Wolf King

"Crack... boom boom boom!"

After the lightning, the rapid raindrops splashed from the air to the ground again, and the raindrops shook the Chinese cabbage leaves slightly, making a clattering sound.

In the heavy rain, all the snowwolves and rabbit cats stood silently on the ridge of the vegetable field, lined up. Everyone lowered their heads slightly, staring blankly at the vegetables harvested in the field, unable to recover for a long time.

Xiao Yun bent down and pulled out the last Chinese cabbage from the soaked field soil. He shook off the muddy water on the vegetable and threw the cabbage directly in front of everyone, regardless of the bugs lying on the leaves. , On a small pile of Chinese cabbage:

"Look, this is all the harvest in this big field."

His tone was not angry, because there was no need for him to get angry, the faces of the clansmen and the cats were already pale...

What is the concept of a low-lying vegetable field that has been soaked in water for a few days?It's the concept of finishing the ball... The Chinese cabbage that is about to be harvested is completely soaked from root to leaf, and the pests are happily partying in the heart of the leaves.In the last crop, a piece of Chinese cabbage harvested in a large field could send the Snow Werewolf to the tribe happily for a long time. Now, a piece of Chinese cabbage that is still barely intact in a large field can weigh tens of hundreds of catties.

"Why, why did this happen? Isn't there enough water in the vegetable field... That's rainwater, obviously not river water?" The pale-faced patriarch clutched his chest, his heart ached so badly that he couldn't breathe.

Yesterday the patriarch saw so much salt so spicy, he almost smiled at Jiuquan on the spot... Uh, he laughed so hard on the spot, he was helped to lie in Qingcao's house for a long time before he recovered; Sorrow begets sorrow, tone down, and try not to be emotional: "The vegetable field does need a lot of watering, but there is a limit to the amount needed, and it has nothing to do with river water or rain. It's like we can't eat it all at once." The amount of food in ten days and half a month is the same, eating so much will make you hungry."

Raising his finger, he looked around at the rotten Chinese cabbage in the vegetable field: "These are just stuffed to death."

Among the clansmen standing with pale faces, many of them shook their bodies, as if they were about to be unable to stand in grief—they wouldn’t feel so uncomfortable if they didn’t have a good harvest. Compare the joy when serving recycled vegetables , and look at this crop of Chinese cabbage wreckage that is more than [-]% soaked and rotted in the field... No one can bear this kind of grievance.

Xiao Yun hardened his heart, stared at them with his hands behind his back, and didn't say a word of comfort.These guys really live in a mess, and their brains have been frozen for a long time. He said that when repairing water conservancy, he mentioned the importance of preventing floods countless times. As a result, the brains of the girls just remembered to prevent it. It's river water, rain doesn't matter, seeing the vegetable fields flooded by the rain, I happily thought that the vegetables could drink enough water... Are you cheating!

After giving everyone a few minutes to make their hearts ache, Xiao Yun took them to the next vegetable field.This time, instead of letting everyone "stand by punishment", he asked them to "collect" the soaked Chinese cabbage by themselves. People who were heartbroken like knives stomped heavily into the rotten vegetable field, Trembling and pulling out the miserable-looking cabbage... Then most of the people cried.

How could this happen!It was still a very fresh dish before!

My God~ I have been working so hard to serve the vegetables for almost two months~ They have worked hard to plow the fields, fertilize, carry water and weed~

woo woo woo woo woo~~~~

The ruthless, cold-blooded, cruel and unreasonable Xiao Yun still didn't say a word, standing on the field ridge with his hands folded and his chest indifferent, looking at a group of adults & cubs, either choking speechlessly or crying loudly.

He is not the kind of person who is in favor of setback education, because if a person hurts his self-confidence, he will be more reluctant to do things and his future will be even more bleak. This is the experience summed up by leading countless newcomers in the enterprise.

But when a newcomer makes a serious mistake, he must also let the other party know where he made his mistake and how much loss he caused to himself and the company. Let the failure truly become a lesson learned, become a success, and correctly , A deep understanding of mistakes is absolutely necessary.Otherwise, the people brought out will not be useful.

If there is something right, you should praise it vigorously, to the extent that the other party takes your praise as a spiritual support.If there is something wrong, there is no need to swear harshly, it will stimulate the other party's rebellious psychology, and it is best to use appropriate means to make the other party fully realize the mistake, regret it, and even cry bitterly; Don't let the other person have a self-comforting mentality such as "one's mistakes can be remedied, and one's mistakes are not a big deal", so that the training can be profound...ahem, the lesson is deep enough.

After everyone harvested the pitiful harvest of this vegetable field, basically no one could hold their heads up; Xiao Yun nodded, and continued to the next vegetable field...

Both Chinese cabbage and green vegetables can't stand the blisters, and it's no exaggeration to describe the vegetable field as a mess.Anyway, the harvest was rotten like this, so Xiao Yun simply didn't rush any time, and brought the girls a big field to collect it, and it wouldn't be over until everyone was tossed until their hearts were ashamed...

The radish field is better, after all, it is a tuber crop, the leaves on the top are rotten and the tuber below is still alive. When they received the radish field, everyone's faces finally looked a little bit human: Xiao Yun felt "hehe", stretched He took a breath and sighed: "Oh, it seems that the salt we brought back can only be used to pickle radishes...the other two are not needed."

...Everyone is crying again.

Xiao Yun originally planned to plant another crop of vegetables, but judging by the current weather, there is no hope for the third crop... Sowing seeds in this continuous rainy day is similar to throwing seeds for fun.Fortunately, a lot of Chinese cabbage harvested in the first batch has been stored in the cellar, and the radishes harvested in the second round are enough to last until next year. The supply of vegetables is not bad.

Take one day to let the clansmen thoroughly reflect and recognize their mistakes, and from the second day onwards, they will start harvesting alfalfa in a serious manner.

Xiao Yun also didn't want to harvest alfalfa in this kind of weather with constant thunderstorms, but the alfalfa fields had fallen due to the heavy rain for many days, and if they didn't harvest them, they would have to rot, which would be a huge waste.

The harvested alfalfa should be sun-dried when the sun is shining, and the clouds in the sky are too thick, so they are quickly put away and placed vertically in a temporary canopy to avoid the rain. In terms of workload, it is really bigger than when it was harvested last time. go.

But it was such a complicated and heavy harvesting work, no one complained from the beginning to the end, and the voice of shouting tired and hungry completely disappeared-the "failure education" in the vegetable field on the previous day was too profound, as deep as that night Countless people lay down to sleep and were still sobbing, and the psychological shadow probably won't come out in the short term... Even those who went out to cook salt and didn't look after the house got red eyes the next day.

Xiao Yun looked at the situation, how could he be polite to them, and took advantage of this opportunity of being extremely honest to quickly arrange the work to be done--digging a 500-meter-long artificial river channel leading to the southern part of the river near their tribe. Inhabited areas, lead the overflowing water to the wilderness below!

This decision was made by Xiao Yun himself after he turned into a wolf in the middle of the night and ran up and down the river for a couple of times.When he discovered that the extra water source of the river in the northwest actually flowed from the jungle, he completely gave up on the matter of flooding the forest—the terrain of the entire jungle and mountains, as a whole, is relatively The grassland is higher!He wanted to release the flood to flood the forest. The most likely consequence would not be that the elves would come to him, but that damn flood would turn around and drown him... So no matter how tempted Xiao Yun was, he had no choice but to give up on this great-looking Great idea.

As for why he didn't divert water to irrigate the underground world, it was because after Xiao Yun's on-the-spot investigation, he found that at least two kilometers of artificial rivers had to be dug for this operation. Trouble, it’s better to dig out the section of your own tribe—this naturally formed tributary that flows freely along the terrain presents a not-so-standard slash line on the ground, and the middle and upper part of the slash is the closest to your own tribe In this area, developing an artificial river on the opposite side of the river and diverting the water to the uninhabited wilderness to the south is the best solution that the tribe can achieve with its current manpower and material resources.

He ran back and forth a few times at night to survey the terrain and the route to be dug. At dawn, Xiao Yun woke up everyone with a hoe and sickle, and after a casual breakfast, he dragged him to the construction site... to start work!

Thanks to the great success of "failure education", no one complained about the drudgery of digging river channels in the rain with simple tools - Xiao Yun couldn't help but wonder if he would do it again next year when he was planting vegetables , the cats who are afraid of water are obediently wading across the river to deliver food!

When Xiao Yun squeezed the labor of the clansmen to his heart's content, he ran back and forth twice to the upper reaches of the river, in the northwest region more than 80 kilometers away from the tribe, an ugly, big head, thin body, long hands and short feet, long The palm with four fingers has a faint metallic luster, and a small creature with slightly wider, sharp metal-like nails on the fingers sneaked out of the burrow.

"How about it, does it smell like that snow werewolf?"

The companion hiding in the cave asked in a low voice.

The little creature lying on the entrance of the cave stared at its big eyes without eyebrows, sniffed its flat nose and sniffed around in all directions, then crawled out numbly, turned its head and shouted in: "There is no smell of snow werewolves, He didn't come."

With a "swoosh", his companion who was as ugly as the guy who jumped out in front jumped out...

After the two little creatures jumped out, they sniffed around vigilantly for a long time before pushing the stones near the entrance of the cave and blocking the entrance of their "home".

The grasslands in the north do not have distinct rainy and dry seasons like the tropical grasslands, but in summer and autumn, the melting of snowy mountains and snow water due to rising temperatures and the greatly increased rainfall can still bring the residents of the northern grasslands a rainy season-like experience.In such a natural environment, the weak creatures on this grassland are quite adapted to rainy days - the rain will dilute their breath and reduce the probability of being discovered by predators. Some creatures even only dare to go out for food when it rains.

Goblins, an unwelcome and weak race from the underworld, are among the underdogs struggling tenaciously to survive on the grasslands.It is often difficult for them to maintain a large group, because once the grassland dwellers find a group of goblins nearby, they will drive or even kill them. If they want to continue their life on the grassland, they can only hide in the form of small families or small groups. Surviving quietly in an unknown corner of the grassland.

Areas with more rocks, denser low hills, and thinner soil layers are not good pastures, and grassland residents who graze will not come here. This hilly area sandwiched between forests and grasslands has become this The home of the tiny goblin tribe... Originally they lived in a place closer to the grassland in the east, but the snow werewolf tribe who migrated discovered them and drove them away, so they moved more than 20 kilometers westward to This hilly area closer to the forest settled down.

Goblins can't raise livestock, and they can't farm like tauren. They can't expose traces of life on the surface, which will bring catastrophic disaster to their group... So, even if they live in one place for a long time, they can The only sources of living materials that they rely on are collecting plant roots, snatching wild fruits from under the bird's beak, and hunting smaller creatures.

Two adult goblins, who were responsible for finding food for their people, cautiously entered the outskirts of the forest, climbed up the tree with their claws and palms that were harder than metal, and only started after confirming that there were no large beasts wandering around. Their hunting behavior - they found long, barbed thorns, took the thorns upside down, poked them into the hole dug by the rabbit, and slowly dug them out; If there is rabbit fur in the burrow, they will happily drag out the thorns and break the rabbit's neck with their hard and powerful palms.

There are not always rabbits in the rabbit hole, but there will always be gains if you try more.After digging through the rabbit holes that can be found around once, they started to climb trees and knock on dead wood trunks. The wild fruits and berries left by the birds and the fat bugs hidden in the bark are their food sources. If they can occasionally If a bird's egg is found, it must be carefully packed in the bag made of bark hanging on their waist.

Leaving the safe burrows and nests to forage on the surface is dangerous work, so those responsible for foraging are always given some preferential treatment. Grasshoppers, dragonflies, cicadas and other edible insects that are not too much are just The small snacks that belong to them can be eaten directly without taking them back after catching them.

Goblins have a very wide range of recipes. They eat all edible wild vegetables and wild things, as long as they can get their hands on it.In the forest with frequent bird activities, they could even find wild taro and wild ginger that Xiao Yun hadn't found before...

Before the rain stopped, the two goblins returned to the burrow dug by their pack with a bountiful harvest.

The entrance is small, the diameter is less than 30 centimeters, and the cave can only accommodate adult goblins. The deepest part reaches [-] meters underground, and the widest room can accommodate snow werewolves in wolf form to roll and play... But the air is not very good and the environment It is also relatively dirty, and the little goblins hiding in the cave are like coal balls.

They don't have clay pots that can cook food, but eating raw food for a long time is not good for health. Goblins live in a difficult situation. The living environment under high pressure does not allow them to be stupid, so they also have their own way of heating food—their The burrow will dig out a passage specially used for making fire. This passage is far away from where they live. In case of danger, the passage can be collapsed to ensure safety; the end of this passage will be dug to the ground with larger stones , or a place close to the mountain, leave a gap for ventilation above, light a fire in it, and heat specially selected stones—smooth stones with high mass density and no holes—after the stones are heated , Pick it up with wooden sticks, put it in the big stone with the concave surface dug out, put water and food into the concave surface of the stone surface, and cook the food with the hot stone.

The goblins will not leave the burrow if they are full...the surface world is too dangerous for them when it is not raining, let alone wandering monsters, larger beasts can drive them to the sky without a way out Nowhere.

"Today, I went to look around the pasture of the Snow Werewolves. The grass over there is very rich, just like before the Snow Werewolves came. Are they not coming here to graze, and don't want the pastures here?"

The oldest goblin in the small group spoke.

The adult goblin who went out to find food immediately shook his head: "Didn't the snow werewolves come up to see it a few days ago? Maybe they just didn't graze before, maybe they will come up in this time."

"That snow werewolf didn't go to the pasture at all, they must have given up on the pasture here." Another adult goblin sighed: "The snow werewolf didn't come to graze, and there are a lot more wild animals around...these few months , none of their fighters are patrolling here."

"It's always easier to avoid wild beasts than to avoid snow werewolves. When they are grazing in the nearby pasture, we can't go out to look for food even if it's raining."

"At least the Snow Werewolves found out that we were just driving them away, so we can pretend to leave and come back secretly. If we are discovered by wild beasts, we will lose our lives."

"Needless to say, how many clansmen did we lose before they came? After they came, those monsters and wild beasts were driven away by them. Even though we have to be hungry for a while when they are grazing, it is always safer at other times. The old goblin sighed and said, "If the people who came up to the earth before us didn't steal the cattle and sheep that others grazed, we wouldn't be so disgusted by the grassland people... We won't be found if we pick up some cow dung quietly. How could it be possible to not be discovered if you stole other people’s cattle and sheep.”

The only three adult goblins left in this small tribe sighed at the same time...

"If the snow werewolf tribe moves away... shall we secretly follow them?" The goblin who lamented the increase in wild beasts suggested, "there are very few snow werewolves in this tribe. If we are careful, we won't be discovered by them. Otherwise If there are more beasts around here, it will be difficult for us to go up and find food."

"That's too dangerous." Another person immediately retorted, "They just drove us away before. If they found us following them, would they kill us directly?"

...The three of them shuddered at the same time, the Snow Werewolf is really scary!When they were secretly observing, they saw the single snow werewolf warrior tearing up a terrifying big wild boar with his own hands. It was really terrifying!

"Otherwise, let's go to the south to see if the tribe of the Snow Werewolf is still there? Whether they want to move or don't want the grassland here, we'll know after a quick look." The old goblin thought about it, and said, "Although It's a bit risky, but it's safer to live near the snow werewolves. We hide underground, and it's fine not to go to the ground when the snow werewolves are active."

The two adult goblins thought for a while and nodded in agreement - after the snow werewolf came a few nights ago, they couldn't even smell the smell of wild animals when they went up for food these days.Although it is a little heartbeat, it is indeed much safer to survive around the tribe of snow werewolves than in an environment surrounded by wild beasts.

On the same day, there was another shower of rain on the grassland, and two adult goblins got out of the burrow again and worked hard to gather and hunt a lot of food.At dawn the next day, when the sky began to rain, the two adult goblins took a small amount of food, bid farewell to the clansmen, and quietly followed the path of the snow werewolf who ran up at midnight.

The rain dilutes their scent, and when the rain stops, they hide in tree hollows.Relying on the cover of rain, they ran the 80-kilometer journey in three days and came to the area where the snow werewolves are active.

Goblins have a keen sense of smell and the top-notch perception ability that is necessary for weak creatures to survive. Once they enter the snow werewolf's activity zone, they feel different... There are almost no traces of wild beasts around, except for the chirping of insects and birds. No animal roars can be heard at all-this is very rare on the grassland, especially at night when predator activity is at its peak.

Of course...the faint, vague aura of the snow werewolf was also very frightening. Before seeing the tribe of the snow werewolf, the two goblins almost went home in fright.

"what?"

Hongye, who was sweating profusely on the construction site of the artificial river, suddenly straightened up and looked towards the northwest with a suspicious expression.

"Did you smell it too? Is there a stench like a beast but not quite like it?" Ashan wiped his sweat with a hoe.

"I always feel that I have smelled this disgusting smell somewhere." Hongye sniffed, not sure.

Drenched in sweat, Xiao Yun put down the rattan and grass baskets in his hand for transporting earth and rocks, and looked over in surprise: "No, there are things that even you all think smelly?"

Ah Shan didn't respond, Hongye was very upset: "I'm very, very clean now!" She thought she couldn't understand Ah Yun's dislike for their lack of hygiene!

"I didn't say anything." Xiao Yun pretended to be innocent, and immediately changed the subject, "Is the source of the smell dangerous, or should I drive it away personally?"

"I should have smelled this smell somewhere... It's strange, but I can't remember." Hongye shook the mud off her hand, "Ah Shan and I went to have a look. I don't think we need to bring a bow back. It's not a dangerous creature."

"Go and come back quickly." Xiao Yun waved his hand, he wasn't worried about the combat effectiveness of these two people at all, he was only worried that they were wasting too much time and delaying the construction period.

Ah Shan just nodded stupidly, and Hongye turned her head to look again very unhappy: "I won't take this opportunity to be lazy!"

Xiao Yun: "..." Is it too much pressure or something, Hongye's IQ, EQ, and comprehension skills have grown too fast!

Looking at Uncle Ashan who was still unresponsive, Xiao Yun felt that the pressure was not enough...

The author has something to say: I think that since goblins rely on burrows to survive, they should be good at burrowing without the aid of tools, so they should have claws similar to pangolins, so that they can dig through rock layers The capital cannot be the shape of long palms in Japanese RPG or American games.

As an extremely weak species, it can still maintain the continuation of the race. In addition to the ability to reproduce, it should also have the survival instinct to avoid danger and the intelligence within the standard range.Otherwise, such a disgusting species would have been wiped out long ago.

As for the feature of taking advantage of the sheep, it is a permanent feature~