In the twelfth lunar month, the year is coming to an end. Li Mengxi will soon be twelve years old, and his younger brother Xiao Zhuan will soon be five years old. Growing up together, there is also the nest of owls that Zhang Fei brought back from the tomb of Prince Jing in Zhongshan.

The owl cubs have also grown up.

Li Mengxi's training of the owl began.

The only purpose of domesticating owls is that owls have night vision capabilities, and the owls' night vision capabilities may be used for night warning.

At night, everything is silent.

Li Mengxi hung the owl's cage on the high arrow tower. Outside the camp, it was pitch black.

At the same time, outside the camp, Zhang Fei was hiding in a ditch one mile away from the camp.

Zhang Fei is the target of training.

When the time was almost up, Zhang Fei picked up the torch and climbed out of the ditch.

From Li Mengxi's perspective, in the endless darkness, a bright light suddenly appeared in the southeast corner. He couldn't help but look sideways at the cage above his head. The hawk's vision seemed to be very prominent. Owls are also hawks, and their vision should also be prominent. It makes sense, then, then

An obvious spot of light, the owl must have seen it.

The first step of training is the most difficult. The first step of training is to let the owl know that it can get food by hooting at a place with people, and then gradually strengthen the training based on this.

At first, the owl didn't know how to squawk when it saw someone. Li Mengxi's idea was to make the target as prominent as possible. He asked Zhang Fei to hold the torch and deliberately made a sound to scare the owl. As long as Zhang Fei happened to

When I came out, the owl happened to see Zhang Fei and hooted. As long as the connection can be made, whether the owl hooted after seeing the fire or was frightened by the noise Zhang Fei made, no matter what, as long as it can take the first step

, the training can officially start from here.

Zhang Fei kept Li Mengxi's instructions in mind. After he climbed out of the ditch where he was hiding, he waved the torch in the direction of the camp and made weird roars from time to time to attract the attention of the owl.

Zhang Fei had worked hard enough. He worked tirelessly to crawl out of the ditch frequently and crawl back in again. He was like a human-shaped mole. As long as he could attract the owl's attention once, he would be successful.

Li Mengxi stood guard by the cage, waiting for the owl to come out at the right time. When Zhang Fei jumped out of the ditch, and once he heard the owl hoot, he would immediately feed the owl with food.

Time passed slowly, and the fire created by Zhang Fei in the southeast corner appeared again and again. Li Mengxi failed to wait for the call that was supposed to come, and the first training failed.

As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning, but owl training is also very difficult at the beginning.

For the next many days, every night, Li Mengxi hung the birdcage on the arrow tower. During every night's training, all the people in the area two miles outside the camp were cleared, leaving only Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei repeated the same task every night. He first huddled in the ditch to prevent the owl from seeing him, and then suddenly jumped out with a torch and made a weird cry in an attempt to scare the owl. However, what he expected to see was

The result never appeared.

It lasted for seven consecutive nights. For seven nights, there was no progress at all. Not only Zhang Fei was discouraged, but Li Mengxi also doubted whether the owl training was feasible.

On the eighth day, Li Mengxi starved the owl all day long. At night, Li Mengxi hung up the cage again. The orientation of the cage was also southeast.

In the dark night, Zhang Fei was lurking in a ditch. He suddenly jumped out with a torch. Zhang Fei's patience had been exhausted during these many days of training. He didn't want to shout anymore and just waved the torch in his hand randomly.

The next step was to take care of the matter.

It was at this time that Li Mengxi suddenly heard the owl in the cage emit a series of short, low cooing sounds, "Coooooo~".

Li Mengxi subconsciously turned his head to glance at the cage, then turned to look outside. In the darkness, a fire happened to appear at Zhang Fei's place.

It might be that the owl just happened to want to hoot, or it might be that the owl saw a mouse or something, but it might also be that the owl finally targeted Zhang Fei.

Li Mengxi was so happy that he quickly fed a meatball to the owl.

In the cage, the owl, which had been hungry for a long time, finally ate food and cooed excitedly.

Li Mengxi thought that this was an excellent start, and he felt very excited.

But then, Zhang Fei hid back, jumped out, hid back, jumped out, repeated many times. The fire in the southeast corner appeared again and again, but the owl never hooted again.

Li Mengxi was a little disappointed. He thought that it was a coincidence last time. The owl happened to want to hoot, or it saw a mouse, and it was not hooting at Zhang Fei.

Time passed gradually, and another night passed.

On the ninth night, the owl hooted again just when Zhang Fei appeared.

On the tenth night, the owl hooted twice.

On the eleventh night, there was no call.

Twelve nights, twice.

Thirteen nights, three times.

Fourteen nights, three times.

There was no entry at all. Li Mengxi wanted to comfort himself with the data. The data changed from two times to three times, which showed that the training was useful. But such words could deceive Zhang Fei, but Li Mengxi could not deceive himself. He knew

I know that the data is too small, and three times and two times cannot explain any problem.

It takes until January.

For thirty nights, Li Mengxi tamed the owl at night and caught up on his sleep during the day. This was the case for thirty nights, and his biological clock was almost turned upside down.

On this day, Li Mengxi compiled the data and found that the owl hooted as many as seven times.

What does this mean? It means that the owl may be sick and is hooting wildly. It means that the weather is getting colder and the owl is hooting from the cold. It means that the owl may be depressed and becoming more and more manic after being locked up. It may also be the condition of the owl.

The reflection is gradually built up.

Li Mengxi guessed that after repeating it maybe thousands or even thousands of times, the owl will slowly realize, oh, it turns out that when it sees a fire and barks, it will get something to eat.

Judging from the training data over the past month, there are only seven or eight times a night when the hoot of an owl coincides with the appearance of Zhang Fei. A thousand times of conditioned reflex training requires 140 times.

Many days, at least half a year.

On the thirty-first night, Li Mengxi trained again as usual.

The birdcage was hung on the arrow tower. It was pitch dark outside, and suddenly a light appeared in the southeast corner.

"Coo, coo, coo," the owl hooted.

Li Mengxi hurriedly fed him.

In the blink of an eye, the fire in the southeast corner disappeared again, and Zhang Fei hid back.

After a while, the fire appeared again, and it was Zhang Fei who jumped out again.

"Coo, coo, coo," the owl hooted again from the cage.

Li Mengxi looked up in surprise and fed another meatball.

The fire disappeared again, and Li Mengxi stared closely at the southeast corner of the night. For a moment, the fire reappeared, and the owl hooted again.

Over and over again, it was no coincidence, it worked, and the silly owl finally realized that as long as he saw someone crawling out of the ditch, he could get something to eat by just hooting.

After many days of hard work, we finally see the light.
Chapter completed!