The most powerful patriarch in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 122 Stealing jade and stealing fragrance
Lianjiang County, water and mountains behind the village.

Standing on a rocky mountain, Lu Changle had a bird's-eye view of the water and the village at the foot of the mountain. He could clearly see the militiamen training in the grain drying field, and his expression was a little depressed.

Normally, there are more than 200 players to participate in the training, and the rice drying field can be packed to the brim.
Looking down from a high place, I can see that the people who are training in the grain drying field stand sparsely, and if half of them can come, they will be able to stand up to the sky.

Few people came, and the training was very lazy. Many people held hands, chatting and laughing together, indescribably leisurely.

The Flying Tiger is dead, maybe the thieves will also celebrate the New Year during the Chinese New Year, and the plague has almost subsided,

As a result, many people relaxed, some visited relatives, some tried to make money to support their families, some prepared for spring farming, who wanted to come to train?
I knew it on the way here, and there were four tables out of eight at the tea stand.
When there is an epidemic and banditry, no one can be seen on the road,
Lu Changwei stood behind Lu Changle and said indignantly: "These people are too unconscious. They made an appointment to train every day. Look at it now, they don't take it seriously."

"The principle of voluntariness, don't have too much hope, it can still be maintained like this, it's not bad." After Lu Changle finished speaking, he jumped off the boulder and let the thin monkey prepare to test the pigeon.

The ideal is very full, but the reality is very skinny. The militia joint defense plan can be said to have little effect.
If you want to expand your territory and power, you need to find an opportunity to overthrow and rebuild.
You need to build a team that is capable of fighting and can obey your orders.

The thin monkey responded, took out the pigeon cage that he had always carried with him, fed the letter pigeons first, then took out a red flag and stuck it on the ground.

After finishing the preparations, the thin monkey quickly grabbed a pigeon from the cage and put it on the bamboo pole next to the flag.
Put the prepared paper into the bamboo tube tied to its feet, put the two little fingers in its mouth and blow hard,
Hearing the whistle, the pigeon fluttered its wings and flew up. It flew higher and higher, farther and farther away, and soon disappeared from everyone's sight.

Lu Changle nodded secretly, the thin monkey didn't brag, other pigeons like to fly flat,

And the pigeons he trained, when they fly, they try their best to lift them up as a conditional reaction. The height is much higher than ordinary pigeons, and it exceeds the range of many bows and arrows.

Speed ​​looks good too.

According to Luo Dagui, his father spent a lot of money to buy his breeding pigeons. He has been looking for the best hens to pair, and the pigeons bred are excellent in endurance.

At the same time as the pigeon flew up, Lu Changwei turned a special hourglass upside down and started timing.

The thin monkey kept staring at the position of the hourglass, and released a pigeon every other time until all the five pigeons brought this time were released.
It is not enough to test only one, and it is more convincing to test five together.

Lu Changwei felt bored after watching it for a while, so he dragged a few clansmen aside to practice martial arts.
Lu Changle had nothing to do, so he asked Yang Xuan to climb up the boulder,
The two sat side by side on the boulder, bathing in the sunshine of early spring and Hexi, while talking whispers between lovers,
After Yang Zhengbao agreed to Lu Changle's request, the relationship between Lu Changle and Yang Xuan developed by leaps and bounds.

Occasionally holding a small hand and cuddling the waist has become a very natural thing,
There are skin-to-skin relatives, and these can only be regarded as pediatrics.

Seeing Ke Ren'er sitting next to him, with such a delicate face, such a strong and slender waist, and such round and slender legs, Lu Changle suddenly said with a sense of complacency: "Xuan'er, look at the beautiful scenery here, and the place is so secluded. , why don't you use a beauty trick on me?"

Yang Xuan's pretty face blushed, she pushed away Lu Changle's hand that was about to move, and said angrily: "There are so many people, what are you thinking, you are still the patriarch, and you are not shy at all."

For the past two days, Lu Changle's eyes have been turning around on his body intentionally or unintentionally, and every time he sees that Yang Xuan is uncomfortable, but his heart feels useful.

This is a barren mountain, and there are so many people, what are you thinking.

Lu Changle's eyes lit up, and he leaned closer to Yang Xuan's ear and said, "Yes, there are many people here, leave me a door tonight, I have something important to discuss with you."

After all, she played a prank and blew lightly in her ear.

Yang Xuan was startled, and hurriedly dodged, just about to say it was bad, but unexpectedly Lu Changle jumped off the boulder immediately after finishing his tricks, and went to watch Lu Changwei compete with his clan brother in martial arts.

Yang Xuan was not given a chance to speak.

It's really fast.

Lu Changwei was able to fight in the first place. After worshiping Gan Hui as his teacher, his martial arts improved by leaps and bounds again.

Now neither of them is his opponent, and it was only when the three of them fought together could they barely hold him back.

But judging by his ease, it's obvious that he hasn't done his best yet.
Received a fierce person like Gan Hui, definitely found a treasure.

Just when Lu Changwei and others hit Xing's head, the thin monkey suddenly shouted excitedly: "It's back, pigeon No. [-] has flown back."

Lu Changle looked up, and sure enough, a pigeon flew from the sky like a sharp arrow, flying very high and fast,
The pigeon circled in the air, and quickly landed on the bamboo pole next to the signal flag.
Lu Changle looked at the hourglass used to calculate the time, it took exactly half an hour.

The thin monkey fed some food to the pigeons, and was familiar with taking out the second uncle's handwritten test note from the bamboo tube it carried,

Lu Changle did some calculations. From Xingping Village to Shuihe Village, it is about a hundred miles, passing through one river and three rivers in the middle.

It will take an hour and a half at the fastest to ride a horse, and at least three hours to go back and forth, and if everything goes well,
Of course, that is the distance. The straight-line distance can be shortened by nearly half, and the pigeon can fly about [-] kilometers per hour.
It only took half an hour to go back and forth, and the time for picking up paper and inserting notes in Xingping Village was also subtracted.
In this way, the carrier pigeon performed very well.

The first one flew back smoothly, followed by the second, third, fourth, and fifth ones, all successfully completed the task,
After calculation, the completion time of the five pigeons was about the same, and the slow one was half an incense stick behind the fast one.

Carrier pigeons also have advantages and disadvantages, and some carrier pigeons have better physical strength.

Lu Changle is very satisfied with the test results, and let the thin monkey domesticate and train more pigeons, which will be used in the future.

In terms of efficiency, pigeons are much higher than humans.

In the case of long-distance and complicated environments, the effect is more obvious.

After testing the pigeons, Lu Changle led the team to briefly visit those friendly clans and squires in Lianjiang, declined the request to stay, and rushed home before dark.

In the stage of comprehensive preparations, there are too many things to be busy. I want to see Lao Zhou's firearms workshop tomorrow.
I heard that the first batch of gunpowder was made, let's see how it works,
The three Franco cannons have never had shells.

Chen Qi's injury is also healed, and he has always wanted to expand the team to inquire about the news, and Lu Changle also needs him to talk.

After a day of tossing around, Lu Changle was so tired that he lay on the bed, "hard" that he couldn't sleep,
On the contrary, the more excited the night is,

As soon as the gong of the second watch finished beating, Lu Changle immediately sat up from the bed, gently opened the door, and tiptoed to Yang Xuan's room,

In order to protect Lu Changle, Yang Xuan slept in the room next to Lu Changle. ,

Keep the door, stay the door, Lu Changle thought to himself, stretched out his hand and gently pushed Yang Xuan's door,

The door was closed tightly and did not open.

Suddenly felt a little lost in my heart, didn't leave the door for myself?
Along the way, he didn't say no to agreeing, and he looked shy,

I thought there was a show tonight.

Just when he was about to leave, Lu Changle was a little unwilling to push again, and was surprised to find that the door moved a little bit inward, and with a little more force, sure enough, the door slowly moved inward,
When the door opened a big crack, I reached out and felt inside, and suddenly understood,
The door was not bolted, but Yang Xuan put a embroidered block behind the door. Fortunately, he pushed it a little more, otherwise he would have to go back and favor the nobles on the left and the nobles on the right.

After entering the room, he closed the door carefully, and by the hazy moonlight outside the window, Lu Changle walked to the bed,
Through the thin gauze curtain, one could see Yang Xuan sleeping sideways, motionless, as if in a deep sleep,
With sharp eyes, Lu Changle faintly saw Yang Xuan's long eyelashes trembling slightly,
A smug smile appeared on Lu Changle's mouth, and he got into bed without saying a word,

Not long after, the new bed made just before the Chinese New Year creaked and protested somewhat overwhelmed.
When eating breakfast, Lu Changle felt that Xiaoqing looked at him with deep meaning,

Xiaohong is even more straightforward, looking herself up and down from time to time, as if she couldn't believe it,
While eating, Lu Changle whispered to Yang Xuan who was sitting across from him with an unnatural expression: "I guess they all heard the movement, and I'll make them keep their mouths tighter later."

Yang Xuan's pretty face turned red again, she gave Lu Changle a reproachful look, and said calmly, "It's all right, I asked Xiaohong to tip them all."

There was so much commotion last night, it's no wonder I didn't hear it.
The first thing Yang Xuan did when she woke up was to ask Xiao Hong to distribute the reward money.

The maid, the kitchen, the housekeeper, and the handyman counted one by one. After receiving the reward, they knew that they should keep their mouths secret.

"Hey, that's okay, I won't have to wait so late in the future."

Still wanting to take advantage of her, Yang Xuan's pretty face flushed again, the words of refusal came to her lips, but she changed another sentence: "You said last night to take me to see how to make a mirror, when will you go?"

"Go, go after breakfast" Lu Changle was particularly easy to discuss.

I originally planned to go to the gunpowder workshop first, and then look at the progress of the mirror,

If there is no accident, Cheng Liye is already on the way with a large number of supplies he urgently needs, and the quality and quantity of the mirror must be carefully checked.

In the past, I had to guard against it, but now I am my own person, so I can look at it however I want.

When we were about to finish eating, there was a sudden sound of horseshoes outside, and someone shouted loudly: "The horse is coming, there is urgent information, make way, make way."

Hearing this, Lu Changle stood up immediately, dropped the chopsticks and walked out: "It's Liu Rufeng's voice, something big must have happened."

As soon as he reached the front yard, Liu Rufeng was trotting in, saw Lu Changle, and said anxiously: "Patriarch Lu, it's not good, the demon king Xu Degong, together with the ghost-faced axe, Huang Erhu, and Huadilong Liu Dayang, is attacking Changle County."

　Thank you Meihuajin book friend for the reward. There are still people rewarding such a fluttering book. My mood is two percent better than yesterday, haha
　　
　
(End of this chapter)