Chapter 243 Eagle Meets Eagle

“Bear skins are rated too low. Deer skins are acceptable, but the price is not high. Lynx skins are acceptable. One lynx skin can equal the purchase quota of three sable skins! If you are willing to sell, I can give you the highest price!”

When Director Wang heard that Yue Feng had a lynx skin in his hand, he instantly became excited.

If the purchase quota offset by this lynx skin is taken into account, then this year’s purchase plan will be qualified, at least there will be no deductions or criticism at meetings.

“The top-grade leather of a large male lynx, completely intact. How much can you offer for it? I’ll get it back when I have time after it dries!”

“The best? Special grade leather. If it meets the size requirements, the purchase price is 1235 yuan!”

“This price is not bad!”

After listening to this, Yue Feng nodded and had already made some comments on this offer.

Manager Wang is a bit dishonest. This price is not much different from the price of ordinary full-quality lynx leather in Yue Feng’s memory, but it is still quite far from the price of top-grade leather. It is obvious that there is something fishy.

“If you think the price is right, let’s make an appointment and send it back later! Because of our relationship with you, Xiao Li, we will definitely not treat you unfairly!”

“Okay! The leather isn’t dry yet, let’s wait until it dries! By the way, what’s the current purchase price of sable leather?”

“Ordinary second-grade leather is 355 per piece, first-grade leather is 540, and special-grade full-quality male leather is 845!”

The price of this sable fur is quite reasonable. A top-quality full-quality grand male sable fur can be sold for more than 800 yuan. This thing is the top luxury mountain product in the Changbai Mountain forest area.

“Okay, I got it! When I get back I’ll ask my friends who go up the mountain to hunt and try to help with the arrangements! I’ll come here as soon as I get any news!” Yue Feng agreed readily.

“Sister Li, I’m sorry to bother you to come out for a while. My mother asked me to bring you something!”

“Oh, bring me something again! Wait, I’ll come out from behind the counter!”

Li Li quickly followed Yue Feng out the door.

Li Li followed Yue Feng to the door of the supply and marketing cooperative. Yue Feng took out a piece of deer leg meat weighing about four or five pounds from under the sack cloth covering the carriage.

“It’s sika deer meat, but unfortunately it’s from a male deer, so the taste and texture are a little bit off! Just give it a try!” Yue Feng said with a smile.

After Li Li took the meat, her expression was a little hesitant. After thinking for a second, she mustered up the courage to say, “Little brother, the price of the tiger cub skin that Director Wang just quoted you is a bit problematic.

It’s enough for you to know this in your heart. I will help you coordinate it later and see if the price can be higher!
In fact, from the perspective of our personal relationship, I advise you to keep this leather for a while if you are not in urgent need of the money.

In the past one or two years, the price of lynx leather has been rising rapidly.

The price quoted by Director Wang is the market price before the price adjustment. If it is a top-grade leather, it can be sold for at least 1500!”

Yue Feng felt warmed in his heart when he heard Li Li told him the truth.

The reason why he called Li Li out to get the venison was to see how Li Li would react. If she pretended not to know and acted stupid with him, then their friendship would only be superficial.

But the facts have proved that Yue Feng is quite good at judging people. Li Li can tell which is more important than the other. Yue Feng has been interacting with her for a long time and has accumulated real friendship with her.

Although the purchase of this leather involved Li Li’s bonus and other tangible interests, she still chose to tell the truth to herself.

The way people get along with each other becomes closer through repeated exchanges of sincerity. This sister, who has no blood relationship with me, has withstood the test of reality.

“Okay, I’ll listen to you. I don’t need the money right now, so I’ll keep it for a while! I’ll also help you think of a way to get the sable fur. If I can get it, I’ll send it to you as soon as possible!”

“Okay! Anyway, Manager Wang is in charge of the company’s acquisition plan. I’m just a teller, so at most I’ll get a smaller year-end bonus! If I can help, I’ll help. If I can’t get it, forget it. I won’t be in too much trouble!
How is your relationship with Xiaona recently? When you get married, please write to me. I will definitely go to your house with your brother-in-law for the wedding!”

“Our relationship has always been quite stable! We’re getting engaged next month! Don’t worry, I’ll definitely write to you in advance before the wedding! If there’s nothing else, I’ll reply now, please come in!”

“Well, go back and be safe!”

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Yue Feng jumped onto the carriage, then gave the order to the chestnut horse to set off, and then left the supply and marketing cooperative with a clatter.

On the way back, Yue Feng started thinking about it.

Sable fur is so expensive. I haven’t gone out to hunt for it this year. Otherwise, I’ll go up the mountain tomorrow and look for a few places I remember. I’ll see if I can try my luck and find traces of sable.

The skin of sable is one of the best animal furs in the world. Many people believe through movies and TV shows that this thing is endangered because of large-scale hunting. In fact, this is not wrong, but it is not entirely correct either.

The fact is that sable is also a very rare thing at this point in time.

Even going back further, as early as the Qing Dynasty, the royal family would send people to hunt sables in large numbers every year, as these animals were a popular delicacy at the time.

If the leather was not of excellent quality and extremely rare, how could a mink fur be worth so much money?

To discuss the decline in the sable population more objectively, it is actually directly related to the frequent human activities and the large-scale felling of trees in forest areas, which has led to the reduction of the natural habitat suitable for the survival of sables.

Hunters’ hunting of sables certainly has an impact, but this creature does not move in groups and its activity range is very wide. Ordinary hunters normally hunt it as a type of prey that is hard to come by. You can’t go to the mountains to hunt sables and expect to encounter them 100%.

Of course, sables still have certain fixed living habits.

The sables active in the Changbai Mountain area generally live in coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forests and subarctic coniferous forests at an altitude of 800 to 1600 meters.

After the snow falls in winter, it is a good time to hunt sables. Most hunters shoot sables by setting leather boards (a trigger-type clamp trap).

In winter, the temperature is low, and after snow falls, footprints will be left in areas where sables frequently move. At this time, they will dig holes under the snow shell, hollowing out the area with footprints, leaving only a thin layer of snow shell. Under the snow shell, a leather board for catching sables is placed. The next time the sable moves on this path, it will step on the hollowed-out snow shell, causing the snow shell to collapse, and then the leather board mechanism underneath will be triggered, directly clamping the little sable.

The weather won’t get bad in the winter, so a sable hunter might set up a large number of traps over a large area, making a patrol every three to five days or even longer. If they can get two or three large skins in a winter, they can earn thousands of dollars.

Because the returns are very high, the investment is small, and there is no risk, this craft has been passed down from grandfather to father, and from father to son, almost through blood. There are not many masters who truly understand the craft.

Yue Feng was not a top-notch big-skin hunter, but he had worked as an assistant for two winters with an old hunter who had no children in his previous life, so he knew everything about how to find sables and how to set traps.

In addition, he knew of a valley reserve where sables were active every winter.

Since Sister Li really needed this thing to complete the task, and the market conditions were indeed good, Yue Feng decided that if he had nothing to do tomorrow, he would take the Big Blue Harrier from home to the private plot in his memory for a walk and try his luck.

They drove the carriage back to the village and returned it to the stable. Then Yue Feng went home with his daughter in his arms.

The first thing I did when I got home was to go see the blue kite tied in the greenhouse.

If you want to catch sable with an eagle, a large eagle like the Ironback Eagle with a sharp beak and claws is not very useful. It is easy to catch the sable, and the large eagle has a high success rate, but the caught sable will be covered with scars from the eagle’s claws before the sable can get close to you, and the skin cannot be sold at a high price, which is a waste of prey resources.

Yue Feng had discussed with his father the feasibility of using the Great Green Kites to catch sables before. Now the Great Green Kites have a success rate of over 70% when encountering large pheasants. When they are out on the run, they rarely fail to catch yellow foxes occasionally. Their Tiger-Holding-Eagle-Claw skills are almost perfect, so it shouldn’t be a problem to use them to catch sables.

Yue Feng lifted the door curtain of the greenhouse, and the blue kite tied to the pole squatted on the eagle pole very calmly. Yue Feng untied the five-foot rope that tied the eagle, and the eagle jumped onto his hand naturally.

Ever since the family tied up a big eagle, Yue Feng hasn’t fiddled with the big blue kite for some time. Usually, Xiao Tao and the others take turns flying it.

After the eagle is completely stable, as long as its fat condition is controlled stably and it goes out every day, and occasionally it is lazy for one or two days, it will not be a big problem as long as it is stretched by pinching some snacks a day in advance.

The Blue Kitten didn’t go out to work today, so my mother Meng Yulan fed the eagle in advance in the morning. At this moment, there is still food in the crop on the Blue Kitten’s chest.

This is not difficult to solve. If you want to work tomorrow, at most you can just stay up half the night and solve the problem immediately.

Yue Feng entered the house with the eagle mounted on his head. Yue Feng didn’t even need to do the small job of operating the eagle himself, as the old man was responsible for it.

“Dad! Tie up that baby hawk and let it light up the Great Blue Kites for half the night!”

“What’s wrong? What are you planning to do? Taking the Great Green Kites up the mountain tomorrow?” Yue Lei was considered an expert. When he heard his son’s arrangement, he knew that there would be action.

“Yes! Tomorrow I want to go to the mountains and try my luck to see if I can catch a sable! I’ll go to the supply and marketing cooperative this afternoon. The price of fur there is very high! I’ve been thinking about catching sables with a kite since the fall, but it’s snowed twice and I haven’t tried it yet!”

“Okay, I’ll take it after dinner! When you leave tomorrow morning, I’m sure this eagle will be in murderous condition!”

“Hey, you’ve worked so hard!”

“You little bastard, you’re being too polite to your dad! By the way, when you go up the mountain to fly the kite tomorrow, don’t bring the big black hawk with you, okay? I’m afraid that if the hawk sees another hawk and fails to do the job, don’t do it yourself!” Yue Lei suddenly thought of something and reminded Yue Feng.

“Um… not really! The big black eagle usually doesn’t even raise its eyelids when it sees other eagles! It knows that these are members of its family!” Yue Feng felt a little uneasy when he said this.

It is true that there is no precedent of the big black eagle actively attacking other eagles in the greenhouse, but when the other eagles saw the big black eagle, they all puffed up their feathers as if facing a great enemy.

If the Big Green Kitten actively attacks Big Black, Big Black can be crippled by the Big Green Kitten with just one bite, which is not what Yue Feng wants to see.

“Otherwise, you should feed the big black eagle with food when you set out in the morning! I guess its attack performance will be a little lower!”

“Okay, I got it!” Yue Feng responded and decided to follow his father’s advice.

This big blue kite is definitely a rare and good eagle. According to Yue Feng’s plan, he will make a cage for it at home after spring. As for the other two kites, it would not be worth the effort to cage them and molt their feathers in the spring.

That evening, after the family of four had dinner, Yue Feng rode the Blue Kites back to his room.

As if possessed by some mysterious force, he took off the Big Black Eagle’s hat.

The big black eagle didn’t have the chance to fly outside to stretch its muscles the whole day today. As soon as it took off its hat, it immediately started to cackl.

“Okay, okay, stop shouting! I’ll take you to the mountain to play tomorrow! This is our eagle, you can’t bully it tomorrow!” Yue Feng touched the big black eagle’s back hair with his left hand as if coaxing a child, and soon the big black eagle relaxed.

On the other side, the big blue kite standing on Yue Feng’s hand discovered the big black eagle standing next to it. It instantly opened its mouth and drooped its wings, reacting with extreme fear.

The big black eagle just glanced at the kite and ignored it.

In the world of the big black eagle, this little sparrowhawk is not even as important as its own little dogs and is not worth winning over at all.

When Yue Feng was doing the Eagle-meets-Eagle thing, he had been paying attention to the reactions of both sides. After discovering that the big black eagle almost ignored the big blue harrier, Yue Feng relaxed.

I’m afraid the big black eagle will compete with the kite to determine who is superior. Now the big blue kite is in a state of extreme fear, which is normal. We just need to let it get used to it and know that the big black eagle will not attack it.

So, Yue Feng held the big black eagle in his left hand and the big blue kite in his right hand, and just sat on the edge of the kang in a daze.

The wolf-blood cub at its feet was making a lot of excitement under the edge of the kang. The blue kite slowly adapted to this situation. In less than two hours, it folded its wings again and resumed its normal standing posture.

Yue Feng knew that the first stage of the eagle-to-eagle adjustment period had passed without any major problems.

The big blue kite loosened its feathers in his hand, and Yue Feng carried it to his father’s room. After returning to his own room, Yue Feng played with the big black hawk for a while, then put a hat on the hawk and put it back on the falconry.

I have a mission tomorrow morning, so I have to go to bed early today.

(End of this chapter)