With a clang, Fu Biao's axe was knocked out of his hand. He looked in horror at the man wearing a nine-barrel mask not far away. It was he who shot the arrow just now.

Before he could react, another arrow came at him. He didn't dare to resist and leaned back to avoid the arrow, but it caused an unlucky guy behind him to be shot and fall off his horse.

"It's the Archer! Run!"

Just two arrows were enough to make Fu Biao feel threatened by death. He hurriedly turned his horse's head and fled to the side, then hung his body to the side to avoid being hit by the arrows.

Chen Changfan raised the corner of his mouth and drew his bow and arrow again, this time aiming at the horse's belly.

An arrow was shot out with a whoosh, piercing through the horse's belly and shooting through Fu Biao who was hiding behind it.

Bang!

Fu Biao's body fell to the ground, and there was still a look of disbelief in his eyes.

"Boss Fu!"

"Big brother!"

"There's an archer! Run!"

Fu Biao's tragic death immediately threw the bandits into chaos. Their original charging formation was immediately disrupted, and before they could run far, they were killed by several rounds of arrows.

"...Eighteen, nineteen, twenty, no! There's one missing!"

Zhang Yi counted the bodies and found that there was one less body than before, and his heart sank.

"There! That person must have been hiding under the carriage."

"Damn it, I've already run this far!"

Someone in the team shouted, and saw a disheveled figure stumbling and running, and had already run six or seven hundred meters.

"Damn it, I can't even shoot from such a distance!" Zhang Yi said gritting his teeth.

Shen Wanwu, who had been hiding in the team, looked at the figure and suddenly felt inexplicably familiar.

"Ruan Qi! It's him! He was the one who colluded with the bandits to steal my raw silk, and even killed my wife in front of me..."

Shen Wanwu's eyes were filled with anger.

The sound of a bowstring vibrating was heard, and everyone saw an arrow draw an elegant arc in the air and soar into the sky.

Then the arrow slowly fell down, like a meteor falling from the sky.

"Sir! Can this arrow hit the target?"

Seeing that the arrow seemed to be moving a little slowly, Zhang Yi asked anxiously.

If this bandit is let go, there will be endless trouble.

Chen Changfan calmly put away his compound bow, smiled and shook his head, "Look, you're anxious again."

"Let it fly a little longer."

He crossed his arms calmly, but he was actually a little unsure.

After all, at this distance, if a breeze suddenly comes, it will cause the arrow to deviate from its trajectory, resulting in unpredictable deviations.

Whether you succeed or not depends on your fate!

However, Ruan Qi's fate was obviously not very good. The arrow went straight through his thigh and then penetrated deeply into the ground, nailing him to the spot.

"Ahhh—my legs! Run!"

Ruan Qi cried out in despair.

A whistle blew.

Zhuifeng came running out of the forest. Chen Changfan jumped on his horse, pulled Shen Wanwu onto the horse's back, and galloped towards Ruan Qi.

When he reached Ruan Qi, Shen Wanwu jumped off his horse, his teeth chattering, wishing he could eat Ruan Qi alive.

A dark bone knife was handed over, and Chen Changfan's voice slowly came from behind him.

"Your revenge should be your own."

"Thanks."

Shen Wanwu took the bone knife and walked towards Ruan Qi, who was terrified, step by step, with only endless hatred in his eyes.

"Brother Shen, don't kill me..."

Ruan Qi covered his injured leg, his face as pale as paper. He knew he couldn't escape, so he had to grab Shen Wanwu's trouser legs and beg.

All he got in response was a sneer.

"Ruan Qi! I treated you like a brother! When you fainted from hunger on the street, I gave you a bowl of noodles! When your mother died and had no money to bury her, I paid for her lavish burial! But how did you treat me?"

With one stab of the knife, Shen Wanwu dug out a piece of flesh from Ruan Qi's shoulder, and a look of satisfaction flashed across his face.

Ruan Qi was in so much pain that cold sweat broke out on his forehead, but he couldn't stop sneering.

Because he knew that the other party was determined to kill him.

"Hahaha! Shen Wanwu! You have food, so what if you give me a bite to eat? You have money, so what if you spend some on my mother?

I just can't stand your arrogant attitude. The bigger your business is, the more uncomfortable I feel!

Why are you the boss who drinks and eats meat, while I am just a waiter serving you? I am not willing to accept this and I don’t accept it!

Since I can't make that much money in my lifetime, I might as well just rob it. The hero of Hutouzhai promised me that if I can pull this off, he'll give me fifty taels... What are you laughing at?"

Ruan Qi saw the sneer on Shen Wanwu's mouth widen, as if he had heard a very funny joke.

"Fifty taels... Hehe, you know, if we can make this silk deal, I was planning to give you 10% of the profit... Hehe!"

Ruan Qi's expression froze for a moment, as if he was a little bit incredulous, but then he sneered with disdain, "A 10% profit is probably not much money. You're not even as rich as a bandit..."

"It's really not much. The profit on this batch of raw silk is about one thousand taels, and a ten percent profit is only one hundred taels."

Ruan Qi couldn't laugh anymore.

"You...how could you bear to do that?"

"Oh! You have a dirty heart, so everything you see is dirty! I treated the bowl of noodles I gave you as food for the dog. Oh, and your mother, I will dig her out with my own hands!"

Shen Wanwu's words completely defeated Ruan Qi. He kowtowed to Shen Wanwu like a madman, begging him not to touch his mother's body.

But what he got in response was a knife piercing his heart.

The hot blood flowed down the handle of the knife and onto Shen Wanwu's hand, but he only felt an extremely cold heart.

It took a while before I recovered.

He wiped the bone knife clean and handed it back to Chen Changfan with both hands. "Sir, I think you're right! If you're bullied, you have to go up and kill him!"

Chen Changfan curled his lips, thinking that Shen Wanwu was a bit too long-winded.

"You just said you were going to dig up his mother's grave. Are you serious?"

Shen Wanwu scratched his head embarrassedly, "I was just saying that. I don't even know where his mother is buried."

"The disaster doesn't affect the family, the death is the greatest." Chen Changfan nodded.

If you are not ruthless, you will be the lamb to be slaughtered.

As a person who traveled from China, he couldn't bear to do anything at first, but sometimes if he didn't kill someone, others would come to kill him.

Now, his mentality has changed greatly. He didn't feel the slightest bit of emotion when he killed those bandits just now.

Because those people deserve to be killed, so they should be killed.

But digging graves should not be done.

Because the disaster will not affect the family.

There is a knife in the hand and Buddha in the heart.

He killed bandits without blinking an eye, but he was unwilling to take action against those extremely bad family members.

Anyway, we will never have any contact with each other again, so just let them fend for themselves.

"Clean up the battlefield and withdraw the troops back to the mountain."

He gave an order and the group acted quickly, erasing all traces and transporting the three carts of raw silk back to Xiaofeng Mountain.

……

After this battle, a few days of peace passed.

I heard that Hutouzhai was asking around to find out who robbed them, and even went to the market to find out if there was any raw silk.

But this batch of raw silk seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and there was not even a trace of it.

The village chief Wang Zhanhu was furious and finally suspected that Ruan Qi had leaked the information and staged a conspiracy to rob his fellow criminals and swallowed up the batch of raw silk.

He ordered that Ruan Qi's mother be dug out of the grave, her bones crushed and her ashes scattered, only then did he feel a little relieved from the hatred in his heart.

Chen Changfan was slightly surprised when he heard the news, and at the same time he was a little amused.

If he had allowed Shen Wanwu to dig the grave, he might have exposed himself. It was just a momentary kindness that accidentally saved him from disaster.

In just a few days, Xiaofengshan has gained valuable development space, and the progress in all aspects is quite gratifying.

Based on Chen Changfan's drawings, Tang Shao and Hu the roofer actually made a bundled jacquard machine.

This loom mainly uses a foot-operated sheath-lifting opening device, which greatly improves production efficiency. It can weave one foot of cloth in one hour. If you are skilled in it, you can weave two feet of cloth in one hour at the fastest.

Under the guidance of Shen Wanwu, the female workers have already processed the raw silk into finished silk and are just waiting for the looms to come off the production line in large quantities.

There are only two looms in the whole village now, and women have to queue up to work.

They felt bad about eating and drinking for free and hoped to weave cloth for a while longer. Now they urged Hu the bricklayer to speed up the production of the loom every day.

Hu the bricklayer was almost exhausted to the point of vomiting blood, while Han the blacksmith felt much more relaxed.

The waterwheel built by Tang Shao had an endless supply of power, which greatly improved the efficiency of iron smelting and forging.

And he seemed to be studying how to manufacture what Chen Changfan called a "hydraulic mine car", which would greatly increase coal production.

This undoubtedly put invisible pressure on Han the blacksmith. If the coal production increased but his iron smelting could not keep up with the progress, he would definitely be disliked by the adults.

It is gratifying that the yield rate of ring-handled swords has been greatly improved. Shopkeeper Fu asks him for defective products every day, but he really can't get them, which makes Shopkeeper Fu so anxious that he keeps turning around in circles.

Progress in manufacturing seamless iron pipes has been slow.

The adults required the iron pipe to be as long as possible and without any gaps, which was obviously difficult to achieve.

"Since heating is difficult to build, let's build more furnaces!"

Chen Changfan also knew that it was still very difficult to produce seamless iron pipes in this era.

But it would be much simpler to build a few more furnaces, which would not only provide similar heating effects but also improve production efficiency.

"What is the current population of the village?"

Chen Changfan called the shopkeeper Lai Fu and asked.

Ever since Manager Fu came into the manor, he has managed everything in perfect order. Shen Cuiyun has finally been freed and can devote herself to her husband and children.

"There are currently 298 people in the village, including 150 members of the bandit suppression team and the village protection team. According to your instructions, we will reorganize them into 15 squads, with five squads forming a platoon. Lao Wei, Zhang Yi, and Chief Fang will be the platoon leaders, and you will be the company commander, the supreme commander."

Chen Changfan nodded. He didn’t expect that he would become a company commander so quickly. When would he be able to become a regimental commander for fun?

Of course, it's just a thought. If I were to become the regiment commander, the number of soldiers would have to be increased tenfold.

He can't afford to support so many people.

"Apart from the soldiers, most of the rest are craftsmen. Zhuangzi is now completely renewed thanks to them. But..."

Shopkeeper Fu seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"Just what? Don't hesitate!"

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