Chapter 16 The Possibility of Catching Sables with the Great Blue Kites

After bleeding, he pinched the chicken’s wings and thighs with both hands, turned his body slightly sideways, and let the big blue kite bite him.

This blue kite is also very smart. The chicken skin is thick and difficult to tear in other places, so it changes the place where it eats the meat to near the bleeding carotid artery.

The chicken blood stained Kitty’s head and face, but Yue Feng did not intervene and let Kitty continue to tear.

When the Great Green Harrier’s crop bulged high and it was completely full, its entire chest, head and face were all stained with bright red chicken blood. The blood sizzling looked quite tragic and horrifying at first glance!

After this battle, the Big Green Harrier was completely transformed. It stood on Yue Feng’s arm with its two eagle legs stretched vertically outwards. Its crotch width was easily more than three fingers wide, and its pair of eagle eyes were full of murderous intent.

Yue Feng rested for a few minutes holding the kite, then held the hawk in his right hand and held the pheasant in one hand, and walked towards the foot of the mountain.

During a trip to the Little Eagle Hunting Area, Yue Feng brought home 18 chicks and a big pheasant. Although he did not break his hunting record in his previous life, Yue Feng was very happy.

On the way down the mountain, Yue Feng held the eagle in his right hand and the pheasant in his left hand, humming a little tune, feeling quite relaxed.

However, this relaxed mood only lasted for a while before it was completely broken.

On the main road at the entrance of the village, which is the only way back to the village, there is a gathering of old women in the village near the convenience store and the intelligence office.

Otherwise, how about taking a detour through the fields outside the village and going home along the shortcut?

Just when Yue Feng was hesitating, he saw a woman with a big red flower on her head waving at him from a distance.

The woman with the red flower on her head was surnamed Chen. She was a widow. Her husband died when she was in her early thirties and she never remarried. She liked to gossip about other people and knew everything about the little things in the village. She was nicknamed the Flower of Xing’an and even the brigade secretary had to give her some leeway.

If the Xing’an Village Intelligence Department were to elect a director, Widow Chen would definitely be the one to take the top job.

Well, now that we’ve been seen, there’s no point in taking a detour.

Yue Feng gritted his teeth, held the eagle and strode over.

“Second son of the Yue family, did you go up the mountain to release hawks? And you caught a big rooster?”

“Yes, Aunt Chen! We were lucky. We found a pheasant on the mountain! Are you guys chatting here?”

“This little eagle is quite amazing. It can catch such a big pheasant! Your parents are in for a treat today!”

“It’s okay. My dad’s leg hasn’t healed yet, so we need to give him some more nutrition! You guys chat here, I’ll go back first!” Yue Feng exchanged a few words of greeting and strode towards his home.

After Yue Feng’s back went far away, another girl named Wang Meilan who was mixed in the crowd curled her lips and said sinisterly: “I used a small hawk to catch birds and catch pheasants, just to fool you guys who don’t know what’s going on! I bet that this pheasant is 99% likely to be stolen from someone in the mountain!

The second kid from the Yue family looks quite polite, but he is actually a bad guy at heart! Look at the blood on Qiao’erying’s chest, isn’t this a cover-up? “

Wang Meilan’s family and Yue Feng’s family have always been at odds. Her husband’s name is Liu Changfu, and he is from the same production team as Yue Feng’s family. The two families once fought over a private vegetable garden. Yue Lei gave in, but the other party still wouldn’t give in. As a result, Yue Lei got angry and beat up Liu Changfu and his father. The matter was not settled until it was reported to the production team.

After hearing what Wang Meilan said, everyone was silent for a while. Although the Yue family was a separate family in the village and had few relatives, Yue Lei and Meng Yulan were both hardworking and kind, and the villagers had always had a good reputation for them.

Li Yinhua, the owner of the tavern, noticed that the atmosphere was a little off and said, “The boy didn’t say it was caught by an eagle. He found it on the mountain! There are rules for setting traps in the mountains. You can’t enjoy the mountain wealth alone. For small mountain products like pheasants, whoever picks it up owns it!”

Widow Chen also echoed: “I have heard of the rules of going up the mountain. It is true. The second son of the Yue family is quite filial! It is just that it is difficult to catch a big fish when you go up the mountain alone with a small eagle tied to your eagle! I guess you are just lucky today!”
I tell you, Ma Lao San from Fang’an is a real expert at hunting in the mountains. Last fall, he gave me a wild boar thigh, which my mother and I ate for half a month!”

……

While the intelligence department at the village entrance was making all kinds of noises behind the scenes, Yue Feng had already returned home with the eagle on his wing.

Dad Yue Lei was walking around in the yard with crutches at the moment. When he saw his son come back, he immediately put down what he was doing and came to greet him.

“Dad, I’m back!”

“Wow, they picked up such a big pheasant?” Yue Lei’s first reaction was that the rooster was picked up.

Yue Feng grinned and shook his head: “This chicken is not picked up! The green kite chased the chicken in the sand, and a big rooster flew up next to it, but it flew less than ten meters before it was caught!
This hawk was really brave. It held its head with its claws. The chicken was stunned for a moment before the hawk pecked out one of its eyes! I bled the chicken on the spot and gave the hawk a good meal! “

“This young kite dares to attack a big rooster? It’s worth training!” Yue Lei knew that his son didn’t like to brag. Although he was a little surprised after hearing it, he still believed what his son said.

Yue Feng nodded: “Well, after a while when the grass on the mountain is almost dead, I will take this big blue kite to try the greyhound! If the greyhound can be caught firmly, when the snow falls, I can follow its trail and try the sable!”

The greyhound is the squirrel. There are quite a lot of them in the red pine forests. Their fur and meat are both good things. Not to mention the sable. The sable fur among the three treasures of Northeast China refers to it!

A complete autumn and winter squirrel skin is worth at least 8-10 yuan. As for sable skin, an ordinary complete skin is at least to times more expensive, starting at about to yuan. If it is the top-grade fur of a large male, the price will be even higher. If the market is good, it is possible to sell it for hundreds or even thousands of yuan.

This is a hot commodity that is exported to earn foreign exchange, and the supply and marketing cooperatives have a purchasing mission every year.

When Yue Lei heard his son mention using hawks to catch sables, his eyes suddenly lit up.

The more popular the fur products are, the higher the requirements for the perfection of the skins are. In this regard, the advantages of falconry are extremely obvious.

Whether it’s a slingshot, air gun, small caliber, or a hunting rifle with sand-filled bullets, the fur you hunt will be obviously damaged and the quality of the skin will be at least one level lower, unless you are a sharpshooter and every bullet can accurately hit the prey’s head.

Even if it is caught with a clip or a sleeve, there will be slight damage on the neck and chest. The leather quality is low.

The best quality skins are obtained by dropping the prey to death or drowning it in water while it is still alive, and then skinning it while it is hot.

It is actually not that easy to use a hawk to catch squirrels or sables. Squirrels are better, as they are slightly smaller and not too ferocious. As long as the hawk is brave, the success rate is still quite high.

But the sable is larger than the squirrel and is a carnivore of the Mustelidae family. It would be much more difficult to catch it with an eagle.

(End of this chapter)