Chapter 138 The case was solved and traces of the street liar were found
After Yue Feng and several other people agreed to gather at the place where the sow was kept, they went alone into the red pine forest and made a big circle. He hid behind a large red pine tree about forty or fifty meters away from the hanging wild boar.
The location Yue Feng chose for secret observation was very clever. It was surrounded by towering trees. Viewed from a high altitude, a few large branches on the trunk of the big tree could easily completely cover Yue Feng's location.
And the front, let alone mention it, hides behind the tree trunk and does not make any sound. It is impossible for an eagle forty or fifty meters away to detect Yue Feng.
Just like that, Yue Feng leaned against the big pine tree and waited patiently. Every few minutes, he would quietly peek at the pile of wild boar offal on the branch.
After about ten minutes at most, the eagle in the sky fell down quickly as Yue Feng expected, and with its wings folded, it landed directly on the spot where the wild boar was bleeding and the snow was red.
Yue Feng happened to be accustomed to looking out, and the first thing he noticed was that there was nothing unusual about the wild boar on the tree going into the water.
When he was about to shrink his neck and come back, out of the corner of his eye he caught sight of the big black hawk jumping around next to the blood stains on the ground.
With just one glance, Yue Feng's breathing became rapid in an instant.
That’s it!
It was the big black eagle that I had a close encounter with last time when I was hunting eagles in Hutou Mountain!
This eagle did not migrate with the flock of birds migrating southward in the autumn wind, but stayed in Changbai Mountain for the winter.
If the eagle Xiaotao saw last time was the same eagle, it means that this eagle has been operating within the area where Yue Feng's team is active.
But Yue Feng, a master of falcon training known as the Eagle Handle Style, has always been ignorant of this and has no idea of the existence of this strange eagle.
Thanks to Xiao Tao's free time today, he was looking at the sky out of boredom, and Yue Feng was a little curious and had to sneak back to take a look. Otherwise, it would not have been known how long it would take to solve the mystery.
Yue Feng revealed one eye from behind the tree trunk where he was hiding, staring motionlessly at the big black eagle in the distance.
The big black eagle has always been very alert. It took a few steps and looked around. After taking a peck at the bloody snowdrift, it seemed to taste it with its tongue, and then quickly shook its head to clear the snow. I shook it off and looked around for a while. I looked up and saw the pig hanging in the water on a tree branch more than one meter high.
The magical scene of taking off vertically on the spot was repeated again in front of Yue Feng. The big black eagle jumped very lightly, its wings only flickered twice before it jumped onto the pig water.
The next scene came, which surprised Yue Feng even more.
This guy was not interested in the intestines, stomach, and other parts at all. He held a piece of intestine in his mouth and shook it away, as if he was looking for other parts of interest.
Fortunately, this was a big wild boar of 400 kilograms, and the heart, liver, and lungs of the cannonballs were so 'tender meat' that even the dogs on the dog gang didn't finish it even though they were full.
After rummaging around for a while, the big black eagle chose its favorite part of the pig’s heart and tore it apart and ate it very roughly.
Yue Feng was like a pilgrim of Buddha at this moment, staring at the movements of the big black eagle without blinking, and thinking rapidly about all kinds of information in his head.
First of all, what species is this big black hawk?
Peregrine Falcon? Normal peregrine falcons are not that big. Even the female peregrine falcon of the common subspecies, which is recognized as the largest among the peregrine falcons, weighs just over two kilograms at most. The Black Hawk in front of her weighs at least three and a half kilograms. .
Could it be a mutated falcon that naturally turns black in the wild?
The weight of the Saker Falcon is larger than that of the Peregrine Falcon, and the normal individual is only two pounds or seventy-eight pounds, which is considered the largest.
Still something is wrong!
From the analysis of the size, appearance, body structure, posture and various dimensions of this big black eagle, Yue Feng thought about some of the more common eagle species in his memory and even abroad. He was stunned. One who can match the number.
A giant falcon-like raptor that weighs at least three and a half kilograms or even more than four kilograms. Could it be a gyrfalcon?
After some elimination, Yue Feng suddenly thought of a possibility that even he himself could not believe.
Is it a blackened Gyrfalcon?
I have mentioned before that the gyrfalcon is precious. This thing is an eagle-shaped dream eagle. Even if it is only 1980 and the population of raptors has not declined on a large scale, this gyrfalcon is absolutely It's a rare thing.
What to do, what to do, what to do?
If it is really a gyrfalcon, what tricks can be used to catch it?
This thing can be hunted by fists in horizontal flight. It is said that the horizontal flight speed is faster than the short-distance pursuit of the King of Explosion Goshawk. If it can be caught by it, then this life will not count for Yue Feng, who loves hawks as much as his life. Live in vain.
Yue Feng thought about it for a while, but he did not expect a method to capture him alive that would be effective immediately. The only closest solution was to use a gun to kill him, but with a terrifying lethality of 56 and a half, it was nothing if he could not hit him. It is estimated that not even a whole body is left, it must be in pieces, and it is useless to make a specimen.
Yue Feng was not willing to harm the player even if he was a Leopard or Eagle. He asked him to kill the Gyrfalcon with a gun, even if he was killed.
Hey! Stop it! There is definitely no chance today!
Go home and think about it carefully. Since you know that it has been moving in this mountain forest, there will always be a chance later!
Yue Feng struggled for a long time and finally decided to accept the reality.
Just quietly watched this pure black Haidongqing standing on the water under the pig, eating a lot, then wiping his mouth, and then fell back to the snow to rub the dirt on his body. Scattered blood stains finally flew into the sky and disappeared from Yue Feng's sight.
"Huh..."
Yue Feng leaned against the tree trunk and panted heavily, his mind already wandering to somewhere unknown.
I won’t do anything tomorrow when I go home. I’ll put these pigs in the water and hang them all on the trees. I still don’t believe it. I can’t catch an eagle! Yue Feng thought this with determination in his heart.
Yue Feng walked to the place where the pig was hung in the water with a heavy heart, and picked the pig's water from the tree after the big black eagle had finished eating. When he was pulling it down, his hand suddenly froze.
No, you can’t pull it off. What the big black eagle just ate was tender meat like pig heart and lungs, and it didn’t even eat a bite of those smelly dirty things like intestines.
These things won’t move in the water. Let’s go up the mountain early tomorrow and try our luck by tying a few more condoms here?
It is difficult to hunt for food in winter. If the big black eagle gets hungry tomorrow, it will come back to eat the remaining pig hearts!
Thinking of this, Yue Feng put down the pig into the water, and rushed towards the team meeting point with his gun on his back empty-handed.
By the time Yue Feng arrived at the meeting point, Xiao Tao, Xiaowen and Xiaowu had already finished preparing the two hundred kilogram sow and tied it to a makeshift sledge.
"Brother, how are you? Do you see clearly?" Xiaowen asked first.
Yue Feng nodded: "I saw it, a black eagle, a little far away, the details can't be seen clearly!
This thing is here as a tribute to the mountain god, hang it I ate a lot of the pig’s heart and lungs on the tree!”
“What about the rest? Didn’t we just leave a few of them on the mountain to honor the mountain god? The whole set is a lot of water. If you don’t want to take it home, you can pack it up and feed it to the dogs at home!” Xiao Tao reminded.
Yue Feng nodded: "I'll set a trap tomorrow to see if I can catch this weird-looking eagle. I'll throw it into the water temporarily and throw it up the mountain.
By the way, the sow was pecked by an eagle when it was thrown into the water. Are there any traces of passing?”
Xiaowen smiled and shook his head: “You forgot, the heart, liver, lungs, etc. of this pig were shared with several dogs. The total weight is only about two hundred kilograms. Pig!"
Yue Feng slapped his head: "That's right! Just wait for a few seconds, I'll take a look!" Yue Feng became more and more curious about this big black eagle, and he moved towards it like a ghost. The sow walked over to where the blood was being bled.
After careful inspection, Yue Feng finally found a paw print suspected of being left by a raptor among the messy footprints and drag marks.
Yue Feng roughly measured the paw print with his thumb and index finger, and suddenly made a judgment in his mind.
This big black hawk has been here. The paw prints left on the pigeon that was caught and killed in Hutoushan last time are very consistent with the size of today's paw prints!
The traces left on the ground near the cannon-egg wild boar's water not long ago also looked like this.
How did this thing know that someone was hunting wild animals in the forest?
Yue Feng knew that the eyesight of raptors was very exaggerated, but no matter how good the eyesight was, it had to be unobstructed.
The place where the cannon eggs are shot is not the main area for selective logging. Only a small part of this thing is exposed to the sky, and most of it is blocked by branches in the sky.
I couldn’t figure it out for the time being, Yue Feng came back with something obviously on his mind.
"Brother, what's wrong with you? I feel like you've been worried since you came back!
There are evil things in this forest. If you feel something is wrong, you have to tell your brothers. Let’s prepare in advance!”
Xiaowen gently patted Yue Feng's shoulder and reminded him kindly.
Yue Feng raised his head: "What are you thinking about! I was thinking about this weird big black eagle.
I went over to look at the place where the sow went into the water just now. That big black eagle I've been here too, and there's a paw print in the snow that's not very clear, but you can see it clearly!
How do you think this big black hawk knows we've caught our prey? Does it have magical powers? ?”
“Hey~~, I thought you were thinking about this!
Let me ask you, how did we find the dog chasing the pig across a few mountain ridges?
It must be the sound of a dog barking!
Tell me, is it possible that this big black hawk heard the sound of our shooting and then came here to wait for the meat? "Xiaowen instantly threw out a guess that he thought was reasonable.
One word really woke up the dreamer, and now everything was closed.
From that intimate contact in autumn, Yue Feng has been Know that this big black hawk is smarter than the average raptor
Holding the falcon in the hawk-handle style can teach it to recognize the whistle and use the whistle to establish a conditioned reflex for feeding.
If the whistle sounds OK, then the gunshots must also work!
I don’t know when this big black eagle learned this, and then relied on this habit to eat and drink everywhere in the forests of Changbai Mountain.
"Hahahaha, there seems to be nothing wrong with your statement! If you go up the mountain today, you will make a lot of money! Take a walk, go home and have a drink! Let my mother cook two good dishes, and let's have a good drink tonight Cup! ”
Yue Feng was in a good mood as he cleared up his doubts.
A group of four people, plus four dogs pulling the sledge, dragged the dismembered wild boar meat back to the village.
Now that we have four wolf-blooded puppies at home, we will no longer sell the saucy and bad cannon egg meat. After returning home, the brothers hung the cannon egg meat on the shelf on the south wall. Then he simply processed it with a sharp knife.
Most of the thick layer of wild boar fat on the body surface was shaved off. Everyone divided the fat and took it home to make oil for daily use. When adding oil, add a few star anise peppercorns and so on. , the egg lard doesn’t taste too much.
After discussing with everyone, Yue Feng kept all the remaining lean meat as meat reserve for his pups.
There are seven or eight dogs kept in the yard at all times. Simply burying them in the snowdrifts is no longer enough. After some effort, the brothers carried the meat and put it directly into the vegetable cellar. If it is not frozen, use a knife to divide the meat into evenly sized pieces. When you need to feed the dog, just take it out in advance and melt it.
As for the other little sow, which weighed more than 200 pounds, the old rules were still followed. Several families still had a large amount of meat in stock, so this pig was not kept.
After peeling off the skin, Yue Feng rode his bicycle directly to the Second Canteen. The gross weight was 185 kilograms, which cost 70 cents per kilogram, and more than 100 yuan was recorded in the account. The rules for sharing were agreed upon before, and everyone gets their own share of the money.
When Yue Feng finished delivering the goods and got on the kang with everyone to prepare for dinner, Yue Feng mentioned the black hawk to his father again.
"Dad! Today we went up the mountain and saw the big black eagle from last time again!"
"What? How long has it been? It's still wandering around in the surrounding woods and has not migrated. ?" Yue Lei's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard the news about the big black eagle.
Although Yue Lei already had the Milky Eagle, which could be regarded as fulfilling his childhood dream, he was still very excited when he heard the information about the Big Black Eagle.
The more people know about raptors, the more they know how precious the big black eagle in Yue Feng's mouth is. It's a blessing just to look at it, let alone to regain its traces.
"Today we..."
Yue Feng recounted the whole process of going up the mountain and seeing the eagle to his father in detail. The old man became more and more excited as he listened.
"This is because you have a fate with this big black hawk! I will go up the mountain early tomorrow morning. I still have two complete sets of water launchers at home. If you can't, bring them both! Let the hawk catch them no matter what!" When the time comes, I’ll work with you on shifts!”
Yue Feng nodded: "This is all speculation. Let's go up the mountain and try it first. If there is a chance, I would like to recruit him to get it back!"
"Then don't drink too much tonight, you guys. Brothers, please drink a little to relieve your fatigue, and set off early tomorrow morning, make preparations in advance, and try to win it all at once!" Yue Lei gave some more instructions.
"Don't worry, I know it!"
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The whole table had a lively dinner and dismissed early to go home and rest.
Yue Feng was lying on the kang in his west room, tossing and turning, unable to sleep. When he closed his eyes, he saw the majestic posture of that majestic big black eagle soaring into the sky.
I don’t know how long it took, Yue Feng fell asleep and was woken up by the big rooster at the entrance of the village on time the next morning.
Today Yue Feng was acting alone. Several other friends wanted to go up the mountain to fly eagles to catch game. Yue Feng did not wait for them to have breakfast together.
Load your gun, bring bullets, a satchel filled with trivial sundries from the mountain, and the most important thing is the roll of tire cord used to holster the eagle.
(End of this chapter)