Originally, before Chen Xu came, a group of young people in Chinese costumes were gathering by the river to ride horses and release bamboo kites, and there were many onlookers and cheers, and a group of people were very proud, riding horses back and forth to play happily, but Chen Xu immediately stole their limelight as soon as he came, and all the onlookers ran away in a blink of an eye.

Several young people suddenly lost interest, stared at each other for a while, and then looked at the sky hula and still rising a few kites, one of which looked as handsome as a woman rode a horse straight to Chen Xu's carriage.

"Hey, uncle, you're here too!" Looking at Meng Yun, who turned over and dismounted with a depressed face, Chen Xu smiled and said hello.

"I've seen my brother-in-law!" Meng Yun barely managed to squeeze out a smile.

"My uncle is not feeling well, could it be constipation?" Chen Xu said jokingly.

Meng Yun looked up angrily and pointed to the kite in the sky and said, "What are these things?" ”

"Paper kites, the same as the bamboo kites you put out!" Chen Xu explained with a smile.

"I knew you wouldn't see us having fun, and you would definitely make a more fun one to steal the limelight from us!" Meng Yun sighed, and a trace of melancholy appeared on the pretty woman's face.

"What's so fun about this, it's just the playthings of children and girls, the bamboo kite you put is very conscious, go, take me over to see!" Chen Xu turned over and rode a horse, and Meng Yun also rode on a horse and walked towards a group of young people in Chinese costumes.

"I've seen Qinghehou!" A group of young people are all well-known second-generation officials in Xianyang, and they belong to the top gentlemen in the mixed capital, and they look like they are dragging five and six on weekdays, but in the face of Chen Xu, they all bowed their eyebrows and bowed cautiously.

"No courtesy, no courtesy~" Chen Xu smiled and waved his hand after getting off the horse, this group of gentlemen and him are not the same kind of people, they have also met on weekdays, but they do not play together, because Chen Xu is now playing with very high-level people, either the emperor or the prince and the head of the six departments of the three provinces, and these gentlemen can not pee in a pot, nor can they talk in a pot, except for playing mahjong, there is no common language.

And because Chen Xu's identity is too noble and special, these gentlemen don't dare to play with Chen Xu at all, even Meng Yun feels ashamed of himself, since he was beaten by Chen Xu in Qinghe Town, he feels uncomfortable when he sees Chen Xu.

After saying hello, Chen Xu squatted down and took a closer look at the huge bamboo kite placed on the ground.

Chen Xu does not know when the history of kites began, but kites were called paper kites in ancient China, which shows that they should have appeared after the advent of paper, and should not have appeared before Cai Lun improved papermaking at the earliest, which means that the history of kites may have begun to appear after the Han Dynasty.

However, this is not necessarily, because there is no paper and other things can be made, such as linen, silk or leather.

Silk is very expensive, more expensive than gold, so even the rich and wealthy families cannot use silk to make kites, and the rest can be made of linen or cowhide, etc., but both linen and cowhide are very heavy, and if the kite is not big enough, it will definitely not fly.

The bamboo kite in front of me is the shape of a big bird, the wingspan is six or seven feet, the whole body is made of bamboo strips, the head and tail wings and claws are all like an eagle, the neck is short but the wings are large, the center of the body is also supported by wood chips, the body is covered with a layer of cowhide, and even the wings and tail are stained with many colorful feathers, the neck and claws are tied with a little thumb thick hemp rope, and the hemp rope tied below is also very thick, the structure is very exquisite, but it is too heavy.

After Chen Xu finished reading it, he lifted the bamboo kite with his hand and checked it, and found that it weighed at least five or six kilograms.

"Can this thing fly?" Chen Xu was very unsure.

"Yes, but if the wind is strong enough, we haven't succeeded in flying a few times in the past few days!" Meng Yun said with some dejection.

Chen Xu nodded, feeling understandable, if the wind is too small or unstable, the paper kite can't fly, let alone such a big bird with a bamboo and wood bark structure, but Chen Xu is not interested in this bird, but the craftsman who makes this bamboo kite, which should be a very powerful master.

"Where did you find this craftsman?"

"Just in the north of the city, an old lame, the whole Xianyang is the best for his bamboo kite, but it is also very expensive, this one cost me nearly three hundred dollars, and it took more than a month to do it!" Meng Yun replied.

Chen Xu nodded, there are many craftsmen who are proficient in making bamboo and wood utensils at present, but it is rare to be able to do such exquisitely, this kind of talent is worth inviting to the Academy of Sciences for development, and if you want to make a hot air balloon in the future, you don't have to look for people everywhere.

"How does this thing fly, let me try it?"

Chen Xu was full of interest, this thing is more than a hundred times taller than a papier-mâché kite at a glance, and it looks much better, at first glance, it is a Bugatti Veyron-level spacecraft, which is not the same as the triangular quadrangular paper kite that he pricked out in a few minutes.

Poor people play cars and rich watches, dicks play supercars, and the rich play big birds, they are men, they should play this kind of high-end goods, and now seeing this giant bird, Chen Xu instantly lost interest in his kite.

Seeing that Chen Xu was so interested in his bamboo kite, Meng Yun was also very excited and excited, and explained in detail the method of releasing the fly, and a group of gentlemen were also on the side to help, and soon Chen Xu figured it out.

Because the bamboo kite is too big and too heavy, you need to put at least ten zhang long hemp rope first, the other end of the hemp rope is tied to a leather ring around the waist of the flyer, if the wind is strong enough, the bamboo kite flies up and begins to slowly release the rope like a kite, once it flies to a height of tens of zhang, under the huge wingspan and wind resistance, this bamboo kite will be like an eagle can stay in the air for a long time, and the rope will not fall down even for a few days on a stone or a small tree.

"Brother-in-law, be careful, this thing has a very strong pull, be careful that you are torn off the horse by the bamboo kite!"

Seeing Chen Xu climb on the horse's back and tie the rope to the leather ring, Meng Yun couldn't help but remind again.

"Rest assured!" Chen Xu smiled and waved his hand, it has been almost four years since he crossed over to Daqin, and he rides a horse almost every day, Chen Xu is still very confident in his equestrian skills.

Seeing that the two gentlemen had already lifted the bamboo kite, Chen Xu took a deep breath, knocked his legs on the horse's belly, and under the stimulation of the stirrup's blunt thorns, the group of Hun horses under the crotch raised their heads and neighed and ran out.

"Whew~" The moment the hemp rope was tightened, Chen Xu only felt that he was wrapped around his waist by a big snake weighing several hundred catties and pulled back, and at the moment when the bamboo kite rose into the air, the whole person was pulled away from the horse.

"Brother-in-law be careful~"

"Master Hou is careful~"

Behind him, Meng Yun and a group of gentlemen exclaimed in fright almost at the same time.

"I'm damn it~"

Riding on horseback, Chen Xu also let out a terrible ghost scream, fortunately his feet were still in the stirrups, otherwise he would suddenly be pulled off the horse's back, in a panic, Chen Xu hurriedly grabbed the horse's mane with both hands and bowed down according to Meng Yun's instructions just now, and then hugged the horse's neck tightly with both hands, and as the bamboo kite slowly flew up, Chen Xu felt that his waist was about to be pulled off by the hemp rope, and his buttocks were pulled and pouted little by little, looking like a bowback shrimp.

The whirring wind swept past his ears, Chen Xu couldn't look back at all to see if the bamboo kite was flying, he only felt that the pulling force of the hemp rope was getting bigger and bigger, and he held on for less than twenty seconds, Chen Xu felt that he would be carried by the bamboo kite to the sky if he didn't stop, so he could only rein the reins to let the horse's speed down, and at this time, he just ran out of a distance of only forty zhang, and the bamboo kite only flew up less than five zhang high.

The horse quickly stopped, but the rickety bamboo kite did not stop, and flew over against Chen Xu's head under the action of inertia.

"Master Hou, don't stop, turn quickly~" An anxious shout came from behind him.

"Turn ......" Chen Xu suddenly remembered that Meng Yun said that he would ride his horse around the bend when he stopped, he didn't understand why he wanted to turn, he only felt a black shadow passing over his head with a hula, and then a huge pull pulled him into the air, and his body flew up from the horse's back like a light cloud, and then slammed on the ground with a pop, and rolled five or six times under the pull of the bamboo kite before finally stopping.

"Hurry up, Master Hou is injured!" A few gentlemen instantly turned pale and got on their horses and went straight to Chen Xu.

"It's over, it's over!" Meng Yun's head was blank, looking at Chen Xu who was lying motionless on the ground, his face was dull, and he muttered to himself.

"Quick, Master Hou has fallen off his horse!" At this time, a group of people flying kites in the distance also shouted, and the scene was panicked in an instant, and a group of guards jumped on their horses and ran over.

"Husband~~" Meng Wan and Ying Shiyan also turned pale instantly, dropped the kite string in their hands, and ran to the place where Chen Xu fell off the horse.

Chen Xu only felt that the heavens and the earth were shaking, as if he had been arched by an eight-hundred-pound wild boar, his head was buzzing while the Venus was dancing in front of him, and the sky was spinning in the dark in front of him, and he didn't know what was going on at all.

"Hou Ye~Hou Ye~" A group of gentlemen who rushed over helped Chen Xu, who was placed on the ground in a strange twisted posture, and panicked to the point of losing his soul.

"How is Master Hou?" The sound of kicking and trampling horses' hooves galloped in, and a group of guards rushed up with pale faces, throwing a few of them aside and yelling.

In the repeated shaking, Chen Xu finally regained his eyelids, slowly opened his eyes, and looked at a faintly familiar face in the starry sky.

"Don't ...... Don't shake it, let me rest for a while! Chen Xu waved his hand weakly, and the surroundings were quiet in an instant, Chen Xu closed his eyes for a minute, and felt that he slowly had some consciousness, then he opened his eyes again, reached out and touched his head, face, arms and legs next to each other, and then breathed a sigh of relief and motioned to the guards to help him up. (https:)

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