Chapter 171: Domesticating Peregrine Falcons?
Wang Manyin did not expect that the impact of this urea bag would be far greater than imagined.
Like Liu Xiangyang, someone soon discovered that the layer of good nylon cloth could be almost two feet long when removed. Two urea bags have more than four feet of cloth, which is just right to make a single pair of pants for an adult.
You must know that during the Chinese New Year last year, the Shibi Festival Commune issued a five-foot cloth ticket to each member. If you want to make a set of cotton clothes, you need to use almost all the family's cloth tickets.
And it's not enough to just have a cloth ticket, and it also costs money to buy cloth. Even the cheapest white cloth in the supply and marketing cooperatives costs a dime. Therefore, many families can save and fully carry forward the simple style.
Three years of new, three years of old, and another three years of sewing and mending.
Big holes in clothes with small holes, patches on top of patches.
There are a few broken babies in the family, basically the eldest wears the second one, and the second one wears the third one...... If you really can't wear it, you can cut it into an upper.
Now that they learned that the fertilizer bag can be removed from a few feet of good cloth that does not cost money, the village cadres naturally got the first month near the water and took it for themselves.
I heard that the captain and accountant of a certain production team had a fight because of this.
For a while, this thing turned out to be a status symbol. Not only did many village cadres wear it, but even many people with heads and faces in the Shibi Festival also focused on the urea bag.
Not to mention, get some black paint and dye it, and make pants quite stylish.
Orchid also said two days ago that recently, the tailor store department has been rushing to make this kind of nylon pants every day.
For this reason, some people made up a slip:
Big cadres, small cadres, one urea pants per person.
There are black ones, there are blue ones, but there are no members!
The front is written 'xx production,' and the back is written 'urea,.
On the left you see the nitrogen content, on the right you are marked with 65 percent.
Wang Manyin heard that it was even more exaggerated, on the black market, a urea nylon bag was sold for one dollar......
But these things have nothing to do with him, and Wang Manyin doesn't have much to do with them. At the moment he was standing in space, his eyes fixed on the peregrine falcon inside the wicker cage.
When this guy was first rescued, he looked completely dying. As a result, he was fed in the space for more than ten days, and the wound completely recovered.
Now the peregrine falcon's brown body has become oily, its two eyes are extremely sharp, and its every move carries the aura of an air overlord.
Seeing the human appear, this guy immediately flapped his wings and screamed and begged for food, not at all recognizable.
Wang Manyin did not continue to feed, but planned to release it back into the mountains and forests today.
This guy is supposed to belong to the sky...... Continue to close it, it is estimated that it is no different from the group of stupid pheasants in the dirt pit next to it, and I don't know how to be afraid of people at all.
Having made up his mind, he appeared in a ravine with a wicker cage, untied the rope, and opened the cage door completely.
Looking at the unfamiliar environment in front of him, there seemed to be a trace of doubt in the peregrine falcon's eyes.
Immediately, the guy probed his brain out of it.
After a few tentative steps, the peregrine falcon quickly flapped its wings, ran a distance ahead, and then flew up against the ravine.
Then, it leaps into the air.
After a few weeks of circling around a nearby hill, the gray-brown figure vanished.
"Chirp...... Chirp ......"
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Far away, only a few crisp chirps remained.
Wang Manyin didn't expect this guy to be so conscienceless, he was raised for more than ten days, and he didn't have a farewell ceremony when he left.
He packed up the wicker cage and continued to take the rhubarb to search for scorpions in the cliff ditch. As usual, large scorpions are placed in clay pots, and small scorpions are placed in the space to be raised.
Now Wang Manyin really regards catching scorpions as an activity to pass the time. If you don't earn three or five dollars a day, you always feel uncomfortable.
The two are in charge of more than a dozen acres of paddy fields, plus scattered sorghum and alfalfa fields in the cliff ditch, and the plot area is not small.
However, in addition to irrigating the weeds, there is not much farm work to do.
Plus
Usually no one supervises them, and they actually live quite leisurely.
Liu Xiangyang usually stayed in the grass shed to read, while Wang Manyin went into the cliff ditch to catch scorpions, and the two did not interfere with each other.
When the weather was hot, Wang Manyin returned to the grass shed to cool off.
Seeing him return, Liu Xiangyang closed the manuscript and said with some admiration: "Brother Wang, you are really not too hot, how many scorpions have you caught?"
"Not many, just seven or eight." Wang Manyin raised the clay pot in his hand.
"Brother Wang, it's just right that you're back, I have something to discuss...... Yesterday afternoon, Wang Zhishu quietly told me that the recruitment quota for this year's Shibi Festival Commune has come down, and it is specifically for educated youth. Our village was allocated a quota to go to the Huangyuan area to work as a coal miner and need to go down the mine. Wang Zhishu asked me if I wanted to do it...... If you go, put your name on it. I'm a little undecided right now, and I want to ask you what you think?"
Through more than half a year of contact, Liu Xiangyang now trusts Wang Manyin very much, and treats him as a brother in his heart.
So when he encounters something hesitant, he immediately goes to the other party's staff officer.
And to be honest, the fact that I can get this opportunity is also related to Brother Wang. If he hadn't enlightened him at the beginning, he would have been like everyone else, how could he have been recommended by the village.
Wang Manyin was not very surprised by this situation.
He knew very well in his heart that the vast majority of educated youths would leave sooner or later. Only a very small number of them, for various reasons, ended up staying in this yellow earth.
Even so, they were all assigned to work.
In fact, since the beginning of spring, a considerable number of educated youths have left the Shibijie Commune. Soldiering, recruitment, sickness and retirement...... There are all sorts of ways to do it.
Wang Manyin heard that there was a knowledgeable youth in Shibijie Village who did it very simply, and directly left all his belongings at the Zhiqing Point, and then said goodbye without saying goodbye. Because the educated youth like to wander around, there was no abnormality in the village at first.
It wasn't until they didn't see anyone for a month that the village cadres hurriedly reported to the commune and sent people to look for them.
Later, I learned that people had already become soldiers through connections. Some time ago, the family transferred the relationship between the household registration and food.
Some of the things left behind now are the problems of the parents that have not been resolved, and the rest are irrelevant.
Liu Xiangyang belongs to the former category, so this opportunity is quite rare for him.
Wang Manyin pondered for a moment before he spoke, "Of course, it is a good thing to be able to leave the countryside. If you go to work as a worker in the coal mine, at least you can fill your stomach."
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Guarding the space, Wang Manyin is confident that he will change the appearance of the jar village little by little, and finally make the people in the village no longer hungry. However, he did not persuade Liu Xiangyang to stay, but sincerely analyzed the pros and cons for the other party.
After a pause, Wang Manyin spoke again: "But you want to think clearly, working in the mine is not as easy as you imagined, and the danger is very great. If you go, it's better to stay and work in the well......
In this day and age, coal miners are indeed well treated.
However, the working conditions in the mine are unimaginable, hundreds of meters deep under the mine are damp and cold, the miners wear cotton clothes all year round, and as long as they go down the mine, they have to stay in it for a shift before they can come up.
What's more, it comes with a huge life-threatening risk. Once something goes wrong, the chances of being alive are very small. Therefore, the workers who live in the mining area have an unwritten rule that they should go home as soon as they get off work to report their safety and then do other things.
In fact, not only in this era, but even decades later, there are often reports of mining disasters.
If it were replaced by Wang Manyin, he would rather follow Dong Gang to dump the second-hand bicycle than go to such a dangerous place.
It's just that this is Liu Xiangyang's personal choice, he can only analyze the pros and cons, and the other party has to make his own decision.
Hearing this, Liu Xiangyang nodded: "The recruitment conditions are very clear, that is, workers who want to go down the mine to dig coal. It was with this in mind that I didn't make up my mind...... I'm afraid that if I miss this opportunity, it will be difficult to meet it in the future."
He desperately wants to leave the countryside, but he doesn't want to risk his life, so he will suffer from both gains and losses.
"There will definitely be another opportunity in the future, it's up to you to seize it." Wang Manyin replied in an affirmative tone.
"Brother Wang, do you have any news?"
Liu Xiangyang suddenly became excited.
"I don't have the news...... is still what I said before, there are so many educated youths, and tens of thousands of families are connected behind them, which is a great force. In fact, you just need to be patient, and it mainly depends on your parents......
Wang Manyin didn't finish his words, I believe Liu Xiangyang himself will understand. Sometimes, it's not hard to leave.
It's like an inspirational story he saw in later generations about buying a house: someone joins a job, earns 5,000 a month, works hard every day, and keeps learning to enrich himself after work.
Finally, two years later, he personally saved 20,000 yuan, and his parents sponsored 2 million yuan, and successfully bought the first house in his life.
Of course, there is a time problem in this, it depends on whether Liu Xiangyang is willing to wait.
"Then I'll go back and think about it......" After listening to the analysis, Liu Xiangyang was even more confused.
"Well, you think about it. In addition, there is another point, you also have to consider your own family situation, I estimate that this recruitment will look at the file," Afraid that Liu Xiangyang would not be disappointed if he became a coal miner, Wang Manyin gave him a preventive shot in advance.
The matter of recruitment is not up to Wang Manchu, he is only responsible for recommending, and it depends on the situation on the commune's side.
After chatting with Liu Xiangyang for a while, Wang Manyin saw that the time was about the same, and then walked towards home with Rhubarb.
As soon as I arrived at the entrance of the village, I suddenly heard a chirp.
He subconsciously looked up, but saw a gray-brown shadow in the sky falling rapidly, it was the peregrine falcon released in the morning.
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It stopped steadily on the earth cliff a few meters away, tilting its head and staring at Wang Manyin.
This guy still has some conscience in the end.
Wang Manyin, who was originally a little depressed, felt a lot better, waved his hand to say hello, and walked away.
Unexpectedly, the peregrine falcon flew up and followed, constantly hovering in the air.
Fortunately, there is no one else around now, otherwise it would have been time to shout when I saw this scene.
When Wang Manyin arrived home and picked up the key to open the door, this guy also flew into the cave. Then it landed on the kang table two or three meters away, and it chirped.
Looking at the big bird close at hand, Wang Manyin almost fell stupid.
This guy is really not afraid of himself.
People have to boil peregrine falcons, they didn't do anything, they were fed food for a few days, and they were successfully domesticated?
What does this mean? I want to beg for food, or I plan to send it back to the space myself.
Thinking of this, Wang Manyin disappeared in a flash. When reappearing, take back the wicker cage.
He really guessed it...... As soon as the cage was put back on the ground, the peregrine falcon couldn't wait to fall and swaggered into it.
Then, keep shouting.
Wang Manyin was completely speechless: Look at the situation in front of him, this guy is planning to rely on him.
I chose to lie flat and didn't want to work hard.
Animals are far more sensitive to changes in the natural environment than humans. This guy must have sensed the peculiarity of the space, so he made such a move.
It's like Rhubarb and the two cats, they seem a little excited every time they enter the space.
Even so, he simply carried the cage back into space. This time there was no locking of the cage door...... The main lock does not lock one look.
After dealing with a wave of customers, and then feeding his fat pigs and a group of chickens, Wang Manyin entered the space with rhubarb and cats.
As soon as he appeared inside, Rhubarb suddenly arched his body and let out a low warning sound from his mouth.
Immediately after, Wang Manyin stared at the place where he usually eats with wide eyes.
I'm Nima!
I saw a lot of pheasant feathers scattered on the yellow earth next to me, as well as a large area of blood. Not far away, he also saw the remains of a skeleton that had not yet been eaten.
At this moment, another cry was heard overhead.
Under Wang Manyin's gaze, the peregrine falcon came from the boulder in the scorpion pool
The wings fluttered on his head and flew straight into the pit where pheasants were raised not far away.
Giggle......
In the next second, there were countless frightened pheasant voices from the earthen pit.
Soon, the guy flapped his wings again, and there was already a blood-dripping pheasant under his two sharp claws.
When it flew to the top of Wang Manyin's head, the peregrine falcon released its claws and threw its prey directly to the ground.
Look at this meaning, it seems to be a reward for him.
Good guy, Wang Manyin wants to cry without tears.
He finally realized what a bad decision it had been to bring the peregrine falcon into space again.
Unlike dogs and cats, peregrine falcons are natural predators and generally do not eat cooked food.
If this thing is allowed to be tossed, it will take about half a month at most, and the pheasants and rabbits that you have worked hard to raise for half a year will be eaten up.
Feeding is even more impossible outside, and there is no way to explain it to other people. Nowadays, many people don't have enough to eat, and it's too strange to feed a peregrine falcon yourself.
For now, we can only put this guy back in the cage first, and don't let it continue to do evil in the space.
Thinking of this, Wang Manyin immediately carried the cage and waved at this guy: "You come down!"
The peregrine falcon perched on a nearby stone and responded with a call.
This guy is different from rhubarb and doesn't understand human language at all. Wang Manyin screamed more than ten times in succession, but he didn't get it down.
I had no choice but to change the way.
After placing the wicker cage on the ground, he caught a dozen more loaches and threw them inside.
The peregrine falcon's eyes changed to doubt, and then it really flapped its wings and fell, swaggering into the cage.
Wang Manyin didn't dare to delay for a moment, hurriedly closed the cage door, and tied it back with a rope.
After he was done, he breathed a sigh of relief and took rhubarb and the cat to eat.
The pheasant that had been pecked to death could later be taken out of the space and used as the prey that rhubarb had just killed.
Anyway, Rhubarb is used to it, and now no one will doubt its strength.
Mountain farmer