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

Yue Feng was in a rather disheveled state at that moment.

He took off his coat and used it to cover the eagle, leaving him only in his undershirt. There were several bloodstains on his face, and his hands and arms were also bleeding from cuts caused by thorns when he fell.

I chased him down the mountain at breakneck speed, my heart pounding at least 180 beats per minute.

Once he had the gray spear under his coat, Yue Feng collapsed onto the wasteland, panting heavily.

Seven or eight minutes later, Jinlong and Ye Xiaojun, the second group, arrived at Yue Feng's resting location.

More than ten minutes later, Xiao Weimin and his colleagues arrived as the third team, carrying cameras.

Yue Feng had caught his breath and was slowly recovering.

"How's it going, Xiaofeng? Did you catch that eagle? What kind is it? Is it a gyrfalcon?" Jinlong asked with concern.

Yue Feng nodded: "It's a gyrfalcon! The sub-adult gray-type gyrfalcon from back then! It's wrapped up under my jacket!"

Jinlong continued, "You were so scary coming down the mountain just now! Were you alright? You fell and didn't even check yourself before getting up and continuing to rush!"

Yue Feng's lips curled up slightly: "Only by standing on the mountain can you see the direction from which the eagle lands! If you fall and the eagle happens to land on the ground, it will be difficult to find your target again!"

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! If it bites through the noose and escapes, there won't be a next time! A few falls won't kill me, but I can't bear to lose the eagle I've finally caught!

Hearing Yue Feng's matter-of-fact tone, Jinlong and Ye Xiaojun exchanged a glance and remained silent for a full two seconds before Jinlong sighed softly, "You really are a crazy eagle!"

Yue Feng grinned: "Hehe, it wasn't a waste of time! Come over and lend a hand, help me put the hat on the eagle first!"

"What do you need me to do?"

Jinlong moved closer and watched as Yue Feng carefully adjusted the way he held the eagle through his coat.

"This gyrfalcon's beak is much sharper than that of a saker falcon or peregrine falcon, so be careful not to get bitten! I'll stick the eagle's head out, and you'll pull its hood tighter!"

Use the largest hat! It still has the owl's carcass hanging from its leg; we'll deal with it after the hat is on!

"it is good!"

After a brief conversation, Yue Feng slowly adjusted his coat, revealing the head of the Grey Falcon. The others could then see its large, terrified eyes.

"The eyes of this grey gyrfalcon are so beautiful! They're even more imposing than the Puya at the guesthouse!" Jinlong couldn't help but exclaim.

"Don't get cocky, it might bite!" Yue Feng warned.

Jinlong found the largest eagle hat that Yuefeng had mentioned, then pulled open the drawstring and held the tassel around Gray Spear's head.

I've reminded him twice already, but something still happened.

Jinlong was caught off guard by the sudden attack from the gray spear. The gray spear lunged forward and bit the outside of Jinlong's thumb.

"Ouch, holy crap! You dare bite me, you motherfucker!" Jinlong cried out in pain and immediately withdrew his right hand.

The next second, a white gash appeared on the outside of the bitten thumb, and blood immediately gushed from the wound.

A gray spear can bite through the neck bones of wild ducks and pheasants in one bite, let alone the skin of a human finger.

"Are you alright?" Yue Feng looked down at Jinlong with concern.

"It's just a superficial injury. I refuse to believe I can't take care of you!"

Jinlong was also enraged by the bite, and continued to try while holding the hat tassel. After several attempts, he finally seized an opportunity and put the hat on the Grey Falcon.

Jinlong first tightened the drawstring at the back of his hat, and then put his bleeding finger into his mouth to suck on it.

With his hat fastened, Yue Feng's tense nerves relaxed.

He opened his coat, revealing the two talons of the grey gyrfalcon.

On the two eagle claws, the door claw and the probing claw, of the gray spear's right paw, there was a rope loop made by Yue Feng, the other end of which was connected to the owl's cowhide vest, the connection was quite secure.

"Xiao Jun, lend a hand and cut this noose with a knife!" Yue Feng continued.

Ye Xiaojun took out his knife and did as instructed, quickly freeing the gray spear from its claws.

After finishing all that, Yue Feng took out the largest eagle-patterned jacket from his pocket and got busy.

Straighten the eagle's wings, then place them in the middle of the eagle's coat, wrap them around to the left and right, tighten them at the back, and finally wrap them around the eagle's claws several times and tie a knot.

After carefully handling all the operations, Gray Spear had no chance of escaping and became the spoils of Yue Feng's trio.

"Xiaofeng, how's the condition of this gray spear?" Ye Xiaojun asked, turning his head.

Yue Feng smiled and nodded: "There are no bad gyrfalcons! In other words, if a gyrfalcon is weak and sickly, it would be difficult for it to fly to our three northeastern provinces alive!"

This thing is native to the tundra and ice fields at higher latitudes, almost to the Arctic Circle!
This gray spear is quite heavy, probably a pound or two heavier than my big black eagle! It weighs at least four pounds!

This is the first year after leaving the nest, and the organism is a sub-adult!
If you raise it in human hands for a year, it will become a fully grown eagle next year, and its weight will increase significantly!

Ye Xiaojun nodded, beaming, and said, "That's great! Now we have the grand finale of Eagle Exhibition! Jinlong, how's your finger? Still bleeding? Are you addicted to sucking your fingers?"

Jinlong took the bitten finger out of his mouth, revealing the bite wound.

It was inconspicuous before, but now, after being sucked in the mouth, the wound has opened up, revealing a deep gash that is still bleeding profusely.

"Damn it, this thing's mouth is really vicious! It almost bit off my thumb!" Jinlong complained with lingering fear.

Xiao Weimin then advised, "You need to bandage your finger with hemostatic powder! Come on, let's go back to the shack! There's a first-aid kit over there!"

"Let's go back first!"

Yue Feng nodded and stood up from his squatting position.

"Brother Xiao, did you get the footage from earlier?" Yue Feng asked.

Xiao Weimin nodded: "Don't worry, it's all been filmed! You're really something, falling down several times and getting back up to keep going!"

"Hehe! I just got excited!" Yue Feng grinned, scratching his head a little embarrassedly.

...When everyone returned to the hut on the sunny slope halfway up the mountain, their mindset and emotions were noticeably better than before they descended from the eagle.

This gray eagle, which was just caught in the net, is the biggest catch of this eagle-hunting trip to Eagle Village. Even if we stop now and head home, it will be enough to show for our efforts.

Back at the eagle farm halfway up the mountain, Xiao Weimin instructed people to treat Jinlong's bite wounds. After disinfecting the wounds, applying hemostatic powder, and bandaging them, the injury was temporarily stabilized.

Then look at the gray lance falcon, which was wrapped tightly in an eagle coat and had its hat pulled up. It seemed to realize that there were many people around. At the slightest movement, it would let out a series of cawing cries, making the whole eagle shop noisy.

Seeing this, Yue Feng said, "We've caught the falcon. Brother Xiao, do you guys want to get some other footage of falcons?"
Otherwise, the three of us brothers can go to the shady side of the hill and make room for you.

There are many people here, and the newly caught eagles keep calling, which is affecting the other eagles from setting up their nets!
We still have hand-operated nets and three sets of self-propelled nets on the shady slope at the top of the mountain; we can't just ignore them!

Xiao Weimin nodded: "Okay, then you guys go back, we'll handle this side! You've already taught us the eagle dismounting technique, let's give it a try!"

"Alright! I'll take this gray spear first! Guys, let's go back to the shady slope! Call us if anything happens!"

"That's it!"

……

After exchanging greetings, Yue Feng and his two brothers, carrying the newly caught gray spear, leisurely continued their climb back to the mountaintop, where they hid in their shack again.

With their new eagle in hand, it would be a lie to say the three Yue brothers weren't happy; they joked and teased each other the whole way, making it quite lively.

Once inside the shack, Yue Feng put the gray spear aside and took out a water bottle from his bag.

This was the first time in Yue Feng's life that he had caught a falcon using a carrying rope snare. He knew that Gray Spear had exhausted himself and was severely dehydrated when he escaped.

At that moment, water was poured from the kettle to soak a clean cotton cloth, and then the water was squeezed out to feed the eagle until the gray eagle shook its head and refused to drink any more water. Only then did the watering process end.

During the watering process, Gray Spear continued to struggle and scream, its cawing sounds like the mournful cry of someone on the verge of death.

Having gone to great lengths to capture this precious treasure, Yue Feng was certainly reluctant to harm it, but he had no better idea for the time being. So he could only clear out a small corner in the shack and place the gray spear with its cap on there.

The tripping and splitting of the legs, five feet apart, etc., are all at the guesthouse at the foot of the mountain. We can only dress up and set up the eagle when we get back at night.

Gray Spear's screams, aside from other consequences, completely terrified the mountain monkeys that Yue Feng had brought up the mountain.

Perhaps it was because the raptor's rank was too high, and the genetic suppression in its bones took effect. The mountain monkey, which even Yue Feng dared to peck, stood on the pole with its wings tucked in and its neck tucked in, not daring to move at all, as if it was silently chanting in its heart, "I am a stone!"
After dealing with the gray spear issue, Yue Feng and his group completely lowered their guard and rested in the shack.

At this moment, the effects of Yue Feng's falls while chasing the eagle down the mountain began to show. Yue Feng felt a dull pain in his shoulders and ribs, and even his ankles felt a little stiff.

The griffin's shrill cries disrupted their hawk-hunting performance, and they didn't catch a single hawk at the shady eagle enclosure until lunchtime.

The staff waiting at the foot of the mountain witnessed Yue Feng and his team capture a top-quality falcon and immediately sent someone back to report to Secretary Li.

As a result, the lunch delivered up the mountain at noon, in addition to being very plentiful, also included an extra bottle of vintage Moutai liquor with an iron cap.

The three brothers were very happy. They had a couple of drinks at lunch, and the three of them drank a bottle of liquor, each of them downing more than 150ml of strong liquor.

By the afternoon, Gray Spear, wrapped in the eagle coat, had begun to adapt to the restraint, and its cries had noticeably decreased, returning the eagle stable to its quiet state from the previous day.

Around 3 p.m., the wind picked up on the mountaintop, and several more eagles were spotted.

Yue Feng pulled the net several times and caught two eagles, one big and one small.

A young eagle and a two-year-old eagle with broken flowers were both of very ordinary quality. Yue Feng didn't like them and released them on the spot.

Before they knew it, it was evening. Before descending the mountain, Yue Feng inspected the self-trapping nets he had set up.

An old hawk and a rare hairy-legged bird were both useless, so they were released back into the wild.

As dusk approached, the three brothers, along with Xiao Weimin and his group, descended the mountain with the grey gyrfalcon they had caught that day.

When the car drove back to the small square in front of the guesthouse, the hawk hunters who had caught hawks during the day were already waiting with their catch.

After several days of selection, these falconers no longer held out hope that their low-quality falcons would be chosen, so the quality of the falcons they were able to bring back improved significantly.

From these candidate eagles, Yue Feng selected a standard-looking 2.2-pound purple eagle and kept a very spirited common subspecies pigeon tiger.

Leaving aside the various pleasantries and formalities, after bringing the eagles back to their lodgings, it took another flurry of activity before they were finally settled in.

After finishing the trivial matters, Yue Feng, Ye Xiaojun, and Jinlong couldn't wait to find the gear to tether the Grey Spear Falcon and dress it up in full armor.

After getting dressed, Yue Feng put on leather gloves and held the Grey Spear Falcon in his hand.

Compared to the various eagles lined up in the room with their hats on, the assessment that the gyrfalcon is the most magnificent of the three hundred and sixty eagles was perfectly verified on site.

The grey gyrfalcon, which could already stand firmly on my hand, had thick, grey-black markings on its breast, a very broad chest, and exceptionally well-developed muscles.

Its wings are thin, and when folded up, they are completely invisible from the front; it's a textbook example of a single-feathered, hard-boned bird.

Looking closer at the details of the head and face, the nostrils are large, the beak is thick, the incisors are sharp, the cere on the nose is light blue, and the short hairs protruding from the hat are all clearly defined, with excellent texture.

Finally, look at Gray Spear's eagle claws.

The shaft was thick and strong, and the claws were a size larger than those of the large Puya. The nails were curved like sharp blades and gleamed with a ghostly light. Even through the protection of the leather gloves, Yue Feng could feel the terrifying power generated by the seemingly casual grip of the gray spear eagle claws.

When other live eagles stand on your hands, it seems that most of their weight is on their legs, and their skeletal structure is somewhat flawed.

The grey gyrfalcon, perched firmly on Yue Feng's hand, exuded a regal and domineering aura with its overall skeletal structure and standing posture.

The gray lance falcon that Yue Feng was holding looked exceptionally elegant. Jin Long looked at the other eagles with hats on them, then at the gray lance falcon, and after a long time, he couldn't help but sigh.

"Ah, no wonder the emperor likes these gyrfalcons! There's no harm in comparison. These are already considered good individual eagles, but compared to the Grey Spear, their aura is far inferior!"

Ye Xiaojun couldn't help but examine it repeatedly: "Xiaofeng, don't you have a feeling? This wild-caught gyrfalcon and the offspring bred in your family's farm are both gyrfalcons, but their temperaments are quite different!"

Yue Feng smiled and nodded: "That's for sure! The eagles in the breeding farm are raised on double-marked food from a young age, so they're not afraid of people at all! They're used to human environments and generally don't get stressed or anxious!"
Most of the time, their fur isn't wrapped up this tightly!

Look at this gray spear, covered in fur, even the groin area is tightly clenched! It definitely gives off a different feeling!

Ye Xiaojun nodded, then asked a somewhat tricky question: "How long would it take to fully develop this thing into an eagle that can be trained to fly?"

The Eagle Show is in a few days, is there enough time for that? (End of Chapter)