Chapter 130 Raising Honey Sparrows
In order to ensure that the empty nests they placed were occupied by honey sparrows, Jian Mo and Wu Jiong waited for two days before going to retrieve the honey sparrow nests in the evening.
It was Wu Jiong who suggested going in the evening.
Honey sparrows return to their nests in the evening, and going in the evening can ensure that most of the honey sparrows are still there.
In addition, honey sparrows have poor eyesight in the evening and will not fly around and peck around, so it will be safer for them to go.
In order to successfully catch honey sparrows, they specially asked people in the tribe to help weave a batch of small cages with buttons.
The cages are about the size of a rice cooker, and the honey sparrows and their nests are stuffed inside and closed, which can prevent the honey sparrows from flying around and getting injured, and avoid them from being overly frightened and causing injuries and deaths.
It just so happened that the cages made of wooden strips had many gaps, which would not hinder their breathing.
When the time comes, they can stack the cages and stuff them into the large backpack, which will also be convenient for them to transport.
Honey sparrows live in high mountains, and it is inconvenient to climb mountains, so today they also rode Jiujiu and Yingao over there.
In order to avoid disturbing the honey sparrows, when they were some distance away from the honey sparrow nest, Jian Mo and his friends asked Jiujiu and Yingao to wait as usual, and planned to go there by themselves.
Jiujiu has come here with them several times, and every time he had to wait here, he couldn't move with them, and he was very unhappy.
This time, when he saw them about to leave, Jiujiu suddenly grabbed Jian Mo's shirt: "Jiu."
Seeing Jian Mo looking over, Jiujiu tactically blinked twice, trying to be cute and get Jian Mo to take it with him.
Jian Mo quickly grabbed the corner of his clothes and said, "It really won't work this time. I'll take you out to play next time."
Jiujiu's ears drooped: "Hmm."
Jian Mo rubbed its big head and said, "You and Yingao wait here obediently. We will be back soon. Don't run around."
After comforting Jiujiu and Yingao, Jian Mo and the others set out to where the honey sparrows were.
The giant wolf that Wu Jiong turned into ran very fast, and soon they were close to the honey sparrows' nest.
It was already dark now, and with Jian Mo and the others' vision, everything they saw was a little blurry, not to mention the honey sparrows.
When they approached, the honey sparrows huddled in the nest, just "cooing" uneasily, and did not fly around.
Jian Mo took a look and quickly found the honey sparrow nest they had placed in advance.
They walked over quietly, and sure enough, there were already little honeybirds in the honeybird's nest - the chicks' feathers were pinker, and with Jian Mo's current vision, he could distinguish them clearly.
Jian Mo made a gesture to Wu Jiong, meaning that Wu Jiong would start collecting from the east and he would start from the west.
Wu Jiong nodded.
So, they took out the small cage, and quickly and gently put the honeybirds and their nests into the cage, buckled it, and put it into the large backpack.
The honeybirds didn't have time to react, and were already locked up.
After entering the cage, the light was even worse, and Jian Mo and his team stopped disturbing the nest, so the honeybirds "cooed" twice uneasily and stopped moving.
Jian Mo and Wu Jiong quickly collected the 31 honey sparrow nests they had released into the cages. In order to conduct a control experiment, they collected nine more wild honey sparrow nests.
When they had collected almost all the nests, the restless honey sparrows finally reacted, cooing, calling their friends and trying to repel the invaders.
Some honey sparrows ignored the darkness and flew up to peck at them.
They covered their faces, quickly packed up the honey sparrows and nests they had received, and fled.
This time the honey sparrows discovered their stealing behavior and kept chasing them and pecking at them.
Until they met up with Jiujiu and Yingao and flew down the mountain, there were still sporadic honey sparrows chasing them.
After flying quite a distance, Jian Mo wiped his sweat and said, "It's not easy to catch a few honeyeaters. Fortunately, my hair is strong, otherwise I would probably be pecked bald."
Wu Jiong sat on Ying Ao: "It's not that exaggerated."
Jian Mo touched his head with a lingering fear: "My scalp still hurts now, fortunately it succeeded. But we deserve to be pecked, today's harvest is really great."
Jiujiu and Ying Ao flew hard, and they finally returned to the tribe when the moon rose to the top of the tree.
Everyone knew that they were going to catch honeyeaters today, and they ran over to watch.
Seeing the forty cages of honey sparrows in three baskets, Ye Luo said, "If you can succeed in raising them, you won't be short of honey cubes in the future."
Jian Mo: "Well, there will still be a shortage, but not that much. If you can succeed in raising them, you can basically guarantee that there will be honey cubes all year round."
Qing Kuo: "Are you going to raise the honey sparrows in the back mountain?"
Jian Mo nodded: "I cleaned the back mountain two days ago, and I plan to put the honey sparrow nests on the treetops. I'd like to trouble everyone to help tell the cubs later that there is something sprayed on the honey sparrow nests, and the honey cubes inside cannot be eaten. Eating them may induce vomiting."
When they brought the honey sparrow nests back, Ji Xun said that there was something in the nest that attracted honey sparrows, and it was a little poisonous, so the honey sparrow nests could not be eaten until at least thirty days later.
Jian Mo and his friends finally found the nest of the honey sparrow, so they naturally couldn't eat it. However, it was hard to say about the cubs, so they had to tell them in advance.
Hefeng, a smart little boy, said, "Don't worry, brother Jian Mo, we won't eat it." Jian
Mo reached out and touched Hefeng's head, "So well-behaved?"
Before Hefeng could say anything, Ban Ming said, "If Hefeng doesn't make trouble, the other cubs probably won't make trouble either."
Hefeng glared at Ban Ming, "Who made trouble?"
Ban Ming smiled and reached out to touch Hefeng's head, "You."
Hefeng turned his head away and said angrily, "I won't make trouble. "Dan, you are the naughty one, Ban Ming, you are the most naughty one, I used to be not as naughty as you."
Ah Hu laughed and said, "That's right, Ban Ming is not reliable at all."
Ban Ming was very proud: "Now I have A Meng, I am reliable."
He Feng: "I am also very well behaved now!"
The adults laughed beside him, Qing Kuan: "Then you supervise each other and see who is the unreliable one."
He Feng: "It will definitely not be me, I can be well behaved for a few days."
Everyone laughed again.
Jian Mo and his friends did not keep the honey sparrow at home, but moved it to the back mountain overnight, and placed it on a tree branch that they had selected in advance, along with the cage.
After they put them in place, the honeyeaters may not smell the human scent, so they don't call so loudly.
In order to make them familiar with this place, Jian Mo and his team kept the honeyeaters locked up for three days in a row, and followed the instructions provided by Ji Xun to feed them a little honey cubes prepared in advance every day.
After three days, Jian Mo felt that it was almost done, so he removed the cage.
Almost immediately, all the honeyeaters fled.
Jian Mo looked at the honeyeaters that had already flown high, and was a little worried: "Do you think they will really come back at night?"
Wu Jiong: "It's useless to guess, let's wait and see at night."
Jian Mo: "I hope they can come back. We have put so much effort, and it would be depressing if there is no result."
Wu Jiong patted Jian Mo on the shoulder: "Let's go."
Jian Mo didn't have the mind to do anything else that day, and he was always thinking about the honeyeaters.
When it got dark, he couldn't wait to pull Wu Jiong to the woods behind to have a look.
There were forty honey sparrow nests on the branches of the trees in the woods. Honey sparrows had returned from thirty-one of the nests and were staying in the nests at this time. The remaining nine nests were empty and no honey sparrows had returned.
Jian Mo checked the marks they had made in advance: "The honey sparrows have all returned to the honey sparrow nests that Ji Xun gave us, but the honey sparrows abandoned the nests that we brought back at random."
Wu Jiong: "I guessed it."
Jian Mo sighed: "It's not that easy to tame honey sparrows. Ji Xun is really capable."
Wu Jiong: "Let's keep them first. Maybe we will have experience and find a way to tame honey sparrows."
Jian Mo: "This is the only way."
Jian Mo and his team put the honey sparrows in the back mountain to raise.
Although the cubs in the tribe were a little curious, they didn't get close. They just watched from a distance and helped Jian Mo and his team supervise the young people in the tribe.
Ban Ming and the others were so angry that they laughed: "Are we so unreliable?"
The little cat Banqiu put the matter to rest: "Of course we are."
Ban Ming raised his eyebrows: "Now is not the time for you to run into my arms and beg for food?"
Banqiu turned his head and licked the fur on his back, pretending not to hear.
Jian Mo smiled and changed the subject: "Ban Ming, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Ban Ming: "We saw you weeding in the field this morning. Do you want help?"
Jian Mo didn't expect that they came to talk about this. He smiled and said, "If you are willing, thank you very much."
Xilu asked: "Why didn't the tribe leader help with the work, and let you, brother Jian Mo, do it alone?"
Jian Mo explained: "He did it in the morning, and then Dejiang asked him to look at the metal plow, and then he left. I thought about the rest There wasn't a lot of grass, so we just pulled it for a while."
Ah Hu poked his head out: "Metal plow, the one we used to turn the soil before? Don't you have one? Why did you make a new one?"
Jian Mo: "It was made based on the plow in my hometown before, but it's not suitable for use here, so we customized a new one and wanted to make it again."
Plows on Earth are mostly pulled by oxen, while orc plows are used by orcs. The drawings that Jian Mo had drawn before, no matter the size or style, were not suitable here.
So Jian Mo and his friends asked the tribe to remake a plow that was more suitable for this world.
Ah Hu: "So you are going to turn the soil again?"
Jian Mo smiled and said, "Yes, now the crops are growing, and the earthen embankment is about to be flattened by the erosion of wind and rain. We need to build up the soil again and pile up the earthen embankment higher. It is also a good opportunity to fertilize the crops."
This was a bit complicated and no one quite understood it, but everyone roughly understood what to do.
Ban Ming said, "Then we will come to help. Brother Jian Mo, when do you want to work? We will come together."
Jian Mo: "How about tomorrow morning? It's not so hot before the sun rises, so we can do some work."
The young people agreed readily, "Of course, we will get up early tomorrow. Call more people to come and try to finish the work early in the morning."
Jian Mo: "Then I will prepare more dishes tomorrow and treat everyone to breakfast."
Jian Mo originally thought that only some of the young people would come to help, but when he got up the next day, he saw that most of the beastmen and sub-beastmen in the tribe had come.
Everyone listened to what Jian Mo was going to do, and then worked separately.
Some of them pulled weeds, some applied fertilizer, and the others changed back to their beast forms and helped pull the metal plow to turn up the soil in the ditch again, just in time to press the fertilizer under the soil so that the fertilizer could be released slowly.
Many beastmen in their huge beast forms shuttled through the fields, moving like big cows. Every time Jian Mo looked up, he felt like he was in a fairy tale.
The fertilizer Jian Mo and his friends applied today was the fermented feces of Jiujiu and Yingao, which was actually a bit smelly.
Everyone didn't mind and just did their job.
Jian Mo was really embarrassed. After seeing that everyone had finished their own work, he simply led everyone to weed, fertilize and cultivate the public fields in the tribe.
Afterwards, seeing that it was still early, everyone helped finish the work on other private fields in the tribe.
Jian Mo generously contributed metal plows and fertilizers for others to use.
With so many people working together, Jian Mo couldn't afford breakfast - he didn't prepare so many ingredients at once, nor could he make so much rice in a limited time.
The families like Qingkuang who had private fields also said they wanted to treat everyone to a meal, so everyone put it together and decided to treat the entire tribe to a meal.
The ingredients would be provided by the families who had private fields, but they just needed everyone to help out.
No matter what time it is, having a meal together is always fun, and the other people in the tribe happily agreed, and agreed to come back early this evening to prepare for the meal.
Jian Mo and his friends had a meal together and invited some familiar beastmen and sub-beastmen to go fishing.
Qing Kuang asked, "You want so many fish, do you want to make fish maw glue or fish balls?"
Jian Mo smiled, "Mainly make fish maw glue, don't you say you want to build a tribe? The demand for fish maw glue is relatively high recently, so I made it in advance. As for fish balls - I can't finish the fish meat, I feel that making fish balls is more cost-effective than making mullet."
Qing Kuang said cheerfully, "I like to eat fish balls too, so let's go fishing together."
Ye Luo interrupted, "The fish in Baishazhou are fat and big recently. Let's go there to catch them. Green Swamp Source has become a swamp recently. The fish smells like mud. It's easy to get stuck in the swamp when walking in it. It's not very convenient."
Ye Luo usually pays attention to collecting information about prey and collections, and has a special understanding of related aspects. As soon as he opened his mouth, everyone responded.
Qing Kuo: "It's a good opportunity to go there and play in the water. I haven't played in the water for a long time."
Jian Mo's eyes lit up: "I think it's feasible! I have newly made swimming trunks!"
Jian Mo's family has a lot of fabrics and makes a lot of clothes.
Qing Kuang and his friends all knew about swimming trunks, so they simply said, "Then let's bring them too, and then we can play separately from the beastmen."
Jian Mo: "Should we bring the cubs? Let them relax a bit."
Qing Kuang thought about it and said, "That's fine."
The beastmen and sub-beastmen are particularly good at swimming, much better than humans.
Jian Mo knew about this situation, but he still reminded everyone to be careful.
Everyone agreed.
So, this time almost the entire tribe went out together to fish and play in the water.
When they went out together, there was a lot of noise, and it happened that Baishazhou was on the edge of the Yigu tribe.
Many people from the Yigu tribe were also attracted to come over and help them fish.
In the end, Jian Mo and his friends brought a lot of fish back to the tribe, made fish balls and had a meal together, and ate most of the fish balls while they were fresh.
Everyone gave the fish bladders to Jian Mo, and Jian Mo was not polite.
That night, he took the insect feces he got from the Linyan tribe and boiled glue again.
Boiling glue is a delicate job that requires constant stirring and observation.
Jian Mo was bored when he was boiling glue, so he simply found the remaining wooden boards at home and instructed Wu Jiong to help scrape them. After scraping them smooth, he trimmed them again and tried to splice them.
Wu Jiong looked at the assembled big wooden board and was puzzled: "What are these for?"
Jian Mo: "A boat!"
Wu Jiong: "What's a boat?"
Jian Mo gestured: "Something that can float on the water. After we get on the big boat, we can also stay on the water."
Wu Jiong was puzzled: "We can use our beast form to float up. If the human form is careful, we won't sink."
Jian Mo waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, no, it's hard to do other things when you float on the water. It will be much more convenient with a boat."
Wu Jiong: "For example?"
Jian Mo: "For example, fishing on the boat, and if you want to move around in the middle of the lake, you can also use the boat as a floating island and rest on it."
Wu Jiong nodded.
Jian Mo smiled at him: "You still think it's not necessary, right?"
Wu Jiong thought for a moment: "Maybe it's necessary for tribes that need to engage in water activities."
Jian Mo: "Hey, don't just think about whether it's useful or not, you can also think about whether it's fun. Last time I lay on you and floated in the lake, it felt really fun. When the boat is made, we can lie on the boat together and float in the lake, which should be fun too."
Wu Jiong's eyes lit up and he stared at the wooden board: "You make sense."
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