Chapter 8 Good luck, let’s eat chicken tonight

A sub-adult sandpiper, which was obviously half a size smaller than the adult, was pecking at small insects under the bushes, calling softly as it pecking.

How could Yue Feng miss such an opportunity? He put a string on the eagle, then held it horizontally and released it.

The big green kite flew away like a flash of lightning, close to the ground. When it was near the bushes, it slammed down suddenly. The next second, the screams of the sand chicken were heard.

One shot hits! !

No wonder those old-timers who raise eagles have so many rules and regulations for choosing eagles.

Choice is more important than hard work. It is really easy to train or use this eagle with good innate conditions!

The first real combat to become an eagle was a success on the roadside less than a mile outside the village!
Yue Feng waited patiently for seven or eight seconds before he slowly walked towards the place where the eagle landed while reeling in the line.

Under the bushes, a large blue kite was stepping on a sand chicken with its big claws and plucking its feathers bit by bit with its head. Yue Feng walked right up to it, but the eagle was not afraid of people. After plucking all the feathers on the sand chicken’s neck, it quickly tore open its skin and started pecking at its food.

The first actual hunting was successful. Yue Feng did not rush to grab the prey, but let the big blue kite eat it. It was not until the eagle tore the sand chicken’s head and neck into pieces and swallowed it that Yue Feng took off his left glove and covered the prey under the kite’s feet.

As the prey was no longer in sight, the kite naturally loosened its claws. Yue Feng grabbed the hawk with both hands with his right hand and lifted it up again. He grabbed the sand chicken with his left hand through his gloves and hid it behind his back. He turned around and headed home.

The actual hunting was successful, and today’s mission was completed. I dare not release too many newly-grown eagles, as this is a gradual process.

The neck and the entire head of a sand grouse are much heavier than those of a sparrow. Now there is blood food in its crop. If the eagle attacks again, the eagle will most likely not do it right. If it continues to release it, it may not catch the prey, but instead let the eagle slip.

When we got home with the eagle, it was only 6:10. Mom had already prepared breakfast, but the youngest child, Jingjing, had not yet gotten up.

Yue Feng gently pushed open the door of the east room and whispered, “Jingjing, get up and eat the sand and half chicken!”

The little girl, who was originally sleeping soundly, heard the three words “Shabandi” and almost reflexively turned over from the kang and raised her head.

Yue Feng moved sideways to block the eagle’s view, and in his left hand he held the headless and neckless sand chicken and waved it in front of his sister.

“Look, this is what we caught this morning when we went to Chengying! Hurry up and get up, and let mom cook it for you with the ash from the bottom of the pot!”

“Oh, I finally caught it! Why does this sand chicken have no head?” Jingjing rubbed her eyes, quickly put on her clothes, and looked at the prey that Yue Feng brought back.

“The eagle ate the head and neck. The rest of the chicken is yours!”

“Second brother is so nice! Let’s eat chicken!” The little girl’s happiness is so simple. With a chicken in hand, she jumps and skips to find her mother.

In fact, a sand chicken is not very big. An adult rooster weighs only about half a catty. What Yue Feng caught this morning was a young hen that was bred that year. It weighed less than 10 taels. After removing the head and neck, the remaining pure meat weighed at most 200 taels.

But even so, the little girl was quite content. Her mother didn’t even pluck the chicken feathers, but threw the whole thing into the stove.

Soon the strange smell of burning feathers wafted into her nostrils, and the little girl stayed by the stove until it was cooked, and her mother took out a black meat ball from the ashes. This thing is a bit similar to roasted pigeons. Although it looks black and inedible when it is first taken out, after the shell is peeled off after the hair is burnt, the tender red meat is not affected at all. When eating, you only need to take out the internal organs, and the rest can be eaten.

The mother arranged the cooked sand chicken into squares and then handed it to the youngest child, who was almost drooling.

“Eat it now?” Yue Feng looked at his sister lovingly and asked in a pretended angry tone.

“Ah?” Jingjing gave him a clear but stupid look.

“Two chicken legs, let daddy and mommy try them! You eat the meat on the breast!” Yue Feng said without question.

“Oh!” The little girl was a little reluctant, but still listened to her second brother and obediently handed the two thin chicken legs to her parents.

Mom and Dad knew that Yue Feng was consciously educating his sister, so they didn’t say anything to stop him. After taking the chicken leg that the little girl broke off, they tasted it symbolically.

“The chicken smells so good!” Jingjing tore off some shredded meat from the breast and took a bite. Her pretty eyes immediately narrowed into crescents.

“Once the eagle is stable, I’ll catch sand chickens for you every day! Don’t put bones in your mouth, they can get stuck!” Yue Feng reminded with a smile.

Holding the eagle in one hand, he finished a simple breakfast.

After hearing what happened when Yue Feng flew out as an eagle in the morning, Dad’s opinion of the Big Blue Harrier increased a bit.

For the whole day, Yue Feng walked around the village with the hawk flat on his back. The more he got used to this job, the better it would be. At around four in the afternoon when it was getting dark, Yue Feng used the last remaining live sparrow to consolidate the operation of the hawk in the yard. Then he stayed on the hawk until twelve o’clock in the evening and went to rest again.

Yesterday the eagle had two meals of blood, one in the morning and one in the evening. After spitting out the feather shaft in the morning, its spirit was significantly improved. In the morning, Yue Feng took the eagle for a stroll outside. Along the village road, before reaching the river, he found traces of prey again.

A large tiger dove was walking slowly on the side of the road, no more than ten meters away from Yue Feng.

The tiger doves in the mountainous area are probably even bigger than the sand chickens. Autumn is the season for gaining weight, and there is no shortage of grass seeds and other food in the fields. This guy has eaten so much that he is so plump that it gives people the illusion that he can hardly walk.

Yue Feng had plenty of experience in flying hawks in his previous life, so he knew that using hawks to hunt turtledoves was not a very good choice. The feathers of turtledoves were very loose, and if you were not careful you would end up catching a handful of feathers, and the original victim would have already flown away.

Under normal circumstances, Yue Feng would definitely not release the hawk without a firm grasp on it. However, today, the unlucky tabby dove was too bold. Yue Feng had walked to within seven or eight meters of it, but the dove still did not fly away and its round body was still eating food on the side of the road.

This is a blatant seduction! My uncle can tolerate it, but my aunt can’t!
Upon seeing this, Yue Feng decisively released the eagle.

The Great Blue Kitten had already struggled for several times in Yue Feng’s hands. After breaking free from the restraints, it smashed directly into the body of the Great Tiger Dove like a precision-guided black brick.

“Cuckoo!”

The big tabby, which was not afraid of people a second ago, was now firmly pinned down by the big blue kite. It was taken down without even making any decent struggle.

(End of this chapter)