Chapter 188: Domesticating Tibetan Mastiffs
After riding Lightning and Xiaohong in the racecourse for a few laps respectively, Tang Yi felt that his heart had flown a lot.
After getting off the horse and walking in front of Wang Yu, who was still depressed, he suddenly had the idea of domesticating two pets.
"Sixth brother, you have been running a racecourse for so long, there is a way to get an eagle, no, you don't have an eagle to run a horse, you always feel that something is missing. ”
Suddenly wanting to raise an eagle was an impulse that Tang Yi had only sprung up after chasing the sun and wind in the racecourse.
It's not a whim for no reason, but I want to try how awesome the domestication of wilderness survival secret skills is.
"Do you want to raise eagles? I don't have the resources for this, but the horse rack eagle walking the dog is such a thing, and the children of the Eight Banners like the old eight should be very good at it. ”
Wang Yu raised his eyebrows in surprise, and said to Cheng Ling next to him.
Not to mention, he was also aroused by Tang Yi's proposal.
The horses galloped wildly, and the eagles circled in the sky, that scene was really exciting.
Thinking of this, Wang Yu couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Old Tang, you are really getting better and better at playing now, I heard that only real players know how to play eagles." ”
"Eighth brother, if you really have a way, you can get me one when the time comes. ”
Chengling habitually put the handkerchief under the tip of his nose and inhaled, and then pinched the orchid finger and said: "There are still a few masters of playing eagles in our banner circle. However, the eagle is a very fierce thing, and ordinary people can't play it and can't afford it, and now it's hard to find a good eagle, and it's not something that can be found if you want to. It's hard to catch eagles, and it's even harder to boil them. ”
Tang Yi hadn't heard of Eagle Hunting, but he still knew some about Eagle Hunting.
"Starling, what kind of eagle do your friends play now, I heard that the most people play Yellow Eagle. ”
The scientific name of the yellow eagle is the goshawk, which is a strong eagle of the eagle family of the family Eagle, a small and medium-sized bird of prey, healthy, forest-dwelling, mainly preys on birds such as pigeons and hares, and can also hunt large prey such as grouse and foxes. It can reach a body length of 60 cm and a wingspan of about 1.3 m.
Tang Yi has limited knowledge, and as far as the name Huang Ying is concerned, he has heard it on TV by chance once before.
Chengling nodded, "It is true that there are the most people who play Yellow Eagle, and it is also because Yellow Eagle is the most common, I remember hearing the old people in the family say that their top masters at that time all played golden eagles or horned eagles and crown eagles from the Western Regions and other places. Of course, even more than a hundred years ago, these eagles were only played by the top prince Baylor. ”
Golden Eagle Tang Yi has also heard of it in film and television dramas, but the horn eagle and crown eagle that Chengling said are relatively unfamiliar to him.
Speaking of the topic of playing with eagles, not only did it arouse the interest of Tang Yi and Wang Yu, but Wang Ze, Xiang Dongliu, Huizi and Da Kui next to them also came over.
There is no way, every man has no resistance to this kind of eagle running horse and bending bow to shoot eagle eagles.
"Starling, can you still get these three kinds of eagles you just mentioned? Money is not a problem, but the procedures must be legal, and we can't do illegal things. ”
Regardless of whether it is a golden eagle, a horned eagle or a crown eagle, just by listening to the name, you know that it is not ordinary.
It would be great if there was a real chance to get one or two.
"It's not completely impossible, but it is estimated that it will cost a lot of money, last year I heard a friend say that he seems to have found someone from Africa through some channels and connections, and got a crown eagle back, but he has not survived for more than half a year, and now he is still locked up as a pet in a zoo he invested. I've been to see that eagle, and it's really extraordinary, but unfortunately, no one has come down to it. ”
Speaking of the crown eagle, Chengling also sighed a little dejectedly.
That's a crown carving, but it didn't come out and now it can only be kept as a pet in the zoo, and it's a pity to think about it.
He still remembers that in order to get this crown eagle back from abroad, his friend tossed back and forth for nearly two months just by asking someone to run the relevant procedures.
All the costs add up to more than $1 million, just to buy a bird flower more than $1 million, I'm afraid ordinary people will find it incredible just by listening to it.
"Starling, is that crown eagle really as extraordinary as you say?"
Tang Yi's eyes lit up, and a bold idea suddenly sprouted in his heart.
Just because others can't make it out doesn't mean he can't make it out.
The taming skills that you are proficient in the secret techniques of survival in the wilderness may bring unexpected gains.
If that crown eagle is really good, Tang Yi really wants to buy it from Chengling's friend and raise it to give it a try.
The name of the crown eagle is not only the first time Tang Yi has heard of it, but Wang Ze and Xiang Dongliu have also never heard of it.
After listening to Chengling's introduction, everyone knew that there were such powerful birds in this world.
According to Chengling, the crowned eagle lives in the African rainforest, is about 90 centimeters long, has a wingspan of about 2 meters, and it hunts animals up to 35 kilograms.
The crowned eagle's main predator is its deadly claws, powerful enough to crush the skulls of monkeys, and other common ones such as hyenas, guinea chickens, nocturnal primates, robins, and even small antelopes are its usual dinner.
Even when the crown eagle launched a madness, even the cheetah and the lion had to give it three points.
The crown eagle, like other eagles, has always flown away immediately after missing a blow, making its opponents on land hate it, but there is nothing to be done.
To a certain extent, the crown eagle can be called the supremacy of the air.
"Starling, can you help me contact your friend, I want to see the crown carving, if the other party is willing to cut love, I want to buy it. ”
Tang Yiqiang couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, even if he just listened to Chengling's verbal description, he already loved the air overlord like the crown eagle to the core.
How cool it would be to have such a crown eagle as a pet.
"Tang Tang, you can't be serious, the crown eagle can be described as extremely ferocious, even the most powerful eagle boiler can't help him. Even if you buy it, you have to keep it in a cage or keep it on a chain. If you really want to raise an eagle, I'll find someone else to get you a boiled one. ”
Chengling looked at Tang Yi in surprise and said earnestly and persuasively.
Although one or two million dollars is nothing to them, it is not very interesting to spend so much money to buy a pet that can only be watched from a distance, and it must be served with good food and drink every day, and it may be scratched by its head if you are not careful.
"It's okay, let's go see it first, anyway, I don't have to go to school tomorrow and tomorrow on the weekend. ”
Tang Yi smiled noncommittally, there were some things he couldn't say too revealingly, after all, before seeing the crown eagle with his own eyes, he didn't dare to pat his chest and say that he would definitely be able to tame the air overlord.
"Okay, then you should go out for a walk, it just so happens that my friend is not too far from the imperial capital, and it is only a three-hour drive out of the city. By the way, he also has some hunting dogs or something, if you want to go over, you can also take a look, eagle walking dogs, just having an eagle without a dog is almost meaningful. ”
Chengling also saw that Tang Yi was really interested in the crown eagle, but he just smiled and stopped persuading, picked up his mobile phone and went over to call his friend who liked to play eagle and walk the dog.
The other party heard on the phone that he was going to take a few friends over for a trip, and he seemed very happy, and immediately said on the phone that he would wait for them to have lunch.
Chengling excused himself for a few words, raised his wrist to look at the time, and asked Tang Yi and the other brothers what they meant, seeing that everyone said that it was good to have lunch over there, Chengling agreed to the other party's invitation on the phone.
A group of people said they would go, and immediately drove towards the place where Chengling's friend was.
It was almost half past one in the afternoon, Tang Yi and his group of about a dozen people drove to the destination in six cars.
After arriving at the place, everyone knew that Chengling's friend actually lived in the mountains.
At first, they thought they were going to entertain them in what looked like a tourist attraction, but when they got out of the car, they realized that this was his friend's home.
As soon as Tang Yi and the others parked the car, a young man who looked to be in his thirties, wearing a robe, a pair of riding boots on his feet, a figure similar to Chen Yuemin, and a small pigtail on his head, greeted him with two half-human-tall Tibetan mastiffs and three or four people dressed in the same way as him.
As soon as the two Tibetan mastiffs saw the living people, they immediately bared their teeth and pounced, so frightened that Wang Yu, Zhao Mu and the others changed their faces in unison, and they turned around and were about to drill into the car.
Relatively speaking, the most calm are Cheng Ling, Chen Yuemin and Tang Yi.
However, at the moment when the two Tibetan mastiffs pounced, Tang Yi immediately pinched two steel balls smaller than peanuts from his pocket and pinched them in his hands, ready to shoot at any time.
Since the last time Wang Yu and Huizi were locked in a dog cage, Tang Yi has developed the habit of carrying some steel balls with him wherever he goes.
Don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case!
He even thought about finding someone to customize a bracelet or Buddhist beads to wear with him, and it was the most convenient secret weapon to remove at a critical time.
If it weren't for the law, Tang Yi would even want to create a batch of flying knives to carry with him.
"Big Black, Little Black, come back, don't scare my friend!"
When the two Tibetan mastiffs were about three or four meters away from Tang Yi and the others, they were stopped by a rough baritone.
After hearing the master's voice, the two Tibetan mastiffs stopped their bodies with a sharp brake, put away the fierce look on their faces and obediently ran back to their masters.
"Haha, say hello to Lord Belle. ”
A dozen paces away, the rugged young man with a pigtail on his head laughed heartily and bowed slightly.
"Brother Yiming, if you want to make fun of me again, I will turn around and go back to the imperial capital, how many times have I told you not to call me Lord Belle, the Qing Dynasty has been dead for more than a hundred years. ”
Chengling pinched her handkerchief and pinched her orchid fingers, giving this rough man an angry look.
"Hahahaha, okay, it's the eldest brother who is wrong, I'll call you to take the lead in the future." ”
The rugged man laughed, walked a few steps forward quickly, and opened his arms to hug Chengling affectionately.
However, the next moment.
Boom!
I saw that the rugged man who was called Yiming had just approached Chengling's body, and was hit by an iron mountain hit by the latter's heavy waist and horse, and retreated six or seven steps away.
"Mixed with eagles and dogs all day long, it stinks to death. ”
knocked Yiming out six or seven steps away with one shoulder, ignoring his painful red face and coughing, Chengling patted himself on the shoulder with a handkerchief with a disgusted face.
"Ahem, ahem..... Don't save me face every time, hey!"
Yiming coughed a few more times, pouted and walked over again, but this time he didn't go to hug Chengling again, but walked over to Wang Ze and Tang Yi and the others next to him.
"Friends from afar, my name is Yiming, and I am the brother who watched Lord Belle pee and play with mud, and welcome your arrival. ”
Yi Ming smiled and made a self-introduction, but as soon as he finished speaking, he was knocked to the ground by a sudden whip leg next to him.
"Yiming, which eye did you see me peeing and playing with mud when I was a child?!Come on, tell me, my left eye or my right eye, I promise not to dig it out!"
Chengling's handsome face, which was like the male protagonist in the comics, instantly turned red, and the appearance that looked fierce and fierce didn't look like an angry man, but more like a coquettish female Jiao'e.
"No, no, I'm bragging, I'm bragging. ”
Yiming was very unimpressive lying on the ground and begging for mercy in public, joking with Chengling to his heart's content, not minding that there were so many outsiders present.
"Hmph, next time you dare to chew the root of your tongue, I'll cut off the strip in your mouth and feed it to the dog!"
Cheng Ling glared at him angrily, turned his head to the side with a dark face, and put on a look that I don't want to pay attention to you in the next life.
"Hey......
Yiming got up and patted the dust on his body with a smile, and continued to greet Tang Yi and the others with a warm hug like a normal person.
His bold personality is very appetizing to Wang Yu, Chen Yuemin and Tang Yi.
After greeting each other and getting to know each other, Tang Yi figured out his temperament and didn't see it, and took the initiative to look at the two Tibetan mastiffs like calves and said, "Brother Yiming, your two Tibetan mastiffs are really domineering, can I touch them?"
Touch the Tibetan mastiff?!
As soon as Tang Yi said this, everyone was stunned, especially the brothers under Yiming's hands who were dressed similarly to him, and the look in his eyes was weird.
"Old Tang, don't be stupid, this guy's two Tibetan mastiffs don't look well-behaved and docile in front of him, in fact, he grew up eating raw meat, and his temperament is wilder than some mountain dogs!"
Chengling was also startled, and he couldn't even take care of Sheng Yiming's anger when he was a child, so he hurriedly went over and grabbed him and said very solemnly.
The raw meat in Chengling's mouth is naturally not the kind of raw meat that is undercooked.
"Brother, you are really bold enough, if I guess correctly, the person who Chengling said on the phone who wants to come and see the crown carving with his own eyes is you. ”
Yiming's eyes lit up slightly as he looked at Tang Yi, unabashedly admiring him.
Since he personally went to the foot of the Daxue Mountain in the west to bring back this pair of Tibetan mastiffs, Tang Yi is still the first outsider who has the courage to take the initiative to touch them.
"Brother Yiming's eyes are like torches, it is indeed me. Don't be surprised, I don't mean anything else, I just think that your two Tibetan mastiffs are indescribably domineering, so I want to say hello to them at close range. ”
Tang Yi smiled, half-truths and half-truths.
He felt that the domineering of these two Tibetan mastiff gods was secondary, and the most important thing was to try the domestication skills of the wilderness survival secret technique on the premise of ensuring his own safety as much as possible.
If even these two Tibetan mastiffs, which have been successfully tamed, can't get closer, then there is no hope of taming the crown eagle.
"Brother Tang, it's not that I'm stingy, it's that Da Hei and Xiao Hei have had a temper since they were children, and even the people in my yard can't get close to them except me. I'm worried about ......"
Although Yiming didn't say it thoroughly, everyone understood what he meant.
If the two Tibetan mastiffs were ferocious and bit Tang Yi out of the way, he wouldn't be able to explain to Chengling and the others.
"It's okay, I'll be careful, just ask Brother Yiming to help watch it. ”
Tang Yi said, and slowly adjusted his breathing according to the extra taming skills in his mind, released his kindness as much as possible, and slowly leaned towards one of the Tibetan mastiffs.
From the very beginning, he looked at the Tibetan mastiff's eyes without blinking, and slowly tried to enter its inner world through its eyes.
It's a wonderful state, and it's hard to describe and explain.
I don't know if it's Tang Yi's own psychological effect, or if that's the case.
He vaguely felt that the hostility of the Tibetan mastiff in front of him was weakening little by little.
It's close.
It's closer.
Tang Yi's heart was actually about to rise to his throat, and he was still quietly holding two steel balls in his right hand.
is proficient in archery, which is the most fundamental reason why he dares to take such a risky attempt.
When Tang Yi slowly approached the Tibetan mastiff little by little, everyone at the scene was so frightened that they didn't dare to come out, and no one noticed that Cheng Ling's right hand was silently retracted into his sleeve, and a sharp finger knife was being pulled out of the knife sleeve tied to his wrist little by little.
If there is the slightest movement in that Tibetan mastiff, Chengling will definitely pounce on it with a knife as soon as possible.
As the owner of the Tibetan mastiff, Yi Ming was also frightened by Tang Yi's bold actions and a layer of fine cold sweat broke out on his head, and he had also prepared for the worst in his heart.
Under everyone's gaze, Tang Yi approached the Tibetan mastiff in front of him little by little, and then stared at its eyes, slowly stretched out his left hand, and touched its head very slowly but very steadily.
As soon as he touched this Tibetan mastiff, he vaguely felt that some kind of inexplicable connection between himself and this Tibetan mastiff seemed to have been established all of a sudden.
Through this connection, Tang Yi could roughly feel the Tibetan mastiff's defensiveness and curiosity about him, and he could also feel its faint hostility.
"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you, I'm your friend. ”
Tang Yi tried his best to make his laughter harmless to humans and animals, and his voice was extremely soft.
The Tibetan mastiff bared its teeth, made a low sound from its nose, and shrugged its neck faintly.
"Do you feel a little itchy on your neck, can I scratch it for you?"
Tang Yi didn't know why he guessed that it was an itchy neck, but he felt that the Tibetan mastiff had just shrugged his neck because it felt itchy.
When he slowly moved his left hand from the Tibetan mastiff's head to his neck, and gently scratched it a few times, the latter's hostility suddenly weakened a lot, and on the contrary, he faintly felt two points of closeness to Tang Yi.
It's not false at all that dogs are human.
Tang Yi just tickled the Tibetan mastiff for two or three minutes under the stunned gaze of everyone, and by the way, he also helped it comb its hair with his hands.
Maybe it's because it hasn't bathed for a long time, and the hair on its body is a little curly.
Another Tibetan mastiff also took the initiative to come over, and Tang Yi had the first successful experience and the first Tibetan mastiff as a link, and completed his closeness to it in a shorter time.
"Brother Yiming, how long has it been since you bathed Da Hei and Xiao Hei, you see how dirty they are both, after lunch in a while, can I help them take a bath first?"
Tang Yi played with the two Tibetan mastiffs for a while, not to mention how happy he was.
The first time he approached such a ferocious animal as the Tibetan mastiff, he was able to succeed, which immediately made him a lot more confident in taming the crown eagle next.
"Uh...... Good. ”
Yiming nodded stunnedly, and then couldn't help asking, "Brother Tang, you also raised a Tibetan mastiff before?"
Tang Yi shook his head, with the previous conditions of his family, not to mention raising a Tibetan mastiff, a four-legged gold-swallowing beast that has to eat dozens of catties of meat every day, even Erha and Tai Ritian are estimated to be struggling to raise.
"That's weird, it doesn't make sense, Da Hei and Xiao Hei have always only kissed me. ”
Yi Ming looked at him fixedly, with a look of confusion and incomprehension.
"Hehe, maybe it's because I'm a naturally kind person, so it's easy to attract animals. ”
Tang Yi smiled noncommittally, talking serious nonsense.
If he let Erhammer and Gonggong Hai hear this, they will definitely roll their eyes.
When I was a child, I went to a farmer's house near the county seat to steal peaches, and you forgot about being chased out of Erli by a Chinese pastoral dog raised by someone else!
"Gollum~~"
Tang Yi suddenly gurgled twice in his stomach, and Yiming, who was standing opposite him, came back to his senses and greeted with an embarrassed smile: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm chatting, Chengling, brothers, please come inside, good wine and good food have been prepared for a long time, I haven't been a guest in the mountains for a long time, and someone can be regarded as drinking with me today." ”
"Big Black, Little Black, let's go back to dinner. ”
After greeting Wang Ze and the others warmly and heartily, Yiming habitually greeted the two Tibetan mastiffs.
However, what he never dreamed of was that Da Hei and Xiao Hei jumped over at once, but instead of circling around the back of his ass like before, they both circled around Tang Yi.
"Hey, I'm grumpy!"
Yiming's old face darkened, and he was called a taste in his heart.
The big black and the little black who said that they were only close to him alone, the dogs are really liars!
Tang Yi was also a little embarrassed, as soon as he arrived at someone else's house, he kidnapped two Tibetan mastiffs, which made him regain a more accurate understanding and judgment of the skill of domestication.
"But after all, Da Hei and Xiao Hei are already tamed pets, and when the time comes to face that crown eagle, they can't be careless and can't be taken lightly. ”
Although Tang Yi had little experience in domestication at this time, he still vaguely felt that even if a fierce beast like a Tibetan mastiff was tamed, once it was tamed and raised, it would be much easier for him to domesticate it again than a wild jackal hyena.
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