Chapter 50 [Picking up a bargain]
@Hou Xiaoxiao: The clan leader asked my family to lend out the eagle we carefully trained!
Hou Xiaoxiao secretly made a plan to prevent her family from participating in the encirclement and suppression of Zhaoping Marquis Mansion. This time, the clan leader sent another family, the Qin family, to lead the operation.
Emperor Qingning promised many benefits. In order to facilitate this action, the clan leader put pressure on Hou Xiaoxiao's family, the Bai family, to lend the falcon that they had carefully raised to the Qin family.
The reason why the falcons in the tribe are so precious is that since the old bird trainer died without finding a successor, no one can tame the eagles anymore.
@Hou Xiaoxiao: I'm so pissed! The Qin family probably realized the Marquis Zhaoping Mansion would be difficult to deal with, so they couldn't bear to part with their own falcon, so they set their sights on my scout chicken.
It was from Hou Xiaoxiao that Jiang Lili learned that the falcons raised by the Miao tribe were tamed with poisonous insects. Not only were they psychic and able to detect situations, but they were also immune to all kinds of poisons because they had been eating poisonous insects and snakes since they were young.
Immune to all poisons?
Jiang Lili looked into the wise little eyes of the eagle in Xin Che's hand. It would be great if this big guy could listen to her!
Jiang Lili took a photo of the eagle and sent it to Hou Xiaoxiao: [Sister Xiaoxiao, is this the one?]
@Hou Xiaoxiao: Yes! That's my eldest son. How did he get hurt? Who did it?
Jiang Lili then recounted what had just happened.
[@Hou Xiaoxiao: They sent the rove beetle swarm to test you. Be careful next time. I'm on my way to reunite with the Qin family members. Wait for my news.]
@Hou Xiaoxiao: I'm entrusting my eagle to you. You must take good care of it! Be careful, this eagle is very aggressive, even to me. Since the old bird trainer passed away, no one has been able to control it. It's as hard to please as a Buddha.
Jiang Lili looked at the eagle and was about to check its injuries, but she saw Xin Che whistling at the eagle in a strange tone.
And with Xin Che's whistle, the eagle, which was originally tense, relaxed a little.
Jiang Lili was surprised. She guessed, "Can you train eagles?"
Xin Che nodded: "I know a little bit. I've been at the border for a long time and learned a few tricks from the bird trainer."
"But I haven't learned it all. I still need the help of bird trainers on the grassland. They have ancient music scores that can command eagles to do more things."
Jiang Lili heard this and murmured to herself, "I wonder if the grassland Khan would have this kind of music score."
After hearing Jiang Lili's whisper, Xin Che responded, "Of course."
"As the symbol of supreme power on the grasslands, the Khan of the Steppes would be assisted by the most experienced bird trainers. They would also use eagles to convey messages and perform rituals."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Lili quickly sent a message to the grassland Khan: [@Yan Chaoyue: Master Yan, I urgently need the music sheet for hawk training. Urgent!]
@Yan Chaoyue: Sister Li, here we come!
The last time Jiang Lili sent wild geese thousands of miles away, he hadn't found a chance to thank her yet.
Now he finally has the chance to repay his gratitude.
A quarter of an hour later, Yan Chaoyue took a photo of the music score and posted it in the group.
Jiang Lili couldn't understand the strange musical notes. She took out a piece of paper and pen and copied one of them to show Xin Che, "Can you understand this music score?"
Xin Che looked at the handwriting on the paper that looked like dog crawling: "I can vaguely recognize it."
So Jiang Lili copied down all the music scores in one breath.
Rubbing her aching wrist, she handed the music score to Xin Che and said, "Go! I leave it to you! My royal falconer!"
Xin Che held the music score and was already accustomed to Jiang Lili's omnipotence. The situation was critical, so he immediately began to study the music score.
Liao Ji stood aside, his hands in his pockets: "Falcon training? Why don't you do it yourself? Aren't you a hawk (English) major?"
Jiang Lili was caught off guard by Liao Ji's cold homophonic joke: "Kid, this is not funny."
Under Xin Che's instructions, the eagle was no longer as ferocious as before. However, it understood Xin Che's instructions but did not want to pay attention to anyone and was very cold.
Xin Che was helpless: "It understood, but it doesn't want to pay attention to us."
Jiang Lili looked at the aloof and intelligent eagle. She remembered that raising a pet always started with feeding it. "Looks like I need to give it some food to tempt it."
Xin Che caught a pheasant and threw it in front of the eagle. The eagle lowered its head to sniff it and turned its head away. It was obvious that it had eaten too much and was not hungry now, so it didn't want to eat it anymore.
Jiang Lili suspected that the eagle had eaten too much of this pure ecological food and was not very interested in it, so it needed something it had never eaten before.
Jiang Lili thought about it for a while and asked Zhang Xiaopang to deliver various canned meat and fish.
Sure enough, after Jiang Lili opened a can of tuna, Daying's pair of yellow eyes turned around, obviously attracted by the fragrance that he had never smelled before.
Jiang Lili and Xin Che looked at each other and thought, there's hope!
*
The Qin family sent two elite disciples, Qin Chuan and Qin Liren, along with the Qin family. The two people who were remotely controlling the swarm of insects were confused when they discovered that the rove beetle swarm had lost contact with them.
Because their plan was to use rove beetles to drive away everyone except those in Zhaoping Marquis' Mansion, and then take advantage of the chaos in Zhaoping Marquis' Mansion to control poisonous insects and snakes and kill him while he was sick. Now the plan has been completely messed up.
Qin Chuan was surprised: "How could it be eliminated so quickly?"
Qin Liren blew the whistle to call back the eagle.
However, she blew the horn several times but did not see the eagle.
"Oh no, the Bai family's falcon is missing."
Qin Chuan tightened his lips and said, "How is this possible? Where did they get the weapons? Are the guards escorting the fugitives so lenient?"
"Besides, as exiles, they were starving and had little food and clothing along the way. Where would they get the strength?"
Qin Liren speculated: "The news was given by Hou Xiaoxiao. She wouldn't lie to us, right?"
"No, she has long harbored resentment towards the Marquis of Zhaoping's Mansion, otherwise the Emperor wouldn't have trusted her to deliver the message."
Qin Chuan shook his head. "The clan leader has also inquired about the situation. When they left the capital, they were often beaten by yamen runners. Their food was also withheld along the way. It was common for them to go without food for a day or two."
The Qin family imagined that the people in Marquis Zhaoping's mansion should be malnourished and sickly.
"Then we should wait until dark, get closer and take a closer look at the situation before taking action."
Qin Liren sneered: "I don't believe that he can escape from these treasures in our territory."
She wasn't bragging, but the situation at the Qin family was truly terrifying. There were fifteen people, each holding a large basket filled with poisonous insects. Even if all the poisonous insects and snakes in these baskets were poured out, they would be enough to flood the Marquis Zhaoping's Mansion.
So, the Qin family and their group headed in the direction where the eagle disappeared and waited for dark.
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