Wolf King

Xiao Yun knew very well that it would be impossible to make a fortune in business on the prairie. The reasons were simple. First, the grassland was very sparsely populated, and second, the tribes on the grassland were not rich... The original Tiger tribe, that is, the king’s tent in the grassland, the size of the king’s tent that Xiao Yun heard from the patriarch’s inquiring sideways... It’s about the level of a large township in ancient feudal China, er, no, the personal property and life of the Tiger King Enjoying something might not be as good as those ancient township rich men...

Unless he can sell to the human kingdom or even the orc empire to the east in the future, it would be impossible to start a business and make money. When the living standards of his small tribe improved, the first thing that he had been thinking about for a long time was health issues.

Washing hands before eating, getting on the kang and going to the bathroom to rub off the mud on the body (Xiao Yun enforced a minimum bathing time, otherwise these guys would run out after getting wet in a few seconds), people in the tribe gradually became aware of these two points. Accepted, but... They just regard this as Xiao Yun's personal stubbornness to abide by, and they have no concept of hygiene. The most obvious manifestation is that every time they eat a big pot of rice, they finish eating the vines on everyone's hands and even under their buttocks. There must be oil stains on the grass mats, and there must be mud residue, grass leaf fragments and white hairs of different lengths in the pottery pots that hold vegetables and soup...

Sickness comes from the mouth, which is a common sense of hygiene that elementary school students on the earth know, but if you want to teach this common sense to the Snow Werewolf, Xiao Yun is really useless to worry about it. After thinking about it, he decided to start from other aspects and influence the The eating habits of the snow werewolves, this method is: Let all the snow werewolves eat meat with their bowls.

The Snow Werewolves cherish materials. When they found that their greasy hands could not grasp the bowl and would break the bowl, Xiao Yun asked them to learn to use chopsticks or other tools instead of hands to touch the food. The good mud brick house couldn’t wait to propose firing pottery, and heaped more than 20 pottery bowls and mud tires into the cave dwelling where the pottery was fired for the first time, instead of burning more pottery pots or pots, which are more important to the current tribe. of.

I never expected that this plan would encounter a subversive crisis when it reached the final step...

"This bowl is made for use. How can it not be used? The bowl can hold wild vegetables and soup, as well as the allocated meat. Next time I will burn some flat plates so that everyone can save the allocated food on the vine. Straw mats, which can make it more convenient for everyone to eat. Don’t we burn pottery so that everyone in the clan can use pottery bowls? Then we worked hard to build mud bricks to cover the kiln, collect firewood and cow dung, and burn these things What is it for?"

The more Xiao Yun talked, the more angry he was, he showed his claws and slapped the ground vigorously, and he slapped a lot of dust.

The patriarch sat cross-legged across from him, and asked him to put away all the more than 20 bowls that were burnt. At this moment, he looked at Xiao Yun with a disapproving expression, and persuaded him earnestly: "Don't worry, Ayun, I can feel your consideration for the people of your tribe, but we don’t have to use bowls to eat, why bother to use such a beautiful bowl at the risk of destroying it?” He deliberately stared Glancing at the ox horns, he signaled Xiao Yun to understand that most of the people in the clan are ox horns, which are not light or heavy. As for these bright bowls, they can be exchanged for the salt that the tribe needs more next year, and maybe some cloth..."

"You didn't understand what I meant, patriarch, I also know that good pottery can be exchanged for what the tribe needs, but this batch of bowls is actually not a particularly successful fired product. We can make even better ones in the next batch—— "Looking at the patriarch's disapproval, Xiao Yun could only take a step back and take a deep breath, "Okay, if the next batch of bowls is better, then we will use these bowls for the clansmen to use, okay? ? From getting the clay to make clay tires to getting out of the kiln, it only takes about eight days to burn a batch of bowls, even if it is to be traded, no one needs to buy so many bowls, right?"

The patriarch finally nodded this time... Just looking at him, he didn't seem to think that Xiao Yun could really do it—the amount of shiny tableware he had seen in the Wang Tent was also very rare, no matter what Xiao Yun said, he would I think the bright bowl out of the kiln this time is luck...

So for dinner that day, Xiao Yun, who thought that his eyes would be less troubled while eating, once again faced the daily routine test of unappetizing—all kinds of marl and grass leaves were brought into the bean sprouts cooking pot by a pair of big hands covered in oil. The soup pot, and then a group of snow werewolves hugged the soup pot with countless ingredients and drank one by one... The snow werewolves knew that drinking hot soup can warm their stomachs when the weather is cold, but don't expect them to remember to use a wooden spoon if they don't even use a bowl.

Holding his breath, Xiao Yun immediately found Qingcao and Dahe after the big pot meal, and proposed his next firing plan.

"Are you looking for a special stone? How special and what does it look like?"

Dahe blinked and asked curiously. This adult female snow werewolf has a very handsome face, with sharp edges and corners, a high nose and deep eyes, thick eyebrows reaching into the temples, and deep eyes. There are still some obvious beast claw marks in the place... When he is not speaking, he is a quiet cool guy-type handsome man, but when he speaks, his aura will be revealed, and that kind of stupid and cute temperament can't be concealed.

Xiao Yun took a branch and drew a rough shape of clustered quartz stones on the ground: "Stones like this are off-white or whiter, and may also be yellow. They are either clusters of crystals or blocks with special patterns. Shaped, smooth, harder than ordinary stones, um...it seems to be used as a substitute for weapons, have you ever seen it?"

Dahe, who revealed his stupid and cute temperament as soon as he spoke, could be regarded as a smart person among the snow werewolves. She stared at the clustered quartz stone drawn by Xiao Yun for a few seconds, and then said: "If you are talking about the kind of white , There are many small stones next to each other, especially hard stones, there are red leaves there."

"Huh?" Xiao Yun couldn't believe it.

Da He nodded vigorously: "The stone knife she used to sharpen the bone arrow is this kind of stone."

Xiao Yun didn't have the slightest impression of the name Hongye, but when it came to Grinding Bone Arrows, he immediately remembered that there was indeed a brother in the five warriors of the tribe who was grinding bone arrows as soon as he sat down.

It was really dark under the textbook-like lights, Xiao Yun wiped his sweat, and before he had time to hurt himself, he opened his eyes and went blind, stood up and went to look for the soldier Hongye.

Da He grabbed him, raised his hand and pointed at the kang on the other side of the room: "Where are you going, the red leaves are there."

"Ah?" On the kang, one of the clansmen who just lay down raised his head with his arms propped up, "Who called me?"

Xiao Yun: "..." Can he say that he hasn't remembered the elder brothers in the tribe except for a few he is familiar with...

Warrior Hongye, one of the adult female snow werewolves in the tribe, she is the same model as the mother of the original owner, Ayun. Although she is a female, she also has the chest muscles of a governor and a height that can fight Yao Ming. She is taller than Xiao Yun. Two heads taller... When Xiao Yun faced her face to face, he could only see hard muscles... With such a menacing physique, it's no wonder that Xiao Yun couldn't even remember her face. Anyway, Xiao Yun is very dignified as a man. It's hard to form a genuine friendship with someone so strong.

"I do have stone knives, but they are all for me to use, and I can't give them to you to play with." Understanding Xiao Yun's meaning, the soldier Hong Ye stretched out a generous slap and patted his little shoulder kindly, "How about this?" , I will give you a stone, and you can grind it for fun."

Xiao Yun stared at the dead fish eyes: "..." Okay, compared to Erbi's brother with the horns of the same style, Hongye still has a bit of maternal characteristics.

"I don't want to play. I need to use quartz stone to fire pottery. This special stone can be used to glaze pottery and make pottery clay, which can make better pottery." Xiao Yun explained, "The amount needed will be very large. Big, get some more and burn them, where did you pick up this kind of stone?"

"Don't you use mud to burn pottery? Stone can also be burned?" Hongye asked strangely.

"If you can find other special stones, there will be more things that can be burned~" Xiao Yun sighed, if you can burn ceramics, you can also burn glass, but more materials are needed to burn glass, so he has nowhere to go. Look for it... Limestone and feldspar are relatively common minerals, but he can't do anything with soda ash and boric acid.

Although the stingy head of the patriarch refused to let the tribe use bright bowls, he let the tribe appreciate the bowls made by the tribe itself, which attracted a lot of praise-even ordinary pottery bowls on the grassland are valuable, and the smoother and brighter pottery bowls are more expensive. The bowl is naturally more valuable, and Hongye has also seen that kind of beautiful bright bowl, and she is more cooperative with Xiao Yun's request than before. She immediately tells the place where she picked up the quartz stone, and promises to take Xiao Yun there the next day.

"Hongye, where did you go so far away?" Xiao Yun was startled when he heard that Hongye's patrol area would take more than four hours to reach. It's more than five times that, it's so special to run a hundred kilometers away, right? !

"That's the farthest patrol area. It's enough to go there every five or six days. There are passages leading to the underground world around there." After sitting down and talking, Hongye took out a bone piece from her pocket to sharpen the arrow, "Then There are also burrows dug by goblins nearby, and we drove those guys away when we migrated here."

"..." Xiao Yun was dumbfounded. The creatures on the prairie are also very diverse. He also knows that there are tiny groups like goblins, but, "The earth, the underground world?"

Hongye was taken aback, then looked at Qingcao and Dahe: "Has no one told Ah Yun about this?"

"Ayun didn't care much about people before." Mengmeng Dahe told the truth.

Xiao Yun: "..." Wait, how much does the autistic child of the original owner lack the common sense of this world? Why do they all have such a stupid and naive expression of Ah Yun? !

"In short, it's... the underground world." Hongye seemed to have a headache, "A world similar to the above-ground world, the territory of the dark elves... and the dark elves' vassals, gray dwarves, black dwarves, goblins... Those underground creatures are hungry and crazy Sometimes they will run out from various exits to rob the residents on the ground, but this has nothing to do with our snow werewolves, they are not our opponents."

Xiao Yun looked confused... Well, the reason why our small tribe chose this pasture near the water source and with lush aquatic plants has been idle for many years. It turns out that there is a threat from the underground world...

Hong Ye thought Xiao Yun was frightened, so she comforted him: "Don't be afraid, our snow werewolves are naturally not afraid of magic and piercing, and are the nemesis of dark elves."

"Wait, let me take care of it." Xiao Yun squeezed his brows, and turned out the world structure he had learned from Sartao in his mind. This world is not a peaceful age. The human kingdom and the orc empire are separated by the prairie and the sea. There is no national-level war, but small frictions and conflicts are unavoidable, and the human kingdom is also a nest within itself... With the productivity of this world, it is good that human beings have not been conquered by nature, let alone transforming nature, then The livable space is definitely not that big, just like China on the earth has a large land area, but before entering the modern society, human beings have the ability to transform nature, it can only support [-] million people. In this case, why the human kingdom and The orc empire doesn't even consider coming to conquer the land of Yimapingchuan's prairie?

Don't say that the prairie people are strong enough to fight, how can the Snow Werewolves fight? The total population is less than [-], and the Tiger Clan, which is even more capable of fighting, can draw [-] warriors, which is the strength of the whole clan. The cat clan is said to be the internal individual fighting power There is a big difference. The tauren are firstly peace-loving (after all, they are herbivores) and secondly, the total population is not much larger...Then the problem is that all the grassland races add up to less than [-] people. Humans occupy the entire prairie, can it really scare the human kingdom and the orc empire to give up fighting?

"Hmm... Hongye, the biggest security threat on our grassland is the underground world?" With limited information, Xiao Yun was completely unable to make a judgment.

"Of course not." Hongye said naturally, "The passage to the grassland side of the underground world is only a remote exit, far away from the home of the dark elves. Those wandering monsters are more troublesome."

"Then why didn't the orc empire in the east come to attack the grassland? Didn't they even want to attack the human kingdom across the inner sea?" Xiao Yun asked.

"This... I haven't thought about this question, I don't know." Hongye scratched her head, "If they want to fight over, we will fight over, too. The king's account will call all the warriors of the tribes to fight back. Ayun, what do you do? What is this, I have never heard of anyone attacking the grassland for so many years."

"Ayun, you are so strange." Dahe said cutely.

"What's wrong with you, Ayun, you suddenly thought of such a strange question?" Qingcao also tilted her head and asked.

Xiao Yun: "..." Well, it's really early to get to grandma's house to be prepared for danger with the Snow Werewolf...

But this matter is still a thorn in the bottom of Xiao Yun's heart. If it is said that the human kingdom and the orc empire are afraid of each other, and it is not convenient to easily start a war with the difficult grassland races to avoid being "persuaded" by the other party, then Xiao Yun can understand Yes, long-distance and short-range attacks are only applicable to multi-country melee battles. If the three parties border on the border, it is not good to start the war lightly. Any prior agreement is just a piece of waste paper in the face of the interests of the countries.

However, if an underground world with offensive channels is added, the problem becomes more complicated... The poorness of the grassland tribe is not a gold medal for not being attacked. The history of wars on the earth proves that the poorer and backward the area, the easier it is to be plundered Eaters focus on it, the grassland tribes occupying such a large livable plain itself is the original sin - that is to say, there must be a deeper reason for keeping the orc empire, the human kingdom and the underground world from conquering the grassland, and this The reason... Maybe it's an active volcano that can't even be mentioned.

"I feel more pressure... I can't be so slack anymore, I have to increase my tribe's resistance to risk as soon as possible, no matter what, I can't be a dog." Squeezing silently, Xiao Yun secretly made up his mind - to improve himself as soon as possible The right to speak in the tribe, so that he can carry out the great cause of farming and gathering in the tribe, at least, he has to fight with the patriarch even if the burned bowl is used or not. This waste of time has to be given to it quickly Get rid of.

To be honest, this is not the first time Xiao Yun has thought of this question, but before he always had a leisurely attitude of working slowly and slowly, it was not so urgent... Now that he decides to speed up his pace, of course he will not get involved in internal fighting After all, there is no class oppression within the tribe, and the patriarch also sweats and works every day like the tribe, so naturally there is no need for a small internal revolution; I am only willing to give support where I think it is good. This is a conceptual contradiction among the people, and it is not irreconcilable.

"It is impossible to seize power, but it can make the patriarch be influenced by me more quickly, and let him improve his subjective initiative to cooperate with me in farming and gathering. Otherwise, the tribe's hygiene and health habits will be delayed for ten and a half months. It's hard to say..."

Lying side by side on the warm kang to sleep with his clansmen, Xiao Yun stared at his plans for patriarchal transformation, and reflected on his various operations during this period of time.

"Now it seems that it is a bit of a mistake. It is meaningless to pull Ah Shan to accompany me to burn the kiln on the spur of the moment. Ah Shan doesn't like to do this kind of boring thing at all. He is going crazy if he is suppressed for a day and a night. It is better to let the patriarch Call me to burn the kiln with me, if he has this participation in the process, he should have more confidence in using the bowl."

"In this case...the matter of burning ceramics can't be as I thought before, reading the article silently, waiting for the results to come out, and then slapping the patriarch...Hey, why do I have such a childish mentality?"

"Uh... By the way, I seem to be a bit of a pretentious mentality about deliberately asking the patriarch to make bricks... Well, I still call you a bully, I'm a middle school..."

In the darkness, Xiao Yun blushed and slapped his own face.

"I examine myself three times a day, self-criticism, self-criticism, self-criticism!"