Chapter 22 "Barter"
Josh was so scared that he quickly jumped up to see what it was. As it got closer, he could see it clearly.
What! Josh saw birds of all sizes holding more or less fish in their mouths and claws.
When they flew outside the cabin, they scattered all over the ground, and it started to rain fish on the farm.
"What are you doing? Why did you give me so many fish?" Josh was confused in the yard.
"Exchange the coo-coo, exchange the round thing to eat the coo-coo." The white-feathered egret took the lead again, and the other birds echoed with the coo-coo.
I have to say that the fish these little birds caught were much bigger than those caught by Josh, they are indeed professionals.
"But I don't have that many fish balls to exchange with you. I only have these." Josh brought out the remaining bowl of ordinary small fish balls.
"Coo" "Coo, coo, coo" the little birds flew to one side and started discussing with each other with cooing sounds.
The Brown-headed Vulture looked at its useless fellow with disdain and decisively flew aside, not wanting to eavesdrop on their conversation.
"Gugu" We won't let you work for nothing. We will exchange with you based on the size of the fish, and the extra ones will be given to you.
"How do I change it?" Josh asked.
"Gugu" Please divide these round fish into portions as big as my paw, three portions for big fish, one portion for small fish, and two portions for medium-sized fish. The white-feathered egret stretched out its paw to show Qiao Xi.
Josh looked at it, folded a few origami leaves at the door, and folded them into a box shape: "Can I use this? It's similar to your claws."
"Coo-coo" Sure, sure, smart farmer.
The white-feathered egret looked like a teachable child.
Josh was ashamed and was even taught a lesson by the bird.
"Then who of you will go first?"
The first to bear the brunt was of course the white-feathered heron. It grabbed a large fish as long as its arm and successfully exchanged it for three boxes of fish balls. Qiao Xi looked at this unequal exchange and felt a little bit sorry, "White-feathered heron, you can take half a fish, this is too much."
"Coo-coo" A fair exchange! The white-feathered egret never regrets.
"Uh, okay."
Seeing how persistent it was, Josh could only change the fish one by one as agreed before, but there were more fish than balls, and the whole basin of fish balls was soon gone, while there were still many birds waiting with fish in their mouths.
Qiao Xi looked at the birds behind him with embarrassment, picked up the empty basin and showed it to them: "Sorry, there are no more."
The little birds that were still waiting at the back suddenly became like vegetables hit by frost, all of them drooping their heads and wailing.
Qiao Xi thought about it and felt that this was indeed too heartbreaking, so he said, "Can you come and help me tomorrow? I'll make more fish balls tomorrow, and you can all have them."
Finally, these dejected little birds were calmed down.
There were fish all over the ground, so Qiao Xi asked the big-tailed yak to freeze them one by one, and then piled them aside like firewood. With the big-tailed yak around, he was not afraid of them being stolen by other small creatures.
However, it was not a sudden decision for Josh to continue making fish balls tomorrow. There were simply too many fish in the yard, and there was no better way to deal with them. The shipping boxes were sold too cheaply, and Josh was in a state of loss.
He got up very early, and the birds had not come yet. Qiao Xi first asked the big-tailed yak to thaw some fish, and then cut it with great effort. A brown-headed vulture was watching him intently on the tree, and quacked twice, but Qiao Xi had not yet reacted to what it said.
I saw that the large piece of fish she had cut up had been cut into fillets by the wind blade.
"Zhongzhong, thank you so much. You have reduced a lot of my work!" Josh said to the Brown-headed Vulture with a smile.
The brown-headed vulture looked at the smiling Josh, a little embarrassed, nodded coldly, and then pretended to say casually, "Quack, I can do more for you, there is no need to find other birds."
Qiao Xi laughed so hard that he bent over. The big black bird that looked so obedient had such a strong possessiveness. He still remembered what he said last night.
"Okay, okay, I will call you when I need you. There are too many fish, and it's impossible for just the two of us to catch them all. They are just helping me with the transaction. Brown, we are a family."
It started, it started, Josh started to CPU simple bird.
The brown-headed eagle believed it and nodded modestly, "Okay." Then he stood aside and watched Josh wherever he needed help and sent a wind blade to him.
Josh thought secretly: If I had known that the bird would integrate into farm life so quickly, I should have used it for some tasks yesterday. It would have saved me a lot of effort.
After Josh had cut up the fish and the brown-headed vulture had finished cutting them with the wind blade, the little birds came over one after another.
Seeing that Josh had started to chop the fish, the little birds all expressed their apologies for being late.
Looking at the chirping of the birds, Qiao Xi suddenly had an idea and thought of letting them try to chop the fish paste with the wind blade.
The power of the Brown-headed Vulture's wind blade was too great. It just tried to cut off a piece of the tree stump she was using as a chopping board. For the sake of the integrity of the chopping board, Josh didn't dare let it try again. She only had this one chopping board, so she had to use it with caution.
Most bird monsters have wind attributes. These birds are only a little smaller than the Brown-headed Vulture, so their wind blades should not be very big. Josh decided to give them a try.
Sure enough, the wind blades emitted by the small bird are also small. Although their power is average, they are very effective for chopping meat.
Seeing that they were helping with chopping the meat, Qiao Xi felt relieved to deal with the other part of the fish. Big-tailed Yak took the opportunity to thaw another batch of fish, which was just right for cutting and slicing.
With the help of the brown-headed vulture, the large piece of fish was quickly divided and chopped, and the two sides were exchanged and connected.
Josh was just about to go to the kitchen to get out the bird eggs to make the meringue when he suddenly realized a problem.
It seems that these eggs were stolen by her from the bird's nest. It doesn't seem right to kill the children in front of their parents.
For a moment, Qiao Xi was in a dilemma and stood at the door for a long time.
A great webbed sand goose asked curiously, "Quack, farmer, why don't you go in? Are you going to get eggs? Take more. I love eggs."
Huh??? Josh looked back at it in shock. How did it know she was going to take the eggs? No, how could it eat eggs!
Perhaps it was because Josh's shock was too obvious that the Great Webbed Sand Goose dodged to the side: "Quack, why are you so surprised? Did I say something wrong?"
At this time, the white-feathered egret came late, but it heard the conversation between the two of them, "Coo, we birds also eat bird eggs, you don't have to be surprised, little farmer."
"Gugu, it's right, you can add more, we love it."
Uh, okay, Josh didn't know what to say for a moment. It didn't seem to be a problem for birds to eat bird eggs. Some birds even specifically steal other birds' eggs to eat.
After figuring it out, she felt at ease to get the bird eggs from the kitchen, separated the egg white, and mixed the yolk and fish bones and put them all into the brown-headed vulture's stomach.
The big black bird even showed off deliberately in front of the other birds, which aroused their anger. For a moment, the ground was covered with bird feathers. In the end, the experienced Brown-headed Vulture won.
(End of this chapter)
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