Before Chen Xu came, a group of young men in gorgeous clothes were gathered by the river to ride horses and release bamboo kites. There were many onlookers and cheering. The group was very proud and rode back and forth and had fun playing. However, Chen Xu immediately stole their limelight, and all the onlookers ran away in a blink of an eye.

The young men suddenly lost interest, stared at each other with big eyes for a while, and then looked at the several kites that were still rising in the sky. One of them, a handsome young man, rode his horse straight to Chen Xu's carriage.

"Hey, brother-in-law, you are here too!" Looking at Meng Yun, who was depressed on his face, Chen Xu smiled and bowed to say hello.

"I've seen my brother-in-law!" Meng Yun forced a smile.

"My brother-in-law is feeling unwell. Could it be constipation?" Chen Xu said jokingly.

Meng Yun looked up at the kite in the sky and said, "What are these?"

"Kites, just like the bamboo kites you put on!" Chen Xu explained with a smile.

"I knew you couldn't stand us having fun, and we would definitely make a more fun one to steal our limelight!" Meng Yun sighed, and a hint of melancholy appeared on the face of the beautiful woman.

"What's so fun about this? It's just a toy for children and girls. The bamboo kite you put on is very conscious. Let's take me over and take a look!" Chen Xu turned over and rode a horse, Meng Yun also rode on the horse and took Chen Xu to a group of young people in gorgeous clothes.

"Have you met the Qinghe Marquis!" A group of young people were all well-known second-generation officials in Xianyang, and they were top playboys who were in the capital. They usually looked arrogant and looked at people. However, facing Chen Xu, they all bowed with shame and greeted him carefully.

"No gifts and no gifts~" Chen Xu waved his hand with a smile after dismounting. These playboys were not the same as him. They had met on weekdays, but they did not play together, because Chen Xu's current playboys are very advanced, either emperors, princes, princes, ministers, and officials, and the heads of the three provinces and six ministries. They can't pee or talk to these playboys, and there is no common language except for playing mahjong.

Moreover, because Chen Xu's identity is too noble and special, these playboys dare not play with Chen Xu at all. Even Meng Yun felt ashamed. Since he was cured by Chen Xu in Qinghe Town, he felt uncomfortable when he saw Chen Xu.

After saying hello, Chen Xu squatted down and took a closer look at the huge bamboo kite placed on the ground.

Chen Xu didn't know when the history of kites began, but kites were called paper kites in ancient China. It can be seen that they only appeared after paper was found. They should not have been before Cai Lun improved papermaking. In other words, the history of kites may have only appeared after the Han Dynasty.

But this is not necessarily the case, because without paper, other things can be made, such as linen, silk or leather, etc.

Silk is very expensive, more expensive than gold, so even a wealthy family that is so rich that it is impossible to use silk to make kites. The rest can be made of linen or cowhide, etc., but both linen or cowhide are very heavy. If the kite is not made large enough, it will definitely not fly.

The bamboo kite in front of me is the shape of a big bird, with a wingspan of six or seven feet, and the whole body is made of bamboo strips. The head, tail and claws are all like an eagle. The neck is short but the wings are very large. The center of the body is supported by wooden pieces. The body is covered with a layer of cowhide, and even the wings and tail are stained with many colorful feathers. The neck and claws are tied to the neck and claws. The hemp rope tied below is also very thick and the structure is very delicate, but it is too heavy.

After reading it, Chen Xu lifted the bamboo kite with his hands and found that it weighed at least five or six kilograms.

"Can this thing fly?" Chen Xu was very uncertain.

"Yes, but the wind must be strong enough. We have come to let it fly several times in the past few days but have not succeeded!" Meng Yun said a little depressedly.

Chen Xu nodded, feeling that it was understandable that if the wind was too small or unstable, even paper kites could not fly, let alone such a large bird with bamboo and wood veneer structure. However, Chen Xu was not interested in this bird, but the craftsman who made this bamboo kite, who should be a very powerful expert.

"Where did you find this craftsman?"

"Just in Qi City, north of the city, an old lame man, the best bamboo kite in Xianyang is made in his entire country, but it is also very expensive. This one cost me nearly 300 yuan, and it took me more than a month to do it!" Meng Yun replied.

Chen Xu nodded. There are many craftsmen who are proficient in making bamboo and wood utensils at present, but it is rare to be so exquisite. Such talents are worth inviting to the Academy of Sciences to develop. In the future, if you want to make hot air balloons, you don’t have to look for people everywhere.

"How can this thing fly? Let me try it?"

Chen Xu was very interested. At first glance, this thing was hundreds of times taller than a paper-paste kite. It was much better to behave like a Bugatti Veyron-level spacecraft, which was incomparable to the triangular quadrilateral paper kite he had made in a few minutes.

If you are poor, you are rich and play with watches, you are a loser and play with supercars, and you are a big bird. If you are a man, you should play with such high-end products. Now that you see this giant bird, Chen Xu instantly loses interest in his kite.

Seeing Chen Xu being so interested in his bamboo kite, Meng Yun was also very excited and told in detail how to let him fly. A group of playboys were also helping him, and soon Chen Xu figured it out.

Because the bamboo kite is too big and too heavy, you need to put a hemp rope at least ten feet long. The other end of the hemp rope is tied to a leather ring on the waist of the flyer. If the wind is strong enough, the bamboo kite will start to slowly release the rope like a kite after flying up. Once it reaches a height of dozens of feet, under the huge wingspan and wind resistance, the bamboo kite will stay in the air like an eagle for a long time, and tie the rope to a stone or a small tree and even for a few days.

"Brother-in-law, be careful, this thing has a very strong pulling force, be careful that you are pulled off the horse's back by a bamboo pot!"

Seeing Chen Xu climbing onto the horse's back and tie the rope to the leather ring, Meng Yun couldn't help but remind him again.

"Don't worry!" Chen Xu waved his hand with a smile. It had been almost four years since he traveled to Daqin and rode horses almost every day. Chen Xu was still very confident in his equestrian skills.

Seeing that the two playboys had already lifted the bamboo pot, Chen Xu took a deep breath, knocked his legs against the horse's belly, and under the stimulation of the blunt thorns of the stirrups, the group of Xiongnu horses under his crotch raised their heads and neighed and rushed out.

"Huh~" The moment the hemp rope was tensed, Chen Xu only felt that he was wrapped around a snake weighing hundreds of pounds and pulled it back. The moment the bamboo pot rose into the sky, he was pulled away from the horse's back.

"Brother-in-law, be careful~"

"Honor, be careful~"

Meng Yun and a group of dandy behind him were frightened and exclaimed almost at the same time.

"Damn~"

Chen Xu also made a shrill scream. Fortunately, his feet were still in the stirrups, otherwise he would suddenly pull him off the horse's back. In panic, Chen Xu quickly grabbed the horse's mane with both hands and leaned down as Meng Yun's instructions just now, then hugged the horse's neck tightly. As the bamboo pot slowly flew up, Chen Xu felt that his waist was about to be broken by the hemp rope, and his butt was pulled and stuck out little by little, looking like a arched shrimp.

A whirring wind passed by his ears. Chen Xu had no way to look back at the bamboo kite flying. He felt that the pulling force of the hemp rope was getting stronger and stronger. After less than twenty seconds of persistence, Chen Xu felt that he would be taken to the sky by the bamboo kite if he didn't stop, so he could only pull the reins to reduce the speed of the horse. At this time, he had just run out for only forty feet, and the bamboo kite had only flown less than five feet high.

The horse stopped quickly, but the shaking bamboo kite did not stop, but flew over Chen Xu's head under the action of inertia.

"Mr. Don't stop, turn quickly~" An anxious shout came from behind.

"Turn..." Chen Xu suddenly remembered that Meng Yun had to ride a horse around the corner when he stopped. He had not figured out why he wanted to turn. He only felt a black shadow swept past his head with a whirlwind, and then a huge pulling force pulled him into the air. His body flew up from the horse's back as if it was flying, and then he smashed heavily on the ground with a thud. He rolled five or six times under the pull of Zhu Jiao before finally stopping.

"Hurry up, the marquis is injured!" Several playboys turned pale in an instant and turned their backs and horses rushed straight to Chen Xu.

"It's over, it's over!" Meng Yun's head was blank and looked at Chen Xu who was lying motionless on the ground, muttering to himself in his mouth.

"Hurry up, the marquis fell off the horse!" At this time, a group of people flying kites in the distance also shouted. The scene was in a panic, and a group of guards jumped onto the horse and ran over.

"Husband~~" Meng Wan and Ying Shiman also turned pale in an instant, threw down the kite string in their hands, held their skirts and ran to the place where Chen Xu was dismissed.

Chen Xu only felt that the world was shaking, as if he was arched by a wild boar weighing 800 pounds. His head was buzzing and the stars were dancing in front of him. The dark sky was spinning in front of him, and he didn't know what was going on.

"Mr. Marquis~Mr. Marquis~" A group of dandy rushing over helped Chen Xu, who was placed on the ground in a strange twisted posture, and they were so panicked that they lost their souls.

"How about the marquis?" The horse's hooves were galloping towards him, and a group of guards rushed up with pale faces and threw the dandy aside and shouted loudly.

During the continuous shaking, Chen Xu finally found his eyelids, slowly opened his eyes, and looked at a circle of familiar faces in the stars.
Chapter completed!