Wolf King

The day after Ayue's engineering team left, Qingcao's team came down by boat along the canal.

"Hello, my name is Qingcao, and we may get along for a long time in the future."

"...Hello, my name is Gusta." Elder Gusta stepped forward to shake hands with Qingcao, his eyes could not help but drift to Qingcao's left arm.

"Oh, this is my cub. Ayun named her Ru Hua, which means like a flower." Qingcao showed the little wolf cub in her arms to the elders of the snake clan, smiling happily...

Hmm... The room was messed up by a certain wolf cub sneaking in and biting it. It is understandable that Xiao Yun named the smallest cub of the Fire Department this name in anger...

The little wolf cub, Ruhua, was pinched by her mother's arms and was dying. He raised his little head and gave a soft "woo" to the elder of the snake tribe.

"Hello, Ruhua." Gust greeted with a smile, and reached out to touch Ruhua's little head.

Qingcao boldly threw the little wolf cub casually, rolled up his sleeves and greeted back: "Here we are, hurry up and unload!"

"Good!" The people of the work team worked hard to move down the agricultural triangular plow, soybean hole seeder, alfalfa spreader, hoe, shovel, sickle, potato seed, sweet potato seed and red fruit seed on the canal boat.

"We also help." Elder Gusta waved his hand back, and he stepped forward to carry a bag of sweet potato seeds.

The premise of letting others do the work is to lead by example. The snake clan learns the truth taught by precepts and deeds very quickly.

The supplies from more than a dozen canal boats were moved to the warehouse of the Snake Department, and Qing Cao immediately called a meeting with the elders and warriors of the Snake Clan.

On the grass in the open-air cafeteria, Qingcao smiled confidently and faced the group of snakes: "If a worker wants to be good at his work, he must first sharpen his tools. Just like we need to get agricultural machinery in order to farm, we snakes want to develop well. , To become bigger and stronger, we must first confirm the leadership system.”

What a snow werewolf said about our snake clan... To be honest, it's a bit inconsistent, but it's really comfortable to hear the snake clan's ears.

"Does it mean that the Snake Department needs to elect a patriarch?" Gusta cautiously.

"Yes, in addition to the patriarch, I hope that there will be a working group similar to the human council, civil ministers, etc. that can connect with people like me from the Fire Department." Qingcao laughed, "The reason for this suggestion is that It’s because one person can’t manage everything.”

The elders looked at each other, and no one said anything for a while, even Gusta looked embarrassed, and subconsciously looked at Greg.

Qingcao raised this question bluntly... To be honest, it's a bit taboo.Since the Snake Clan was exiled 16 years ago, the prestige of the Great Elder Greg has declined, and it has split into ten families. After all these years, they propose to attribute the authority of the Snake Clan to the Great Elder Greg, even if they are always good people. Gusta couldn’t even say this—even if the people present could agree, would the elders of the other six families be convinced after they came to the grassland?

Seeing the strange silence of the snake tribe, Qingcao smiled slightly.

Besides Dahe, she was the first to learn from Xiao Yun. Although Qingcao was indeed inferior to the gifted Dahe in terms of learning ability and comprehension, after teaching him for six years and leading a work team for more than three years, Qingcao was no exception. It's a pig, and if it blows on the tuyere for so long, it will go to the sky... Besides, the grass is really not a pig.

In a small group composed of several people, if the leader can occupy the right to allocate resources, even if it is an extremely small and insignificant "resource", there will be a fight for the right to speak, let alone a snake clan with thousands of people?

"We are now going to step up the land reclamation and planting work, and everything can be compromised before production." Qingcao said with a smile, "Well, if there is any dispute over the choice of the chief of the Snake Tribe, then we will put this issue on hold for the time being. Discuss the issue of working group candidates."

Elder Gusta was really unwilling to cause discord within the Snake Clan due to the selection of the patriarch, so he quickly expressed his support: "This is reasonable. The house built by the Snake Clan was built by the Snow Wolf Clan with us. The food we eat and the life we ​​consume every day The supplies are sent by the Snow Wolf Clan, and the most important thing is to return the work to the Snow Wolf Clan.”

Greg nodded expressionlessly, and the other three elders also nodded in agreement.

Seeing that the Snake Clan had a unified opinion, Qingcao said sternly: "The relationship between the Snake Clan and the Snow Wolf Clan is not about giving and receiving, but about cooperating and helping each other and developing together. The materials that everyone consumes now and what they will need in the production process in the future Manpower and material support is a support loan pre-loaned to the Snake Department after the unanimous agreement of the work meeting group of the Fire Department. It will be settled at the end of the year and 5% interest will be levied. Therefore, friends of the Snake Department do not need to have a psychological burden. We are Equal partners are a family that knows how to settle accounts, and there is no need to say whether to repay or not.”

"Yes, yes..." The elders were a little embarrassed. It was really... a bit difficult for the overly upright Snowwolves to adapt.

Qingcao turned to put on a smile: "The responsibility of the Snake Department working group generally includes the following aspects. One is to connect with the work team sent by us to support the construction of the Snake Department. I mentioned this earlier. The second is overall planning. Plan the personnel and resource allocation for the production and construction work of the snake department this year. For example, in the first phase of agricultural production contracting, our proposal plans to have four production teams of cooperative contract farms and one earthworm breeding base. Which personnel will join which work project will require snakes. Participation of the Ministry Working Group in the arrangement.”

These sounds seem to be no different from the usual tribes in the past, and the elders are still stable for the time being.

"Furthermore, the working group of the Snake Department needs to submit detailed rules for the implementation of various materials for this year's support loan to the working group of the Fire Department. Submit a written report once a day to avoid problems in the supply of daily necessities for the Snake Department.” Qingcao smiled and settled the accounts with his fingers, “Secondly, the monthly salary settlement of the 1439 members of the Snake Department is based on the labor-management settlement of the work group of the Fire Department It is stipulated that workers of different types of work and different workloads need to be paid according to their work. The reference standard is linked to the amount of labor and the value to the development of the tribe. It is not too troublesome to make one size fits all; accurate calculations must be made before the unified payment of wages in the first month. The interests of workers must not be compromised."

Elders: "...(o 言 o)"

Warriors & Walkers: "??"

"Then there is the issue of the supply and marketing budget of the canteen. The canteen of the Snake Department was previously run by Ashu's food store. After that, we have to do the canteen of the Snake Department ourselves. The consumption and expenses of the Snake people during the construction of the living quarters belong to the Snake Department. Total debts. After the Snake people start working, the cafeteria still belongs to the Snake Department’s public unit, but the expenses no longer go to the general ledger. There must be an independent account book. Before the first salary settlement, everyone is negative consumption, so this account must be provided by the Snake Department. The working group will count..."

The Snake Department does not have the conditions to set up the Welfare Department at present, just need to calculate the account of the cafeteria. Qingcao took out the food and supplies account book consumed by the Snake Department in the previous 26 days and reported a bunch of numbers, and then divided it by the number of days to calculate the average daily consumption Wheat noodles, soybean oil, lard, rabbit meat, vermicelli, various seasonings, vegetables, etc., and finally concluded: "The consumption of food supplies in the next month will continue from the current book for the time being, but everyone's The taste is not always the same, and the working group needs to adjust it at any time. In addition, I personally do not recommend continuing to obtain the consumption of vegetables from the Fire Department. We can open up vegetable plots to save costs...and the cost savings belong to the Snake Department Collective property also needs to be calculated clearly by the working group and put on record."

Proposals for self-sufficiency in vegetables and vegetables were proposed, and Qingcao put forward several suggestions for the purpose of saving the consumption of snake loans. Taking earthworm farming as an example of a low-cost production project that does not need to expand the loan amount, it is extended to the breeding industry for self-sufficiency——

"The above is the scope of responsibility of the working group of the Snake Department. The top is responsible for the Fire Department, and the bottom is responsible for the 1439 members of the Snake Clan. With the goal of achieving the production and construction of the Snake Department and catching up with the Fire Department, mobilize and organize all clan members to participate in the work for the Snake Department. Take care of everyone's accounts." Qingcao said with a smile, "Farming is inseparable from a hoe, and similarly, the working group is also an indispensable tool for the development of the Snake Department. The working group of the Fire Department consists of Ayun, all the patriarchs, all The composition of the management team requires the hard work of so many people to complete the annual work plan and ensure that there are no major mistakes. Therefore, my personal suggestion is that the working group of the Snake Department should be expanded as much as possible. If there are fewer people, it will not be possible to do anything. .”

A group of snakes: "..."

Elder Greg couldn't come back to his senses. As the Great Elder, he had personally managed the Snake Clan at its peak. He used to just do nothing and eat idle food all day long...

Gusta looked skeptical about the snake, and began to reflect on what he was doing as the elder of the python clan for so many years...

The other three elders were trembling even more. A few minutes ago, they felt that there were too many people in charge of the five elders together...

"Then...let's try together first?" Elder Gusta wiped his sweat silently, looked around at the warriors & walkers with different expressions, with a questioning face.

"..." The warriors & walkers looked at each other, if they couldn't afford to lose face, they really had the urge to be deserters—is that something that Qingcao said snakes can do? !What's going on with the snow wolves!

Qingcao is smiling, this reaction is exactly what she needs... Before coming here, Ayun specially asked her for a long time, talking all about eliminating the feudal power distribution within the snake clan during the period of "helping the snow wolf clan" to the snake clan, The above is the first sign of bullying—the materials brought back from the previous trip to St. Bridge have been organized and studied by the Ministry of Fire several times. Everyone has sympathy for the destructive and destructive effects of feudal power distribution on collective development; since the snake clan is their own small Brother, for the long-term consideration of sustainable development, even if the Snow Wolf Clan will not directly interfere in the internal affairs of the Snake Clan, they must subtly influence the upper structure of the Snake Clan.

Nodding vigorously, Qingcao enthusiastically encouraged: "No one knows everything from the beginning, we can learn while working!"

"Heh, heh..." The corners of the mouths of the elders twitched. From the Far East to the Southern Continent, they have never seen such a management of the tribe. Just, I don't understand you snow werewolves very well...

The Snake Department is quite close to the Elf Port, and there are dozens of miles around where adventurers frequently come and go, not to mention monsters, wild beasts and ferocious beasts are rarely seen, so naturally there is no need to specially form a patrol team - "benefited" from the snake The reputation of being in a state of embarrassment, at least for now there are no adventurers who dare to invade the Snake tribe, and it is not known whether it is lucky or unlucky to solve the security problem by accident...

In short, Harris, who is the strongest ranger in the tribe, has no excuse to escape by patrolling. After the Green Grass Task Force was in place and the labor force of the Snake Department was reorganized, Harris was incorporated into one of the four agricultural production teams. Pick up a hoe and become a glorious snake farmer...

"This is the topographic map of the Snake Department along the canal to the Fire Department."

On the west bank of the canal, about ten kilometers away from the Snake Department, on a plain near the Grand Canyon, the second agricultural production team is composed of more than 140 snake tribes and [-] snow werewolves. The team leader Chengfeng is facing twelve production teams The group leader gave a speech.

The names of snow werewolves are generally very casual, and Chengfeng's name is unique among the snow wolf clan... Of course, the origin of the name of this snow werewolf who has just grown up does not have any connotative blessing, it is purely given by his mother. When he named it, he saw the seeds of dandelion flying, so he gave it such a cool, but also casual name.

"The places that are too far away from the canal are not painted, because we haven't explored that far."

The square-faced, big-eyed, serious-looking Chengfeng looks a bit like the Huoyan patriarch, and he is indeed somewhat blood related to the Huoyan patriarch... According to the matriarchal genealogy, Chengfeng's mother must be regarded as the Huoyan patriarch's cousin.Of course, the Snow Wolf Clan doesn't even pay attention to direct blood relatives from generation to generation, so the relationship between Chengfeng and Huoyan patriarch is similar to that of ordinary clansmen.

"The focus is on the lower part." Chengfeng, who was half squatting, drew a circle on the parchment map on the ground, "Based on our survey last year, from this area to this area are considered suitable for farming Land. If we produce the second team, the focus of land reclamation will be on this land.”

"There are no mounds around this land, and there are not many rocks in the soil, which is very suitable for farming. But this generation has a lot of thorns, shrubs and vines. You see, you can dig out such a thick root system by digging the ground casually." Chengfeng used his paws to squeeze the ground a few times, planed off the turf, and pulled out an unknown rhizome more than half a meter long and wrist-thick from the slightly moist soil layer. The rhizomes brought out a large amount of soil, and the turf was torn into pieces, but it was tough and did not break.

"We want to make use of this land and open up a farm belonging to our second production team. The first enemy we have to deal with is these wild vegetation." Chengfeng clapped his hands and looked at everyone seriously, "Our job today is to go around Is there any problem with digging the fire zone in this land, burning the wasteland, and removing the vegetation on the surface first?"

"No!" The twelve team leaders said in unison.

"Well, let's divide the area first. The first group is responsible for burning this area, the second group... the third group..."

Because of his prestige among the tribe, Harris drove the ducks to the shelves and became the team leader of the sixth team. The team leader took advantage of the wind to allocate the area, and Harris silently took his team members to the responsible area.

"Harris, how wide do you dig the firebreak?"

"It should be enough for two people to lie down for that long."

"Harris, there are trees here!"

"Cut it off."

"Harris, what if there are thorn bushes here?"

"Dig out, dig out!"

The land reclamation area assigned by the second production team is at least six or seven square kilometers. Burning wasteland is hard work. Not long after the start of work, Harris' voice became a lot louder unconsciously...

The burning of wasteland is completed in the morning, and in the afternoon, it is to clear the stones in the burned wasteland, plan off the roots of thorns, and dig out the roots of vines exposed to the surface, etc.

From the lunch break to the end of the night, the entire production team No. 160 was so tired that their waists and backs ached, and they finally completed the surface cleaning work.

The next day, the land was officially plowed. Fifteen heavy triangular share plows each weighing more than one thousand catties were dragged to the wasteland area, and fifteen snow werewolves including Chengfeng turned into wolf-shaped plows. Plow; the thick and long coulter is inserted deep into the soil layer to cut through the soil, weed residues, and vine root systems, followed by the plow shovel, which is turned up and down, and the snakes are chasing after it. root system.

"It's no wonder that the snow wolves can farm on the grasslands. If you switch to other races, you don't know how much effort it takes just to plow the fields." Harris stared in horror at the snow wolves who were dragging their heavy plows against the sky. After cutting and digging out countless root systems in the soil, I wiped my sweat silently.

The wasteland needs to be plowed at least three times before it can be put into use. With such a large area of ​​hard-to-plow land, even if the Snowwolves are full of energy, they will be out of breath if they pull it back and forth a few times. When the Snowwolves are resting, it is the turn of the Snakes to plow the land.

"It can't be dragged!" Several snake tribes worked hard to pull the heavy plow and dragged it. After a while, they were defeated, and their hands and feet were weak.

"Aren't you snake people also beastmen, drag them in animal form!" Shouted Chengfeng, who was resting at the back.

"Uh..." The Snake Clan looked at each other, they didn't have the unrestrained habit of the Snow Wolf Clan...

"Let me try it." Seeing this situation, Harris had no choice but to bite the bullet and set an example.

"Okay, okay." Chengfeng waited for the snow werewolf to look over with great interest, and they were quite curious when they heard that the Ayue engineering team said that the snake tribe didn't like to transform, and that they hadn't seen a piece of work for almost a full moon.

Harris took off his clothes and folded them aside, took a deep breath, and the human form turned into a phantom, replaced by a gold-and-black spotted snake nearly ten meters long and thick as a bucket (black-browed snake, a large non-venomous snake).

"Oh! It's so pretty!" Chengfeng looked serious, but he was still a young man after all, so he got excited all of a sudden, jumped up and ran forward, curiously touched Harris's beautiful snakeskin with gold and black markings , "I thought your beasts were so ugly, why don't you snakes like to transform?"

Harris, who took the lead in transforming, was a little nervous to be honest. The snow werewolf's unconventional reaction made him feel relieved. His cold snake eyes looked at Chengfeng with warmth, and swam over to drag the plow excitedly.

The plow body was dragged and moved forward slowly. After a while, the plow blades touched the underground roots and stopped.

Snow Wolf Clan: "??"

Snake Clan: "..."

Harris swung the snake body and struggled for a while... Turning back slumped, he uttered a snake letter and made a human voice full of embarrassment: "No...the abdomen has no grip..."

Snow Wolf Clan: "..."

The snake tribe turned their faces away one after another...

Chengfeng walked forward silently, raised his hand to comfort Harris on the shoulder, but found that there was nowhere to start, so he had to pat the snake's head: "It's okay... any race has jobs that it is good at and it is not good at... let's plow the land. .” Paused, and then added, “Your animal shape is pretty good, and you can transform if you want in the future. We are all beastmen, so we don’t care too much.”

In the evening, Qingcao, who had prepared a teaching plan for two-digit addition and subtraction, was gearing up to let the snake clan accept the snow wolf clan's love math class. As soon as she came out of the rented house, she saw a big red and black snake swimming past the door.

"Hey, you are..." Qingcao sniffled, "This smell, are you Domini from the Windrider?"

"Qingcao, do you recognize me when I look like this?" Red Chain Snake Domini excitedly.

"Isn't the taste the same? It's strange if you don't recognize it." Qingcao gave him a strange look, "You're quite tall, don't you mind if I step over your back?"

"I don't mind!" Dominic was so happy that there was a hiss in his voice.

Qingcao stepped over Domini with a face of indifference... When he was leaving, he turned around and shouted: "Notify Chengfeng for me, and come to me to get the evening class lesson plan after eating."

"Okay!" Domini raised his tail and wagged.

In fact, it is not too difficult for the beastmen to live in human form, but occasionally returning to the beast form can really stretch the body and relax the body and mind; there are people from the Wind Riding Team who take the lead, and other snake tribes see that the snow wolf tribe treats their snakes Sure enough, he didn't care about the shape at all, and there were many big snakes happily coiled up in the study class that night.

The study groups of the Snake Department are not divided separately, they are all counted according to the work unit... er, the position.Chengfeng picked up the bark paper for the exercises and was about to distribute it, when he suddenly felt that something was wrong; he stared at the big snakes and found the problem.

"...Let's change back in class, how to do the questions without hands?"

Harris did not turn into a snake, and was about to persuade the tribe when he saw this, when Dominy from the same team actively said: "We can write it with our tails!"

Chengfeng stared at the tip of Domini's flexible tail for a while: "... that's fine."

The two-digit addition and subtraction didn’t bother the Xuewolves for long, and it was no problem for the snakes with a higher average IQ; after Chengfeng’s lecture, he was interested in observing the snakes holding a charcoal pencil by their tails ...Don't say it, although these guys have no hands at the tip of their tails, it's really okay to write a simple calculation.

It is not difficult to get started with elementary arithmetic, but it is quite difficult to learn the characters of the Snow Wolf Clan.In order not to hurt the learning enthusiasm of the snake people, Qingcao, who is in charge of the "helping belt" of the snake department, decided to learn from Ayun's teaching mode: first use stories to arouse everyone's interest, and then start teaching.

——At the beginning, Niujiao learned to read characters so hard that he could tell his own story. This is an advanced experience that has been proven to be feasible~!

Chengfeng took back the arithmetic question paper, checked it to make sure that everyone had done the questions correctly, and was very satisfied, so he picked up the teaching plan for the character class prepared by Qingcao, and the storybook that everyone in the tribe copied by themselves, cleared his throat, and said : "Next, we will start the literacy class. The function of words is to accurately convey the content. Before starting literacy, let's feel the charm of words first. First, let me read a short story to you."

Yesterday's evening class only taught how to read and write and addition and subtraction within ten digits. After the class, they broke up and went to bed. When they heard that the snow wolf tribe even told stories in the cultural class, the snake tribe immediately cheered up.

"A human couple joined the adventurer team and went on an adventure in the underground world. The team camped outside the dark forest in the underground world. The wife accidentally caught a cold and stayed in the camp to rest. The husband and his companions went into the dark forest to explore together. , and never came back. The wife was very worried about her husband's safety, and waited for three days. Finally, the people in the regiment returned to the camp..."

"Everyone who came back was injured. The wife anxiously asked them why her husband didn't come back together. The companions told her sadly that her husband had been captured by a monster, and they had a hard time escaping. The companions comforted the wife , They will not give up on her husband, they came back this time to bring their luggage and equipment, and enter the depths of the dark forest to rescue him."

"The wife hurriedly packed her luggage and set off with her companions... Unexpectedly, the husband rushed out of the dark forest alone! Seeing his wife with his companions, the husband's face changed drastically and he exclaimed: Get away from them! They were all killed by monsters, and only I escaped!"

Chengfeng finished telling the story happily, and looked at everyone with bright eyes: "Everyone, tell me, which side should my wife believe?"

The snakes who were huddled together in fright: "..."

Even Harris unconsciously hugged Dominy, who was closest to him, and swallowed hard when he heard the words, and the whole snake couldn't laugh or cry: "Isn't this a study class? How can there be such a story?! "

In another room, Qingcao said with a smile: "Learning words is to understand stories written in words, isn't it very interesting?"

Gusta, the strongest and most secure Gusta with four elders on his body: "..."

...I really don't understand you snow werewolves very well.