"The descendants of the old man Wang Shixiang?"

Seeing Su Yuan's surprised expression, the old man smiled and said: "Elder Wang can be said to be a person who plays to the extreme, and his descendants have naturally been exposed to it since childhood, and his level is not bad. ”

"The third child of the Wang family inherited his father's talent for playing, especially raising birds, which is a must among the stubborn lords in the capital. By the way, the little girl I saw at the last auction should be his little daughter. ”

Su Yuan nodded, don't fight or don't know each other, last time I felt that Ling Junsheng knew each other, sure enough, I was going to visit today, I was idle, just relax.

The two took a car to a courtyard on the outskirts of the city, and saw the descendants of the first player in the capital, known as the king of the three uniques in the circle, a must for raising pigeons, a must for training thrushes, and finally a must for boiling eagles, and it is a must.

"It's ...... Hai Dongqing!"

The three of them just started chatting, and suddenly there was a sharp cry from the backyard, and Wang Sanjue took the two of them to the courtyard and actually saw a huge eagle.

"Yes, it's Hai Dongqing!"

Wang Sanjue slowly put on his leather gloves and walked in front of Hai Dongqing, whistling from his mouth, and quickly calmed down the somewhat restless eagle.

Su Yuan looked at the big eagle curiously, this is the overlord of the sky, it comes from the cautious land, its colors are different, pure white, sky blue, and pure black are the top grades. Emperor Kangxi praised Hai Dongqing: There are 60 out of 300 feather insects, and Hai Dongqing is the most handsome. The sex is golden and spiritual, and the different materials are reflected in the Yaoguang star.

It not only preaches martial arts and inspires military bravery, but also boasts of Haidongqing's resolute and fierce temperament, and its excellent quality can reflect the stars in the sky. ”

The Manchus are a people known for hunting, and their ancestors knew how to catch falcons for a long time, and after domestication, they were used to help hunters catch prey, commonly known as eagle release. It is said that Haidongqing may be a spear falcon, although it is as big as a magpie, it is fierce by nature, and can hunt swans, small beasts and foxes. The method of releasing the eagle is described in the "Grand View of the History of the Qing Dynasty": the eagle covers its face with an embroidered brocade hat, and the leader holds it in his hand, and sees the bird to put it in the hat.

Because Haidongqing is not easy to catch and domesticate, there is even such a provision in the Jin and Yuan dynasties: all criminals who violate the criminal law and are exiled to Liaodong, who can catch Haidongqing and present it, can atone for their sins, and pass on the post and release. Therefore, at that time, the Khan Baylor, the princes and nobles did not hesitate to buy the famous carving, which became a fashion at that time.

Haidong Qingzhong takes the pure white "jade claw" as the top grade, and there are other names such as autumn yellow, wave yellow, and three-year dragon. In the Qing Dynasty, if a convict caught a Haidongqing and presented it to the imperial court, he could be spared all capital crimes, which shows how precious it is.

"When I was a child, there were a lot of wild animals in the countryside, foxes and hares everywhere. Eagles are seen soaring through the sky every day. When I was a child, I hunted with my father, and during the day I mainly hunted hares. In fact, it is not easy to fight a hare, and no matter how accurate the marksmanship is, it is not as good as an eagle. As the saying goes, the eagle catches the hare, the salt marinates the tofu, and one thing descends one thing.

Wang Sanjue touched Hai Dongqing with his hand and recalled: "My father had an eagle when he was young, but then he was old and couldn't domesticate an eagle, so he hoped that I could boil an eagle." But he couldn't settle down. Whenever I heard him say that I could boil one of my own eagles, I became elated, urging my father to catch an eagle as soon as possible, so that I could survive. However, my father hesitated and told me that it was a matter of life and death. ”

Eagle hunting still depends on luck, my father said that the most ideal eagle to catch is a middle-aged eagle, too young, although it is easy to stay up, but when catching rabbits is dragged to death by the old rabbits, the possibility is mostly large. The eagle that is too old is not worth boiling, one is difficult, and the other is that it is hard to get out, and it is about to die.

Tie one leg of a little white hen under a tree and hang a large-eyed net around it. It wasn't long before we saw an eagle soaring high in the sky. The eagle's eyes are bright and it quickly sees its prey. The father hid in a dug pit covered with corn stalks, and he waited for the eagle to enter the net with a rope in his hand.

The cunning eagle circled in the air for a while, then swooped down violently, and swooped down on the little white chicken with lightning speed. The poor little white chicken was tied to one leg with a rope, and when he saw the wild eagle pounce on him, he was left to scream. While the eagle was in high spirits, the net fell with a hula. It panicked and tried to escape, but the French Open was restored.

My father said it wasn't just an eagle, but it was just entering middle age. Don't mention my father's joy. He looked at me and thought that I might not be able to survive the eagle, so he asked if he would leave it to my cousin. I immediately assured *** that I would get through it.

To say that such a good eagle is handed over to others, my father is a little reluctant. He told me again about the difficulties of boiling the eagle, and I pleaded with him and swore that if it didn't work out, I would give up. This is the most important thing, he is afraid that I will not tell him the truth when I can't get through it.

With his permission, I persuaded myself that I must not deceive my father.

My father caught a hare and asked my mother and sister to make food for me, which was the most crucial step before boiling the eagle. When I've eaten and drunk, I'm going to sleep. At 8 years old, it wasn't as hard as it was to sleep later, and I slept at dawn.

My father asked me to name the eagle, and I saw that it was full of energy, and I also hoped that it was the victorious general Zhao Zilong, so I called it Zilong.

Zilong's two eyes are not enough, and it has to look for any opportunity to escape. However, when it finally realized that its sharp teeth and claws were cutting through the rope of its legs, a rope made of thin copper wire threaded through cowhide, it began a hunger strike. However, the Battle of the Eagle began.

In the room, everyone else eats when they should eat and sleeps when they sleep, but I have my eyes on it. At night, everyone else fell asleep, but I stayed up all night with it under the kerosene lamp.

The first night it thought that I was afraid that it would run away and take care of it, that it was a "jailer" and that I was just a "guard", so it naturally didn't take me seriously and wanted to sleep. As soon as I saw that it was about to close its eyes, I immediately pulled its mouth with my hand. It didn't know what I meant at first, and its head tilted to and fro. Wait a minute, it will doze off again, and I'll pull it anyway. It finally understood, just wouldn't let it sleep. It started to hate me and thought I was a villain.

When he saw that his father was asleep and snoring like thunder, and I was refreshed, he decided to compete with me. It nodded up and down, meaning very clearly: "Damn! Let's spend it and see who the can't survive!"

In this way, the two of us began to stay up late to compete. I don't need to pull it anymore, it's just the frequency of blinking and it is consumed by me.

The first night passed uneventfully, and when it was dawn, my father looked at me, looked at Zilong, and went out with a "hmm".

Mom and sister made breakfast, that is, the rabbit meat left over from yesterday, and also gave Zilong a piece of raw rabbit meat. Zilong didn't understand what I was spending with it, and when it saw me eating meat, it thought it was also the content of the game and ate it.

I eat and drink with it during the day, and I don't sleep at night. Of course, I don't sleep with it during the day. Not only my mother, but also my sister objected to me boiling eagles, afraid that my brain would be burned. She stimulated me and said, "This time you can be worth it, you are going to be famous." I felt harsh when I heard this, so I asked her: "Famous, what is famous?" She said, don't you fight for your life in order to be famous? I replied to her neatly: Eat rabbit meat!