At four in the afternoon, Old Gao and Xiao Shen hurriedly ran back.
Both of them were holding bamboo baskets filled with eggs.
"Come and help, quickly."
"What's going on?" Chen Ying asked as he ran over to help with the baskets. "Did you go stealing eggs?"
"Steal what? There was an incident in the back woods."
"What happened?" Chen Ying's face darkened slightly. "Is there a disease outbreak?"
If there were a disease outbreak, it would be a huge problem.
"No, a family of foxes and a family of raccoon dogs came, all targeting pheasants. When we got there, the two pheasant populations had already vanished. We found the bodies of more than a dozen pheasants, all bitten to death and abandoned."
April to June is the peak breeding season for pheasants. With this disturbance from foxes and raccoon dogs, who knows how much the pheasant population will decline this year.
