Chapter 44 Zhu Erhai Buys an Eagle

Today, Xiao Tao and his father returned with a full load again. There were a lot of sand chickens in the woods around the water bubble. They had caught them for two consecutive days and still had a good harvest.

Today, the father and son have made the ditch full and level again. Each of them is carrying a bag made of a fertilizer bag, both of which are stuffed full.

They were talking and laughing as they were heading home, when the lingering Zhu Erhai came up again.

“Uncle Li, Xiao Tao! Did you go into the mountains to get out of the enclosure?” Zhu Erhai greeted Xiao Tao and his father with what he thought was the most appropriate words.

Xiao Tao had always been at odds with him. After seeing that the person coming was Zhu Erhai, he said with a dazed look in his eyes: “You are the one who called Xiao Tao, get out of here, if you dare to show off, I will beat you up!”

It was you who called him “Xiao Tao”, which completely stifled Zhu Erhai.

He dared to argue with Yue Feng because he knew that Yue Feng was a stable person who would not fall out unless necessary.

But Li Mingtao is different. He is a well-known bully among his peers. Except for his brother Yue Feng and his parents, he is a man with maximum fighting power and dares to fight with anyone.

“Xiao Tao, how can you talk to people like that! Erhai, we have something else to do, let’s talk later!” Li Wentong symbolically stopped his son and walked around Zhu Erhai into the village.

Less than 20 meters away, Xiao Tao muttered in dissatisfaction: “Dad, why should we be nice to him! Zhu Erhai is a worthless guy. He won’t do anything unless it’s profitable. He must have something bad to say to us!”

Li Wentong quite agreed with his son’s judgment, so he ignored his son’s behavior just now. If Xiao Tao had spoken like this to other honest villagers in the village, Li Wentong’s ruthless iron hand and big ear thunder would probably have been used on Xiao Tao on the spot.

“Just know it in your heart, don’t offend him with your mouth!
We all live in the same village, and it would be bad if others heard about it. Those who know would think that Zhu Erhai is a liar and is annoying, while those who don’t know would think that our Li family has no manners!

You are already this old, and you will be looking for a wife in a few years. You must leave a good reputation in the village!”

Li Wentong calmly explained the reason to his son.

It’s strange to say, but from childhood to adulthood, Li Wentong has never been so kind in educating his son.

In this era, the men are in charge of their children. The little daughter may be reluctant to beat her baby, but beating her son is definitely a glorious tradition of regional or even nationality. Three good words are not as good as a slap, and the truth of childhood that is universally applicable.

Even Li Wentong, who had married his wife at that time, was beaten by his father for being stubborn!
The economic base determines the superstructure. Ever since Xiao Tao followed Yue Feng to start training eagles and hunting in the mountains to earn money, Xiao Tao’s status in the family has risen. Li Wentong has gradually accepted the fact that his son has grown up, and now he is no longer ruthless and cruel to him unless he gets angry.

The camera turns back to Zhu Erhai. After hitting two snags in a row, this guy still refuses to give up.

He didn’t dare to go out of the enclosure and into the mountains, and no one would take him. But if he could get a hawk and train it, he could catch chickens on the hills around the village. This job could be done by one person, and this temptation still made him want to keep it.

As the old saying goes, if you keep thinking about it, it will come true. When he was drinking with his friends at night, he mentioned the idea of ​​getting a hawk, and he actually found out another possible channel to get a hawk.

In Fang’an Village, there was a man named Wang Mazi. In spring and autumn, he liked to go up the mountain and fan birds with a fan net.

The so-called fan net is a bit like an oval cattail leaf fan with a diameter of more than one meter. In principle, this thing is like a giant mousetrap, except that in addition to some broken rice seeds, the place where the bait is placed also contains artificially trained decoy birds.

When birds fly by in the sky or in the woods, the decoy birds will call, and the flocks of birds attracted will come down to eat. At that time, the fan net mechanism will be triggered, and the birds on the ground will be caught. This bird-catching mechanism can sometimes catch hawks, but in this era, there are few people who understand hawks. Even if you catch a top-quality falcon, it is difficult to meet someone who knows the value of it. Ninety-nine percent of the time, it is either slaughtered for meat or sold to specimen collectors.

Zhu Erhai, who got the news at the kang table, asked his friend to take him to Fang’an Village early the next morning. He asked several families along the way and soon found Wang Mazi from Xiapai.com.

It was Qiaoer’s mother who opened the door for Qiaoer, and Qiao arrived home.

This morning Wang Mazi went to inspect the fan bird net and discovered from a distance that a large leopard was caught in the net.

The leopard mentioned here is not a literal leopard, but a folk name for a bird of prey.

The scientific name of this thing is common buzzard, which is also a kind of bird of prey, but in terms of its breed and habits, it is not a suitable breed for being a falcon.

It is a savannah bird of prey whose breeding grounds are in Inner Mongolia and Ningxia. Its main food source is mice, but it also eats small animals such as toads, snakes, insects and birds.

Although they have a large body weighing more than two kilograms, their fleshy claws are similar to chicken claws. Except for some gifted individuals who can catch pigeon-sized prey by sneak attacks, most of them are just poop eagles in the mouths of eagles, and they are manure-making machines.

Wang Mazi took the big leopard out of the fan bird net and stuffed it into a snakeskin bag angrily. The big leopard destroyed a bait he had raised for two years. If the specimen had not been killed by the bird, which would have lowered the price, he would have probably been executed on the spot.

Zhu Erhai and his friends came to Wang Mazi’s house and explained their purpose. Wang Mazi’s eyes lit up after hearing it.

“Is this the eagle you are looking for?”

Zhu Erhai knows nothing about birds of prey, so what could he know? He just has a very simple understanding that the big ones are definitely better than the small ones.

Yue Feng and Xiao Tao are so awesome, but what they have in their hands is just a small eagle that can only catch birds. Now there is a big eagle in the fertilizer bag. If this thing is trained, it will be able to catch rabbits, pheasants and the like easily.

“That’s what I’m looking for! I want this big eagle!”

At this moment, Zhu Erhai no longer cared about his scheming. His mind was filled with thoughts like, “I now have an eagle, and in the future I will have endless pheasants and rabbits to eat.”

“The taxidermy people are buying eagles. They charge eight yuan for an eagle this big. I see that we are from neighboring villages and we are all relatives in the village, so I’ll charge you six yuan!”

Wang Mazi was also a person who would not hesitate to kill people. Seeing that Zhu Erhai was really greedy and wanted something, he asked for an exorbitant price.

These days, this kind of big leopard is only worth one dollar and twenty cents when sold to Xuanbiben. An eagle that is big and weighs more than two and a half kilograms can only be sold for one dollar and fifty cents. And this is the price given only after it has been transported dozens of miles to the owner’s home.

“So expensive? Why don’t you just go and rob it!” Upon hearing Wang Mazi’s sky-high price, Zhu Erhai’s blood immediately went out.

Not to mention six dollars, he couldn’t afford it even if it was half price.

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