Wolf King

After the teenagers finished weaving the straw sandals and went to the river to wash their feet and put them on, they didn’t immediately follow Xiao Yun, but went back to the tribe to weave a bunch of shoes... The Snow Werewolf still has a spirit of sharing, In other words, life on the prairie has made these prairie tribes used to helping each other and avoiding isolationism. Even Thrall, whose bed was torn apart, got a pair...

That's right, because what's mine is yours, so what's yours is also mine. Under this kind of simple spirit of sharing, it is no psychological burden for young people to tear apart Sal's bed.

After weaving a bunch of straw sandals to complete their contribution to the tribe, several young people followed Xiao Yun out of the tribe.Of course, their range of activities must be within the patrol range of the tribe's warriors, too far away from the nest is still dangerous for the cubs.

"We need to find a container that can hold water, a container that is bigger than the clay pots and buckets in the tribe." Water tanks have never been used in the tribe, and it is difficult for Xiao Yun to explain his intentions to the young people, " The bottom of this container cannot leak water, and the top can be covered with something to prevent light from passing through. Only such a container meets the standard. Do you have any ideas?”

His series of unfamiliar terms made Wool and the others look at each other in dismay. After scratching their ears and cheeks for a long time, Wool asked: "Then can't we dig a hole by the river? It's the same as the water pit we dug."

"Huh..." Xiao Yun really didn't think about this aspect. When he thought that the containers for sprouting bean sprouts were pots, barrels, etc., he dug a stone trough if it didn't work. Obviously, making pots and barrels requires professional craftsmen , If you do it yourself, you have no skills and no tools. If you dig a stone trough, the workload is not light. "Let me think about it, digging a hole along the river bank... It seems to be feasible, so let's try it first."

When he came to the river again, this time Xiao Yun observed the land by the river very carefully. He scraped open the grass, pulled out a few clumps of weeds, and dug some soil with his hands to dig it out for a closer look.

There is nothing to say about the soil quality on the grassland. After tens of thousands of years of accumulation of humus layer and natural fermentation, most of the land is black soil. Xiao Yun looked at the water intake pit dug by the snow werewolf. , the bottom is still black.

"It seems to be possible...to keep a distance between the pit and the river, and to connect it with a ditch. When the water is changed, the ditch is dug to drain water, and then new water is added...the bottom of the pit is covered with a layer of pebbles, and then a layer of vine grass. Mats, to avoid touching the ground... For the cover, weave one directly out of reed poles..."

The more Xiao Yun thought about it, the more he felt that it was feasible. He observed the terrain, selected a river bank with a higher terrain, stepped on the ground with his feet, and estimated the drainage height needed to change the water in the bean sprout pit with his eyes. He made a fist and clapped his hands: " Alright, just dig here!"

Use the ox horn knife from A to cut a rectangle about half a meter wide and one meter long on the ground about two meters away from the river bank, and pull out a reed pole and fold it into four knots about [-] centimeters long. As the basic reference, Xiao Yun asked the three young men to dig a bean sprout hole with him...

Although there are reference objects, it is difficult for young people to dig out shallow pits with relatively similar average heights. After digging out a rough prototype, Xiao Yun sent them to pick up pebbles and was responsible for the "finishing": to ensure the water change When the sinking water can be drained cleanly, the bottom of the pit must be sloped, with the north side high and the south side low.

Hmm... Anyone who has manual experience knows that no matter how careful the design is, it is inevitable that there will be problems when doing it. Xiao Yun digs out the bottom of the pit with slopes by himself, and he will find that there will always be places with different heights and old ages. There was a mistake... No way, I could only stand up and back away from the bottom of the pit for a while, and try to measure the slope of the bottom of the slope with the naked eye.

The bottom of the pit was almost tidy, and the teenagers also picked up a lot of pebbles. Xiao Yun drew a straight line on the south side of the bean sprout pit facing the river for them to dig a drainage ditch. Bottom and side of pit.

After paving the pebbles, the irregularly shaped bean sprout pit looked like a handmade swimming pool for children. Xiao Yun was complacent for a while, and suddenly discovered a new problem: the pebbles in the earth pit still couldn't stop the water loss, and the water They all went to the land, and the bean sprouts are still hairy?

Scratching his scalp for a while... Xiao Yun remembered a video of a foreign Internet celebrity making a swimming pool with mud and water.

"There is no cement, but the finer mud is mixed with water and kneaded firmly. It seems that it can also play a role in preventing water?"

As soon as he said it, Xiao Yun squatted next to the excavated mud and squeezed the soil quality. He felt that it was okay and more delicate, so he piled up all the soil, picked out the stones mixed in, and sent the wool back to the tribe to get the bucket.

The soil from which the stones were picked out was mixed with water, and kneaded vigorously until it was half dry. Xiao Yun pulled out some reed stalks and mixed them into the mud... He remembered that old houses in the countryside would also mix grass stalks into the mud bricks, It seems that it can increase the toughness and viscosity of mud bricks.

Paste the mixed mud on the surface of the bean sprout pit like playing with plasticine, and smooth the surface with the back of the horn knife, Xiao Yun straightened up and beat his waist: "Let's do this first... wait until it dries completely to see if it can be done. It cannot be separated from the water."

After doing so few things, it was almost noon, and the snow werewolves who ate twice a day were now hungry, so Xiao Yun and the young people went back to the tribe to get food.

In the afternoon, the teenagers didn't want to run around with Xiao Yun anymore. They had something to do every day, and Xiao Yun even found them a job collecting wild vegetables, so they didn't have time to go to the river to play.

Xiao Yun had no choice but to do his duty like an ordinary tribal boy, picking up cow dung and wild vegetables all afternoon, and found a mouse hole in the middle of the wool, and a group of young people struggled for a while to catch it. Mice—the mice on the prairie are not in the same category as voles and house mice. Each one weighs four or five catties, and it is all meat when it is peeled off. It is very fat.

On the way to catch mice, Xiao Yun found purslane. Needless to say, he added another item to the menu of wild vegetables.

In the tribal dinner this day, the proportion of wild vegetables accounted for half of the meat. Of course, the reason is not that the young people can expand the scope of wild vegetables in addition to picking up cow dung, but that the patriarch specially went to recognize it the night before. The appearance of plantain, perilla, dandelion, and gray vegetables, the patriarch led the two tribes to work part-time during the daytime grazing... When he saw the newly found wild vegetables, the patriarch was also very happy to say that this weed He also saw it during the day.

The wild boar oil was used up yesterday. The wild vegetables for this dinner were cooked with meat. Everyone knows that vegetables are very oil-absorbing. Therefore, the taste of wild vegetables for this day’s dinner is actually not comparable to that of thoroughly domesticated vegetables. It is better than meat Classes are also welcome...

The evening wind blew all night, and early the next morning, Xiao Yun immediately rushed to the river to see his bean sprout pit, and then he found...the mud surface was dried by the wind, and at the same time, it was also cracked.

Xiao Yun: "..."

He knelt down and dunked the mud surface with his hands, and the mud fell down with a rustle... Well, even if it didn't crack, with this quality, it would be finished after soaking in water.

"What's wrong, didn't reconcile the mud? This kind of mud can't do it?"

Xiao Yun squatted anxiously beside the bean sprout pit scratching his scalp, but the clansmen didn't understand his anxiety at all. A group of people laughed and went to the river to wash their feet with the straw sandals they had been allocated. Dirty feet that have not been washed for many years are stained in a large area...

"Ah Yun, don't delay the matter by playing in the mud today." The patriarch also persuaded Xiao Yun kindly.

"I'm not playing..." Xiao Yun's face hurt, but he still couldn't explain it.

"Do you want to use clay... that kind of yellow mud. I remember that when I went to the countryside to play, the old houses I saw were all yellow mud houses... Is it? Where can I find the yellow mud?"

Xiao Yun tried his best to recall the memories of his short-lived rural life, and after much deliberation, Xiao Yun finally remembered that when the uncle's house repaired the pigsty, it seemed that it was mud dug by the river.

Xiao Yun was refreshed, and immediately transformed into a wolf shape, and picked a spot far away from the river bank to dig wildly.

"Ah, Ayun is playing with mud and playing crazy~" The clansmen who washed their feet looked at him heartlessly. To play, you either have to find wild food by yourself, or you just starve for two days.

Xiao Yun dug a hole more than three meters deep, and finally found loess under the fertile black soil...

As we all know, black soil with a thickness of one centimeter takes 300 years to form naturally. The Loess Plateau was originally a fertile land, and the serious soil erosion exposed the loess underneath. Now Xiao Yun doesn't need black soil but yellow clay, which is strange enough.

It was easy to dig out the loess. Xiao Yun hurriedly climbed out to regain his human form, put on the animal skin pants, ran back to the tribe to get some straw mats and buckets made of rattan and grass, and called to the horns who had not yet left the tribe: "The horns, I can still make delicious food here, but I want your help, can you come?"

"Come!" Niujiao said without hesitation.

With the strong labor force of ox horns, things should not be too simple. The loess and water brought up from the bottom of the pit let the ox horns take off their shoes and step on them vigorously. After stepping on them, they are sticky and then paste them on the bean sprout pit. It can be seen that the mud surface of the yellow mud paste is finer and tighter than the black soil.

"What are you doing this for?"

The ox horns that had been in the yellow mud for a long time were not flushed or panting, and their physical strength was like an animal.

"When this is dry, try to make it impermeable, and then you can use this pit to grow bean sprouts." Xiao Yun was a little panting after digging the pit and plastering the wall, "The black beans grown in the tribe can be soaked in this pit." water, in four or five days, one bag of black beans can produce ten bags."

Niujiao tilted his head to understand the difference between one bag and ten bags, and his expression was a little horrified: "Can it change so much? But, black beans are not delicious, are they?"

"It's different. The bean sprouts produced are countless times more delicious than black beans. The taste is similar to the wild vegetables we eat now, and it's even better than wild vegetables."

Niujiao opened his mouth and stared at Xiao Yun for a long time. After understanding, he eagerly said, "Then let's dig a few more holes!"

"Let's see if this works. If it works, we'll dig another hole after the bean sprouts sprout. We can't eat too many bean sprouts at one go. It's safer to do it in batches." Xiao Yun waved his hand, and suddenly thought of something, "Wait... Niujiao, you know I'm not playing with mud anymore, right? But others don't know yet. Wool and the others won't come to help me today."

"When the delicious bean sprouts come out, everyone will know." Niujiao Anwen's words are especially like a snow werewolf.

"No no, wait a minute... I think we can still play with this mud." Xiao Yun stroked his chin and thought, "In the past, there were old houses in the countryside, one was made of yellow mud, and the other was made of mud bricks. In terms of mud bricks, they seem to be made of wooden molds—ox horns, why don’t we just build a mud brick house?”

"A mud brick, a house?" Niu Jiao was puzzled.

"Does it matter if you have a few days to go hunting?" Xiao Yun asked.

"Hmm... It's okay to ask Ah Shan to walk a little longer and help me patrol." Niu Jiao said.

"That's fine." Xiao Yun took a breath, made up his mind, and looked at Niujiao with piercing eyes, "Then let's do a big thing that shocks the people of the tribe, Niujiao, let's build a mud brick house that is particularly strong, windproof and warm. Sleeping inside when it snows won’t be cold at all.”

"Uh..." Niu Jiao was reluctant. He really didn't think it was a bad thing for Ayun to be thought of by his tribe as playing with mud. Anyway, the bean sprouts that Ayun said would come out, and the tribe would understand; as for what kind of mud? Brick house, Niujiao has no concept at all, and if he doesn't go hunting for a few days because of something he doesn't understand, Niujiao feels that it is wrong to do so.

"Why don't you just do it with me in the morning, and you can still go hunting and patrolling in the afternoon." Xiao Yun fought hard, "Anyway, in the afternoon, I also want to pick up cow dung and wild vegetables with Mao Mao and the others, and we can just spend half a day Come and do this. If there is anything delicious in the future, I will think of you first, okay?"

"Okay!" Niu Jiao answered immediately.

Xiao Yun: "..." Did this guy only hear the last sentence clearly!Why is he so restless in his heart!

The calorie consumption of the body is different between freezing and not freezing. Now the tribe does not consider letting him go to the pasture (only cubs with parents can go to the pasture). So it’s also the same idea to solve the housing problem first—Sarr’s tent is dense enough, and even sleeping in it when the wind blows in the middle of the night has to be covered with animal skins. After all, the cold resistance of tents and houses is not at the same level.

Find a tree with a relatively straight body on the bank of the river, cut off the branches and cut them into wood chips that are three fingers thick, two palms wide, and elbows long, and then dig out the simplest mortise and tenon structure... that is, on two long pieces of wood. Two square openings were dug out at both ends of the wood slice, and protruding square pieces of wood were left at both ends of the other two wood slices, and then joined together. Xiao Yun had no choice but to copy the ox horn knife by himself and sharpen the claws little by little. He finished the mud brick mold in one morning, and he didn't do anything else.

When it was time for tribal voluntary work in the afternoon, Xiao Yun felt the malice of the world... It was so little time in the morning when he turned into a wolf and dug a hole, which made him feel like he hadn’t eaten his lunch, but it was wool who heard his stomach growling and caught him today. The mouse was roasted on the spot to satisfy his hunger—so Xiao Yun once again felt what it was like to have white roast meat without salt.

Dinner is still a lot of wild vegetables with meat, with the addition of wild vegetables as a non-staple food force, the consumption of meat by the snow werewolves has been significantly reduced. After the meal, the patriarch summoned the four young people who stayed behind and asked them to do an extra job in tomorrow's work. The work of cutting the extra prey into strips and drying... In previous years, the dry meat would only start during the big hunting before the heavy snowfall. This year, with wild vegetables as a non-staple food, it can be brought forward.

Squeezing Sal for another night, at dawn, Xiao Yun ran towards the river to check his bean sprouts pit—this time, this evil world finally didn't cheat him, the mud on the surface of the bean sprouts pit was almost dry , no dry cracks and no slag.

Xiao Yun felt that he should wait until the mud surface was completely dry, so he was not in a hurry to add bean sprouts to fill with water. First, he grabbed the ox horn, a labor force that was easier to coax than wool, and made mud bricks... Add reed stalks of yellow clay and good water, and put them in a wooden frame It was finalized in a mold and spread out on the flat ground by the river bank to dry in the shade; Xiao Yun calculated the area of ​​the mud-brick house and the number of mud bricks needed by using his almost forgotten high school math, based on the principle of "preferring excess and not lacking (correct)" Make as many mud bricks as possible—the extra ones can be used to build an earthen stove, a kang, or try to build a small brick kiln that can burn pottery and blue bricks. In short, it will not be wasted.

After two days of busy work, after the muddy surface of the bean sprout pit was completely dry and no seepage was seen after being drenched in water, Xiao Yun finally started his great business of growing bean sprouts...