My 1995 Small Farm.

Chapter 756 Fly Experiments and Parrots

Zhao Yubao said, "As autumn approached this year, the wolves and bears in the mountains started to run over there. The people there, who go to the mountains to pick wild fruits all day long, didn't even know to drive these animals away. Now they're suffering, and they want to ask others for help. Where were they before?"

The old man often went to the market in the countryside, and he always passed through Yangtougou. He knew quite a lot about the place.

Chen Ling also asked, "What exactly is the situation?"

"What could it be? It's probably the mess caused by that sheep farmer before."

Chen Jiang gave a helpless smile: "People say he's trying to emulate Fu Gui by raising a few good dogs to sell, so he's thinking of mating wolves with dogs, and he even brought two tiger-headed yellow dogs from Fenglei Town..."

As a result, the wolf had just given birth to cubs, so how could it possibly mate with a dog?
After the wolf cubs grew up, they ran away. Now, less than a month after they ran away from that den of wolves, the adult wolf led the wolves from the mountains to his house to steal and eat sheep.

This is quite a joke.

The story of Yangtougou had already spread widely.

It's nothing more than a shepherd who couldn't tell what was important. While herding his sheep, he encountered two wolves. He ended up feeding the wolves, and the wolves started coming over every day to wait for him to feed them.

At first, the two wolves kept a long distance apart, but after gradually getting to know the shepherd, they were lured home by him and even had a litter of wolf pups there.

The villagers of Yangtougou strongly opposed this.

What is a wolf? How could people in the mountains not know?

They say you can't raise a wolf without gratitude. Even wolves raised from a young age are a bit lacking, let alone one that was kidnapped and brought home halfway through life.

"He's an ungrateful wretch. I put so much effort into raising him for a while, and now look what's happened. He's turned his back on me and led his pack to steal my sheep."

Zhao Yubao said with a hint of sarcasm, "This guy is a daydreamer. He doesn't have that much ability. What was he doing messing around? Luckily, he didn't lose his life."

"Teacher Zhao is right. He doesn't have Fugui's skills, but he insists on learning from Fugui. If making money was so easy, would it be his turn? Our own villagers would have taken the lead."

Chen Jiang grinned and said, "The people in our village are the most sensible. They know their own abilities. Outsiders don't understand Fu Gui and think he made money in many places by luck, but in fact, he earned it all through real skills that no one else can learn."

Chen Jiang's words reflected the sentiments of many people in the village.

At first, everyone thought that Chen Ling was making money far too easily.

It looks like they're just playing around. They don't put in much effort, but they sell this and that and make a fortune.

It made people extremely envious.

Later, when some people in the village started to learn from Chen Ling, they realized that they couldn't learn it at all.

If Chen Ling were to personally teach them, it would be like raising fish or chickens; he simply wouldn't be able to guide them.

Indeed.

Their minds and ways of thinking are still stuck in the old ways; not only are their ideas rigid, but they also find it difficult to let go and act freely.

In short, if you let them work hard to earn money, they will feel at ease and be willing to put in the effort.

If you ask them to use their brains and come up with some fancy ways to make money like Chen Ling, they'll all be completely lost and confused.

It's mainly outsiders who can't learn the essence of it.

"In my opinion, let alone Yangtougou, even those two in the township who want to learn from Fugui and start a farm, and those old stinkers like Wang in the village, they definitely won't amount to anything in the end."

Chen Jiang waved his rough, large hand and started shouting loudly.

"Keep your voice down, Old Wang and the others are busy on the slope behind," a teacher reminded them.

"Afraid of him? That damn old bastard bullied my family years ago, I've wanted to fight him for ages!" Chen Jiang said angrily.

Seeing this, Old Wu poured him a cup of tea and changed the subject, saying, "Brother Dajiang is right. My master's method is not something that ordinary people can learn; it requires a lot of education."

When Old Wu, a native of Taiwan, served him tea and water, Chen Jiang immediately felt very honored, and his anger subsided.

He happily accepted the tea and said, "Old Wu, after you finish your business here, go to the wedding venue in the east of the village. We've bought all the meat and vegetables, and the big stove cooks quickly, so the feast will be ready soon. You can all go with Fugui to eat and drink at the feast. The host has also been urging me to come and call people."

"Alright, alright, I'll go with my master later," Old Wu said with a smile.

They had already encountered two weddings in the village and had given money as a gift both times.

Anyway, this amount of money is nothing to them. Since they're already here, why not experience the local customs and share in the joy?
According to local customs.

After the wedding ceremony at noon, a banquet will be held in the evening to entertain the guests.

Relatives and friends with whom parents have a good relationship.

A friend who has a good relationship with the groom.

After helping out for two days, we hosted a banquet tonight to treat everyone to a meal and drinks, and everyone had a great time.

……

It gets dark early in winter.

The wedding banquet here starts early; it gets dark at 6 pm, so the banquet usually begins around 5 pm.

However, Chen Ling wasn't in a hurry to go. After leaving the school, he first took a stroll around Wang Lixian's greenhouse.

Wang Lixian's mushroom shed was a little better, but his vegetable shed had a lot of mosquitoes and flies.

Since discovering them a couple of days ago, Chen Ling has wanted to catch a few and send them into the cave to keep for experiments.

I just hadn't finished piling up the mushroom substrate a few days ago, so I didn't have time to come over.

I had some free time today, so I quickly came to catch it.

After catching the flies, Chen Ling went straight to the mountain behind his house, went into the cave, and started tinkering.

Chen Ling used to find maggots disgusting.

They hesitated to take the plunge and do the experiment.

Even when friends sent him letters urging him to hurry up, he pretended not to see them.

After all, he had animated sequels to work on, children's stories to write, and letters from viewers all over the country, forwarded and mailed directly to him. If he didn't reply, the recipients would understand. However, when Chen Ling recently introduced fish into his vegetable greenhouses, the fresh, lively fish were all beautiful new varieties.

For some reason, his thoughts suddenly changed.

We are eager to cultivate some new varieties.

Breeding new breeds of larger animals like cats, dogs, wolves, and leopards takes a long time.

Chen Ling then decided to start with the fly that collects honey.

Forget about sterile medical maggots for now, just focus on this honey-collecting fly.

Upon entering the cave, Chen Ling immediately teleported to the newly opened desert area.

There's nothing in this desert area, and he hasn't made any plans for it yet.

Looking back now, leaving room for some small experiments that I wanted to do was a pretty good place.

Chen Ling simply brought the flies into the cave.

Upon arriving in the desert area, he waved his hand and cleared out a small plot of land, no more than half an acre in size.

So put the flies we brought in here.

Then they picked various flowers from the garden and threw in a couple of fruits from the trees.

Since they're meant for flies anyway, these flowers and fruits don't need to be anything special.

Chen Ling threw the fruit in and left it alone, even crushing two of them so the flies could eat them and multiply.

Deserts are areas that isolate spiritual energy.

But these flowers and fruits must contain abundant spiritual energy.

Chen Ling has no intention of removing them or using ordinary flowers and fruits to cultivate them.

Since it involves cultivating new varieties, initial investment is definitely required.

It's impossible to accomplish anything without putting in any effort.

Anyway, it's just a little bit of spiritual energy, so Chen Ling won't be reluctant to part with it.

Besides, flies will experience accelerated mutation and metamorphosis if they eat these things that are rich in spiritual energy.

Once the genes are completely stable.

Once they've become true honey-collecting flies, then cutting off these fruits and flowers will prevent any problems.

Now that they were in the cave, Chen Ling thought about Er Tu Zi's current situation and began to search the cave thoroughly to see what else, besides fish, could be fed to Er Tu Zi.

As a result of this search, he actually found something unexpected.

That is: a parrot.

These parrots were budgies that Chen Ling bought in the city last year, intending to keep them for Rui Rui to play with.

As a result, the brat only liked catching turtles, and quickly lost interest in raising little moorhens and the like.

So these budgies were never caught.

Anyone who has ever owned a parrot knows what that means.

If they have enough nutrition, they can reproduce very quickly.

They can breed every two months, or even every month or so, and as long as the climate is suitable, they can truly reproduce all year round.

This applies not only in the grotto-heaven but also in the outside world.

Even within the cave, the reproduction rate is even faster.

This led to the parrots that Chen Ling kept in the cave accidentally becoming an overpopulation.

If Chen Ling hadn't specifically searched everywhere today and discovered their activity traces on the beach next to the lake, he simply wouldn't have believed it.

"It reproduces so quickly, it's also suitable for breeding new varieties."

Chen Ling originally wanted to find something to eat for Er Tu Zi, but then, unexpectedly, he got another pleasant surprise.

There are now more than two thousand parrots, a large flock of yellow and blue ones, landing on the ground, chirping and making small puddles on the sandy beach of the lake.

Jackals and civets lurked nearby, their eyes fixed on the prey. Occasionally, a mischievous young jackal would lose its patience and rush over to hunt.

This startled the large flock of parrots, causing them to fly off in all directions.

Chen Ling felt a toothache upon seeing this scene.

"If these weren't parrots, it would be so much better if they were golden pheasants instead."

Parrots reproduce at an alarming rate, and they also leave the nest very quickly, with their feathers fully grown and them able to fly in about a month.

They can mate and reproduce in three months.

However, as I said before, life in the cave is definitely faster than in the outside world.

"Right now, let's not think about anything else. I'll collect the eggs they've laid recently. Otherwise, with so many eggs already, if we wait a while, or if I forget about it for a moment, their population will probably be like the swallows on the dam, flying up and blocking out the sun."

This is not a good thing in the grotto-heaven.

Chen Ling waved his hand, took a bamboo basket from the thatched hut, and waved his hand again. All the parrot eggs from the nests in the woods flew out and landed steadily in the basket.

As parrot eggs fell into the bamboo basket one by one like dumplings being dropped into a pot, the basket was full in less than a minute.

And many of the remaining parrot eggs are still floating in the air...

Chen Ling was dumbfounded: "Good heavens, good heavens, I knew there would be a lot of parrot eggs, this basket can't possibly hold them all."

Each nest of parrots has more than six or seven eggs. With more than two thousand parrots, even if there are not a thousand pairs of males and females, even if only five hundred lay eggs, the number is still terrifying.