Reborn in the 1980s: I made my fortune hunting wild game in Changbai Mountain
Chapter 361 White Spear Becomes an Eagle
Chapter 361 White Spear Becomes an Eagle
“What you said makes sense! I’ll try to study the fact that the meat quality of wild boars improves after eating Polygonatum odoratum first, and then I’ll make another decision once I have a clear idea of it!” Yue Feng nodded and agreed with his father’s suggestion.
“I’m just giving you a rough idea. You have to figure out how to carry it out! There’s no way to deal with the snow and ice right now. If you want to do anything, you have to wait until the thaw comes in the spring next year. Take your time!”
“Hey, okay! I get it, Dad!!”
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After discussing the improvement of wild boar meat with his father, Yue Feng returned to his room. After fiddling with the eagle in the room for a while, he felt sleepy and went to bed early to rest.
At dawn the next day, Yue Feng heard the crowing of the neighbor’s rooster, and he rolled over and climbed out of bed.
I had an extremely comfortable sleep, as if my muscles, bones, legs and feet had become much lighter.
After putting on his clothes and going out of the house, Yue Feng saw that his father Yue Lei had gotten up very early and was making breakfast with his mother Meng Yulan in the kitchen.
“Hey! Dad, why are you up so early? Instead of lying on the kang, you sit on this stool. Can your legs bear it?” Yue Feng glanced at the old man and asked with concern.
“You got up about half an hour earlier than usual, right? There’s something special about this pork.
Your mom and I are of this age, so we don’t sleep much. This morning, I woke up before daybreak! I feel good, and my legs and feet feel lighter! “Yue Lei said with some surprise.
“You and my mom have feelings too?” Yue Feng was stunned after hearing this.
I just ate some wild boar meat, is this thing so powerful? Can it also help people recover from fatigue quickly and reduce sleep time?
Yue Lei nodded: “It feels very obvious!
I have always had a regular schedule. I usually get up around 6:30 when your mother finishes cooking. But I couldn’t sleep this morning. Overall, I feel good!
I thought it was an illusion, you got up early too!”
“Hehe, this is weird! This Polygonatum odoratum isn’t a very precious thing, how can it have such an effect?”
Yue Feng thought about it for a while and then laughed himself to death.
“I don’t know why, but this thing must be useful!
Wait until Xiaowen, Xiaowu and the others come and ask them if they feel anything after eating. If everyone can feel it, then it will be evidence!”
“Take a rest today. I’ll go to Xiaowen’s house and ask later!”
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They had breakfast as usual, and before Yue Feng went to Xiaowen’s house, the two brothers took their neighbor Xiao Tao to Yue Feng’s house.
Xiaowen: “Brother, we want to ask you something! We ate this boiled pork at your house yesterday. Did you feel anything after you woke up this morning?”
“Damn! I was just about to go to your house to ask you guys! Do you feel the same way?” Yue Feng’s heart skipped a beat when he heard Xiaowen’s question.
Xiaowen: “Don’t mention it, this is too amazing!
Yesterday evening, the three of us brothers ate wild boar meat at your house. Before leaving, my aunt took the remaining half pound of meat back to me for my mother to eat!
After waking up from a good sleep, I felt a lot more relaxed.
When my mother was young, she suffered a lot while helping people pick mushrooms. Every morning when she woke up, her neck and shoulders would be a little stiff, and she would feel better only after moving around!
This morning, she said she felt stronger than usual and got up earlier than usual! “
After hearing this, Yue Feng turned to look at Xiao Tao: “Xiao Tao, what about you? Same thing?”
Xiao Tao pouted and said, “Don’t mention it, you are all fine, only I am standing in the way!
Am I allergic to this thing? I was fine when I ate meat yesterday, but I couldn’t sleep last night. I tossed and turned on the kang, making pancakes.
I fell asleep in the middle of the night last night and woke up as soon as the rooster crowed this morning. I don’t have any obvious sequelae and everything is normal! ”
“How do you feel after waking up?”
“Very good, huh? Not tired at all, and feeling quite energetic!”
Yue Feng nodded and thought for a moment, “You are very young, your physical fitness is the best, and there is nothing wrong with your body. Eating this pork will not be of much use!
Brothers Xiaowen and Xiaowu, plus me, our physical fitness is not as good as yours, so we won’t be unable to sleep due to the heat!”
“Uh… So that’s what happened! I thought there was something wrong with me!” Xiao Tao felt relieved after hearing Yue Feng’s explanation.
“It’s just right that you’re all here. This meat must be good stuff. We won’t sell it outside. We can share some among the families. We can take advantage of this time when we are at home during the winter and have nothing to do during the New Year to eat some to replenish our bodies!
As for the big head, when the New Year is approaching, I have to use this thing to welcome and send off guests and maintain the connections I have made! “
“If it can help maintain health, then I’ll listen to my eldest brother! My mother has always been in poor health. If she can eat some of this meat to maintain her health, it would be a great thing!” Xiaowen said with bright eyes after hearing this.
“Don’t waste time, let’s divide up the 200-pound sow we got yesterday! Each family will get a few dozen pounds of meat to eat during this time!
But I have to remind you of one thing again. If this matter is verified later, you guys must keep your mouths shut.
Also remember to remind the elders at home that no one can talk nonsense outside. I’m sure you all understand the principle that an innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure!
If there are benefits, we can take them quietly without anyone noticing. If someone with the will and the ability finds out, we won’t be able to keep it to ourselves!”
“Hey! Okay, I won’t tell anyone!”
“Let’s go and divide the meat!” Yue Feng called out, and led the brothers out of the north room.
There was a sow weighing more than 200 pounds. Four brothers each got a portion of the meat. After dividing the meat, they dragged it home on small sleds.
The hunting team usually had the habit of bringing prey home, but it didn’t attract anyone’s attention.
After dividing the meat, Yue Feng had nothing else to do at home, so he picked up some meat to feed the eagles from the kitchen. Yue Feng wrapped the eagle food in cabbage leaves and went to the wild with the eagle training equipment.
Baimao has already started the big market, and he has successfully broken through the 30-minute barrier of flying in a circle not long ago. Today Yue Feng plans to train this guy’s mobile following during the flying circle.
Following the same procedure as when he trained the Black Hawk, after the White Spear took off to the predetermined height, Yue Feng headed towards the distance as planned.
Before we knew it, we had moved from the ridge outside the village to the wooded area beside the small river at the foot of the mountain.
While moving, Yue Feng kept an eye on the white gyrfalcon above his head. If he found that the circle it was flying in was a bit large, Yue Feng would blow the whistle to remind it.
Upon hearing the whistle, the White Spear will immediately calibrate its following position and resume its normal posture.
With the successful experience of training the big black eagle, Yue Feng was obviously much braver when training the white spear.
This thing is very smart. Once the affinity is achieved, the subsequent training only requires it to understand the owner’s intentions, and it will be able to complete the task well.
Following Yue Feng along the way, he came to the river at the foot of the mountain. Judging from the flying time, it has exceeded the half an hour of the last time, but Baimao did not show any signs of losing control or exhaustion.
Seeing that the training was going so smoothly, Yue Feng was thinking about hanging around the surrounding area to see if he could drive out some prey and let Baimao have a real fight to test out the effectiveness of the training in recent times.
Anyway, they were all random things, so after Yue Feng made up his mind, he immediately took action.
He casually picked up a branch as thick as his index finger and simply trimmed the twigs. Then Yue Feng started to drive the animals away as if he was a hawk, knocking on the surrounding grass and bushes with a small stick as he walked.
The white spear in the sky didn’t know what Yue Feng meant by this action. After discovering that he had been hitting the grass and bushes, he consciously reduced the radius of his flying.
Yue Feng drove the spears as he walked, and was busy for nearly twenty minutes. The White Spear in the sky had been hovering in the air for more than fifty minutes. The increase in the hovering time of this flying disk was quite large.
At this moment, a big pheasant hiding under the bushes was blasted out by Yue Feng.
Cluck~~Cluck~~~~
After a series of calls, the big pheasant flapped its wings and took off from the ground like a helicopter, flying towards the distant ridges of the field.
Upon seeing this, Yue Feng immediately took out a fake bait, blew a whistle, and symbolically chased in the direction the pheasant flew away.
Hearing the master’s whistle, the White Spear reacted immediately, diving and accelerating, smashing down with a buzzing sound.
Whoosh~~~
Snapped!
With a crisp sound, the wild rooster took off and had not flown ten meters away before it realized what was happening when it was shot down by a white shadow that fell from the sky.
For a moment, chicken feathers fell from the sky like snow.
Bai Mao hit the target with one strike, turned around in the air, and quickly grabbed the falling pheasant. He spread his wings and slowly landed at Yue Feng’s feet.
“Quack quack!”
Bai Mao held the prey tightly and barked at Yue Feng, nodding his head continuously as he barked.
“Hehe! Not bad, I actually succeeded in becoming an eagle in one go! Xiaobai, good job!”
Yue Feng was in a very good mood. The training of this white gyrfalcon into a hawk did not take any detours. This little guy was really smart.
In addition to the successful eagle breeding, Yue Feng also discovered a detail that he had not noticed before.
The White Spear’s climbing speed is not as good as that of the Black Hawk, but its diving speed from the air is much faster than that of the Black Hawk.
Apart from anything else, Yue Feng had seen many attacks like diving and smashing piles on the big black eagle, but the low-frequency whistling sound of the swooping feathers cutting through the air was much duller.
The sound produced by Baimao’s dive just now was obviously sharper.
This is easy to understand. The male gyrfalcon is smaller in size than the female, and the body load is also smaller than that of the female, which is more conducive to flying and diving.
The Black Hawk’s speed of level pursuit and climbing is higher, relying on the increased strength caused by the blackening mutation.
During a dive attack, this data has a relatively small impact, and the control of the flight attitude plays a more dominant role.
Quack, quack, quack!
Yue Feng was still savoring the attack from Cheng Ying just now when Xiao Bai’s cackling sounded again.
“Okay, okay, let’s eat!” Yue Feng knew that this guy was urging him to feed it.
The big black eagle was aggressive to it last time, which gave this guy a certain sense of status. Since he has a low status, he cannot use the food he hunts at will, and he needs the approval of his master and older brother (sister).
Yue Feng responded, placed the lure in front of Xiaobai, and then blew the whistle.
When Baimao saw the lure and the whistle, he loosened his claws and jumped onto the lure without hesitation, and began to eat the food fixed on the lure.
Yue Feng was quite satisfied with Xiaobai’s obedient performance in eating the lure.
Freshly caught prey and the meat on the bait are both food, but they represent completely different meanings.
If Xiaobai catches a pheasant with a lure nearby and abandons the food on the lure and instead concentrates on tearing the pheasant apart to eat the meat, in the eyes of the falconer, this is a state of not obtaining the rank recognition order.
On the contrary, it knows that the meat on the owner’s bait is for it, and the prey voluntarily gives it up, which means that it has completed its own status ranking and is defaulted to being under the owner’s status. The caught prey needs to be disposed of by the owner.
The logic here is the same as the alpha wolf in a wolf pack getting food first. If any other wolf catches the food and enjoys it at will, the alpha wolf will definitely beat it up until it realizes its position again.
In the process of falconry training, there are still some differences between eagles and falcons, which involves significant differences in hunting methods.
For example, when the iron-backed red eagle at home catches a rabbit or a pheasant, it always feathers it immediately and starts eating it on the spot.
Why not demand that this thing have status awareness?
The first reason is that eagles have low IQs and have no concept of this rank.
The second point is that eagles hunt by short-range raids, have a short activity radius, and there is no need to emphasize hierarchical status.
Falcons, especially top falcons like the gyrfalcon, are different. When they are hunting, their activity radius is very large.
If one does not have the awareness of hierarchy and status and thinks that he is the greatest in the world, his controllability will be very poor. It is normal for him to chase a bird or a pigeon and fly several kilometers with one wing.
By that time, when they are full and satisfied, they won’t pay attention to whistles or commands.
At this time, the eagle master could only look at the sky with tears in his eyes.
On the contrary, if they accept this rank order, they will accept the presence of other team members during daily hunting.
Even if the prey flies far away, the eagle will not eat immediately.
As long as they can hear the command signal to develop a habit, they can still return to the team.
Different eagles have different controlled thresholds.
Expert falcon trainers initially establish an emotional bond with the eagle through food. Once the training reaches a mature stage, auxiliary tools such as lures are no longer necessary. The eagle’s response will become more and more accurate as it accumulates practical experience.
For example, the big black eagle at home now, when Yue Feng leads it into the mountains, even if he has no meat in his hand and no bait, with a whistle, it will descend from the sky to its owner.
Yue Feng just did this, whistling every once in a while to strengthen his conditioned reflex while watching Bai Mao eat.
After finishing the morning meal, Yue Feng took out his eagle cap and put it on Xiao Bai, then took the eagle home with the first pheasant that Bai Mao Chengying had harvested!!
(End of this chapter)