Xu is the enlightenment master of the three rats and the master of the leopard have said that the reason for the repetition of each other, as soon as the cart arrived at the bird-hunting place that Xie Menshen had chosen in the early years, the three-rat who was not strong at all jumped out of the cart without saying a word, and carried a heavy nanzhu with iron wire on his shoulder, and followed Xie Menshen who carried six nanzhu on his shoulder into the mountains and forests, but he saw that a few people could only lift a nanzhu Huozhengmen little apprentice secretly smacked his tongue.

Although I haven't come to the mountains to catch birds for a few years, the bird-hunting realm that Xie Menshen found in his early years is still beautiful. Between the two peaks, which are only four or five miles away from the main road that goes around the mountain, there is a large forest of short-legged pines, which happens to be suitable for the birds that migrate to and fro to settle down and perch. Across the short-legged pine forest, not too far away, I don't know what year an idler left some chestnut seeds here and then didn't care, and let those chestnut seeds grow into a wild crop. In the meantime, there are also a little sour dates, red fruits, weeds, and wild wheat, which attract many birds to jump and forage for food.

Walking a mile to the mountainside, a large piece of bluestone grows out of the mountainside like an eaves, like an eaves covering four or five large houses.

Maybe it's because there is no sunlight under the big bluestone for many years, and the grass and trees don't grow very big at all, but the green vines that grow close to the ground are luxuriant and abnormal. Seeing that it was already a small October, the green vines on the ground had dried up and withered, so that the firewood knife was slightly pulled into a pile, which was almost enough to light a bonfire overnight to keep out the cold.

Listening carefully to the sound of the water along the mountainside, you can find a clear spring that comes out of the crack in the stone for less than a mile, and it falls into a stone hole that can only hold two jars of water. I don't know what year and month someone called the water in the stone cave to save the emergency and then turn back to repay the favor, and there was actually a stonemason carved four big characters on the stone hole - God-given rain!

Three or five trips back and forth. Xie Menshen and the others finally carried all kinds of items on the two carts under the big bluestone. Seeing that the sky was already a little dark, Xie Menshen didn't have time to catch his breath, he had already picked up a hoe, and led the three rats who had also grabbed a hoe towards the bantam pine forest at the foot of the mountain.

In the mountain woodland, there are few places with soft soil. Ordinary people dance with their hoes and dig down, and most of them can see the hoe being bumped into the dirt by the stones and sparks scattered. It took a lot of effort, but in the end, it was half the effort. But looking at the appearance of Xie Menshen wielding a hoe and digging a pit on the stiff stone ground, it was a bit of a light-hearted manner. In contrast, the three rats seemed to have completely failed to grasp the essentials of digging pits on the stone ground, and all they called on was brute force, but in a moment there was sweat on the door of the brain, but the hole on the ground was still only half a foot deep.

Glancing at the three rats digging the ground out of the corner of his eye, Xie Menshen walked to the three rats without saying a word, and pushed away the three rats who were stopping and looking at him. With both hands waving the hoe, he went to the ground lightly, but he muttered in a muffled voice: "The ox has the strength of a thousand catties, and the person has the guidance method!" Rely on your strength to do it! ”

Looking at Xie Menshen's oblique action of digging a pit with the tip of the hoe, the three rats immediately understood, and followed Xie Menshen's movements in the same way to open the hoe in another place where Xie Menshen pointed out. Waiting for a hole to poke the bamboo pole to be dug is only slower than Xie Menshen, but it is only a bowl of tea.

Beckoning the other little apprentices to poke the bamboo poles hung with bird nets according to the holes dug out by themselves and the three rats, and then tamping the gravel floating soil, Xie Menshen listened attentively to the birdsong that gradually became clear in the mountain forest. Only then did he wave his hand and shouted to the little apprentices who were also tired and sweating: "Go back to the bottom of the big bluestone and put on all the cotton robes you are carrying." Gather all those dead vines and prepare them again! ”

Seeing those little apprentices taking the order, the three rats sensibly took the hoe in Xie Menshen's hand and carried it on his shoulder, and while following Xie Menshen in the direction of the big bluestone, he kept bending down and reaching out to pick up the dead branches of the short-legged pines that fell on the ground. Before the journey was halfway through, the dry firewood picked up by the three rats already had a bundle of bosses.

I looked back at the three rats who were constantly picking up dry wood. Xie Menshen raised his hand and took the two hoes that the three rats were carrying on his shoulders, but with the other hand, he grabbed a short-legged pine that had been dead for a long time, and stood on a stand-up with his feet slightly apart.

Carrying the dead podge pine as easily as a bundle of straw. Xie Men Shen and the three rats hurried back to the clearing under the big bluestone, and put the dry wood they had brought back next to the withered vines that had been gathered by a few young apprentices in the main gate of the fire. Feeling out a box of foreign fire from his bosom, Xie Menshen crouched down to block the increasingly strong night wind, and carefully lit the dead vines. And the three rats on the side also worked hard for a moment after the withered vines were lit, and they were familiar with some suitable sized dry wood on the bonfire.

They were all born as bitter children, and as soon as the other little apprentices in the main gate of the fire saw the bonfire lit, they immediately split up and went their separate ways. Some took a few sturdy branches to build a support, and then put the small iron pot they brought with them on the stand, some carried two big water hyacinths to the spring to draw water, and two little apprentices didn't know where to hit a flat and abnormal bluestone board as a cutting board, and were holding a knife to cut some autumn mushrooms and radishes picked up by hand along the way into thin slices, just waiting for the little apprentice to come back and pour the water pot, and immediately cook a pot of good soup.

Sitting beside the blazing bonfire, Xie Menshen pulled over a huge burden, and distributed the hard noodle dry food with pig's head meat in the bag to the little apprentices who were busy with the things in their hands and all gathered around the bonfire, especially in the hands of the three rats, he added an extra hard noodle dry food, and then found a small paper bag from the wrapper, and raised his hand to pour the dried beef, green salt, chili noodles, and pepper powder in the small paper bag into the small iron pot on the bonfire.

The firewood was high, but it was only a moment's work, and the soup boiling in the small iron pot was already rolling over the waves, exuding a rich aroma of food. Stretched out his hand and grabbed a big iron spoon, Xie Menshen scooped a spoonful of soup and tasted a little, then handed the iron spoon to a small apprentice in the main gate of the fire beside him, the big guy took turns to call the big iron spoon to drink the hot soup, and ate the hard noodles and dry food in his hand like a whirlwind.

Seeing that the big guy had finished eating the food in his hand, Xie Menshen used his feet to pull the floating soil and stones on the ground to extinguish the bonfire, wrapped the cotton robe on his body tightly, and pricked up his ears to listen carefully to the movements in the bantam pine forest.

But all the birds and finches that sleep in the forest at night are almost all like to gather together and settle in groups, and sometimes a low pine tree can be densely packed with a hundred birds of the same kind, while another tree not far away is empty, and there is not a single bird to settle down.

There is the master who begs to open his net to catch birds, and does not care about the damage of birds, and likes to wait until the dead of night, and raise his hand to throw a large explosion into the forest. Frightened by the loud sound of firecrackers, many dizzy birds can really fall into the nets. can be called such a trouble, but most of the birds and finches in the forest are far away, and there are some pies who have picked up sesame seeds and lost watermelons.

But if these birds are told to rest all night, the flock of birds at the stall before dawn will leave the branches. Even if you bump into a few of them indiscriminately on the bird net, it is still a character who catches birds with a net and does not get much benefit.

On the craft of catching birds in this net, how to frighten birds in the middle of the night, when to frighten birds, and how many points can be frightened, the knowledge here is enough for ordinary people to learn for half a lifetime!

Listening to the chirping of birds in the bantam pine forest, Xie Menshen reached out and took out a finch whistle made of white copper from his arms, took a deep breath and stored it in the dantian, pursed his lips and blew out a series of night owl chirping. With the sound of the night owl almost incessantly, the bantam pine forest, which had just gradually quieted down, suddenly resounded with noisy birdsong. But a moment later, like a black cloud that suddenly rose from the ground, the birds and finches that were resting in the bantam pine forest had already risen from the branches, chirping and rushing into the air!

As if he didn't see the stunned appearance of the little apprentices on his side when they saw the flock of birds flying in shock, Xie Men God relied on a dantian qi to blow the night owl's hissing for a full cup of tea, and then suddenly stopped the neighing of the night owl, reached out and took out the white copper finch whistle from his mouth, and whispered to the little apprentices in the main gate of the fire around him: "The night bird needs to be frightened to fly, and the joints to be pinched here are at the stall where the birds will not stop, and the birds are startled up with the neighing movements of all kinds of birds of prey. As long as you see a large flock of night birds flying into a group, you must immediately see it and collect it, but you must not let the frightened night birds disperse! ”

Stretching out his hand and scratching his scalp, a little apprentice in the main gate of the fire looked at the flock of birds in the sky with some puzzlement, and whispered to Xie Menshen: "Uncle Xie, why are these birds all startled, but they don't fly far away, but instead they don't fly around the short-legged pine forest?" ”

"The flock of birds is too dense, and when they fly, they collide with each other indiscriminately, and it is difficult to fly far away. What's more, the sky is already dark, and many birds are blindfolded at night, as long as they are not overly disturbed, where do they dare to fly too far from the place where they land? ”

"Then according to that, tonight, we just have to see the flock of birds fall and rest again, and then we have to play with the finches and whistle to flock the birds?"

"It's almost like this, but when the sky is about to see the light, you can't disturb the birds anymore, and you have to let these birds who have been tossing all night have a little rest. Let's take advantage of this effort to put the lure we brought to the left of the bird net, and the piggyback people have to hide near the left side of the bird net" (to be continued......)