Chapter 6: Flat Eagle, Breaking the Face, Making Food and Making Hair

Yue Lei nodded: “Okay! The falcon training skill your grandfather passed down to you has not been lost at all!”

That night, Yue Feng mounted the hawk for less than an hour, then tied it up again, and worked by lamplight until after eleven o’clock in the evening. Only then did he untie the hawk and tie it to the quilt of a reclining chair at home.

The eagle, which had been squeezed and squashed for a whole day, soon relaxed after being put on the rack. Its feathers fluffed up into a furry ball. After Yue Feng blew out the lamp and went to sleep on the kang, it soon buried its head in its neck and rested on one leg.

The next morning, before daybreak, my mother had just gotten up in the east room. Yue Feng woke up when he heard the noise, got dressed, and got off the kang. The first thing he did was to fasten the big blue kite on the back of the chair again.

From then on, whether he got up to pee, wash his face or eat, Yue Feng would hold the kite flat in one hand and do it with one hand. After resting for a few hours, the kite recovered some of its wildness and soon adapted to yesterday’s rhythm.

For the whole day that followed, Yue Feng stayed at home with the eagle tied up. He untied the eagle once at noon and once in the evening and let it stand on its hands for half an hour. The rest of the time was almost exactly the same as yesterday.

In the early morning of the third day, Yue Feng took out a sparrow from the cage, crushed it to death, skinned it, and soaked it in water with its feathers intact.

When it was dawn, Yue Feng got up early again, tied up the eagle, took two steamed buns from the big pot and put them in his arms, then strolled out of the house and headed straight for the big market in the next village.

In the rural fairs of this era, for some unspeakable reasons, there are hardly any cash transactions. Most people just take out the limited supplies from their homes and exchange them for what they can use at the fairs.

Yue Feng, holding the eagle, strolled around the market and soon chose a big locust tree near the village entrance to sit down.

There were people playing chess here, and there were quite a few spectators watching the fun, talking, arguing, and occasionally bursting into laughter. This kind of environment gave Ying Chuang enough space to play.

Seeing this, many people may have a question in their minds: what is going on with this face-breaking incident?
In fact, it is very simple. From a scientific point of view, it is social adaptation. Let the eagle get familiar with the stimulation of human activities, make the eagle accustomed to the existence of people, and slowly let go of the stress.

When Ying Chuang’s face has become familiar to everyone, he will not even raise his eyelids even when facing a group of people. He will eat and drink as usual and will no longer be afraid.

Only an eagle that is completely cooked can be taken out of the enclosure. Otherwise, once you let go, the eagle will be scared and fly away, and you can only look at the sky with tears in your eyes.

The market lasted from dawn in the morning until about three in the afternoon. When most people had left, Yue Feng carried Xiaoying home.

After a whole day of fighting, the big blue kite’s eyes were obviously much more relaxed when looking at people, and its pupils were no longer condensed into needle points.

After arriving home, Yue Feng untied the eagle and let it rest after being held captive for most of the day. Then he took the hairy sparrow that had been soaked overnight from the stove.

Counting from the time the eagle was put down from the net, today is already the third day. During these three days, Yue Feng had not allowed the little eagle to eat a single bite of meat except for giving it enough water. The fish caught today were basically just water fish.

To use the terminology of falconry, the eagle is now completely empty.

After a few days of being beaten and stabbed, the eagle was no longer afraid of people, but it was very hungry.

When the little eagle saw the sparrow soaked in water in Yue Feng’s hand, he moved instantly.

He rushed forward, but because the two legs were tied in Yue Feng’s hands, he was hanging there upside down.

Yue Feng held the sparrow in his right hand and swung it gently. The little eagle regained its balance and stood up. Then Yue Feng held the sparrow in his left hand and carefully placed it under the little eagle’s claws. Snap! There was a crisp sound, and the big blue kite’s claws grabbed the sparrow with wet feathers at lightning speed, and then lowered its head and ate it frantically.

The hungry kite eats voraciously. The sparrows have been gutted and soaked in water for a night, so the blood has soaked out of the meat, which is basically the same as the soaked white meat.

This kind of meat provides much less energy to the eagle, but the hungry little eagle doesn’t care about that at the moment and just keeps tearing it apart.

If it were a live sparrow, the first thing the eagle would do after catching it is to pluck its feathers. It would only start to eat it after all the feathers were plucked out. However, the feathers of the sparrow that had been soaked in water were completely wet. When the eagle was eating, it could not pick out any small feathers except the large feathers on the wings and tail.

Just like that, in less than three minutes, a soaked sparrow was twisted into the stomach.

After eating the sparrow, a small bulge appeared on the eagle’s chest crop. Since there was food in the crop, the eagle could not be flattened. Yue Feng simply took a stool, carried the eagle on his back and sat in his yard.

It must be said that this big green kite has a very stable personality. Even when it had eaten and brought food into the yard, it stood firmly in Yue Feng’s hand.

Yue Feng held the hawk and kept observing the subtle reactions of the big green kite. This guy was not afraid of people at all now. Even when Yue Feng’s mother Meng Yulan pushed the door and entered the yard from outside, the big green kite still did not struggle.

Every once in a while, the kite would tilt its head and press the food in its crop into its lower crop. As it slowly adapted to the feeling of being held in the hand, the short hair under the base of its tail gradually became fluffy. The 12 tail feathers gathered together like a stick, which swayed a few times every once in a while, and it seemed that it was quite relaxed.

Yue Feng saw that the eagle was relatively relaxed, so he used his left hand to stroke its feathers every once in a while. At first, it was a little resistant, but as time went on, the Great Blue Kitten no longer felt nervous when Yue Feng stroked its feathers.

By 4:30 in the afternoon, when Jingjing came back from school with her schoolbag, Yue Feng had completely relaxed his grip on the kite.

I saw that even the feathers on its face were completely fluffy. In jargon, this is called opening the face. All the feathers on its body were fluffy into a ball, like an old hen squatting on your hand.

Jingjing knew that the kite caught by her second brother was the key for her to eat the sand chicken, so in recent days she would go to her brother to play with the little eagle whenever she had nothing to do.

However, Yue Feng knew that a bird of prey is still a bird of prey no matter how small it is, so he never let his sister touch an eagle.

Seeing the eagle’s condition this evening, Yue Feng made an exception and let the youngest girl touch the chest of the Great Green Kitten, which made the little girl giggle with joy.

At dinner that day, Yue Feng held the hawk in one hand and ate. By around seven o’clock after dinner, all the food in the hawk’s crop had been eaten.

Yue Feng held the hawk and lit the oil lamp until eleven o’clock, then he tied the hawk up, turned off the light and went to sleep.

He slept for only four hours and it was still dark. When Yue Feng heard the first rooster crowing in the village, he crawled out of bed early.

The eagle’s head resting on the back of the chair was still stuck in its feathers. After Yue Feng got up, he took out a roll of tire wire from the bedside and put it in his pocket. Then he put on gloves and put the eagle up.

From a little after four o’clock until half past five, the big kite finally responded.

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