Volume 3: Fellow villagers, let’s farm together~ Chapter 73 Leopard Warrior Xia
"Huh?" Qingcao turned to look at Qingyan in astonishment. Just as he was about to ask who that was, he saw Qingyan suddenly pounce forward, his body transformed into a beast in mid-air, and he roared and rushed towards the strangers.
"roar--!!"
One of the men also flew out, and with the sound of tearing animal skin clothes, he turned into a colorful leopard, opened his mouth wide and bit Qingyan fiercely.
The two big cats, each weighing more than 400 kilograms, collided fiercely. Qingyan's claws scratched the fur on the opponent's neck, and blood splattered. The opponent also bit Qingyan's forelimbs, shaking its head fiercely, trying to drag Qingyan into the mud.
With roars and splashes of mud and water, the two big cats rolled to the ground at the same time, their sharp claws and fangs exposed. Blood foam appeared from time to time, but was quickly washed away by the rain.
The leopard's companion bared his teeth and took two steps forward. Qingcao and the two snow wolves immediately glared at them, growling deeply. Although they didn't understand what the relationship between Qingyan and the leopard was, since Qingyan chose to fight alone, Qingcao would not let anyone disturb them.
"Ball!" After observing for a while and confirming that Qingyan was not at a disadvantage, Qingcao waved to Qiu.
Qiu took a few steps back, turned around and walked to the green grass.
Xiao Yun's preference for caracals also affected the tribe members. Qingcao reached out to help Qiu comb the messy hair that was washed , and kept his eyes on the cat members: "Qiuqiu, who are they?"
Qiu looked unhappy: "It's me... I and Qingyan are from the original tribe."
Qingcao was surprised: "Eh? Why are they here?" Being trained for so long is not without its benefits. Qingcao, who used to be lazy, quickly thought of something and frowned, "Are they here to cause trouble for you?"
Qiu's reaction was a little strange. He hesitated for a moment before slowly shaking his head: "I don't know."
"I'm not here to find you guys." Qingcao was puzzled. Seeing Qiu's expression was not right, she was even more surprised. "Ah, is it true?"
Qiu shook his head again.
Qingcao saw that he had a complicated expression, so he scratched his cheek and stopped asking questions, turning his gaze back to the big cats fighting.
The three snow wolves standing here, including Qingcao, were just ordinary tribesmen who had not received combat training, so they could not see anything wrong in the fight between the two big cats; and Qiu was a serious warrior, and he discovered not long after Qingyan and the leopard started fighting... The leopard did not use his full strength, and his fighting style of exchanging injuries for injuries seemed like giving up on himself.
This shocked Qiu very much - that was Xia, the strongest leopard warrior!
Although Qingyan was also very strong, he was still inferior to Xia. At that time, Xia drove Qingyan away and defeated him after just a few moves.
The bean-sized raindrops washed away the eyes so hard that it was impossible to open them. Qingcao wiped the water off her face, put her palms on her eyelids, and stared nervously at the two big cats entangled in one place. Seeing that the glaring red in the muddy water being trampled became more and more, and even the rain could not wash it away in time, Qingcao was terrified: "Stop - don't fight!"
At the same time, Xiao Yun was squatting in the industrial area discussing the standard size of flat glass with Baru...
Xiao Yun didn't have to worry about the technology of burning glass. The gray dwarves even had the process to burn tempered glass: the flat glass was sent into the tempering furnace and heated to about 650 degrees. The cold air produced by making ice with Glauber's salt was used to quench the glass, and the tempering was completed.
Xiao Yun's knowledge of glassmaking was limited to time travel. After discussing with Baru, he learned that glassmaking also requires certain techniques: to make quartz glass, you only need quartz stone (quartz stone for making glaze); to make flat glass, you need soda ash, feldspar, dolomite, limestone, sodium sulfate, and sandstone. Before firing, the raw materials must be crushed and the ingredients must be weighed according to proportion. Metal wire must also be added to the fired glass liquid... In short, it is a technical job.
Thanks to the fact that these gray dwarves were once enslaved by the dark elves, the dark elves have a great demand for flat wire tempered glass because they like to build buildings shiny and bright, so Baru and his men are all skilled workers...
The dark elves own most of the underground world, and all kinds of mineral resources are inexhaustible. This is not so convenient on the grassland. First of all, if you want to make flat glass, you have to make the Glauber's salt yourself.
It just so happened that Xiao Yun had taken out his anger on Balke and had messed up the chemistry experiment class before. Now he wanted to make his own Glauber's salt, so it wasn't a blind guess. He didn't have the conditions to synthesize urea in large quantities, so human and animal urine was still a problem?
When urine is placed in the sun to evaporate, the remaining small amount of crystals is urea with a lot of impurities. The urea is placed in a closed container, and the container is connected to another container filled with water by a catheter. The urea is heated and hydrolyzed to produce ammonia gas, which is then introduced into the water in another container. This is ammonia water, which was mentioned in the previous article.
Oxidize ammonia water to get nitric oxide, and nitric oxide, oxygen and water to get nitric acid... You can stop at this step, otherwise sodium cyanide will be produced, and then it won't be far from 404.
In short, everyone is trying to offend their chemistry teacher in real life.
With homemade saltpeter, it was natural to put the production of flat glass on the agenda. This was not to show off by building shiny buildings like the dark elves, nor was it to sell the glass. There was so much glass in this world that the prices had already been very low. If the glass products were to be sold, the shipping costs alone would be a huge loss. In this way, the flat glass produced had only one use left: as the roof of a vegetable greenhouse.
There is no way, the plastic sheet can't be made...
Since this is the only requirement, Xiao Yun is certainly not in a hurry to make the glass. What he is discussing with Baru now is to lay glass on the ceiling instead of tiles, and how much load-bearing capacity this small workshop version of tempered glass with metal wires can bear.
Obviously... it is not impossible to rely on glass to bear its own weight, but think about the long winter of more than four months to nearly five months on the grassland, and the countless heavy snow when it comes. The glass ceiling must not work without the support of a steel frame. So after repeatedly measuring the width of the greenhouse ceiling several times, Xiao Yun and Baru discussed and finalized the standard size for cutting the glass plate and the specifications of the supporting steel frame.
After finalizing the production plan, Xiao Yun was using a vernier caliper made with "Ashanmi" as the standard length to draw lines on the steel. Qingcao, who was soaked like a drowned rat, came over in the rain.
"Qingyan was seriously injured?!"
Xiao Yun hurried back to the tribe and saw... two big cats as strong as cows lying motionless in the mobile home, and the blood flowing from their bodies had ruined the carpets woven by the caracals.
"..." Xiao Yun's eyes fell on the black panther, whose face, mouth, nose, forelimbs, shoulders and back were covered with wounds. Well, although it was unrecognizable, it was still obvious that it was one of his own. He then turned his eyes to the other spotted leopard, which was dying and whose fur was mostly stained red with blood, and then turned to look at Qingcao, "Who is this?"
The grass was even more confused than he was.
"…Save the cat first. Ask Dahe Niujiao and the others to bring hot water and bandages, and also bring the herbs I left in dormitory No. 2. Oh, and bring some clean blankets as well." Xiao Yun could only wave his hand.
Qingcao ran to call for help, and Xiao Yun squatted down and rolled up the blanket on the ground... it would be unusable after being soaked in blood. Anyway, these cats were strong and were not afraid of getting cold by sleeping on the concrete floor.
Checking the injuries of the two big cats again, wow... They looked miserable enough at first glance, but they were even more miserable upon closer inspection. Many of their wounds were covered with fur, and there was not a single piece of healthy skin on their bodies.
Qingcao first brought a clean blanket over, and Xiao Yun asked her to help wipe the wounds of the two cats that were covered with rain and mud. "What's wrong with these two? Did Qingyan fight with someone?"
"Yeah!" Qingcao nodded. "First, Qingyan came to me and said Qiuqiu was missing. I quickly called Shangren and him to look for him..." He told the story again. "Then I realized something was wrong. They were fighting to the death, so I quickly went over to stop the fight. But they refused to stop, so I had to call Alu and Xiaojiu to come with me and pin them down."
Xiao Yun: “…” So it was you who dealt the final blow to the two big cats… An adult snow wolf in werewolf form weighs at least 600 kilograms. With more than 3,000 kilograms of pressure like a mountain, it would be strange if Qingyan and the leopard didn’t die.
Daha and Niu Jiao brought hot water and were shocked to see the two dying cats. They hurried over to help clean the wounds, apply medicine and bandages - since the tribesmen didn't wear clothes, Xiao Yun didn't distribute the batch of cloth rolls that he had found last year.
"Wait, where are Qiuqiu and the other three cats?" After wiping the sweat off his forehead, Xiao Yun finally remembered Qiu.
"Those three refused to come in, and Qiuqiu was watching them outside. I left Alu and Xiaojiu there to accompany Qiuqiu." Qingcao said.
Xiao Yun was immediately relieved... Although Qingcao's IQ is not as good as Dahe's, look how fast he is growing!
Losing a lot of blood will lower the body temperature. Xiao Yun turned on the floor heating in the mobile home and asked Dahe to watch over them and give them broth to replenish their energy when they woke up. Then he called Qingcao to find Qiuqiu.
The rain was still falling, but it was a little lighter than before. At least they could open their eyes in the rain. Xiao Yun and Qingcao walked to the east of the tribe. When they saw the three guys who were confronting Qiuqiu and the others, they were shocked: "Fuck you!"
He quickly turned around and told Qingcao, "Hurry back and get the insect repellent powder to sprinkle all over the mobile home and around the leopard. You were the one who carried Qingyan and the leopard back just now, sprinkle it all over yourself!"
grass:"??"
"Would you like to have your head shaved? I'd rather sprinkle insecticide."
Qingcao ran away. Damn, how could she forget about this!
Xiao Yun walked over to Qiuqiu alone. Alu and Xiaojiu looked relieved when they saw him, and Qiuqiu also breathed a sigh of relief.
"What's going on?" Xiao Yun asked, "Are they here to find you guys?"
“……”Qiu’s expression was very complicated.
"Come on, Qiuqiu, if you don't want to go with them, they can still go to heaven." Xiao Yun said. He was not afraid of these cats running away. Qingyan had already had such a fight with the newcomers, so there was no point in worrying.
Qiu was particularly conflicted and opened his mouth several times but couldn't utter a word.
"Ball?" Xiao Yun was a little surprised. Although Qiu looked cute, he was a tough guy. When they were rushing to dig the river last year, he was the first to take the lead in overcoming the cats' fear of water. He was even tougher on himself than Qingyan.
"Ayun... the tribe..." Qiu spoke softly, turning his gaze to the three cats standing not far away, his expression gloomy, "The tribe, disperse..."
Xiao Yun was shocked: "Ah?"
Qiu said painfully, "I don't know what that bastard Xia is doing. He asked those who wanted to join the Tiger Tribe to leave. He...asked the Minotaur about our location. He said he could give the position of tribe leader to Qingyan."
Xiao Yun's expression can be described as "these cats seem to be teasing me"...
"... Was this Xia always so funny? How did he become the clan leader ?... Did Qingyan agree?"
"Qingyan started taking action as soon as he saw Xia." Qiu shook his head.
"Qingyan is so stubborn?!" Xiao Yun was shocked.
Uh... think about it, that guy dared to run such a long way alone to join the Snow Wolf Clan. He seems to be very stubborn.
"Qingyan never agreed with Xia's approach before. He thought Xia would lead the tribe to the wrong place." As Qiu spoke, he couldn't help but look at the cat tribe not far away. This manul man... actually has a lot of feelings for the cat tribe, or it can be said that his feelings are quite rich. At that time, he would rather be beaten half to death than not protect the manul cubs who were not his direct blood relatives. Those who can abandon even their own children at will cannot compare with such a man.
" Of course don't agree with Xia. We are not the Tiger Tribe at all. Why should we try so hard to learn the ways of the Tiger Tribe?" Qiu's expression showed obvious hatred. "Now that Xia knows he is wrong, he still wants to take over the tribe... this bastard!"
Xiao Yun raised his hand and patted Qiu's shoulder. He could understand Qiu's mentality of feeling sorry for his misfortune, angry at his lack of resistance, yet unable to help but worry about him. He thought Qingyan was the same, otherwise he wouldn't have lost control of his emotions the moment they met.
"It's your own choice to choose which path you want to take. No one else can force you. The hardest thing in this world is to change other people's minds. Qiuqiu, you don't need to pull other people's decisions onto your own shoulders. It has nothing to do with you."
Qiu's body trembled and he turned his face away, not wanting others to see him losing control of his emotions.
People who value feelings will always subconsciously regard the mistakes of others as their own responsibilities. Seeing the arrogant and proud Xia become so miserable now, Qiu, who had left the tribe with a desperate mentality, would inevitably blame himself for the decision to "abandon" the tribe... As the saying goes, good people don't live long, and this is where he got unlucky.
"No matter what, they are also your people. Even if there were many things that you couldn't understand each other at first, at least it didn't come to a life-and-death struggle... Qingyan took you out of the tribe alone, which can be regarded as Xia's conscience coming to his senses and not being too harsh. Now that people are willing to bow their heads, there is no need to talk about whether to forgive or not. At least we don't have to fight to the death now."
Since Xiao Yun could see that Qiuqiu was soft-hearted, he simply didn't wait for him to come up with a result before speaking, but took the initiative to help him speak clearly.
Qiu turned around and looked at Xiao Yun in surprise.
Xiao Yun smiled and said, "We are a family, Qiuqiu, how can a family restrict each other on who they should and should not deal with? There is no need. It is normal for you to care about your former tribesmen, and no one will think that you are doing anything wrong - think about it, as long as the goblins who have nothing to do with us are willing to work, we will take care of them, not to mention that they are your people? If they encounter difficulties and you can't bear it, then we can help if we can, or we can get more people to work together. This is all negotiable." It goes without saying whether these cats can be kept or used. The attitude must be shown, and it must be shown beautifully.
Qiu suddenly lowered his head... Why did the rain suddenly stop? This is too much!
Xiao Yun waited for him to control his emotions, then gave him a gentle push on the back: "Go, go talk to them."
Alu and Xiaojiu looked at Ayun's operation and ate melons quietly...
Qingcao sprinkled a layer of insect repellent powder on his head and body, and ran out to see that Ayun had already returned with the three cats who refused to come in.
"Qingcao, bring me some insecticide powder~" Xiao Yun stopped in the square and looked back at the three cats who were looking around in fear. Well, the messy hair on their heads was really an eye-catcher. "And bring me some scissors!"
When Qingyan woke up, he was almost starving to death. Fortunately, there was someone guarding him. He opened his eyes and shouted "I'm hungry", and a big pot of greasy meat soup was pushed to his mouth.
Qingyan drank the broth with a gulp and carefully turned his neck to observe his body. This time the injury was much more serious than the last time. He instinctively maintained a fighting form with more vigorous vitality. Now he looked okay. The more serious injuries were wrapped with cloth strips and applied with herbal medicine made by Ayun. Although the wounds were painful and his whole body was weak, at least he could still remain conscious.
Turning around, Qingyan saw Xia... This guy was indeed much stronger than himself. He had turned back into a human and was lying down. Ayun was squatting beside his head and cutting his hair...
"Ayun..." Qingyan called out.
"Don't move. Just lie still." Xiao Yun raised his hand to stop him. "Change back when you feel better. Your left arm is broken. We can't put a splint on you at your size."
Qingyan looked down at his left paw. No wonder he couldn't move this forelimb.
"Don't be so impulsive next time. Not only do you feel bad, but you also make others worry about you." Xiao Yun grabbed the hair he had cut off and threw it into the fire. "Qiuqiu said that this leopard was the strongest one in your original tribe. What did you think? You went up to challenge him without saying a word?"
Qingyan rested his chin on his right paw and said nothing.
"Are you still in a bad mood?" Xiao Yun clapped his hands, walked over, squatted down and stroked the cat's head. "What's the matter? It's been almost two years and you still haven't calmed down? Then you keep getting angry. Qiuqiu said that this leopard has dispersed your original tribe, and most of the people have gone to join the tiger tribe and become their subordinates——"
Qingyan was so startled that he almost jumped up... Then he grimaced in pain from the pain in his wound and slowly lay back down.
Xiao Yun made way, squatted down again and stroked the cat's head vigorously: "Also, there was a bad guy in your tribe who saw that the minotaurs had the porcelain we sent, so he tricked Elder Saladin out and sold him to the tiger tribe, and the tiger king was imprisoned for more than half a month, causing the minotaur tribe to pull out more than a hundred warriors to protest before they rescued him..."
Qingyan was shocked and angry. He suddenly propped up his upper body, then held his broken left paw in pain.
"Once this incident came to light, the reputation of this leopard was completely ruined, and the tribe was split... Now there are only about 30 tribesmen and more than 1,000 sheep left in this leopard tribe, and they can no longer occupy the original pasture. Now people remember you, the one who once expressed different opinions, and are willing to let you be the tribe leader - how about it, Qingyan, do you feel that the hard work has paid off? Are you going to be the tribe leader?"
Qingyan hugged his paw, tears streaming down his face in pain, and said angrily: "Ayun... I know I was wrong, okay?"
Xiao Yun stroked the cat's head fiercely: "You realize your mistake now?! What were you doing before? Qingcao and the others were accompanying you, but you still went up to fight alone? Huh? What do you think? How long do you plan to take care of these injuries? Don't you feel guilty for leaving your job to Yangmao and the others?"
“It hurts, it hurts—”
Qiu originally planned to come and see Qingyan's injuries, but when he saw this situation at the door, he turned around and ran without hesitation.
After giving Qingyan a beating, Xiao Yun finally sat down and had a good talk with him: "Qiu is worried about these cats. What about you, Qingyan, what do you think?"
Qingyan's gaze drifted towards the sleeping Xia, and he said nothing.
"You know me. As long as they obey the rules of the tribe, do their work honestly and provide labor, I don't care about feeding a few dozen more mouths in the tribe." Xiao Yun didn't say anything fancy to Qingyan. This guy was the first one to arrive and had been dealing with him the longest. He was smart and knew him better than the grassroots. He could be simpler in his way of speaking to him.
Qingyan naturally understood what Xiao Yun meant. He hesitated for a moment before shaking his head and said, "Ayun, they are different from Qiuqiu and the others. Xia is a person who will do anything to achieve his goals. His words may not be trustworthy."
Qiu is very sentimental. Under his influence, the caracals are small in number but very united and value their people. Xia, on the other hand, is someone who can sacrifice a few for the majority and doesn't mind cheating. As long as he thinks it's right, he will do it. When such a person said he would give the chieftainship to Qingyan, Qingyan didn't believe a word. He was not as "straightforward" as Qiu. Seeing Xia in such a miserable state, he felt sorry for her without saying anything.
"So..." Xiao Yun touched his chin. Qingyan was not a person who didn't care about his people. Since he expressed his disgust so clearly, it meant that this leopard who seemed to be desperate for the time being was not a simple person - if he was not desperate, he would not come to ask for help from the person he had severely offended.
A light cough was heard from behind. Xiao Yun turned his head and found that the leopard had woken up at some point and was looking at them with its head tilted.
"Chief Hall reminded me that there is a very special cub in this Snow Wolf tribe...it looks like it's you."
The leopard was so weak that it couldn't even sit up on its own, but its tone of voice was steady and its eyes were full of meaning.
"Oh?" Xiao Yun raised his eyebrows. The feeling this leopard gave him was indeed very different from that of other grassland people.
The spotted leopard looked straight at him, gathered his strength for a while, and spoke again: "I heard something from Chief Hall about the Snow Wolf Tribe and the Cat Tribe. You might be interested."
"Xia." Qingyan interrupted him in a bad tone, "The most annoying thing about you is that you always say things that you don't even believe. Don't treat others as fools. Your way of doing things won't work here."
“Hey, don’t say that, Qingyan.” Xiao Yun raised his hand to push down the big cat’s head, and smiled at the leopard that gave him a sense of déjà vu. “Hehehe… You know, Qingyan is not usually so impulsive, and he didn’t mean any harm by what he said. Our tribe is far away from the Hall tribe, and it’s rare for us to go there. I didn’t think of asking Chief Hall for news. What do you mean by the things we are interested in? Could it be that our Snow Wolf tribe and your cat tribe were originally one family? Oh, no wonder, Qingyan and Qiuqiu have adapted well to our place, isn’t that right, Qingyan~(*^▽^*)”
Qingyan: “…”
Leopard: “???”
