Chapter 1471: Chapter 1346: Big Pie
Boss Chang has no ti for grand ideals.
The scenery is nice, but he’s not in love with nature just yet; he loves making money! He loves the feeling of throwing cash around like he owns the place!
In short, all he sees right now is money.
But clearly, Song Tan is not planning to sell him anything else. Boss Chang thinks about the over seven million he’s about to spend... No, plus 100 kilos of tea!
His heart twists with pain — this move is going to drain all his funds!
So he has to put on a Tao Yuanming-like deanor: "Yeah... This Riverside Beach is really beautiful. The lotus leaves are beautiful, the lotus roots are beautiful, even the mud-boots are beautiful... Wait, you guys have mud-boots too?!"
Nearby, Secretary Xiaozu suddenly chokes, then bursts into a laughter so loud and vibrant that even from afar, Da Hong, with its fla-like comb, flaps its wings and rushes forward, trying to see who’s causing a stir!
Behind it, among the various-sized hens, is a small, petite, unimposing, simple Guoyi.
Song Tan: ...
This Guoyi, ever since it ca to my ho, apart from the four eggs it first brought which hatched four chicks, almost a year has passed, and it hasn’t laid a second batch!
Alas! What a sha!
She struggles to hold it in, but eventually can’t help herself, so she calls Chen Xi over: "That Guoyi, especially the male one, feed it less, it’s getting fat." While others have their Guoyi flying gracefully through the woods, hers has turned into a big chubby guy! Although its looks are still intact, the weight on its cute tag has clearly already taken the top spot.
Chen Xi was helpless too: "It eats with the chickens every day, and that little Red is specially taking care of it, Chen Chi throws down so seeds, and Da Hong cracks open the shells for it to eat... Should I chase it away next ti?"
Song Tan: ...I an, the love-hate relationships in this avian family are just too complex, right?
"Forget it."
She sighs: "When this Guoyi was thin, Da Hong didn’t care for it at all, but now... sigh!"
Just let it be. Anyway, they’ve reported it, it’s not that they haven’t tried anything, it’s just that this Guoyi stubbornly refuses to leave.
Speaking of Guoyi, Chen Xi has more news: "Recently, a few ducks ca to the river surface, Chen Chi took pictures, I looked online, and people say they are Chinese rgansers, also Guoyi."
But, you know, this thing...
Chen Xi looks complicated: "They are currently under Big White’s care, sotis they even co ashore to eat from the duck’s trough. They’ve laid eggs too, and they take turns incubating them every day."
For the farm, the appearance of this Guoyi has clearly beco another burden, seriously affecting their work.
Song Tan: ...
Last year there was only one!
How did it bring the whole family this year?
She sighs helplessly, then takes out her phone: "I’m calling the Forestry Bureau..."
Alas, hopefully, so swans or cranes won’t show up next...
She sighs, and the Forestry Bureau is probably sighing too.
It’s because another year has passed with no progress, and reportedly, due to financial issues, plans to cut expenses have been made, and their departnt in the little city of Yun City among pristine green mountains and clear waters often has nothing to do. Now, with salaries and bonuses on the line, everyone would rather be busy!
But busy with what?
Use satellites to supervise farrs from cutting down trees?
Oh co on, how many people are there in a mountain village! There are fields of deserted lands, and elderly eighties-year-old n at ho who want to burn so firewood, chopping their own trees on their own mountain, even though legally forbidden, but if they dare to force their way...
It’s impossible.
No one dares to force their way.
As long as the annual logging doesn’t exceed limits and ets provincial standards, just turn a blind eye.
Using satellites to spot where mountains are being converted into fields?
That’s a laugh; there are more mountains than fields here. It would take a lifeti of farming profits to pay for the labor to dig a mountain, and it’s not like big farmowners operating machinery get governnt subsidies...
If not that, safeguarding flora and fauna?
How to protect? People all live in the cities, how often do they even see any rare animals? If a bat shows up in the house, people freak out and call the fire brigade! As for other things...
Years ago, the forest still had traps, and they had to patrol the mountains frequently, but now they often receive calls to handle wild boars rampaging crops...
As they contemplate, the phone rings, and it’s a personal call.
The young man borrowing the phone is excited: "Boss! The family raising the Guoyi is calling!"
"Great!" Everyone is thrilled. Last year’s report’s only highlight was this pair of Guoyi!
The call connects—
"Hello, there are a few Chinese rgansers at our farm now, and we can’t get them to leave, what should we do?"
Chinese what?!
Chinese rganser?!
A bunch of people quickly rush to flip through the booklet: "Is it really a Chinese rganser?!"
On the other end of phone, there’s a faintly frustrated voice: "I sent you photos, now they’re eating and drinking with the ducks, even laying eggs in the duck house... But such things aren’t guaranteed at our Riverside Beach, don’t you want to co and take them away?"
Who dares touch them!
Chinese rganser! Just from the na, it’s obviously an endangered species! Even more endangered than the Guoyi Long-tailed Pheasant! They’re just a small-town Forestry Bureau in an 18th-line city, & they might not be capable of keeping ducks, let alone Chinese rgansers!
Only the leader is reluctant, still asking after hanging up: "Find a journalist to take so pictures, we should try to release them back to nature..."
The young man taking the call is troubled: "Boss, don’t you rember, last ti we went to investigate the Long-tailed Pheasant, and they just tossed it away, and it wouldn’t leave!"
He steps forward, making the casual gesture of a rural person tossing a chicken, not caring at all about the species’ fate.
Then imagining the sa thod on a Chinese rganser...
The leader is montarily silent: "Did they just say they can’t chase it away, are they using that thod?"
But still not giving up: "Supposedly, we should cooperate with a zoo for this and try to release them!"
After this remark, everyone looks at him collectively.
The leader considers the urban area’s neglected zoo, also falls silent.
So what to do now? They’ve received the news, they have to co up with so policy, right?
So, just then, the old and young pair who went to investigate last ti step up: "Boss! Let us go investigate!"
The young man even flips out the photos on his phone: "Look, the tracking video of last year’s Long-tailed Pheasant, didn’t we report it at the end of the year? This is from now until this year."
Tracking video is impossible to get, but sending a video or checking photos every 10 days or half a month is. The photos slide one by one, and the crowd gathered watches as the once slender Long-tailed Pheasant gradually becos rounder, and now looks even plumper.
Just, the food here is pretty good!
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