Volume 6: Helping the World Chapter 163 Adventurers' Worldview
"It's just a little bird being seen, why are you reacting so strongly? I didn't know if you were female or male before you took off your clothes!" Qingcao disagreed, "Ayun said that we should be careful with human females, and not touch the bodies of non-females and cubs. First of all, I'm a female and I didn't touch you. Secondly, you are human males with little birds. What are you so excited about?"
Arnold is fine, but the four human men are about to kneel down to Qingcao... You Snow Wolf tribe really have the nerve to say that others can't tell the difference between men and women! !
"We humans...are not used to having the opposite sex around us when we take a bath." Isaac said in great distress.
"Okay then." Qingcao shook the water off her daughter's body and went out with her.
"Should we be thankful that the Snow Wolf Clan is still reasonable?" Knight brother Edward said with a helpless smile.
Not long after Edward finished speaking, the adventurers discovered that the "truth" the Snow Wolf Tribe was talking about was completely different from what they understood.
"My team is on vacation today, so they don't have to do any strenuous work. Everyone else is busy, so just follow me." Qingcao said this, and calmly led the five cleaned guests to the greenhouse area.
The greenhouse is as big as a town hall. Its roof is covered with reeds and removed during the day. The winter sun shines into the greenhouse through the glass ceiling embedded in the steel frame.
Qingcao squatted among the sweet potato ridges, deftly picking the tender leaves from the branches. When he had a handful, he neatly stacked them in the basket and said, "The sweet potatoes in this shed are used to produce fresh and tender sweet potato leaves. Pick them from the top of the branches. The standard is that the tender leaves can be easily pinched off. Human hands are very dexterous, so it shouldn't be difficult to pick these, right?"
"..." Isaac had no energy to argue and silently picked a handful of young leaves.
"Yes, that's it." Qingcao turned around and slapped Isaac on the shoulder, very satisfied, "You pick along this ridge, and then go back to the other end."
Making way for Isaac to pick leaves, Qingcao looked at the thief Alex with a sharp gaze and showed off his scissors: "You will prune the plants that Isaac has picked the tender leaves from. Leave four or five branches half a palm long on each main stem. Put the cut parts in this big basket. Someone will come to collect them and feed the pigs and rabbits later. You are a thief who can use a knife, so there will be no problem with this, right?"
Ali: "..." No, what do you mean by playing with a knife? ! A thief who plays with a knife is the same as a gardener (...) in your opinion? !
After arranging Isaac and Alex, Qingcao waved his hand towards the knight brothers with pride: "You two come over here!"
Knight brother Edward stared at Isaac who was quietly doing farm work, swallowed his saliva, pulled his younger brother Wayne, and followed the grass to the other side of the greenhouse. One learned to pick leaves, and the other learned to prune branches...
During the long winter on the grassland, the cabbages stored in autumn were not enough to supply the daily needs of more than 7,000 people. After the warriors persuaded the eastern Snow Wolf tribe to return, more people from the central tribe arrived. The long journey caused these new Snow Wolves to suffer from more or less symptoms of vitamin deficiency, and the consumption rate of the stored cabbages increased dramatically (green vegetables could not be stored as long as cabbage). In order to ensure that everyone could eat fresh leafy vegetables, Xiao Yun specially set up a sweet potato greenhouse to produce tender leaves.
It's no wonder that sweet potato leaves are worthy of being called the "Queen of Vegetables". The efficiency of picking them once every seven days is better than all other green leafy vegetables. Although it is troublesome to trim the branches and apply fertilizer every three times, it is really nothing compared to the advantages. The most amazing thing about this thing is that it has a miraculous effect on constipation, which is common among grassland people. After eating it for a few days, the new tribesmen who couldn't defecate once a week quickly caught up with the old tribesmen's defecation rate of about once every three days. (People with poor digestive and kidney functions should not eat too much, these two points do not exist for grassland people)
The young leaves can be eaten, and the inedible parts can be fed to pigs and rabbits. All the output is fully utilized without any waste. No wonder this sweet potato leaf greenhouse has become Qingcao’s favorite.
After all four humans were arranged, Qingcao asked the remaining dwarf Arnold to join her team. They were busy picking leaves and pruning branches. The first day of the adventurers' arrival at the Fire Tribe passed so quickly.
"Let's get the leaves~~" A few hours later, a group of cats working under Rosemary came together, said hello to Qingcao, and took away all the old leaves in the basket.
"We can come and move it again before dark." Qingcao shouted to the big cats.
"Okay~~" the big cats waved.
Not long after the cats left, the snow wolf working in the cafeteria came and strung the basket full of young leaves on his arms and moved them very efficiently...
"Come on, everyone. Work faster. If we don't finish by dark, we'll have to continue working at night. You can't see at night, so it will be very troublesome!" Qingcao saw that the picking speed was not fast enough, so he urged them on.
Adventurers: “…”
"Isaac, they don't really want us to finish all the work here before we can rest, do they?" Alex was almost in tears.
Isaac: “…”
Isaac is a little skeptical about life...
As the sky was getting dark, and there were still a small half of the sweet potato rows that had not been picked, the five adventurers were on the verge of collapse. Qingcao, who was not too devilish, asked his daughter who was playing nearby to run and call a few members of the work team who were busy in the sweet potato greenhouse next door to come and help. At least the guests did not have to experience the overtime characteristics of the Snow Wolf Tribe as soon as they arrived.
The five people, who were so tired that they could hardly stand up straight, walked out of the sweet potato leaf shed tiredly. The greenhouse area with many buildings that shocked them when they first came here no longer attracted their attention. The five adventurers who had never done farm work just wanted to wash their hands and feet quickly and sit there and stare blankly...
Then, they met a large water work team that was pulling out truckloads of muddy sweet potatoes from a nearby greenhouse.
The heavy steel-frame flatbed cart commonly used by the Snow Wolf Tribe weighs about 600 kilograms and has a load capacity of about two tons. The wheels are steel wheels covered with cowhide, and the bearings are crudely made mechanical parts on an assembly line processed by a homemade lathe. The precision is not up to par at all. It requires an adult Snow Wolf to pull it, and it can only travel on the roads repaired by the tribe.
More than a hundred adult snow wolves pulled out at least hundreds of thousands of kilograms of sweet potatoes from the rows of sweet potato greenhouses, and lined up in a long queue to send them to the flour mill south of the tribe. In the absence of the traffic of modern transport teams, this scene was indeed very spectacular - the five adventurers stared at this astonishing scene in a daze, and even their pace slowed down unconsciously.
"Dashui, how many sheds have you closed today?" Qingcao greeted the people in the convoy.
"Sixty." Dashui wiped his sweat and said, "The yield of this batch of sweet potatoes is not bad, but the soil in the shed should be replaced. Tomorrow it will be your team's turn to harvest the sweet potatoes, and our team will go to the swamp to dig some soil."
"Don't talk about tomorrow. The day after tomorrow our two teams will go get soil together. Your team can also take a day off tomorrow." Qingcao said, "Rosemary is going to slaughter a group of rabbits. It's a good time for your team to rest so you can go and help."
Dashui was surprised: "Didn't you say you were going to kill the rabbit? Why haven't you done it yet?"
"Yes, we were supposed to go and help today during our break, but Qiuqiu couldn't spare anyone to process the rabbit skins today, so we'll leave it to tomorrow." Qingcao showed Dashui the girl she was holding in her arms, "It also gives me some free time to take care of the cubs."
Isaac and the others stared at the green grass in silence... Is your "vacation" different from what we understand? !
"That's fine. Everyone has been very busy lately, so we should give everyone some time to relax." Dashui nodded, turned around and shouted to his team, "Tomorrow we only have learning tasks, and the remaining half day is free to do anything. Let's finish today's work quickly!"
"Okay~" the snow wolves pulling the cart responded happily.
Adventurers: “…”
The area of the greenhouse area is dozens of times that of the living area. If the buildings were not so rigid and uniform, the greenhouse area could be said to be half the size of Valentine... Well, this is also the main reason why there are not enough houses after the population explosion. Last year, A Yue's second engineering team was busy with the tribe expansion project in the greenhouse area, and the last dormitory house was built the year before last.
After leaving the sweet potato greenhouse area, the adventurers met a team harvesting radishes, a team planting ginger, garlic, chili peppers, Sichuan peppers, onions, and leeks, a team managing the mushroom house, a team of earthworm breeders finishing their work, a team of composters finishing their work... and so on.
The five adventurers had no idea about the Snow Wolf style of everyone participating in the work. No wonder they, as guests, were taken to do farm work... Even the cat cubs who were only as tall as their waists were growing mushrooms. As adults, what else could they say!
There was no time to expand the dormitories, so the cafeteria remained the same, unable to accommodate too many people eating together. When the weather was good, everyone could just squat anywhere after getting their food, but now that it was cold, everyone had to take their food home to eat.
"For the five of you, based on human appetite, two adult snow wolves will probably be enough." Qingcao took Isaac and the others to get food, and reminded them of the details along the way. "Send the dishes back after you finish eating and wash them over there. Do you see that small shed? There is hot water and disinfectant for washing dishes there. After washing, hand them over to the cafeteria. It's that door over there. Just take them in and sort them out. Except for the goblins who are afraid of the cold and don't go out, everyone else has to get their own food and wash their own dishes..."
Isaac was unusually silent. What was the point of asking the guests to wash the dishes themselves? The guests were even forced to work...
After receiving the big pot meals from the cafeteria, the five adventurers felt that "this trip was worth it" - what does it mean to have food for two adult snow werewolves?
A big bowl of braised pork, two bowls of spicy rabbit cubes, two plates of fried fish chunks, two plates of stir-fried sweet potato leaves, two plates of spicy and sour cabbage, two bowls of fried potato chips, a pot of sauerkraut, radish, bean sprouts and bone soup, and some steamed cakes/pancakes/flavored pancakes/rice and wheat rice as staple foods!
The five people happily said goodbye to Qingcao and returned to the half of the mobile home they were assigned to live in. After a quick meal, they all came back to life again - this was the authentic Snow Wolf Tribe food! No wonder the cats followed them to work without any complaints!
"After quitting being an adventurer, it seems like joining the Snow Wolf Tribe to spend my days here is a good choice~" Arnold rubbed his round belly and leaned against the wall. "I heard that the dwarves in their tribe don't need to do farm work, and they are all working as blacksmiths in some new hilly area? I'm good at that~"
"You're overthinking it. Didn't Qingcao mention that even the Snow Wolf warriors have to go to the fields during the busy farming season." Ali said coldly.
Arnold was immediately very conflicted... Forging iron was fine, but farming was too difficult.
"I have to return the tableware. Who's coming with me?" Isaac stood up and put the clean dishes into the basket.
"Let me do it." Knight brother Edward said very consciously.
The two knights carried the dishes to the washing area, washed them, and returned them to the place Qingcao had pointed out before. They had just finished counting the dishes that were still wet when the snow wolf who was collecting the dishes asked them, "Did you go to work today? Who did you go with and what did you do?"
"Uh..." Isaac swallowed the words that we were guests, "We picked sweet potato leaves with the grass."
"Oh, how many people are there with you?" The snow werewolf who was collecting tableware took a look at the bowls and plates they returned.
"Five." Isaac was a little confused.
"Five people, no work team..." The Snow Wolf wrote something on the bark paper with a strange pen, grabbed a handful of copper coins from the box on the table next to him, counted them quickly and handed them over, "There is no annual subsidy for temporary workers. Each person is five yuan. Here are twenty-five yuan."
Isaac & Edward: “???”
"Didn't Qingcao tell you about the work subsidy?" The Snow Wolf Man was surprised. His eyes paused at Isaac's chest and hesitated. "Are you human women from the woolen mill?"
"We don't look like women at all!" Isaac shouted.
The snow werewolf seemed not to believe it. He stretched out his other hand and pressed on Isaac's chest, and then pressed on the confused Edward's chest.
"She is indeed not a human female, so Qingcao must have forgotten to tell me." The werewolf muttered and stuffed the copper coin into the hands of Isaac, who was almost crying. "The subsidy is given to you. If you need it, go to the welfare department over there." He kindly reminded, "You just arrived, right? Go as early as possible. If you are late, Dahe will close, and you can only buy things tomorrow."
Isaac, holding a handful of copper coins, was neither angry nor happy...
"Snowflake, calculate the subsidy for me!" Just at this moment, a snow werewolf ran in in a hurry.
Seeing this snow wolf, Isaac and Edward were both stunned - all the adult snow wolves they had seen were large in size, and even the female snow wolves were more muscular than human warriors. But this guy was a little different. His body shape was similar to Isaac, but his muscles were not particularly eye-catching, and he was more of a bodybuilding type. His facial muscles were not as deep as those of other snow wolves. His face shape was relatively standard, and his facial features looked a little handsome. He also had long hair, tied into a neat ponytail. If he covered the animal ears on both sides of his head, there was no flaw in saying he was a human being.
"It's Ashan. Are all the people in the brick factory going to be counted together today?" Xuehua (Lan Guo's partner) greeted.
"Yes!" Ashan nodded and smiled at the two humans he had never seen before, revealing his dazzling white teeth, looking indescribably sunny and heartless.
Xuehua swiftly recorded the amount in a notebook with a charcoal pencil, ticked a small box under the dated brick factory form, and counted out a small pile of coins of three denominations: "Seventy ten-yuan copper coins, one five-yuan copper coin, and three one-yuan copper coins...Okay, Ashan. Are you guys going to pool your money together to buy hot pot again?"
"Yes! We can buy a lot of hot pots with all the money!" Ashan happily took the money in his hands.
"It's you who buy incense pot every day, which annoys Daha a lot." Xuehua said happily.
"I'm leaving!" Ashan ran away happily.
Isaac & Edward: "..."
Seeing them looking stupid, Xuehua kindly said, "If you want to go to the Welfare Department, go quickly. It's just right to go behind Ashan. After selling the incense pot at the brick factory, Dahe usually doesn't have the patience to keep the store open."
The two knights came out silently, looked at each other... Unable to resist their curiosity, they silently followed Ashan who was running away.
The Welfare Department was converted from a warehouse, and was about the same size as a greenhouse. The two knights followed Ashan to the place and were shocked at first - there were so many people!
It was even more lively than the cafeteria I had just seen, with people of all races mixed together. Not only did I see human female workers, but I also saw Centaurs!
It would be fine if there were centaurs, but there were even cats sitting on the backs of centaurs and queuing up...
The two knights were stunned, followed the crowd and joined the queue to enter the Welfare Department. Before they could be shocked by the rich variety of food provided in the Welfare Department, the two knights who thought they were handsome among humans dropped their jaws...
Ashan, the snow wolf who had received a "huge sum of money" before, was arguing with a tall and shockingly handsome man; if Ashan was an outlier in the snow wolf tribe, then that tall man with animal ears on both sides of his head was simply an outlier among all intelligent races - even his casual standing posture revealed a sense of unruliness, even his face with a hint of anger carried a sense of bewitching, even his unkempt hair looked as if it was natural, and even his unintentional little movements seemed to be tempting people. What was that?
It's a concept that any male creature would want to kill him...
Isaac turned around and exchanged glances with Edward, then silently walked towards a place as far away from the guy who was so handsome that he didn't look like a snow werewolf at all... It's better to out of sight, out of mind.
Originally, the two knights had no idea about the twenty-five copper coins they had worked so hard for a whole day, they just wanted to come and see the excitement; after walking around for a while, they had unknowingly exchanged all the copper coins for goods, and they couldn't help sighing at the can of cold rabbit they found at the end - there are so many things that money can buy here, the authentic cold rabbit that can only be found occasionally in Valentine Market and is counted with silver coins can be bought for a can here with only five copper coins, but this money is really not worth spending, after all, it is the income from five people's day's work, and it was all spent in a flash!
The two knights took the snacks back to their residence, and even the awkward Alex couldn't help but look forward to going to work tomorrow... The spicy gluten that he had eaten when he worked with the Snow Wolf Tribe before could be bought with one copper coin! Although the adventurers usually earn more than the pitiful subsidies given by the Snow Wolf Tribe in a day, these things can't be eaten outside!
"Isaac! Knight brother ! Come on!"
Isaac was about to take off his clothes and go to bed when he was startled by the voice: "Why does it sound like President Primo's voice?"
"Isaac! It's me, Primo!"
"It's true. President Primo didn't go to the Elf Forest to spend the winter, but came to the Snow Wolf Tribe?"
Isaac got up and moved the door panel that was pressing down the animal skin curtain in confusion... Then he saw a huge sled with the rough style of the Snow Wolf Clan parked in the square outside. Several Snow Wolf and Cat Clan members were standing around holding torches. President Primo was standing on the sled in high spirits, waving at this side.
"Mr. Primo!" Isaac quickly put on his shoes and ran out the door, "What are you doing?"
"Let's go fishing. At night, light a torch and break the ice. The fish will jump out of the ice by themselves. It's fun!" Primo seemed to be ten years younger. He was extremely excited and active. He urged, "Let's go together. Who are you following? Shout them out!"
Isaac: "..." He really wanted to ask President Primo if he had stayed in the Snow Wolf Tribe for too long and was infected by the Snow Wolf Tribe...
Isaac certainly wouldn't ask such offensive questions. He simply woke up the others who had fallen asleep and told everyone to wear warm clothes.
"You guys are taking too long. Hurry up and get on the sled." Primo said impatiently, looking at the snow werewolves again, "Moore, Sunshine, Pear, who's pulling the sled tonight?"
"I'll do it, I'll do it!" Yangguang started to take off his clothes without waiting for the other two cubs to say anything.
The five-meter-long snow wolf cub put on a belt and rushed out of the tribe with a "whoosh" dragging the sled...
The adventurers were suddenly awakened by the cold wind at midnight: "..."
"Sir Primo, do you... always go out fishing at night?" Isaac raised his hand to cover his forehead and asked, enduring the cold wind that bit his face.
"You wouldn't let me when Ayun was here, but now that Ayun is not here, hurry up and play." Primo said nonchalantly.
Adventurers: “…”
It was fine for the others, but the thief Alex seemed to hear something "click" and spider-web-like cracks appear - the God of War Primo was a legend among the travelers and a living signboard of the Adventurer's Association!
This living sign has turned into a lunatic like the Snow Wolf cub!
Alex almost had the urge to burst into tears. Being seen naked by a female snow wolf and being forced to do farm work as a thief did not make him so upset...
This is not the end. After arriving on the canal ice and parking the sled, the cats who came with us jumped off the sled with laughter, and two people released scorching heat rays to melt the ice...
"With a cat spellcaster, breaking ice is much easier than chiseling it with hands." Primo said with joy.
Adventurers: “…” Where else do you use spellcasters like this?!
Three days later, when Xiao Yun returned to the tribe with an unhappy face, what he saw were... adventurers who had been thoroughly baptized from body to mind, picking sweet potato leaves, harvesting sweet potatoes, changing the soil in the greenhouse, applying fertilizer to the potato seedlings, and attending half a day's class with Qingcao's study group.
Not taking your anger out on others is a basic quality for a professional executive. Xiao Yun wiped his face and listened calmly to Isaac's account of Valentine's misfortune. He raised his hand and patted his head: "So that's what happened... I should have remembered to be on guard against the disgusting Lamia Chamber of Commerce, but I forgot because I was too busy."
After rummaging through his belongings box, he pulled out a roll of parchment tied with a rope and handed it to Isaac: "Send this to the head of the Valentine branch of the Lamia Chamber of Commerce. I remember it was a nobleman named Eddie Roger Berkeley. Tell him clearly that if the snow melts in the spring and the workers of our MSG factory cannot return to work in one piece, then the content on this parchment will appear in the next issue of "The Travels of the Elf Ranger and His Snow Wolf Friend."
Isaac: “Uh…”
"It's okay, you can open it and take a look. It's not a very important secret." Xiao Yun yawned.
Isaac untied the rope and spread out the parchment. Hannah and Edward, who were sitting next to him, came over to take a look curiously.
The content on the parchment is divided into two parts. The upper part describes in common language how to extract edible green salt from mineral salt:
Highly toxic mineral salt cannot be eaten and needs to be processed and filtered. The specific process is to smash the salt mine, grind it into mineral powder with a stone mill, add water and stir it into a saturated solution, and then filter it with gauze wrapped in activated carbon powder; after the saturated solution is filtered into a light blue color and has only salty taste without bitterness, the water is boiled dry, and the remaining white and slightly blue crystals are safe and harmless food-grade blue salt.
Isaac & Hannah & Edward: "..."
The person who wrote this parchment scroll seemed to be worried that others would not understand such a simple operation process. In the lower part, he drew a process decomposition diagram, attached a design diagram of a multi-person pedal-driven ore crusher for crushing ore, a stone mill structure diagram, and a detailed explanation of why gauze-wrapped carbon powder can absorb and filter out toxic components in mineral salt. At the end, there are also production suggestions for mass production of edible green salt...
Isaac raised his head stiffly and stared at Xiao Yun blankly. Lamia Chamber of Commerce was able to monopolize more than 70% of the salt trade in Bloomfield Continent. Naturally, the secret of making edible green salt was kept very secret by them and never leaked out at all... So where did Ah Yun know this method? !
"According to the instructions above, as long as there is a salt mine, both the team and the individual can obtain self-sufficient salt." Xiao Yun said expressionlessly, "The Elf Ranger is knowledgeable and willing to share this little knowledge with all the races on the continent, but if the Lamia Chamber of Commerce is willing to maintain friendship with our Snow Wolf Tribe, I think Hongye of the Snow Wolf Tribe will dissuade Crest a little... What do you think?"
Isaac silently rolled up the parchment, tied it tightly with a rope, and handed it to Hannah; Hannah took the parchment solemnly, wrapped it in a piece of silk cloth, and then wrapped it in waterproof cowhide, and then carefully put it in the luggage.
As far as Ayun was concerned, the problems that were giving them such a headache were nothing to him at all...
"Uh..." Although Isaac had let go of the heavy stone in his heart, his expression did not seem to be much relieved. He looked outside and hesitated, "Mr. Ayun, do you really not need to worry about that?"
"Who cares? Let's see who wins first." Xiao Yun rolled his eyes and stood up. "I'm going to sleep for a while. Don't make too much noise in this half of the room."
The adventurers watched Xiao Yun disappear behind the cabinet that served as a partition, and all turned their heads to look outside the house.
Outside the mobile home, on the vast square used to dry grain in the summer and autumn, the Snow Wolf warriors who stayed behind in the tribe formed a large circle to prevent the quarreling father and son from going out of bounds and destroying the house. Mr. Sean and President Primo also carefully patrolled the periphery, staring closely at the two green dragons that were tearing each other into a ball.
"You bastard, do you know how hard I have worked to find you over the past few years, ah ah ah ah——!"
"Go to hell, Auston. I don't have a father like you--!!"
Adventurers: “…”
"This is the first time I've seen a living dragon..." Hannah stared with dead eyes and stammered, "So this is a dragon..."
"I say, shouldn't we be shocked that there is a green dragon living in the Snow Wolf Tribe for several years... and diligently producing vermicelli every day?!" The dwarf Arnold doubted his life. "When we saw that green-haired guy before, no one introduced him as a dragon!"
