Volume 2 Washing Horses and Quicksand Chapter 4 Sparrows

Think that Yang Qilang used a tiger head black gold chisel silver gun, this gun legend is made of extra-star meteorite fine iron as raw materials, melted with ground inflammation, supplemented by extremely cold ice pool water soaking, forging seven seven forty-nine days, and then absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon for three years to forge, the gun is nine feet long, the head of the gun is one foot three inches long, and the barrel of the gun is the size and thickness of chicken eggs. The head of this gun is in the shape of a tiger's head cast in black gold, the chisel gold of the entire gun body is made of white gold, and the blade is extremely sharp, able to sharpen iron like clay, and is not afraid of fire.

Presumably, the treasure spear will not be placed casually, and it must be well hidden. After Xiao Liuzi packed up the treasure armor, he turned around and looked at the beam. With a bang, his right arm accidentally touched the pillar in the firewood room, and the sound was as if it contained a metal rod. Xiao Liuzi patted the pillar again curiously, and with a "bang" sound, listening to this sound, he became more and more sure that there must be something in this wooden pillar. So he struck hard, and hit it hard, only to see the pillar fall in response. The pillar fell to the ground and then exploded, revealing the appearance of a gun from the inside, Xiao Liuzi held back his excitement, held his breath nervously, and reached out to hold the gun in his hand, feeling very strong. Xiao Liuzi shook the barrel of the gun vigorously, and the sawdust attached to the barrel of the gun scattered in all directions. A gun was completely displayed in front of Xiao Liuzi, and it was really as it was said in the book. The gun was nine feet long, the head was one foot and three inches long, and the barrel was the size and thickness of a chicken egg. The head of this spear is made of black gold to cast the shape of a tiger's head, and the whole body of the gun is made of white gold, which is very beautiful. When the treasure gun was in his hand, Xiao Liuzi was very excited, walked out of the firewood door, and shot at the stone pier outside the door, only to hear a click, and the stone pier cracked in response. Xiao Liuzi thought to himself, this is worthy of being Yang Qilang's treasure, and it is really extraordinary. There is a saying: Heaven or not, what is the husband's recovery! Xiao Liuzi forgot about hunger and cold for a while, put away his armor, and continued to march towards the eighteen villages with his treasure spear.

While hurrying away, Zhang Bingzhong observed the customs and customs of various places, and by the way, he understood all aspects of the local area very clearly; just like when he went out to study, he was very patient, and he was not at all hit by psychological trauma or self-depression because of his expulsion from the army. For this point, Xiao Liuzi belongs to the optimistic faction, if he thinks that he has done something wrong, he will know that he is wrong and change it, and if he believes that he has done the right thing, he will not regret it again.

Seeing that it is getting closer and closer to the eighteen villages, the number of homeless people on the road is gradually increasing. Xiao Liuzi interrogated carefully, and it turned out that there was a locust plague in the local village. Gai knows that there are three major disasters in the world, and people are inevitable. One is an earthquake, the second is a thunderstorm, and the third is a plague of insects from the sky. The most powerful of these is the plague of locusts. When this locust came, it overwhelmed the sky, and the grass and trees were gone, let alone the seedlings. Our ancestors once said: "Locusts come when there is a drought" and "Locusts will come after a long drought." In the event of a locust plague, a large number of locusts will devour the fields, completely destroying the crops, causing severe economic imbalances and famine due to food shortages. The book also says that locusts are very warm and dry, and locust plagues are often accompanied by severe droughts, and even worse, can lead to cannibalism. It is precisely because of this that Xiao Liuzi is particularly concerned and decides to go to the locust-stricken area to take a look and see how terrible this little locust is.

Xiao Liuzi asked passers-by about the path of the locust-plagued village, and one man and one horse went the opposite way with the others. Climbing over the hillside, before reaching the village, you can hear the hula humming ahead. When I looked closely, it turned out to be the sound of the locusts taking off, and it was very scary to see this formation. Xiao Liuzi hurriedly tied the horse and covered the horse's mouth and nose with a cloth towel. Lying alone on the dirt slope, he put his hands on the pergola and watched the locusts in the distance gnaw on the crops. Those green dealers are simply vulnerable in the mouths of locusts. Because the locusts were so dense, the crops disappeared in an instant. What's more, some locusts even gnaw at the roots and seedlings of crops buried in the soil.

Bingzhong was carefully observing, when suddenly, a string of pleasant birdsong sounded from the sky. I saw a yellow finch slightly smaller than a domestic pigeon fly into the swarm, and the locusts faded like a tide in all directions as if they had seen a ghost. And the bird could not be distinguished, and flew straight to the place where the worms had gathered the most, and when it saw the locusts, it pecked at them. The little bird did not devour them, but split the locust's head in two with a peck, which was extremely efficient. After a while, I don't know if I found Xiao Liuzi or if I was really tired, the little bird raised its head and looked around. It was precisely because it raised its head that Xiao Liuzi saw it very clearly. Looking at the shape and listening to the sound, this bird is probably a lark, but it is smaller than a domestic pigeon, but it is larger than a lark. A golden crown on his head is very beautiful, and from a distance, his bearing is like a king. It was precisely because of this golden crown that Xiao Liuzi remembered that there was such an animal. In Mr. He's chapter on Qionglin-Birds and Beasts, such a heterogeneous animal was once mentioned, and its name was Phoenix-crested Skylark. The book says: The crested lark, also known as the crested lark, is a small songbird. It is a slightly larger lark with brown longitudinal stripes. It has a crest, and the crown feathers are long and narrow. The upper body is sandy brown with nearly black longitudinal stripes, and the tail feathers are yellow. The lower body is pale yellow, and the chest is densely covered with nearly black longitudinal lines. It looks short and has a short tail, and the mouth is slightly long and curved. When flying, the wings are wide and rusty under the wings, and the tail is dark brown and the sides are yellowish-brown. The upper body of the young bird is densely spotted. It differs from the lark in the silhouette with a pointed crest, a long and curved beak, and fewer brown ear feathers without a white posterior flange. The eye mask is dark brown, the mouth is yellowish pink, the mouth is dark, and the feet are pink. However, this phoenix-crowned lark is very different, with a dazzling coat and a slender body, especially the phoenix crown, which is not standing and mighty. If the locusts around it are screaming violently, once its phoenix crown is erected, the insects around it will suddenly surrender to the ground and dare not move.

The book says that this bird has to be trained, and it is a great help. First, when making friends with birds, bird taming is generally an advanced stage of bird raising by literati and scholars, and it is necessary to have a certain knowledge of birds and practical experience in bird raising. With the foundation of bird raising, it is conducive to learning and mastering the skills of bird taming. As a bird trainer, one of the most valuable lessons to learn is to build a friendly relationship with birds. If you want birds to listen to you, you have to have feelings for birds, have a love for birds, and treat birds with feelings for people; Make friends with birds and gain their trust. It is necessary to be familiar with the living habits, physiological characteristics, daily habits, intelligence and body conditions of birds, adaptability and adaptability. At first, the bird does not know its owner, but when it begins to be domesticated, it can be called by giving it food. Over time, it recognizes its owner based on the sound of its voice. Let the bird peck in your hand when feeding, and you gently pet it while feeding, so that it has a warm and friendly impression of its owner. Through these, the bird will gradually understand that it is the owner who feeds it, bathes it, and heals its pain, and will have a sense of attachment to the owner.

With this kind of reluctance, it is time to start taming it. The bird's mind is small, but it is very spiritual, people love it, it will also love people, listen to your white spoon, obey your commands. "Birds are not ruthless things, and many hardships birds know each other." Once a bird develops a sense of attachment and trust to its owner, it will have a foundation for receiving various skills in the future. Birds are docile and brutal, clever and stupid. There are many species of birds in the world, and their morphology and habits are also different. Therefore, we need to choose the best among the crowd, choose the best among the worries, screen layer by layer, and strive to select accurately, which is the so-called method of picking one out of a hundred. From the point of view of domestication, the ideal bird is usually a slightly longer body, strong body, thin and thin feathers, tightened shoulder blades, tail together into a line, the tail of the left and right wings cross each other, the head is large and the mouth shell is thin, the eyes are large and clever, the reaction is sharp, often looking around, standing up, chest up, belly, tail clamping, is a beautiful posture of the bird. Of course, also pay attention to choosing healthy males. Compared with males and females, males are generally more flexible than females, have relatively greater strength, can accept arduous taming, and maintain abundant physical strength and full spirit for performance and competition. Some birds because of their rough temperament, irritable, good pecking, and even refuse to eat, this kind of bird should not immediately start taming, for the wild nature does not retreat, peck people and refuse to eat birds, but also try to subdue it. In case of a peckering bird, you can take a lifetime of ginger slices, when it opens its mouth to peck people, stuff the ginger slices into its mouth, several times down, make it spicy and unbearable, and no longer dare to peck people, this is a big trick. At the beginning of domestication, create a quiet environment for the birds, and when they are familiar with the environment, they will gradually move to a place where there are voices and gradually adapt to the environment. People should also approach it more often so that they can relax their guard and gradually become calmer. Bird tamers should be good at using and giving full play to the strengths of various birds and taming them. Because the physiological characteristics of each bird are different, they also have their own strengths and weaknesses, so when choosing a program suitable for their performance, they must use the bird's instinct to do their best, promote their strengths, avoid their shortcomings, guide them according to the situation, and teach patiently. Only by training in this way can you be handy and successful.

It is also necessary to conform to and make use of the bird's habits according to its morphological habits, songs, and action characteristics, give reasonable play to its strengths, skillfully arrange programs, and tame its skills. For example, using the hook of the parrot's beak and the characteristics of its toes to hold objects, it can be tamed to climb ladders and walk tightropes; Using the wide beak of the wax-billed finch, it tames its high-altitude missiles that connect two or three grains; Using the characteristics of the recurved intersection of the upper and lower beak tips of cross-billed finch, the walnut with uneven surface of the crossbill was tamed. For example, Wudu, who can learn human language, is good at chirping and imitating other sounds, and has a large mouth and a short, round tongue that is soft and fleshy. If you insist on learning human language with a long and hard tongue, then even if you tame it for half a year or a year, you will often achieve nothing. "Liezi. The Yellow Emperor said: "Although it is a tiger, wolf, eagle and osprey, there are all those who are submissive." "Huainanzi said that Lin Xun" said: "Horses are tamed first, and then seek goodness." "So it is with beasts, and so it is with birds. Facts have proved that it is difficult to achieve the desired purpose by relying only on the will of the bird trainer, without considering the physiological characteristics and its own ability of the bird to tame and choreograph the movements of the program.

In the end, it is necessary to follow the actual law of the development of things, conform to the living habits of birds, and skillfully arrange technical programs, so that taming will get twice the result with half the effort, otherwise it will not only make the taming work twice the result with half the effort, but even become ineffective labor. The work of taming birds is a very complicated and long-lasting task, so it is necessary to be prepared to work hard. You can't expect it to be done overnight, once and for all, and you can't fish for three days and dry your nets for two days. Only people who are hard-working, not dirty, and not afraid of tiredness can achieve success in bird taming. Food inducement is also the fundamental method of taming birds, and it should be integrated into the whole process of taming, performance and competition. Using food as bait and using the bird's foraging instinct, U learns various movements. In order to beg for food, the bird consciously or unconsciously obeys the skillful training of its master. Taming birds should not only be moved by affection, but also know how to "benefit", during the taming period, according to the performance of the bird to reward and punish. Allowing the black to taste the sweetness and bitterness and consolidating the results of conditioned reflex can motivate and mobilize the enthusiasm of bird learning. Bird taming should pay attention to scientific feeding, generally so that the bird is in a half-starved state, which is the best state to keep Wu'er to accept taming and training, so that it can gradually achieve the domestication purpose that people require. The method should be easy and then difficult, taming birds is like any other taming beast, generally follow the principle of easy and then difficult, from shallow to deep, step by step, the taming of birds, should also start from the actual situation of birds, choose appropriate methods, to buy and train and train, can not be seedlings to grow, in a hurry.

Ke Bingzhong believes that this bird is not only a different species, but also a spiritual creature, and must not be forced. Maybe it found Xiao Liuzi at the moment, and disappeared into the air for a while, and when Xiao Liuzi was about to turn back, it flew back to the branch and stood in front of Xiao Liuzi, just like a few back and forth, making Xiao Liuzi himself a little annoyed, as if he was teasing him. On a whim, Xiao Liuzi stretched out his right hand. Unexpectedly, this lark seemed to be psychic, and jumped on the wrist of Xiao Liuzi with a vertical leap. When Xiao Liuzi was about to pet it with his left hand, the finch disappeared into the sky again. Zhang Bingzhong thought that it was just a thing he met on the road, and he didn't care too much. After all, he is the master of freedom, and there is no need to force him to be around. It would be a great good thing to get rid of a few more locusts for him.

Immediately untied the reins and rode away, Xiao Liuzi's mind was full of locust plagues, looking at the homeless people on the side of the road, feeling the unfairness of this world, but he never thought about what he would do in the future, just paying attention to others, this may be his optimistic attitude towards life. I don't know when I stood on my shoulder to look at the lark, Xiao Liuzi turned his head on the side of the horse, and the bird didn't move, as if he was going to stand up and stick to Xiao Liuzi's face to express his intimacy. When Xiao Liuzi saw it like this, he didn't drive it away. Follow it, this world is like this, if you are together, you will gather, and if you are not together, you will be divided.

Then over a mountain to Lijiapo eighteen villages, on the mountain road can still see groups of homeless people go away to escape the famine and avoid disasters. Xiao Liuzi still walked in his established direction with one person and one horse, came to the edge of the mountain forest, and suddenly a group of strongmen burst out. "I opened this mountain, I planted this tree, if you want to cross this road, leave a ...... to buy a road. Seeing this scene, Xiao Liuzi couldn't help but smile and scolded in his heart, what kind of year is this, and there are such blinding bandits. Zhang Bingzhong, who had a thatch in his mouth, did not squeak, his hands were folded around his chest and he rode on his horse, and he didn't even move the spear hanging on the victory hook. Looking at the strongmen who gradually surrounded him, Xiao Liuzi raised his eyes and swept it, and found that there was a person squatting there not far away, and after a closer look, it turned out to be the Four King Kong Legging King. I thought that it was him who lit the cannon, and I didn't squeak, and quietly watched the development of the situation. Seeing that the group of mountain bandits was about to surround them, the golden brown horse stepped on its four hooves with some uneasiness. Xiao Liuzi knocked the horse's belly, and the golden brown horse quickly understood that he was right away, and soon stood quietly. The gang of strongmen didn't say much, and when they were about to make a move in the face of this silent master, they heard someone shouting not far away: "Slow!

Zhang Bingzhong followed the sound and saw a person standing next to the legging king, who turned out to be the three thin monks. I saw him raise his hand and call to his minions: "Slow down, slow down......." After speaking, he hurriedly ran over from the other side of the hill, clasped his hands into fists and said: "This hero ...... just halfway through the sentence, the thin monk found that this person was actually Zhang Bingzhong, the sixth brother, and the military advisor of his own cottage. He was so excited that he couldn't speak for a while, and pointed at Zhang Bingzhong and said: You! You! You...... Xiao Liuzi saw him pause, so he nodded and replied: It's me. Immediately turned over and dismounted, and the two hugged each other and greeted each other. At this point, the minions who had just immediately surrounded him were even more confused, presumably these were all new homeless people, who had never seen Bingzhong; without saying much, the thin monk of the three kings turned his head and beckoned to the four kings and shouted: "Fourth, this is my military division, don't hurry down!"

Except for the two heads of this group, the rest of the people were not familiar with each other, and Xiao Liuzi and the two leaders exchanged greetings and walked towards the village. Everyone hugged Zhang Bingzhong over the mountain beam and came to the back of Li Jiapo. I saw the four King Kong leggings, whistled, and the door of the cottage slowly opened, and a sentry came out of it after a while. Du Heng, the owner of the village, led everyone out to greet each other, and after everyone greeted each other, they hugged Xiao Liuzi to the tent hall.

Everyone exchanged a few words, and Xiao Liuzi explained his intention in front of everyone. Du Heng, the owner of Dazhai, said: In this case, this place is your home, don't be restrained. Originally, our big village was built because of you, and guarded because of you; if there was no you, we didn't know where to beg for a living, Wang Jingxuan should not be alienated with us, don't embarrass us, and we must not distinguish each other.

This Du Heng is worthy of being the head of the farmer, treating people sincerely and his language is also sincere. When Xiao Liuzi saw him treating him like this, he nodded in agreement, and greeted everyone one by one.

In this way, Zhang Bingzhong lived in these eighteen villages; if there was a major event in the village, and he would gather in the account hall to discuss affairs, if he had leisure time, Bingzhong would only fight birds and walk horses in the mountains. As the days went by, the minions inadvertently said to the sixth brother: "Strategist, this bird and horse are good, but they don't have a name, and they don't know how to call and serve." The speaker is unintentional, the listener is intentional, and the faithful mind is also. In the future, the family will have a big business, and these treasures who follow themselves don't have a good name, so how can they get it. So, he deliberately chose a good day, rode his own BMW, summoned the clever birds, and came to the mountain alone. Walking to a secluded place, Bingzhong turned over and dismounted and stood in front of the horse's head. With a solemn face, he said to the golden brown horse: I know that you are a grateful lord and a very spiritual horse, and it is precisely because you are too smart that I named you Da Hanzi. If you are satisfied with the name, you nod, if you are not satisfied, you wag your tail, how do you know? Then he said: On weekdays, it is called Hanzi, if there is a critical moment at that time, it will call you a big Hanzi, you have to remember it, don't forget. The horse was so overjoyed to receive such a name, and nodded and shook its hooves. Then, Bingzhong said to the lark on his shoulder: You belong to the playful master, you don't disappear in a flash on weekdays, and you will only come back when you love home. You yourself are also a different species of the phoenix-crested lark, and you fly extremely fast, as fast as lightning, even the falcon can't catch up with you, so it's better to call it a phoenix shadow. Like him, if you are satisfied with this name, you will nod your head and call it once or twice, and if you are not satisfied, you will peck me in the face again? Bingzhong also wanted to be happy for them, and slapped his face and shouted! In the future, you will be the big man and the phoenix, and it will be up to you and me to make contributions together! The sound of talking and laughing wandered on the top of the mountain.