"There is a reason for the formation of calamities, so what is the use of asking the Buddha." Hua An retorted, then looked at the surrounding terrain, and continued: "If the expectation is good, there will be no locust plague this year, and the rat plague will not be rampant, as long as the drought and flood are not particularly severe, there is no need to worry too much." ”

"Big brother, how can you be so sure."

"The eldest brother is more powerful than the Buddha, and he will be unpredictable! Ha ha! ”

Wang San and Tie Niu said.

Hua An smiled indifferently and explained: "The natural enemies of locusts are birds, you see, the trees around are full of flocks of small birds, with this group of chirping birds, this year's locust plague will definitely not happen, and there are many owls nearby...... Ha ha! These owls eat rats, and with them, there is no need to worry about rat plagues. ”

When the generals beside him heard this, they all suddenly realized, nodded thoughtfully, and threw themselves to the ground in admiration for Hua'an's rich knowledge.

"Big brother, I finally understand your intention to build the reservoir." Wang San listened to Hua'an's explanation of the locust plague and rat plague, and was a little excited.

"Oh, tell me about it." Huaan asked.

Wang San pointed to the reservoir in the distance and said confidently: "The reservoir can be used to store water, if it doesn't rain and the fields are dry, you can use the water in the reservoir to irrigate the crops to ensure that the crops will not die. ”

After listening to Wang San's description, Hua An nodded with satisfaction and said: "Wang San, what you said is very right, however, in addition to preventing drought and flood, there are two reasons, one is that these reservoirs are originally in low-lying places, if they are all filled, too much soil and stone are needed, and non-manpower can do it, and the other is that the reservoir can be stocked with fish and turtles, water chestnuts can be planted, and lotus roots can be planted in the shallow water area of the reservoir, which are all delicious!" ”

"Killing three birds with one stone, it's still the eldest brother's thoughtfulness." Tie Niu couldn't help but praise Hua'an.

Hua An smiled slightly, looking at the herds of cattle and sheep grazing around him, he was very happy, as if he saw the calves and lambs all over the mountains in the spring of the coming year.

After a brief chat about the situation of the pasture, Hua An led dozens of generals to gallop to the dense woods to the east and began to hunt.

In order to hunt more game, Hua'an divided the team into four teams, Lei Storm, Zhao Wu, and Tie Niu would be one team, and Hua An and Wang San would lead several officers from the pro-military camp as a team.

After the hunt began, the four teams of men and horses dispersed, each team of men and horses in order to fight more game to fight for face, all spared no effort to hunt, everywhere they went, as long as the game that appeared in the line of sight were all shot, such as jackals, elk, small such as pheasants, hares, all did not let go.

Hua'an's luck was very good, not long after he ran into the woods, he saw a fat and big elk, followed by more than a dozen smaller elk, obviously this is a group, the largest is the male leader, followed by his spouse and children, elk is not common near the capital, it can be regarded as a rare species.

However, in this era, there is no protection of animals, and Hua'an has no scruples, and at the moment when he drew an arrow and was about to shoot the elk herd, Hua'an suddenly changed his mind.

He felt that it was extremely easy to kill this group of elk, but he only got a dozen elk carcasses, which could be eaten in a meal when they were transported back to the camp, and if these elk were caught and put in pasture, maybe in a few years, there would be a large herd of elk, and more than ten years later.

As for the technology of raising elk, although Hua'an is not very clear, and the soldiers under his command may not be able to raise, but try it, you will always find the technology of raising, even if all of them are raised, you can also sum up a lot of experience and accumulate technical foundation for the next breeding.

After making up his mind, Hua An asked Wang San and several of his generals to make a detour to both sides of the elk's location, blocking the elk's escape into the dense forest, while Hua An himself bent his bow and aimed at the male elk's hind legs.

"......Whoosh" Hua An shot an arrow, impartially hitting the male elk's left hind leg, the male elk was taken aback, struggling to escape, but there was a sharp arrow stuck in the leg, making its movement extremely slow, and after a few steps, the hind leg was stuck in the small bush, and it could no longer move.

When the rest of the elk saw that the leader was shot by humans, they all fled, and the dense forests on both sides were the best escape routes, but at this time they had been cut off by the king and several generals, and the elk herd did not dare to break in, so they had to run forward.

In this way, the hind legs of these elk were presented in front of Hua An and his generals, and everyone drew sharp arrows and aimed at the hind legs of the elk to shoot.

It is worthy of the elite of the Northern Expeditionary Army, all of them are first-class and excellent in archery, under the successive arrows of the soldiers, seven or eight elk were shot and fell to the ground, only a few little elk were too short to be shot, but they did not run far to survive by milk, but saw their mother fall to the ground and walked back slowly.

After all these elks were done, Hua'an asked all the generals to dismount, tied the elk that was shot wounded to the horse's back, and tied a elk to the left and right of a batch of war horses, the elk leader was too big and tied to Wang San's war horse alone, and after tying all the elk, only Hua'an's war horse was free.

The generals led their horses, followed behind Hua An, and began to walk back, but not the way they came, Hua An did this to see more scenery.

This decision can be painful for the generals under his command, you know, these elk are full of wildness, very dishonest on horseback, and from time to time there is a risk of breaking free, and the harmful generals have to constantly re-tie up.

In particular, the elk leader was the most dishonest, in order to make it impossible to break free, Wang San took off the saddle, let the elk leader ride on horseback, and tied his four hooves together, from a distance, it was an elk riding a war horse, and the appearance was not funny.

"Big brother, there is a pavilion on the hill in front, and there seem to be a lot of people in it." Wang San looked at the pavilion in front of him and said loudly.

Hua'an has naturally seen it a long time ago, and judging from the clothes, they should all be literati with status, it is the spring equinox season at this time, and it is a good choice to go green.

"This group of rich children, what about traveling in the mountains and rivers? Ignore them, we'll go ours. "Since Hua'an was despised by the scholars, he has a trace of disgust with all the scholars.

So, Hua'an and his party led the horse and passed by the path next to the hill.

"Deer riding horses, the world is also a strange story." A scholar looked at the elk on horseback and said in amazement.

"A deer has legs, so why should they ride on horseback? Foolish, foolish! Another scholar shook his head repeatedly.