“Okay! If we have time, we can tinker with it together! But my main focus is still on these peregrine falcons. You have to be the main force in training this purple eagle, and I will be responsible for checking it for you!” After Yue Feng made up his mind, he said softly to Xiao Tao.

When Xiao Tao heard that his elder brother asked him to be fully responsible for the training of a top-grade purple eagle, his mouth was almost unable to close.

“Okay! I will definitely not let you down if you train me! Why don’t we just start training tonight? Didn’t you tell me before that an eagle that has just come down from the mountain is in good condition and it is easier to get it right the first time and avoid any trouble when we start training right away?”

Xiao Tao has long wanted to learn how to train an eagle himself.

He had no chance before and could only act as Yue Feng’s deputy. Now that Yue Feng has nodded, his enthusiasm is quite high.

Yue Feng looked at the guy who was full of enthusiasm and eager to try and curled his lips: “It seems that you are really full of energy!
We have been outside for several days, eating poorly and sleeping poorly. Aren’t you tired? Give the eagle some water, let it rest for a night, and start working on it tomorrow! ! “

“Okay, then tomorrow! Can I try to rehydrate this purple eagle?”

As Xiao Tao spoke, he stood up and was already reaching for the bowl of water on the small table.

“Okay, come on! Let me see how you perform!” Yue Feng nodded.

Xiao Tao immediately stood up and took the small bowl of water for feeding the eagle in his hand. Then he pinched a clean cotton cloth, dipped it in water, and dripped water on the purple eagle’s mouth.

It seems that feeding water to an eagle wearing a hat does not require much technical skills, but it is not that simple to actually do it.

Yue Feng fed water to the eagles, and the four peregrine falcons drank the water obediently and behaved very honestly. But when it was Xiao Tao’s turn to give water to the purple eagle, water dripped into the eagle’s nostrils, causing the eagle with the hat on to shake its head and sneeze desperately.

“Hey, what’s going on!” Xiao Tao was stunned and immediately stopped feeding water.

“Move the dripping water a little lower, the blood just dripped into my nostrils!
Do it little by little, with a small amplitude at the beginning. When the eagle slightly raises its head to catch the water drop, you can speed up the speed of the water drop falling! “

Yue Feng watched Xiao Tao’s operations and gave very precise reminders and instructions.

“Oh, I get it! Blame it on me, I’ll try again!!”

When Ziying obviously relaxed, Xiaotao tried again, following the details Yue Feng reminded him of.

Sure enough, the eagle slowly got used to the feeling of water drops entering its mouth. After tasting the blood, it immediately raised its head and began to drink in big gulps.

“Hey, drink it! That’s alright, little brat. You’re smart enough to cooperate with me! From now on, just follow me and enjoy the good life!”

Xiao Tao was very happy with Ziying’s cooperation and even brought up some words like “eating delicious food and drinking spicy drinks”.

After repeating this many times, the eagle began to shake its head and stopped drinking, so Xiao Tao stopped feeding it water.

Yue Feng continued: “Once the eagle has replenished its water, it will basically be fine!

But if you want to train it, you can’t put a hat on this eagle!
Otherwise, just take off your hat tonight!! “

“Ah? Why is that? Don’t other eagles wear hats?”

“An eagle is not a falcon. A falcon’s eyes are patchy. If you want to learn to recognize the whistle and develop a conditioned reflex, it’s best to wear a hat when doing it.

The eagle is timid and cautious, and wearing a hat will only make it feel stressed and nervous.

Loosen your hat to restore your eyesight. Starting from tomorrow, you have to get ready to get up before dawn to set up the eagle, and you have to go to the camp to show off during the day!
Do you have confidence? Don’t be shy and embarrassed to go out and waste your feelings! “

“Okay, take off your hat! I’m going to put it on for three hours to enjoy myself first!
I’m not shy about offending people. I don’t know anyone except Jun in this airport, so there’s nothing to be ashamed of!”

Seeing that Xiao Tao agreed readily, Yue Feng stood up and walked to the chair with a backrest where the purple eagle was tied, motioning Xiao Tao to put on the sleeves and put the purple eagle on his arm.

Afterwards, Yue Feng pulled the drawstring on the back of the eagle hat with both hands and exerted slight force to gently take off the hat.

When the hat was on, the purple eagle was relatively quiet when standing on the back of a chair or on a person’s arm. But when it took off the hat and saw the surrounding situation clearly, it immediately opened its mouth with fear on its face and its wings drooped like a fighting cock.

Xiao Tao moved his body slightly, and this completely untrained eagle immediately jumped off his arm with all its might, flapping its wings and dodging desperately.

How could he fly with his legs tied to his feet? After struggling for a few seconds, he lost his balance and hung upside down under his arms.

“Fuck, you are such a badass, and you have a lot of strength! I’m not hitting you on my arm, what are you afraid of!!”

Xiao Tao stretched out his arms and stood there motionless, allowing Ziying to toss him around.

When the eagle stopped moving, Yue Feng said, “Use your hands to gently support the eagle’s back and let it return to your arms. Move slowly!”

“profound!”

Xiao Tao followed Yue Feng’s instructions and carefully put the eagle hanging there onto his arm.

Purple Eagle stood on his arms with his limbs stiff, still in a state of extreme fear.

However, it was not attacked. After a brief stress, its stiff eagle legs obviously relaxed a little, its mouth opened, and its wings were still drooping.

“Brother, why do I feel like I am holding the eagle differently from when you trained it before? Was it the same with the live eagles that were just tied up before?”

Xiao Tao looked at the purple eagle standing on his arm and dared hardly move, for fear of irritating the little guy.

“It’s normal! It will get better after a few hours! Don’t scare it on purpose when it’s extremely frightened. Let it get used to it! Lower your arms and shoulders. Won’t you get tired of hanging it all the time?!”

Yue Feng gave Xiao Tao a few more instructions, and he relaxed his shoulders and kept them in a normal state. After adapting for a while, he looked less nervous.

The eagle, standing on the man’s hand, tried to escape and struggled several times, but was hung upside down each time.

Xiao Tao patiently helped Ziying return to his arm, and after he gradually became familiar with it, he pinched the two sides with both hands and gave a slight shake, and Ziying swiftly returned to the bar and stood back on his arm.

The feeling of watching from the side and doing it up close and personal is different.

Xiao Tao has been in contact with birds of prey for a year. When the big eagle at home is free, he also takes it out to release, but this is the first time for him to handle a big eagle by himself from scratch.

Xiao Tao had been carrying the scaffolding from around seven in the evening until nine o’clock. He had already found the feeling, while Yue Feng, after washing his feet with hot water, was already lying on the bed.

At half past nine, the lights-out signal sounded in the camp. Yue Feng asked Xiao Tao to tie the eagle back to the reclining chair, and then turned off the lights.

The two brothers went to bed. It was dark outside. After going up the mountain and staying in the hawk shed for several days, the two brothers felt tired and fell asleep quickly.

The next morning, a little after four o’clock, before daybreak, Yue Feng was still half asleep when he heard the sound of a giant eagle flapping its wings in the house.

I opened my eyes and looked up, and found that Xiao Tao had already put on his clothes. He was now wrapping the five-foot rope around the eagle’s fingers and placing the purple eagle on his arm.

“Are you awake, brother?” Xiao Tao muttered softly.

“Well, what time is it? Are you preparing to set up the hawk?”

“Four fifteen. I can’t sleep. I’m going to get up and take a nap. Didn’t you tell me to get up early last night?”

“Okay! Turn on the light, and go to the open area outside the door with your eagle-like body, and bring a chair out to stay there! Don’t make the mistake of wrapping the five feet around your fingers, I’m going to sleep a little longer!” Yue Feng said with his eyes narrowed.

“Okay, you can get some more sleep!”

Xiao Tao followed Yue Feng’s instructions, turned on the light in the room, then tiptoed out with a chair in his hand, and sat down at the wall outside the window of the guesthouse with his eagle on his back.

The lights were on in the room, and there was light and shadow outside the window. Xiao Tao sat in a reclining chair with the eagle on his arm, slowly feeling the sky getting brighter, and the eagle on his arm slowly became quieter.

Among the falconry training techniques, staying up all night to train the hawk is the most effective way to increase the affinity between humans and hawks, and the second is to get up early and set up the hawk.

There is a saying among the older generation of falconers that a morning of falconry is equivalent to a whole day’s work.

The eagle will be on the person’s arm from before dawn, and during the process from being unclear to bright day, its vigilance towards the person will gradually disappear, and its affinity will be significantly improved.

A lazy person cannot play falconry. It is obvious that Xiao Tao is not a lazy guy. On the contrary, he is a very energetic young man who is at a good age now.

In this way, Xiao Tao stayed outside the window with the hawk for more than two hours, until the wakeup call sounded at six o’clock and the sky was bright.

Yue Feng took another nap in a daze. When he heard the wakeup call, he got out of bed.

As an expert who goes up the mountain to train and release hawks all day long, he doesn’t have the lazy bones to stay in bed. He gets up, puts on his clothes, fetches water to wash his face. Yue Feng also stretches his arms and legs and walks out of the house.

“How is it? Is it stable?” Yue Feng asked as he looked at Xiao Tao who was holding the eagle steadily.

“Hey, it really works. The hawk was quite active when I turned on the light in the morning, but now it’s much more stable after being set up all morning!”

Xiao Tao grinned while holding the eagle, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

“Have you gotten the hang of it? Feel free to touch its tail feathers and claws. The eagle is much stronger now than it was last night, and its wings are almost closed!” Yue Feng continued to ask.

“I haven’t done this yet. I don’t dare to touch it for fear of causing stress! Then let me try it!”

“Watch out for the claws!”

As soon as Yue Feng finished saying the word “claw”, he heard Xiao Tao scream.

“Ouch!!”

Xiao Tao’s hands are so quick that he touched the eagle claw while talking.

There is a skill to touching an eagle’s claws. Before Yue Feng finished explaining the technique, this guy was already eager to start.

The large ring-shaped nail of the purple eagle’s right claw directly dug into the back of Xiao Tao’s left index finger. Xiao Tao dared not move, but the eagle continued to exert force with its claws twitching.

“Don’t move! Don’t move! These claws are very sharp! Wait for me to finish speaking, you tiger bastard!” Yue Feng immediately turned around and went into the house, took out a towel and covered the eagle’s claws.

“Turn your arm gently, and don’t move the hand that’s been grabbed!”

The eagle could no longer see where its claws were, and when it felt the arm turning, it immediately spread its wings and loosened its claws.

When Xiao Tao pulled his hand out from under the towel, he saw a triangular blood hole on the back of his left index finger, with blood dripping down. (End of this chapter)