Feeling the warmth of those small hands and watching the female bandit who had kidnapped him washing his feet with a low eyebrow, Nie Chen felt extremely happy.
However, the next second, the female bandit picked up the footbath, pointed it at his head, and slapped it...
A basin full of foot-washing water was poured on Nie Chen's head, giving him a chill.
"It's washed!"
After saying that, the eldest lady directly put the footbath on Nie Chen's head, twisted her butt and left angrily.
Early the next morning, Nie Chen got up and asked Da Zhuang to call a dozen people to go find the master.
"Master, give them the money and let them go to the city to buy cowhide, beef tendons and poles, and some carpenter tools. It's best to find a few carpenters up the mountain."
Nie Chen said directly.
"Are we going to start building it now? Okay, we have to start digging at the mine as well."
The headmaster nodded.
"Yes, let's make a batch first, arm ourselves, and then recruit more troops and recruit more bandits. We can also have more manpower for mining, so that we can make more money.
There are people selling cowhide and beef tendon in the city, but the quantity is small. We can use it in the early stage, but if we want to produce it on a large scale in the future, we still have to do business with the barbarians. "
"Okay, you can arrange for people to take care of this. I said, there are more than 300 brothers in the village, you can arrange them as you like."
The headmaster waved his hand and said very boldly.
"By the way, Master, do we have any enemies in Qingfeng Village?"
Nie Chen asked.
"Enemy? Yes, there is a Niubai Mountain on the west side of the official road. There is a group of bandits on it. The leader is called Ma Niubai. He has more than 300 people under his command. They have always refused to deal with our Qingfeng Village. Years ago They also attacked our mountain gate, but they were easily repelled by my formation of troops."
The headmaster said curiously,
"Why do you ask?"
Nie Chen smiled slightly, turned to a clever bandit behind him and said,
"When I arrived in the city, when I was shopping, I remembered to reveal in a subtle way that we, Niu Ai Shan, are rich now. Some time ago, for some reason, the boss, Ma Niu Ai, suddenly got a large sum of money. Do you understand?
Be generous when buying things to let people know that we in Niujie Mountain are rich now. "
"I understand, little one."
The clever bandit nodded immediately.
"Okay, what's your name?"
"How can a little nickname offend the second master's ears? My brothers all call me Skinny Monkey."
"Okay, let's go Shouhou."
"Okay."
Shouhou took the money given by the boss and led the people into the city happily.
After the headmaster was silent for a moment, he smiled slightly and said,
"I understand. You are worried about the Liu family's revenge, so you probably spread false news to make the Liu family mistakenly believe that the people who kidnapped and killed Liu Chong were people from Niubaishan. This will lead to trouble, right?"
"Yes, the boss is really smart. In addition, the news about me in the village must be blocked. Don't let the brothers talk nonsense. I'm worried about spies.
If someone asks what the name of the new second master of Qingfeng Village is, just say Wu Yanzu. "
Hearing these three words, Weng Qiuchan, who was behind the headmaster, could not help but twitch his lips with cold cheeks.
"Wu Yanzu? Okay, in order to avoid the Liu family's revenge, before the Liu family is destroyed, just use this name to declare to the outside world."
Nie Chen nodded, then walked out and walked towards the iron smelting room.
Nie Chen spent the entire morning tinkering in the blacksmith's room. In the afternoon, he walked out and had a large iron pot specially made for distilling spirits.
Then, he asked people to move all the wine out of the cottage, then lit a fire and began to distill spirits.
During the whole process, Da Dangjia, Da Zhuang, and Weng Qiuchan watched curiously.
Nie Chen didn't make a fortune by distilling spirits.
In this war-torn world, food is so precious. Very little is used to make wine, and it is even more wasteful to use it to distill spirits.
All you need is a stable output of not too much and not too little spirits, which can be sold exclusively to the barbarians on the grasslands in exchange for horses, cowhide and tendons, and then you can make weapons and make money by doing the arms business.
Soon, the mellow aroma of wine came out of the iron jar, and this smell attracted all the bandits in the village.
Most of the bandits went to mine, and the remaining few stayed in the village.
Letting bandits mine now is just a stopgap measure. Nie Chen plans to wait until he becomes bigger and stronger in the future, use money to buy the county magistrate, and then mine openly, recruit villagers as miners, pay them wages and take care of food, which can be regarded as a blessing. In the countryside.
Soon, dozens of bandits gathered around, sniffing with their noses stretched out, and discussing in a hurry.
"What's in this? Why does it smell so good?"
"I Tieniu's greedy mind has been brought out. Second Boss, is it ready? Let us have a try."
"That's right, what kind of treasure is this? Second Master, please stop hiding it."
"What are you still doing? Go get the bowl quickly. It's getting dark now. When the mining people come back later, they won't be able to get us to drink."
The bandits dispersed in a hurry, and after a while, they came over with something to eat.
The clever one also brought wine bowls to the three heads of the family.
Under the expectation of everyone, Nie Chen finally turned off the fire and opened the lid of the tin can.
For a time, the aroma of wine filled the village.
Every bandit showed an expression of intoxication and satisfaction.
Nie Chen brought a stool, stepped on it, took out a ladle of water, and shouted loudly,
"Don't mess around, hurry up and line up. Whoever doesn't line up won't get a drink!"
The bandits were very obedient now, and they immediately formed a long queue.
Nie Chen first poured a bowl of wine for each of the eldest master, Weng Qiuchan and Da Zhuang. Then he called a bandit and asked the man to come and get some wine. He also came to the eldest master's side holding the wine bowl.
"Come on, have a taste."
Nie Chen smiled.
The three heads of the family looked at it, picked up the wine bowl and drank it all in one gulp.
"Don't drink so fast!"
Nie Chen's reminder was too late. The three of them were already used to the previous wine, and they drank heavily at this time.
Immediately afterwards, the expressions of the three people changed. Their faces turned red, and they felt like there was fire burning in their stomachs.
"ha……"
"Good wine...burp..."
The boss put down his wine bowl and said,
"This wine is really strong. Even I can't stand it. Those barbarians on the grassland who eat meat will definitely prefer this kind of wine."
"How about it? I didn't lie to you. I told you that the people on the grassland will definitely like this wine. When the time comes, they will be drunk every day and we will make a lot of money. What fighting power do they have to fight us? ?”
Nie Chen slowly sipped the wine in the bowl.
"Nie Chen, for such a good wine, you should give it a nice name. This will make it easier to sell."
"Of course it has a name, it's called Haohan Bar."
