Wolf King

When modern people go out, even if they are traveling far away, they have planned their travel by preparing their luggage and buying tickets a few days in advance.

If you are in this poor place, if you want to take a long trip, you have to start preparations at least half a month in advance...

After carefully inspecting the cheese that was dried in the shade on the wicker mat several times, Xiao Yun brought the leather pouch to put the cheese in.Ever since he saw his tribe chew long worm cheese, Xiao Yun has been very bored with this thing, but cheese is indeed an inseparable supplementary food in the daily life of grassland tribes, so he had to make it himself to make it more reliable, at least when eating it. Cheese that is not awkward at heart.

Well, compared to the rough method of Snow Werewolf who boiled cow’s milk and goat’s milk vigorously, boiled it into a paste, poured it out and dried it in the shade to make cheese, Xiao Yun actually added an extra step to extract the cream first: pour fresh milk into it for comparison. The deep water tank is stirred repeatedly with a stirrer made of thorn bushes until the water and oil in the fresh milk are separated, the cream floating on the surface is poured out, and the fresh milk at the bottom is boiled; It doesn't mean to take it to dry in the shade immediately, but to filter it with a cloth first, and pour the filtered milk dregs into the mold to dry, so that the obtained cheese will not have so much water and worms.

At the beginning, the clansmen didn't quite understand why Xiao Yun made such a fuss. After eating the separated cream, they immediately changed their positions one by one. As soon as Xiao Yun called for the cheese to be boiled, a bunch of people who wanted to beat the cream immediately ran out.

There are abundant water resources on the prairie, but it does not mean that you can find water anywhere in the wild. At this time, the cheese you carry with you can effectively replenish water and sugar, and it is an indispensable consumable for home travel.

Prepare a lot of cheese, and then prepare dried meat: stir-fry the meat floss properly, it is not practical to have all the meat floss, and the most important thing is dried meat: the meat strips boiled with salt are dried and directly packed into bags, if possible When it’s time to boil it, it can be eaten. If you don’t have the conditions, you can eat it directly to satisfy your hunger.

In addition, it is also necessary to consider whether the tribe will suffer from dysentery and diarrhea due to the decline in sanitary conditions when they are away. The dried plantain and purslane must be brought with them.

Then there are tents, animal skins, clay pots and bowls for cooking food and water, and pottery for trading, which are carefully wrapped with a lot of hay...etc.

Even if it takes at least a month to go out and back, even if you change into a wolf and run, then you have to install a pottery bucket for sprouting bean sprouts, and you have to bring two enoki mushroom cultivation tanks...

The last light snowfall was already ten days ago, and the ground that had just melted snow was still wet and cold. Xiao Yun didn't want to wait any longer. After discussing with the patriarch, he decided to set off immediately—with Xiao Yun, the patriarch, Qingyan, Hongye, Ashan, The eastbound expeditionary force formed by Ah Yue is ready to go!

...Then the patriarch, Hongye, Ashan and Ayue gathered together to guess punches.

Ah Shan and the patriarch lost, they scratched their heads, took off their animal skin clothes and woolen vests and handed them over to their companions for safekeeping, then squatted on the ground by themselves...becoming two big white wolves.

The wolf form of the snow werewolf is not cleaned up just because the human form is cleaned up, and Xiao Yun can't figure out what is the secret behind it—but when there is a lot of snow water to take and a big stove burning for a long time, the clansman It is not too difficult to clean the wolf form. The two big white wolves of the patriarch and Ashan have no problem at all when Xiao Yun first arrived. They were so dirty that even the color of their hair could not be seen. After carefully combing the hair, it is still very refreshing and fluffy. of.

Hmm... The wolf form of an adult snow werewolf is also a size larger than the cub Xiao Yun's back then, and the oldest patriarch's wolf form is about five meters from head to tail—that is, it can carry a lot of things.Filled with all kinds of fragments, the large frame made of rattan and grass thick as arms can sit on it, and two more people can sit on it.

Qingyan and Ah Yue climbed onto Ah Shan's back, Xiao Yun and Hong Ye climbed onto the patriarch's back, waved goodbye to the remaining clansmen, and a group of four and two wolves embarked on the eastward journey.

The pads on the big paws and the fluffy long hair on the back can effectively absorb shocks. Sitting on the patriarch's back, Xiao Yun didn't feel bumpy. He was still in the mood to feel the scissor-like cold wind in early spring and look around. , Two hours later, three hours later... After half a morning, he was tired of the wind and seeing the wet and icy lonely grassland, and was bored with knitting balls of wool against the strong back of the red leaves.

"Look, Ah Yun, that's the tree I broke when we passed here last year."

"Ah Yun, look there, the hole on the slope was dug by ox horns."

"Ayun, Ayun, there are colorful birds."

"Wow, that mouse is really fat..."

Xiao Yun sighed, how excited that Hongye, who was as stable as an old dog in the tribe, came out... The life of the Snow Werewolf is really monotonous.

Yawning, Xiao Yun stuck his foot under Hongye's thigh, fell asleep on the wolf's back, although it was boring, it was also a rare thing for him not to be busy all day long, even if he stopped his mind. Free time to stop...

Snow werewolves have the habit of making road signs that are easy and difficult to change in the places they walk. They dig a conspicuous big hole, use broken trees as road signs, or pile up a lot of stones, and then pass through the same place. Werewolves can easily recognize the direction; the tribesmen have walked this road to the tauren tribe three times in total, and they are familiar with the road conditions. That night, everyone spent the night on a small hill that they had used before. There is a relatively flat land on the top of the mountain bag, and there is a small stream not far away. The patriarch and Ah Shan, who had been running for a day and got a lot of dust, jumped down and had a good wash.

The next day, Hongye and Ayue were replaced by wolf-shaped mounts, while Xiao Yun and Qingyan were still obedient and foolish.

The fourth day, the fifth day... The boring long journey had no romance at all, Xiao Yun even lost all his strength to disgust the little bugs that popped out of the slightly warmed earth.This is on the premise that the four adult clansmen take turns transforming into wolves to greatly increase the speed of travel. If he is allowed to walk slowly and walk for two months at a time, Xiao Yun feels that he will definitely go crazy—no wonder people say he is at home. It is difficult for Qian Rihao to go out for a while, the ancients are sincere and do not deceive me.

In ten days, a group of people walked through the whole family's trip to drive cattle and sheep for at least two months. On the unchanging prairie, there were more streams and springs and swamps with a surprisingly dense density—— This means that they have finally entered the territory of the tauren.Tauren seldom have disputes with other tribes over pasture issues, because they do not rely too much on grazing like other tribes, and they are the only ones who can survive in such a place full of water swamps...It is very difficult for cattle and sheep to graze near water swamps. easily lost.

It took half a day to bypass a large swamp that had existed for many years and how many ignorant creatures had been swallowed in the mud. Xiao Yun, who was already sitting on the back of a wolf with calluses on his buttocks, suddenly lifted his spirits... At the end of his line of sight, he could already see the people who had been beaten by humans. The fields that have been sorted, large and large pieces of land with traces of cultivation are endless, almost filling the sky.

After walking for another half an hour, Xiao Yun saw clearly the reclaimed land that made him feel very close to him—the Tauren really had the talent for planting. It is almost the same as seen in the field, and there are artificially dug ditches and ponds in the fields.

On the cold temperate grasslands where early spring comes late, the industrious tauren have already started farming when the snow has hardened and the land is still frozen hard. When a group of snow werewolves approached their fields, the tauren working in the field I also saw the Snow Werewolf; in the distance, the tauren seemed to be yelling something among their companions, and all the nearby tauren moved closer to Xiao Yun and the others, and greeted them generously.

The moment Xiao Yun saw clearly what these prairie virgins looked like, he finally understood why these vegetarian prairie Yuan Longping were so unpopular with humans, and why caravans from the human kingdom had to bypass the tauren every year. The tribe of the cat tribe is waiting for the guests to come to the door - the name of the tauren is not wrong, their heads are indeed cow heads, not the kind of simple-faced old scalpers or buffaloes, but a head For the ferocious bison with ferocious horns and thick black hair on its head.

——Snowwolves, cats, etc. have a beast ear, and the tauren haven't evolved at all, or something...

Such a group of ultimate brawny men, whose appearance is even worse than the Bull Demon King, who are one size taller and stronger than the adult Snow Werewolves, and whose arms exposed outside the linen clothes are as thick as thighs, walked silently to the front of the team and lined up. , Xiao Yun, who was riding on the back of the Snow Werewolf and had the advantage of the height of his eyesight, couldn't help feeling cold... To tell you the truth, these old guys don't even need to put on makeup, they can go guest-starring as the minions of the big villains under the Demon King Army, and make their debut The cliff can scare the audience to tears.

At this time, the patriarch who was sitting on the back of the red leaf with Xiao Yun jumped down, walked towards the leader of the tauren, a super brother with red bull eyes, and opened his arms towards him...

The red-eyed Bull Demon King also spread his arms...

The two hugged each other tightly, and slapped each other's back hard, and there was a series of bangs and bangs.

Xiao Yun who slowly stared at the dead fish eyes: "..."

The red-eyed bull devil let go of the patriarch, and his big red eyes like copper bells stared viciously at the patriarch, who was half a head shorter than him, and was somewhat petite against him. His mouth was wide open, revealing herbivorous white and neat teeth , the voice was very low, as if it had a subwoofer: "Friends of the Snow Wolf Clan, do you need any help?"

Xiao Yun couldn't help but want to put his hand on his forehead, and when he came up, he asked others if they came to fight the autumn wind. Obviously, the Tauren are used to this kind of thing of being begged at the beginning of spring, and it really is the Virgin of the Grassland... But you are a good-looking, talk about it. Really, it's really a disadvantage, brother, what is the matter with this kind of uncontrollable faint sympathy!

"We want to exchange some seeds with you." The patriarch was not as fussed as Xiao Yun, and he seemed to be... used to the other party's ferocious kindness.

The Red-Eyed Bull Demon King nodded, waved to his clansmen to signal everyone to keep busy, and then waved to the Snowwolves: "Come on."

The tauren tribe is located in the southeast of a hillside that is not very high in altitude, but has a considerable area and is lush with many trees. The moment Xiao Yun saw the tauren tribe, Xiao Yun felt a huge gap in civilization—these Brother, don’t look at the shape as the most “primitive” among the various tribes in the grassland. The tribes are really not primitive, and they vaguely have the specifications of villages and towns: wooden houses of different sizes stretch from the halfway up the hillside to the foot of the hill, leaving a road in the middle. There is a flat land at the foot of the mountain that should be a trading area and a market; there are some relatively large house courtyards around the flat land, and there are two rows of wooden houses on the outside that are probably provided for guests...Compared to the snow wolf tents surrounded by a circle Even if it is a tribal structure, the level is not known how high it is.

The vast market area should be used to greet outsiders. The red-eyed Bull Demon King brought the Snow Werewolf in all the way, and met several groups of Tauren carrying farm tools and walking down the hillside road. Xiao Yun looked at it curiously. Two eyes, the blow was even greater - all the farm tools are made of iron!Considering that the entire Snow Werewolf clan only had an iron skinning knife, this gap is simply heartbreaking!

However, when Xiao Yun and his party were brought into the largest courtyard in the market area, Xiao Yun understood why the tauren had so many iron objects... They were not the only ones who rushed to fight the autumn wind after the snow melted. Inside the open door of the spacious wooden house, you can see a group of gray dwarves sitting in front of a rectangular table and eating hard...

There are several exits to the underground world on the grassland. Xiao Yun learned about it from Hongye early in the morning, and Hongye also heard about the fact that the residents of the underground world would run up to find a way out when they were hungry and crazy.It is easier to obtain minerals in the underground world than in the above-ground world. These gray dwarves who come from nowhere and exchange their lattes with the tauren for food assistance... makes sense.

Compared with the goblins that the Madonna of the Grassland doesn't like to deal with, Xiao Yun is obviously more interested in these gray dwarves who can trade iron tools. The two giant snow wolves who entered the yard were shocked and turned pale with fright. They picked up their food bowls and fled towards the wooden house one after another...

Xiao Yun: "..."

The silent red-eyed Bull Demon King seemed unable to see that the last group of guests were frightened by this group of guests. The snow wolves also had no feeling that they had scared the gray dwarves away, and removed the extra-large vines on the backs of Ah Yue and Hongye. After the two of them put on their clothes, they calmly walked into the hall where the gray dwarves ate just now... The gray dwarves ate cleanly, and there was no soup on the table or on the floor.

The patriarch, A Yue and A Shan all held a rattan and grass basket, and carefully placed the three baskets on the table. The patriarch took out the ceramic bowl carefully wrapped with hay, and showed the red-eyed bull demon king: "Sa Latin, we want to exchange these pottery with you for seeds, black bean seeds, grain and vegetable seeds."

When the patriarch was pushing away the hay, the red-eyed bull demon king's eyes could not be moved away from the ceramic bowls that exposed his real body. Although these ceramic bowls were still made of clay, the walls of the bowls were relatively thick, not as thin and transparent as porcelain. Look and feel, but different colored glazes are used inside and outside, the inside is grass green and the outside is deep purple, the color is quite bright due to the effect of the glaze, and the surface is extremely smooth and bright, far better than the pottery bowls brought by human caravans— —He could even see his own blurred reflection on the smooth bowl wall!

Staring at this beautiful bowl for a few seconds, the red-eyed bull demon king... Uh, Saladin, the elder of the tauren tribe, understood the meaning of the patriarch of the snow werewolf, and suddenly showed undisguised surprise—the stuff grown by the tauren from other tribes They also love to eat. People from the nearby snow wolf tribe, cat tribe, and even tiger tribe will come to ask for it every year. The tauren are also used to it, and it is not uncommon to exchange or give it for nothing.But... This time, the snow wolf tribe actually wants to change seeds instead of food?

It’s okay to just change the bean seeds, after all, beans are easy to grow, just sprinkle them on the ground, even if the grass is full of bean seedlings, you can still get a little harvest, but...they still want grain and vegetable seeds? !

"Huoyan, are you sure you want to change the seeds?" Saladin asked directly.

"Yes, our tribe also wants to cultivate." The patriarch nodded firmly.In the past, the Snow Wolf Clan never thought of relying on farming like the Tauren, but now the cub Ayun has proved that the bean sprouts and the enoki mushrooms grown indoors are very useful, and the patriarch will certainly be moved.

Saladin showed a look of hesitation. He knew that the tribes of the Snow Werewolves were relatively small and could not do without meat. If the already small tribes were grazing at the same time and farming like the tauren, both ends might fail in the end. Let him not dare to agree to exchange easily for a while.

"We brought a lot of exchange items." The patriarch thought that the other party was unwilling to trade the precious seeds, so he quickly took out a few more clay bowls and cups.

The shiny row of pottery moved Saladin's heart... Although it can't be seen on the surface, this guy is silent and silent, it really seems to be thinking about "how many to kill and how to kill" and other frightening questions ——But his eyes glued to the beautiful two-color pottery can't deceive anyone, Xiao Yun can see it after careful observation...

Raising his hand to stop the patriarch who was so nervous that he wanted to take out the flower essence statue to increase his chips, Xiao Yun carefully probed: "Excuse me... what is the reason why you don't want to trade the seeds to us?"

The tauren tribe adopts the system of sage elders, both sages and elders have the right to speak, and they do not despise the weak or young tribesmen. Elder Saladin does not feel uncomfortable with the questions raised by the cubs in the snow werewolf team. Offended; the red copper bell eyes turned to Xiao Yun, the sage of the tauren tribe said in a deep voice: "I am not unwilling to trade seeds, farming is a tedious and sacred act that must be worked continuously to get something , if you are not pious enough to neglect the land, the earth will not give you back."

"..." Xiao Yun's understanding of this group of grassland virgins has deepened, so he is worried that the snow werewolves will waste their efforts in planting seeds and starve themselves to death, right...

Convincing the grassland people is not enough to rely on words, there must be a basis for reality. Xiao Yun thought for a while, then ran back to the unloaded extra-large rattan grass basket to hold the clay bucket with bean sprouts, and ran into the hall, put the clay bucket The grass cover on the bed was lifted halfway, and pushed in front of Saladin.

"This is the bean sprouts made by our tribe by soaking black beans. On the way here, we have eaten two batches. This is the third batch of soaked beans."

The bean sprouts soaked in the clay bucket with a diameter of about 35 centimeters and a height of about [-] centimeters were only on the third day, and only sprouts as long as fingers grew. Saladin reached out and took out a bean sprout from the bucket for a closer look. This is the sprout that comes out when planting beans.

The tauren didn't have the experience of eating bean sprouts directly after sprouting like this, but... with Yuan Longping's eyesight in the grassland, after discovering that such sprouts could be used as food, Saladin's eyes widened all of a sudden. Rather than eating beans directly, it seems more suitable to eat after soaking? !

"Soak the beans like this before eating them. They will be crispy and tender after being cooked with fat and salt, and you can make ten times the amount of beans. One catty of beans can get ten catties of bean sprouts." Xiao Yun continued, "Soak the beans The process of fermenting is also very easy. First soak in water for a whole day, then drain the water and put it in a pottery or a wooden barrel. Cover the lid to keep it out of the light, press the beans with animal skin or other things, and sprinkle them twice a day. It can be taken out and eaten in five to seven days after soaking in clean water."

Saladin looked at Xiao Yun with a shocked expression, um, the shocked expression also had a ferocious expression... It's better to be pleasing to the eye when the dumb Snowwolves are shocked.

The technology of cultivating Flammulina velutipes is still a bit difficult. In order to prevent any problems in the process of trading seeds, Xiao Yun decided early in the morning to impress the tauren with the technology of growing bean sprouts, which is not a technology... Looking at it now, although it is Don't worry about impressing the tauren, it is useful in proving that the snow werewolves know how to plant and can learn planting techniques.

Saladin showed a slightly creepy smile, gently put the bean sprouts back, covered the grass cover, and pushed it back to the snow werewolf: "The earth will reward all those who have worked hard, whether it is a tauren or a snow werewolf, We can exchange seeds with you."

The patriarch let out all the tense and sullen breath that was pressing down on his chest, and Xiao Yun also heaved a sigh of relief.

The tauren is willing to give the seeds, and the next transaction will be easy, not to mention that the snow werewolf came to the door with beautiful two-color pottery, even if the group of grassland virgins came empty-handed, the snow werewolf would not let the snow werewolf go in vain.

Of course, there will inevitably be situations during the transaction process. When Saladin arranged accommodation for the snow wolves and took the patriarch to pick seeds, the patriarch quickly pushed Xiao Yun out...Confirmed the content of the two transactions by Xiao Yun After the cub made his decision, the ferocious tauren elder Saladin stared at Xiao Yun for a long time.

Glancing at Qingyan, a cat clan in the Snow Werewolf team, Saladin, who has never been curious about the private affairs of guests, couldn't help asking: "I remember that the Snow Werewolf is based on elders. Do you also think that sages are more reliable?"

This sage does not mean a sage, a moral model, or a perfect moral person, but a smart and capable person. The grassland tribes generally tend to be pragmatic. The so-called moral model is a perfect person who knows nothing. There is no market - there is no comparison between being able to speak beautifully and filling the stomachs of tribal people.

Xiao Yun: "..." He couldn't answer those words. Even if the Snow Werewolves didn't have any thoughts of fighting for power and profit, you couldn't let me say in front of the current patriarch that I wanted to seize the position or something?

The patriarch showed a thoughtful expression, and turned his head to look at Xiao Yun with deep eyes.

Xiao Yun immediately became nervous - human nature cannot stand the test, if the patriarch suddenly awakens the consciousness of suppressing competitors, who the hell is he going to reason with? !

"Saladin, do you think Ayun is suitable to be the patriarch of our tribe?" the patriarch said seriously.

Saladin once again showed a very vicious and shocked expression. The tauren with a relatively large brain seemed very puzzled why the snow werewolf came to ask him this question—don't you all have the important decision to decide what crops to plant in a year? Did you give it to this cub?

"I'm not yet an adult, I'm only 16...17 years old." Xiao Yun said with the corners of his mouth twitching. He felt that if he didn't speak again, the patriarch and Saladin, whose thinking was obviously not on the same plane, probably wouldn't be able to chat happily.

Snow werewolf cubs can be regarded as adults after 25 years old, but they are not truly adults until they are able to estrus and have the ability to reproduce. According to the lifespan of a snow werewolf, it will have to wait until they are 30 years old.The patriarch calculated how long Ayun was short of becoming an adult, and immediately gave up on this issue. It is far from time to consider such a long-term matter; Saladin calculated the age of adulthood of the Snowy Werewolf, and also threw his hands away from this matter... ...The tauren's brain capacity is not strong enough to plan things ten years from now.

Uncle Ashan, on the other hand, looked at Ayun with a very proud look - Saladin, the elder of the tauren, thought that his nephew was as great as the sages of the tauren tribe, and whether Ayun was the patriarch or not, he was very happy. It's upside down.

After this small disturbance, there was no further disturbance in picking seeds, changing pottery, etc. The exquisite (...) pottery brought by the Snow Werewolf was also liked by other tauren besides Elder Saladin, as long as Xiao Yun liked it. They were willing to give all the seeds, and when they gave them, they were afraid that the Snowwolves would not be able to plant them. Every time they gave a seed, Saladin would take Xiao Yun to explain how to plant the seed for a long time-for the Tauren who had always been taciturn, it was short-lived. It was really difficult for him to talk so much in a short time.

For such a kind and kind Tauren, to be honest, Xiao Yun really couldn't go out of his way to deceive others.But it is impossible to say that it is not tempting to look at the iron farm tools there.After coming to this world, although Xiao Yun suffered hardships all the way, but generally went smoothly, this is the first time he encounters a difficult problem that he can't make up his mind about... Can we, this black hand, stretch out?