Wolf King

The tauren already had a rough concept of water conservancy. They lived in the upper triangular highlands of the river. They dug the upper and lower ditches to draw the water in the river to the fields and tribes for irrigation. They also had the awareness of using ponds to store water.

The lower part of the tribe facing south, the whole southwest and southeast less than two kilometers away is a large swamp woodland, and further south, the river of the earth that nourishes the entire southern grassland. There are endless tidal flats on the banks of the river. Whenever the weather gets warmer, there will be a large number of migratory birds inhabiting the vast tidal flats. This magnificent tidal flat may also become the bottom of the river on a flooded summer day, with soft mud There may be a deep underground pool that has existed for thousands of years hidden underneath, a place that even the tauren dare not approach.

The swamp surrounded by woodlands was far more dangerous than the flooded swamp outside the snow werewolf tribe, and the tauren used it as a natural barrier.When Xiao Yun took Qin and a group of Tauren women to the edge of the swamp to fetch mud, Saladin's wife, Qin, held Xiao Yun with a smile, and gently but firmly did not allow Xiao Yun to approach the swamp.

Tauren women can indeed be called gentle. Although they are very tall, their skin is as thick and tough as cowhide, and their appearance is terrifying... But compared to the females of the snow werewolves, they are indeed very intelligent. Delicate, with female-specific maternity brilliance, and thick fingers are also quite flexible-the tauren sackcloth is woven by itself, and every adult female tauren has weaving skills, and they can grasp everything from retting and spinning.

In addition, tauren females are particularly strong and powerful... they can do everything that males can do, and they are more patient than males.

The hard frozen soil on the surface was dug up more than ten meters away from the swamp, and the mellow black mud that had been fermented for an unknown number of years was obtained. It was mixed with the loess dug out from the field, and wheat straw and straw (tauren planted wheat) were added. rice), add water to mix, step out the air in the soil, step on the soil until it is very fine, then drop it into a wooden brick mold, pour it out, and put it in an open place to dry.

While waiting for the mud bricks to dry, Xiao Yun taught Qin and the tauren women she led how to choose a site to build a house, dig a foundation, how to mix earth and cement, and how to use auxiliary lines to ensure that the mud brick wall is straight—this The process of communication is easier than teaching Qingcao and Dahe. Although it hurts self-esteem a bit, the IQ of the tauren seems to be higher than that of the snow werewolf... There is no way to do it. They have already entered the farming civilization, and the farming civilization is relatively nomadic. For civilization, planning is more necessary. If you give up treatment at will, you will starve to death long ago.

Because the general tonnage of the tauren is even more exaggerated than that of the tauren, the weight of the women is all above 120KG, and the tonnage of the men is even 150KG. How to use mud bricks to build a fireplace indoors—The area where the tauren live has more abundant water resources and forests, so they don't have to worry about fuel, and don't need to save as much as the snow werewolves.

It took a week to build a model house with mud brick walls, complete doors and windows, a fireplace (Xiao Yun remembered to add a chimney this time), and a roof made of planks and straw. The entire tauren tribe was a sensation...

The mud-brick house is better than the wooden house in terms of heat retention. After the fire in the fireplace increases the indoor temperature, the tauren old and young who come to watch the fun keep walking back and forth between indoors and outdoors, feeling the completely different temperature differences inside and outside the house. There was an extremely ferocious look of excitement on their faces, and many people played the piano on the spot, hoping to learn the technology of building this kind of mud brick house. The beautiful wooden house is cold in winter and hot in summer, and anyone who has lived in it knows what is going on.

Xiao Yun was pushed to the outermost side by the tauren's buttocks. At first, he was worried that the tauren would get up and bump into the wall that hadn't dried out yet. He climbed onto the shoulder of the bull's horn and saw that everyone cherished it and didn't want to touch it. Only then did I feel relieved.

"It's better to be a tauren." Getting off the bull's horns, Xiao Yun sighed again... If he came from a tribe of tauren, it would save a lot of trouble.

Niujiao looked at him with a smirk: "Ayun, you are so powerful that you can teach the tauren to build a house. In the past, the tauren taught us how to grow beans. We haven't taught the tauren yet."

Xiao Yun looked at the bull's horn lovingly for three seconds, then raised his hand to pat his strong arm: "Okay... I can't leave you guys behind."

Niujiao: "??"

At this time, Saladin pushed his butt away from the crowd of onlookers on the third floor and the third floor, squeezed out a gap, saw Xiao Yun, rushed over immediately, and spread his arms——

"——Damn it!" Xiao Yun felt that his intuition was wrong, and he stepped sideways to escape.

However, it was not warm, and Saladin's thick and long arms caught him casually, and he hugged him hard like a doll, and hit his shoulders and back hard with his big palm-like hands, bang, bang A series of muffled sounds sounded...

"Ox, horns—" Xiao Yun struggled and stretched out his hand for help to his clansmen.

Niu Jiao stood with his hips akimbo smiling with a proud expression on his face, showing him two rows of big white teeth with canine teeth.

"Grass mud horse—" Xiao Yun spat out a mouthful of old blood, and he didn't know whether it was because of the horns or because it was taken by Saladin.

He almost slapped Xiao Yun, before Saladin let go of his hand to spare his life, grabbed Xiao Yun's shoulder with his big thick palm, and patted himself on the chest with the other hand: "Ah Yun, you are our tauren's eternal love!" Friends." After resting for a few days, the elder's language ability seemed to have recovered.

"..." Xiao Yun spat out half a mouthful of blood weakly, brother, being your friend is really a dangerous job.

The basic necessities of grassland people are food, clothing and housing. Xiao Yun exchanged iron with the tauren to solve the housing problem of the tauren in one fell swoop, and he can win the friendship of the tauren...the fire pit in the wooden house (that is, the fire pit in the middle of the house) Digging a hole and burning fire on it) The risk of fire is very high. The Tauren dug hundreds of meters of deep canals to bring the water from the river to the tribe because of the tragic experience of burning fires for warmth; the more warm mud Brick houses and fireplaces that can fire safely have improved the tauren's living experience by no means.

Then, Qin also processed the mud-brick house... She put another layer of wood boards on the inside and outside of the walls, and the aesthetics were improved—a wall with only a layer of earth and cement is indeed a bit ugly, anyway, the Tauren has no shortage of wood. There is no shortage of tools for processing wood, so you can pursue visual enjoyment.

Xiao Yun, who has become a guest of the Tauren and is more popular than his family leader Huo Yan, still faces the problem of continuing to eat and drink with the Tauren...Qingyan has not come back yet.

However, in terms of technical exchanges, there are indeed not many choices. The tauren have experience in breeding and selection, and they also know how to dig the black mud of the swamp and the tidal flat mud on the river bank to fertilize the fields. The food they grow is not only enough to feed the whole clan 200 people. He has a lot of food and a big appetite, and he can also support and deal with the tribes next door who fight autumn wind from time to time, as well as the residents of the underground world who come to beg from time to time... Unless Xiao Yun can dig a fertilizer mine or study natural insecticides here with the tauren, otherwise It really doesn't help with farming.

Thoughts came and went, Xiao Yun turned his attention to the diet of the tauren.

Thanks to the awareness of maintaining water conservancy, the tauren can cultivate rice and wheat as their staple food, but in terms of food, the tauren don't seem to pay much attention... What they eat is wheat rice mixed with wheat and a small amount of rice, while Maifan, a food that modern people regard as health-preserving miscellaneous grains, is really unpalatable!Super unpalatable!Stuck in the throat and stuffed in the neck, whoever eats will know!

The tauren also has a stone mill made of two pieces of stone, and can make pasta...but what kind of pasta is this?It’s just wheat flour with wheat bran mixed with water to knead a dead dough cake, then baked and eaten...

... There may be a scumbag that means natural dead dough cakes for health preservation, but if you lock up the scumbag and let me eat dead noodles three times a day, you will definitely call the police.

Xiao Yun has no time to slowly figure out how to build a water conservancy mill for the tauren to grind refined wheat flour. Teaching the tauren to make fermented pasta is easy and effortless. During the construction of the mud brick house, he took a clay pot and filled it with cheese. Dry out the yeast stock solution, ask Qin for some wheat flour, knead the yeast stock solution and knead the yeast into small balls after fermentation, now, it will take a few more days to see the effect of these yeasts.

The built mud-brick house will not be put into use until it is completely dried out for a few days. Qin and Saladin still live in the original wooden house.When Xiao Yun came to the door with yeast and said that he would instruct Qin to make better pasta, Qin once again showed that vicious and shocked expression that everyone knows...

...Uh, no problem, the Snow Werewolves are famous for not being picky eaters and eating everything, and their food culture is infinitely close to zero. No wonder the tauren who call themselves "grassland gourmets" were shocked...

Xiao Yun didn't talk nonsense, he taught Qin how to ferment the dough with yeast, and how to use wood to build a square steamer that can be placed on top of clay pots to steam noodles, and then steamed a pot of fluffy noodles...

On the earth, the Chinese are the earliest and longest nation to use steam to cook food. In the Song Dynasty, there were mature steamed noodle snacks sold on the streets, while the western world ate noodles baked in ovens until modern times.In modern times, many shepherds criticize steamed food for raising roasted food. However, the real problem is... the superiority of steamed pasta is not comparable to that of baked pasta. In the era of backward medical conditions, high-temperature steam can completely sterilize. Serve the scones and you're doomed.

Qin, who has eaten dead dough cakes that have been baked for many years, changed his face when he pinched the soft steamed cakes with his hands. After he took a breath and took a bite of the steamed cakes, the expression on Qin's face became even more exciting——

One of the problems that modern people tend to ignore when they travel through time is dental health. Why is it so difficult for commoners in ancient times to produce adult beauties? Because commoners eat rough food that hurts their teeth. Over time, their teeth are severely worn and their facial features are lowered. Deformation is inevitable... No matter how natural beauty is, it can't compete with a big and small face and a crooked chin, isn't it?

And in the backward era without dentists, your teeth are rotten and there is no place to do root management treatment for you, that is to say, you have to find a way to extract the decayed teeth, or you can only suffer...

The grassland tribes also have the same dilemma. No matter how healthy the snow werewolves and tauren are, they can’t save a mouthful of rotten teeth with a strong body, especially the tauren who rely on high-starch and high-sugar vegetarian food, let alone the elderly, such as Qin Such young and strong women will sometimes have occasional teeth weakness when eating wheat rice and noodle cakes.

Through fermentation, the wheat aroma in the wheat flour can be fully utilized, and the steamed cake with a natural sweet taste does not have the hard grinding feeling of the scone after the mouth. Qin eats the steamed cake in a few mouthfuls, and immediately looks brightly at the fermented steaming technology. Xiao Yun slowly opened his arms...

"Again!" Xiao Yun immediately wanted to get up and run away.

Still warm, before he stood up, Jean's arm caught his head, pressing him into a strong chest that was as firm as a pectoral muscle, only slightly softer than Saladin's chest, not much lighter than Saladin's chest A powerful slap slapped his shoulder heavily...

"...Pfft!" Xiao Yun endured and endured, but he still couldn't hold back the sweetness in his throat...

Then he was carried by the overjoyed piano and ran to every household to spread homemade yeast and fermentation technology...

The patriarch knows the importance of keeping cards for his own tribe. During the time when the tauren tribe is cheating, Lai does not let the tribe out of his sight except for the horns to deal with the tauren. After all, Ah Shan knows how to burn pottery, Hongye and Ah Yue often Being coaxed by Ayun to help, even if both parties have no intentions, who knows when they will leak the development plan of their own tribe without stopping their mouths?

Uh, Niujiao really doesn’t need to worry, so Niujiao is very free. When everyone was locked up, he played around in the tauren tribe in black skin...

After seven or eight days of eating, sleeping, and eating, he was so obedient that Ah Shan couldn't take it anymore. After running around in the small courtyard of the guest's residence for a long time, he rushed back to the house and looked at the patriarch pitifully: "I'm really bored." Can't take it anymore, why don't we go hunting outside?"

The patriarch glanced at him blankly, then cast his eyes out of the window, still staring at the place where the group of gray dwarves lived.

"Wow~~" Ah Shan had no choice but to roll on the ground...

"Don't bark, because you keep making such noises, the gray dwarves over there are always afraid to come out." The patriarch said disgustedly.

Boredom makes people think too much, Ah Shan's brain is so suffocated right now, he quickly got up: "Could it be that we are waiting for the gray dwarves to leave the tauren tribe, and then catch them?"

"Uh... no, we are waiting for Qingyan." The patriarch's face was reluctant, and Ah Shan had become a little smarter, which made the patriarch a little unprepared.

Hongye, who had no bones to grind, leaned over silently, crossed her arms and looked out the window for a while, then looked at the patriarch.

——You and Ayun just like to stay at the window and look over there when you have nothing to do, so you really have some kind of conspiracy going on?

Hongye stared silently at the patriarch with deep eyes.

The patriarch silently looked away.

"Why are we going to catch the gray dwarves?" Ah Yue, who was also idle and long-haired, also spoke out.

The patriarch... The patriarch scratched his hair in worry, Ah Yun, everyone has seen it, how can I hide it? !

In other words, with the addition of the snow werewolf as a neighbor, the gray dwarves next door were really terrified.

Anyone who lives on the prairie knows to maintain friendship with the tauren as much as possible. After all, if your tribe is about to starve to death, only a generous tauren will be willing to give life-saving food.Residents like the gray dwarves who came up from the underground world were able to gain a foothold on the grassland and not be starved to death or captured as slaves, because they had more or less received the help of the tauren.

The tribes on the grassland look down on the weak and easy-to-death slaves of humans, but the gray dwarves who are relatively easy to feed will do it—especially the tiger tribe. Those who allow outsiders to enter are treated as their own slave reserves... If the gray dwarves accidentally enter the territory of the Tiger Clan, they will basically have no freedom for the rest of their lives.

In addition to the tiger clan, larger cat tribes and even large-scale human caravans will also capture gray dwarves as slaves... Avoid tiger clans, cat clans, and areas where human caravans may pass , the living space of gray dwarves is as narrow as one can imagine.It is impossible to own pastures, and grazing is also impossible. To survive on the grasslands, the gray dwarves can only hide and mine veins, smelt agricultural tools and trade with the tauren.

Such a living situation is quite sad to say, but it is already much better than the underground world - the war between the dwarf king and the dark elf mistress in the underground world has lasted for hundreds of years. They are all the lives of cannon fodder.

This group of gray dwarves rushed to the tauren tribe to complete the transaction after the snow had melted and the earth was still frozen. They wanted to avoid other tribes. They never expected to meet snow werewolves during such an unpopular trading time... So This group of gray dwarves did not dare to leave the tauren's tribe in exchange for food. They hid every day and waited for the snow werewolf to leave first-this group of gray dwarves had never dealt with the snow werewolf, but they couldn't stand the snow werewolf's attack. Their combat prowess is well-known...the level of ferocity is second only to that of the tiger clan, so it would be strange if the gray dwarves were not afraid.

"Balu, haven't those snow werewolves left yet?"

Baru, the gray dwarf who was leaning against the window with half of his head exposed, turned his head, and saw Charles, the youngest among the tribe, sitting up, clutching his belly, looking over with a pale face.

Compared with the grassland people, the gray dwarves are quite small in size. The average height is about 1.4 meters and five, and they are quite strong laterally. effortless.

"Charles, is your stomach still hurting?" Baloo left the window and walked to the place where the clansman lay the floor, squatting down and looking at the clansman with concern.

"... On the way here, I shouldn't have eaten the carrion left by those wild animals because I was hungry." Charles frowned, cold sweat dripping down his cheeks, "I think I can't hold it anymore, Balu, just let me leave first, you can’t let the tauren drive you all out just because there are sick people among us... If the snow werewolf chases after me, you should leave from the other direction.”

Baloo fell silent. Charles had been suffering from diarrhea for several days, and he was about to be unable to hide the truth from the tauren—and if everyone was kicked out by the tauren because of Charles at this time, Baloo had no confidence in leading the way. The clansmen escaped the capture of the Snow Werewolves, after all... When they came to the grassland, the goblins they encountered had already warned them not to easily provoke the Snow Werewolves who were more powerful than the Cat Clan.

Shire is Baloo's nephew, and Baloo is unwilling to abandon him no matter what, but... Turning his gaze to the other clansmen in the house who came over, Baloo really can't ask everyone to take risks for his nephew.

Sacrificing their compatriots to protect more clansmen, this gray dwarf tribe who fled from the underground world to the grassland has experienced it too many times. Charles himself proposed to sacrifice, and the leader Baru could not object, and naturally the other clansmen did not either. Will say more.

Charles struggled to get up, carried his luggage, bid farewell to the clansmen one by one, and slowly walked out of the house that had been stuffy for several days with a cane made of tree branches.

The tauren had all gone to work, and only some young tauren cubs were playing in the tribe. Charles walked out of the yard and looked back at the wooden house where he had lived for several days. Go outside the tribe.

Body fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and pus and blood in the excrement... These symptoms made Charles gradually despair after the initial fear. He knew that the carrion he ate for a while would kill him this time. Before he completely lost his ability to move, he had to go as far as possible, dragging the eyeing snow werewolf longer, and gain more escape space for his clansmen.

Baloo only glanced at Shire who was walking out, and forced himself to look away, urging the tribesmen to pack their bags and food to be brought back as quietly and quietly as possible... Those snow werewolves also attached great importance to the relationship with the tauren. Friendship, he should not do anything too close to the tauren tribe, this is his only chance to lead the tribe to escape.

"Huh? A gray dwarf has come out!"

"Why is there only one person?"

"Hey, he walked outside?"

In the wooden house where the snow wolves lived, the snow wolves staring at this side looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Why does he look unhealthy? Is he sick?" Ah Shan guessed.

"Why did the gray dwarves let the sick people come out by themselves?" Ah Yue didn't understand.

"Oh, he really went out, alone!" Ah Shan was surprised, "How could this happen? Could it be that the gray dwarves drove him away because he was sick?"

"Eh?!" Ah Yue looked at Ah Shan in disbelief, and then at the patriarch, "You actually drove away the sick clansman? What kind of race are gray dwarves?!"

The patriarch stared seriously at the lonely gray dwarf who walked out of the range of the tauren tribe and turned into a small dot. Looking at the tribe, he said in a deep voice, "It seems that these gray dwarves have abandoned their tribe."

Hongye clenched her cheeks tightly, Ah Shan and Ah Yue showed annoyed and puzzled expressions. In the eyes of the Snow Werewolves, such things as abandoning their clansmen are very unacceptable, especially those clansmen who are unhealthy and have lost the ability to protect themselves. What's the difference?

The patriarch said seriously: "Since it is the clansman they abandoned, we will pick it up. Our clan has even managed to feed Thrall. The gray dwarves are stronger than humans, so of course we can feed him."

"I'll go and bring him back. The gray dwarves don't want him, so we will." Hong Ye said angrily, jumping out of the window without even leaving the door.

"I'll go too." Ah Shan followed.

Balu, who was deeply saddened by his nephew's departure, suddenly saw two snow werewolves rushing out like the wind, passing by the yard where they lived, and glaring at them with vicious eyes, his body was so frightened that he almost didn't slide down; Fortunately, the two snow werewolves left quickly without making trouble for them, which made Balu barely stand still, but the next second, seeing the direction the two snow werewolves were running, Balu suddenly lost his strength and fell down. on the ground.

"It's over... These snow werewolves don't give us a chance to escape at all... Shire's sacrifice is meaningless..."