Chapter 46: I got beaten, but I must train this eagle!

“Brother Erhai, I don’t think this will work! Wait for me for a while, I’m going home to cut some leather!”

Wang Xiaonian said hello and ran home. In less than ten minutes, he came back with a piece of cowhide cut from the upper of a pair of torn cowhide boots in his hand.

This kind of cowhide was a rare commodity in that era. If the children in the village wanted to make slingshots, they would need cowhide for the slingshot bag to hold stones. Many children already had slingshot forks and rubber belts, which were stuck to the cowhide slingshot bag.

Wang Xiaonian is small and thin, but the reason he can play with Zhu Erhai and his gang is because he is smart enough.

It is difficult to tie the eagle’s legs with a rope. You can cut cowhide into appropriate length, punch holes in the cowhide, and fasten it with a rope. That will solve the problem.

After a lot of hard work, the two brothers finally assembled the two-piece cowhide version of the Big Eagle!

After tying up the eagle, Zhu Erhai couldn’t wait to imitate Yue Feng and set up the eagle.

But after trying it only once, he started wailing in pain.

Although this eagle has poor ability to catch prey, it is still a bird of prey after all. The nails on its claws are not for decoration. It just scratched four bleeding holes on Zhu Erhai’s right arm.

The two brothers realized that this was not going to work, and they hurriedly looked for their work gloves. They put the two gloves together, but their thickness was still not enough to resist Baba Eagle’s Eagle Claw Technique, and they were caught again at the tiger’s mouth and on the back of their hands.

According to the tradition of training big eagles, the older generation of falconers did not use protective equipment such as gloves. They used eagle sleeves or arm guards.

Arm armor is generally used to train large birds of prey such as eagles. The most down-to-earth one is the eagle sleeve, a device similar to a cuff.

This thing is made of cotton cloth, filled with several layers of cotton or other materials that are not easy to get through, and sewn together with needle and thread.

Those who are a little more particular will make diamond-shaped stitch patterns, patterns passed down from ancestors, and high-end goods with decorations such as sleeve cloud patterns.

Zhu Erhai did not have eagle sleeves, but he had Wang Xiaonian, the Sleeping Dragon, by his side. With Wang Xiaonian’s advice, Zhu Erhai found his brother Zhu Sanhai’s cotton trousers from the cupboard, took out a pair of scissors to cut off a leg of the trousers, then threaded the trousers with a big needle and sewed them up clumsily.

It’s true that with the eagle sleeves made of cotton trouser legs, the eagle can’t really scratch his hands. Zhu Erhai also successfully held the big eagle in his hands as he wished.

The moment he successfully flew the eagle, Zhu Erhai’s face revealed a satisfied expression of overcoming difficulties and achieving success.

All difficulties are paper tigers!

“Xiao Nian, now we have the eagle on the ledge, what should we do next?” Zhu Erhai was not happy for long as he became troubled again.

His knowledge of falconry training was not even hearsay; he knew nothing at all.

Wang Xiaonian is not much better than Zhu Erhai, but he has heard sporadic stories from the older generation.

“If you want to tame this big eagle, you have to train it!” Wang Xiaonian said in a very affirmative tone.

“Stay up all night?” After Wang Xiaonian’s reminder, Zhu Erhai also reacted.

In the Northeast dialect, there is actually a word called “熬鹰”, which means not sleeping at night and reversing day and night. At this time, the elders in the family will say, “So-and-so, you don’t sleep at night, you are staying up all night.”

“Yes, keep the eagle awake! It means not letting it sleep at night, staring at the eagle until the eagle surrenders and then listens to you!”

Based on what he heard from others, Wang Xiaonian did some secondary processing on it. What he said was true and it really sounded like the truth!
“Okay, then starting today, I’ll fight it at night! If that doesn’t work, I’ll ask my dad and brother to work overtime with me, and I’ll definitely beat it!”

“Well, the second brother can definitely outlast it!” After reaching a preliminary consensus, the two brothers happily admired the big eagle standing on their arms.

This eagle is a three-year-old adult eagle. After it was caught in the net and fell into human hands, its first reaction was definitely fear.

At this moment, it is in a state of strong stress, with a look of fear on its face, its mouth slightly open, half of its tongue exposed, its feathers pressed tightly together, and its wings drooping on both sides like a general carrying a sword. It will struggle to escape at the slightest disturbance.

What is most eye-catching is the pair of fleshy and dirty claws. I don’t know if it’s because it caught a frog in the mud or something, but there is a lot of black mud in the lines and gaps of the claws, making the already not-so-good appearance look even worse.

However, Zhu Erhai and Wang Xiaonian, who knew nothing about raptors, thought that the claws of raptors were just like this and did not think there was anything wrong with it.

After all, the bloody hole on the hand was caused by this big treasure, so it has some power.

The two brothers held the eagle and admired it for a while, then Zhu Jianshe and his wife came back from picking mushrooms in the mountains.

“Dad, Mom! I made a big eagle!” Zhu Erhai came up to the old man as if he was presenting a treasure.

Before Zhu Jianshe got angry, his wife Niu Guihua got angry first.

“Is the sleeve on your hand the cotton trouser leg of Xiao San’er? You are setting up an eagle, you want to fly to the sky?”

The next second, the punishment from the old mother came.

Niu Guihua grabbed her second son’s ear, picked up the broom beside the kang, and started beating him all over the face.

In a hurry, Zhu Erhai no longer cared about the eagle. He accidentally let go of the eagle, and it flew around in circles on the roof. Niu Guihua hit it with a broom.

The entire Zhu family was in complete chaos.

Normally, when there are guests at home, parents will most likely give their children some face. However, when Niu Guihua saw that her third child’s cotton trouser legs were damaged by her second child, she became so angry that she was furious.

When Wang Xiaonian saw that things were going badly, he turned around and ran away without even saying hello.

After being beaten up, Zhu Erhai’s face was swollen and scraped, but he did not give in this time, because he wanted to do something big.

“It was my fault to cut San’er’s cotton pants. I accept the beating, but I must discipline this eagle!” Zhu Erhai said very firmly with his neck stiff.

“What the hell? Are you trying to turn Tiangang upside down?” After hearing his son’s words, Zhu Jianshe, who had not taken any action, was a little activated at this moment, and his hand subconsciously reached for the cowhide belt.

“Dad, I’m already this old, can’t you just listen to my thoughts before deciding whether to take action or not?” Zhu Erhai was quite afraid of his father’s gun belt, and his eyes were obviously much clearer at this moment.

“Okay, I’d like to hear how ivory comes out of a pig’s mouth!”

“The second young man from the Yue family in the village…”

Zhu Erhai told his father the news he heard from his third brother, adding some exaggeration.

When he heard that live game caught by falconry could be sold in the city for money, the murderous intent in Zhu Jianshe’s eyes finally faded a little.

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