Chapter 424: Duck Eggs
Compared with other beasts in the mountains and forests, this fat duck still has a kind of closeness to people, and sometimes it flies far away and doesn't know what to do, but it will still fly back before dark, rest in the forest on the other side of the river, and continue to move in the river and the forest on the opposite bank during the day.
When they are bold and adapted, the fat duck will be unstable.
According to the people who often observe the fat duck at the bottom of the mountain, the fat duck disappeared for most of the day at first, and the people at the bottom of the mountain were worried that it was gone, and when they were about to report to Shao Xuan, they found that it came back again, and brought another bird with them, and then the two left, and when the fat duck came back again, they brought another one back.
In this way, every day or two they bring back a bird, these birds do not look exactly the same, some have pointed beaks, some have flat beaks, some have long wings, some have short wings, some have bright coats, some are gray, some like to rest on the trees, and some like to rest in the grass. Although these birds brought back by the fat ducks are different, they can be roughly seen in terms of morphology, and they look very similar to ducks, and there may be some kinship in the history of the race.
If it was in the past, when the tribesmen saw the birds flying, they would definitely hunt them, and the prey sent to the door should not be in vain. But that fat duck belonged to Elder Shao Xuan, and no one dared to make a move, not even the other birds.
The people at the bottom of the mountain are now interested in counting ducks, and when they have time, they go to the river to see if there are more ducks on the river today.
"Hey, how many?" asked one of the soldiers who was on patrol today.
"Seventeen, yesterday it was fifteen. Another patrol warrior said happily.
"I didn't expect these birds to grow on their own!"
"What kind of stupid thing are you talking about?!That was brought back by Elder Shao Xuan's bird, worthy of an elder, only brought back a bird, and how long has it been now. It's seventeen!" the man said with envy.
"It's just that those birds don't look good, they're small, they don't have much meat, and they look like just ordinary birds. What does Elder Shao Xuan want so many birds for?"
"Since Elder Shao Xuan has done this, he must have his reasons. Let's not think about it too much, just keep an eye on the birds. ”
"Don't say it, it's time for a detour!" scolded the leader.
Compared to the fat duck, the others are more timid and vigilant, after all, the fat duck has gotten along with people, is more receptive, and is easier to adapt to on human territory, but the others are different. If anyone approaches the river, those who are still swimming on the water immediately scream and run away, and it will take a long time to come back, and some will not even be seen for several days.
Therefore, in order not to frighten those birds, even if the people under the mountain go to count, they will be separated by a little distance and for a long time. They also figured out a safe distance, just outside of that distance. It won't startle those birds away. For this reason, the people on patrol on shift, when they walked to the river, in order not to startle the birds, they all diverted to avoid them.
So, when the hunting party returned. Just as the flock of ducks passed by, with a quacking sound, all the ducks that had been swimming on the surface of the river flew up, screaming and flying away.
The hunting party was fully loaded, and someone planned to shoot a few with bows. As soon as he took out his bow, he saw the patrol of the tribe running over and knocking the man with the bow away with one punch.
The rest of the hunting party: What happened to the "......" when we weren't there?
When the patrol told the cause of the incident, the hunting party hurriedly put away their bows and arrows, but the frightened ducks could not call back for the time being.
"Will they ever come back?" asked Dokang.
"Yes...... Well, it's a little longer, and if the elder's one can only come back, most of the others will follow. The leader of the patrol hesitated in reply.
"The little elder plans to raise birds?"
"The elder doesn't care, those birds flew by themselves, at first it was the same one, and then it flew more and more, I counted twenty today!" The leader of the patrol team smiled on his face, but when he thought that those birds would not be frightened by the formation of the hunting party and no longer fly back, the smile on his face faded, and he was worried. After all, the hunting party still has blood stains and murderous aura on them, which is different from normal days.
Worried, the leader of the patrol went up the mountain and told Shao Xuan about it.
"Don't worry, as long as the fattest one can come back, even if not all the others come back, there will be more new members in the future. Shao Xuan said.
When the leader of the patrol saw Shao Xuan say this, he was not worried, but every time he was on duty, he often glanced at the river to see if those birds had returned, and a few had returned.
Probably the ducks were really frightened, and they came back a lot slower this time, and only flew back fifteen, but when everyone saw that the green fattest one was still there, they were no longer worried in their hearts, and this one was just here, and it would bring back more anyway.
Shao Xuan didn't expect the current situation at all, he thought that if this fat duck settled near the tribe, he would probably hook a few female ducks, but Shao Xuan still muttered about the fat duck's ability, and that thing actually hooked a group! Now, the fat duck's harem is still expanding.
It seems that it was the right thing to do to bring back that fat duck.
If those female ducks lay eggs in the future, there are ducklings hatching out, maybe there will be those who inherit the detoxification physique of fat ducks, male ducks can eat, female ducks can be slowly domesticated, see if they can let them lay as many eggs as possible.
Regardless of whether the second generation of ducks will develop as Shao Xuan thinks, it is still early, and there is not even a duck egg, let alone the second generation of ducks.
On this day, Shao Xuan had just returned from the tribe's coppersmith when he saw someone guarding the door, two warriors patrolling the mountain, a woman, and a child who was less than Shao Xuan's waist height.
"What's wrong?" asked Shao Xuan.
Seeing Shao Xuan coming back, the woman who was waiting there stepped forward excitedly and took out the thing that was carefully wrapped in animal skin in her arms.
"This is what my child picked up in the river last night, and it should be your belonging, Elder. The woman handed the egg to Shao Xuan.
Usually at night, the ducks leave the artificial river and go into the woods to rest in their nests. The group of ducks, some built their nests in trees, and some built in the grass, Shao Xuan once went to see them.
No matter what kind of mallard duck it is, it will not lay eggs as often as those birds that have been domesticated for a long time.
"Where did you pick up this egg?" Shao Xuan asked the child.
"In the grass by the river. "There are no ducks in the river at night, and these children sometimes go to the river to play out of curiosity, but last night he picked up an egg in the grass by the river, not to mention how happy he was. After going back and telling my father and mother, today I went up the mountain to find Shao Xuan under the leadership of two patrol soldiers.
Shao Xuan looked at it, and the egg had cracked, so he returned the egg to the child, "Take this egg back and eat it, eat a little first, if there is nothing else, then eat the rest." ”
Looking at the eggs handed to him, seeing that Shao Xuan didn't seem to be joking, the child grinned and caught it: "Thank you, Elder!
With this first egg, when the ducks leave at night, many people go to look for them, but they rarely find eggs again, Shao Xuan saw in the woods that some duck nests have a few to a dozen eggs lying in them. (To be continued......)