Wolf King

Before the remnant snow on the land cleared away, the tribe of the Snow Werewolf launched a vigorous campaign to cultivate land and open up wasteland.

Dozens of one-ton pure iron triangular share plows pulled out deep plow lines on the land on the south bank of the river, and the refined steel coulters, which were cast after thousands of hammerings, penetrated deeply into the hard soil layer due to the weight of the plow behind it. , when the plow body is pulled, the rough and burnt soil layer is planed up and overturned by the neatly arranged coulters, and the withered, yellow and black surface is dragged along with the plow body, as if it has been painted with a paintbrush. into a uniform deep black.

A strong bent-horned ox can drag a heavy plow, and so can a wolf-shaped snow werewolf. Large areas of ground that have been thrown away for many years are turned over, clods of soil and weeds are cut and broken, and insects hidden in the soil layer Eggs and grass seeds are also ruthlessly turned out to be baptized by the cold wind in late winter and early spring.

"If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools." Standing on the bank of the river, Xiao Yun looked around the wasteland reclamation site with less labor input and higher efficiency than last year, " If you can’t point out the tractor technology tree, it’s a good idea to make a plow, and looking at the situation, our manpower is more than enough to drive out this piece of land.”

Before the burning, everyone had picked up the rocks on the surface of Guolu on the South Bank, and now they are all piled up on the river bank. The grassroots patriarch sat on the ground panting, wiped his sweat and said: "But we don't have enough soil and fertilizer. There is no way to sprinkle as much fertilizer as the original fields."

"It doesn't matter, even if you plant extensively and have little harvest, you won't lose much. Plow the land well, add basal fertilizer, and repair the canals that need to be repaired, and the rest will follow the fate." Xiao Yun said.With such good black land and such convenient water resources, even if there is no way to cultivate intensively, the yield of 1500 catties of alfalfa per mu can always be obtained, and soybeans cannot be lower than last year.Alfalfa and soybeans themselves can fertilize the fields. After one or two years of planting, the raw land will become ripe. At that time, whether it is necessary to grow wheat or divert water to cultivate paddy fields, it will not lose money.

The adult snow werewolf dragged the plow with the horned oxen or went up to drag the plow by himself, and the cubs followed behind to pick up the gravel. The gray dwarves also came and stood by on the scene. If there was a problem with the plow, they could go Pre-repair... After all, the plow body and hand-cast coulters cast by "small workshops" cannot be expected for standardization and precision. The five coulters lined up on a mould-type plow are very Maybe the screws have to be divided into several numbers...

The group who were squatting on the bank of the river to rest were relieved and went off to replace their clansmen one after another. Hongye turned into a wolf and jumped over, replacing the bull horns sticking out her tongue.

There is no division of labor during busy farming hours, all those who have the labor force have to contribute, even the four earthworm raisers at Grassroots have to come and take turns, and Niujiao naturally has to leave his beloved kitchen.

Not all the ground on the south bank is very flat. When the area close to the river is in full swing to open up wasteland, on the other side, Languo's engineering team is also working hard with the gray dwarves to level the hills of varying heights and fill the water rushing out. gully.

The goblins and cats couldn't help with this kind of heavy physical labor, so they assumed the responsibility of cooking and delivering meals for the tribe. When the time came, the group of little guys with an average height of 1.4 meters would work together to carry the iron pot and pottery bowl , Across the simple wooden bridge built by the wood, the food was delivered.

With the labor experience accumulated last year, this year's land reclamation work has been quite smooth on the whole. The most troublesome thing is that when the plow was carried across the river, it was found that the wooden bridge built last year could not support it, so the snow wolf People carry plowed rivers...

It took half a month to open a total of 320 fields (about 3200 acres) on the south bank. The remaining snow completely melted, and the weeds in the field also sprouted crisp and tender shoots—even if there is no calendar, the solar terms cannot be distinguished. With a temperature of more than ten degrees, we also know that spring plowing will officially start.

Alfalfa needs to be sown early. Last year Xiao Yun left three large fields ([-] acres) of alfalfa to grow until flowering and fruiting. The dwarves applied the base manure, and the sowing work was done by the hare and gray dwarves. The snow werewolf once again took the heavy plow back to the north bank, and deeply plowed the field that had been planted here for a year.

Xiao Yun kept counting the fields on the north shore and estimating the seeds. He took time out of his busy schedule to find Hongye and Ashan and explain to them that they went to the Tauren tribe to ask for rice seeds.

"We exchange pottery with them, and we don't need a lot of seeds, just a hundred acres of rice seeds will do."

Handing over the two sets of painted pottery bowls, pottery cups and pots that he drew when he had free time in winter, Xiao Yun reminded him: "Remember to ask the tauren about the details of planting rice, the more detailed the better, and come back after memorizing... I know how to grow wheat, but I don’t know how to grow rice. Also, by the way, I would like to ask if the tauren can kill the pests in the field without harming the crops. If the tauren has a way to kill insects, I will also ask them Please teach me, if you can learn it, you can learn it."

Hongye nodded, she couldn't count on Ah Shan for this matter, she had to work hard.

Xiao Yun thought for a while, and then said: "If you need it, you can find the wife of the tauren sage Saladin, Qin, and teach her to use alkaline water extracted from plant ash to leaven dough..."

Hongye blinked her eyes, and said blissfully: "If the tauren is in a difficult situation, then don't get entangled with their patriarch and sage, and go find Qin."

Xiao Yun showed his thumb. As expected of Hongye, her comprehension is quite good!

After sending Hongye and Ashan away, Xiao Yun continued to devote himself to endless busy work—Lan Guo being able to stand alone did relieve him a lot of pressure, but now that the tribe has more troubles, he is still busier than last year.

Hongye and Ashan traveled lightly, and brought the rice seeds back in half a month... Among them, Hongye squatted in the Tauren tribe for five full days in order to memorize the tauren rice seed planting techniques.Also brought back at the same time is the tauren's pest control technology - a vine plant that looks similar to the commonly used vine grass, but has a circular pattern of the same color on the skin, and blooms small yellow flowers in spring, summer and autumn.

"Qin said this is called snake vine. Collect the petals of this snake vine, dry it, grind it into powder and soak it in water, soak a small handful of it in a large bucket of water, and spray it on the field to get rid of some insects." Half a pot of soup, and she quickly poured out what she remembered when she was relieved." Saladin said that rice seeds should be sown later than wheat, and they should be planted when the weather is warm. When I was young, I chose a field as a seedbed to raise seedlings... I had to catch frogs in the rice fields, and I had to go to places with tidal flats to find a kind of dusty, ugly bird with a round and flat beak, and raise them in the rice fields... ..."

Xiao Yun hurriedly took a charcoal pen to write down Hong Ye's hard-working experience. The more he memorized it, the more he felt that something was wrong—why did it sound so familiar?Could the tauren and the Chinese be interplanetary relatives?

Hongye talked for more than half an hour and poured out the knowledge she had memorized for five days, and her whole body suddenly seemed to collapse, and she had to rely on Ah Shan to barely sit upright.

Xiao Yun put away the cloth scroll that recorded his experience, and turned back to look at the snake vine: "Did Qin tell me where to find this kind of vine in the past?"

Before Hongye could speak, Ah Shan said, "When we went to the seaside to cook salt, we met on the way, that is, the place where the water soaked up the woods, and the water surface was still beautiful. There is a big area around it. !"

Xiao Yun didn't react for a while.

Hongye straightened her arms to support her body: "I said that Ayun doesn't remember either, we all don't remember seeing this kind of snake vine."

"Really, Ah Yue still caught snakes there, and Ah Yun roasted the snake meat for us to eat that night!" Ah Shan patted his thigh anxiously.

Xiao Yun only vaguely remembered this when he heard the snake meat. He remembered that there was a big yellow flower where Ah Yue caught the snake. At that time, he looked at it and found that it was not a chrysanthemum or a rapeseed flower, so he ignored it... Now let's go Thinking about it, I can't remember whether the yellow flower was lying on the vine or growing into a clump.

"Uncle, do you really remember? The yellow flowers there grow on this snake vine?"

"Oh, it's the flower that grows on the vine, exactly the same as this one!" Ah Shan was very angry, and slapped his thigh again.

Xiao Yun and Hongye looked at each other, and then looked at A Shan, both of them looked very weird... A Shan must not be a person who can talk nonsense, but he remembered the present just by taking a quick glance, why is it so unbelievable? !

"Hmm...uncle, do you remember the rice planting experience that Saladin taught Hongye?" Xiao Yun tried to ask.

"How can I remember it for so long!" Ah Shan said confidently.

"Uh... shall the rice seeds be sown earlier or later than the wheat?" Xiao Yun pretended to ask Hongye, looking at Ah Shan.

"Sow late." Ashan said, "Sow rice seeds when the weather is warm, and dry the seeds before planting, pick out the ones that are not full, and choose the seedbed for seedlings in a place with good sunlight..." He thundered and barra Dui, some parts were recounted in more detail than Hongye. After speaking, he looked at Hongye, "Did Saladin say that at the time?"

Hongye looked at him blankly.

Xiao Yun also stared at him blankly.

"Uncle, if we have six steamed pancakes and you and Hong Ye share them, how many steamed pancakes can each share?" Xiao Yun swallowed.

"Hmm..." Ah Shan lowered his head and pulled his fingers.

"Uncle, do you remember that when we were in the Tauren tribe last year, you and Hongye chased Shire back, what clothes did he wear?" Xiao Yun asked again.

"Squirrel fur clothes with a belt around the neckline, and rabbit fur pants. The rabbit fur was not processed properly and had several holes through it. Later, Ayun, you threw it into the fire and burned it." Ah Shan reported it immediately.

Xiao Yun & Hongye: "..."

"Ah Shan, Qingyan gave you two wild fruits. I asked you for one, and you gave Ah Yun another one. How many wild fruits do you have left?" Hongye asked.

"Uh..." Ah Shan lowered his head and pulled his fingers.

"..." Hongye turned to Xiao Yun with a dull face.

"..." Xiao Yun remained expressionless.

"You have such a good relationship with my uncle, why don't you know his characteristics at all?" Xiao Yun looked at Hongye in disbelief.

"... If you have to say it, it counts if Ah Shan can recognize all the prey that he didn't catch after a few years?" Hongye asked with the corner of her mouth twitching.

... Both of them were speechless.

Xiao Yun pinched his thigh, why did they plan so hard and let Hongye squat there for five days to memorize it by rote!

"I've given you all the fruit, but I don't have any." Ah Shan looked at the two innocently.

Xiao Yun only felt a mouthful of old blood stuck in his throat... Dear uncle, dear!Don't be angry, don't hate iron and steel!

Leaving aside Ah Shan, who at first glance is powerful but seemingly useless memory talent, Xiao Yun selected a team from the busy farming army to harvest insect-killing snake vines—according to Qin’s instructions, this snake vine bloomed The flowers are harvested by stubble, which can be harvested in spring, summer and autumn. It blooms every 30 days, and the effect is the same whether it is a failure or a bud. It is highly toxic, and it will itch when it comes into direct contact with the skin. Swallow a flower raw It can poison a human being... It needs to be harvested and dried through leather gloves, and the water soaked in a handful of dried flowers can spray an acre of land,

Qiu, Qingyan, Ayue, and Ashan took over this important task... Qiu and Qingyan are in charge of picking flowers, Ayue, who has a more conservative personality, is going to be a bodyguard, and Ashan is in charge of leading the way and serving as a bodyguard.

Well, the cat's paws are more flexible than the wolf's claws. If it weren't for the fact that other adult manuls are not fighters, Xiao Yun would have wanted to send more manuls over.

Bringing food for five days, the four of them embarked on the journey without anyone to send them off—others were too busy to touch the ground, and they really didn't have the time to send them off.

Ah Shan transformed himself into three people, and after a day of trotting, he found the original yellow flower field... Ah Shan can't be regarded as having an IQ. can find the shortest way.

This field of yellow flowers is quite domineering. The snake vines growing close to the ground occupy the growth space of other plants. Wherever there are yellow flowers, there is no green. Compared with the ground vines with yellow flowers, the snake vine samples have a taller chest.

Ah Yue & Qing Yan & Qiu: "??"

"I said it's full of snake vines!" Ah Shan said.

"Ah, what else?" The three looked blank.

Ah Shan: "..." I was very discouraged, silently put on my underpants, long trousers, and leather gloves made by cubs, dragged the leather bag, and picked yellow flowers with the three of them.

Snake garcinia has no fragrance, although it blooms vigorously, it does not attract bees and butterflies, but there are many large and small snakes running between the vines. When Ah Yue picked the flowers, she remembered the snake meat roasted by Ah Yun last year, and there were snakes swimming around. When they got to their feet, they caught them, twisted off the snake's head, and threw it outside where the luggage was piled up.

Qiu, who has the most nimble hands and feet, was the first to pick them all up. He was almost shocked when he came out to change the bag, and quickly turned around and shouted: "Don't catch Ah Yue, there are so many, you can't take them back if you catch them again."

"It's okay, Qiuqiu, let's bake it and eat it." Ah Yue said.

"..." Qiu's face was expressionless, so his name was forcibly changed just like that... But Da Shui had collided with the cub after all, he hadn't collided with anyone else!

The bag I brought was half full, and it was getting dark.Finding a place to keep out the wind, Ah Yue actually opened up the snake he caught and sliced ​​it into pieces, put it through the fire with a wooden stick and roasted it...

Overnight in the wild, everyone can't sleep soundly, and people need to keep vigil at night. After Ah Yue falls asleep, Ah Shan puts his longbow on his back and walks out of the temporary camp to patrol the surroundings.

There are wandering monsters on the grassland, and some top monsters, the Snow Werewolf, have to flee. It will be too late to guard the camp and wait for those wandering monsters to approach before waking up the others.

There is a large area of ​​snake vines nearby. There are no insects around here, and naturally there are no disturbing insects. In addition to the sound of my own footsteps, there are only occasional beast roars from the distant jungle, which attracts Ah Shan to the west from time to time. Looking back... If this is near the tribe, he must run around to see if he can catch a big guy.

Slowly patrolling in the middle of the night, Ah Shan suddenly heard an extremely subtle sound, as if it were iron objects colliding.

"……what?"

Ah Shan squatted down and listened carefully. A gust of wind came from the southeast. This time he heard the "clang" sound of gold and iron.

Last year, most of the merchant ship’s weapons that were leaked by the sea were misfortune, and now a small part is still persisting. A long sword that was broken and turned into a dagger is tied to Ah Shan’s belt. He is still very familiar with this voice. Immediately Squat down, hide in the grass, touch the ground on your toes, and dive briskly in the direction of the sound.

The farther you go to the southeast, the more frequent the sound of gold and iron crossings. When Ah Shan quietly climbed up a mound, hid behind a stone and looked down, he was surprised to find that there were many people!

Humanity!

Thrall's kindred!

Taking a closer look, these people don't really look like Thrall, they are fatter and stronger than Thrall, and they dress much better than Thrall.

...Uh, Thrall's clothes are all provided by the Snow Werewolf, if you want to say that they are vulgar and ugly...

With a distance of 600 to [-] meters, Ah Shan, who has good eyesight, saw two groups of human beings fighting each other; one side was dressed in neat metal armor, and there were quite a lot of people, while the other side wore everything, and there were few people, but few The side with the most people seems to be the one with the advantage, but the side with the most is suppressed and beaten.

Ah Shan looked at it curiously for a while, and the more human beings seemed to be unable to withstand it anymore, and the line began to retreat. A protected man in bright clothes seemed to shout something loudly, and a group of people rushed to the place in a hurry. recede into the distance.

The few human beings in all clothes stood in place, and when the large group of people walked away, they also hurriedly left.

The two groups of humans were leaving in the opposite direction from their own temporary camp, so Ah Shan lay still and waited until the two sides could no longer see, then jumped out and ran to the place where they were fighting.

The vegetation was trampled all over the place, and there were still a lot of bloodstains on the ground and weeds. Ah Shan sniffled his nose, showed his claws, and bent over to dig the soil to cover these bloodstains... The smell of blood will be carried by the wind for a long time at night Far, what if the big guy brings some trouble!

Duty to clean up the battlefield, Ah Shan continued to patrol, and took over shifts with Ah Yue after dawn, and then found a place near Huanghuayuan to lie down and sleep.

After collecting on this day, the bag brought was mostly full, and after another day of picking, I could pack it up and go back to the tribe.After the sky darkened, they still returned to the temporary camp with big rocks to block the wind. Ah Yue continued to roast snake meat. Suddenly, the four soldiers who were busy with their own affairs turned their heads and looked in the same direction.

"Human smell?" Qingyan sniffed.

"There's still a bloody smell, very faint." Qiu frowned.

Ah Shan found that the smell seemed to belong to those people he saw last night, and quickly grabbed the longbow and jumped up: "Qingyan and I went over to have a look, Ah Yue, you and Qiuqiu looked at things."

"Eh?" Ah Yue was taken aback.

"I was patrolling last night and saw two groups of humans fighting in the southeast. This is one of them. They have weapons and are very fierce." Ashan explained that the Snow Werewolves rarely encountered humans except for caravans, so naturally there is no hatred, but Ah Shan remembers that they saw blood when they fought each other.

Ah Yue remembered that the merchant ship of the elves was caught by the sea last year, and nodded to Ah Shan to show that he understood.

Qingyan jumped up and ran after Ah Shan, curiously: "How can there be humans coming here, the caravans don't go this way? Are they still fighting?"

"Well, over there, there was blood, and I buried it in the past." Ah Shan said.

"They don't cover up the smell of blood? Are they seriously injured?" Qingyan was surprised, except for being seriously injured and feeling helpless, who would casually expose the smell of blood.

"It doesn't seem like he was seriously injured? I don't understand either." Ah Shan asked suspiciously.

Ashan was very fast, and Qingyan was even faster. The two ran one after the other for more than two minutes, passing through a small sparse forest, and ran into humans who were walking towards their temporary camp.

The group of people was still a hundred meters away from the woods, and they seemed to be hesitating whether to pass through or go around, when they suddenly looked up and found two fruit, one black and one white, rushing out of the woods... Uh, half man, a short shock There were several calls immediately.

"This, this is, an elf? No, it's not an elf, a cat clan?!"

A woman in a long gown with riding boots and a strange peaked hat exclaimed in surprise and joy: "Great, we found the steppe tribe!"

"Wait, there seems to be only one of the cat tribe." The man in half-armor and carrying a shield reached out to stop his companion, his suspicious eyes swept around Ah Shan and Qingyan, "The black one is the cat tribe, the white one... ...The ears of the cat tribe don't seem to be like this?"

As soon as Ashan and Qingyan came out, they found that this group of humans was not hostile, but the bloody smell on their bodies was indeed very strong, and they looked at each other... If it was a caravan, they all knew how to deal with a caravan, but these humans obviously did not bring Cargo convoy.

At this time, the man with a shield on his back and a height and body similar to Ah Shan took a step forward and waved to the two of them: "Hello, we are mercenaries hired by the merchant group, and we are here to find new trade routes on the grassland. Hostility, can I talk to you?"

Ah Shan put down the hand holding the longbow, and tilted his head: "What do you want to do?"

"We are looking for grassland tribes. Of course, we are definitely not enemies. The people who hire us hope that we can find grassland tribes who are willing to trade." The man showed a harmless smile and took half a step forward carefully, "I can get close Talk to you guys a little bit? Just me."

Ah Shan looked at Qingyan blankly.

"..." Qingyan knew that Ah Shan was slow in understanding things, so he had to push himself up, "Yes."

The human man took a few steps forward and approached the two with a smile on his face. Although he acted very naturally, Qingyan still found that the guy's body was deliberately turned towards him, and his left elbow was slightly turned outward, as if he was on guard Ah Shan...

"My name is Dan Crowdy, and I am the leader of this mercenary group. We are here to help our employer find a prairie tribe to do business with." Dan smiled sincerely and enthusiastically, "Our employer is a very A reputable business group can provide more commodities than the current grassland caravan... But the bad thing is, except for the current grassland caravan, almost no humans have set foot in the hinterland of the grassland, so unfortunately we got lost... Excuse me, may I ask your names?"

Qingyan stared at this man for a while, then looked at the other human beings who were waiting behind and kept poking their heads this way, and felt that this group of people seemed to be no threat!

force?Such a small number of human beings want to threaten the existence of the Snow Werewolf tribe!

Brainpower?A certain cub flashed in his mind... The green dragons were all deflated, Qingyan really didn't think this group of people could take advantage of it.

After some calculations, Qingyan nodded and pointed to himself: "My name is Qingyan, from the Black Leopard family." Pointing to Ashan with a blank face, "Ashan, a snow werewolf."

"Snow Werewolf!" Dan Crowdy's complexion changed drastically, he was extremely shocked and horrified, and his eyes immediately stuck to Ah Shan's body.

Ashan & Qingyan: "??"

Then Qingyan saw that the man was short for no reason, bent over his chest, bowed his knees, and smiled obsequiously and obsequiously on his face. After digging a few times, he took out a delicate bag embroidered with gold thread from the bust armor, and offered it to him with both hands. Under Ah Shan's nose, a pair of eyes seemed to want to swallow Ah Shan's skin and bones, and his desire to eat the bare fruit was not concealed at all: "My name is Dan Crowdy, a knight of the kingdom, and the first heir to the Crowdy family , Young and golden, Kong Wu is powerful...Mr. Ah Shan, are you willing to be a lifelong partner of a knight? I swear, I will be closer to you than my wife, my child, and my father!"

Ah Shan: "??"

Qingyan: "..." You wait for me!