Don't disturb my farming Chapter 53: Shameless Green-haired Monster
"Of course, it's an honor for our clan." Xiao Yun smiled so hard that his teeth were showing.
Before the greedy green dragon could speak, Xiao Yun spoke first, "But you have to wait until next year's harvest. I heard that the dragon race's heritage is comprehensive and powerful. As an honorable green dragon lord, you must know that our food is obtained through farming. We sow in spring and harvest in autumn. This year we only sowed enough for our people. Next year, we will farm more to meet your needs. Let alone one year, we will prepare food for you every year from now on."
The green dragon opened his mouth a little... He definitely wouldn't wait another year. He didn't care about farming! But Xiao Yun then said that he would provide food every year in the future. Isn't that wonderful?
"That's fine." The green dragon raised his chin proudly, suppressing the pride in his heart.
"I know that the knowledge inherited by the dragon race is much more powerful than that of the tauren. You dragons must know a lot about farming. To be honest, we snow wolves have just learned farming from the tauren. This year is our first attempt, and we are not good enough in many aspects." Xiao Yun smiled modestly, "Since you, as an honorable green dragon lord, are willing to accept the food we offer, doesn't it mean that our farming technology is not bad? I am really honored."
"Hehe." The green dragon's chin was almost raised to the sky. He had no idea what farming was, but there is no dragon who doesn't like to be flattered!
"In this case, our tribe must hurry up to prepare for next year's farming, strive to grow the best food for you, Lord, and do our best to satisfy you..." Xiao Yun put on a flattering face, "May I take the liberty to ask you, Lord, to release those gray dwarves as soon as possible? The iron tools made by these gray dwarves can help us grow food for you better..."
"No problem." The green dragon waved his hand, "But don't forget my jewelry. Ingredients are important, but jewelry is equally important."
"Of course, of course." Xiao Yun smiled again, "In order not to waste time, shall our warriors go with you to fetch the gray dwarves? Otherwise, they will take the opportunity to be lazy and idle on the way back. It would be better to start the casting work earlier."
"Okay." The green dragon looked at Xiao Yun with great satisfaction. What a pity that this cub was a snow werewolf. If it was from another tribe, he would have taken it back as a slave... Snow werewolves can be very annoying when they go crazy!
Xiao Yun immediately turned around to look at the stunned soldiers, and his eyes were particularly fiery when he looked at Hongye and Yu.
Hongye & Yu: "..."
The two nodded silently at the same time, their expressions were extremely firm - Don't worry, Ayun! We will definitely remember the location of this green dragon's lair!
The green dragon happily flew into the air, enjoying the food and the rainbow fart, and led a group of snow wolf warriors straight to his own nest. The northern forest is not small, and the dragon's nest is protected by a magic circle, so it is not easy to find without a guide.
Xiao Yun looked at the big lizard flying away with a cold face, and slowly raised his middle finger to send it off warmly...
The two clan leaders who were eavesdropping in the next room waited until the green dragon flew away before coming out. Both of them had very serious expressions. Huoyan might be slow, but when faced with a major event that endangers the tribe, his IQ can still be online. He said worriedly: "Ayun, is this really feasible?"
"Whether it is feasible or not, there is no better way." Xiao Yun exhaled lightly, "We can't kill it, but if we let it go, we're afraid it will bear a grudge and come to cause trouble for no reason. The most important thing is that we have to get the gray dwarf back...either by offering him tribute or flattering him, we need to keep him stable before we can talk about other things."
The Grassroots Chief shook his head: "I'm afraid that the green dragon's greed is not so easy to satisfy... It's okay to just provide food for one green dragon, but if other green dragons come looking for us, how can we afford it?"
"I'm not really worried about that. Is the green dragon so greedy that he would share our exploitative resources with others?" Xiao Yun sneered, "As for this green dragon, if we keep giving him benefits, he will definitely become arrogant... We have to find a way to let him know that it's not so easy to take advantage of us snow wolves."
The two clan leaders looked at each other, and then turned their attention to Xiao Yun. Ah Yun seemed to have a solution... For now, they could only trust Ah Yun. If it were them, they really didn't know what to do except fight the green dragon to a draw.
The warriors brought back more than forty gray dwarves overnight, as well as jewelry patterns, molds, a box of jewelry, and dozens of kilograms of gold and silver ingots that the green dragon had thrown over. There were traces of dragon claws on each gold and silver ingot... Obviously, that guy was not only greedy, but also very petty. It was incredible that he even wanted to leave his own scent on the precious metals used to make jewelry.
Originally, Xiao Yun planned to let the gray dwarves live near the iron mine, but now he believed the green dragon's evil and had to give up the plan of letting the gray dwarves "independent" - after being scared like this, the gray dwarves probably don't have the courage to live so far away from the snow werewolves. If they encounter any problems, they will have to run a hundred or eighty kilometers to ask for help.
Three collective bedrooms were allocated to the gray dwarves, and an "industrial zone" was set aside for them far away from the living area. Before the ground froze, they hurried to build kilns for burning coke, blast furnaces for smelting iron, and blacksmithing workshops.
Xiao Yun was indeed a tech geek, but he knew nothing about iron-smelting technology... But his previous efforts were not in vain, if it weren't for the cement, cement bricks, and sealed ceramic pipes made by him and the snow wolves, the coking kiln and iron-smelting blast furnace would not have been so easy to make.
The forty or so gray dwarves who had only rested for one day had no time to feel emotional about finally seeing the light of day again, and they threw themselves into the busy construction of the industrial zone... They had learned from Charles and Alba that they were able to regain their freedom because the Snow Wolf people made a deal with the Green Dragon for them, and the greed of the dragon race was known to all races. They simply couldn't imagine how much the Snow Wolf people paid - it was meaningless to say thank you, and they had no other way to express their gratitude except to work hard.
——Xiao Yun felt complicated just thinking about using the undignified flattering green dragon to exchange for the loyalty of the gray dwarves.
The coking kiln is ignited and started to burn. In the absence of ready-made equipment, the relatively primitive coking kiln cannot produce additional products in the coking process. However, what is needed now is only coke for ironmaking, and other processes can be started later when conditions are met.
The gray dwarves have their own smelting technology, and the harsh conditions did not prevent them from smelting iron. During the coking kiln (the original earthen kiln takes a long time to smelt coke, about ten days), they used the existing building materials to build a vertical blast furnace for iron smelting - this is really a technical job, Xiao Yun has no idea how to do it anyway...
Well... Actually, it is very easy to separate iron from iron ore if you just want to. Dig a hole in the soil, cover it with stones and yellow mud to make a ground furnace with a narrow top opening (similar to a bread oven), leave a vent at the bottom of the furnace, burn charcoal in the furnace, put in iron ore, and when the temperature rises to about a thousand degrees, the iron oxide in the iron ore is reduced to iron. After cooling, take out the iron block, and then put this iron ore with a lot of impurities into a burning ground furnace (coal or charcoal will do) to burn it red, use a wooden stick to clamp it out and quench it, and forge it repeatedly to remove the oxides mixed in the iron block, so you can get iron with certain mechanical properties - this is how the blacksmiths in the TV series make iron tools. The gray dwarves use this time-consuming and labor-intensive method to make iron tools under extremely primitive conditions, when they can't even smelt coal blocks into coke.
Now that they have the protection of the Snow Werewolves and a certain amount of raw materials available, the Gray Dwarfs are naturally willing to slightly improve the smelting process. The vertical blast furnace built with cement, cement bricks and ceramic pipes seems primitive to Xiao Yun, but the Gray Dwarfs are very satisfied...
"This blast furnace can be burned many times before it collapses!" Baru, the leader of the gray dwarves, said to Xiao Yun with a happy face.
Xiao Yun: “…”
Well... the height of this crude consumable blast furnace is about three meters. The top throat is made of cement, and the hopper and furnace gas pipe are replaced by pottery and ceramic pipes that are opened up from the bottom. There are no refractory bricks to cover the furnace body, just cement bricks. The furnace body support is just the waste weapons picked up from merchant ships that the tribe has recycled. The tuyere and hot air pipe are also replaced by ceramic pipes - although it looks like that, it just doesn't look right no matter how you look at it. Anyway, Xiao Yun thinks it's a bit too much to call this thing a blast furnace, and calling it a vertical furnace is barely acceptable.
The vertical furnace has been covered, and the coking kiln that has been emitting black smoke for several days can now be opened. Water is injected from the ignition hole on the side wall of the kiln to quench the coke and cool the kiln, and the gray-black coke is scraped out. Then the obtained coke and the iron ore and limestone brought back by the Snow Wolf people as coolies are put into the furnace to start burning.
When Xiao Yun was mixed in with the gray dwarves and managing the smelting in the vertical furnace, he suddenly remembered the fertilizer function of coke - coke reacts with water vapor and air to form semi-water gas, and then hydrogen is combined with nitrogen in the air to form ammonia. That's ammonia fertilizer. It seems that the technology for producing ammonia appeared during World War I, and it was first used to make explosives?
Well... During the war, the fertilizer factory transformed into an explosives factory. Xiao Yun still had the common sense that common fertilizer processing could be used as explosives. He didn't expect that he could sweep the world in this world with the industrial technology tree. First, he was not a science student. Second, even if he had a golden finger to push the industrial technology tree to the breech-loading rifle era, it would be useless against green dragons, elves, tigers, etc. - they can do magic! He didn't think he would see mushroom eggs in his lifetime - but it was always a good thing to be able to develop the fertilizer industry. Even the green dragon asked him for food. Obviously, the hardest currency in the world is food~!
With a trial mentality, Xiao Yun asked the gray dwarf Baru whether they had the technology to obtain some kind of extract from coke that could make plants grow better. What responded to him was Baru's pure confused face... OK!
Regretfully suppressing this thought, Xiao Yun continued to pull Baru to ask them if they had seen phosphate mines...
"You mean the kind of ore that looks a bit like coal and glows green when it burns?" Baru thought for a moment before saying.
"Yes, yes, yes!" Xiao Yun had originally been trying to figure it out, and he didn't expect Baru to really know, so he got excited.
"I've seen it. Dark elves use this kind of ore to dye cloth, but they don't use it much... By the way, didn't you pick up quartz near the nest where the goblins used to live? Quartz is often associated with the phosphate ore you mentioned." Baru said.
Xiao Yun couldn't catch his breath and almost fainted - Damn it!
It turns out that he had been strolling above the phosphate mine hidden underground last year... Then why has he been picking up bones like crazy all year long!
After pulling out the roll of cloth hanging on his belt and writing down the phosphate ore, Xiao Yun, who had calmed down, once again discovered a very practical problem... Only phosphate fertilizers that are soluble in water can be absorbed by plants. The mined phosphate ore is insoluble in water and needs to be processed industrially to become usable fertilizer - so the question is, in this area where phosphate ore is used as a mineral dye, where can he find people who understand this technology?
"A, Ayun? Did I say something wrong?" When Baru saw Xiao Yun lying on the ground, he thought he had done something wrong.
Xiao Yun silently got up and looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle: "...You are not wrong, it is this world that is wrong."
Baru: “???”
"There are so many strange people and unscientific magic in this world, why doesn't the technology tree go in the direction of agricultural production?" Xiao Yun was extremely sad. The red molten iron flowing out of the taphole of the vertical furnace did not make him happy.
When it was time for dinner in the evening, Xiao Yun became even more sad, and it was particularly painful - as soon as everyone sat down and picked up their bowls, a green-haired gem monster fell from the sky.
The gray dwarf was so frightened that he screamed and ran around like a headless fly, but he held the bowl in his hand very steadily.
All the goblins huddled in a corner, trembling.
The Snow Werewolf and the Caracal had no expression on their faces.
The uninvited guest glanced around the whole place with an arrogant and cold look, as if he disliked the Snow Wolf Tribe's way of having everyone sit together in the open air to eat. But he didn't even bother to leave, but came down shamelessly, and sat down on a chair he found from somewhere, and then took out a small square table and put it in front of him. Then he looked intently at the Snow Wolf chef who was guarding the clay pot and scooping soup, vegetables and wheat cakes for everyone.
Dahe subconsciously looked at Xiao Yun.
"... Give it to him! Give it to him to eat!" What else could Xiao Yun say? He had barely gotten away with asking for a cook when he tricked this guy away ten days ago.
Dahe handed over the wheat cakes and soup with a constipated look on his face.
The green dragon didn't know what shame was... He naturally conjured up a white napkin and wrapped it around his neck. He devoured it in five minutes and finished the food, which would take an adult snow wolf ten minutes to eat.
Then he looked at the river with sharp eyes .
Dahe looked at Xiao Yun expressionlessly.
Xiao Yun didn't want to say anything and waved his hand weakly.
After eating more than a dozen wheat cakes and finishing a whole earthenware pot of soup and vegetables, the shameless green dragon who came to eat for free finally stopped eating, wiped his mouth elegantly with a napkin, stood up, put away his chair and table, turned to look at Xiao Yun, and said with his hands behind his back in a pretentious manner: "I'll come back to see the progress of my jewelry making next time."
After rising a little, he looked at Xiao Yun again, and said with disdain: "Change the dishes next time. Won't you get tired of eating the same dishes all the time?"
Xiao Yun almost gave him a middle finger on the spot - then don't the hell come here!!
Xiao Yun was so angry that his stomach ached. That night, he went to share a room with the Grassroots chief. After everyone in the tribe had gone to bed, he sincerely asked the Grassroots, who was a hundred times more reliable than Huo Yan, for advice: "Chief, what do you think? We should make some sacrifices and spend some money to hold a food festival, invite all the green dragons to eat, and then kill them all at once, leaving no one alive... Can other dragons find out about this?"
The grass roots looked at him in horror as if they were struck by ten thousand lightning bolts in an instant.
"We definitely won't tell anyone about this, but this won't work?" Xiao Yun said painfully.
The Grassroots Chief was silent for at least ten minutes. He raised his hand and patted Xiao Yun on the shoulder. His voice was a little hoarse when he spoke: "...Ayun...don't think too much. If it were possible, the Elf King would have done it long ago...The elves also like those beautiful gems."
Xiao Yun covered his face and fell on the kang. He understood how the three brothers felt when Churchill said, "Even if the last Indian dies, the British Empire will not surrender" - people just want to exploit you without any manners, what can you do!
Whatever happens, happens!
Xiao Yun, filled with extreme anger and planning a hundred methods of cooking dragon meat, devoted himself to the frustrating task of "supervising" the gray dwarves to make jewelry for the green dragon the next day.
...Then he saw the jewelry pattern provided by the Green Dragon and laughed for ten minutes.
"——It's so ugly, brother! If it weren't for the inherent beauty of gold and silver and the forced insertion of gemstones, would you be able to wear this thing? How dare this guy listen to me bragging about his high standards!"
"...Wait!" Xiao Yun suddenly thought of something, and his forced smile suddenly changed, with a gleam in his eyes.
Charles, who was drawing gold thread with rough tools nearby, accidentally saw Xiao Yun's gloomy face and shuddered suddenly.
A few days later, when a heavy snow was about to come, the shameless green dragon came again to eat, saying that he came to check the progress of jewelry making, but this guy came just for dinner. After he came, he ignored the gray dwarf and just stared at the chef who was cooking.
Xiao Yun gave Dahe a look, then sneaked away to take out the flying statue he had just made.
The flying statue was half a meter tall and had a base thirty centimeters wide. It was so colorful and gorgeous because Xiao Yun had intentionally saved up some flower petal paint this year... When he appeared with the flying statue in his arms, the green dragon, who was eating madly, immediately glued his eyes to the flying statue. He took two steps to the left, and the green dragon's eyes moved to the left. He took two steps to the right, and the green dragon's eyes moved to the right.
Xiao Yun immediately put on a warm smile and said, "Your Excellency Lord Green Dragon, what do you think of this goddess statue?"
The green dragon didn't even bother to eat the white wheat cakes. Its burning eyes almost saw through Xiao Yun's face, as if countless invisible hands were reaching out from his eyes...
"As you can see, this is a statue of... the goddess of life." Xiao Yun said calmly. The gods in this world are all fond of part-time jobs. The goddess of life that the dragons believe in, the forest goddess that the forest elves believe in, and the mother of the earth are all the same... yes, it's the one that the minotaurs believe in. Who knows if this goddess can handle it.
Huoyan & Caogen: “???” The goddess of harvest?!
"My clan has gathered all its strength to build this statue of the Goddess of Life, but unfortunately we find that we don't even have the ability to build a temple dedicated to this goddess." Xiao Yun said disappointedly.
All the Snow Werewolves: “???”
"Obviously, this statue of the goddess is only worthy of a noble green dragon like you." Xiao Yun respectfully presented the statue of the goddess with both hands.
The green dragon jumped over the table and pounced on it to snatch it... But at this time he didn't maintain his dignity.
Xiao Yun looked coldly at the green dragon stroking the goddess statue, with a smile on his face. "Although my tribe does not believe in gods, we also hope to do something for the goddess of life... In fact, I really want to create jewelry like the one worn by this goddess statue. Unfortunately, we snow wolves are very poor and do not have gold..."
Of course, a flying statue must have a flying bun, and a flying bun must be paired with gorgeous head jewelry. Green Dragon looked at the jewelry on the goddess statue in shock and then cast his gaze towards Xiao Yun: "Can you make this kind of jewelry?"
...As long as the materials and accessories are available, the jewelry made by handmade bloggers can blind you. Do you believe it? Xiao Yun secretly rolled his eyes and smiled: "Of course."
The green dragon's breathing changed: "I allow you to use my gold jewelry... to make this kind of jewelry!"
——I want you to learn how to style your hair in a flying bun. Look at you, with such a complicated hairstyle and a head full of jewelry, how can you quickly turn into a dragon?
Xiao Yun pretended to hesitate, and said reluctantly: "This is difficult... It will be more difficult than us gathering the strength of the entire tribe to build a flying statue... Of course, if we can gain your friendship, we Snow Wolf people will definitely go all out."
The green dragon was immediately delighted, and pretended to be cool, raised his chin and said: "I can consider rewarding you with my friendship."
Xiao Yun was laughing in his heart, but on the surface he was very touched: "I am very honored, and I can't help but want to give more for you--" Then he changed his expression to lost, "It's a pity that we have no animal fats. It's hard to catch wild boars recently. Otherwise, we could treat you to more delicious pancakes this time. Alas, it's such a pity."
"What's the big deal!" The green dragon snorted coldly and immediately ascended into the sky... uh, soared into the air.
"It would be even better if we could catch a live wild boar. The oil from wild boars is the most fragrant - the more the better!" Xiao Yun shouted at the flying green dragon.
The green dragon's humming sound came from afar...
Xiao Yun raised his middle finger as a greeting, then quickly turned to look at the others who were in a daze: "Eat quickly! We're still waiting for that guy to come back!"
All staff: “…”
The Grassroots Chief swallowed hard and said, "Ayun, you don't want to..."
"There's no other way. This sticky candy is stuck and can't be shaken off. So we'll have to make the best use of it. At least we have to earn back the food money. First, let him fly all over the forest and catch dozens or hundreds of wild boars for us. We can eat the big ones for meat, and fan the small ones while the weather is cold so they're not easily infected and raise them." Xiao Yun said with an unhappy look on his face.
The grassroots chief suddenly no longer felt bad about giving away the goddess statue for nothing...
Xiao Yun looked at Hong Ye again: "Do you know where there are large groups of prey that are difficult for us to hunt?"
Hongye looked at him dully.
