Happy Farm Ranch

Chapter 85 The Fertile Swamp

The reason why he felt his eyes brightened was because Su Mu was not mentally prepared at all, and after looking at the barren mountains and wild mountains for a long time, suddenly a wide field of vision and bright scenery appeared in front of him, and he couldn't get used to it for a while.

This swamp was nothing like what he had imagined before.

Sandwiched between the hillsides on both sides turned out to be a clear lake reflecting the blue sky and white clouds!
The whole lake is not very big, but its shape is round and lovely, and it may be because it has not been polluted, the lake water presents a deep blue-green color.The aquatic plants under the clear lake water are rippling with the waves; coupled with the dense reeds on the shore, a few wild ducks fly out from it from time to time, leaving a string of ripples on the water surface, and then float leisurely on the lake surface, giving this tranquility The scenery adds a bit of charm.

If he hadn't set up the awning with his hands and looked into the distance, he could barely see the southernmost swamp, Su Mu would have thought that Liang Dayong had led the wrong way.

"Look, I said there is nothing to see here. Even the wild ducks in the reeds are not easy to catch. Last year I took a lot of effort to dig out two duck eggs, and I didn't taste anything special." Liang Da Yong pointed forward casually, "The swamp is still ahead, you should be careful, the reeds are full of mud, if you accidentally fall down, you may be swallowed, so the villagers don't let children Come here to play.

When we were young, some children stumbled and fell into it. The ground was full of mud. After a few bubbles, there was nothing, and even a corpse could not be retrieved.

You follow me, and you must step firmly under your feet.A few years ago, in winter, the mud on the side was frozen solid, and some people came to cut some reeds and go home to light the fire. Later, many people drowned in the mud, and no one was willing to go this way, because they were afraid that they would drown in it before. The water ghost came up to catch the substitute! "

"Catch a substitute?" Su Mu twitched the corner of his mouth. He never thought that such a rich resource would be idle for many years for this reason!

But thinking about it the other way around, there are no villages within dozens of miles around Huatanao.Located in the deep mountains, the area of ​​the village is already large. Before I came back to live, most of the land near the village was deserted. Who would care about such a place full of mud?

Following Liang Dayong and walking along the hillside for a certain distance, Su Mu realized that the position he was standing just now was limited, and he didn't see the whole picture of the lake clearly at all.

Standing tall now and looking down, it is conservatively estimated that traces of birds can be seen from time to time in the reed marshes with a size of hundreds of acres.It is estimated that no one has disturbed it all year round, and it has long been a peach blossom source for various wild migratory birds; the rippling blue lake is located in the middle, and there is a clear boundary between the reeds; wild lotus flowers are floating on the lake, already pink The buds are swaying and about to open.

The calm lake surface extended several hundred meters away, forming another large swamp at the southern end.The difference from the reed marshes is that there is obviously more silt there, the layers of various miscellaneous plants are uneven, and there are even many crooked neck trees growing in it, which look strange from a distance. No wonder some people make up this place into a myth The place where ghosts and ghosts live in the story.

"Hey, there are a lot of birds hiding here!" Liang Dayong was walking slowly, when he suddenly saw a bird in the reeds, he bent down to pick up a stone and threw it over, still yelling: "Hey!" Heh heh heh!"

"Hula la!" He heard the sound of flapping wings, and he immediately startled a group of birds.

Su Mu hastened to take a rough look, there seemed to be gray cranes and wild geese besides the wild ducks, he didn't know the rest of the birds, but he flashed a few of them, they looked like red-crowned cranes!Before he could confirm, a large group of migratory birds had already fallen into the reeds and disappeared without a trace.

"Hahaha, I didn't find it before, next time I come here to get the crossbow arrows, we can eat roasted wild birds!" Liang Dayong smiled happily, thinking that he finally found something interesting.

"Don't hit them, Uncle Great Yong! I took a few glances just now, and most of them are nationally protected animals. We have to find a way to protect them, and we must not poach them!" Su Mu knew the aim of his crossbow arrows, and probably In a few days, he had to round up all the migratory birds living in the reed marshes.

Liang Dayong looked strange, and asked back: "Why can't you fight? The country protects animals? Who cares who protects them. Anyway, they are on our territory, so I just call them and roast them. Who knows? Besides, You can’t let me go to jail just because I ate a few wild birds! Isn’t it just a few wild ducks and wild birds, so there’s no fuss.”

"They are not just wild birds. Uncle Da Yong, think about it, how many wild animals are there now? If Taohua Mountain is not protected by the government, anyone can go up the mountain to hunt and cut down trees, and we can still enter the wild. Experience in the forest? Similarly, these migratory birds are one of the few species. If you kill one or two, they may become extinct in the future. Our future generations can only understand and appreciate these animals through photos !
If we think about it the other way around, wouldn't it be a great thing for us to protect these migratory birds and let them multiply more and more?Moreover, there are these migratory birds living in the swamp, let's take care of them, humans and animals can coexist peacefully, this is the most perfect Huatanao. "

In a moment of anxiety, Su Mu didn't know how to explain in detail, but he finally showed him the truth.

Liang Dayong rubbed his hands, the expression on his face was somewhat incomprehensible, he finally nodded after a while and said, "I don't quite understand what you're talking about, although I don't know why they can't be extinct, but you can't Then listen to you. When I go back, I will discuss with the village chief first and discuss the next notice. From now on, this area will be the same as the mountain, and hunting will not be allowed!"

"That's right, now I explain to you that you don't quite understand, anyway, listen to me right, and you will understand later." Su Mu heaved a sigh of relief, looked at the nearby barren hills and asked: "Dayong Uncle, is this our Huatanao site? The village chief didn’t seem to bring me here to see it before. If it’s all under our control, the mountains here can’t always be abandoned, we have to find a way to renovate them. "

Leading the way with one deep foot and one shallow foot, Liang Dayong lit a cigarette for himself and replied, "It's definitely our territory, and the village chief probably thought it was unlucky, so he didn't bring you to see it.

There is a village not far in front of that swamp called Kaihezhuang.I heard from my grandfather that in the past, because of this lake and swamp, Kaihezhuang often fought with Huatanao.When the land was first divided, the land that was full of mud was close to Hezhuang, which was originally the boundary of their village; this lake and the reeds were the concave place of the flower pool.

But the people in Kaihezhuang are too sharp, and think that a large muddy pond is useless, but we have lake water here and can still fish, so they come to make a fuss, insisting that the swamp and the lake are the same land, and they all have to be divided give them.Although this place is useless, it was left by the ancestors after all, so it can be given to anyone.

At that time, our Huatanao had a large population, and the village head had a lot of confidence at that time, so he asked them back: Huatanao is a big place, why don’t you say that your swamp land is occupied by us?If you can't deal with it in one sentence, the two villages competed vigorously, and as a result, they fought more than ten times, but there was no result.

The people in Kaihezhuang felt that they were in the wrong, so they always secretly rowed over at night to fry fish.They don't eat the dead fish in large pieces, just to spoil the lake water in our village.

Later, the village head of our Huatanao pissed them off, so he took all the strong young men in the village to carry stones from the mountain and polish them into two-meter-square and four-meter-long big stone piers. From this end to the other end of the lake.The people in Kaihezhuang were so intimidated just by looking at those stone piers, they never dared to ask for our land again. "

Liang Da vividly described the lively scene of hitting the stone pier as told by his grandfather. He stopped on the shore and stuck the wooden stick he picked up just now into the lake a few times.

"Here, this is the location of the first stone pier. In the past, these stone pier were still standing on top of the water. In the past few years, there has been a lot of rain, and the water in the lake has risen and flooded the stone pier." He was talking, groping I stretched my feet into the water and stepped on it a few times, and when I felt that the step was solid, I stood directly in the water.

"Uncle Dayong, be careful!" Su Mu was taken aback, but seeing that the water surface was only at the position of his calf, Liang Dayong stood firmly and there was no danger.

"It's okay, it's okay, as long as you stand on the stone pier, you'll be fine. The water here hardly flows, so you don't have to worry about being washed down." He said while probing forward with a wooden stick to the second stone pier.

Su Mu looked under the water carefully, and could vaguely see a square thing.It may be that it has been soaked underwater for a long time. There is a layer of green aquatic plants growing on the stone pier, and Liang Dayong used a wooden stick to find a solid foothold on the stone pier full of smooth aquatic plants.

After walking three stone piers forward, Liang Dayong excitedly pointed to the fourth one and introduced to him: "There is a word Liang engraved on this stone pier. My grandfather said that this stone pier was put down by my grandfather himself. Yes. Now that I think about it, the people at that time were really real. If it is now, no one would fight over this, let alone ram stone blocks into the water with such great effort, just to prevent others from play tricks."

"Then... what about Kaihezhuang now?" Su Mu suddenly felt something was wrong.

It stands to reason that with the stone pier as the boundary, if it is further south, it is not the territory of Huatanao. The swampland I want to reclaim is all in the south. If there is a dispute in the rice fields in the future, I will not take it for granted!

"Kaihezhuang was uninhabited more than ten years ago, and the young people in our village probably don't even remember that there is such a village nearby." Liang Dayong returned to the bank and flicked the water in his shoes casually, and continued to lead him the way. Heading towards the swamp, "Aren't you afraid that someone will make trouble after the land is planted?

Then you just put your heart in your stomach honestly, don't dare to say anything else, but no one in our village dares to play with you, otherwise I, Liang Dayong, will not count him as the first!If people from other villages dare to come and point fingers, hehe, that piece of land is nobody's control, who occupies whose, is anyone jealous?I will take the lead and bring the whole village to help you fight!The people in Huatanao are not easy to mess with! "

(End of this chapter)