Chapter 409 Hunting Game

Ip Man-hyun and his entourage did not go directly to the place where the hunt started, but diverged the road, and the original lonely woolen textile factory has now become a large-scale town developed around the construction of the factory. The town, built entirely around the wool industry, has not yet been officially named, but it is garrisoned by about 2,000 warriors brought together by several tribes, an airship mooring station under construction, and a telegraph post that has just been put into operation. It's all in the box.

The reason why Ye Wenxuan wants to come here is also because Xue Jian, who is now in charge of this town, is a famous hunting enthusiast and has several good mastiffs under his hands. Ye Wenxuan, who raised a mastiff by himself, is very interested in this. And their line found Xue Jian's door, but it made Xue Jian dizzy for a while. At the beginning of the establishment of the woolen mill, Ye Tao came here many times, and Xue Jian, who was only in charge of one aspect of affairs at that time, met Guan Huan and Zheluo and others. Although Xue Jian had never seen the Ye family's price child, it would be too strange for Guan Huan and Zheluo to join forces to protect him, and he couldn't guess his identity. A few children of the Ye family are very easy to dismiss, and they found a technician who had just come to Xue Jian to report to work and had not had time to leave to take Ye Wenji to the factory to have a look, and asked Ye Wenxuan to go to his yard to see the four mastiffs he raised, and then look at the puppies that were just born this year and were only two or three months old; Ip Man Kwan had little interest in mastiffs, but when he heard that there was a place to breed sheep on the edge of the factory, his eyes began to shine......

When accompanying the eldest son of the Ye family to watch the mastiff, Ye Wenxuan suddenly said, "Uncle Xue, are you going to hunt this time?" ”

Xue Jian smiled bitterly and said, "Where is the time?" …… I was happy when your father sent me here to take charge of things, after all, I was in the workshop, and it was impossible to get a technician, so it was better to deal with people. Now, I'm so busy that I don't even have time to take these guys out for a run every day. Fortunately, it is not the season for sheep shearing, and the work is progressing smoothly. However, if you want to go hunting over there, it will take more than a month to go back and forth, no matter how fast it is, which I don't dare. ”

Ye Wenxuan nodded and said, "Then, Uncle Xue, can you lend me these treasures of your family?" ”

Xue Jian was puzzled: "Lend it to you?" You're going to take part in a hunt? ”

Ye Wenxuan nodded again and said, "Originally, I just wanted to go and see, I think, there are so many adults going, it will definitely not be the turn of children." Later, I learned that not everyone could go, only the heads of various tribes, as well as those from famous big families. Daddy is too busy, he shouldn't be able to go hunting, so won't this place in Yejiabao be vacant. I'm small, but I can go. This is also a major event in Yunzhou, although I don't know how to play it, but this kind of major event, without our Ye family, I can't talk about it. ”

Listening to Ye Wenxuan say this in a childish childish voice, a piece of love floated in Xue Jian's eyes, his own bastard boy is already ten years old, but he is playing with the young masters of several tribes all over the grassland all day long, and he is skilled in riding bow horses, but it seems that he will be a martial artist in the future. But Ye Wenxuan, who is only so big, has already realized that this kind of big thing is not easy for the Ye family to be absent. No matter what aspect it is, Xue Jian has no reason to refuse Ye Wenxuan. He smiled and said, "Okay." I can't go, you can take my babies to relax, but can you control these guys? ”

Ye Wenxuan said confidently: "I have my dog, it's good that it can control these guys." ”

Xue Jian laughed. Although Xue Jian likes to raise mastiffs, he also knows that he is a person who can only find time to hunt in the surrounding grasslands and mountain forests, and the mastiffs under his hands are just above average. The problem is not so much the pedigree of the mastiff, but that he really does not have time to exercise domestication. He is now in charge of the production of the whole woollen mill, and the various products that come out of the woolen mill are now almost more than 30% of the total annual income of those tribes. In order not to harm Xue Jian from being targeted by the three civil affairs departments, everyone naturally did not dare to give gifts casually, but it was very good to give a few mastiffs with a few bloodlines, but it was just a friendship between friends, and they also voted for Xue Jian. But the same as a gift, the level of the mastiff given to Ip Manxuan is different, the mastiff next to Ip Manxuan is a circle bigger than the ones raised by Xue Jian, and the coat color is faintly glowing with purple light, and it is extremely powerful. Although Ye Wenxuan is small, there are many experts in Yejiabao who know how to raise mastiffs, and there are a lot of guys in Ye Tao's guard team who used to be the best hunters in each tribe. No matter what aspect it is, if Ip Manxuan's mastiff wants to lead these guys, there is no problem. And Ip Man Xuan can say this kind of thing, which also shows that he understands the habits of dogs very well.

I don't know when Ip Manxuan organized a team that could participate in the hunt to show his face a little started, but from this day when he opened his mouth to Xue Jian to borrow mastiffs, Ip Manxuan's small team began to swell. Ye Wenxuan was indeed able to borrow, mastiffs, falcons, horses, manpower, weapons and tools, and Ye Wenxuan even ran around the headquarters of Jingyun Cavalry, borrowing twenty heavily armed elite sergeants and two airships from Xu Yao, who stayed in the camp. In fact, Xu Yao has never cared much about whose face he has, even in front of Ye Tao, and even in front of Tan Xiaopei, he has a word to say, but he lent his elite soldiers and airships to Ye Wenxuan, because he felt that this kid was estimated to be able to play some tricks this time. And the words "The Ye family has to participate in it, we can't do it without us" did provoke Xu Yao's nerves.

When Ye Manxuan arrived at the concentration of the hunt a month later, he had already put together a mixed army of more than 300 people in his hands. Among them, there are more than 100 active-duty soldiers in various units in Yunzhou, and although they cannot violate military orders, each department can always "find" some elite sergeants who are "on leave" to participate in it. In addition, it is the elite soldiers of various tribes, and even travelers and rangers who have been placing orders on the grassland, running around. Ye Wenxuan himself didn't know that among the rangers who met them and were interested in joining them, there were actually Lei Huang and several warriors of the Sect Demon Regiment. However, Guan Huan and Zheluo knew Lei Huang, although they despised Lei Huang and actually pretended to deceive children, but they also had to admit that the dozens of soldiers of the Sect Demon Regiment who had become an establishment were really quite a strong fighting force. Ye Wenxuan, a child who was not yet five years old, easily turned to a very strong team with combat effectiveness comparable to the same number of guards battalions in Yunzhou along the way. The force also included fourteen mastiffs, two falcons trained to deliver messages over short distances, and nine falcons. As for the telescope, the light box and other standard equipment for transmitting credit, there are a lot of them.

What Ip Manxuan did along the way, naturally, someone would report it to Ye Tao as it was, and when Ip Manxuan and his party arrived at the meeting place and had a full view of the tents gathered like clouds, Ip Manxuan carefully consulted Guan Huan and Zheluo for their opinions, and then unfurled the banner of the Ye family. Although the makeshift patchwork team made Ye Wenxuan a little uncomfortable, after all, what they usually see the most is the guard team and the guard battalion, and the guard team is more indulgent to the personalities of each guard, but the guards battalion needs to have both military parades and honor guards Thousands of people are neatly like one person, that is, every time they watch it, they are shocked and moved.

However, what Ye Manxuan, who was a little proud, did not expect was that not long after they set up the Ye family's banner, a low and melodious horn sounded in the camp, and a group of knights rushed out of the camp and lined up in two columns on the road, and soon formed a mile-long procession to greet them. The knights neatly drew their cavalry swords from their waists and stretched them out diagonally, forming a wide spacing knife gate. When greeting the enemy's envoys, the trick of the knife door is used to threaten and show strength, but when it comes to one's own people, it is to show respect, extremely high respect. Ye Wenxuan was stunned for a moment, then turned his head and asked Guan Huan: "Uncle Guan...... This one...... What's going on here? ”

Guan Huan smiled, didn't say anything, just pointed in the direction of the camp and pouted. Ye Wenxuan turned his head to look, but saw that on the flagpole in the middle of the camp, Ye Tao's handsome flag was raised.

At this moment, even Ye Wenyun, who was held in Zheluo's arms and riding on a horse at the moment, knew what was going on. Ye Wenjun asked softly, "Uncle Zheluo, is Daddy here too?" ”

Jerro nodded, his rough palm usually didn't dare to touch Ye Wenyun's skin at will, for fear that Ye Wenyun would feel uncomfortable. He touched Ye Wenyun's hair and said, "Lord Ye should have been here for a while." ”

Ye Wenxuan rolled his eyes and said with some unconvinced: "You all hide it from me." Surely you all know! ”

Ye Wenxuan was not angry, he probably thought that his father knew what he had done along the way, but he didn't expect Ye Tao to come to the camp before him.

After passing through the ornate knife gate, they entered the camp. The situation in the big camp is still very different from the usual military camp, and the teams of all tribes and families who come here are assigned their own chassis and set up camp according to their own habits. Falcons of various families hovered over the camp, and in the camp, the barking of various hounds could be heard from time to time. Good hounds rarely bark, but the density of hounds in the camp is a little higher, and they are all very strong hounds, and it is inevitable that each family will pass through the chassis of other hounds when walking their dogs. The dog's self-esteem exploded, which is also quite a headache.

Ye Tao's camp is right in the middle of the entire camp. Ye Tao and Dai Qiuyan came here more than ten days ago, and have had many rounds of consultations with various tribes, and some representatives of the hesitant northern tribes were impressed by Ye Tao's gentleness and firmness, because of Ye Tao's unique, not arrogant and not oppressive leadership temperament, and these days, there have been three envoys from the northern tribes who have expressed their submission to Ye Tao personally on behalf of their tribes. The two tribes that are relatively close to the Benwolf Plains have simply shown their flags here and participated in this hunt. Basically, this means that the chariots and horses have broken away from the leadership of the large tribes in the northern steppes led by the Kolka tribe and joined the group in the Benwolf Plain. Among the people brought by the various tribes, I am afraid that it is difficult to avoid the people of the Kolka tribe, but in the current situation, whether it is Ye Tao, Golan, or those northern tribes who have fallen to Yunzhou, I am afraid they don't care much.

There were not many people in Ye Tao and his entourage, and there were less than thirty guards in total. But they occupied a fairly wide area in the middle of the camp, and they had already set up tents and prepared food and lodging for the entire "Ye family" team participating in the hunt. Ye Wenxuan looked at his father so thoughtfully, and he didn't have any temper. Ip Manjun ran to get tired of his mother, while Ip Manxuan stayed by Ye Tao's side. Ip Man asked with great interest what he had seen and heard along the way, especially the various things he saw in the factories and barracks that made him feel funny, Ip Man Xuan pouted and stood aside very depressed.

"What's wrong?" Ye Tao asked, "I didn't say you're okay?" Why are you so upset? ”

Ye Wenxuan glanced at his father obliquely, snorted and said, "You and your mother are bullying me......"

"You have to take care of the hunting team you brought, I don't have the energy to play with you." Ye Tao smiled and said, "Do you think I'm going to be greedy for ink, and your team won't succeed?" ”

Ye Wenxuan tilted his head sideways and asked cautiously, "Really?" ”

"Really. However, you are not allowed to go on horseback alone. You've been riding horses since you were a child, and your skills are pretty good. However, this hunt is the same as fighting, and it really can't take care of you. You should follow your Uncle Guan Huan. Moreover, this time you said it yourself, without the Ye family, it would not be possible, and it was also the team you pulled up yourself. Since you said so, you have to take responsibility for it to the end. What you set up behind you is the banner of the Ye family, if you lose the face of the Ye family, you will be spanked when you go back. Ye Tao said gently.

Ip Man Xuan is young, but he already has a bit of a leader's temperament, which is very encouraging. is good at calculation, can deal with people, plus a little bit of arrogance and self-reliance, and has a strong sense of protection for the people around him, such a child, after persistent training, should be able to continue the huge career created by Ye Tao in the future, right? When he came to this time and space, even when he first met Tan Weixin, Ye Tao would inevitably have the self-abandonment and game world of "even if the flood is monstrous after I die". But now, everything is different, he may be able to help Tan Xiaopei unify Middle-earth in his lifetime, and Tan Weixin, and many talented people in Dongping to create a glorious era, but after all, he has his own home, his own children, and many people who rely on him to live and survive. Ye Tao doesn't feel old, but, in the short term, it feels good to have a good assistant and a good heir in the long run.

A glimmer of light flashed in Ye Manxuan's eyes, and he said seriously: "Well, Daddy, don't worry." ”

"I also made a bet with one of the chiefs of the northern tribes. The family is also led by the kid of the family, but the kid is nine years old. It's more than twice your size. I don't care if I win or lose, but if you can win. The prizes are all yours. Moreover, I will give you a small escort and give you a pocket money every month, and you can decide for yourself where to play and how to play. What do you think? Ye Tao slightly tempted Ye Wenxuan.

Ye Wenji didn't say anything, looked at Ye Wenxuan and then at Ye Tao, looking envious. And Ye Manxuan's eyes bloomed with strong anticipation. Ye Tao's family has never lacked anything, others have it, the family has it, others don't have it, and there are even a lot of things that I can't even think of. Compared to what he could win, Ye Wenxuan was obviously more interested in the freedom that Ye Tao would give him. Being able to run around and dictate something to themselves is something that they, the kids, have known for a long time. That's what the Tanjia does, and when they are old, they can live on their own and manage the people and things around them. The Ye family naturally kept this interesting tradition, but now that he was only four years old, Ye Manxuan never thought that he would be able to enjoy this freedom in advance. Behind the freedom, what is more enjoyable is the father's strong trust in himself. Ye Wenxuan immediately calmed down and asked, "Daddy, this is not a joke. When the time comes, don't play tricks. ”

Ye Tao shrugged his shoulders and said, "There are no rules, when did I talk and not count?" And Ye Tao said to Ye Wenji: "If you are willing to follow, I will let Uncle Jin take you." But you don't have that. Don't you think you don't have enough workshops at home? When you go back this time, you can come with me to Gondor. Ye Wenji nodded again and again, but he was not playful at all, and shook his head to indicate that he would not go hunting, and participating in and directing the hunt was not a big attraction for him.

The current hunt is really a game for them. In order to make this hunt a success, Golan and the others spent a lot of energy. Since the beginning of the year, the wolves have been driven away and concentrated in this pure pasture where other animals are scarce, so that the number of wolves will not be wiped out at once, and it is not interesting to provide some food to the wolves to keep the wolves alive. They have long been no longer part of the grassland where they want to fight to the death with the wolves, but have become the masters of the grassland. Even this time, instead of exterminating the wolves, they plan to keep about half. It is also to keep other species on the grassland alive as well. It is precisely because of this calmness of the game that Ye Tao was able to make Ye Wenxuan have a good time. Ye Tao didn't pay much attention to the bet with the northern tribes, everyone was just thinking about giving gifts to each other in this way, exchanging some things, and exchanging some feelings. After that, they each sent their own children who were still a little reckless to lead, so that this absolutely "friendship first" bet was full of fun.