Chương 308: Chapter 308: The story of the old peacock
After a while, Fang Ye ordered the burgers and sat down to complain to Gu Shi: "Teacher Gu, I just came out from the airport and saw that there were all blue peacocks posted on the corridor. It is clear that the hometown of peacocks in Yunnan is green peacocks. , How do you get an image of a foreign peacock at the airport?"
Gu Shi didn't bother to correct the problem of addressing: "It's normal. When I was investigating the stockade in Xishuangbanna, the stockade was full of blue peacocks walking around, and blue peacock statues. I took blue peacocks and blue peacocks. Show them the photo of the green peacock. The Dai people who dance the peacock dance don't know the green peacock. They think that the blue peacock is a peacock born and raised in Yunnan and a totem that they have always admired.
Only a few old people know the green peacock! "
Fang Ye could not help but feel sad: "Eh...the number of green peacocks is indeed too small now! There are only five or six hundred left, facing the disaster of extinction, maybe people in the future really only know the blue peacock but not the green peacock. NS."
Gu Shi gave a wry smile: "How can there be so many 500?"
Fang Ye was shocked: "Ah? Do you want less? I saw a paper that evaluated five or six hundred."
Gu Shidao: "The five or six hundred you mentioned are the situation a few years ago. Now that the hydropower is built, it has dropped a lot. We have been investigating this aspect recently, although the results have not yet come out. , But it is estimated that there are only more than 200 left."
He sighed and said: "In 1995, there were 800-1100 in the survey. In fact, we see that this number is problematic because of the inconvenience of transportation at that time. Maybe some places did not count it, and the number is even more. ."
"I rely on..."
The urgency of this matter cannot be described by burning eyebrows, Fang Ye hurriedly finished the burger in twos or twos: "Go and go!"
…
First, I went to Gu Shi to get some tents needed to go to the mountains, anti-mosquito bites and anti-snake bites drugs.
Then take the bus all the way to Xinping!
The fan who sent the email to Fang Ye was named Li Shi. Fang Ye sent him a letter before he got on the plane. So after getting off the Xinping station, Li Shi picked him up there.
Li Shi's village is in the mountains, the roads are not very good, and it takes a long time to get there by car.
And it was getting late today, so Fang Ye and the others first found a hotel to stay!
The next day I got on a ragged pickup that Li Shi borrowed from the villagers. The road was good at first, but later it turned into a rugged dirt road.
The surrounding trees are lush and lush, and there is a feeling of being far away from the people.
After being bumped for a long time, after a farmland, I finally came to the village.
There are bamboo buildings with Dai characteristics scattered all around, like a large tent erected on high ground. Although it looks a bit old, it still reveals a poetic and picturesque beauty.
In fact, it is not only for beauty. The mountains in the south are humid, and the building is a few meters above the ground, and the humidity is not easy to come up.
There are also free-range chickens walking on the ground with their heads high, pecking at food with their heads down from time to time, in a leisurely and contented manner.
Fang Ye jumped out of the car, rubbed his aching buttocks, and sighed, "Hey, it's finally here!"
Li Shi proudly pointed to a bamboo building and introduced: "That is my house! How about it, it's pretty."
A villager was carrying a basket on his back and was about to walk outside. He saw Li Shi grinning open, showing his jagged yellow teeth. He looked at Fang Ye and said hello in a native accent: " Ah Mao is back, bring friends to play?"
After saying hello, he smiled honestly at Fang Ye and them, and was about to leave.
Fang Ye saw that there were a lot of wrinkles on the fellow's face. He might be in his 50s or 60s. He couldn't help but tell him something that sounds like a green peacock: "My fellow, I want to ask you something. Do you know green peacocks?"
"Ask the old peacock, why?" The fellow was a little wary, and Fang Ye's eyes were not so friendly anymore.
Li Shi hurriedly said to the fellow: "People are experts! They came here specifically to protect the old peacocks, not the birds."
Fang Ye was a little puzzled: "Old Peacock?"
Gu Shi explained: "These fellow villagers, they call the wild green peacocks in the mountains old peacocks, and some are called golden peacocks."
"Oh!" The fellow relaxed, "I rarely see old peacocks now!
Thirty or forty years ago, this old peacock, the pheasants were so many that they often flew to the village to fight for food with the chickens we raised. The pheasants like to bark in the morning, and the green peacock likes to bark at night, which is very noisy. Ah, a lot of trees have been cut down and planted with rubber. The old peacocks and pheasants are becoming less and less. Pheasants can be seen occasionally, and old peacocks are too rare. "
When the fellow talked about the old story, he felt a little uncomfortable to stand and talk with his back basket on his back. When he squatted to the ground, Fang Ye also squatted down!
"Twenty years ago, there was an old peacock who came to the field to eat. We didn't chase it. We worked in the field every day, while we could watch it move around, and sometimes gave us a screen. , It's pretty, eh, eh.
We all like it, and we are very happy to see it when we work every day! Unfortunately, I never saw it again! "
Speaking of this, a melancholy expression was revealed!
Stand up and say to everyone: "Come to my house and show you a photo!"
Fang Ye was surprised: "You still have a picture of a green peacock!"
"Then a photographer will come here and take a lot of photos of the green peacock! Two photos were given to me."
While talking, I came to the home of the fellow!
From the cabinet, he carefully took out two photos that were slightly faded and wrinkled: "Here, this is it!"
A photo is far away, only a head of the green peacock protruding from the field can be seen.
The other photo is clearer. The green peacock stands gracefully in the golden wheat field, with a green neck, coin-like scales, erect feather clusters, and long tail. Although the photo fades. A little bit, it still doesn't affect its beautiful appearance!
The villager gently rubbed the photo with his rough fingers and sighed: "I heard people say that you can occasionally see old peacocks on the banks of the river, but this hydroelectric power station is about to be built. Our stockade and our farmland will be flooded. It's gone. We can go, but where can this old peacock go?"
Listening to the words of the fellow villagers, there was a deep sense of reluctance, and everyone was silent for a while!
Coming out of his hometown, Gu Shidao: "The fellow said that the number of green peacocks dropped drastically 30 to 40 years ago. In addition to the reduction in habitat, poison killing is also a reason. In the past, farmland was not sprayed with pesticides. Many green peacocks were poisoned to death when they went to the farmland for food."
"Eh…"
Fang Ye and the others did some investigations 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 hydroelectric power station.
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