Spring Thunder Chapter 0217 Magic Flute
After dinner, Qiantangsheng put down his chopsticks and walked out of the house.
Nan Yi watched and quickly ended the battle. He said something to the others and followed Qian Tangsheng out.
Qian Tangsheng stood outside smoking a cigarette and looking towards the foot of the mountain.
"Brother Qian, what are you looking at?"
"I'll see if anyone is coming. Some time ago, someone from the county came to inform us that a research institute abroad urgently needs to buy a Siberian tiger. They want an adult tiger around ten years old, and it has to be unharmed."
Nan Yi frowned and asked, "Brother Qian, are there still many Siberian tigers in Changbai Mountain?"
"There are only a few left. Apart from Changbai Mountain, you can only see their traces in Xiaoxing'anling. The country has begun to protect the Siberian tiger and hunters are not allowed to hunt them anymore."
"oh."
"Nan Yi, are you here for a trip?" Qian Tangsheng threw the boredom in his hand into the snow and extinguished it with the boots on his feet.
"A friend and I do some mountain products business, we buy ginseng, hazelnuts, chestnuts and so on from the mountains. I have something to do in Chuncheng this time, so I came to take a look. If there is any ginseng, I will buy a few plants. Brother Qian, do you have any idea to expand your bee farm?"
"You want to take my honey?"
"I have this idea. When I leave, I plan to take a few kilograms with me and find a laboratory to test it to see what beneficial ingredients your honey contains. If it has high nutritional value, I can sell it for a high price."
"A high price? How high?" Qian Tangsheng asked excitedly.
"It's hard to say. Everything depends on the test results. However, I can guarantee that the purchase price I give you will definitely not be less than six yuan per kilogram."
"You can still make money if you take away six dollars?"
"It should be no problem. I plan to sell it overseas. Have you seen The Count of Monte Cristo?"
"I took my niece to the county town to see it."
"It's good to have seen it. I plan to sell your honey to high-end restaurants like those in the movies and to wealthy people abroad."
"Is there a way?"
"No, but there will be. Some of our villagers are abroad, so it will be convenient to find a way."
"Aren't you from the capital?"
"I went to Shencun to work in the countryside and then settled there."
"Special Zone."
"Brother Qian, can you take me to see your apiary?"
"Okay, but I only have two bee-proof hats. Are your two friends going too?"
"It's okay, we are prepared."
As Nan Yi spoke, he took off the backpack from his back, opened the zipper of the backpack, took out a nylon bag from it, unzipped the rope buckle on the nylon bag, took out a piece of folded net, and shook it open, just like a fish guard.
Connect the supporting rods hanging above one by one , and a military-grade mosquito-proof hat is formed.
"This thing is good. The mesh is so dense, can it repel mosquitoes?" Qian Tangsheng said as he looked at the mosquito-proof hat in Nan Yi's hand as if he was watching a foreign spectacle.
"Yes, I often go to rural areas and mountain valleys. The mosquitoes in some places are very strong. I dare not go there without this thing, for fear of being bitten by mosquitoes and getting shivering."
"Then it's hard for you to make some money."
“It’s better than farming.”
Qian Tangsheng took a bee-proof hat and led Nan Yi and others towards the apiary. On the way, Nan Yi heard a series of clear and melodious shouts of "Yo Wu, Yo Wu" again.
The sound echoed in the valley, and the snow-capped mountains on all sides also echoed it.
Nan Yi looked in the direction of the sound and saw a girl wearing a fiery red fox fur hat, leading a group of deer, holding a short bamboo flute in both hands, playing it melodiously.
The sun shone on her, and the red hair on her head looked like a burning flame in the mist.
The spots on the sturdy deer's back are like white plum blossoms on a snowy mountain, dotted together one by one, and coupled with the flame, it makes people feel like they are in a fairy tale world.
"This is the deer trainer at the farm. His last name is Yu Hui. He's a capable man."
Qiantangsheng was introducing it at the edge of Nanyi.
A girl named Yu Hui saw Nan Yi and his group, and drove the deer towards them.
"Uncle Qian, are you going to the bee farm?"
"Yes, Xiaohui, are you driving the deer back to their den again?"
"Uncle Suozi looked at the weather and said it will snow again in the next two days, and it will be a heavy snow. I have to drive the deer back, otherwise the mountain will be closed due to heavy snow and I won't be able to call the deer back."
As Yu Hui was talking, she suddenly shouted at a deer that was about to walk away: "Xiaohua, you are naughty again. You run away when I'm not watching you. Come back quickly."
This deer had brightly colored markings on its forehead. It lowered its head and sniffed around in the snow, and it seemed like it was about to leave the group.
When he heard Yu Hui's scolding, he turned around and obediently walked back to the team.
"Ms. Yu, can it understand what you say?" Nan Yi, who was watching curiously from the side, asked curiously.
"Uncle Qian?"
Yu Hui glanced at Nan Yi and asked Qian Tangsheng in confusion.
"This is Nan Yi, he came here to play with the old boss."
"Oh, they can understand..." Yu Hui blinked her willow-shaped eyebrows, thought for a while and said, "They don't understand either."
"Can they understand your tone?" Nan Yi asked tentatively.
"Yes, deer are very docile and smart. They are very good at reading my expressions. Sometimes they listen to my voice, and sometimes they look at my expression."
"Oh, this is amazing. Can show me a demonstration so I can open my eyes?"
"sure."
Yu Hui put her hands on her waist, puffed out her chest, and like a village chief, she shouted a series of crisp calls to her villagers: "Hey, hey, hey, pay attention... everyone, pay attention."
The deer cleverly stopped moving their limbs, pricked up their ears, and waited for the village chief's orders.
"Now listen to my call, Xiaohua, hey, hey, Xiaohua!"
The doe that had just strayed from the herd immediately raised its head and stretched its neck.
"Short tail, short tail!"
A deer whose tail was shorter than that of its companions looked timidly at its village chief.
"Hey, Short Tail, you mustn't be naughty. Don't forget that a piece of your tail was bitten off by a wolf. You must follow the others and don't run around. Do you understand?"
The deer named Short-tail seemed to understand Yu Hui's teachings. It stood there obediently, not daring to make a sound.
"Black and white legs, black and white legs..."
A deer with black and white circles on its hooves pricked up its ears, its fur stood up, and it walked towards Yu Hui following the sound.
Miss Yu Hui was in high spirits and called out the name of each deer.
Each deer had a different reaction when hearing its own unusually unique "girlname". Nan Yi admired Yu Hui, the reindeer girl, for her rich imagination and the magical powers she displayed.
At the same time, I also admire the spirituality of the sika deer!
"Miss Yu, is this sika deer easy to deal with?"
"It's not easy. Sika deer are timid and suspicious. Even if you cough next to them or a snowflake falls from a tree, they will panic and run around, or even bump into each other and get hurt.
It took me a long time to figure it out and improve my methods. It was only in the past two years that I was able to tame them."
"Oh, did you figure out this technique of calling the deer by yourself, or did you learn it from a book?" Nan Yi vaguely remembered that he seemed to have seen a written description of a similar technique somewhere.
"I have read books and explored it myself. I read a book called "Hunting Records" in the county library. The book talked about primitive people imitating the sounds of animals to catch wild beasts. This was an important invention of humans in the Paleolithic period.
In ancient times, people used ventriloquism to lure wild beasts. When the enemy was lured deep into their territory, hunters would wait for an opportunity to shoot it.
However, not every hunter can master the skill of ventriloquism, so our ancestors invented some simple onomatopoeia tools that can make the sounds of wild beasts.
Just forty years ago, the Oroqen people on the other side of the mountain were still using this method to hunt. Later, when hunters got hunting stocks and rifles, they no longer used that primitive hunting method.
The book also says that the French saw a vivid picture on the cave murals of the late Paleolithic period, of a hunter disguised as a wild beast, wearing deer antlers on his head, covered with deerskin, and playing a flute to make the sound of a deer calling.
The wild deer nearby heard the sound and thought it was their companions calling them, so they walked into the hunter's trap one by one.
This hunting scene tells us that since ancient times, humans have been able to use the life patterns and habits of animals to allow them to hunt or work.”
Yu Hui, the eloquent reindeer girl, always had a smile on her face and spoke as fluently as the sound of a spring.
"I never thought that the ancient hunting method could still be used today. Take my sika deer for example. It not only has great economic value, but its antlers, deer fetuses, deer penises, deer tails, and deer tendons are all precious medicinal materials.
It is also a famous ornamental animal, protected by the state. It can only be captured alive and not killed. Hunting rifles are useless, so I asked Grandpa Heerba of the Oroqen ethnic group to teach me how to do it. "
Yu Hui said this and pointed to the small flute in her hand.
Nan Yi thought that it would not be so easy to call the deer just by relying on the flute in Yu Hui's hand. She must have a special affinity for deer, just like some people can easily get close to dogs, and dogs won't even bark when they see them.
To put it simply, Yu Hui smells like deer and she might have drunk deer milk when she was a child.
"Thank you Miss Yu for clearing up my doubts. Miss Yu is very smart, kind-hearted, and has great magical powers. She must be the Saint of Changbai Mountain."
"Hehe, you are so good at talking. I am not a saint." Yu Hui covered her mouth and laughed.
While the girl was being coaxed by him, Nan Yi asked again: "Miss Yu, how much can you sell this deer antler for?"
"At least two thousand dollars."
"That's quite impressive. Your deer farm is doing pretty well, right?"
"It's okay, Comrade Nan. I can't talk to you anymore. I have to bring the deer back to the deer farm as soon as possible."
"Okay, see you then."
Yu Hui held the flute horizontally again and blew a "yo-woo, yo-woo" sound. Hearing the sound, the deer followed her and slowly walked down the mountain.
After watching them leave, Qian Tangsheng took Nan Yi and a few others to the apiary.
