That year, I went to Qilian Mountain for an interview and stayed overnight at the home of the chicken farm owner. In the morning, I see mountains full of chickens foraging among the woods and grasses. The roosters chirp, the hens walk, bathed in the warm sunshine, a colorful color.
Looking up, there was a golden eagle chirping in the sky, suddenly soaring high in the sky, suddenly hovering low, overlooking the chicken farm and the vast mountains and forests around it. Suddenly, the shells that fell from the height of the golden statue shot straight at the chicken farm and landed on the big tree in the middle of the chicken farm. Yet hundreds of chickens did not look afraid in the slightest.
Strange! Isn't that unscientific? I remember when I was a child in the countryside, as soon as the eagle harrier eagle appeared in the sky, the chickens on the ground immediately panicked and screamed and burrowed into the bushes and chicken nests. But the chickens of Qilian Mountain were not afraid of golden eagles?
The owner of the chicken farm, He Ming, is a man in his fifties, and he told me that it is not that his chickens are not afraid of eagles, but that this eagle does not eat his chickens at all, and also protects his chickens!
Golden eagles don't eat chicken? God!
★ He Ming first set up a chicken farm and suffered from the harm of golden eagles
He Ming's family lived in a small mountain village called Hejiadian in the Qilian Mountains. It is close to the main road from Gansu to Qinghai. It is said that Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty and her pro-Tubo stayed here. After the reform and opening up, the young people in the village went to the city to work, and there were seven or eight old people left in the village to guard the old house. Soon, a few people took a fancy to the geographical advantage of Hejiadian guarding the Tongqu Road, rented an old house in the village and opened a hotel for tourists and drivers.
He Ming did not go to the city to work or open a shop, but contracted a mountain forest, while planting land, while raising chickens and rabbits under the forest, directly for the village restaurants. However, there are many golden eagles in Qilian Mountain, and if you look up, you will see the old eagle circling in the air. Ever since he raised chickens and rabbits, he has been targeted by golden eagles.
He Ming raises unfettered wandering chickens, free to scatter, eating insects and eating grass. But the golden eagle is difficult to defend. It swooped too fast, 320 kilometers per hour, looked up when it was in the sky, and in the blink of an eye it had landed on the ground and grabbed the chicken and flew away. Sometimes it will fall on a big tree, waiting for you to pay attention, grab the chicken and fly away.
★ The net captures a golden eagle and invites four golden eagles to attack in turn
The annual golden eagle breeding season is the most critical season for chicken farms. The golden eagle is a hermaphroditic nest, and the husband and wife take turns to hunt and feed the eagles. If there are two or three small eagles in the carving nest, the chicken farm will lose at least one chicken a day.
On that day, He Ming set up a net on the "eagle road" where the golden eagles often fell in the chicken farm. At dusk, a golden eagle swooped down to catch a chicken and was entangled in a net. This guy had so much strength that He Ming took a lot of effort to hold him down, and his clothes were torn in several places by its steel claws and sharp mouth.
In order to scare the other eagle eagles who came to steal chickens again, He Ming tied the feet of the golden eagle with iron cables and let it fly within five meters. Who knew that this move would bring great disaster, and the next day four or five golden statues took turns bombing enemy planes to swoop towards the chicken farm, frightening the chickens to hide in the bushes and not come out. But the rabbits who had no time to hide were killed and four or five were taken away at once.
The golden eagle was so powerful that even the waiters of the yamashita hotel who came to buy chickens were attacked, frightening them to dare not come again, and they needed He Ming to send them every day. It seems that this golden eagle really can't afford to offend!
★ The uncle kicked the golden eagle, and the golden eagle fanned the uncle down with two wings
The uncle was He Ming's helper, and one day, he kicked at the flying golden eagle. The golden eagle was furious, and the leather shoe that the uncle kicked it clicked and pecked a hole, causing the uncle to jump half a day high on one leg in pain.
The uncle was furious and grabbed a branch next to him to try to hit the golden eagle, but the golden eagle pounced on him and snapped his wings to throw the uncle to the ground. If it were not for the chains that bound its claws, the uncle would have been seriously injured. It took He Ming a lot of effort to cover the angry golden eagle with a sack. The golden eagle struggled hard, he had to hold it hard, and suddenly he also fell to the ground with one heel, and it turned out that he was swooping down from the air with another golden eagle on one wing. It turned out it had accomplices.
He Ming said that the power of the golden eagle's wing was absolutely comparable to the iron sand palm of the martial artist. The uncle later said that the two wings of the golden eagle were like two sticks, which made his eyes black.
★ Let go of the golden eagle, fall on the tree and do not fly
He Ming liked the mighty domineering spirit of the golden eagle, and even after catching it, he always brought back chicken intestines from the hotel to let it be enough to eat. There was no chicken intestine in the water, and he had fed it a live rabbit.
A few days later, the golden eagle that was trapped in the net quieted down, and as soon as it saw the golden eagle circling in the sky and flying closer, it screamed loudly and loudly. He Ming didn't know the language of carving, but all the eagles in the sky never had a single eagle swooping down to catch a chicken. Is it calling the police?
A few days later, He Ming tied a red strip of cloth more than a foot long to one of the golden eagle's legs. The golden eagle hated the red cloth strip and kept pecking at it with its mouth, and He Ming had to stroke its head with his hand to make it quiet, and it would stop biting and pecking. He called it the "Red Belt Golden Eagle."
On the day of the release, He Ming brought a live rabbit to feed the golden eagle, and it screamed with joy, and in a short while it ate a rabbit of more than five or six pounds, leaving only a head and four paws.
When it had finished eating the rabbit, He Ming untied the chain on its left paw. The golden eagle looked at He Ming, and then pecked at the claw that had been chained through it with its mouth, as if it were real, before spreading its wings and flying away. But it circled several times in the middle of the chicken farm, and finally landed on a tall tree in the middle of the chicken farm, and did not fly away at night.
★ Let go of one eagle and bring a group of eagles
He Ming said that after releasing the "red belt golden eagle", he always kept the broken basin that fed it. Every day he took the chicken intestines from the restaurant and put them in the broken basin. And the "red belt golden eagle" still comes to eat every day. When he came, he circled around the sky a few times, first in large circles and then small circles, crying as he flew, and the last wing was tied down, and there was no one to eat next to him, and those yellow eyes were cold and frightening.
Sometimes the "red belt golden eagle" fell down and did not eat, but grabbed those intestines and flew away. He Ming said that it must have been brought back to feed the eagles. From then on, he took more water back and told the golden eagle: You bite it, I have enough. Sometimes the golden eagle bites four or five times a day.
A few months later, there were as many as four or five golden eagles above the chicken farm, presumably its children and its other half. But these golden eagles will soon fly away. Only the "Red Belt Golden Eagle" continues to fall on the dead branches of the big trees of the chicken farm.
★ The "Red Belt Golden Eagle" catches the monkey eagle
He Ming said that although the benefits of raising chickens are good, there are too many enemies. In addition to the golden eagle, there are monkey eagles, foxes, weasels and so on. In the past, golden eagles were the great enemy. However, since the release of the golden eagle, although there are still golden eagles circling in the sky, no golden eagles have swooped down to catch chickens and rabbits. He Ming saw the golden eagle flying almost every day. Because behind it fluttered half a red cloth belt.
The monkey eagle is an owl with a face like a monkey. Fly every dusk to catch the wandering chickens. Just as He Ming was planning how to catch the monkey eagle one day, the "red belt golden eagle" suddenly flew from a distance, chasing a monkey eagle that was about to catch a wandering chicken. The monkey eagle's flight speed and skill were far inferior to those of the golden eagle, and it was soon caught in the air by the "red belt golden eagle".
The monkey-faced eagle stole the chicken.
The golden eagle did not kill the monkey eagle at once, but grabbed it and kept circling over the chicken farm, circling and crying like a statement and a warning. It was nearly dark, and the "Red Belt Golden Eagle" released the monkey eagle. I saw the monkey eagle staggering and flying away in the sky, while fleeing, and the woman cried at night, and her voice was very miserable.
Uncle shouted, this is the golden eagle to repay the favor! It's catching monkey eagles for you! Didn't you see that red cloth strip?
★ The "Red Belt Golden Eagle" has caught the chicken fox alive
Once, the "red belt golden eagle" was crouching on a big tree, and suddenly the chickens on the mountain blew up their nests and flew around with a cackling sound. The keeper shouted: The fox has stolen the chicken! He Ming hurried to chase, but saw a black shadow skimming over his head, chasing the fox and flying into the distance and disappearing. It turned out to be a "red belt golden eagle" that fell on a tree. After a while, the keeper shouted: The golden eagle has caught the fox. Only to see the "red belt golden eagle" grab a big fox with both claws, fly hard into the air, turn around in the sky and fly back to the chicken farm, the claws are loose, the fox falls to the ground, and the legs are dead. Since then, foxes have disappeared from chicken farms.
Golden eagle catching fox
★ The chicken farm became the territory of the "Red Belt Golden Eagle"
Sometimes, the "red belt golden eagle" would drop from the dead branches of the big tree and fly up into the sky with a loud cry. It turned out that the chicken farm had become its territory, and it did not allow any foreign golden eagles or harrier eagles to invade the chicken farm and peep at the chicken farm. At this time, you will see eagles flying above the blue sky, chasing and tearing, and sometimes you can see the feathers falling, which shows how fierce the battle is. It wasn't until the other party withdrew from the sky that the golden eagle screamed and landed on the dead branches of the tree...
At this moment, a clear cry came from the sky. He Ming pointed to the sky and said "Red Belt Golden Eagle" is coming! Sure enough, a golden eagle soaring in the sky, dragging a red belt behind it, soared in a circle that became smaller and lower, and finally landed steadily on the dead branches of the big tree.
He Ming whistled, pointing to the basin containing the carved food, and the "Red Belt Golden Eagle" cried out happily. Our heads are like a black cloud carrying a cold wind. The golden eagle fell in front of the carving bowl and ate it without anyone.
He Ming said that every three or two months, he would change the red belt of the golden eagle. It was also used to it and never pecked at it again. It's been more than a decade, and now the golden eagle is old, but it still guards my chicken farm.
He Ming said that the golden eagle was domineering, and the beasts knew that this was its territory, and they all hid from it. Wolves could still be heard howling nearby at night, but now even wolves are hiding away. (About the author: Wang Tianxiang, senior journalist and writer, has published 42 monographs such as novels, written more than 200 TV series, created dozens of special TV films such as history, culture, scenery, and documentary, published hundreds of articles in various newspapers and periodicals, and published more than 1,000 online articles.) ）
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