“What did you say? Why is the eagle eating a frog? What’s going on?”

Yue Lei was confused when he heard this. Normal falcons don’t like to eat toads. This is common knowledge for falconers when feeding eagles. The big black eagle at home likes to eat toads even less.

Last winter, Yue Feng and his men brought back a large female leopard, but Black Hawk didn’t even look at it.

“Aren’t we going into the mountains to find the medicine to save my brother Hu’s baby’s life?

It was relatively smooth on the way there, but on the way back, halfway through, Toad warmed up in the tent and woke up, jumped out of the bucket and almost ran away.

At that time, I was letting the eagle fly outside the tent as usual to stretch its muscles. The big black eagle saw the toad from the sky and dived down with one wings. I didn’t have time to stop it. I grabbed the toad and killed it without any hesitation!

Fortunately, the real medicine is the gelatinous mucus secreted by the toad, otherwise our trip would have been a failure!

You said that this big black eagle is usually very obedient, but it is a little bit unwilling to listen to the toad. Is it good for me to know this toad? As for other things, Xiaobai and the big black eagle have been together the whole time, so there is no difference at all! “

Yue Feng frowned and told his father again the story of the mountain eagle eating the toad. Yue Lei seemed to be thinking about something after listening to it.

A second later, Yue Lei said: “If the guard dog at home eats something poisonous, it will go outside to find herbs to detoxify and save its life. This should be an instinctive reaction.

Since the eagle is so anxious about the toad, it is very likely that it knows that eating it is good for itself! Anyway, it seems that the eagle has night vision, which has only advantages and no disadvantages. Let’s observe it later! I think it is probably related to eating the toad!
It’s a pity for my baby eagle! This fox is so vicious, there is a high probability that my baby eagle will be harmed by it! ! “

Hearing the old man mention the young eagle, Yue Feng felt a little unsure. For an eagle owl to take down a male goshawk in a night battle would be a dimensionality reduction attack, and there was almost no chance of winning.

However, Yue Feng, considering his father’s feelings, did not agree with the other party’s guess but said: “Not necessarily! There is another possibility. The baby eagle is quite clever and found the eagle owl during the day, and then was driven out of the eagle owl’s territory and dared not come back!
Now that the eagle owl is gone, there’s no one occupying its territory. Maybe tomorrow when you go to the unit and whistle, the baby eagle will come back!”

A glimmer of hope flashed in Yue Lei’s eyes, and he nodded: “I hope so!”

……

The grandfather and grandfather finished their brief communication, and the old man went back to his room to sleep. Yue Feng touched the big black eagle’s breast, turned off the light and lay down to rest.

During the two days of rest at home, the fatigue from climbing the mountain was basically completely recovered. It has been several days since I returned home, and I have been looking for eagles and doing other things. Yue Feng has not had time to visit the breeding farm.

After all, Wu Keji is Uncle Zhao’s brother. No matter what, he should report to Uncle Zhao as soon as possible after returning.

The next morning, Yue Feng got up on time at dawn. After having breakfast at home, he took the four wolf-blooded cubs with him, packed a few bags of supplies and military canned food from the side room of the new house, and then rode his motorcycle to the farm on the mountain.

After the snow, Uncle Zhao became much more active in the mountains than in spring, summer and autumn.

Yue Feng brought four wolf-blooded dogs into the mountains, but the two eagles in the old man’s hands had already been killed.

When not taking care of the livestock on the farm, he spends most of his time either hibernating in the house, or taking coal briquettes and two hawks to nearby ditches and ponds to release hawks, or to go hunting.

Just then, when Yue Feng arrived at the entrance of the breeding farm on his motorcycle, he found the gate was locked. Yue Feng knew that the old man must have gone out for a stroll again.

Yue Feng took out the door key from his pocket, opened the door, and then pushed the motorcycle into the yard.

The fire door of the stove in the room was temporarily sealed. Yue Feng opened it and took a look. Judging from the burning condition of the fire, the old man should have been out for at least one to two hours.

There wasn’t much to do today, so Yue Feng wasn’t in a hurry to find the old man. He used the stove hook to open the sealed stove door and added a few pieces of firewood. Soon the stove was burning brightly.

Yue Feng fixed the stove and boiled water, then he walked over to the breeding cage with his hands behind his back.

Speaking of the breeding farms on the mountain now, they are quite lively. A blind sika deer gave birth to two fawns. Even though the fawns were weaned, the mother deer did not slaughter them. They are still being fed and well-nourished every day.

In addition to the sika deer, there are also three female musk deer caught by eagles last year. They also contributed four cubs in the spring. They are now kept in a cage with brick walls on all four sides and a wire mesh covering the top of their heads.

In addition to sika deer and musk deer, the largest species in the farm is sable. After the breeding period, the total number of sable mothers and the new generation of cubs in Yuefeng Farm has exceeded 50.

In particular, the albino female mink lived up to everyone’s expectations and gave birth to three cubs in the spring, all of which survived.

These three albino female minks gave birth to two females and one male. Although their appearance is no different from other sable cubs, because they carry the recessive genes of their mothers, they are given top-level treatment in the breeding farm. Even the food they eat is slightly higher than that of ordinary sables.

That’s not even counting the three gyrfalcon chicks that were kept in cages. If you add the bear cub Coal Ball and the four wolf cubs, the farm has quite a lot of people.

After walking around outside the cages and taking a look at each one, Yue Feng returned to the stove in the main house.

No one can compare to Uncle Zhao’s ability to take care of livestock. The cages are all kept tidy and clean, and Yue Feng doesn’t need to worry about anything.

After a while, the kettle on the stove boiled. Yue Feng poured the boiling water into the thermos bottle with ease, and then took out the jasmine tea that was delivered to the mountain last time from the small cupboard and made it for himself.

The jasmine tea of ​​that era was made with real ingredients. The fragrance filled the room when the boiling water was poured. Holding the teacup, blowing off the foam and taking a sip was so refreshing!!!

Yue Feng patiently drank tea in the room for a while. Around ten o’clock, he heard the sound of a door being pushed open.

“Woof woof woof!” The dogs in the yard recognized Uncle Zhao and barked happily a few times.

Yue Feng immediately went out of the house to greet them, and saw Uncle Zhao carrying a roe deer, with Meiqiu following beside him, and they were closing the gate.

“Uncle! This is a roe deer!” Yue Feng shouted to greet him.

“Yeah! The day before yesterday when I was patrolling the mountains, I heard a group of roe deer calling over in Erdaogou. Today the weather is good, so I went to get one! Go away, Coal Ball, stop pestering me, go ask him for some candy!”

Uncle Zhao coaxed the fatter Coal Ball like coaxing a child, then carried the roe deer to the warehouse and hung it up temporarily.

After finishing all these trivial matters, the old man blew a whistle towards the sky, and two white gyrfalcons dived down swiftly and landed on Uncle Zhao’s arms.

“Hey! These two white spears are really working!!” Yue Feng said with a smile.

“I guess so. It’s not as good as your big black eagle, but when you go out hunting, you know how to chase the prey and kick it. It’s still a little lacking in courage and confidence! Did your trip into the mountains go smoothly this time?”

Yue Feng took out some candy and gave it to Meiqiu to eat while saying, “It was pretty smooth. Uncle Wu took us up the mountain and took care of everything. I learned a lot from him along the way!
By the way, the owner gave me a reward of 10,000 yuan before I left. I gave 6,000 yuan to Uncle Wu. He asked me to tell him that when I have time, I will come to the mountain to have a drink with you!”

Hearing about the money and the message for drinking, Uncle Zhao curled his lips and said, “This guy has been suspicious since he was young. Now he is half buried in the earth, but he is still so cautious!

The first night you left home, he sent someone to the mountain to find me to verify the situation!
I told you to come and have a drink with me, but you are just trying to get me to pay for it! If you take the reward, it means you haven’t used up the favor you owe me! You can always go find him later if you need anything!”

“Ok?”

Hearing this, Yue Feng was slightly stunned.

Yue Feng had considered the matter of taking the bulk of the bounty, but he did not expect that Wu Keji would send someone to the mountain to find Uncle Zhao to verify the situation.

Considering that the problem with the horse he was carrying up the mountain had delayed the process for a day, Yue Feng instantly connected all the details together.

Uncle Wu is too cautious.

“You don’t have to be stunned. If he can teach you something, he must recognize you! When you have time, go to his place and take some things with you. You won’t suffer any loss!”

“Yes, I’ll listen to you! By the way, sir, do you know what effect the toad from the Holy Maiden Lake has after eating it? Something happened after we came down the mountain. The toad was…”

Yue Feng told the old man the whole story about how the big black eagle ate the toad and now had night vision.

Uncle Zhao shook his head after hearing this: “I’ve never heard of it. Even your grandfather, Eagle Head, never mentioned it! If it were true that eagles could see at night, he would definitely think of a way to find it and feed it to his own eagles!”

“Okay!” Yue Feng spread his hands and didn’t continue to dwell on this topic.

No matter whether this issue is viewed from the perspective of metaphysics or science, there are a lot of uncertainties. It is hard to say whether it can be reproduced. Moreover, Yue Feng does not consider hunting at night under normal circumstances. For the time being, this thing can only be regarded as icing on the cake.

If we have to be concerned about one thing, it is that when the new eagle cubs hatch next spring, we don’t know whether they can inherit the black eagle’s night vision ability. If there is a chance of getting an eagle chick with night vision, then the commercial value will be high, just like the albino sable, a world-class existence.

For the next few hours, Yue Feng stayed on the mountain. The father and son stewed the roe deer they had just hunted with potatoes and other things. Yue Feng also drank two taels of wine with the old man. After they were full, they said goodbye and left.

After leaving the farm, there were still a few hours before dark. Yue Feng thought about it and somehow rode his sidecar motorcycle back to the forest farm. (End of this chapter)