The valley is in the shape of a gourd scoop, and the exit is at the position of the scoop, that is, the place where Chen Xu and the others entered, the further they go in, the wider it becomes, and after more than ten minutes, the blood stains disappeared in front of a crumbling thatched house.

"Master Hou, it seems that the wild wolf has used this mountain bandit's house as a nest!"

Looking at this thatched house, which was almost covered by thorns and weeds, and only had one roof left, Liu Po frowned and hesitated slightly.

The space in the room is too small to spread, and the situation inside is unknown, so the consequences of rushing in and fighting the wolf are a little unpredictable, and it is not uncommon to lose your life.

"You go to the window to observe which room the wild wolves are, you don't have to rush in, I'll kill them with Taiyi Divine Thunder!" Chen Xu lifted his coat to reveal a belt tied around his waist, four small leather bags on it, and four wooden sticks neatly inserted.

"Taiyi Divine Thunder!" Liu Po and several Orions exclaimed excitedly in low voices.

"Yes, this is a simplified version of Taiyi Shenlei, just guard the exit of the room later, remember not to get too close, I'm afraid you will be injured by Shenlei within five zhang!"

Chen Xu pulled out an earthen grenade and pulled out the wooden plug on the handle, revealing a thin twine inside.

"Since Master Hou has Taiyi Divine Thunder, this group of wolves is really going to die today, I'll go and observe it first!"

Liu Po was as excited as if he had chicken claws, and slowly touched the edge of the thatched house that was about to collapse, and then after observing it back and forth, he retreated and whispered: "Master Hou, I heard movement in the room on the left, and the wild wolf should be hiding inside!" ”

"That's good, you guys go to the front door and hide!"

Chen Xu waved his hand, and several hunters scattered lightly and disappeared into the wild grass, while Liu Po and Chen Hu protected Chen Xu in the middle and slowly touched the left side of the thatched house.

There is a small window one foot square, and a few thorns sticking out of the room, Chen Xu listened carefully, and sure enough, he heard a slight licking sound inside, and there was a dull roar, it should be that the wild wolf hiding inside had already discovered the movement of Chen Xu and the others, and was very restless.

"Remember, after the divine thunder is thrown in, immediately retreat and lie on the ground, so as not to collapse the thatched house and be crushed!" Chen Xu reminded in a low voice, then grabbed the hemp rope behind the grenade and pulled it vigorously, only to hear a pop, and a puff of green smoke came out of the handle in an instant.

Chen Xu was overjoyed in his heart, staring at the smoking grenade and counting the time silently in his heart, and when he reached ten, he raised his hand and threw the grenade into the thatched house.

"嗷~嗷~~"

Hearing the sound of the grenade falling to the ground, and then the sound of Ding Lingqi and a wolf roar came out in the room, Chen Xu quickly turned his head and ran, got into the wild grass around him, and lay on the ground with his buttocks.

Chen Hu and Liu Po also followed Chen Xu's example, pouting their butts and lying on the ground, and the three rising buttocks looked very beautiful.

"Lord Hou......"

A few seconds passed, there was no movement in the room, Liu Po was about to speak, only to hear a loud bang, the whole ground suddenly trembled, and then he heard a crackling sound of wood and stone splashing from all around his body, and many dead grass and broken branches were fluttered and fell by the steel bullets flying around.

Almost at the same time as the explosion, several terrible screams came out of the room, and the roof was directly swept open by the explosion of air waves, accompanied by the flying wood and grass chips and the smoke rising in the air, the already crumbling thatched hut began to tilt crookedly.

"Boom~"

Half a minute later, when Chen Xu, Liu Po and Chen Hu stood up, the already rotten thatched house collapsed directly, and a puff of smoke and dust rose up, leaving only a pile of rotten wood and thatch mixed with it that had long since decayed into dust.

Chen Hu and Liu Po stood behind Chen Xu, looking at the broken wood and grass scattered all over the ground in front of them and the smoke and dust that were still falling one after another, like a stake.

Several other hunters also emerged from the grass, staring in horror at the scene before them.

"Wow~~"

Chen Xu lifted a piece of wood and said loudly: "Come and help, see if a few wolves have been killed?" ”

"Quick, help!" Only then did a group of people come back to their senses, Liu Po waved his hand, and several people hurriedly stepped forward to help lift the wood and dry grass.

This thatched house is not large, the two houses together are only about ten square meters, plus a few years of wind and rain and the invasion of thorns and weeds have long since collapsed, otherwise the power of this earthen grenade is simply not enough to destroy it.

Seven or eight big men started together, rummaging through the rummag, and soon saw the wolf corpse pressed underneath, and when they were all turned over, in addition to the three big wolves, there were two small wolves, about four feet long, not yet fully adult.

A half-foot-deep pit in the middle of the house was filled with freshly turned dirt that was the crater of a grenade.

A Taiyi Divine Thunder not only killed five wolves, but also destroyed a house.

The five wolf corpses were taken out and thrown together, with blood holes all over their bodies, and the largest of them was blown to pieces, and I don't know why it ended like this.

Watching Chen Xu keep looking at this headless wolf, Liu Po explained: "Master Hou, this should be a wolf, probably trying to bite the Taiyi Divine Thunder you threw in, but it was blown up instead!" ”

"How smart are wolves?" Chen Xu was puzzled.

"Xu'er, wolves are the smartest of the beasts we have seen, smarter than domestic dogs, if a wolf is injured in one place, it will never appear in the same place again a second time, and the same is true for the group, and the wolves also have attack tactics, just like marching and fighting!" Chen Hu said with a serious face next to him.

Chen Xu nodded and stood up and said, "Let's search this valley well and see if there are any other dangers!" ”

"Yes, Master Hou!" Liu Po and several Orions all surrendered together.

An hour later, a group of people carried a total of seven wild wolves of all sizes through the canyon, and it took nearly an hour to return to Qinghe Town, and it was almost time for Shenshi to eat.

In the vast and sparsely populated era of Daqin, wild animals were everywhere, and wolves at the top of the carnivore chain were naturally everywhere.

The earliest record of the wolf is the Book of Songs, and in the Central Plains, in fact, many places are called hairy dogs, mainly the hair on the body is very messy and rough, but if it is hunted in autumn, the wolf skin after the moult is very good leather goods, the skin is thin and thick, suitable for making leather jackets and mattresses, the quality is much higher than the dog skin, the price is not cheap, a skin is worth dozens of dollars, so the family that can afford to wear the wolf skin jacket cover the wolf skin mattress in winter is the landlord's old wealth.

Therefore, when the seven wolves were carried to the town, it caused a huge sensation.

At present, the main meat in Daqin is beef, mutton and dog meat, not to mention the small quantity and very expensive, the wild meat is more miscellaneous, wild deer, wild boars, wild wolves, and even tigers and bears, etc., but the number is even rarer, even in Qinghe Town, which is now rapidly rich, there are still a few people who can afford meat, and wolf meat has no fat, and many people are still distressed when they spend a few dollars to eat a pound of meat, and the main consumers are still some big families in Qinghe Town.

Liu Po called a few butchers in the town to skin and clean up a few wolves, Chen Xu brought the meat of the two wolf cubs back to Xiaohe Village, and the remaining wolf meat and wolf skins were rewarded to Liu Po and a few hunters for them to dispose of by themselves.

Chen Xu has never eaten wolf meat, so after returning home, he specially instructed the kitchen to stew a big pot and taste it, the taste is not bad, there is no dog meat is tender, and according to the kitchen worker, the wolf meat is slightly fishy, but enough seasonings such as peppercorns, star anise, bay leaves, ginger and other ingredients are added, and soybean sauce is added in advance and stir-fried, so it does not feel any peculiar smell when eating, but the meat is firm and more chewy than dog meat.

"Delicious, delicious!" At the dining table, Han Xin was holding a wolf's leg and gnawing on his face full of juice.

Xing'er and Yu Ji also ate happily one after another, Ying Shiyan and Meng Wan sat next to Chen Xu, and they couldn't stop eating, while Chen Jiang and Han Tian sat next to Chen Hu, kept serving him vegetables, and a big bowl of wolf meat was piled up in the big bowl, Chen Hu's face was calm, and he drank with Chen Xu while eating, and he enjoyed the current life of an aristocratic lord who came to stretch out his hands to eat and open his mouth.

After dinner, the father and son went to the study to drink tea and pick their teeth and continue to discuss the development and use plan of this mountain bandit's lair.

Early the next morning, the father and son set off again, and after arriving in the town, Chen Hu once again took a few hunters and more than a dozen villagers to go up the mountain with machetes, preparing to clean up all the thorns and wild vines in the narrow passage leading to the valley, while Chen Xu came to the blacksmith shop and asked them to help make a batch of daggers for self-defense.

At the moment, this group of teenagers is not strong enough, and the steel knife and big sword cannot be used, but once the spring begins, all kinds of beasts, snakes and insects in the mountains will appear in large numbers, and there will definitely be no necessary self-defense weapons in the mountains, so Chen Xu plans to build a batch of daggers and distribute them.

This kind of dagger with a handle and blade is about a foot long, with two sides open, and it looks exactly the same as the daggers of later generations, which is both light and small, sharp and strong, even if it encounters a fierce beast, it will not be dealt with with bare hands.

After explaining the drawings of the dagger to the craftsman of the blacksmith shop in detail, Chen Xu asked Niu Dashi to find a few women in the town who could sew clothes and craftsmen who were proficient in leather making, and took out a few pieces of hemp pulp paper, on which were drawn a set of styles of military uniforms in later generations, namely clothes, pants, hats, belts, shoes, etc.

At present, the costumes of the people of the Qin Dynasty are complex and diverse, ordinary men have shirts and pants, while the men of the nobles of the noble clan are accustomed to wearing long robes and belts, so the commoners and the nobles of the noble clan can basically be distinguished from the clothes from a long distance.

In fact, the clothes designed by Chen Xu are still not out of the category of ordinary people's clothes and pants, but the usually very fat pants have been changed to the style of straight trousers, and as for the clothes, they have also abandoned the style of the placket, changed to buttons, added a folded collar and two pockets, and finally added a belt around the waist.

As for the hat is an ordinary baseball cap style, only the style is required to be unified, there is no big requirement, and then there are shoes, because this group of teenagers have to train in the thorny mountains all year round, many people are straw sandals and bastard shoes, and even some people are barefoot all day long, and the same is true in winter, so there are often foot injuries and bleeding in training, if it is not treated in time in the summer heat, it is likely to suppurate and become a serious illness that cannot be cured and finally fall into a lifelong disability.

This situation is not uncommon in Daqin, and in Qinghe Town alone, you can see many people who walk with a limp, all of which are caused by foot injuries.

Therefore, shoes are more important than clothes in Chen Xu's opinion.

"These shoes should be made of thickened soles, the upper is made of sheepskin, the size of the clothes and pants is arranged to be measured, and then the production of large, medium and small can be made, and the purchase of materials and production costs are paid by the town's warehouse, as for the cost, you will determine it after accounting, so you don't need to notify me!" After the arrangement, Chen Xu said to Niu Dashi.

"Brother Xu, so many clothes, shoes and hats plus short blades are not cheap, even if a set costs two hundred, it will cost 100,000 yuan, and I am afraid that we will not be able to raise it in a year or two!"

Niu Dashi felt extremely heartbroken about Chen Xu's messy way of spending money, feeling like he was cutting his meat, and his face kept twitching when he walked beside him.

"This is not only to spend money, but also to make the villagers rich, 100,000 money is indeed a lot, but this money still fell on thousands of families in Qinghe Town, they have money to buy more things, how to get rich without money? Now I'm giving you five thousand dollars a month, can you spend it all? ”

"Can't!"

"How's that going to work? You are the head of a town, you have to learn to spend money, and you have to spend this money where it should be spent, don't save me, next time I come back, I don't want to see so much money piled up in the warehouse, I want to see all the roads and ditches in my fiefdom all have to be re-expanded and repaired, every household must have sufficient farm tools, and buy a large number of cattle and horses, and at the same time go to discuss with the county commander Liu Tong, and then open a paper mill near Pheasant County, Qinghe Town only retains the manufacture of bamboo pulp and paper, and can also open a sugar and distillery, Encourage villagers to plant mountain grapes and tea trees in front of and behind their houses......"

Chen Xu told Chunchun as he walked, and every time he said a word, Niu Dashi's face was distorted a little, and when Chen Xu finished speaking, Niu Dashi's face was already distorted like a shoehorn.

According to Chen Xu's continuous expansion of the workshop, the money earned by Qinghe Town every year is not enough.

"By the way, help me buy more than a dozen little girls, orphans and priority ...... from difficult families"

"Brother Xu, what do you want to do? You already have enough maids in your house? Niu Dashi was puzzled.

"I'm going back to Xianyang in a few days, my father and my mother and Aunt Han are staying at home, such a big family needs someone to help take care of it, I will leave a few old and serious servants, but most of them still have to be taken away, and I have to ask you to take good care of the family on weekdays, and I have to help arrange food, clothing and housing!"

"Don't worry about this, I also run back and forth in three days, I will take care of the family, not to mention that Uncle Tiger is back now, it will be fine!"

"Well, you have to worry more about the things in the fiefdom, everything here is left to you to deal with, and those young people's affairs tell Liu Po and others not to spread it, so as not to cause suspicion ......"

"Good!"

A few days passed, and all the 500 teenagers who had dispersed and returned home had returned, and the road up the mountain bandit's lair had basically been cut out, Chen Hu took these teenagers up the mountain to continue to pull out weeds and thorns to build houses, and Niu Dashi also arranged for more than ten families on the fiefdom to move in to help open up the wasteland and farm, and also take care of the diet and life of these teenagers.

Seeing that everything was settled, Chen Xu also arranged for the servants and guards to pack their luggage and prepare to return to Xianyang. (https:)

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