Surviving in the Big Mountains: 1984

Wang Tianxiao is reborn thirty years ago, the day before his eldest son's birth.

In temperatures below minus twenty degrees, his heavily pregnant wife clutches their three-year-old daught...

Chapter 133 Digging a Trap for the Farm Manager

"Arrange someone?"

After a moment's thought, Wang Tianxiao smiled and said, "Arranging someone is fine, but I have to choose that person."

"If I'm not mistaken, you definitely want Xiao Cui, right?"

"You guessed it?"

“That’s obvious,” Dai Zhixin laughed. “Everyone knows you two are so close you could share a pair of pants all day. Who else would you choose if not him?”

"Haha, nothing escapes your discerning eye."

"If you want to choose Xiao Cui, I have no problem with that; I can just issue a transfer order. But you need to ask Xiao Cui's opinion: is he willing to leave here and go to Yangziling?"

"Yes, I'll discuss it with him."

After settling the matter, Wang Tianxiao casually mentioned that he had just run into Liu Jun, who was counting money in his hand, and joked with Dai Zhixin about why he didn't get a share of the money.

"You mean that money Xiao Liu received? It wasn't issued by the station; it was a bonus from the bureau."

"A reward? What kind of reward?"

"It was quite a coincidence that Xiao Liu found two baby great bustards in the mountains. This is a major discovery for our Ziwu Ridge. The forestry police department has awarded Xiao Liu 100 yuan."

Dai Zhixin is still very excited when he talks about it.

When Wang Tianxiao heard that it was a bustard, he was stunned for a moment, and then he instantly understood why Liu Jun was being rewarded.

It is true that birds like the Great Bustard are unlikely to appear in Ziwu Ridge.

It's not that it's absolutely impossible, but the geographical conditions of the Ziwu Ridge are only barely enough for them to survive, and they are not close enough to the grasslands that are most suitable for their habitual life.

The great bustard is a typical grassland bird, and according to traditional Chinese medicine, eating it can enhance male virility and nourish the kidneys...

I don't know why, but there are many things in the mountains that can enhance male virility.

The great bustard's kidney-tonifying properties were also included in medicinal records, which is why it was once a target for capture and hunting.

Because this bird is very large, it needs to run a few steps on the ground to help it take off, somewhat like an airplane. Therefore, its takeoff speed is very slow, making it easy to catch.

They were quickly captured and nearly driven to extinction.

Later, the great bustard was designated as a Class I protected animal in China, on the same level as the panda and golden monkey, which shows its preciousness.

Great bustards are birds that prefer to live in same-sex communities. In the past, they lived in large flocks, with legends saying that there were as many as seventy of them together. Therefore, the character "鸨" (bō) is a combination of "seventy birds".

However, in the 21st century, let alone large flocks of seventy individuals, even small flocks of seven are rarely seen. According to statistics, the number of great bustards in our country does not exceed four hundred.

But it is a protected animal that is even rarer than the giant panda.

In the 1980s, many animals that were nearly extinct or rare in later generations still existed in large numbers, such as leopard cats, honey dogs, and owls, but the great bustard was already very rare at this time.