Chapter 175 Minister Zhang Picks an Eagle
Yue Lei is indeed in awe of these officials, but the underlying logic of this awe is based on the natural distance and status gap between ordinary villagers and village leaders.
It really concerns his own interests. Yue Lei is not the kind of person who has no bottom line in flattery. On the contrary, he used to hate all kinds of flattery.
Yue Feng smiled and shook his head: "No! Just leave it as normal! The director of the Security Department is nothing special.
He can only ask for it if I give it to him. If I don't give it to him, he won't Can’t grab it!”
"You kid, you can say whatever you want at home behind closed doors, but you can't talk so casually when there are others around!" Meng Yulan looked at Yue Feng dissatisfied after hearing her son's somewhat arrogant words.
“It’s hard to ask for anything, but it’s hard to have no desire! We live our own little lives in our own right, but we can’t ask for anything from Zhang Hongbin. On the contrary, when he wants to do something, he asks for it on us!
Besides, he doesn’t understand eagles. The feathers of these mature eagles tied at home are all loose, and they don’t look as good as the raw eagles that haven’t been trained yet! Okay, before he came today, he had some mental expectations!!
By the way, Mom, after you have breakfast, go to the market to see if you can buy some hard food or something. Bragging is bragging. Come on, if Zhang Big Smoke Pipe really comes to our door, we can’t help but entertain him!”
“Okay, I’ll prepare some ingredients in advance!”
Hearing that their son knew what he knew, Yue Lei and Meng Yulan stopped reminding their son that Yue Feng had easily handled the conflicts he had with the Zhu family and Zhou family before without involving his family members, let alone the obvious one today. It was the other party's request from Yue Feng.
After breakfast, Yue Feng took out the cotton thread from the thread box and dressed up the big and small hawk at home with a brand new outfit in advance. Unknowingly, it was past nine o'clock in the morning.
As soon as he finished beating the five feet in his hand, Yue Feng heard the honking of a car outside the courtyard door.
Yue Feng immediately stood up and walked out of the house.
Zhang Hongbin, dressed in regular clothes, got out of the back seat with Wang Jianguo. The driver next to him even picked up a bunch of large and small bags from the car.
"Uncle Zhang, Uncle Wang, come in quickly! What's the name of this officer? Come in and drink some water to warm yourself up! Come on, you have to carry things!" Yue Feng greeted enthusiastically.
"Your little yard is kept upright! I heard from Lao Wang that your dad's leg injury hasn't healed yet, so he happened to bring some nutritional supplements. They are not valuable things. In our relationship, you But please don't fight me!" Zhang Hongbin said as he walked around the yard.
Yue Feng is a good shop owner. The driver was carrying malted milk, linden tree honey, sea cucumber and other rare things. Malted milk is the more common of these things, and the others are for those who have money. Hard currency is not easy to buy.
From this perspective, it is better to be an official.
Several strangers entered the yard, and the four dogs in the yard barked immediately.
Yue Feng took what the driver was carrying with both hands and shouted at the family dog.
"Everyone calm down and stay in the den!! Whoever dares to bark again will eat dog meat for lunch!"
The owner of the dog who was barking hard just a second ago said something , immediately silenced the next second, and obediently got into their respective kennels, only to find a dog lying with its head on the ground.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, you are a well-trained dog. Your ability to command and forbid is as strong as that of a military dog!"
Zhang Hongbin glanced at the four dogs, his eyes filled with laughter. Also with a bit of enthusiasm.
"They are all our local hunting dogs. Their brains are okay and they can understand people's greetings, but they are definitely incomparable to military dogs! We are also poking in the courtyard. It is very cold. Let's go inside to warm up!"
Yue Feng immediately opened the door and led several people into the house, directly to the east room where Yue Lei was staying.
After entering the door, I met Yue Feng’s father, and everyone in the circle exchanged pleasantries.
Yue Feng made tea, said hello again, and quickly arranged several people.
After a few sips of hot tea, Zhang Hongbin did not stay in the room anymore. He looked up at Yue Feng and said, "Let's go see the eagle you talked about yesterday first?"
Yue Feng nodded: "Okay, the eagle I mentioned is in the warehouse. I'll take you to see it!"
Soon, Yue Feng took several people to the warehouse.
The little eagle, which was tied to the pole of the warehouse and had not yet been trained since it was caught and descended from the mountain, immediately clung to its feathers and looked sharply at the people who opened the door.
With just one glance, Zhang Hongbin fell in love with it.
“This eagle is great! Look at this spirit, the big talons, and the look in his eyes! This is a great eagle!!!!”
Yue Feng's prediction was very accurate. Compared with those eagles that had been manipulated for a long time, this untrained eagle gave people a much more handsome first impression.
The reason is very simple. A familiar eagle has already adapted to the presence of people, so some people pass by without raising their eyelids, their feathers are fluffy, and their posture is very casual. Most of them are He looked calm while squatting on the bar. As for the raw eagles that have not undergone training such as eagle cooking, although they will eat food when they are hungry in a dark warehouse when no one is around, when they see people, their first reaction will definitely be to enter a state of alert.
In this state, the eagle is not squatting on the bar, but with its feathers close to its body, leaning forward, standing seriously, with a pair of His sharp eyes were vigilantly observing the person in front of him, always on guard against possible attacks.
On one side are the pampered old employees born in the 1980s, and on the other side are the unruly employees born in the 00s who have not yet joined the job. The difference is naturally very obvious in the eyes of outsiders.
As for the methods of looking at eagles by looking at feather color, skeleton structure, and temperament, that is a knowledge that only knowledgeable experts can have. Zhang Hongbin doesn't understand it.
"I'm telling you, you'll definitely be able to spot it! Do you want me to untie this eagle now, and let's take it to the yard and take another look?" Yue Feng suggested.
“Okay, it’s better to take it to the yard and have a look!” Zhang Hongbin did not refuse.
Yue Feng immediately put on his leather gloves, then untied the five-foot bolt from the eagle on his hand, and then walked out of the warehouse with the eagle in his hand.
Seeing the sky, this little big eagle feels better to people. The feather color is dark bean yellow with lavender color, and the breast flower in front is full of black pits the size of your fingertips. , under the reflection of sunlight, the feather texture is very good.
Speaking of this eagle, Yue Feng's family really didn't suffer any grievances. On average, there was about one Sand Chicken or other miscellaneous birds a day. They ate fresh food and never went up the mountain to hunt, so the feathers on their wings and tails were It is in 100% perfect condition. Unlike the eagles who work every day on the hawk bar in the greenhouse, the bottom of the tail feathers may be a little split or worn.
The only drawback is that although this little eagle can be used, it is very uncomfortable standing on human hands. The wings and tail on both sides are stretched out and drooped, ready to escape at any time.
Looking at the eagle this time is also intentional by Yue Feng. Without contrast, there is no harm. All the big feathers are stretched out, and it is clearer that all the feathers are intact.
"Uncle Zhang, how are you?" Yue Feng asked with a smile.
"Okay! This eagle is decent! This eagle is much better than the one my old leader raised last time. You can tell the difference at a glance!" Zhang Hongbin nodded repeatedly.
"I just said that I would definitely get the chance. Are you lying?" Yue Feng smiled and turned his head slightly to look at Wang Jianguo.
“I didn’t expect that you still have a top-notch eagle tied up in your warehouse and you don’t want to train it! This eagle does look more energetic!” Wang Jianguo also agreed.
"Hey, it's settled! I'll start lighting it up tonight and let it boil. In about ten days, it should be able to work in the fields! When it's done, I'll be able to I'll call you!"
"Okay, you are an expert, I will listen to you!" Zhang Hongbin was completely relieved after seeing the real thing with his own eyes.
"I'll tie the eagle back to the pole first, and then take you to the greenhouse to have a look! If you can like the one in the greenhouse, you can just take it away today!" Yue Feng greeted and took the bird away. He took the small and big eagle bolt back to the warehouse.
Soon, Yue Feng took Zhang Hongbin to take another look at the cooked eagles in the greenhouse.
“These few small ones are kites, whose scientific name is sparrowhawks! They catch flying dragons, sand chickens and some miscellaneous birds!
This one is the same species as the hawk just now , the rabbit eagle, also called the big eagle, is the female of the goshawk! It can catch rabbits and pheasants!
The last one looks a little lazy, it is a chicken eagle, this thing is spoiled by my father! It’s so delicious and lazy to cook, but it’s the least work! You can only catch pheasants and some birds, but you can’t catch rabbits!”
Yue Feng introduced the eagles in the greenhouse to Zhang Hongbin one by one! lock up.
In comparison, the appearance of these eagles in the eyes of outsiders is a little worse. Even the large iron-backed red eagle in the spectrum, in Zhang Hongbin's eyes, is only slightly larger, with fluffy hair and squatting posture. The shape on the pine wood bars looks like an old hen nesting in a nest.
"Okay, there's no need to read these! By the way, why didn't you see the big Black Hawk that Xiao Guo mentioned in the hawk shed? I've been here, so I can't see with my own eyes whether he said it or not It’s so mysterious!”
Hearing that Zhang Hongbin was still thinking about his big Black Eagle, Yue Feng had already thought of a countermeasure.
“This eagle hasn’t been trained yet. It has a lot of problems with attacking people and other eagles. It doesn’t dare to tie up in the greenhouse for fear of fighting with other eagles! The eagle is in the west room where I sleep. , I haven’t fed the eagle today yet, in front of you, look how domineering this guy is!”
While speaking, Yue Feng turned around and entered the west room, wearing gloves and removing the big black eagle from the falcon! It was served on the stage.
"Damn it! Is this eagle so big? What is he wearing on his head? A helmet? Or a hat?"
At first glance, Zhang Hongbin was quite surprised. He weighed one or two pounds and weighed 4 pounds. Gyrfalcon, compared to the normal weight of a giant eagle, which weighs two to three pounds, it is two sizes larger.
Yue Feng nodded: "When this eagle came down from the mountain, it weighed four pounds and one tael. A normal eagle that catches rabbits weighs just over two pounds! The thing it is wearing is called an eagle hat, which is used to train the eagle to cover its eyes. This thing has messy eyes and is so hungry that he wants to grab anything he sees that moves!”
(End of this chapter)