Wolf King

Before processing, acorns need to be soaked in water to kill insects. This operation is not difficult for humans, but it is very difficult for snow werewolves... Even the bean sprouts are made by digging holes. Where can I find a device for soaking acorns?

It’s simple, since it’s mainly feeding livestock anyway, so Xiao Yun simply skipped the step of soaking and killing insects, and took the cubs to dig out the acorns that had been crushed by snow and freeze overnight, and pile them into the prefabricated house. Burn floor heating and dry directly.

As soon as the floor heating was turned on, the whole house was warm. The young people were excited, and without Xiao Yun’s advice, they spontaneously took on the work of adding firewood, and even dragged vines and grass to weave in the prefab room—the prefab room is only [-] square meters anyway. The Datong room on the left and right is much more spacious than the long heated kang room for sleeping.

Xiao Yun didn't worry about whether the cubs would trample and crush the drying acorns, or that's the same thing, anyway, it's for feeding livestock, so it doesn't matter that much... As for what to eat, he took it Fill a water tank with snow water and soak half of the tank. When I have free time later, I will grind it and cook it for the tribesmen to change their taste.

In addition to using the floor heating in the mobile home, Xiao Yun also plans to open the kiln for firing pottery - as long as there is no need to worry about fuel, the more pottery the better, the water pots and pots in the tribe are still nervous.

This time, Xiao Yun thought about burning some larger pottery pots for use. If he had pottery pots, he wouldn't have to rely on the soil pit to grow bean sprouts, and he wouldn't need to occupy the water tank if he wanted to soak some acorns.

In this weather, it is hard work to go to the river bank and the edge of the swamp to collect mud, but the sub-zero weather is not bad, at least the large wild beasts in the wild cannot be as active as before, and the teenagers can also go to the swamp to collect mud by themselves. Mud, don't always have to be brought by an adult.

I took back the mud, kneaded it with warm water from a large stove in the bathroom, and added powder made from broken pottery in the tribe (smashed and ground slowly with quartz stone, not to mention how hard it was) Then, Xiao Yun took the most delicate wool in the young man's hands and thought about making a pottery pot. The diameter of this pottery pot is about 0.8 meters, which is larger than the pottery pots fired before. Although it is not a commodity for sale, There is no need to pursue a sufficiently round shape, but the basic shape cannot be collapsed, right?

Knead out the bottom of the pot with mud balls, and then squeeze out long mud strips and add them up in circles. Considering the size of the clay kiln for firing pottery, you can only put three pots in it at a time. Xiao Yun must be careful enough in his work; he has made the basic clay body, such a big clay pot cannot be glazed after plain firing, so Xiao Yun simply brushes the glaze on the dry clay body... The pots for his own use are not particular For appearance, the glaze is made of long stones, quartz stones, plant ash and mud, and there is no need for natural pigments.

There are three pots in the earthen kiln, and there are still some corners and corners. Needless to say, use them all, and then make pottery bowls, apply colorless glaze, and squeeze a few big spoons, one side is thin and the other is thick Try to burn two pottery knives too...

Started to burn pottery, the temperature in the firewood room was higher than that of the prefabricated house, so there was nothing to say, just pile as many acorns as you could.

After one day and one night, the pottery in this kiln was fired, and the first batch of acorns were also dried. Xiao Yun randomly picked up one and shook it, and heard the sound of acorn kernels colliding inside, so he played with it in the room. The cubs who are vines, those who ran outside to play in the snow, or the cubs who hugged their parents and acted like a spoiled child, and worked together to shell the acorns...

The cubs are busy, and the adults are not idle either.The cubs spend most of their time going back and forth in the house doing things, but the adults are going through the wind and snow.The reason is that after visiting the place where the cattle and sheep are kept in captivity, Xiao Yun disliked the feeding method of the clansman—throwing down the fodder casually for the cattle and sheep to eat. Sloppy, mixed with mud, snow, water, feces, etc. It's so dirty, wasteful and unhygienic.

In the past, the tribesmen didn't think there was anything wrong with feeding them this way, anyway, all the tribes on the grassland did it this way.Now that Xiao Yun pointed it out and asked for improvement, the big guys looked at each other for a while, but no one objected... After all, the facts have proved that the changes proposed by Ayun are good for the tribe, and the snow wolves have a longer reflection arc. equals stubbornness.

So the cub Xiao Yun moved his mouth, and the adults began to break their legs. Xiao Yun's suggestion was to change the open-air sheep pens that were all mixed together into a batch-feeding mode, that is, to use soil, wood, and thorns to feed sheep. Isolate every [-] cattle and sheep in a strip-shaped area to feed each hundred cattle and sheep, and then in this open-air feeding area, use all available things such as earth, stones, and wood to stack them up so that the cattle and sheep can eat grass without bowing their heads. A simple trough that you can't step in or pull feces into.

For a total of [-] adult tribesmen, this is indeed a major project that can be called "transformation of nature"... It is equivalent to creating a well-planned breeding area to truly "realize" the livestock that were originally free-ranging. In the weather where there are no convenient tools to use and the ground is frozen hard, this crap really kills the snowwolves.

"I have never felt that doing things is such a hard thing before!"

"I'm so tired, my claws hurt so much..."

"Aww, I hit a rock, it hurts..."

"Why do I now feel that there are too many cattle and sheep in the tribe..."

"Hands are going to freeze..."

...The snow wolves wailed like the above one after another.

It snowed three times before and after, Xiao Yun fired pottery from five kilns, and the cubs shelled out more than [-] tons of acorns to feed, the adults who were so tired that their skins and claws were bald finally Finished the open-air sheep pen in the divided area for cattle and sheep.The patriarch took a hot bath and slept, cheered up and took Xiao Yun to "inspect" their work results. After Xiao Yun showed a dissatisfied but basically acceptable expression, the patriarch felt a sense of relief. His tone was very itchy, and he wanted to beat Xiao Yun up.

"Raise it like this first, and then consider building a decent sheepfold when there is more manpower." Xiao Yun reluctantly begged, "If this is done here... Patriarch, do you think we will build some more houses next? ?”

"... Isn't the house enough?" The patriarch's anger was suddenly interrupted by this inexplicable proposal.

"How could it be enough? There are more than a dozen people in the clan squeezing into one kang." Xiao Yun said with a deep expression, "Didn't I say at the beginning that the kang in the Datong shop is for emergency use, and it's used to make sure first?" There is no 'this basic requirement."

"..." No matter how much the patriarch recalled, he couldn't recall Xiao Yun saying this, but he was not very confident in his memory, so he could only keep his mouth shut.

"The house with floor heating now needs to bake acorns, bake meat sticks, serve as an activity room for the clansmen, and eat in it. The restaurant and living room are integrated, which is basically a public space and cannot be used for other purposes. , then to cultivate mushrooms, I have to build another mushroom house, do you agree with this?"

The patriarch nodded. The enoki mushrooms picked in the wild had already been eaten two days ago. Although he didn't like to eat them, the clansmen who loved them missed the days when enoki mushrooms were available.

"Single dogs in the clan...well, it's not a big problem for the cubs to squeeze into the hot kang on the Datong shop with people without a partner, but there are couples in the clan, that is, couples in pairs. In the spring after maturation, the adult females in our clan have a chance of estrus, we have to prepare a private space for those who want to give birth and form a partner, after all, the development and prosperity of the clan is inseparable from newborn cubs, right?"

"Ah!" The patriarch opened his mouth wide, this question...he really hadn't considered it!

In fact, this is not the fault of the patriarch, because considering the current population ratio of the tribe, the tribe really does not lack cubs—including Xiao Yun, the tribe has twelve underage cubs, accounting for one-third of the entire tribe's population More than one, this ratio is amazing no matter which tribe it is in... Of course, the reason for this situation is very sad, not because of the high fertility rate of the tribe, but because of the loss of too many adult tribesmen in the past ten years, Xiao Yun and Wool Four of them are orphans, five of the other eight are single parents, and only three have parents, and two of the cubs are siblings. In other words, there are only two complete families with both parents and children.

With such a sad population composition, it is reasonable to say that the tribe will not consider the issue of childbirth until at least half of these cubs become adults, because the number of adult tribesmen is not enough, and the food for hunting and gathering will not be too abundant. Under such circumstances, the female snow werewolf The survival of the cubs produced by mating in estrus cannot be guaranteed, so the female snow werewolf will definitely skip the estrus period, not estrus or not mate during the estrus period-there are only a few creatures in nature that are in estrus all year round like humans, and the snow werewolf There are only two estrus periods, and each time lasts only three to five days. Only during this period, the snow werewolf will have the desire to mate.

This is also where most intelligent races differ from humans, in that females decide whether to mate and give birth.

The patriarch didn't think about this issue before, it was based on the consideration of the tribe's living environment, before Xiao Yun was dragged into this world, it was even a problem for the tribe to survive the winter.Now there is a heated kang to keep out the cold, wild boar and bean sprouts supplemented with vitamins that exceed the meat reserves of previous years, and the consumption of trading pottery is saved. Not a problem.

"Indeed...it should be so." The patriarch nodded, and once again stared at Xiao Yun with watery eyes like looking at a lover. A Yun has been thinking about the important matter of reproduction that he, the patriarch, has neglected. Why didn't he find out a long time ago? How is Ayun so good?

"..." Xiao Yun stayed away from him silently, "I have walked around the tribe several times during this time, the terrain where we live is good, the altitude is higher than the water source, and there is no groundwater seepage or soil quality when digging the foundation. It is relatively tight and not loose, and can be used as a long-term residence, so I think that the small family living room we built can be built with a service life of more than ten years as the standard, and try to make it in place at one time, so as to avoid spending time on repairs in the future."

"Hmm..." The patriarch showed a dark face, which means that he can't keep up with Xiao Yun's thinking again... Let's not embarrass him, as the patriarch of the snow werewolf can think about things next year, he is far-sighted, and he is expected to be born Do you know long-term planning?

"In this case, we have to think about the planning of the residential area..." Xiao Yun picked up a branch, knelt down on the muddy ground and drew a city with a cross street as the frame... er... town... um... The layout of the village, "This is a tribe. The altitude of the ground in this area is higher than that of the river, which can be used as a place of residence. Now we have two temporary kang houses and one temporary activity room, in a pattern of characters. If you want to build a new building next, my suggestion is to extend to the west or east first, especially the east side. There is a lot of soil and gravel here, which you also found when you were building sheepfolds? This kind of land reclamation Farming is also laborious, why not use it as a homestead..."

"Well——" The patriarch's expression became more serious, and his heart was calm. What was Ayun talking about?Should he continue pretending to understand or confess that he doesn't understand?

"... Patriarch, what do you think?" Xiao Yun raised his head.

The patriarch's expression was firm and his eyes were determined: "...just do it like this." It's too shameful to admit that he doesn't understand anything, he is already old, shameless!

Xiao Yun suppressed his laughter, got up solemnly and clapped his hands, sincerely: "Since the patriarch agrees with you, let's discuss it with the clansmen. It's winter and we don't need to patrol the herds. It's just a good time to use the strength of the whole clan to solve the family housing problem."

That's right...Xiao Yun just wanted the patriarch not to understand, so that he could have the final say on what he said, and the final interpretation rested entirely with him.

The clansmen who had built the sheepfold for more than ten days were so tired that they were lying on the kang with their dead bodies. Xiao Yun waved the patriarch's chicken feathers and ordered them to attack, killing all eight adult female clansmen including Hongye, Qingcao, and Dahe. Called to the prefabricated house to gather—including two mothers with a complete partner and children. They may not be willing to have children this year, but since Xiao Yun uses "family housing" as a gimmick to encourage births and cultivate the awareness of private property for the clan, then it cannot be taken People missed it.

Xiao Yun has also thought about why he should cultivate the awareness of private property... It is naturally harmonious and beautiful for all the clansmen to be as close as one family, but sooner or later the tribe will expand and incorporate the same clan, and it is nonsense to talk about development without a sufficient population base.Well, before that, Xiao Yun must first cultivate the sense of private property for the clansmen, take good care of the personal interests of the clansmen who belong to the elders, and at the same time let them understand how good Xiao Yun is to them. After a long time, the clansmen will It has become the basic disk for his indestructible and unshakable ambition.

——In short, it is a two-pronged approach to buy people's hearts by talking and doing.

This is not a shameful thing. Anyone who wants to do anything must manage his own basic market well. This is the most basic common sense; To be honest, you should stop operating this basic game, since your team won't be able to go very far anyway.

As for the kind of people who confuse the basic market and the benefit distribution model of the newcomers, and don't know how to keep the foundation firmly... You should not fool others and yourself.

"Family...housing?"

Sitting in a prefab full of acorns and hung with strips of meat, all the female clan members who were so pure that they didn't even have a clear concept of private property and didn't know anything about such good things as welfare housing distribution gave Xiao a blank look. cloud look.

"Yes, a couple formed by two adults should have a family house belonging to both parties." Xiao Yun is used to it anyway, so he has no embarrassment, and explained with a smile, "Now the clansmen don't need to herd or patrol. When the manpower is relatively sufficient, we seize this opportunity to build the family house that belongs to the partner first.”

"Is it like... a tent?" the mother of the two children asked suspiciously.

"Yes, bigger than tents, spacious, and strong, belonging to the family house of the partner, with a kang and basic household pottery, all distributed by the clan." Xiao Yun bite the word "partner" again, there is no way to build a house in winter The weather factor has too much influence. If single-parent families are also divided into houses, it may not be exhausting for the tribe to rebel.

As for the tiny possibility of two people working together to "cheat" the house, Xiao Yun is not worried at all. The so-called wolves are in pairs. The snow werewolves value their partners very much. .Non-estrus female snow werewolves have no desire to mate at all, and it is impossible for them to have cheating mistresses that affect marital harmony.

Uh... It is possible for a male snow werewolf to ignore the possibility of having a sex during the estrus period, but the probability is too low to ignore it. If anything, it is more prevalent in the cat clan to have sex with a lily...

"That is to say, Ayun is going to build a house for a pair of couples?" Dahe understood, and after thinking about it, he showed a very tangled expression, "This seems very good, but I don't plan to be in heat yet."

"It doesn't matter, if you don't want to be in estrus this year, you can come back next spring. Now I'm just asking anyone who has plans to choose a partner during this estrus, and see how many houses need to be built first to meet the demand."

The female clansmen looked at each other, except for the two clansmen who had a child and a partner who were overjoyed, everyone else was very conflicted... Due to the survival pressure faced by the clan, the adult females in the clan actually did not intend to estrus in recent years, and now Ayun suddenly took It is embarrassing to "seduce" everyone with such good conditions.

"There is no male suitable for me in the clan." Hongye said regretfully, the snow werewolf is considered an adult after thirty, and she has been wandering around in the clan since she became an adult, and now she is forty, and the clan is about the same age as her Some of them either have a partner, or their partner is dead, or they are younger than her. After all, there are only eleven adult males except for the middle-aged patriarch who is over [-]. The choice is too narrow.

"I'm... I fell in love with Ah Yue, or else I would be the only one." After thinking about it, Qingcao still wanted a house of her own, so that she wouldn't have to be disliked all the time.

"Ah Yue?" Xiao Yun thought hard for a long time before he remembered that it was the old man who replaced the horned warrior. This man was about the same age as Qingcao, "Okay, then there are three houses that are scheduled to be built first, and the rest What about people?"

"Shui Shui seems pretty good, Dahe, don't you like him?" Qingcao looked at Dahe.

Da He shook his head like a rattle: "No."

A female tribe member with a child hesitated for a long time, and said hesitantly: "I don't plan to be in heat for the past two years, but I want to form a partner with Lan Guo, is this okay?"

"Of course, the fourth room belongs to you." Xiao Yun immediately gave his thumbs up, so that there are four complete families in the clan, and there are two more cubs with both parents... He remembered that Lan Guo also single father.As for why Lan Guo was not called to this meeting, it was because the male snow werewolves did not count on forming a partner...

After a "mobilization", Qingcao was the only one who expressed her intention to give birth.After confirming the four houses to be built, Xiao Yun threw out another bait for the clansmen: "It is too cold to start construction now, and the clan will continue to build new houses when the snow melts in the coming year. The priority is still to allocate spouses. Those who have spouses All the clansmen have houses, and the rest will be distributed according to age."

He himself is the youngest in the tribe. If single dogs are divided like this, he will suffer a lot. However, the best point of this distribution method is to please the patriarch. The patriarch who was watching the whole process immediately threw him a disgusting look at his lover. …When doing any distribution of benefits, you must not forget to provide some priority privileges to those who have the most say. This is the quality that adults should have.

The obvious difference between having a partner with a house and not having a partner who sleeps in a Datong shop may not be felt by the clansmen in a short period of time. After a long time, can a single dog who slowly finds himself at a disadvantage really have no idea?The so-called not worrying about the few and the unevenness, everyone has a share, it just depends on whether it will be sooner or later, this distribution model can dispel the dissatisfaction that the tribesmen may have to the greatest extent... because people are pure and naive, and exploiting them is not enough. , Sooner or later, there will be big problems, which is also the basic quality of the organizer.

After reaching an agreement with the female clansmen, tell the good news that "everyone in the clan will have a house sooner or later" to other clansmen, not to mention the single dogs that the female clansmen despise, even the underage cubs. Excited, being able to roll around on the kang that only belongs to me and sleep as I want is really great~ A dozen people squeezed into a big bunk is indeed better than sleeping in a cold tent, but they are often used as pillows It feels really bad, it's not just Qingcao and Dahe who sleep differently in the clan.

With such a carrot hanging in front of him, Xiao Yun then drove the people of his tribe to do the hard work of digging mud, mixing water, throwing mud bricks and building a house in the freezing and snowy days. No one could think of complaining about being lazy. ... As long as the fingers are not frostbitten, everyone is so hardworking that Xiao Yun feels guilty secretly.

It is the first time in this life that the snow wolves have experienced such a fulfilling and exhausting winter. Fortunately, there is enough food, and Xiao Yun often finds ways to get some fried beans, Snacks such as homemade meat floss served as "placebos" for the tribesmen, and the half winter passed unknowingly in the busyness.

In the third month of winter, the fourth family house with burnt red bricks as the main building materials was completed, and when the clan members happily sent the fourth family into the new house, Xiao Yun almost died. Months of long-haired sheep wool finally saw the dawn of waste utilization...