The big man has a living father

Chapter 154 (Big Chapter) So handsome!
Liu Che's convoy arrived.

Huo Hai felt relieved because Zhou Lie, who was promoted by Liu Che from the Yulin Guard, came over, so Huo Hai could stop worrying about things.

Originally, Huo Hai never cared about the internal affairs of the Yulin Guard. If it weren't for the autumn hunt, Huo Hai would have been the only person in charge of the Yulin Guard, so Huo Hai would not have cared about this.

When the eunuchs were moving things for Liu Che.

Huo Hai took Xiang Xu with him and handed over to Zhou Lie.

Zhou Lie had no reputation in history. Huo Hai had never heard of him and knew that he was probably not a talented general. But since he was promoted, he should be the kind of person that Liu Che could command with ease, similar to Zhou Jian and Fan Bei.

So Huo Hai didn't say much and just took over the task normally with Xiang Xu.

After the handover was completed, Huo Hai continued to stare at the roast chicken.

Xiang Xu was standing next to Huo Hai reporting the latest news that had been gathered today.

"The sales profit of our jewelry store has exceeded 60 million yuan." Xiang Xu took out the report.

Huo Hai glanced and nodded.

The jewelry store's sales were much higher than Huo Hai had imagined.

The reason is that many vendors are not limited to delivering supplies to Chang'an, but also want to make money locally.

Jewelry, which has a high price per unit volume, is obviously very suitable for transporting valuables.

Mirrors are a best-seller.

This kind of thing, which the nobles had never had before, would quickly become a necessity for the nobles wherever they were sent.

Some people also received new orders while transporting mirrors.

Because noble women from all over the country also got the news and knew that the Queen and Princess Wei Chang allowed other women to wear phoenix crowns at their weddings and to wear hairpins on ordinary days.

You have to know that they were forbidden to wear hairpins before, so all the jewelry of noble ladies did not include hairpins. Now that they are allowed to wear them, they naturally have to buy them.

However, jewelers from other places had not mastered this craft, so their first choice was to order jewelry from Chang'an.

These businessmen of course also took the opportunity to promote the concept of "platinum". White gold is the most noble and is allowed by the royal family to be used by ordinary nobles.

As a result, the jewelry store's sales in the past few months were higher than Huo Hai had imagined.

Although things like platinum actually don't have high profits, after selling them for hundreds of millions, you'd only make 60 million.

But mirrors are different.

The cost of these small mirrors is not low, each one costs about one thousand yuan, but the selling price is directly hundreds of thousands of yuan.

This is where the profit comes in.

However, the profit from the mirror is not included in the shop's profit because there is no need to show it to others.

You should know that Huo Hai and Dong Yan have a bet.

After reading the report, Xiang Xu took out another letter: "This is from Lord Lu Bode, the governor of Youbeiping County. Would you like to read it yourself or should I read it to you?"

Lu Bode went to organize the expedition against the Huns. The letter he sent might contain national affairs. How could Huo Hai let Xiang Xu read it out directly?

So he took the letter and started reading it.

At this time, a group of foreign nobles were still observing Huo Hai.

Ever since Huo Hai took over the task, he has been waiting by the wok for the fried chicken, fearing that he would miss it.

Starting to deal with the Huo's business affairs at this time also made this group of people jealous.

How could such a idiot possess such a huge fortune? How unfair!

After Huo Hai opened the letter, he took it even more seriously.

What is written in this letter has nothing to do with the Huns, but has to do with dogs.

Huo Hai took it seriously just because it was related to dogs.

At the beginning of the letter, Lu Bode and Huo Hai joked and asked Huo Hai to help look after Yi Shuo. In return, Lu Bode sent someone from Youbeiping to send a pair of black and white dogs to Chang'an.

He said that his people got it from the hands of some unknown group of people captured by the Huns when they went north to gather information.

Huo Hai thought about it and thought that this black and white dog... might not be a Husky!
These are not the key points. The key point is that Lu Bode reported his recent research results to Huo Hai and asked Huo Hai to help evaluate or give guidance on the experimental methods.

The story begins in February.

Last year, the first issue of Science reported that oil is very high in calories.

This led many ordinary people and nobles to find ways to grow oil crops.

Among them is rapeseed from Longyou.

In February, the rape flowers bloomed.

When the rape flowers bloomed, dog bites occurred in many places in Sanfu.

It was recorded as a mad dog incident, which means a mad dog.

So a rumor spread among the people, saying that the dog was driven crazy by the rape flowers. The rape flowers bloomed, so the healthy dog ​​went crazy.

As the rumor spread, some people even began to secretly spread that the widespread cultivation of rapeseed was a conspiracy of the imperial court.

The purpose is to raise a mad dog to bite people.

Although normal people know that it is impossible for the imperial court to do such an outrageous, useless, laborious and inefficient thing, if the imperial court really wants to kill someone, it can just catch them and kill them. Why would it be so troublesome?

But rumors just spread like that and that’s how they have a market.

As the commander of the Imperial Guard, how could Lu Bode allow this to happen?

So I went to talk to Peng Yi.

After catching a mad dog and observing it, Peng Yi and Lu Bode reached an agreement.

It is believed that the dog went crazy because it was infected with some kind of mold.

This thing is different from ordinary mold fungi. It causes disease not by corruption or directly producing toxins, but by directly affecting the dog's physiological structure and body control.

This was soon confirmed.

Because people who were bitten by mad dogs also went mad.

After studying the symptoms, Lu Bode and Peng Yi determined that it must be caused by a certain type of mold.

So, Lu Bode sent people to capture the mad dog in Sanfu.

As long as all the mad dogs are caught, they will naturally not infect other dogs and humans.

It just so happened that the old Wei River dried up during that period.

Those who used to cast nets to fish on the Wei River no longer made a living. During that period, if you wanted fish, you could just go down and pick them up. There was no need to fish.

So, Lubode requisitioned all the fishing nets to catch dogs.

Soon, all the mad dogs near Chang'an were caught in one fell swoop.

Without a mad dog, there would naturally be no further spread of the rumor, so the rumor would stop.

After everyone knew that mad dogs could be controlled, they were no longer afraid. After all, even if they were not soldiers and did not have nets, the villagers could still drive away the mad dogs directly.

After returning, Lu Bode searched through ancient books for records of rabid dogs.

Finally, I found various records, including quite a few records of mad dogs in countries such as Song and Lu.

Lu Bode read in ancient books that it usually takes nine to twenty days for one to develop the disease after being bitten by a mad dog, but it takes a hundred days to completely get rid of it.

That is to say, most cases take nine to twenty days to develop symptoms, but some may take up to a hundred days to develop symptoms.

So, Lu Bode began his research on mad dogs.

Seeing this, Huo Hai was stunned.

This thing... Who invented the rabies vaccine? Louis Pasteur?
Huo Hai continued to read the following text.

Good guy!
After Lu Bode was sent to Youbeiping, he brought a batch of mad dogs and purchased some more dogs.

It was gradually discovered that dogs infected with rabies would die within six to eight days, and no more than ten days at most.

While feeding the dogs, Lu Bode also discovered a strange phenomenon.

In order to keep a unified management over the dogs, he would ring the bell every time he fed them.

Actually, the bell was to remind his men to feed the dog, but he observed that after a long time, the dog would start drooling when it heard the bell.

Even if you don't give me food, I'll still flow.

So I asked Huo Hai if he knew what this phenomenon was. If no one had discovered this phenomenon before, what name should be given to it.

Later in the text it was written that one day, a sick dog was accidentally put into a dog cage by a servant.

One of the dogs was bitten.

When the servants found a mad dog, they beat it to death.

The good dog that was bitten had the mad dog's brains on its wounds, but did not get sick.

So Lu Bode continued to experiment with this method, and found that if a mad dog bit another dog, he would take out the mad dog's brain and apply it to the wound.

There is a 27 percent chance of avoiding the disease!

Huo Hai couldn't hold it anymore when he saw this.

This is immunotherapy!

This is actually the same principle as the rabies vaccine.

It was only Louis Pasteur who improved this method.

Huo Hai had seen a video before, in which it was said that this method was not originally created by Louis Pasteur, but was an improvement.

The first person to discover and record immunotherapy was Ge Hong, a Taoist priest in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Ge Hong was not only a Taoist priest, but also a medical practitioner and scientist.

It was he who first recorded that rabies brains could prevent rabies, but this phenomenon was understood by doctors at the time as "fighting poison with poison."

This method later made great contributions to the world.

Later, whenever the ancients encountered a similar unsolvable plague, they would try this method to see if it was feasible.

When smallpox was prevalent, a method to prevent "human smallpox" was developed.

After a series of transmissions, smallpox passed through Central Asia and came to Europe, where it was eventually developed into the "cowpox" prevention method.

It was also because of the emergence of the "cowpox" prevention method that Pasteur began to study the rabies prevention method and eventually developed a rabies vaccine. (Note: Edward, who specifically studied cowpox, did not know that the method he was exposed to was introduced from other places and thought he had discovered it first.)
So, eventually immunology was formed.

At present, it seems that Lu Bode discovered the method of dog spinal cord immunization hundreds of years ahead of schedule, and it is even possible that he could develop a rabies vaccine earlier.

As he turned the page of the letter, Huo Hai's eyes went dark and he almost fainted.

Lu Bode is really close to success!
But he was a little too close.

The reason was that he wanted to continue studying the virus, but dogs were too expensive.

He, Lu Bode, couldn't afford to buy too many dogs for experiments. After all, sick dogs could not be given to others to eat.

So, Lubode started buying rabbits for experiments.

After all, that was Youbeiping, on the grassland.

The reason why Huo Hai felt dizzy when he saw it.

That's because Lubode simply locked the rabbits together and then put the mad dog in there.

If you are bitten by a mad dog, you will get sick.

But the problem is that the mad dog is more likely to bite the rabbit to death directly.

Because of the low yield rate, Lu Bode was a little confused, so he went to Huo Hai to ask for the secret.

You really are worthy of being a general. This is how you do things, right?

This experiment was done too sloppily.

Huo Hai asked Xiang Xu to bring paper and pen, and he read what Xiang Xu wrote.

"Lao Lu, I have received the letter. I am in Chang'an, and no one can bully your wife. Let's not talk nonsense. Regarding the discovery that ringing the bell and feeding the dog at the same time will cause the dog to drool, I suggest calling it a conditioned reflex.

Regarding rabies fungus, I have a suggestion. This invisible microorganism that can infect humans, dogs, and rabbits is obviously different from the fungi we know. It can cause disease and is toxic. I suggest calling it a virus. This one is called rabies virus.

Regarding the rabbit experiment, your approach is too rough. You can choose to artificially inoculate the virus, so that you can even test which parts of the dog's body carry the virus. I will send a researcher who studies human anatomy and animal anatomy at the institute to assist in your research.

Assuming that rabies virus can infect humans, is the amount of rabies virus that infects rabbits less toxic than the amount that infects dogs? Or is it less toxic than the amount that infects humans?
Since the brain of a rabid dog has a 25% chance of preventing other dogs from getting sick, what is the chance of preventing a heavier person who has been bitten from getting sick? Is it higher?

In addition, rabbits infected with a few viruses are presumably having lower brain volume and virus content per gram of brain marrow than dogs. If this experiment is successful, the possibility of rabbit brain immunity is much greater than that of dogs. What does that mean?
The duration of illness in humans is as long as 20 days. There is also a period before dogs become ill, which can be called the virus incubation period. During this incubation period, is it enough to vaccinate the brain marrow once, or multiple times? What is the specific amount of virus each time?
This research is very promising. If it is concluded, it will cure many patients who would otherwise die, and it can also provide research ideas and solutions for similar diseases that may appear in the future. If the research is successful, it can be on the front page of Science.

But remember, there is no telling what fungi and viruses there are on the grassland. If you find that the test products have other disease symptoms, pay attention to infection and prevention and treatment. "

Huo Hai never mentioned the Huns once in his letter.

How can the Huns be as important as the rabies vaccine?

In fact, Huo Hai pointed out the key to rabies vaccine research in the letter.

That is the virus content in the rabbit's cerebrospinal fluid, the number of inoculations, and the content of each inoculation.

As long as Lubode can produce the corresponding data, he will definitely know that this is not a simple "fighting poison with poison" but the body's gradual adaptation to the toxicity, thereby understanding immunity.

Once we understand immunity, the medical technology of this era can be said to have soared greatly.

It will also be much easier to go back and study antibiotics such as penicillin for treating diseases.

Lu Bode will currently stay in Youbeiping for a long time.

There should be a long time to study rabies vaccines.

There are no major gathering places there except Anle County, and the medical conditions there are poor. If anyone is bitten by a dog, they can only go to Lu Bode for treatment.

The mortality rate of rabies is 100%. Among so many examples in global history, there are only two suspected cases in which people did not die after falling ill.

Therefore, Huo Hai did not have any extra thoughts about the possibility that Lu Bode might conduct human experiments there.

The poor medical care there will make those who are bitten regard Lubode as a life-saving straw, which will actually speed up the progress of the experiment.

Perhaps Lubold could develop a rabies vaccine much faster than Pasteur.

However, what worries Huo Hai the most is that Lu Bode wants to purchase a large number of live rabbits from the grassland.

This thing could easily spread the plague.

Now that the water routes from Zhongshan State to Chang'an are open, if Lu Bode accidentally brings the plague to Zhongshan State and spreads it to Hebei, Shanxi and Guanzhong, it will be a disaster, so Huo Hai asked him to pay extra attention to other diseases.

It would be better if he could observe the situation of the plague, and it would be a big step forward in the study of infectious diseases, but this is very dangerous.

However, even if he did not do this and just deployed defenses in Youbeiping to prepare for an attack on the Huns, he would still have to face these things.

It’s just that without water transportation, the disease won’t spread.

Moreover, even if the disease spreads, the threat is not particularly great. With awareness of infection, isolating the channels of infection is not a difficult thing for Lubode to think of.

As for the rat itself, there will be no problem.

Because keeping cats is particularly popular in Han nowadays, there are a lot of cats.

Unlike in medieval Europe, cats were hunted as magical creatures of witches, which led to rats getting out of control and the Black Death spreading repeatedly.

In fact, when it comes to the Black Death, even if people cannot be cured, they will die quickly, and if they die quickly, they will not be very contagious. However, mice do not die in a short period of time after getting the disease, and mice follow humans, so the Black Death caused a pandemic.

So there is no need to worry too much about this aspect. Huo Hai just gave a brief reminder and didn't say much more.

After writing the letter, Huo Hai saw Princess Wei Chang coming towards him.

The people around also realized that it was Her Royal Highness the Princess, and they also saluted over here.

After Huo Hai asked Xiang Xu to deliver the letter, he smiled and said, "You came just in time, just in time for eating chicken."

Princess Wei Chang looked at Ding Ci, who was captured as a laborer, and then looked into the pot: "He doesn't look like he can cook."

Huo Hai: "I bet the chicken will be delicious, it's destined."

It’s a pity that there was no chili pepper, so I used some mustard and a little dogwood to replace the spiciness. As for the strong aroma of the chili pepper, there was nothing I could do about it.

If you want a sauce-flavored dish, you can use less salty soybean paste instead.

Princess Wei Chang came over and looked at Huo Hai with her hands behind her back expectantly.

Huo Hai touched the left side of his face, then the right side: "Is there something on my face?"

Princess Wei Chang stretched out her hand, pretending to ask for something. Huo Hai played dumb.

Princess Wei Chang patted Huo Hai on the shoulder and acted like a spoiled child, and Huo Hai burst into laughter: "How could I have forgotten?"

Daily confession.

Today is a good day. Huo Hai took Princess Wei Chang’s hand and walked into the camp.

After a while, a horse galloped out and Huo Hai hugged Princess Wei Chang and rode on the horse.

To be honest, when it comes to horse riding, ten Huo Hais are no match for Princess Wei Chang.

Although Huo Hai followed Huo Qubing on a trip to the grassland in the north last year, Princess Wei Chang still learned horse riding with Huo Qubing, and was taught by Wei Qing.

Princess Wei Chang has been a veteran for ten years, how could she be compared to Huo Hai.

But today, Huo Hai was very brave and rode the horse at a crazy speed.

The reason is that the three essentials of a war horse, horseshoes, stirrups and saddle, have all been put on.

Many people watched Huo Hai hold the princess in his arms and ride out on horseback. They were so excited that many of them even jumped on their horses, wanting to show off their horsemanship.

Suddenly there were a lot of horses walking around in the camp, so naturally many people noticed it.

After Liu Che came out, he put his hands on his hips and looked at the galloping horses: "What's going on?"

Zhou Lie cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, Lord Huo took the princess for a ride, and the group of people behind them are just followers."

Liu Che laughed: "You are restless, young man, full of blood and energy. You don't know the importance of setting up camp. How can you let the horses go on the first day..."

At this point, Liu Che's expression suddenly became serious: "Has the tiger been released?"

Zhou Lie: "Yes, they were released, but they won't go to the hunting area, right?"

Liu Che said sternly: "Originally they would not go, but there is a group of people following them, do you think they will go!!!"

"Gather! Let's go!"

His Majesty the Emperor was about to set off. Many military officers who were setting up camp were confused and could only hurriedly put on simple soft armor and set off.

A large group of people moved towards the hunting area.

At the front of the team, Huo Hai was standing very steady with his feet on the pedals, so he had his hands free to do bad things.

Princess Wei slapped Huo Hai's hand: "What are you doing~"

"You're heading to a hunting area, aren't you afraid of encountering a tiger?"

Huo Hai looked at the forest in front of him and wanted to laugh.

tiger?

Huo Hai has seen a short video in which someone talked about how powerful tigers are. For some unknown purpose, they insisted on belittling humans and used the examples of tiger disasters recorded in ancient books to prove that ancient people were afraid of tigers.

It mentioned that there were three tiger disasters recorded in the Book of Han.

At first glance, it seems to be true. People in the Han Dynasty were afraid of tigers. Do you still think that primitive people could hunt tigers at will?

In fact, let alone tigers, even if a Tyrannosaurus Rex encountered a Homo sapiens 30,000 years ago, it would be a mobile meat warehouse.

The entire Book of Han (Book of the Later Han) records 400 years of Han history, and records a total of three tiger plagues.

In that short video, someone who specializes in studying history scolded the UP host for talking nonsense.

The reason is simple. First, there were two tiger plagues in the Western Regions and one in Jiujiang. The core area of ​​the Han Dynasty never had a tiger plague. Jiujiang was a sparsely populated area at that time. The two tiger plagues in the Western Regions were all caused by the army, not the people.

In other words, it is difficult for ordinary people to encounter tigers.

The second and third tiger attacks, if you study them carefully, are all performance art.

The core of the tiger plague in Jiujiang was not that the people encountered ferocious tigers, but that the local officials used benevolent policies to keep the tigers away. To put it bluntly, they boasted about their own political achievements, and then had them recorded.

Upon closer inspection, this Ren Zheng Tui Hu was just a blind cat catching a dead mouse.

The two times the army encountered tiger infestations were performance art taken to the extreme.

The reason was entirely because of the story of Li Guang shooting the tiger stone recorded in "Records of the Grand Historian".

As the husband of Li Guang's granddaughter, what's wrong with Sima Qian praising his wife's grandfather?
With this performance art in mind, isn't it inevitable that the other two generals would imitate it?
Although it was not famous because of its ugly head, it is a replicable performance art after all. It can be used after some modifications, so there were the so-called three tiger disasters.

In addition to these tiger disasters, there were one or two records used to discredit others. For example, it was recorded that the former local governor sent people to catch tigers but caused serious damage. If it was true, why was it not recorded at the time, but added later? It is hard to say how long it was added and why it was added.

People in the Han Dynasty were afraid of tigers? Go ask those who helped Emperor Liu Che catch tigers and put them in the tiger park whether they were afraid of tigers.

They were afraid that there were too few tigers, and they would not be able to catch any and get the reward.

Even their methods of catching tigers were recorded in the relief carvings on the bricks of many princes' tombs.

Yes, ordinary untrained and unarmed people cannot beat tigers, but people digging the fields is the most fatal blow to tigers. The fertile fields where most people live do not have the survival resources to feed tigers, so there will be no tigers at all.

Where there are tigers, people can hunt and feed themselves, and there are many professional hunters.

Therefore, tigers will always be suppressed by Homo sapiens in their own ecological niche.

Even during the Qin Dynasty, special laws were introduced to protect animals, prohibiting people from excessively hunting wild animals for meat.

How did we come to the conclusion that ancient people were afraid of tigers?

Those who say this are simply trying to sell their own stories, attract attention, and exaggerate the facts.

However, Chang'an has a special terrain and is separated by rivers.

There are no tigers on this side of the Qinling Mountains. Only after crossing the Qinling Mountains can you see the Overlord Tiger that is based in Shu. The Overlord Tiger will not cross the Qinling Mountains and go north.

Although there are tigers in the north, they can only move south in the winter when the rivers are frozen.

It's the end of July now, what tiger is there? Where did the tiger come from?

If there really was a tiger, it would have had to move westward to get enough to eat during the six months after the river was unsealed. When it reached the Shanglinyuan Palace area, there were so many Yulin Guards. How could it survive when they saw the tiger's military feat of moving?

Unless someone releases tigers into the hunting area.

Huo Hai waved the reins of his horse and said, "Who would release tigers into a hunting area? That's crazy, hahahaha."

"drive!"

"These people are so annoying. Why are they following us? Let's go away and into the woods."

In the back, Liu Che led his army to run wildly: "Oh no, we've entered the forest!"

Zhou Lie was sweating, but he remained calm: "Your Majesty, why did you ask me to release the tiger into the hunting area?"

Liu Che: "Of course it's to show everyone the power of firearms! Killing a tiger with one shot is shocking enough!"

Zhou Lie: "If that's the case, then there's nothing to worry about. Lord Huo plays with guns every day. He has four guns hanging on his horse. Each gun is specially made and of much higher quality than those used by ordinary Yulin Guards."

Liu Che: "The tiger was released for the Yulin Guards to hunt collectively!"

"No matter how powerful a gun is, it has to be accurate with one shot. If it can't hit the target, a tiger will only need a moment to get close to it at a distance of ten feet. How will Huo Hai get the chance to fire a second shot?!"

Zhou Lie: "A tiger won't pounce on people just because it sees them, let alone such a large group of people."

But in Liu Che's eyes, Huo Hai's speed was getting faster and faster.

Huo Hai's horse was carefully selected. With four guns and two men on board, it ran much faster than the horses behind, and the gap between them was getting bigger and bigger.

Only the war horses of the Yulin Guards could keep up with this speed.

The general's cavalrymen in the rear accelerated rapidly.

……

After passing through a small forest, there was a small hill. Huo Hai led the horse up the hill: "Whoa!"

The warhorse stopped and Huo Hai tickled Princess Wei Chang's skin.

Princess Wei Chang shrank back and curled up in Huo Hai's arms to avoid the itch.

Huo Hai laughed and took out a pot of wine: "This is a gift for you."

Princess Wei Chang was curious: "Oh? It's a gift today?" It's not a novel way of expressing love, nor is it a love talk, but a gift?

Huo Hai: "When I was a kid, I had a dream, which was to ride a horse with the girl I liked, live a carefree life together, and enjoy the prosperity of the world by galloping on horseback."

Even though they were acting.

But many children who watched that scene at that time had this impression.

That scene was really well shot.

Princess Wei Chang: "So, you've wanted to take me horseback riding for a long time? But because my riding skills are not good enough, you have to wait until today?"

Huo Hai laughed: "Because you must have a gun before you can take out the three treasures of the war horse."

Huo Hai patted the saddle and said, "If the Xiongnu knew about these three warhorse treasures, their fighting power would at least increase threefold!"

Princess Wei Chang's face changed.

If the Huns' fighting power increased threefold, they would probably be able to suppress the Han Dynasty.

But Huo Hai continued: "However, with guns, the combat effectiveness of the Han warriors will increase a thousand times, so it doesn't matter whether it is three times or not."

Princess Wei Chang: "So you actually thought of the three warhorse treasures a long time ago, but you were afraid that you couldn't restrain the Xiongnu cavalry, so you never took them out?"

Huo Hai nodded: "I am afraid that I will die suddenly one day, and before I can find a way to improve the military strength of the Han Dynasty, the news of the three treasures of war horses will be leaked, and then I will become a sinner of the Han Dynasty."

Princess Wei Chang: "So, the Warhorse Sanbao is a gift from you? It's very nice!"

Huo Hai smiled and opened the gourd: "This is my gift to you."

"This is called highland barley wine. There has always been a kind of highland barley wheat similar to barley wheat on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. This time, the people who came back from Chengdu brought back some and asked Zhao Guo to study it."

“I made the barley wine myself.”

It is too difficult to transport goods into the plateau. Barley is edible and is very important for the plan to hide troops.

Huo Hai prepared tsampa, ghee, barley wine and milk tea, all of which had to be sent back.

However, Huo Hai took out a pot of barley wine that he had made himself and wanted to give it to Princess Wei Chang.

Because Princess Wei Chang's nickname was Qing Ke.

Why didn't you bring Qingke's food to Princess Wei Chang? To be honest, Qingke tasted terrible. People living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau couldn't stand it. But barley wine was really good.

Princess Wei Chang took the wine jug and took a sip.

Huo Hai: "What's that smell?"

Princess Wei Chang pursed her lips and felt it: "It's sour and sweet, and a little fragrant."

Huo Hai chuckled: "It's sour and sweet just like our love. You smell a bit good too."

Princess Wei Chang turned around and took a bite of Huo Hai's mouth.

At this moment, Huo Hai's eyes changed from laughing to serious.

A gorgeous tiger is right in front of us!
Huo Hai finally understood why tigers are called big beasts.

The tiger was in an ambush, just lying there like a caterpillar.

But its exaggerated shoulders and forelimb muscles are ten times larger than the most muscular male soldier Huo Hai has ever seen!
Princess Wei Chang's joking expression also disappeared.

Because she saw Liu Che and a large group of people riding horses to the edge of the woods and just coming out.

At this time, the group that followed Liu Che conducted a carpet search for all the people who had just left the forest.

I saw Huo Hai hugging Princess Wei Chang and being intimate with her.

The two men rode on a horse.

The horse stands on the hill, looking very strong, like a painting.

It would be better if there wasn't a tiger that was more than one meter tall in the corner of the painting.

The exaggerated muscles on this tiger are creepy.

The key is that this guy is already within ambush distance.

Huo Hai passed his left hand over the four guns, wondering which one to use.

It would definitely be best to use an extra-long caliber revolver, which would allow for continuous shooting. However, the tiger's head would be blown up directly, and the recoil would be large. The princess was in his arms, so it didn't seem a good idea to use an extra-long revolver.

Use a short flintlock rifle? What if you don't kill him?
Finally, Huo Hai touched the breech-loading double-barreled smoothbore shotgun.

If one shot doesn't kill, you can always shoot a second time, it's safer.

The key is to kill the tiger with one shot. You don't need to rely on marksmanship. If it dares to come over, just shoot it steadily.

The third and most important point is that the skin of the trophy can be preserved relatively intact, although there will be many holes in it.

Huo Hai took out a reloadable double-barreled smoothbore shotgun.

I thought to myself that you are a bit unlucky, as you got to catch up with firearms, which were originally invented in the Song Dynasty and did not really reach their peak until the 20th century.

Huo Hai filled the barrel with gunpowder, raised the gun with one hand, and said loudly: "Retreat quickly, I will spare your life."

The tiger should be able to understand.

I am not weak at all. If it understood what I was doing, it would have retreated.

The tiger also hesitated at this time.

The group of people who had just come out of the woods were shocked.

Huo Hai's light words frightened the tiger, so that it no longer dared to move forward stealthily.

But the next moment, the tiger moved again.

Before most of the onlookers could react, the tiger had already shortened the distance between itself and the horse by half with its sudden burst of energy!

He jumped up and flew towards Huo Hai and Princess Wei Chang!
This explosive power! So terrifying!
Liu Che was shocked and rode his horse forward.

However, almost everyone's horses saw the tiger and dared not move forward. Even if they whipped the whip or pulled the reins, it was useless.

"boom!"

There was a loud bang.

The gorgeous tiger that pounced out with an invincible posture lost its life in the air, and fell to the ground by inertia like a dead dog. It swooped down, rolled on the ground, and then lay down, with its head sticking out of the mud and grass.

Sliding in front of Huo Hai's horse hooves.

Princess Wei Chang was caught by the court officials for her love affair, and she had not noticed what was happening behind her. When she heard the deafening sound of gunfire, she turned around and saw a huge tiger lying in front of her. She screamed, "Ah!"

The horse was not scared by the tiger, but was startled by Princess Wei Chang and raised its front hooves.

Huo Hai held the gun in his left hand and raised his arm back, blocking Princess Wei Chang with his right hand on his chest while tightening the reins.

The princess half turned around and curled up in Huo Hai's arms, holding Huo Hai's clothes tightly.

The horse's hooves were raised high, and Huo Hai hugged the princess and almost stood on the horse's stirrups with both feet, looking very energetic.

But his face was full of regret and pity.

Huo Hai, who was full of modern thinking, couldn't help but feel sorry for the loss of such a big tiger.

This scene left an unforgettable shock to everyone who came here.

In everyone's eyes, Huo Hai's pity and regret expressed another meaning.

Is this tiger usually so brave? Doesn't it know I have a gun?

What they saw was Huo Hai's disdain and indifference towards the tiger's fighting ability.

Was there an idiom called "gods descending to earth" in the past?

There's none?
Now there is!

However, there will never be another "Song of the Frontier in Reply to Zhang Pushe, Part Two".

Why is the general drawing his bow at night when the forest is dark and the grass is startled by the wind?
Only when facing difficulties can one write good poetry.

It's so smooth that I can only write doggerel!
To write is:

The princess and the prince consort came for a date.
Civil and military officials followed him.

There was a loud bang.

The tiger turned into a dead turtle.

(End of this chapter)