, and finally put down the game, got up and said: "Buddy, this pair of ravens is a Qinghai-Tibet subspecies, different from the Northeast subspecies, not a traveling bird but a resident bird, just a male and a female, and there is no blood relationship, you can rest assured that you can raise and match."
"Can it be free-range?" Qiu Hao asked.
"It's okay to be raised, ravens are very smart, some can even speak, as long as you treat them well, they will always rely on you." The young shopkeeper laughed.
"What, crows can talk too?" Qiu Hao was taken aback, he knew that this was the case, it was better to buy gray parrots, but now he could only make a mistake and asked, "Then what do they eat?"
"Meat and vegetarian food are not taboo, fruits, meat, insects, everything, it is very easy to raise!"
When Qiu Hao heard this, he was satisfied with the raven, if the raven was too picky, he still had to choose another bird, but fortunately, the raven seemed to be very easy to raise! Lifting the bird cage containing the ravens caused them to jump around and shout "Wow Wow", Qiu Hao was happy to be unimpressed.
The next thing is the return trip, Qiu Hao has some friends in Longcheng, most of them are junior and high school classmates when he was a child, but he has been rusty in the past few years, there are few contacts, and there are only a few friends left in the buckle who can still talk to him, and the others are just in a silent state, and now there is no intention to meet, everything is as fate would be!
Qiu Hao suddenly remembered Jiang Xiaohe, a few months ago, he led the car accident and injured his sister Qiu Mo, in order to force him to leave to open Zhou Mengmeng, this is a thorn in Qiu Hao's heart, and Jiang Xiaohe's father is the deputy mayor of the city, I don't know what the name is, and it is not clear whether it is the executive deputy mayor.
But revenge! Yes, it's just that he hasn't figured out how to start yet, and sighed: "Jiang Xiaohe, I'll clean you up after a while." ”
More than thirty minutes later, Qiu Hao returned home.
The big gray wagged their tails and surrounded them, Qiu Hao patted their heads one by one, more than half a month has passed, and the six wolf dogs have reached more than thirty catties and nearly forty catties, and they are all up to Qiu Hao's knees, and now they are very attached to Qiu Hao and have regarded him as their master.
Suddenly, a black and white puppy jumped up and wanted to bite the ravens in the cage, which frightened the two ravens "wow" and fled in a hurry, and the cage remembered the continuous sound of footsteps and flapping wings.
Qiu Hao looked angry in his heart, who are you, it turned out to be the little border herd who came from nowhere, and at this time it was still staring at the raven, Qiu Hao played it hard and hit it with a brain melon, it screamed miserably, and ran away, and that direction was Qiu Mo's room.
Qiu Hao hung the bird cage next to the little scarlet-breasted parrot, which was also on the old peach tree, two meters above the ground, but it was anti-dog pounce, other dogs were okay, and they would be sensible after one or two educations, but which little border herd was tired of teaching, and its interest in the caged bird was no less than that of a cat!
"Brother, is Ganoderma lucidum sold?" Qiu Mo walked out of the room and saw Qiu Hao, so she hurriedly asked, and at her feet was the little border herd who had just escaped.
Qiu Hao glared at Bian Mu, then nodded and said, "I sold it to Tong Ren Tang, one million and two hundred thousand, and then I went to the flower and bird market, and bought two ravens?"
Qiu Mo was stunned when she heard "one million and two million", she didn't even hear the raven clearly, her eyes were shining, and she said: "Get rich, get rich, we have become millionaires......"
"What is a million, many well-off families have tens of millions, you see, it won't be long before our millions will become tens of millions, or even billions!" Qiu Hao said proudly, and he does have the confidence to sell the ginseng of the Ice Age, and it is not easy to make money.
"Brother, I love you to death!"
Qiu Mo threw herself into Qiu Hao's arms with a loud roar, Qiu Hao patted her on the back and said, "Don't be so excited, the illness is not well yet!"
"People are just excited, brother, I want to buy the latest bag!" Qiu Mo said expectantly.
"Well, just buy it, I'll give you 100,000 yuan later, but you can't use it indiscriminately, when you go to study in the future, I'll give you 10,000 yuan a month!" Qiu Hao rubbed her little head and said.
"Wow, long live my brother!" Qiu Mo couldn't help but kiss Qiu Hao on the face, Qiu Hao was slightly embarrassed, although he knew that there was no blood relationship between the two, he was still uncomfortable.
At this time, the two jumping ravens finally caught Qiu Mo's attention, and she exclaimed exaggeratedly at a glance: "Oh, my mother! How can there be such a big crow?"
Qiu Hao touched his nose and said with a wry smile: "This is a raven, the smartest of the birds, it can grow half a meter long and weigh three catties, I want to light them up and use them to watch the house!"
Qiu Mo's jaw was about to fall to the ground when she heard it, and she was stunned: "Use crows to come to see the house, brother, can you really think about it, we have so many dogs in our house, isn't it safe?"
Qiu Hao shook his head and said: "Actually, I want to contract a large piece of land, establish a farm, and live a leisurely life in the future, when the family dog has something to do, the raven is also useful, after all, it can fly, well, it can catch sparrows!"
"Brother, you want to build a farm?" Qiu Mo was overjoyed, and in a blink of an eye, she put the matter of the raven behind her, she looked at the barren mountain behind her house, and said, "Do you want to contract the barren mountain behind our house?"
Qiu Hao opened his mouth, he wanted to say that the farm was not built here, but seeing his sister's happy face, he couldn't help it for a moment, thinking about it, after all, this is the Qiu family, the place where the brother and sister grew up, it is impossible to abandon it, and it is not good to be deserted.
"Alas, here it is, and when you have money in the future, let's build a farm elsewhere!"
Qiu Hao kept his thoughts in his heart and said with a smile: "Yes, how about renting a large piece of barren mountains to grow fruit trees and build an orchard?"
"Okay, so our family also has an orchard, but how many acres of land do we have to rent?" Qiu Mo couldn't help asking.
"You can contract the lease of Qingbei Mountain, it seems to be 300 acres, at present, 40 or 50 yuan a mu, and it is only more than 10,000 yuan a year, I want to contract it down, it is best to be 70 years, 50 years can also be."
There are many barren mountains behind Qiu's house, and the neighboring ones have names, and the distant ones are generally not, all of them are stone mountains, overgrown with wild grass and shrubs, and as for the large vegetation, there are only a few scattered wild peach trees, wild peaches, hawthorns, chestnuts, and so on.
The Qingbei Mountain that Qiu Hao said is in the north of Qiujia, two hundred meters away, you need to climb a mountain to reach, Qingbei Mountain is five hundred meters in diameter, one hundred meters high, the top of the mountain is no longer in the center, but biased to the north, it looks like a large sloping shell, the north side is slightly steep, and the position of the gentle slope on the south side is just facing the Qiu family.
"What? Qingbei Mountain, brother change it, that mountain is particularly evil, there are so many snakes, the people in the village say it is unlucky, and now they all call it 'Green Snake Mountain'. Qiu Mo said in a lost voice, shaking her head to indicate that she did not support.
"That's why I want to contract it, you must know that there is no grave there, this is what I value, I don't want to cause any disputes in the future, as for the snakes, I have the ability to be afraid of something." Qiu Hao said indifferently.
He also knows the strangeness of Qingbei Mountain, legend has it that during the Qing Dynasty, there have been cattle and sheep missing there, and later several feng shui masters said that Qingbei Mountain is evil, and then the people of Fuyan Village have always been taboo about Qingbei Mountain, and over time, it has become a great place, never to set up a grave there, not to say, even chopping wood and grazing cattle or something.
It wasn't until a few years ago, a fire mountain baptized Qingbei Mountain, and people found that there were many snakes living there, big snakes, small snakes, poisonous snakes, non-poisonous snakes, the number was so large that the scalp was numb, so the name of "Green Snake Mountain" gradually spread.
Later, some people had a whimsical idea to catch snakes and sell them for money, but what was very strange was that after the snake catchers went two or three times, there were few who were not seriously injured, and then Qingbei Mountain was famous, but it was even more silent.
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