After coming down from the tree, Chen De tied the bird's feet together with a prepared wire, and then connected its wings with a thicker wire so that it could not flap its wings.

Chen Deke is very careful, because he has caught birds with his friends before, and they usually just use ordinary ropes to tie a bird's legs.

Because he felt that this bird might be unusual, because he had never heard of a bird that was not afraid of bows and arrows. I'm afraid that without wire, the bird may break free and fly away as soon as it wakes up.

Chen De first asked for two sets of Lost Beast Powder from a more familiar hunter, which was specially used by hunters to deal with prey that went out at night, and placed on the bait to stun the prey.

A single Beast Scatter is enough to deal with a wild boar of more than 100 catties.

Chen De was worried that this bird was too powerful, and one payment of the beast was not enough, so he asked for two.

Fortunately, the beast is almost tasteless, and you must know that the nose of the beast is basically very smart, and it has a peculiar smell, so the beast would rather be hungry than eat food of unknown origin.

He deliberately withheld the bird from free food for four days in a row, and on the fifth day he scattered all the beasts on the rats he had shot.

Finally lived up to his design and stunned the strange bird.

After tying up the bird, Chen De was finally able to take a closer look at it.

It has a sleek body with thick wings and legs. It resembles a pigeon, about the size of two pigeons, and is covered in gray or black feathers, with several rows of navy blue feathers on each wing and a purple-red feather around the neck.

The proportions of the head are larger than that of a pigeon, and the beak resembles an olecranon with a hook. When tying its wings, Chen De found that there was a wound on its right wing, two two-inch-long scars, and the feathers around the wounds had fallen off. It is certain that it was definitely not Chen De's arrow wound, this scar is an old wound.

While Chen De was looking at the birds, his younger brother Chen Sheng walked to the backyard after eating breakfast and was about to call his brother to breakfast. When he saw the bird on the ground, he was also overjoyed: "Brother, this bird is so big, you can eat a lot of meat, you bought it for money?"

Chen De replied: "It took a lot of effort to catch it, this bird is not ordinary, but it is not easy to cook and eat." ”

Perhaps the medicine was too harsh, and it took two days before the bird woke up.

When it woke up, it was clear what it was going through. The expression is sluggish, and there is no longer the previous arrogance.

Looking at its appearance, Chen De's heart was a lot more refreshed. Finally, I breathed a sigh, and I was despised by this bird before, but now I have pulled it back greatly.

Chen De noticed that when the bird was in a dark place, looking into its eyes, there was a faint blue light flashing from time to time. This made Chen De feel even more extraordinary about this bird.

Chen De decided to find a way to raise the bird. If you want to talk about ordinary birds, around Qianye Town, where there are a large number of birds and beasts, Chen De and his friends caught a lot and ate a lot of bird meat. But I won't eat the bird's meat.

Chen De tethered the bird to a tree in the backyard and shot many rats for it every day.

However, now the bird does not eat rat meat. Don't even look at the rats that are thrown at its feet. Although it looked sluggish, every time it looked at Chen De, its eyes were full of unruly and unyielding expressions.

The birds are silent, with the occasional mournful cry or two.

After not eating or drinking for many days, the bird began to gradually lose weight. The wound is not getting better, and there are signs of deterioration.

Chen De thought of some way to tease the bird, hoping that it would eat and not starve to death.

But the bird always looked like it would rather die than eat, and it didn't drink a sip of the water placed next to it.

Chen De consulted a few hunters, but none of them had ever seen this bird, and no one could do anything about how to tame it.

Chen De didn't consult the people of the Wang family, because he thought: the hunters don't know how to tame this bird, and the Wang family is obviously a businessman, and they don't understand it.

In fact, if the Wang family saw the bird, they would not hesitate to spend a lot of money to get the bird out of Chen De's hands.

There was such a stiffness between Chen De and the bird.

The birds would rather die than eat, and Chen De did not lose his patience, thinking: Let's see if you eat or not, and see if you will starve to death if you don't eat.

Finally, one day, when Chen Deyou came home from the school, he saw the bird fainting on the ground.

When Chen Sheng saw it, he was very happy, and thought: I can finally eat the meat of this bird. He said to Chen De: "It was better to kill it a few days ago, but now I am much thinner and have no meat." ”

Chen De thought in his heart: I didn't expect there to be such a hard-nosed bird. He admires hard bones.

Chen De believes that heroes should be respected enough.

Good birds should also be treated with enough respect.

He said to Chen Sheng, who was looking forward to the good taste of bird meat: "This bird is very unusual, I don't want to eat its meat, I want to release it." ”

Chen Sheng was stunned for a moment and said, "Brother, it's a pity to let it go and not eat it." ”

Chen De carefully applied some healing medicine to the bird, and removed all the bindings, wires and ropes that bound it.

When Chen Sheng was away, he quickly climbed up to the star laurel tree, put the bird in its original nest, and laid some dry soft velvet grass in the nest.

This is a kind of wild grass that birds like to use to lay in their nests, and it is not afraid of water, and it is soft and warm. Tran and the town's boys often come across this grass when they dig birds' nests in the trees.

In the evening, Chen De continued his hunting game.

When I was about to bury the mouse, I remembered the bird's nest above my head, and I didn't know if the bird was still there. He buried half of it, left half of it, put it in a broken bag, and when he saw that there was no one around, he "rubbed", "rubbed", "rubbed" the ground and went up the tree again.

When I arrived at the nest, I looked out and saw that the bird was still there, and it had woken up. The bird was so weak that it probably didn't even have the strength to fly away.

Seeing Chen De's head stretched out, the bird shrank in and looked at Chen De with dull eyes. Chen De let out a rare sigh, poured all the dead rats into the bird's nest, and then went down.

In the days that followed, Chen De almost forgot about the bird. Because he felt that the bird would fly away if he had strength, he stopped taking it to heart.

And during this time, many boys asked Chen De to go out at night.

One night, Chen De and four or five teenagers burned the honeycomb of a black crystal bee on the tree with bamboo poles and torches, and covered their heads with cotton jackets. Each person was given one or two catties of bee pupa, which was fried or fried, which was a first-class delicacy.

Another night, Chen De and several boys, led by Zhang Tingyuan's third son, Zhang Zhiliang, drove Uncle Zhang's boat together to catch herring fish in the Qingliu River, far from the town.

This fish comes out at night to hunt small fish, and the meat is tender and delicious. They also had a great time this night and gained a lot.

When Chen De's hand that hadn't touched the bow and arrow for a long time began to itch again, the rats around him began to be unlucky again.

Chen De didn't dare to bury the dead rat elsewhere casually, and still concentrated in his backyard as usual, digging a pit and burying it, but fortunately, the yard was not small, and there were even a few vegetable fields in it.

On the first day, Chen De easily buried all the dead rats. The next day, when he was about to bury it, he found that there were a few dead rats, which made Chen De a little surprised and a little happy.

In the next few days, Chen De deliberately placed all his prey under the star laurel tree.

Chen De thought: It's okay, I can save some effort and don't have to use a shovel.

The next day he got up and went under the tree to look, and there was not a single mouse in sight, except for some dried blood. Chen De thought to himself: It's really not an ordinary thing, and the amount of food is really large.

Chen De saw several more secret places in the backyard, with piles of feces, apparently belonging to the guy in the tree. And Chen De was surprised: this guy actually knows how to excrete at a fixed point and has the habit of keeping clean.

After another period of time, the visitors on the tree were less wary of Chen De, and looking at Chen De's eyes, the warmth gradually increased. Chen De could already go in and watch it eat only six feet away.

Its wings are still not well, and it still flies a little crookedly.

When birds and beasts are injured, the body's ability to heal itself is very strong. The bird was injured by something, and the wound was slowly healing. Perhaps it is precisely this that it has been slow to leave the backyard of the Chen family. And there's the free dinner that comes almost every night.

Gradually, the bird became wary of Chen, and Chende could stroke its wings while it was eating.

Chen De had tried to apply medicine to its wounds, and it did not avoid Chen De.

Its feathers have gradually shiny, and its black feathers make it stand out when seen during the day, but at night it is almost impossible to spot, and when it flies, it is almost silent.

When it fell on Chen De's shoulder from behind for the first time, it startled Chen De in an ordinary state, and also made Chen De infinitely happy.

Chen De found that the bird prefers to be active at night, and rarely sees it during the day, and seems to sleep in the nest.

So, one night, when the bird rested on Chen De's shoulder, Chen De suddenly had a whim, and he first said to himself: "I see that you prefer to go out at night, with a sharp beak like an eagle and a strong mouth like an eagle." Then he turned his head to the bird and said, "Well, I'll call you Nighthawk from now on." Well, Nighthawk sounds like Ye Ying, it's better for your surname to be Ye, just call Ye Ying. ”

The bird paid no attention to him, and went about combing its feathers with its beak.

The eagle grew very fast, it was the size of two pigeons, and now it is almost the size of three pigeons.

Ye Ying's appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and Chen De still looks unsatisfied when he sees that he eats all the rats at night, and sometimes he even uses his mouth to take Chen De's trouser legs, as if he has a request.

Chen De saw that there were many purple-red circles around Ye Ying's wounds, surrounding the black dot in the middle. Ye Ying often turned his head to stare at these circles, allowing Chen De to guess if it needed to expend energy to deal with these black spots, otherwise, its injuries would have healed a long time ago. Maybe it needs more food and more energy.

Chen De can only think of other ways to satisfy Ye Ying's appetite now.

Ye Ying's injury was not good, maybe hunting with injuries would aggravate its injury, Chen De had never seen Ye Ying hunt by himself.

Then, before it recovered, Ye Ying's food source could only be provided to it by Chen De.

The rats around Chen De's house are becoming more and more scarce as before. Chen De was forced to have no choice but to secretly go to the mountains and forests to hunt for Ye Ying during the day. Moreover, it is enough for Ye Ying to eat for a few days at a time.

Tran Tak began his other way of hunting.