Cute Beast Food Garden

It's just that if you want to shell all these nuts, without the assistance of machines, wouldn't it be tiring to break your hands by purely manpower "manual shelling"?

Qi Yan clearly remembered that in his previous life, before the college entrance examination, his father would buy walnuts for him to nourish his brain on weekends.However, even with the specialized nutcrackers, his shelling was slow.

If anything, be able to shell nuts quickly.The little bird jumped off Ah Cai's arm and staggered to the man's feet.

The man is buried in the grass, concentrating on picking the mountain ice fruit.Seeing this, the bird also climbed up, and with the help of its wings and beak, picked the peanut-sized bergamot fruit from the leaves, and threw it into the bag behind the man's back.

They walked while picking, and after noon, they found an open space to sit down, ate some dry food, and added a little water.Si Dongmo took out a green onion pancake from his backpack, broke off a piece and handed it to Xiaoniao.But the bird just shook its head. It was eating while picking among the bushes, and it was already full.

Si Dongmo squatted on the spot and ate half a sesame seed cake, and drank a few sips of water.The diet in the mountains can only be modest, and everyone has no complaints. After a quick meal, they headed for a deeper place.The further you go to the depths of the mountain, the colder the climate and the harsher the environment, with few people and swarms of snakes and insects.It is precisely because of this that they may find "treasures" that others cannot get.

A dense cluster of tall pine trees appeared ahead.Lobo stopped in his tracks, raised his neck, and muttered, "The pine nuts are not yet ripe at this time of year. In a few days, we can wear the pine nuts and go up the tree to pick the pine cones."

Although pine nuts cannot be picked, the mountains are rich in products and there are many other good things.In the tall forest, there are many strange-shaped mushrooms quietly growing on the big trees.Some of them are very plain white or dark, others are more showy.

Qi Yan recalled the relevant knowledge he had learned on the earth before. It is said that brightly colored mushrooms are mostly poisonous, so he bypassed those gorgeous and ostentatious mushrooms, picked out the ones that looked disheartened, and pushed them Gululu rolled back, ready to put it into the pocket on the man's back.

However, at the moment before bagging, a hand stopped in front of him.

"Guji?"

The little bird raised his head and saw Lobo standing behind him with a smile on his face, reaching out to the front, blocking his way.He took out two mushrooms in front of Xiaoniao and waved to him: "Little bird, these mushrooms are not edible, they will hurt your stomach if you eat them."

"Huh?" Qi Yan was taken aback.Those two mushrooms looked ordinary, not gorgeous at all, and they didn't look like they were poisonous.

Seeing that Si Dongmo was also looking in this direction, Loeb explained: "Picking mushrooms just to look at the shape is inaccurate. You see, the other mushrooms you pick are full of bumps and holes, and many of them have been eaten by insects." small eyes, but the tops of these two mushrooms are intact, without any trace of being wormed."

Hearing what he said, Qi Yan suddenly opened his eyes wide.After a closer look, sure enough, the tops of these two mushrooms were smooth and flawless, as if they had never been visited by bugs.

Even if the worms don't eat a bite, there will be problems in [-] out of [-].

Le Bo pointed to the section of the torn bacillus, and thick dark secretions flowed out of it, which looked very ominous.He threw the two mushrooms into the bushes: "The smell of this mushroom is also a bit strange, slightly different from the non-poisonous mushrooms. They are definitely poisonous."

The little bird looked at the mushroom flying into the distance, then at Le Bo, and nodded obediently: "Guji!"

Lobo stroked the little furry head of the bird: "It's good to know, Xiaohong is so good." Then he went to another place and continued to pick.

Qi Yan looked at his back and sighed silently: It was all influenced by Si Dongmo, and now even Le Bo and the others started calling themselves "Little Red"...

They picked along the road, or climbed tall trees, or drilled into bushes.In addition to mushrooms, the bag also contained fungus, chestnuts, hazelnuts, cashews, etc., as well as exotic nuts that Qi Yan had never seen before.After a while, the big pockets they were carrying were filled to the brim.

After staying in the woods all day, seeing the sun was about to set, Le Bo chose a relatively flat open space on the mountain. He and his two sons cleaned the open space, gathered firewood and made a fire, while Si Dongmo took Qi Yan and the boy named Ah Cai went to hunt in the mountains.

"Eat mountains by relying on mountains, and drink water by relying on water."

Ah Cai is very familiar with this mountain forest, so he strode forward to lead the way for Si Dongmo, "Let's go to the stream to catch some fish to eat, and then find a chance to see if we can catch pheasants, hares, etc. .”

As he said that, his eyes lit up, and he started to rub his fists, "I have eaten roasted pheasant in the mountains a few times, and it tastes much better than the chicken raised at home!"

After hearing Ah Cai's words, Qi Yan couldn't help being a little tempted by the taste of that "roasted pheasant", but he always felt that something was weird.

After thinking for a while, he realized: the pheasant is a bird, and his current appearance is also a bird.When eating fish and vegetables, Qi Yan doesn't feel any guilt, but when it comes to eating pheasants, he always has the feeling that he is eating his own kind, which is very strange in his heart.

I was walking in the forest, and suddenly I heard the sound of "Tuk Tuk Tuk" coming from a distance.Qi Yan lay on top of the man's head, and couldn't help grabbing his hair with his wings.

The man raised his arm and patted the bird above his head: "Don't be afraid, it's a woodpecker."

Ah Cai also smiled and said: "Yes, it's a woodpecker. Its beak is very hard, and it can pierce through the bark when it pecks down." The sound was getting closer.

"Yo, look up—over there!"

Ah Cai has good eyesight, he saw the source of the woodpecker sound at a glance, and pointed out to Si Dongmo and the others: "On the tree over there, that big bird with a beautiful color is a woodpecker! Now it is catching bugs on the tree to eat !"

This was the first time Qi Yan saw a woodpecker.As Ah Cai said, it is quite big, with a body length of more than [-] centimeters, brightly colored feathers, black and white wings, snow-white belly, smooth body lines, and the iconic hard beak.

Seeing the woodpecker pecking at the trees very quickly and making a uniform and powerful sound of "duk-duk", Qi Yan was very envious.As a bird, I also have a small pointed beak, but compared to the pecking speed and strong force of more than a dozen times per second, my small beak is really nothing to mention.

Hearing the rapid sound of woodpeckers, Qi Yan's thoughts suddenly changed.

The beak of the woodpecker is so hard, and the beak frequency is so high, it is obviously very convenient to use it to peck hard objects.

If you can learn its skills, then quick shelling seems no longer a dream...

"Guji Guji." Qi Yan poked the man's cheek with the tip of his wing, then pointed at the woodpecker.

However, the man couldn't understand his bird's language, so he just touched the little bird's head gently.He and Ah Jin continued to walk forward to the creek, first caught a bunch of insects as bait, and then took special fishing gear to go fishing.

"These bugs will be used to catch fish later, Xiao Hong will take good care of them and don't let them run away."

Ah Cai and the man went into the water, leaving behind a lot of big worms with broken wings and dumb birds.

On the ground in front of him, the bugs were wriggling strangely, making Qi Yan back again and again. --Disgusting!

Qi Yan shifted his gaze and looked at the figures of the two by the stream.At this time, Si Dongmo was holding a fishing rod and a fishing net. Compared with the branches and leaves they used to catch nets when they were drifting in the middle of the river, the conditions now are much better.Ah Cai caught a lot of big flying insects from the grass by the stream as bait, and strung them on the fishing line to lure the fish in the stream to the bank.

After watching for a while, Qi Yan suddenly felt hairy on his feet.Looking down, a big fat bug crawled onto his instep unknowingly. Fortunately, it writhed its fat body and entangled the bird's leg.

The scene frightened the little bird, flapped its wings and staggered back, uttering a terrified cry.

"Cuckoo!"

Suddenly, his backward body bumped into something soft.

Looking back, Qi Yan was stunned immediately: that soft thing is nothing but white belly!The woodpecker he saw on the tree in the distance appeared behind him at some point.When the bird turned around, it didn't say much. It buried its head and opened its mouth wide, and swallowed all the bugs that had entangled the bird's slender legs.

After a few clicks, the woodpecker swallowed the fat bug and narrowed its eyes contentedly.Then, he jumped briskly towards the remaining bugs that A Cai had collected.

Wait - it seems to want to pick up a ready-made bargain and eat the bugs caught by Ah Cai directly!

Qi Yan hurriedly followed and yelled at the woodpecker a few times.But maybe because of the language barrier, the woodpecker didn't stop, but went to the bug and opened its mouth again.

"Guji!" Wait, hey!

The little bird couldn't hold the woodpecker, which was much taller than itself, and clung to the other's back with its whole body.Qi Yan suddenly realized that he was so close to the back of the woodpecker's head.

good chance.

Qi Yan aimed at the target, and stretched out his sinful little mouth——

Tuk Tuk Tuk!

The woodpecker trembled violently, and shook its body vigorously a few times, shaking the bird off its back.It looked annoyed at the little guy who was sneaking up on the back of his head from behind, rolled his eyes, and then aimed at a piece of grass in the ground, pecking furiously!

In less than three seconds, the poor piece of turf was completely pecked through, and debris flew all over the sky, landing on the little bird's head.The woodpecker raised its eyes, and saw the little red fat bird staring at him blankly, with shock and timidity in his eyes.

"Xiaohong, where have you been?"

Si Dongmo's voice came from a distance, and the man was approaching.

The woodpecker shook its neck contentedly and uttered twice when it saw that the little bird was completely stunned by its own skill.It snatched another bug off the ground, and flew away proudly.

The woodpecker flashed by, and Si Dongmo noticed the movement here, saw that the number of bugs on the ground had decreased significantly, and then looked at the stupid bird.

"Did you eat the bug?"

"Guji." The little bird shook its head, stretched out its wings, and pointed at the back of the woodpecker.

"It's okay, anyway, Ah Cai has caught enough fish." He comforted, and took the little bird back to the camp where he was preparing to camp. There, Uncle Le and his son had already lit firewood and started cooking wild vegetables and stewing fish soup. .

Qi Yan silently watched them light the fire and cook.I don't know if it's his own illusion, since he pecked the back of the woodpecker's head just now, he has been feeling his mouth fluctuating from hot to cold, and very itchy, so he couldn't help but find something to peck at.

As it happens, the man's big pocket is nearby.The bird slipped in, dug out a hazelnut, and...

"Tuk Tuk Tuk!"

Xiaozui refreshed.

Before he could react, the hazel in front of him suddenly exploded.Debris and dust flew up and clattered down on the birds.

I saw the shell of the hazelnut was pecked into pieces by his excessive force, and the fruit inside was directly turned into powder...