After a while, Fang Ye finished ordering the hamburger, sat down and complained to Gu Shi: "Teacher Gu, I came out of the airport just now, and I saw that the passage was full of portraits of blue peacocks. ”

Gu Shi didn't bother to correct the salutation problem: "It's normal." When I was doing research in the village in Xishuangbanna, the village was full of blue peacocks walking around, as well as statues of blue peacocks, I showed them photos of blue peacocks and green peacocks, and the Dai people who danced the peacock dance did not know the green peacock, thinking that the blue peacock was a peacock native to Yunnan, and it was the totem that I had always worshipped.

Only a few old people know the green peacock! ”

Fang Ye couldn't help but feel sad when he heard it: "Eh...... Now the number of green peacocks is indeed too small! There are only five or six hundred left, facing the catastrophe of annihilation, maybe the people in the future will really only know the blue peacock and not the green peacock. ”

Gu Shi showed a wry smile: "How can there be so many 500?" ”

Fang Ye was shocked: "Huh? Is it less? I read a paper that evaluated five or six hundred. ”

Gu Shidao: "The five or six hundred you mentioned was the situation a few years ago, and now that the hydropower has been built, it has decreased a lot, and we have been doing a survey in this area recently, although the results have not yet come out, but the assessment is roughly only more than 200 left." ”

Sighed and said: "In 95 years, there were 800-1100 in the survey, in fact, this number is problematic now, because the transportation was inconvenient at that time, and there may be some places that have not been counted, and the number is even more." ”

"I rely on ......"

The urgency of this matter was not enough to describe it as burning his eyebrows, Fang Ye hurriedly finished eating the hamburger in three or two bites: "Let's go!" ”

……

First go to Gu Shi to get some tents that need to be prepared in the mountains, anti-mosquito bites and anti-snake bite medicines or something.

Then take the bus all the way to Tan Binh!

The fan who sent the email to Fang Ye was named Li Shi, and Fang Ye sent him a letter before he got on the plane, so after getting off Xinping Station, Li Shi picked him up there.

Li Shi's village is in the mountains, the road is not very good, and it takes half a day to get there by car.

And it wasn't early today, so Fang Ye and the others found a hotel to stay in first!

The next day, I got into a tattered pickup truck that Li Shi borrowed from the villagers, and the road was fine at first, but then it turned into a rugged dirt road.

The surrounding trees are lush and green, giving you a sense of seclusion.

After a long day of bumpy driving, I finally came to the village after passing through a farmland.

The bamboo buildings scattered around with Dai characteristics are like a big tent erected on a high place, although it looks a little old, but it still exudes a poetic and picturesque beauty.

In fact, it is not only for aesthetics, but also for the heavy humidity in the mountains in the south, and the buildings are several meters above the ground, so it is not easy for moisture to come up.

There are also free-range chickens walking on the ground with their heads held high, bowing their heads and pecking from time to time, looking leisurely.

Fang Ye jumped out of the car, rubbed his bumpy buttocks, and sighed, "Eh, it's finally here!" ”

Li Shi proudly pointed to a bamboo building and introduced: "That is my home!" Well, it's pretty, isn't it? ”

Some villagers were carrying a basket on their backs and were about to go outside, when they saw Li Shi grinning, revealing a mouthful of uneven yellow teeth, he looked at Fang Ye and the two of them, and greeted him in a local accent: "Ah Mao is back, bring your friends to play?" ”

After saying hello, he smiled honestly at Fang Ye and them, and prepared to leave.

Fang Ye looked at the fellow with a lot of wrinkles on his face, maybe fifty or sixty years old, and couldn't help but ask him about the green peacock: "Fellow, I want to ask you something, do you know about the green peacock?" ”

"Why do you ask the old peacock?" The fellow looked a little vigilant, and looked at Fang Ye that their eyes were not so friendly.

Li Shi hurriedly said to his fellow countryman: "People are experts!" I came here specifically to protect the old peacock, not to hunt birds. ”

Fang Ye was a little puzzled: "Old peacock? ”

Gu Shi explained: "These fellows, they call the wild green peacocks in the mountains the old peacocks, and the golden peacocks. ”

"Oh!" The fellow relaxed, "It's rare to see old peacocks now!"

Thirty or forty years ago, this old peacock, pheasant is very dripping, often fly to the village, and our chickens to grab food, pheasants like to call in the morning, green peacocks like to call at night, noisy dripping, later, outside a lot of trees cut down and planted with rubber, the old peacock and pheasant are getting less and less, pheasants can occasionally be seen, the old peacock is too rare. ”

When the fellow told the story of the past, he felt a little uncomfortable standing and talking with the basket on his back, and squatted on the ground, and Fang Ye and a few people also hurriedly squatted down!

"Twenty years ago, there was an old peacock who would come to the field to eat, and we didn't chase it, we worked in the field every day, and we could watch it move on the side, and sometimes we even opened a screen, but it was beautiful, eh, eh.

We all love it, and it's fun to see it every day when we work on it! It's a pity that I never saw it again! ”

Speaking of this, he showed a somewhat melancholy look!

Stand up and say to the crowd: "Come to my house and show you a picture!" ”

Fang Ye was surprised: "You still have a photo of a green peacock!" ”

"Then there will be a photographer who will come here and take a lot of pictures of the green peacock! I also gave me two photos when I got them. ”

While talking, I came to the villager's house!

From the cabinet, he carefully took out two photos that were a little faded and wrinkled: "Oh, this is it!" ”

One photo is far away, and only one head of a green peafowl can be seen poking out of the field.

Another photo is clearer, the green peacock stands elegantly in the golden wheat field, with a green neck, scales like copper coins, erect feathers, and a long tail, although the photo has faded a little, it still does not affect its beautiful demeanor!

The villager gently rubbed the photo with his rough fingers and sighed: "I heard that old peacocks can occasionally be seen on the riverbank, but this hydropower station is about to be built, and our stockade and our cultivated fields will be flooded." We can go, but where can this old peacock go? ”

Listening to the words of the fellow countryman, there was a strong sense of reluctance, and everyone was silent for a while!

Coming out of the villager's house, Gu Shidao: "The villager said that the number of green peacocks decreased sharply thirty or forty years ago, in addition to the reason for the reduction of habitat, poisoning is also a reason, the farmland was not used pesticides before, and the highly toxic pesticides that began to be used in the 80s, many green peacocks were poisoned when they went to the farmland to forage. ”

"Eh......"

Fang Ye and the others did some research in the village and asked for clues about the green peacock.

Then let Li Shi drive the broken pickup truck and take them to the hydropower station to have a look.

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