"I have magical powers, I can summon thunder from the sky!"
In the early morning, when the mountain fog began to rise and the sun had not yet brightened, Cheng Dalei pointed his fingers like swords towards the canyon.
Everyone's hearts suddenly became excited, and their eyes followed Cheng Dalei's hand. They saw only the wind and grass moving, the mountains and rocks silent, and no movement at all.
Suspicious eyes fell on Cheng Dalei, wondering what this kid was doing.
"Can you invite thunder from the sky..." Cheng Dalei shook his fingers in the air and thought: Hurry up, didn't Lin Shaoyu hear it?
"Thunder..."
Cheng Dalei's voice was about to become hoarse, and he felt a little scared. He had already thought about how to deal with it in advance, letting Lin Shaoyu ambush in the valley and light the last box of explosives with his mouth. Otherwise, Cheng Dalei didn't know how to escape.
"This kid is pretending to be a ghost, let me kill him!" the bandit shouted.
A group of bandits, some on horseback and some standing on the ground with weapons, gradually showed mocking smiles on their faces.
"thunder!"
The sound fell to the ground, and suddenly there was a loud noise from the direction of the canyon, a boom like thunder, and black smoke rising from the white morning mist.
In an instant, the smiles on everyone's faces stopped, and there was a hint of fear in the eyes looking at Cheng Dalei. Cheng Dalei sat on the horse and breathed a long sigh of relief, with a faint sense of immortality and unfathomable depth.
"Well, does anyone want to try my Five Thunder Heavenly Techniques?"
Whoosh!
Everyone took a breath and subconsciously took a step back. They felt an invisible aura surrounding Cheng Dalei, making people afraid to get close.
Most people in this era are superstitious and attribute many unknown things to gods and ghosts. This is in line with the saying: Where civilization has not yet arrived, ignorance calls itself civilization. Burn some yellow paper and throw it into a well, and it can be called holy water.
, in the era of gathering tens of thousands of believers, Cheng Dalei's performance was already quite exciting.
Now all the bandits are thinking is that this person relied on the Five Thunder Divine Technique to block a thousand soldiers. No wonder, if the thunder from the sky hit me, I wouldn't be able to hold on.
Cheng Dalei glanced around with a stern look in all directions, and gently urged him to sit down on his horse and move forward. The bandits surrounding them automatically separated a path. Cheng Dalei kept pointing with his fingers, and everyone he pointed to was stunned.
Their faces turned pale with fright, and some even fell off their horses.
Xu Ling'er, Xu Shenji, and Qin Man followed Cheng Dalei on their horses. There were more than 80 mounted war horses, which made everyone salivate on the ground, but no one dared to snatch it.
Cheng Dalei held his head high, held the ax on his shoulder, and looked straight away. He looked calm and calm, and his power was boundless. But when you got closer, you knew that his back was already wet. What if there was a smart person among the bandits?
After the trick is revealed, he is dead.
"Wait a minute." Gao Feihu suddenly shouted.
Cheng Dalei was agitated, and slowly turned around, looking at the other party with cold eyes, but his heart was beating loudly and was about to jump out of his chest.
"Can Toad Village afford to raise so many horses?" Gao Feihu said.
"If you can't raise me to make bacon, you can't do it."
…
Before leaving, Cheng Dalei said a harsh word, but the fact is that he may really not be able to afford it.
This time, Toad Village may have gained a lot. When counting the spoils, it was found that there were 50 spears, 10 sets of armor, 9 large bows, several bows and arrows, 30 iron knives, and 81 war horses.
Even Su Ying was amazed at their harvest. Whenever she thought that Cheng Dalei could withstand a thousand elite soldiers with the strength of five people, she found it unbelievable.
However, after three days, the problem was exposed. The problem lies with these horses. Each horse needs at least ten kilograms of straw every day, because they are war horses and need to be carefully fed. In addition to straw, they also need fine grains such as soybeans. Eighty
One horse is equivalent to 800 kilograms of grain and grass every day. How much grain and grass does Toad Village currently have?
zero.
Cheng Dalei's life in the past three days was miserable. The horse's neighing was like a reminder of death, making Cheng Dalei unable to eat or sleep well.
"The great master, the great master..."
Xu Shenji came over with a sickle: "Master, please stop being lazy. We have to harvest the wheat quickly. If it rains heavily, this year's harvest will be ruined."
By the way, besides using horses, harvesting wheat is also a troublesome task. A total of ten acres of wheat fields need to be harvested manually. Large tracts of wheat are cut down, tied into bundles, brought back to the village, and rolled into wheat grains with rollers.
It's a summer, the sun is like a poisonous fire, I stare at the sun and bend my back... It's quite sentimental to do this kind of thing once in a while, but when it really becomes a job, Cheng Dalei understands how to write the word "excruciating"
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Qin Man, Xu Ling'er, and Xu Shenji didn't feel tired at all. They were even immersed in an inexplicable atmosphere of happiness. The ones who couldn't stand it the most were Cheng Dalei and Lin Shaoyu.
"To think that a great hero of my generation would actually do such a thing..."
Lin Shaoyu would say something like this every time he waved his sickle. Cheng Dalei originally wanted to fool him with words such as "Heaven has sent a great responsibility to this person", but after thinking about himself, he gave up.
"I suddenly have a stomachache and I don't have any strength..." Cheng Dalei covered his stomach.
"Forget it, you just used this reason yesterday."
"That headache..."
"This is the reason the day before yesterday." Xu Shenji said: "Master, don't be lazy. When the wheat is exposed to the sun, it will break when touched. We will have to delay a lot of harvest this year."
"Um... ha... I suddenly remembered that I haven't robbed for several days, and I can't delay my serious work." Cheng Dalei picked up the big ax and ran down the mountain like flying.
"Master, why are you going..." Lin Shaoyu poked his head out of the room: "Are you robbing? Take me with you, take me with you."
Seeing the two men disappearing in an instant, Xu Shenji depressedly picked up his sickle and walked towards the wheat field in the back hill.
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Li Goucheng is from Lijiazhuang near Qingniu Mountain. His family has several acres of thin farmland. During slack periods, he goes to the mountains to collect firewood and sells it to the city. The most worrying thing on weekdays is that he has three sons at home: Li Da, Li Er, and Li San.
The eldest son is twenty and the youngest is sixteen. They are all old enough to get married, but because the family is too poor, there is no one to marry them.
"Dad, are there bandits around here?" Li D.
"If you are afraid of bandits, you are not afraid of not being able to get a wife. When I collect firewood today, I will buy you a donkey, saying that your wife will be more confident. You have always hoped for a horse, and now I have taken advantage of you."
"This... horses and donkeys are different."
"What's the difference..."
"Bah!"
Suddenly two people jumped out from the grass, one was handsome in a white robe and had an iron gun, and the other was carrying a big ax with a weird smile on his face.
"Grandpa Wang, have mercy on me, Grandpa Wang, have mercy on me..." Li Goucheng and his son were so frightened that they all fell to their knees on the ground.
"Stand up, why are you kneeling?"
The one carrying the ax shouted, and Li Gou Sheng timidly raised his head, only to see a constipated smile on his face.
"I just heard you say that you want to buy a horse?"