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

The dog carried the big black eagle steadily around the yard, then wagged its tail and happily returned to Yue Feng.

When Xiao Weimin's film crew saw this scene, their eyes widened in disbelief.

"Holy crap! You can do that? Is the dog really not afraid of eagles?" Xiao Weimin said incredulously.

Yue Feng grinned: "Didn't I tell you? Don't be afraid! This kid came home when he was a little over two months old, and we've been keeping him under the edge of the kang (heated brick bed) inside the house ever since!"

Back then, before the new house was built, the big black eagle would squat on the kang (a heated brick bed) on the falcon stand!

To put it bluntly, all of my puppies were raised under the watchful eye of Da Hei Ying!

Back then, the old dogs at home also treated Big Black Hawk as their boss!
When the dog-falcon accompanies our hunting team into the mountains to hunt, no matter if it's a jackal, a tiger, or a leopard, the first bite of meat is always given to the big black eagle!
Even if you give meat to a dog in front of an eagle, the dog won't dare eat it; it will obediently carry the meat to its leader as an offering!

After hearing this, Xiao Weimin gave a thumbs up: "Awesome! Let's take two falcons down to the ground today and take a look! We can also shoot some footage!"

Yue Feng was still thinking about that cunning red-haired old rabbit that dared to provoke him yesterday. The white eagle was injured and couldn't go down to the ground today, so he decided to take the black eagle and the little white spear to hunt rabbits, take some footage, and get revenge.

"Okay! We'll do it your way!"

……

After finalizing today's schedule, the film crew got busy.

After breakfast, the film crew carried all the charging equipment onto the car, and then Yue Feng, riding two eagles and leading Canglong, stood at the gate of the new house.

"Get in! Is there anything else?" Xiao Weimin, sitting in the driver's seat, greeted Yue Feng.

Yue Feng nodded: "Wait for me for half a minute!"

Xiao Weimin didn't know what Yue Feng was up to, but he nodded nonetheless.

The next second, in front of the four staff members, Yue Feng took off the hats of the two eagles, raised his arm and released them into the air.

After taking off, the two eagles didn't run around randomly. They circled and flew higher and higher above Yue Feng's head.

"Why did you release the eagle? Aren't we going to catch rabbits and shoot footage?" Xiao Weimin scratched his head, somewhat puzzled.

Having stayed at Yue Feng's house these past few days, Xiao Weimin has gotten a general idea of ​​how Yue Feng takes care of the eagles every day.

The morning flight takes at least half an hour, and sometimes when you're in good form, it can take up to an hour to call the eagle down.

Now that everyone is ready, why are we releasing the eagle at this crucial moment? Are we supposed to wait for the eagle to warm up before setting off?

Yue Feng smiled and shook his head, then swaggered to the passenger side, opened the door, and climbed into the car.

"Let's go! Head straight to the vicinity of the hawk-raising area from yesterday!"

"Are they abandoning the eagles?"

Yue Feng grinned faintly: "The eagles are following overhead! Just walk, they won't get lost!"

"Does an eagle know to follow a car?"

“I know! I trained them specifically before. They’ll definitely be able to keep up when they see me get in the car! Cars don’t go very fast on mountain roads, so it’s not much of a challenge for eagles to keep up!”

"Holy crap, you can do that?! Are you sure it's okay? Then I'm off!"

"Don't worry, there won't be any problem!"

"it is good!"

……

After confirming the location several times, Xiao Weimin started riding his bicycle, shifted into gear, and headed towards the upstream riverbank of the Muling River where he had released the hawks the day before.

Having already traveled this route twice yesterday, Xiao Weimin, being an experienced driver, didn't even need Yue Feng to give him directions as he headed towards the filming location.

Along the way, Xiao Weimin asked Yue Feng several times if he wanted to stop and check if Ying had caught up. Yue Feng said no, but he leaned out of the car window to glance at the eagle a few times and whistled a few times during the journey.

After several hunting seasons of continuous training, Big Black Eagle and Little White Spear have long since developed a strong tacit understanding with Yue Feng.

The owner took off his hat and let them fly freely, then got into a car with his dog and set off. The meaning was clear: he wanted them to follow him in the sky.

For a falcon with a very robust physique and in excellent condition, this amount of activity is no problem at all; it's just a warm-up.

An hour and a half later, the car was parked near the spot where it had been parked the day before.

Xiao Weimin was the first to jump out of the car. As soon as he got out, he shaded his eyes with his hand and looked up at the sky, trying to find the location of the falcon.

Yue Feng pushed open the passenger door and got out of the car. He calmly walked to the roadside grass and loosened his belt to relieve himself.

"Where's the eagle? Could it have flown away and gotten lost?" Xiao Weimin asked anxiously.

Yue Feng calmly pulled up his pants, then put his clean left hand in his mouth and whistled.

huh~~~
The whistle trailed off for a good two or three seconds before it stopped.

The next second, two small black dots in the sky grew larger and larger, appearing above Yue Feng's head with a low-frequency whistling sound.

With a near-vertical dive, Big Black Eagle and Little White Spear landed perfectly on Yue Feng's arm, one after the other.

"Quack quack!"

The big black eagle warmed up and flew quite comfortably. After hearing its master's whistle, it landed and its cries were extremely cheerful.

Yue Feng raised his hand and touched the black eagle's forehead. The little guy comfortably fluffed up the feathers around its head.

The little white spear, which fell a beat later, also brought its head closer, its meaning clear: I want to touch it too.

"Alright, alright! We still have work to do later!"

Yue Feng simply patted the little white spear on the head as a reward, then raised his hand and made the two eagles fly back into the air.

Xiao Weimin was completely impressed when he saw that the eagle hadn't been lost and was even behaving so intimately with Yue Feng.

"I'm truly impressed, completely convinced! You've trained those two gyrfalcons incredibly well!"

"Hehe! You're all glamorous in public but suffer in private, it's a bittersweet experience!"

You've seen how much effort I put into caring for the eagles every day, and this is after they've been tamed and stabilized!
"The first winter after we got them, we really need to put a lot of effort into the eagles!" Yue Feng said very frankly.

After listening, Xiao Weimin couldn't help but suggest, "Before we go home, let's set up the equipment and shoot another set of footage, shall we?"

Let's film the eagle following our car home from the sky!
Practical falconry knowledge is essential, but top-tier falconry skills must also be demonstrated!

"No problem! We can film this anytime."

"Eagles are not all the same. Our two eagles will obey orders even if they have food in their crops! They are not like ordinary eagles that catch rabbits and then refuse to cooperate after they've eaten their fill!" Yue Feng agreed without hesitation.

"Great! I'll write these points down! Everyone else, unload the equipment and get ready to work!"

"okay!"

After a brief exchange, Xiao Weimin took out his notebook and wrote and drew on half a page with a pen before stopping.

"Shall we go? Everyone's ready. There are rabbits along the way, let's catch some. If we can't catch any, let's just go find that old red rabbit, shall we?" Yue Feng asked.

"Fine, you're in charge!"
If it's a normal shot and the dog spots you in advance, take a picture. If it's a sudden encounter and you can't get a shot, then just let it go!
I have a lot of confidence in how our pair of gyrfalcons will perform from now on!

"Hehe, let's go! Azure Dragon, search!"

Yue Feng waved his hand and gave the dog a command, and the lead dog, Canglong, immediately started working on it.

I walked through the mountain area just yesterday, and even after walking more than a hundred meters, I didn't find any trace of rabbits.

The Azure Dragon knew its master's and the film crew's intentions, so it searched very carefully.

Unable to find its prey, the dog seemed to be getting anxious, moving further and further away from its owner. Its search radius had expanded from thirty or forty meters yesterday to eighty or ninety meters, nearly a hundred meters.

After walking along the riverbank for about 300 meters, the Azure Dragon spotted its target for the first time.

Wang Wang Wang!
The dog made a gesture indicating that it had spotted prey, and then warned Yue Feng and the others in the distance.

Seeing this, Yue Feng turned to Xiao Weimin and said, "Director Xiao, let's set up the equipment! Our high-altitude rabbit hunting should be very efficient today."

"You and Xiaotian need to keep track of the rabbit's movement, otherwise you might not be able to capture a close-up of the eagle in the viewfinder!"

"It's okay! We'll shoot as many shots as we can! Let's try it out first, and if it doesn't work, we'll adjust our strategy!"

"Ok!"

After receiving confirmation from Xiao Weimin, Yue Feng gave the order.

"Azure Dragon, pounce!"

At the command, the dog pressed down with its front legs and curled up its hind legs, pouncing towards the rabbit in the grass.

This dog got scolded yesterday, but it's learned its lesson today. It could have easily picked up the rabbit in one bite, but it held back.

They only chased it away, without biting it, giving the falcon leader in the sky room to maneuver.

Startled, the hare leaped out of its burrow and ran for its life.

When Yue Feng saw the rabbit appear, he promptly blew his whistle.

The next second, upon hearing the whistle, the black eagle, like a precisely targeted cruise missile, swooped down with a high-frequency whistling sound as its feathers scraped against the air.

The fleeing hare had no idea what was happening.

Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed past in front of me.

The next second, its neck bones made a crisp cracking sound as they broke, the whole world in its eyes began to spin, and then it quickly lost consciousness.

From the moment the rabbit was startled, Xiao Weimin focused intently on locking his camera onto the running rabbit.

All I saw was a dark blur that flashed past my eyes. The rabbit, which had been running wildly just a second ago, tripped and fell to the ground, its hind legs twitching unconsciously.

quick! too fast!
Not to mention the cameras, even Xiao Weimin's eyes were completely unable to process what had happened.

"The rabbit was kicked to death just like that?" Xiao Weimin rubbed his eyes, still recalling the incredibly fantastical scene he had just witnessed.

The black eagle, having killed the hare with a single blow, turned low in the air, then spread its wings and slowly landed in front of the hare.

Quack, quack, quack!

Having caught its prey, the eagle didn't rush to eat the meat. Instead, it cackled loudly in the direction of Yue Feng, as if showing off.

Yue Feng grinned: "Didn't I just tell you? When the black eagle swoops down from high above, its speed is absolutely incredible! The rabbit can't even react in time!"

"It made a whooshing sound just now! At that speed, what rabbit could outrun it?" Xiao Weimin looked at Yue Feng's big black eagle with shining eyes.

Yue Feng nodded: "Well, unless there are terrain limitations, the Black Eagle will almost never miss catching a rabbit-sized prey!"

"Forget about rabbits, even the fox that injured the white eagle yesterday would be finished off with a single kick if it encountered the black eagle!"

"It's incredibly impressive, but our equipment can't capture it! The speed is too fast; we only get a few frames!" Xiao Weimin said, somewhat frustrated.

“Uh…” Now it was Yue Feng’s turn to be in a dilemma.

The gyrfalcon's high-altitude soaring and swooping hunting method ensures an extremely high hunting success rate, but naturally, its speed cannot be reduced at all.

This was determined by the nature of the hunting method, and Yue Feng had no choice but to accept it.

You can't expect a big black eagle to slow down and chase its prey so easily.

Don't say that black eagles aren't that smart. Even if they were, their slow speed would significantly reduce their success rate in chasing prey. This is an unsolvable paradox.

"Is there no other way?" Xiao Weimin asked in a deep voice when he saw Yue Feng's troubled expression.

Yue Feng shook his head: "If it were my two eagles, it wouldn't be easy to do in a short time!"
These two eagles have become accustomed to their hunting method of soaring and climbing to higher altitudes, using altitude to increase speed!

Even if we use technical means to slightly lower their altitude, their diving speed will still be astonishing!

"Alright, let's leave it at that. We'll check the quality of the footage when we get home and then figure out what to do next! Both eagles have landed, should we feed them some meat?"

"Okay, I'll go feed the eagle some meat as a token of my appreciation!"

Yue Feng nodded and strode to where the two eagles had landed.

The Azure Dragon lay obediently on the ground, motionless, about two or three meters away from the rabbit.

Unlike the white eagle, the two eagles didn't immediately pluck feathers and eat their prey after catching it; they patiently waited for their owner to come.

Yue Feng walked up to them, and the two eagles cawed a few more times. Yue Feng patted their heads to comfort them, then pulled out his leg sling from his lower back and quickly bled the rabbit, then pulled out its tender internal organs.

With a rabbit's heart and a rabbit's lung, the big black eagle fed the little white spear a bite of meat, and then Yue Feng finished feeding him.

The two eagles ate only a little bit of the rabbit's entrails. Seeing that their owner had no intention of feeding them any more, they didn't fight over it. They wiped the blood off their claws with their beaks, cawed twice, and took off on their own, circling overhead again.

Both eagles took off, and Yue Feng gave the remaining rabbit entrails directly to Canglong.

The dog didn't stand on ceremony; it picked up the rabbit's entrails and began to chew them up, quickly swallowing them all.

In the footage, Xiao Weimin captured the entire process of Yue Feng feeding the eagles.

When Xiao Weimin saw the eagle take a bite of its entrails, then take off again without fighting or retaliating, he had a feeling.

Damn it, these two gyrfalcons in Yue Feng's hands, and that top-quality white eagle that landed yesterday, are both hunting eagles. But the relationship between eagles and humans is completely different.

No wonder so many emperors in history pursued the magnificent gyrfalcon. From a hunting perspective, the eagle and the gyrfalcon are completely different things.

What's even more ridiculous is that Xiao Weimin was a little apprehensive just a few days ago. Such a fine white eagle is extremely rare and precious. He was worried that Yue Feng wouldn't want to give it to him after the documentary was finished.

Having witnessed the Black Eagle's performance firsthand today, Yue Feng wouldn't even give a second glance to ordinary top-tier falcons like the Grass White Eagle. (End of Chapter)