Wolf King

As the weather gets warmer, the snow on the Samar Snow Mountain begins to melt, and countless rivers flow from north to south and east, nourishing and irrigating the entire grassland.

The long, flat-panel canal boat with a swollen pneumatic motor at the tail was going upstream amid the chug-chug sound of the engine. Yale and his family members sat on the side edge of the "passenger" boat less than one meter wide under the bow shelf, and greeted them. Facing the warm and cold spring breeze, I couldn't help looking at the fields on both sides of the river bank in amazement.

This small canal is the first canal opened in Huoyan City, and there are no cheap "outsiders" in the suitable planting areas on both sides... Especially the generation of Snake Vine Valley, the fertile west bank land is allotted to the sugar beet planting base, and the east bank goes all the way to the whole It is a farm directly under Huoyan City.

The planting period on the grassland is one month later than that in the southern mainland. The soybean planting period is only from April to May, and the sugar beets are planted around this time. It is not an exaggeration to say that half of the During the voyage, you can see seemingly endless farmland and people working in the fields, tractors that emit black smoke and make a "chug-chug" noise, and giant wolves dragging a giant triangular plow to play in the fields. big cat……

"They actually have so many fields!" The white-haired and white-bearded tiger veteran opened his mouth in shock, "There are so many places on the grassland that can be used for farming!"

The Tiger Clan had seen tractors in Cronin, and they knew that the tractors were sold to them by the prairie people who took in a large number of gray dwarves. The boat has been sailing for almost two hours and still hasn't seen the end!

Yale Dazhang did not speak, but judging from his expression, his mood is probably similar to that of this white tiger veteran...

Baixiang, the small cat in charge of the reception, chuckled and said amusedly: "Why can't we farm the land? If there is soil on the ground and water next to it, you can use it to grow crops. You can also build canals where there is no water, and the canals can be dug through." , the land can be used for planting.”

Baixiang pointed to the land on the west bank, which belongs to the beet planting base, proudly: "Snake Vine Valley is the best land on the west bank. The beets grown are bigger, juicier, and sweeter than those grown by humans."

A group of tigers didn't even make a sound, they covered their little hearts one by one...

They have not been away from their hometown for a long time, and their memory of the grassland is still very deep. In their collective impression, the grassland is the grassland, that is, the pasture and the cattle and sheep. They never thought that the grassland could not be the pasture and the cattle and sheep. It can also be fertile soil for thousands of miles and fields.

"Is this still a grassland..." A veteran with golden hair murmured in a low voice, his pale golden pupils showed pain and confusion, but he couldn't bear to take his eyes off the boundless fields on the river bank.

When Yale came this time, he brought all the elders of the clan.

He knew in his heart that the Tiger Clan could have the current situation, that they could retain their vitality after fleeing the underground world with their helmets and armor removed, and that cubs in the Clan could still be born safely and grow up in an environment with relatively abundant supplies. Because of the generosity of the Snow Wolf Clan who replaced the Tiger Clan.

Accepting the pity and handouts of others is a painful thing, especially for their generation who have experienced the time of the tiger clan's royal court...but the tiger clan cannot but appreciate this kind of mercy-if there is no snow wolf Without the material support of the tribe, Yale has no confidence at all that he can lead the tribe to survive on the territory of the human race. (The life of looting is at the cost of the lives of the people. Bandits and bandits are precarious and high-risk occupations no matter which plane they are in.)

Having accepted so many good intentions from others, Yale will naturally not have the illusion of returning to the grassland and hometown—bringing veterans here is to let them have one last look at their homeland before they die.

Now, the veterans have seen their homeland, the land where they have lived for most of their lives, but this rural home in their memory has changed beyond recognition, and the most calm veterans dare not recognize it.

Baixiang is the group leader of the blanket workshop under the wool spinning factory. He is skillful and good at weaving exquisite and complicated patterns with thick wool yarns with only a few colors. Nicknamed "Boutique Group".

Those who can do fine work and have an artistic talent will never be careless people. Hearing the whispers of veterans and looking at the expressions of other tiger heads, he just thought about it for a while and understood what these former grassland royals were feeling. Can't help laughing.

"Yale Dazhang, do you remember Sang Xi? Her mother was the guard of Wang Tent. At that time, my clan and I were doing... things in Wang Tent. Sang Xi was the tiger cub who was the friendliest to us cat clan. "

Yale's big tent didn't show any expression at first, but when he heard the back, his expression changed slightly.

He remembered why Baixiang looked familiar to him, he had seen this small cat in Wang Tent before.

At that time, he was only an elite warrior in the clan, and he was not qualified to criticize the decision-making of the tiger clan. Even though he could not understand the behavior of enslaving the cat clan, he really couldn't do anything... until he became the accountant, he had power Let the cats under his jurisdiction have a better life.

Yale couldn't help but feel a little guilty. He finally remembered the reason why this small cat kept saying that he "has been taken care of by himself"... He once secretly gave this sick kitten a piece of wheat cake the size of a palm. I still remember it all the time.

"Sang Xi...is he with Ted Zhong Zhang?" Feeling embarrassed, Yale didn't have the face to look Baixiang directly, and turned his head away uncomfortably.

"Well, Sang Xi was there when Ted Zhongzhang and the others came. I didn't know it at first, but I found out that Sang Xi was there when Ted Zhongzhang and the others came to the city to buy." Baixiang said happily, "Sang Xi Xi was very smart and capable before, but now he is even more powerful. Their vermicelli foundry only has one advanced worker quota every month, but Sang Xi actually grabbed it twice, and the bonus is eight silver coins! Even better than adult tigers!"

Hearing Baixiang mention Ted's middle tent who was staying in the royal court, the veterans listened intently without caring about their sentimentality.

"Can Sang Xi earn eight silver coins every month?" Yale couldn't help asking with concern.

"More than that, the basic salary of their vermicelli foundry is five silver coins, plus a seniority bonus of two silver coins. Then they overfulfill the production task every month. Calculated according to the excess part, they can have more than the basic salary Three to five times the bonus, calculated, Sang Xi can earn more than one gold coin every month! It's three times as much as me!" Bai Xiang said with envy.

Hmm... In fact, the key point of this passage is the last sentence. This little cat really wants to show off that he can earn more than a dozen silver coins every month...

It's a pity that the tiger heads couldn't hear this little guy's flaunting, they opened their mouths in shock, all in amazement that the cubs in their family can be calculated in gold coins every month.

With the reputation of the Tiger Clan in the Southern Continent, excellent team foreign players can be assigned part-time jobs through Isaac's foreign aid club every year, and the annual salary starts from [-] gold coins.

But this is only a small number... Among the thousands of people, there are only a dozen people who can reach this level. After all, there is also a market for foreign aid from the Snow Elves, Bears, and Seas. The owners of those Terran teams have a wide range of choices. , It is not necessary for the tiger clan.

Except for the clansmen who work on the team, the job of the others is to plant battle trees honestly.As long as there is water and a light source, this thing can be planted with a little soil (provided that it is not hammered to death by the fruit of the surviving battle tree), and the young and old will be able to produce a large amount of natural rubber raw materials every year.

The harvested branches, leaves and fruits of the fighting tree are transported to the grassland by boats. The benefit to the Tiger Clan is that they can not only enjoy the important living materials such as clothing, bedding, food and spices produced in the grassland, but the Yale tent can also give the Clan People are paid monthly... no matter they are adults or not, they can receive at least ten silver coins.

This is definitely a high income, which is two to three times higher than the income of human urban employees, and there is no need to bear living expenses. When tiger heads occasionally enter human towns and towns to buy supplies, the locals evaluate them as "extremely generous"...

After all, pork is only about 20 copper coins a catty, and one silver coin is equal to [-] copper coins. The monthly money earned by a battle tree of the tiger race can buy more than [-] catties of pork alone, and it can eat meat almost every day. The world is definitely a life of luxury—of course, the tiger’s head is not very greedy for meat. There is no shortage of meat on the grassland, but vegetables, and the juicy cabbage grown by the human race can buy two catties for one copper coin...

Not only did the clansman live a life more affluent in supplies than in the days of the royal court, but Yale also saved money in his hands—this time he came to the grassland to carry a bag of gold coins on his back. Life is not easy, and the Yale account is going to leave the money to them. This was discussed with the clansmen before coming.

As a result, according to Baixiang's words, Ted's account is not short of money at all? !

Baixiang took his familiar cub Sang Xi as an example, and babbled for a long time about the living conditions of the Ted Zhongzhang branch on the grassland: each tiger head built its own house (with a certificate of property right) , have a lot of savings, the new snacks launched by the Ministry of Welfare, and the new clothes newly released by the garment factory. In their free time, people in Huoyan City will go to the Cat Clan Farm to watch plays—the amateur theater troupe that once performed for the Bear Clan is still there, and except for Xia returning to work, all other actors have extra income from part-time jobs .

"Except for Balk and Oston, they are the ones with the highest wages." Baixiang said proudly, "As Ayun said, there must be rules in the grasslands, and our rules are no work, no work, more work , no matter what race they are from, as long as they can work, we must ensure that workers can get an income that matches their efforts.”

The white tiger veteran couldn't help but nodded his head vigorously. The tiger clan in the royal court era respected force, and whoever was strong would take advantage. Warriors ate meat and weak chickens and drank soup, although he still couldn't understand the simple word "work" in Baixiang's dialect. What, but in this white tiger veteran, it should be similar to their customs... Tiger warriors, the more powerful they are, the more they must be at the forefront when charging, but there is no tradition of soldiers sending dead generals to transfer.

"As he said, Ted and the others shouldn't have a hard time living on the grassland." Yale Dazhang also had a similar thought, and he didn't understand Baixiang's "work". It contains something, but he feels that the Tiger Clan is absolutely no worse than other clans in any aspect...

So this group of tiger heads put the fact that their hometown became strange behind them, and whispered to each other how many tribesmen were left in Ted's tent, and how many people they knew were still alive. Words of reassurance.

Bai Xiang, who lightly appeased the residents, hummed a little tune with a small face, thinking about how to ask the grassroots patriarch for credit afterwards...

The main purpose is that the speed of the canal boats used to transport goods is not high, [-] kilometers per hour (about ten knots), and when the sky is about to get dark, the Yale tent and others sitting in the bow of the boat can see the outline of Huoyan City.

This small canal was originally built to prevent flooding. It was still several kilometers away from the Huoyan Ministry at that time, and there were no tribal buildings in sight.But now that the Ministry of Fire has been upgraded to Fire City, and the scale of buildings is gradually spreading, as long as you stand on the canal pier, you can see the building complex.

On the horizon at the end of the line of sight, there are large-scale brick and stone buildings with a height of about four meters and spreading in all directions, instantly making Yale Dazhang and other tiger heads who have seen the bustling city of the human race collectively lose their voices.

"The house over there that occupies the vegetable field is the dormitory for the new employees of the vermicelli factory and the cement factory. They are all independent houses, not the kind where more than [-] people live in one room." Baixiang stood up holding the cargo box, and walked away Pointing to the large construction site looming in the distance, he said proudly, "This is the dormitory area for the new employees of our wool spinning factory. It is of the same specification as the vermicelli factory and the cement factory. I will also be allocated one. It is under construction now. I can move in in the fall."

According to the normal construction process of Huoyan City, it would take at least ten years of accumulation before all employees of the company can be assigned to single-family houses.But with a large number of bear clan followers joining, there is no need to wait so long... The rich and powerful Green Dragon father and son (Oston, who is stingy, of course, was forced by Balk) first paid for the construction of their two vermicelli The dormitory for new employees in the factory has been kept low-key, but the cement factory, which is actually very wealthy, quickly followed up. Last year, a large area of ​​new housing was built covering the original vegetable field.

The wool spinning factory has many industries under its jurisdiction, but in terms of financial resources, it is really not as good as these two big dogs. It only broke ground this year...

Therefore, the new houses built by the Tiger Clan will not attract anyone's jealousy at all. The more than 200 houses they built can't get much limelight against the thousands of houses that have been completed in Huoyan City...

The Yale tent originally planned to count how many buildings there are, but he gave up after just starting. It is really impossible to count. This prairie city is simply bigger than the main city of Bolton Territory. It's particularly complicated - this is not a city with hundreds of thousands of years of history in the human race, but a city on the grassland. In comparison, the royal court of the tiger clan that he was once proud of is not even a scrap...

The canal terminal has been expanded several times, and now a lighthouse with a height of about ten meters, two rows of warehouses, and a small square with a width of about [-] square meters for loading and unloading and temporary stacking of goods have also been built.A team of soldiers on duty was eating skewers on the stove in the duty room near the pier. When they heard the sound of the pneumatic engine, two people came out side by side to watch.

"The boat at the port is back!" A Snow Wolf tribe warrior saw the canal boat clearly and raised his hand in greeting.There is a difference between the ship at the port, the ship at the Snake Department, and the ship at the MSG factory. Only the goods on the ship at the port are neatly packed into boxes.

"I'm back too!" Baixiang stood at the bow and waved.

"It's Baixiang!" Another cat warrior said to his comrades with a smile, "I heard that Baixiang sent a mission to the grassroots patriarch to go to the port. I thought he would play for two more days before returning."

"What's so interesting about the port, those adventurers are annoying." The snow wolf warrior said with disgust.

"You will only be annoyed when you pass by, and our cat clan will not be there." The cat clan warrior said happily.

This is the reason why the "grassland street" established by Huoyan City in the Elven Port does not allow adult snow werewolves to visit the shop (A Shu is counted among the old, weak, sick and disabled), this is the reason... As long as you see adult snow werewolves, those adventures The hunters will inevitably come up to entangle, the knight wants to become close friends with them, and other adventurers want to recruit them as companions.

The man who controls the canal boat is a goblin who has learned the skills from the hired human crew on the sea boat. The goblin crew docks the boat to the edge of the pier, lowers the anchor, and throws the thick cable from the boat, and the soldiers on duty step forward. Help them put the cable on the concrete pile and fix it.

"Thank you!" The goblin crew member, who was sweating profusely after throwing a cable, waved.

"Thanks for your hard work." The soldiers on duty nodded to them, turned their heads and yelled to the back, "The ship has arrived, come to unload!"

"Come here!" Then eight soldiers came out of the duty room, the snow wolf tribe took the lead, and the two cat tribes and the snake tribe were mixed in.

"Shall we come to help too?" Baixiang rolled up her sleeves and said to the Yale tent naturally.

Yale big tent: "...OK." How can I refuse.

Of the group of tigers who jumped off the bow, only two cat warriors took a second look, and the others didn't pay much attention.The tiger clan is not a rare race. People from Ted Zhongzhang often come to the headquarters of the welfare department to sweep the goods.When Baixiang called the Tigerheads to help unload the goods, the squad leader among the soldiers on duty also very naturally told them to pay attention to the marks on the boxes and stack the boxes according to their types...

After the five cargoes were unloaded, it was already midnight...

"Didn't you say that the fleet came back? Why did you only ship this little cargo?"

The tiger heads were so tired that they doubted their lives, and the leader of the snow wolf clan who organized the unloading asked the captain of the goblin crew like this.

"The ten boats borrowed from the sugar beet planting base have not been returned yet, and there are only five boats, which can only transport so much." The boss of the goblin boat wiped his sweat, and took out a notebook from the small satchel on his back, "You sign for it first Let’s go back and continue transporting these five ships.”

"That's right." The team leader took the book and read it carefully before signing his name on it. "There are only five boats, so don't rush to bring them back in one go. You can rest until dawn before going back. The boat from the monosodium glutamate factory is also tonight. Come on, let’s borrow their capacity first.”

"The ship of the MSG factory can't hold much..." The boss of the goblin ship still disliked it.

"They use the previous generation of pneumatic boats eliminated by your port transportation team. It's good not to complain to you that you can only use your second-hand goods. You are still picky about their boats." The cat warriors laughed beside them.

"That's right, our Snake Department also uses ships that were eliminated from the port." The Snake Clan warrior said sourly.

"That's because we have to transport more goods, and it's not because we've occupied a good ship to watch. Besides, the Snake Department will confiscate our entire fleet when the autumn harvest arrives?" The boss of the goblin ship took back the transfer book , and took out a money bag from the satchel and handed it to the team leader, "The loading and unloading fees for the five shipments are all here, you can calculate it."

The so-called distribution according to work means that if you work, you will be rewarded. This spirit has become branded and etched into the bones of the grassland people... The goblin transport team can collect money from the owner of the goods, and pay the helpers when loading and unloading the goods.When I came here, the goods were loaded by the MSG factory and the snake tribe, and half of the loading and unloading costs were paid at that time.

The team leader holds the purse in one hand and nods the head in the other. The grassland people are serious about making money, and they are also serious about distributing the money. The minimum contribution of Baixiang can only be divided into a dozen copper coins, and other soldiers, including tiger heads, can have more than thirty indivual……

The goblins declined the invitation to eat late at night, and went to the guest rooms provided by the pier to rest. The team leader yelled at the people who shared the money: "Everyone go into the house to eat skewers, and there will be a boat from the MSG factory in the middle of the night, so go after work! "

Tiger heads holding coins: "??"

"When you come across a job, you have to do it." Baixiang put the money into his pocket with a smile, and beckoned the tiger heads to follow, "Everyone on duty at the port can get the leftover ingredients from the cafeteria, let's have a meal too .”

So this group of guests who came all the way were also brought into the duty room...

There is no briquette in the iron stove of the iron cover, but charcoal is burned. The temperature in the spring on the grassland is not high at night, and it is very comfortable to sit around the fire. After the grilled skewers are grilled, put them on a plate and serve them to the tiger guests who haven't eaten yet.

Facing the barbecue on the iron plate, the Yale tent was a little stunned for a while... Not only the meat, but also the green vegetables, leaves and cabbage, including radish slices, were skewered and roasted, and even bean sprouts and enoki mushrooms were wrapped in tofu skins and roasted. The way of eating is more radical than those crowded shops in the first area of ​​the Knights...

"Why don't you eat it?" A snow werewolf munching on radish skewers asked curiously when he saw the tiger heads staring at the plate in a daze, "Can't tigers eat spicy food?"

"It's edible. They have bought the spicy hot pot Tide from the Ministry of Welfare for a lot of people." Said the snake clan who was slowly eating the chicken leg beside him.

"Don't put so much spice! I'm going to stop, that's chili noodles, not pepper powder, don't pour it!" The cat warrior jumped up to stop the snow wolf warrior who was busy grilling skewers.

"It's okay, trust me, the hotter the better, the more delicious it is." The snow wolf warrior kept the cat warrior away with his arm, and continued pouring chili noodles wildly.

The other Snow Wolf Clan fighters shouted, "If you add more spice, you won't be able to eat the idiot!"

"Are you going to pour out the whole bottle!"

"Substitute, roast, substitute!"

The white tiger veteran silently watched the soldiers on duty who were laughing and scolding for a while, then reached out and took a bunch of tofu skin-wrapped enoki mushrooms from the iron plate.

After biting down on the roll, the White Tiger veteran almost burst into flames...

Bai Xiang strangely took the skewered cabbage from the Tiger Clan's plate, licked it and sprayed it: "What the hell, don't chilis cost money?!"

"This idiot poured out a whole bottle of chili!" The cat warrior pointed angrily at the snow wolf warrior who was grilling skewers.

"It's really spicy!" The Snow Werewolf exhaled after eating a bunch of grilled radish slices.

The snake warrior put down the half-gnawed chicken leg, tilted his red mouth, and together with the cat warrior stopped the guy who volunteered to go up to grill... the warrior who was burned by the grilled radish also stepped forward to help.

"Eat spicy food and be energetic! We have to unload the goods later!" The soldiers who were beaten up by the group defended.

"Throw this idiot out!" the squad leader spoke.

"How can you eat it with so much spicy food?" Baixiang yelled at the whole row of grilled skewers on the grill with heartache.

"How about rinsing it with plain water?" The Snow Wolf Clan warrior next to him suggested.

"Then it won't taste good, and the taste will get worse!" Bai Xiang was heartbroken.

The goblins who were resting in the next room heard the commotion and came to watch the excitement. When they saw the soldier who was thrown out, the boss of the goblin boat smiled: "It really is you. Last time you helped the cafeteria, you used up ten catties of chili peppers in a pot of stewed meat." , I was so angry that the horns jumped, but luckily we didn't come to covet your grilled skewers."

"You said that you went to the cafeteria to help out? That's the kind of help!!" In the room, the soldiers on duty, including the squad leader, roared in unison.

"Not every snow werewolf is particularly good at cooking." Baixiang complained to the big tent of Yale.

The Yale tent didn't make a sound, he just looked at the new owners of these grasslands silently, although there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth unconsciously, his expression was full of loneliness.

Snow werewolves, cats, snakes, goblins, and the human workers of the monosodium glutamate factory he saw when he was at the port, and the gray dwarves who built tractors and agricultural machinery for the grassland that were exported to the human kingdom. After the master, he managed this grassland to be more prosperous, richer and more harmonious than in the era of the Tiger Clan.

They don't need to show any disdain for the Tiger Clan. Just their existence and the fact that they live so happily and harmoniously on the grassland are enough to make the Tiger Clan who once claimed to be the master of this grassland ashamed.