Chapter 1087 "The Great Mystery of Daqian"
I witnessed with my own eyes that birds were defecating here, and there was more than one group of birds, one after another, they were defecating here.
Sun Shan and his group: ...
Is there something special about this place? Why do you like to poop here?
Could it be that birds also have intelligence, have received nine years of compulsory education, and know that they cannot urinate or defecate anywhere, so they all go to this bird droppings pit to do so?
Everyone was puzzled!
Wang Jiaxing, who was leisurely strolling in the distance, covered his nose and asked: "Master, why are there so many birds here? Where are they flying to?"
Many birds stand on the trees to rest, and when they have rested enough, they take off again.
No one knows where these birds come from or where they fly to.
Wang Jiaxing believed that Lord Sun was a newly-minted Jinshi and must be very knowledgeable, so he should be able to answer such questions.
In fact, Sun Shan didn’t understand why the bird would stop here and poop here.
Could it be that this place has some kind of inexplicable magnetic field that attracts birds here?
We have all heard some strange, mysterious, and goblin stories since childhood.
Ghostly things often happen on the full moon night, which is the fifteenth day of every month.
This makes some sense.
When the moon is full, due to the effect of gravity, it is related to the rising and falling tides of the earth, which is closely related to navigation and fishing, and has a great impact on people's activities at night.
On every full moon night, certain changes will occur in people's blood and brain nerves, and the human brain will produce subtle electrical waves.
This is when you often see something unusual.
People tend to attribute these unusual and mysterious things to ghosts and monsters.
The huge guano pit in front of us may have some kind of gravity or electromagnetic waves that attract migratory birds to fly here.
There are all kinds of strange things in the world. If you want to understand them, even dozens of episodes of "Science Approach" may not be enough to explain them clearly.
Or maybe Yuanlu is a point that migratory birds must pass through on their migration route, and this point happens to be right behind the mountain behind Da Niao Village.
Migratory birds pass by here to rest and replenish, and then continue to fly far away.
As long as there are enough birds staying there, guano is essential.
Perhaps this guano pit in front of us was formed bit by bit over thousands of years.
Because of the lack of "cameras", Sun Shan was unaware of everything.
It can only be listed as one of the “Ten Mysteries of Daqian”.
Sun Shan shook his head and said, "I don't know why. Maybe it has been here for a long time, but no one has discovered it yet."
Even if I find out, I don’t think it’s a big deal.
Everyone’s life has become difficult. They are busy living and have no time to study a hundred thousand whys.
Wang Jiaxing was extremely disappointed when he heard that Sun Shan also said he didn't understand.
It seems that Mr. Sun is not very capable and there are some things he doesn't understand.
How could Sun Shan know what Wang Jiaxing was thinking? If he knew, he would only say: You think too much.
Who dares to say that he knows everything in the world?
Sun Shan has always been an honest and upright person, and he speaks the truth naturally, especially when it comes to knowledge. If he knows something, he knows it, and if he doesn't know something, he doesn't know it.
In the same year, there were two simple, pragmatic and down-to-earth people, Zheng Tongsheng and Hong Xiucai. Sun Shan learned his style of study from them.
Then Sun Shan expressed his guess: "Every year, many migratory birds fly back and forth, from the south to the north and from the north to the south. Perhaps our Yuanlu County is on the route of these migratory birds from south to north and from north to south.
The back mountain of our Big Bird Village is like a post station we encounter when traveling, providing a place for these birds to rest and replenish their supplies. When migratory birds stop here, they naturally need to eat, drink, defecate and urinate.
Look, migratory birds poop a lot, and maybe the manure pit in front of us was formed that way.”
After Sun Shan said this, everyone's eyes opened wide, and they couldn't help but sparkle with curiosity.
Sun Shan continued to explain: "Swallows often come to build nests under the eaves of our house. They disappear in the winter because they need to spend the winter in warmer places. When it starts to get warmer here, the swallows fly back along the familiar route.
These swallows can fly very far, maybe even out of Daqian and into Tianzhu."
Different swallows have different migration routes. They cross mountains and rivers, climb hills and wade through water, and cross oceans, just to find a warm place to spend the winter.
Of course, many swallows will die along the way. If the swallows under your own eaves do not come back, they may have encountered an accident during migration and will never be able to return to their hometown.
Everyone was stunned when they heard this. They didn't expect that swallows could fly so far.
Especially when Sun Shan said that swallows would fly to India, Luzon, etc., everyone opened their eyes wide, as if they were listening to a myth.
The escorts didn't know about these foreign places, but Wang Tongsheng did. He immediately ignored the stench from the bird droppings pit and pestered Sun Shan to tell him about the flight routes of swallows.
No, not only swallows, but also other migratory birds' routes.
Like a curious baby, he asked questions all over the place, leaving Sun Shan overwhelmed.
Sun Shan has always been very tolerant towards studious scholars. Although he was asked so many questions, he still patiently explained them one by one.
If you understand, speak up. If you don’t understand, just spread your hands to indicate that you don’t know.
Wang Jiaxing asked again and again, and stopped when he realized that he couldn't get any more questions.
Wang Jiaxing decided to take back what he had just said "slandering" Mr. Sun.
Although his Lord Sun did not understand many things, he understood many more things. To sum up, he was still a Jinshi who was full of knowledge.
There was a lot of knowledge that Wang Jiaxing had never heard of before. If he hadn't met Lord Sun, he might never have understood it in his entire life.
Emma, Jinshi Sun is worthy of being the person with the highest academic degree and the highest knowledge in Yuanlu County. He knows much more than the teacher in the county school.
Wang Jiaxing felt that he had found a good teacher, and he made up his mind to pester Sun Shan and ask him to teach him his life's knowledge.
As for the remuneration, Lord Sun is such a selfless official, why would he still talk about remuneration? That is too vulgar.
Mr. Sun is happy when students are good, because they care about their heart rather than money!
Although the guards didn't understand, they thought it was magical and kept asking Sun Shan all kinds of questions. However, those questions were useless and were not questions at all, but nonsense.
Sun Shan was always good-tempered towards Xiaoya Zi and answered cheerfully.
After this question and answer process, although it still required translation, Sun Shan felt that his Yuanlu dialect had improved.
It seems that I should talk more with the natives of Yuanlu so that I can improve my language skills and master them faster.
Gui Ge'er and his gang were still digging the bird droppings pit. After digging for a long time, they slowly dug out a big pit.
It's like digging a foundation, except that the foundation is unfathomable.
Seeing that he had nothing to do, Sun Shan wanted to walk around and take a look at the surrounding environment.
When Gui Ge'er heard this, he stopped digging the pit and said hurriedly, "Brother Shan, don't go too far. There are deep mountains and old forests here. There might be tigers."
They were really afraid that Shan Ge would be taken away by a tiger, otherwise they would not be able to face the elders of Sunjia Village.
The little boy who was selling sand geese also said, "Master, don't walk around. There are fierce beasts here. I came here to catch birds before and saw wolves. Fortunately, I ran fast and was not eaten by the wolf."
After Xiao Yazi said this, not only Sun Shan was scared, but the Yazis were also scared.
Wang Jiaxing didn't even dare to sit under the shade of the tree, and ran to Sun Shan as quickly as possible to seek shelter.
The tall Wang Jiaxing hid behind the short and thin Sun Shan, peeking out with a look that said, “Baby is so scared, Lord Sun, please protect me!”
Whose house has a swallow's nest on the eaves?