Chapter 312

After a while, Fang Fang finished the hamburger, sat down and make complaints about him: "teacher Gu, I just came out of the airport and saw that the pictures of all blue peacocks were posted on the side of the road. It is clear that the peacock's hometown in Yunnan is a Green Peacock. How can we get a peacock like an image at the airport?"

Gu Shi was too lazy to correct the address problem: "it's normal. When I was investigating the stockade in Xishuangbanna, the stockade was full of blue peacocks and statues of blue peacocks. I showed them photos of blue peacocks and green peacocks. Dai people dancing Peacock Dance don't know green peacocks. They think blue peacocks are peacocks native to Yunnan and a totem they have always worshipped.

Only a few old people know the Green Peacock! "

Fang Ye couldn't help but feel sad: "ah... The number of green peacocks is really too small now! There are only five or six hundred left. Facing the disaster of destruction, maybe people in the future really only know the blue peacock and don't know the Green Peacock. "

Gu Shi showed a wry smile: "how can there be so many 500?"

Fang Ye was shocked and said, "ah? Less? I saw a paper that evaluated five or six hundred. "

Gu Shi said, "the five or six hundred you mentioned were a few years ago. Now hydropower has been built, and it has dropped a lot. We have been doing this survey recently. Although the results have not been completely come out, the assessment is that there are only more than 200 left."

Sighed: "in 1995, there were still 800-1100 in the survey. In fact, we have problems with this figure now, because the traffic was inconvenient at that time, it may not be counted in some places, and the number should be more."

"Shit..."

The urgency of this matter is not enough to describe it with burning eyebrows. Fang Ye quickly ate the hamburger in three or two bites: "go, go, go!"

……

Go to Gus first and get some tents to be prepared in the mountains, anti mosquito bites and anti snake bites.

Then take the bus all the way to Xinping!

The fan who sent an email to fangye was Li Shi. Fangye sent him a letter before he got on the plane, so Li Shi picked him up there after he got down from Xinping station.

Li Shi's village is in the mountain. The road is not very good. It takes half a day to get there by car.

And it's getting late today, so fangye they first found a hotel to stay!

The next day, Li Shi took a broken pickup truck borrowed from the villagers. At first, the road was good, but later it became a rugged dirt road.

The surrounding trees are green and luxuriant, which makes you feel far away from people.

After bumping for a long time, I finally came to the village after passing through a piece of farmland.

Bamboo buildings with Dai characteristics are scattered around, like a large tent on a high place. Although it looks a little old, it still shows a poetic and picturesque beauty.

In fact, it's not just for beauty. In the mountains in the south, the humidity is heavy, and the humidity is not easy to come up a few meters above the ground.

Another free range chicken swaggered on the ground, pecking from time to time, looking leisurely and contented.

Fangye jumped out of the car, rubbed his bumpy ass, and sighed, "ah, it's finally here!"

Li Shi proudly pointed to a bamboo building and said, "that's my house! How about it? It's beautiful. "

A villager was carrying a basket on his back and was about to go outside. When he saw Li Shi grinning and revealing an uneven yellow tooth, he looked at Fang ye and said hello in a local voice: "Ah Mao is back. Bring your friends to play?"

After saying hello, he smiled at them and was ready to go.

Fang Ye looked at the fellow's face with many wrinkles. He might be 50 or 60 years old. He couldn't help asking him about the Green Peacock: "fellow, I want to ask you something. Do you know the Green Peacock?"

"Why do you ask the old peacock?" The villagers looked wary and looked at Fang Ye. Their eyes were not so friendly.

Li Shi hurriedly said to his fellow villagers, "they are experts! He came here to protect the old peacock, not to shoot birds. "

Fang Ye wondered, "old peacock?"

Gu Shi explained, "these villagers call the wild green peacocks in the mountains old peacocks and golden peacocks."

"Oh!" The fellow relaxed, "now the old peacock is rarely seen!

Thirty or forty years ago, the old peacock and pheasants were very much. They often flew to the village to grab food with our chickens. Pheasants liked to bark in the morning and old peacocks liked to bark in the evening. They were very noisy. Later, ah, many trees were cut down outside and planted with rubber. There were fewer and fewer old peacocks and pheasants. Pheasants can be seen occasionally. Old peacocks are too rare. "

The villagers told the old story and felt a little uncomfortable standing and talking with the basket on their back. They squatted on the ground, and several people in fangye squatted down quickly!

"Twenty years ago, an old peacock came to the field to eat. We didn't rush it. We worked in the field every day and could watch it move around. Sometimes we opened a screen. It's beautiful, eh, eh.

We all like it. We are happy to see it when we work every day! But I never saw him again! "

At this point, I showed a look of melancholy!

He stood up and said, "come to my house and show you a picture!"

Fang Ye was surprised and said, "you still have a picture of a Green Peacock!"

"Then a photographer will come here and take a lot of photos for the old peacock! I also got two photos after I got them. "

As he spoke, he came to the hometown!

From the cabinet, he carefully took out two faded and wrinkled photos: "here, that's it!"

A photo is far away, only one head of the Green Peacock sticking out of the field can be seen.

Another photo is more clear. The Green Peacock stands gracefully in the golden wheat field, with a green neck, scales like copper coins, upright feather clusters and long tail. Although the photo fades, it still doesn't affect its beautiful appearance!

The fellow gently rubbed the photo with his rough fingers and sighed: "it's said that old peacocks can be seen occasionally on the beach, but the hydropower station will be built, and our stockade and our farmland will be flooded. We can go, but where can the old peacock go? "

Listening to the villagers' words, there was a strong sense of reluctance. Everyone was silent for a moment!

When he came out of his hometown, Gu Shi said: "the villagers said that the number of green peacocks decreased sharply thirty or forty years ago. In addition to the reduction of habitat, poisoning is also a reason. In the past, farmland was not treated with pesticides. The highly toxic pesticides began to be used in the 1980s. Many green peacocks were poisoned when they ran to the farmland to look for food."

"Ah..."

Fangye they did some investigation in the village and asked for clues about the Green Peacock.

Then let Li Shi drive a broken pickup truck and take them to the hydropower station.