In the end, Wei Xu was disappointed and returned, but he did not give up, but learned shrewdly, took a roundabout route, and did everything possible to please his mother and sister, his mother had a good image of him, and often praised him for being intimate, sweet-mouthed, and understanding, and almost accepted him as a godson, and finally his mother spoke, Chen Qi was very helpless, and could only agree to teach Wei Xu martial arts, but he didn't need to apprentice.

"Practicing martial arts requires summer practice and winter practice, day after day, year after year, my requirements are more stringent, if you can't endure hardship, you can leave at any time," Chen Qi took the vaccination in advance, hoping that he would retreat in the face of difficulties.

"Yes, Master, I understand. Wei Xu replied solemnly.

"No need to call Master, I didn't take you as an apprentice. ”

"Understood, Master. ”

......

Chen Qi originally thought that as a pampered little prince, Wei Xu would not be able to endure hardships and retreat, so he deliberately increased the intensity of his workout, and what was surprising was that this little prince gritted his teeth and persevered with amazing perseverance.

This made Chen Qi very surprised, and his image of him changed greatly, and he recognized this apprentice in his heart.

Three years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Wei Xu has come to Xishan Manor every day to practice hard with Chen Xi. And his qualifications are superior, although there is a gap with Chen Qi, but it is not big, more than Chen Qi, and it is very comprehensive, Xingyi Taiji Bagua has practiced, his understanding is extraordinary, and he often draws inferences from one another, which makes Chen Qi very satisfied, and the dissatisfaction in his heart has also dissipated.

In the past three years, as the prince, Wei Xu has come to Xishan Manor almost every day, and it is very strange that Zhennan Wangfu doesn't care about this, except for a few guards, no one else in Zhennan Wangfu has come to Xishan Manor or Chen Mansion.

"What are you doing today?" asked Chen Qi as he changed the subject.

"Master, is tomorrow the day when the zoo is open?" After a moment of seriousness, Wei Xu smiled again, and asked with a shy face, although it was an inquiry, but the tone was affirmative, "Master, can you give me a few invitations, there are a few friends in the capital who have come to visit, and I want to entertain them in the zoo." ”

There were too many people who came to the zoo, which made a miasma, so Chen Qi limited the number of people, only those who got the invitation could enter, most of them were the children of the family who were close to the Chen family, and in the outside world, the invitation to the zoo was really hard to find.

"It's just a trivial matter, I went to find Xiang'er by myself, and the invitations were all there for her. ”

Things are very complete, Xiao Xiang'er just came, but her face was heavy.

"What happened?" asked Chen Qi in a deep voice.

"Young master, last night, the beast park was attacked by thieves, most of the beasts were killed, and the rest fled, and the servants and guards in the beast park were also killed and wounded. ”

"What?!" Chen Qi was shocked, "What about the casualties?"

"A few died, a dozen were seriously injured, and dozens more were lightly injured. ”

"Send doctors from the hospital to treat the injured, and double the pension for the deceased, without deduction, and I will go to comfort the family when I have time. Chen Qi dealt with it calmly, and then asked, "Do you know where the thieves attacked the zoo?"

"According to those who survived, it was probably the Yue people in the mountains, who attacked the zoo, but instead of looting, they killed the beasts and took all the corpses away. Xiao Xiang'er was very puzzled.

"Huh?!" Chen Qi was surprised, if it was a Yue person in the mountains, it was really possible, "Send someone to contact the Guli tribe in the mountains to see if they know which Shengyue tribe attacked the beast park." “

Since ancient times, the whole of Lingnan has been the territory of the Yue people, but the Central Plains people moved south, wiped out the Yue people on the plain, and the rest fled into the Wuling Mountains with high mountains and dense forests.

Moreover, the offensive and defensive situation was transposed, and Shanyue took advantage of the terrain to often go down the mountain to attack and harass, and before the arrival of the army, he hid in the mountains, and this kind of guerrilla warfare made the army of the imperial court tired and miserable.

After a long time, most of the land near Wuling was barren, and few villages existed, and even if there were brave hunters who went into the mountains to hunt, they only wandered around the periphery.

Although Shanyue is a savage, but not all can not communicate, part of it, after being defeated by the Central Plains, admired the Central Plains culture, was edified, gradually sinicized, began to settle, learn planting and breeding, often have bold businessmen into the mountains to trade, communicate, so it is called Shuyue. Most of the Yue people who are stubborn and still drink blood live in the deepest part of the Five Mountains, known as Shengyue.

The Chen family's animal park is located on the periphery of Wuling, belonging to the periphery of the Yue people's Guli tribe, Guli means tiger in the Yue language, it can be seen that they are a very strong tribe, but they are familiar Yue, Chen Qi once sent someone to communicate with them, and obtained their tacit consent to establish the zoo. Moreover, Chen Qi often gave them the corpses of the prey he hit as gifts, which made the Yue people of the Guli tribe have a very good image of him, and giving the prey to others is one of the heaviest gifts among the Yue people.

In fact, Chen Qi is just recycling, in order to gain more experience, he kills a lot every time, too much animal meat can not be eaten, and it is very cost-effective to use expensive salt-cured jerky to give away.

Although Lingnan is close to the sea, there are many typhoons and rains all year round, which is not suitable for drying salt, so it can only be boiled salt, which is costly, and the output is low, so the price of salt is naturally not low.

But in the past three days, the people sent to the Guli tribe have not returned, obviously there is more than one bad luck, Chen Qi suddenly felt a warning in his heart, the recent movements of the Yue people in the mountains are very wrong, very weird, are they going down the mountain to attack this year?

This is Chen Qi's first reaction, however, there is something wrong, this year's year is very good, there are no major disasters, the Yue people in the mountains should not lack food, how can they go down the mountain to rob for no reason?

At first, the Han army was indeed very embarrassed by the guerrilla warfare of the Yue people, but soon found a way to deal with it, organized all the Han people near Wuling, gathered them together, and built small cities in which the Han people lived.

The small city has a strong city wall, the Yue people can not attack it in a short period of time, and so the beacon fire is ignited, the imperial army surrounds it, the mountain Yue has suffered several big losses, and rarely dares to go down the mountain since then, only when the year is bad, the Yue people can not survive, and they are forced to helplessly, go down the mountain to raid some unguarded villages, and rob the grain.

Although he was puzzled, Chen Qi still informed his grandfather Chen Shou of the situation, with his own guesses, Chen Shou attached great importance to it, and immediately sent someone to inquire about the news, but the people who entered the mountain did not come back, and many of the merchants who entered the mountain recently did not come back.

This made Chen Qi very puzzled, Shanyue did not have a unified regime, but formed a large number of tribes, each of which went its own way, every time they went down the mountain to attack, everyone gathered together to discuss briefly, divide and rob the territory, and then swarmed out, it was completely unorganized and undisciplined, they had no ability or awareness to block the news, and every time before Shanyue attacked, the news had spread all over the sky.

At this time, Chen Qi suddenly felt a chill on his face, and when he touched it with his hand, it was a white crystal, which quickly melted into water.

"It's snow!?It's snowing?!"

Chen Qi couldn't believe his eyes, looking up at the sky, a little crystal snowflakes falling, very beautiful, how is this possible?!

Lingnan is located in the southernmost part of Kyushu, perennial high temperature and rain, even in winter, it is only a little cool, all the plants are still green like spring, Chen Qi has never seen snow in Lingnan in his life.

Chen Qi, who had a little understanding of meteorological knowledge in his previous life, knew very well that the climate of a place is a complete set of balanced systems, which is usually very stable, but once an abnormality occurs, it will affect the whole body, and various disasters will follow.

It's only early winter, and the temperature is much lower than in previous years, but Chen Qi is in good health, he has not felt anything, and now it is snowing, which is absolutely abnormal, which reminds him of a stage of earth change in his previous life: the Xiaoice period, but this is not the earth, it should be a similar climate phenomenon.