Wolf King

When the sowing work was completed, the Snowwolves thought they had finally finished their work, but Ayun said that there was nothing, and the basic water conservancy of the farmland needed to be repaired.

It took more than a month of digging to dig out the canal around the wheat field. The snow wolves thought they had finally finished their work, but Ayun waved his hand and told them to think too much. Let’s build waterwheels and repair sluice gates together, while others will continue to dig canals to soybean fields and vegetable fields until the entire field is connected...

Including the patriarch, the snow wolves who understood Xiao Yun's meaning showed dull faces.

Xiao Yun saw that this was not going to work, so he swallowed the next talk about digging ponds to store water and building river channels.In fact, he had mentioned these projects early on. Obviously, these stupid guys have no memory at all.

Qingcao and Ayue, the young couple, watched off the tribesmen who were walking away like ghosts carrying hoes, looked at each other for a moment, and looked at Ayun in sync and gratefully—although they didn’t know what the waterwheel was, but they didn’t need to be like the others. It's great to dig a ditch as well!

The sluice gate of the water inlet and outlet of the canal is not difficult. The excess red bricks burned out when building the house are filled with a small amount of relatively neat stones and soil cement mixed with a lot of reed stalks to block the opening, leaving a few movable red bricks when necessary. When you can move it away, it's done.

Building a waterwheel is really a technical job. It is not enough to rely on the Snow Werewolves themselves, and they have to call in adult rabbit cats who are talented as handicraftsmen.

A log was broken in half, half of which was hollowed out, and stuck obliquely above the water inlet to make a water diversion tool to divert the water brought up by the waterwheel into the canal. This job was handed over to Ah Shan.

Then there is the main body of the waterwheel, which is not very technical but very troublesome.

Waterwheel, the most primitive farming irrigation tool that primary school students can make in their handiwork class, is simple in structure. When the running water drives the water wheel to rotate, the water tank at the edge wheel position can automatically bring the water in the low river channel to a high place.

Whether it is the oldest waterwheel in Lanzhou or the keel waterwheel in the south, the principle is the same, but the waterwheels made by people in different regions are different in size, shape, and water tanks. , For example, the sink is not triangular on the side but barrel-shaped, or blade-shaped.

There is a height difference of about one meter between the river bank of the water inlet and the river water. Considering the different heights of the river in spring, summer and autumn, Xiao Yun decided to make a smaller waterwheel that can be raised or lowered when necessary. A small waterwheel of about [-] meters, of course, such a small waterwheel will be slightly insufficient in water intake efficiency, so special attention should be paid to the design of the water tank - the triangular water tank on the side of the side wheel can be made larger, relatively deep.

It is said that elementary school students with low technical content understand the principle, but to make a qualified waterwheel that can be used, the size standard is still required... Without a standard ruler, how to make parts that can be assembled?

There are no nails for you to use in this place. To assemble the waterwheel, you must rely on the mortise and tenon structure. If the specifications of the produced sink pieces are not equal, how can they be put together?

Before starting to build the waterwheel, Xiao Yun summoned the contributing clansmen (including Qingyan) and seven adult rabbit cats. Regardless of whether they could understand or not, he first explained the importance of the standard ruler, um...no surprises. Force face N.

"In short, whether we can build a waterwheel that automatically absorbs water from the river is related to our harvest this year." Xiao Yun said with a serious face, "Before it didn't rain for more than ten days in a row, you didn't know about the fact that everyone had to use manual watering to irrigate. forget?"

Everyone shivered one by one, and it's no wonder they could forget it. They stayed up for two days and nights before watering the field again. They didn't want to deal with so much water again in their life.

Xiao Yun clenched his fist and waved vigorously: "So we must build a waterwheel! The first step in building a waterwheel is to establish our standard measurement, and everyone must resolutely implement it! Uncle Ah Shan, come forward. "

"Ah?" Ah Shan scratched his scalp, got up and walked in front of Xiao Yun.

Xiao Yun also stood up, showing a smooth-worn animal leg bone, and opened it horizontally towards everyone: "First, we need to determine the standard measurement of length, such as how long a meter is, one hundredth of a meter , How long is one centimeter." Then he patted Uncle Ashan on the shoulder, "Using my uncle Ashan as the standard, suppose Ashan's height is 1.8 meters... Well, the decimal point is not easy to calculate, change the whole number, 1.8 meters two is fine, Assuming that Ah Shan’s height is 1.8 meters 1.8, then we all know that the length of the soles of the feet is one-seventh of the height, in other words, Ah Shan’s height is 26 meters [-] cm, then the length of the soles of Ah Shan’s feet is [-] cm.”

The witty Dahe, the smart Qingyan and Qiu couldn't understand what Xiao Yun was talking about, and they all stared at him blankly.

Xiao Yun squatted down, asked Ah Shan to take off his shoes and lift his feet, and pressed the animal bone to the sole of his foot, then scratched the animal bone with his claws according to the length of the sole of his foot, and then put the animal bone that had made the mark on it. Gu showed everyone: "This length is the length of the soles of Ah Shan's feet, 26 centimeters!"

"..." Everyone still stared at him blankly.

Xiao Yun took out a reed pole and straightened it to match the notch on the animal bone: "Compared with the notch on the animal bone, we can see that the total length of this section of the reed pole is 26 cm." He cut it off with his claws. Fold the length of the reed stem in half and cut it off from the middle. "Half the length is thirteen centimeters."

Carve a thirteen-centimeter scratch on the animal bone, then fold the reed rod in half to get a 6.5-centimeter scratch, and then calculate where the one-centimeter scratch and the two-centimeter scratch are based on the existing values... After the helpless and trembling operations of the aborigines, Xiao Yun held up the notched animal bone: "This is our standard length! Whether we are building waterwheels now, or we want to build other more We have to strictly follow this length standard!"

...Including Ah Shan, who was used as a reference for the standard length, everyone half-opened their mouths and looked at Ah Yun who was getting excited with a silly face.

In fact, Xiao Yun didn't really care whether everyone could understand or not, as long as everyone could follow his ideas, if they didn't know what was going on, they wouldn't know what was going on.But now looking at the cold scene of this high-ranking man, Xiao Yun, who has honed his super thick skin in the modern workplace, still feels a little embarrassed.

"It seems necessary to focus on literacy work... Well, I'm busy with this during the slack season." Xiao Yun stroked his chin and pondered.

"...Ayun, your eyes look scary." Qiu felt the hair on the back of his neck explode, swallowed carefully and said.

"Is there, you read it wrong, there is nothing. Come on, Qiuqiu, since we already have a standard ruler, let's take a look at your height. I have been curious for a long time."

Grabbing Qiu and taking off his shoes to measure the soles of his feet, and then doing a multiplication operation at the level of a primary school student, Xiao Yun let out a "pop" and couldn't help laughing: "Fucking 1.5 meters four... Qiuqiu, if you go to the world of giants, you can do it." Find someone nicknamed Captain to make friends with, and the two of you can form an exquisite boy group that will surely become popular."

Autumn:"??"

Drawing gourds according to the same pattern, he produced more than a dozen bone rulers, and Xiao Yun began to explain to everyone how to make the parts of the water wheel and what standards they should be used—the axle of the water wheel was directly made of ready-made logs, and the more powerful Ah Shan to process; the large wheel leaves allow the Snow Wolf tribe to sharpen them slowly with a sickle; the exquisite sink pieces allow the cats to use their manual skills.

We have never been in touch with processing wood according to the specified length. At the beginning, it is inevitable that there will be an embarrassing situation where the parts of ten centimeters are longer than fifteen centimeters.Fortunately, Qingcao Dahe helped Xiao Yun build a hand-spinning machine before, and the rabbit man has been dealing with this hand-spinning machine since he came to the tribe. After talking about it a few times, he can understand the importance of proper parts in assembly. sex.

After five days, the waterwheel with a diameter of [-] meters and made of the simplest mortise and tenon structure was finally completed.

On the side of the water inlet of the canal, red bricks are used to build a platform for bearing logs to be inserted into. The other end of the bearing is supported by wooden piles driven into the bottom of the river. The platform on the river bank can be plugged with bricks to raise the bearing. The height of the multi-channel support bearings can be locked, depending on the changes in the water level of the river, the height of the waterwheel can be adjusted by two snow werewolves.

After entering the water, the wheels of the waterwheel are driven by the flowing river water to rotate the blades. In the friction between the waterwheel and the log bearings and the creaking sound of rotation, the deeper triangular water tank on the side wheel is filled with water, and as the waterwheel The rotation of the river brings the river water to a high place and flows into the water diversion wooden trough that receives and diverts the flowing water...

The tribesmen who worked hard and sweat stood on the bank of the river, watching the river water being slowly brought into the canal by the waterwheel, each of them looked strange and excited... After watching for a long time, the dazed Qingyan turned to look at Xiao Yun: " Ah Yun, the water doesn’t seem to be sucking up quickly, does it?”

"It's really not as good as a few people scooping water with clay pots." Xiao Yun nodded. The water wheel is so big and the water tank can be so deep, so the efficiency of water absorption is naturally not much higher. "But this thing won't It won’t rest even if it’s tired. It’s absorbing water when we’re doing other work, and it’s also absorbing water when we’re sleeping. Except that it can’t work when the river is frozen in winter, it’ll be here every day and year after year. Constantly bringing water from the river to the canals we dug so we can water the fields close by."

"Oh..." Everyone understood, and Qiqi showed a shocked expression.

Xiao Yun smiled and looked at everyone: "This is the convenience of tools. The trees and wood we cut down are processed by our hands to make tools, and this tool can always bring us convenience. With the waterwheel, With the canals we dug, as long as there is still water flowing in the river, we don’t need to go to the river to scoop water by ourselves whether we water the fields, fetch water for bathing and cooking food. So, everyone said, why don’t we What about digging canals and building waterwheels?"

"Yeah!" Everyone nodded in unison, Ah Shan was especially happy, "Tools are really good things."

"Nature is a good thing. Compared with those wild beasts, ferocious beasts, and even monsters, our intelligent race is powerful because we can make tools and use them. For example, uncle, when you hunted with Hongye, your bows and arrows are better than those owned by the most ferocious beasts. The sharp claws and teeth are also lethal. For example, the houses we built, the kangs we built, and the floor heating are more suitable for living than the most spacious cave occupied by the dragons... Even the best caves are cold when it snows, right?"

Xiao Yun and everyone else nodded, and continued to fool around, "So if we want to live a better and happier life, we cannot do without all kinds of convenient tools. Well, since everyone agrees so much, let's create another Everyone has experience with the waterwheel, so it will definitely be easier to build this time than the first time."

"..." The people who hadn't recovered from their joy and excitement looked at A Yun stiffly.

To irrigate the [-]-acre vegetable field with a lot of draft water, one canal is not enough, so how could a water truck be enough to solve the problem of water absorption... It is still the beginning of summer when we can see rain, and wait until the drier days If there is not enough watering at the time, then wait for the production to be reduced—this is all for the great cause of the tribe's farming, and it is not at all that Xiao Yun wants to torment people!

Well, Xiao Yun did not participate in the whole process of building the water tanker this time, not because he wanted to be lazy, but because he had more important things to do—the 60-yuan field and a total of [-] mu of wheat fields have entered an important tillering period.

Winter wheat is impossible to exist on the prairie where the winter is too long and the temperature is [-] to [-] degrees below zero. At least don’t think about it until you don’t have the ability to produce frost-resistant wheat seeds. Yuan Longping’s tauren didn’t go to the prairie. Toss about this.

Compared with winter wheat, which has a longer growth cycle and is more delicious, spring wheat has a lesser taste, but it has a shorter growth cycle... Only about [-] days after sowing, the wheat seedlings in the wheat field have entered the tillering stage.

The importance of wheat tillering is self-evident. The amount of tillering of wheat seedlings directly determines the number of ears. The most powerful tillering of wheat seedlings is the legend that someone used one grain of wheat to cultivate hundreds of tillers and more than 100 ears of wheat. ——Well, just listen to this kind of myth, Xiao Yun will not have this dream.

In the wheat field where the emerald green wheat seedlings were growing in ridges, Xiao Yun went in and checked the results of weeding... Uh, there was no herbicide, and it was the land that had been reclaimed the previous year. The number of weeds that popped up was still disgusting—this was the case when Xiao Yun had sprinkled soapy water to weed the weeds before fertilizing and planting. If the soapy water hadn't been sprayed at that time, the problem might have been worse.

To weed the wheat field, weeding by pulling weeds is likely to damage the root system of the wheat seedlings, so before the tillering stage, Xiao Yun dragged the rabbit cats and sprinkled soapy water to weed the weeds again...

The weeds have been controlled a lot this time, but there are still scattered ones. In this situation, Xiao Yun has nothing to do. He can only hope that the iron plow can be used after the harvest, so that he can plow more ferociously. The grass seeds were dug out several times in the field and let the heavy snow freeze to death.

Squat down to check the wheat seedlings. Sure enough, some tiller buds that are shorter than fingers have protruded from the leaf axils at the base of some wheat seedlings. I lay down on the ground with my eyes wide open and counted carefully. About 30 tillers have sprouted from each tillered wheat seedling. Buds——Fertilization before sowing and topdressing after emergence are still very effective. The sweat (and tears) that Xiao Yun ruthlessly dragged the tribe and the cats and sprinkled in the wheat fields made the wheat domesticated by the tauren grow very gratifying .

"I remember my uncle said that the number of tillers should be controlled during the tillering period... This is probably not necessary. This wheat seed is not a wheat seed that has been trained by agronomists on the earth. It does not have the gene for crazy tillering. There are about [-] tillers. Buds may be the limit.” Looking at the wheat seedlings with joy, Xiao Yun tried his best to recall the knowledge of wheat planting, “What else should we pay attention to... The tillering stage is an important period for the growth of the root system. And the temperature is not to worry about. Now that the weather is getting warmer and the sunshine is still long, the climate on the grassland is quite suitable for the growth of wheat. If the water is used, the wheat fields with canals are the priority, so don’t worry, just pay more attention to watering... Well, it’s just a matter of top dressing. "

When the seedlings emerged, they used bone meal compound fertilizer to replace a wave, and Xiao Yun didn't forget about the fertilizer while urging his clansmen to work... How do crops grow?One water, two fertilizers and three pesticides, without these three things, half of the population on the earth will starve to death.

Now that the population of the main ethnic group is only 32, it is more beautiful than a dream to engage in the flower and fertilizer industry, and the only thing that can be counted on is natural fertilizers.Fortunately, now that the weather is getting warmer, it doesn’t take several months to ferment like in winter. The humus layer shoveled in the jungle, bird droppings, bone meal dragged from the old manticore’s lair, human and animal feces , The black mud dug from the swamp has been piled up and fermented for more than 40 days in the open space near the wheat field, and it can be shoveled for use.

It should be noted that the topdressing in this period cannot be carried out in the early stage of tillering. It has to wait until after the peak of tillering. The standard name is "joint topdressing". production time.

In the process of topdressing, you can’t just apply it evenly as before. You have to pay attention to the details. For wheat seedlings with more tillers (more than [-] buds), you need to slightly reduce the amount of fertilization and control watering; The average amount is applied, and those with fewer tillers (less than [-]) need to apply more fertilizer and water more.

The fermented soil and fertilizer are mixed with water and rotten, and the fertilizer water is carefully applied to the soil near the roots of the wheat seedlings depending on the tillering of the wheat seedlings... It is better for last year's snow werewolves to do this kind of thing than let them embroider Difficult, now... Well, people's potential is forced out, this is absolutely true.

The work was suspended for five days and all the staff were fertilizing. After the work was done, the snow wolves were all lying on the side of the field silently looking at the sky, although they were not tired, but they were so tired that they couldn't describe it. Before thinking about it enough to brew hot tears, the devil Ayun yelled at them again and announced a very important event:

"It's time for our Chinese cabbage to be harvested!"

"Huh?" The patriarch, who was beating his waist, couldn't understand.

"I mean, the Chinese cabbage we planted should be harvested." Xiao Yun wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Well... I have to apologize to everyone first, the Chinese cabbage, the three kinds of vegetables given by the tauren are the best. The ones planted can be harvested in about fifty days... But I am so busy that I am dizzy, one thing after another... But it doesn't matter if the harvest is ten or so days later, at most it will be a little older. In short, The Chinese cabbage in our field has to be harvested quickly, and we can continue to plant another crop if we harvest it!"

The Snow Werewolf and the scorpion with Qingyan all looked at each other in dismay, and then cast their eyes on Xiao Yun... We can't blame them for being slow to react, these days even the cat paws of the scorpion clan are being ordered to work around and sleep for a day It's shorter than a day, every day when I open my eyes and don't even have time to think about anything, I'm being driven around by A Yun, and now Xiao Yun is telling them about the harvest of crops - it doesn't feel real!

In a daze, all the staff followed Ayun to the vegetable field where Chinese cabbage was planted... At a glance, there were all rows of cabbage wrapped in cabbage, and the adult plants were about the size of a tauren's head. Some of the outermost old cabbage Ripe Chinese cabbage whose leaves have turned yellow and rotted in the ground.

Xiao Yun turned his head to see everyone's reaction.

No one responded.

Xiao Yun was a little puzzled, so he stretched out his hand and shook it vigorously in front of them a few times.

There is still no reaction, everyone's expression is still the same as before.

"I said... Although we only fertilized this vegetable once at the beginning and watered it twice later, and didn't care about the rest of the time, this is a vegetable field we planted by ourselves anyway. Don't you have any feelings?" Xiao Yun said with the corner of his mouth twitching.

Vegetable fields need a lot of water, so Xiao Yun chose to grow vegetables in a field that is relatively close to the swamp and on a relatively low terrain. The climate in spring and summer is quite good, and it rains every now and then, only once in two months. It hasn't rained for more than ten days... Xiao Yun, who has to keep an eye on everything, and pays special attention to the wheat fields, naturally ignores these Chinese cabbages that also need to be taken care of.

As for the clansmen... To be honest, they couldn't finish their work every day, so how could they be in the mood to think about it—who would take a nap if they had the chance to sit down?The unreasonable Ayun dragged people up to work in the middle of the night not once or twice, and there was simply not enough time.

The patriarch slowly turned his head to meet Xiao Yun's gaze, and slowly raised his finger to point at the Chinese cabbage on the ground, his voice sounded like sleepwalking: "Ah Yun? We planted it?"

"Yes, we planted it." Xiao Yun nodded.

"What did we plant?"

"We planted it!" Xiao Yun raised his voice and shouted.

With a "boom", all the clansmen exploded, and the voices became so noisy that they couldn't be heard at all...

"Okay!" Xiao Yun slammed hard with a hoe in one hand and a sickle in the other, "Shut up, don't gossip, don't talk nonsense, hurry up and collect vegetables! Vegetable leaves that are old and yellow, and those that are in the rotten field, hurry up and collect vegetables. Put the leaves that are not rotten first!"

...Well, as soon as the sound of the iron farm tool that was the source of pain of the snow werewolf sounded, everyone immediately became honest.

In the tribe, there is a peaceful and harmonious atmosphere.

Fertilizing, a labor-intensive job, Xiao Yun was not so cruel that he also used the kindergarten students and elementary school students, and the four male cat cubs stayed in the tribe to look after the house obediently.

The cat family has always been very curious. They sneaked close to the mushroom house and were scolded by Thrall several times. These cubs didn’t behave well. Seeing that Thrall, who had been busy for a long time, left the mushroom house and went back to the Chase Room to rest, these cubs slipped out of the activity again house, sneaking close to the most mysterious and closed place where Flammulina velutipes is produced in the Snow Werewolf tribe...

"Aoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

The sudden howling startled the cubs who had only touched halfway, and the four of them fled back to the activity room hand in hand. After a while, their little heads sneaked out again and looked out curiously.

Then they saw... the ox horns dragging a rattan and grass trawl net, carrying hill-like unknown green leaves on the trawl net, running towards the tribe with a rough breath.

Niujiao entered the tribe, untied the trawl net, moved the Chinese cabbage off the trawl net with lightning-fast hands and piled them up, and put the tow rope cover of the rattan and grass net on his shoulders, as if being bitten by something run out.

Maul cubs: "??"

Before these catcat cubs ran out to see what the bull horns dragged back, they heard the strange sound of "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh—hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! It was Qingyan who walked.

Maul cubs: "?!"

Qingyan dragged much less weight than the horns, quickly unloaded all the things on the ground and ran away again.

Then there is Hongye... Ah Shan... Ah Yue...

The cubs of the male cats looked at the more and more unknown green leafy objects piled up in the tribe with horror on their faces, and their minds were full of question marks.