Volume 5: If you are poor, you should be alone Chapter 151 Learning Never Ends
The emergence of the canal greatly shortened the time it took the tribe to travel to and from the west coast, making it extremely convenient for transporting supplies and drying salt. There was no need to cut corners and dry a batch of salt during the hottest time of the year as before. Although the tribe could not increase its economic income by selling salt due to the existence of the monopoly chamber of commerce, Lamia, the sufficient sea salt was enough to greatly help the development of the tribe.
Not to mention the reuse of brine, the disinfectant water produced by brine electrolysis alone has helped the tribe a lot... Concentrated livestock farming and inadequate disinfection and hygiene are no joke. Modern farms on Earth cannot withstand epidemics, let alone the grasslands.
The newly built chicken coop, duck shed and goose shed were disinfected inside and out. The person in charge of the breeding industry, Huabao Yubone, checked them several times before he dared to move in the poultry that Ayun brought back from overseas.
Based on the accumulated experience of mankind in breeding, in addition to chickens, ducks and geese are all raised in a semi-free-range mode; the ducks are raised in a pond near the south side of the tribe and behind the orchard, and the geese are raised directly in the alfalfa field and fed fresh alfalfa on site.
The secondary labor force has grown to more than a thousand people, which is a great pressure for Yugu. The cat tribe he used to be in, even if it is a large tribe, has only 300 to 500 people. He is equivalent to leading the staff of two tribes at once. He is so worried that he almost has alopecia areata. Fortunately, Xiao Yun promised him after he came back that he would separate the cattle pen and pig farm after a while, which made him smile a little...
Xiao Yun also took into consideration that Yu Gu was already busy as usual, and if he was given more work to do, he might end up being as cautious as Qing Yan... ahem, that's why he showed some mercy.
Chickens are prone to disease, and a group of them died on the boat. Another group died while being transferred to the tribe after landing. It is not known whether the remaining dozens of chickens can be raised. Fortunately, Xiao Yun brought back a batch of fertilized eggs, and they can try again after artificial incubation with the help of a kang.
It is different with geese. They are truly a fighting race among poultry. After becoming familiar with the duck shed, they began to try to peck at the alfalfa and walked around the alfalfa field with the gait of a big boss, showing off their might.
Ducks are much more adaptable than chickens. When they are first put into the duck shed, they are quite listless. It takes a while for them to come out and hang around the pond to get used to the surrounding environment. Some of the more lively ones will even run into the orchard by themselves to peck at insects.
Yugu settled these poultry that provided protein for the tribe, arranged for two cat cubs and two snow wolf cubs to stay in the duck shed, and then turned around and headed straight for the pig farm.
After Xiao Yun gave the hint, Yu Gu found two people he thought were reliable and loved raising pigs to look after the pig farm. They were a pair of golden cat brothers.
This pair of golden cat brothers are considered quite different among cats...
Compared to the overall emmmmm appearance of the snow werewolves, it is not an exaggeration to say that the overall appearance of the cat clan is above the standard. Even the cute caracal warrior Qiu, apart from being a bit too "captain of war", is actually considered to be good-looking. In other words, there are basically no ugly people in the cat clan.
These two brothers, when they first came, were a pair of handsome boys, at least in Xiao Yun's opinion. But as time went on, the brothers' body shapes started to get out of control - they were golden cats that were known for their agility and quickness, but they grew fatter and rounder, and their appearance went straight down to negative numbers, and there was no way to pull it back.
Yugu saw the two brothers' eyes squeezed into a slit on their round faces. Even though he himself was not obsessed with appearance, he still felt awkward...
"Fishbone, the fattest pig weighs more than 500 pounds. When will we kill it and eat it?" Brother Golden Cat didn't notice the strange expression on Fishbone's face and asked with drooling.
"Wasn't it the standard that only animals weighing 600 kilograms would be considered for slaughter?"
"That was before." Brother Golden Cat swallowed his saliva. "The piglets born in the past two years have never been let out to run since they were born. Their legs are getting shorter and shorter, and they are getting weaker and weaker. There is more fat than lean meat, and the meat is very delicate. When they are over 500 kilograms, they can only lie on the ground and groan. Except for feeding, they lie still at other times."
"Yeah, the pigs we raise are not as heavy as wild boars but they taste better than wild boars." Brother Golden Cat agreed.
Fishbone was silent for a moment... He could only give a regretful expression and said sadly: "Don't even think about killing the pig until the lard in the cafeteria is used up. There's so much rabbit meat waiting to be eaten."
After saying that, he immediately ran away, leaving the golden cat brothers crying bitterly.
The cowshed has always been managed by the young cub A Shui (who has the same name as Cao Gen's grandson, but Xiao Yun changed Cao Gen's grandson's name to Da Shui's young cub A Shui), which makes Yu Gu less worried.
A Shui is A Yue's younger brother. He is four years older than Xiao Yun (the original owner). He is twenty-five this year and is considered a grown-up in the Snow Wolf Clan. His elder brother A Yue is a very conservative person, and his younger brother A Shui's personality is similar, but he is much less opinionated than A Yue. He is a very obedient person. He will do whatever you tell him to do and will not go west when told to go east.
When Yugu came over for "inspection", Ah Shui was leading a group of cubs to dig a pond and make a place for the calves to play in the mud and bathe. His white fur was covered with mud spots.
Yugu chatted with Ah Shui about the cattle and mentioned what Xiao Yun had told him before: "Ah Shui, in a while the cattle pen will be separated and managed by a single person like the rabbit shed that Rosemary is in charge of. If you are asked to take charge, do you have the confidence?"
"Hey..." Ah Shui, who was originally talking freely, suddenly became a little anxious, "This, I can't do it, right?"
"You've been in charge of the cattle pen for almost a year. In terms of experience in this area, few people in the tribe can compare to you. If it were someone else, let alone me, no one would feel at ease. The horned cattle are so important to the tribe. They are indispensable for transportation and farming. It would be terrible if there were no reliable people like you, Ah Shui, to look after the cattle pen for everyone." Yugu immediately said enthusiastically, and his encouraging words were particularly charming in the style of someone...
By the way, Yugu used to find Ayun's forceful attitude of forcing others to do things very annoying, always forcing others to do tasks that required great efforts to complete; but now that it was his turn to be in charge, he couldn't help but learn Ayun's style of forcing others to do things and take responsibilities... While encouraging Ashui with a smile on his face, Yugu felt disgusted with himself in his heart.
No matter how disgusted he was, he still had to do the job of a "spiritual mentor". Yugu shamelessly flattered Ah Shui, making Ah Shui's face turn red and he was too embarrassed to raise his head. He then immediately pulled Ah Shui aside to discuss who would be suitable to look after the cowshed with him - this was also a shameless trick he learned from Ah Yun, forcing people into a room and letting them choose which bed to sleep in, and intentionally or unintentionally omitting the option of "not entering the room" for others.
After tricking Ah Shui into accepting the task with great enthusiasm, Yu Gu returned to the tribe in a daze...
"It's so easy for people to learn bad things!" Fishbone was very upset.
After feeling annoyed, he couldn't help but ponder Ayun's usual words and deeds - how Ayun influenced others, how he made others enthusiastic and motivated to do things, how he curbed and resolved possible disputes among everyone in advance... and so on.
This made Yugu very painful and entangled. He was a person with a strong ability to absorb things and was quick to learn, but he was also a bit stubborn and stubborn. He instinctively found that imitating Ayun's approach could solve the problem more safely, but he always felt that it was wrong to do so and it was against his will...
"If only I could be like Rosemary, only caring about the things I like and not thinking about anything else!" sighed the melancholy leopard.
...Of course, after sighing, he still has to devote himself to his work. He cannot accept being asked to be lazy or evade something.
At the tribal work meeting that night, Xiao Yun chatted and laughed with several new tribe leaders. Yu Gu stared at Xiao Yun the whole time, analyzing and observing how he made the new tribe leaders, who were still nervous at the beginning, calm down quickly and smile naturally; how to use the fastest and most efficient communication method to make these new tribe leaders accept the basic understanding of the integration and unification of the tribe, regardless of race or ethnicity, and everyone is a whole; observing him after the initial contact, focusing on negotiating with the new tribe leaders, why, and whether these new tribe leaders have any advantages and characteristics that Ah Yun has discovered but he has not seen...
...So, the essence of not only humans but all intelligent creatures is - it smells really good.
The studious Fishbone was entangled and struggling, but finally couldn't help but dive into the vast ocean of "the art of employing and controlling people" that the Chinese had accumulated and refined over 5,000 years : on the other hand, the legendary magician who discovered the new world was on the verge of drowning.
Sean has lived for two hundred years, but he never knew that he was so ignorant - not only was his knowledge surpassed by the dragons who had lived for a few thousand years, but Evelyn, the forest elf disciple of Ayun who was a few years younger than him (...), also knew a lot of knowledge that made him confused!
Evelyn, who was left at the port by Xiao Yun and forgotten to be taken back, flew back by herself. This beautiful elf girl was very resentful after such a misunderstanding... What made her even angrier was that the teacher had no guilt at all and went to the meeting by herself, leaving Sean to her!
Evelin had completely forgotten how reluctant she was when she was studying with Xiao Yun, how difficult it was to change her traditional thinking, and how much effort Xiao Yun had put in to change her mindset. After saying it several times without any effect, she got angry: "That's not the case, Mr. Sean. The teacher asked us to start learning from mathematics. The purpose is not just to let us learn to solve math problems, but to establish the habit of using mathematical thinking, scientific understanding and logical methods to understand the world. How can you not use the formula properly, but use your own mental power algorithm to solve the problem?"
"…but isn't this also a way to solve the problem?" Sean was too embarrassed to admit that he was slow to accept new things and new knowledge systems, so he shamelessly argued.
"Both are about feeding a farmer. Giving him bread that will last him for a long time and teaching him how to farm are the same thing!" Evelyn got angry and slammed the table without caring that the other party was a long-established legendary magician. "The path for a spellcaster to understand magic is to understand, analyze, and reconstruct. When you teach your disciples, you only let them remember the spellcasting gestures and magic array diagrams. Don't you let your disciples analyze the magic power?"
Sean is a bit embarrassed...
"The scientific understanding of magic advocated by Teacher Ayun is the same as our traditional spellcasters' understanding of magic, from understanding, analysis, to reconstruction. Mathematics is the most powerful tool for us to understand scientific magic. Mathematics can analyze everything, analyze everything, and understand everything, and ultimately achieve the goal of surpassing all traditional magic and allowing us to construct unprecedented self-developed magic that is not bound by traditional concepts. Mathematics is the cornerstone of everything, and formulas are the steps to climb. If you are not willing to climb the steps step by step, how can you climb to the peak of scientific magic!" Evelyn said forcefully.
"...You are right, I am wrong." Sean's old face turned red and he lowered his head in shame.
The legendary magician lowered his head, but Evelin remained expressionless, feeling extremely happy... With a fake cough, the girl who had found new fun pulled out another test paper with a stern face: "Okay, then let's start from the beginning and continue to solve the problem using the formula."
Sean couldn't help but let out a long sigh... If it weren't for the wrong place and the girl sitting in front of him being of the wrong race, he would have suspected that he had returned to his youth when he was forced to study by a tutor.
After the meeting, Xiao Yun came over to check on the situation. He leaned over the window and saw Evelin was absorbed in "being a teacher". He was secretly happy and left quietly immediately to go back to sleep - he could put off the manuscript for another day!
The Fire Tribe is already the size of a standard small town, and every morning starts with a busy day.
After doing math problems all night, Sean left the room with unsteady steps. On the wider corridor beside the rows of dormitory rooms, a dozen cat warriors lined up in a row and worked hard to discharge electricity to electrolyze salt water, which shocked Sean.
"Don't talk to them. They need to concentrate very hard to continuously release electricity." Evelyn stepped out and quickly stopped Sean who wanted to approach.
"This is... what Ayun said, electrolysis of salt water?" Sean struggled to say this particularly unfamiliar word.
"Yeah. The electrolysis they do is just a supplement. The main part still depends on Balk. That guy's mental power is at a monster level." Evelyn rubbed her sore neck and said, "Let's go to the cafeteria this way. The work team should be busy now, so it's not too crowded... By the way, Mr. Sean, what are you going to do next?"
"Well... continue studying, of course."
"I'm not talking about that. Of course you have to study. I'm talking about what tasks you plan to take on in the tribe." Evelyn explained, "If you don't work, you can still eat in the cafeteria, but you won't get the snack subsidy money, and you won't get any good things from the Welfare Department."
"...I still have some savings." Sean said tactfully.
"You can't buy things from the Welfare Department with money from outside. You can only buy them with the subsidy coins issued by the tribe." Evelyn took out a very small 1-gram coin and handed it to Sean. "With two of these coins, you can buy a bowl of very fragrant and delicious sweet tofu pudding!"
Sean felt that he was not a person who could not resist the desire for food, but since Evelyn had specifically mentioned this matter, he had to give this elf girl some face, so he asked, "What job does Ms. Evelyn hold?"
"Before, I worked for the road construction team digging the roadbed and opening the mountain. Then I taught magic apprentices for the tribe, the ones we just saw. Later, I went to mine limestone with the goblins for a while..." Evelyn counted on her fingers for him to hear, "This time I plan to apply to help at Balk's flour mill to extract moisture from vermicelli. Although this job is boring and tiring, it can sharpen my mental strength at the same time."
Sean: “…”
If Evelyn hadn't told him this herself, he would have doubted whether there was something wrong with his ears - asking spellcasters to build roads? Mining stones with goblins?! What kind of magical style is this! !
"Well... I'll ask Ayun for advice later." Sean forced himself to maintain his composure. After all, he was a legendary magician and couldn't make a fuss about everything.
“Ah!” Evelin screamed suddenly, her pretty face instantly becoming ferocious , “Teacher Ayun hasn’t given me a story yet!!”
...Sean stared in amazement as the elf girl suddenly jumped out and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Sean: "..." So I have to find my way to the cafeteria by myself, right?
"Hey, it's Mr. Spellcaster." A dozen goblins came over from behind with their short legs. Seeing Sean standing stiffly on the side of the road, they all bowed politely, "Good morning, sir."
"Good morning." Sean subconsciously took a step back.
Some of these goblins were the first ones brought back by Hongye and Ashan, some followed the migrating Snow Wolf tribe, and some were spotted by the Snow Wolf warriors and taken back with their entire family. They lived a good life in the tribe and did not notice Sean's disgust. After greeting them, they naturally continued on their way and did not treat Sean as an outsider at all.
Sean: “…”
He also knew that the Fire Tribe had about 200 goblins, but he obviously couldn't get used to this race of thieves that were widely known on the continent appearing in his sight so naturally in a short period of time...
Sean was looking at this with a strange look on his face when a werewolf carrying a puppy... er, a wolf cub came out of the alley in front of him. He seemed to be in a hurry to go out. He ran into the group of goblins head-on. The werewolf's eyes lit up and he immediately stuffed his cub into the arms of one of the goblins: "Baron, you goblins have half a day off today, right? Please help me take care of the child! If I'm not back before work in the afternoon, I'll give it to Yangmao!"
"Okay." As one of the first goblins to arrive at the Fire Tribe, Baron was very familiar with the Snow Werewolves. He immediately reached out and held the little wolf cub over. "Don't worry, Qingcao. It's Gal's turn to rest in the afternoon. If Yangmao is not available, let Gal take care of it."
Qingcao bent down and touched Baron's bald head, then hurried away with big strides.
Sean: “…”
"The babies of the Snow Wolf tribe were also this small when they were young." A goblin curiously rubbed the cub in Baron's arms with the back of his metal claws.
Baron smiled as he walked away, "Soon he'll be bigger than us. That seven-year-old cub is almost as tall as me."
"Do you know when this baby can become a human, Baron?"
"I don't know." Baron shook his head.
"I know. I saw babies being born in the Snow Wolf tribe where we used to live. They can turn into humans when they grow to this size." Another goblin spread out his arms to gesture, "It will take about two or three years after birth. When they turn into humans, they will be this tall."
“Boo-boo——”
"Is he hungry? Let's go to the cafeteria and ask Niu Jiao for milk."
"Well, let's go quickly."
Sean stood there for a while, following the group of goblins silently.
After becoming a legendary magician and gaining a recognized title, what Sean has heard most in the past few decades are all kinds of compliments from people of all identities. Intentionally or unintentionally, Sean's mentality has become complacent and self-righteous... Those who are qualified to deal with him are all people of a certain status. Accustomed to such an environment, in Sean's eyes, where is there any place for lower races, or people of insufficient status?
At this moment, Sean finally realized that his vision had become so narrow without him realizing it.
He couldn't help but start to reflect, if Ayun was not Carlisle's teacher, if Evelyn was not a forest elf, would he still think that the other party was qualified to guide him?
This realization made Sean feel ashamed. Evelyn and Ayun had repeatedly told him to break old ideas and prejudices and re-understand magic. At this moment, he thought that it was as if they were euphemistically reminding him not to cling to his old ways...
"Pride and prejudice, have I unknowingly become the type of person I hated the most when I was young?" Sean smiled bitterly and shook his head silently. If he had not truly experienced the Snow Wolf Tribe's unbiased attitude towards the goblins, he would not have discovered this problem of his own... just like when he heard what Evelyn said before, he naturally thought that spellcasters should not take on "low-level" jobs without any awareness.
After a tasteless breakfast, Sean found Xiao Yun, who was being pestered by Evelyn, and said earnestly, "Ah Yun, I heard Evelyn mention that people living in the Fire Tribe have the obligation to undertake work in the tribe. I wonder if the work of digging the roadbed and rock excavation that Evelyn once did is still in need of manpower?"
Xiao Yun: “???”
After confirming that this legendary magician was not mentally ill and was really willing to help the Snow Wolf Tribe build roads, Xiao Yun found a cub and took Sean to the construction site...
“What did you say to him?” Turning back, Xiao Yun asked Evelin in great confusion.
"No snack allowance if I don't work?" Evelyn asked uncertainly.
Xiao Yun: “…”
"Don't try to fool me. It's already the middle of the month! Do you want to delay submitting your manuscript for four months in a row?" Evelin turned hostile in an instant.
"Okay, okay... I'll make up a story. Let go first. What's the point of pulling and tugging?"
The story of the Gourmet Hunter can be made up casually, or you can just piece together some of Chef Wang’s “Teaching You How to Open a Restaurant” series of teaching videos, but the Travels of the Elf Ranger must be particularly rigorous.
In the four serialized stories, Xiao Yun used the character of Elf Ranger Crest to release four technologies, namely, terraced field waterwheel, soilless hydroponics or small space vegetable cultivation and earthworm soil utilization, mushroom cultivation, and the construction of artificial dams in semi-enclosed spaces to intercept rivers, use aquatic plants to raise fish, and fish manure to provide nutrients for aquatic plants to achieve a virtuous cycle. It also came with a detailed operation process of "How Magic Apprentices Can Be Self-Reliant and Make Their Own Fish Pond Disinfectant Powder"...
Cultivating mushrooms is fine, but the idea of diverting underground rivers to raise fish is something that even a blind person can see is tailor-made for the underground world. Xiao Yun didn't know how the Dwarf King would react, but after the fourth episode was released, the Dark Elf Grandmother was very grateful and sent a team of Dark Elves to give the tribe several thousand kilograms of magic ore specialties...
In this fifth period, he definitely cannot continue to brush up on the favorability of the dark elves. After all... it is a well-known fact on the mainland that the Dwarf King has a hot temper. Xiao Yun doesn't want to be spit in his face when he goes back to attend that Frank event.
"Well... this episode will talk about growing lotus roots in fish ponds." Xiao Yun thought for a moment and said, "Aren't there a lot of green oases and swamps in the southern part of the Dwarf Kingdom? Their climate is pretty good, so it's quite suitable for this."
Evelin took a deep breath: “Teacher, are you serious?”
"When have I, your teacher, ever not been serious?" Xiao Yun said with a straight face, "Isn't lotus root delicious? While raising lotus roots, we can also raise fish. Fish urine can provide urea for lotus roots, and then let the dwarves collect mammal urine and put it in... It's disgusting, but I've released the technology anyway. It's not my problem whether others want to learn it or not!"
"But……"
“Growing and picking lotus roots are both hard work and very dirty, but those who are willing to work hard will be rewarded. I know you are worried that others will accuse me of using black magic, but there is no need to worry about this. If the Snow Wolf Tribe really knows magic, what do you think the Beast King Tiger Tribe has to do with it?” Xiao Yun revealed his domineering attitude.
Evelin choked. There was nothing wrong with this...
Xiao Yun was too lazy to explain and urged Evelin to start writing. He himself was not unaware that this story would be questioned. First, it was indeed difficult to grow lotus roots in fish ponds. In China, only people who could endure hardships could do this. Second, there was the issue of urea utilization. The urine of a certain animal or something... It sounded too much like black magic!
But in the final analysis, as he said, if the Snow Wolf Clan could also have some kind of innate elemental affinity and use magic like the Tiger Clan, how could the Beast King Tiger Clan have been engaged in so many years of open and secret fighting?
