A month and a half passed in the blink of an eye.
Zhang Heng has finally set up his new home, including a two-story building, a cowshed, and a horse pen... Zhang Heng originally wanted to open a vegetable garden, but the land here is not suitable for planting, so he sowed the seeds. , even if he took care of it with all his heart, the final harvest was not very good, so Zhang Heng gave up.
He is not a construction fanatic, or has very high requirements for the quality of life, mainly because Matthew gave him a large piece of land, but there is nothing on the land except grass, so he has no choice but to build it himself.
Fortunately, he has not completely forgotten the construction techniques he learned from the shorts boy in the novice dungeon. In addition, after getting paid, he also spent money to hire two helpers and a mason.
Most of the houses in the town are of brick and wood structure. The advantage is that they can be built quickly and the cost is relatively easy to control. However, after Zhang Heng asked the amount of reward offered by the alcoholic sheriff Cook, he decided to do it in one step and replaced the wood with iron. , The house built in this way is stronger and can reduce fire hazards. As for the downside... it's expensive.
Because the iron and masonry used as building materials are all produced from factories on the east coast and transported to the town by train, the price has also doubled several times.
Before the bounty was found, Zhang Heng could only borrow some money from Matthew to pay for it.
Fortunately, the result looks pretty good. The main small building borrowed from his residence in the copy of Black Sail, and also referred to other houses in the town. It is more than enough for one person to live in. After the construction is completed, Zhang Heng also received a lv0 construction skill and 20 game points, which is a windfall.
Zhang Heng took two steps back and admired his residence for more than a year.
Although it was still two or three hours before sunset, he paid the helpers and masons a day's wages and asked them to leave work early. Then Zhang Heng found the radish grazing leisurely by the house, and rode it to Matthew's house next door.
Wendy sat on the steps at the door of the house, waiting for him a long time ago.
"How about it, do you want to try again today?" Seeing him, the girl got up and patted the dust off her skirt and asked.
Zhang Heng nodded.
"Then I'll call my father." Wendy left these words and briskly ran into the room.
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Two minutes later, the three of them stood in front of the stables.
"Are you ready?" Matthew asked.
"Hmm, let's get started." Zhang Heng took a deep breath, pushed open the gate of the stables, walked in, and then put down the wooden bar.
There was only one horse in the stable, a pure black horse with dark and shiny fur.
According to Matthew, it was originally the head of a large herd of wild horses on the grassland. It was the most irritable and difficult to tame. It got into a catastrophe less than a week after it was sent, broke the stables, and escaped with other horses. , went to freedom.
It took Matthew a few days to get him back, and he had a separate harness for him, and Wendy gave him a bad boy name.
According to the previous contract between Zhang Heng and Wendy, the bad boy now belongs to him, but after a month and a half, Zhang Heng still failed to ride it away.
Zhang Heng has experienced the bad temper of the bad boy many times. Just yesterday, he was dragged five meters away on the ground like a rag by the bad boy. The scratch on his arm is still there.
But before he recovered, Zhang Heng came to challenge again. After a month and a half of Matthew's careful training, Zhang Heng is no longer the Mengxin who couldn't even command a carrot. His equestrian skills have now officially broken through The mark of lv1.
However, in the repeated battle of wits and courage with the bad boy, Zhang Heng also realized that lv1 cannot tame this wild dark horse, but Zhang Heng did not give up. After learning the skills, Zhang Heng became more and more sure of one thing, that is, the most powerful skill of human beings is actually learning.
Summarizing experience from repeated failures and constantly looking for solutions to problems are skills that many creatures in nature possess, but only humans have brought this ability to the extreme.
It's like when you play "Sekiro", you are abused by various bosses to doubt your life at the beginning, but you fail again and again like in class, when you have mastered all the knowledge points taught by the teacher, the next step is the time for the graduation exam .
Zhang Heng pulled off his hat, took the lasso thrown by Matthew, and waved it above his head.
The bad boy on the other side also seemed to know that his old enemy was coming, so he stopped his leisurely walk and began to dig the ground with his horse's hooves. At the same time, the horse's ears were facing down, showing its teeth.
Before Zhang Heng could make a move, it rushed over first, giving Zhang Heng a savage charge.
However, if Zhang Heng could be hit by it, it would be in vain to lose the dexterity he had cultivated in his pirate career for so many years. He moved sideways and easily dodged the sneak attack.
But the bad boy was so determined that he turned his head and wanted to bite him.
Zhang Heng hesitated for a while, and finally chose to squat down to avoid it again.
In fact, the bad boy's chic flick also revealed his flaws. The last time Zhang Heng caught it's flaws, he threw the noose around its neck.
After that... Zhang Heng turned into a rag and was dragged on the ground for a while.
This trick has been tried and tested against ordinary horses, but it has completely failed on bad boys.
This irascible black horse is amazingly strong. After such a long period of training, Zhang Heng's strength has long been good, but he is still not its opponent, and he was directly taken away by it with brute force.
So this time, Zhang Heng didn't make a rash move, but chose to persuade him first, let the black guy be proud first, and continue to wait for the opportunity.
In fact, there are only a few types of horse attack methods that come and go. Zhang Heng has been enjoying himself during this period of time, and he has given these methods the same name as the skill according to the game, such as the [Brutal Charge] just now. [Death Stomp] with kicking hooves, [Dragon Swinging] with head shaking, [See you again] with kicking backwards, and [Furious Bite] with a gentleman's mouth and hands
In addition, there are also some bad horses that will secretly step on your feet while you are not paying attention. If you are stepped on by them, they will stand there like a normal horse, enjoying the beautiful scenery around them, and mouthing Breathe the fresh air of nature, and then you can enjoy the sourness of the weight of four or five hundred catties on the feet.
Although the bad boy is more violent, his attack methods are not beyond the above category.
A set of [Savage Rush] + [Shenlong Swinging Head] + [Frenzied Bite] + [See you again] After the four moves in a row, it entered the skill CD period, and then the bad boy turned around and looked at the front of him triumphantly. Zhang Heng, if it could talk, it would probably add a sentence at this time, "Stupid human beings, you are still young if you want to ride me~"