Wolf King

The biggest difference between Xiao Yun's fourth winter in the different world and last winter is that sweet potatoes can be opened for consumption.

The potatoes and sweet potatoes that I tried to plant last year are all growing well. If the fields are well drained and the fertilizers are fed enough, although the stems that grow out do not have the yield of tens of thousands on the earth, the yield per mu can be maintained at about 3000 catties; but because of the need to select seeds In connection with the expansion of the cultivated area, Xiao Yun put these two crops in the cellar, and only changed the taste for everyone every ten and a half days, and did not open them for supply.

The potatoes and sweet potatoes cultivated this year are a little bolder than last year... Xiao Yun planted two rounds respectively.

The first round of alfalfa was planted at the same time, and the third crop of alfalfa was harvested before harvesting. The yield of spring potatoes and spring sweet potatoes in this round was not bad, with an average yield of 3000 to 3500 catties per mu; the second round was harvested together with soybeans. There are autumn potatoes and autumn sweet potatoes. Due to the short growth cycle and the low yield in this round, the average yield per mu is only about 2000 jin.

The yield per mu is not high but we have a lot of land. The large flat land is used to grow potatoes and sweet potatoes, and we plant two rounds of them a year. The combined annual output is naturally quite amazing... I have been busy before and have no time to work on this area. It is winter , the work density is not so high, and the potatoes and sweet potatoes stuffed in the warehouse cellar will naturally show their charm.

The first snow of this winter was heavier than previous years. When I woke up overnight, the lower half of the wooden board blocking the door was blocked by snow, and the goose feather snow was still drifting; When rushing out to work, it is natural to have a "heavy snow vacation". The clansmen who finally had a day's rest cheered, wrapped themselves in cotton clothes, sweaters, sweaters and trousers, and then a layer of animal skins, and rushed out to sweep the snow; Xiao Yun shook his head, Turning around, I summoned the canteen chef team and Dashui's work team to start processing sweet potato flour.

Generally speaking, it is best to make homemade sweet potato flour before and after the frost in autumn, but it is not busy at that time... It will not be delayed if it snows:

First of all, to grind the sweet potato stems, take the ready-made snow and melt it, wash the sweet potatoes, cut them into pieces, and grind them in a stone mill.

There are only [-] mouths in the tribe, and you have to spend a lot of money to make anything. They say that they produce and digest it by themselves, and making sweet potato flour at one time has to be calculated at the rate of [-] catties... Fortunately, this thing has a gratifying yield per mu, even if it is only planted. The annual output of [-] mu of land is also one million or hundreds of thousands of catties, so you can do whatever you want.

Grinding so many sweet potatoes is not an easy job. Running in and out made everyone sweat, and it was done when it was dark.

The next step is to filter out the starch in the grated sweet potatoes. The easiest way is to use gauze to wash it with water, filter the remaining sweet potato pieces and cook sweet potato, rice and wheat porridge at night...

Put the starch water in a container and let it stand overnight, and settle to the bottom. Pour off the surface water, shovel out the starch, put it in a basket or dustpan and dry it on the kang in each room. When it is almost dry, you can start making sweet potato flour.

Hmm... During this period, Xiao Yun retained part of the dried sweet potato starch and put it aside to make sugar.

Add water to sweet potato starch and make batter, put it into a ladle-shaped container with a circular hole pierced at the bottom, hold the container next to a large stove with boiling water, hold the ladle in one hand, and beat it with the other hand, the starch batter in the ladle is forced out of the hole It slides down like a thread, falls into boiling water and scalds until it turns dark red; then take out the cooked vermicelli, put it in snow water with ice cubes (clear water is also fine), and hang it up to dry... live together.

Of course, it can’t be aired outside, the snow is still falling, and it can’t be cooled indoors in the heated kang, otherwise the fans will stick together and become a dough; after thinking about it, Xiao Yun simply pushed the rack for drying the fans After going to the sheltered place behind the house, the roots were frozen, and then moved to a room without a kang, and opened the door to dry in the shade... I can’t care about the occasional adhesion, as long as it’s almost the same.

The first snow has not stopped for a week. Xiao Yun also led his people to consume 10,000+ catties of sweet potatoes and make more than 2 catties of sweet potato powder... The fans are still hanging out and everyone hasn't eaten it yet. Everyone is tired enough, and they are reluctant to feed the pigs. The canteen has to develop ways to wrap dough and fry, press into cakes, bake or fry...

And before the sweet potato powder dried, Xiao Yun also made sweet potato powder sugar in a hurry... The production method is the same as maltose, the fresh two-leaf malt from the greenhouse is chopped, and the sweet potato starch is mixed with water at a ratio of 1:1.5 Adjust it, then add chopped fresh malt in a ratio of ten to one, pour four to five times the amount of water and cook thoroughly.

After the cooked potato flour malt milk is annealed and cooled to about 50 degrees Celsius, then add fresh malt fragments in the same proportion as when blending, and after standing for two hours, clear water appears on the surface, then boil it, filter it with a cloth, and the filtrate is Sugar liquid; boil the sugar liquid on high heat and dry the water for about four hours, and the resulting sugar is extremely sugary.

The advantage of maltose made from sweet potato starch is that it can be formed into a semi-solid after drying the water, not a liquid that is easy to deteriorate; and it can be processed again on the basis of raw sugar, such as boiling the sugar solution and cooling it until it is not hot. Then add cooked beans Powder or tangerine peel powder, use a round stick to dip and pull, pull the sugar body into white like ramen, cut it with a knife, it is a white sugar cube, pull the sugar body into silk, it is sugar silk.

You can also add fried rice crackers, fried soybeans, fried pine nuts, dried fruits, etc., which are equal in weight to the sugar liquid, and flatten and cut into pieces with a wooden board, that is, cut...uh...uh...

"Che Tang shouldn't be made like that, it's still called Qi Tang." Xiao Yun looked at the palm-sized Qi Tang in his hand, and was surprised by the name that just popped up in his head, and handed Qi Tang to the waiter beside him. Salivating horns.

Niujiao took the cut sugar with pine nuts fried beans, fried rice crackers, and dried fruit pressed into pieces with both hands, swallowed, put the sugar on the chopping board, cut off a corner with a knife, and threw it into his mouth. The sugar is carried in the bark pocket on the belt.

"Keep it for later?" Xiao Yun was amused by his appearance.

"Save some for Qiuqiu." Niujiao puffed up his cheeks happily, naturally.

"..." Xiao Yun stared seriously at Niujiao's elder brother's physique, "I remember Qiuqiu is male, male. Even if he is not male, the size of you two is not suitable."

Niujiao: "??"

"Ayun~~ the vermicelli is completely dry, can I eat it?" Dahe rushed in, smelling the sweet smell of the room as soon as he entered the door, and then looked at the large piece of candy that had not been cut open on the desk, Immediately pointing angrily, "Ah, you guys are making delicious food behind my back!"

"What are you talking about? What do you mean by being behind your back? Just now I said who would be the fastest to sneak away if someone helped me?!" Xiao Yun was unhappy.

"You didn't tell me that you were making candy again!" Dahe was still very confident, and rushed to the counter to grab the candy.

"Hand back!" Xiao Yun slapped Dahe's claws away, "This candy is for reward, you have no share."

"Then him?!" Dahe pointed angrily at the bulging horns.

"Ox horns." Xiao Yun tilted his head.

"Yeah!" Niujiao sucked down his saliva, and said righteously, "Dahe, those who don't work don't get food, and if you run away, you don't get food."

Da He was so angry that his mouth was crooked...

Let the horns carry Dahe out, Xiao Yun picked up the square kitchen knife specially made by the gray dwarves, the Chinese feel that the combat power +5 when you hold it, and cut the pressed sugar into pieces.

Again, when there is no internal currency circulation, snacks are the best incentive mechanism. Shredded candies and white candies are awarded for good performance, and cut candies with complex workmanship and rich taste are awarded for excellence; I'm stupid, I'm willing to work hard, it's not too much to give an excellent rating, if Dahe is, I can just give two candies away, so what about being handsome, there is no special treatment here at Xiao Yun~!

"Come on, Qiuqiu, this is your share."

The six hundred people in the small group were divided into [-] study groups, and they learned counting and reading under the leadership of the old people in the group. Qiu Zheng led a group of newcomers to study words and sentences in the burning kang room, and Xiao Yun carried a basket. Walking in, he grabbed a piece of cut candy the size of a palm and stuffed it for him.

"Huh, is this a new candy?" Qiu Xin turned over the cut candy curiously. The snow werewolf's palm was as big as his palm, and it was the first time such a large piece of candy was found in the tribe.

"Yes, it's called Cut Tang. The taste has been verified by horns, and it's very good." Xiao Yun looked around Qiu's study group with a smile, found the target, and walked over to hand the sugar, "You are right Xiaohua, you also have this excellent award."

"Oh, thank you." Xiaohua was flattered and happily took the candy.

Xiao Yun found two more people to distribute candy to, namely Sally the gray dwarf and a cheetah. After the four distributed, he took out the list and took a look... He walked out while the other people looked anxiously.

"Wait, Ayun? Finished posting?" Qiu was startled.

"Yes, the Excellence Award is for those who perform well." Xiao Yun smiled very kindly, "Don't worry about the others, the people in the cafeteria will give out the Excellent Award after the meal, and it's also candy."

The four people who received the cut candy immediately felt a little refreshed... But most of them didn't receive it, and they were too embarrassed to be too happy, so they quickly put away the candy and continued to study.

Only 62 of the [-] students received the Excellence Award. This is because Xiao Yun has relaxed the standard of excellence: those who work hard at ordinary times, have a correct study attitude after the snow falls, and have made remarkable progress. The key point is to have a correct study attitude In practice, listening to the story will concentrate one's attention, and learning to count and read will make you feel like you're in a hurry or distracted.

Rosemary's study group worked hard all afternoon to learn Chinese characters. When it was lunch time, Qing Yan, who was leading the group, told everyone to sweep the snow from the road and the roof before eating. Rosemary rushed out immediately. House—he loves working and whatnot, rather than painfully repeating last year's study hell!

Then...after clearing the snow, when they went to the cafeteria to receive the food distributed by the group, Dahe, who distributed the food, handed them a plate containing 20 yuan finger-sized white sugar cubes expressionlessly, and waved them away.

"Wait, where's the candy? Where's the big piece of candy?! I saw that Qingyan has it all!" Rosemary hurriedly made a square gesture with both hands.

"Are you asking me?" Da He squinted.

"Otherwise?" Rosemary was very determined.

"I don't have any! You still ask me for it!" Dahe ran away immediately, took out a small piece of white candy from his pocket, squeezed it with his fingers and smashed it on Rosemary's face, "Look, all I got was only This! This!"

Niujiao stretched out his arms to lock Dahe's neck and dragged him back, and Qingyan came up to pull Rosemary shyly: "Okay, okay, don't be ashamed, the other groups are watching..."

The lunch that day was sweet potato flour, and each study group received a large bucket of vermicelli, a big-headed pottery bowl of noodles, a half-pottery pot of oily chili oil dregs and minced meat whistle, and two pottery pots of vegetable soup.

The hot sweet potato powder is scooped with a spoonful of chili pepper whistle and two spoons of vegetable soup. It makes a happy body and mind. Rosemary, who is aggrieved, forgets the other things for a while, and is addicted to the powder.

In the afternoon, the snow was a little lighter, and the various groups that had been locked in the house and studied all morning were released. Those who should remove the snow, and those who should be responsible for daily affairs are busy with daily affairs; Quan, changed the feed for the stone trough of the sheep pen, wiped off his sweat, suddenly remembered something, jumped to Qingyan's side, and stretched out his hands tremblingly: "Qingyan, such a big piece of sugar, so big..."

Qing Yan: "..." He didn't want to strangle the snow leopard right now, he just wanted to strangle the leopard fish bone that had stuffed rosemary into his care.

In the tense, serious and lively learning atmosphere, after a few more days, the first snow, which was astonishing in terms of snowfall and duration, finally stopped. The snow layer outside the sheep pen was high enough to block the sheep from the wind. To a certain extent... If it weren't for the many people who can clean up from time to time, the snow this year might have buried all the sheep under it.

Leopard Xia returned to the position of team leader after the increase of the tribal labor force. After studying all morning, he led the labor team to climb up and down to clear the snow on the roof of the glass shed and let the crops in the shed accept it. Rizhao: This job can only be done by cats. They are light and agile, and they can better avoid damage to the roof when removing snow. If the glass covering the roof is cracked by frost, they can replace it in time.

After a year of honing in the Snow Wolf Tribe, Xia's temperament has changed a lot, at least he will not show his intentions on the bright side like before, and when leading the team to work, he can also know that he will be in charge of the affairs. The priority is in front of personal emotions and positions; this is not to say that the self-interested part of Xia's character has been worn away, and a person's character cannot be changed so easily, but that he knows very clearly that he wants to To be respected in the tribe, one must have the ability and attitude to take the lead in doing things.

Compared with ability and attitude, "identity" is nothing - now there are seven "patriarchs" in the tribe, and the number of fighters is so cheap that Xia has no conditions or psychological advantages to continue clinging to his past status and status put.

It is true that he is the strongest among the cat clan, but there are too many snow werewolves who are stronger than him... This psychological advantage really cannot be established.

The so-called "no breaking, no building", Xia actually adapted to the life in the tribe after the concept he insisted on was shattered. Ambition is hidden.

After cleaning up more than a dozen vegetable greenhouses lined up in two rows, Xia’s team has to take care of the growth of the crops in the greenhouses... The vegetable fields are originally under the management of the second-level labor force. Get it right.

The whole afternoon was spent in the shed area. It was getting dark, and Xia’s team returned to the living area tiredly. They went back to each room to wash their hands and feet with hot water. Tone——The temperature in the greenhouse is around [-] degrees, which is not too cold, but the walk from the greenhouse to the living area is enough to freeze a person's face. The temperature at night on the grassland is lower than that during the day, and splashing water turns into ice No kidding.

"I also have noodles tonight!"

The person who was going to get the food in the same room came in exhaling hot air, and happily put the vat of sweet potato flour next to the big stove: "Come and get the bowl, whistle and add as much as you want."

"Today's snack is still candy? Isn't there a big piece of candy like last time?"

"Where is the Excellence Award given out every day? Besides, you are not as good as you are!"

"Xia has a share! Yes, Xia, Ayun sent you the big candy last time."

Xia turned his head and smiled, but didn't speak... Of course he was a little proud of himself, after all, among the more than 20 cat clans in the same room, he and another golden cat were the only ones who received that special big cut candy.

The food intake of the cat clan is only three to a quarter of that of the Snow Werewolf, and a bucket of powder can feed a whole room of big and small cat clan.

"Xia, you can read the most characters. Read stories to us." A snow leopard that had just grown up rolled lazily on the kang a few times, moved to Xia's side, and stuck out its tongue to lick Xia's face flatteringly.

"Okay, what are you reading?" Xia imitated the smiling face that Ayun often held, and said kindly.

"I want to hear ghost stories, where is the bark paper for ghost stories?"

"Hey, no, I want to hear about Mermaid Princess~"

"Ghost stories, ghost stories!"

"It's all right, just read one first and then the other." Xia smiled and took a stack of bark paper from the person in the same room, turned to a page of ghost stories, and began to read, "In the west of the human kingdom, there is a traveler. Passing through a small town..."

Xia read two stories, and the cats in the same room had almost digested it. They all got up and went to the big stove to rinse their mouths with salt water, and fell asleep with blankets in their arms.Xia gave up the top of the kang to the cub, and slept at the end of the kang. He had just dragged the blanket when someone knocked on the door.

"Xia, you haven't slept?" Hongye moved the door, raised the animal skin curtain and walked in, beckoning to Xia, "Put on your clothes and come to the activity room."

"Hongye, what's the matter?" Xia hurriedly lifted the blanket and sat up.

"You'll know when you come." Hongye winked at him.

Xia put on the sweater and wool trousers that he had just taken off, wrapped in animal skins and shoes, got off the kang, and followed Hongye all the way to the activity room. As soon as he entered, he found that there were already many people sitting in the room.

"Work meeting?" Xia's heart moved, and as he followed Hongye in and sat down, he looked around calmly, but found that it was not a work meeting, because not all the seven patriarchs including him were present, and the warriors of various clans were also there. Only half of it came.

"Could it be that before I knew about it, the tribe had actually organized many meetings like this that were not open to the public?" On the surface, Xia was fine, but when he sat cross-legged, he couldn't help shaking the hands on his knees... He chose Hiding himself does not mean that he can accept being excluded by the tribal decision-makers. Being able to control his anger and not show his face is already a result of enough education and practice in the past year.

"Hongye, why are you calling us here so late?"

Xia, who was secretly annoyed, couldn't help being stunned when he heard Qiu's question. He knew that the "status" of the rabbit mantle in the tribe was special. The most obvious thing was that the "tribal shared enterprise" Zhongqiu was the only leader of a race other than the snow wolf clan. .Lian Qiu asked such a question, could it be that he misunderstood?

"Everyone is here."

Xia Zheng was in doubt, so Ayun lifted the heavy curtain and walked in with a smile, took off his shoes on the rattan and straw mat at the door, walked to the carpet and sat down.

"I asked Hongye and Maomao to call everyone. The purpose of calling you here is mainly to give you night classes." Xiao Yun put a stack of bark paper full of words in front of him, and his kind eyes swept over everyone. , explained patiently, "The study during the day is a literacy course for everyone, and the night class at night is a further upgrade of education. For the time being, it is only for those who can keep up with the progress of the study, and it will be promoted later when conditions permit. .”

"Education at this level is divided into three parts: social economy, ideology and politics, and primary arithmetic. There is a class every night, and each class is divided into three sections. One class teaches a major category..."

"Ayun, don't we all know how to count?" Qiu asked curiously after discovering that the people who had been summoned were all good students from each group.

"Hehe... that's just basic mathematics at the level of literacy. If you want to say that you can do arithmetic problems, I dare not say that you can do all the calculations. The part of elementary arithmetic that we are going to learn next is the level that Balck learned in the first half of the year... "Xiao Yun explained with a smile.

Languo, Hongye, Grassroots and others, who knew the degree of Balk's training, changed their expressions slightly.

"In the next first class, let's study social economy first. This is the simplest and easiest to understand in primary education, and it will also give you a little time to adapt to the primary course. As for the teaching case, we will use our tribe and the forest elves Take, for example, the business of the St. Bridge Merchant Group. Why does a certain commodity sell at this price, what does the circulation of a certain commodity mean to both parties in the transaction, and what benefits does it have? Starting today, we will talk about it little by little. learn."

"First of all, the first product we come to understand is the canned fruit we made."

"To do business, you must first calculate the cost. What is the cost of canned fruit? It is fruit and glass cans. There are two sources of fruit. They are exchanged with forest elves. We collect them on the grassland and at the edge of the forest; the source of canned food is It is fired out of the quartz stone dug by the goblins, and the raw materials and coal consumed by the firing itself are self-produced, and the time it takes for the glass bottle to be fired from the kiln to the mold of the molten glass is..."

"Comprehensively, the workload of glass bottle firing, molding and sealing is equivalent to that of fruit collection, washing, adding sugar and brewing, and the labor cost is..."

"The first batch of canned fruit produced is exchanged with the forest elves. Canned food with no less than 50% of the contents and a total weight of three catties is exchanged for ten catties of fresh fruit. We are not responsible for the transportation, so the gross profit of this transaction is... "

"The second batch of canned fruit is traded with the merchant group, the price is... the gross profit is... the net profit is... combined, the income of the canned fruit is..."

The people in this room can be said to be the elite of the grassland people - people like Dahe who have no intelligence but lack perseverance can't get in - none of them has a flawed IQ; although Ayun said that the first The class "Social Economy" is the simplest, and this group of people did not take it lightly, and listened very carefully. After all, Ayun did not dig holes for everyone once or twice...

But even though he was so mentally prepared, within a few minutes of Ayun's lecture, everyone still showed expressions of grief and indignation—you call this the simplest and easiest to understand? !