Chapter 84. Bird Eggs and Eggs of...

Three people came from the forest police, all in uniform, one looked older and the other two were younger.

The person shaking hands is an older man and he introduced himself as Yuan.

"Yes, yes, hello." Luo Yihang was also enthusiastic. He stretched out his hands and shook hands with Officer Yuan, then pointed to the back and said, "All the cleaned-up ones are placed over there. The bird eggs and nests are all preserved. I'll take you to see them."

Officer Yuan did not move, but looked up in the direction of Luo Yihang's finger and asked, "What is the name of the mountain behind?"

"Beishan." Luo Yihang looked up and said, "There are too many mountains here, many of which don't have official names. The one behind us is commonly called Beishan."

"North Mountain." Officer Yuan looked up again, his eyes gradually rising, and pointed to the highest mountain in the mountains behind him and asked, "What mountain is behind that? There is a road over here, right?"

"Behind it." This time it was Luo Yihang who looked in the direction of his finger. He really recognized it. "Isn't that Yutai Mountain over there? If we go this way, we can pass Beishan and go to Sanchagou first, then go to Tongzigou. Then we can go through Tongzigou and go around to Yincao Mountain and we will see it."

As he spoke, Luo Yihang opened his phone and pulled up a map. "Look, the straight-line distance from here to the main peak of Yutai Mountain is 10.8 kilometers, so the actual distance is about kilometers."

Officer Yuan took the phone, looked at it carefully, squinted his eyes and zoomed in on the map, and asked excitedly, "Are you sure there is a way up, right? Directly to Yutai Mountain. Is this the southern slope?"

Luo Yihang listened to his question carefully, thought about it carefully, and said with certainty: "There is a way to go up. I went there with Lao Jiang and others during the summer vacation in high school. The road is not easy to walk. But it is definitely possible to get there, and it must be Yutai Mountain. We can see the houses in the reserve on the top of the mountain. But my impression is that it should not be the southern slope. Yutai Mountain is very large. The mountain road from the north mountain will go around Yincao Mountain and should reach the eastern slope. If you are asking about the southern slope, there may be a road there. I don't know."

"Okay, that's great. Thank you, Comrade Xiao Luo." Officer Yuan was very happy seeing this.

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Yutai Mountain is a protected area, but in Tianhan, protected areas are everywhere, so it is not rare at all. Even though it is so close, Luo Yihang doesn’t know what this protected area is protecting, maybe some kind of plant.

The mountain is high, more than 3700 meters. Although it cannot be compared with the highest peak of Qinling Mountains at more than meters, the Qinling Mountains are already at the edge here at Tianhan, and the height gradually decreases. More than meters is considered very high.

The mountain is huge. The area designated as the protected area alone is more than 30 square kilometers, and the mountain itself is five or six times larger. The scenery is beautiful, but it is particularly difficult to walk on.

Apart from the professional mountain hikers, there were only the energetic and courageous boys like Luo Yihang and Lao Jiang, who were still in high school at the time, who would run into the mountains to run around. Generally, no one would go in.

Suiwa and Qiangwa have never been there. One is timid and the other can't run, so they are cowards.

Speaking of Chiang Kai-shek, it's quite a coincidence.

On the way to see the bird eggs with Officer Yuan, Luo Yihang took the initiative to say, "I saw the machinery factory when I came here just now. That's the hometown of one of my colleagues. His name is Jiang Chao. He should be about the same age as you, Xiao Luo. Do you know him?"

That's a good acquaintance. "Jiang Chao, we were high school classmates. The old Jiang I just told you about running in the mountains with was him. You know him too? It's a small world."

"Yes. What a coincidence." Police Officer Yuan also found it amazing that there was such a relationship.

"Do you recognize my accent?"

"It seems like a northern accent."

"That's right. I'm from Liaoning. Two generations have passed, but my accent hasn't changed. Guess why?"

This police officer really likes to be a riddle teller.

There are many people who have come here for two generations and their accent has not changed. Dongzi, Ding Rui and the others are the third generation and their accent has not changed either.

"You are also a third-line veteran."

"Almost." It turned out that Officer Yuan's father was a member of the team that aided the construction of the Third Line Project. At that time, the country mobilized eight teams to come to Tianhan to build the Third Line Factory. After the construction was completed, most of them were transferred to Shiyan to continue building automobile factories, and some stayed to continue building the aviation industry base in Tianhan. Officer Yuan is the second generation. He joined the army after graduating from high school and transferred back after retiring.

"So, I feel very friendly when you come here. Xiao Jiang, that is, Jiang Chao. His family's machinery factory is in the same system as ours. They are both aerospace supporting facilities. Our factory is a production unit, and their factory is a support unit."

So there is this relationship, no wonder they are so enthusiastic.

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Officer Yuan squatted on the ground and turned over the bird nests.

Lao Jin told him which fields the eggs were found from, which ones were in bushes, which ones were in grass nests, and which ones were just on the ground.

There is also the hedgehog, the old turtle, and the snake.

There were a lot of eggs and many different kinds of eggs. There were only a few small animals, probably because they were scared away by someone.

Officer Yuan looked carefully and said with a smile, "There are quite a lot. The environment in our area is pretty good."

Luo Cheng replied: "Yes, I haven't planted it for more than ten years. There are mountains all around us, and I'm afraid some birds from the mountains may come down to make their home."

Then he added: "We called you when we found it, because we were going to reclaim land. You said that if we reclaim land, the environment would definitely be damaged. We asked to see if there were any big birds coming. If not, we would collect them and wait for you to deal with them. We waited for a long time but no big birds came, so we took them back."

Officer Yuan nodded and said, "You did a good job, fellow. Our country protects animals including cubs, eggs, and offspring. If you encounter any that you are not sure about in the wild, just come to us to handle them."

While talking, Officer Yuan's hands were not idle. He squatted on the ground and identified the bird eggs. He also checked the empty bird nest below and the fallen feathers in the nest.

Be very careful.

After a while, Officer Yuan stood up and found that the bird eggs had been divided into several piles.

He told Xiao Zhang and Xiao Qin, the two young policemen he brought with him, one by one.

It looks like he is taking an apprentice.

"These are sparrow eggs." They are the ones that are smaller than quail eggs and have brown patterns.

"These are magpie eggs." These are the green ones.

"These are blackbird eggs. They are blackbird eggs, not crows." The eggs were also green, and seemed to be covered with rust.

"These are amazing, they are the eggs of the king cobra. They should belong to the two of them. It seems that the food on this mountain is good. They laid eggs so early." The last pile mentioned were long and narrow. It turned out that they were snake eggs. No wonder they looked so strange.

Luo Yihang knew sparrows, magpies, and the crow's "relative" blackbird. These were ordinary birds and should not be protected.

Most of the empty bird nests belong to these species of birds and are of little value.

But this snake...

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