Chapter 129 The Eagle in the Graveyard
When we arrived at Chen Pao's house, it was only around seven o'clock. The sun was just rising. The weather was good today, and there was no wind. It was only dry and cold after the Northeast region cooled down.
Yue Feng got off his bicycle and parked the car in front of Chen's house.
"Uncle Chen, are you at home?"
"Yes, yes, the door is open, just come in!"
Yue Feng pushed the door open and entered the courtyard, and saw Chen Pao fully armed, with a sheepskin jacket, fox fur hat, and leggings, as if he was going to go up the mountain at any time.
"Uncle, where are you planning to go? Going up the mountain? You're wearing leggings!" Yue Feng was a little confused and asked casually.
"I'm not going anywhere. I'm used to getting up early in the morning. I couldn't stay in the house, so I packed up and took a stroll in the yard!"
Chen Pao replied calmly, and then His eyes were focused on the slow peach-tip eagle held on Yue Feng's right arm.
Hearing this, Yue Feng was shocked for no reason.
Chen Pao has been a hunter all his life. The dog was taken away by him and his son refused to go up the mountain. This became a habit that the old man could not change, so he had no choice but to walk around in the yard.
Yue Feng said in a low tone: "I'm late! I was supposed to come here yesterday. Zhao Yuanjie from the village went up the mountain to kill Bing Tuozi and was kicked by a bear, so he led people up the mountain!
Look at this big eagle. It became an eagle by the Muling River at the entrance of the village the day before yesterday. Let's go out to fly the eagle and catch rabbits today!"
"Is this a big eagle trained for me? "Chen Pao walked up to it and looked it up and down. The more he looked at it, the more he liked it.
“Well, it’s quite a coincidence that the eagle caught it. You’ll know it when you see the rabbit in the ground later!”
"Then what are you waiting for? Let's set off right away. By the way, have you had breakfast? I almost forgot about this."
"After eating, we, the eagle team, went out in the morning. Meet at my house and eat with them!"
"Let's go! Do you need to bring anything extra to go out to watch the eagles?"
"I'll make some food for the eagles. Bring it, just prepare a calf insert! By the way, bring a bag for the rabbit!”
“Okay, I’ll go ahead and get ready.”
"Okay!"
In less than a few minutes, Uncle Chen made preparations, and he and Yue Feng left the house with their hunting bags.
“Is there any good place to fly eagles around our Fang’an village? The kind with more rabbits, the terrain should not be too complex, such as a small vegetable garden, or a half-cooked land near the roadside after the autumn harvest. That kind of thing!" Yue Feng asked.
Chen Pao has been a hunter all his life, and the three-thirds of an acre of land in front of his home, plus the mountains and hills within a radius of dozens of kilometers, are all in his mind.
Just after thinking for a moment, Chen Pao opened his mouth and said: "Let's go to the cemetery in the north of the village! There are large and small wastelands and cemeteries over there, and trappers don't want to go there. Rabbits are too thick!"
Hearing the word "cemetery", Yue Feng instantly remembered the memory of flying a big heart-tailed eagle here to let go of the eagle in his previous life. Could it be that today's slow peach tip is going to recreate the crime in his memory? The famous scene of catching rabbits in circles?
"No one cares about the cemetery, right? I don't have any taboos about graves, I'm just afraid that people in your village will find fault!"
"We are the only ones in Fang'an Village. You have a big surname, and more than two-thirds of the cemetery there belongs to our Chen family. If we go to fly eagles, no one dares to find fault! As long as we don’t jump around on top of the graves, no one will care! "Chen Pao! He said confidently.
“Okay, let’s go!”
On the way out of the village, Yue Feng and Chen Pao were chatting. Chen Pao was very interested in the eagle and was there almost the whole time. Asked various questions about the eagle, Yue Feng did not hide his secrets and told Chen Pao all the details of the later feeding and precautions.
After walking for about fifteen minutes, the two of them left the village and came to the cemetery in the north of the village.
The cemetery at this time was not as big as Yue Feng remembered it. Except for the graves where people were buried, most of it was a wasteland.
There are wormwood and fluffy grass mounds everywhere on the ground, and the place is a bit noisy, but except for a few sporadic cypress trees beside the graves, there are almost no tall sheltering plants.
"Is this place okay? Just pay attention, there may be jumping cats in the wormwood piles on the side of the road!" Chen Pao said very knowledgeable.
“Okay, it’s a nice place! There are a lot of footprints in the snowdrifts. Why doesn’t anyone come to set up a trap in such a nice place?”
“There were people who came to take condoms before, but at night they seemed to have dirty eyes (seeing dirty things), and there were fewer people coming later!
Let’s not worry about that!
I’m responsible What? We should walk with our sticks on the ground, right? I saw people flying eagles outside with a stick in their hands and beating them while walking!"
Yue Feng nodded: "Yes! That would be more efficient.
We just work together with few people. I’m used to looking for landmarks and walking around the place where the rabbits can be hidden.”< br>
"I understand this. You stand firm and become a hawk. Look at me!"
Chen Pao is indeed an old hunter. Yue Feng just said a few words and he understood what he meant and picked one up from the roadside. Branches, strolling towards the corner of the field rushed towards the wormwood pile.
Didn’t I mention the jingle about looking for rabbits? The old man also knows this pattern.
Within five minutes, Yue Feng followed Chen Pao and blasted out a rabbit from the ground of a wormwood pile.
"Cat!" Yue Feng greeted and immediately let go of the big eagle in his hand.
The murderous slow peach-tip eagle, after discovering the trace of the rabbit, very quickly kicked on Yue Feng's arm, flapped its wings and quickly chased after it.
The objective terrain conditions at Cheng Ying’s previous site were much worse than they are now. Even the rabbits couldn’t escape after being blasted, let alone now.
I saw the big eagle chasing the tall grass on the ground at high altitude. Feeling the pressure from the air, the rabbit turned back and forth for two consecutive times without getting rid of it. The rabbit was chased and could not move anymore. One end plunged into the grass.
The fluffy grass is relatively dense, but it has no thorns and is not as strong as wattle. It is just an annual withered grass.
I saw the slow peach tip suddenly rise up, flying directly into the mid-air three meters, and then the 12 tail feathers were completely stretched into the shape of a fan to adjust the flying posture in mid-air. After turning around, it was like a It was smashed down like a brick.
A muffled sound was heard, and the next second the rabbit screamed like a baby crying.
"Hey, got it!! Let's move closer slowly, don't scare the eagle!!" Yue Feng said with a smile.
"How can this eagle catch rabbits like this? I saw people from outside using eagles to catch rabbits before. Isn't it this way?" Chen Pao looked at the actual combat of the Slow Taojian just now. After the performance, I just felt like a door to a new world had opened.
Let’s not talk about anything else, just watch the process, it’s so enjoyable!
"Hey, this eagle is divided into strains just like dogs. The dog strains are artificially distinguished based on functional requirements, while the eagle strains are based on the place of origin!
Eagles bred in different areas may have hunting habits It will be different!
As the old saying goes, nine out of ten peach tips go up to the sky. Just now, when the big eagle was working, it was called a stumbling block, and then it swooped down and hit it.
These skills of catching prey are all honed by eagles in the wild! This eagle is in my hands so far, and this is the second rabbit I have caught!”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, I learned a lot today! This eagle is not bad!" Chen Pao became very excited.
"This isn't over yet. Let's go see the eagle's posture of subduing the rabbit. You'll probably be even more surprised!" Yue Feng said with a smile, without explaining, he walked straight towards the rabbit.
When Chen Pao followed Yue Feng and saw the big eagle using one claw to dig out its crotch and the other to clamp its mouth, and planting two flags to directly subdue the rabbit, he was even more shocked.
"Damn it! How can this big eagle capture? Isn't it just a rabbit that can't move!!!"
Yue Feng: "Hey! Yes! This big eagle can't move!" Every eagle has its own tricks when it comes to catching rabbits!
When I first got to know the rabbit, I only knew how to grab the rabbit’s butt and waist!
I suffered several losses later, and slowly I learned how to call the third party. Now the eagle has become more obedient, and when I catch a rabbit, a tiger with two claws will hold its head!
This Slow Taojian is different. It must have caught a lot of rabbits in the wild. The first rabbit that Cheng Ying made was in this shape!
This rabbit weighs three pounds, and the eagle will not be hurt. Let’s not rush to help. You are watching how the eagle eats the rabbit meat! "
Yue Feng said hello, and the two of them did not rush to subdue the rabbit, but quietly observed from the side.
After the big eagle capture combined with the eagle claw skill subdued the rabbit, Maintaining this position, he lowered his head again and again to pluck the fur around the rabbit's neck. After a while, the rabbit's neck was bald, revealing the fine fur and light-colored leather underneath.
After the hair was shaved off, the eagle was not polite, and opened a bloody gash in the rabbit's neck with one bite. The eagle then buried its head in eating the rabbit's flesh and blood.
Speaking of which, the hunting process of eagles is quite bloody. They are not like falcons, which basically bite or kick their prey to death before they start eating.
As for raptors of the Accipitridae family, most of them start eating while their prey is still alive, mixed with blood and meat, and is eaten alive.
“Look, when the eagle is full, the rabbit will basically die! But we have to continue to fly the eagle, but we can’t let it eat full now!
Now with you Talk about how to change food and take the prey out of the eagle’s talons.”
Yue Feng tied up his sleeves to cover the eagle's talons, and then took out a roll of eagle food that had been prepared in advance. The eagle could not see the bottom and immediately loosened its talons.
Yue Feng quietly grabbed the rabbit and gave it a twist, then secretly stuffed it into the shoulder bag he was carrying.
“The eagle eats red meat and poops white feces. It is very realistic. It will stop working immediately after it is full. Therefore, during the process of releasing the eagle, you cannot feed the eagle!
< br>Eagle-handle style Eagle-handle style is holding this mouthful of food
As long as the food that the eagle eats every day is taken care of, and combined with lifting the frame morning and night, it can be maintained! Hunting status! ”
"What is that black thing wrapped in your meat roll?"
Chen Pao observed very carefully and asked, pointing to the hair in the meat roll.
"Bird feathers, including chicken feathers, flying dragon feathers, and other miscellaneous bird feathers! I collect these bird feathers consciously in my daily life. I wet them with water and roll them into the meat. It is used to lower the shaft of an eagle. This is called a hair shaft!
You can think of a hair shaft as something used to clean the stomach of an eagle. It eats hair and spits out the indigestible things the next morning. !
Every time you swallow, the dirt in your stomach will be taken out, and the eagle will be healthier
However, not all hair can be used as hair shafts. It is best to use only down, scald it with boiling water, dry it and store it, and roll it in meat to feed the eagle when cooking.
Don’t use those big feathers, flight feathers and other hairs. The reason is very simple. Those hairs are relatively hard, and if you are unlucky, you may hurt the eagle! "
"I have to prepare some of this stuff later, but I don't have it at home! "
Chen Pao was like a primary school student. Hearing Yue Feng's knowledge about the eagle's lower axis, he looked very serious.
"Haha, don't be nervous, I'm here to give it to you this time. I brought a lot with me, which will last for a while! In fact, if there are no feathers, you can also use rabbit hair. Just select the fluff under the hard hair, scald it with boiling water, dry it and store it in the sun. The same treatment method! ”
While speaking, Yue Feng pulled out a handful of down from the rabbit's belly. He blew it with his mouth and the down flew far away, and soon disappeared in the distance.
"This is easy to do, I'll remember it!! Should we let the eagle rest for a while, or should we continue to let it go now?"
"It takes a lot of energy for the eagle to catch rabbits, so after finishing the work You can't let the eagle rest immediately. The correct way is to put some meat on it. If it's hot, give the eagle some water and let it rest for a while.
When will the eagle rest?
It's actually quite simple. You see, the eagle's fur is still tight, right? Hold it in your hand for a short while, no more than ten minutes at most. When the eagle's fur loosens, it's almost time to rest!
The eagle is being held by you now, and you will be responsible for letting the eagle out when the rabbits are chased out from below! "
While speaking, Yue Feng took off the sleeves from his arms, and even the sleeves with the eagle belt were handed to Chen Pao's hands.
It was the first time to put them up with his own hands. Ying, Chen Pao was like a man hugging a baby for the first time. His hands and feet were instantly stiff. The shape gave people the feeling that there was a land mine in the creaking nest, and he didn't dare to move.
< br>“This eagle is already familiar with holding the stand, is not afraid of people, and has adapted to the bumps of normal walking, so you don’t need to be so nervous! Just hold on to the two openers in your hand! "
Yue Feng briefly adjusted Chen Pao to a more comfortable eagle posture, and then brushed the tail of the big eagle's sword.
"What are the bells on the eagle's tail used for? There's a board underneath!"
Chen Pao's attention was also drawn to the eagle's tail, and he was a little curious when he heard the crisp sound of the copper bells. .
“The bell on the tail of this big eagle is called an eagle bell. It is used to prevent it from being lost when working in the fields! Some places are quite noisy. The eagle chases the rabbit and flies away, and people can’t keep up for a while. This is when the bell comes into play.
When the eagle lowers its head to eat, the bell will vibrate and make a sound that can be heard from a distance, making it easier to find your eagle. ”
< br>(End of this chapter)