Reborn in the 1980s: I made my fortune hunting wild game in Changbai Mountain
Chapter 429: Uncle Chen’s Caged Eagle
After catching the first sparrow, Yue Feng had completed most of his work of releasing the young eagle.
The pine nuts are small in size and relatively softer in nature, so they don’t need to be handled like a kite or an eagle, and require a gradual approach.
As long as it is not fed enough, after catching a bird, hold it on the hook for a while, and then as long as the hawk still recognizes the bird with the string hanging on it, you can basically continue to release it.
Yue Feng is a pine nut who works very efficiently. As long as he can get within ten meters, he almost never misses his target.
Yue Feng did not give the eagle too much food for the last few sparrows. He just opened their skulls and gave the eagle some of their brains, while he preserved almost all the remaining intact sparrows.
In less than an hour in the morning, Yue Feng released five sparrows, and then Liupandanda returned home with the eaglet.
When they reached the back of their old house, Xiao Tao and his brothers also walked out of the door with their arms folded.
“Hey, are you all full?” Yue Feng glanced at the three of them and greeted them.
These guys are still a little lazy when it comes to falcon training.
Recently, I always go to Yue Feng’s house to have breakfast after daybreak, and then go out together after breakfast to do the face-saving operation for Ying Chuang.
“Boss, why didn’t you wait for us today? Where did you go so early in the morning?” Xiaowen asked curiously.
Yue Feng patted his jacket pocket and said, “I helped Song Zier become an eagle. I caught five sparrows and fed them all to the eagle!”
“Already…put it on? Why does the eagle in our hands not look so good?”
Xiao Tao came closer, took a look, and reached into Yue Feng’s pocket.
Sure enough, four sparrows were neatly placed there, covered in blood.
“Hehe, if you get up later in the morning, it will take two more days!” Yue Feng curled his lips and said unhappily.
No wonder Yue Feng teased them. He had reminded them at breakfast two days ago that they could get up half an hour earlier in the morning and fiddle with the eagle while the sun was bright, which would make them more efficient.
But the three brothers were too familiar with Yue Feng and did not take Yue Feng’s words seriously.
Now, the little eagles that were caught on the same day by Yue Feng have all been used, but the eagles in the hands of the three of them are still not ready.
“Well, isn’t this a normal habit?! Starting tomorrow morning, we’ll have to get up early with you!
Well, Brother Feng, take a look at the eagle in our hands. What is its condition? What adjustments should we make next?”
Xiaowen came up with a laugh and placed the little eagle in his hand in front of Yue Feng.
Yue Feng himself was not really angry, he was just complaining as usual.
He lowered his head to glance at the main eight-chest eagle in Xiaowen’s hand. After a few days of flattening and breaking into the face, the little eagle has also opened its face, but it just lacks a little bit of affinity.
To be frank, if Xiaowen and Yuefeng got up at the same time this morning and played with the eagle in the same way, this one should be able to be strung up and put on the eagle by now.
“The hair around the eyes of this monkey has spread out! Pinch some hair during the day, and try it in the evening. It should be ready to put on!” Yue Feng said truthfully.
“What about mine?”
“And this one of mine?”
The brothers Xiaowu and Xiaotao also placed their main falcons in front of Yue Feng.
The timing is almost right, and they are all just one step away from becoming an eagle and landing on the ground.
“It’s the same with your two little eagles. Don’t rush to feed them after picking up food. Hang the string in the evening and throw a few to try!
If I can’t become an eagle this evening, I will definitely be able to do it tomorrow morning!
The eagles have already shed their feathers this morning, right?” Yue Feng continued to ask.
“A little bit!”
“I’ve got this one too!”
“I didn’t have any problem with this. I didn’t eat much hair when I was eating yesterday!” Xiaowu scratched his head, feeling a little lacking in confidence.
Yue Feng glanced at Xiao Wu and said, “You were too lazy. You didn’t wet the hair with water when you cooked!”
“Hehe, um!” Xiaowu scratched his head with a wry smile.
“I think your eagle is going to be in trouble this evening. Give it water twice more during the day. Let it urinate twice more while beating it!”
Yue Feng did not demand too much from Xiaowu, but instead proposed some targeted response plans.
“Okay, I’ll definitely remember it!”
“Don’t just stand there, find a place to go and keep watching the eagle’s condition, especially when it encounters small birds. Look at the eagle’s eyes and expression. If its eyes are lively, then you’re almost there!
This quota of two eagles per person is for me to teach you how to train eaglets step by step so that you can practice.
You will have to train the newly captured eagle by yourselves, so don’t blame me for not teaching you the details when the time comes!”
“Hey, okay!”
…After meeting with the three brothers and giving them some simple technical instructions, Yue Feng temporarily separated from them.
Temporarily put a cap on this clean pine nut and tie it to the eagle bar to digest the food in the crop. You don’t have to worry too much about it in the morning.
Yue Feng tied up the other pine nut that was almost cooked with his eagle coat, flattened it casually, and strolled to the woods by the creek to check on this morning’s harvest.
I was lucky again today. I had four nets, two of which were pine nuts, one was a breast swing, and the other net had a hole in it that was a size bigger than a fist.
I don’t know if some large bird of prey or pheasant accidentally hit the net and broke the upper half of it.
Among the three pine nuts that had just been netted, there was a ten-eight eagle that looked quite handsome. From all aspects of appearance, it was only slightly inferior to the pure feather eagle in Yue Feng’s hand, and it could be considered a first-class good eagle.
Over the past few days, Yue Feng’s family has accumulated more than a dozen pine nuts. In addition to the two pine nuts that each of his hunting team members serves, there are also quite a few new eggs tied to the eagle pole.
After Yue Feng inspected the fishing nets, he walked back leisurely. When he got home, he took four pine nuts and tied them up with his eagle coat. Then he rode his side tricycle and headed straight for Uncle Chen’s house.
Before the New Year, Yue Feng mentioned to Uncle Chen that he wanted to wait until the spring when the falconry season came and ask him to help recruit some people to expand the falconry team. The old man had released falcons himself for a whole winter and knew that the profits from this were quite high, so he decisively agreed to Yue Feng’s request.
Now that more than half of the young eagles have been caught, it is time to go to Uncle Chen’s house and put the matter of expanding the team on the agenda.
With the tricycle, the travel time was greatly shortened. In less than ten minutes, Yue Feng arrived at Uncle Chen’s house.
“Uncle! Are you at home?” Yue Feng parked the motorcycle and shouted at the door.
“Xiao Feng is here, come in quickly!!”
Soon, Aunt Chen came out from the north room.
“Where is my uncle? He’s not at home?” Yue Feng asked, scratching his head.
“Your uncle went out early in the morning to release the eagle to get food. According to the schedule, he will be back in half an hour at most! I will make you some tea first, and I will be back soon!”
“Oh, that’s fine! I’m not in a hurry to drink the tea. Where is the place where my uncle cages the eagle? Auntie, can you take me to see it?”
“In the east warehouse! Your uncle has locked the door. I’ll go get you the key!”
Soon, Aunt Chen took out the key to the east warehouse from the house. Yue Feng took a rough look around through the crack in the door, and then carefully opened the door.
The entire warehouse had been almost completely cleared out. The floor was covered with river sand, and under the bars were scattered eagle droppings and a small number of bird feathers.
It can be seen that Uncle Zhao put a lot of effort into trapping this slow-moving eagle.
At this moment, the big eagle had its legs removed and was completely free in the warehouse, standing on a pole nearly two meters high, looking at Yue Feng, the uninvited guest, with vigilant eyes.
The molting progress of this slow-flecked eagle is slightly faster than that of Yue Feng’s iron-backed red eagle on the mountain. About one-third of the breast stripes on its chest have moved, and its wings and back are not very clear, but the overall progress is good.
After carefully observing the door, Yue Feng did not stay in the warehouse any longer. He turned around, locked the door, and followed Aunt Chen into the north room.
“You don’t know that your Uncle Chen cares more about this big eagle than me!!
As soon as it was daybreak, he took the little orchid eagle out to catch sparrows.
Ever since the eagle lost its first feather, we have been going out to catch thieves every day. We have to catch a dozen thieves every day to feed the eagle!” Aunt Chen said in a mumbling tone.
“Hehe! My uncle goes out for a walk often, so he can get more exercise! It’s just his hobby, so you have to support him, auntie!” Yue Feng said with a laugh.
As we were chatting, we heard some noise at the door. Uncle Chen strode into the house, holding the small orchid basket in his hand.
“How long has Xiao Feng been here? You old woman, the baby is here, why didn’t you go out and call me?!”
Uncle Chen muttered something, put the little eagle on the falcon stand, then turned around and sat next to Yue Feng.
“Hey, I just got here! How’s it going? Did you catch a few old house sparrows?”
“Eleven, the little blue eagle will eat two, and the remaining nine will be given to the big eagle. It will be just enough food for the day!!”
While speaking, Uncle Zhao took off the shoulder bag he was carrying and took out the live sparrows one by one.
Seeing this technique of playing with the sparrow, Yue Feng grinned. This is a technique that only experienced hunters can use, and ordinary hawk hunters may not be able to do it.
The so-called “coiling the sparrow” is to press the sparrow’s wings down, and then spread its legs upwards, so that the bends of the legs and the bends of the wings are woven together.
It’s similar to a healthy person putting his arms around his legs and holding onto a tree trunk or telephone pole without anyone’s help. This way, the sparrow can be secured without any external force, preventing it from flying away or running away.
“Hey, sir, you are really good at playing Mahjong!
Well, put the hat on this orchid first, I brought you some young eagles! ! Didn’t I tell you about releasing the young eagles before the New Year? Now it’s time! ! ”
“You brought it? Where is it?”
When Uncle Chen heard Yue Feng’s call, he casually put the eagle hat on Lanhua Duozi. The little Lanhua Duozi did not dodge at all and let his master put the hat on him and then squatted on the falconry to relax.
Seeing that Lanhua had fastened her hat, Yue Feng turned around and took out Xiao Songzi, who was tied with the eagle coat, from his bag.
When seeing Yue Feng taking out the pine nuts, Uncle Zhao’s eyes immediately lit up. (End of this chapter)