Chen Xu said that he was going to Crouching Tiger Ridge to hunt tigers, although the people in the village were quite surprised, but no one objected.

In their eyes, Chen Xu, who is only 16 years old, can lead the teenagers in the village to knock all the men in the neighboring villages to the ground, no matter how powerful the tiger is, it can't compare to humans.

Moreover, many families have no food at home, and although tiger hunting is dangerous, it is also a solution to the problem.

If you can really hunt tigers, you can sell them for at least 250,000 yuan (because I didn't find the price of tigers at that time, and tigers were still relatively common at that time, I set this price).

At that time, 220 money could buy a stone of corn, which is equivalent to 53 catties now. 250,000 yuan, for Chenjia Village, this is a large amount of income in one day.

As a result, all the teenagers in the clan signed up, and even some adult men asked to join.

In the end, Chen Xu only selected 104 young people from the clan who participated in the training, and then instructed everyone to prepare everything for hunting.

Because Wohu Ridge is not in Puyang, it takes a day to arrive, so in order to save accommodation costs, everyone is ready to camp in the wild for a night.

The entire Chenjia Village was busy, preparing weapons, dry food, carts, tents, herbs and other items, and entrusting Li Kui to help everyone buy relevant documents to prove their identity.

"Big brother, Ah Jing has come back with four or five teenagers."

Chen Xu was urging everyone to prepare something, but when he saw Chen Hu running over, he shouted loudly.

"Since Ah Jing has brought people back, Li Jun will definitely come to help."

Chen Xu was overjoyed when he heard this, hurriedly dropped what he was doing, and rushed to the entrance of the village to greet him.

From afar, I saw Chen Jing coming over with five people, and saw that the leader was about 1.76 meters tall, with slightly dark skin, and he was quite powerful when he walked.

Striding forward, Chen Xu shouted: "Isn't the person who came his brother?" ”

Li Guo is now twenty-one years old, although he was born in a family of Orions, but he has ambitions in his heart, and no one chooses words for him when he is crowned, but Li Guo takes his own words for a long time.

Since most people in civilian families don't take the table characters, Li Guo took the words for himself surprised many people.

Someone asked him what he meant by taking the word long.

Li Guo replied: I don't know what it means, but when the children of the Shi clan were crowned, there were elders who took the table words for them, and my future achievements may not be lower than the children of the Shi clan, so how can I be inferior to them in the table words? So I casually took a table word for myself.

At that time, some people ridiculed Li Guo, but some people were very surprised.

Li Guo himself was unmoved in the face of everyone's different attitudes, but whenever he intersected with others, he would definitely let others call him his expression.

But most of the people who intersected with him were from ordinary backgrounds and did not have a table word, if Li Guo was called a table word, it was obviously inferior, so everyone did not agree with Li Guo's requirements.

When Li Guo heard Chen Xu's words, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately strode forward and shouted: "Isn't it Li Changqi, but the person who came is the Chen family?" ”

Chen Xu saw that it was really Li Guo, so he immediately made a salute and said loudly: "Since the eldest brother is here, it will be done, and Xu has thanked him in advance." ”

Li Guo saw that Chen Xu was burly, his face was resolute and sincere, and he hurriedly returned the salute: "Who doesn't know the name of Da Lang in Puyang?" Today, I am fortunate to be invited by Da Lang, Guo dare not obey his fate? ”

"Haha, eldest brother, don't be polite to each other, you two and I are both brothers. Between brothers, why is this so? ”

Chen Jing stepped forward, grabbed a person with one hand, and said loudly.

"It's the pole, it's the pole."

Li Guo was also overjoyed when he heard this, although he said that he was three years older than Chen Xu, he didn't dare to support him at all.

In Puyang, Chen Xu's reputation is far better than Li Guo's. He has ambitions, and he can intersect with Chen Xu, and his heart is naturally happy.

It was Li Guo who heard that Chen Xu invited him to go up the mountain to hunt tigers, and immediately agreed, and brought the best young hunter among the four clans to help.

Lijia Village has been hunting for generations, and although Li Guo has never hunted tigers before, there are records in the clan.

To hunt tigers, the first choice is a hard bow, followed by steel forks, fishing nets, and spears.

During the hunt, the people must not be afraid, if anyone is afraid of the tiger's power and turns away, the tiger will definitely go forward to kill.

If everyone is fearless, holding a steel fork and waiting for it, coupled with the large number of people, although the tiger is brave, it will not dare to attack, so even if the tiger hunt fails, it can also ensure the safety of everyone.

Li Guo explained to everyone the matters that need to be paid attention to on the way to hunt tigers.

Chen Xu told everyone to keep it in mind, and at the same time asked people to prepare strong bows and crossbows, fishing nets, and steel forks.

The two days passed in a blink of an eye, and as soon as the fifth watch arrived on the third day, Chen Xu took 104 teenagers from the clan, plus Chen Xu, Chen Hu, Chen Jing, and Li Guo, a total of 112 people, and rushed towards Crouching Tiger Ridge.

Everyone hurried for a day, and after several inspections on the way, fortunately, Likui completed the formalities very completely, and everyone was able to pass safely.

In the evening, everyone rushed to Crouching Tiger Ridge.

An autumn rain and a cool, the autumn day at the end of the Han Dynasty was colder than that of later generations, the autumn wind blew under the Crouching Tiger Ridge, the fallen leaves flew sideways, and everyone who was in a hurry for a day stopped and felt a trace of chill.

After everyone rested for a while, Chen Xu began to give orders.

He asked some people to set up tents, make fires for cooking, and let Li Guo lead 20 people to be responsible for setting traps. Chen Hu, Chen Jing, and Chen Qing each led 10 people to rest first, and kept vigil in shifts at night.

After a month of training, the children of the Chen family started to do things in an orderly manner, and everyone obeyed Chen Xu's orders.

"When the night rests, everyone shall sleep in their clothes, and all their weapons shall be placed in front of the bed, and there shall be no disobedience."

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Li Guo looked at the children of the Chen family who were forbidden by the order, a trace of essence flashed in his eyes, and then he led enough people to start arranging traps.

There was nothing to do all night, and the next day it was a little brighter, Chen Xu left 12 people to take care of the camp, and then divided the 100 people into 4 groups, each group had a young man from Lijia Village, and then everyone went into the mountains to hunt separately, and told everyone to pay attention to the tigers.

Among them, the captain of the first team is Chen Xu, the second team is Chen Hu, the third team is Chen Jing, and the fourth team is Li Guo, Chen Qing led 11 people to stay in the camp.

Crouching Tiger Ridge covers a wide area, in order to prevent danger and facilitate rescue, Chen Xu ordered that each group should not be more than one mile apart, no matter what the harvest is, they must rush back to the camp at noon to count the harvest.

A morning passed in a blink of an eye, and when all four teams of hunters returned to the camp, Chen Xu sent people to check the prey and found that the harvest was quite rich.

The five teenagers in Lijia Village are worthy of being expert hunters, with their ability to track prey in the mountains, coupled with the well-trained and tacit cooperation of the teenagers in Chenjia Village, they hunted 3 wild boars, 4 antelopes, and more other small prey in one morning, and only two of them were slightly injured.

In particular, Li Guo's team had the most harvest, hunting a wild boar and two antelopes.

When everyone meets and gathers together, it is naturally jubilant.

"Big brother, the prey we receive in half a day is worth 8,000 yuan, if we hunt for a few more days, the grain in the village can support the autumn harvest." Chen Jing saw Chen Xu and said excitedly.

Chen Xu didn't have much joy when he heard this, eight thousand yuan seems to be a lot, and he can only buy one of the cheapest farming horses, more than 100 households in Chenjia Village, although this money is a lot, it is not much.

And Chen Xu has his own thoughts, he wants to get more money so that he can hoard grain and grass.

If there is a surplus, then create weapons and armor for the people in the clan, in order to protect themselves in troubled times.

He knew very well that the price of grain would inevitably increase dramatically when the war was chaotic, and he remembered that before the Yellow Turban Uprising, there was a great drought in the country, and the crops were not harvested, and if he had not stocked up on grain and grass in advance, he did not know how many people would starve to death.

"Eight thousand dollars is far from enough, I wonder if you have ever found any traces of tigers?"

Chen Xu was silent for a long time, looked around at everyone, and asked slowly.

Chen Jing stopped talking when he heard this, 8,000 yuan was already a lot of wealth for him.

With this money, everyone went to the mountains to hunt for a few days, and Chenjia Village could survive until the autumn harvest, he didn't know why the eldest brother insisted on hunting tigers, and how could tigers be easy?

Chen Jing looked up at Chen Xu, but did not speak, he knew that the eldest brother would do what he said, since he said that he wanted to hunt tigers, he would not give up halfway.

"Da Lang, I found traces of tiger activity next to a stream today, judging from its footprints, this is an adult giant tiger, if you want to hunt it, it may not be easy." Li Guo said at this time.

When everyone heard that Chen Xu was going to hunt tigers, they were all silent, and Chen Jing's thoughts represented the will of most people.

In the past, the food in the village was unsustainable, and everyone was willing to take the risk of hunting tigers.

But the current harvest is enough to support the autumn harvest, and at this time, let everyone go tiger hunting, everyone will inevitably hesitate.

"I know what you and others are thinking, but 'people have no long-term concerns, there must be near-term worries', if you can hunt tigers and gather more money for the village, it will be a good thing after all." Chen Xu looked at everyone's expressions and spoke immediately.

"Besides, more than 100 of us came to hunt tigers, and those who know it don't know how many, if we return empty-handed, how can we save face? If you brothers don't want to go, I don't blame you, but even if I'm alone, I'm going to hunt tigers. ”

Chen Xu got up, clenched his fists, and said loudly.

"Great! In the past, I only heard that the Chen family was brave and heroic, but when I saw it today, it really deserved its reputation. Since Da Lang is not afraid, my Li family made a living by hunting in the era, so why should I be afraid of hunting tigers? ”

When Li Guo heard this, he responded with his voice.

Chen Hu also saw everyone's hesitation, took a step forward, turned to face everyone, drew his sword out of the sheath, stared at the tiger, and shouted sharply: "Whoever dares to be a bad seed, I, Chen Hu, will not recognize him as a brother!" ”

When the children of the Chen family heard this, their faces were red and their ears were red, and they all raised their arms and shouted: "If you don't kill the tiger, you will not return to your hometown!" ”

For a time, the Crouching Tiger Ridge was murderous.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, people have valued righteousness and neglected their lives, and if they go back empty-handed to let others look down on them, everyone present would rather die in the tiger fight.

So when they heard Chen Xu's words, everyone shouted for war.

After eating at noon, everyone gathered together and rushed towards the stream that Li Guo had mentioned. On the way, whenever you encounter prey, you will not be left behind.

I have to say that due to the existence of fierce tigers in Crouching Tiger Ridge, Orion does not dare to enter the mountain, and there are really a lot of prey.

"You see, Dalang, this stream runs from west to east, and there are many places to drink on both sides, but there are many tiger footprints here. In my opinion, the tiger's lair should be located in the south, and if we are lucky enough to go in this direction, we should be able to find it. ”

When everyone came to the stream, Li Guo pointed to the footprints by the stream and said.

Chen Xu thought so, and asked everyone to pick up the steel fork, form a battle formation, and carefully look for it all the way to the south.

Looking at the silent mountains, Li Guo said softly: "All the way down, the prey is becoming more and more scarce, and the tiger's lair must not be far from here." ”

"Everyone obeys the order, and the brothers with steel forks scatter around, be on guard, and do not panic if a tiger strikes."

The brother with the fishing net paid attention to the movement, and when he spotted the tiger, he immediately caught the net. The archers walk in the middle, their arrows wound, ready to shoot at any moment. ”

As soon as Chen Xu gave the order, he only heard a deafening tiger roar, and everyone changed color when they heard it......