Zhao Yuanzuo lay on the cold floor of the house, staring at Zhao Heng, Liu Min, Yang Cuihua, and Zhang Qi who walked in from the door with godless eyes.

Zhao Heng, Liu Min, Yang Cuihua, and Zhang Qi came to Zhao Yuanzuo's bedroom under the guidance of the maid Feng'er.

Zhang Qi carried a birdcage in his hand, and the birdcage contained a red indigo chin and a blue indigo chin.

Yang Cuihua also carried a birdcage in her hand, which contained two green-winged macaws.

When Zhao Yuanzuo saw the birdcage in Zhang Qi and Yang Cuihua's hands and the red indigo, blue indigo, and green-winged macaw inside, his eyes suddenly widened; There was a smile on his face that he hadn't seen in a long time.

The red indigo chin, the blue indigo chin and the green-winged macaw were bought by Zhang Qi and Yang Cuihua and a dozen servants who ran through most of Bianjing City and finally bought them from an old man named Wu Laoba in the bird village outside the new sour jujube gate.

There are really a lot of domesticated rare birds outside the new jujube gate, and the price of rare songbirds is generally expensive; But Yang Cuihua used a little trick and spent ten yuan to buy four precious songbirds, saying that it was cheap, but in fact it didn't make much cheap.

Let's put it this way! The consistent money of the Northern Song Dynasty is one tael of silver, and one tael of silver is 1,000 yuan for later generations; Then ten times the money is 10,000 yuan.

In later generations, the red indigo chin and blue indigo chin in the flower and bird market were hundreds of yuan or even tens of thousands of yuan, and the green-winged parrot was expensive; If you say a little, it will cost tens of thousands of yuan.

Yang Cuihua bought four birds with 10,000 yuan, basically without losing or earning.

Why did Yang Cuihua go to buy birds? This has to start with Zhao Heng and Liu Min discussing in the Dayang silversmith shop and going to Weiwang's Mansion to visit the "crazy" Zhao Yuanzuo the next day.

Zhao Heng wanted Liu Min to show Zhao Yuanzuo how "crazy" he was; It's also good to prescribe the right medicine.

After Zhao Heng and Liu Min broke up, he suddenly said to Zhang Qi: "Zhang Qi, think about it, what can the eldest prince see to recover his memory!" ”

Zhang Qi was asked by Zhao Heng, so that the second monk was confused, and he laughed twice and asked: "Master, what do you mean by this, the villain doesn't understand!" ”

Zhao Heng was stunned, and seemed to feel that he had not explained Zhao Yuanzuo's mental state to him; Then he laughed twice and said, "Yesterday we went to the Weiwang Mansion to visit the eldest prince, but you didn't go in at the door; After Xiao Wang entered, he saw that the eldest prince was depressed and in a very bad state, so he couldn't help crying; But the eldest prince didn't have any expression at all, could it be that he really lost consciousness? ”

Zhao Heng said, looking excited: "But Xiao Wang doesn't believe that the eldest brother will go crazy, after all, we are brothers; His demeanor made Xiao Wang's heart like a knife, and Xiao Wang wondered if he could get something to open his mind! ”

When Zhang Qi heard Zhao Heng say this, he couldn't help but laugh out loud, and said, "As soon as the master said this, the villain immediately understood!" ”

Zhang Qi said and stretched his neck and swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "Didn't the master say that the eldest prince liked to take your brothers to catch birds in the back garden when he was a child?" And it's the kind of very precious red indigo chin that catches, why don't we get a red indigo chin bird or some other precious songbird; Tomorrow when you go to the palace of the guard, the prince will definitely open his mind when he sees the precious songbird! ”

After Zhang Qi finished saying the above words, he paused and said: "As long as the eldest prince's mind is open, let Aunt Min show him what kind of disease it is, and then prescribe the right medicine; His sanity and health will soon be restored! ”

Zhang Qi, this kid is worthy of being a slave, and a call made Zhao Heng's blood boil; Lian claimed, grabbed Zhang Qi's hand and said: "You immediately take someone to get the red indigo, no matter how much money you have, you have to buy a few; We'll go to see the eldest prince tomorrow when we go to the palace! ”

"No matter how much money you have, you have to buy a few back", Zhao Heng's words were a death order to Zhang Qi; It is also an infinite expectation placed on him.

After Zhang Qi received the will of King Xiang, he immediately brought a dozen servants; also brought Zhang Daqian, the old housekeeper of Xiangwang's Mansion, and before leaving, he thought of Yang Cuihua, the scholar of Yishan Li Xin.

Zhang Qi seems to have heard that Yang Cuihua has a set of means for domesticating rare songbirds, so let her keep up with the purchase of birds.

Yang Cuihua was responsible for sorting out and transcribing articles after becoming Li Xin's scholar; Her neat small block font won Li Xin's heart.

Zhao Heng came to the study from time to time to visit Yang Cuihua, and Yang Cuihua had already seen from Zhao Heng's eyes that this merry prince had arranged such a game of chess because he liked him.

Yang Cuihua is a person who came over, and bad news came at this time; said that Zhang Jing died in Xiwazi, Zhou; cried and worked hard in Xiangwang's Mansion.

Zhang Qi came to call Yang Cuihua to go out to buy red indigo, and she really found the right person; Because Yang Cuihua has domesticated red and blue indigo chins and macaws since she was a child.

Hearing that Zhang Qi invited him to buy red and blue indigo chins on the street, Yang Cuihua happily agreed; She asked Li Xin for leave, and went with Zhang Qi and Zhang Daqian.

While walking, Yang Cuihua told everyone about her domestication of blue and red indigo.

Yang Cuihua's father is Yang Song, a scholar of Houshu University, and Yang Song has a hobby of raising famous flowers and birds; That year, a friend gave him a red indigo chin and a blue indigo chin; Yang Song instructed his daughter, Cuihua, who was only 6 years old, to be domesticated with him.

The red indigo chin is commonly known as the red-throated song robin, and the blue indigo chin is commonly known as the blue-throated song robin; The body length is about 150 mm, and the weight is 22-26 grams.

Adult males have an olive-brown upper body and a tan crown and forehead; wing feathers and tail feathers dark brown, regular eyebrow lines; white extending from the base of the mouth to the back of the eyes, black at the front of the eyes and cheeks; chin and throat red or indigo; The abdomen is nearly pure white.

The chin and throat of female birds are slightly white, and the chin and throat of elderly females are slightly pink; thorax sandy-brown, eyebrow lines brownish-white and not as distinctly regular as males; The other parts of the body are similar in color to those of males.

The muzzle shell is dark brown, pale near the base of the mouth, and the toes are slightly black at the near angles.

Red-throated and blue-throated robins are terrestrial birds that often inhabit shrublands, reeds or bamboo forests in the plains. They are more active near streams and feed on the ground or in lowlands under bushes.

The red-throated robin and the blue-throated robin have a rhymed and pleasant song, and the morning and dusk songs are the most popular; The chirping is especially beautiful.

The food of red and blue indigo is mainly insects, such as locusts, bugs and ants. In addition, eat a small amount of wild fruits and weed seeds.

The red and blue indigo chins breed from April to June, and the nest is oval, composed of weeds, dead leaves, and fine roots.

There is an entrance and exit on one side of the nest, and the nest is padded with fine grass and fibers, etc.; The nest is placed in the grass on the ground.

Each nest contains 4-5 eggs, and the shell is slightly grayish blue-green, or has reddish spots.

The red-throated and blue-throated songbirds are soft-fed songbirds that are more difficult to domesticate, and when Yang Cuihua and her father Yang Song first came into contact with the two birds, they were irritable and refused to eat.

Later, the father and daughter were domesticated with winged feathers and given a darker and quieter environment; Patiently stuffed or induced, so that they gradually get used to the artificial feeding environment and artificial feed.

Seven or eight days after Yang Cuihua's father and daughter adopted this method, the two birds really settled down and began to eat.

After Yang Song accompanied his daughter to domesticate for a period of time, both birds were given to Cuihua for domestication.

Emerald Flower tied the wings of the red-throated and blue-throated robins to their necks with ropes and placed them on a rack to domesticate. It is lured by live insects, and the effect is very good.

Sometimes the two birds are overly restless, and Yang Cuihua sprays a little water on the body feathers; This facilitates the quietness of the two birds and speeds up skilled domestication.

The breeding environment for the red-throated robin and blue-throated robin is a fine bamboo lacquer cage with a fine porcelain jar unique to the chin. Male birds are kept in a single cage for play and for singing.

The feed for red indigo and blue indigo chin is mixed with raw minced meat and mixed with water. 3-5 insects are also fed every day.

The red-throated and blue-throated robins in captivity like to take water baths, and Yang Cuihua provides bathing water once a day; Control the body feathers to wash wet and not too cold.

In the cage environment, the two birds are often inconvenient to move due to the manure sticking to the toes, and even the toe claws are corroded and fall off, so it is necessary to keep the daily environment and body surface clean. Do not contaminate the toes and body surface with feces.

Zhang Qi listened to Yang Cuihua's bird book all the way, and first came to the flower and bird market of Daxiangguo Temple; I didn't find a master who sold red and blue indigo.

More than a dozen people walked around the market without the slightest gain, and finally met an old man who said that there was a bird village outside the new sour jujube gate, where there was a master who domesticated precious birds, and asked Zhang Qi to go to the bird village to see.

Zhang Qi and Yang Cuihua rode horses to the gate of the new sour jujube in the north of the city, and sure enough, they saw a village that raised famous birds and rare birds; A Fengzhou man named Wu Laoba domesticated red indigo, blue indigo, green-winged parrots, larks, thrushes, wrens and many songbirds.

Zhang Qi said to Yang Cuihua excitedly: "Sister Yang, as long as the kung fu deep iron pestle is sharpened into a needle; We've really found a place to domesticate precious songbirds! ”

Yang Cuihua saw that Zhang Qi was a little carried away, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhang Qi, you don't understand the characteristics of this bird, and the slave family grinds the price with the master after the past; Just stand by and listen! ”。

Yang Cuihua said, leading Zhang Qi and his party into Wu Laoba's bird park.

In addition to the two precious red-throated song robins and blue-throated song robins, there are also several kinds of parrots, larks, wrens, colorful birds, acacia birds, etc., but there are several sick birds in it......