"Bang bang," on the hillside next to the ruins of Shiguan, in the high barren meadow, the sound of the machine continued to sound, Wang Hu patrolled nearby with his small flag, and took some prey to bring back by the way.

Today is Wang Meng's small flag rotation on duty, Wang Hu's team has been holding their sulk for a day, and they can finally vent with a crossbow, looking for targets all over the mountain.

"Whoosh", a hare was nailed to the ground, Xiao Liuzi, the first shooter in the small flag, jumped up with a smile, roared and ran twenty steps away, put the rabbit and the short arrow back, and the other people who saw it were hot for a while, and hurriedly scattered in groups of two to seek their own prey.

"Brother Tiger, I always think it's wrong," the lean little sixth son leaned over to Wang Hu's side, touched the crossbow in his hand, and his eyes flashed with a little doubt.

Wang Hu pressed the long knife in his hand, stood on a high platform and looked around, after five crossbows were distributed in the small flag, the little six sons who were his partner kept staring, he couldn't help it, who made his archery skills bad.

"What's the matter, your kid has always eaten more and occupied more, but he doesn't grow meat, and he still has opinions," Wang Hu twitched the corners of his mouth, his eyes glanced around, and he didn't look at the little six sons below at all, his task is different from others, it's okay if he can't hit the prey, and it's bad if he lets go of suspicious traces.

One of the members of each team is responsible for keeping watch and monitoring the surrounding environment, and he is no exception.

"No," Xiao Liuzi put the prey into the cloth bag, picked up the heavy crossbow, and shook it at the small flag, "I just think that the current crossbow, compared to those that are taken back, is much weaker, the previous short arrows, a big hole, within thirty steps to use it, I don't need to aim,"

His words made Wang Hu grin silently, too, although there are two more military crossbows now, he also feels that they are not as powerful as before, and it is not easy to take twenty steps, which is like the previous military crossbows, thirty steps can definitely shoot through a two-finger-thick plank.

But now he is also very satisfied, ten people are equipped with five military crossbows, this kind of weapon made of all steel, compared to the Zhuge crossbow in his father's mouth, it is only high, not low, and he still wants a fart.

According to the instructions of the hundred households, they Xiaoqi have already checked the terrain here twice, and it is almost noon, and it is time to go west to explore after eating something.

"Dudu," the sharp whistle sounded, Wang Hu and Xiao Liuzi simply ate the cake, blew the mud whistle, gathered the scattered groups, and rushed to the outer edge of the stone mountain of the Land Temple.

These fourteen or fifteen-year-old half-grown children, one by one, are energetic all day without pause, as long as the bread in their arms is not finished, they will not return to the mountain; If it weren't for the good contact with the mountains, hundreds of households had designated areas, and they would have been able to run more than 30 miles away in a day.

The battered jacket will stink at the end of the day.

After gathering manpower and not talking much, Wang Hu and Xiao Liuzi took the lead in opening the road, and the other four groups scattered to break off in two teams, separated by a hundred paces, and the search advanced in the direction of Shishan.

In less than an hour, far away, Wang Hu can see the stone mountain, shuttling busy people, on the top of the mountain has begun to build a wall, now on the mountain in addition to the small flag to draw water thunder can not move the daily water supply, the other idle four small flags, people are divided into two parts by the father, build a defensive wall, transport gravel to the hundred small courtyards, busy every day.

"I don't know what the use of asking for so many stones for a hundred households," muttered in a low voice, Wang Hu's eyes looked back and forth smartly; "Hehe, I know Brother Hu," Xiao Liuzi came up, with a smug face, "The stone mill of the hundred households is not for grinding grain, I heard that it specializes in grinding stones, grinding stones into powder, that thing is better than glutinous rice and rice milk, and the stone wall is strong, and it is impossible to build a house,"

Hulala a lot of nonsense, so that Wang Hu frowned when he heard it, and he didn't say anything.

What he didn't know was that now in the courtyard of the hundred households, the hundred households of the old god Taoist Dao were looking helplessly at his brother Wang Meng complaining vigorously.

The team passed through the foot of the stone mountain, and on the path that they had just stepped on, the vine grass that had spread on both sides, and the sharp spikes on the branches half an inch long, occasionally crossed the ankles of Wang Hu and Xiao Liuzi, the two boys in red jackets and cloth shoes, didn't care at all.

The children who are used to the wild in the guard, even if they bump their heads and bump their arms, they will not say anything, at most they will recuperate at home for two days, which makes the tribulus terrestris scratch not strange.

However, the other boys behind them, seeing Xiao Qi and Xiao Liuzi, walked more and more swaying, swaying, and finally fell to the ground and hurriedly ran over.

"Brother Tiger," "Little Liuzi", helped the two of them, and everyone checked up and down for a while, only to find that Wang Hu and Xiao Liuzi's dirty ankle skin, one after another on the skin, had begun to turn purple and black.

"Not good, be careful of the stingers," a slightly insightful boy hurriedly beckoned everyone to take a closer look at his feet, but, "ordinary, ordinary," two more smug guys, dazed and fell to the ground.

Four people fell in the team, and the others also panicked, hurriedly took out the mud whistle, and hurriedly blew it towards the mountain, "Doot, doo,".

There was no horn, the craftsmen pinched out some mud whistles to dry, and the effect was not bad, and the whistles with different meanings such as gathering, dispersing, and alarming were also taught to these boys by the old soldiers. Later, it soon became the sound of suona.

In the small courtyard next to the Land Temple, Wang Meng was holding a military crossbow and complained to the hundred households, "The current range of this crossbow is less than fifteen steps away, and the strength is too small, Baihu, see if you want to change it?"

Uncle Kun went out with his little sister, and Zuo Shi couldn't rest assured and went along.

"Fifteen steps? You're not boxing me, are you? Ximen Xiaoye put down the roster in his hand in surprise, took the crossbow, and pulled down the lever with a click, and the sound of a short arrow recoiling came from his ears.

took two steps forward, aimed at the wooden strip on the fence in the distance, pulled the bracket, and shot a short arrow from the ground, accurately nailing it to the wooden strip ten paces away; Ximen Xiaoye stepped forward with a crossbow and gently pulled out the short arrow, and couldn't help frowning.

Not to mention the depth of the arrow's penetration, he was disappointed, but the short arrow, which had been reused many times, although corrected on the whetstone, did not have the sharpness of the earlier arc.

"How many times have you shot this crossbow?" Handing over the crossbow to Wang Meng, Ximen Xiao Ye asked in a condensed voice, this is a major matter related to the safety of a hundred households, so he can't ignore it.

"Probably, it's probably loaded with an arrow box a dozen times," Wang Meng has been to the private school in the town, and he has counted all the times he has been slapped in the face, and there is no food and money at home, so it's good to be able to recognize his name, count, it's too tiring.

"How many times, exactly?" Ximen Xiaoye asked in an annoyed low voice, he thought it was a little too good for this kid.

"Twelve times," Wang Meng replied affirmatively, wrenching his fingers, carefully recalling his activities in the past few days; His answer made Baihu a little angry, one hundred and twenty arrows, forty arrows were shot every day, and I didn't see them shoot so many prey.

Waving his hand to let Wang Meng hurry up, Ximen Xiao Ye turned around in the courtyard, this kind of crossbow taken from the local inferior iron ore, that is to say, after a hundred arrows, it is basically wasted, fifteen steps, throwing stones can kill people.

"Hundred households, hundred households, Wang Hu, they are back," Wang Meng ran out of the courtyard before he could make a cup of tea, and shouted loudly with an eager face.

"Damn, Mongolian Tartar? Jiang Jie? Seeing Wang Meng's face, Ximen Xiaoye had a quick turn of thought in his mind, clenched his fists, and walked out of the small courtyard with a knife on his waist.

There was a circle of people under the big tree, Wang Hu and the four of them were lying on the ground side by side, Guo Erbao, who knew a little about herbal medicine, looked over and over for a while, and then pointed to the purple and black scars on their ankles, and said uncertainly, "It's probably grass poison, but my face looks fine,"

The military households who had already run over, the parents of Xiao Liuzi and the others inside, saw the truth of what Guo Erbao said, and they didn't dare to call out loudly, but just looked at their children with blank eyes, and only took a few steps back until Xiao Ye came over.

Squatting beside Wang Hu, Ximen Xiao Ye saw that it was not what he thought, so he breathed a sigh of relief, stretched out his hand to probe this guy's snort, and his breathing was quite steady, "First carry it back to my yard and pour some water to drink, Wang Hu's second small flag will leave someone to help watch,"

Not to mention them, even the doctor in the castle has never seen such symptoms of phytoneurotoxins.

"Okay, okay, what should the others do, what can they do around them," Wang Dali looked at Wang Hu worriedly, shouted again at the top of his voice, and after dispersing everyone, he pulled Wang Meng and explained very much.

Two hours later, the four Wang Hu, who woke up from the coma, ate some gruel, stood in front of Baihu vigorously, and began to explain what happened to Baihu.

Soon, a mandatory order came from the hundred households, the vine grass all over the ground outside the wall on the top of the mountain was poisonous, and no one was allowed to touch it, and once it was found inside the wall, it was immediately eradicated.

The four children were safe and sound, so that everyone in the hundred households was relieved to dissipate the worries in their hearts, but everyone also felt that it was actually a good thing to have these vines and grasses below the top of the mountain; This is close to the grassland area, and it is not without wolves and wild boars that roam, so it is a big deal to be careful in the future.

Wang Hu's poisoning also reminded Ximen Xiao Ye that he had planted some seeds a few days ago, but he didn't see any vines there.

With Wang Meng, Ximen Xiaoye walked to the stone wall that had been built half a person high, stretched out his head to look out, under the broken and dense small leaves, he faintly saw the neat black Tenggen, draped with countless hard black and purple sharp thorns, all turned off the platform and spread down the mountain. The original sparse artemisia grass could not even be seen.

Looking down from the top of the stone mountain, there is a lush green.

At this time, not only are the three large trees full of pink flowers, but the vine grass below the mountain is also blooming with countless small earthy yellow flowers the size of fingernails, attracting wild bees to buzz and fly.

The nine words that kept circling in his mind made Ximen Xiaoye look happy when he saw these flowers, turned around and hugged Wang Meng with a smile, "Good boy, go to the sentry,"

"Hahahaha," leaving Wang Meng, who was confused, Ximen Xiao laughed and walked away, in addition to practicing knives at night, he had more important things; Today, it's another sunny day.

As the sun set, Wang Dali, who came to report to work, was sent away, the family had dinner, and Ximen Xiao practiced the family knife technique twice at night, sweating profusely in the courtyard to cool off; Now bathing in the mountains is still a very luxurious thing, if you want to be clean, you can go to the back mountain, this big night, or forget it.

Thinking of taking a bath, Ximen Xiaoye was very annoyed and remembered the matter of the toilet, this king is very big and small, and even has to come to ask for instructions to build a toilet, it seems that he will explain it again tomorrow, except for the sergeant's business, he will no longer interfere.

In fact, the military discipline law of the Daming Guard is already very perfect, but no one implements it, Ximen Xiaoye now has to find an old military household every day, listen to him talk about those military discipline laws, and he carefully notes down the implementation.

Of course, some cool methods such as singing and cutting off his tongue were ignored by him.

In the courtyard, next to the small stone table, Uncle Kun, Zuo Shi, and Han Juan were drinking herbal tea with a tea bowl, "Woo," Uncle Kun saw that Xiao Ge'er put the knife into the sheath and had leisure, so he vaguely beckoned him to come and drink something.

The coarse tea is long gone at home, and Uncle Kun doesn't know who he learned to fry tea with in his early years, so he often goes to pick some green leaves and shoots and tries them at home, but Xiao Ye drinks and drinks, which is a bitter word.

Sitting on the stone bench, Xiao Ye waved his hand at Uncle Kun, not wanting to drink the bitter thing, "Brother, you can also drink some, sweet and sour, not bitter, I picked it with Uncle Kun," Han Juan smiled and brought the big bowl in his hand, encouraging him to drink.

"Yes, since Xiaojuan likes it, let's drink some," for the little sister, Xiao Ye was very doting and took the big bowl; In the moonlight, his eyes swept over Xiaomei's wrist, and his eyes shrank suddenly.

On Han Juan's wrists, there were several obvious scratches, even in the moonlight, which were clearly visible, but she obviously didn't have anything at all.

Look at the tea in the bowl again, the leaves floating on it, isn't it the tiny broken leaves, Xiao Ye looked at the tea bowl in a daze, then looked at the little sister, and drank it in one gulp.

Slightly astringent, the subsequent sweet and sour taste in his mouth made Xiao Ye's heart move, and pulled her little sister to hold her in her arms, "Hanjuan, tell my brother, did you steal food outside,"

"Ah, how do you know?" Han Juan blinked her bright eyes and twisted her body reluctantly, "Those little buds are delicious, and they are also sweet and sour," Han Juan, who has had a hunger experience, has never let go of trying what she can eat in the past few days, so that Xiao Ye has not been able to let go of his heart.

Han Juan didn't tell her brother that she was dizzy for a while after being slashed on the wrist by a spike, but she was only dizzy, and she was fine when she sat down to rest.

To solve the bell, you have to tie the bell, Xiao Ye bitterly hugged the little sister tightly, if this coincidentally, the leaf bud can not be detoxified, or the toxicity is even greater, then today, I am afraid he has been separated from the little sister Yin and Yang.

"Little sister, promise my brother, don't eat outside in the future," touching Han Juan's dry hair, Xiao Ye's voice was a little choked.

"Oh, I won't be in the future," the very sensible little sister leaned obediently on her brother's arms.

"Brother also promised you that you won't be hungry again in the future, no," his chin was placed on the little sister's thin shoulder, and Xiao Ye's tears rolled down.

In the middle of the night, Xiao Ye exchanged a large pile of ore and stone for a triangular army/thorn. At this time, the lower part of the grinding disc is a little thicker.

The sprouts of rattan grass can detoxify, Xiao Ye only cautiously informed Wang Dali and Guo Erbao that now is not the time to tell the big guys, and in the near future, it may be made public.

In the next ten days, taking advantage of the fine weather, Xiao Ye stockpiled five protective clothing and six crossbows, preparing to return to the Gravel Fort.