Wolf King

Before the heavy snowfall, the human wealth of the tribes on the grassland is best reflected by the piled cow dung, firewood, and hay for cattle and sheep overwintering outside the tribe.During the four-month long winter, if the tribe does not store enough cow dung and firewood to ensure heating, the tribe will freeze to death, and the cattle and sheep will starve to death if some grass fodder is not adequately prepared.Regardless of the loss of tribesmen or cattle and sheep, it will deal a blow to the tribe.

This year's snow werewolf tribe's demand for cow dung and firewood is not as urgent as in previous years, and fodder still needs to be stored as much as possible. During the period when Xiao Yun was burning pottery, the tribe in charge of grazing had already moved ants to the mountains to bring back piles and piles. The bales of hay are stacked in stacks on the open space outside the tribe.Standing at the main entrance of the mud-brick house and looking to the left, the flat land in the northwest outside the tribe is endlessly densely covered with haystacks like mushrooms. These are the fruits of labor that the tribe has worked hard to harvest and dry since the beginning of autumn and then dragged back to the tribe.

But... Xiao Yun really didn't have much confidence in whether the fodder was enough for the tribe's cattle and sheep to survive the winter.

He hasn't had the chance to go to the grassland to see the tribe's grazing cattle and sheep. After so many days of inquisition, it is enough for him to understand the greatest wealth of the tribe. The land lost a group of elite fighters, including the original owner's mother. Since then, the tribe has gone downhill. The grassland it originally owned was eroded by other big tribes, and it had to migrate to the west many times. The loss of cattle and sheep, until half a year ago, when the tribe moved to the southwestern border of the grassland, there were only 32 tribesmen (including the original owner), more than 400 oxen and more than 1800 long-haired sheep.

A total of more than 2000 cattle and sheep seems to be a good fortune, but... such a small amount of livestock on the grassland is really poor enough to be used as underwear. You know, the exiled cat clan youth Qingyan, the cat with more than 300 people he used to stay with The number of cattle and sheep owned by the tribe is more than [-]...

If Xiao Yun hadn't crossed over and the Snow Werewolf tribe couldn't get mud-brick houses and heated kangs, then in order to fight against the long winter, no matter how careful they were in this winter, they would have to eat at least a quarter of the livestock. The days of next year can be described as penniless.

In short, cattle and sheep are the bulk of the tribe's wealth. If Xiao Yun wants the tribe to live a good life, he must take good care of these uncles... Ahem, then the first thing to bear the brunt is to prepare for winter fodder in case of rainy days.

"I remember that the daily forage consumption of large livestock is about 3% of its own weight. The weight of an adult benthorn cattle is about 500 kilograms, and the weight of an adult long-haired sheep is about 200 kilograms. So... on average, there are not a few per day. Thousands of catties of fodder can’t last——day!” Xiao Yun casually counted and there were black lines all over his forehead, “How can this be afforded? Is this fodder really enough? They will all have to starve and lose weight by spring? !"

"Well, next spring, no matter what, I have to find an excuse to go to the tauren tribe to see if I can get grass seeds. If I can have alfalfa, I don't need such a large pasture... Hey, it's too early to say that. Think about winter first!"

"People don't even have enough beans to feed cattle and sheep, so is there any other way to get something else to serve as feed?"

Xiao Yun folded his hands on his chest and tilted his head to think hard. In modern society, the breeding industry is developed. It stands to reason that there should be countless natural plants that can be used as feed...however, Xiao Yun doesn't understand!He didn't graduate from an agricultural college, and his life in the country was limited to the winter and summer vacations in elementary school. He had never been interested in these things before, and at most he read some time-travel novels, outdoor live broadcasts of wild survival videos and so on.

"Speaking of which, it is so difficult for raised livestock to survive the winter, so what about wild animals? When it snows, those deer, roe deer and rabbits on the grassland, what do they eat?"

"When the snow on the grassland falls, it can be as tall as half a person, and the grass is pressed down. The wild animals either pick up the snow and eat the grass roots? Hmm... It seems that when the snow is not very heavy, the tribe will try to go out to graze, but The big head still depends on fodder—tsk!"

Xiao Yun scratched his head hard, and now he regrets it a bit. If he knew that he was going to time travel, why didn't he go to the Agricultural University, Biology, etc., which made him completely blind now.

The current grassland is no longer the emerald green that Xiao Yun saw when he first passed through. As the weather turns cooler, most of the plants also turn yellow and change color in accordance with the solar terms. The leaves of the few trees that were purposely left in the tribe to set up tents are now green. Most of them turned yellow, and the fallen leaves fell on the roof of the tent and the ground. If he didn't have to live in this ghostly place, Xiao Yun would still say a small and refreshing interjection when he saw such a scene: It's a bit wild.

"...Eh, wait, the leaves are changing color?" Xiao Yun suddenly frowned, thinking of something, "The changing leaves... I mean, when I went to pick up pine branches two days ago, I saw a large reddish-brown forest. It's pretty pretty, that one seems to be... an oak tree?"

"Ah! Oak tree!" Xiao Yun let out a scream.

Not far away, Qingcao Dahe, who was pouring mud and rocks into the excavated foundation, was frightened and looked over in surprise.

"Isn't an oak tree an oak tree? Doesn't an oak tree have acorns! Damn, I just watched the natural feed there and didn't notice it at all?!" Xiao Yun's face was grim.

Acorns, also called chestnut cocoons and acorns, have a hard shell on the outside, brownish red, and the inner kernels are like peanut kernels. The starch content is higher than that of beans. It was used as a spare food in special times, but because of its indigestibility and poor taste (astringent large), and were quickly eliminated and reduced to raw materials and feed for industrial processing... Xiao Yun had already abandoned acorns by Chinese farmers when he spent winter and summer vacations in the countryside in elementary school, so he didn't have a deep impression of this thing. But he had seen a documentary in which a certain country specially used acorns to raise pigs, and the pigs were sold at a high price...he remembered this.

Acorns are used as feed for cattle and sheep, but there must be no feed corn and soybeans to feed them...Acorns can only account for 30% to 40% of corn in the concentrate for feeding pigs.But it’s still the same sentence, it’s okay to be picky when there is no guarantee.Xiao Yun stopped standing here as a supervisor, let Qingcao and Niujiao take care of watering the foundation, and called Shang Dahe and Qingyan to run to the edge of the forest again.

"What are we going to do, don't we build a house first?" Da He followed and ran back, and she still wanted to ask 123.

"It doesn't take so many people to pour the foundation. When we are free, let's go to see if the acorns dropped in the oak forest are enough to supplement the cattle and sheep feed of the tribe. If we can, we will organize more people and move them." Come back." Xiao Yun said.

"Acorn?" Dahe had never heard of this.

"The fruit of the oak tree just ripens in this season. When it is ripe, it will naturally fall on the ground and can be picked up directly." Xiao Yun gestured to her, "About this big oval fruit, hard shell, brown-red... Qingyan, have you seen it before?"

Qingyan thought for a while, and said: "Is it a kind of tree knot whose leaves turn red in autumn?"

"Correct."

"I've eaten that fruit before. It's unpalatable and very dry. If I eat too much, my stomach feels uncomfortable. Is it okay to feed it to cattle and sheep?" Qingyan wondered.

"It can't be eaten directly. After harvesting, it has to be shelled, crushed, and then soaked in water. At least two or three times of soaking and rinsing can reduce the bitterness, and then it can be fed to livestock. And it can't be fed too much. It takes up three to three Forty percent is almost the same." Xiao Yun said.

Before Xiao Yun worked as a coolie, Dahe was in charge of grazing cattle. After hearing what Xiao Yun said, he was surprised: "Wouldn't that save a lot of fodder?"

"That's right, when it snows heavily in winter, the cattle and sheep will go hungry if there is not enough fodder. If there are acorns, the fodder in the tribe will not need to be consumed so much." Xiao Yun nodded.

"But... can there be so many acorns?" Da He hesitated.

"That's why I went to take a look." Xiao Yun said, "The oak forest I saw is quite large. If the yield is high, the cattle and sheep in the tribe will not be afraid of starving this winter."

After trotting all the way, the three of them arrived at the edge of the forest two hours later. This time Xiao Yun was exhausted, but he was quite excited for the tribe's plan to survive the winter. Living.

"Ayun, you want to go in?" Dahe asked vigilantly.

"The oak forest is right there." Xiao Yun raised his hand and pointed, "I've already run here, can't I just go in and have a look? Besides, isn't there still Qingyan, even if he is exiled, he is still a cat Clan fighters, nothing will happen."

Qingyan kept his mouth shut and did not speak. The black panther warrior was no match for the snow werewolf in wolf form, but if this cub Ayun wanted to use him as an excuse, he wouldn't be so stupid that he didn't know how to cooperate.

"But……"

"It's nothing but, anyway, we don't go deep into the jungle, just to see if we can find more animal feed. If there is any danger at most, I will turn into a wolf and run away. It doesn't matter." Xiao Yun patted Dahe's arm, and put her Pull it down.

Dahe was a little hesitant, and what Ayun said was right, if the Snow Werewolf wanted to escape, not many people would be able to keep him, so he hesitated and put his hand down.

Xiao Yun immediately held his head high and stepped into the woods—he finally came in, it was wise not to bring grass and horns!

Even in the outermost part of the forest, the newly-born trees are estimated to be only a hundred years old, and the feeling after entering the forest is quite different from that outside - the feeling of stepping on the thick layer of fallen leaf humus on the ground and the feeling of not being careful. It is almost like entering a dry swamp. Although it is late autumn, the snakes, insects, rats and ants in the forest are still active, and the small creatures that come out after stepping on the humus layer are dense... Fortunately, the three of them are wearing animal skins on their feet. Rattan straw sandals, otherwise it would be disgusting to walk in barefoot, no wonder snow werewolves don't like to drill into the woods.

The thorny weeds taller than people, the vine branches that obscure the view, walking in the original ecological forest will not make people feel romantic at all, but it will be difficult every step of the way; fortunately, there are animals in the forest. The animal path that comes out is more or less enough for people to step on, but some trees knocked down by large beasts will block the road from time to time, and the overgrown plants are always difficult for people to step on. If you are not careful, you will not take a few steps You have to throw all kinds of meat and eight vegetables.

Fortunately, the oak forest is not too far away. After ten minutes of hard walking, the three of them walked into the ocean of acorns—this is not an exaggeration at all, it really has to be described as an ocean, densely covered with oak trees and fallen leaves The acorns and mature fallen acorns spread a thick layer on the ground, and the ground turned brown-red.

"... Well, what we need to consider now is the transportation issue." Xiao Yun turned to look at Dahe, "All the animal skins in our tribe are made into leather bags, can we put all these acorns back?"

Da He supported his chin, and shook his head dully: "Should...cannot."

Xiao Yun raised his hand and knit his brows, he could have expected the magnificent sea of ​​acorns in front of him, after all, the oak forest he saw from the outside of the forest was so big: "Okay, then let the wool guys work overtime and weave more The large rattan grass mat for dragging the fodder, slowly dragged back... If we drag it alone, I am afraid that we will be exhausted, and the whole family must go to battle."