Chapter 389: The Big Pot Falls from the Sky

“Come on, Big Black Hawk! Little White! Great job! Next time you see this musk deer, catch it alive!!!”

Yue Feng didn’t care whether the two eagles could understand or not. He took out the slices of meat he had brought with him from his bag and fed the two eagles as a reward.

Seeing the freshly caught prey being tied up alive by his owner’s companions nearby, Xiaobai seemed a little unable to react.

In the past, when we caught prey, we would drain the blood and gut it on the spot, and share the meat while it was still hot. Why are the standards different today?

Although the slices of meat that we brought up the mountain are also lean meat, they are cold after all. In terms of freshness and taste, they are definitely not as good as those divided on the spot.

In comparison, the big black eagle was obviously much smarter. It folded its wings and landed in front of Yue Feng. It looked at the musk deer that was being held down by Xiao Tao and had its limbs tied with a rope, then cackled at Yue Feng a few times.

While shouting, he looked up, took the piece of meat and started eating it first.

After eating several pieces of meat in succession, the big black eagle lowered its head and bit the hook of its claws with its beak and stopped eating. It had been fed once at noon, and there was still at least half of the food that had not been digested in its crop.

The big black eagle stopped eating, and it was Xiaobai’s turn. After this guy took the piece of meat, he happily held it in his mouth and presented it to the big black eagle to show his courtesy. This time the big black eagle did not take it, but took a look at it and continued to clean his claws.

The big sister refused to eat, so Xiaobai tried several times and then swallowed the meat slices by herself. After she ate three or four slices in a row, Yue Feng stopped feeding her.

“Come up, come up, let’s go behind the rock and take a look! Uncle Zhao and Chen Pao both said that musk deer have nests! I have never seen what a musk deer’s nest looks like!”

Yue Feng placed both eagles on his arms, then turned around, called out, and looked towards the large bluestone where the three musk deer had emerged from.

Looking from the ridge, the viewing angle was not perfect, and only half of it could be seen, but Yue Feng did not give up.

He went to a relatively open place above his head and released the two eagles again. Then he grabbed a small tree on the sunny slope and moved little by little to the top of the large bluestone.

Looking down from here, you can see what’s behind the big bluestone at a glance.

It was like a naturally formed stone nest, with half of it exposed to the sky and the other side partially blocked by tilted stones.

Looking down from a high vantage point, you can see that there is not a single snowflake under this stone nest, and you can also find a lot of blue-gray round feces near one side.

Xiao Tao came to Yue Feng’s side, carrying the living musk deer in one hand. After taking a look around, he couldn’t help but exclaimed: “Oh my god, this is a natural deer enclosure!
I don’t know how these little things found a place like this to be their lair. If they don’t come out, we’ll have a hard time finding them from outside!”

Yue Feng nodded: “Look at the accumulated feces below. This nest must have been there for quite some time! Remember this place. Without the regular marking of the territory by the natives here, other musk deer may come here to make use of the waste in the future!”

“Well, I’ll take the time to come here every year. It would be great if I could catch an adult male musk deer. The glandular sacs of this thing contain musk, which is worth a lot of money!”

Yue Feng grinned and said: “If we set up a breeding farm, female musk deer and sub-adult cubs should also be valuable!

I don’t know if this thing is easy to take care of. Let Uncle Zhao play with it when I get home! It would be great if I could tame it!”

“Let’s go back and check first! Xiaowen and Xiaowu are still waiting for us downstairs!”

“Go, get down!”

After briefly observing the musk deer’s nest, Yue Feng and Xiao Tao slowly slid down the sunny slope.

The third musk deer had one eye pecked blind by Xiaobai, and the three of them were all caught.

The three living creatures had their limbs tied up and were fixed on the sled. Yue Feng led the hunting team to climb up the ridge of the shady slope again and continued to move forward.

There was no valuable gain in the next two hours. Seeing that it was almost three o’clock in the afternoon, Yue Feng, as the leader of the hunting team, decisively led his team members down the mountain.

Before dark, the hunting team returned to the village.

After entering the yard, Yue Feng invited both old men out.

“Uncle, today when I went up the mountain, I caught a few musk deer in a small bluestone pond. They were injured by eagles. Could you please check them?” Yue Feng said with a smile.

“Did you catch the musk deer? Caught it alive? Where is it? Let me take a look!” When Uncle Zhao heard the call, he put on a thick sheepskin coat and got down from the kang.

After nearly twenty days of recuperation, the old man’s legs and feet have become more agile.

Soon, three musk deer appeared in front of the old man.

“A small group of mother musk deer with her cubs? You can’t make delicious naan from these things. If you just look at the meat, it’s okay to eat it yourself, but it’s not worth much!” Uncle Chen also followed.

The largest female musk deer was kicked twice by the big black eagle and was 100% sure to have internal injuries. Uncle Zhao made a quick examination and found no serious problems such as fractures.

The hip joint of Yacheng’s female musk deer was dislocated. After a simple attempt, the old man repositioned it and the animal quickly regained its ability to move.

The last male musk deer caught was not big in size but had a bad temper. It kept breathing out like it was sneezing, which was scary. One of its eyes was pecked blind by a white musk deer, but the rest of its body was normal.

“How is it, uncle?” Yue Feng asked with concern. “It looks like it’s not in danger of death! But it’s not easy to keep this thing in captivity. If you want to keep it as a seed source, you have to think of a way!”

“Huh? It’s difficult to keep in captivity? It doesn’t look that big. Even sika deer can be kept in pens, so why not this thing?” Yue Feng touched upon his blind spot in knowledge and asked, scratching his head.

Uncle Zhao continued, “Don’t be fooled by its small size. This thing may be able to jump out! Look at its body shape when it stands up. Its hips are higher than its shoulders, and its hind legs are extremely well developed! It can climb a three- to five-meter steep cliff without any effort as long as it has a place to leverage!”

“From what you said, I guess tying him up with a rope won’t work. We can only keep him with a blindfold!” Yue Feng continued.

Uncle Zhao looked back and forth at the three musk deer and said, “These two half-grown cubs are not worth keeping, there’s no need to bother with them!

This female musk deer can be kept. The musk deer in our Changbai Mountain started to mate around New Year’s Day. There’s a good chance that she’s pregnant with cubs now!”

“Hmm? It’s not worth keeping? Even if you raise it and breed it, it won’t work?”

“This thing is very timid, and it gets scared by the slightest noise. If you really want to keep it, you can put in some effort to keep it alive, but it will run away if you don’t keep an eye on it.

If you want to be a seedling, it’s similar to the sable. The cubs raised by your hands from childhood will not be so afraid of people! “

“Damn! These two cubs are of no use. Let’s kill them and stew them in a pot tonight!” Yue Feng scratched his head, eager to try.

Just as he finished speaking, Uncle Chen beside him said in a deep voice: “Don’t rush to kill these two cubs for meat. The meat of the yellow musk deer is said to be delicious. I have eaten it before, and it is just so-so! It is not as delicious as the white meat boiled in water at home!
Listen to me, these two brats will be useful if you keep them!”

“Huh? What’s the use?” Uncle Zhao looked at him with confusion when he heard the word “useful”.

Uncle Chen laughed and said, “It’s like using bait to lure the tiger!
Have you forgotten what you came to the mountain for? You have free yellow musk deer to use, so why would you go out and buy sheep to kill tigers?”

After hearing this, everyone at Yuefeng understood instantly.

Encountering musk deer was an unexpected gain, but the main purpose of going into the mountains was not for this thing.

Although it has not come to that point yet, the sooner or later we get there, we will definitely have to think of a way to ambush the tiger, and by then, this lively musk deer will be the best bait.

“By the way, when we went up the mountain today, did we check the den we dug yesterday? Did the tigers eat or pass by?” Grandpa Chen continued to ask.

Yue Feng grinned, “I checked it. It was dragged down and eaten at the No. 2 location you and Uncle Zhao decided on! There were footprints at the scene, and the direction it left was also in the direction of the bluestone cliff. It shouldn’t be a big problem!”

Uncle Zhao: “First, find some black cloth to cover the eyes of these musk deer and keep them in the deer pen! Leave them there overnight. I will feed them tomorrow when they are free!”

“it is good!”

……

After a brief discussion and communication, the three musk deer that were captured alive were blindfolded with dark cloth strips as suggested by Uncle Zhao, and then a hemp rope was tied around their necks. They were kept for a short period of time and there was no problem.

By the time we had dealt with the three yellow musk deer, it had already become completely dark.

Mother Meng Yulan prepared a lot of dishes to entertain guests during the New Year. After a group of people had their fill at Yue Feng’s house, the brothers went home.

After they had eaten and drunk their fill and were on the kang in the west room, Uncle Zhao couldn’t help but ask, “Did you scatter the sheep dung you brought with you when you went up the mountain today?”

Yue Feng: “I scattered it! Just as you said, I scattered it near the tree where the water fell. I don’t know if other people chased there!”

“That good bitch can even follow the path of a tiger, so it won’t be a problem for him to find the sheep shit you spread! We have done what we should do, so there is no need to worry about the rest, whether it succeeds or not!”

“Row!”

……

Yue Feng worked hard in the mountains for a day and brought back three musk deer of different sizes, so his work was not in vain.

The other hunting teams that went up the mountain on their own with their own ulterior motives were not as lucky as Yue Feng.

Just when everyone in Yue Feng’s family had finished eating and drinking, picked up the table and went back to the kang to listen to the radio and drink tea, the four dogs in the yard started barking.

When Yue Feng heard the noise, he thought Wang Xiaona had come, so he ran to open the gate of the yard.

But when he left the house, Yue Feng shouted that the person who came was not his girlfriend Wang Xiaona.

Instead, it was Uncle Zhao from the village who brought sheep dung eggs to Yue Feng!
“Uncle Zhao, why are you here so late! Come in quickly, it’s cold outside!” Yue Feng pushed open the door and greeted him.

Uncle Zhao was obviously not feeling well. He stood at the door and asked in a deep voice, “I’m not going into the house. I came here to ask you something! The dogs of the Zhang and Zhou hunting teams were poisoned to death when they went up the mountain today. Did you do it?”

(End of this chapter)