Chapter 88: Falcon Tamer Asta
The eagle is the soul of the Kazakh people.
Falconry is their traditional and effective hunting weapon.
According to Kazakh legend, the eagle is the only sacred bird that can look directly at the sun without being burned.
So they firmly believe that whether hunting or flying, the eagle will always be the top hunter soaring in the blue sky.
Throughout history, Kazakhs have become one with the eagle.
The Kazakh falconers are also the most special symbol of this nation.
However, with the changes of the times, falconry culture has long been in conflict with legal realities, and the outside world's controversy over falconry culture has never stopped.
Because of an accident, Asta could no longer be a falconer, and he was unwilling to follow his son to live in a big city. He just wanted to guard the grassland and livestock.
He is not even willing to learn more about Mandarin and only knows a few daily words.
It was because I was invited to attend a falconry festival in the UK that I was able to learn a few sentences at the last minute.
Qi Guang said to Uncle Asta very embarrassedly:
"Uncle Asta, I've always heard Begomu mention you. He said you're very good at falconry training."
Kormuhan translated this to Astha, and his smile deepened the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.
As if he had opened a box of conversation, Asta told his story with pride in his eyes, and Uncle Kormuhan repeated it to Qi Guang and the others in Mandarin.
The netizens in the live broadcast room were shocked when they heard this!
"Asta said it takes at least five years to tame an eagle. Eagles are very wild and don't recognize people easily. Some eagles fly away as soon as they are released."
"Some people have spent 20 to 30 years training an eagle but still haven't succeeded. The longest time Asta took to train an eagle was 13 days, and the fastest was only seven or eight days."
[Oh my god! Thanks to the host, I actually saw a falconer!]
[The Golden Cudgel: I saw a short video about falconry before and thought it was so cool! I wonder if it's possible to see falconry in a live stream...]
[Little Mouse on the Prairie: I'm really quitting...]
Asta was still talking enthusiastically about falconry, and Qi Guang had never understood the stories of this grassland so deeply.
In his inherent concept, the long river of history always brings new things without stopping, survival of the fittest is the law, and the replacement of the old with the new is the trend.
But today, he saw the collision of the new and the old in Asta in an extremely vivid way.
It was also when Asta was telling the story of the falconer with his eyes shining that I suddenly understood why he refused to leave the grassland with his son.
Even if he could no longer hunt with a shotgun or be a falconer, this was still his home.
The alcohol content of Asta's kumis is not as high as that of Uncle Kormuhan's.
But Qi Guang still felt a little high, not sure if it was because of the bustling atmosphere or because he felt completely relaxed physically and mentally when he returned to the grassland.
It has the flavor of "wine doesn't make you drunk, but you make yourself drunk".
Qi Guang got up and went outside the yurt to get some fresh air, and Lu Cheng followed him.
Qi Guang asked:
"Why did you come out too?"
"I'm afraid you'll get drunk and go crazy in front of someone's house."
"Am I that kind of person? Don't you know how good my drinking habits are?"
Lu Cheng looked at Asta's sheep pen and said with a smile:
"Yes, I don't know how wonderful it is. I want to call all the animals on the grassland to welcome you home."
Qi Guang suddenly thought of the scene that night when he was shouting at the yurt on horseback.
Yes, Lu Cheng must have seen him drunk and crazy...
No way but to fight back:
"Yeah, didn't that call you here?"
Lu Cheng: “…”
[Brother Yundan: I can’t argue with you. I can’t argue with you at all!]
[Raising a Sheep: Brother Yundan plays me. Whenever I hang out with bad friends, I'm the type who can't win an argument and loves to criticize them, but after they've scolded me, I become quiet.]
[Dick Yangzai: The sweet little white flower "Ao" teaches the self-proclaimed mature and experienced "Yini" her first life lesson!]
【Hahahaha, Yangzai, it still has to be you!!!】
Fortunately, Brother Yundan was calm enough. He just picked up the dry cow dung on the ground and threw it at Qi Guang, who was still grinning with his big teeth showing.
Qi Guang: “…”
Then he ran towards the sheep pen, and actually picked up some dry cow dung along the way to fight back.
While others enjoy snowball fights in winter, these two have taken a different approach.
Summer radical muck fights...
The aim was not good enough, and countless sheep in the pen were hit and bleated.
"Stop, stop, stop! Truce, truce! There's nowhere to shower tonight, so think carefully!"
Lu Cheng felt that this was a signal of surrender from the other party. He threw away the dry cow dung he had just picked up with a smug look on his face and patted the residue on his hands neatly.
Look up.
The two of them unknowingly reached the edge of the sheep pen, and the sheep seemed to be stunned where they were.
...What were they fighting with?
Netizens in the live broadcast room said they couldn't bear to watch...
After enough fun, the two prepared to go back.
Suddenly, Qi Guang grabbed Lu Cheng and pointed to a sheep standing upright alone near the fence.
"Look, what is that?!"
Lu Cheng then looked at the sheep carefully, and after a while he said:
"It's just a sheep. It doesn't seem like anything special."
"Look at its feet!"
Lu Cheng looked over and found that there was a yellow plastic sheet under the sheep's hoof!
Lu Cheng recognized it immediately:
"Ear tag!"
Qi Guang entered the sheep pen, patted the sheep, and the sheep walked to the side.
He picked up the ear tag, which was covered in sheep droppings and dirt.
After rinsing it, I found that the height was similar to the hyena's ear I encountered that day.
Qi Guang scanned the QR code on the ear tag and found that there was no information at all and he could not identify anything.
“It’s not a positioning ear tag.”
Lu Cheng thought for a while and said:
"Why did the ear tag end up here? Did hyenas appear here before?"
"Let's go! Go ask Uncle Asta."
The two returned to the yurt with the ear tags.
Kormuhan and Asta were drinking milk tea, as if they had just finished a conversation, with smiles on their faces, while Aunt Cholepan was making milk tea.
"Uncle, could you please ask Uncle Asta if there are any hyenas around these days?"
Kormuhan asked Asta, who shook his head and said a few words in reply after hearing it.
Kormu Khan said to Qi Guang again:
"He said no, there's no way we have hyenas here."
Qi Guang said: "Uncle, we found this."
As he said that, he handed the ear tag to Kormuhan and told him what had just happened. Uncle Kormuhan suddenly seemed to think of something and said a few words to Asta.
Asta nodded and said a series of words, which Kormuhan translated:
"I just asked him if he had any guests in the past two days. He said two middle-aged men came and he made milk tea for them. They didn't stay long before leaving."
Qi Guang and Lu Cheng looked at each other, and Lu Cheng asked:
"Uncle, did Uncle Asta tell me what those two men looked like?"
"He said one man had a birthmark on his face, another man seemed to be blind in one eye, and the blind man was carrying a large box. They were riding a motorcycle."
"Although they looked a bit ugly, they were very polite. They didn't even enter the yurt. They just asked for a bowl of milk tea at the door, drank it, and left."
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