(Today is Teacher's Day, I wish all teachers in the world a happy holiday, thank you!) ）

Liu Jun got another thirty horses, and he was very happy. What he wanted most in his heart was to build the Hydra into an all-cavalry high-speed mobile firearms unit. You don't have to be a cavalryman, but you have to be a musketeer with a horse.

One person and one horse can only maneuver for short distances, and if it is a long-distance battle, the ideal is one person with two horses, or even three horses. Huguang this place to the end of the Ming Dynasty, has already replaced Wu Song, became the granary of the Ming Dynasty, the original Su Song is ripe in the world, later the plains around Su Song planted a large number of cotton mulberry and other cash crops, grain can not be self-sufficient, need to be transported from other places.

It was at this time that Huguang continued to develop, replacing Su Song as the new granary of the Ming Dynasty. The Jianghan Plain in Huguang is the granary of the world, but unfortunately it is not a place to produce horses. Good Hetao horses or horses outside the mouth have to be brought in from outside the customs. After the rise of the Jurchens in Liaodong, the horses in Liaodong were almost broken, resulting in higher and higher horse prices. The erosion of the thieves in Gansu and Shaanxi also hindered the import of Hetao horses.

Nowadays in this part of Eastern Hubei, many times you can't buy a good horse even if you have money. finally encountered such an opportunity, of course Liu Jun was unwilling to miss it.

The Nine-Headed Bird Team only needed thirty horses, and the remaining hundred or so horses were divided by Zhao Cheng, Mei Zhihuan, Zhu Pet and other people, and the rest of the silver materials were almost divided.

Generally speaking, the situation of this crackdown on bandits was good, and the military households, townspeople, and militiamen who came to participate in the war had already received silver and luggage before coming, and after this easy battle, there were basically no casualties, and after the war, they received a reward and food. The officials who led the team gained even more abundantly, and only a small part was distributed to the officers and soldiers of the township brave militia, and a small part was retained for full registration and storage, and the rest of the bulk was divided equally among each family.

For an official like Zhao Cheng, the seizure of silver money is a small matter, and the key is to exterminate the gang of thieves who had just committed the tragedy of exterminating the village in one fell swoop, which is a great achievement.

Zhu Pet lived in a thousand households, although he was an unpopular guard of thousands of households, and his performance in this crackdown on bandits was the worst, but after all, he was a thousand households, and he was also the only real official and soldier in this crackdown on bandits, so in the end, he still got a lot of dry goods.

As soon as the meeting was dissolved, this guy immediately found Liu Jun.

"My nephew seems to like horses more?" Zhu Pet smiled, like a profiteer.

Liu Jun glanced at Zhu Pet a few times, and his heart moved, "Could it be that Lord Qianhu wants to sell me a few horses?" ”

"Not a few, but thirty." Zhu Pet held up three and pointed to the smile.

"Do you really want to sell? These are all good horses. ”

Zhu Pet didn't care, "I know it's a good horse, and I know that my nephew wants it, so I came to you." How about a fixed price, three thousand taels of silver? ”

"Two thousand!" Liu Jun returned a price.

"That's a bit low." Zhu Pet said with a smile. Although the horse is a good horse, Zhu Pet is not willing to keep the thirty horses by himself, and the most important thing is that he does not need it. Although he is in charge of a thousand households, in fact, the guards are fully equipped and useless, and he has raised fifty family members for more than 1,000 troops, and it is rare to practice once in the remaining half a year. Although the horse is good, it can consume a lot, and a war horse should be raised, which is equivalent to raising five infantry, and it is less than thirty taels of silver forage money a year.

Zhu Pet raises a family, and the salary is less than 30 taels a year, so if you let him spend 30 taels of silver to raise a horse, how can he be happy. Therefore, the thirty horses that were allocated to him had already been planned to be sold, and they would be exchanged for silver directly, and he would save money on raising horses in the future.

"Uncle Shi should give me a personal price." Liu Jun almost guessed the meaning of Zhu Pet selling horses at this time. Two thousand taels of silver, which is almost equal to less than seventy taels of silver per horse, is definitely cheaper than the market price.

Zhu Pet looked at Liu Jun, and finally said, "Two thousand five." ”

"Deal."

Although the bandits have been eliminated, more than a thousand people are not in a hurry to leave.

According to Zhao Cheng's meaning, he had to search the mountains for a day or two to see if there were any fish that had slipped through the net. At the same time, I also have to search the cottage carefully, and the army is also working hard, so I have to rest here for one night tonight, and I will be rewarded with wine and meat.

Because of Liu Jun's excellent combat performance during the day, Liu Jun's Hydra team made an exception and got an extra share when they couldn't share the spoils, and even when they were rewarded, they also shared more than other teams.

It gave the nine birds two fat pigs, ten sheep, and an ox, and thirty jars of wine.

In addition, the silver food rewards for each team were also sent down, and Liu Jun still sent them to everyone first, and then kept them for everyone.

Then it was announced that pigs and sheep would be slaughtered, and the meat would be stewed on fire.

There are many hunters in the nine-headed bird, and they are also good at killing pigs and cattle.

Liu Jun also put down the shelf of the team deputy at this time, went around the teams, and then got back ten oxtails. Li Zhen has been following Liu Jun like a fart, just like a shadow, because of Zhao Cheng and Mei Zhihuan's words, Li Zhen has become more and more fearless, and he is simply sticking to him.

She carried her skirt, and a pair of embroidered shoes under the skirt trotted all the way to barely keep up with Liu Jun's footsteps, although she was not tired, but she had no intention of giving up at all.

"What are you doing with so many oxtails?" She couldn't help but ask curiously.

"This is our dinner!" Liu Jun deliberately shook the ox's tail at her.

"Dinner?" Li Zhen was extremely surprised, and looked at the tail of the ox in a daze, "This can also be eaten?" ”

Liu Jun said, "Of course you can eat this, you will know after eating it in a while." Let's eat oxtail tonight, and there is another stewed ox neck, and another stewed cow trotters! ”

Li Zhen is a little messy, what is this, oxtail and cow neck, cow hooves, can this be eaten? Although ordinary people rarely have the opportunity to eat beef, Li Zhen has never eaten beef, but she has never eaten these bits and pieces.

"I don't eat these." Li Zhen turned her head and hummed.

"This is our dinner tonight, if you don't eat it then you will be hungry, of course, if you don't follow me, then you don't have to eat this."

Li Zhen didn't speak, but still followed Liu Jun.

Liu Jun stepped aside, asked people to set up a few nests from the cottage, lit a fire to boil water, and then he began to use a knife to clean up the oxtail and hooves and necks that he had brought back. Li Zhen thought he was scaring her, but she didn't expect him to really make these foods.

"Isn't there enough beef?"

"One cow, two pigs, ten sheep, of course a hundred or so people are enough. However, the beef and pork are not as delicious as the oxtail and neck and trotters I made. Liu Jun said without raising his head. In the past, Liu Jun was also a foodie, and he often ate oxtail rice, spicy beef trotters, and ox neck soup, which were indeed a few delicious dishes.

Just now he watched everyone kill pigs and sheep and then throw two or three catties of meat into the pot to stew, and he suddenly had no appetite. happened to see that they only took beef, and the oxtail, cow head, and cow hooves were thrown aside, and his memory was hooked upside down. I just made a few things myself, and I was going to make them alone to comfort my stomach.

"Where is your family in Wuchang, and what is the name of your father and brother?" Liu Jun asked Li Zhen while processing the ingredients. Although a big girl sticks to him like this, he is a little unaccustomed to it, but he has also read some psychological books before, in which he preaches that sometimes some people will have a lot of abnormal behaviors after being frightened, such as some hostages are taken by kidnappers, get along for a long time, and even take the initiative to help the robbers and so on.

Liu Jun felt that this Miss Li was probably too frightened, because she had killed the robber in front of her before, and as a result, she was temporarily dependent on herself, feeling that she was safe and could protect her.

"You're going to drive me away?" Li Zhen was unhappy all of a sudden. "Do you dislike me like that? Tell you, I was just kidnapped by thieves and have not been bullied by them, I am innocent. ”

Liu Jun rolled his eyes, what are you talking to me about, I'm not your fiancé.

"I believe in you."

"But no one else will believe it." Li Zhen lowered her head, "I don't want to go home, I want to be with you." ”

"Sister, you want to be with me? What kind of thing is this, we have no relatives and no reason, and you are not afraid of other people's gossip. ”

"Tell you, I have a fiancée."

Li Zhen burst into tears again all of a sudden, and ran back to her maid-in-law crying.

"Jiye, this girl really likes you, could it be called love at first sight?" Li Chunjiang wrapped one leg in thick gauze and walked on crutches, but he still had the leisure to make fun of Liu Jun.

"you, I'm the one who has a daughter-in-law." Liu Jun scolded with a smile.

"Why, why did she have to rely on you, hey, brother, I was still stabbed in order to save her, but she had to stick to you, and she cried sadly when she thought about it." Li Chunjiang sighed. "You guy must have handed over the peach blossom luck."

"I think she's a nymphomaniac." Liu Jun chopped the cow's neck with an axe, and raised his eyebrows.

"You broke the heart of other girls just now, and they just said that they wanted to be with you, and you ended up saying that you have a fiancée." Li Chunjiang is a guy who pities the fragrance and cherishes the jade.

"I told the truth, and I guess the girl was frightened, and now she was a little confused, and because I had saved her, I took me as a temporary dependence. We are upright men and gentlemen, and we can't take advantage of others' danger. ”

"So, you think of yourself as a saint."

"I'm definitely not a saint, but I just do something and don't do something."

Liu Jun felt that telling the girl that she had a fiancée would definitely make her sober, and maybe she would be willing to go home. As a result, he underestimated Li Zhen's persistence, and when the ox neck soup, ox hoof soup, and oxtail soup stewed in the three pots emitted a strong fragrance, Li Zhen came back.

"Why are you back again?" Liu Jun asked.

Li Zhen looked up at Liu Jun and said, "Didn't you just say that we eat cow neck, cow hooves and oxtail tonight, and that these are better than beef." ”

"Well, that's right."

"Serve me a bowl of oxtail soup first." Li Zhen picked up a large pottery bowl and handed it to Liu Jun. It was as if the person who had just run away crying was not her at all, as if that had never happened.

"Girl, do you have amnesia?" Liu Jun couldn't help but ask.

"No, my memory has always been good, and I will never forget that it was Liu Gongzi who rescued me from the thief. The grace of dripping water, when the spring is reciprocated, the great grace of saving lives, the little woman has nothing to repay, so she can only repay it with her body."

"Stop, stop!" Liu Jun hurriedly interrupted her, "Girl, you're a little unconscious now, let's not talk about this for the time being, okay?" Well, you can stay in the Hydra for a while until we get in touch with your family, but you can't say anything about what you promise to me, and you can follow me later, okay? ”