Chapter 25: The Great Hunt

Time is the best medicine to heal wounds, in the blink of an eye, it is almost the New Year, every household has a long-lost smile on their faces, in addition to nearly a hundred new graves outside the city, there are nearly 1,000 taels of pension silver in the treasury, everything seems to be no different from before.

In the past half a year, all the fathers and villagers in Huaiyin City have almost forgotten what the little marquis looks like, and they were still worried about releasing this demon king of the mixed world one day, but they really haven't seen him for a long time, but they miss him a little.

Thinking about it carefully, the little marquis is generous, and he has never been in arrears on credit, let alone seen him rob people's daughters, or flirt with any girl, except for his somewhat eccentric temper and somewhat cold temperament, there is really nothing else worth saying.

At this moment, the Chinese New Year is approaching, and it is the annual big hunt, which is said to be a big hunt, but in fact, it is just organizing people and horses in the city, bringing blades, and going hundreds of miles away to kill those panicked wolves who are already hungry in winter.

Every year, the little marquis will take the opportunity to buy some wolf teeth, wolf skins and other things, although I don't know how many cars of furs he buys every year to go back to do it, but over the years, everyone seems to have become a habit.

Wolf skin is actually not a precious fur, it is not a gray appearance, and few people use it except for making mattresses.

In addition, the wolf skin of Huaiyin City has no clever tanning method. If it weren't for the fact that the little marquis spent a lot of gold and honeysuckle every year, the big guy really didn't know what to do with it except for the wind and snow to sell these wolf skins to other places.

It is also strange to say that Huaguo Mountain, which is about one hundred and fifty miles away from Huaiyin City, can actually feed so many wild wolves, and every year a big hunt is organized to hunt and kill, and it is still the same inexhaustible.

As a result, this annual hunt has been passed down like this, not only to eliminate harm within a radius of 100 miles, but also to show off their skills.

As the fame of the big hunt becomes more and more famous, the number of various martial arts people who come from Yangzhou Mansion every year is also rising.

Those men who wield swords and swords are just looking forward to standing out in the team of big hunting, being taken by which lord will take it back and become a nursery thug, at least for the rest of their lives, they will not have to worry about eating and drinking.

really wandered in the rivers and lakes all his life, and no one wanted to live a precarious life and irregular meals.

The kind of hero who is dressed in white and smiles proudly in the rivers and lakes generally only exists in the story of a storyteller.

If you really want to be such a white-clothed knight, no matter what your ability is, the first thing is to have enough silver, eat, live in a hotel, change clothes, what kind of money is not needed?

I really feel that the Yangzhou Mansion of Huai'an Mansion under the rule of the Ming Dynasty can encounter injustices every day when eating and drinking, and go up to manage it, the boss not only doesn't want your money, but also has to stuff some silver for you?

A few years ago, there was a gang of people who colluded to defraud money like this, and now the grass on the grave is already a lot high.

It is said that heroes are difficult to do, and heroes in white are even more difficult to do.

But there is such a person in this year's hunting team, about the heroes are not afraid of the cold, this knight is still a little thin in a cotton white cloth coat, wearing a gray hat, his face is covered with a green skin ghost mask that often appears in stories that scare children, and he wears a pure black sword about three feet five long around his waist, and the uncarved sword grid with a round sword head looks extremely simple.

There is the one who knows the goods, his eyes first lit up, and then he was so frightened by the estimated amount that he almost couldn't breathe, a sword handed down from the Han Dynasty, this is something that cannot be changed!

In addition to the white-clothed hero, the most eye-catching person in the team is a woman dressed in fiery red clothes and holding a long whip. Every household in Huaiyin City is now extremely sensitive to red clothes, especially for the kind of woman in red clothes, with a trace of fear.

At this moment, the eldest prince Xie who was by the woman's side looked left and right from time to time, looking extremely impatient.

Xie Xingyan has no good impression of this woman who has been with him since he was a child. Speaking loudly, doing things with a big grin, regardless of the difference between men and women, holding hands and patting shoulders in public,

I don't know which tendon Mr. Xie made the wrong one, so he chose such a family business.

Today is even more forced to pull himself to participate in some big hunt, Xie Xingyan's heart is a hundred and a thousand unwilling.

However, the old man Xie sent a message, asking him to accompany this prospective daughter-in-law who can only come back from the customs once a year. Xie Xingyan reluctantly followed.

Fortunately, in addition to his two martial artists who have been famous for a long time in the rivers and lakes, there is also Wang Shuo, the head of the courtyard sent by his uncle, and the sword who drives Jiang Baochan all the year round.

He is very convinced of Wang Shuo's skills, after all, it is a great ability to come back alive from Yin Jiagou. For his unfavored younger brother, Xie Xingyan instinctively ignored the past.

As for the bald man who followed behind and watched the excitement, Xie Xingyan didn't pay attention to it at all, a coachman who was responsible for driving him, can he remember that his name is Jian Wuzheng, or because this name is relatively special and relatively easy to remember.

Although he has no good impression of Miss Liu in red, Miss Liu is 10,000 satisfied with her husband-to-be.

At a young age, he learned to be rich and five cars, and he was appreciated by the Hou Ye, and followed behind to deal with government affairs, although he didn't hear of any ability to make money, but in terms of talent and fame, he was definitely a first-class dragon and phoenix in Huaiyin City.

This time she came back, one of her was to follow her father to escort the goods back, and the other was to meet this prospective husband, after all, the two will get married next year, and they will have to meet each other anyway before the year. As for the so-called rule that you can't see your husband until the night of candles in the cave room, Miss Liu is disdainful.

Children of the rivers and lakes, what do you care about so much red tape?!

As for participating in this big hunt, it was purely Miss Liu's temporary idea, I heard that hundreds of wolf skins can be produced here every year, if this is properly tanned by the method outside the customs, and then sold to Annam, it is a lot of money. But the Annan people have special requirements for wolf skins, and there should be no more than three wounds on the whole body, and if they exceed, the skin would be worthless. If there is that kind of complete skin that is cut with a knife, it is the best, and the people of Annam are willing to exchange it for a large amount of jadeite.

This time back and forth, and then the exchange of jadeite will be transported to Yingtianfu, this gem that has just become popular may not be able to meet a good customer and sell it at a good price.

On the stage temporarily set up in front of the Zhenhuai Building, Zhang Zhifu, who was about to rise in the new year, said a large number of words of blessings.

It is nothing more than some words wishing everyone a victory.

In the end, Zhang Zhifu picked up a bowl of wine and poured it clean in one gulp, and the cheers of the audience were accompanied by the sound of broken bowls, intertwined into the prelude to this big hunt.