Chapter 752: Panning for Eagles

5-grade leaf 3 roots each, 4-grade leaf Wang An 6 roots Wang Li 5 roots, 3-grade leaf Wang An 10 roots Wang Li 11 roots, second-grade Wang An 21 roots Wang Li 22 roots.

Thinking for a while, Wang An took another root of 3-grade leaf and handed it to Wang Li, while also saying:

Those two bear gallbladders can be sold for about five hundred and forty or fifty yuan, I'll give you a root of 3-grade leaf, and then I won't divide the money from selling those two bear gallbladders with you.

Wang Li seemed to want to say something else, but was directly ordered by Wang An: "Alright, just leave it at that, there's a lot of work outside, go out and work immediately."

After Wang An finished speaking, he simply packed up the ginseng bundles and walked directly outside.

Wang Li agreed, re-packed his own ginseng bundles into the burlap sack, and followed Wang An out.

It's just that after the two went out of the house, Wang Li went to help with work, but Wang An was attracted by the calls of the eagle

It must be said that the four eagle chicks—Big Gold, Little Gold, Big Cang, and Little Cang—had really hit a streak of bad luck by following Wang An.

The reason for saying this is mainly because, according to the silk cloth, eagle chicks should be fed at least three or four times a day when they are young, and five or six times is best.

Because only in this way would the eagle chicks grow rapidly.

Unfortunately, Wang An was often not at home during the day, and besides Wang An, no one else could feed them, which led to the four eagle chicks not getting fed at noon.

They could only have a meal in the morning, a meal in the evening, and another meal before sleeping at night, barely reaching the minimum standard for raising them.

So, according to the family, the golden eagle chicks and the hawk chicks would cry out from time to time throughout the day because they were hungry.

Fortunately, the Spirit-Opening Powder was very nutritious, so they wouldn't starve to death.

After hearing their cries, Wang An cut off a piece of lean black bear meat and walked toward the small basket containing the eagle chicks.

Whether it was because of the Spirit-Opening Powder or because they were too hungry, in any case, whether it was Big Gold, Little Gold, Big Cang, or Little Cang, they all looked very lively and healthy.

At this moment, the four eagle chicks were almost all doing the same thing, each with their mouths wide open, waiting for Wang An to feed them.

Wang An cut the black bear meat into strips and fed the four eagle chicks by dipping it in the Spirit-Opening Powder.

Carnivorous raptors like eagles and hawks have quite large appetites.

However, no matter how much they can eat, there is a standard, and that standard is to feed them a lump of meat about the same size as their head per meal.

After feeding them, Wang An picked them up one by one and stroked them carefully in his palm for a while.

This kind of stroking, if using the terms from the silk cloth, is called "Pan Ying" (coiling the eagle), though in some places it is called "Bian Ying" (flattening the eagle).

Of course, what it's called isn't important; what's important is that the purpose of doing this is to let the eagle chicks get familiar with the owner's scent and increase the bond between the eagle chicks and the human.

However, if divided in detail, "Pan Ying" and "Bian Ying" are different, because the method of raising and training eagles on the silk cloth is fundamentally different from the normal method of raising and training eagles.

The method of raising eagles on the silk cloth requires starting from when they are chicks, then using medicine to improve the eagle's intelligence, and one only needs to "Pan Ying" when feeding them.

Normal eagle-raising methods involve catching half-grown eagles that can fly or adult eagles, and performing the most important and harmful steps like "Ao Ying" (breaking the eagle). "Bian Ying" also involves carrying the eagle on one's body for a long time and stroking them from time to time.

Simply put, the method on the silk cloth is to cultivate the eagle step by step from a young age, while the normal method belongs to forcibly domesticating the eagle. Furthermore, with normal eagle-training methods, once the eagle is trained, one must put an eye mask on it to prevent it from escaping.

The method on the silk cloth, however, requires none of that; one only needs to keep them by one's side like hunting dogs.

After finishing with the four eagle chicks, Wang An played with the two little lynxes that had come over for a while and fed them some black bear meat dipped in Spirit-Opening Powder.

These two lynxes were growing really fast; one could say they were growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Now each one was already over 10 jin in weight, much, much larger than a normal house cat.

It's just that these beasts, commonly known as tiger cubs, seemed to have been completely raised as cats by Wang An's family.

Every day, they were either catching mice or catching sparrows and wild pigeons, and occasionally they would catch two squirrels to eat.

One has to admit that lynxes are natural hunters; they don't need training at all and can slowly become talented on their own.

To prevent people in the village from hurting them when they ran into them, Wang An specially tied beautiful five-colored ropes around their necks.

Calling them five-colored ropes, they were actually just a few strands of yarn twisted together.

Otherwise, given how precious lynx fur is, there would definitely be people with bad intentions eyeing them covetously.

Fortunately, lynxes are naturally very alert; when they encounter strangers, they usually run away early and don't let strangers get close.

Watching the two lynxes rolling around in front of him, Wang An suddenly had a bold idea: if he used the lynxes to catch sables before winter, it would definitely be super effective!

One must know that although sable fur is very small, its price is the most expensive among all furs.

Thinking of this, Wang An suddenly had the feeling that he was going to get rich!

After teasing the two lynxes for a while longer, Wang An joined the team of people working.

Just as Wang An was rubbing salt onto the black bear meat with the others, Wang Dazhu suddenly said to Wang An:

"Xiao An, two does in the pen are in heat, and the buck from Old Ma's house at the east end of the village was sold. You think about it—should we catch a buck or what?"

When Wang An heard this, he was stunned for a moment, because sika deer are normally in heat from September to November, but it was only just about to be June.

Wang An thought for a moment and was just about to speak when he heard his second aunt, Yao Ping, also say: "I have a deer at home that's been making a fuss every day too; it's so annoying."

"Making a fuss" is a behavior of female livestock in heat. Generally, mules, horses, donkeys, cattle, dogs, pigs, etc., all have their own behavioral expressions when in heat.

Speaking of this, one has to mention the animal known as the mule. Although the mule is the product of a horse and a donkey and normally cannot reproduce, this creature has everything it should have and is no different from normal livestock.

Wang An pondered for a while and said:

"Let them make a fuss for now. We're so busy right now that we can't attend to them. Besides, a deer isn't something you can catch in a short amount of time."

One must know that the saying "Deer have a thousand-year lifespan, but worry at every step" is not just talk.

(End of chapter)