Reborn in the 1980s: I made my fortune hunting wild game in Changbai Mountain

Chapter 464: Another Year of Hawk Hunting Season

Of the two white spear fish chicks, the slightly smaller male one swooped down at a significantly faster speed, almost drawing a white arc in the air, heading straight for the lure swung in mid-air.

The old man shook his wrist and increased his strength, causing the lure to swing faster and Bai Mao missed it.

At this time, the other white spear, which was a little slower, also seized the opportunity and swooped down.

The old man exerted his strength again, swinging the lure to avoid the diving claw attack.

It seemed as if the two little guys had gotten used to this way of playing with their new master. If they missed the first attack, they would fly forward twenty or thirty meters, turn around in the air, and then fly level again to repeat the dive attack posture.

It can be seen that the old man has rich experience in swinging the lure, and he can dodge the attacks of the young eagles with ease time and time again.

The two white eagles flew up and down like butterflies, taking turns diving to try to attack the lure.

With this swing and chase, ten minutes had passed unknowingly.

As a bystander, Yue Feng has been paying close attention to the details of the two eagles.

Through today’s actual combat training, Yue Feng felt that the old man’s previous judgment had some minor problems.

The two eagles are now in good physical condition, and have actually passed the bait-carrying training stage. If it were Yue Feng, he would have already started the circling and following training.

After a few minutes, the flying speed of the two eagles slowed down significantly. Yue Feng seized the opportunity to remind them. The old man probably revealed a flaw and allowed the faster male gyrfalcon to grab the lure.

The female gyrfalcon, which was a little slow, also caught up and grabbed the pheasant’s wing on the other side of the lure. The two eagles fell to the ground holding the lure as if they were snatching food.

Gaga gaga gaga!!

After the two falcons landed, they stopped fighting over the lure and instead stepped on the lure, calling and pecking at the piece of meat tied to it.

It can be seen that although there is competition between the two eagles, they are not very hostile to each other.

There was a piece of meat weighing about two taels. The two eagles stood side by side, shoulders apart, pecking at the food with their heads down. There was no fighting, and no sign that one eagle wanted to take the food for itself.

This is also where the falcon is stronger than the eagle.

If it were a young goshawk, if its companion dared to steal food, even if they were brothers and sisters from the same nest, the one with higher martial power would have grabbed them with its claws long ago. There was no way they could coexist peacefully like the white gyrfalcon does now.

Uncle Zhao whistled and watched the two eagles finish eating the meat on the bait. Then he took out more meat from his pocket and prepared to continue feeding the eagles.

“Master, don’t rush to feed the eagle the remaining meat! Let the eagle rest for a while, take it back down the mountain, and feed it the rest of the meat when we get to the breeding farm!”

“Okay! I’ll listen to you! When I come out to train eagles, I usually feed them the proper amount at once!

This eagle is lacking in stamina, right? I remember your big black eagle flying in the sky for hours without getting tired! “

“Hehe! There is definitely a gap in physical strength between a young eagle and an adult eagle, but the current physical strength of these two little guys is enough!
The step of swinging the bait is basically completed. Starting from tomorrow, we will train the eagle to fly and follow!
If we can take advantage of the weak air currents in the sky, it won’t be difficult to hover for a few days and stay in the air for half an hour! Then we can continue to practice circling and following!”

“Really? I always feel like these two little guys are a little lacking!”

“When training eagles, you can’t spoil the little ones! Instead, you have to give them a little pressure so that they can improve faster!
For example, the piece of meat on this lure can actually be reduced by half, just give it a little effort!

In this way, the eagle will go home and feed half of itself, and then train again in the afternoon or near dusk. The frequency of training can be doubled, and the efficiency of physical strength growth will be much faster! ! “

Yue Feng shared his experience in eagle training with Uncle Zhao without reservation.

“Haha, when it comes to manipulating these eagles, you are more professional than an old man like me! Then I’ll listen to you, starting tomorrow, we’ll add another training session in the afternoon!

Oops, oops, I can’t eat all at once!!!”

As Grandpa Zhao spoke, he gently stroked the breast feathers of the eaglet next to him. The eaglet, with its crop slightly bulging, tilted its head and rubbed against him.

The people and the eagles are in harmony. Yue Feng was quite moved when he saw this scene.

The old man now has meat and white flour buns for every meal, so he has no worries about food and drink. He goes to the mountains and hunts hawks. After finishing the trivial work at the farm, he can take the hawks to fly in the mountains for some exercise. Even if he doesn’t use the hawks to go out of the enclosure to catch prey, it is quite comfortable.

After the eagle’s feathers loosened up a little, the old man put hats on the two little guys, and then the two of them rode their motorcycle back to the farm.

Yue Feng had nothing to do at noon, so he and his father cooked a pot of roe deer meat in a big pot using firewood on the mountain. They had a very enjoyable lunch, drinking wine and eating meat in big bowls. Yue Feng did not return to the village until the afternoon.

Over the next few days, everything was peaceful. The matter of Liu Laosan’s disappearance gradually subsided, and Qin Xueming did not look for Yue Feng a second time.

Before we knew it, half a month had passed and the autumn harvest had begun! Although Yue Feng’s family had leased all the land to the villagers, he was not idle when the autumn harvest came.

Yue Feng bought the village collective’s tractor. Now it is time for autumn harvest, and work in the fields cannot be done without these agricultural machines.

When neighbors come to borrow my tractor to transport corn, I can’t just refuse. They are fellow villagers whom I see every day. When they come to my house and open their mouths to ask for it, there is no way I can just let them talk.

Therefore, Yue Feng could only drive a tractor to help the neighbors who came to his door to transport their crops.

After helping here, the other family saw it and decided to help. As time went by, Yue Feng drove a tractor and became a temporary tractor driver in the village.

Fortunately, this work is not in vain. The host will pay for the fuel and other expenses. When it is time to eat, the host will also provide meals. When the work is finished in the evening, the host will prepare some wine and some side dishes for us.

Because of these acts of helping the villagers, the villagers who were not close to the Yue family before became closer, and those who were already familiar with each other became closer.
During the busy autumn period, Yue Feng’s mass base in Xing’an Village has been increasing at a visible speed. Whenever people talk about Yue Feng, the second son of Yue Lei’s family, they have to give him a thumbs up and give this child a very high evaluation of his kindness and righteousness.

In the past, having the upper hand in the fights with the Zhou and Zhu families could only be considered as establishing a foothold in the village. But now, when Yue Feng’s father Yue Lei walks on the street, everyone has to look up to him because he has raised a good son.

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Before we knew it, another half a month had passed, and the autumn harvest in the ordinary farmland around Xing’an Village was basically coming to an end.

The temporary farmer protection team formed by the villagers has completed its mission this year.

As time went by, the eagles in the cages at the breeding farm on Yuefeng Mountain also completely changed into a new set of feathers, which were as white as frost and as sharp as knives and axes.

The iron-backed red eagle has changed into its second-year adult feathers, and the caged hawk season has also passed for the Great Blue Kite and another bold native kite.

When the autumn wind blows, it is the season when everything dies. Soon the temperature difference between day and night begins to widen, and the temperature in the morning soon drops to single digits.

The leaves on the mountain are beginning to rustle, and it is time for the eagles to fly in the new autumn.

After the busy autumn harvest, the Yuefeng Eagle Hunting Team has begun the preparation stage for this year’s mountain falconry hunting.

It took almost two seasons, spring, summer and early autumn, for the new falconry team to persevere and catch birds. After careful selection and consideration, Yue Feng and Uncle Chen finally kept five new members of the falconry team who had excellent character, temperament and ability.

As for the others, continue to release the pine nuts before the weather gets cold. Once the frost falls, the pine nuts will be afraid of the cold and will not be able to work, so they can only be released and wait to fight again next year.

In just a few days, Yue Feng started making preparations for releasing hawks and hunting in the mountains in the fall.

There are four falcons at home, three of which are caged at the breeding farm, one big eagle, two kites, and the baby falcon that Yue Lei takes with him to and from get off work every day and is almost free-range.

These four eagles were all experienced eagles that were released last year. They only need less than half the training effort of fresh eagles to get back in shape and go back to work in the mountains.

Yue Feng confidently handed over the task of operating the three eagles to Xiao Tao, Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu, while Yue Feng planned to take time to go back to the original mountain field to catch eagles for a few days.

The five new members of the falconry team need at least five eagles to catch sand chickens, flying dragon birds, hares, pheasants and so on. As the captain of the falconry team, Yue Feng is responsible for catching eagles.

After arranging the relevant matters, Yue Feng made preparations according to the method he used to go hawk hunting in the mountains last autumn.

Digging up mole crickets and catching sparrows, buying bait pigeons, and preparing nets for hunting hawks. After completing all the preparations, I headed straight to last year’s old falconry shop, Hutou Mountain.

Last autumn, Yue Feng caught the top-quality red iron-backed eagle at home on Hutou Mountain, as well as an autumn yellow milk eagle, a small eagle as a gift, and a slow-pointed eagle for Uncle Chen.

Yue Feng’s requirements this year are not actually very high. He just wants to catch a few strong kites and a good-looking yellow eagle. If he is lucky, he can catch two more. This will be enough for the daily falconry release of the falconry team, and he will also have an extra reserve of one or two.

According to Yue Feng’s record of catching eagles in the mountains last year, this requirement this year is not too much.

But maybe it was because of his bad luck, Yue Feng set up three free-trapping nets and one hand-pulled net, and stayed at the Eagle Shop on Hutou Mountain for three consecutive days, but he only caught a passing kite and didn’t even see a decent big eagle.

On the evening of the fourth day, Yue Feng rode his motorcycle down the mountain before the sun set.

After returning home and tidying up the bait and other things, before washing hands and getting ready for dinner, my brother-in-law Wang Mingyu came to Yue Feng’s house happily.

“Brother-in-law, brother-in-law! My dad asked me to call you! Mr. Ye from the village office has a phone number specifically asking for you!”

Yue Feng was slightly stunned when he heard Wang Mingyu mention Mr. Ye.

It’s still a while before Luoxue goes up the mountain to start hunting. What instructions does Master Ye have for you? (End of this chapter)