When it comes to bravery, Li Kui is not much worse than Wu Song, he also fights tigers, Wu Song fights a tiger with a lot of effort to kill one, and Li Kui easily kills two big tigers and two small tigers. Someone wants to say that Wu Song has no weapons, but in fact, Wu Song has a whistle stick, because he is highly nervous, and he lost his weapon as soon as he made a move, but Li Kui is not, after the old lady was eaten by a tiger, his spirit was still not deranged, and he killed two big, two small and four tigers, which is really heroic.

When Li Kui pounced again, Chao Gai didn't dodge, he still pulled Li Kui's right arm into his arms, turned around and twisted his waist, fell over the shoulder, and threw Li Kui to the ground with a snap.

Li Kui turned over and got up again, this time he learned to be obedient, trying to punch and kick, Chao Gai was no longer defensive, and quickly attacked the past two big iron fists left hook and right hit, Li Kui hit again and again.

"No fight, no fight." Li Kui jumped out of the circle and begged for mercy, and everyone said that Li Kui didn't admit it if he lost and deserved to be beaten.

Li Kui not only had thick skin, but also thicker skin, tidied up his clothes, and knelt on the ground: "The apprentice kowtowed to you." ”

"Wait." Chao Gai grabbed Li Kui and said, "I Chao Gai will not accept apprentices casually, if you accept you as an apprentice, you must abide by the master's words, not only to teach you to practice martial arts, but also to teach you to be a man." Let's briefly talk about a few points, the first one, you can't kill innocents indiscriminately. The second article is not to rob the people and the poor, and the third article is not to rape x** women. Can you do it? ”

Li Kui pondered, and Liu Tang next to him said: "It is your great blessing that my brother is willing to accept you as an apprentice, these three are the most basic of the Jianghu man, what is there to consider." ”

Li Kui bowed his head, and Chao Gai bowed to him three times, and then helped him up.

Chao Gai said: "Although I have apprenticed, but I heard you call the master awkward, or call me brother, you just know that I am your master." ”

Li Kui picked up the bargain, and immediately smiled and said, "Brother, don't worry, I will definitely listen to you." ”

"Okay, keep eating."

Facts have proved that Li Kui is an ignorant foodie, one person eats four people's meals, and he is on par with Chao Gai in terms of the amount of food.

"Tie Niu, is there anyone else in your family?" Chao Gai asked.

"There's an old lady at home." Li Kui replied.

Liu Tang next to him said: "Don't you have a brother named Li Da." ”

"Hmph, don't mention him, he dislikes me for eating a lot all day." Li Kui said indignantly.

Chao Gai smiled secretly, Li Kui's kind of food, ordinary farmers' families designated him to eat poor.

"Tie Niu, your brother can leave it alone, but your mother is old, and you don't have anyone to take care of you, so it's better to wait for another day for you to get a token, and I'll send someone from the caravan to pick it up." Chao Gai said.

Li Kui laughed: "Haha, it's better to be a brother, I know Tie Niu's heart best, I heard that it doesn't cost anything to see a doctor in our village, my mother is not in good health, and she has been reluctant to see a doctor, and always told me that she was fine, in fact, I knew that she had stomach pain in her old age for several years, and she was reluctant to see the doctor take medicine in order to save money for me to marry a daughter-in-law." Saying that, Li Kui wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, pitying the hearts of parents all over the world.

"Tie Niu, don't be sad, bring your wife here, I'll find a maid to help take care of it, and I'll marry you when I meet a suitable one in the future." Chao Gai said.

Li Kui was overjoyed, and his happy mouth couldn't close.

The other fifty woodcutters Orion Chao Gai also made arrangements, because Liu Tang had tested them when he selected them, and their physical fitness was all qualified, so they were directly assigned to the escort team, and each person received a consistent monthly payment. The settling-in fee is still seven, which is enough for a big cow according to the current prices.

When the banquet dispersed, Chao Gai arranged for everyone to stay temporarily first, and then distribute it tomorrow.

Liu Tang stayed to report to Chao Gai, Liu Tang said: "This time I went to Yishui County to gain a lot, it is very poor, most of the local young and middle-aged people go out to seek a way to live, we can recruit thousands of young and middle-aged people who work hard." ”

"Thousands of young adults have bankrupted us, and we have to eat bite by bite. I see that two of the accompanying guards were injured? Did you meet a bandit on the road? Chao Gai asked.

Liu Tang said: "After entering Yishui County, we rested and ate at an inn on the side of the road, and one of the accompanying team members accidentally exposed the silver he was carrying, which attracted the attention of the store. Then I fought with the shopkeeper, there were more than 20 of them, in order not to make more trouble, I took people away, and went to the county seat to find the head arrester, and the dog actually interrogated me, saying that I don't look like a good person because of my long red hair. ”

"Is this shopkeeper surnamed Zhu?" Chao Gai asked.

"Yes, I asked someone to inquire, two shopkeepers, the big shopkeeper Zhu Gui, nicknamed Dry Land Hulu. The second shopkeeper Zhu Fu is known as the smiling tiger. Both of them are characters with bad pus on the soles of their feet, but all customers with money are turned over with medicated numbness, the light ones loot the property, and the heavy ones will result on the spot, which is not counted, and the lean meat of people is used to cook, make buns, and take the fat to boil oil and light the lamp, and it is really not wasted at all. ”

"Really?" As a modern person, Chao Gai is very annoyed by this kind of unconscionable thing, and he is actually called a good man for this kind of garbage.

Liu Tang said: "They were drugged, and after being discovered, they injured two of us, and we injured six of them." As for the fact that they killed people for meat, I heard about them, and the original intention was to report to the officials and let Yishui County catch the head to arrest people, but they were also interrogated. ”

"Haha, you know who Zhu Fu is, it is the apprentice of Li Yun, the head of Yishui County, you find a master to sue other people's apprentices, it's good if you don't get arrested." Chao Gai smiled, "We can't eat this loss, you send two clever guards to go back and lurk near their store, once they do something to make money and kill them, they will definitely be killed." ”

The next day, Chao Gai led people back to the escort camp, and the newly recruited fifty people were incorporated into the escort team, and a separate recruit platoon was set up, and five veterans were selected by Chao Ran to be trained as squad leaders. This guy is aggressive, and he had to fight with Ruan Xiaoqi, but he was tricked into the water by Ruan Xiaoqi and was injured all over his body, which was the result of learning boxing and kicking from Chao Gai for three months.

After another ten days, Hua Lei's task of training the herding personnel of chickens and ducks was completed and he returned to the escort team. For a time, the escort team was lively, and the infantry escort team had Chao Gai, Liu Tang, Chao Ran, Chao Zhang, Hua Lei, and Li Kui, and the water escort team had Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaowu, and Ruan Xiaoqi. There are a total of 210 people, and they train every day. Xu Meng, who is also arranged by Chao Gai, is developing and manufacturing artillery, and Chao Gai's power is already on a small scale.

On this day, he was training, and Zhuang Ke came to report that Chao Gai asked Chao Gai to go back, and there was something to discuss.

Chao Gai did not delay, and hurried back to the village with Li Kui, the troublemaker. Chao Xun was obviously a little anxious, walking back and forth in the yard.

"Uncle Xun, what's the matter?" Chao Gai said.

Chao Xun took a delicate and small grasshopper cage, which contained several small grasshoppers, very small, and had not yet grown wings, and may still be a little cute in the eyes of others, but Chao Gai understood that this thing must have become absolutely overwhelming in scale.

"This, grasshoppers have been unearthed?" Chao Gai was also a little surprised.

"Last year, the locust plague in some counties in Qingzhou was serious, and many farmers even lost their harvest. We also have some spring drought here this year, and I am afraid that the expected locust plague will appear. Chao Xun said worriedly.

"Uncle Xun, don't worry, let's sit down and talk." Chao Gai and Chao Xun sat down on a stone chair under a big tree.

Chao Xun said: "At present, there are several things to do, the first grain store will stop selling grain in preparation for the famine year. Second, the woodworking mill should not produce anything else, and all the production of waterwheels to resist drought and ensure a bumper wheat harvest. Third, let the bear's team come back and hoard the salt. ”

Chao Gai calmed down and said, "The second thing is to arrange the Zhuangke Ward Carpentry Workshop immediately. The first thing is not appropriate, once the sale of grain is stopped now, it will cause panic among the people of our Yuncheng County. The third thing is even more unnecessary, the hoarding of salt is nothing more than personal use. ”

"The locust plague is not harvested, this is not a scare, the locusts are overwhelming, even the leaves are eaten, I encountered it once when I was a child, you don't know how terrible it is, so the food is still good for your own use."

Chao Gai said: "How long will it take for such a large locust to form a disaster?" ”

"There were a lot of locusts in this generation, but they weren't big enough to form a locust plague, but the locusts multiplied very quickly, and sixty days later, when their offspring were unearthed, the plague began, just around the time of the wheat harvest."

Chao Gai nodded secretly, Chao Xun actually knew these things.

"Uncle Xun, don't panic, have you forgotten our magic weapon?" Chao Gai laughed.

"Grazing chickens and ducks, this method has never been heard of, whether it is effective or not." Chao Xun was obviously a little uneasy.

Li Kui next to him shouted: "Isn't it just a few grasshoppers, I will be hacked to death with an axe." ”

Chao Gai flicked his head: "Use your brain, you can't count the grasshoppers, and you can't finish the fight if you're tired." ”

Chao Gai immediately made a decision, Chao Xun immediately went to the woodware workshop and arranged for Lu Tam to manufacture a large number of waterwheels. Chao Gai went to Li Qingzi, the head of animal husbandry, and asked him to immediately arrange for the grazing of chickens and ducks.

After discussion, the existing 10,000 chickens were divided into ten groups of 1,000 chickens each, and three groups were grazed in the nearby mountains and bushes as they had been trained by Hua Lei a few days ago. The chickens are very fond of these little locusts that have not yet grown wings, and they eat one of them as soon as their necks stretch and shrink, and the hens compete fiercely, while the roosters are more humble, and sometimes they take the locusts they have caught to the hens. Most of the locusts on the ground can be wiped out everywhere they pass, and the chicken seems to be much weaker than the eagle, but it is completely a top predator for insects, fierce and ruthless. Chao Gai also couldn't stop nodding, these chickens are native chickens, all of them have long feet and thighs, wild and big, not to mention grasshoppers, even if they encounter some small snakes, they can be bitten to death and eaten, on the low shrubs, on the green wheat seedlings, as long as there are locust chickens, they will pounce on them, and the chicken's body is flexible on the slopes, woods, and shrubs are almost all-terrain.

The farmer of the herding chicken introduced: "These chickens are amazing, a chicken can eat about 50 small grasshoppers in two hours in the morning." Take a break at noon, and then eat dozens of locusts in the afternoon, the most important thing is to eat a lot of eggs laid by locusts, now there are thousands of eggs picked up every day, and a thousand chickens can eat a large area of locusts of hundreds of acres in three or four days, and the rest can not become a climate. ”

Chao Gai went to look elsewhere, and the farmer who herded the chickens also made a great effort to prepare drinking water and herbs for the chickens to prevent diseases. At night, there are closed tents to prevent wild beasts, and the villagers are also fully armed, each armed with a hunting fork, short knife, and slingshot, to guard against eagles during the day, and to guard against wolves, foxes, weasels and other wild beasts at night, after all, the population density is sparse at this time, and there are many wild beasts of all kinds.