Chapter 196 The Little Brat Pulls Red Strings

It took less than half an hour to catch two little pheasants in a row. Yue Feng already had a rough idea about the eagle, so he didn’t continue to cause trouble in the field. After feeding the eagle, he returned along the same route with the eagle.

This Heiguanzaigou area is so large that if you go through it seriously, you will definitely have no problem catching a dozen pheasants in a day. However, this place needs to be kept for Zhang Hongbin to bring people over tomorrow for a live demonstration. If he brings people here for a stroll tomorrow and ends up not seeing even a chicken feather, it would be very embarrassing.

On the way back, Yue Feng took out a lot of corn kernels from his pocket and scattered them as he walked, just as if he was raising a nest.

After entering the village, Yue Feng walked to the door of Li Yinhua’s store and took out a female pheasant he had just caught not long ago from his pocket.

“Auntie, are you home? I’ll pick up your pheasant!” Yue Feng greeted her and placed the pheasant, which was not yet completely stiff, at the door of the store.

“My dear nephew, I was just joking with you, but you actually brought a pheasant to your aunt! This pheasant is quite big! Come in and warm up inside, and I’ll make you some sugar water!”

Seeing the pheasant that Yue Feng brought, Li Yinhua’s enthusiasm soared to a higher level, and she pulled Yue Feng to bring it into the house.

Yue Feng smiled and shook his head: “No, I haven’t had breakfast yet. I don’t know how to play cards. I’ll come over to play when I’m free. You guys get busy!”

“Okay then, remember to come over when you have time!”

“it is good!”

Watching Yue Feng carrying the eagle into the village, Li Yinhua happily picked up the pheasant and said, “Look, my nephew sent it to me! Yue Lei’s family has a good child. I knew Xiao Feng had great potential since he was young!”

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The trivial matters in the village did not affect Yue Feng’s mentality at all. Logically, this kind of superficial favor could be done or not, but the fact that Wang Tiezui entered the house was indeed the news given by Li Yinhua, and Yue Feng was not short of this pheasant, so he just gave it.

After returning home, Yue Feng handed the little eagle to his father Yue Lei, and then took out the big rooster from the backpack and put it in an aluminum basin.

“How’s this little eagle doing catching pheasants, son?” Yue Lei asked with concern after taking the eagle.

After all, this eagle is given as a gift. If the job is too bad, it will not only be Zhang Hongbin’s people who are lost, but Wang Jianguo and Yue Feng will also be affected. In the end, they may end up contributing but not earning any favor.

Yue Feng smiled and nodded: “Don’t worry, Dad, this eagle is just as vicious when it catches pheasants as it is when it catches rabbits!

Today I took an eagle to the Black Coffin Valley, and not far away I saw a big rooster flying up. Guess how the eagle was caught?

It was similar to a falcon hunting pheasants. It used its super high flying speed to intercept the pheasants in mid-air, then swooped down and strangled them by the neck. It did it twice and caught two pheasants, a male and a female. When I got to them, both pheasants had been strangled to death by the eagle!”

“You’re going to strangle a chicken to death?” Upon hearing this, Yue Lei’s expression changed slightly.

It is understandable that the little eagle would use its claws to catch the rabbit. After all, the rabbit’s weight and physical reserves are stronger than the eagle’s. If the eagle wants to hunt successfully, it must try its best.

But it’s different with pheasants. Not to mention a small eagle, even an ordinary chicken eagle doesn’t need to use all its strength to catch a pheasant, and there is no risk of injury.

An ordinary big eagle would pluck out all the feathers of a chicken after catching it, but the chicken would still be alive and kicking. This little eagle is obviously an outlier.

“Well! Both chickens were strangled to death. The second one barely got up a few steps. When I went over, the chicken was already dying!”

“This eagle is vicious! It’s not appropriate for us to keep it at home. If we give it to someone else, it will be a rarity!!”

“Hehe, I thought so too! When Zhang Hongbin arrives tomorrow, I will take him to the falconry site to demonstrate it live, and I’m sure he will be able to get the job done!”

“Come on, you didn’t sleep all night last night, are you tired? I’ll hold the eagle, why don’t you go and take a nap!”

Yue Feng shook his head: “I would like to take a nap, but I can’t! We should be good people to the end and send the Buddha to the west! We have already put the eagle on the line, so we have to get the matching equipment ready!

I have the whole set of two five-foot-long pieces, but I still need a hat and a pair of sleeves with a magnifying eagle on them! I’ll have my mom sew the sleeves later, and I made the hat with the popfish eyes myself!”

Yue Lei nodded when he heard his son’s plan: “That’s fine! The things that leave our house should be the best ones to be given away. Everyone who sees it should think that this is a valuable item!”

“Hehe, I thought so too! Go find some leather and make some sample hat modifications!”

After a brief exchange between the two men, Yue Feng got busy.

Logically speaking, this trained eagle can wear a hat or not. The kite in Yue Feng’s family, the red ironback, and the baby eagle never wear hats, day or night.

But this is a gift to the leader, so a sophisticated falcon item would look more upscale. With the hat, the falcon would also be more obedient during transportation.

With these thoughts in mind, Yue Feng started to work on measuring the little eagle’s head data.

After measuring the distance between the eyes, the distance from the back of the head to the eagle’s mouth, the head circumference, the angle of the opening, etc., Yue Feng had a rough idea in his mind and then modified a rough sample of the eagle hat.

After two consecutive revisions, the sizes of all parts of the rough pattern were basically ok. Then Yue Feng selected a piece of red thin sheepskin and a piece of black first-layer cowhide, and started cutting the materials and sewing.

If you remove the stitching and unfold this screw-turned popfish-eye eagle hat, you will find it is actually a spiral structure. At the edge connection, the leather strip is folded in half and sewn together. After the stitches are tucked away, they are hidden inside the hat. From the outside, you can only see the traces of a bulging leather strip folded in half.

This trace spirals outward and eventually forms the spiral structure of a goldfish eye. People who don’t know much about it will find it particularly exquisite.

If you are going to do something, you have to make it solid. The eagle hat with a black background and red edges that Yue Feng gave as a gift this time was sewed extremely delicately. It is much more delicate than the one he made for Big Black Hawk. Its practicality can only be regarded as a primary consideration, while its aesthetics, degree of detail, etc. are all maximized.

After the main part of the hat was finished, Yue Feng began to prepare the decorations. In order to make the hat tassel look good, Yue Feng took a pair of scissors and went to the barn in the village. Risking being kicked by a horse, he picked up a small strand of horsetail silk from the village’s big red horsetail.

At the position where the tassel was originally fixed on the top of the hat, Yue Feng cut out two standard small round pads, and used a knife to trim the edges of the pads into the shape of gears, and punched a hole in the middle. The horsetail silk and fine sheepskin were passed through the inside of the hat, and then the sheepskin strips were wrapped around the garlic ring buckle, leaving a bunch of horsetail silk rising into the sky from the top of the abacus buckle.

The hat tassel is ready, Yue Feng trims it to the right height with scissors, and it’s done!
Making these beautiful decorations cannot be done quickly. By the time Yue Feng had finished putting all the details in place, several hours had passed.

However, the effort was not in vain. The eagle hat that took so much effort to make could be called a work of art. Yue Feng took the hat and tried it on the little eagle. It was a suitable size and did not irritate the eyes. When he took it off, the eagle was also relatively stable. It was a beautiful job.

While Yue Feng was making the eagle hat, Meng Yulan had finished sewing the sleeves in the east room.

The grayish-white cotton cloth is lined with cotton and several layers of old clothes, and the outside is sewn with fine stitches to create a diamond-shaped grid pattern, making the entire sleeve extremely dense.

After sewing the main body, at Yue Feng’s request, Meng Yulan used needles to sew on the auspicious cloud pattern. After all this, the authentic traditional big eagle cage sleeves and goldfish-eye eagle hat were ready!
“Tsk tsk tsk! I’m sure these sleeves and hat will be ready by tomorrow!”

Yue Feng is very satisfied with these two works.

Meng Yulan looked at her son tenderly: “It’s because we don’t have a sewing machine at home. If we had one, these stitches would be much straighter! This little needlework is nothing to bother your mother, it’s a piece of cake!” Yue Feng listened to his mother muttering about the sewing machine, and immediately patted his chest and said, “It’s just a sewing machine, no problem, as long as my friend has the ticket, I will buy it for you later!”

“Don’t worry, if you buy it early it will be old! We can still buy one when you get married!”

“Hey, what’s the point? Buy it early and enjoy it early! Don’t worry about it. I’ll go to the city and take care of this matter later!”

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The mother and the two talked for a while, and it was almost evening. At noon, they were busy making long sleeves, so there was no cooking. For the leftovers from lunch, the big rooster that Yue Feng brought back was simply prepared by boiling water, plucking its feathers, and not putting it in the pot.

The original plan was to keep the pheasant for entertaining guests if Zhang Hongbin and his friends had dinner at home tomorrow. However, when Meng Yulan turned around, the big pheasant that had been plucked and cleaned up in the basin was lost.

On the other side, Jingjing, who got out of school at around four in the afternoon, was huffing and puffing as she headed towards Wang Mingyu’s house with the big pheasant that was lost at home in her schoolbag.

Jingjing had heard her brother discussing marriage with her parents at home, but she never found an opportunity to express herself.

In Jingjing’s little head, if brother likes sister Xiaona, he must take action to pursue her. This big pheasant is a good opportunity.

My brother can’t do this, so I have to do it!
The little girl was thinking cunningly.

When they arrived at Wang Jianguo’s house, Jingjing did not enter, but went around to the back of the house and shouted at the top of her voice: “Wang Mingyu!!”

Now, Wang Mingyu and Jingjing have become the best friends among their group. They are about the same age, and Wang Mingyu is a little fan of his older brother. The two little kids are working hard to make each other’s brother (sister) become their brother-in-law (sister-in-law).

Wang Mingyu, who was doing his homework in the room, came out with a snotty nose when he heard Jingjing calling him.

“Jingjing, you look for me!”

“Where is my sister-in-law? Is she at home? Can you ask her to come out?” Jingjing asked seriously with her sparkling eyes.

“Ask my sister. She’s here. Why don’t you just come into the house with me? My parents love you. What are you afraid of?” Wang Mingyu said, holding Jingjing’s little hand.

“No, that won’t work. Ask my sister-in-law to come out and tell her that my brother asked me to give her something!”

“it is good!”

After receiving the “imperial edict”, Wang Mingyu immediately entered the house and pulled Wang Xiaona out.

“Xiaoyu, what are you doing?”

“Come on, sister, come with me. Jingjing asked me to call you out. She said my brother-in-law asked her to bring you something!”

“What nonsense are you talking about? Who is your brother-in-law and what gift should he give you?” Wang Xiaona blushed, feeling a little angry and amused.

“Of course it’s my brother Xiaofeng! Hurry up and stop wasting time!”

Thanks to Wang Mingyu’s efforts, Wang Xiaona finally came out and met Jingjing who was carrying her schoolbag.

“Sister-in-law!! My brother asked me to bring you something! It’s in my schoolbag!”

Jingjing very familiarly held Wang Xiaona’s hand and called her sister-in-law. She was much more generous than Yue Feng, that damn guy.

“What?” Wang Xiaona maintained a relatively dignified demeanor in front of her younger brother and sister, opened Jingjing’s schoolbag and took a look.

Just one glance gave Wang Xiaona a fright.

Wow, a big white pheasant with its hair plucked and blood spurting out!

In an instant, Wang Xiaona knew that this was definitely not something that Yue Feng asked Jingjing to deliver.

Any normal and intelligent person would never do such a thing as stuffing a plucked pheasant into a child’s schoolbag.

“Did your brother ask you to give me this pheasant?” Wang Xiaona took out the pheasant, took out a handkerchief from her trouser pocket, and wiped Jingjing’s schoolbag that was stained with blood.

“Well, my brother likes you, but he is embarrassed to tell you! So he sent me to do it!” Jingjing, a smart little kid, said confidently.

“Tell the truth, did he ask you to deliver it? Don’t lie, otherwise, I will no longer be friends with you!” Wang Xiaona felt a little complicated as she held the pheasant in her hand, but she still wanted to find out the truth.

No matter how clever Jingjing was, she was still a child after all. Under Wang Xiaona’s scorching gaze, she quickly lowered her head guiltily.

“It was my own idea! My brother told my parents that he likes you, and I also want you to be my sister-in-law, so I came to give you a pheasant to eat so that you will like him too!
You must accept this pheasant. My brother Xiao Tao and his friends are going up the mountain today. They will definitely catch a lot more later. There will be no shortage of them at home!”

After hearing Jingjing’s somewhat incoherent words, Wang Xiaona finally figured out what was going on.

So, these two little brats are trying to figure out a way to matchmake someone.

Wang Xiaona thought for a second and said, “Then let me ask you a question. If you answer it well, I will accept it!”

“Sister-in-law, just ask me, I’ll tell you everything!”

“Did your brother really tell your parents that he liked me? Didn’t Wang Tiezui go to your house a few days ago to propose marriage to your brother? Didn’t he go on the blind date?”

Hearing Wang Xiaona’s question, Jingjing shook her little head like a rattle.

“My brother heard that Wang Tiezui came to him to introduce a fat girl as a date, so he stayed at Brother Xiaowen’s house until dark before going home! My brother told my parents at night. He said he liked you, that you are beautiful, have a good figure, and are gentle. He doesn’t like that fat girl!”

Are you surprised or not? It was close to the Mid-Autumn Festival and I had to go out to visit my relatives, so I didn’t have a lunch break at noon and finished the afternoon chapter in advance.

Since I work so hard, you should give me a ticket!

Ten thousand words update completed!

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