Wolf King

Chapter 122 Opportunity

The grassroots patriarch's facial muscles twitched slightly, his eyes widened and his pupils contracted, obviously startled by Xiao Yun's guess.

The seven patriarchs were completely dumb, unable to react at all——

The royal court in the grassland is being controlled by others? !

The Tiger Clan was suppressed by some kind of external force? !

This... is this...? !

Xiao Yun has recovered from the shock.When his thoughts turned a corner in this direction, he found that the fog in front of him dissipated a large area in an instant, and the pattern of the Northern Continent became clearer in his eyes.

Bloomfield said he was referring to the North and South Continents, but the Southern Continent and the Northern Continent are not equal. The Southern Continent seems to have no name, but the Northern Continent is as strong as a cloud; when he first came, he knew that the Northern Continent had a very powerful beast Later, I slowly learned from the mouths of humans, cats, tauren, and elves that there are dwarf kings, snow elf kings, forest elf queens, and the dark elf grandmother in the mysterious underground world in the North Continent.

Before he came, the Snow Wolf Clan had no inheritance, no writing of his own, struggling on the line of food and clothing, and unable to pay attention to the outside world. Xiao Yun's understanding of this world could only rely on the information collected from the outside world, summarizing the "testimonies" of all parties to make his own conclusions and judgments.

This will obviously make Xiao Yun quite passive in receiving information from the outside world... If there is more than one person who sends the message, the content of the message will change, just like his positioning of the Tiger Clan—the grassland tribe is under the control of the royal court, and the beast king is like the grassland king. Court borrowing soldiers, this publicly recognized information alone is enough to mislead Xiao Yun into thinking that the Tiger Clan is a "small country ruler" recognized by the Northern Continent, and has a certain right to speak and status in the Northern Continent...

Then there was Xia's message from the tauren: the Tiger Clan regards races other than their own as slaves.

Undoubtedly, this information was in conflict with the previous positioning. After passively accepting it at that time, Xiao Yun could only slightly adjust the positioning of the Tiger Clan, and it was impossible to question the authenticity of the information of the Tauren - after all, there is no need for the Tauren to lie in this place , and it is not a secret that the centaur, one of the aborigines of the prairie, was maimed by the tiger clan.

At this stage, Xiao Yun thinks that the Tiger Clan is an "arrogant, barbaric" local ruler, and an overbearing and shortsighted tyrant. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain the behavior pattern of the Tiger Clan... There is no need for any intelligent creature to be so greedy for what belongs to it. Ugly, just like the emperor in the feudal era regarded the country as his own property and managed it cautiously, while the bureaucratic group that governed the country for a short time has always been "generous" in plundering and dividing up the country's wealth-the Tiger Clan did not actually rule the grassland, so the grassland residents became theirs. Only when slaves are attached to them will they feel that this is their property, and vice versa.

In Xiao Yun's opinion, such a way of doing things is naturally disgusting and he doesn't want to be contaminated... He would rather fight with a smart person than talk to an idiot, and play like this on the grassland, saying that he is the strongest and unparalleled. The most foolish person I don’t want to meet—the person who has the power to set the rules of the game not only ignores the rules, but also doesn’t care about establishing the rules of the game at all. Talk to such a person!

The attitudes of the forest elves and snow elves also made Xiao Yun more sure of this point. Undoubtedly, the two big bosses who are next to the grassland adopt a contemptuous attitude towards the grassland or an arrogant attitude that they consider themselves managers... He can touch the grassland. Among the forest elves I visited, Helene, Kai and other elf warriors are very indifferent to the grassland, and don't care at all; as for the more core Evelyn, she hates the tiger clan and doesn't bother to mention it. .

The attitude of the snow elves is even more fruitful... People think they are watchers on the grassland, and the soldiers and non-commissioned officers at the grassroots level are furious when they find out that the tribes in the grassland are missing, and start searching...

Whether it's the former's indifferent model or the latter's over-enthusiastic "over-the-top" attitude, they both express a rather arrogant attitude: the two elf bosses have reservations about the Tiger Clan's right to rule the grassland.

Of course, such an attitude will not make Xiao Yun despise the Tiger Clan, after all... From the standpoint of the grassland as one, the elves' view belongs to the standpoint of "outsiders", or even the standpoint of the enemy, and Xiao Yun's soul comes from the human race. Yun didn't even know his ass decided his head--a ​​dead enemy is a good enemy, and the Tiger Clan is still alive and kicking, so there must be no good things to say about the enemy.

According to the mainstream international opinion on the planet, India's international image is so much better than China's... who doesn't want to step on China's international image ten thousand feet?

This is why Xiao Yun was shocked after he guessed the real situation of the Tiger Clan. He felt that he had guessed the two elves with the greatest malice, but he never thought that he was still too naive—obviously, if there was some kind of pressure Suppressing the Tiger Clan and not allowing them to use the existing conditions to strengthen themselves, then no matter who else is in this wave of bad guys, both elves must have names.

Breathing out lightly, Xiao Yun did not hide his thoughts, organized his words and then analyzed it to the patriarchs present.

The expressions of the grassroots patriarchs became more serious, and the seven patriarchs who participated in this kind of meeting mode for the first time were so frightened that their jaws dropped...

"This world is far more cruel than we imagined." The grassroots patriarch said with a wry smile, "It's as powerful as a royal court, so it's also involuntary?"

Xiao Yun nodded: "Combining the information from all parties, this is the most likely guess. The population of the Cat Clan is ten times that of the Tiger Clan and ten times that of our Snow Wolf Clan. The cat clan is only relatively weak. Originally, at least half of the cat tribes would follow them just by waving their hands, such as the Yuanxia tribe in the southwest. But they did not do this, but adopted a more violent merger method, which only shows that they If you openly solicit the power of the cat clan for your own use, the cost will be greater than using a more drastic annexation method."

"...Wait, if that's the case, wouldn't we be targeted as well?" The face of the grassroots patriarch changed.

Xiao Yun laughed at himself: "Of course, the matter between Ah Shu and Mu Mu has just passed."

"This—" the grassroots patriarch was shocked, "doesn't this mean that we can no longer go to the central region?"

"We still have to go." Xiao Yun shook his head, "We didn't accept the cat tribe on a large scale, it shouldn't matter if we just gather the tribe... The tiger tribe also adopts the large tribe gathering model, but the concentration of our own race will not touch the bottom line. The Tiger Clan has stepped on the thunder for us."

Being able to touch the tiger clan to cross the river is naturally better than bumping around blindly.

The grassroots patriarch breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."

Xiao Yun said solemnly: "The current situation is that the Tiger Clan is obviously not reconciled to the status quo, they have to fight hard, and the central region will become a battlefield in at most three to five years. Before that, we must try our best to transfer the clansmen in the central region out. "

The grassroots patriarch nodded repeatedly, and the seven patriarchs who finally caught up with the two of them raised their hands to wipe their sweat... It was said that the patriarch was discussing matters, but they couldn't even get in a half sentence at the moment, and they were struggling just to understand.

"Actually, this is not a bad thing for our Snow Wolf Clan. The Tiger Clan has attracted most of the attention of the 'hidden enemies'. It is a good time for us to seize the time to develop ourselves. This is the time for our Snow Wolf Clan opportunity." Xiao Yun smiled, and looked at the seven patriarchs, "Next, we need to ask all the patriarchs to help each other. Our Snow Wolf Clan will work together to build our home, reclaim fertile land, accumulate more food, and let more clansmen come. Sometimes we can have a house to live in and food to eat. It is not enough for some of us to work hard, we need everyone to work together.”

The patriarchs nodded one after another, and Patriarch Feng, who had an old acquaintance with the Huoyan tribe, said: "We are also the Snow Wolf Clan, and we must also contribute to the future of the Snow Wolf Clan. I suggest that the warriors of each tribe be trained together. What happens in the future? , we can also have the power to keep the enemy out."

Xiao Yun's eyes lit up, this patriarch Feng is obviously a reliable patriarch, he immediately smiled and said: "Before we were short of manpower, we didn't have the conditions to let the soldiers go out of production for training, now that there are so many more people, we also have the conditions to do this gone."

When it comes to this point, the other patriarchs can also speak. The patriarchs of the Snow Wolf Tribe adopt the elder system, but most of them can live longer and have enough prestige. The patriarchs present include The leader of the Huoyan clan who works hard in the cement factory was a warrior in the tribe when he was young (before the age of 60).How ordinary fighters become elite fighters, the patriarchs have a good idea.

They each exchanged the number of elite fighters owned by each tribe, and at the collective meeting in the evening, Xiao Yun formally proposed to the 21 Snow Wolf Clan chiefs that the fighters be out of production.

For example, Huoyan's stupid and cute ones are naturally obedient and shut up so as not to cause trouble. After some thoughtful patriarchs such as Grassroots, Feng Patriarch, Li Patriarch and other thoughtful patriarchs discussed aloud, they determined the new fighter team structure and future development direction:

There are 21 elite warriors in the 52 tribes, divided into two teams, one led by Yu and the other led by Xiaohua.

Six ordinary soldiers, 130, were divided into two teams to participate in training and patrolling. Those who could enter the ranks of elite fighters after three years of full-time off-the-job training stayed, and those who could not retreat to participate in work, and another tribe was selected to join the warrior team.

Fighting power is more expensive than elite, mostly because of the unified understanding of the Snow Wolf clan as a natural fighting race. After all, five ordinary fighters are not as good as one elite in a real fight.However, due to the difficult living conditions of the various tribes, no matter how talented fighters are, they still have to participate in hunting or even herding work. Their talents have not been better utilized, and the number of elite fighters is naturally extremely rare...

Hongye belongs to the gifted category. Before Xiao Yunchuan came, she had no energy to train at all, and after she came, she was even more useless.Now the tribe has the conditions to let Hongye go out of production, but Xiao Yun privately suggested to her that she should lead and manage the development and construction of the new hilly area, which made Hongye fall into a deep entanglement...

Xiao Yun didn't intend to let Hongye go to charge and waste talents, so he finalized the two warrior teams without giving her a chance to finish her struggle.If I really want to say, Uncle Ah Shan also has the talent of a fighter, so he was locked up in the brick factory.

What's more, this full-time warrior is only relatively speaking... It is not practical to let 1700 people out of production in a tribe with a total population of only 188+. Even the elite warriors have to work in the fields during the busy farming season, let alone the snow next year. The soldiers had to rush to the central part again.To put it bluntly, it is just to let the soldiers escape from the daily tedious work. If I really want to not work at all, it does not exist.

A few days after the formation of the warrior team was finalized, after the first snow fell, Yu, Xiaohua, Saier and others drove the huge herd of cattle and sheep back to the tribe.

The tense nerves of the snow wolf warriors entered the familiar tribe and finally relaxed. After the snow started, large areas of flocks froze to death and frostbite appeared in the flock. In just two days, more than a hundred sheep died. Yu and Xiaohua couldn't help worrying. Scratching my head, I can put my heart back into my chest now.

The centaur warriors were different. They looked around dazedly at the Snow Wolf tribe, which was even more magnificent than the royal court of the Tiger tribe. Their mouths were wide open and their faces were filled with horror.

In the newly completed spacious meeting room, after cleaning and thoroughly deworming the group of poor bathers, Hongye, who was completely stripped of her status as a soldier and turned into an "administrative" work, wiped off her sweat, and took Saier and others to the greenhouse (...) Changed stables... er, centaur quarters.

After removing the wooden door, the light from the newly opened windows allowed the centaurs who do not have night vision to see their new house clearly: in the extremely spacious and transparent large room, the floor is newly paved with cement, separated by half Dry straw and carpets are laid in the space for them to sleep; the other half of the space is equipped with some high tables similar to bar counters, which are used as dining tables for centaurs when they eat in the house. Considering the height of centaurs, this The height of the dining table alone is two meters two; in the remaining space, there is a passage for centaurs with a large tonnage (average weight of [-] to [-] kilograms, I will correct the tonnage in the previous chapter) to move freely. Several rows of hanging hangers were ordered on the wall, and a tall double-door cabinet was placed for the centaurs to store their personal belongings.

Although it is a room temporarily modified by a greenhouse, compared to the cramped tent where the centaurs either slept in the open or squeezed in aggrievedly, I don't know where it is tall... Even Saier couldn't help being moved, grateful He glanced at Hongye.

"Well... the heating of the house here is different from where we live. It is heated by the underground fire channel and there is no independent kang. Don't worry about the temperature. It won't feel cold, but it won't be much warmer... ...Uh...you can't start a fire if you eat, so every day when it's meal time, you have to take people out to the cafeteria to pick up..." Hongye introduced embarrassingly, and gave Hongye a little embarrassment by changing the greenhouse to them. Why can't the ready-made dormitory centaur live in it!

"It's already very warm. We're not afraid of the cold, no, it's very warm inside, and we don't feel cold. We're very satisfied." Sale said hurriedly.

The delighted centaurs nodded again and again.

"As long as you are satisfied." Hongye breathed a sigh of relief, "Then you guys rest for two days first, and then talk about other things after a while. Saier, you arrange two people to go with me to the cafeteria to get food."

"I'll go with you." Saier beckoned the clansmen to rest in the new residence, and then called a young guy out, and went with him to find the way to the place where the food was collected.

The greenhouse area is relatively close to the living area. The closest one is Sal’s mushroom shed. The centaur’s dormitory and Sal’s mushroom shed are separated only by the woolen bean sprout shed. A human being was seen coming out of a large house similar to their new home.

"Ah!!" When Thrall saw the centaur with obvious inhuman features, which was as ugly as a goblin, he couldn't help screaming, stepped back a few steps in horror and stuck it against the wall.

"This is Thrall, a human who lives with our snow wolf clan." Hongye introduced, "Thal, this is a centaur who just arrived."

Seeing Hongye, Thrall felt much more relieved, but he didn't dare to approach at all. He squeezed out a forced greeting smile and nervously retreated into the mushroom room.

Purcell & Centaur Guy: "??"

Hongye was not surprised, and led the two of them to move forward: "Sar is relatively timid, it will be good if you get to know him later, he is very good. By the way, his two mushroom houses are more important. The things planted in them are more important. You can’t see the light and you can’t get cold, so try not to get close.”

"Okay, I'll tell the clansmen." Saier nodded, sneakily pulled the young man who couldn't keep looking back, and stared at him fiercely.

Hongye smiled again: "But you probably won't have much time to wonder about Sal's mushroom house in the future. Our tribe doesn't have much work to do in winter, but there are many things to learn."

"How do you say?" Saill asked strangely.

"Study, arithmetic and writing." Hongye said, "Don't worry, you won't be too reluctant in the first year, Ayun. This winter, you only need to learn simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and the most basic writing."

"..." Saier struggled to understand for a long time and finally understood the meaning of Hongye. He was shocked, "Count? Words??"

"That's right, it's convenient to do anything after knowing how to count. For example, how much food do you have to eat in one meal, how much of which kind of food each person consumes, and how much everyone needs to eat together. You must be able to count." Hongye patiently said, "Knowing words is also for the convenience of carrying out work, because some more complicated tasks are easy to miscommunicate as long as the words are conveyed by mouth. If you write the work content on the bark paper, you will not make mistakes."

Speaking of which, Hongye took out a piece of bark paper from her pocket, raised her hand and handed it to Saier: "Look, this is the work arrangement when renovating the dormitory you live in, how many blankets are prepared, how high is your dining table, and Cabinets and nail hangers for hanging clothes, these are all written on paper and explained, so that we will not miss them when we do specific work.”

Saier took the bark paper, felt dizzy after just a glance, and hurriedly returned it to Hongye: "Does this have to be learned?"

Hongye laughed: "Yes, everyone has to learn. Don't be nervous, it's actually not difficult to learn..."

Saier felt much more at ease. He was a little worried that if the people of the tribe could not learn it, they would be rejected by the snow wolf tribe, but considering that the snow wolf tribe said it was not difficult, then it shouldn't be a big problem for them centaurs to learn it.

Thinking of this, a group of three people entered the living area. Compared with the greenhouse area with an average height of more than five meters, the house here was much shorter, and Saier felt a little at ease after seeing it... The Snow Wolf Clan gave them a place to live. The house is very big, it is obvious that they attach great importance to them!No need to say, he did whatever he was told to do!

But at this moment, a cry of pain and abandonment of treatment sounded: "I just don't understand!!"

The two centaurs looked in horror at the direction of the sound, and saw a female forest elf rushing out of the aisle between the two rows of houses, holding her head and rushing past them, towards the snow-swept place. Far away from the square...

"This?!" Saier looked at Hongye in shock.

"It's Ayun's new disciple, the forest elf Evelyn." Hongye's face didn't change at all, she was completely used to big scenes, "She came before the snow, and she learned knowledge from Ayun. Don't worry, what she learned It's different from what we've learned..."

"..." Saier's face changed a little, and he suddenly felt that he seemed a little too optimistic...

In the depths of the living area, Balk stood at the gate, with one hand on his hips and the other hand under the awning, looking at the female elf who ran away, until she disappeared before retreating into the house gloatingly: "Ayun, ayun, that idiot gave up~ I ran away~ I became a deserter~"

"You're so ashamed to call her an idiot..." Xiao Yun looked up, dumbfounded, "Didn't I tell her to understand the mathematical logic of our calculation first? Interrupt and lead her on a detour?"

"If you can't tell which words I said are teasing her, then she's stupid!" Balk said triumphantly.

"..." Xiao Yun got off the kang silently, grabbed Balk's collar and pushed it out, "You go, play with yourself, don't come here to cause trouble."

"You still said that you didn't dislike me! You weren't like this before!" Balk quit, grabbing the door frame and yelling.

Xiao Yun was shocked again: "I've already told you, be careful when you speak...be careful with your words, idiot!"

"Okay, you still call me an idiot!"

"Okay, you go, play your game!"

"If I don't leave, I will stay here!"

Inside the house, the residents of dormitory No. 7-9 sat at the end of the kang and ate, looking expressionlessly at the two people pushing at the door.

"Dahe, every time Ayun comes over, Balke will follow, it's so noisy." Lynx gnawed on the meatloaf.

"Does Balk like to pester Ayun so much? I haven't noticed it before." The golden cat asked curiously while tearing the baked wheat cakes into small pieces and soaking them in the soup.

"Because in the past, Ayun only told Balk the things we didn't understand. Now that there is more Evelyn, Balk will feel that Ayun doesn't value him anymore." Dahe looked sour as if he had come here. , "I have also experienced this kind of thing. In the past, Ah Yun was very nice to me, thinking about me in everything. Later, he only paid attention to Lan Guo and the others, and ignored me."

"You really have the nerve to say it!!" Xiao Yun turned around and glared.

The centaurs rested for two days to relieve the exhaustion along the way, Saier recovered his energy, and was a little embarrassed to eat such a leisurely meal, Qingcao, Dashui and Qingyan came to the door...

"It's really strong from a close look!" Dashui caught Saier from the human body to the horse's body, with a look of surprise, "If you are so strong, you basically don't have to pick jobs, you can do everything."

"Yes, the legs are so thick, if you pull the winch and the millstone to squeeze the soybean oil, it will definitely be very beautiful." Qingyan is very satisfied.

"Wait, Qingyan, you have replenished so many cubs, so you don't need to compete with our work team?" Qingcao looked over with sharp eyes.

"But we really need more powerful people. You know that the river is frozen and the water power is useless. We still have a lot of soybeans that we haven't had time to squeeze out." Qingyan argued.

Qingcao and Dashui looked at each other, and felt that it seemed reasonable...then reluctantly nodded: "Then you will get two, and the rest will belong to us."

"Okay." Qingyan felt that it would be nice to have two, and pointed to Saier and the other strongest centaur, "Then these two belong to me."

"Alright." Qingcao nodded briskly, then turned to talk to Dashui, "I still have hundreds of thousands of catties of wheat waiting to be ground, and Ayun wants our team to burn out the soy sauce vat quickly. how?"

"Okay." Da Shui said with a smile, "In this case, you will have to arrange people for their study group. Our group has to quickly fish out the fish raised in the canal and process them. If it is later, the fish will freeze to death." , can’t spare too many people.”

"no problem!"

"Then divide up quickly, or we will have to fight for a long time when Balk reacts."

"Hahaha……"

Purcell watched in confusion as his clan was divided up by these three people, and he himself was dragged away by the black-skinned cat clan who called himself Qingyan...

Pulling the winch that makes the heavy stone mill rotate and press down in a warmer room, this kind of "oil extraction" work is not a big deal for the centaur whose pulling force is comparable to that of a curved horn cow; Fearing that they would be bored, I arranged for a cub of the cat clan to sit next to them with bark paper and tell them novel and interesting human stories. Although they sweated a lot after a day's work, they didn't feel difficult.

While digging out bean dregs, the cubs of the Snow Wolf tribe brought them rich "tofu nao" to supplement their salt and water. They went to the Welfare Department and told them that they could exchange copper coins for extra snacks... Purcell glanced around the shelves of the Welfare Department full of various items. Treated fairly, I feel that this trip is really the right one.

But in the evening, after a few snow wolves holding bark paper came to the centaur's dormitory and took them to study together, Saier didn't think so - no wonder their dormitory was so intimately prepared to suit their height. It turns out that in addition to letting them use it as a dining table, they are still required to write and count!