Wolf King

阿月的工程二队现有工人300多号,加上一千400多名蛇族,这顿饭足足吃了600多斤粉条、300多斤肉、近五百斤菜蔬……倒不是蛇族也特能吃（事实上蛇族因体质问题食量和人族差不多）,而是确实饿坏了,在船上就没吃好过、下船又给催着玩命跑了20多里路，连哈里斯都撑了四两粉进肚。

"It's the last time to eat in the cafeteria. After the spring plowing, I have to use my own money to eat." During the break after eating, Ah Yue called the managers of the engineering team from home, and called the snake clan's walker warriors and elders for a meeting again. , "Don't worry, what you want is not coins from outside, but copper coins minted in our tribe. Anyone who participates in the work can get them, and the cubs will also have arrangements, and the tribe will make arrangements."

After mentioning it, Ah Yue asked the Snakes about the assignment of personnel to work in the afternoon. The work on the construction site was nothing more than those types, some focused on physical strength, and some required certain skills; considering that the Snakes After sitting on the boat for too long, Ah Yue thought it would be enough to let four or five snakes do the work of a snow werewolf on the first day...

The elders of the Snake Clan who had eaten a meal of Snow Wolf Clan powder and looked much better were stunned.

Harris has mentioned to everyone countless times that the style of the snow wolf clan is to work and work. To be honest, everyone is not too concerned. Who hasn't worked? The situation of the snake clan can't afford to get something for nothing tribe; but it seems... the work they understand is not the same as the work in the concept of the snow wolf clan?

The elders couldn't bear to think too much. After Ah Yue introduced the situation, he landed conveniently and worked with the management of the second project team to calculate how the manpower of the snake tribe should be allocated: Excluding the cubs, old and weak, there are about a thousand young and strong snake tribes who can work. The labor force in the early [-]s is assigned to various positions, and is led one by one by skilled workers of the Snow Wolf Clan. How many people are assigned to each type of work, and which job they are responsible for, are all arranged in front of the elder walker warriors of the Snake Clan. clear and direct……

After discussing the personnel arrangement, Ah Yue didn't waste any time at all, and directly took advantage of the post-meal break to organize the young and strong of the snake tribe to line up in batches according to their height, and assign five or ten places to the skilled workers of the snow wolf tribe; The labor force arrangement is clear and the rest time after meals is almost over, so they immediately bring newcomers to work, paying attention to efficiency...

Among the five elders of the Snake Clan, mainly the elders, except for the oldest and trembling one, Ah Yue also rowed over to take the other four—not because they were too old and frail to move, but in the snow. In the dictionary of the wolf family, it belongs to labor.

Bringing the four elders to her work place, Ah Yue took out a few balls of flax twisted thread, tied one end to a nail, pressed it into the ground, and pulled the other end of the thread along the planned ground to the other side. They were also tied to nails and pressed into the ground.

After drawing the four lines, Ah Yue began to show the four elders how to build the wall: "Follow the drawn lines, and don't build it crookedly. The wall is divided into two layers. The outer layer lays bricks flat, and the inner layer The bricks are built horizontally, thick on the outside and thin on the inside, with a flue in the middle, and floor heating can keep the indoor temperature in winter.”

Elder Gusta took two steps back and looked at the range of the wall that the hemp thread pulled out, with a strange expression on his face: "A wall needs to be built this long, how big is this room?"

"This is not a house, it's a shed." Ah Yue said while building the wall with her hands, "The house burns a heated kang, and there is no need to install walls. The shed has a large area, and the floor heating can't keep the temperature inside the house, so it is necessary to install walls to keep the smoke. road."

"Great shed? What is it used for?" Elder Gusta was surprised.

"Earthworm breeding shed." Ah Yue took it for granted, "There is a large demand for earthworm soil, and the housing planning area is the upper reaches of that side, and the lower reaches give priority to building breeding sheds. Not to mention taking into account all farmland soil this year, at least earthworms for greenhouses The soil must be self-sufficient."

"..." The elders looked at each other, feeling that in terms of work, their own concept is really different from that of the Snow Wolf clan...

"Stop standing still, come and practice." Ah Yue urged.

Like the Dark Elves, the Snake Clan belonged to the big family of Walkers. Before being expelled by the Beastman Empire, the special products produced by the Snake Clan were mainly handicrafts. The Bixue Wolf Clan didn't know where to go for their ingenuity. Soon the elders can deftly build bricks and plaster according to different needs...

"That's it, you are really capable." Ah Yue was very satisfied, and took out the twine to teach the elders how to use vertical lines to confirm whether the wall is straight...

Those who are older or younger do "technical jobs", such as Harris, do hard work.

Bricks, cement and other building materials used for the construction site were transported by canal boats from the Ministry of Fire upstream. Harris and a group of young men were brought back and forth by the Snow Wolf Clan to carry bricks back and forth, and they were so tired that they were panting like bellows after a few trips...

"It's okay, it's not that you can't do a good job, it's that you've been on the boat for too long when you came here, and you're bored. Rest up for a few more days, eat and sleep well, and you won't get tired as easily as you are now." Take them to work The Snow Werewolf comforted, "Now, even though we are not in good spirits, don't admit defeat. Just move less and walk more slowly. Come on, get moving, the more you work, the smoother you will get through this. Just close it."

Harris & the young adults of the Snake Clan: "..."

Let’s do it—it’s my own job, and I’m building my own house. Fight!

Pushing the wheelbarrow again to move bricks, running across the canal site, and moving a few more back and forth, the young and strong snake tribe finally couldn't stand it anymore, and collapsed on the ground after unloading the bricks.

"...Let's rest for a few minutes." Reluctantly, the snow werewolf who led them to work ran to the cafeteria and brought a bucket of soup with egg flower and a little oil and salt. Physical strength, let's continue to work after drinking."

Harris forced himself to sit up, and silently got up to put a bowl of soup... He finally understood that everything in the snow wolf clan's cognitive habits is for work!

The young and strong men in Harris' group who were exhausted from moving bricks held bowls of soup with slightly trembling hands. Turn a mixer as big as a house in motion.

In the sound of "hey, hey", the snow werewolf over there shouted to stop, and the people of the python tribe immediately collapsed on the ground; The soil was shoveled out and put into barrels, and the snake clan Qing Zhuang of the clan picked it up and rushed towards the direction where the foundation was dug...

Farther away, under the leadership of the Snow Werewolf, groups of snakes were busy like hardworking ants. Some dug the foundation, some watered the foundation, some mixed cement, some put putty, some picked sand, some picked earth, some Some built walls together, and some moved pumping devices around together to pump out the groundwater that seeped up from the foundation...

"Others are doing it, so we can't lose!" The snow werewolf who led them to work seemed to be very jealous of the positive atmosphere of the other groups, and worked hard to cheer them up.

It wasn't until it was dark that the night temperature dropped to the point where the snake clan's body began to stiffen, and the snow wolf clan stopped.

The Snow Werewolf who led Harris and other young men to work moved the exhausted and paralyzed team members to the earliest public bathroom in several groups, and organized the snake cubs waiting there in advance (the cubs also need to light work) strip off the linen clothes on Harris et al., scrub with hot water.

Harris barely sat up, tremblingly took the towel handed over by the cubs of the same clan to dry the water stains, changed into the cotton clothes provided by the snow wolf clan, and was taken out for dinner; a young man like Harris who was completely exhausted You can eat after taking a bath, and you still have a little physical strength, and you are required to wash your clothes and the clothes of your fellow clan in the hot water after taking a bath...

"Eat well, sleep well after eating, and you will be energetic tomorrow." The snow werewolf who brought Harris and the others to move bricks was named Shitou. After taking care of Harris and others after dinner, they took the tableware back to wash, then ran over to set up tents for Harris and others, and carried them in one by one.

Harris originally planned to thank the stone, but he was too tired... The intensive training when he was a ranger apprentice was not as strong as today, so he couldn't even squeeze out the strength to speak, and was carried into the tent by the stone. Next to the pillow, with an extra blanket on his body, he immediately fell into a coma.

On the first night on the grassland, Harris fell asleep so unconsciously.The anxiety, nervousness, anticipation, anxiety and other emotions that I thought I would have were pushed back into the soil before even a bud emerged.

This sleep was heavy and dead, without any dreams, until the next morning when the snow wolves screamed from tent to tent, Harris opened his eyes and stared at the top of the tent, unable to realize where he was for a while... …

"Get up, wash and eat breakfast~!" Stone broke into the tent, pulled the blanket off Harris, who was still in a daze, and hugged the whole snake to stand outside the tent. When the cold wind blew in his face and staggered, Harris instantly slumped. awake.

The clansmen were carried out one by one by the stone and forced to wake up outside. Before they came back to their senses, they were dragged hand in hand by the stone like a child to the sink next to the open-air cafeteria. , a glass water cup, green salt for brushing teeth, face towels, after washing, I dragged them to eat breakfast like herding sheep...

"Let's do some light work in the morning." Stone said with a smile, and took Harris and the others to transport the stone.

The soil excavated from the foundation excavation needs to be backfilled and reused. The gravel is also useful. The small and miscellaneous stones are useless. They are all sent to the canal to be piled up and used to fill the bottom after digging ponds... If you want to talk about lightness, it means that it doesn't take much effort when unloading, just pour it out.

Harris had no expression on his face, and the corners of the clansmen in his group twitched for a long time, and finally couldn't help muttering: "Where is the lightness...?"

"There are not many miscellaneous rocks excavated from the foundation here, and we will be able to transport them in half the morning if we work harder." Shi Shi said with a smile, and before the eyes of the snake tribes brightened, he added the next half of the sentence, "Then Then you can go to help pick the earthwork, which saves a lot of effort.”

Harris was expressionless, and the head of the clansman who had spoken just now drooped.

That night, they were carried by stones to wash and change into the linen clothes they wore when they came home, and then supported each other to eat in the open-air cafeteria.

When Harris twitched his facial muscles and ate the couscous with trembling hands, he inadvertently saw Elder Greg who was also eating with his teeth grinning—Elder Greg who always had a worried face and frowned brows only lasted a day and a half Afterwards, the temperament of the whole snake changed. Anyway, Harris couldn't see where Elder Greg was still stagnant, and he was completely different from the surrounding clansmen...

On the fifth day after arriving on the grassland, the roof of the dry shed began to be erected, and the housing construction that was temporarily suspended to wait for the snakes to adapt was reopened.

This time, the "technical workers" of the snake tribe have to learn more about how to cook a kang, how to lay a floor heating flue, how to install sewer facilities in residential areas... and so on.

When Harris, who was still doing heavy physical work, finished his dinner and was able to walk to the tent to sleep by himself, he found that a group of people, including the elders, were organized to sit on the side of the open-air cafeteria, and Ah Yue taught them classes; The words are clear and full of breath, and the voice can be heard clearly from a long distance, but Harris can only understand every word he said, but he can't figure out what the combination of the words he said means.

The elders sitting in the crowd scratched their heads. The usually calm Elder Gusta seemed to be struggling to memorize what A Yue said. The always thoughtful Elder Greg seemed to accept it faster, with an extremely focused expression...

"This is...?" Harris looked at the stone in doubt.

"Arithmetic class." Shitou smiled very honestly as always, "They are laying underground pottery pipes, at least to do that work, you must be able to add and subtract two-digit numbers in your head, and you must be able to understand blueprints. Give them a basic lesson, don't let the work be delayed."

Harris: "...(o 言 o)" Wait, he also knows how to count, what Ah Yue is talking about really counts?Not a donkey? !

Other clansmen: "Σ(⊙▽⊙"a" You Xuelang clan still need to learn to count when doing work?!

Seeing their reaction, Shitou didn't know what they misunderstood, and comforted him very intimately: "It's okay, it's a deadline for construction. Everyone's schedule is relatively tight. After finishing the main project, we can spare time." , everyone can learn arithmetic." After a pause, he added kindly, "Not only arithmetic, but also literacy. Learning these will make it easier to work and make everyone more capable."

"..." The snake clan was silent collectively.

"Shitou, do all of you Snow Wolf Clan want to learn?" A young man from the Snake Clan couldn't help but ask.

"That's right." Shitou nodded, showing a look of unbearable looking back, "I have to learn every year. It's okay at ordinary times, and I only organize learning when I'm not busy. It's miserable in winter. Three days of small classes, five days of big classes, every day I have to do [-] math problems, and I have to hand in writing assignments every few days. I am required to write at least [-] words. It must be coherent, clear in expression, and clear in theme. There must be no more than three typos. I am bald. Already!"

"..." The snake clan fell silent again.

"...my clan will hibernate in winter." The snake youth said firmly.

"I know, you snake race is a temperature-changing race, and your body temperature is affected by the environment, as Ayun said." Shitou nodded again, "That's why the house built for you has a wider kang, and you can sit on the kang in winter. It will be so cold that you will have the energy to go to class.”

"..." The snake clan fell silent again.

Sleeping in the tent, it was rare for everyone to fall asleep without lying down.

"The real snow wolf clan is far from the one in the legend." Some clansmen sighed with great regret, and this sigh was the most frequently sent out by everyone during this period.

"Stone said that they only lived like this in the past few years, and they used to live in the same way as other races." Another tribe member was extremely conflicted, "I thought he was bragging, so it wasn't... Torturing himself like them , of course it is possible that such a big change in just a few years—”

Harris listened silently to the clansmen's discussion for a long time, and said abruptly: "In the future, we will live the same life as them. Are you willing or not?"

Those words made everyone in the same tent quiet down.

After a long time, the person who initiated the discussion at the beginning had a complex expression on his face: "Thinking about it, I feel a little hopeless, but thinking about it again...it seems to be good. Snow werewolves can get used to it, and cats, gray dwarves, centaurs, goblins, and human races can also get used to it." You can get used to it, there is no reason why our snake clan can’t get used to it.”

This made everyone nod. It is true that the Snake Clan is discriminated against on the mainland, but the Snake Clan is also one of the oldest races after all, and the Snake Clan members have their own pride in being a Snake Clan.

In the darkness, Harris showed a gentle smile, and said softly, "Then go to sleep, keep your spirits up, and you have to work tomorrow."

The tent fell silent amidst the rustling sound, and when he closed his eyes, Harris had a vague realization in his heart... The wisdom of the snake race is not inferior to that of any race, and it is replaced by other races who are forced to do so hard like they are now. The clansmen would have resisted long ago.

But it was replaced by the Snowwolves to lead them, but from the elders to the ordinary clansmen, to those cubs who were organized to do what they could do every day, everyone didn't have much resentment—because the Snowwolves didn't just urge Instead of watching them work, they personally lead everyone to work.

In each group, the leader snow werewolf did the most.

Originally working for the residence of the Snake Clan, the Snow Wolf Clan worked harder than their clansmen.For the Snake Clan to think so comprehensively, even the Snow Wolf Clan has considered and arranged all the places that the Snake Clan could not have imagined. Objection, let alone other clansmen.

"It's great to know the Snow Wolf Clan and Ah Yun..." Harris' eyelids couldn't hold back and gradually closed. Before falling asleep, he only had this thought in his mind.

No matter how hard it is, doing things with a purpose is far more reassuring than the despair of not seeing the future.

The input of more than a thousand snake laborers has greatly improved the construction progress of the project. Before the end of the spring plowing work of the Xuelang tribe, Harris and his tribe successfully completed the construction of the residence under the leadership of Ah Yue's second engineering team; The last tile was laid on the roof of the house, and when Ah Yue yelled "Complete", almost everyone shouted excitedly and embraced warmly with the people around them... the hardships during this period, every drop of sweat shed, Every sore muscle is worth it!

"Wait!" Ah Yue suddenly became serious, and looked at the elders of the Snake Clan who were weeping with joy, "I forgot, you have to give your place of residence a name so that you can call it easily in the future."

"That's right, we didn't expect this either." Elder Gusta rubbed his eye sockets, unbearably excited, "Then what should this place be called?"

"Why don't you start?" Ah Yue said frankly, "Don't call me a name that is too complicated, or it will be very troublesome to write in the work documents later."

"Why not call it Snake Valley? Our hometown used to be Snake Valley." Elder Greg, who had become much quieter, gave a rare suggestion.

"Gu..." Ah Yue looked at the surrounding plain environment in embarrassment, "It's not impressive."

"Snake Valley doesn't belong to us anymore, Greg." Gusta said in a deep voice, "My family has left our hometown and wandered for more than ten years, and now we finally have a safe place to live, and we need to separate from the past...if not, we will be called snakes Ministry, a new tribe belonging to the Snake Clan, what do you think?"

The elders looked at each other, and then at other tribesmen. Seeing that no one objected and everyone was smiling, they all nodded in agreement: "Snake tribe, the new tribe of the snake tribe, is really good."

"Just the snake department."

Ah Yue saw that the Snake Clan had a unified opinion, and nodded with a smile: "Well, you are called the Snake Department." After a pause, he continued, "These houses are built for 20 people, and they are temporarily used as collective dormitories. , In the future, if the Snake Department wants to build a new dormitory or personal room, it needs to submit a written report application to the Fire Department. After the work meeting of the Fire Department is approved and the funds and materials are approved, our engineering team will come down to help the Snake Department expand."

The elders of the Snake Clan nodded gratefully, and then they heard something was wrong. Gusta couldn't help but stepped forward and asked nervously, "Ah Yue, are you leaving?"

"That's right, the Fire Department will continue to expand. We still have projects to do this year." Ah Yue said.

The surrounding snake tribes were all stunned, and being urged to work really made everyone grit their teeth, but these snow wolf tribes really wanted to leave, and their anxiety rose again.

"You are gone, then, what shall we do?" Elder Gusta nervously.

Ah Yue laughed: "Of course it's hot to keep working! Didn't Nanfeng come to deliver the letter yesterday? Qingcao's work team will come down in the next two days. Qingcao will help you organize the tribal management structure and set up contractors. The production team of the farm organizes everyone to study and arrange labor, so that the snake tribe can also keep up with our work rhythm as soon as possible."

Everyone in the Snake Clan breathed a sigh of relief, without the guidance of these honest and honest big guys, they really didn't have much confidence in their hearts.

"Ah Yue, you are gone, we will miss you very much." Elder Gusta said reluctantly.

"I will miss you too." Ah Yue also felt a little bit reluctant to part with the witty and quick-witted snake clan, "but it's okay, it's not like I won't see you anymore. If there are still people left after you assign the production team, You can apply with Qingcao to join our engineering team. However, compared to other types of work, the engineering team does have a relatively heavy workload, so you have to think carefully before applying."

"..." The faces of the snake clan changed, and they closed their mouths tightly... During this period of time, each of them only did one-third of the workload of the snow werewolf of the engineering team, and the snake skin was almost worn off. The engineering team is a regular worker, emmmmm... It's better to be a little self-aware.

The engineering team packed up the odds and ends, disassembled their belongings (cement mixer, water pumping device, etc.), and prepared to board the boat and go to the canal to return to the fire department. The snakes who had worked with the engineering team for more than 30 days reluctantly fought with the snow wolves bid farewell.

In Harris' group, a group of snakes stared blankly at the boy who usually talked the most and often complained, holding a stone and crying loudly.

Shitou was quite moved at first, but later he felt embarrassed: "Don't cry, I really can't bear it, so I transferred to the second engineering team, and I will continue to be with you every day."

"I can't come, I can't bear your workload." The crying boy remained calm.

"The winter engineering team is free, so I'll come down to see you." Shitou said with a smile, "You guys have to study, and you won't be allowed to hibernate. Then we can play together again."

"..." The boy who was crying so emotionally choked.