Chapter 79: Feeding pork to eagles, being smart
Some people may be confused after seeing this. In this era, isn’t it true that guns and hunting are not banned? Why do you want to join the agricultural protection team and go through the formalities?
To answer more accurately, in this era, the management of guns and ammunition is indeed very loose. However, if the national policy is imposed, villagers who hold guns privately also need to go through relevant procedures. However, objective conditions lead to some supervision. Difficulty, there are practical problems in the geographical environment in Northeast China, it is just a matter of convention that the people do not appoint officials and do not follow the rules.
As for the ban on hunting, this is looser than the control of guns.
Sparrows are still one of the four pests these days. Every autumn before the food harvest, they are found near the foot of the mountain. The farmland will be harmed by wild boars, bears, badgers and other wild animals descending from the mountains.
The current situation in rural areas at that time was that as long as there was a legitimate reason, in principle, there were no clear restrictions on village hunters hunting these ferocious beasts that harmed villagers' production, life, and collection outside mountainous areas.
Not only are there no restrictions, they are also encouraged and even organized. Before the autumn harvest every year, many larger villages will organize agricultural teams to go into the mountains and sweep around to ensure the safety of the autumn harvest.
As far as Yue Feng knows, around the 1980s, except for the Siberian tiger, which required municipal approval before being allowed to be hunted, there were basically no other large and small mountain livestock active in the Changbai Mountains. Big illegal problem.
Of course, the good days of doing whatever you want are not long gone. After the Wildlife Protection Law was promulgated at the end of 1988, there were many more restrictions on hunting by mountain people. In 1996, gun management After the law was enacted, hunting with a gun in the mountains became an illegal act that could only be carried out secretly and privately.
"Speak, what are you thinking about? If I show my face, your Uncle Wang should be able to agree!" Yue Feng was distracted when his father's voice brought him back to reality.
"Don't worry about the gun. Anyway, it's still a month before it snows! During this period, let's fly the eagle first. The money to buy the gun, including today's 800, will definitely be enough. Tao If you can’t exchange it with other hunters’ ones, we’ll just buy new ones!” Yue Feng also made up his mind.
“You can’t buy that barrel-mounted gun. You have to stick out the handle every time you fire. It’s too slow to change bullets. It’s too dangerous if you encounter a bad guy! It’s still 56 and a half, and it fires ten bullets in a row. It's done!" Yue Lei clearly opposed his son buying a modified single-shot shotgun.
In his previous life, Yue Lei also mentioned similar remarks to Yue Feng, but Yue Feng didn't take it seriously at all.
But after experiencing the killing of Xiong Cangzi because the bear sat on his butt, Yue Feng realized how foresight his father was.
“Okay, I’ll listen to you!” Yue Feng nodded and agreed.
"By the way, if you're going to the city again, can you help me inquire about radio tickets? I've been at home all day, and it's hard to get out of the house. It's so suffocating!"
Hearing my father's request , Yue Feng was in a trance again.
This was the first time in Yue Feng's life that he heard his father use a negotiating tone to ask him to buy things for the family.
"Okay, I will go to the ghost market tomorrow morning and try to find a way to get a radio ticket. If the supply and marketing cooperative has the goods, I will buy it directly!" Yue Feng agreed without hesitation.
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While the father-in-law and father-in-law were making future plans in the room, Zhou Jianjun and his son on the other side also felt that they had made a big deal.
A group of three people and two eagles signed the voucher from Yue Feng’s house. The three of them didn’t even bother to go home for lunch. They turned around and left the village, turned a corner and went up again. Mountain.
Because the Yue Feng family was selling eagles today, Xiaotao and the others, including the Zhang brothers, all had a day off and did not go up the mountain to fly eagles.
The few bright spots on the edge of the village have become the temporary territory where Zhou Jianjun and the three of them fly.
The elders say that there is fire in the eagle, and you will not be tired or hungry when flying the eagle. At this moment, Zhou Jianjun and the three of them feel this kind of excitement. The six prey caught by Yue Feng during the trial work in the morning were not taken away. Counting the prey caught by Jianjun and others last week, the total number of prey had reached 17 as it approached two o'clock in the afternoon.
Including 13 flying dragons, plus four sand half chickens.
Although there is still a big gap between the 30 preys a day mentioned by Yue Feng, Zhou Jianjun is already very satisfied.
Their hawk-flying skills are a bit poor. Many times they can't stick to the bird, so the success rate of the hawk's work will be lower.
But overall, Yue Feng's manipulation of the kite was still very good. Even if he didn't catch the kite in the tree, he could still call it down if someone came closer, raised his hand, and shouted a command.
Zhou Jianjun and the three of them wandered around the mountain until about four o'clock in the afternoon before going down the mountain. When they were approaching the bottom of the mountain, they happened to encounter a group of three flying dragon chickens.
Zhou Rui imitated Yue Feng's posture and approached carefully, then made a dashing Bian Ying move and won in one round.
"Dad, it's time, let's feed the eagle! Yue Feng said, the eagle can't just work without feeding it! From now on, this will be our own eagle, so we have to take care of it. Give it a try!" Zhou Rui discussed with his father.
Zhou Jianjun nodded: "Okay, it's getting dark soon, and it's not safe to let him go anymore! Feed him!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Jianjun suddenly had a flash of light in his head and interrupted. His son was about to crush a sand-and-half chicken to death and feed it to the hawk: "You kid, why can't you survive at such a big age? This sand-and-half chicken weighs less than half a kilogram and has many bones. One of them has arrived in the city. You can buy a pound of pork for only 70 cents! Keep the chicken and feed it to the eagles with lean pork!”
When Zhou Rui heard this, his father's account was correct. A half-roasted chicken can be exchanged for nearly a pound of meat. If it is used to feed the eagle, no matter how you calculate it, it is better to feed the eagle with lean pork.
The eagle can eat half a chicken and half a chicken in one meal, but it cannot eat half a catty of meat. It can save a lot by going back and forth.
"Okay, let's go back and feed it! After feeding the eagle until it's full, we will go up the mountain early tomorrow morning and try to earn back the cost of buying the eagle as soon as possible!"
Zhou Jianjun But he shook his head: "Tomorrow you and your brother Xiaobao will come. I'm going to the city. For the birds I caught today, I will go to the ghost market in the city early tomorrow morning to find ways to sell game!"
"Okay! Listen to you!"
The two men happily returned home with two eagles and more than a dozen prey. Their nephew Zhou Xiaobao had been waiting all day.
"Uncle Third, Brother Rui, why did you come back! Didn't you go buy an eagle in the morning?" Zhou Xiaobao muttered with some complaints.
Zhou Jianjun glanced at his nephew with soft eyes: "Your brother and I finished buying the eagle and asked Yue Feng to take us to the mountains to learn how to fly the eagle. Well, this is the prey we caught today!< br>
Take one of these two eagles away, and take two of the chicks you caught to give your parents a taste!”
“These two eagles, Which one does my family want?”
Zhou Xiaobao's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard his third uncle's words.
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