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Everyone's eyes widened in shock when they heard the conversation between Qin Shuhuang and Xia Shan.

At this moment, everyone else who followed suspected that they were dreaming.

Can dogs be used as cattle and horses?Can you pull a car?

How can it be!

Some of Xia Shan's dogs were in the front yard, and they saw them when they came in.

They are taller and bigger than ordinary dogs, and their hair is longer, but they are just bigger, and their strength is definitely far less than that of oxen and horses.

So how do you pull the car and how do you control it?

Qin Shuhuang was also full of surprises. She asked the old village chief to take her to find Xia Shan. She originally wanted to give it a try, but she didn't expect that these dogs could really transport goods?
It's just that Qin Shuhuang is calmer than the people around him at this time, and the expression on his face doesn't change much.

This made Xia Shan feel that Qin Shuhuang knew a little bit about the origin of his dog, and he even felt that Qin Shuhuang was a "fellow-minded person."

Qin Shuhuang asked: "Can your dog really transport goods?"

Xia Shan nodded affirmatively, "They have excellent patience and endurance. They can run twenty miles in an hour in such heavy snowy weather. If you give them two or three days, they can go to the nearest county town to buy supplies."

Hearing this, everyone was excited. Ruda couldn't wait to ask: "How can your dog transport goods? Are you going to use a dog to pull a carriage? The carriage can't move in heavy snow."

Xia Shan smiled and shook his head, "Everyone, follow me."

Everyone stood up and followed Xia Shan.

After a while, Xia Shan led everyone to the backyard.

There are more dogs in the backyard, and they all sleep in the wooden shed built by Xia Shan. The outside is surrounded by a wooden fence like the front yard.

As soon as people entered the backyard, the dogs barked at the stranger together. Ordinary people would find it scary when they saw him, let alone Qin Shuhuang.

Her face turned pale in an instant, and her lips trembled uncontrollably.

Before anyone else noticed, Xie Xuanye immediately blocked Qin Shuhuang behind him.

He frowned and asked in a low voice: "Your Highness, how are you?"

Qin Shuhuang took a deep breath and shook his head, "I'm fine."

Xia Shan also noticed that Qin Shuhuang seemed a little afraid of his dogs. He was afraid that his noble man, who had finally understood him, would be frightened by his dogs, so he quickly made a unique sound to calm the dogs down.

Fortunately, these dogs were very obedient. As soon as Xia Shan made a sound, they all fell to the ground, no longer roaring wildly, and only made a low, aggrieved "Woo" sound.

Only in this way did Qin Shuhuang feel better.

She nodded gratefully towards Xia Shan.

Passing through the dog confinement area and arriving at the innermost part of the backyard, there is also a wooden shed with a lot of hay and wood piled in it.

There is a very special wooden car next to it.The bottom is not a wheel but a wide board with both ends tilted up.

Qin Shuhuang asked in surprise: "Is this your 'carriage'?"

Xia Shan nodded confidently. He took down some special ropes from the wall next to him, pointed at the "carriage" and said: "My lord, this is a sled. The materials transported at one time are no less than a carriage. When the time comes, the villain will stand Here, these reins are used to control the dogs. Each time a sled goes out, about nine dogs are used."

Ruda was surprised, "Can these dogs be controlled by you alone?"

Xia Shan smiled with white teeth, "You don't need to control every dog. The villain only needs to train two leading dogs, and the leading dog will manage the other dogs."

As he spoke, Xia Shan pointed to a big dog with a black forehead in the wooden fence, "That's the head dog, called Xia Hua."

It seems that Xia Shan really regards these dogs as companions, and even gives the dogs the same surname as him, and the leading dog also has a special name.

Seeing that what Xia Shan said was true, everyone asked Xia Shan to cover it up.Xia Shan called his son, and He Yutian and Ruda also came to help and carried the sled to the entrance of the front yard.

Then Xia Shan led Xia Hua and four other dogs onto the sled, while Qin Shuhuang and others stayed at the courtyard gate.

Xia Shan picked up the special whip, stood on the sled, whistled, and Xia Hua ran with the other four big dogs.

On the snow, the sled slid very fast, even faster than a horse-drawn carriage!
Seeing Xia Shan driving the dog-drawn sled through the heavy snow, everyone's eyes were filled with excitement.

Especially the old village chief and others, it was as if they were seeing a miracle, with their mouths open and unable to close.

After Xia Shan drove the sleigh for a circle and stopped in front of everyone at the courtyard gate, the old village chief said angrily: "Xia Shan, you have such a good thing, why didn't you tell me before!"

If they had known earlier, people in the village would not have starved to death in the past few winters!

Xia Shan responded unceremoniously, "Village Chief, I have told you a long time ago that I can go to the county town to buy food for you in winter. Have you ever believed it? Not only do you not believe it, you also covet my dog ​​every day!"

Every winter, Xia Shan's dogs would lose ten or so. Even though he looked after them day and night, he still couldn't save his dogs.

He knew that the missing dogs had been stolen and eaten by the villagers!
But he was weak and weak, and even after knowing it, he did not dare to seek justice from the villagers. The dog was his companion, but in the eyes of the villagers, he was nothing more than a beast.

The old village chief was speechless for a moment and sighed.

Xia Shan was right, the villagers never believed him.

Even if they believed it, the villagers would not dare to give him their years of savings to buy supplies in the county. What if he ran away with the money!
After putting away the sled and leading the dogs back to the pen, everyone returned to the main room of Xia Shan's family.

Qin Shuhuang said bluntly: "How come you have such a skill?"

She asked the old village chief that there were no people around like Xia Shan who specialized in raising dogs to pull sleds in winter.

Xia Shan twitched the corner of his mouth with some disappointment, "Back to you noble man, this villain is actually a craft passed down from our ancestors..."

Xia Shan's hometown is actually not in this remote mountain village, but in Xiagong City.

Going back hundreds of years, Xia Shan was actually a descendant of Duke Xia during the founding of the previous dynasty.

Duke Xia Guogong guarded the northern border all his life. Later, when he was over eighty, he went into battle and died in the northern border.

The former emperor renamed the border city Rongcheng Xia Gongcheng in memory of Xia Guogong.

The Xia family has guarded the border for generations, and by the middle of the previous dynasty, it had multiplied into a huge family in Xia Gong City.

The northern border is bitterly cold, and the sky is covered with heavy snow in winter. An ancestor of the Xia family discovered that a shepherd used dogs to pull carts in the winter, so he took his family to raise dogs and formed a sled team in Xiagong City to transport the Xia family in the winter. supplies.

At the end of the previous dynasty, the Xia family was convicted and all the direct lineage was eliminated, leaving only a few side branches scattered on the border struggling to survive.

Later, the dynasty changed, and the Xia family became ordinary people.

The Xia family's dog sledding skills have basically been lost, and only Xia Shan's team is still persisting.

By the time Xia Shan's generation reached Xia Shan's generation, the family no longer kept dogs because it was not profitable to raise dogs.

Xia Shan's parents died young. When he was young, Xia Shan worked as a peddler on the border with his grandfather.

Once, they encountered heavy snow on the way home, and they almost froze to death on the road. Thanks to a sled dog raised by the Xia family, their lives were saved, so Grandpa Xia Shan decided to resume his ancestor's craft.

However, before the breeding dogs and alpha dogs were developed, his grandfather fell ill and died, and Xia Shan inherited his grandfather's wishes.

The family didn't want Xia Shan to keep a dog, so they kicked him out of the house, and then Xia Shan settled down in this small mountain village.

Everyone who listened to Xia Shan's story did not expect such an experience, and they all sighed.

Qin Shuhuang nodded and said seriously to Xia Shan: "I would like to ask you to go to the county seat immediately to help us buy food. I can give you the money first. When you come back successfully, I will give you 100 taels of silver as a reward." (End of Chapter)