Wolf King

When Xiao Yun first crossed over, the body he inherited from the original owner was completely stunted bean sprouts, the upper and lower ribs on the chest were clearly visible, hands and feet were as thin as hemp sticks, half a head shorter than the woolen girl who was two years younger than him.

Now, Xiao Yun's head is still not as good as the wool girl, but at least he has an extra layer of flesh... The genes of the Snow Werewolf have evolved towards muscularity. The genetic effects of the Snow Werewolf were brought into play, if it wasn't for being surrounded by a bunch of muscular brothers to set off, Xiao Yun would be able to pat his chest and say that he is very healthy and beautiful.

In short, Xiao Yun, who had successfully raised his body to a healthy physique, now proposed that he would take the team to the southern inland sea. At least the tribe would not worry that he would die halfway and never come back.

After finalizing the candidates for the team, he repeatedly told the head of the family to remember the key points and basic points of work in the tribe during his absence, and let Qiuqiu, who has a relatively reliable IQ, pay more attention... and had a private conversation with Thrall Only then did Xiao Yun take the team out with confidence.

As for Qingyan... He has to take Qingyan away.He figured it out, Qingyan was fine with Dahe all the time, and he absolutely didn't believe that they were fine.

If Qingyan is also a snow werewolf, then Xiao Yun has nothing to say, how much leisure does he have to care about people's free love?But this guy is a black panther!Reproductive isolation!Species are all different, so he has to do this great thing of beating mandarin ducks!

The team of eight people left the tribe and headed south, waded across the river, walked through the grassland in the southwest that had not been used since last year, and walked south for more than three hours, and a part of the jungle appeared at the end of sight.

It is said to go south along the jungle, but you can't really go next to it... This jungle has been spreading freely and wildly for thousands of years, and the edges are as uneven as giant sawtooth. If you really want to walk along the jungle, you have to walk a lot Go the wrong way.

The sun gradually moves to the highest position in the sky, and the temperature rises to the hottest part of the day.In the jungle in the distance, the water vapor evaporated by the sun reflects a dazzling halo, and the blades of grass taller than a person scrape Guolu's arms and legs from time to time; people walking on the grassland seem to be killed by the dazzling sunlight. Pressing dead on the ground, fortunately, the vast world in front of him doesn't make people feel depressing.

Xiao Yun took off the thin snakeskin coat on his upper body and stuffed it into the animal skin pocket on his back.After the temperature rose to about [-] degrees, both the snow werewolf and the mantle were shirtless, but he really didn't have the habit of being shirtless, so Hongye threw the boa constrictor skin she picked up during patrol to him to make a cool one. Snakeskin clothes—this thing is still very popular among grassland residents, but they are all used to make leather pants, which is not as wasteful as him.

The seven people walking in front of Xiao Yun, including Qing Yan, have already taken off their rattan straw sandals... The airtight animal skin pants are too sweaty, and it feels very bad if there is sweat between their legs when they are on the road. .

Hmm... Although I understand the aggressive behavior of these guys, Xiao Yun, who is walking at the back, still has a hot eye... Six white buttocks and one black buttock dangle in front of the eyes, who really came from this sour taste who knows.

Uncle Ah Shan was quite heart-warming. After running for a while, he turned around and asked, "Ah Yun can still run? If you feel tired, just say, I will carry you."

"It's okay, no need." Xiao Yun resolutely refused.It's impossible for a werewolf to transform into a wolf and carry people in this snowy temperature, so he didn't want to lie on the naked back of the same sex.

"Then you have to keep up!"

Hong Ye, who was in the front two positions, turned her head: "It's okay, let's all stare at the back, Ayun can't fall behind."

Xiao Yun looked away silently. It is true that there is no difference between a female snow werewolf's bare butt and a male's, but the brother who lacks a piece of flesh between his legs will still be blind if he takes a second look...

Six hours after setting off, the group entered a strange world that even the patrolling soldiers had never set foot in.Fortunately, the soldiers all have the ability to distinguish the direction, so it is not a big problem to go all the way south even if there is no compass.

"There are more and more woods." Qingyan, who is best at recognizing the way, ran ahead and led the team around a forest. Qingyan slowed down a little, "If the front is full of forests, it may not be easy to detour. Do you wear it through the woods?"

"No, it's best to avoid it if possible." Xiao Yun thought for a while and said.The residents of the prairie don't know much about the jungle, and it's not the home of the prairie residents, so they don't need to take risks for the sake of shortcuts.

"In that case, we may have to walk a lot more. The further south we go, the larger the jungle area will be." Qingyan said.

... This guy's crow's mouth is really effective, and after another hour, everyone was blocked by a large jungle that "infringed" on the grassland.

"Huh...huh..." Panting heavily, Xiao Yun raised his head and glanced towards the east of this roadblocking jungle, his eyelids twitched suddenly, what the hell, he couldn't see the end...

"If it's a detour, it's really not a matter of walking more. But... no one has a topographic map in this direction. Who knows whether it is necessary to go through part of the jungle to go to the beach in this direction? But the head It’s not a problem to go inside, maybe you will go deep into the jungle and completely miss the inner sea...” Xiao Yun had a headache, he had thought that it would be difficult to open up a new map, but he didn’t think that it would be difficult on the first day of going out. Trouble on the face.

The others all looked at him and waited for his opinion, Xiao Yun hesitated for a while and decided to... go around.After all, the jungle is really not the home of grassland residents. Even if it takes a little detour, it is safer to walk on the grassland that everyone is used to.

Resting on the spot, Qingyan went to find some wild fruits that can be found in summer, and everyone ate some dried meat and radish brought from the tribe.After resting, Momiji and Yu went to the forest and broke a tree, picked it up, stuck it on the ground to make a road sign, and the group set off again.

This walk lasted for two and a half days... On the evening of the third day, everyone walked out of the jungle that blocked the road, and the vast prairie that everyone was very familiar with reappeared in the south direction.

Hmm... The scenery of this place is a little different from before. It is more similar to the geographical environment of the tauren tribe. There are more low hills, rivers and springs are scattered among the brambles and bushes, and the woodland is more dense, large and small. swamps are more common.

"The terrain in this area is lower and the water vapor is more concentrated."

When passing around a forest whose bottom half was soaked in mud, a group of people found that the muddy and bottomless mud pools in this forest were actually illuminated by the sun in colorful light, which surprised everyone who had never seen such a landscape before. Hulianlian—Xiao Yun knows the basics of light refraction. This forest should be soaked in mud for many years, and the anaerobic bacteria fermented and bred in the humus layer are densely covered in it. When the sun shines in from the side, it will appear this spectacular Light refracts the scene. (Those who have lived in old residential areas have probably seen the stinking ditch illuminated by the sun...)

"If you can dig back the mud in this forest, what a natural soil and fertilizer it must be~" Xiao Yun sighed in his heart when the people of the tribe were amazed.

On the afternoon of the fifth day after departure, when crossing a stretch of low mountains, Xiao Yun felt the salty sea breeze and the low-pressure hot wind——

"What a big river!" Assante looked into the distance in amazement, raised his arm and pointed vigorously, "Look, that river has no end in sight!"

They are now standing on the top of this mountain range. Although the height of the mountain range is short, it should be more than a meter high. Farther away from the dense jungle under the mountain, at the end of the line of sight, there is a boundless wave connected to the sky.

"It's not a river, it should be the inner sea." Xiao Yun couldn't help being excited, "We found the seaside, that's the sea, and the sea is endless salt!"

Everyone froze for a moment, then cheered...

"what!"

An elf jumping among the treetops in the jungle suddenly slipped and fell forward. Fortunately, he was nimble and quickly reached out to grab the vines on the tree to hang himself, which prevented his head from falling to the ground.

"Kay?" The companion in front of him paused and looked back suspiciously.

"Haileen, did you hear the howling of wolves?" Kai, who was still in shock, grabbed the vines and looked around.

"Can the howling of wolves scare you like this? Then you'd better go back and don't drag me down." Companion Hai Lin frowned and said unceremoniously.

"No, it's not an ordinary wolf howl, it's very similar to the wolf howl of the Snow Werewolf." Kai quickly explained, "Do you still remember the conscription order issued by the Elf King 11 years ago? I participated in that conscription and left our hometown to go to the north Empire--"

"That's enough, Kai, I know it's the most honorable thing for you to participate in the Battle of the King's City, and you don't need to show it off again and again." Hailin said displeased.

"I don't want to show off, I really think the wolf howl just now is very similar to the snow werewolf's voice!" Kai threw away the vines, jumped over four meters and landed beside his companion, trying to gesticulate, "The Snow Werewolf attacked under the king's city, and those monsters as powerful as top monsters defeated the royal army of the Elven King..."

Hailin flicked her feet, jumped to stand on a branch six meters away, and looked back at her companion in distaste: "Okay, Kai, we are just here to rescue our people who were kidnapped by human merchant ships, our enemies There are no snow werewolves. If you are afraid of humans, you can retreat now."

"Hey, I'm really not..."

Kai quickly chased after him, but Hai Lin didn't intend to wait for him at all, and threw him behind after a few bounces.

From the top of the mountain outside the forest, the snow wolves happily moved stones and wood, set up a high road sign in the most conspicuous position, and then happily rushed down the mountain and rushed into the jungle they didn't like.

From the top of the mountain, the jungle that was at most two kilometers deep took more than an hour for the Snowwolves to finally pass through the jungle that made them feel uncomfortable. After running for more than half an hour, they came to a place where they could directly see the sea. On the cliff—that’s right, there is no beach, no fine sand, the junction of the land and the sea in this direction is a steep cliff tens of meters high, even cats can’t climb it down.

The clansmen who were about to cheer again were dumbfounded and looked at Xiao Yun blankly.

"... Let's look along the cliffs. It can't be all cliffs like this... It should be due to the large terrain drop on the side near the jungle, and it can't be like this in other places." Xiao Yun wiped off his sweat and gave everyone a hand. cheer up.

On the land near the sea, the further west you go, the greater the drop, so you can only go east.The farther away from the jungle, the flatter the terrain became. After more than two hours, Xiao Yun finally saw a natural beach that fit his understanding of the seaside—a coastline with no end in sight, where vegetation and sea water competed with each other. Between the territories, the white and soft sandy beach shimmers faintly in the afterglow of the setting sun; the soft and moist sand is densely covered with rich seafood left after the tide goes down, groups of seabirds rise and fall on the beach, gracefully Doing the job of a predator.

"The sea!" Xiao Yun opened his arms excitedly, and let out a roar to vent the pressure that had been accumulating in his heart since he set foot on the journey.

"Ooooh, oh, salt, salt, salt—!"

The snow wolves destroyed Xiao Yun's simmering excitement in less than half a second. One by one, their big white buttocks pushed Xiao Yun away, and they spread their feet and threw themselves on the beach.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

…Then this group of people was chased back by the waves who came back to regain the lost ground, and they fled so that they lost their armor and stumbled.

"..." Xiao Yun rested his hand on his forehead, "Stop playing, hurry up and take a rest, we have to hurry up and get salt, and return it all."

"Oh." The snow wolves who remembered Ma Wei by the sea looked at the waves that were slowly retreating with lingering fear, and walked back obediently.

Before walking halfway, Ah Yue suddenly jumped up: "Oh, something pinched my foot!"

"I told you to wrap your feet with animal skins, your feet are all exposed outside the rattan straw sandals... Ah, what is this?!" Hongye, who wanted to help, was taken aback.

"I don't know, what is this!" Ah Yue flicked her feet desperately.

"Crab! Crab! Just crush it!" Xiao Yun was furious.

"Crabs are still this big?" Ah Yue, who had her toes pinched, was still shocked, and she pointed out her fingers, "Aren't they all only this little bit big?"

"Are you in pain or not!" Xiao Yun shouted.

"It hurts! Hongye step on it for me!"

"Then don't jump around!"

Xiao Yun didn't bother to pay attention to them anymore, he twitched his mouth and looked away... Then he saw Qing Yan who was shivering behind the old man.

"A lot of water!" Qing Yan met his gaze, trembling with a frightened look.

Xiao Yun: "..."

……wait for a second.

Jumped on a flat ground in the vegetation-occupied area by the coast, unpacked the bags, lit a clay pot, boiled the dried meat with fresh water from the jungle, and ate a meal with dried radishes, Xiao Yun led the Everyone leveled the place where the salt was dried.

Boiling salt takes a lot of manpower, and drying salt is too time-consuming, so Xiao Yun plans to make salt at the same time by two-pronged approach: use the hoe he brought out to dig out a large area of ​​salt fields, inject shallow sea water, let the wind and sunlight help evaporate part of the water, and then Then use the concentrated seawater to boil——if it is purely boiled, the earthenware pot cannot withstand such a toss.

Planed the vegetation, cut logs from the jungle to tamp the ground, and worked all night to create two acres of salt fields. After filling a layer of seawater, everyone fell down and fell asleep from exhaustion.The next day, I was woken up by the sun and chirping birds. When I got up to look, a lot of seawater in the salt pan had evaporated.

Sun salt, the larger the contact surface between seawater and air, the larger the evaporation area, which can effectively shorten the evaporation cycle.But Xiao Yun has no modern convenient tools to rely on, so he can only use the most stupid manual method...Two relatively straight wooden sticks are tied into a T shape. The wooden stick of "One" slowly pushes the brine in the salt pan, increasing the contact area between the flowing brine and the air.

As for the others, they will continue to level the new salt pan and tamp the bottom of the field...

Xiao Yun has never seen what a calendar looks like since he came to this world. The grassland residents, who are mainly nomadic, don’t pay much attention to observing the solar terms. The tauren, the only farming ethnic group, do have the awareness of climate change, but their main ethnic base It is far from enough to create solar terms and establish the Gregorian calendar... So Xiao Yun can be said to have lived without knowing the age.

However, judging from the common sense of climate on the earth, this short period of time, when the average daily maximum temperature can reach about [-] degrees for only two months a year, should be the hottest July and August every year.

There are only two months in a year where there is such a temperature. Naturally, Xiao Yun hopes to get some more salt back, so that the clansmen can work hard to open the salt field - anyway, it can't be wasted, and it can be used next year. .

On the fifth day after the salt drying started, the first two salt fields were evaporated by the sun and wind into a relatively viscous and thick saturated solution. The curious people left their work and ran over to watch. Hongye dipped her hand in the solution I licked it with my tongue, and immediately showed a surprised expression: "It tastes like salt, but it's a bit bitter."

"Don't try it, it hasn't been filtered yet, the brine is poisonous." Xiao Yun jumped, and hurriedly drove the curious babies who wanted to taste salty and salty everything from the salt field.

The crystals obtained by directly drying the water in seawater cannot be said to be table salt directly. There are still other impurities in it. It can only be regarded as coarse salt and industrial salt, which has a heavy bitter taste. Long-term consumption is harmful to the body. If you want to use it as table salt Still have to filter it.

It is quite easy to filter the brine... Xiao Yun took out the cloth (relatively fine linen cloth) from the patriarch, wrapped it in the charcoal from the fire, stretched it on the opening of the pottery pot, and then dug it with wood. Scoop up the brine from the salt field with a spoon, pour it into a clay pot, and filter it with charcoal wrapped in cloth.

The snow wolves had already paid 20 yuan for the salt field, and no one wanted to leave at the moment, they all squatted beside and watched Xiao Yun's operations curiously.Yu You Qi watched seriously, his pale green pupils widened.

Xiao Yun also hoped that the people of the tribe would think more and become smarter. Seeing that everyone was so curious, he explained to everyone: "Salt in seawater can be eaten directly boiled into salt crystals, but the taste will be bitter. There are too many impurities in the salt...Of course, in terms of impurities, the green salt we bought with the human caravan is not inferior, it is completely well salt that has not been processed properly, tsk tsk."

"Using charcoal to filter the impurities in the brine like I do, it can't be said that it can filter out all the impurities, but it can effectively filter out most of the impurities, so that the salt obtained will not have that bitter taste." Xiao Yun moved away The charcoal bag on the mouth of the clay pot pours the filtered brine into a pottery bowl for everyone to see, "Look, isn't the color of this brine a little lighter than that in the salt field?"

Six snow werewolves and a black panther squatting side by side looked at the pottery bowl and then at Yantian, nodding in unison.

"Filter two more times."

Xiao Yun shook off the linen cloth, rewrapped the charcoal and stretched it on another pottery pot. After filtering this pot of brine three times, he handed it to Ah Shan to boil it into crystals.

When Ah Shan walked to the side holding the clay pot to make a fire, Yu showed a particularly tangled and struggling expression... He really wanted to follow Ah Shan to see how the salt water turned into salt, but he was worried that he would not see it when he walked away Ayun's next operation.

"Maomao, go and help Ah Shan. I will filter the brine next time. It would be better if more people cook the salt." Xiao Yun was a little funny, pretending not to notice Yu's little thought, pretending not to care.

"..." Yu opened his mouth and closed it again, he wanted to say that my name is not Maomao...but now is not the time to say that.

For fear of burning the pottery pot, Ah Shan cooked it slowly over low heat until the sun slanted to the west, and the brine in the pottery pot evaporated and turned into white salt crystals with a hint of green.

"It's really salt!" Ah Shan carefully placed the pottery pot on the sand, dipped his fingers in some salt and tasted it, immediately beaming with joy, "It's not bitter at all, better than the green salt traded by the curved horn cattle! "

Yu was not as excited about obtaining salt as Ah Shan was. He dipped some salt in a pilgrimage and tasted it. Feeling the pure salty taste in his mouth, Yu suddenly felt his eye sockets heat up...

Xiao Yun's tribe went downhill after losing a large number of soldiers and couldn't keep the grassland. If it is said that they can exchange salt, they really have no shortage of bent-horn cattle.But Yu is different... Yu's tribe has lived in the southwestern border of the grassland for decades, and their ancestors have never been rich.In order to ensure the salt in the tribe, it has been really difficult for them all these years.

But now, it only takes five or six days to go to the seaside, and another five or six days to dry and cook salt, and you can get the salt that has been stuck in the neck of their tribe—think about it every year in order to save the bent horn cattle. Not even daring to slaughter a cow when he was hungry, this huge gap really made Yu feel complicated.

Not long after Ah Shan was happy to get the salt, he began to check the clay pot distressedly, muttering that he must not burn it somewhere, which made Yu feel more complicated... Speaking of which, it seems that their tribe did not exchange the loss of the pottery pot. The cost of salt, it is so sad to think about it!

Ah Shan is right to be worried. The ceramic pots cannot withstand long-term cooking. After boiling two pieces of salt brine from the salt fields into half a leather bag of salt, two of the six pottery pots brought out broke...

The snow wolves were heartbroken, and Qingyan also looked heartbroken. There was nothing wrong with it, so Xiao Yun had to ask them to run around to find if there were any stone slabs of suitable size. Anyway, there are forests around here, and there is enough firewood. Come "roast" the salt and forget it.

Ashan and Qingyan went to the west to search, and Hongye and Yu went east together.The two walked along the vegetation on the coastline and groped all the way, and they found a rocky beach at the place where the beach was separated by a cliff protruding from the sea. cave.

"Maybe it's here?"

Hongye's eyes lit up, she quickly jumped down and ran to the rocky beach.I don't know if this area has experienced changes in the bottom shell such as earthquakes. The rocks on the rocky beach look like they were formed by the collapse of the cliffs. Under the impact and weathering of sea water, the part near the sea The stones have been scoured into a more rounded shape.

The two searched around in the rocky beach, and saw a lot of strange-shaped stones, but they didn't see the thinner ones that could barely be regarded as stone slabs...

"Otherwise, let's find a bigger stone and use Ayun's method of roasting it with fire and pouring cold water to divide it into two halves from the middle. Hongye, do you think it's okay?"

Yu felt that it was hopeless to find a ready-made stone slab, so he proposed an idea to ask Hongye for his opinion. When he turned his head, he found that Hongye was staring in the direction of the cave with a puzzled expression, as if he hadn't heard what he said.

"Hongye?" Yu called again.

"Ah." Hongye turned her head and waved at him, "Yu, come and listen to me. I seemed to hear a voice from inside just now, but it disappeared again. I wonder if I heard it wrong?"