evening.

At the intersection of the entrance of the town, which leads to Sijiaping and Zhanbito Farm, several people are sitting on the side of the road, two of the young people are looking towards the direction of the town from time to time.

There were five people in this group, two of whom were gray-haired elderly people, one man and one woman looked like an old couple, and the remaining three were young people in their twenties, about the same age, and all three were wearing eyes and looked gentle and kind.

However, the three young people looked a little thin. If it weren't for the difference in appearance and height, they would look like three brothers.

The three young men now looked a little impatient on their faces and kept looking at the entrance of the town. One of them was still muttering in their mouths why they didn't come yet! Such words.

"Xiao Wu, don't be anxious. Since they said they would bring us with me, they will definitely come." The old man sitting on the suitcase gently pounded his legs and said to the short-eyed young man.

The short young man heard this and said, "Teacher, I'm not worried about myself, but you and your master's wife are so old and have a bad health. In addition, this is almost a day of trouble. It's a plane and a car. I'm afraid that your health will not be able to bear it."

The old man smiled and said, "What's this? When I was young, I stayed with the teacher in the old forest in the southwest for a month or two. You have also been to that old forest and know what it feels like to stay there in midsummer..."

Listening to the old man talking, the short young man couldn't help but complain in his heart: You also said that when you were young, you are almost seventy now, so how can you have the body of a young man!

Before the old man finished speaking, the old lady next to him opened her mouth and smiled and said to the old man: "Don't show off. You are so old, you are still stubborn. First, drink some water and take the medicine."

After saying that, the old lady stood up, took out a small medicine box from the small bag she carried with her, poured out two or three medicines and handed them to the old man, and handed them to the old man with the other hand.

Seeing the old man swallowing the medicine, the old lady also looked at the entrance of the town, looked at the empty road, and couldn't help but complain: "Why are these people not at all about time? Didn't they agree to arrive at three at half past three? Why is it almost four o'clock now there is no one there?"

The old man laughed and said, "I may have delayed anything there. We are taking a ride here, not hiring a car, so wait patiently, maybe we will come soon."

The tallest one of the three young men looked at the old man and asked in an instant: "Teacher Shang, are you really sure that those birds have not been discovered by outsiders?"

The old man laughed twice and said, "What if someone was discovered? So what if someone was not discovered?"

The tall young man didn't know what to say, but being discovered by someone and the first time he discovered it was completely different.

Simply put, if the bird has been discovered and has been famous, then this time I will go to pick up people's teeth. If it has never been discovered before, then I will find it first, and it will be a fame and fortune. In the future, no matter whether you ask the school for funds, you can give it a try.

But the old lady smiled and said to the tall young man: "Xiao Wang, you have followed me for many years. Do you still don't know about this thing? You haven't compared the things that Professor Zuo sent in the database this time? You, care is messy!"

The group came here because of a picture by Zuo Boguang. The next day after receiving the picture, that is, this morning, the group of people took a plane from a southern coastal city for more than three hours to the provincial capital, then changed cars and went to the county, took another taxi before they arrived at the entrance of the town, and didn't even have a formal meal along the way.

Both the old man and the old lady are doing bird research. In the field of bird research, the old couple are both at the forefront of academic research. It can be said that they have devoted their entire lives to the protection and research of Chinese birds.

The reason was that Zuo Boguang heard that the birds in Canghai would actually help people grow things. Driven by curiosity, he took a photo of the bird and passed it to the old guy who was thousands of miles away. He wanted to ask the old guy what kind of bird he was.

Who knew that the old man and the old lady were stunned when they saw the picture because they had never seen this bird in their decades of career in bird research.

It looks a bit like a common acacia bird in Jiangnan, but the acacia bird is not as long as the bird in the picture. The acacia bird's beak is about half the length of the head. But this kind of bird's beak is directly twice as long as the acacia bird, and its shape is also flat.

Nowadays, people always feel that they have a deep understanding of nature, but for many scholars, the creatures in nature have been discovered far less than those that have not been discovered. People believe that they have a very thorough understanding of the earth, but in the eyes of many scholars, humans still have to go a long way to truly understand the home on which they rely for survival.

The old couple received a picture from Zuo Boguang. After a moment of comparison, they felt that they had discovered a new species of birds, so they hurried over. With Zuo Boguang's help, the team that was about to wait for Zhang Jiusheng to deliver vegetables to take a ride to Sijiaping when they returned to the village.

But now it has been almost half an hour since the agreed time has passed and the convoy has not appeared yet, which makes these people feel a little anxious.

A group of people were waiting and anxious. A sound of cars came from the direction of the town. Four small trucks lined up and turned out of the town and were driving towards them.

The small truck is very small, and the front of the truck looks like the front of a van, and the truck is not big, and the loading is at most two or three tons.

When the convoy drove to the crowd, he slowly stopped. A rough man in his forties rolled down the car window and looked at the people on the ground.

"Is it Professor Shang?"

When the old man heard this, he immediately said, "It's me!"

"Come up!"

Hearing the old man say this, the driver pushed open the door and jumped out of the car.

"Just put your luggage or something in the back compartment, and you guys will be in the car separately, but there are five of you who have to squeeze in for four of us," the driver said.

The old man laughed and said, "It's okay, please give me some of you."

"Stop talking about troubles, we get along well with Professor Zuo." After saying that, the driver shouted at the drivers of the cars behind him: "Come here to help!"

Several people jumped down and put their luggage in the back of the first car. The old man got into the cab of the first car, and the old lady got into the second car. The two young and shorter men squeezed in the back. Anyway, there were no traffic police here, and no one checked anything overloaded or something.

The rear carriage is wide, but it is only early spring now. After hudging in the rear carriage for an hour, it can freeze people. The driver dare not let the guests in Sijiaping Village suffer this crime.

The old man got into the car and looked at the scenery around him while talking to the driver.

“This area looks too desolate”

The driver smiled and said, "It would be great if you approach Sijiaping Village. It is full of yellow land and has been deserted for many years. Not to mention anything else, the road under your feet was made last year. It was originally a small dirt road, and even livestock cars could not walk side by side, let alone cars..."

The driver was also a chattering chatterer. As soon as the old man asked, he said a lot of things.

"By the way, what are you doing in Sijiaping Village?"

The old man said, "I look at the birds."

"Look at the bird?" The driver was very curious.

But after thinking about it, I felt calm. There were many monsters in Sijiaping Village, and there were not many people. There were two old men in the village who didn’t come home during the Chinese New Year. They wandered around the village all day long, either fishing or playing chess. They were just two old blind people. What’s so strange about going to see birds for a few more?

The old man asked, "How is your income from living? Are you still satisfied?"

"What are you not satisfied with?" said the driver with a smile: "It's close to home and you can save money on your work. You can earn four or five thousand yuan a month!"

"Is this a little profit?" When the old man heard that it was only four or five thousand yuan, he felt that the income was a little less.

The driver smiled and said, "We can't compare with others. The small truck license plate is blue. We have a photo and we can't drive a big car. Besides, even if we drive a big goods now, we will get more money in a month than us. However, we are lucky to be sleeping in the open-air food and accommodation in the car. We are so lucky to have this income. We have half a day left to stay at home after delivering the goods every day, which is not a hard work."

The old man quickly figured out the driver's bottom and knew that the man next to him was a scheming person, and was easily satisfied.

But the old man didn't know that the salary of people here is generally very low, and the average person only earns about 3,000 yuan a month. The job of a driver can be said to have made many people envious.

This place cannot be compared with developed coastal provinces and cities. A house there can be several million. The best area in the county town here is only about 700,000 yuan, and the consumption level is different.

An hour later, the driver saw two trees at the entrance of Sijiaping Village in the distance, so he said to the old man next to him: "Here, Sijiaping Village is there!"

The old man looked up and felt extremely disappointed.

Because from here, Sijiaping Village is still not green at all, it is nothing like the same as along the way. Looking around, it looks like the bare yellow earth color, and there is no feeling of greenness everywhere in the photo.

"Is Sijiaping Village there? No way!" said the old man.

The driver smiled and said, "If you want to go to Sijiaping, it's definitely right. I've been running this journey for almost a year, and I can run down with my eyes closed."

"How come you can't see the trees or the forest?" the old man asked.

The driver laughed twice: "If you want to see Linzi here, you have to stand on the ridge of Sijiaping Village to see. Where can you see it here? If there are Linzi here, then no one will be willing to move out."

The old man smiled and did not respond, but the loss in his heart was still clearly written on his face.

The driver didn't say anything when he saw it, and continued to drive his own car with a smile.

When the car climbed to the last four hurdles, the old man was uneasy because there were two different scenes in his sight.

On his left hand is an endless loess slope with high sky and wide earth.

But to his right hand, there was a green field, a small forest stream, and a small wild flower full of mountains and fields. From time to time, a sea of ​​flowers appeared in his eyes.

The old man knew the sea of ​​flowers at a glance, some of which were the white plums in early spring, pink peach blossoms, golden forsythia, and pink and white pear blossoms. They were colorful and colorful, waving in the wind like a competition of beauty, and decorating a valley into a paradise.

Just a single earth beam is separated, it can be said to be a heaven of ice and fire.

Looking up, the world in the left hand was so wide that it was so wide that it made people feel outrageous, and it made people unable to help but think of the vastness and majesty of the lonely smoke in the desert.

But looking down at the valley, there was a gentle and charming as in the south of the Yangtze River. A stream like white silk was embedded between the sea of ​​green trees and flowers, and finally hidden behind the green hillside, like a dream.

"This, this, there is such a scene here!" The old man didn't believe his eyes a little. After rubbing it, he looked at the different scenery on both sides so shocked that he couldn't speak.

Just as the old man was trying to say something, he looked up and saw that seven or eight large tractors were moving on the dirt slope farther along the valley. The huge iron plow hanging behind the tractor dragged out parallel ditches on the ground. A dark loess was left behind, and the turned and unturned loess showed a completely different color.

The driver said: "I'm plowing over there. This year, Sijiaping Village is preparing to do a big deal. Just hiring these tractors will cost a lot of money in a week. Alas, it's a pity that I'm not from Sijiaping Village."
Chapter completed!