Chapter 63: Awakening

After deducting the rations for the eagles at home, the prey of the four eagles can basically be sold for about 100 to 80 yuan in cash every day.

As the leader of the Eagle Hunters, Yue Feng was responsible for most of the money from the sale. During this period, he saved more than 16 yuan in cash. If he had not been busy waiting for the big Black Hawk in the mountains, Yue Feng would have bought the No. barreled shotgun from the next village long ago.

After a brief greeting between the brothers, Xiao Tao skillfully counted everyone’s harvest for the day, then carefully loaded it into a wicker basket on the back seat of his bicycle, and rode the bicycle to deliver the goods.

When Xiao Tao came back with the money from selling game, he went to Meng Yulan to enter the accounts, and then everyone in the family lifted the lids on their pots and ate. After they were full and the money for the day was distributed, everyone went home to rest.

Generally speaking, all team members would go back to their homes before 8:30, and today was about the same time. After everyone left, Yue Feng went to bed on the kang in his west room early to catch up on his sleep.

At one o’clock in the middle of the night, Yue Feng was awakened by his father. Yue Feng got up and washed his face with cold water, then took over the big eagle squatting on Yue Lei’s arm.

In the past week, Yue Lei basically put down the eagle and went to bed before midnight. Today, his son said he wanted to stay up all night, so Yue Lei went to bed an hour later.

At this moment, the big red eagle in his hand also felt a little sleepy. At this time of the year, it should be asleep.

Yue Feng held the eagle and adjusted himself to the feel of it. Then he began to stroke the eagle’s breast with his hand and tried to touch its head.

The wild eagle is very resistant to people touching its head and chest feathers. After all, in its cognition, these are vital parts.

Whenever Yue Feng touched it, the eagle would be alert for a while. When its condition eased a little, Yue Feng would touch it again. After several consecutive times, Yue Feng’s “harassment” expanded from the eagle’s head and breast to its claws, tail, back and other parts.

No matter where you touch, the main purpose is to prevent the eagle from sleeping and to let the eagle gradually adapt to human touch and reduce its vigilance towards humans.

The eagle training described in many movies and TV shows is that the eagle and the human stare at each other in a willpower competition, as if the human will win in the end and the eagle will surrender.

This statement is actually wrong. There are a lot of details in the techniques, such as Yue Feng’s “dirty hands” which are one of the true meanings of “eagle training”.

The process of training a falcon is to desensitize it in a programmed way, allowing it to gradually relax its guard against humans and know that humans will not harm it. Combined with a two-pronged approach of reducing its weight and cleaning its stomach, the eagle can be slowly adjusted to a hunting state where it is not afraid of humans but is still hungry.

Theoretically speaking, the most ideal state for a newly trained falcon is that it is completely not afraid of people, is hungry, and has enough physical reserves to go head-on into the wild to fight rabbits and pheasants.

Yue Feng held the eagle and changed his sitting or standing position every once in a while in the room. Before he knew it, two hours had passed.

After three o’clock in the morning, the eagle was obviously sleepy. It did not respond to routine touches, grooming, or even rubbing of its claws. Its eyelids closed, and the fur on its head and face completely relaxed.

Seeing that the eagle was completely exposed, Yue Feng changed his move again.

Turn your wrist!
With a slight turn of the wrist wrapped in the eagle sleeve, the eagle on the hand will lose its balance and start flapping its wings and struggling a few times. After this, the eagle will immediately become much more energetic.

Every once in a while, Yue Feng would turn his wrist, not letting the eagle rest. He would use various techniques to touch it, trying his best to drain the eagle’s physical and mental strength.

Yue Feng didn’t blink the whole night, until the sky turned bright outside and the big rooster in the village crowed, Yue Feng finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The first big night is over.

Yue Feng carried the hawk from the house to the center of the yard. He first went to the thatched house in the southwest corner to urinate, and then walked slowly in the yard with the hawk in his hand.

As soon as the sun rose, the eagle became energetic. Yue Feng didn’t sleep last night, so it didn’t get any rest either. But the biological rhythm is here. When the sun rose, just like when a person is too hungry, he no longer feels hungry. The eagle became energetic again. At this time, in the yard and on the street outside, the chirping sounds of various sparrows and birds began to sound one after another, and the eyes of the big red eagle also became lively.

This state of being alert is different from that of a trained kite looking around when it goes out to work. In a nutshell, it is a bit hungry and instinctively wants to find food, but it is being controlled by others and feels unsafe, which is a contradictory emotion.

Seeing this scene, Yue Feng knew that the power of staying up all night was beginning to show.

Yue Feng decisively carried the eagle back to the house, then dipped a piece of clean white cotton cloth in water and dripped water on the eagle’s beak.

The eagle had not slept all night and was already very thirsty. When it saw water falling to its mouth, it smacked its lips, tried to make sure it was safe, and soon began to drink in big gulps.

Yue Feng knew that this cold water was the most savage thing for the eagle. As long as the eagle continued to drink, he would keep giving it until the eagle turned its head away and stopped drinking.

After happily feeding the eagle, Yue Feng once again came to the yard with the eagle on his wing.

Sit for a while, then get up and walk around. When you get tired of walking, go back to the bench and sit for a while.

In less than an hour, the eagle, after drinking the water, raised its tail and puffed out a stream of water.

What is a water bar? A normal eagle bar is a white and black state, showing a straight line, with the white at the near end and the black at the farthest end.

This eagle has not eaten for eight days since it placed the net. There is no food in its stomach. The poop it poops out is basically water-like. This is called water poop.

After finishing the water strips, Yue Feng knew that the opportunity to feed the eagle had come.

He turned around and went back into the house with the eagle on his head, and took a small bowl that had been prepared long ago from the stove.

In the small bowl were a few pieces of breast meat from a sand chicken, and at the bottom of the bowl, there was a little bit of dark red blood seeping out of the lean meat.

Yue Feng took some water from the jar with one hand and poured it into the bowl, then he carried the bowl out of the house.

After adding water, the dark red blood in the bowl was diluted and turned into a light pink color. Yue Feng grabbed the short eagle’s two halves with his right hand, then picked up a piece of red meat with his left hand and rubbed it on the eagle’s mouth.

The eagle didn’t eat it, but habitually smacked its lips and tasted the blood on the meat.

Clean water has no taste when consumed, but blood water is different. The faint smell of blood directly amplifies the eagle’s hunger.

Yue Feng pinched the meat with his left hand and continued to seduce it at the eagle’s mouth. This time, not only was it stained with blood, but he also deliberately hung it on the hook of the eagle’s mouth.

The eagle’s beak was equally sharp. Yue Feng consciously seduced it, and a piece of flesh along with blood stuck to the eagle’s beak.

When the eagle smacked its lips to drink the water, the shredded meat was swallowed.

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