Chapter 76 The Eagle Buyer Arrives

“Bring the meat here!” Yue Feng called out, and Xiao Tao immediately handed the prepared meat roll to Yue Feng.

Yue Feng dipped the meat roll in rabbit blood and fed it to the eagle, without stopping it from removing the hair from the rabbit’s neck.

After feeding the eagle four rolls of bloody and hairy meat, Yue Feng covered the eagle’s claws with his sleeves and took the live rabbit off.

“Tie up the rabbit’s hind legs, take it back, and raise it at home for a day or two, then send it to the canteen!” Yue Feng commanded.

“Can a wild rabbit be raised? I remember my dad said that this thing has a bad temper. Even if it’s not injured, it will die of anger after half a day if you bring it home!” Xiao Tao said as he skillfully took out a thin wire from his bag.

Yue Feng smiled and shook his head: “It is indeed not easy to bring it back intact and keep it alive. Here is a little trick that is very useful!

The older generation said that the rabbit was angry to death by itself, but this is actually not true. It is just timid. Excessive fright causes the body to be in a state of extreme stress, and certain physical and chemical indicators of the body become seriously abnormal, which will lead to the rabbit’s death in a short time!
The solution to this problem is very simple. Just make a small cut on its hind leg to let some blood out. This will greatly increase the chances of keeping it alive!”

“Can we play it this way?” Upon hearing this method, Xiao Tao’s eyes opened wide with a look of curiosity.

“Haha, just learn slowly, and you’ll be able to do it once you learn it!”

Yue Feng put the eagle up again, then stroked the big red eagle’s feathers from head to toe, and slowly the big red eagle calmed down.

The goal today is to catch two rabbits. Half of the task has been completed so Yue Feng is not under much pressure. There must be more than one rabbit in this area. After the eagle rests for three to five minutes and relaxes, and then takes a stroll for a while, the task should be completed.

After about five minutes, the Great Red Eagle’s feathers, which were tightly pressed together, slowly relaxed and became fluffy again.

Yue Feng called out, “Let’s go! Keep driving the sticks. Finish the work early and go home early!”

With a greeting, Xiao Tao picked up the small stick and started knocking forward again.

What Yue Feng said was right. There were quite a few rabbits in this area. After chasing them about a hundred meters in the southeast direction, they found another rabbit next to a pile of wormwood at the southeast corner of the field.

This rabbit did not have the superb escape skills of the old rabbit just now. The Big Red Eagle chased it immediately, but in just one round, it was easily pinned down.

When Yue Feng saw clearly where the big red eagle’s claws landed, he couldn’t help but laugh again.

Another claw pinched the waist, and the other claw pressed the butt!
This Iron-backed Red Eagle is also a young and reckless person. He works without sparing any effort and will not consider any technique if the problem can be solved by force.

Yue Feng didn’t worry about this situation. No matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice, it is a good cat.

Good eagles are selected and released at the same time.

The richer the practical experience, the more skillful the eagle is in catching rabbits. Now it’s only the third rabbit, so it can grab the butt if it wants to. Later, when the “labor” intensity increases, the eagle will naturally know how to save energy.

It was the same method used to feed the eagle. A cut was made on the rabbit’s hind leg, and the meat roll wrapped in wet feathers was brought out and dipped in the rabbit’s blood before being fed to the eagle. A large crop was also fed to the eagle, which ensured that it was at least 90% full.

After the eagle had eaten its fill, Yue Feng picked the rabbit and gave it to Xiao Tao, who tied up its hind legs and stuffed it into the bag. The two brothers chatted while heading home along the same route they came.

When he got home, it was just a little after eight o’clock. Xiao Tao didn’t want to see the Zhou family, so he said goodbye and went back.

Yue Feng had just tied the big eagle to the rack and was about to wash his hands when he heard some noise at the gate of the courtyard. Someone was coming.

Zhou Jianjun, his son Zhou Rui, and a strange man in his twenties pushed open the door of Yue’s house. “Xiaofeng, we’re here!” Zhou Jianjun called out at the door.

“Uncle Zhou, you’re here so early. I just came back from releasing the hawk. Come in first and I’ll wash my hands!” Yue Feng hurriedly invited the three of them into the main room on the west side.

After entering the room, Zhou Jianjun asked, “Xiaofeng, where is your father? Where did he go for such a big deal as selling the eagle?”

Yue Feng curled his lips, pointed at the east room, and whispered: “My father doesn’t allow me to sell it. He was angry with me on the kang in the east room. I have the final say on selling the eagle, so don’t involve my father!

It was indeed a bit impolite for him not to show up when someone came to our house. Uncle Zhou and Xiao Rui, please bear with me!”

After Yue Feng said this, the suspicious Zhou Jianjun felt more at ease. He nodded to Xiao Rui and stopped dwelling on this detail.

“Brother Xiaofeng! This is my friend, Ma Kaihua! Xiaoma, this is the eagle trainer I told you about, Yuefeng, my brother Feng!”

Although Zhou Rui was young, he spoke very skillfully. After entering the room, he introduced both parties naturally.

“Hello, hello! Xiaorui, where have you been making your fortune recently? I haven’t seen you in the village for a long time!” Yue Feng was only slightly older than Zhou Rui, so there was no barrier between them. He greeted him warmly with a smile.

“Hehe, I’m just playing around! My friend wants to get a falcon, and I want to get one to play with too! When I went home and told my dad about it, I thought of you! I brought my friend here from far away, so I have to give you face and pick out two good falcons for you, brother!” Zhou Rui said politely.

“No problem. My five working kites are all on the shelf outside. You can take whichever one you like!”

When Yue Feng said this, he was very confident and free and easy, without any of the nonsense that the Zhou family had imagined before they came.

Since you are paying a high price to buy an eagle, you must want to buy the best one. This is human nature, but no one in the Zhou family understands this.

Zhou Jianjun originally wanted to judge which Eagle was good and which was bad based on Yue Feng’s body language, various on-the-spot reactions and performances, but Yue Feng said that they could pick any one they liked and take it away, which made the three Zhou family members feel at a loss.

After washing his hands, Yue Feng used a large bowl to pour warm water for the three people.

“Drink some water first!”

The three of them symbolically drank some water, and after a few more pleasantries, Zhou Jianjun said, “Since we’re here and have had some water, let’s not waste time and get straight to the point. It won’t be too late to talk again after we’re done with the main business!”

“Okay, let’s go to the yard and look at the eagle!”

Yue Feng nodded and led the three people to the long red pine pole where the eagle was tied.

At this moment, there were six hawks, one large and five small, standing in a row from east to west on the pole for tying the hawks. Except for the iron-backed red kite with a full crop, the other five kites were not fed at all. They squatted on the pine pole with their feathers loose and their eyes were not afraid of people. They quietly looked at the strangers in front of them.

“We don’t know much about eagles either. Can you introduce them to us?”

In Zhou Jianjun’s eyes, except for the blue-gray one which was slightly larger, the other eagles seemed to be similar at first glance, and he didn’t know which one was better and which one was worse.

Yue Feng nodded: “Okay, then I will just say a few words, no matter how much I say, it’s just for reference!!”

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