Text | Tang Xia
About the author: Tang Xia, green shirt cloth cloth gong, cooking wine getaway, listening to the tea people, pen and ink jianghu friends.
These days the weather is good, the sky is high and cloudy, the wind and the sun are beautiful, every morning Xingchong carries a telephoto lens to find a place to "fight birds", "playing birds" is the term of photographers, that is, shooting birds, I am not an enthusiast, slightly interested, the equipment is only at the entry level, the level is also between the entrance and the door, but the photographers are enthusiastic, pulled me into a WeChat group called "South Lake Bird Friends Group", indiscriminately counted, became a "bird friend", like the people in the group, but also like the beautiful bird pictures sent by them (her).
"Bird friends" warmly recommended, saying that in the suburb of Jiang Wan, there have been a large number of migratory birds in recent days, called gray-winged floating gulls, a very beautiful bird, so I drove according to the address they sent.
Along Xiuzhou Avenue, I walked a "? "The type of path, from the point at the bottom of the question mark, is only a few kilometers to the north, and on the side of the country road you will see many ponds, some are fish farmers, some are shrimp farmers, many birds are soaring in their habitat, I only recognize the egret gray heron, there are magpies, and the other groups, should be gray-winged floating gulls.
It seems that the gray-winged floating gull is divided into two kinds, one is basically pure white, mixed with some black spots, and the other is somewhat brown, which is estimated to be the same, and the difference between the time of moulting is the same.
I also don't know that I didn't get to Jiang Wan, anyway, there are many birds here, a dozen in the direction, I turned into a small road, the real path, can only take one car, if you face each other, the rendezvous is impossible, fortunately, only two or three hundred meters, you can see it from afar.
At the end of the road were a few very dilapidated farmhouses, and when I stopped the car, two very small earth dogs came out, small in size, but very fierce in appearance, barking at me wildly, as if I had violated its territory, and it would not give way to defend it.
As an uninvited guest, I did disturb its tranquility, facing the "road dog", hitting and hitting, entering and entering, at this time I was a little embarrassed, people and dogs confronted each other for tens of seconds, a cry came out of the farmhouse, it was a peasant woman of similar age to me, with a kind face, while drinking the dog, while looking at the camera in my hand with some doubt.
I pointed to the pond and said, I'm here to shoot the birds.
The woman smiled, what is there to shoot the bird?
I found it difficult to explain, smiled and said, the bird is beautiful.
At this time, a slightly thin man with a well-defined face and dark and bright eyes came out, saying that they could sell for money if they took a good shot.
I said that I could sell for money, but I was not good enough, just fun.
I set up my tripod and started tuning the camera to the surface of the water, the birds frolicking and foraging, flying up and down, and I was so engrossed that I had no time to take care of him.
After about a few tens of minutes of shooting, the birds may be full and no longer jump up and down to peck, I relaxed a little, but I heard a voice behind me: "The old man is not tired of standing like this, give you a stool to sit on." ”
It turned out that I hadn't noticed that the eldest sister had been picking edamame from the edamame stalk in the open space not far from me.
In this way, the two of us talked, and learned that this eldest sister and her husband came from Linghu Town, Huzhou, the husband and wife are surnamed Ding, have been coming to Jiaxing for more than twenty years, before in Wang Jiangjing, to this Xijiagang Bridge for more than four years, contracted six fish ponds.
I asked, is the income okay? Sister Ding said that it is more so-so, better than going outside to work, and it is also free.
I said, I envy you, you see, the air is so good, the scenery is so beautiful, the couple rowed a small boat to feed the fish, like visiting the park. It costs money to rent a boat in town.
Sister Ding smiled, which is as good as you said. Busy every day, but also to worry about shrimp sick, this shrimp once sick to buy medicine rescue is too late, a pond to die of people heartache.
truly. One line has one line of difficulties. I said, but you have experience and technology, or many of the fish ponds in Jiaxing are contracted by you Huzhou people. Turning to my thoughts, I pointed to the birds and asked, "So many birds pass by and eat your fish and shrimp every day, your losses are not small, why don't you want to find a way to take some measures?" ”
"No way." Sister Ding said, "Before, we also thought of ways, but then the government publicized, we understood that these birds are all protected animals by the state, in case they are not allowed to kill the birds is a crime." ”
I said, yes, but who will pay for your losses?
Loss, even if there are a few birds for the country. Sister Ding laughed and said, fortunately, the children are out of the mountains, do not have to spend our money, our husband and wife's annual income, enough.
I said, you can think straight, your children must be quite good.
That's mile, daughter graduated from graduate school, became a director in a large company in Hangzhou, high income. The son immediately went to study for a doctorate, and also talked about the object, it was his female classmate, who was going to go to a foreign country to study for a doctorate, encountered the epidemic, think about the insecurity, or read it domestically.
It can be seen that the eldest sister is talkative, especially when it comes to a pair of children, and the proud look is full of pride and pride in the corner of the eyebrows.
"What a blessing you are!" I was amazed.
"There are also undesirable things." Sister Ding said, "My daughter is not young, I have not talked about the object, I and old Ding are anxious, I am too anxious to recognize the good villains and turn their faces with us, you say what this kind of young man thinks now." ”
I said that this matter is urgent, resign yourself to fate, you have raised your child so well, you have also fulfilled your responsibility.
"Also, they say that the more excellent a girl is, the more difficult it is to find a partner, and I didn't expect my family to meet it, so I went with her." Sister Ding laughed again and said to me, "Take two handfuls of edamame, just picked, fresh." ”
I refused, but my heart was very happy, although I did not shoot any good films today, but when I met such a warm and cheerful Ding couple, I don't know why, vaguely from the bottom of my heart A kind of inexplicable touch.
[From Nanhu Literature, General Literary Consultant: Wu Shunrong]
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