Wolf King

Ah Yue's second engineering team helped the Shebu build the first batch of dormitories with a total of [-] rooms.

In order to save wall materials, two rows of houses are built side by side, back to back (refer to the old bungalows in the 80s and [-]s in my country), and a house with labor and materials costs ten gold coins—after all, the walls need to Thick, the wall flue needs to be opened (snakes are afraid of the cold), and the sewage facilities must be matched, plus reinforced concrete prefabricated beams, prefabricated cement boards (actually prefabricated on site...) and other large pieces , The engineering team will suffer if it is cheaper.

There are ten warehouses and twenty greenhouses.The former is fine, as long as there is enough airtightness, the latter will cost more—reinforced concrete structural columns and ring beams that also use steel bars are fine, and the steel frames for the roof and thickened wire plate glass are all fired. Money thing... No matter how kind the engineering team is, thirty gold coins for a single shed will not go unnoticed.

Including public facilities such as paving squares, road repairs, cafeterias and bathrooms, farm equipment, seeds and fertilizers, and the consumption of daily necessities that have been provided successively in the past six months, the Snake Department owes the Fire Department more than 2 gold coins in total—of course, this sum There is no rush to pay back the money.Just repay some interest in the first three years, and then slowly repay it in batches over five or six years, so as not to affect the development of the Snake Department.

If the Snake Clan were still worried about this debt before, the first year's income can give them a lot of confidence... After the first three years, after that, they can pay a few thousand gold coins every year, at most four to five years. Eliminate debt without stress at all.

So almost all the elders focused their attention on the income of the first year...

Ten farms sold agricultural products with a total income of 600 gold coins, and more than [-] gold coins were used to purchase daily necessities, such as black stones, ingredients for the cafeteria, clothes, blankets, towels, soap, etc., so that all the clansmen can live a winter with abundant supplies .

The remaining money, Elder Gusta discussed with the management of the production team and decided to set aside [-] gold coins for the purchase of agricultural machinery in the spring of next year, such as triangular pears, planters, alfalfa soybean harvesters, sweet potato harvesters, etc. If you want to benefit from your work, you must first be good at your tools. No one is more aware of the auxiliary and importance of agricultural machinery to agricultural production than managers. At present, the ten farms share two sets of agricultural machinery on credit from the Huoyan Department. It's not enough to make do, but the Snake Department must have the ambition to expand the scale of production, and of course the money must be spent on this.

After rationally trying to keep the 3000 gold coins, the remaining [-] gold coins will be troublesome...

"So that's what happened. After working for a few years, you're already envious of the welfare model of our Fire Department?"

In the staff dormitory of the Huoyan Department, after listening to Qingcao babbling for a long time, patriarch Ali understood, squeezed his eyes and said: "They use the sign that everyone spends everyone's money to force the money to be distributed. Is that the case?"

"Yeah!" Qingcaodan said painfully, "I told them that before the conditions were ripe for our Fire Department a few years ago, we gathered the money earned by all departments to work together. That's right, removing the necessities of life What is needed for production, the rest is indeed the surplus value created by the collective, which should be given back to the collective, but that’s not the way to give back to the collective!”

"Wrong, wrong." Patriarch Ali shook his finger, "What they are asking for is not money, but gradually testing Gusta's bottom line, and even destroying Gusta's right to allocate resources as the host of the snake department management meeting. The "concentrated resource development collective" that we can all agree with is, in their view, Gusta's monopoly and making a statement. Money is the embodiment of power, and snatching money from Gusta's hands is only the first step. If this step Gusta Star backed down, so when the work starts next year, there will be more people speaking in various aspects."

Qingcao had a dazed expression at first, and then gradually revealed a shocked expression after a few seconds...

This is the short board of Qingcao, and the wisdom of human fighting is still a bit short.

"You can't let them do this. Among the thirteen elders of the Snake Department, Gusta is the most pragmatic one. As long as you can reason with him, you can negotiate with him. If it were someone else, my job would be very easy. Difficult to do." Qingcao nervously.

"Of course, that's why I came here." Patriarch Ali confidently said, "As foreigners, we can't quarrel with them, we can't argue with them on the opposite side, we have quarreled face to face, and then we want to support Gusta You can’t convince the public. In the final analysis, the more than 3000 gold coins are being used to make a fuss. Let’s find an undisputed place for these money, and then the problem will be solved for the time being.”

"Uh... temporarily?" Qingcao asked suspiciously.

"Of course, fighting with people is a long-term project. Not to mention others, it took several years for Ayun to make us understand his will, not to mention it is more difficult to handle than our Snow Wolf Clan What about the Snake Clan." Patriarch Ali laughed and said, "Don't worry, this is my scope of work, if it doesn't go well, Ayun will only make trouble for me, you can just do what you are good at."

Qingcao's head hurts when she heard that, too complicated things are difficult for her, so she nodded immediately: "Okay."

Patriarch Ali came with two assistants.It's not that he needs other people's help, these two assistants are actually the apprentices that Xiao Yun arranged for him to lead. As an extremely rare human being in the Snow Wolf Clan, Xiao Yun will of course make full use of the strengths of Patriarch Ali to the extreme...

Leading the two apprentice assistants around the snake department for a long time, strolling to the study groups of various production teams, playing and chatting with the cubs of the snake clan for a while, and at the management meeting of the snake department that night, Qingcao introduced her After being the head of the Ari tribe who also serves as the "leader of the discipline inspection team of the Fire Department and the chairman of the Production Promotion Association", the first discipline inspection team leader of the Fire Department asked two questions with a smile:

The first is the housing problem of the snake tribe. There are only 4000 houses, which is too tight for the snake tribe with more than [-] people.

Snakes live in groups and don't care about personal space like cats. They don't mind if more than 30 people live in one room, but it's not very convenient after all...

"Everyone, the housing problem is a big problem in the long run." Patriarch Ali didn't mention that some elders used their privileges to monopolize houses and make the housing more crowded, but started from the familial nature of the snake clan, "the ethnic group living habits of the snake clan There is a habit of living together according to the family, and it is normal for three generations to live together. This is conducive to internal unity and is a good tradition. However, several families squeeze into one house, which is fine in the short term. In the long run, friction and disputes will inevitably occur, which is harmful to the internal unity of the Snake Department. It is not beneficial, and if it is more serious, it may affect production and construction..."

The reproductive mode of the snake family is oviparous, and the female snake family can give birth to two to quintuplets at a time.But the snake family is not a real snake after all, and the females of the snake family will be seriously injured once they give birth, and they will not be able to recover within a few years. Have a baby.

Most of the orc families and families are connected with females. After all, males do not have the initiative to mate. Most orc females do not have obvious sexual characteristics. In order to reproduce offspring, they have evolved a stronger body shape than males. For example, there are three Brother and sister Harris, his two sisters are taller and stronger than him.

The family characteristics of the Snake Clan, mother and daughter live together, two generations raise the third generation together, and a large family has at least a dozen or so members; this can enhance the Snake Clan family’s ability to fight crises and make the Snake Clan’s internal cohesion stronger Strong, but at the same time, it will also make the snake clan more repulsive to members outside the family.

After talking about the shortage of housing for a long time, Patriarch Ali suggested that in order for the young females of the Snake Tribe to have the space to reproduce the next generation, it is necessary to expand the housing at least twice—this is very in line with the political correctness of the Snake Tribe. No matter how bored you are, you can only nod your head in agreement... It's okay to disagree, and the dozens of managers sitting opposite are all listening.

The second problem is the construction of greenhouses that are more important to the development of the snake department: the annual planting time on the grassland is two months less than that on the southern continent. For the long-term consideration, twenty greenhouses that can produce and plant in cold weather Simply not enough!

Not to mention that most of the greenhouses in the snake department are used to raise earthworms, and only two greenhouses can be squeezed out to grow sweet potato leaves and provide winter green leafy vegetables!

The funding gap for the construction of the greenhouse is huge, and the small amount of funds that the tribe has now is not enough to fit between the teeth!

Forget about the management, the elders grinned one by one... If they didn't have a lot of money, wouldn't this Ah Li not only keep them from thinking, but also want to take out the money on them as a snake? What is the contribution of the ministry? !

Shocking the elders, Patriarch Ali turned to say: "...the Snake Department can save more than 3000 gold coins for construction in the first year. Adding [-] greenhouses, among other things, at least give priority to ensuring the self-sufficiency of the earthworm soil, as for the others, there is no rush anyway, so let's take our time~"

Elder Gusta was convinced and nodded again and again; Elder Grego stared at Patriarch Ali with piercing eyes, with a fanatical expression on his face that "listening to what you say is better than reading ten years of books".

The other elders secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then felt that something was wrong...

Patriarch Ali smiled, "For the remaining few hundred gold coins, let's purchase a batch of chicken and duck seedlings from the Fire Department, buy a mill to grind earthworm powder to feed the chickens and ducks, and try to make the cubs eat one egg a day." Then, let’s take the time to dig a pond to raise fish. The feed is ready-made, and the manure of chickens and ducks is just right. In autumn, the water in the pond is drained, and the fish are brought up to eat. It's just right to compost..."

Why did Xiao Yun arrange double duties for Patriarch Ali?The biggest reason is naturally that the current system of the Fire Department does not have many loopholes to exploit.Unless Xiao Yun dies, the successor can't shake the scene, and someone smashes the pot of the system (for example, in the 80s, it was led by Thatcher, Reagan and others to kill state-owned enterprises in the name of neo-liberal economy The planned economy and industrial policy represented by the market, under the banner of omnipotent market, is actually a Western society that puts capital at the top), otherwise, the leader of the Ari clan, the leader of the discipline inspection team, may have been idle and have no place to play his strengths... After all, Xiao Yun appointed Live longer than Patriarch Ali.

As the president of production promotion, the scope of power of this position is much more flexible and operable~!

Do you want to sit, eat, sleep and enjoy dividends when you have a small achievement?First ask Patriarch Ali whether he agrees or not!

There is no end to production and construction!

In terms of looking for work for people (...), looking for work to do, Xiao Yun's chosen successor (...) is patriarch Ali, the unique bad guy in the snow wolf clan!

At the same time, in the underground world, the "delayed" snow wolf fan transport team on the road is still diligently searching for the gray dwarf village...

In a complex channel with traces of gray dwarves' activities, a large rogue lucky bird chased and slaughtered by agile Ah Shan and Rosemary was dumped on the stalagmites for bloodletting; Rosemary squatted beside her to boil water for scalding Adding food to everyone, while others searched the surrounding passages to find a way out.

"...what do you call this thing?"

Xiao Yun stared at the dead fish eyes, pointed to the weird vine-like plants growing from the cracks in the rocks not far away, and covered the entire mountain wall with lush greenery, and asked the goblin Baron.

"Battle tree." Baron raised his small head, and tried to raise his finger to point to the plant in the underground world, which is somewhat similar to a creeper, but is ten thousand times more ferocious. "Its fruit looks like a hammer, and the stem is also very thick. The fruit will fall down. If you cut off the fruit, you can eat a particularly strong pulp and a particularly sweet core."

"..." Xiao Yun stared at the weird dark-type plant with leaves as big as millstones and flowers that looked like, no, it was a piranha flower, and its fruit could fight against a skull hammer for a few seconds, then turned his head resolutely, " Forget it, go and see if Mao Mao and the others can get on the road."

The underground world is full of labyrinthine and complicated passages. Where there is little moss, it’s okay, and where there is a lot of moss, there will be all kinds of dark animals and plants that make people feel that the SAN value has plummeted just by looking at it... The light moss area is such a place where the style of painting is particularly suitable for the underground world.

Falling out from the dead end where the battle tree was entangled, Xiao Yun was about to call Yu, but before the voice came out, Uncle Ashan rushed up with joy: "Ayun, Ayun, I caught a slime!"

Then he held a strange creature the size of a plate, watery like jelly, and ineffective in both hands, and slapped Xiao Yun in the face.

Xiao Yun: "...Uncle Ah Shan, calm down, my eyesight is fine, I can see..."

Uncle Ashan enthusiastically said, "I caught it from the pool over there. It's very clean and sweet. Drink it, Ayun!"

"This is really unnecessary..." Xiao Yun's entire face was twitching.

"Then I drink it myself?" Ah Shan said with bright eyes.

"..." Xiao Yun stared at the dead fish, "...don't drink too much."

Slimes and oozes are the same kind of low-level monsters. They usually appear in pools, lakes, swamps, etc. One is cute, the other is ugly, and the other is clean. Just get killed by passing adventurers, or be used to wash the ground by someone with special needs like Xiao Yun, if it is cute... the price is to be sucked.

really suck...

Ah Shan pushed his mouth to a certain part of Slime's chubby body. As soon as he exerted force, the sweet and delicious liquid in Slime's body was sucked in by him like juice; he squinted his eyes beautifully, and Slime instinctively started Struggling, the sound of water gurgling in the body...

"Ah Shan, just suck half of it!" Not far away, Rosemary, who was boiling water, shouted, "If you suck too much, regeneration will be slow, and when others pass by here, you won't have to suck it."

"Yeah!" Ah Shan nodded, licked his lower lip, and put the slime back to the original place... The value of this thing for adventurers and travelers is that it is a renewable, clean and purifying device with its own purification function. source of water.

Rosemary yelled at the soldiers who were diving into the pool to touch the slime: "Stop searching, come and help pluck the hair!"

"This is a dead end." After searching several passages, Yu turned back and went to Ayun first, "Ayun, we have to go back in a while, and look for the fork that we didn't take just now."

"Okay." Xiao Yun nodded.

"Maomao, Ayun and I saw the battle tree over there." Goblin Baron said hastily.

"Oh?" Yu's eyes lit up, and he immediately took the spear and walked in the direction Xiao Yun walked just now...

Xiao Yun looked at Baron silently, and Baron tried his best to pretend to be innocent.

"You're getting skinny too!"

A certain cub knelt down and put his arm around the poor goblin's neck, grinding his bald head with his fists.

"Pain, pain, pain!!"

After a fierce battle, Yu came back with several lumps of battle tree fruits...

The square, three-dimensional rectangular fruit of the fighting tree has a particularly thick cortex. It needs to be roasted or boiled for a few minutes before peeling off the fruit with a knife. This thing will also grow on the grassland. Yu has rich cooking experience , after peeling, cut the flesh into pieces and skewer it on the fire. After a short while, the dense and firm flesh exudes a fragrance similar to the smell of meat, but much refreshing...

"I haven't eaten the fruit of the fighting tree for several years." Ah Shan was drooling and squatting by the fire, rubbing his hands, and the soldiers who plucked the auspicious bird feathers in a circle around him couldn't stop looking at this side.

"Well, there are many in the middle of the grassland, but it is rare in the southwest corner where we live." Yu grabbed the salt and slowly sprinkled the salt on the flesh.

Xiao Yun didn't pay attention to the strange dark fruit. He picked up the peeled peel and looked at it over and over for a long time. He pulled it hard with his hands, bit it with his teeth, stepped on one end of the peel, and stretched the other end... …

"What are you doing, Ah Yun, the skin will keep being pulled like this, you have to cut it with a knife when it's softened." Ah Shan turned his head, inexplicably.

Xiao Yun pulled the strip-shaped peel into rectangular thin slices, and his whole body trembled slightly with excitement: "RNM... There is nowhere to find it if you break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it—"

The snow werewolf warriors all turned their heads and looked at him inexplicably.

"Maomao, can this dark type rubber tree be dug up and planted?" Xiao Yun looked at Yu with piercing eyes.

feather:"??"

"Uh... Ayun, although the battle tree fruit is delicious, ordinary people will be easily injured if they get close." Yu thought about it.

Xiao Yun didn't explain, and reached out to Baron, "Give me the seeds."

Baron, who was about to smash a stone into a fruit core and dig out the seeds, said, "??"

Ignoring Baron's aggrieved eyes, he put away the core and the peeled fruit, and took Uncle Ah Shan back to the battle tree, where he chopped off a section of root system, a section of stem and leaves...

"This thing is too big, or else the whole plant will be dug back." Xiao Yun still felt dissatisfied, and he still couldn't finish it.

Ah Shan: "??"

The two left the passage where the battle tree was entrenched, and the battle tree that had been lying motionless on the rock wall suddenly shrank quietly and silently into the crevice of the rock...

Among the common monsters, the auspicious chicken is the most popular ingredient for adventurers - it has no flying ability, is easier to catch, and the meat is not highly toxic. Humans with poor physical resistance can cook together with detoxifying herbs. edible.

Rosemary and the soldiers plucked the feathers of the auspicious chicken, cut off the head and claws, cut open the belly, took out the most poisonous internal organs and buried them in the soil, spread soy sauce, vinegar, ginger juice, and barbecue on the chicken. Sauce, cumin, tomato sauce, etc. are massaged slightly, and then skewered with spears and grilled on the fire. After a while, the meaty aroma with a strong smell of spices permeates the entire passage.

The most delicious part of the lucky chicken is undoubtedly the four drumsticks. Xiao Yun got one as a cub, Ah Shan, who was drooling, got one, and the other two were cut into slices for everyone to share.

"The taste is actually okay, it's just a little numb." Xiao Yun took a bite unexpectedly.

"Auspicious chicken is considered a monster, and it is poisonous." Yu explained, "But it doesn't matter, this paralyzing toxin has no effect on our orcs. If humans eat it, they must be smeared with detoxifying herbal juice before roasting."

"Ayun, don't you remember, when my sister was here, I caught a group of auspicious chickens and came back to the tribe. You ate half a chicken leg and lay down for a long time before you could get up." Ashan laughed heartlessly.

"Oh? Ah Yun was in poor health before?" Rosemary cheered up.

"Yeah, one time Ah Yun stole chimera barbecue that he couldn't eat, and fell into a coma for three days, which scared everyone." Ah Shan said unpreparedly.

"Pfft ha ha ha ha! What else is there?"

Xiao Yun put down the chicken legs, threw himself on Rosemary's body, stuck his neck and rubbed his fists against his scalp in one go: "Eating can't stop your mouth, can it! Can't it!"

After all, Rosemary is a fighter, and it is not so easy to be controlled. She inserted her wrist into Xiao Yun's arm and broke free with a little force. What are you doing~"

Xiao Yun rolled up his sleeves and was about to put them on, but suddenly froze, his eyes stared straight behind Rosemary.

Rosemary was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "What are you doing, you still want to play this trick on me? Do you think I will be fooled?"

The warriors of the Snow Wolf Clan and the goblin Baron who were sitting by the bonfire also noticed something was wrong, they all turned their gazes over, and then all showed shocked expressions...

"...Hey, everyone won't cooperate with Ayun to mess with me, right?" Rosemary felt something was wrong.

The goblin Baron jumped up in horror and hid behind Ah Shan. Yu grabbed the spear and stood up solemnly.

"..." Rosemary swallowed and turned her head stiffly.

Less than half a meter behind him is a rock wall, and there is an irregular crack on the rock wall, the widest part is only about ten centimeters; when Rosemary turned her head, she happened to see a white creature walking through the narrow and twisted crack. Slowly squeezed out from the middle, and on the outward side, you can roughly see a distorted face...