Reborn in the 1980s: I made my fortune hunting wild game in Changbai Mountain

Chapter 468: ‘Master’ Eagle Training

In response to Xiao Tao’s question, Yue Feng picked up the water cup on the table and took a sip of water, then smiled slowly and shook his head.

“If you don’t even know what 酽豆黄 means, how can you be a master! You may have been playing with eagles for decades, but you only know the basics of this field. It’s far from enough!”

After Xiao Tao got the correct answer, he got angry and said indignantly: “What does 酽豆黄 mean?

Since what he said was wrong, why don’t you just confront him directly instead of being so polite to him just now?

He’s just practicing jumping punches and he’s still pretending to be so good. If you don’t know him, you might think he has some advanced skills!”

Yue Feng explained: “The dark bean yellow is half a shade darker than the bean yellow, but half a shade lighter than the red eagle’s feathers!

In fact, it is a subspecies of the common bean yellow eagle, but the individuals are slightly stronger in physical fitness!

Didn’t I tell you before that the eagle’s skills and abilities are clearly written on its body!
An eagle that has sufficient food in its nest, eats well and grows well will have better quality feathers, and from the appearance, the color will be slightly darker than its peers!
The eagle of the dark yellow color is generally slightly stronger than the ordinary yellow eagle, but the specific situation depends on the other skeletons, body shape, head and face, etc.

After hearing Yue Feng’s explanation, Xiao Tao suddenly understood and nodded, and continued to ask: “The big eagle just now was not even as yellow as ordinary beans! Why don’t you expose this old guy’s boasting?”

Yue Feng grinned and said, “We don’t even know the other person’s name, what’s the point in exposing him?
No matter whether he is really stupid or pretending to be stupid, it is better to let the idiot continue to be stupid than to tell him the truth!

Even if you tell him the correct answer, the other party may not agree with it. Instead, you may offend him and it will be another waste of time and mood with a bunch of verbal battles!
Besides, when we are out and about, why should we make enemies with others if there is no conflict of interest?

Didn’t Jun Ge say at lunch that these two people are relatives of his leader? If they are powerful, it would be a shame if we were to offend them by being rude! ! “

If someone else were to give these long speeches and put forth these profound truths in his ear, Xiao Tao might not be able to have the patience to listen to them all.

But Yue Feng is different. Xiao Tao is such a carefree guy, but when he is next to Yue Feng, he will do whatever he is told to do, and if you explain the reason to him, he will listen with an open mind and take it seriously.

There is an old saying that “one thing conquers another” and it is very appropriate to apply it to the daily interactions between Yue Feng and Xiao Tao.

“If you put it that way, it seems like there’s really no need to expose him!
And what he said just now was that he could catch two sacks of jumping cats and pheasants in a day. He must be bragging, right?

Last winter, it snowed, and I used our big iron-backed red hawk to go up the mountain to release hawks, but I only caught more than 20 rabbits, pheasants, etc. in a day! “

Yue Feng curled his lips and said: “Don’t even mention Ironback Red. Even if it’s the big black eagle of our hunting team, with prey lined up waiting for it to catch, two sacks of prey can tire the eagle to death!

These two are just a bunch of idiots. Their skills may not be passed down to their parents, but their habit of bragging is definitely inherited!”

“Hahahaha, I won’t argue with you if you say that!!” Xiao Tao immediately grinned.

The two brothers lay down in the guesthouse, chatted and rested for a while. At around five o’clock, Brother Jun came back from outside in his car.

Two chicken cages were taken from the car, filled with a dozen tile-gray pigeons of various sizes.

Hearing the noise, Yue Feng and Xiao Tao came out.

“You bought it back so quickly!”

Ye Jianjun: “How is it? Is it enough? If not, I’ll go find someone to buy more! The guy selling pigeons said it’s hard to catch them during the day. It took a lot of effort to get these. If I want to use them again, it’s best to go there at night!”

Yue Feng nodded, took a pigeon out of the cage, looked at it, and put it back under his belly.

After watching it, Yue Feng thought to himself: “Brother Jun is really domineering. The hair under the belly of this pigeon is half-fallen off. It is obvious that it is a pigeon lying in the nest to incubate eggs. But it was bought back!”

“It’s enough. If I’m lucky, the damage won’t be too great and I won’t need so much!”

“That’s fine! How about taking a rest? I’ll take you to dinner later. You don’t have anything to do in the evening, so I can drink with you!”

Yue Feng grinned and said, “Hey, take a stroll around the small square at the back, and you’ll see the two falcon trainers you mentioned!

After chatting for a while, I came back and lay down for a while. After a good night’s sleep, all my problems were gone!”

“What do you think of the level of those two guys?” When Ye Jianjun heard Yue Feng mention the eagle training expert, he immediately became interested.

“Truth or lies?”

“Of course it’s the truth. If you keep me in suspense, I’ll punish you!”

Yue Feng smiled and said, “To be honest, he is quite good at pretending, but his ability to train and play with eagles is quite average.

I guess he’s probably about the same level as Xiao Tao!”

“Okay, then I understand! Since they don’t have anything real, then I made the right decision by calling you here this time!
At the beginning, our leader was actually quite dismissive of this project of training eagles and driving away birds. The Americans were all using it, but he was quite resistant to it!

You and Xiao Tao should work harder and try to pass the evaluation and acceptance. Then I can operate the eagle openly in the company in the future!” “Is it just for this?”

Yue Feng was somewhat speechless after hearing this. Young Master Ye’s pursuit was too plain and simple, which was not quite like his style.

“Not entirely. If this project can pass the inspection, then I can transfer my responsibilities to the position of leader of the bird-scaring team.

This thing is leisurely and takes a lot of time. When I’m busy with business in the winter, it’s convenient to go out for a stroll!
You don’t know, my father at home is very strict, and I have to work here, and I have to do some things to maintain some relationships and connections. It’s not easy for me!”

The more he talked, the more aggrieved Jun felt. After all, he was only a few years older than Yue Feng. No matter how mature and steady he was, how could he be?

Now that everyone in the room is family, it is understandable that he takes the opportunity to vent his grievances.

After finishing their business, the three brothers boasted for a while in the house. When it was time for dinner, brother Jun brought brother Yuefeng to the restaurant again.

Compared to the lunch of four dishes and one soup from the air force kitchen, this meal was more comfortable.

I don’t know how Brother Jun and the kitchen staff arranged it, but the table was filled with delicious dishes such as Feilong soup, deer lips, fine-scaled fish, and larger prawns.

Feilong Soup is not a rare thing for Yue Feng. He deals with it almost every day when hunting in autumn and winter. It is also something he has at home. He makes it every now and then when he feels like it.

There is quite a story about deer lips. The lips of Deer Dahan are one of the real mountain delicacies, with the same status as bear paws or even slightly higher.

Besides, this fine-scaled fish was definitely considered a river delicacy even at that time. It had garlic-like meat and was chewy. The chef’s cooking was also delicious, a significant improvement over the home-cooked method.

These delicacies from mountains and rivers would have been fine, but when the prawns were served, Xiao Tao was shocked again.

What are prawns? They are two pairs of shrimp per pound.

Each shrimp weighs half a pound, so just imagine how big it is. It is two sizes bigger than the shrimp we had at noon.

Xiao Tao, a country bumpkin, has broadened his horizons by following Yue Feng out.

In comparison, Yue Feng, who had witnessed the era of material abundance in later generations, behaved quite calmly. His calmness while eating surprised Ye Jianjun.

If there was something to talk about, the conversation would be long; if there was nothing to talk about, the conversation would be short. In the evening, the three brothers drank a pound and a half of strong liquor, and then went back to the dormitory of the guesthouse to drink some tea. Then Brother Jun and the two younger brothers separated and set out early the next morning to catch eagles.

After Ye Jianjun left, Yue Feng took the paper map he brought and began to study it.

The main channel of Songjiang River, Yingtun, Huiwan Plain Wetland, the airport base, the surrounding slightly higher hills and other places slowly emerged in Yue Feng’s mind like an electronic map.

After some research, Yue Feng had a preliminary plan in mind. He and Xiao Tao fetched water to wash their feet, then went to bed, turned on the lights and rested.

On the other side, in another row of guesthouse dormitories not far from where Yue Feng lived, the lights were on.

Li Wenzhe, an expert in falcon training, was squatting on a chair beside the bed, holding a hawk to light a lamp.

To train a hawk is to train a hawk. If you want to train a hawk, training the hawk is a necessary process. This ordinary bean-yellow hawk has been training for seven days from the time it was put down from the net.

Seeing this, some people may be confused. When Yue Feng trained a big eagle before, after seven days, the eagle could already do some jumping and even run ten meters away. Why is it that Li Wenzhe is fiddling with an ordinary bean yellow eagle, and after a week, the eagle is still so nervous.

I have to say here that there are only so many core skills, and what often affects the results are the details.

Although Li Wenzhe likes to brag, he has indeed been handling eagles for quite some time. When he first learned falconry from his father, he only had a superficial understanding and did not master the skill thoroughly.

During this period of hawk-watching, you have to light lamps at night and you cannot be lazy during the day.

The best strategy is to carry a large eagle across the face during the day, day and night, and the eagle does not rest even when the person is resting. In the early years, some ruthless eagle trainers would carry an eagle alone, and would not stop until the eagle was performing well.

As for Li Wenzhe, the intensity of his eagle-like face-breaking moves during the day was significantly lower than normal.

I did not slack off at night, but I did not take the daytime rushes seriously. Sometimes, when I was too lazy to go out, I would just sit on a chair at home or even in the house and sleep.

This small detail results in the same eagle being trained by Li Wenzhe at least two to three days slower than that trained by others.

If the eagle cannot get through the prey, it will become cunning in its work and can only seek balance by losing weight more ruthlessly (reducing the weight for hunting).

They can still go hunting, but the eagles trained in this way have poor physical reserves, and their ability to perform in actual combat will be significantly reduced.

Just because of this small detail, Li Wenzhe’s falcon training skills can only be considered second-rate.

Yue Feng joked that he was not as good as Xiao Tao, but he was not exaggerating. In terms of the key points of eagle training, Xiao Tao learned from Yue Feng and was much better than Li Wenzhe, the eagle training master. (End of this chapter)