Chapter 139: The case is solved, and the traces of the street urchin are found

After Yue Feng agreed with several other people to gather at the location where the sow was released, he acted alone, went into the red pine forest, made a big circle, and hid behind a big red pine tree that was as thick as an embrace, about forty or fifty meters away from where the wild boar was hung and fell into the water.

The location Yue Feng chose for secret observation was very clever. It was surrounded by towering trees. Looking down from the sky, the several large branches on the main trunks of the trees could easily completely cover Yue Feng’s position.

As for the front, there is no need to mention it. Hiding behind the tree trunk without making any sound, an eagle forty or fifty meters away would have no chance of spotting Yue Feng.

Just like that, Yue Feng leaned against the big pine tree and waited patiently. Every few minutes, he would quietly peek and take a look, staring at the pile of wild boar entrails on the branch.

It took about ten minutes at most, and the eagle in the sky landed quickly as Yue Feng expected. It folded its wings and landed directly at the place where the wild boar’s blood had turned the snow red.

Yue Feng happened to be accustomed to sticking his head out to observe, and his first attention was noticing that there was anything unusual about the wild boar in the tree going into the water.

When he was about to retract his neck, he caught a glimpse of the big black eagle jumping around next to the bloodstain on the ground.

Just one glance and Yue Feng’s breathing suddenly quickened.

Really it!

It was the big black eagle that I had a close encounter with last time when I was hunting eagles in Hutou Mountain!

This eagle did not migrate with the flock of birds migrating south in the autumn wind, but stayed in Changbai Mountain to spend the winter.

If the eagle that Xiao Tao saw when he hunted pigs last time was also this one, then it means that this eagle has been active within the area where Yue Feng’s team is active.

However, Yue Feng, the falcon trainer who was known as the eagle master, was completely clueless about this and had no idea of ​​the existence of this strange eagle.

Fortunately, Xiao Tao was bored and looking at the sky today, and Yue Feng was a little curious and had to sneak back to take a look, otherwise it would take an unknown amount of time to solve this mystery.

Yue Feng showed one eye from behind the tree trunk where he was hiding, and stared motionlessly at the big black eagle in the distance.

The big black eagle behaved very alertly. After strolling a few steps, it looked around, took a bite in the bloody snow pile as if tasting it with its tongue, and quickly shook its head to shake off the snow. After looking around for a while, it looked up and saw pig offal hanging on a tree branch more than one meter high.

The magical scene of taking off vertically on the spot was repeated in front of Yue Feng again. The big black eagle jumped very lightly, and with just two flicks of its wings, it leaped onto the pig’s offal.

The next scene was even more surprising to Yue Feng.

This guy was not interested in the intestines, stomach and other parts at all. He held a piece of intestine in his mouth, shook his head and threw it away, as if he was looking for other parts that interested him.

Fortunately, this was a 400-pound wild boar, and the dogs in the dog gang didn’t finish eating the “tender meat” such as the boar’s heart, liver, and lungs.

After searching for a while, Big Black Hawk chose his favorite part, the pig heart, and started to eat it very roughly.

At this moment, Yue Feng was like a Buddhist pilgrim, staring at the movements of the big black eagle without blinking, and thinking about all kinds of information in his head quickly.

First of all, what species is this black eagle?
Peregrine falcon? Normal peregrine falcons are not this big. Even the female peregrine falcon, which is recognized as the largest common subspecies among peregrine falcons, weighs only a little over two kilograms at most. The black hawk in front of him must be at least three and a half kilograms.

Could it be a mutated hunting falcon that naturally turned black in the wild?

The hunter falcon weighs more than the peregrine falcon, and the normal individual weighs only 2.78 jin (4.3 kg), and the largest one is considered to be the largest.

Something is still wrong!
Analyzing the black eagle from various dimensions, including its size, appearance, body structure, and posture, Yue Feng thought about all the common eagle species in his memory and even in foreign countries, but couldn’t find a single one that matched.

A giant falcon-like bird of prey that weighs at least three and a half kilograms or even more than four kilograms, could it be a gyrfalcon?

After a process of elimination, Yue Feng suddenly thought of a possibility that even he found hard to believe.

Could it be a blackened gyrfalcon?

As mentioned before, the gyrfalcon is very precious. It is the dream eagle of falconers. Even though it is only 1980 and the population of birds of prey has not yet declined on a large scale, the gyrfalcon is definitely a rare creature.

What should I do? What should I do?

If it is really a gyrfalcon, is there any way to catch it?
This thing can hunt with fists in horizontal flight. It is said that its horizontal flight speed is faster than that of the king of short-distance pursuit and burst, the goshawk. If it can be caught, then for Yue Feng, who loves eagles like his life, this life will not be lived in vain.

Yue Feng thought about it for a while, but couldn’t think of a way to capture the creature alive that would work immediately. The only closest solution was to shoot it with a gun, but with the terrifying killing power of the 56mm rifle, it would be fine if he couldn’t hit it, but if he did hit it, there would probably not be even a complete body left, and it would be torn to pieces, not even useful for making a specimen.

Yue Feng was a contestant who couldn’t bear to harm even a Leopard Falcon. He would never do it even if he was killed, even if he was asked to shoot a Peregrine Falcon with a gun.

Oh! Forget it! There is definitely no chance today!
I’ll go home and think about it carefully. Now that I know it has been active in this forest, there will always be a chance later!
Yue Feng struggled for a long time, but finally decided to accept reality.

He just watched quietly as the pure black Saker Falcon stood on the pig offal and ate its fill, then wiped its mouth, landed back on the snow to wipe off the blood stains on its body, and finally flew into the sky and disappeared from Yue Feng’s sight.

“call……”

Yue Feng leaned against a tree trunk, breathing heavily, his mind having long since wandered off to who knows where.

I will go home and do nothing tomorrow. I will just put these pigs into the water and hang them all on the tree. I don’t believe that I can’t catch an eagle! Yue Feng thought to himself with determination.

Yue Feng walked to the place where the pig offal was hung with a heavy heart, and took the offal that the big black eagle had eaten from the tree. When he was pulling it down, his hand suddenly froze.

No, that’s not right. The Big Black Hawk just ate tender meat like pig heart and pig lung. It didn’t eat a single bite of the smelly and dirty stuff like intestines and offal.

These won’t move if they’re put into the water. Should we go up the mountain early tomorrow and tie a few more traps here and try our luck?
It is difficult to find food in winter. If the big black eagle is hungry tomorrow, it will come back to eat the leftover pig heart!
Thinking of this, Yue Feng put the pig down and rushed towards the team gathering point with his gun on his back and empty hands.

By the time Yue Feng arrived at the gathering point, Xiao Tao and the three brothers Xiaowen and Xiaowu had already prepared the 200-pound sow and tied it to a makeshift sled.

“Brother, what’s up? Did you see it clearly?” Xiaowen asked first.

Yue Feng nodded and said, “I see it, a black eagle, but the distance is a bit far, so the details are not clear!

This thing was intended as a tribute to the mountain god, and it ate a lot of the pig hearts and lungs hanging on the tree!”

“What about the remaining offal? Didn’t we agree to leave only a little offal on the mountain to honor the mountain god? That whole set of offal is quite a lot. Even if we don’t eat them when we take them back, we can clean them up and feed them to the puppies at home!” Xiao Tao reminded.

Yue Feng nodded and said, “I will set a trap tomorrow to see if I can catch this strange-looking eagle. I will throw it into the water and onto the mountain for the time being.

By the way, are there any signs of the sow’s offal being pecked by an eagle?”

Xiaowen smiled and shook his head: “You forgot, the heart, liver, lungs and other parts of this pig were shared by several dogs. The total weight of the pig was only about 200 pounds!”

Yue Feng slapped his head and said, “That’s right! Wait for me for a few seconds, I’ll go take a look!” Yue Feng was becoming more and more curious about the big black eagle at this moment, and he walked towards the place where the sow was bleeding as if possessed by a ghost.

After a careful look, Yue Feng actually found a claw mark that was suspected to be left by a bird of prey landing among the messy footprints and dragging marks.

Yue Feng roughly measured the claw mark between his thumb and index finger, and immediately made a judgment in his mind.

This big black eagle has been here before. The claw marks left on the pigeon that was caught dead in Hutou Mountain last time were extremely consistent in size with the claw marks today!

The traces left on the ground near where the wild boar went into the water not long ago looked exactly like this.

How did this thing know that someone had killed wild animals in the woods?
Yue Feng knew that the eyesight of birds of prey was extremely impressive, but no matter how good their eyesight was, there had to be nothing obstructing it.

The place where the cannon eggs were fired was not the main area of ​​the selective logging forest. Only a small part of this thing was exposed to the sky, and most of it was blocked by branches.

It’s hard to figure it out for now, Yue Feng came back obviously with something on his mind.

“Brother, what’s wrong with you? Why do I feel like you’ve been worried since you came back?
This forest is full of evil spirits. If you feel something is wrong, you must tell us so that we can prepare in advance!”

Xiaowen patted Yue Feng’s shoulder gently and reminded him kindly.

Yue Feng raised his head and said, “What are you thinking about? I’m just thinking about this strange black eagle.

I went to the place where the sow went into the water just now and saw that the big black eagle had also been there. There was a claw mark in the snow that was not very clear but visible!

Tell me, how did this big black eagle know that we had killed prey? Does it have some innate magical power? “

“Hey~~, I thought you were thinking about something! This is so simple!

Let me ask you, how can we find the dog chasing the pigs across several mountain ridges?

It must be the sound of a dog barking!

You say, is it possible that this big black eagle heard the sound of our gunfire and came over to eat meat? “Xiao Wen immediately threw out a guess that he thought was reasonable.

It really woke me up from my dream, and now they all closed their doors.

Ever since that close encounter in the fall, Yue Feng knew that this big black hawk was smarter than ordinary birds of prey.

A falconer can teach a falcon to recognize a whistle and use the sound of the whistle to establish a conditioned reflex of feeding.

Since the sound of a whistle works, then the sound of a gun must work too!

I don’t know when this big black eagle learned this, and then relying on this habit, it eats and drinks everywhere in the mountains and forests of Changbai Mountain.

“Hahahaha, there seems to be something wrong with what you said! We made a lot of money by going up the mountain today! Let’s go home and have a drink! Let my mom cook two delicious dishes and we can have a couple of drinks tonight!!”

Yue Feng resolved the doubts in his mind and immediately felt much better.

A group of four people, plus four dogs pulling a sled, dragged the dismembered wild boar meat and returned to the village in a mighty procession.

Since we already had four wolf-blooded puppies at home, we couldn’t sell the smelly and tough meat from the cannon balls. After returning home, we hung the meat from the cannon balls on a rack at the foot of the south wall, and then simply processed it with a sharp knife.

Most of the thick layer of wild boar fat on the body surface was shaved off, and the fat was divided among everyone, and then taken home to use as oil for daily life. When frying the oil, add a few star anise and peppercorns, so that the smell of lard will not be too strong.

After discussing with everyone, Yue Feng decided to keep all the remaining lean meat as meat reserve for his own puppies.

There are always seven or eight dogs in the yard. Simply burying the meat in the snow is no longer possible. After some effort, the brothers carried the meat directly to the vegetable cellar. They used knives to cut the meat into even-sized pieces before it was frozen solid. When they needed to feed the dogs, they could just take it out in advance and let it thaw.

As for the other small sow weighing a little over 200 kilograms, the old rules still prevailed. Several families still had large stocks of meat reserves, so this pig was not kept.

After skinning the fish, Yue Feng rode his bike directly to the second canteen. The gross weight was 185 kilograms, and at 70 cents per kilogram, he earned more than 100 yuan. The brothers took their share of the money according to the previously agreed rules.

After Yue Feng delivered the goods and sat on the kang with everyone to prepare for dinner, Yue Feng mentioned the black eagle to his father again.

“Dad! Today we went up the mountain and saw the big black eagle again!”

“What? It’s been such a long time, and it’s still wandering around the woods. Hasn’t it migrated away?” Yue Lei’s eyes lit up when he heard the information about the black eagle again.

Although Yue Lei already has this Baby Hawk, which can be considered as fulfilling his childhood dream, he was still very excited when he heard the information about the Big Black Hawk.

The more people know about birds of prey, the more they know how precious the big black eagle in Yue Feng’s mouth is. It is a blessing to just look at this thing, not to mention regaining its track.

“today we……”

Yue Feng recounted to his father the entire experience of climbing the mountain today and seeing the eagle in detail. The old man became more and more excited as he listened.

“This is how fate has come for you and this big Black Hawk! Let’s go up the mountain early tomorrow morning. There are two complete launchers at home. You can take both with you! You must catch the hawk! When the time comes, we will take turns to play with it!”

Yue Feng nodded: “This is all speculation. Let’s go up the mountain and try it first. If there is a chance, I will find a way to get it back!”

“Then don’t drink too much tonight. You guys, just drink a little to relieve your fatigue. Set out early tomorrow morning and make preparations in advance. Try to win it in one go!” Yue Lei gave a few more instructions.

“Don’t worry, I know what’s going on!”

……

A table of people had a lively dinner and then dispersed early to go home and rest.

Yue Feng tossed and turned on the kang in his west room, unable to sleep. When he closed his eyes, he could see the majestic figure of the big black eagle flying into the sky.

After an unknown amount of time, Yue Feng fell into a sleepy state, and was woken up by the big rooster at the entrance of the village early the next morning.

Yue Feng was acting alone today, as the other friends were going up the mountain to release hawks and catch game, so Yue Feng did not wait for them to have breakfast together.

Carry a gun, bullets, and a bag of miscellaneous items for going up the mountain, and most importantly, a roll of tire wire for trapping the eagle.

(End of this chapter)