Wolf King

Chapter 288

After visiting the work of the mud film team, Xiao Yun brought the envoys into the glazing "workshop" - a relatively spacious thatched shed about the size of a university lecture hall.

In addition to the enamel tableware that is rationed for the elves every year, the Fire Department also produces a large amount of "rough glaze" porcelain, some of which are used for their own use, and some are sold to the southern continent as cheap commodities.

In this coarse glaze processing workshop, dozens of captives of the Xiong tribe are busy with this kind of commodity: carefully dip the cool and dry mud film into the glaze, dye it evenly, and then lift it out and place it in the glaze. side.

Hmm... At present, the glazes used by the Huoyan Department are relatively primitive. They use feldspar, quartz, talc, and kaolin to burn and grind mineral glazes, and do not use lead glazes. The reason is naturally not the pursuit of environmental protection, but the world's Like aluminum, lead is still a relatively precious rare metal, so it can’t be used... (Lead on the earth was also used as a precious metal and luxury)

Naturally, it is impossible to get you some patterns and styles for the large amount of coarse-glazed porcelain. The whole glazing workshop has no artistic atmosphere and is full of a rough and wild atmosphere of a small workshop. Incompletely, troubadours are not even willing to enter the workshop door.

Xiao Yun was as good as he was, and took the distinguished guests to the next place...the raw wool processing site.

Before the advent of synthetic fiber technology, the textile industry could only rely on natural animal and plant fibers. 90% of the raw materials in Huoyanbu's wool spinning mill came from hundreds of thousands of long-haired sheep raised in large-scale partitions by the tribe.

The long-haired sheep is a native species of the cursed land. In order to resist the four-month-long cold winter every year, this sheep breed in another world, which is neither like a sheep nor an alpaca, has evolved a very strange, thick, long and long-haired sheep. Thick long hair, why do you say it's weird, this wooly long hair is thicker than wild boar hair... Even Xiao Yun used the snow werewolf's thick skin and thick flesh, and it felt sticky to the touch.

In order to process this kind of raw wool that can only be felted and used as tents into fibers that can be used for weaving, Xiao Yun did not know how many hairs were broken—even vinegar was used~!

Over the years, Xiao Yun has been intentionally artificially influencing the evolution direction of long-haired sheep, but after all, the time is short and the effect is not obvious, so what is collected after shaving the sheep every summer is still super rough that can be used to stab people. Raw wool from the mine...

The only advantage is that the output is relatively large. An adult long-wool sheep can shave nearly [-] kilograms of raw wool a year.

The guests were taken to the processing point, and what they saw... was the scene where the captive bears were scoured.

The dirty raw hair piled up like a hill on one side of the canal can smell a faint stench from afar. The bears' heads sitting on the small benches pulled the raw hairs off in lumps and threw them into the soap container. Washing in a large pottery basin of water, soaking the raw hair in steaming soapy water, the more complex and subtle smell rises with the water mist...

A famous bear family washed out a small pile of raw hair, and the water in the clay basin in front of him was so dirty that he could not see the bottom, so he grabbed the edge of the basin with one hand and lifted it up slightly, and the smelly water was very strange in both smell and color. Dumped into sewage drains...

The bards covered their noses and fled, followed by the forest elves.

Xiao Yun, the grassroots patriarch, and Arthur patriarch quickly apologized and said that the itinerary was not properly arranged and the hospitality was not good. They quickly took the guests out of the prison camp and went to the cafeteria where the banquet had been prepared for a long time.

The soldiers of the Snow Wolf Clan who guarded the prisoner camp watched nervously as the last guest left, and then all of them gasped—finally left!

Ayun said that the "truth" of the battle should not be revealed in a short time (mainly because the battle process in the southern area should be kept secret), and asked everyone to keep an eye on these messengers, and if they found anyone trying to talk to the captives, they must be stopped quickly, making them very special in fear...

"Okay, it's okay, let's continue to work." A Yan, who was in charge of the hair washing group, wiped his sweat. When A Yun and the two patriarchs came with the mission, his small heart almost jumped out of his throat. There were hundreds of people, and he was the only one in custody. If two people were accosted by the messenger group at the same time, which side would he take care of first?

Some of the bear heads sitting in rows by the canal were also visibly relieved.

It's fine to be a prisoner, but to be visited, they are also very stressed...

White Bear General Wood, who was in the hair-washing group, was even more frightened when the mission approached - he didn't want to be recognized at this time at all!

Watching the luck of the messenger group, Wood was in a complicated mood...

How could I be reduced to where I am today?Wood, who had been a prisoner for more than half a month, couldn't understand this question at all.

A few days before he was transferred to the prisoner camp, Wood even dreamed about how to escape, but soon, he gave up this idea... The winter on the grassland is as cold as his hometown, although the grassland people did not confiscate their Clothes and warming supplies (weapons must have been seized), they were not severely tortured and bruised, and they were not watched particularly closely, but even if they escaped from the prison camp, they could not go very far-the people were not familiar with the place and there were not enough Food, coupled with being half-starved every day, makes people feel uncomfortable even leaving the warm barracks. Do you want to die or do you want to rush into the snowstorm?

As a hardy white bear, Wood didn't dare to survive in the wild on the grassland in winter, let alone other people...

Of course, there is an even bigger reason that hinders Wood's "pursuit of freedom": Even if he escapes from the grassland and returns to his hometown, Wood doesn't know how to explain the defeat of this battle to his tribe!

One must know that among the Twelve Generals of the White Bear, he was selected to lead this looting... um, the war operation, because some elders in the clan are very optimistic about him and intend to support him to enter the Six-member Elders Council !

The results of it?More than 30 soldiers he brought out died, and the rest became captives of the prairie people with him...

Recalling the ambition and complacency when he set off, and thinking about the current situation, Wood only felt disheartened.

After being starved for ten days, the prairie people claimed to guarantee the basic right of survival, give humanitarian care to the prisoners of war, and provide opportunities for labor in exchange for treatment, etc., and organized the prisoners to work. Wood didn't listen carefully at all, but just followed other people people act.

It wasn't until the emissaries of the forest elves and the dark iron dwarves were brought into the prisoner camp for a visit that Wood suddenly woke up from his stupor.

Ayan, the snow werewolf who was in charge of their group, took out a notebook and started wandering among the crowd, writing down everyone's workload.Wood ignored him, mechanically cleaning the smelly raw hair with his hands, and his brain, which had been numb for a long time, began to function.

It's hard to say if the Beast Emperor didn't get any news about his defeat in this battle, but the elves and the black iron dwarves must have known about it.

Emissaries of elves and dark iron dwarves came to the steppe, and were brought to see their captives...

Wood's heart throbbed violently, and his face was extremely ugly. Although he really didn't want to admit it, he knew in his heart that if he lost this battle, the elves and the black iron dwarves must take the opportunity to make a fuss!

The Beast Emperor is greedy for the food and vermicelli grown by the prairie people, and wants to take these exiled people back into his hands, then the bastards of the elves and the black iron dwarves will definitely do the opposite, either take the prairie people under his command, or... directly Support the self-reliance of grassland people!

When Wood was born, the Tiger Clan, Snow Wolf Clan, and Cat Clan had been exiled for more than 100 years. He had no emotion for these members of the former Far East Orcs. He would neither hate nor sympathize. If he hadn’t been involved in This matter, then Wood will never care about what will happen to these prairie people in the future, and it can't even be talked about after dinner.

However, being moved by the benefits promised by the Beast Emperor, he once regarded the wealth of the prairie people as his own, and ended up becoming a "trophy" for the prairie people to show off their martial arts. This feeling is quite bad...

The most important thing is that after losing such a big face in front of the enemies of the orcs, those arrogant and hateful elves, Wood knew that even if he returned to his hometown with all the rest of the tribe unscathed, he, one of the twelve generals, One is over...

Wood felt sad, and his brain, which had just regained its sanity, gradually became numb again.

"It's lunch time, everyone put down what you're doing and come and line up to wash your hands!"

A Yan, who couldn't understand Wood's sadness at all, saw the cafeteria staff pushing the dining car to the camp from afar, and immediately called the prisoners to stop working.

Wood, who was so sad that he couldn't help himself, naturally stood up with the people next to him, followed the queue naturally, picked up the soap for washing hands, and applied foam to the wooden bucket next to him for washing his hands.

"Pay attention to clean your nails. If there are dirty things in your nails, you won't be able to get the after-dinner snacks!" A Yan stood next to the wash bucket, telling each one as soon as they came up.

Wood saw the black bear on his right stop rubbing his hands, and used his right nail to pick the residue in the gap between his left hand...

Grassland people like to make up a process for everything they do, and follow the process for everything they do. At first, the bears were not used to such a rigid approach, but after following their process for a few times, it will come naturally I am quite used to this management mode—although it is a bit rigid, at least the people in it know what to do when they are doing something. Go back and let the people in the cafeteria check whether your hands are clean, and you can get a little extra snack if you clean them.

"Knowing what to do when you want to do it" is a very efficient way to quickly organize a group of loose sand into a group. As long as you spend a little effort in the preparation work in the early stage, you will have a lot less trouble in the future. For example, the hair washing group After the bear heads lined up and washed their hands, they knew to spontaneously line up in the open space next to them according to height, waiting for the dining car from the cafeteria to come...

Twenty or so carriage-shaped dining carts were pushed into the camp by the canteen staff. According to the work performance of each group the day before, the dining carts carrying food of different specifications were pushed to different group work points.

The dining car with a large "one" painted on the body with conspicuous red mineral paint came to the front of the hair washing group.

"Yesterday our team performed very well. The raw wool washed out broke the previous record. According to the regulations, half of the daily production income can be directly used for the team's extra meals the next day, and the remaining half will be distributed to everyone every seven days. Hey, we have something good to eat today!" A Yan happily waved his arms at the bear heads, the detainees will have a working meal with the working group of the prisoner camp, although he can have extra meals in the morning and evening, but he can't eat at noon. I want to eat better.

The people in the hair washing team already knew about this. They had enjoyed the extra meal treatment for yesterday's excellent performance at breakfast, but now A Yan said it again, they were still very happy to hear it, and some bears showed smiles.

The cafeteria staff parked the dining car and waved to Ah Yan: "Come and share the bowl."

"Here we come. What's for today's first-class meal?" Ah Yan wagged her tail and stepped forward to help.

"Braised mutton slices, spicy diced rabbit! Not bad, right?" the cafeteria staff laughed.

"Why is it a rabbit again!" Ah Yan shouted.

"Hold up, don't you like to eat! You are too full to eat and picky, and the envoys are rushing to eat rabbits!" The cafeteria staff scolded back aggressively... Although he is not a chef, he can enter The people in the Holy Land Canteen, even the vegetable washers, have pride.

"Okay, okay..." Ayan brought out the tableware with drooping eyebrows, divided it according to the head, and casually shouted at the bear heads waiting in line, "Come someone to help with the dishes."

Bear Head, who was at the front of the queue, had been waiting to be greeted for a long time, so he trotted forward and picked up the spoon skillfully.

The Ministry of Fire and Flames respects the laborers and the work itself. Whether it is the original cat clan, tiger clan, or the current bear clan captives, the work meal at noon is all well managed. As long as the stomach is not full and the work in the afternoon is not delayed, love Eat as much as you want.

The snow wolves have eaten diced rabbits in various ways for many years, and they are afraid of diced rabbits when they eat them. The bear heads don’t have this problem. In the big bowl, the bear head who received the meal walked aside, and each of them gave priority to the wheat flour bean dregs cake and the spicy rabbit diced, and they ate it like a wolf.

The black bear who was at the front because of its small size gave everyone a round of food, and when it was his turn, he served himself a big bowl of food...

The snow wolves had the habit of eating all the dishes in the cafeteria from the very beginning. In order to prevent the clansmen from eating too much, Xiao Yun first asked the gray dwarves to hand-make a batch of chili seeds for the cafeteria. The powdered small steel is ground out, and the ginger and garlic used in the dishes are also pureed. The dishes cooked in this way cannot be presented beautifully, but it does not have the trouble of leaving residues in Chinese dishes. .

The tableware that the bear heads eat is as if they have been licked, so it is easy to wash...

The bear heads had a full meal and handed in the tableware. The cafeteria staff dutifully checked the hygiene conditions one by one. As long as there was no mud on their hands or dirt in their nails, they would give out a palm-sized piece made of acorn flour, wheat starch, Multigrain biscuits made of sugar and soy flour.

Well, the free snacks naturally cannot be exquisite snacks, they are mainly all kinds of biscuits that can satisfy the hunger, have a sweet taste, and have a certain crispy taste...

Ah Yan has long despised such snacks, but she didn't waste it, and received them in her pocket: "Start work after a half-hour break, everyone, remember to only rest around our work site, don't go away, go to other places." Don't look for me if the team's site is driven back."

The bear clan is not as territorial as the cat clan, but the snacks received by the bear heads are all placed nearby at the work site. After the incident of being stolen by a bear from another group, random activities between groups are prohibited. "Shipping around".

That's right, the bears love sweetness. Although the free snacks are rough and cheap, as long as there is sweetness in them, the bears like to eat...

White Bear General Wood, who had a pretty good life before, is not greedy for this stuttering, but he is not as casual as A Yan, but will subconsciously put away the sweet multigrain biscuits next to his body carefully...

The cafeteria staff pushed the dining car and prepared to leave. Before they left, they thought of something. The bear heads of the hair washing team shouted: "The Ministry of Welfare has a batch of cream biscuits that will be removed from the shelves. There will be cream biscuits for the first-class snack tomorrow. The multigrain biscuits are delicious. Work hard today, and try to eat the work meal I sent tomorrow."

"Okay!" At least half of the bear's heads that had already dispersed to rest echoed.

The cafeteria staff pushed the dining car away. It took a while to realize what this meant, and White Bear General Wood's face was blue.

Are you still bears?Are you so active as a prisoner? !

On the other side, the Burning Tile Group where Moon Bear General Bazel was.

Bazel, who was recognized by the bard and whose name was announced aloud, was very depressed and irritable. The working meal given by the prairie people could not soothe his wounded heart. He even held the dead when receiving the meal. Face.

The tile-burning group is relatively far away from other groups, occupies a large area, and there is a row of conspicuously smoking clay kilns to attract attention. Bazel, who is a well-known figure in himself, is naturally difficult to hide.

The tile-burning team, whose work performance was mediocre yesterday, didn’t have a first-class meal today. There was no braised mutton slices, and only spicy rabbit diced. It's delicious.

When the canteen employee pushing the second-class dining car was packing up, he accidentally kicked the defective tiles piled on the ground, and fell forward with an "ouch".

Several bear heads that were relatively close stepped forward almost at the same time, and several arms stretched out one after another, firmly supporting the canteen staff who almost had their faces on the ground...

"Thank you, thank you." The cafeteria staff shyly supported the bear's paw to stand still.

Holding his bear's skulls, he silently removed the defective tiles blocking the way.

Moon Bear General Bazel, who squatted not far away and watched the whole process: "..."

Bazel suddenly had a bad feeling...

At the same time, the canteen was hosting the envoys and bards of the two races.

The plain elf from the Bradrick continent carefully picks up the chunky, rich and plump braised pork with chopsticks (he is resident in Ananas, the elf port, and has learned it a long time ago), and carefully puts it into his mouth .

The sweet and sour fatty pork melted in his mouth. This core member of the Bard Association, who had long since achieved economic freedom and tried everything delicious, almost burst into tears instantly.

With tears in his eyes, the Plain Elf carefully tasted the iron plate grilled fish, Maoxuewang, sweet and sour squirrel fish, boiled mutton slices, braised beef cubes, and suddenly covered his mouth and bowed his head. Hot tears flowed down.

Chief Arthur, who was at the same table with these bards: "??"

"Is it too spicy?" Patriarch Arthur quickly looked at the dishes on the table. After dealing with the elves for so long, everyone knows that these guys have weak mouths and cannot eat too spicy food. The spicy and spicy grilled fish and Maoxuewang are both made into a slightly spicy taste, it shouldn't be!

Chief Arthur looked at the others nervously, and then his body shook.

The other bards were not as exaggerated as the plain elves, but everyone's eyes were full of tears.

"It's been eight years since I... came to the Northern Continent." The plain elves choked up and said, "It's been eight years, a full eight years, and the closest I've been to the grassland tribe is less than two hundred kilometers away, and I never thought about it. Come to visit and miss this delicious food for eight years..."

Well, this dude was the first member of the bard association to follow Leo Silves, a senior executive of the Bard Association, and the first group of association members to come to the North Continent to conduct business (Carlisle invited him here, and he took the same ship as Earl Winston of the Sea Clan ), in these years, he has had countless opportunities to visit the Huoyan Department and eat the food cooked by the authentic Huoyan Department chef, but he never came. He was satisfied with the food store run by the boss of the elf port, Ashu, thinking that it was the food of the Snow Wolf Clan The peak... Thinking of this, this plain elf is really sad!

Chief Arthur: "..."

Resisting the urge to scold crazy, Chief Arthur ate in silence with a distorted expression.

These elves were still in the mood to sigh and sigh. At the table next door to the black iron dwarves, a group of dwarves had no energy to speak, and tried their best to swallow the world.

Xiao Yun, who was accompanying the guests at the same table, originally tried to engage in table diplomacy and set up friendship with Major Pete Warhammer, but he did not expect that once the dishes were served, he, a prairie diplomat, would become redundant...

"I knew I would let the amateur cooks do it first, to exercise their receptivity... full firepower is not good!" Xiao Yun sighed in his heart, got up and asked the chef to add more dishes.

After a meal, without the grassland people explaining themselves, the missions of the two ethnic groups realized firsthand why the canteen is the holy place of the Huoyan Department.

Inviting the guests to a slightly decorated large conference room to chat and digest food, Miss Gina was ashamed and said nothing, Pete Warhammer, who was not a professional diplomat, recklessly said: "Is the chef of your snow wolf tribe hired outside? Ironforge promises to give the chefs of the noble tribe the best treatment!"

"I'm sorry about this." It's not the first time Xiao Yun met someone who coveted his own chef, and he said apologetically, "Of course, if there is a need in Ironforge, we can send someone over. We are happy to teach you how to cook. You know, there are a lot of gourmet recipes published in the Gourmet Hunter’s Travels, and we will not keep secrets in this regard.”

Pete Warhammer's eyes lit up: "What do you think of me?"

Xiao Yun sprayed it on the spot...

Fortunately, Pete Warhammer was the only one who was unreliable. At the critical moment, there was Miss Gina, the envoy of the forest elves, who came to the rescue. She took the lead and said that she hoped to invite the official envoy of the grassland tribe to visit the Queen's City after the Frankish feast.

Xiao Yun was refreshed, and immediately asked Lady Gina what preparations to do to meet the queen—obviously, the forest elves couldn't wait to hope that the grassland tribes would immediately stand on their own, and don't give the Beast Emperor a chance. Naturally, this matter must be implemented quickly.

As for whether the "ruling area" of the grassland tribes covers the entire cursed land, or only encloses the southwestern border actually occupied by the Fire Department, on this particularly important key issue, the forest elves, the black iron dwarves, and Xiao Yun all chose tactical neglect……

The reason is very simple. Xiao Yun knows that these "non-clan members" want the grassland tribes to be self-reliant and they don't want the grassland tribes to be too powerful and uncontrollable. Therefore, the claws extended by the Huoyan Department must be restrained and show respect. The "safety" that people feel at ease.

In addition, Xiao Yun also has a concern that cannot be treated by outsiders... the tauren is an ally, it is best to remain as an ally forever, and don't become a family!

True Holy Mother, absolutely cannot be a teammate~!

I don’t say anything about the Flame Ministry’s wings becoming stiffer and qualified to compete with the elves. Which side will the tauren stand on? With the relatively slow reproduction efficiency of the orcs, if the Flame Ministry wants to expand its basic base, it must tap the Far Eastern orcs. Corner of the wall... If the tauren who had become a family jumped out to object at this time, even if Xiao Yun was covered in mouths, he would not be able to persuade the bullheads who have been the Holy Mother for thousands of years.