Reborn in the 1980s: I made my fortune hunting wild game in Changbai Mountain

Hearing this, Jin Long immediately became interested.

I saw him grabbing the five-foot-long cowhide tied to the golden eagle's leg with his right hand, and then pinching the hat tassel with his left hand to take off the eagle's helmet (the eagle hat used by the eagle, generally called an eagle helmet).

"Look at the eyes of this golden eagle! These are the legendary yin-yang eyes, heterochromatic pupils!!

In ancient times, it would be a rare item that would be presented to the emperor!"

Yue Feng glanced at the golden eagle's eyes.

The pupils of a normal golden eagle's eyes are dark brown, but this eagle's one eye is a normal dark brown, while the other is a slightly sickly blue-gray color.

One eye is dark and the other is light, it is indeed different eyes.

However, Yue Feng only observed for a few seconds before he discovered something strange.

Logically speaking, the eyes of untrained birds of prey are very alert and vigilant, and their eye expressions will be very obvious towards strangers, moving objects, etc.

However, the normal-colored eye of this golden eagle is quite flexible, but the other blue-gray eye is a bit slow in moving.

For Yue Feng, who has had a lot of contact with birds of prey, it is easy to spot abnormalities in such details.

After Yue Feng looked at it for a few seconds, he said to Jin Long, "Hold on tight to Wu Chi. I'll stretch out my hand and do a test!"

Jinlong: "Just measure it casually, the five-foot grip is solid in my hand!"

Yue Feng didn't take anything, he just waved his empty left hand in front of the golden eagle.

The next second, the golden eagle's eyes shrank in response, and it subconsciously took a defensive posture of shrinking its head and dodging.

Upon seeing this, Yue Feng withdrew his arm and stood there patiently without moving. He waited for a full minute before the golden eagle resumed its normal stance.

This time, he switched to his right hand, gently raised his arm and moved the edge of the golden eagle's unusually colored eyes.

After this test, the problem emerged.

This eye can see things, but its reaction speed is obviously at least one beat slower.

From the test performance, Yue Feng even suspected that the vision of this eye might only be a blurry perception of light, and it was unclear whether it could see clearly.

Seeing Yue Feng fiddling with things without any purpose, Ye Xiaojun beside him was also a little confused and asked, "Xiaofeng, what are you busy with?"

Yue Feng grinned and said: "I am looking at the eyes of this eagle!

If I am not mistaken, this eagle has a defective eye, and its vision is much worse than that of a normal eye!"

Hearing this, Jin Long was unhappy and didn't care about being polite. He just opened his mouth and muttered, "Do you understand? This is the heterochromia mentioned in the Eagle Book, don't you know!!
Obviously, both eagles' eyes were fine, but you said that and it became a blind one-eyed dragon!"

Yue Feng was not angry when he heard Jin Long's rude words, and said calmly: "There are two kinds of heterochromatic pupils in the Eagle Book, namely, white eyes and golden eyes.

In the former case, the eagle is old but has tender eyes. Even a two- or three-year-old eagle still has the eyes of a chick!

Such eagles are gentle in nature, easy to tame, and not likely to become rebellious after being trained.

The latter, the golden eyes, are a type of yellowing of the eyes, with the eye sand appearing golden yellow. It is said that they have stronger hunting instincts, are courageous, and dare to fight big animals!
Your eagle's eyes are indeed different from those of ordinary eagles, but they are not one of the two types of heterochromia in the eagle tree!

By the way, if I am not mistaken, this eagle is in your hands, you must have hit it, right? More than once! "

"You...how did you know that?!"

After hearing this, Jin Long was stunned and his face suddenly changed.

Regarding the dispute over appearance, Jinlong may have some doubts about Yue Feng's professional knowledge.

But when they met for the first time, Yue Feng knew that it had beaten the eagle before.

Even Ye Xiaojun didn't know this detail, so how did Yue Feng know it?

In Jinlong's opinion, it was indeed a bit magical.

Yue Feng grinned and said, “Just now when I stretched out my arm to test it, the eagle shrank its neck in response!
The amplitude is huge, which has exceeded the normal stress level!

In the jargon of our falconry, this is called hurting the hand, which means being afraid of the hand.

The most likely reason is that you have hit it!

Since you were brought here by Master Ye, I treat you as a friend and will tell you everything!
This is a three-year-old male statue. The physique and skeleton are good, but the eye is 100% functional.

In addition, it hurt my hands and caused severe stress.

Judging from the visual, his fat content is less than 80% now, which can't be considered as losing fat, but the tolerance rate for subsequent training from the beginning is not high.

Taking all circumstances into consideration, this golden eagle is old, wild, and has poor visual hardware, so it actually does not have much potential for domestication.

Even if we put a lot of effort into training it, its performance on the ground will definitely not be as good as that of an ordinary healthy golden eagle!"

"Is this a male eagle?? I bought it as a female eagle with heterochromatic eyes!
Damn Zhao Kuzi, this grandson dared to deceive me, I..."

After listening to Yue Feng's professional analysis, Jin Long had actually slowly accepted Yue Feng's statement in his heart. The only thing he couldn't accept was that the gender was actually wrong.

Yue Feng nodded: "It is indeed a male eagle! It is just a subspecies with a larger individual!
The feathers are darker in color and the skeleton is larger. If I am not mistaken, this golden eagle should be from Gansu!"

Jin Long nodded repeatedly after hearing this: "Yes!! It was indeed brought from Gansu!

I have put so much effort into this eagle, but I didn’t expect it to be useless. What’s the point of training it!!!”

Young Master Jinlong, who was discouraged by Yue Feng's words, became more and more angry as he thought about the eagle, and his round face was a little distorted.

If it wasn't for an experienced professional falconer like Yue Feng, there would actually be no risk in selling this golden eagle with sick eyes to him for fun.

After all, it was a golden eagle of several years old. There were excuses for not being able to tame it well, and if it was not handled properly and died while flying, it could not be blamed on the person who sent the eagle.

A young man of his rank doesn't mind spending money. What he wants is face, and what he plays for is face.

Now that Yue Feng had spoken it out in public, Jin Long had lost face in front of his childhood friends.

Ye Xiaojun was standing nearby. He did not take the opportunity to laugh at Jin Long, but instead gave Yue Feng a subtle look.

Yue Feng was a man who was good at reading people’s expressions, and he suddenly had an idea and continued, “Okay, don’t worry about it!

Put the hat on the eagle first and then go into the house.

Don’t you just want to get a decent golden eagle? I have a way to do it!"

"Do you have a solution? What solution do you have? Do you have a golden eagle at home?"

When Jin Long heard this, he roughly put a hat on the eagle in his hand and asked.

“Hey, I don’t have it at home, but I know where I can find it on the mountain!

Come in and warm up first. Now that you are here, I will definitely be able to arrange this for you!"

Under Yue Feng's arrangement, several people quickly entered the house.

Only his mother Meng Yulan was at home. When the guest entered the house, Yue Feng briefly introduced him to the guest and then took the guest into his west room.

When Jinlong entered the house, he was somewhat uncomfortable with the cramped space.

But when he entered the west room and saw two gyrfals, one black and one white, squatting on the falcon stand on the kang, his eyes immediately lit up.

"Is this the black spear falcon that Xiaojun mentioned, that can go up the mountain to hunt roe deer? This is just a white spear next to it?

Damn, you have two gyrfals at home! ! "

Yue Feng grinned and said, “Haha, I’m lucky enough to have made it!

Last winter, Brother Jianjun and Brother Hu came to my house to play with me.

The big black eagle was having fun in the sky, and the little white spear came over to provoke it, but was kicked down and captured alive by the big black eagle. After he recovered from his injuries, he was trained together!
This white gyrfalcon is a male, and the two gyrfals are now a pair!"

"This big Black Hawk is so handsome! Can you take off your hat so I can see it?"

Ever since Jin Long saw Yue Feng's eagle, he couldn't take his eyes off it.

Yue Feng: "You can take off the hat, but you have to tie the golden eagle outside!

The big black eagle and the golden eagle had a fight twice on the mountain. If they see this thing in the house, they will definitely be in a mess!"

"That's easy! I'll tie the eagle outside!"

Soon Jinlong carried the golden eagle out of the house and tied it to the eagle pole in the greenhouse.

Yue Feng didn't waste any time and took off his hat while holding the big black eagle.

When the eagle saw a stranger in the house, its feathers shook, making a series of crackling sounds.

"Wow, so handsome! This eagle is so beautiful! It's much more beautiful than Mr. Wang's albino rabbit eagle!
Let me make a deal with you. Will you sell this eagle? Name a price, and I will definitely not bargain!!”

Yue Feng's face turned slightly cold, and he shook his head without hesitation: "Young Master Jin, you must be joking. I won't sell this eagle no matter how much money you offer!"

Seeing Jin Long's attitude, Ye Xiaojun next to him got angry: "Fat Jin, what did you promise me before you came? You don't keep your word when you pee while standing, do you? It seems you are rich now?"

Seeing Yue Feng's face change slightly, Ye Xiaojun got anxious. Jin Long waved his hands and laughed awkwardly: "Hehehe, no, no, I just got impulsive after seeing the good eagle!"

Yue Feng guessed that Ye Xiaojun must have told the other party before coming. When Jin Long saw the big black eagle, he opened his mouth to buy it, and was scolded and explained with a smile. He must have been in the wrong.

"However, I can't sell you the big black eagle, but if you want to get a healthy golden eagle, I can help you think of a way!"

"Can you get a top-quality golden eagle?"

“It’s hard to say whether it’s top quality or not, but it’s definitely a prototype from that time, and it must be in good health!
Although the golden eagles in our Changbai Mountain are not as heavy as those in Gansu on average, they are not much different!
Before I went down the mountain yesterday, my eagle had a fight with a golden eagle on the mountain. I know where their territory is!"

After saying this, Yue Feng took the pen holder on the windowsill, which contained a whole set of golden eagle's tail feathers.

"These are the tail feathers that were plucked off when the black eagle and the golden eagle were fighting yesterday. They belonged to the old female eagle!

There are still two eagle chicks this year that have left the nest but have not left their parents. We can think of a way to catch them back!
"It's impossible to train an old eagle that has grown up. The best ones are young eagles that have just left the nest, or those that have not left the nest but have grown full feathers!"

The tail feathers of a golden eagle are absolutely rare. Not to mention ordinary people, even falconers, many people have never seen one in their entire lives.

Yue Feng took out the tail feather, which indirectly proved the authenticity of his statement.

"Can you really catch the young eagle from that year?"

After listening to Yue Feng's words, Jin Long's eyes immediately lit up.

Since arriving at Yue Feng's house, Jin Long has been completely convinced by the other party's series of remarks.

After all, background is something that cannot be deceived, and it is not difficult to distinguish whether someone really understands or is just pretending to understand and bragging.

Yue Feng: "You can give it a try. As long as you are still active in that territory, you have a great chance!"

"So when do we set off? I've never personally gone up the mountain to catch an eagle before!"

Jin Long's angry expression from a while ago also disappeared, and he couldn't wait to continue going up the mountain with Yue Feng.

Yue Feng waved his hand and said, "You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. If you want to catch a golden eagle, you need to make a lot of preparations, and you didn't tell me before you came.

Since you are not in a hurry to leave anyway, let's go eat first. After you are full, I will prepare and take you up the mountain tomorrow!"

Ye Xiaojun took over the conversation: "Okay, the guest follows the host's wishes, we will do whatever you arrange!! By the way, do you have another place to eat? Why don't we eat at home?"

If it were in the past, I would definitely let my mother prepare meals and eat at home.

But now Yue Feng is also a man with business in the city, and he has Chef Niu in charge of Fengcheng Hotel. So the first welcoming banquet for this young master from the capital must be grand.

"You just came from such a long distance, I have to arrange a place for you to meet the wind! I opened a restaurant in the city, let's go there to eat!"

"Opening a private restaurant in the city? Are there any licenses for individual businesses in Fengcheng?" Jin Long was slightly stunned when he heard this, and looked at Yue Feng with a slightly complicated look.

Ye Xiaojun brought Jin Long to Yue Feng's home. Seeing that his house was just an ordinary small mud house in Northeast China, he thought that the young man in front of him, who was much younger than himself, came from an ordinary family.

I didn’t expect that he actually opened a restaurant in the city!

Although Jinlong has a bad temper and is a bit stubborn, and behaves like a yamen official, he still has some knowledge of some national policies.

Fengcheng, a small city dominated by energy, is not on the first list of market-oriented economic reforms. If Jinlong wants to get a license for an individual business, it will take a lot of effort, even if he wants to do it himself.

Yue Feng smiled faintly and said, "A friend helped me get one, I'm lucky!
It’s getting late now, let’s go eat first. If there’s anything else, we can still chat after we’ve eaten and drunk enough!”

"Then let's go. I don't know the way. You sit in the passenger seat and we'll drive!"

"That's it!"

……

After a brief communication, the brothers went out of the house and got into the car. Yue Feng pointed the way to Ye Xiaojun in the passenger seat. The car turned around and out of the village and headed straight for Fengcheng city.

By the time we arrived at the restaurant, it was already past eleven o'clock. There were already many diners' bicycles and cars parked outside the restaurant. At a glance, there were many cars belonging to the top leaders of many units.

Ye Xiaojun parked his car in a place where it would not get in the way. After getting out of the car, he looked around at the vehicles outside the hotel and the sign hanging on the hotel.

Jin Long had a similar reaction. There were many places to eat in the capital, but in a small and remote place like this, this was the first time he had seen such a scene.

Yue Feng led the two of them into the house. After saying hello to the lady at the front desk, he walked through the business hall and headed straight for the main house in the backyard.

There was an octagonal table and a few chairs in the main living room. The ground was so warm that I couldn't even wear a thick cotton jacket when I entered the house.

All of this had been arranged by Yue Feng in advance, even Feng Yan had been notified and prepared by Yue Feng in advance.

"It's noisy in the front hall and the small cubicle is not comfortable. Let's eat in the backyard, it's quiet here! Conditions are limited, so Master Ye and Master Jin please don't make trouble!" Yue Feng said with a smile.

"Sure, you own this restaurant?"

Jinlong started looking around as soon as he entered the door, and did not give up observing even after passing through the business area and into the backyard. He gained a preliminary understanding of the scale of this restaurant.

Yue Feng nodded: "Yes! My brother and sister-in-law are in charge of the daily operations here! The chef in the kitchen used to work in the coal mine cafeteria and I recruited him here!

I am only responsible for checking the accounts occasionally and delivering game ingredients. I usually don't care about anything and am a hands-off manager!"

Ye Xiaojun nodded: "This restaurant looks nice and interesting! I just don't know how good the cooking is! Your Northeastern cuisine is unique and no worse than other cuisines!"

Yue Feng smiled and said, "Hehe, it's definitely not comparable to the standards of big places, so just give it a try!

The kitchen has started to get busy, and the dishes will be served soon. I'll need your criticism and suggestions when the time comes!"

Jin Long nodded and said confidently: "That's easy. I may not be as professional as you in studying eagles, but when it comes to eating, I am also a gourmet.

I have seen a lot of food in Beijing, whether it is state-owned or privately owned, and today I want to taste your cooking skills!"

Ye Xiaojun also agreed: "Old Jin is not bragging about this. He is so fat from eating! This guy would go around half of Yanjing City just for a bite of authentic food!"

Yue Feng pursed his lips and nodded: "Hey, let's try the food when it's served! Maybe it will taste different!"

There are indeed many talented people in Yanjing City, but Yue Feng is also very confident in his own authentic Northeastern cuisine.

You have to know that this was Northeast China in 1981, the Wildlife Protection Law had not yet been promulgated, and all kinds of authentic game were still the mainstream of Northeastern cuisine.

The Northeastern dishes that were criticized by later generations as being too salty and sticky and not worthy of being served on the table were either a pot or a basin of them. They were the product of an era when the food was completely castrated by the law.

At this point in time, Northeastern cuisine is no worse than other cuisines, and even has great advantages.

Soon, the dishes started to be served from the kitchen.

Orchid bear paw, braised snow clam in sauce, charcoal-grilled roe deer cubes, stir-fried long-tailed pheasant, smoked deer tendon with pine needles, shrimp with leek, and the last dish is the first-class Feilong clear soup.

It took only a little over a day from the time we received the call to the time we got the meeting ready.

The combination of six dishes and one soup basically represents the highest level of Chef Niu's cooking skills, and also represents the level of Fengcheng Hotel's game specialty dishes.

When it comes to knowledge, Jin Long and Ye Xiaojun are definitely not lacking.

But when it comes to eating authentic, high-quality fresh game dishes, what they eat at their doorstep is definitely not as delicious as those cooked after being slaughtered and processed on the spot.

This has nothing to do with the chef's skills, it's purely due to the quality of the ingredients.

A welcoming banquet featuring mainly wild game completely destroyed the self-confidence of Jinlong, a guy who claimed to be a gourmet.

It turns out that pheasant meat can be so tender and juicy, and it turns out that the clear soup made by Feilong can have such a rich taste.

Even so, Yue Feng hasn't used his secret weapon, the boiled pork. If he prepares a few days in advance and hunts a wild boar, he will be able to completely control these two officials from the capital.

During lunch, the three brothers ate so much that their mouths were greasy and their foreheads were sweating.

From the time the dishes were served to the end of the meal, most of the topics discussed by Jin Long and Ye Shao were about the dishes and game on the table.

Although Yue Feng was secretly happy in his heart, he remained relatively humble on the surface, and talked about all sorts of things to guide the rhythm of the welcoming banquet. The three brothers each drank half a catty of leopard bone wine, and it was already past two in the afternoon when they were full.

It was getting dark at 4:30, so it was definitely unrealistic for Yue Feng to take them up the mountain in the afternoon. The three of them returned to the village, and Yue Feng directly arranged for two of them to sleep on the kang in the new house.

The bedding and mattresses were all new, and once the kang was lit, the room wasn't cold at all.

Yue Feng's new house has a spacious yard, clean windows and bright accommodation conditions that are not much worse than those of a guesthouse in the city.

In the evening, father-in-law Wang Jianguo arranged for his daughter-in-law and daughter to be responsible for the guests' meals.

Home-cooked stews, stir-fried dishes, dumplings, etc., although not as exquisite as the welcoming banquet at noon, farm dishes also have their own unique flavor.

Apart from anything else, the two issues of food and accommodation alone have largely changed Jin Long and Ye Xiaojun's initial impression of Yue Feng.

This young farmer's son's real connections and abilities are far more complicated than they appear on the surface.

When entertaining them, it is not a one-sided attitude of flattering anyone.

After all, Yue Feng is not an official or a politician, and Fengcheng is so far away from Yanjing. With Yue Feng's own influence in the local area, he actually has no rigid need to curry favor with these two powerful young masters.

Strength wins respect, and this is something that never goes out of date.

Jin Long and Ye Xiaojun also began to adjust their mindsets and get along with Yue Feng as if they were real friends.

After arranging for the two young masters to stay, Yue Feng returned to the old house in the evening and started making preparations in advance.

Taking the cage, he went to the firewood pile outside the wall and set up a few trap cages.

Catching a golden eagle is different from catching a young eagle or a big eagle, and the things you need to prepare are also different.

After a night, Yue Feng got up early and checked the cages set up outside.

It was pretty good. The aroma of roasted peanut kernels was strong, and the greedy mice were caught in several cages.

Yue Feng arranged the living mouse baits and went to the new house.

At the new house, the mother-in-law had already brought breakfast over, which included corn porridge, hot stew, and some refreshing pickles. The three old men ate and quickly filled their stomachs.

After eating and drinking, Jinlong begged Yue Feng to take him into the mountains to catch a golden eagle. Yue Feng had already made preparations in advance, so he did not hesitate.

Yue Feng took the nets and live mouse baits he had prepared in advance, got in the car, and went up the mountain with the two brothers.

Seeing this, some people may be confused. Can you catch a golden eagle by using mice as bait?
No, this is just the beginning.

If you want to catch a golden eagle efficiently, you need to catch a "watching bird" just like you tie up a shrike in advance when catching a big eagle.

The bird used to catch golden eagles is not a shrike, but a big leopard.

Yes, you read it right. It is the raptor mentioned many times before. Its scientific name is common buzzard.

The golden eagle occupies the top ecological niche in the wild, and most other common birds of prey are basically bullied by it.

If you want to catch a golden eagle efficiently, you must take advantage of its special habits. (End of this chapter)