Everyone heard the conversation between Qin Shuhuang and Xia Shan, and their eyes widened in shock.

At this moment, everyone else who came with them suspected that they were dreaming.

Can a dog be used as a cow or horse? Can you pull a car?

How can it be!

A few of Xia Shan's dogs were in the front yard, and they saw it when they came in.

It is taller and bigger than ordinary dogs, and the hair is also longer, which is only a little bigger, and the strength is definitely far less than that of cattle and horses.

So how to pull the car, and how to control it?

Qin Shuhuang also had a lot of surprises in her heart, she asked the old village chief to take her to find Xia Shan, originally with the attitude of trying it out, but she didn't expect that these dogs could really transport goods?

It's just that Qin Shuhuang is calmer than the people around him at this time, and the expression on his face hasn't changed much.

This made Xia Shan feel that Qin Shuhuang knew a little about the origin of the dog he raised, and even felt that Qin Shuhuang was a "fellow believer".

Qin Shuhuang asked, "Can your dog really transport goods?" ”

Xia Shan nodded affirmatively, "They have excellent patience and endurance, they can run twenty miles in an hour in such snowy weather, and give them two or three days to go to the nearest county town to buy supplies and walk back and forth." ”

Hearing this, everyone was moved, and Ruda couldn't wait to ask, "How does your dog deliver goods?" Are you going to pull a carriage with a dog? The carriage could not be walked in the snow. ”

Xia Shan smiled and shook his head, "Come with the villain." ”

Everyone got up and followed behind Xia Shan.

After a while, Xia Shan led everyone to the backyard.

There are more dogs in the backyard, and they all sleep in wooden sheds built in the summer hills, and the outside is generally surrounded by wooden fences from the front yard.

As soon as people entered the backyard, the dogs barked at strangers together, and ordinary people felt scary when they saw it, let alone Qin Shuhuang.

Her face turned pale in an instant, and her lips trembled uncontrollably.

Before the others found out, Xie Xuanye immediately blocked Qin Shuhuang behind him.

He frowned and asked in a low voice, "Your Highness, how are you?" ”

Qin Shuhuang took a deep breath and shook his head, "I'm fine." ”

Xia Shan also found that Qin Shuhuang seemed to be a little scared of his dogs, he was afraid that the nobleman who finally understood him was frightened by his dog, so he hurriedly made a unique sound to quiet the dog.

Fortunately, these dogs were very obedient, and as soon as Xia Shan made a sound, they all lay on the ground, no longer roaring wildly, only making a low aggrieved "whining" sound.

In this way, Qin Shuhuang felt better.

She nodded gratefully towards Natsuyama.

Walk through the place where the dog is locked up to the innermost part of the backyard, which is also a wooden shed, and there are many hay and wood stacked in it.

There is a very special wooden car next to it. Underneath are not wheels, but wide boards cocked at both ends.

Qin Shuhuang said in surprise: "This is your 'carriage'?" ”

Xia Shan nodded confidently, he took some special ropes from the earthen wall next to him, pointed to the "carriage" and said, "Back to the nobles, this is a sled, and the supplies transported at one time are no less than a carriage." When the time comes, the villain will stand here, controlling the dogs with these reins. Every time I go out, a sleigh uses about nine dogs. ”

Ruda was surprised, "Can these dogs be controlled by you alone?" ”

Xia Shan smiled with a mouthful of white teeth, "You don't need to control each dog, as long as the villain trains two dogs, the head dog will manage the other dogs." ”

Saying that, Xia Shan pointed to a big dog with a black forehead in the wooden fence, "That's a head dog, called Xia Hua." ”

It seems that Xia Shan really took these dogs as partners, and even let the dogs have a surname with him, and the head dog has a special name.

Everyone saw that what Xia Shan said was true, so they asked Xia Shan to cover it up.

Xia Shan called his son, and He Yutian Luda next to him also came to help and carried the sleigh to the door of the front yard.

Then Xia Shan took out Xia Hua and four other dogs to tie them to the sleigh, and Qin Shuhuang and the others stayed in the courtyard gate.

Xia Shan picked up a special whip, stood on the sled, and with a whistle, Xia Hua ran with the other four big dogs.

On the snow, the sleigh glides fast, a few points faster than a horse-drawn carriage!

Watching Xia Shan drive the sleigh pulled by the dog to gallop in the heavy snow, everyone's eyes were full of brilliance.

Especially the old village chief and others, as if they were watching a miracle, their mouths were open and they couldn't close together.

When Xia Shan came back from a circle of sleigh and stopped in front of everyone at the gate of the courtyard, the old village chief said angrily: "Xia Shan, you have such a good thing, why didn't you say it before!" ”

If they had known, the village would not have starved to death in the winter a few years ago!

Xia Shan unceremoniously went back, "Village chief, I said a long time ago that I can go to the county seat to buy food for everyone in winter, have you believed it!" Not only do you not believe it, but you covet my dog every day! ”

Every year in winter, there will be less than a dozen dogs in Xia Shan, and Rao is his day and night care, but he still can't save his dogs.

He knew that the disappeared dogs had been stolen and eaten by the villagers!

But he is weak, and he doesn't dare to ask the villagers for justice when he knows it, the dog is his partner, but in the eyes of the villagers, he is just a beast.

The old village chief was instantly speechless and lamented.

Xia Shan was right, the people in the village never believed him.

Even if he believed it, the villagers didn't dare to hand over their savings for many years to him to buy supplies in the county seat, what if he ran away with the silver!

After putting away the sleigh and leading the dog back to the dog pen, everyone returned to the hall of the summer mountain family.

Qin Shuhuang said bluntly: "How can you have such a craft? ”

She asked the old village chief, and the people around her did not have a special dog like Xia Shan to pull sleds in winter.

Xia Shan pulled the corners of his mouth a little disappointed, "Back to the nobleman, the villain is actually a craft handed down from the ancestors......"

Xia Shan's hometown is actually not in this remote mountain village, but in Xia Gong City.

Going back hundreds of years, Xia Shan is actually a descendant of Xia Guogong when the previous dynasty was founded.

Xia Guogong guarded the northern border all his life, and later when he was over eighty years old, he even went into battle and died in the northern border.

In order to commemorate the Duke of Xia, the emperor of the previous dynasty renamed the border Rongcheng as Xia Gongcheng.

The Xia family has guarded the frontier for generations, and by the middle of the previous dynasty, it had multiplied into a huge family in Xia Gongcheng.

The north is bitterly cold, and it snows heavily in winter, and an ancestor of the Xia family found a shepherd using a dog to pull a cart in winter, so he took his family to raise a dog and set up a sleigh team in Xia Gongcheng to deliver supplies to the Xia family in winter.

At the end of the previous dynasty, the Xia family was convicted, and all the lineages were removed, leaving only some side branches scattered on the border to survive.

Later, the dynasty changed, and the Xia family all became ordinary people.

The Xia family's skill in raising dogs and pulling sleds is basically lost, and only Xia Shan's branch is still persistent.

When it comes to the generation of Xia Shan, because raising dogs is not profitable, the clan no longer raises dogs.

Xia Shan's parents died young, and when he was a child, Xia Shan followed his grandfather to work as a merchant selling goods at the border.

Once on the way home, the grandfather and grandson almost froze to death on the road, thanks to a dog raised by their Xia family who pulled a sled saved their grandfather and grandson's lives, so Xiashan's grandfather decided to return to his ancestral craft.

However, before the breeding dog and the head dog were raised, his grandfather fell ill and died, and Xia Shan inherited his grandfather's last wish.

The family didn't want Xia Shan to have a dog, so they expelled him from the house, and Xia Shan came to settle down in this small mountain village.

After listening to Xia Shan's story, everyone didn't expect that there would be such an experience, and they sighed.

Qin Shuhuang bowed his head and said to Xia Shan seriously: "I want to ask you to go to the county seat immediately to help us buy food, I can give you the silver first, and when you come back successfully, I will give you a reward of one hundred taels of silver." ”