Golden Eagle

Ye Yuan looked down at Big Yellow and patted the dog's head a few times. He now understood why Big Yellow had dragged him here—it wanted him to save this young eagle.

He took a rope from the space and tied it around his waist, fastening the other end to a tree half a meter thick. After tugging hard on the rope and confirming there was no problem, Ye Yuan carefully moved toward the eagle's nest. He stepped on protruding cracks in the cliff face and slowly approached. The sea wind howled around the nest. The young eagle lay motionless inside, its faintly rising chest proving it was still alive.

Ye Yuan finally reached the nest and cautiously sent the dying young eagle into the space before climbing back up to the top of the cliff.

He found a tree and sat down, letting Big Yellow lie beside him before entering the space himself. Looking toward the pool in the distance, he saw the young eagle struggling to stand.

Ye Yuan fed the young eagle some pool water, then shredded some fish meat and fed it to him. After a while, the little fellow regained quite a bit of strength, and the distinctive cries of a young eagle echoed through the space.

Ye Yuan brought the young eagle out of the space. When Big Yellow saw the young eagle in Ye Yuan's hands, he barked at him. The young eagle had also recovered much of his strength by then and chirped, "Cheep~ cheep~," back at Big Yellow.

Watching the dog and eagle converse, Ye Yuan found it rather amusing. Remembering that he still had a Spirit Opening Pill, he figured he might as well give one to the young eagle. It would be nice to have an extra lookout whenever he went out to sea in the future.

He took out a Spirit Opening Pill from the space, crushed it, and fed it directly to him. The young eagle showed no reaction after eating it.

"Could it be that Spirit Opening Pills don't work on birds?"

Ye Yuan did not know the reason. After all, he had only used one on Big Yellow before and had never tried it on other animals.

Seeing that it was already late, he took the dog and eagle home. Everyone in the house was already asleep. He carefully returned to his bedroom, placed a cushion on the windowsill, casually set the young eagle on it, and went to wash up.

When he returned and found the young eagle still there, he went straight to sleep.

Early the next morning, while Ye Yuan was still groggy, he heard chirping outside the window. Opening his eyes, he saw the young eagle standing on a tree across from the villa. When he walked to the window, the young eagle gave him a chirp before flapping his wings, preparing to fly over.

Perhaps because he had only just learned to fly and was not yet skilled at it, he landed directly on the ground in front of the villa. Looking up at Ye Yuan by the window, he chirped endlessly, as if telling Ye Yuan that he needed help.

Seeing that Ye Yuan had no intention of coming to help him, the young eagle took a few running steps on the ground and tried once more to fly back to the windowsill. This time, he finally got airborne. He flapped his wings awkwardly, and because his landing was unsteady, he crashed straight into Ye Yuan's chest.

Ye Yuan hurriedly caught the young eagle in his arms. The young eagle used his already sharp beak to groom Ye Yuan's hair.

Looking at the patch of white on the young eagle's tail feathers, Ye Yuan recalled that it had been too dark last night for him to examine the young eagle closely. Now that he saw his appearance clearly, he suddenly realized that this might be an extremely rare bird of prey—a Golden Eagle.

An adult Golden Eagle had an average wingspan of over two meters and could stand more than a meter tall. Golden Eagles were extremely rare. They liked to live in mountains, grasslands, and deserts, and sometimes soared at altitudes above four thousand meters.

Golden Eagles generally fed on squirrels, Wild Rabbits, small goats, and foxes. Sometimes, they also ate other birds and fish. When they spread their wings, their flying speed was astonishing, and they could seize prey with lightning speed.

Thinking that the one before him might be a Golden Eagle, Ye Yuan immediately took out his phone and compared the young eagle's appearance. In the end, he was finally certain that this young eagle was indeed a Golden Eagle.

"How about I call you Little Gold from now on?"

Whether Little Gold understood Ye Yuan's words or was simply excited from having just learned to fly, he broke free from Ye Yuan's hands and flew outside. He circled freely above the villa, occasionally letting out chirps.

After Little Gold grew tired from flying, he landed directly on the villa's roof. Ye Yuan did not continue teasing him, since he still had many things to do today.

In Blue Island City, Zhao Chuan was flying back today. He had originally planned to stay here for several days, but because of the Tourmaline, he was in a hurry to bring it back. That batch of broken jade had also arrived in Blue Island today. After Zhao Chuan took Ye Yuan to collect the goods, Ye Yuan drove Zhao Chuan straight to the airport.

After seeing Zhao Chuan off, Ye Yuan was dragged by his second brother to buy many high-end sea-fishing rods in Blue Island, as well as fishing lines specially made for catching large fish.

His second brother had come this time to go fishing at sea with Ye Yuan. For some reason, Ye Yuan felt that his second brother had another purpose, but he had no idea what it was, so he did not ask. His own brother could not possibly mean him harm, could he? After buying the equipment, the two also purchased several sets of diving gear before driving toward Pinghai County.

When they drove back to the docks in Pinghai County, they found many people gathered around a fishing boat by the pier. Ye Yuan had not planned to go over and look, but he unexpectedly spotted his father standing at the front of the crowd, apparently arguing with someone aboard the boat.

Ye Yuan hurried over. As he got closer, the sounds of the argument reached his ears.

"You ungrateful, heartless bastard! Everyone in Ye Family Village misjudged you!"

"That's right!"

Chaotic curses rose one after another. Ye Yuan discovered that Ye Zhuang and several fishermen he did not recognize were standing on the boat, while the people below were all future employees of his aquaculture farm.

Ye Yuan looked at his father and asked, "What's going on?"

Father Ye had not expected Ye Yuan to appear here, then began explaining the whole matter to him.

It turned out that Ye Zhuang had returned home on the day Ye Yuan came back from sea. His estranged uncle and aunt heard from the villagers of Ye Family Village that Ye Zhuang was doing well now, earning eight thousand yuan a month, plus various bonuses that brought his monthly income to at least ten thousand yuan.

So they went to Ye Zhuang's home together and tearfully talked about how difficult their life had been back then—how they could barely afford food, how they still had elderly parents to support. They came up with all sorts of excuses.

Many details from back then had already grown hazy in Ye Zhuang's mind. Thinking that they were his only relatives left in this world, he forgave them.

But unexpectedly, they had come because Ye Zhuang's Younger Brother worked out of town and wanted to buy a house, so they wanted to borrow a down payment from Ye Zhuang.

Ye Zhuang had only worked on Ye Yuan's boat for a few days, so how could he have any money to lend them? Unable to withstand their crying, he remembered the reef cluster where Ye Yuan had taken the crew to catch abalone. Without thinking much about it, Ye Zhuang took his uncle and aunt out to sea.

After reaching the reef cluster, they found nothing after diving into the sea. They only caught a few small abalones that could be considered juveniles. This left his uncle unhappy, and after returning to the dock, he began arguing with Ye Zhuang.

He said that it would have been fine if Ye Zhuang did not want to lend them money, but why had he lied to them? Not only had they failed to make money, they had also lost money on fuel. He demanded that Ye Zhuang pay for the fuel.

Through this incident, Ye Zhuang finally saw his uncle for what he was. Unfortunately for him, Father Ye and the people from Ye Family Village happened to be going to Fishing Bay Island today, and Father Ye was furious when he heard about it.

Fishermen had rules. If you worked on someone else's boat and the captain discovered a fishing spot, you had to keep it secret from other fishermen.

Upon hearing this, Father Ye led the villagers to block Ye Zhuang's uncle's fishing boat and curse at him.

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