Chapter 151 Yue Feng steps in and takes control

Yue Feng shook his head: “The branches are too dense! Even if we use the bamboo pole and put the rope on it, it will be difficult to take the eagle down safely!
If the eagle makes a little effort, the noose will get entangled with the branch, and then either the eagle’s feathers will be broken or it will be injured. It’s not worth it.

Let’s use the second option!”

What Yue Feng said made sense. The eagle was captured to be used for work. If the feathers were broken or the eagle was injured, it would be meaningless even if we caught it.

“I have the bait with me. Where do you think we should set the net?” Chen Hongjun continued to ask.

Yue Feng did not answer immediately, but scanned the area with the flashlight.

The terrain nearby is a bit unsuitable. It’s either bushes or weeds. There’s no bright place that looks relatively natural for pigeons to land and eat.

“It’s a bit noisy under the tree over here, let’s go to the edge of the woods and take a look!” Yue Feng greeted and walked towards the side of the woods.

After walking another hundred meters or so, Yue Feng finally found a place that looked promising at the edge of the woods.

This was previously the land reclaimed by villagers. Last year, the water level of the Muling River was high and washed away the land. This year, the land was not cleaned up, so there is a lot of short grass on the ground, but no shrubs or the like to block the view.

On one side is a forest, and on the other side is a wasteland. The ground is relatively bright. In the morning, the sun rises from the east, and the eagle launches a sneak attack from one side of the forest with its back to the sun. Several elements match well.

“Here it is!” Yue Feng selected the location to cast the net and then called out.

Afterwards, the three of them got busy, using brooms to sweep away most of the floating snow on the ground. Then they positioned the four poles, tied the lures, and hung the four sides of the self-trapping net on the outside. When they left, they cleaned the footprints backwards, and a natural-looking self-trapping eagle trap was ready.

“Xiao Feng, do you have extra nets? Do you think this one is safe? If not, let’s put in more effort and put down a few more nets! It will also increase the chances of success!”

Brother Chen Hongjun was worried about the old man’s big eagle, so he was under a lot of pressure. When he saw that Yue Feng had only set up a self-trapping net, he felt a little unsure.

Yue Feng smiled and shook his head: “Whether you set one net or ten nets, the result will be the same! This big eagle will wake up at dawn tomorrow morning to hunt for food! The pigeons that come to the ground are the best breakfast!

You don’t cast the net blindly. The location, surrounding environment, direction, and even the direction of light are all factors to consider! You just need to watch carefully. Unless the eagle is not hunting, you must cast the net in the early morning when it is just getting light!”

Regarding other things, Yue Feng might not be completely sure, but when it comes to catching an eagle in this kind of low-lying forest, Yue Feng can say that as long as he can locate the location where the eagle spends the night and other conditions are right, he will always succeed!

This flying eagle is now a bird of prey that spends the winter in the northeast. This eagle likes water, and especially likes to stay in environments such as rivers, lakes, and swamps.

Seeing this, some people may say, isn’t the river frozen? Now it’s all white, with snow covering the ice on the river. What’s the point of the eagle choosing to stay in such an environment? The water by the river is not even accessible to the eagle.

At first glance, the eagle does not seem to have much glory, but with a little analysis, you will find that it is not as simple as it seems.

Water is the source of life. Eagles like to stay in these areas, not simply because they need water. What they value is actually the surrounding small ecological environment based on water sources.

With water, the surrounding plants will naturally grow better, and fruits and seeds will be more abundant than in other places, making it easier to raise other small animals such as birds, mice, rabbits, etc.

Eagles feed on these small animals, so it will be easier for them to obtain food when moving around in this area.

In addition, eagles would prefer to stay in the small woods by the river if they are located in a place that is sheltered from the wind and facing the sun.

Ordinary people may never understand the underlying logic in their lifetime without in-depth thinking. However, for an experienced driver like Yue Feng, the result is certain after a rough analysis of various conditions.

“Since you are so sure, let’s go home! Let’s go home and have a meal. We can have some drinks tonight. Let’s sleep at my house tonight!”

“Okay, go back and eat and rest early, and come here early tomorrow morning before daybreak! If we catch an eagle in this trap, we can’t keep it trapped for too long, or we might end up strangling the eagle’s arms if we’re unlucky!”

“Okay, I’ll listen to you! Let’s go home and eat first, and come back tomorrow morning!”

The three of them reached a consensus, then carried their bamboo poles and strolled back into the village and home.

The dinner was still very sumptuous. The stewed roe deer and rabbit that were not finished at noon were heated up and put back in the pot. The other leftover vegetable bases were simply not heated up and were directly fried.

It is worth mentioning that Aunt Chen also specially made braised pork for Yue Feng. The meat pieces were cooked to just the right degree, and were red and soft after being coated with sugar color. He put a piece in his mouth and took a sip. It was sweet, fragrant, fat but not greasy, and he could even hum with happiness.

When Yue Feng is with his friends, he is not the kind of person who is pretentious. If he likes to eat, he eats with big mouthfuls; if he likes to drink, he drinks with hearty mouthfuls. The whole family sits at the kang table, eating meat and drinking with big mouthfuls, talking about the topics that they didn’t finish in the afternoon, and before they know it, each person has drunk half a catty of liquor.

After finishing the wine, the meal started to be served. Aunt Chen brought out the salty noodle dumpling soup made with bean sprouts.

Yue Feng took a mouthful of the dumpling soup from the big white bowl and almost burst into tears. The taste was just like the one made by his mother Meng Yulan. Yue Feng had never tasted it since his mother passed away in his previous life.

In this era, bean sprouts are usually grown on the kang at home. Yue Feng has never tasted this since he was reborn.

“The dumpling soup is hot right out of the pot. Xiaofeng, drink it slowly. There is still half a pot left!” Aunt Chen gave this special reminder.

“Mmm, delicious! This dumpling soup made with bean sprouts is also made by my mother for us at home. In the past few years, our family’s living conditions were not good. We only had a little white flour and fine grains at home, and we could only drink it a few times a year. Every time it was made, my sister and I had to decide in advance how much each of us should drink!
Now I take people to the mountains to release hawks and hunt, the conditions are better, but my mother still lives so hard, making uncle and aunt laugh at her!” Yue Feng said in a deep voice with red eyes.

When Aunt Chen heard this, she opened up for once, “You can’t blame your mother for living frugally. Life is hard to begin with, how can we get by without being calculating?

There is an old saying that goes, earning money is like picking up soil with a needle, and spending money is like washing away sand with water! If you don’t manage a household, you will never know how much effort it takes to run a household!

Your uncle has been following his ancestors to the mountains, and every year they can bring down a few wild boars and blind bears from the mountains!
Even so, our family’s conditions are only slightly better than those of ordinary farmers in the village. In previous years, disasters caused a reduction in grain production, and we had to calculate our daily food rations in order to survive until the new grain arrives in autumn!
But after working in the mountains for half a lifetime, your brother and I are already very content to be able to retire safely!
You are still young, and there are many places to spend money! Even if you earn money from hunting in the mountains, you can’t spend it lavishly.

By the way, you haven’t got married yet? This guy has good looks and good character. He is a handsome guy wherever he goes!
Later, I will help you find a girl from a good family, so that you can get married early. When you get married and start a family, your parents will be relieved! ! “

When the topic changed from daily life to dating, Yue Feng’s emotions, which had been aroused by the dumpling soup, immediately calmed down. “I’m only 19 this year, and I’ll be 20 after the Chinese New Year! There’s no rush to talk about finding a wife!” Yue Feng waved his hands repeatedly.

“You’re 20 and you’re not in a hurry! Good girls aren’t everywhere on the street, so you have to fight for them, okay? Forget about it. Your aunt will make you a pig-headed matchmaker no matter what she says!”

“Okay, okay, I’ll ask you to help me arrange it in two years!”

Yue Feng felt helpless, but he couldn’t refuse bluntly, so he could only use delaying tactics.

After two bowls of bean sprout dumpling soup, Yue Feng ate a steamed bun and his stomach was full. The table was cleared, tea was served, and the father and son started chatting again under the kerosene lamp.

Before he knew it, it was past nine o’clock in the evening. Yue Feng usually went to bed at this time and yawned reflexively.

Upon seeing this, Chen Pao immediately took out bedding from the kang cabinet and spread it on the kang. The old man and the young man boiled water, washed their feet, and then slept on the kang in the east room.

There was no conversation that night. Yue Feng lay on the kang until midnight when he finally fell asleep.

When he actually lay down, he was no longer sleepy and began to think about the same old topics that Aunt Chen had just talked about.

In his previous life, Yue Feng was married, but his wife was a foreigner who had been married in another place. As a result, she was unable to have children for several years and was driven out of the house by the man. Later, she fled to the interior and met Yue Feng through a matchmaker.

In Yue Feng’s previous life, his family had lived a very ordinary life since the death of his father, the pillar of the family. His sister needed tuition fees for school, and his mother was in poor health and had to spend money on medicine all the time. In addition, in addition to working in the production team, Yue Feng also liked to fiddle with hawks and go hunting in the mountains. He had a lot of miscellaneous expenses and did not save much money.

After the land was divided among the households, Yue Feng was not very enthusiastic about farming. After getting married, he was unable to have children, which made Yue Feng’s status among the villagers decline.

As time went by, Yue Feng’s mentality changed subtly. He gradually stopped making progress and, in order to save face, he liked to give away the prey he caught to the villagers in an attempt to gain some superficial compliments.

Drinking, gambling, and quarreling with his wife almost became Yue Feng’s daily routine in his previous life. He had no goals in life and no external help to escape this suffocating living atmosphere. He lived his whole life in a daze.

In this life, God gave Yue Feng a chance to start over.

If I work hard to earn money to support my family, should I be able to change my fate in my previous life, right?

If I want to get married in the future, what kind of partner can I find? My family is well off now, so I shouldn’t find a second-married stranger to live with, right? I don’t know what the good girl that Auntie Chen mentioned looks like, and whether she is pretty.

Yue Feng was half asleep and half awake, his thoughts had already run wild like a horse, under the influence of alcohol, he didn’t know where they were flying to.

Yue Feng didn’t know when he fell asleep completely, nor did he know how long he slept.

In a daze, Yue Feng heard a rustling noise beside him, and he opened his eyes in the dark, having always been alert when sleeping.

After his eyes adjusted to the dim light around him, Yue Feng slowly saw the situation on the kang. It was still dark, but Chen Pao had already gotten up early and dressed. The noise just now was made by him.

“Uncle? What time is it?” Yue Feng asked in a low voice.

“It’s just past 4:30, and there’s still more than an hour until dawn. You just need to sleep a little longer!” Chen Pao replied.

“What are you doing? Why are you up so early?”

Chen Pao: “I can’t sleep, so I’ll get up early and walk around in the yard!

It’s already dawn at 6 o’clock. What time do you think the eagle will hit the net when it’s hunting? I’ll go and watch it in advance. If the eagle hits the net and gets injured, I’ll be so sad!”

From this we can see how much importance Chen Pao attaches to the big eagle that Yue Feng gave him. He is afraid of getting caught and injuring the eagle.

After hearing this, Yue Feng shook his head and said, “You’d better not go over there! The eagle’s eyesight is much better than that of a human! It can see ants on the ground from a mile away. If you go over there and scare the eagle away again, it will be a waste of time!”

Just stay on the kang and I’ll go with you to play the game later. It won’t delay you!”

“Oh, how could I forget this! Okay, then I’ll lie down for a while longer!” Chen Pao was afraid that the eagle would be scared away because he went there too early, so he scratched his head in annoyance and lay down again in his cotton coat.

“Uncle, next autumn, will you come with me to the mountains to catch eagles?” Yue Feng couldn’t sleep anyway, so he just started chatting with the old man.

“I want to go up the mountain with you to catch eagles? I don’t know anything. What’s the point of going with you? I won’t go!” After hearing Yue Feng’s sudden words, Chen Pao subconsciously shook his head to refuse.

“That’s not what I mean. What I mean is, are you willing to learn the skill of catching and training falcons? If you want to learn, I can teach you everything!” Yue Feng added.

“How can that be possible! This is a skill that can make a living, passed down from our ancestors. It’s not that easy to teach to others!” After hearing Yue Feng’s supplement, Uncle Chen shook his head again.

As people of the older generation, they attach great importance to these skills that can support their families. In Chen Pao’s opinion, the skills of catching, training and releasing falcons, like those of the carpenters and cooks in the village, are things that can only be acquired by learning from a master at a huge cost.

It is true that Yue Feng and Chen Pao hit it off at first sight, but this is a matter that concerns the inheritance of a craft that supports a family, so it is no joke.

Yue Feng pursed his lips and said in a relaxed tone: “What you said! Why do we have to be so clear about our relationship as men? When we were chatting yesterday, didn’t you teach me all the tricks of dragging a dog up the mountain? In the eyes of others, isn’t this also a secret that cannot be passed on!
Besides, please listen to me. Apart from our personal relationship, I have other ideas about falcon training and releasing!”

Three chapters of 12000 words have been updated.
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