In the next few days, Hu Ba held on to the tarp whenever he had nothing to do, trying to research something more.
Wang Kaixuan was no longer as patient as he was. After studying with Hu Bayi for a long time, this guy decisively chose to quit.
With nothing to do, he simply picked up his half-baked hunting skills and started hunting nearby with a few ordinary hounds.
Chen Ziyan began to teach Yingzi some basic things while exercising, and his life was quite fulfilling.
About seven or eight days later, a team of more than a hundred people arrived here.
Half of these people were uniformly dressed and well-built men, who were specially recruited by Chen Ziyan to support them.
The rest are all fellow villagers. Because all the men have gone out to work, almost all of the people who came this time were women and half-grown children. The only men who came were the Party Secretary and others.
Chen Ziyan signaled to Hu Bayi to greet the villagers, while he himself met the group of men.
"Boss Chen."
The leader of this group was a short-haired man in his early thirties. When he saw Chen Ziyan walking over, he smiled and said hello.
Chen Ziyan also responded with a smile: "Brother He, this journey has been tiring and we have all worked hard."
This short-haired man is called He Luo. He specializes in special transportation in Kyoto, and occasionally works part-time in other businesses.
When Chen Ziyan was preparing for Chang Sheng Zhai, he had dealt with him several times, and they both knew each other well.
After a brief chat, Chen Ziyan began to invite the other party to set up camp.
After walking through mountains and rivers along the way, everyone is exhausted mentally and physically, so they always have to rest for a day before doing anything else.
The same is true for Hu Bayi. He, Wang Kaixuan, and Yingzi are helping the villagers tie up their mules and horses and set up tents. They are very busy.
As the saying goes, when people are over a hundred, they come in all shapes and sizes. Even if they are very cooperative, they are still busy until the evening when they can rest.
At dawn the next day, Chen Ziyan, He Luo and others, led by Yingzi, went to the area where they discovered the Earth Dragon of Venus.
He didn't forget this treasure, otherwise he wouldn't have called people over from the capital.
Otherwise, if we were just transporting the three coffins, wouldn't it be easier to just ask the party secretary to hire some people when writing a letter to the village?
The hunting process went smoothly, although this kind of creature is mostly hidden underground and difficult to restrain.
But everything in the world has its weaknesses. Chen Ziyan, who has the Xiling inheritance, just knows how to trap this Venus earth dragon.
After getting the materials brought by He Luo, he easily prepared a secret medicine specifically designed to deal with this thing, led it into a prepared trap, and captured it in one fell swoop while it was weak.
I waited like this for three days. Unfortunately, except for successfully attracting two Venus Earth Dragons on the first day, there was no harvest in the next two days.
Chen Ziyan knew that there would be no more harvests in this area, so he asked He Hao to take some of his men and carry the bodies of the two earth dragons back to the capital, while he took the remaining people back to Yerengou.
At this time, the camp was already filled with all kinds of supplies, and large and small packages were everywhere. It seemed that even if the load limit was not reached, it was not far away.
"Mr. Chen, where are the other brothers?" Hu Ba asked curiously when he saw that less than 30% of Chen Ziyan and the others had returned.
It's not that he talks too much about good things, but the party secretary just discussed with him and wanted to ask Chen Ziyan if he could let his people lend a hand and help carry some supplies out.
There seemed to be dozens of people coming to the village, but they were all old, weak, women and children. Even if everyone carried it on their shoulders, they still couldn't bring out one-tenth of the supplies in the fortress.
This is still the result of picking and choosing. If you want both good and bad, let alone one-tenth, even one-fifteenth is barely enough.
Chen Ziyan didn't think so much and replied casually: "They went back first with their things."
After hearing this, Hu Bayi knew that the party secretary's plan was in vain.
You must know that there are still three ancient coffins in the camp. The remaining people are probably left behind because of this. How can anyone help them carry supplies?
"Is it time for the folks to go back now?" Chen Ziyan glanced around, made an estimate in his mind, and asked.
He saw that there were already a lot of these supplies, and if there were any more, he was afraid that they would become a burden.
Hu Ba nodded: "Yes, the number of mules and horses brought by the folks is limited. Any more will affect the operation."
"Then return as soon as possible and try to get more people to come next time." Chen Ziyan pondered for a moment and reminded: "The news here cannot be concealed. You also know how many arms there are. We will report it after we come out of the mountain.
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"Are we reporting?" Hu Bayi was shocked and asked subconsciously: "Mr. Chen, did I hear you correctly?"
If others don’t know their identities, how can you still not know them yourself?
You can't even get involved in this matter, but you still take the initiative to report it?
Chen Ziyan knew what he was thinking and said with a smile: "Don't worry, everything has been arranged. We are now a certified private expedition team." (Parallel time and space setting, please do not delve into it)
"Private expedition team? When did this happen?" Hu Bayi looked confused when he heard this. How could he not know that he had changed from an opposition person to a regular army?
"The certificate came down a few days ago. You can see it when you get back." Chen Ziyan explained.
This was a plan that Chen Ziyan had made before setting off. Since he had inherited the Xiling inheritance, it was necessary to carry it forward.
But times have changed after all, and it is a no-brainer to reach the scale of Chen Yulou.
Therefore, Chen Ziyan plans to streamline the structure, recruit strange people and form a team as the core, supplemented by highly functional animals such as giant mastiffs, to create a brand new Xiling Bandits.
In terms of identity, his plan is to create a private museum of his own and anchor the team in it in the name of a private expedition team.
In this way, they can have a place to settle the artifacts that are difficult to sell in the future, and they don't need to bear the name of thieves, so they can achieve better development.
What's more, once you have an official status, it will be much easier to act in the future.
Now that the words have come to this, Chen Ziyan simply stated his plan.
When Chen Ziyan finished speaking, Hu Bayi fell silent.
He had actually suspected Chen Ziyan's identity for a long time, but he really didn't expect that he was actually the descendant of Xiling and the leader of thieves of this generation.
Now that Chen Ziyan has exposed his inheritance and revealed his future plans, the meaning is self-evident, and it is nothing more than recruiting him and Fatty.
The reason for Hu Bayi's silence is not that he believes that he is a golden heir, and does not want to be inferior to others. Speaking of which, the founder Zhang Sanlianzi once placed incense in Changsheng Mountain, so he can naturally join Xiling.
In addition, the two sides have become familiar with each other along the way. The two brothers also admire Chen Ziyan quite a lot, so logically they should agree happily.
But this trip to Yerengou gave him an extra knot of heart and a little more concern.
It would be understandable if he didn't find the message, but now, with his character, he is bound to find out.
Chen Ziyan could more or less guess what Hu Bayi was thinking, so he said to him: "You don't have to rush to reply to me. You can discuss it with Fatty."