Chapter 20: Jade-banded Sea Carving

In the morning, Zheng Ming packed up, said goodbye to his parents, and set off with another hunting dog in the family to accompany them. He led them over the mountain into the dense forest, to an open area, and when they rested for a while, they heard a pleasant birdsong, its sound was high-pitched and crisp, extremely refreshing, as if stepping into a fairyland, which made people feel calming and uplifting.

Liu Changsheng asked Zheng Ming: "What kind of bird is this? Why is the sound so loud, its sound is clear, straight into the sky, there is a refreshing feeling, I think it is not an ordinary bird, it must be some rare bird, it is very big, otherwise it will not make such a high-pitched song." ”

Zheng Ming is familiar with the language of birds and beasts, probably because he has had more contact with birds and beasts, and is familiar with the meaning expressed by their different calls, listening to him ask, he said with a smile: "This is the cry of the jade ribbon sea eagle, listening to its subdued and frustrated song, I feel like two male and female jade belt sea eagles, playing with each other." ”

Li Jian felt strange and said, "Could it be that this jade-banded sea eagle also has rich feelings like a human, and is singing and talking about love and love?"

Zheng Ming said: " Of course, the mysterious creation of nature, divided into the yin and yang, in order to be able to add luster to the earth, there are many legends of immortals creating artificial things, in order to reproduce offspring, birds have males and females, animals have females and males, people have males and females, so combined, multiply, forming a biological chain of nature, interdependent and co-prosperous, even the things and objects used by people are also a radish to a kiln, there is a male, there must be a female, just like a sword to a sheath, yin and yang are combined into a whole, it is also said that half of the man is a woman, if you can write a real one'People' can only form a complete herringbone if it means a man's hand and a combination of a woman's hand, otherwise, it is not a complete person.

"This jade-banded sea eagle is very spiritual, and it is a very favorite bird, it is also monogamous, male and female are inseparable, just like a mandarin duck bird that cannot be beaten away, if a jade-banded sea eagle is in danger, another jade-banded sea eagle will fly to save it, if one of the companions dies, the other sea eagle will surround it without eating or drinking, stretching out its neck and singing to show mourning. In other words, this jade-banded sea eagle is loyal to love, if the female is dead, the male is not looking for a mate, if the male is dead, the female is also not looking for the male to form a new family. ”

Liu Changsheng said: "I also overheard him talking about the jade ribbon sea eagle in He Xuanbing's home, only to hear him say that the meat of this bird not only has medicinal value, but also its tail feathers are also very valuable, and it can be sold at a good price abroad. I haven't seen this bird, so you might as well take our thoughts to take a closer look at this bird, to see what it looks like, and to be so favored by He Xuanbing's individuals, in order to seek high profits, they will not hesitate to hunt and kill it indiscriminately. ”

Zheng Ming replied to his request, and led them to try to sneak to the vicinity of the jade-banded sea eagle, and with the help of the cover of trees and rocks, they hid their shadows and watched carefully. Liu Changsheng looked at it and couldn't help but admire: "Why is this bird so big!"

Zheng Ming said: "This big bird, also known as the black eagle, is generally 76-84 cm long, and 200-250 cm if the wings are spread. The male bird generally weighs 2100-7000 grams, and the female generally weighs 2000-3300 grams.

"According to reports, there are less than 500 jade-banded sea eagles in our country, and they are in danger. You see that its mouth is slightly thinner, its head is slender, its neck is also long, its wings can reach more than 2 meters long in the air, it has a pair of fierce and shining eyes, it can see everything on the ground clearly in the high air, and it is difficult to escape its sight in the cunning prey, which is like an aerial surveillance satellite, which can see the creatures on the ground clearly, and even the gopher at the mouth of the hole in the ground, and a small snake that crawls in a winding way, can not escape its eyes.

"You can see the color of its coat, the upper body is dark brown, the top of the head is ochre-brown, the feathers are spear-like with light brown stripes, the neck feathers are long, lanceolate, the shoulder feathers are brown striped, the lower back and waist feathers are brownish yellow, and the tail feathers have a broad white transverse band in the middle of the tail feathers, and the lower body is tan with light brown ends.

"You see, the throat of this bird is pale tan, and the plumage is black, and it has white stripes. Its tail feathers are rounded and distinctive, mainly dark brown, but in the middle it has a broad white band, about 10 centimeters, hence the name jade-banded sea eagle.

"You see that when it flies, its black secondary wings are light-colored overlays, and its black wedge-shaped tail contrasts with its light-colored base, its iris is pale grayish-yellow to yellow, its mouth is dark slate-like black or lead, its wax and mouth are pale colored, its feet and toes are dull white, yellowish-white, or dull yellow, and its claws are black. Its chirping screams loudly, the breeding period is even more noisy, the male and female birds fly up and down, left and right, each other chirps to answer, like to pass on the ** feeling, people sigh and sigh, to reverie.

The living habits of this jade-banded sea eagle are to inhabit the open areas of high-altitude river valleys, mountains, and grasslands, and often go to deserts, grasslands, mountain lakes and rivers to hunt for prey, and its activity altitude is between 3,200 meters and 4,700 meters above sea level, and eat freshwater fish and water fowl such as geese and ducks on the shore of the lake. In grasslands and desert areas, they feed mainly on rodents such as marmots, weasels, rats, and rabbits. I heard that the big jade-banded sea eagle is fierce and abnormal, good and evil, very human, it can grab the whole horse with sharp claws into the air, if it is to mention people, not to mention, it can be seen that its strength is great, even tigers, leopards are afraid of it.

"They also eat lambs occasionally, especially during the April-May lambing season. Its chicks are late-blooming, and they are raised by male and female jade and sea eagles for 70-105 days before leaving the nest. After the eagle leaves the nest, under the leadership of its parents, it exercises its life skills, and when its feathers are full and self-reliant, it flies away from its parents to find its own piece of world and start a new life.

"The jade-banded sea eagle is distributed in the western part of Xinjiang, the northern part of Gansu, the eastern part of Inner Mongolia and the northern part of Northeast China, and the southern part of Tibet, and is a summer migratory bird in Heilongjiang, Qinghai, Gansu and other places, and can occasionally be seen in the Qamdo region of Qinghai, and the western part of Sichuan, Shanxi, Hebei and other places. It breeds in Xinjiang, Qinghai, northeastern Inner Mongolia and other places in China, and migrates through central China. ”

Li Jian and Li Baihui were the closest, and they were listening to Zheng Ming's introduction to the jade ribbon sea carving, when she felt that she was next to her, and whispered in surprise: "What are you going to do?"

Li Baihui leaned close to him with his mouth and whispered, "I'm going to Xiaojie, I can't hold it back......"

Li Jian Yinghe said: "Go and come back quickly, don't go far......"

She left him. He looked intently at the jade-banded sea eagle in front of him, and saw that the male bird rose into the air vigorously, and when he spread his wings and soared in the air, he seemed to have found the prey on the ground, and suddenly swooped down like an arrow, so fast that people could not see it clearly, it caught the prey at once, grabbed the prey with its sharp claws, and then soared into the air, it turned out to be a hare.

It soars in the sky with its prey, and slowly descends in front of the female eagle, as if showing off its skills, as if it is courteously offering the captured prey to the female eagle. The female eagle seemed to reward the male eagle for its actions, stretched out her neck to mingle with it, spread her wings and incited, chirped, and encouraged.

Li Jian said: "I have never seen such a big carving, not only is it amazingly powerful, but it also has this spirituality, loyalty to love, and it is enviable......"

Zheng Ming said: "There is a bigger eagle than it, like an ostrich can not only carry people, but also can fly in the air, a flap of wings to fly thousands of miles, the speed is so fast, like an immortal driving the clouds, come without a shadow, go without a trace, according to the old man's rumors, this powerful eagle, although it is a mutation of the jade belt sea eagle, but it is the blue crane incarnation, the basket crane is the blue crane fairy next to the Yuan Shi Tianzun, the reason is that there is a grudge with the nine-tailed fox......"

Because King Yin went to Nuwa Niangniang's temple to drop incense, because he was greedy for Nuwa Niangniang's beauty, he put up a poem on the wall to express his love for Nuwa Niangniang, which angered Nuwa Niangniang and made a big move.

The nine-tailed demon fox pounced on Su Hu's daughter Daji to borrow the corpse to revive the soul, entered the court song, and tried his best to flatter him, and bewitched a king of Yin, so that he could kill loyal ministers and good generals, so that everyone was afraid of themselves, and the people were not happy. Nuwa Niangniang saw that the nine-tailed demon fox was so insatiable, disobeyed her will, and used the hand of King Yin to kill Zhongliang like this, and disregarded people's lives, so she discussed with Yuan Shi Tianzun and gave the nine-tailed demon fox to be coerced. Yuan Shi Tianzun sent the Blue Crane Fairy to the mortal world, and entered the court song with the daughter of the Nine Marquis to hold the nine-tailed fox hostage and kill innocents. The nine-tailed fox who borrowed Daji's body, with a grudge in his heart, encouraged him to use clever words in front of the king, and killed the daughter of the blue crane incarnation, and in order to relieve the hatred in his heart, he ordered his body to be divided into nine pieces and thrown in nine places.

Jiang Ziya assisted King Wu of Zhou to defeat the Emperor, and the Battle of Muye was a complete victory, and King Lutai **, Daji was beheaded by Jiang Ziya's Demon Eradication Sword. Although the nine-tailed fox pounced on Daji's body and died, his soul returned to the spirit world, and his anger still existed, so he turned into a nine-tailed python, wanting to destroy the army of the martial king, and acted against the Tao, in a vain attempt to restore the great cause of Yin Shang. When the blue crane was supposed to merge nine into one, restore the original spirit and go back to his life. Yuan Shi Tianzun asked him to defend against the nine-tailed python. The blue crane obeyed the order, and turned into a fierce condor to fight the nine-tailed python, but the mana was exhausted, but it was evenly matched. The blue crane used his primordial spirit to deter the nine-tailed giant python, and the nine-tailed giant cocktail shrank and wandered in the mountains and forests of the village to hide.

Zheng Ming said: "That rare jade-banded sea eagle bird was transformed by a blue crane, because it was afraid that the nine-headed giant python would harm the living beings, so it turned into a divine eagle and sometimes appeared in people's sight - hey, you see, what are the male and female eagles doing." ”

They looked, the male and female eagles were eating the food they caught, as if they were respecting and loving each other, humbly eating, and after eating, they made a happy and loud sound to each other, - should be a harmony, greet each other, and then spread their wings and flew up, roaming in the air, it was so leisurely, enjoying the scenery of nature, conveying to each other the affection and sweetness between husband and wife, dancing one after the other, enjoying it.

At this moment, suddenly several gunshots rang out, and a bird seemed to have been shot and fell down. Liu Changsheng couldn't help but ask himself, who fired the shot, and why did they hurt it?