Chapter 26 Taking Xiao Tao into the City

The harvest in the afternoon was also good. Yue Feng took Xiao Tao to a new place that they had never been to before. In half an afternoon, they caught 11 flying dragons and five sand chickens.

There were not enough torn socks to hold the birds, so Yue Feng stuffed two cheap sand chickens into a pair of socks. When there was no more room, he simply tied up the wing tips and legs of the last two sand chickens with wire. It really didn’t affect the appearance of the chickens much, except that it affected their presentation.

At around four o’clock in the afternoon, when the sun was setting, the two brothers returned to the village, each carrying a backpack filled to the brim.

Today’s total falconry harvest included 19 flying dragons, 8 sand chickens (seven whole and one for feeding the hawks), and a weasel.

With Yue Feng’s conscious detour, the two brothers did not take the main road, but took a small path through the farmland on the other side to enter the village. Except for meeting a villager who was collecting mountain products on the way, no one else knew them.

When they arrived at the door of their home, the two brothers did not rush back. Instead, they sat under the big elm tree in the yard and divided the loot.

According to the rules of hunting together in the mountains, the leader of the team is divided into two groups, the working eagles take one group, and the people responsible for driving the sticks and helping out get one group. All in all, Xiao Tao can barely be considered a stick driver, and he should get a quarter of the total proceeds of today’s prey.

Yue Feng wanted to give more to Xiao Tao, but he was afraid that acting too hastily might cause other consequences, so he decided to temporarily divide the prey among Xiao Tao according to the usual rules.

As for weasel meat, it is not tasty and is just right for feeding eagles.

Yue Feng wanted Xiao Tao to take a few prey home in the evening, but the boy knew that these live flying dragons could be sold for one yuan and ten cents each, so he refused to take any home and insisted on going to the city to sell them together tomorrow.

After agreeing on a time to go into the city early tomorrow morning, the two brothers went back to their respective homes to visit their respective mothers.

When Yue Feng entered the house, he saw two newly woven three-finger-wide eagle cage nets hanging on the clothesline in the yard. Under the second net, Yue Lei had not finished the final steps. After tying the last few knots and threading the rope, a eagle cage was ready!

“Dad! Did you just weave a new net today?” Yue Feng was surprised when he saw the net.

I had been thinking about going back to the city tomorrow and not going out to release the hawks during the day but would just weave a net at home. I didn’t expect that my dad was at home and had already made arrangements in advance.

Yue Lei nodded with a smile: “Since we want to catch more eagles, how can that broken cage net be enough? I have also prepared the three-piece set for tying up the young eagles for you, and the bait rolling cage is also prepared. They are all in the warehouse!”

Yue Feng opened the warehouse and took a look. There were five or six sparrows in each of the two finely woven rolling cages. This was much better than the three sparrows that Yue Feng caught from under the grass eaves when he held Jingjing in his arms at dark last time.

“Are these sparrows caught?” Yue Feng asked curiously.

“I asked your mother to go to Uncle Zhao’s house at the village entrance and ask for some medicinal wine to soak the wheat grains!”

Uncle Zhao at the head of the village is also a hunter, but he only uses medicinal bait. He uses medicinal birds after it snows, and goes into the mountains to dig deer cellars for medicinal deer in May and June. Normally, his family farms normally, and he relies on this skill to support his five children. He lives a pretty comfortable life.

“Have you told Xiao Tao about recruiting the team?”

“Yes, I did! I told him about my idea, and he agreed without hesitation, telling me to go find the Zhang brothers after dinner!
By the way, today I took Xiao Tao to the woods by the river to catch sand pheasants, and the big kite caught a weasel! “

While speaking, Yue Feng took out the weasel from his pocket. He didn’t bring a skinning knife with him when he went up the mountain, so he didn’t skin it rashly. Now the weasel is intact except for its eyes being smashed and some blood around its mouth due to internal bleeding.

“Hey! This little green eagle is so fierce, he actually dares to attack the weasel?
Is this the eye of Tao? “

After taking a look at the weasel’s eyes, Yue Lei could no longer hold back.

Yue Feng nodded: “Yes, the double-clawed tiger holds its head, with both claws on its face, and the side claws (eagle nails) clamp the weasel’s mouth tightly! When I stepped on it and seriously injured it, the big blue kite didn’t need my guidance, and the first bite went straight to the weasel’s eyes!”

After listening to his son’s reconstruction of the battle, Yue Lei nodded: “The pheasant pecked my eyes this time, and the weasel also pecked my eyes. Once in a while it may be an accident, but twice in a row is an objective fact!

Take good care of this eagle. When the snow falls, if we can catch a sable in the mountains, we will have a lot of them in the winter. If we can catch three or five, our family will be rich!”

Yue Feng didn’t dare to guarantee whether it would be possible to catch a sable with a blue hawk before he tried it, but a weasel is about the same size as a greyhound, so it would definitely be a safe bet to use a hawk to catch the greyhound.

Yue Feng had already made a preliminary plan. When the falconry team was formed and everyone else went into the mountains to release sand chickens, flying dragons and the like, Yue Feng would go to release the eagles and greyhounds. Those creatures were much easier to find than weasels. If he found the right place in the red pine forest on the sunny slope, there would be plenty of greyhounds.

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On the other side, after Xiao Tao returned home, he repeated to Li Wentong all the information that Yue Feng had mentioned when he took him to the mountain to release hawks during the day.

Old Li and Yue Lei have been neighbors for more than 20 years and they know each other’s personalities very well. On the day Yue Feng entered the city for the first time, Li Wentong followed him from a distance at the request of his good brother, but Yue Feng was not vigilant enough and didn’t notice.

Li Wentong had a rough idea of ​​where Yue Feng set up his stall, who he sold to, and even how much he made.

Now Yue Feng wants to ask Xiao Tao to help his family make money together. There is no reason to refuse such a thing.

If you are not good at falconry, you can learn it slowly. It is better to catch fewer birds than to sit idle at home. Even if you can only catch two flying dragons during a daytime outing, they are still worth more than two dollars if you sell them in the city.

In the past, after the snow fell every year, his father would always be able to get wild boars, roe deer and other mountain animals from the mountains. Xiao Tao was afraid that his father was too concerned about his reputation and would not do this kind of work of hunting with an eagle.

After getting his father’s approval, Xiao Tao finally felt relieved.

After dinner, Xiao Tao went to Zhang’s house with a flashlight and mentioned the matter to the Zhang brothers. After learning that Yue Feng was willing to make money with them and that there was no need for any upfront investment, Zhang Xiaowen and Zhang Xiaowu agreed without even stuttering.

The two parties agreed to meet at Yue Feng’s house the next morning.

At 3:30 the next morning, Yue Feng got out of bed and got dressed early. The village secretary’s bicycle could not be borrowed every day, and the main means of transportation these days still depended on one’s own two feet.

Carrying the flying dragon and sand chicken he caught yesterday on his back, Yue Feng waited at the door of Xiao Tao’s house for a few minutes, and soon Xiao Tao came out fully armed.

“go!”

Yue Feng called out to them, and the two brothers walked out of the village along the familiar road and disappeared into the night.

With Xiao Tao accompanying him on the journey, Yue Feng felt that it was not as boring as before when he was alone. On the way, Xiao Tao asked him a lot of things about the city, and Yue Feng picked out some to talk to him about. After more than an hour’s journey, the two brothers arrived at the ghost market without any effort.

We set out half an hour late today, so by the time we arrived at the ghost market, it was almost dawn.

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