Chapter 164 Poor parents in the world
After looking at the hard structure of the body, let’s talk about the color and quality of the feathers.

All the feathers on its body have been replaced with mature feathers, without any stray hairs. The feathers on its back are all a dreamy gray-blue color, with clear black light-colored lines on the fine hairs on its back, adding a bit of solemnity. Facing the sun, the top layer of the gray-blue feathers looks like it is covered with a layer of frost, which is indescribably beautiful.

What made Yue Feng most satisfied was the florets of this orchid. For ordinary orchids, the florets are mostly light gray-red, but the one he caught today has a floret that is obviously a darker shade, reaching a stunning rust red.

You should know that one-year-old orchid clusters with this color of candied flowers are not common. Ordinary orchid clusters occasionally have rust-red candied flowers, but most of them are old ones over three years old.

Judging from the standards of the older generation of falconers, this small orchid eagle can be called an orchid show (Note: a compliment to the appearance of the finest orchids, similar to it is the pure hairs among pine nuts in spring)!
“Hehe! This little eagle is looking pretty good. It’s not in vain that we endured the cold for so long this morning! Uncle Chen, this eagle is yours!” Yue Feng held the eagle and admired it for a few minutes, then handed the little eagle to Uncle Chen in a casual manner.

Looking at Uncle Chen again, after he had built the orchid stack with his own hands, he couldn’t take his eyes off the little eagle.

“This little guy is more and more fascinating the more I look at him! Such a small creature can actually catch Qiao’er and eat him! God is really amazing! After returning home, will you discuss and play with this thing like playing with a big eagle?”

Chen Pao’s mouth was grinning almost to the back of his head, and his eyes were full of love for this little eagle.

Yue Feng shook his head: “This orchid pile can be used as a hawk, but if you want to raise it well, you can’t train it like a hawk!”

“How do you say this?”

“In terms of hunting skills, this merlin is one of the most skillful species compared to other species of hawks. It can be released flat like other kites.

Whether it’s taking a bend, picking up the bottom, or turning over, it has all the necessary techniques.

But you can’t train the eagle too roughly. This little thing is very smart. If the details of the training method are not correct and it develops bad habits, it will be difficult to change it later! So the best way is to train it strictly from the beginning. After the eagle is trained, it will become more and more friendly as time goes by!”

“If you want to keep it well, tell me how to take care of it. I was so sad when that slow-moving peach-pointed bird lost its eagle last time. I spend so much time taking care of it every day, but it still rebelled and wanted to run away!”

“Last time, didn’t I tell you how to train a big black eagle? It’s similar to that. Specifically…”

Yue Feng told Chen Pao in great detail about some precautions and related details in raising falcons, especially the problems prone to occur such as flat falcons injuring hands (not the hand getting injured, but the falcon being afraid of the hand due to improper operation, and the same applies to the following), hat being injured by a cap, and bringing food with the falcon when hunting.

The father and son chatted as they walked home, and by the time they reached the doorstep, they had basically discussed all the things to pay attention to when raising pets.

When I got home, Aunt Chen had already prepared breakfast, including bean sprout dumpling soup, pickled vegetables fried with meat oil, and freshly baked pancakes. After eating this hot and fragrant meal, I soon warmed up all over.

After breakfast, Yue Feng planned to say goodbye and go back, but Chen Pao insisted that Yue Feng stay at home for another day. Yue Feng had no choice but to stay at Uncle Chen’s house until the evening.

During the day, Yue Feng personally trimmed the details of the little blue eagle’s hat to the right position, and personally demonstrated many techniques for training the little eagle. After a whole day, the little eagle could take off its hat and stand upright and steadily in a person’s hand.

I would like to mention here that if you want to train a hawk, there must almost be a stage of socialization adaptation (facing the enemy), but when it comes to being worry-free and courageous, Duozi is unique among the little eagles.

This little fellow is very brave. After returning home, he will take off his hat and get some water before daring to start eating. After half an hour of holding it in Uncle Chen’s hand, he will be able to eat. During the whole day, whether it is eating or drinking tea, this little eagle is basically always held in Uncle Chen’s hand. When Yue Feng was about to leave before dark in the evening, this little fellow had already started eating.

If we follow the normal process, it will take one or two days at most for this small pile to be put out and used to hang the string and shoot the birds.

After playing at Uncle Chen’s house for a day, I was having dinner when the village secretary Wang Jianguo came again.

This time it was good news. Yue Feng agreed to help go up the mountain to hunt the bear. The forest farm agreed. As long as Yue Feng could lead people up the mountain to find the blind bear that had injured people and kill it, the forest farm would agree to Yue Feng’s conditions.

However, these two positions have a six-month internship observation period after they start working. Only after the internship period is completed and they perform well can they be officially converted into formal forestry workers.

Upon hearing the news, Yue Lei and his wife Meng Yulan were so happy that they couldn’t stop smiling. Their eldest son went to the city to work as a worker, and now he was getting a quota to become a formal worker in the forest farm. Now two people in the Yue family had a stable job.

After politely seeing Wang Jianguo off, Yue Lei solemnly called the four members of his family together.

Yue Lei was unusually serious today and said to Yue Feng, “Son, your mother and I discussed this matter last night. The quota for you, Uncle Li, will remain unchanged, but you can go to the forest farm if you don’t want to! I’m already this age, and it doesn’t make much sense to just hang around for a few more years. Besides, my leg isn’t healed yet. It would be great if I can recover in the spring! Even if I recover, I can’t do heavy work for the time being!
You are different. You are young, and having a formal job is like having a stable job. When the time comes, whether you are looking for a wife or starting a family, you will be guaranteed a job! “

Hearing his father’s idea, Yue Feng immediately grinned and said, “Dad, what are you thinking about! I don’t want to work in a forest farm!”

“You kid, you have the opportunity to work in the forest farm and have a formal job. Everyone in the village would be eager to get in. Why don’t you do it?”

Today, Meng Yulan did not follow her son’s lead and stood firmly with her husband Yue Lei.

Yue Feng explained: “Working in the forest ranger team at the forest farm, the monthly salary is less than 40 yuan, and including bonuses, it is about 500 yuan a year!

I take Xiao Tao and the others to fly hawks, and we can easily earn a month’s salary as a worker in just one day!
Next year, when we expand the size of our falconry team and our game sales channels, the income will be even greater!
Do you think I am interested in these little things?”

“That’s different! Flying hawks at home means making money at the risk of losing money. You never know when it might be banned! But working in a forest farm means a lifetime job! As long as you have a job, all kinds of materials, bills, benefits, and workers’ birth, aging, illness, and death are all taken care of!”

Yue Lei thought his son didn’t understand the intricacies of the matter, so he specifically explained the differences to him.

Yue Feng nodded calmly and said, “Because of these benefits, I let you go!
You have to think of it this way, according to current practice, when the father retires, the son takes over, right!

By then, this job will still be in our hands! You are 46 this year, and you can retire in ten years at most. This also leaves me a way out!
Yes, there are potential risks in making money by leading people to fly hawks, but the risk is great, and the money earned is also high.

What I earn in a day is more than what an average worker earns in a month. If I work hard for a year, I can earn what an average worker earns in decades. This does not include the income from taking people into the mountains to hunt wild boars and bears, otherwise it would be even higher!
If this road is blocked someday, won’t I still be able to take over your job?”

Yue Feng said this, but he didn’t really think so. It is true that the forest workers are awesome now, but in a few years, large numbers of workers will be laid off. By then, they will have to make a living on their own or buy out their years of service. Those dual-income couples who hold on to their iron rice bowls and think they will have a carefree life will have to live a miserable life.

After listening to Yue Feng’s analysis, Yue Lei and Meng Yulan looked at each other.

What my son said makes sense. When I retire, my son can take over. This opportunity to become a formal worker cannot be said to be lost to others.

“Then… I’ll listen to you. I’ll start working there until I retire?” Yue Lei accepted his son’s idea.

“Well, why don’t you tell my Uncle Li about this good news? There are two places, one for you and my Uncle Li respectively. Once we enter the forest farm, you can be colleagues and take care of each other!” Yue Feng suggested, nodding with a smile.

“We have to tell him! Let’s go to Wen Tong’s house now. Jingjing, you stay at home and watch over the door. Do your homework and don’t make trouble!”

“Oh!” Jingjing responded and continued to do her homework under the oil lamp with her head down.

Soon, Yue Feng, his parents and their family of three walked through the front door and knocked on the door of their neighbor Li Wentong.

When Li Wentong heard that Yue Feng had exchanged the qualification to work in the forest farm for helping to hunt bears in the mountains, and that he was going to give it to Li Wentong, he excitedly sat up from the kang.

When Li Wentong retired from the army and returned to his hometown, he had the opportunity to work as a worker and eat commercial grain. However, the total number of veterans resettled by the country was limited at that time, and the relevant policies were not transparent. Li Wentong was not the kind of person who was good at scheming and seizing opportunities. After waiting for two years at home, the quota that originally belonged to him was taken by others, so he could only honestly farm in the village production team.

After being a farmer for half his life, even if he can drive a tractor and is a tractor driver in the brigade, and can go up the mountain to hunt in winter, his life can only be considered barely enough to make ends meet. Compared with those workers who eat commercial grain, his life is much worse.

Therefore, that generation of people at that time were somewhat obsessed with having a government job and a stable job.

When Li Wentong heard that his good brother’s nephew had helped him to find a job and that he could go to work in the forest farm, and that the job was not very tiring in the forest ranger team, he was instantly excited.

“Brother, what you just said is true! Did the forest farm really agree?”

(End of this chapter)