Chapter 131 Reminder
“Although the bell is small, it is made of bronze. A good bell can transmit sound across mountains!

The set of bells on this big eagle are the Meng-shaped bells passed down from the older generation in our family. The bell plate underneath is made of tortoise shell, so it can be considered an old item!

It just lacks a beautiful white pheasant tail feather. If you have one, put it next to the bell board to dress up the eagle, the effect will be more beautiful! “

Hearing that the bell was an old item that had been passed down from generation to generation, Chen Pao was slightly stunned: “Since it was passed down from your ancestors, I can’t take this bell and bell board!”

Yue Feng smiled and shook his head: “I have several sets at home! This one is for you, just keep it for fun! We men shouldn’t talk about these nonsense!

But there is one thing you need to pay attention to. This eagle bell is sewn on the base of the tail. You must not hang it normally. If you are unlucky, if you hang it too tightly, the hairs on the eagle’s tail may be pulled out!

Normal falconers will put bells on the falcons in the fall before they start training. After the hunting season, when the falcons are released or put into cages for molting, they will take down the bells!”

“This is the eagle you trained for me with great effort. It works so well. I can’t bear to let it go in the spring!”

Chen Pao touched the sharp claws of the slow peach and said in a childish manner.

“If you like it, just keep it! When April or May comes, it’s time to put the eagle in the cage for molting. I’ll help you tie a pine nut rack. Then when you have nothing to do, you can use the pine nuts to catch small birds as big as sparrows at the doorstep.

A large eagle weighing about 2.3 kg can eat eight to ten sparrow-sized birds a day, which is basically enough for it to molt!”

“Okay! Although the prey caught by falconry aren’t big, it’s still fun! I’ll do as you say, and you can help me when the time comes!”

“no problem!!”

After squatting and chatting for a while, the eagle loosened its feathers, and Yue Feng stood up: “The eagle has rested, let’s continue!

I’ll go and drive the stick, and when I find a rabbit I’ll shout “cat”. When you hear me, you’ll seize the opportunity and let go of the two rabbits in your hands!

It is best to give the eagle some supporting force when it is trying to take off.

Don’t be nervous. If you are nervous, the eagle will rush out, and you won’t let go of the two arrows in your hand, so the eagle will be pulled back. This is a mistake in lowering the head, which will affect the success rate of the eagle shot! “

“Okay, I’ll give it a try! When I hear you call me cat, I’ll let go of the two in my hand!”

“Yes, that’s right! This eagle is very cunning. In an open area like this, don’t worry, the eagle won’t get lost!”

The advice is good, but ideals are full of hope, and reality is always more skinny.

It seems like a simple thing, but it may not be so easy if someone else does it.

Yue Feng walked around the ground with the stick, and in less than half an hour, he blasted out another rabbit.

“Cat!”

When Chen Pao heard Yue Feng’s reminder, he put his arms in an effort to help the eagle take off, but he forgot to let go.

The eagle saw the rabbit and was about to rush forward to chase it, but was caught by the two cracks in its legs and lay flat on its head.

“Let go, let go!” Yue Feng immediately reminded upon seeing this.

Uncle Chen finally reacted and let go of the two coins in his hands.

The eagle hung upside down in a very awkward posture and broke free from Chen Pao’s right hand. When it was about to hit the ground, it spread its tail and exerted force with its wings to forcibly change the downward momentum and barely flew out of his hand.

There was a mistake in takeoff, and the rabbit was at least two seconds later than normal. However, the slow peach tip was in good spirits after being trained by Yue Feng. After stabilizing its flying posture, it still chased the rabbit that was more than 20 meters away.

For an eagle, a distance of twenty to thirty meters can be caught up in the blink of an eye. The eagle slowly flew to the top of the rabbit along the grass tips and tentatively grabbed the rabbit’s butt.

This rabbit should have been a small rabbit that spring, weighing only about two kilograms. It was grabbed by the eagle on its butt and thrown to the ground. When it was struggling to stand up, the eagle’s claws had already grabbed it on the head.

This slow-moving eagle has a lot of practical experience in catching rabbits. For a small rabbit weighing more than two kilograms, there is no need to use high-end submission techniques such as double flags. It can easily hold the rabbit there by grabbing its head with one claw and pinching its neck with the other.

“I got it, I got it!”

“You were just a little bastard back then, don’t be nervous!”

Yue Feng did not mention the fact that he released the eagle too late and let it droop.

“I originally thought it was quite easy, but I didn’t expect to fail so badly in the first try! I need to practice more. Just now, I almost fell headfirst into the ground when I tried to jump with the big eagle!” Chen Pao did not shy away from his mistakes.

“Just get used to it after a few more tries! This eagle has many tricks to catch rabbits. When it sees a little rabbit like this, it will just grab the head and strangle the neck!
The neck and trachea are the rabbit’s vital points. If we don’t intervene, the rabbit will be strangled to death by the eagle in no time!” Yue Feng said very easily.

“No, it would be better to bring it back alive. If you strangle it to death, you’ll have to bleed it, otherwise the rabbit meat will be wasted!”

“Then use the method I told you to get the rabbit back from the eagle’s claws! I still have meat!” Yue Feng did not take action, but reminded Chen Pao to replace the eagle’s prey according to the method he taught him before.

Chen Pao was relatively steady in learning these routine details. He imitated Yue Feng, covering the eagle’s claws with his sleeve, and then took the meat handed to him by Yue Feng with his right hand and fed it to the eagle.

“careful!”

Yue Feng saw Chen Pao grab the rabbit with his left hand, take the meat with his right hand and hand it directly under the eagle to feed it, and immediately reminded him.

But it was still a little too late. The eagle, which had loosened its claws, saw the meat that Chen Pao handed to its feet and then extended its claws like lightning and grabbed Chen Pao’s right hand directly.

Fortunately, Chen Pao was usually either busy with farm work at home or hunting in the mountains, and he had a thick layer of calluses on his hands.

The eagle’s claws grabbed up, but only the side claws caught the back of Chen Pao’s hand, while the other claws with greater lethality grabbed Chen Pao’s calluses.

“What’s going on? I saw you picking up the prey, and the eagle was eating the meat very obediently. But when it was my turn, this flat-haired beast gave me a show of force! Could it be that it can understand what I’m doing?” Chen Pao did not rush to break free from the eagle’s claws, but looked at the claws in his hand calmly.

The old man had seen blood many times when hunting, so the current situation was just a small incident for Chen Pao.

Yue Feng explained: “When I feed an eagle, I put the food directly near its mouth. When I was training the eagle before, I opened a large mouthful of food for it and clenched my claws to prevent it from lifting its claws. After the eagle failed twice, it would just swallow the meat!

When you feed meat to an eagle, you pass the meat close to its claws. The eagle will then habitually step on the meat with its claws and try to tear it apart to eat. It is not as smart as a dog, which will be careful of human hands when receiving meat from people. The eagle will grab it directly with its claws!”

After Yue Feng’s simple explanation, the old man quickly realized that there was a problem with his operation that led to his hand being caught by the eagle.

“No wonder the older generation says that eagles are flat-feathered beasts. This guy is really impossible to tame!” Chen Pao said with emotion.

“Indeed! Now don’t move, I’ll take off the eagle’s claws!”

Yue Feng covered the eagle’s claw with his sleeve, took out another piece of meat and guided it slightly. The eagle’s claw underneath quickly loosened and exerted force on the meat in Yue Feng’s hand.

Chen Pao withdrew his hands, while Yue Feng held the two open, allowing the big eagle to swallow a piece of rolled eagle food with its head tilted back.

“What’s the matter? Is it serious?” Yue Feng asked with concern.

“It’s okay, it’s just a small cut! The claws are really sharp. Fortunately, I spread my palms out with my palms facing up, otherwise the eagle’s claws would have scratched the calluses on my palms. If it had scratched the back of my hand, it would have been painful!” Chen Pao said as he wiped the small cut.

“If they catch it, they will be stabbed to pieces! Don’t let your children at home provoke this big eagle!!”

“Yes, it is dangerous! This thing is more dangerous than a dog. A familiar dog at home at least knows not to bite the family members!
By the way, how are you taking care of the three dogs after you brought them back? Did you take them up the mountain with you?”

While Daying was resting, the father and son talked about the dog that they had taken away last time.

“I took the dog up the mountain yesterday and the day before yesterday. The day before yesterday I was looking for someone. The dog was not let loose and was always on a leash. I couldn’t tell whether the dog was behaving well or not!

Yesterday was different. Uncle Zhao from our village came to my house and asked me to go up the mountain to chase the blind bear that injured people to avenge his nephew. So I took my people and led the three dogs up the mountain!
The big yellow dog was very steady and followed the blind bear’s blood trail for at least seven or eight miles!

We trapped the blind bear once, but we couldn’t catch up with it because of a ridge. When we arrived, the three dogs had forced the blind bear into a cave with a jumping stone pond!

It was our idea, but the process was also a bit dangerous. This cave was a hibernation place for brown bears, and inside was a big brown bear weighing more than 500 kilograms. We found fresh branches and pine torches to smoke the two bears out, and then shot them to death!”

When talking about leading a team into the mountains to hunt bears, Yue Feng became even more excited. It was a low-probability event that two bears were found in one cave, and he escaped unscathed. Many experienced hunters would never encounter such a thing in their lifetime.

However, if you brag about the same information to people who don’t know much about it, they will just sigh that they are good luck. But after Chen Pao listened to the whole process, he frowned slightly and looked solemn.

“You guys were able to shoot down two bears intact, purely because of your good luck and the powerful performance of your guns! This won’t work!” Chen Pao said dimly.

“Um, what do you mean?” Yue Feng saw that Chen Pao had a bad look on his face and asked humbly.

“Whether it’s a sky warehouse or an underground warehouse, there may not be just a few bears inside! Most of the time, there are single bears, but there are also cases where a mother bear brings her half-grown cubs!

The mother bear and her cubs have to stay with the mother for three years before they can live independently. By the time they leave, the cubs weigh more than 200 pounds!
It’s easy for a cub this big to kick an ordinary person, but if he’s unlucky, he’ll just be knocked down by the cub in one or two bites!

If you don’t prepare in advance at this time, there will be a great risk of injury or even death!

I have been going up the mountain with my father since I was 17 years old. In my life, I have killed at least bears, if not . Every winter I have to kill several bears. I have seen many strange things.

I have encountered three bears in a warehouse!

To kill a bear, you must be like a chess master. You must always think one step further and make good risk predictions. Otherwise, it is only a matter of time before something goes wrong!

Now you have a 56 and a half in your hand, which is not bad. I encountered three bears hiding in the warehouse that year, but I almost lost my life on the mountain. It was the dogs I brought with me who gave up their lives, and I escaped!”

Yue Feng was quite excited when he mentioned killing two bears in a cave just now. However, after listening to Chen Pao’s reminder, Yue Feng’s excitement was replaced by fear.

Yue Feng was not unconfident in his marksmanship and hunting skills, but he reflected that when he was lighting a fire on the mountain to smoke the bear, he did not consider other possible situations in the cave at all.

What Chen Pao said is very apt. Killing a bear is like playing chess. You must always think one step ahead and make emergency plans so that you can escape unscathed. Otherwise, if the bear comes out and is out of your control, you can only pay with the life of a dog or a human.

After thinking for a few seconds, Yue Feng nodded: “You are right! I was in the mountains at that time and I really didn’t think so far ahead!”

“Alright! I’m just reminding you! You are already one of the best among the younger generation of hunters!

Although there are countless treasures in the mountains and forests, there are also unimaginable dangers. You must have awe for the mountains and forests!
Logically speaking, for an old hunter like me who has spent most of my life in the mountains and is still safe and sound, is there no risk when going into the mountains?

There are still risks. The last time you saved me, wasn’t that something that was out of plan? I calculated everything and thought that pinching the snail with three fingers was a sure thing.

Who would have thought that my 16-gauge barreled rifle, which I could load with my eyes closed without any problem on normal days, would become inoperable when I was sick and my hands were shaking so much that I couldn’t change the bullets!
Your brother has reminded me several times before, but I never admit that I am old, because I think I have enough experience to deal with any unexpected situation. But what about the reality? I have no choice but to admit that I am old!

The bear can make countless mistakes, but the hunter cannot.

Behind you are your companions, your family, relatives and friends!
So, I am old now!”

“Hahaha, Uncle Chen, you’re exaggerating! With your family’s conditions, you don’t have to go up the mountain to have enough food and drink, so you’d better be safe! You can release hawks when you have nothing to do, and there’s no risk in stretching your muscles at home! If you’re bored, just come out for a walk and have fun!”

Yue Feng knew that the old man had lost his temper at this point in his conversation, so he could only laugh it off and not continue what he had said before. This was a basic respect for the senior hunters in the Howling Forest.

“Huh… I’ve been holding this in for a long time. Now that I’ve said it, I feel much better! It’s still good to be young!” Chen Pao also let out a long sigh and looked at Yue Feng intently.

(End of this chapter)