Don't disturb my farming Chapter 69 Father's Assistance
"The limestone mined from the ground was brought back and calcined here."
Xiao Yun took out a piece of lime that had been calcined into a white solid state from the cooled cement kiln, and squeezed it lightly with his hands, and the lime broke into pieces.
"After calcination, this will become brittle, which is good for breaking and grinding. If you add other things and mix it with water, it can become as solid as stone again. Very interesting?"
Balk nodded with a dull expression, and his eyes could not help but move to the neatly stacked bricks. It turned out that this kind of building material that was as neat as stone was made in this way...
Xiao Yun was also a little curious about what this guy had learned from the goblins. After work, he didn't lie down like a big boss like he usually did and ran to the dusty construction site.
"Balke, are you interested in how we can use limestone?"
"Uh... yes." Balk's eyes wandered absent-mindedly.
"Well, follow me if you want to see it."
With more people, everything can be arranged more conveniently. Alfalfa has entered the harvesting period in batches, and there is no need to make the whole tribe panic just to harvest forage like last year. When the bundles of alfalfa harvested in the early flowering period are stored, the engineering team can also spare some manpower to reinforce the river embankment in advance.
On the mud brick river embankment base built last year, a three-meter-wide foundation was dug on the north bank side, and cement gravel was poured. Then cement bricks were used to build a thick embankment with a width of three to five meters and a height of two meters. It was built from the north bend of the river to the low-lying swamp drainage area. Once the embankment is completed, the grain fields and vegetable fields on the north bank will no longer have to worry about flooding for at least ten years.
Such a river embankment project is nothing on Earth, but it is shocking in this world... The first section of the river embankment completed by the engineering team, a large cement dam with a length of about 160 meters... uh, we still have to have some shame, a small cement dam, shocked Balke as soon as it came up.
"This, this... this... when was this built?" Balk didn't even care about the dragon clan's airs.
"We started repairing the road the day you arrived. We were not familiar with the work at the beginning, so it took us more than 20 days to finish this section." Xiao Yun felt a pain in his teeth when he mentioned the progress. "After this batch of alfalfa is harvested, our engineering team will have to work harder, as there is still a long section waiting to be repaired."
"..." Balk could tell that Xiao Yun's tone was full of dissatisfaction, which made him speechless... He built such a spectacular river bank in such a short time and he looked so dissatisfied. What was he doing? Then his castle took a hundred years to build. Doesn't that mean he doesn't even want to build a dragon? !
Although Balke was complaining in his heart, his body was very honest... He walked to the spectacular riverbank, reached out and touched the north-facing slope made of cement and stones. The smoothness it felt was exactly the same as the wall of the house.
...Those houses are indeed built with limestone dug by the goblins. Balk muttered to himself, and was particularly disgusted to find that the river bank they built was thicker than the walls of his castle...
"Balke?"
"I didn't admit it!" Balk was shocked.
Xiao Yun was confused: "...Admit? Admit what?"
"Nothing, I'm hungry. Let's go back to the tribe." Balk's face turned red, he turned around and walked away at a quick pace.
Xiao Yun: “???”
That night, Balk, lying on a bunk bed, stroking the fur of a caracal cub, could not fall asleep. His mind kept thinking about what he had seen during the day... No, all of them were facts that he had only just discovered, and had not noticed before because of his arrogance:
The goblins mined limestone, and the snow wolves transported the limestone back to the tribe, put it into the ugly-looking "kiln", burned it with coal into white blocks, and then processed it into cement, which was made into bricks to build neat houses and river embankments that were stronger and thicker than the walls of his castle.
What does this mean? It means that if the Snow Wolf Tribe wants to build a castle, they only need a short time to build a castle that is more spectacular than the nest they are so proud of...
Balk really felt that it was quite boring. He knew that his castle could not compare with the buildings of elves, humans, and orcs. After all, humans had larger families, and as a dragon clan, there was no need to compete with these populous tribes. But the Snow Werewolves, a tribe on the grassland, which was recognized as the poorest grassland tribe, could actually leave him behind? !
...Is it really related to the goblins? Balk felt the nerves on his forehead throbbing. Compared to the Snow Wolf Tribe, did he, a great green dragon, lose to the goblins? !
Balk began to feel unhappy. It was those ant-like humble goblins whom he had never looked up to that made him lose face...
He suddenly reached out and gently moved the snoring caracal away from him, then sat up, facing the wall, with his hands on his head.
Races with long life spans value the correct inheritance of knowledge, and this is true for the elves and dragons. As a green dragon, Balk cannot deceive himself - goblins, who are as humble as ants, can move mountains and do great things. They are also a race that strives to survive, and they have strengths that are stronger than the great dragons... This conflicts with his worldview! His whole dragon is about to split apart. Spicy. Spicy. Spicy.
After facing the wall for several minutes, Balk's eyes suddenly lit up.
Why didn't he think that it wasn't his fault, it was the inheritance passed down to him by that bastard Auston that was wrong! !
Bastard Austin knows nothing about goblins, no, about other races~!
Snow Wolves are not short of talent. They can create jewelry and goddess statues that can be called perfect works of art, they know how to build houses, and they know how to produce food. Dwarves are not only valuable as slaves. When the Snow Wolves are farming, dwarves are also competent laborers (Xiao Yunyu); goblins are not just reptiles. This weak and vulnerable race is not the kind of waste that Austin thought... Has the idiot Austin ever eaten tofu pudding? Without the wild garlic collected by the goblins, the flavor of tofu pudding would be greatly reduced!
Balk was instantly revived with full health. It turned out that it wasn’t my fault, it was all Auston’s fault!
It took Xiao Yun two days to notice the subtle changes in Balke. This guy with a nose in the air was actually willing to lower his head to look at people. Wasn't he willing to give people a good face even when he was being flattered?
Well… although this “good face” is hard to describe, it’s as awkward as a “natural” smile from a person with social phobia at a party…
"…What? He really did amuse the dragon, but the efficiency is too high?" Xiao Yun himself was not too sure. It was not easy to change a person's bad nature, let alone change a dragon. What stimulated Balk to change his attitude so quickly?
No matter what, this matter had to be confirmed. During the lunch break, Xiao Yun went to chat with Balk. After talking about a lot of random things, he pretended to casually mention the situation when the goblins came to the Snow Wolf tribe.
Well... Xiao Yun is not a devil after all. No matter how busy he is, he still needs to give himself half an hour's rest after a meal to avoid getting gastrointestinal diseases that affect the quality of his work.
"...Now that I think about it, it's quite a coincidence. If Hongye and Ashan hadn't been so careful and didn't hurt Baron and Gar who came to check whether our tribe was still there, we might not have had any fate with the goblins... We wouldn't have been able to build so many buildings in the tribe so quickly. It would have taken at least several years." Xiao Yun recalled the past with emotion. He noticed from the corner of his eye that Balk's eyes were looking down and his ears were facing this way. He was really listening. "At that time, we took in the goblins because these little guys were few in number and couldn't eat much. Who knew they would be so capable? Now I often feel that if there were more goblins, our project progress could be accelerated... What do you think, Balk?"
"...Ah, well, I think so too." Balke said hurriedly.
Xiao Yun: “…” He had heard this sentence pattern too many times from the Fire Clan leader, and he immediately realized that this guy was just pretending to listen, but was actually distracted.
wrong!
etc!
What kind of person is this? "I want it all", shameless, arrogant, and conceited... How could such a guy pretend to be "listening"?
Xiao Yun couldn't help but touch his chin. What on earth had provoked this guy? !
"What's wrong?" Balk was startled by Xiao Yun's look.
Xiao Yun quickly stopped smiling and put on the face of an elder who was particularly concerned: "Balke, are you worried about something? We are best friends. If you have any questions or encounter any troubles, as your friend, I am willing to share your worries."
Balk hesitated, but the latter prevailed over the other, and he nodded sheepishly, almost imperceptibly, and moved his butt closer to Xiao Yun. He began to vent his dissatisfaction with a certain evil dragon in a tone of reproach. The content included such painful experiences as how he had been deceived by an unscrupulous evil dragon in his childhood with excuses such as "small dragons can't eat fat and tender meat, sweet fruits and desserts, only big dragons can eat them", "when a small dragon sneaks out to play alone when guarding the house, he will be caught and grilled", and "the small dragon doesn't need to wear clothes, just go bare-chested" and so on.
Xiao Yun: “…(o言o)”
What is the most enjoyable thing to do when chatting with others? It is the most enjoyable to say bad things about a third person. Balk, who had such a pleasant experience for the first time in his life of more than a thousand years, recounted all the unbearable experiences, from when he was a child, he was taken by his father, Auston, to attend a dragon gathering, and when the elders of the tribe gave him the gold jewelry, his father snatched it away as soon as he got home, and when he was driven out, he was given only a piece of clothes and a bag of salt, and not even a meal, which made him steal the prey of monsters with green eyes to fill his hunger.
"..." Xiao Yun's eyes slowly showed pity, and after being shocked, he deliberately joined in and helped to denounce the unscrupulous dragon Austin, and at the same time, he tried to find out information about the dragon clan indirectly. Not to mention, the rate of obtaining information this time was even higher than the last time Balk had an emotional breakdown... It turned out that anger can give people more strength than sadness!
"...I see. You have some misunderstandings about certain things because your knowledge comes from Austin's inheritance. Not only did that guy fail to fulfill his responsibility of raising you, he also failed in the most important knowledge inheritance of the dragon race." After listening to Balk's accusation, Xiao Yun stood up for him and echoed him in accusing the unscrupulous dragon. "This is really hard to say. As a cub, you have no choice but to be born passively... Balk, it's really not easy for you."
"That's why I hate that bastard so much!" Balk huffed.
"Fortunately, it's all over now, and you've gotten rid of that guy." Xiao Yun comforted him, "He can no longer control your life. The rest of your time belongs to you. Live your life the way you want and make up for what you lost before. Only in this way can I feel relieved as your friend. As for the wrong knowledge inheritance, it doesn't matter. You can find the right knowledge yourself and pass it on to the next generation as your own true inheritance that surpasses Auston, isn't it? I believe you can do it, and you can do better than Auston."
Balk was excited and imitated Xiao Yun by patting his thigh: "Yes, I can definitely surpass that guy. My inheritance must be more valuable than that guy's inheritance!"
Xiao Yun said whatever Balke wanted to say to make him happy, but deep down in his heart, he was sincerely thanking the green dragon Austin, whom he had never met before - thank you for the great help!
If you hadn't been so mean to your child, I really wouldn't have been able to get your child in such a short time!
By speaking ill of each other together to narrow the spiritual distance between the two parties, that afternoon... Xiao Yun pulled his "best friend" to his own workshop - after more people used the mobile home, he moved the pottery tools to the industrial area to prevent people coming and going from damaging his blanks.
"I have always believed that the reason why dragons are so powerful is because of their ability to control fire. All dragons possess dragon breath magic, and the power of fire is the most magical in my opinion."
He posed a life-size ceramic bust that he had casually made halfway and was too lazy to refine. As Balk's eyes and mouth became round at the same time, Xiao Yun began his brainwashing operation... uh... mobilization work in a sonorous and powerful manner.
"Limestone can change its properties after being calcined, and the same is true for clay. The principle of pottery is to make clay with different composition ratios, put them into the flame for calcination, and see which ratio can produce smoother and more durable pottery. Balk, your statue of the goddess of life that Austin stole was accidentally created after we studied it for many years and tried countless ratios."
Balke nodded repeatedly. He had already discovered that this bust, of which only the general facial features could be seen, looked very much like the statue of the Goddess of Life. He was so excited that his breathing became a little rapid.
Xiao Yun suddenly turned around and slapped Balk on the shoulder (the height difference was within 10cm). His serious expression startled Balk: "We Snow Wolf people are not favored by the Goddess of Magic. The power of fire is unfamiliar and ruthless to us. But you are different, Balk. You are the darling of magic, born strong, and a dragon who naturally controls fire. If you come, you will definitely be able to do what we Snow Wolf people can't do. You will definitely reach a height that we Snow Wolf people can't reach."
"...Huh?" Balk swore that he was really listening carefully this time, but he just didn't understand.
"I hope you can burn a perfect statue of the goddess." Xiao Yun said concisely.
"...Me?" Balk was confused.
"We who are not favored by the flame can burn out semi-finished products like before. You who are favored by the flame can certainly do better than us." Xiao Yun said confidently.
Balke thought he was a genius after hearing what he said, and his expression became determined... Well, the problem of being overconfident about things that one only has a vague understanding of is obviously not just a human problem.
"Then let's get started. I will pass on to you all the experience our tribe has gained from years of research. The task that we cannot do, to create a perfect work, will depend on you." Xiao Yun smiled happily and took out the math problems that Lan Guo had finally graduated with, such as algebra at the elementary school level, figure area equations, etc.
Balk: “???”
"To use the power of fire to create a perfect statue of the goddess, of course you have to know how to design it in accordance with the golden ratio, the weight ratio of the arms and decorations, the size of the area... You need to be able to draw and calculate. I will do my best to teach you these experiences we have gained." Xiao Yun said in a very serious manner.
"Okay!" Balke was ignorant and fearless, and nodded readily.
This nod is priceless...
Among Balke's magic methods, the one that Xiao Yun values most is the material mimicry magic that can use magic to simulate the structure of an object composed of a certain specific component of matter. This unscientific magic is used to study material properties and test whether mechanical power design drawings can be effectively operated. It is simply a golden finger and a big plug-in. However... Such a heaven-defying plug-in cannot be used at all at least for now. The reason is that Balke is uneducated - he is obviously a long-lived dragon, but his mathematical knowledge is limited to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. He has to fumble around when he is asked to calculate the shadow area of a set square. Before, just thinking about the extremely simple structure of the plow, for which Xiao Yun had provided a concept map, was a torment not only for Balke but also for Xiao Yun. Of course, he must find an opportunity to improve this stupid dragon's mathematical knowledge. At least it must be at the level of a high school student before it can be useful, right?
"This is... simple, right? It's definitely nothing compared to the vast knowledge heritage of the dragon race."
"This is how to solve it..."
"This equation applies like this..."
"The shadow area between the set square and the circle...see, isn't it easy to calculate?"
"BALBABALBALA..."
No one knew what direction the fate of the green dragon Balk was led to by his dear friend on this day...
After harvesting alfalfa, the tribe started to harvest Chinese cabbage, and after harvesting Chinese cabbage, they started to harvest green vegetables and radishes. Not long after finishing this round of harvest, summer arrived, and they had to start harvesting alfalfa in batches again...
Harvest is always a happy time, even if it is a sweet burden that will soon fall. Interspersed among the rounds of sowing and harvesting are the wails of a green dragon, the arduous exploration process of the first attempt to grow rice, the embankment on the north bank of the river gradually exceeding 1,400 meters in length, the artificial river channel put into use for drainage and flood discharge after the summer, the engineering team trying to design and build an arch bridge, the goblins and gray dwarves who are gradually no longer afraid of Balk - and so on.
In the summer on the grassland, when the average temperature (27-30 degrees) reached its highest, Balk, who was being tortured to death by the iron fist of math problems, raised his hands and signed up when Xiao Yun proposed to go to the coast to dry salt, asking to take on the flight transportation work. He didn't care at all about the offensive behavior of being used as a mount, which the dragon clan hated very much... Xiao Yun was very moved by his initiative, and then took a roll of cloth that was washed to the point of discoloration and filled with hundreds of questions, and told him not to forget to do them after work.
The others sitting in the open-air square were as quiet as a chicken... Whether it was Lan Guo, whom Xiao Yun asked to continue his studies, or the tribesmen who had already started night school to promote literacy, they all knew how kind Ayun was to them after seeing Balke's miserable appearance. Even the cow horns that were smoking from reciting the multiplication table did not dare to complain.
Xiao Yun patted Balk's shoulder, who looked ashen, and turned to look at the poor students like Ashan and Ayue who were drying salt with him. "You also have questions. I have prepared multiplication and division exercises for two-digit to three-digit numbers. Remember to do them while drying the salt. I will check them when I come back. If you can't do well, continue to learn from the beginning with Teacher Lan Guo. As I said, learn until you are proficient."
Ashan, Ayue and other poor students were all confused...
When Balke saw that he was not the only one who was unlucky, his expression improved a lot.
Lan Guo... Teacher Lan Guo was so worried, really. He finally understood why Ayun often couldn't control his temper when teaching him. Ever since he took on the job of teaching the tribe's night classes in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, he had been so angry that his lungs ached almost every day!
...Ayun must be unwilling to teach everyone about literacy, so he surrendered himself as the first one to do so!
Lan Guo, who had no expression on his face but was silently angry and indignant inside, guessed the truth at once... As expected, people become smarter after being cheated many times.
Taking into account that the lower grade students of primary school are better at math than Chinese, Xiao Yun did not rush to force Chinese into the teaching of the common language of the alien world. He let everyone learn math separately first, so as not to cram too much stuff at once and damage the brains of the silly and cute tribesmen.
The snow wolves had to hold night classes, and the goblins, caracals, and gray dwarves were not left behind. After all, even in daily work, there were inevitably situations where math was needed. If everyone learned, it would be convenient for everyone. Otherwise, a group of people would have to count on their fingers for a long time just to hand over farm tools.
This is also what makes Xiao Yun's stomach hurt... Forget about the caracals. It's not shameful to admit that cats are smarter. Forget about the gray dwarves. After all, they are born skilled workers. But even goblins learn faster than snow werewolves. How come! The youngest goblins can skillfully use three-digit multiplication and division, but the stupidest Niu Jiao on the snow werewolf side is still struggling with the multiplication table!
Xiao Yun didn't expect to teach all the tribe members to be talented, but at least they had to have the basic computing skills! In the future, when they frequently interact with the outside world, especially humans, would he have to worry about whether these stupid and cute guys would be deceived?
Don't say anything - learn from me! Crying is useless, and acting cute is also useless!
Uh... As for the fact that others have already learned three-digit multiplication and division but have to keep learning basic courses over and over again because of the stupidity of the snow werewolves, that is purely a problem of teachers - there is only one Lan Guo, and he can only teach during the two hours after dinner and before going to bed, so he is too busy~ Xiao Yun did not get angry!
"What's the point of us learning this?" In order to avoid studying and give up his beloved job as a chef, Da He hugged A Shan's thigh and prepared to slip away for a "vacation". When no one else dared to speak, he angrily accused Xiao Yun.
"Of course, it's to teach you, a pighead who can't even calculate how many kilograms of wheat flour and vegetables we consume for a meal, to at least learn some math!" It was fine for others, but Xiao Yun was so angry when Dahe opened his mouth that he poked his finger directly at the girl's forehead (who was sitting on the ground), "It's okay for others to find it difficult to learn, but you, a pighead who doesn't want to learn when you find it difficult, have the nerve to complain? Huh? Did you use all the sugar and carbohydrates you absorbed to grow your face? Huh? Can you save some nutrition for your brain? It's almost starving to death and you're still talking nonsense?!"
As soon as Xiao Yun started to criticize Da He, the others sitting in the square stood up and dispersed... Niu Jiao chased Lan Guo with a bitter face and asked how to learn more easily and quickly, Lan Guo covered her ears and walked away; Cao Gen suggested that Huo Yan, who had a severe backache recently, should stop farming with the young people and raise earthworms with her; Yu and Hong Ye went to the warehouse with Balk to count the waterproof bags of salt and discuss how many bags to bring. It's not that everyone has no sympathy for Da He, but that everyone's learning process is equally difficult. If you can't learn, you are really slow-witted and have poor comprehension. There is no Da He, who can understand but always finds ways to skip classes or sit there and sleep!
Lan Guo is a very good-tempered person, and he has made Dahaha so angry so many times!
"Learning knowledge is for better farming and better fortune. Do you know that knowledge creates wealth? Do you know that knowledge is the primary productive force?! Those who hinder us from farming and our tribe from becoming rich are our common enemies. Your laziness, slackness, and fear of hard work are our tribe's biggest enemies!!"
Xiao Yun's angry roar hovered over the Snow Wolf Tribe...
