Wolf King

After the teenagers made straw sandals, ran to the river and washed their feet, they didn’t immediately follow Xiao Yun, but went back to the tribe to make up a bunch of shoes... The Snow Werewolves still share a spirit. In other words, life on the grasslands has made these grassland tribes accustomed to helping each other and not practicing isolationism, even Thrall, whose bed was demolished, is divided into a pair...

That's right, because mine is yours, so yours is mine. Under such a simple spirit of sharing, it is a little psychological burden for young people to demolish Thrall's bed.

A bunch of straw sandals were compiled to complete the contribution to the tribe, and several young talents followed Xiao Yun out of the tribe. Of course, their range of activity must be within the range of the tribe's soldiers patrolling. Too far from the nest is still a dangerous thing for the cubs.

"We need to find a container that can hold water, which is larger than the pots and buckets in the tribe." There are no water tanks in the tribe, and Xiao Yun is more circumspect to explain his intentions to the young people. The bottom of this container must not leak. You can cover it with light on it. Only such a container meets the standard. Do you have any ideas?"

His series of unheard of nouns made wool look at each other, and after scratching his ears for a long time, the wool asked: "So can't we dig a pit by the river? It's the same as the water hole we dug."

"Huh..." Xiao Yun hadn't really thought about this. He thought of the bean sprouts as pots, barrels or something. He just dug a stone trough. Obviously, making pots and barrels requires professional craftsmen I don’t have any skills or tools for self-made. If I dig a stone trough, the workload is not too light. "I think, digging pits along the river bank...it seems feasible, so let’s try it first."

Coming to the river again, this time Xiao Yun carefully observed the land on the bank of the river, picked up the grass, pulled out a few clumps of wild grass, and plucked some dirt with his hands to turn it over for a closer look.

The quality of the soil on the grassland can not be said. Under the precipitation and accumulation of the humus layer for tens of thousands of years and natural fermentation, most of the land is black land. Xiao Yun went to see the water hole dug by the snow werewolf, and the depth was about one meter. , The bottom of the water is still black.

"It seems to be possible... Keep the pits at a distance from the river, connect them with water ditches, dig out the ditches for drainage when changing the water, and add new water... Put a layer of pebbles on the bottom of the pit and another layer of vine grass Pad to avoid getting ground... If you want to cover, just use a reed rod to make one..."

Xiao Yun felt more and more viable when he thought about it, and he observed the lower terrain, selected a higher river bank, stepped on the ground with his feet, and visually estimated the drainage height required to change the water in the bean sprout pit. Okay, just dig here!"

Use the horn knife from A to draw a rectangle about half a meter wide and one meter long on the ground about two meters away from the river bank, and pull out a reed rod and fold it into four sections about 30 centimeters in length. As a basic reference, Xiao Yun asked three young men to plan a bean sprout pit with him...

Although there are reference objects, it is difficult for young people to dig out shallow pits that are relatively similar to the average height. After digging out a rough prototype, Xiao Yun sent them to pick up pebbles and was responsible for "finishing" by themselves: When the sinking water can be drained clean, the bottom surface of this pit must be inclined, and the north side is high and the south side is short.

Hmm... Anyone with manual experience knows that even if the design is meticulous, it is inevitable that there will be problems when you do it. Xiao Yun used his own hands to dig out the bottom of the pit with a slope, and found that there will always be places with varying heights, old There is nothing wrong...you can only get up at the bottom of the pit and step back a few minutes, and use your naked eyes to try to measure the **** of the bottom of the slope.

The bottom of the pit was almost the same, and the young people also picked up a lot of pebbles. Xiao Yun drew a straight line in the south of the bean sprout pit toward the river channel to let them dig the gutter. He squatted down to pick pebbles of similar size and carefully paved the pit. Bottom and pit edge.

Paved with pebbles, the bean sprouts with irregular shapes look like a hand-made swimming pool for children. Xiao Yun became complacent for a while, and suddenly discovered a new problem: the pebbles in the clay pits still couldn’t stop the water from running away. They all ran into the land, and the bean sprouts still had hair?

I scratched my scalp for a while... Xiao Yun remembered a video of a foreign celebrity using mud and water to make a swimming pool.

"There is no cement, but the more delicate mud mixed with water is rubbed, and it seems to be able to play a role in waterproofing?"

When it was dry, Xiao Yun squatted down next to the dug mud and pinched the soil. It felt fine and fine, so he piled up the soil, picked out the stones mixed in it, and sent the wool back to the tribe to get a bucket.

The mud picked out of the stone was mixed with water and rubbed hard until it was half dry. Xiao Yun pulled out some reed rods and mixed them in the mud... He remembered that old rural houses would also mix straw in mud bricks. It seems that it can increase the toughness and stickiness of mud bricks.

Paste the mixed mud to the surface of the bean sprouts like playing with plasticine, smooth the surface with the back of the horn knife, Xiao Yun straightened up and thumped his waist: "Let’s do it first... Let’s see if we can dry it No water barrier."

After doing this, it was almost noon. The Snow Werewolves who ate two meals a day were hungry. Xiao Yun and the young people went back to the tribe to get the food.

In the afternoon, the young people refused to run around with Xiao Yun. They had something to do every day. Xiao Yun also found them a job collecting wild vegetables, and had no time to play by the river.

In desperation, Xiao Yun could only do his duty as ordinary tribal teenagers, went to pick up cow dung and collected wild vegetables for an afternoon, and a mouse hole was found in the middle wool, and a group of young people tossed for a while. Mice—The rats on the grassland are not the same size as the voles and house mice. Each one weighs four or five pounds. The skinned skin is meat, especially fat.

Xiao Yun discovered purslane on the way to catch the mouse, so there is no need to say that there is one more item in the menu of wild vegetables.

On this day’s tribal dinner, wild vegetables accounted for half of the meat. The reason is of course not that the young people can expand the scope of collecting wild vegetables in addition to picking cow dung, but the patriarch specifically recognized it the night before Plants like plantain, perilla, dandelion, and gray vegetables. When the grazing was carried out today during the day, the patriarch led the two tribes to take part-time jobs. When he saw the newly found wild vegetables, the patriarch was very happy to say that this wild grass He has seen it during the day.

Wild boar oil was used up yesterday. The wild vegetables for this dinner were cooked with meat. Everyone knows that the dishes are very oil-absorbing, so this day's dinner actually tastes like wild vegetables that are completely domesticated. Classes are also popular...

The evening wind blew overnight, and the next morning, Xiao Yun immediately rushed to the riverside to see his bean sprout pit, and then he found that...the mud surface was blown dry by the wind, and at the same time, it also cracked.

Xiao Yun: "..."

He squatted and buckled down the mud surface with his hands, the mud rustled down... Yes, even if it didn't crack, this quality, the blisters will have to finish playing.

"Where is it wrong, not reconciled with mud? Is this muddy?"

Xiao Yun crouched anxiously next to the bean sprout pit and scratched his scalp, but the tribes didn't understand his anxiety at all. A group of people happily carried their straw shoes to the river to wash their feet. The river gave them no idea. A lot of dirty feet that haven't been washed in many years...

"Ayun, don't delay things when playing mud today." The patriarch also kindly persuaded Xiao Yun to persuade.

"I'm not playing..." Xiao Yun's face hurt, but he couldn't explain it.

"Do you want to use clay...the kind of yellow mud? I remember that the old houses I saw when I went to the countryside to play are all yellow mud houses...? Where are the yellow mud to be found?"

Xiao Yun scrambled to recall his short memory of rural life. After thinking about it, Xiao Yun finally remembered that when his uncle repaired the pigsty, he seemed to be digging mud by the river.

Xiao Yun's spirit revived, and immediately turned into a wolf shape, choosing a place far away from the river bank to dig earth frantically.

"Ah, Ayun plays with mud and plays with crazy le~" The people who washed their feet looked at him happily, and the tribe adopted a meal-sharing system. After eating their own portions, they would be gone. To play, either you have to find wild food yourself, or you are honestly hungry for two days.

Xiao Yun dug a pit more than three meters deep, and finally found loess under the fertile black soil...

As we all know, the black soil with a thickness of one centimeter needs 300 years of natural formation. The Loess Plateau was originally fertile land and serious soil erosion. This exposed the loess underneath, which was poor for hundreds of years, until the Communist Party worked hard to rectify it... Now Xiao Yun does not need black soil but yellow clay, which is amazing enough.

It was easier to dig out the loess. Xiao Yun quickly crawled out to restore human form, dressed in animal skin pants, ran back to the tribe and took a few vine straw mats and buckets, and called for the horns that had not left the tribe: I can still make something delicious here, but would you like to help me?

"Come!" The Horns did not hesitate.

With the powerful force of the horns, things are really not too simple. The loess and water transported from the bottom of the pit let the horns take off their shoes and step on, stick to the stickiness, and then paste it on the bean sprout pit. It can be seen that the mud surface of the yellow clay paste is finer and tighter than that of the black clay.

"What are you doing for this?"

The horns of the yellow mud that had been together for a long time were not red and breathless, and their physical strength was simply animals.

"Wait for the air to dry and try not to penetrate the water, you can use this pit to sprout bean sprouts." Xiao Yun was a little bit digging again and pasting the walls. "The black beans grown in the tribe are spread here. Water, four or five days of effort, a bag of black beans can send out ten bags."

The horns leaned their heads to understand the difference between the next bag and the ten bags, and the expression was a little horrified: "Can it be changed so much? But, black beans are also not delicious?"

"Not the same. The sprouts that are sent out are many times more delicious than black beans. They taste similar to the wild vegetables we are now eating, and they are also more delicious than wild vegetables."

Ox Horn opened his mouth and stared at Xiao Yun for a long time. After understanding, he eagerly said: "Then we will dig a few more pits!"

"Let's see if this works first. If it works, let's dig another hole. We can't eat too many bean sprouts in one breath. It's safer by batch." Xiao Yun waved his hand and suddenly thought of something, "Wait... horns, you know I'm not playing with mud anymore, right, but others don't know yet, and a few of them won't come to help me today."

"Everyone knows when the delicious bean sprouts come out." The horns of An Wenren have the style of a snow werewolf.

"No, wait a minute... I think we can still play with this mud." Xiao Yun pondered with his chin. "Old houses in rural areas used to be muddy and muddy. , Mud bricks, it seems to be made out of wood molds-horns, let's just build a mud brick house?"

"Mud bricks, houses?" The horns puzzled.

"It doesn't matter if you don't go hunting for a few days?" Xiao Yun asked.

"Um... let A Shanduo take a little patrol to help me patrol." Niu Jiao said.

"That line." Xiao Yun took a breath and decided to look at the horns. "Then let's do a big thing that shocks the tribes, horns. Let's build a particularly strong, windproof and warm mud brick house. It’s never cold to sleep in it when it’s snowing."

"Uh..." The horns were reluctant. He really didn't think that Ayun was considered a bad thing by the tribes who like to play with mud. Anyway, the bean sprouts that Ayun said could be sent out, and the tribe would understand; as for the mud In the brick house, the horns are completely unconceived. In order to avoid hunting for a few days for things he did not understand, the horns instinctively did so.

"If you just do it with me in the morning, you can still go hunting and patrol in the afternoon." Xiao Yun tried hard to fight. "Anyway, I have to pick up cow dung and dig wild vegetables with them. In the afternoon, we can use it for half a day. Come on to do this thing. Anything delicious in the future, I think of you first, okay?"

"Good!" The horns answered.

Xiao Yun: "..." Isn't this product just listening to the last sentence! He is so unreliable in his heart!

The calories consumed by the body are different between being frozen and not being frozen. Now the tribe does not consider him to graze (the cubs can only go to the ranch if he is cared for by his parents). Line, then first to solve the problem of housing is also a way of thinking-Thrall's tent is dense enough, when the wind blows in the middle of the night to sleep in it must be covered with animal skins, after all, the cold resistance of the tent and the house is not a level.

Find a straight tree on the bank of the river, cut off the branches and cut them into three-thick, two-palm wide, elbow-length pieces of wood, and then dig out the simplest tenon-and-mortar structure... Two square holes were dug out at the two ends of the wood chip, and the other two wood chips were left with protruding square wood blocks at both ends, and then combined together. This technology lived Xiao Yun and the horns described that the half-day ya is also an obsessive face to show him. In desperation, Xiao Yun could only copy the horn knife and grind the claws a little bit. In the morning, he got the mold of the mud brick, and the rest did not work.

In the afternoon of the tribal voluntary work time, Xiao Yun felt the maliciousness of the world... In the morning, he changed the wolf to dig a pit. So a little time let him eat lunch as if he did not eat it, or the wool heard his stomach keep calling and caught today. The rat roasted on the spot to feed him hunger-so Xiao Yun felt the taste of the unsalted white barbecue.

Dinner is still a large amount of wild vegetables with meat. With the addition of wild vegetables, the supplementary force of the wild food, the snow werewolf consumption of meat has been significantly reduced. After the meal, the patriarch summoned the four young men who stayed behind and asked them to do more in their work tomorrow. The extra prey is cut into strips and dried. In previous years, the dry meat was only started during the big hunting operation before the snow came. This year, with the non-staple food of wild vegetables, you can advance it.

After squeezing Thrall one more night, at dawn, Xiao Yun ran across the river to check his bean sprout pit-this evil world finally did not pit him, the mud surface on the bean sprout pit was almost dry , There is no cracking or slag.

Xiao Yun felt that he should wait for the mud surface to dry out, so he didn’t rush to put bean sprouts into the water, first grabbed the horns, a workforce that was better than wool to make mud bricks...yellow clay with reed rods and good water, set in wooden frames It was fixed in the mold and spread on the flat ground on the bank of the river to dry and dry; Xiao Yun calculated the area of ​​the mud brick house and the number of mud bricks needed by the middle school student who almost forgot to clean it, based on the principle of indispensability (incorrect) Make as many mud bricks as possible-the extra ones can build a soil stove and a kang, or try a small brick kiln that can burn pottery and blue bricks, in short, it will not be wasted.

After two days in a hurry, after the mud surface of the bean sprout pit was completely dry and no water was seen in the water, Xiao Yun finally began his great sprouts growing...