Wolf King

After a brief meeting with Prince Carlisle, Xiao Yun left the Elven Port and rushed back to the tribe... Everything that needs to be discussed has been negotiated, and the next part of the transaction can only be watched by Yu and Hongye. He still has a lot of things waiting for him , I have no time to spend here every day.

In order to facilitate the transportation of the snow wolves, the elves made a road out of the jungle that blocked the road. There is no need to detour, and the time to go back and forth is much shortened. If you don’t carry heavy things, you can run back to the tribe from the port in two days. If you are in a hurry You can go for a day and a half if you change into a wolf and trot all the way.

Accompanied by Mu Mu, he went back to the tribe, and just after arriving at the artificial river where the sluices were opened, Xiao Yun saw the construction team on the river and on both sides of the river.

The daily average temperature on the prairie reached its annual peak period, and the rainfall increased. Coupled with the continuous snow-capped mountains and snowy water, the river was too turbulent. Under such circumstances, it is a bit too much to ask the cats to swim every day to deliver meals to the engineering team. So the engineering team suspended the river channel project that was still some distance away from the canyon, and turned back to practice bridge repair skills...Limited to the production of steel, it is too wasteful to build bridges with steel plates, but fortunately, no earthquakes have been heard on the grasslands. The technology of the stone arch bridge can be used once and for all, and there is no need to open mountains and quarry stones. The stones cast from cement gravel can meet the needs-the total weight of the snow werewolf warriors transformed into two tons is the sky, which is very important for the stone arch bridge. The bearing capacity requirement is not high.

Of course... to solve the problem of raw materials, it is not easy to stack prefabricated cement slabs with an average weight in tons to form an arch on a river channel ten meters wide. The frame of the arm is equipped with a pulley block, and the heavy concrete stone is hoisted and moved with a rope twisted from steel wire, animal tendon, rattan grass, and bark, and the stone arch bridge deck is extended from both ends of the river to the center of the river. Although the progress is relatively slow, from time to time There will still be problems, after all, the bridge deck has been paved.

Xiao Yun squatted by the river to observe the progress of the bridge repair, and found that Lan Guo organized the work well, so he crossed the river with confidence.

After entering the tribe, before he asked the work leader to find out about the progress of the work, Dahe came here angrily.

"Ah Yun, you sold all the sauerkraut, we have nothing to eat!"

Xiao Yundan looked at this empty-faced guy in pain: "If there is no one, it will be fine if you don't have it. Didn't you just collect the green vegetables?"

"You sold the vinegar to the point where there is only one jar left! If you use it up, you will be gone!" Dahe became even more angry.

Xiao Yun had no choice but to take Dahe to the warehouse where sauerkraut was stored, and pointed out to Dahe the big vat with only sour soup left in it: "See this, do you remember what I told you? Sour soup It can be reused after being boiled, have you forgotten?"

Da He leaned over the tank and looked at it, and immediately smiled, but he was still very stubborn: "You didn't tell me that you still had a few tanks of sour soup. I only saw that the outside was empty, and the sauerkraut tanks were moved away."

Xiao Yun was too lazy to talk to her, so he turned his head and left...

The sauerkraut pickled by the tribe adopts the laziest and quickest way of making it—boil and sterilize the water, add vinegar and put it in a container, and directly throw the green vegetables that have been blanched into leaves and soaked in water. If you want other flavors Just throw some prickly ash and ginger into it, then seal it and place it in a ventilated and cool place. After two to three days, the leaves of the green vegetables will change color, and you can take it out and eat it... (adding perilla can effectively prevent white foam on the surface of the sour soup)

Those who like to eat sour radish and sour garlic can also throw it in for soaking. The radish is not particular at all, just wash and slice it. For the garlic, it must be fresh garlic. Take it out and eat it when it changes color.It's as simple as a horse, and anyone can do it. (The braised red beans with sauerkraut that Guizhou people love to eat is the same kind of sauerkraut, as well as the sour radish and sour cabbage leaves in the spicy chicken powder)

If you have the conditions, you can add star anise, fragrant fruit, white sugar and white wine when making the sour soup...don't worry about it if you don't have the conditions.Anyway, Xiao Yun didn't care. First of all, he didn't think about wine at all—it's not that the current conditions of the tribe can't make wine, but as a workaholic with a correct attitude, what he hates the most is all things that may delay the start of work. No matter what, Xiao Yun would not allow such a thing as a drinking accident to happen under his hands. The limit is to have some alcohol in the Balck laboratory for backup.

Seize the time to understand the progress of various tasks in the tribe, Xiao Yun called the left-behind soldiers, patriarchs, and ethnic representatives for a meeting, and adjusted the original autumn work plan: except for the labor arrangements during the harvest period of various crops In addition to the same, the tribe will step up infrastructure construction in the next time. There are two main projects. One is to cover the winter planting shed as soon as possible. The flat glass of the gray dwarves must be used to the extreme after it is burned out. Steel frames and glass The made-up roof solves the lighting problem of the greenhouse, so this winter must not be casually passed by, and the planting work cannot be let go.

Xiao Yun said this with confidence and confidence, regardless of whether everyone in the meeting stared at him or not... get away with it?winter?Ayun, won't your conscience hurt? !

The second thing is to build a collective dormitory for living again... Anyway, the planning of the living area leaves a lot of space, so you can build as much as you can, and the more houses the better.

Qiu lowered his head and played with his fingers, Qingyan stared at dead fish eyes, a drop of sweat slipped quietly from Languo's temples, and the grassroots patriarch silently turned his gaze elsewhere——Ayun, you almost said that you were going to fool other tribes, although Those soldiers who worked part-time were not there, but it was not so straightforward...

Someone Yun is unscrupulous, what are you going to do with such a thing as integrity, it's very in the way, throw it away!

After the working meeting, the whole tribe became busy again...uh... In fact, there is no time when the tribe is not busy, the difference is only in the intensity of labor.

Because the elves left the forest to establish a port by the sea, this year Xiao Yun did not let Balk take the risk of flying out to dry the salt, but let Yu and Hongye secretly dry thousands of catties of salt while delivering the goods and waiting for the fleet. It is ready-made, just leave two people on the coast to watch it during transportation.

In other words, the forest elves "frequently" appeared on the grassland, and Balk had to be careful even when he went out for a walk... No one knew better than him how greedy his father Auston was. Wherever he appears, his good life in the Snow Wolf Tribe will be over.

On this day, Balk, who was forced by Xiao Yun to electrolyze a large pile of disinfectant water and experimental minerals, had another chance to be released. He didn't dare to change into a dragon, and he didn't wear his coquettish spider silk robe. With his overly conspicuous long green hair, he wore a suncloth mid-sleeve pullover and trousers handmade by the manul family and distributed uniformly. He randomly found a goblin cub to lead him, and wandered out of the tribe for a walk.

The catkin cubs are very busy, and the goblin cubs can be a little free when there is no shortage of people in the tribe... These ugly and cute little things with metal claws can't do delicate work, and the engineering team can't do it. When there is enough limestone for digging canals and cement plants, they will be able to gain a short period of freedom... cough cough!

As for why Balk took the goblin for a walk, of course there was a reason.

"Balk, here are raspberries~"

"Balk, here are ripe raspberries~"

"Balke, Balk, the mulberries on the tree over there are edible~"

The berries on the prairie ripen relatively late. According to the human calendar, it is already August. Similar berries are out of season long ago, but they can still be found on the prairie... Balk controls the wind element Climbing up and down, both hands full of brightly colored berries, he was so happy that he found a place to sit and share a meal with the goblin cub, and occasionally feed his pet bird.

"Balke, there is a termite nest over there, shall we catch termites and roast them to eat later?" The ugly and cute goblin cub blinked his big eyes and said.

Balk had a serious face: "Well...not baked, take it back and let Dahe fry it."

"Okay, okay, then let's go to a place with a lot of grass seeds and catch some grasshoppers."

As soon as Balk heard about grasshoppers, he thought of the delicious grasshopper powder fried cakes, and immediately jumped up and dragged the goblin cubs to a place with a lot of grass seeds... Last year, the snow werewolves used curly-horned ox hair in the wheat field. The net bag we made caught a lot of grasshoppers, and he was reluctant to feed them to the pigs. They dried the flour and used it to make fried pancakes. They were eaten in a few meals, and Balk always felt that it was not satisfying.

The quality of the taste determines which bug will die first. Balk threw at least a dozen or so catties of stunned grasshoppers into his precious space ring, and then happily followed the goblin cubs to destroy the termite nest.

Xiao Yun, who came over, saw the green dragon, who was getting more and more promiscuous, pouted his buttocks and picked up the ant nest with a branch, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he turned his head silently.

"...Children are the more they deal with the outside world, the more precocious they are, the less they see people and troubles, and no matter how old they are, they are still children. This guy... is not like an older child. The people that elementary school students on the earth meet There are more worlds than him."

Employers don’t doubt people don’t use this kind of words, but the boss casually throws this sentence to fool the younger brother. If he really regards this sentence as an imperial decree, then the boss’s appointment is not very good... Xiao Yun can’t believe it without reservation anyway. A certain person has a frame in his heart for everyone; if you don’t go out of line, hello, hello, everyone, if you go out of the way, I’m sorry, please make a living by yourself.

Of course, Xiao Yun didn't want to see the latter as ugly as the latter, so he was willing to put in the effort to train, regulate, and tell others in advance what they could and couldn't do when he fell in love with someone; it's true that people have selfish motives, but No one is cheap, and they get along well with the big guys, and they don't have anything to cause trouble.

For Balk, Xiao Yun adopts a control strategy of loose outside and tight inside, which seems to give him a lot of freedom, but in fact, [-]% of the time, he finds various excuses and reasons to restrict him to a fixed framework Let him get used to accepting orders and obeying orders. In short, it is domestication...

In the final analysis, if Balk went out of line and caused too much damage, Xiao Yun had to be careful, and he didn't dare to be careless.

"Since I'm still an older child, I'll shut it down and grind my temper."

After turning this thought in his mind, Xiao Yun let go of the idea of ​​"untying" Balck.

Yes, that's right... "Let the forest elves find out that he will attract his father" is Xiao Yun's invisible frame to scare Balk. The forest elves want to see the dragons?If you think about it with your knees, you will know that the Ananas elves have cooperated well with the Snow Wolf Clan, and it is no wonder that they are willing to take care of the shit of the Green Dragon Clan.If that Papa Alston can be so awesome that he mobilizes the elves to help him dig three feet to find Balk, then it doesn't matter whether Balk hides or not.

During the time wasted in the elf port, Xiao Yun didn't know how many elf warriors called brothers and sisters, and he had already grasped the attitude of the elves towards the green dragons... It's not like the green dragons ran to build nests on other people's house beams The host is particularly happy with the swallows and magpies, and the forest elves are so annoying that they don't even bother to do a good job on their superficial demeanor!

So Xiao Yun wondered if he should use his air transport ability to follow the warriors to the grassland tribes to increase his knowledge and let him know, but since this guy looks like a mature guy, he is actually the same guy as a goblin cub. , then press it first... A child who has not yet been taught well is sent to someone else's house to be a guest without an adult following him, and it is easy to get used to bad things because of the host's politeness.

Well, Xiao Yun felt that calling himself an "elder" of Bakker was completely stupid.

...Balke, who pouted his buttocks to dig out the ant nest, had no idea what he missed.

Autumn on the grassland is a busy season for all tribes.

In the middle of the grassland, on the fertile pastures owned by the Tiger Clan, the roughly clothed slaves are harvesting grass under the watchful eyes of the Tiger Clan supervisors.

This meadow... grows alfalfa.Of course, it’s not the fine farming like the tauren, it’s just the rough burning of the land and the rotation of the land. Whether it grows well or not depends on the climate of the year, but this is enough for the tiger clan—the tiger clan occupies 10,000+ slopes in the middle of the grassland. Even if you just sow a few seeds, the harvest of alfalfa harvested two or three times a year is an astonishing enough number.

The pasture harvested by the slaves of various ethnic groups is bundled into hay bales, and when the number of hay bales is too large, they are loaded onto two-wheeled flatbed carts and transported away; hundreds of wooden flatbed carts full of pastures form a convoy, dragged by bent-horned oxen. Then, like a continuous long line, the forage harvested on the pasture is sent to the east of the grassland in an endless stream.

The eastern part of the prairie is not a livable area even for prairie people... It is too close to the York Mountains, and the frequency of monsters is too high.

The destination of the convoy transporting pasture was a camp guarded by elite Tiger Clan fighters less than [-] kilometers away from the York Mountains.The size of this camp was at least half the size of a king's court. It was surrounded by a high wall made of stones. The inside and outside of the wall were filled with various supplies, including grass on the grassland and... food from the Far East.

The gate of the camp, in front of the six-meter-wide wooden gate, the tiger warriors on duty completed the handover with the clansmen who escorted the pasture. When the others yelled at the slaves to rush the convoy to the camp for unloading, the two tiger tribes returned to the royal court to rest The soldier walked out of the camp and greeted the clansmen escorting the convoy with a smile: "Kun, when are you going back?"

In the convoy, Kun, a tiger warrior with a long whip on his waist, recognized the person who greeted him, and immediately stepped forward enthusiastically and stretched out his arms: "Yale, Yaheng, have you waited until your turn?"

The three Tiger Clan fighters slapped each other's hard muscles like rocks, and the fighter Yale laughed so hard that the corners of his mouth almost cracked to the roots of his ears: "Yeah, I haven't been back for two years, I don't know what the cubs in my family look like That's it."

"I saw your cub a while ago, and that cub is almost as strong as you." Warrior Kun laughed loudly, "We will go back together when my convoy is unloaded and loaded."

The three soldiers followed the convoy to the unloading place. Kun, the soldier who has been in charge of the convoy, glanced at the buildings in the camp, and asked his friends curiously: "I heard that the food coming from the Far East this year was escorted by our people." Here? Have you visited the Far East, what does it look like there?"

Yale shook his head and said, "It wasn't our turn to do that, it was followed by other people. The people who came back said that it is very rich and full of all kinds of weird things, and the smallest town is bigger than our royal court. several times."

"Really?" Kun was very surprised, "How big is the biggest city?"

"Our people can't go to the biggest city, hahaha." Yale laughed a few times, with some inexplicable color in his expression, "At least we can't go now."

Kun let out a hey, pulled out his long whip and pointed to the east, and said loudly: "If you can't go now, it's not that you won't be able to go in the future. Our family will return to our homeland after all, and that is our hometown! The Far East belongs to our family! "

Yale laughed along, but a little forcedly.

The slaves numbly carrying the bales of pasture bypassed the three tiger tribes who were in the way, without even looking east.

The convoy unloaded the pasture and had to load the food when they returned.The amount of food was much less than the pasture, so many vehicles were vacant, and the Tiger Clan who escorted them drove all the weak slaves into the vehicles so as not to slow down the speed of the convoy.

Seeing that Kun let the slaves ride in the car, Yale looked at his friend in surprise, but didn't speak.

On the way home, the two soldiers who hadn't been home for a long time were a little excited, talking and laughing with Kun and another escorting soldier along the way.A few days later, when they were about to walk out of the sparsely populated eastern grassland, a group of snow mountain elves appeared in front of the convoy.

Yale, who was walking in front, saw the group of snow elves, and looked at his friends in amazement: "Why did these elves run to the grassland before it snowed?"

"I don't know either. In the spring of this year, some snow elves stayed in the royal court until the weather got hot." Kun shook his head and said, "Tiger King told us not to get too close to these snow elves, anyway... What we want is peace on the grasslands, and it doesn’t conflict with our clan’s goals, so just ignore them.”

Yale nodded, and the two leading soldiers turned slightly, leading the convoy around the snow elves.

The team of snow elves either sat or stood on the small hill, facing the Tiger Clan convoy from a distance, but they didn't intend to come here to find trouble.

Yale secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he couldn't see the team of snow elves anymore... He has been guarding the camp in the Far East for the past two years, and has come into contact with foreign adventurer teams staying overnight several times. These adventurers have complicated backgrounds, and some even come from other continents. Yale naturally has a broader vision than other clansmen - there is not only the world on the grasslands in this world, the outside world is huge, and the elves are not just the harmless appearance when they enter and leave the royal court.

After dark, the convoy found a shelter for the night and ate some venison caught on the way. Yale casually wiped his mouth and moved to Kun's side: "How's the situation in the royal court these two years?"

Kun froze for a moment, then lowered his voice: "Yale, what aspect are you asking about?"

Yale also lowered his voice: "The grassland is not my family's hometown, but in the Far East, it is not easy for our family to go back... In the past two years, the amount of food and grass hoarded by our family in the east has increased, but... I There are only so many warriors on duty."

Kun never expected that his good friend Yale had changed so much in just two years, and he was surprised for a while before he chuckled: "Yale, you are different from before, you were not the one who cared about these things in the past ah."

"I'm serious with you." Yale punched Kun's arm with a fist.

Kun shook his hand indifferently: "Don't worry too much, Tiger King will consider it."

Seeing Kun's inexplicable attitude, Yale thought for a while and swallowed the rest of his words.He has indeed changed a lot during the two years on duty, at least now, he will not tell others everything, and Yale will hide secrets from friends like Kun.

As a warrior of the Tiger Clan, Yale's pursuit in life is only to be strong... There is no difference between the strength of an individual and the strength of a group.Naturally possessing a strong body and top-notch force, it is difficult for Tiger Clan fighters not to be proud of them.

But after being in contact with adventurers from other races many times, Yale's thoughts are inevitably not affected by those adventurers who are either rebellious or deep and old-fashioned, especially, no matter what kind of character adventurers are, their attitude when referring to their hometown They will all be different... or silence, or passing by with a smile, or showing nostalgia, more complex emotions, Yale can't understand, he can only see ignorantly that these people who have no hometown He who has never left the grassland can't understand the feelings of the adventurers for their hometown.

This made Yale think of more things he had never thought of during the boring time on duty... These thoughts that he could not tell others made this Tiger Clan fighter occasionally doubt the persistence of the Tiger Clan: he Is the grassland that you can see as soon as you open your eyes really worthless enough to make all the clansmen unite and resolutely abandon it?

"The grassland is our hometown."

The Li tribe is very lively tonight, and the team of the Huoyan tribe is here again. This time they sent delicious spices, soft white cotton cloth, and blankets that can prevent the cubs from being frozen awake when it snows. He was unanimously welcomed by the chestnut tribe.

Beside the blazing bonfire under the night sky, Hongye and Xiaohua, the housekeeper warrior of the Li tribe, sat side by side, watching Ayan and other young tribesmen fight and couldn't help laughing.

"The grassland is our important hometown, so we must manage the grassland well, so that people living on this land can be proud of being grassland people." Regarding Xiaohua's question, why does the Huoyan tribe take care of other tribes like this? Hongye said with a little pride, "This is the truth that Ayun taught us. If a person doesn't even love and maintain the hometown where he was born, he will be stingy in lending a helping hand to the people in his hometown when he has the ability. , then what is the meaning of his life?"

"The elves are powerful because the elves never abandon their birthplaces. Even bards who travel around will use the warmest and most beautiful words to describe their hometown. Our snow wolf tribe is a tribe on the grassland. Of course we also have to love this land and care about people who grew up under the same sky as us.”

Hongye took it for granted: "So our tribe can exchange materials to improve everyone's living conditions, and it is necessary to share some of them with other tribes, at least to make everyone's life better. Isn't this what we should do? Yes What why?"

Xiaohua's eyes widened, her nostrils dilated slightly due to excitement, and she subconsciously moved closer to Hongye, wanting to hear more similar words from this Huoyan tribe warrior... Although she is not from the Huoyan tribe, she is indeed a prairie person, yes Snow Wolf Clan, such words made her feel full of strength all over her body!