The valley was in the shape of a gourd ladle, and the exit was at the ladle handle, which was where Chen Xu and the others came in. The wider the more they walked in. After more than ten minutes, the blood disappeared in front of a shaking thatched hut.

"Mr. Marquis, it seems that the wild wolf has regarded this bandit's house as a nest!"

Looking at the thatched hut with only one roof that was almost covered by thorns and weeds, Liu Po ​​frowned and hesitated slightly.

The space in the room is small and difficult to unfold, and the situation inside is unclear. The consequences of rushing in and fighting with the wolf are somewhat unpredictable. Maybe it is not uncommon to lose your life.

"You go to the window to observe which room the wild wolf is. Don't rush in. I will kill them with Taiyi Divine Thunder!" Chen Xu lifted his coat to reveal a belt tied around his waist, with four small leather bags on it, and four wooden sticks neatly inserted.

"Taiyi Divine Thunder!" Liu Po ​​and several hunters exclaimed in excitement.

"Yes, this is the simple version of Taiyi Divine Thunder. Just guard the exit of the room later. Remember not to get too close. You may be injured by divine lightning within five feet!"

Chen Xu pulled out a earthen grenade, pulled out the wood plug on the handle, and a thin twine appeared inside.

"Since the Marquis has the Taiyi Divine Thunder, these wolves are really going to die today. I'll go and observe it first!"

Liu Po ​​was so excited that he was crazy about chicken feet. He thrust all over his body and slowly touched the edge of the thatched hut that was about to collapse. Then he looked back and forth and retreated and whispered: "Marty, I heard movement in the room on the left. The wild wolf should be hiding inside!"

"That's good, you guys go to the front door to hide!"

Chen Xu waved his hand, and several hunters scattered around and hid into the weeds, while Liu Po ​​and Chen Hu protected Chen Xu from left and right in the middle and slowly touched the left side of the thatched hut.

There was a small window one foot square here, and a few thorns sticking out from the room. Chen Xu listened carefully and heard a slight licking sound inside, and there was also a dull roar. It should be that the wild wolf hidden inside had already noticed the movements of Chen Xu and others, and was very restless.

"Remember, after throwing the divine thunder in, it immediately stepped back and lie on the ground, so as not to collapse and be suppressed!" Chen Xu reminded in a low voice, then grabbed the hemp rope behind the grenade and pulled it hard. With a puff, a stream of blue smoke came out of the handle.

Chen Xu was happy and stared at the smoked grenade and kept counting the time in his heart. When he was silently reciting ten, he raised his hand and threw the grenade into the thatched hut.

"Ao~Ao~~"

Hearing the sound of a grenade falling to the ground, and then a bang and a wolf roar in the room came out. Chen Xu quickly turned his head and ran away, crawling into the surrounding weeds, his butt stuck out and lay on the ground.

Chen Hu and Liu Po ​​also imitated Chen Xu's appearance, lying on the ground with their butts sticking out. The three rising butts looked very beautiful.

"Marty..."

After a few seconds, there was no movement in the room. Liu Po ​​was about to speak, but there was a loud bang, and the whole ground suddenly trembled. Then he heard a crackling sound of wood and stone splashing through his body. Many dead grass branches were beaten by the steel splattering around him.

Almost as it exploded, several shrill screams came from the room, and the roof was directly swept through a large hole by the explosion of air waves. Along with the splashing of broken wood and grass chips and thick smoke rising from the sky, the already shaky thatched hut began to tilt.

"Boom~"

Half a minute later, when Chen Xu and Liu Po ​​and Chen Hu stood up, the already decaying thatched hut collapsed directly, and a stream of smoke rose up, leaving only a pile of rotten wood and thatched hut mixed with it that had almost rotten to pieces.

Chen Hu and Liu Po ​​stood behind Chen Xu, staring blankly like wooden stakes, looking at the broken wood and grass scattered on the ground and the dust and dust that were still falling all over the sky. Their heads were completely white like dreams.

Several other hunters also emerged from the grass, staring at the scene in front of them in horror, stunned.

"Crazy~~"

Chen Xu lifted a piece of wood and said loudly: "Come and help me, see if the wolves were killed by blowing them?"

"Hurry, help!" The group of people came to their senses. Liu Po ​​waved his hand and several of them rushed forward to help lift the wood and dead grass.

This thatched hut is not big, the two houses are only about ten square meters in total. With the wind and rain over a few years and the invasion of thorns and weeds, the edge of collapse would have long been collapsed. Otherwise, the power of this earth-made grenade would not be enough to destroy it.

Seven or eight big men started to work together, searching for it in a slight manner, and soon they saw the wolf corpse pressing down on it. After all, in addition to the three big wolves, there were two little wolves, about four feet long and not yet fully adult.

A half-foot-deep pit in the middle of the house is full of newly dug out soil, which is the crater of grenades.

A Taiyi divine thunder not only killed five wolves, but also blew up a house.

Five wolf corpses were raised to throw them together, and blood holes were everywhere on them. One of the largest green wolf had its entire head exploded to pieces. I don’t know why this ended.

Seeing Chen Xu keep looking at the headless wolf, Liu Po ​​explained: "Marty, this should be the headless wolf. I guess he wanted to bite the Taiyi Divine Thunder you threw in, but he was blown to death!"

"Is the wolf so smart?" Chen Xu was puzzled.

"Xu'er, the wolf is the smartest of the wild beasts we have ever seen. It is smarter than a domestic dog. If a wolf is injured in one place, it will never appear in the same place again for the second time. The same is true for the tribe. Moreover, the wolf pack has attack tactics, which is as well as the rules of marching and fighting!" Chen Hu said with a serious expression beside him.

Chen Xu nodded and stood up and said, "Let's search this valley to see if there are any other dangers!"

"Yes, Marquis!" Liu Po ​​and several hunters bowed together.

An hour later, a group of people carried a total of seven wild wolves of all sizes and climbed through the canyon, and it took another nearly an hour to return to Qinghe Town. At this time, it was almost time to reach Shenshi.

In the era of vast and sparsely populated areas, wild animals were everywhere, and wolves at the top of the carnivore chain were naturally everywhere.

The earliest record of wolf is the Book of Songs, and in fact, many places in the Central Plains are called Haired Dogs. The hairy hair is mainly very messy and rough. However, if hunted in autumn, the wild wolf skin after changing the hair is a very good fur. The skin is thin and thick, and it is suitable for making leather jackets and mattresses. It is much higher than the quality of dog skin and the price is not cheap. A leather is worth dozens of yuan. Therefore, families who can afford to wear wolf leather mattresses covered with wolf leather jackets in winter are all landlords.

Therefore, when these seven wolves were carried to the town, they caused a huge sensation.

At present, the main meat foods in Daqin are beef, mutton and dog meat. Not only are there too few, but they are very expensive. Wild meat foods are mixed, wild deer, wild boar, wild wolf, even tiger and bear, etc., but the number is even smaller. Even in Qinghe Town, which is now in a rapidly wealthy town, there are still a few people who can afford meat. Moreover, wolf meat has no fat. Many people still feel sorry for spending a few dollars to eat a pound of meat. The main consumer group is still some well-known big families in Qinghe Town with good families.

Liu Po ​​called several butchers in the town to peel and clean up the wolves. Chen Xu brought the meat of the two little wolves back to Xiaohe Village. The remaining wolf meat and wolves were given to Liu Po ​​and a few hunters, and they asked them to deal with them themselves.

Chen Xu had never eaten the wolf meat, so after returning home, he specially ordered the chef to stew a large pot and taste it. It tasted pretty good and was not as tender as the dog meat. Moreover, according to the chef, the wolf meat was slightly fishy, ​​but he added enough pepper, star anise, bay leaf, ginger and other ingredients, and added soy sauce in advance and stir-fryed. Therefore, he didn't feel any odor when he tasted it. Instead, the meat was firmer and more chewy than dog meat.

"It's delicious!" Han Xin held a wolf's leg on the dining table and chewed his face full of juice.

Xing'er and Yu Ji also had a lot of fun eating one after another. Ying Shiman and Meng Wan sat beside Chen Xu, and they couldn't stop eating. Chen Jiang and Han Tian sat next to Chen Hu, constantly picking up food for him. A large bowl of wolf meat was piled up in the big bowl. Chen Hu's face was calm, and he drank with Chen Xu while eating, and he enjoyed the current life of a noble master who was now wearing clothes and raising hands to open his mouth.

A happy dinner, a large pot of wolf meat was eaten clean. After dinner, the father and son went to the study to drink tea and pick their teeth and continued to discuss the development and use plan of this bandit's nest.

The next morning, the father and son set out again. After arriving in the town, Chen Hu brought a few hunters and more than a dozen villagers he had gathered up the mountain with machetes, preparing to clean up all the thorny wild vines in the narrow passage leading to the valley. Chen Xu came to the blacksmith shop and asked them to help create a batch of self-defense daggers.

At present, these teenagers are not strong enough, and neither steel knives nor big swords can be used. However, once spring begins, all kinds of wild beasts, snakes and insects will appear in large quantities in the mountains. There will definitely be no need for self-defense weapons in the mountains. Therefore, Chen Xu plans to create a batch of daggers and distribute them.

This dagger has a handle and blade of about one foot long, and has a double-sided edge. It looks exactly the same as the daggers in later generations. It is both light and small, sharp and strong. Even if it encounters a beast, it will not be able to deal with it with bare hands.

After giving the drawings of the dagger to the craftsmen of the blacksmith shop in detail, Chen Xu asked Niu Dashi to find several women in the town who could sew clothes and craftsmen who were proficient in leather making, and took out a few pieces of hemp pulp paper. The style of a set of military uniforms in later generations was painted, namely clothes, pants, hats, belts, shoes, etc.

At present, the clothing of the Qin Dynasty was complex and diverse. Ordinary men had tops and under trousers, while men of the aristocratic nobles were used to wearing long robes and belts. Therefore, the common people and the aristocratic nobles could basically be distinguished from their clothes at a distance.

The clothes designed by Chen Xu are actually not out of ordinary people's clothes and pants. They only change the pants that look very fat on weekdays to the style of straight long-tipped trousers. As for the clothes, they also abandon the style of the double-breasted ones, change them to buttons, add a folded collar and two pockets, and finally add a belt around their waists.

As for hats, they are ordinary baseball hat styles, only the style is required to be unified, there is no big requirement, and then there are shoes. Because these teenagers have to train in the mountains full of thorns all year round, many people have straw sandals and hemp shoes, and some even barefoot all day long, and the same is true in winter. Therefore, people often get injured and bleeding during training. If it is hot in summer and not treated in time, it is likely that they will become suppurative and become a serious disease that cannot be cured and eventually suffer from lifelong disability.

This situation is not uncommon in Daqin. In Qinghe Town, you can see many people walking limping, all of which are caused by foot injuries.

So in Chen Xu's opinion, shoes are more important than clothes.

"These shoes must be made of thickened soles, the uppers are sheepskin, and the size of clothes and pants are arranged to measure them and then make three types of large, medium and small. The purchase materials and production costs are paid by the town warehouse. As for the costs, you can calculate them and then determine them, so you don't need to notify me!" After the arrangements came out, Chen Xu said to Niu Dashi.

"Brother Xu, so many clothes, shoes, hats and short blades are not cheap. Even if a set costs 200 yuan, it will cost 100,000 yuan. If this continues, we may not be able to afford it in one or two years!"

Niu Dashi felt extremely heartbroken by Chen Xu's messy way of spending money. He felt like he was cutting his flesh. His face was constantly thrusting when he was walking beside him.

"This is not only spending money, but also making the villagers rich. One hundred thousand is indeed a lot, but the money ends up falling on thousands of families in Qinghe Town. They can only buy more things if they have money. How can they get rich without money? Now I give you five thousand dollars every month, can you spend it?"

"cannot!"

"How can that be done? You are the head of a town. You have to learn to spend money, and spend it in the places where you should spend it. Don't save me. Next time I come back, I don't want to see the warehouse piled up so much money. I want to see that all the roads and ditches in my fief need to be re-expanded and repaired. Every household must have sufficient farm tools and buy a large number of cattle and horses. At the same time, you have to discuss with the county magistrate Liu Tong to open a paper mill near Chi County. Qinghe Town only retains the manufacturing of bamboo pulp and paper, and can also open a sugar winery to encourage villagers to plant mountain grapes and tea tree tung oil in front and behind the house..."

Chen Xu walked and gave a full reminder. Every time he said something, Niu Dashi's face was twisted a little. When Chen Xu finished speaking, Niu Dashi's face was twisted like a shoehorn.

According to Chen Xu's continuous expansion of the workshop, Qinghe Town does not earn enough money every year.

"By the way, I'll buy more than ten girls in my teens, orphans and family difficulties for me..."

"Brother Xu'er, what do you want to do? There are enough servants in your family?" Niu Dashi was puzzled.

"I will go back to Xianyang in a few days. My father, my mother and Aunt Han are all staying at home. If you need someone to help me take care of such a big family, I will leave behind a few mature and polite servants, but most of them will still be taken away. On weekdays, I will ask you to take good care of your family and help you arrange food, clothing, housing and use!"

"Don't worry, I'll run back and forth every few days. I'll take good care of my family, let alone Uncle Hu is back now, so there will be no problem!"

"Well, you have to worry more about the matters on the fiefdom. All of this is left to you to deal with. Please tell Liu Po ​​and others not to spread the matters of those young people, so as not to cause suspicion..."

"good!"

A few days passed in a flash, and all the five hundred teenagers who had dispersed and returned home returned. The way to the bandit's nest was basically cut out. Chen Hu led these teenagers to the mountain to continue to pull out weeds and thorns to build houses. Niu Dashi also arranged for more than ten households on the fief to move in to help open up land and cultivate, and also took care of the food and life of these teenagers.
Chapter completed!