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

After Yue Feng was able to get out of bed, he went for a follow-up examination.

The doctor who took the X-ray remembered Yue Feng quite well, since it's rare for a high-ranking hospital leader to personally accompany and inquire about someone's examination.

The results of the retest were even more unacceptable.

After just three days of bed rest and intravenous anti-inflammatory treatment, Yue Feng's fractured ribs have healed to about 80-90% of their original size, with only a slight trace remaining on the X-ray.

From the perspective of clinicians, this recovery speed far exceeds the healing rate of bone fractures in ordinary people, and can be described as a medical miracle.

"Xiaofeng, the doctor said you're not fully recovered yet. How about you get some more IV fluids and rest for a few more days to consolidate the recovery?" Jinlong discussed with Yuefeng after understanding the situation.

Yue Feng shook his head: "Being able to get out of bed means the problem isn't too serious. I estimate I'll be almost fully recovered in a day or two after I get back!"
There's a whole bunch of hawks waiting to be managed at the guesthouse! We went through so much trouble to catch them, we can't afford any problems!"

"Then, shall we get some medicine and go back to the guesthouse to recuperate?" Ye Xiaojun asked tentatively.

"Fine, going back to bed is fine too! I'm not as fragile as you think!"

"Then I'll go get discharged! The doctor said your recovery speed is extremely rare!"

Yue Feng nodded and didn't continue the conversation; the decision to discharge him from the hospital was made just like that.

While lying in the hospital room with nothing to do, Yue Feng was also carefully sensing the continuous changes in the location of his injury.

At the same time, he was also wondering why he recovered much faster than the average person.

After much thought, the most likely explanation is that the sheep blood wine I drank before may have had some effect on improving my physical condition.

This is not something to publicize, so it's better to just keep it to yourself. Now that I can get out of bed and walk, the crack in my ribs should heal in a day or two at most.

In total, a mild fracture can heal completely in five or six days, which is at least one to two times faster than the average person in the same situation, which is absolutely astonishing.

That noon, Yue Feng, having completed the discharge procedures, returned to the guesthouse in his car.

The first thing Yue Feng did upon returning to his room was to check on the condition of his precious eagles.

Fortunately, these eagles were all tethered and had their hats fastened, making them relatively easy to manage.

Even so, the interior of the house is still rather shabby.

Ye Xiaojun and Jinlong took turns accompanying Yue Feng in the hospital ward, while the other person could only come back to take care of the live eagles when he had free time.

Feeding them water wasn't difficult, but we were afraid of accidentally startling the eagles, so we didn't have the staff clean the room.

With so many eagles in the house, and their droppings left unattended for three or four days, the sight was too gruesome to bear. When Yue Feng opened the door, the smell inside was almost unbearable to look at.

After returning to his room at the guesthouse, Yue Feng immediately opened the window to ventilate the room and checked the condition of each of the eagles.

The little eagle was the first to be caught in the net by the big Puya. These days it has only been given water and no food, and it has become a little thin. When it hears people walking around in the house, the hungry eagle frantically lowers its head and pecks at its own feet.

In contrast, the gray gyrfalcon that was last caught in the net was in perfect condition.

It still retains its somewhat sensitive nature, keeping its hat closed and not letting anyone touch it. If anyone touches it, it will squawk loudly for a long time before gradually calming down.

After confirming that the eagle was alright, Yue Feng called out to Jin Long, "Young Master Jin, please have the waiter prepare some fresh beef!"
The first few eagles caught in the nets need some food, otherwise they'll become too thin and weak, which could cause problems!

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away! You just need to take charge of what to do next, Xiao Jun and I will help you with the rest!"

"That's it!"

……

Soon, in no time at all, the waiter brought fresh lean beef shank from the kitchen.

Yue Feng said, "Your technique for putting on the hats is so-so. Don't take the hats off yet when feeding the eagles! Feed them with the hats on! The opening size of the hats is big enough, they won't get stuck, and they can eat with the hats on!"

"Feeding with a hat on? What kind of feeding method is that? The eagle can't see anything, how can it cooperate to eat meat? Or are you just prying open its beak and stuffing it in?" Jinlong asked, a little confused.

Yue Feng said, "Yes, you can. Just learn a few techniques and give me some guidance! Just do as I say!"

"Okay, I've prepared the meat. What's next? I'll follow your instructions!"

Yue Feng said, "First, put that Puya tiger on your hand, and make sure to hide your hand in your sleeve. This thing has a pretty sharp beak!"

Jinlong's hand was still injured from the bite of the Grey Falcon, and knowing how dangerous the falcon's beak was, he was extra careful this time.

Jinlong put on the sleeves and then consciously pulled the cuffs outward to cover his fingers.

Yue Feng nodded: "Take a piece of fresh meat and rub it against the tiger's claws! Make sure you grip its two legs tightly so the eagle can't lift its feet freely!"

Jinlong complied. Feeling stimulated, Yahu made a slight threatening sound and tried to grope in the dark to attack.

After several attempts, the blindfolded duck-tiger happened to peck at a piece of beef.

Feeling the tender texture of the beef, Ya Hu immediately took a big bite, as if he were biting a person and making his opponent pay the price.

"He bit it! Oh no, he didn't eat it, he spat it out!" Jinlong muttered impatiently when he saw this.

"Don't rush, repeat the action of rubbing the eagle's feet with the meat again, and keep letting it bite! This time, dip the meat in a little blood, so it can taste it!"

"Okay, I'll give it a try!"

Repeating the previous process, sure enough, after the duck took a few more bites, it started smacking its lips.

My stomach has been empty for many days, and I'm starving. Now, even the slightest smell of blood is a deadly temptation.

After biting into the beef again, Ya Hu didn't rush to shake his head and spit it out. Instead, he used his beak to peck off a little bit of fresh meat and swallowed it with a smacking sound.

"Hey, it actually went down! What's next?"

Jinlong personally experienced the operation of feeding the eagle with a hidden weapon and was very excited.

"Continue to repeat the previous steps, cutting the meat into slightly larger pieces to make it easier for it to tear! Whistle while feeding it! After eating the meat a few times, it will associate eating with the whistle!"

Jinlong did as instructed, and sure enough, after getting the hang of the correct technique, the duck-tiger crouching on his arm became increasingly cooperative.

After eating several pieces of beef, Big Tiger Duck heard the whistle again and wisely lowered its head to look for food at its feet.

"Damn, this thing is pretty smart. With its hat on, it can't see anything, but after a few training sessions, it knows to look down for meat when it hears a whistle!" Jinlong was quite excited about the feeding training he had personally completed.

In the past, whether it was a large eagle or a falcon, they were basically fed in the open air. This was the first time Jinlong had ever experienced feeding a live falcon with his hat on.

Yue Feng lay half-reclined on the kang (a heated brick bed), a cotton quilt under his back, and grinned: "Of course, none of these things are stupid enough to survive in the wild!"
Don't feed the eagle too much the first time; just give it about three-tenths full and that's it! Its stomach isn't full yet; it needs time to adjust! Overfeeding it can cause it to have an upset stomach!

"Oh! I get that! Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, come eat some meat!"

Jinlong responded while whistling and feeding the eagles. Soon, the crop of the first Puya tiger slowly swelled up.

After feeding the first falcon, it was time to feed the second miniature chicken hawk.

Jinlong, who thought he had mastered the art of labeling and feeding his chicks, was quickly proven wrong when he tried to play with the little chicks.

"Damn, this little chicken eagle is hard to handle! No matter how much meat I rub against its claws, it won't peck at me! What should I do?" Jinlong looked at Yuefeng for help, somewhat bewildered. Yuefeng grinned and said, "Hehe, chicken eagles aren't as temperamental as tiger ducks! They're also less aggressive when pecking, so this trick won't work on it!"

"Then how?"

"Feeding with the hat on, in our jargon we call it 'hidden feeding,' is a method usually used when raising falcons to help them recognize whistles and obey commands more quickly! It's used less often when serving hawks!"

Of course, it's not unusable, but it needs to be adapted!

"Tell me how you want to work things out, and I'll handle it!"

"Try rubbing some meat dipped in blood on the eagle's beak a few times! Let it taste the blood too!"

Jinlong did as he was told, and the little eagle, after tasting the blood, actually gave him a peck.

Once the first whistle was given, the rest was easy. Jinlong repeated the process and soon the little eagle recognized the whistle, and its crop slowly began to swell.

After practicing the technique of feeding the eagles with hats on, Yue Feng no longer needed to worry. Jinlong fed all the eagles that had been caught in the nets in the first day or two. These unlucky eagles, who had been starving for several days, finally received the court's 'relief food'.

After taking care of the eagles in the room, there was nothing urgent for the time being.

Jinlong, worried that Yuefeng would be bored, asked the front desk for some snacks and chatted with Yuefeng about all sorts of things while they ate sunflower seeds. Time passed quite quickly.

While chatting and recovering from his injuries inside the house, Yue Feng kept observing the gray spear that Jin Long was holding.

The more Yue Feng observed its reactions, the more he felt that this guy had some kind of personality problem; who knows, maybe it really was a lunatic.

The eagles have been netted for four or five days now, and they won't let you touch them. If you try to touch one, it'll howl for half a day. They're way too sensitive. Their temperaments are completely different from the big black eagle, Little White Spear, that Yue Feng encountered before.

However, although he had this feeling in his heart, Yue Feng didn't say anything.

In his efforts to catch this gray spear, he almost broke his rib fan. If one were to arbitrarily say that this gray spear was a lunatic, not only Jinlong and Ye Xiaojun, but even Yue Feng himself would find it hard to accept.

And so, Yue Feng spent the entire first day after being discharged from the hospital in his room at the guesthouse.

By evening, Xiao Weimin and the others who had gone into the mountains to shoot footage returned.

In addition, since Yue Feng was hospitalized in the past few days, the 'good hawks' that the hawk hunters arranged by Secretary Li had accumulated were also taken to the small square in front of the guesthouse.

When Xiao Weimin saw Yue Feng walk out of the room with a normal expression, he was slightly taken aback and immediately walked over to greet him.

"Didn't you have a fractured rib? Why are you being discharged today! Go back to your bed and rest!"

Yue Feng grinned slightly: "Hehe, I had an X-ray this morning, and I'm almost fully recovered! So I was discharged! Brother Xiao, how was it up the mountain today?"

"It's almost done already?"

"Yeah, don't worry, I value my life a lot, I won't push myself if I'm not feeling well!"

"That's better. You're in pretty good shape. Last time, Xiao Zhu also fractured his ribs and had to lie in bed for three weeks before he dared to get out of bed!"
There have been noticeably more eagles on the mountain these past couple of days! We even spotted two large eagles today!

Yue Feng did a quick mental calculation and figured that, based on the timing, it should be close to the peak period for the large-scale migration of raptors.

"Alright, we've seen quite a few now, so we're not far from the eagle flock passing through!"
"We might only need a strong wind to capture the spectacular Eagle Pillars and Eagle River!"

Xiao Weimin nodded and continued to ask, "Last time, didn't I hear you tell Young Master Ye that if we encountered a giant eagle, we could try to catch one or two to bring back and bolster our reputation?"

How do you catch this thing? Tell me, and I'll give it a try if I see it again!

Yue Feng: "Different eagles require different catching methods; their habits differ, so the methods also vary! This cannot be generalized! No rush, I'll rest for another day today, and tomorrow I'll continue up the mountain with you!"

"Will it work?"

"No problem, I'm strong enough to handle it!"

"Alright, then you come up the mountain yourself, and we won't have to go through all this trouble!"

While the two brothers were chatting, Director Wang, who was next to Secretary Li, came over.

"Comrades, the farmers heard that Master Yue has been discharged from the hospital and returned, so they brought all the good hawks they've collected over the past few days. It's getting dark, so why don't you pick one out first?"
Over time, the eagle will lose weight and will hardly survive if released!

After Director Wang's interruption, Yue Feng came back to his senses.

"Okay, let's go check on the eagles first!"

Yue Feng and Xiao Weimin exchanged a glance, and the two of them went out of the house together to look at the eagles outside.

There were at least a dozen people squatting in the small square outside, with at least one or two birds of prey wrapped in eagle coats at their feet.

Yue Feng glanced through them and found quite a few decent-looking eagles.

Two large blue eagles, each quite heavy, and a Puya tiger, which is also of good quality.

In addition, there is a large rabbit-tiger with a silver head, flowery tail, and pearly back.

This large rabbit-tiger, in particular, is also a very standard, top-quality subspecies of falcon.

As the old saying goes, "Silver head, flowery tail, pearly back, even if it doesn't hunt rabbits, it's still considered precious," which describes this subspecies of falcon.

"Have you started hunting rabbits and tigers? Has anyone else caught one?" Yue Feng asked as he walked up to the owner of the beautiful rabbit and tiger.

The other party nodded: "Old Chen caught one of those old sticks yesterday, but it wasn't in good condition, so he let it go!"

It seems the Year of the Rabbit and Year of the Tiger are over earlier this year! In previous years, we wouldn't even see them until the eagles and other large birds had mostly passed!

Yue Feng nodded: "Alright, we'll keep this big rabbit-tiger too! It's rare to find one this beautiful!"

Seeing that Yue Feng had kept the eagle he had caught, Da Hu was quite pleased.

"This eagle is quite impressive! I heard you caught a gyrfalcon a few days ago? Is that true?"

When asked about the household's inquiries, Yue Feng shook his head almost without hesitation.

"Gyrfalcons are not so easy to catch. We did catch a top-quality eagle, but it wasn't a gyrfalcon!"
Similar to this silver-headed, flowery-tailed one, it's an XZ subspecies of rabbit-tiger! Just slightly larger!

Upon hearing Yue Feng's words, the man in front of him paused for a moment, then nodded.

"I see, they were spreading some pretty exaggerated rumors, I actually believed them! It's just a rabbit and a tiger!"

"Yes! The color should be slightly grayer!"

"All right!"

……

After all the eagles had been selected, Xiao Weimin, who had been standing by, followed Yue Feng into the house.

As soon as he entered the house, he couldn't help but ask a question.

"Didn't you say that eagle was Gray Spear? Why did you say it was Rabbit Tiger when Da Hu asked you earlier!" (End of Chapter)