Wolf King

On the first night when she came to the Huoyan Tribe, the grassroots patriarch thought that she would think about a lot of things and be too nervous to fall asleep, but the truth is... When she lay on the kang that was still warm after the stove was turned off after nightfall, she only thought about it. After eating the delicious lamb bone soup for dinner, I fell asleep.

No matter how hard the Snow Werewolf is, he is not made of iron. The grassroots patriarch who is over [-] years old led his tribe to drive all day and night, and worked hard to make food for a hundred people. It is strange that he still has the energy to think about it. ...

In his sleep, he didn't know the passage of time, and the grassroots patriarch, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly awakened by the ear-piercing sound of brain-piercing monsters. He sat up in panic with his eyelids open, only to see... the other people sleeping in the same room were not as panicked as he was, but rather All of them calmly yawned and got off the kang, and the Huoyan patriarch who was sleeping next to her talked to her in a very natural manner: "Thanks to having you here, I didn't have to be woken up again in the middle of the night last night. I slept well today." Much more comfortable."

Grassroots patriarch: "...??"

The grassroots patriarch with a blank face followed the Huoyan patriarch to go out. The bonfire built with stones in the outer square was already burning. Five large iron pots were lined up. Scoop food there.

"Come on, grassroots patriarch, eat a bowl of it to refresh your morning work."

Patriarch Huoyan took two bowls and handed over one of them.The grassroots patriarch took a look and saw that the bowl contained the soup that he had eaten last night. There were a lot of enoki mushrooms, radishes and green vegetables, and there were still a lot of settled noodles at the bottom of the bowl.

"In the past, there were few people, and you could eat wheat cakes in the morning. Now there are so many people, it's too late to make wheat cakes, so everyone makes do with noodle soup." Explain, others are fine, the grassroots patriarchs who came after this group felt a little guilty, and honestly bowed their heads and drank the noodle soup.Not to mention, the noodles boiled in reused mutton bone soup are really delicious, but the portion is a bit small, and I always feel more than enough.

The grass-roots patriarch snorted clean the noodle soup a few times and licked the bowl, and the rabbit man came up to collect the pottery bowl.Reluctantly handing the pottery bowl to the rabbit cat, the grassroots patriarch turned to look at the Huoyan patriarch, waiting for him to speak to arrange work, but unexpectedly... The Huoyan patriarch waved at her and walked outside. There was no work arrangement at all. Meaning; the grassroots patriarch was startled, and quickly looked at the others, only to see... his clansmen had been yelled to take them out, and even Yu was one of the leaders.

"No need to arrange work? Or has it already been arranged? When I don't know?" The grassroots patriarch instinctively felt uneasy, and all the people in the square were taken out by her dazed kung fu, leaving only the rabbit mantle Cleaning the battlefield there, she had no choice but to follow in the footsteps of Patriarch Huoyan.

The two patriarchs went straight to the sheepfold one after the other. Patriarch Huoyan picked a ram and pulled it out, and introduced his experience to the new grass-roots patriarch: "We don't need to keep so many rams in the sheep flock now. The unmarked rams have been screened by the mantles and can be killed and eaten. The cattle and sheep you brought are now locked up at the other end, and they haven’t been screened yet, so they can’t be killed yet, and we can eat what can be killed here.”

The grassroots patriarch was stunned when he heard it. When will the snow werewolves eat sheep or not?

Patriarch Huoyan pulled off the fleece of the ram that was miserably eliminated and showed her: "It's the wool on the sheep's body. The inner layer of fluff that grows well and grows much is reserved for breeding sheep, and the ones with less fluff are brought in. eat."

Grassroots patriarch: "...??"

Bringing the ram back to the tribe, Huoyan motioned to the grassroots to help him hold the sheep down. He placed an open clay pot under the sheep's neck, and cut the throat with a gleaming iron weapon; While licking his lips, he happily explained to the grassroots: "Add some salt to the blood of the sheep. After it is solidified, cut it into blood clots and boil it in the sheep bone soup. It tastes better than haggis. Unfortunately, there is not much blood from a sheep. You can eat a little bit when you kill the sheep."

Grassroots: "..."

"Sheep blood and haggis are given priority to our seniors and cubs. Although they are small, they are still available. Don't worry." Huo Yan thought she was worried that there would be no food.

Grassroots: "..."

The ram has been slaughtered here, while the rabbit mantle has already fired up two large stoves and set up an iron pan.Huo Yan carried the goat's blood to add salt, and several adult cat cats worked together to carry out an iron pot filled with hot water.

No matter what the grassroots said, they couldn't watch the catkins, who were only as tall as her chest, doing heavy work, so they hurried over to help carry the iron pot; the catkins smiled at her, and drew out their gleaming fine iron blades, skillfully Open the intestines of the sheep, take out the haggis and wash them with hot water, peel the skin, cut off the sheep fat, cut off the thicker fat layer on the sheep's stomach, and sort the wool on the sheep's skin... The grassroots are dazzled by the operation. Showing a shocked expression of "there are so many tricks to slaughter a sheep".

When the mantles struggled to split the ram into two pieces, the grassroots rushed to help... The mantle's strength was not enough for an adult snow werewolf.

The mutton was divided into two halves, carried by two mantles to the lower reaches of the canal for soaking, and the rest of the mantles washed the haggis and put it in the pot, and then went out to do other things together.Grassroots is again the same as yesterday, fighting with Huoyan against more than 200 catties of flour...

Once raw and cooked twice, the efficiency of making wheat cake grass roots has improved a lot this time. Of course, it is still very tiring... After putting the extra-large wheat cakes into the steamer, the grass roots leaned on the wall to rest, and turned their attention to the dry filling. A clean pottery basin, thoughtful.

The weight of an adult ram is about 90 kilograms. After removing the hair and bones, the meat obtained is only about [-] kilograms. This amount of meat is only enough for two meals even for members of the tribe, but it is wrapped with sliced ​​mutton. When made into wheat cakes, half a piece of sheep can pack enough wheat cakes for two meals, and these wheat cakes are enough to fill the stomachs of NO. No wonder the Huoyan Tribe has the confidence to keep sheep in captivity and slaughter excess rams. Their meat consumption has been reduced a lot.

"As long as their fields can continue to produce food, they really don't have to worry about starving. No wonder... no wonder the Huoyan tribe is determined to learn tauren farming, abandoning the grazing habits of our snow werewolf tribe for many years."

Grassroots could not help but look sideways at Huoyan, who was squatting in front of the big stove and adding black stones. As the patriarch, she both admired and admired the courage of Huoyan patriarch. She didn't have the guts to try the food—if farming failed, the future of the whole family would be ruined in her own hands.

Patriarch Huoyan finished adding the black stone seriously, took two thin swords that acted as tongs and pulled it down in the stove, suddenly smiled, and pulled out a piece of vine root that was scorched on the surface from the flue opening of the heated kang.

"Ha, I don't know which glutton secretly hid here and roasted it. I discovered it~" Huoyan patriarch excitedly blew a few breaths, used his claws to pierce the bulging skin from the roots of the vines, and caught the roasted meat hidden inside. The ripe, fragrant fat worm stuffed into his mouth happily, "Well...it smells so good, grassroots patriarch, would you like some too?"

Grass root: "..." Shaking his head numbly.

"Then I'll eat the spicy food by myself~ Mmm, add some salt~"

Grassroots: "..."

When I went back to pick up Flammulina velutipes from the shed where the materials were piled up, Grassroot ran into a human being taken in by the Huoyan Tribe.This human being was about the same size as the cubs, but thinner than the cubs. In the weather when the snow wolves were shirtless, he wore neat cloth clothes. Bundles of Flammulina velutipes wrapped in straw are stacked on the ground.

"Sal? Why did you move it by yourself again and asked someone else to help you!" Huo Yan yelled at the human reproachfully. The tribe's enoki mushrooms are all supplied by him. What if this fragile human is exhausted? .

"I'll just come by myself, patriarch." Thrall shook his head with a smile, he wouldn't let others approach his mushroom house.He nodded at the grass root as a compliment, and immediately ran out in a hurry.

"That's the human who grew Flammulina velutipes?" Grassroots looked at Sal's back curiously.

"Yes. He has become more and more eccentric since he started growing enoki mushrooms. He used to be willing to deal with the cubs, but now he rarely leaves his mushroom house. By the way, the two rooms next to each other behind the mobile home It's his mushroom house, so it's best not to get close to it." Huo Yan picked up the enoki mushroom that had been placed for a long time and the roots were a little yellow, and warned towards the grass roots.

Grass Root was nodding, when he suddenly heard the out-of-control roar of the human being outside, and the fluff on his ears stood up in shock: "This, this is?"

"The cub of the mantle ran over to take a peek again." Huo Yan didn't take it seriously, "That's why I said that Sal is getting weirder... A Yun said that the mushroom house is very important, but he didn't say it was so important. Not to be approached."

"Ayun?" Caogen remembered that Yu had mentioned the cub's name several times.

"I really want to eat fried pine nuts. It's also the season for pine nuts. Alas, I must go and get some pine nuts when I have time." Huo Yan murmured and walked out holding Flammulina velutipes.

Grassroots: "..." Why does she always feel that patriarch Huoyan is different from what she thinks, and always feels that he is weird!What the hell is wrong!

After the wheat cakes were steamed, there was some time to rest, and without hesitation, Patriarch Huoyan walked to the activity room where the cubs lived, and yelled as soon as he entered the door: "Who has delicious food there?"

The grassroots who followed: "..."

Seeing the situation inside the prefab room, Grassroots was startled. The room was full of slightly yellowed wool, and four male cat cubs were staying in it, using a weird tool to weave the wool into thread.

Grassroots has been to the tauren tribe and seen the tauren spinning flax, but she has never seen wool can be processed into thread, and the eyes of these mantles are suddenly different. In her eyes, the back of patriarch Huoyan It is also getting taller—no wonder they have taken in so many mantles, except for the waterwheel Yu mentioned, this ability to spin wool into threads is enough to protect these mantles.

"Ayun gave us some fruits, and there are still a few left." A cub of the manulus took out a small bag made of bark (provided by the goblin) from the pile of wool, and there were still a few red wild animals in it. fruit.

"Only this? Ayun didn't give you anything else?" The patriarch didn't give up. He didn't like this kind of wild fruit that he liked very much before. The radish grown at home is much more delicious than most wild fruits. Eating too much makes you hungry easily.

"No more." The rabbit cubs shook their heads, Ayun would like to give them something delicious, but Ayun is not very busy now.

Patriarch Huoyan dejectedly... distributed the sour radish slices he collected to the cubs, and went back to guard the stove in desperation.Vinegar is needed to soak sour radishes. After sowing black beans in the tribe, there is no need to eat bean sprouts. Naturally, there will be no beans to make vinegar... The existing vinegar is used to process wool, and sour radish soaked is pitifully small.

Grassroots: "..."

"Clan Chief Huoyan, I don't think you seem to be short of food." Grassroots couldn't hold back anymore.

"There is no shortage... I could find quite a few when I was working outside. If you want to come, Ah Yun will ask me to come back and take you to be responsible for making food. Trapped in the tribe." Huoyan patriarch sighed, and looked at the grass roots sadly... Autumn is full of food in the wild, when did he lack snacks, and he is as greedy as a horn now, isn't it all forced .

"...You mean, you're responsible for the food because we're here?" Huoyan didn't care about the shock and said that the job was easy, and she wasn't shocked enough at this moment.

"Yes, before the mantles could make food."

Grass root: "..." No wonder those rabbit cats clean up the mutton so neatly, wait, why do you feel something is wrong, "Aren't you the one who arranges the work in the tribe, Patriarch Huoyan?"

In the end, Huo Yan was even more shocked than she: "What are you talking about, I'm not Ah Yun."

"Ayun?" The grass roots didn't understand.

"Ayun, Mao Mao...hasn't Yu told you the job in our tribe?" Huo Yan was surprised.

"..." Grass root thought for a while, and it seemed that Yu had really said it... But at that time, all she was thinking about was whether all the clansmen moved here would be disgusted by the Huoyan Tribe, and she didn't take it to heart.

"Then why do you and I have to be in charge of cooking the food just because we're here?" Grassroots couldn't figure it out.

Patriarch Huoyan put on the innocent blank face that made Xiao Yun vomit blood countless times, how did he know!

The bewildered grass roots squatted at the door and put their heads in their hands. It was so strange, the Huoyan Tribe was so strange!Nothing could be compared with her experience and what she heard from the deceased elders—not to mention the snow werewolves, and the Tauren tribe headed by sages had never heard of letting cubs arrange the tribe Big deal!

She was doubting her life, but she saw a group of snow werewolf cubs and a few goblins dragging a lot of stones into the tribe with vine grass trawl nets...

Grassroots suspected that his eyes were dazzled, so he closed his eyes and looked again. What these cubs and goblins dragged back were indeed stones, gray-white stones, no matter how they looked, they were stones.

The cub who walked in the front seemed to be very happy, as excited as if he had hit the fattest wild boar. Seeing the grass roots squatting at the door of the main room, he greeted her enthusiastically: "The patriarch of the grass roots!"

Grass root nodded in response, this is not a cub of her tribe, she can't recognize it.

The cub brimming with joy asked the other cubs and goblins to put down the stone, entered the activity room and said something to the opposite side, and the cubs came out with wool and weaving tools, sat on the square and continued. spinning thread.

Grassroots: "??"

The cubs who commanded the crowd asked people to send those stones to the strange soil bag (pottery kiln) on the other side of the mobile room, and moved a lot of black stones into the mobile room. It didn't take long for the grass roots squatting in the main room to see Black smoke was belching from the chimney above the mound.

The grass-roots patriarch was really curious... She simply walked over and walked around the weird dirt bag, and then ran to the door of the mobile room to look inside, and then she discovered a fact that shocked her: this The cubs are actually burning stones in a serious manner!

"Huh?" Xiao Yun turned his head, and the door of the prefab room was empty.The grassroots patriarch had already staggered back to guard the stove, but he didn't see it.

"Ah Yun, what's the use of burning stones like this?" Wool girl asked curiously.

"The effect is great!" Xiao Yun said that his desire was strong, and if he won 500 million, he didn't hurry to share with others the difference between that and nothing. He immediately raised the small gray-white limestone in his hand...

This stone is exactly the same as ordinary stones, there is no difference, anyway, Xiao Yun didn't recognize it at all at first.It wasn't until I accidentally stepped on a piece and found that the hardness of this thing was extremely low, that I thought of limestone-limestone is a sedimentary rock with low density and low hardness. The surface may have a clastic structure or a grain structure, so it is harder It is not difficult to break the limestone with a wooden stick.

"This kind of stone is called limestone. It is calcined at a high temperature of about 1000 degrees, which is similar to the temperature of burning bricks, and then it turns into a white solid, which is quicklime. Quicklime is made into soil cement, which is better than the one we used to bond mud bricks. Black mud mixed with yellow mud is easy to use, and it is countless times easier to use!"

"This kind of stone is gypsum." Xiao Yun held up another piece of gypsum stone. Compared with limestone, which is easy to miss, gypsum stone is much more obvious. It is colorless and translucent, with a little gray and yellow variegated colors, and the section has a shell shape. Monoclinic crystal features, with a slight pearly luster, "This one doesn't need to be calcined in a kiln, it can be used after being buried in the soil with a firewood, and the stone core will change color. It can be used to make new cement."

Wool put on an upright face that I didn't understand and said, "Isn't the soil cement used before very good, so it takes so much trouble to burn stones?"

"Hey, who told you that this is troublesome, think about it carefully, the soil cement used in the past had to dig a lot of yellow clay, pick up swamp mud, cut reed stalks, cut them into sections, add water and trample them, it was a waste of time. How much worse is the strength compared to bringing this kind of stone back and burning it?" Xiao Yun cast a winking look at the blind man, and was very angry, "And the new cement is more durable than the old one, and it will not be broken by water bubbles. Bricks can also be used as an adhesive or pasted on a wall, and they are more solid and reliable, which is really good in heaven and earth!"

"Hmm... It seems reasonable to say that. It's always troublesome to deal with the reeds." Wool ignored the second half and only listened to the first half, "But we obviously went to help transport the stone mill, and you found it for us again." The work of moving stones... Oops!"

Xiao Yun couldn't laugh, he curled up his fingers and flicked the wool on his forehead——Okay, don't learn to be lazy and learn to be lazy with Dahe!

In order to find suitable stones that can be used to make hydraulic stone mills, the three goblins dug up the short hill where the stones were taken from. Thanks to the obedience of the goblins, Xiao Yun accidentally discovered that there are limestone and gypsum so close to the tribe... …These two kinds of rock mines are originally extremely extensive rocks, but if you didn’t dig into the rock layers in that place, you wouldn’t be able to find them, would you?

After the lesson was over, Xiao Yun looked at the three goblins again and found them pleasing to the eye. Why didn't he think that these little creatures were cute before~

Old Samana & Baron & Gal: "..." What's going on, Ayun's eyes are weird, a little frightened...

It takes a lot of limestone to put it into use. Xiao Yun is also ambitious to paste the river embankment built with mud and cement, and the dug canal should also be reworked... Well, there is no rush now Say it so as not to scare the tribe, first finish the project in the tribe.

There are limestone and gypsum. Calcining relatively primitive cement to make cement bricks is definitely more convenient and quicker than making mud bricks and then firing them. It saves time and effort. When the lunch tribe came back for dinner, Xiao Yun stopped the brick making work and turned Dahe All the brick-making teams he led were called back to participate in the cement project.

The nine goblins, old and young, were all mobilized to dig out the limestone. Dahe and other first-class laborers divided half of them to drag the stones, and the other half and Xiao Yun built a kiln specially used for calcination of cement. There is no technical content in burning limestone into quicklime. In other words, the simplest vertical kiln and the primitive kiln that burns firewood directly under the kiln can be fired.

A row of ten vertical kilns with a diameter of [-] meters and a height of half a person and a structure similar to a fire stove were built outside the tribe without occupying the ground of the square. The semi-concave hole is used to add coal as fuel.

The proportion of limestone in brick-making cement can be slightly reduced, [-]% of limestone (limestone should account for more than [-]% when used as a binder), and [-]% of clay blocks (yellow clay is fine, if not, ordinary soil blocks are fine) from The top opening is plugged into the vertical kiln, and the red coal taken out of the large stove is put into the lower fuel port to be fired directly. If there is no coal, it can be fired with firewood...

The temperature in the kiln rises to 1100 degrees, the input limestone raw material gradually enters the molten state, sinters the clinker, turns off the fire, and takes out the soil clods and quicklime after the kiln cools... At this time, the lime has become a white block, brittle, It can be smashed by hand.

The burned quicklime and clods are crushed with wooden sticks, mixed with about 3% gypsum (gypsum stone can be matured at a temperature of only 200 degrees, and you can do whatever you want), and ground with stones (an additional product when making stone mills) ) back and forth, and grind it into powder as much as possible, and it becomes soil cement that can be put into use immediately; add coal slag (residue after coal combustion), add gravel, sand, and mix it with water to use... Strength The performance and various indicators are definitely not comparable to modern cement, but cement is cement, and it is king if it can be used.

Take relatively fine sand from the river bank, mix it according to the ratio of sand 2 soil cement 1, add water to adjust, fill it into the brick mold, use a wooden stick to poke the cement sand in the brick mold tightly to ensure that there is no air inside, and then put Carefully lift up the brick mold without damaging the shape of the cement brick embryo, and place it in the open air for 24 hours—fresh cement bricks, out of the oven!

No need to add any cut reed stalks, no need to wait for several days to dry in the shade, no need to open a kiln!It's that simple and rude!

Cement, even if it is crude cement that is so rough in processing and so primitive that all civil engineering students cry, is also a magic weapon for construction!

In just three days, eight of the ten original shaft kilns that had been burning for three days and nights were burnt out... When these shaft kilns that had undertaken historical missions could finally stop to rest, the place that was originally used for stacking fodder in the northwest outside the tribe There are neat rows of blue-gray cement bricks; Xiao Yun stands in front of the burnt-out shaft kiln, facing the cement bricks with his hips akimbo, as if they are in a military parade, feeling very relaxed and happy—creation is really a beautiful thing thing!The sweat you put in is sweet at the moment of reading and harvesting!

"Did you see, everyone, these are not cement bricks, these are houses!"

Xiao Yun seems to have returned to the time when he was appreciated by his boss and promoted to management in the third year after graduation from university. Infinite energy was continuously born from the depths of his soul. It would be no problem to add another ten and a half months of classes right away—but what? No one could understand his surging emotions. When he turned his head, the Dahe brick-making team had already been strewn with corpses...

Dahe propped up his upper body tremblingly, and raised his heavy eyelids with difficulty: "Ah Yun... can we sleep..."

"...Sleep." Xiao Yun said dully.

With the last of his strength, Dahe threw his body to the side, pressed his head on the horned belly, and fell asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.

"Just sleep here? You don't think it's dirty!" Xiao Yun said dissatisfiedly, what's the matter with directly pouring it on the cement mixing place, it's not like that if he's not afraid of catching a cold.

...But these guys are all as dirty as clay figurines now, and Xiao Yun doesn't really want to move them back...just forget it.He was also very tired, and he didn't close his eyes when the brick-making team worked day and night.

Bypassing this group of careless fellows, Xiao Yun yawned and stared into the tribe with bloodshot eyes. He just relied on his perseverance to walk through the square at the center of the tribe and into the bathroom to wash off the plaster on his body. Only then did he stagger into the activity room and fell asleep.

The cubs in the spinning line looked back at A Yun who had fallen dead, and thoughtfully took the woven blanket to cover his stomach.

The two patriarchs who came back from washing vegetables silently looked towards the direction of the prefab room, and then turned their heads to look outside the tribe, where the corpses of the tribe could be seen in outline.

"Look, I said that it's very easy for us to be in charge of making food." Patriarch Huoyan said solemnly.

Grassroots patriarch: "..."