Chapter 028-The Virgin Mary of the Grassland --Tauren

Modern people go out, even if they are traveling far, if they prepare luggage and buy tickets a few days in advance, even if they have planned travel.　　

If you want to go to a far place in this poor place, you have to prepare at least half a month in advance...　　

After carefully inspecting the dried cheese on the rattan mat several times, and then Xiao Yun brought a leather bag and put cheese inside. Xiao Yun has been particularly disgusted with this stuff since he has seen clan people chewing cheese with long-worm. But It is true that cheese is indeed a complementary food in the daily life of the grassland tribes. He had to make his own cheeses that was more reliable, at least not awkward when it tasted.

Well, compared to snow werewolf's rough procedure of make cheese which is hard-boiled the milk into a paste, ang then pouring it out of the pottery pot and drying it in the shade to get the cheese, Xiao Yun actually added one more step to extract the cream from the milk first: pour fresh milk into the deep jug and is stirred repeatedly with a stirrer made of thorn bushes until the water and oil in the milk separate, and the cream floating on the surface is poured out, and then the left fresh milk is boiled into the past. It doesn't mean to dry the past in the shade immediately, but to filter it with a cloth and pour the filtered milk residue into the mold to dry, so that the cheese obtained will not have so much moisture and will not grow maggot.　　

At first, the clansmen didn't understand why Xiao Yun was tossing (doing pointless thing) so much. But, after eating the separated cream, they changed their positions one by one. As soon as Xiao Yun shouted to boil the cheese, and they immediately ran out a bunch of people who wanted to assist Xiao Yun making cream.　　

There are abundant water resources on the grassland, but it does not mean that you can find water everywhere in the wild. At this time, the cheese you carry with you can effectively replenish water and sugar. It is an indispensable consumable for living at home or travelling.

After preparing a large amount of cheese, and then they need to prepare dried meat and meat floss. It is not practical to bring all the meat floss, the dried meat should be the main part: the meat strips cooked with salt are air-dried and directly bagged up. It can be eaten when boiled in water if you have water conditions, but if you don't have water you can eat it directly to relieve your hunger.　　

In addition, it is also necessary to consider whether ethnic people will suffer from dysentery and diarrhea due to the decline in sanitary conditions when they are abroad, so the dried plantain and purslane should be brought together.

Then to prepare some tents, animal skins, earthenware pots for cooking food and water, earthenware bowls, and pottery carefully wrapped with a lot of hay for trading... and so on.

It takes more than a month to go back and forth even if it's a wolf form to run. So they need to bring one of the bean sprouts pottery bucket and two enoki mushroom cultivation tanks then...　　

The last light snowfall was ten days ago. The ground where the snow had just melted was still wet and cold. Xiao Yun didn't want to wait any longer. After discussing with the patriarch, he decided to set off immediately-the eastward expeditionary force consisting of Xiao Yun, patriarch, Qingyan, Hongye, Ashan, and Ayue, was ready to go!　　

...Then the patriarch, Hongye, Ashan, and Ayue gathered together to guess the boxing.　　

Ashan and the patriarch lost, the two people who scratched their scalps, and then took off their animal skins and woolen vests and left them to their companions for safekeeping, and squatted on the ground by themselves... and turned into two big white snow wolves.

The wolf form of the snow werewolf does not follow the human form after they are cleaned up. Xiao Yun also does not know what the secret is in it-but when there is a lot of snow water to take and a large stove is burning for a long time, it's not too difficult to clean the snow werewolves's human form and their wolf form. The two big white snow wolves that the patriarch and Ashan have become are completely free from the problem that Xiao Yun was first arrived to the tribe to see their fur were so dirty that even the color of invisible. After carefully cleaning and combing the hair, it is very fresh beauty and fluffy.　　

Hmm...the wolf form of the adult snow werewolf is also one size larger than the cub Xiao Yun's original size. The oldest patriarch's wolf form adds up to almost five meters in total - that is, he can carry a lot of things. After his back was carried with a large-scale pannier frame which made of various pieces of rattan and grass with thick arms, and still two more people could sit on.　　

Qingyan and A Yue got on the back of Ashan, Xiao Yun and Hongye climbed on the back of the patriarch, waved goodbye to the people who stayed behind in the tribe, and the group of four people and two white snow wolves set foot on the eastbound road.

The pads on the big paws and the fluffy long hair on the back can effectively reduce the shock. Xiao Yun sitting on the patriarch's back does not feel bumps, and he still feels the early spring scissors-like cold wind, looking around at the scenery. One hour later, two hours later, three hours later... half a morning passed, he was bored with the cold wind and tried of watching moist and icy lonely grassland, leaning on the strong back of Hongye and taking out the yarn of wool to weave cloth.

"Look, Ayun, that was the tree I broke when we passed from here last year." 　　

"Look Ayun there, the hole on the slope was digged by Oxhorn." 　　

"Ayun, Ayun, there are colorful birds. "　　

"Wow, that mouse is really fat..." 　　

Xiao Yun sighed, so excited that the steady Honye in the tribe came out... The life of the snow werewolf is really monotonous.

After yawning, Xiao Yun stuck his foot under Hongye's thigh, and fell asleep on the wolf's back. Although it was boring, it was rare for him not to have to work all day long. Stopped free time...　

Snow werewolves have the habit of making road signs that are difficult to change where they pass. They dig a big conspicuous hole, use broken trees as road signs, or pile a lot of rocks. After passing the same place, the snow werewolf can easily recognize the direction; the tribe who went to the tauren tribe have walked three times in total and are familiar with the road conditions. That night everyone used a small mountain bag before. After staying overnight, there was a relatively flat land on the top of the small mountain, and there was a stream not far away. After a day of running, the patriarch and Ah Shan jumped down and had a good time.　　

On the second day, the wolf form as the mounts were replaced by Hongye and Ayue, Xiao Yun and Qingyan were still cleverly sit on thier back.　　

On the fourth day, on the fifth day... the boring and boring journey was not at all romantic, and Xiao Yun lost even the strength of the small bugs emerging from the disgusting and slightly warming earth. This is still on the premise that the four adult members of the tribe are changing into wolves to greatly increase the speed of travel. If he is allowed to walk slowly, one by one for two months, Xiao Yun feels that he will definitely be crazy-no wonder people say at home It is difficult to go out for a thousand days.

In ten days, the group of people walked through the whole family to drive the cattle and sheep for at least two months. On the unchanging prairie, there were more rivers and streams and swamps with surprising density. This means that they finally entered the territory of the tauren. Tauren seldom have disputes with other tribes over pasture problems, because they are not as overly dependent on grazing as other tribes, and only they can survive in such a place full of waters... Cattle and sheep grazing near waters are easy to lose.

In half a day, they walked around a swamp that hadn't been there for so many years, and how many ignorant creatures had been swallowed. Xiao Yun, who had been sitting on the back of the snow wolf with pain in his butt, suddenly refreshed... At the end of his sight, he could see the man who had been taken care of the fields, large chunks of land with traces of cultivation, are endless, almost filling the end of the sky.

After walking for another half an hour, Xiao Yun saw clearly the cultivated land that made him feel close. The tauren really have a talent for planting, and the degree of cultivation of the fields connected by the terraces and his rural areas in modern society What I saw was almost the same. There were also ditches and ponds dug out for irrigation in the fields.

In the cold temperate grassland where early spring came late, the hard-working tauren have already started farming when the snow has just melted and the land was still freezing hard. When a group of snow werewolves walked near their fields, the tauren were working in the fields also saw the snow werewolves. From a distance, the tauren people seemed to be yelling between their companions, and all the tauren nearby approached Xiao Yun and the others, and greeted them openly.

The moment when Xiao Yun saw clearly what these Virgin Mary of glassland looked like, he finally understood why these vegetarian steppe Yuan Longping were so unwelcome on the human side, and why the caravan from the human kingdom had to bypass the tauren territory every year to the cat tribe waiting for the guests to come and trade. The name of the tauren is not wrong, their heads are indeed bull heads, not the relatively simple and honest-faced old scalpers or buffalo, but a head for a fierce bison with ferocious horns and thick black hair on their head.

Snow werewolf tribe and cat tribe, their human form only exposes beast ears to present different races. But the tauren not completely evolved at all, their heads are still keep the real bison head...　　

Such a group of tauren looks is comparable to the bull demon king (one kind of demon king in China, the original feature is from the famous book 'Journey to the West', the Bull Demon King was Monkey King's Brother). The tauren's height and body shape is taller than an adult snow werewolf, and the ultimate brawny man with his arms out of linen clothes as thick as Xiao Yun's thighs walks silently to the front of the line in a row, riding on the snow werewolf's back, with an advantage in sight height, Xiao Yun couldn't help feeling a bit of chills... To be honest, these old brothers can go to guest appearances about the villains of the Demon King Army without putting on makeup. The appearance of the cliff can scare the audience.

At this time, the patriarch who was sitting on Hongye's back with Xiao Yun jumped down and walked to the leader of the tauren with a red bull-eyed super brother, and opened his arms to the opponent...　　

The red-eyed bull demon king also expanded his arms...

The two of them hugged each other tightly, and slapped each other hard on the back, making a series of bangs and bangs...

Xiao Yun slowly stared at the dead fish-eyed: "..." 　　

The red-eyed bull demon king let go of the patriarch, and the big red eyes like copper bells stared fiercely at the shorter half of his head, set off by him, was a little petite patriarch. With a big mouth, showing the white and neat big teeth that are unique to herbivores, and the voice is very low, like a subwoofer: "Friends of the Snow Wolf, do you have any help?" 　　

Xiao Yun couldn't help but want to use the hand-held forehead. When the snow werewolves just arrived to here, the tauren asked if seek gratuitous financial help. Obviously, the tauren is already used to this kind of begging in the beginning of spring. It is indeed the Virgin Mary of the Grassland... But the tauren's appearance are really a disadvantage. Oh, it's a big loss to you, big brothers, what's the such faint sympathy from cub Xiao Yun!　　

"We want to exchange some seeds with you." The patriarch is not as fussy as Xiao Yun, the other party's hideous kindness seems to be... used to him.

The red-eyed bull demon king nodded, waved to his tribes to signal everyone to keep busy, and then happily waved to the snow werewolves: "Come with me."

The tauren tribe is located in a hill of not very high altitude, but a considerable area. On the southeast side of the hillside where there are many trees growing, Xiao Yun felt the huge gap in civilization when he saw the tauren tribe—these brothers can be regarded as the most "primitive" among the various races in the grassland regardless of their appearance. But their tribe is really not primitive, and vaguely have village specifications: wooden houses of various sizes stretch from the hillside halfway to the foot of the mountain, leaving a road in the middle, leaving a piece of flat land under the mountain that should be a trading area and a market; around the flat land In some relatively large houses and courtyards, there are two rows of wooden houses on the outside which are provided for guests...Compared with the pattern of a tribe surrounded by a tent of the Snow Wolf tribe, I don't know how high the grade is.

The vast market area should be used to greet outsiders. The red-eyed bull demon king took the snow werewolf all the way in. In the middle, he encountered a few tauren men carrying farm tools down the hillside road. Xiao Yun looked at their tools curiously and then he was shocked-their farm tools are all made of iron! Think of the whole tribe of snow werewolves with an iron skinning knife, this gap is simply sad!

However, when Xiao Yun and his group were taken into the largest courtyard in the market area, Xiao Yun understood why the tauren had so many ironware...It was really not the only their group that seek gratuitous financial help after the snow melted. In the open door of the spacious wooden house, they can see a group of gray dwarfs sitting at the rectangular table and eating hard... 　　

There are several underground world exits on the grassland. Xiao Yun learned about this from Hongye early. Hongye has also mentioned that the residents of the underground world, they would run upon the ground to find a way about alive when they were starving. It is easier to obtain minerals in the underground world than on the ground. These gray dwarf use the iron tools to exchange the food and aid from tauren who don't know where they come from...it is reasonable.

Compared with the goblins that the Virgin Mary of Grassland don't like to deal with, Xiao Yun is obviously more interested in these gray dwarves who can trade with iron tools, but before he has any thoughts, the gray dwarves who ate hard have seen the snow werewolves and two giant snow wolves who entered the courtyard were shocked and fleeing towards the wooden house with their food bowls...　　

Xiao Yun: "..."　　

The silent red-eyed bull demon king seems to not see the last group of guests being frightened by these guests, the snow werewolves had no feeling for the gray dwarves who scared them away. They removed the extra large cane and grass baskets on the backs of Ayue and Hongye. When the two put on their clothes, they walked into the hall where the dwarf ate just now... the gray dwarf eats cleanly, and there is not any soup on the table and floor.

The patriarch, Ayue, and Ashan all held a vine and grass basket, and carefully placed the three baskets on the table. The patriarch took out the ceramic bowl carefully wrapped with hay, and stripped the hay to show the red-eyed bull demon king: "Saladin, we want to use these pottery to exchange seeds for you, we need black bean seeds, but also grain and vegetable seeds."

When the patriarch opened the hay, the red-eyed bull demon king's eyes were fixed on the ceramic bowl that revealed the real body. Although this batch of pottery bowls are also made of clay, the walls of the bowls are relatively thick and do not have the thin and transparent look of porcelain, but different colored glazes are used inside and outside. The inside is grass green and the outside is deep purple, and the color is in the glaze. The effect of the material is quite bright, and the surface is extremely smooth and bright, far better than the pottery bowl brought by the human caravan-he can even see his own fuzzy reflection on the smooth bowl!

Staring at this beautiful bowl for a few seconds, the red-eyed bull demon king...well, Saladin, the elder of the tauren clan, understood the meaning of the snow werewolf patriarch, and suddenly revealed unabashed surprise-something that the tauren had grown taht the other tribes also love to eat. People from the nearby snow werewolf, cat, and even tiger tribes come to beg for them every year, and the tauren is also used to it, and it's not uncommon to exchange or give for nothing. But... this time, this snow werewolf tribe actually wants to exchange seeds instead of food?　　

It's okay to just exchange the bean seeds, after all, the beans are easy to grow. They just need to be sprinkled on the ground. Even if the grass grows thin, the black beans can still be harvested. But...snow werewolves they still want grain and vegetable seeds? !　　

"Huoyan, are you sure what you want to change is the seed?" Saladin asked directly.(The patriarch's name is Huoyan, cub Xiao Yun is the first time know his name.)　　

"Yes, our tribe also wants to cultivate." The patriarch nodded firmly. In the past, the snow werewolf tribe had never thought of relying on farming as much as the tauren, but now the cub Ayun has proved that the bean sprouts and the indoor cultivated enoki mushrooms are very useful, and the patriarch will of course be interested.

Saladin showed hesitation. He knew that the snow werewolf's population in each tribe was relatively small, and they couldn't live without meat. If the few tribes graze at the same time and farm like the tauren, maybe the last two said will fail. This let him not dare to agree to the exchange easily.　　

"We brought a lot of exchange items." The patriarch thought that the other party was unwilling to trade the precious seeds, and quickly took apart several pottery bowls and cups.

The shiny row of pottery made Saladin very heartwarming...Although it was invisible on the surface, this guy was silent and silent, it was a lot like thinking about "kill a few, how to kill" and other fearful questions. ——But the look in his eyes on the beautiful two-color pottery can't deceive people. Xiao Yun took a closer look and saw it...　　

Raised his hand to stop the patriarch who was so nervous that he wanted to take out the flower essence to increase his bargaining chip, Xiao Yun carefully Tentatively said: "Excuse me...what is the reason why you are unwilling to trade seeds to us?"

The tauren tribe adopts a system of sage elders. Both sages and elders can have a voice, and they do not despise the weak or young. The elder Saladin did not feel offended by the questions raised by the cubs in the snow werewolf team; the red copper bell eyes turned to look at Xiao Yun, and this sage of the tauren tribe said solemnly: "I am not unwilling to exchange seeds, farming is a tedious and sacred act that requires continuous work to gain something. If you are not religious enough and negligent on the land, the land will not reward you."

"..." Xiao Yun's awareness of this group of grassland Virgins Mary has deepened again, so he is worried that the snow werewolves will waste their seeds, and starve themselves to death...　　

It is impossible to convince the grassland people to rely on their mouths. It must be based on real proof . Xiao Yun thought for a while, ran back to the unloaded extra-large rattan and straw basket and hugged the pottery bucket containing the bean sprouts, then ran into the hall and lifted the straw cover on the pottery bucket halfway. Push it in front of Saladin.

"This is the bean sprouts made by our tribe using black bean soaks. On the way here, we have eaten two batches. This is the third batch of soaking." 　　

A pottery with a diameter of about 30 cm and a height of about 35 cm. The bean sprouts soaked in the bucket were only on the third day, and only finger-long sprouts grew. Saladin reached out and took out a bean sprout from the bucket and looked closely, and quickly recognized that it was a sprout from planting beans.

The tauren did not have the experience of eating bean sprouts directly after sending out new sprouts like this, but... With the eyesight of Yuan Longping on the grassland, after discovering that the new sprouts could be used as food, Saladin's eyes suddenly became bigger. Compared to eating black beans directly, it seems more suitable to eat the bean sprouts !

"Soak the beans like this before eating them. After they are cooked with fat and salt, they will be very crispy and tender, and they can produce ten times the amount of beans. One catty of beans can get ten catties of bean sprouts." Xiao Yun continued, "soaked. The process of hair is very easy. Soak it in water for a whole day, then drain the water and put it in a pottery or wooden barrel. Cover the lid so that the beans are not exposed to light. Use animal skins or other things to press the beans. Sprinkle twice a day continue grow five to seven days you can eat the bean sprouts." 　　

Saladin looked at Xiao Yun in shock, um, the shocked expression was also fierce... emm, looking at the stupid snow werewolves who was shocked and gazed is more suitable than looking at the tauren shocked....

The technique of cultivating flammulina velutipes is still a bit difficult. In order to prevent any problems in the process of trading seeds, Xiao Yun decided early in the morning to impress the tauren with the technique of bean sprouts, which is not a technique... Not worrying about whether you can impress the Tauren is also useful in proving that the snow werewolf knows how to plant and can learn planting techniques.

Saladin showed a slightly creepy smile, gently put the bean sprouts back, covered the grass cover, and pushed back to the snow werewolf: "The earth will give back to all those who have worked hard, whether it is a tauren or a snow wolf. We can exchange seeds for you."

The tense suffocation of the patriarch's chest pressed out, and Xiao Yun also let out a sigh of relief.　　

The tauren is willing to give seeds, and the next transaction is simple. Not to mention that the snow werewolves also brought beautiful two-color pottery to the door. Even if they came empty-handed to this group of prairie mothers, they would not let the snow werewolves run for nothing.

Of course, there will inevitably be conditions during the transaction. When Saladin arranged for the Snow Wolf people to live and took the patriarch to pick seeds, the patriarch quickly pushed Xiao Yun out...The content of the two transactions was confirmed by Xiao Yun After the cub decided, the ferocious tauren elder Saladin stayed at Xiao Yun for a long time.

After looking at the Cat Clan Qingyan in the snow werewolf team, Saladin, who was not always curious about the personal affairs of the guests, couldn't help but ask: "I remember that the snow werewolves are elders. Do you think sages are more reliable?" 　　

The tern of Sages do not mean sages, moral models, and perfect morals, but smart and capable. The grassland tribes are generally biased towards a pragmatic style. The so-called moral models are not perfect in them. The market-being able to speak beautiful words is completely incomparable to the tribal people's full stomach.

Xiao Yun: "..." He couldn't answer these words. Even if the snow werewolves didn't have any thoughts of fighting for power, you couldn't let me say to the current patriarch that I wanted to seize the position.　　

The patriarch showed a thoughtful expression, turned his head and looked at Xiao Yun with deep eyes.　　

Xiao Yun became nervous at once-human nature cannot withstand the test of temptation. If the patriarch suddenly awakens the consciousness of suppressing competitors, who would he make sense? !　　

"Saladin, do you think Ayun is suitable to be the patriarch of our tribe?" The patriarch said seriously.

Saladin once again showed a vicious and shocked expression. The tauren with a larger brain seemed to be very confused about why this question was actually asked by the Snow Werewolf-don't you have been given the important power to decide what crops to cultivate in a year to this cub?　　

"I'm not an adult, I'm only sixteen...seventeen." Xiao Yun said with a twitch of his mouth. He felt that if he didn't speak any more, the patriarch and Saladin, who were obviously not on the same plane, would not be able to chat happily.　　

The snow werewolf cub can be regarded as an adult after twenty-five years, but it will not be considered a true adult until their bodies are in estrus and have the ability to breed. According to the snow werewolf's lifespan, this will have to wait until after thirty. The patriarch calculated how long Ayun had yet to reach adulthood, and immediately gave up on this question, so long ago things were far from being considered; Saladin calculated the adult age of the snow werewolf, and let go of it too... …The brain capacity of the tauren is not so powerful that he can plan things ten years from now.

It is the uncle Ashan, who looks at Ayun with a particularly proud look-Saladin, the elder of the tauren, thinks his nephew is a great figure with the same name as the sages of the tauren tribe. Whether Ayun is the patriarch or not, he feels great.

This little dispute passed, and there were no storms after picking seeds and exchanging pottery. The exquisite pottery brought by the snow werewolf was also very popular with other tauren besides Elder Saladin, as long as the seeds which Xiao Yun liked, they were all willing to exchage with the snow werewolf. When they gave them, they were afraid that the snow werewolves would not be able to plant them. Saladin had to pull Xiao Yun for a long time to explain how to plant these seeds. For the tauren who has always been taciturn, It's really hard for him to say so much in a short time.　　

Such a kind tauren, to be honest, Xiao Yun really wouldn't want to cheat them. But watching the iron farming implements there, it's impossible to say that he don't like it. After coming to this now world, even though Xiao Yun suffered all the way, but generally went well, for the first time he encountered a difficult problem that he could not make up his mind...Can he cheat the Virgin Mary of Grassland-- tauren?