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Chapter 51

The Yuren Market is far to the east of the grassland forest, passing through the entire prairie, and then crossing a forest, and finally arrived at the Yuren territory. The feathered people's territory is covered with mountains and mountains. The mountains and forests are lush and lush. Various trees, berries, nuts, and grains can be seen everywhere in the mountains. The feathered people inhabit various hills according to their ethnic groups.

The market is not in the mountains. The earliest - the specific trace can no longer be found. Anyway, it is passed down by word of mouth. I heard that it was the earliest market to be opened to facilitate the four fur tribes to trade, so the market was specifically located in the Feather tribe. Mountain entrance location.

This was the first time for Qiao to come to Yuren Market. When she was a child, her father and mother told her that Yuren Market was very beautiful and lively, but the house was too small.

There is a large piece of gently sloping land at the mountain pass, with wooden houses built in rows at random heights. If Zhuo Yan were here, he would definitely be surprised, because he has been looking for bamboo for a long time. There are also bamboo sheds here, and the 'shops' are all made of bamboo.

The houses are staggered and the paths on the ground are winding and winding, all paved with cobblestones or smooth slates. There are wooden plaques hanging on the two big trees on the left and right of the market entrance, with five birds carved on them: eagle, eagle, peacock, wild goose, and golden-headed bird. .

This is a market held by the five major tribes of Yuren together.

Someone greeted him at the door, "Leopard Man Clan Leader, you have finally arrived this year, are you still at the same place? The Werewolf Clan Leader has passed by, and you two clans are still next to each other?"

"Please lead the way, Miss Aling." The uncle said. The clan leader nodded.

Joe sat on Ada's back, wondering if he was going to get down? She looked at the wooden house in the distance and thought that such a small house would feel too small for them to live alone. Is it a small wooden house that they want to settle there?

Miss Aling shook her wings and turned into a wild goose, flying in the air ahead to lead the way. The clan leader also changed into his original shape. The uncle took the leather skirt that the clan leader had dropped and turned it over. The leopard man and the orcs followed the wild goose. .

Joe breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that those houses were not occupied by them.

We soon arrived, and it was another delicate hilltop. There was a stream flowing down the mountain, leading to the outside. The Leopard Man tribe was at the old place of Featherman Market. It was on the back of the delicate hilltop, and on the front was the werewolf tribe.

There is only one big cave at the top of the mountain, and the entrance is extremely open.

Aling fell on a branch, and the uncle said that he understood, and the market would open tomorrow. Ah Ling flew away, leaving the Leopard Man to settle down.

The clan leader first transformed into a human form. This year there was a newcomer who came for the first time. He said seriously: "In the Feathered Market, don't conflict with the other three clans. No fighting is allowed. You can change whatever you want with the things you brought. We are in the market." If you want to stay for ten days, don't worry."

"Now check things and find a place to rest," the uncle said.

Ashu asked: "Rest? It's just this cave -"

"It's just a cave, everyone is here." Other orcs spoke out.

We walked continuously for nearly a month, especially when the temperature was very high. Everyone was very tired. We have become accustomed to it over the years. We unloaded the goods and put them in the innermost part. Then we took out a piece of torn leather. This was not an exchange item, but this paragraph. Time to sleep.

The experienced orc has already taken a position, far away from the entrance of the cave, protecting his partner behind him. When Ashu saw it, he also went to look for the leather. Chun went to help and said, "These are all good leathers. They need to be exchanged for something."

"Then you didn't prepare a bad one?"

"I didn't expect that it was my first time here. ."

Ashu could only say forget it and take one first. Chun was reluctant to let go, but she couldn't transform into an animal, so she couldn't sleep on the ground. The air here was wet and the soil in the cave was wet, so she took out a piece of skin and spread it out.

Qiao had heard from her parents that she had already prepared it, so she took her place and started to arrange the place to sleep at night.

The cave is quite big - not too small for a feathered man, but for a leopard man, more than thirty people live together. Leopard men naturally like to be alone. They are a small family unit, and the whole tribe sleeps together. Very uncomfortable.

"I heard from my grandma that the market is very lively, and Yuren can also knit Yuren skirts." Ada was afraid that Qiao wouldn't be used to it, so she hurriedly talked about the market to make Qiao happy.

Qiao: "Skirt? Let's change the salt first -" She looked at Ada, with a bit of shyness in her eyes, "If after changing the salt, there is still something to change, let's go take a look at Yu Ren's skirt."

"Okay. !" Ada was happy.

Qiao didn't know who was wearing the skirt for a moment, but she felt sweet in her heart.

There is a stream not far from the entrance of the cave. Everyone drinks water, bathes and cleans themselves, and then packs the goods. At night, a werewolf comes to the front of the cave to find the leopard man and asks them what goods they brought this year.

"Some leather." said the uncle.

In fact, they communicate privately every year. The four fur tribes exchange salt in the Yuren market. There is a sense of competition and common hatred. It is really that the feather people, especially the eagle tribe, have gone too far. They let the four tribes produce skins, and the skins are the worst. OK, change the salt.

The four tribes are angry, but they have to compete for salt, but privately, the grassland and forest tribes live on the same continent. They are naturally of the same type and are closer to each other.

"We also bring skins, skins every year." said the werewolf.

The patriarch looked at the young orc and werewolf, his eyes a little softer, "He brought something else."

"Others?" The werewolf was curious.

The clan leader said with a smile: "Everyone has brought something else, and just bringing leather is not enough."

The werewolf blushed a little, they also brought something else but didn't say anything, but they heard the Leopard Man clan leader joking and ran back in embarrassment. After a while, the werewolf clan leader came over and said, "I'm teasing the newly adult orc in our clan. He's here for the first time this year."

"I know, looking at his face, he has a lively temperament." The leopard man clan leader said cheerfully.

The chiefs of the two clans sat at the entrance of the cave, covered with leather. The leader of the werewolf tribe did not ask what the leopard man brought, but just chatted about the new cubs in the tribe and who died and went to the gods.

"Xiong is dead?" Surprise flashed in the eyes of the Leopard Man clan leader but he quickly calmed down and nodded. "I remember that he was very brave and protective of the tribe. He stood at the front when there was a conflict with the Tiger Man clan."

"He was a good person . Orcs."

The werewolf leader nodded. Those regrets have long passed. This is how we live in the grasslands and forests. It is not a bad thing to go to see the gods. There is always such a place.

"Daya's son Arei was trampled to death by a mammoth." The patriarch said.

The leader of the werewolf clan: "No wonder I didn't see him this year."

"He has some bad legs, so he didn't come this year."

The clan leaders of the two clans talked about the new cubs and the dead orcs and sub-orcs, but did not mention them. The leopard man clan leader thought One thing, "A Yin is still alive."

"A Yin?"

"The white fur orc born to A Mei in your tribe."

"Didn't he never transform?" the werewolf clan leader was surprised.

Leopard Man Clan Leader: "Yes, he hasn't transformed yet, but that kid was lucky. He was picked up by a sub-orc in our tribe, and he can hunt now."

"Ami is here this year, too, and her partner. Bring the cubs."

Different from the small family life of the leopard people, the werewolves are much closer and live in groups. On the way to the Featherman Market, the orcs carry their partners on their backs and run next to them with their cubs. If they get tired from running, the orcs will also carry their cubs on their backs.

Therefore, it is normal for werewolves to bring their families and children to the market. Unlike leopard men, if they have cubs, they will most likely not bring them. They will either keep the cubs to watch the cave, or the sub-orcs will stay.

The voices of the two clan leaders were neither too loud nor too quiet, but the orcs had good ears, and they were in the same cave, so everyone could hear clearly what they were talking about. Some orcs looked towards the corner - that was Furuzi's father Furukawa, who looked like Didn't hear it, was trying to cover up my friend.

When everyone saw this, there was nothing to see. When Bai Mao Zai was so young, Furukawa didn't care about Bai Mao Zai. Now Bai Mao Zai is almost an adult and lives in Zhuo Yan's sub-orc cave. He and Furukawa have no relationship. relationship.

After chatting for a while, it got dark and the werewolf leader went back.

Everyone rested.

Before Qiao went to bed, he thought of Zhuo Yan and A Yin, and touched Ada's arm lightly. Ada looked up at Qiao, and Qiao looked at the goods next to him. There was soap in it, which Zhuo Yan wanted to exchange for salt.

Ada understood and said softly: "I'm watching. Go to sleep."

It was dark the next day, and there were snoring sounds in the cave, and then it was time to get up.

The uncle said: "The feathered people have food. The sub-orcs can find a family to settle down with, and they can eat at the same place for the next few days. I suggest you look for more wild geese, peacocks, and golden-headed people. These three tribes are relatively kind and harmonious."

" As for the orcs, you can go hunting outside the forest every afternoon. Don't pick and choose what you can eat. Come back as soon as possible and don't stay out for too long. If you encounter other three tribes who are also hunting, don't fight and give way." The clan leader said.

The young and energetic orcs didn't understand why the leopard men had to let the other three tribes go, but due to the majesty of the tribe leader, no one would ask.

"After changing the salt, let's go back together. There are still people in the clan." The uncle said warmly.

Everyone said they understood.

On the first day of the market, the leader of the Leopard People stayed in the cave to look at the collective goods and asked everyone to go shopping first and exchange for what they wanted. The uncle also stayed.

Take turns looking at the goods in this way.

Qiao and Ada carried rattan baskets on their backs and followed the direction Aling led them. There were many orcs along the way, including werewolves, lions, and tigers. Some young cubs were also among them. Qiao was surprised to see them. , looked at Ada.

"They will bring the cubs."

"Then we will bring them later?" Joe blurted out.

Ada said: "Okay. But it's not good if it's too small. If it's too big, he shouldn't sit on my back. Only you can sit on my back."

Joe laughed, and the two stopped talking about this topic.

As we walked away, there were more and more people, and it was easy to tell who the Yumen were in the crowd - because the Yumen, both female and male, loved to dress up. They were all in human form, wearing skirts woven with feathers. They were colorful and beautiful, and the wind blew them. Come, the feathers are swaying slightly, the female is slender and slender, with delicate and agile facial features, wearing feathers and flowers on her head, while the male is tall

and slender - even so, the orcs are taller, majestic and stronger.

And regardless of whether they are male or female, everyone has fair skin. The feathered people regard whiteness as their beauty, and their beauty is their agility and agility, unlike the orcs, who regard their beauty as being tall, strong, and strong.

Some orcs said: "They are too thin, short and skinny, not good-looking."

Sub-orcs also felt that the males of the feathered men looked thinner than their sub-orcs. Can they find a partner to mate with?

"The prettier the male is, the easier it is to find a female to mate with."

"Especially among the peacock family, the male tail feathers are the most beautiful."

"Yes, but they can't fly high and can't carry salt."

"The feathers they made The skirt and accessories are very beautiful."

When Qiao was in the tribe, he came to Yuren Market and told Aman Shitou about this - everyone had heard the description of Yuren from his father and mother, and they sat together. When working, what he said was similar to other sub-orcs and orcs nowadays.

Zhuo Yan would say: Sing whatever song you go to. When we come to someone else's territory, even if we can't appreciate their beauty and think it doesn't look good, we don't want to show it. We can show it to everyone if they think it's pretty. Everyone likes what they make, but they also think it doesn't look good. This is not good.

And each has its own beauty, being strong is beautiful, being delicate and agile is also beautiful.

Qiao remembered Zhuo Yan's words.

So when I went to the market, I saw those small wooden houses with many things on display, including bird whistles that could make a sound when blown. Xiao Xian must have liked this very much, and green tubes that jingled when knocked.

"This is made of bamboo."

Qiao originally thought that the sound produced by knocking was unrealistic and was a waste, but when he heard the bamboo, he was stunned for a moment, "Is it bamboo?"

"Yes." The golden-headed female said with a smile: "In our tribe They use it to make noises when singing and dancing, but none of you fur people seem to like it. I've been waiting here for several years, and no one has passed it."

Qiao: "Is there any bamboo shoots left to eat?

" Huh? Have you been here before?" asked the golden-headed female.

Qiao: "This is my first time here, but I heard from my friend that his name is Zhuo Yan. He is very good. He made soap. I will show it to you."

"Okay."

Soon Qiao was on the Golden Head Female She has settled here for her meal, which is a piece of leather that is not too big. In the future, Qiao will be able to eat at noon every day at the Yuren Market until she is full, and she will eat whatever Yuren eats.

The two chatted happily. The golden-headed female was named Zilan. There were many purple-blue flowers on the hills of the golden-headed tribe, which were very beautiful. Zilan said, "Is your soap really that good?"

"This is made by my partner. He didn't come and asked me to bring soap in exchange for salt, so -" Qiao looked at Zilan curiously, and she also knew that the Jintou tribe didn't have a lot of salt, so she thought for a moment and said, "I can give you half of it as a gift. "Yes."

Zilan waved her hand and said, "No, no, she can't get your partner's things in exchange for salt."

"I'm not giving it to you for free. I want some bamboo seeds." After Qiao said, "Can I?"

Zi Lan was confused, "Seeds? Bamboo is everywhere on our mountain. I don't know what its seeds are. You If you want to eat bamboo shoots, they are gone now. They are only available in spring, or after it rains."

When Qiao heard this, he felt a little sad, but still gave half of the soap to Zilan, "You can take it, Zhuoyan people are very good. Okay, I will tell him when I get back, and he also gave me some soap before, so I can return it to him." But she believed that Zhuo Yan would not care about her gift of half a bar of purple and blue soap.

"No." Zilan refused, but said with a smile: "Although I don't know the seeds, they are everywhere on the mountain. I will ask the grandmothers in the clan tonight. When I find the seeds, I will exchange this half with you. "Soap."

"Okay, thank you Zilan."

"You're welcome."

The two of them talked a lot. Zilan knew that it was Qiao's first time and introduced the situation of the five Yuren tribes, especially Yan. Both the Diao people and the Yan people have a lot of salt. The Yan people are kinder and harmonious. Our tribe is smaller in shape. The salt we bring back is only enough for our own tribe. The Peacock tribe is even worse. They can't fly to the seaside, but Everyone in the Peacock Tribe is very beautiful. If other tribes pursue the Peacock Tribe, they will give them salt. "

"So if you want to exchange salt, you'd better ask the Yan People first, then the Eagle People..."

Not only did Joe remember it, but Ada behind the scenes also understood it.

In the evening, the four fur tribes returned to their resting place before dark. The leopard people were in the cave. Everyone chatted about the things they bought at the market during the day or what they had seen. Qiao told what she heard.

"It turns out there is such a thing. Qiao and we all went out for a walk, and you were the only one who heard useful news."

Chun heard this and added: "It's not that she is great, everyone will know if you ask."

Qiao looked at Chun and said, Chun frowned and looked away.

"Then why didn't you hear Haru?" the other sub-orcs replied.

Chun: "I don't like to hear these things. It's not like I'm in the tribe. I like to hear about other caves."

Qiao looked over again, and Chun looked away again, not meeting Qiao's eyes. Joe: ...Forget it.

The orcs were talking about this. The uncle next to him also heard it and looked at the clan leader. In fact, this news is not a secret. The Yan people are easy to get along with. In the past, the four tribes wanted to trade with the Yan people, but in recent years, it has not been possible. .

It's not that the Yanren have changed, it's that the Yingren are very strong and don't allow the Yanren to exchange salt randomly - just giving salt to one or two skins here. The Yanren can't stand out and can't defeat the Yingren and the Eagles.

Just like the Leopard and Wolf tribes, they try their best to avoid conflict with the Liger and Tiger tribes.

As for the peacock clan, it is even worse. It sounds good because the peacock is beautiful. The other four clans all want to pursue the peacock clan and will send salt to the peacock clan, but in fact... their life is not easy either.

There is a difference between being given away by others and being able to fly to the beach to exchange for it yourself.

There are fewer and fewer people in the Peacock Clan. The leader of the Leopard Clan sighed silently, not only for the Peacock Clan, but also for the Leopard Clan - there are only sixty-six members of the Leopard Clan this year.

There are eighty-nine members of the wolf clan, and the lion and tiger clans are even more prosperous, with nearly two hundred people each.

The patriarch was worried about changing the salt in the future. No need to say anything, the uncle could understand the sadness in his partner's heart. He put his hand on the back of the patriarch's hand and said, "There will be pottery this year."

"Yes." The patriarch nodded, hoping to change more. . He didn't dare to bring too much. First, he was afraid that it would be difficult to change. Yuren didn't like pottery. If it's easy to change, it's also troublesome. If you bring more, they will need to change more salt. There are many people from the liger and tiger tribes, so they are afraid of trouble on the way back.

A few days later, the four fur tribes had all exchanged their personal belongings, and now the four tribes began to exchange salt collectively. The people from the four tribes all carried goods on their backs and stood behind their respective tribe leaders. Qiao was among them. In the past few days, she and Zilan has a good relationship with them. I heard that they almost got into a fight when changing salt before. Yingman would not give the salt to the orc even if he threw it into the water.

"Why?"

"It seems that the Eagle people felt that the Tiger people gave too little, and then they loudly said that the Eagle people were too much and ugly. The Eagle people were very angry. After that, the Tiger people were exchanged with the Yan people. "

This year, however, something went wrong.

The leader of the Tiger tribe had a very angry face, "We have been exchanging before, and we discussed last year that we need more salt, but now the quantity is even less than last year." Their tribe has added many more people this year.

"I can't help it. I flew to the beach this year. On the way back, several of the males carrying salt were injured. The salt fell from the air. There is really nothing I can do." The leader of the Yanren tribe explained, but he was actually a little angry. , "You Tiger Clan offended the Eagle Clan, and our clan was caught in the middle and was also implicated. I will give it back to you this year. It was promised last year, and it will not be counted next year."

The leader of the Tiger Clan was furious, but there was nothing he could do.

The leader of the Leopard People saw this, and felt a little pity for the Tiger People at this time. There were many people in the tribe, and it was difficult to be the leader. They were controlled by the Feathered People, and the brave hunters of the entire forest and grassland, now...sigh.

The things of the other three tribes were placed in front, and it was the turn of the Leopard People.

"This is pottery. We brought it as a group to replace the salt this year. This is a pottery bowl and this is an pottery pot. They can be used to cook soup and water. They are lighter. Of course, the pottery will crack after being used for a long time." Patriarch 15 Ten said.

The five tribesmen of the Yuren all stood behind the tribe leader, and those who watched the excitement would turn into birds and fly in the air. The tribe leader of the five tribes stepped forward to take a look. He had never heard of this, and this was the first time he had seen it.

The golden-headed tribe leader said, "Didn't you bring soap? My tribesmen say soap is very useful."

"Soap? Joe, tell me." The uncle asked Joe to come forward.

It was the first time for Joe to experience such a thing, so he was a little nervous, but he still put the backpack in front of him for everyone to see. It should be Zilan who went back to show off the soap, and Joe told him about the soap.

The chiefs of the Ying and Diao tribes were a little interested, but not very much. Like the bean tree, it had a cleaning effect. The chief of the peacock tribe took a fancy to these beans, which were prettier, smaller and more shapely than the beans of the bean tree, but they didn't. To replace the salt.

"You change this privately, now let's talk about the Leopard Clan's pottery." The Eagle Clan leader said.

...

Zhuo Yan didn't expect the rainy season to be like this - it doesn't rain continuously all day long, but when you open your eyes every day, you don't know when it will rain. It's more frequent than he and Ah Yin put together. Many more times!

And it's the kind of thing where one second the sky is clear and the sun is scorching hot, and the next second, without exaggerating at all, there is no sign of clouds or thunder or any other signs of the sky changing, and the raindrops are pounding down on them, and then the crackling gets heavier and heavier. This kind of rain The time is not long, it can be as short as ten minutes or as long as an hour.

It catches you off guard.

So annoying.

In the rainy season, it is either drizzle or heavy and violent rain. I take it about ten times a day.

Everyone is trapped in the cave and can't go anywhere, because there is mud outside, and you will have mud on your feet when you go out. Sometimes in the tribe, the orcs will take advantage of the sunny weather to go out, no longer wearing straw sandals, and go out barefoot.

And the orcs are too lazy to go out to hunt - the felines turn into beasts and their fur is wet, which is very uncomfortable for the orcs. They would rather hang their hungry stomachs and eat the meat that the orcs had dried in the sun before. There was no more stock in the cave, and a bang bang bang sounded in the square, summoning the orcs to hunt.

Ah Yin ran over quickly and came back howling.

Zhuo Yan guessed right that he was going hunting tonight and said, "If there is thunder and lightning, stay away from the tree. The lightning will hit the tree and hurt people easily."

"Ouch~" Got it.

That evening the rain stopped, and the orcs transformed into their beast forms and began to go out. Ah Yin walked in the team, whining and talking to Ah Tou. Ah Tou whined back, and Ah Hui came in and also whined.

Ah Yin: My brother said that lightning broke down the tree, so we should stay away from the tree.

A Tou: I have heard this story.

Ah Hui intervened: Is it the story about the orcs who were killed by lightning and wasted? Maha didn't come to hunt today either.

Duoyu and Mumu, who were following at the end: ...Forget it, I just pretended that I didn't hear these three saying that they wanted to kill Ma Ha with lightning. Can't hear, can't hear.

Zhuo Yan took advantage of the fact that it wasn't raining, so he went out to pee, washed his hands, and checked the tooth pig and chicken. The tooth pig's hole was a bit low, and some rainwater was poured into the hole, but the tooth pig could dig the soil, and the hole was better than the one they dug before. It needs to be deeper, the tooth pig is now a mud pig.

There is mud everywhere in the tribe, and although there is plenty of rain, it is still quite dry.

The climate of this continent is that the snow season is long and cold, and spring and autumn are relatively short and unclear. For Zhuo Yan, summer comes not long after the snow season - early summer, but many people in Oman feel that the hottest time is Summer, that summer is only about ten days.

Then comes the rainy season.

Although it has rained these past few days, the temperature is not cold at all, it is a bit muggy, but compared to the 40-plus degrees that people used to feel when they were exposed to the sun, it is now about 35 degrees.

Oman said that after the rainy season, it is autumn.

Zhuo Yan felt that it was still the end of summer, and the temperature in autumn would be above 30 degrees every day.

In short, except for the bright winter, this continent looks very summery in Zhuoyan at other times. It is divided into comfortable summer, hot summer and cool summer.

A Yin went hunting, and Zhuo Yan had nothing to do at home, so he wrote and drew on the cave wall. He was keeping track of the days. From now on, the salt drying can be done for ten days in the hot summer. This is the salt drying season, and it will be completed before the rainy season.

The snow has just melted and soon it's kiln-firing season. It's colder and it's not too hot for people to fire kilns.

When the rainy season ends and the ground is no longer muddy, this is the planting season.

Before the snow season comes the season for harvesting and storing food. There is a lot of salt this year. Zhuo Yan plans to smoke bacon and marinate the meat in advance. Now he has also found garlic. It would be better if there are spices such as star anise and cinnamon, as well as chili!

Zhuo Yan painted a grid on the wall and filled in the work to be done in each season, and how many days there were left.

After finishing writing, Zhuo Yan rolled onto the stone bed - the entire tribe now has no straw mats in the cave, except for Sister Qiao's house.

The hunting team hadn't come back the next day, so it rained sporadically all morning, and it stopped raining in the afternoon. The sun was so strong outside, and the baked ground quickly dried out—it wasn't that muddy.

The sound of Xiaoxian Aman's rocks and big clouds was heard outside the cave.

"Hey, we're finally here."

"It started raining as soon as I left the cave and I didn't take a few steps."

"That's right."

"I'm so angry."

The four of them arrived at Zhuo Yan's house and complained about the weather a few times, and then It started to rain again outside. Zhuo Yan:...

"Ahhhhhh!" Zhuo Yan looked up at the sky, "I'm going crazy too."

"When did this happen?"

Xiaoxian Aman Shitou laughed, and Aman said: " I thought you were happy."

"How could I be happy?" Zhuo Yan was almost trapped by the rain and couldn't go anywhere.

Shitou reminded, "You said before that rain is good, and the weather becomes cooler when it rains."

Xiao Xian also nodded, and he remembered it.

Zhuo Yan: ...I didn't know the depth before. How could I know this kind of 'rainy season'?

I couldn't do any work, so I was forced to rest, and Ah Yin wasn't around, so it was very boring. Zhuo Yan later wrote on the wall of the cave under the rainy season grid: Try to prepare some entertainment toys, handicrafts to be compiled, etc.

After half a month like this, Zhuo Yan felt as uncomfortable as being in jail. He kept drawing "zheng" for the whole thirteen days. On the thirteenth day, it rained only once a day, and it was very short. Everyone was chatting by the river.

The river bed has become much wider, and the water in the river has surged, rushing and being a little turbid.

"The rainy season is coming to an end. The tribe leader and the others are coming back soon."

Zhuo Yan always wanted to ask: "The Yumen should be far away from us. There is no rainy season there, right?"

The orcs ran very fast, and it took more than two months to go back and forth. , the feathered people and the orcs must be far apart, and the weather cannot be the same.

Cong Lu went there and listened to Zhuo Yan's question and said: "It rains over there in the summer, but I heard it rains very little and only rains a few times. The clan leader and others avoid the rainy season because they are afraid that if they come back early with salt, they will When it rains, the salt will melt away. "

"I can only choose sunny weather on both sides."

"I heard that it rains a lot in spring, and sometimes it doesn't snow, and sometimes it only snows." Aman. He said that he also listened to what his grandmother said.

Cong Lu nodded, and the Yu Ren he asked also said the same.

On the fourteenth day, there was not a single rain. The rainy season was over. Zhuoyan's body temperature was 312 degrees at the hottest time at noon. It was a little cool in the morning and evening, but not cold. The temperature was very comfortable.

There is another bad thing. The large tracts of grass beside the river, which are tenacious all year round, are washed away by the rainy season. Large tracts of grass fall to the ground and mix with the mud. I heard the orcs say that after After a while, in the fall, it grew.

Zhuo Yan: There is no mat to sleep on at his house.

Forget it, it's not very hot. I have gained experience this year. I will prepare more straw poles and weave a few more mats in advance next year.

After the rainy season, the soil is moist and moist, and the holy land is planted innately.

In the tribe, the land was plowed again and planting began.

Chapter 52

In early summer, Zhuo Yan and the others harvested potatoes, and the orcs in Tribelia began to reclaim wasteland - large tracts of land on both sides of the river. At that time, Zhuo Yan was still wondering why they were reclaiming land seven or eight meters away from the river. Now it is the rainy season. Later, he understood.

The familiarity of the weather and the tribe is engraved in the bodies of the indigenous people who were born and raised here.

In fact, at the beginning of the snow season, the river bed was also very wide, and the snow water mixed with the river water was very clear, rushing and rushing. But once summer comes and the weather gets hotter, the river becomes narrower.

Zhuo Yan forgot about this incident and only remembered what was happening in front of him.

Now after the rainy season, the river is wide and clear after flowing for a few days. Zhuo Yan dug the ground with the others - he dug up the area where the four of them had planted before, and began to give everyone step-by-step instructions on cultivating potato sprouts - and then found that many potatoes sprouted naturally.

Because the rainy season is not as dry as summer, Abai and the others came to Zhuo Yan with sprouted potatoes, and they were a little worried, fearing that they would be spoiled and unable to cultivate the seeds. Zhuo Yan took a look and exclaimed: The Holy Land of Innate Potatoes!

Their tribe is a big potato grower!

After more than ten days of rain, even if the ground dries out again in two or three days, after peeling away the dry soil on the surface, the soil underneath is black and moist. It has been plowed for the first time less than half a month ago. Soil, and now there are some wild grasses growing out of the soil, with strong vitality, which also shows that the soil texture is very good.

Start planting!

In the past few days, Zhuo Yan worked on the ground every day, and he was tanned. In fact, it was not black, but the color of wheat. Some people in modern times would spend money to tan their skin to this color. Shitou and the others praised him for getting more and more handsome. Zhuo Yan: 囧囧有神.

Because everyone praised him, said he was good-looking, and said he looked like an adult sub-orc now.

Zhuo Yan observed his body carefully and was surprised to find that he had grown taller. He was now a little taller than Xiao Xian.

"!"

Zhuo Yan's eyes gleamed. It was just the snow season, and he remembered that Xiao Xian was taller than him.

"Xiao Xian, come on, let's compare our heads. You have your back to me and look at Aman Shitou." Zhuo Yan pulled Xiao Xian back to back and stood upright.

Xiao Xian was very happy and pressed his back against Brother Zhuo Yan's back. The two of them were very close. Xiao Xian felt it and said, "Brother Zhuo Yan, your butt is perky."

Zhuo Yan: ...

is this a compliment? Probably so. Zhuo Yan was so excited that he didn't care whether his buttocks were up or not, and looked straight ahead, making Xiao Xian stand up straight and look straight ahead. Xiao Xian listened to Zhuo Yan's words, but he just didn't understand why.

"Standing so tall, I can't win." Zhuo Yan looked forward and said happily, "I want to be really taller than you, and you can't bend your back and bend your knees, otherwise you will be shorter."

When Xiao Xian heard this, he stood up straight and didn't dare to speak.

"How about it?" Zhuo Yan urged the referee.

Shitou and Aman looked at each other up close and far away. Zhuo Yan even pressed his hair. Aman who looked at him from close up also pressed his hair for Xiao Xian. Shi Shitou who looked at him from a distance said: "Zhuo Yan is tall, so tall." He stretched out his hand. The little finger made a little knuckle gesture.

Zhuo Yan was so happy that he almost flew up.

"Hehehe, I just said that I have grown taller."

Xiao Xian is also very happy for Brother Zhuo Yan. When he becomes an adult, he will also grow taller.

Aman said: "You look a lot stronger. Last year you were as thin as a twig."

Shitou nodded in appreciation.

Zhuo Yan feels that he must be 1.8 meters tall now, and his body is strong, and his lower abdomen is flat and smooth. When he works, his arms are raised and his muscle lines are obvious. It is not the kind of body-building figure that has been trained in the gym, but the kind of toned body. Dressing to show off his slim figure - of course, he doesn't have anything to wear now. He wears a small leather skirt and a waistcoat every day.

Body fat should be relatively low - orcs will be lower and have heavier muscles. There are no fat people in the entire tribe. Everyone has a simple diet. Meat is the staple food. Orcs can also eat some vegetables, potatoes, yams, and taro as supplementary food.

After the potatoes were planted, Asen Daya and others came to Zhuo Yan to discuss the matter of collecting salt for the second time.

Zhuo Yan:? ? ?

ah? Ask him again?

Although he was confused for a moment, he quickly discussed it and said, "Indeed. The head of the salt team hasn't come back yet, and we didn't get much salt before. In the fall, we still have to pickle and smoke meat, and the orcs eat a lot. , It's really not enough. I just finished planting potatoes. I can boil some more salt during this time."

"Then let's get some salt."

Daya: He just wanted to show off when the clan leader came back and saw that they had a lot of salt. ——I couldn't hold it back. Asen didn't go last time because he changed to the Salt Team, so he wanted to go there this time.

No matter which side you start from, everyone agrees to take the salt again.

It's like my family used to be poor, and I was doing everything to get by. Suddenly I discovered that there was a gold mine not far from my home. What's the point of saving? What I was reluctant to use before, now I put more bushi.

Zhuo Yan guessed everyone's mood, and when it was time to get salt for the second time, everyone who didn't go last time was very enthusiastic, including Dian and Maha.

"Are your legs okay?" Zhuo Yan said, one on the front legs and the other on the hind legs: "The mammoth's territory is there and it can't run. It's better to fully recover from the injury. If the legs are not good enough and run so far, it will get worse. How will you hunt for the rest of your life? Who will support your partner?"

Dian glanced at Xiao Kui and nodded silently, agreeing not to go this time.

Maha has no friends -

"You didn't have any friends when you were good. If you become lame, who will live with you?" Zhuo Yan asked.

Maha's forehead had veins popping out but he still lowered his arm.

Zhuo Yan hit the nail on the head and made Maha break his defense.

"This time A Sen, Huo Xia, and Daya, along with A Ri, A Hui, Duo Yu, Mu Mu, Maha, Dian, and A Yin and A Tou stayed to see the tribe."

A Yin listened to his brother and stood behind him. .

Zhuo Yan said: "This time I went to get salt and mud, and I went there quietly and came back quietly. I wasn't going hunting or going to the mammoth territory to prove my strength. Whoever brings back more salt and mud safely is a good orc. Brave orc. "

Ooooooo~ A Yin roared the loudest, he was supporting his brother.

The orcs in the tribe said yes, it should be, Zhuo Yan arranged it very well.

"The salt fetching team will set off tomorrow. The tribe's Maha and Dian will patrol. Ah Yin and A Tou are responsible for hunting in short distances. Eat whatever you can. Safety first. If you can't beat them, just run away. There's no shame in it." Zhuo Yan looked at Maha and Dian. Dian, Dian's injuries are lighter than Maha's. Now they are almost as good. Dian's short-distance hunting is no problem, and Maha's guarding the tribe is no problem.

"The other sub-orcs will prepare filters, clean stone pots, and prepare firewood as usual in the past four days. When they come back, they will boil salt. The weather is not so hot anymore and salt needs to be boiled."

Zhuo Yan thought for a moment and seemed to have nothing to do, then said After the meeting, everyone was still standing still. Zhuo Yan smiled and said, "I mean, everyone can go back. We have to work tomorrow."

"Okay!"

This time everyone left one after another. When Zhuo Yan took A Yin back, Shitou A Man surrounded Zhuo Yan. Xiao Xian ran to the front and walked backwards, saying excitedly: "Brother Zhuo Yan, you were so powerful just now."

"Hahahahaha, let's talk about Maha. Maha looks very angry. Aren't you afraid?" Aman said.

Zhuo Yan: "Don't be afraid, he doesn't dare to beat me." His uncle Daya behind him didn't just stand and vent his anger.

"You seem like the patriarch." Shitou said.

Xiao Xian Amandu looked at Shitou, shocked, and didn't say anything for a long time - he didn't know what to say, wasn't Shitou right? Xiaoxian nodded slightly, and Aman said yes, there are some.

"I didn't know what to say just now, but..."

"There is no sub-orc as a clan leader." Shitou took over Aman's words.

Zhuo Yan waved his hands nonchalantly and explained to his friends: "That's because Aman's father, my uncle, and Daya who stayed in the tribe actually don't want to take care of things."

Otherwise, the clan leader wouldn't let him. electric tube.

His uncle Arsenal would have to be brought up because Huo Xia Daya didn't care, and the young orcs were beaten into a ball and were unwilling to intervene in the tribe.

"At that moment - it was the previous state and the current state. If the current state were before, I mean Da Ya is now very positive and his attitude is much calmer. If Dian hadn't been injured in the fight with Maha, maybe Da Ya Asen invited Dian today. Take charge of the matter of collecting salt."

"Dian is injured now, plus he was humiliated several times by Maha when he was managing the tribal hunting team. Some young orcs are no longer convinced by Dian, and of course they are not convinced by Maha either. In addition, Ah Yin discovered the salt. "-"

Ah Yin whined when he heard this, and it was his brother who was the first to notice.

Zhuo Yan already had a tacit understanding and knew A Yin's name. He touched A Yin's ear and continued to explain: "I arranged it last time. After taking the salt mud, I arranged to boil the salt and dry it, so I might as well make the arrangements. , it's easier. "

It means not bothering two masters."

Aman Xiaoxian nodded repeatedly after hearing this. Shitou glanced at Zhuo Yan, with a smile in his eyes, and said, "I thought you were very neat just now."

Zhuo Yan understood, Shitou wanted to praise him for speaking the truth, and said with a smile, "Because I didn't ask everyone's opinion, just directly Arranged? This is also based on last time's experience. There is nothing to ask for advice. Sometimes you have made a decision in your mind. If you ask too many questions, people will think that you are not very sure and will jump out to refute you. Procrastination will not work. "

Of course, it all depends on the matter. If you can't make up your mind about something, you still have to ask."

After he finished speaking, the three of them said nothing, and they all looked at him with handsome faces.

Zhuo Yan: Cheers akimbo.

"Handsome, isn't he?" Zhuo Yan said with a smile after finishing his fart: "It's limited. When the patriarch comes back and Sister Qiao comes back too, we can continue to work and live leisurely."

Xiao Xian Shitou Aman: ...but he soon became filled with emotion . Come smile.

"I miss Qiao."

"Me too, I don't know what Qiao brought back."

"If Qiao knew that we also have salt, and it's whiter than the ones at Yuren Market, what do you think she would be like?"

Several people looked at each other . Look, they all laughed.

"I'm so curious."

"Me too."

"Clan leader, did they bring back enough salt this year? If not, we also have a lot."

...

The four fur tribes set off from the Feathered Market three days later than last year. .

Something happened. A fight broke out between the tiger and the eagle. The young tiger injured the male eagle. The eagle tribe leader was very angry and wanted the orc to pay for his life. Naturally, the tiger tribe leader refused.

He just wounded the Yingren, why should he take the lives of the Khajiit orcs?

The leader of the Eagle Men was angry: A male without wings is almost dead. Hand over that orc, otherwise our Feathered Market will be evacuated and we will never provide salt to the four fur tribes.

The other three tribes were forced to get involved.

The leader of the tiger people cursed back: It's just that the arm was sprained and not cut off, it doesn't mean that it can't grow back -

Eagle Man: Then break the orc's leg, it doesn't mean that it can't grow back!

The two parties became more and more noisy, and in the end the tiger people actually wanted to steal the salt placed outside by the eagle people. At this point, if they really did it, the five tribes would definitely not set up stalls to exchange salt at the Yuren market next year, and the three tribes could only Appease the tiger man.

The Ying people are the dominant among the five tribes. The other four tribes listened to the Ying people and suspended the salt exchange market for a year or two. There were no consequences or casualties for the five tribes. In these years, the feather people have been able to save money according to the market exchange. With just a few skins and a bone knife, it will last for several years.

However, the fur tribe has stopped using salt for a year, and the snow season is about to begin. How can they store meat? If the sub-orcs don't eat salt for a long time, their health will become worse. If their health is bad, they will not be able to give birth to cubs, and the number of tribesmen will decrease, which is very dangerous.

The Khajiit's territory is rich in prey, but also dangerous.

The four tribes negotiated together and finally appeased the five Yuren tribes. After the salt exchange that day, all the four tribes left and did not stay in the Yuren territory any longer.

...

The rattan baskets of the Leopard People are a little lighter. There were originally sixteen full rattan baskets, but when we returned, each rattan basket was not full, and some were still empty.

On the way back, every orc was very fast. The novelty of going to the Feathered Market for the first time was gone. All that was left was the longing for the tribe. The orcs felt sad.

When they were resting on the road for the night, Qiao lay in Ada's arms and whispered, "Will they want more next year?" She closed her eyes and could still hear the snapping sound of the young Khajiit's broken legs.

Ada lowered her head and kissed Qiao's forehead gently.

"Don't think about it. We got a lot of salt this year. Even if we give some to the tigers, there will still be a lot."

Qiao hummed and said next year.

"I think Zhuoyan Aman's stones are a little salty. It would be better if we didn't eat salt."

If you don't eat salt, you don't have to be threatened by the eagle people. You don't need to say anything from the feather people. They can only do this. The feather people have wings and can fly. In the sky, they can't catch it. But Yuren also has good ones, and Zilan is very good. Zhuo Yan must be very happy to find the bamboo seeds for her.

Thinking of this, Joe felt better and tried not to think about what happened that day.

On the way back, everyone changed from the excitement they had when they came and couldn't finish talking about Yuren Market. When they went back, they just hurried back, hoping to go faster.

The clan leader sighed silently in his heart. In fact, it has been like this in the past few years. When I went there, I was very happy, thinking about how much salt I could exchange for. When I went back, I was a little quieter, because I was picked and picked, and the things I brought could not be exchanged for much salt. It was just Unlike this year, the tiger man even had one of his legs broken to pay for it.

They also had less salt...

They traveled much faster along the way. On the twenty-third day, the group entered a familiar territory. Sometimes the hunting team of the tribe wandered far away, and it was within this range.

"Almost! We're almost at the tribe." An orc shouted.

The dust-covered sub-orcs had smiles on their faces, and they didn't rest much at night. Even when they were closer to the tribe - there was still half a day to go, the tribe leader and the orcs caught two zebras along the way.

At the same time, Zhuo Yan took the sub-orcs to boil the last four pots of salt - all together. He started taking the salt for the second time less than half a month ago. When he came back four days later, the sub-orcs had experience and started filtering and boiling the salt. A total of four Big pot.

The salt was boiled for the second time using a newly braided rattan basket covered with a layer of skin. The rattan basket was very finely woven with small holes and was completely covered by the skin. It was enough to hold two large baskets like this. The orcs went a third time.

Zhuo Yan:? ? ?

It's really unbelievable to suddenly become rich.

The third time, Maha and Dian came to see him, saying that his legs/hands were healed and they wanted to get some salt. Maha even tried to guarantee that he was not stupid - that's what he meant. Zhuo Yan: He felt that if he said no, the two of them would look broken.

It seems that taking salt is now a symbol of bravery.

At that time, there was only A Yin behind Zhuo Yan, and there was no one else. He was afraid that Maha would not be able to play with him. Zhuo Yan thought about it and nodded, "Don't fight, don't stir things up, just go and have fun."

This time Zhuo Yan asked A Yin Daya Huoxia will go together, but the other young orcs will not go. The salt that the tribe is boiling now, and the clan leader and the others will come back, will eat all the salty food that they eat every day, and they can eat it until after the snow season. His uncle didn't stay to watch the tribe. The main reason is that Da Ya and Huo Xia are here, and Ma Ha has no brains or anything, so they can be beaten submissively.

Before leaving, Zhuo Yan murmured to A Yin: "If Daya and Huo Xia beat up Maha, you should run far away. Just watching, you should applaud."

A Yin whined, knowing about his brother, if If someone beats Maha, he will applaud.

The third time the team set off, the other young orcs were envious. Zhuo Yan was a little confused. It's not like you haven't been there before. He even let it go. Then he thought about it. If he went to dig for gold, he would give you a share if

he found it. He wanted to go there every time. , he was also sad if he was not allowed to go.

Figured it out.

Jinshan Jinhai, just touching it makes me happy.

It seems that I have been poor for too long.

Now this is the salt that I brought back for the third time. The orcs in the tribe have gone hunting. The patrol team has three people. Maha and Dian still don't deal with it, but they just don't deal with it. They do everything they need to do.

Zhuo Yan whined when Ah Yin came back, while Ah Tou was interpreting beside him.

This time when taking salt mud, Ma Ha really got beaten. It was Huo Xia who beat him because Ma Ha saw a newborn mammoth calf in the distance. As soon as his eyes lit up, Huo Xia hit Ma Ha with his claws. head on.

Ah Yin stretched out his front paws and patted him.

Maha was confused for a moment and couldn't figure out what A Yin was doing. In the end, he whined softly, which meant that he just looked at it and didn't want to catch the cub. What to do?

Seeing that her brother wanted to hear it, Ah Yin whined even more enthusiastically. When A Tou heard this, he laughed loudly, and Zhuo Yan's eyes urged him. A Tou translated: When waiting to get the salt mud, Maha raised his front paws and patted.

Zhuo Yan: ...Hahahahaha.

Laughed him to death.

It was not hot at noon, and the orcs did not go back to rest. They thought they could pack up after cooking the last batch. The hunting team Huo Xia took the young orcs for a short hunt, mainly because they were too busy.

Huo Xia also brought his orc son, A Man's naughty primary school student brother.

So Big Ya also followed, probably wanting to take the opportunity to 'beat' the young orc.

Zhuo Yan felt that it was more like an extracurricular practical class than hunting, and the two teachers in the lead were very irritable and strict.

Abai and the others made new rattan baskets and said, "Zhuo Yan, is this enough salt?"

"That's enough." Zhuo Yan thought, "When the salt work is done, I'll open a kiln and let's make some salt." It's not suitable to put the jars in rattan baskets. If it snows or rains, it will melt. "

Brother Zhuo Yan, it won't rain much anymore," Xiao Xian reminded.

Aman said: "The jar is good, I'm free anyway."

Shitou nodded, "It's still a long time before the autumn picking day."

Xiao Xian heard that he was right, and said that Brother Zhuo Yan, I will come to help when the time comes, and other sub-orcs are willing to help. Yes, they want the salt shaker too.

"I never thought that salt needs to be packed in jars before!" A Bai exclaimed, "There has never been so much salt in my cave."

It used to be wrapped in a piece of leather, and it was used when stocking up on bacon in the fall. That's almost it. Who would have thought that the salt would take up two large pottery bowls and water glasses in his house.

"Me too, I used to have a leather bag for the salt team when I first came back. There was quite a lot, but it was almost gone after a while. Zhuo Yan, let's make a bigger pottery salt jar this time."

Zhuo Yan was full of words . Agree, "Okay, let's put a lid on it. The belly should be bigger and the mouth of the bottle should be smaller to prevent moisture. If the salt gets wet and clumps, it won't prevent you from eating it." "

It's all up to you."

Then the forest beside the river in the distance There was movement there, and the sub-orcs thought it was someone from the patrol team at first. When the first sub-orc discovered it, they exclaimed: "It seems that the salt team is back!"

"The patriarch and the others are back!"

Everyone stood up, Zhuo Yan, too, looked at each other with Aman and the three of them, beaming, "Sister Qiao is back.", "Qiao Ke is back."

The four of them said in unison, staring into the distance.

The group of people was huge - mainly because the orcs were huge in shape, and they were carrying things on their backs. They came back in groups with large and small bags, which was very spectacular. The guy from the salt boiling factory ran a few steps to the river, waving his hands and calling his partner's name.

So one after another: "Qiao——"

"Zhuoyantou Aman Xiaoxian——"

"Xiaofeng, Xiaofeng——"

"Lin Rong, I'm back. Have you given birth?"

"I gave birth to two babies. "

Xiao Feng and Lin Rong are partners and play better. Zhuo Yan didn't hear some of the other names being called to each other. He was also happy. Before, he laughed at the other orcs who wanted to show off some 'surprises' to the salt changing team. In fact, he was also thinking at this moment that even the Feathered Market was still mean. Don't be afraid of picking and choosing, their Leopard tribe has salt!

The two parties were finally close. The orcs swam across the river and stepped on the potato field. However, everyone was very excited at this moment. No one cared about calling for the potato field. When they met each other, they were all smiling, and each looked for his own partner. Chatting, you speak first, I speak first, no one can hear what the other is saying.

Zhuo Yan and others also picked up Qiao. Qiao jumped off Ada's back. They hugged each other and talked to each other -

"Qiao, I told you that we found salt."

"Are we going to change this time? " Zhuo Yan's soap Jintou tribe likes it very much. I also met Zilan, she is a female of the Jintou tribe and she is very nice.

"Qiao, Zhuo Yan said it is true that there is salt in the mammoth territory.

" Guess what I found, Zhuo Yan, I brought back bamboo seeds.

"Qiao, we boiled a lot of salt, enough for everyone to eat."

Because

the five people said at the same time and they were very excited . Large, so the overlapping key words 'salt', 'bamboo' and other words can be heard clearly. Until there was a leopard roar -

everyone stopped talking and looked over, it was the roar of the clan leader. After the clan leader roared, he turned into a human form, his eyes swept around the clan members, and soon fell on Zhuo Yan in the crowd.

"Zhuo Yan, have you found the salt?" the clan leader asked.

The left-behind orcs were about to open their mouths, but this must be a mess again. The patriarch said first: "Zhuo Yan, tell me."

Qiao looked at Zhuo Yan in disbelief and shock. Did Zhuo Yan find salt? Where did you find it? Behind the clan leader, the orcs and sub-orcs who had just returned were shocked. Some orcs even turned into human forms and stayed in place without even being wrapped in skins.

Did they hear that right, salt?

Zhuo Yan—that sub-orc who made pottery found salt?

But salt can only be found in Yuren Market, and it can only be found at the beach.

The sub-orcs ran to the beach? No, no, no, that's not right. I heard from the Yuren at the beach that only wings can fly very far. Not even the peacocks can fly. It takes a long time.

Zhuo Yan met the clan leader's gaze and nodded firmly. Surprise and confusion flashed in the clan leader's eyes. Zhuo Yan said loudly: "The tribe captured mammoths before, and our family has not eaten salt for a long time. That time I ate mammoth meat and felt that the meat was salty, so I suspected that there should be salt near the mammoth territory. Ah Yin " I heard

that . " Zhuo Yan heard this and saw that the patriarch was also puzzled. He simply said: "We are boiling salt for the third time. It is near the kiln. Everyone can come and see." It's not that the patriarch didn't believe Zhuo Yan. , but really couldn't think of salt. He looked at the other sub-orcs who stayed behind, and everyone said: "Zhuo Yan said it is true.", "We have cooked it three times, clan leader, there are already two big rattan baskets of salt, and now The third rattan basket came out. "It's not just that, there were a lot of them in each hole before." Everyone in the salt exchange team: Huh? ? ? ? ah! ! ! ! Two, two rattan baskets, no, three rattan baskets. Still divided a lot? What...salt? Is it really the salt they eat? Not something else called salt. Zhuo Yan was already leading the way. Now the clan leader and the other orcs didn't even care about returning from the journey. They were exhausted. They threw the hunted zebra casually on the ground and ran to follow. They wanted to see if the salt was boiled? How to cook it? How could there be salt? Then everyone saw four large stone pots on the fire, and there were some straw mats, buckets, and pottery pots next to them. Some mud was piled nearby. The shed built by burning pottery seemed to be covered with leather, and there were some white things on it. . "Where's the salt?" Aman came over with a handful of salt, "This is it, salt." "Salt doesn't last like this." The orc behind him said loudly, with disappointment in his eyes. He thought Zhuo Yan had really found the salt. . Shitou said loudly, "That's it. The salt we cook is better than the one in the Feathered Market. It's whiter and has no pebbles to grind your teeth. Our salt is good." The orcs who came back didn't believe it, but the sub-orcs who stayed behind had firm eyes. They all nodded and answered affirmatively: This is salt, better salt. The patriarch stretched out his hand, pinched the salt in Aman's hand, and put it into his mouth. After a long time, the patriarch's weather-covered face and corners of his eyes were filled with tears. The patriarch opened his mouth and looked at Zhuo Yan to say what he wanted to say. He just uttered a syllable, and then waved his hand. . Zhuo Yan understood instantly, "Everyone can taste it. It's really salt. What's boiling in the stone pot is salt water." The patriarch's voice became hoarse just now, as if he was crying. He turned around without looking at the patriarch and continued to explain to everyone. . "Ah Yin went hunting with the hunting team. He went to the mammoth territory, not to hunt mammoths but to find salt. He always remembered my words. The salt brought back today by Ah Yin and Daya is salt mud. There is a lot of salt in the mud, and it needs to be filtered, boiled or dried to get the salt." Ya-orc people: "Yes." "Zhuo Yan brought us to make it." "It was indeed brought back by A Yin and Daya. We didn't believe it at first. Zhuo Yan worked hard for a whole day to get out the salt." "You will know after you try it. It's not a lie." Aman Stone held up the salt for everyone to taste. Qiao believed in Zhuo Yan and her partners, but she never thought that there was salt not far away from the tribe. Their tribe had a lot of salt. In the past, at the Feathered Market, she watched the tribesmen compete with the Eagle and Eagle people. They argued over salt and talked in low voices. If three pieces of leather were not enough, four pieces would be needed to give salt. Zhuoyan's pottery was so good, and the Yu people obviously liked it, but they were still picky about the salt. The clan leader and uncle said good things about the pottery. , trying to change as many as possible, one of the Tiger Man's legs was broken - everything came to him, and Joe had tears in his eyes. "Qiao, why are you crying?" All the words were stuck in Qiao's throat, and he couldn't say a word. He just shed tears, tears of shock and joy, and tears of grievance for his tribe. The orcs who had tasted the salt were all in a daze and shock. Some choked, some wiped their eyes, and some cursed the hawk... Too many emotions were leaked, and there was only a quiet joy afterwards - they did not dare Loudly, as if afraid of being frightened at this moment, as if this was a dream. Salt, really salt. Lots of salt. A Man hugged Qiao and Xiao Xian stone surrounded him. Seeing Qiao like this, Zhuo Yan understood that he must have suffered a lot of grievances when he went to Yuren Market this time. It was obviously an exchange of goods and equal, but one party was arrogant and pinched As the 'lifeblood' of the orcs, this transaction was destined to be done by the Leopard Tribe begging others to sell it to them. Zhuo Yan held the salt in front of Qiao, smiled, and said, "I left a lot of salt for you. When the salt is boiled today, we will burn the salt jars specifically for salt. I will carve a small flower for you, which will belong to Qiao." The salt shaker at home." Qiao smiled with red eyes and promised that we would burn it together. When the patrol team and the teachers and students who went out to take 'practical classes' came back, they discovered that the salt exchange team had arrived at the tribe. The whole tribe became lively again, and the orcs gathered together to chat, and the topic couldn't be separated from salt. "Where is that boy A Yin?" shouted the experienced orc. Ah Yin stood in the crowd. Everyone looked at Ah Yin. The orcs said: "A Yin, you are doing well!", "A Yin, you dare to go to the mammoth territory, you are so awesome.", "A Yin, how could you do this? Run to the mammoth territory to find salt. " A Yin has never been surrounded by so many orcs, but he still looks at him with admiring and happy eyes. At this moment, he seems to be the most popular orc in the tribe. "Ooooooooooooo~" he answered the question. The orcs didn't laugh at him, he just whined, and smiled kindly and happily, saying: "You dare to go to the mammoth territory even after hearing what your brother said, you are very brave.", "Daya also followed? Haha, he Didn't I beat you?" "Ouch~" No. Ah Yin thought for a moment, then whined again. Everyone laughed this time, but it was Da Ya who laughed. "Did he eat your bitter tree sap balls?", "Hahahaha, it must be so painful that I can't beat you." Daya:... Daya angrily looked at the other orcs who were laughing at him, and then looked at Ayina The boy said, "When the boy arrived, I said it was all mud, stones, and grass. Where can there be salt?! There is salt! I didn't believe it either. What do you think of him?" Everyone didn't know and looked at Daya curiously. He urged Daya to speak quickly, and even the clan leader listened attentively. "He hahahahahaha he almost chewed the dung of a mammoth." Ah Yin: "Ouch!" No, no, he didn't! I looked at my brother anxiously, but fortunately my brother didn't pay attention, so he probably didn't hear it. He didn't chew poop. Everyone didn't laugh, because they knew Ah Yin was looking for salt. Without Ah Yin, there wouldn't be so much salt in the tribe. In the future, they would never have to go to the Feather Market and suffer the anger of those little Eagle Men. "He really didn't chew. He chewed a lot of mud. I asked you, are you stupid? How can the mud be salt? He asked me to chew the mud, otherwise I wouldn't go back. I took a bite and found out that the mud is salty..." Da Ya spoke seriously.

"If it weren't for Ah Yin, I would have wanted to go back several times. It's very sunny there. The mammoths are by the lake during the day and we can't get close. Only at night, when the mammoths leave, can we go there to find salt."

The orcs listened very much . Seriously and carefully.

The sub-orcs who were out now gathered tightly around Zhuo Yan, wanting to ask how to boil salt, for fear of pulling them down. They didn't know and couldn't boil salt.

Zhuo Yan probably said it many times, saying don't worry it won't happen, and he will definitely call everyone to make salt next time.

Chun stood in the corner, looking at Zhuo Yan who was surrounded by everyone. Zhuo Yan was different from what he remembered. Everyone gathered around him and listened to his words. They also found salt and could boil salt... Will Zhuo Yan not... Give her salt?

After all, she bullied Zhuo Yan in the beginning. Chun bit her lip, feeling a little scared.

Although Zhuo Yan also gave her pottery last time.

But salt is different.

Maybe she had to apologize to Zhuo Yan, but she was right in the first place, but she really shouldn't have let Ashu teach a sub-orc. Zhuo Yan even broke his head... She just didn't understand why Qiao wanted to play with Zhuo Yan, She's not really that bad-hearted, it's just that she's just angry.

Spring is confused.

However, no one noticed that the smile on the patriarch's face did not stop, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were deep. He asked Zhuo Yan about the progress of cooking salt today, and Zhuo Yan said that it would definitely be fine before evening. So the patriarch specially put the zebra meat in the evening and said that he would go to the square to have a barbecue in the evening, and everyone agreed.

The uncle stayed to watch the salt boiling. The orcs and sub-orcs were unwilling to go back. Everyone stayed here. Everyone looked at the four stone pots with smiles and relief on their faces. After traveling for more than half a month, I obviously wanted to take a nap before I came back, so I hurried back to the cave, where my own territory would be more relaxed, but now no one wants to leave, so staying here and watching the salt boil is the best way to relax.

They...the Leopard Man tribe have their own salt.

Chapter 53

A bonfire was lit in the square.

Every face of the Leopard Tribe was filled with smiles. In the square where the meat was usually divided, there were four rattan baskets, glowing white under the firelight.

This is salt, the salt of their tribe.

Of course, there is also a rattan basket with salt and ash fluttering in particles.

This is the salt that the clan leader brought back, wrapped it in leather, opened it and poured it into the rattan basket in front of the clan members. It was about 70 to 80% full. He was sighing all the way, but now he looked at the three full baskets next to him. The wrinkles in the corners of the clan leader's eyes were smiling. deepened.

"This time the tribe exchanged salt, four pieces of leather for one bag of salt. There are not many leathers in the tribe, so we exchanged two bags, mainly for pottery. The Yu people like pottery very much, and one pot and two bowls can be exchanged for one bag of salt..." The clan leader The voice was loud and clear, and he said the number of salt changes one by one.

The tribesmen watched and listened quietly. When they heard that the pottery could be exchanged for a packet of salt, they felt that it was a lot. This was because they had been squeezed by the Yu people for a long time before, so they subconsciously felt that this was very good.

"Originally, the quantity of the rattan basket could be filled, but because of the conflict between the Khajiit and the Eagle people, the Khajiit orc lost one of his legs, and our tribe had more salt than last year, so I gave the Khajiit two packs of salt..."

When the tribe heard this, they murmured in silence, but most of them were curious: Why did the Khajiit orc have a broken leg? , why should we give salt to Khajiit, and so on.

The clan leader did not explain, only said: "Zhuoyan Ayin Daya found the salt and led the tribesmen left behind to dry and boil the salt. It is God's blessing on our Leopard tribe. Zhuoyan Ayin and Daya are the warriors of our tribe. Of course, the orcs and sub-orcs who worked together and participated in it are all good."

The whispers turned into enthusiastic applause. You are right.

"Today, the salt changing team will first divide a small portion of the salt. Zhuo Yan said that the kiln will be opened tomorrow to burn the salt jars. When Zhuo Yan's salt jars are burned, the remaining salt jars will be divided together." The patriarch said.

Everyone said yes. Zhuo Yan had distributed salt to the remaining tribesmen before.

"Okay, let's have barbecue tonight." The patriarch said.

Now the square became more lively, and the orcs began to slaughter the zebras they brought back. The original fire was now lit in four or five places. Everyone received the meat and skewered it with sticks around the fire to grill the meat, adding salt. Put it in a bowl and want to help yourself.

The last time the whole family had such a lively scene was when Qiao got married.

An orc called Ah Yin over, and Ah Yin ran over. After a while, he came with two wooden sticks with skewered meat in his mouth. Zhuo Yan took the meat skewers from Ah Yin's mouth, and Ah Tou followed behind. He also held a handful of meat skewers and said, "I'm proud of Ah Yin. Everyone gave him a lot of the most tender and delicious parts of horse meat."

Several people took the meat skewers and started grilling them. Qiao was surrounded by everyone, I want to hear about the Feathered Market, not just their area, but also the place where other orcs gather - the orcs who did not go to the salt team this year are also curious to ask what happened to the Khajiit's broken leg.

Joe explained the cause and effect.

"...Yingman actually likes pottery. It was originally a pottery pot with a packet of salt, and two bowls with a packet of salt. But they didn't agree. The uncle and the clan leader were talking to the Eagleman, and the Tigerman had a quarrel with the Yanren. Get up, because the Yan people said that their tribe traded salt with the Tiger tribe, which made the Eagle people hold a grudge. This time when they went to the seaside tribe, the male was beaten down and a lot of salt was lost."

Zhuo Yan frowned and said, "The Eagle people . Bullying the Yan people and beating the Yan people like this, the Yan people dare not touch the Ying people and take out their useless anger on the Tiger people."

Xiao Xian Aman was confused at first, but when Zhuo Yan said it, it seemed right. .

"Yingman is so disgusting!" they both said.

Qiao nodded and continued: "The Yanren said that they will not trade with the Tiger People next year."

"Huh?" Aman was confused, "The Tiger People offended the Eagle People, and they will not even trade with the Yanren. This -" "

I The first time I went there, I felt that what the Ying people said was fine, and the Diao people were better. The Ying people didn't care about the Diao people, and the Diao people didn't care about the Ying people. The Diao people were very picky about the salt they produced, and they wanted a lot of goods from the other three tribes, so they all listened. "Yingren's."

Zhuo Yan: "The tiger tribe leader must be very angry. If Yanren doesn't trade next year, their clan will have to rely on Yingren for food next year." "So the

fight started."

He was so focused that he didn't even eat meat. When he heard about the tiger people, he couldn't help but think of them. It was just that the leopard people were small and they had always been cowardly and low-key. Whatever the other party wanted, they could only give it a smile - Zhuo Yan could guess it. , the clan leader and the eldest uncle must have endured it again and again, and they still wanted to talk to others properly when they were angry.

"The tiger man hit the hawk man first. The male hawk man's arm was broken. I didn't think it was broken. It was just red and swollen. He said it hurt and he couldn't move his arm." Qiao touched his shoulder, "Then the hawk man He got angry and said that he wanted to hurt their male orcs.

"Why!" Shitou was furious.

Unknowingly, many sub-orcs gathered around them, and now they felt distressed and angry after hearing this.

Qiao said: "I heard from Zi Lan - she is a female from the Golden Head Tribe. She is a very nice person. She said that the Tiger People used to have many people and bad tempers. When she first went to do business with the Eagle People, she said that the Eagle People were ugly and thin. All in all. "

The four fur tribes are the kings of the forest and grassland - the two tribes of ligers and tigers. Therefore, the two tribes are more temperamental and speak directly. The chief of the tribe has no discipline and restraint and looks down on the feathered people. This is the first time. After the conflict, the Eagle Man was not a vegetarian. Over the years, he became the big brother of the five feathered tribes. He said that selling salt to the Khajiit was expensive and he wanted more.

In the past, the Yanren also made deals with the Tigers. This year, the Yanren were 'taught' by the Eagles, and the Yanren did not dare to trade with the Tigers.

Old and new hatreds, accumulated over time, broke out this time.

"That Eagle Man is really ugly." Youya Orcs and Standing Tigers are both orcs and are naturally closer to each other.

Aman nodded and said to Zhuo Yan: "My father also told me this. In fact, the tiger man called the eagle man ugly because the hawk man wanted too much for salt and was angry. We all scolded him behind his back. "

Everyone nodded.

In short, the tiger, the king of the jungle, has been oppressed by a little eagle man for a long time. He can't resist in other places - for example, he doesn't want salt in a rage. This is impossible, so he gets his fill and curses the eagle man. By pinching the lifeblood of the Four Fur Clans - salt, they just took the opportunity to establish their authority.

That's the thing.

"Then why do we give salt to the Khajiit?" A Tou asked curiously. They don't owe the Khajiit either.

"Clan leader, you must be kind." Xiao Xian said.

Aman nodded, it must be the patriarch who is kind.

"It's not just kindness. The scene must have been chaotic at that time, right?" Zhuo Yan asked Qiao.

Qiao nodded, "The leader of the Tiger people was angry. He wanted to smash up the market, rob all the salt, and refuse to eat if he refused. He wanted to kill the entire Eagle people. After hearing this, the Eagle people said that they would never fly again. Went to transport salt to the four clans, the clan leader and the werewolf clan leader hurried to break up the fight..."

Everyone was frightened when they heard this.

"Then what I heard was that our clan leader privately gave two packs of salt to the Khajiit, saying that this year he would bring more goods in exchange for more. If the clan members would be left with enough to use, he would give it to the Khajiit clan. He told the Khajiit clan not to be angry, and the Werewolf clan would give it to the Khajiit clan. One pack, the Lion Clan gave one pack," Qiao said exactly.

Others don't understand, "Why do we give so much?"

"Maybe the patriarch has a good heart."

Zhuo Yan sighed and said on behalf of the clan leader: "It's not that the clan leader has a good heart. The clan leader is thinking about the safety of our clan's salt replacement team. We brought a lot of salt for the pottery this year. The other three clans are watching. The tiger man has a bad temper. It's a fight to the death - it will end in a life-and-death fight. If the clan leader doesn't take the initiative to comfort Zhou Xuan and take out two bags of salt. "

"In the long run, if the tiger tribe smashes and robs, the four tribes will have no salt to eat next year. "

The other sub-orcs said: "We have a lot of salt now."

"Yes, but the clan leader doesn't know it, and he must be afraid for the sake of the whole clan." Zhuo Yan looked at everyone and said, "The second thing is not to do it. If you drive a dog into a back alley, he will be bitten."

"Why is it a dog? Isn't it a tiger?"

"Brother Zhuo Yan, you are really fierce,"

A Yin howled . Can hunt dogs.

Zhuo Yan: ...You can't use idioms anymore.

"What I mean is, if the tigers are forced into a desperate situation, which of the other three tribes has the most salt?"

Joe: "The lion tribe."

"Then whose team has the least orcs?"

"Us." Joe said.

"If you are tiger people, and you reach the Jedi, and there is no salt in the second year, you might as well do something big. Is it better to grab the salt from the lion people on the way back, or grab the salt from the leopard people?"

Faced with Zhuo Yan's inquiry, Everyone was stunned. They had never thought about this aspect. Shitou Xiaoxian Aman frowned and blinked, saying that it was impossible. Everyone was orcs, and the tiger men robbed them. They, they... There

were only a few people in their tribe. If the clan leader was robbed, and the salt-changing team was injured and killed, Who do the thirty-odd people left in their tribe seek revenge from? They don't even know what happened.

Even if they just grab salt and no one is hurt, how will the clan leader take revenge after bringing people back? Autumn is coming soon. Autumn is past the snow season. There is no salt. What will the tribesmen do?

"I heard that there are more than 200 tiger people, and this time there are more than 60 orcs." Hearing what Zhuo Yan said, Qiao felt heavy in his heart and felt a little scared.

Everyone didn't expect that there was someone at this level. Some wanted to refute Zhuo Yan, but after thinking about it carefully, they couldn't refute it. Others said: "The tiger people are so scary, they actually want to steal our salt."

Zhuo Yan then said: "I also made a guess. It hasn't happened yet, but if it does happen it will be too late, so the clan leader has thought of everything. Two packs of salt in exchange for safety is also a good deal with the tiger tribe. The four tribes of us should work together and not fight among ourselves. "

So this time, even though Yu Ren likes pottery and is used to lowering the price, the extra salt will be exchanged for two packs. For the tiger tribe, rounding off, their tribe's salt replacement amount this year is about the same as last year—about one pack more.

"Fortunately, we have salt now." Aman said happily.

Everyone couldn't help but let go of their worries and became happy again, eating meat and chatting. The meat with salt is really delicious. Zhuo Yan said: "It will be better if we find other spices in the future."

"What spices?"

"That's it. The bark of the osmanthus tree, the pepper tree—" Zhuo Yan told everyone, but they couldn't remember it, so they couldn't help laughing and said, "Eat meat, it tastes very fragrant with salt."

After eating it for half a year, it didn't taste salty. Meat, Zhuo Yan now feels that other seasonings are the icing on the cake.

When everyone heard this, they didn't remember it just now anyway, so they immediately stopped thinking about it. Eat meat, eat meat, fragrant meat, the salt made by Zhuo Yan really doesn't grind your teeth, and the roasted meat tastes better. The orcs also talked about the exchange of salt, chatting and laughing, and finally said: "Our tribe of leopard men will no longer tolerate the eagle man's jealousy!"

"Yes!"

Everyone laughed and walked for more than half a month. , this time we will return to the tribe, there is no shortage of salt to eat, I am in a good mood and my appetite is full. The barbecue lasted until late at night.

When Zhuo Yan and A Yin returned, their bellies were round. They walked slowly to digest their food, then washed up directly at the river, went home to sleep, and had to burn the kiln tomorrow.

Early the next morning, when it was still bright, Qiao was carrying a rattan basket at the foot of Zhuoyan Cave. "Zhuoyan!"

A furry silver head poked out of the cave entrance and howled.

Qiao didn't understand, but it was very pleasant to hear A Yin's voice, so he stepped up. Zhuo Yan just woke up and called A Yin to ask Sister Qiao to come in. He quickly got up from the bed and put on a small leather skirt.

The two met at the entrance of the cave.

"I was talking about salt yesterday, but I forgot to give you this." Qiao took off his backpack and took out a small leather bag.

Zhuo Yan took it, "What?" He opened it and took a look.

Qiao said at the same time: "Bamboo seeds."

"!!! It's bamboo rice!" Zhuo Yan also recognized it and was very excited.

Qiao was also happy and said: "Then I found the right thing. I gave Zilan half a piece of soap in exchange for it. She originally said she didn't know the seeds, but she asked the grandmother of the clan. The grandmother of the Golden-head clan said, bamboo It rarely blooms, and if it produces bamboo rice after flowering, the bamboo will die, so few people know that if the seeds fall, they will grow a lot..."

Yes. Bamboo is a herbaceous plant that grows wildly. However, if you plant bamboo rice, it will take at least three to five years to grow into a large bamboo that can be used for bamboo bed furniture. If you want to grow quickly, it is best to cut off a section of adult bamboo and insert it into the ground.

However, the Feathered Man Market and the Leopard Man Tribe are too far away, and they won't survive long if they are brought back. If the bamboo rice is just right and it grows slowly, he will be able to sleep on a bamboo bed in three to five years.

"Thank you Qiao, I'm going to wash my face and put it away first until I decide where to plant it," Zhuo Yan said.

Today we are going to open the kiln and make salt shakers.

Zhuo Yan put away the bamboo rice, carried the rattan basket on his back, brought it to the cave door, and spoke to Ah Yin. Ah Yin is now very popular among the tribe of orcs, and has really broken into the collective. Now Ah Yin also likes to go out hunting or patrolling.

Each person has his own job.

When Xiao Xian Aman's stones met, Qiao took out something from the rattan basket, a wooden carved bird whistle, a necklace woven with blue-green feathers, a green diabolo tube, a percussion stick, and a large piece of golden feathers. Joe put them together and let everyone choose.

"Purple Blue Man is very good. Two rabbit skins can buy so much."

Xiao Xian A Man was curious, so Qiao showed him how to play. He could blow a loud cry by putting his mouth to the tail of a bird. Xiao Xian A Man:! ! !

"The golden feathers are descended from the Golden-headed tribe. The original hair of their tribe is golden. The more beautiful and healthy the tribe is, the glossier the hair will be, and it will stay shiny no matter how long it is left. This golden feather can be braided in the hair, or It can be inserted into the chest or used as a necklace or bracelet," Qiao said.

Shitou moved his eyes to the blue-green feather necklace and asked: "Qiao, whose feather is this? It's so beautiful."

"It's from the peacock tribe." Qiao also told the peacock tribe: "When I first arrived, I also I thought the Yumen males were too thin, but Zhuo Yan said that each has its own beauty. Later I discovered that the males of the Peacock clan have fair skin and dance very beautifully. I can't even describe it. Under the sun and the shade of the trees, the light shining on them is so beautiful. It's very beautiful."

It was at that time that Qiao understood what Zhuo Yan meant when he said that everyone has their own beauty. It wasn't that it was against their will, but that it really looked good.

"The other four tribes all like the Peacock Tribe and will pursue them with salt in their hands."

"Don't they have any salt?" Shitou asked. The peacock tribe are also feathered people.

Qiao: "No, they can't fly to the mountains or to the sea."

When Shitou heard this, he shook his head and said, "That's not good, it's just like us before." But his eyes still fell on the peacock feather necklace, this color Really beautiful.

"I'd like to give you the stone." Joe said.

"What about you?"

Xiao Xianzao held the little bird and whistled. Zhuo Yan said that the bamboo tube is good, and the golden feathers are good. It depends on what Aman chooses. Aman chose the golden feathers. He was just like the bamboo tube, and he couldn't make a single sound when he knocked it. . Zhuo Yan accepted the bamboo tube.

"Qiao, what did you change?" Zhuo Yan asked casually. For his soap, Joe got him salt - of course there is no shortage of this now, but Joe and the others didn't know it at the time, so of course they exchanged salt for him as much as possible.

Qiao was a little shy, blushed, and said: "Ada said the feather skirt is very beautiful, so I changed into a feather skirt, which was woven from the feathers of the Golden Head Tribe and the Peacock Tribe..."

Everyone: Hehehehehe. Heckle.

Because the salt exchange team didn't know there was salt in the clan at that time, Ada was willing to use the salt exchange items to exchange Qiao for a feather skirt - judging from Qiao's expression, Qiao must have liked it very much. The relationship between the two was really good.

Zhuo Yan said: "When we finish our work, Qiao, you can put it on when we go to play."

"I also want to see how beautiful it is." Aman said.

Qiao nodded happily. She was reluctant to wear it now for fear of getting it damaged and dirty.

A few people agreed that after burning the salt shakers, the weather would be nice enough to go out and play. Zhuo Yan originally wanted to suggest going to the mountains, but he was afraid that the branches would scratch Qiao's feather skirt, so he changed his mind and went for a walk on a flat place.

It's hard for them to go too far -

now he has Ah Yin who can carry him, and Qiao has Ada, but Aman and Shitou can't. Several people talked about the long distance - the long distance for picking by sub-orcs, but it wasn't really that far. Xiao Xian said he could ask his second brother to carry him.

"Then my brother is still young." Aman.

Shitou said at this moment: "I hope Dayun can turn into a beast shape and be an orc."

"It would be great if we could go to the Feathered Man Market together. I also want to see the beautiful peacock tribe and the Feathered Man skirt that Qiao likes. "Xiao Xian said.

Aman: "We all have salt, will we still go to Yuren Market?"

Zhuo Yan said: "I should still go. At least next year, I will definitely go." Seeing everyone looking at him, he couldn't help but say : "The tribe must eat salt. The amount of salt exchanged this year is less than a year. Why don't we go next year? One is that we have salt, and the other is that we have been delayed by something. Regardless of one or two, the other three tribes must be curious anyway. We will come to find out the news." " What

do you think they will do if the other three tribes find out that we have salt but don't tell them and let them still be affected by the Yingren in the Feathered Market?"

Eyes, he, they won't come to attack their tribe for salt, right?

Zhuo Yan was about to speak when he suddenly noticed that the clan leader and uncle had come over at some unknown time. He was stunned and thought for a moment whether he had said the wrong thing just now.

The patriarch said: "Zhuo Yan, come with me."

"Okay." Zhuo Yan behaved like a primary school student caught by the dean at this moment.

The clan leader took Zhuo Yan to the river, but there was no one there.

The uncle saw how frightened Qiao Ji and others were, and couldn't help but said warmly: "The patriarch will not scold Zhuo Yan, I promise."

Qiao Ji finally breathed a sigh of relief.

riverside.

The patriarch looked at Zhuo Yan, his eyes full of admiration and joy, and said, "You are right. I have heard what you said since the barbecue last night."

"I was just guessing." Zhuo Yan said hurriedly.

The clan leader looked across the river, outside the Leopard Clan, "Our Leopard Clan is the weakest among the four tribes. You guessed it right yesterday. I led the tribe to exchange salt. I can't conflict with the Eagle People, and I can't have any trouble with the Tiger People. Well, I'm afraid that I won't be able to bring back the salt, and I'm also afraid that the tribe will suffer casualties."

After saying this, the tribe leader did not wait for Zhuo Yan's reply, and continued: "There is salt in the tribe. When is the best time to tell the other three tribes? I have been here. Think about it. "

With great joy, there is also worry.

The matter of salt cannot be concealed, and it will be discovered sooner or later - it is one thing for the leopard people to take the initiative to say it, but it is another thing if they are discovered. Facing the other three tribes.

"I originally wanted to wait until our clan became stronger and there were more people."

Zhuo Yan said, "It will take at least several years."

The clan leader nodded.

Zhuo Yan felt unreliable. Seeing the patriarch's wrinkles deepening, he couldn't help but say what he was thinking.

The orcs were carefree and straightforward, and continued to go to the Feathered Market every year to pretend to exchange salt, but everyone's expressions would definitely show. If they let the other three tribes know, they would be at a disadvantage.

"I think so too." The clan leader nodded.

So when?

Zhuo Yan said: "Clan leader, let's first determine how much salt there is in the mammoth territory." He is from the Leopard people. Of course, everything is in the interests of the Leopard people. The salt mines and the Yanshan clan can't eat them all, so it's okay to be generous. If there is less salt, it is better to hide it.

The clan leader looked at Zhuo Yan, nodded, and asked Zhuo Yan to continue.

Zhuo Yan was affirmed, and after thinking for a while, he said: "If the salt is enough for many tribes, and can also eat many descendants of the tribe, we can find an opportunity to tell the werewolf tribe first."

Leopards and werewolves have good relations, and the two tribes They are all small tribes, so of course they should win over the werewolves first.

"Everyone has replaced the salt this year. Although it is not much, it is not much different from the previous one. I won't mention it this year. We will first determine the amount of salt and go to the Mammoth territory to have a look, and then wait until around the snow season. Choose to tell the werewolves. "

It's best to take the initiative before next year's Feathered Fair.

Only when you choose a time to provide help in times of need can you show your kindness.

At this time, although the orcs acted impulsively, they were also very loyal and magnanimous.

"I took the initiative to say that we are sending a favor. If we are found out, I am afraid that the three tribes will think wrongly and think that we will be like the Yingren, which will be bad."

After the clan leader heard this, especially the "wrongful thinking" and "Like a hawk," his heart sank immediately. He thought about it carefully and thought, "Zhuo Yan, you are very smart. The Leopard clan has fewer and fewer people in my hands. Maybe the gods sent you here to help our tribe.

" , This is serious. Zhuo Yan didn't even know how to answer.

Fortunately, after the patriarch finished speaking, he smiled, as if all the worries in his heart were dispersed, and said, "Next time I go to the Mammoth Territory, I will lead the team, and you can follow."

"Go and see, Yan is there How much."

Zhuo Yan: "Okay." Sometimes he stands in front of the clan leader, and the clan leader looks at him with eyes that seem to know everything, as if he knows that he is not Xiao Zhuoyan, but he doesn't seem to know.

Fortunately, after he finished speaking, the clan leader let him go on with his business.

Zhuo Yan ran back to the kiln, where many sub-orcs had already surrounded him, and everyone was waiting to burn the salt jar. Qiao and others, especially Aman and Shitou, are very gossipy. Xiaoxian sometimes joins in the fun and says, "Yeah, what's wrong."

One of Aman and Shitou is Ming Bagua, and the other is Mensao.

"The clan leader said that I will go to the mammoth territory next time. I will go and see how much salt there is and how long we can eat it." Zhuo Yan took the initiative. Didn't say anything else.

When the orcs around heard this, they were immediately stunned, "Yeah, I don't know how much salt there is.", "If it's very little, we'd better eat sparingly.", "Hey, I ate too much yesterday."

Zhuo Yan took a look and said hurriedly: "It's not that little. I heard A Yin say that there is a lot of mud, a big piece. I will go and see if there is any under the mud or in the lake."

He initially suspected that it was a salt water lake, but after hearing what A Yin said about bathing and drinking water, the lake water was not particularly salty - not as salty as mud. Zhuo Yan adjusted his thinking and felt that there were salt mines underneath.

If there is a salt mine, there will definitely be no shortage of it. Once confirmed, we can talk about other things.

After hearing what Zhuo Yan said, everyone felt relieved and said one after another: "Zhuo Yan, go and see and pay attention to safety.", "Yes.", "We believe you."

In the next few days, the kiln was fired and the kiln factory started. , the orcs were working hard, Zhuo Yan didn't even have time to plant bamboo, and the orcs were not idle either. With salt in the tribe, everyone seemed to have more energy and went out to hunt every day.

When the salt jar was cooked, it looked like a pot-bellied jar with a lid on it. Zhuo Yan also burned some small spoons for taking out the salt. One jar was equipped with a small spoon, and each jar was about the same size - hand-kneaded. There will be a difference, but not big.

That evening, we gathered again in the tribal square and distributed a large jar of salt.

The uncle gave it to three people in the cave, one can, and five people two cans. No one had any objection. The three people were basically parents plus a cub. One can was enough, and the five people in the cave were as big as the children in the family. For example, Xiao Xian's brothers and parents will definitely need two cans.

Although Lin Rong and Asen are four people, the two cubs were born less than a month ago.

The uncle's rules for dividing things must be very clear to the tribe members. Even if some are missing, they are still the same, and the clan leader will definitely add more.

really.

"This time the salt will be sent back. If it is used up, you can repay it. When everyone in the clan has almost used it, we will distribute it together." The clan leader said.

Zhuo Yan felt very good.

After the salt jars were distributed, there was still some salt left in the clan, not much. The Leopard People have really been suffering from bitter salt for a long time. When they saw that the collective salt bottomed out, they felt a little distressed on their faces. They had to be careful when holding the salt jar.

The clan leader said: "Rest for three days, then I will lead the team, and Zhuo Yan will also go to see how much salt the mammoth has. Don't hunt too hard during this period. Take it slow and wait for the autumn to store prey."

"I know . "Good Patriarch."

After three days of rest, Zhuo Yan was carrying a rattan basket and a salt jar on his back. They discussed where to go to play tomorrow. Ah Yin didn't want to go patrolling or hunting, so they could go together.

Brother Xiao Xian heard this and came over to say that he wanted to come too.

"Let's go out to play, what are you going to do?"

"As long as Ah Yin and I are here, you can go farther." Ah Tou said plausibly.

Xiao Xian: "...Okay."

But Aman and Shitou didn't have the orcs to carry them on their backs, so they couldn't run too far. Everyone was still very happy after choosing a direction. Zhuo Yan said: "Qiao, remember to wear your feather skirt tomorrow. "

Yes, we haven't seen it yet," Aman said.

Qiao was a little shy at first, but now that his friend wanted to watch it, he readily agreed.

At night, Zhuo Yan carried Ah Yin to bed. Before going to bed, he looked around and saw that there were more things. "We must prepare well before the snow season this year. We will play for a few days and when we come back from Mammoth territory, we will pack some furniture. There are tables and storage racks. When the grass grows, we will make two mats. The holes for the chickens in the house will be higher and bigger. During the winter snow season, the pigs and rabbits will have to go in. "

" In the fall, we have to dig potatoes . Picking Dudu fruits and burning some charcoal fire, let's not make the wooden bed for now. "

A Yin is so heavy, and the wooden bed is not as strong as the stone bed.

"When the bamboo grows, I will sleep on the bamboo bed in the summer and you will sleep on the stone bed." If they could separate themselves, Ah Yin would be a big man by then.

Ah Yin had closed his eyes and listened to what his brother wanted to do, and remembered it in his heart. He wanted to do it with his brother. When he heard this, he immediately opened his eyes and looked at his brother, "Ooooooooooo~~"

"No, Your weight will collapse the bamboo bed." Seeing that A Yin was anxious, Zhuo Yan misunderstood and thought that A Yin also wanted to sleep on the bamboo bed.

Ah Yin whined. No, no, I want to sleep with my brother, not separately.

Zhuo Yan saw that A Yin was anxious, so he touched A Yin's ears to comfort him and said with a smile: "Silly, the bamboo will take another three to five years to grow, and then A Yin will grow even bigger, and even a stone bed will be filled up. "

Ah Yin locked her body against the mountain wall, letting her brother see that Ah Yin is so small that it doesn't take up much space.

Zhuo Yan: ...

hehehe, why is Ah Yin so cute?

Zhuo Yan hugged Ah Yin, pinched Ah Yin's ears, and coaxed, "Okay, our Ah Yin is still a baby."

"Ouch~" Ah Yin is not a baby either.

"Okay, big baby." Zhuo Yan hugged Ah Yin and patted him, "I will always be my brother's big baby."

Ah Yin was in her brother's arms, her eyes bright, and she carefully licked her brother's chin. Zhuo Yan felt a little itchy and moved his head back. Seeing Ah Yin's blue eyes, which were really beautiful and full of happiness, he couldn't help but lower his head and press it against Ah Yin's head.

"This winter this year, we will start decorating it when we return from Mammoth. In the fall, I will dry some wild vegetables, and then we will cook hot pot in the winter." Although, there is no chili.

"We still have more than half of the bearskin, which can cover the whole body. That bear is so big..."

Zhuo Yan fell asleep as he spoke. Before going to bed, all he could think about was that this winter would definitely be stronger than last year. many.

Last year was so hard, and I was able to make it through the hard times by having fun.

This year is different.

Werewolf tribe.

The werewolves had finished dividing the salt, and there was only some in each hole. It was enough to save a little. Some orcs were a little unconvinced and privately asked why they should give salt to the Khajiit. The fight between the Khajiit and the Eagle man had nothing to do with them.

Another orc said: "The leader of the Leopard Men gave two bags, but the leader had to give one bag. The Lion People are so big, why not give two bags?"

"The Lion People have a lot of people."

"Then there are few of us, so what are we doing? " I want to give salt to the tiger people."

The topic came back, and the orc who came back scratched his head and learned it again: "...because the leader of the leopard people gave it to him first, and then our leader also gave it."

"It must be that the leader of the leopard people is afraid of tigers. " The human race is even willing to give salt. The tiger people and the leopard people are so far away. Why are they so friendly? The tiger people can't help the leopard people hunt."

"No, you said it. The leopard people and the tiger people are far away. "Although the Tiger Tribe is a large tribe, there is plenty of prey to eat, and it cannot be sent to the Leopard Tribe that far away. The Leopard Tribe's leader must have given the Tiger Tribe salt for some other reason."

"Then what's the reason?"

Everyone looked at the orc who was talking in confusion.

The orc scratched his head: "...I don't understand either, but if you say that the Leopard Clan leader gave the Khajiit salt to the Khajiit tribe to show favor to the Khajiit, then our tribe leader also gave it to the Khajiit tribe. We, the Wolf tribe, want to show favor to the Khajiit tribe?

" As soon as the words came out, the surrounding wolf tribe orcs and sub-orcs were all bloody, and they all said: "That's not true.", "Although our wolf tribe has a small number of people, we are still together with the tiger tribe.", "That's right, We don't rely on the tiger people."

It means that tigers and werewolves are equal, and they, the werewolves, should not be the younger brothers of the tiger people.

"I have dealt with the orcs of the Leopard Man tribe, and they must have the same idea, so sending salt to the Khajiit must be the patriarch's idea."

"What is that idea?"

Orc:...

It came back again, but no one could guess or figure it out, so we forgot about it later. Everyone just talked about it because they felt sorry for the packet of salt given to the Khajiit tribe. The salt in their tribe was also very tight.

"This time, the things the Leopard People brought were good. The Yuren liked the pottery. Unfortunately, the salt the Leopard People brought back seemed to be about the same as last year..."

"I'm sure, I gave the Tiger People two bags."

"Then . What does the pottery look like? What is it used for? "

...

The lion and tiger tribes were almost talking about going to the Feathered Market this time, especially the tiger tribe. The orcs and sub-orcs left behind in the tribe couldn't help but get angry when they heard this. Angry, and the young orc with a broken leg, his mother's eyes were blood red, and she wanted to kill those hawks.

"I would rather not eat salt, my son, my son..."

The tiger tribe leader wrote down this bloody account. If he hadn't thought about the whole tribe, and if the leopard tribe leader hadn't stopped him, he would have burned the eagle tribe. nest.

"I personally went to hunt the short-legged beast, and its wings were used to treat Daen's injuries."

At that time, the entire tribe of orcs became red-eyed. Now that he came back, the leader of the tiger people looked at the entire tribe, filled with resentment. At the same time, he also thanked the leader of the leopard people. Stopping him, he knew why the leader of the leopard people gave salt to his tribe -

he was afraid that the tiger people would overturn the market, he was afraid that the feather people would not go out to the market next year and would not change the salt, and they were afraid that the tiger people and orcs would... At that time, grab the salt He did think about it.

Chapter 54

The day of outing was sunny. In fact, except for the long snow season, short rainy season, and scorching summer, which lasted for about four months in total, the weather in this continent was uniformly comfortable in other seasons. However, Because I didn't have to work that day, I just went out to play. My mood was different, and the sky was especially blue.

Zhuo Yan carried the rattan basket on his back and did not let Ah Yin carry him. Aman and Shitou were still young and Dayun had not yet transformed, but this time when they went out to play, Shitou still brought Dayun out. Although Shitou's parents took over Dayun after returning from the salt exchange team, Dayun is the most attached to Shitou.

Aman didn't take his younger brother with him because he couldn't control him, especially if he ran far outside. Aman's younger brother would definitely sneak out to hunt and play - this was simply asking for death, so Aman didn't take him with him.

A few people met at the foot of the slope now. There was still the fragrance of soap in everyone's hair. It seemed that they had all taken a bath. The summer clothes Shitou wore before were now replaced by leather skirts. They were all clean.

"I brought a few potatoes."

"Me too."

"I packed salt."

"I also brought an old piece of leather." Aman said happily while carrying the rattan basket: "Zhuo Yan said before, let's spread the leather I sat on it to eat and play in the sun."

Xiao Xian said, "I brought a bird whistle."

Shitou looked a little awkward, as if he didn't hear it, but his sister Dayun suddenly said loudly: "Brother's necklace, it's beautiful. Necklace."

Everyone looked at the stone.

Zhuo Yan:! He just said that the stone was very boring.

"Why don't you wear it around your neck when you go out to play?"

"That's right."

Aman said, "Why are you shy? Put it on and see."

Shitou's face turned red, and he finally took it out of the rattan basket a little awkwardly. I bought the necklace woven with peacock feathers, and Dayun liked it very much. He wanted to touch it, but when he touched the stone, he just said: "Be gentle."

Dayun touched it lightly, and said with a smile: "Brother, it's beautiful."

"It looks good, put it on quickly."

Shitou hung around his neck. He was wearing a small leather skirt today, and his upper body was still in summer clothes, exposing a piece of skin on his chest. His skin color was darker than Zhuo Yan, who was wheat-colored, Shitou It is yellow and black in color, with blue-green feathers hanging down in the middle of the chest muscles, which is that kind of strong and sexy.

Zhuo Yan praised it for looking good.

He found that Shi Shi had a bit of "beauty shame syndrome", and Joe was actually quite embarrassed about it, but Joe was encouraged by Ada.

Shitou was originally a little fussy about where to put it, and tried his best to appear not to care much about 'beautiful', but after hearing the praise from Zhuo Yan and his friends, he breathed a sigh of relief and became more open-minded.

"The stone is really nice."

Aman punched the stone. "If I had known, I would have brought golden bird feathers and braided them into my hair."

"You can go and get them. We are waiting for Qiao anyway, so there is no need to worry." Zhuo. Yan said.

Aman shook his head and said it was troublesome, he was too lazy to go back.

At this time, Qiao also came. Qiao sat on Ada's back. Ada was in her original form and soon arrived in front of several people. Qiao sat on Ada's back and didn't get down first. It was because several people looked at Qiao that Qiao got down.

"Wow~"

"Wow wow wow!"

"Wow wow~~"

I don't know who started wowing first, but everyone started to cheer. Shitou didn't even feel that he was "uniquely beautiful" and was a little embarrassed, because Qiao's skirt was more shiny and golden. , red, and green feathers are woven together. The skirt is half a leather skirt, with feathers hanging from the tail of the skirt. The same is true for the upper body. As she moves, the feathers sway and emit various brilliance in the sun.

It looks really good!

Zhuo Yan was encouraging, praising and appreciating. Originally, tribal life was not considered a condition. Everyone lived a simple life and worked every day. It was a good thing to pursue beauty and love to dress up. Having beautiful expectations for life could not be done every day. Living day after day is too numb and boring.

As a result, the perfect leopard-shaped Ah Yin stood next to him and looked at his brother in admiration. His blue eyes lit up again and again. My brother likes feather skirts. He likes this very much. He will write it down and give it to him when he goes to the Yuren Market next year. Brother, change!

It looks good on my brother too.

Ah Yin saw her brother's legs. Her brother's legs were long and straight. She also saw her brother's waist, which was very narrow and thin. She also saw her brother's chest...

"Ouch." Ah Tou shouted.

Ah Yin turned to look at Ah Tou and howled. What are you urging?

Head: No, everyone is here, we should go.

Ah Yin: Don't rush me, my brother hasn't said leave yet.

Joe was really embarrassed. He changed in the cave and walked out. He hesitated for a while. Finally, Ada said it looked good and changed into his original shape. He asked Joe to sit on his back. This way he could block everyone's eyes at a faster speed. Joe then Didn't replace it.

Now the friends all praised it, and Joe blushed, but he really liked it.

"Let's go!" Zhuo Yan touched A Yin's ears. Are you impatient? He also shouted to A Tou, "Let's go, let's go."

The leopard-shaped orcs: A Yin, A Tou and A Da walked together to protect the sub-orcs.

When Zhuo Yan and Qiao were crossing the river, they met many sub-orcs and greeted each other. Everyone praised Qiao's skirt and the stone necklace.

"It's so beautiful."

"Actually, there are a lot of beautiful things in the Yuren Market."

"Yes, this skirt is really beautiful."

Qiao said, "This skirt costs a lot more than salt. I got it with a medium-sized piece of leather. "

Just one?" "

I want it too."

"It's much cheaper than replacing salt. Anyway, we have salt now."

"I wonder if I want to go to Yuren Market next year."

"I heard that the skirts and accessories made by the feather people are very beautiful."

After chatting with the orcs of the tribe for a while, everyone walked out. From far away, you could still vaguely hear the orcs discussing Qiao's skirt and the stone necklace. I exclaimed that a piece of medium-sized leather can be exchanged for such a beautiful skirt. It's great.

With a smile on his face, Zhuo Yan said with a light step: "Actually, as long as the salt is not exchanged, the Yuren Market will eventually be normal and peaceful, and everyone will trade on an equal footing."

A piece of leather is exchanged for a beautiful skirt, and the Leopard Man thinks it is very cheap . Good deal. The gold-headed tribesmen who sell skirts must also feel that they are making a profit, because their tribe has a lot of feathers, and the orcs hunt and eat prey every day, and the skins they shed are large and small, well-tanned, and the sub-orcs do not think it is too rare.

This is a normal and healthy transaction.

"Brother Zhuo Yan, do you think we should go to Yuren Market in the future? I haven't been there yet. I also want to see the excitement. It would be better if we don't change the salt."

"Me too, I don't know how to get there yet."

Shitou wants to go too. He also wants to buy himself a skirt, but as long as the color of the necklace feathers is this, he likes this color.

Zhuo Yan said, "It should be possible next year."

"Then my sister won't be an adult next year." Shitou finished, "She hasn't transformed into a beast yet. Forget it, it doesn't matter whether I go or not."

"Stone, just find a partner." Aman said.

"There is none in the tribe." Shitou is not willing to find an orc just to live in the Yumen Market. If he could find one, he would have found it long ago. The orcs in the tribe now are not clean and have a bad temper.

Dayun followed his brother, walking very fast on his two thin legs, and said: "Brother, I will become an orc, and I will carry you to the market."

"Thank you."

Zhuo Yan also guessed that he will definitely go back next year, and in the next few years I can't say, but if there is a salt mine under the Mammoth's territory, if everything goes well, it should cool down the Yumen market and tell the Yumen through actions that the four orc tribes really have salt to eat, and there is no need for the Yumen to sell salt at high prices. When the market is opened again, let's see if the Yuren have turned this corner—

recognizing the reality, and the previously superior people's thoughts have changed to equal trading.

They chatted and talked all the way. The three orcs in front opened the way and walked through the forest. In fact, they walked for a long time, at least three or four hours. However, this journey was easy for Zhuo Yan - his physical fitness had improved, and he had some The orc genes are there.

Even Dayun, an eight or nine-year-old kid with thin arms and legs, didn't feel tired and didn't need a stone to carry on his back.

A Tou thought he was walking too slowly and ran out. Xiao Xian complained when he saw it, and said: "My second brother said before that he had a favorite sub-orc, but I think that was a lie!"

"Yes, just look at Ah Yin and Ada, and you will know that there is a sub-orc he likes. Whoever jumps up as fast as your second brother, leaving the sub-orcs behind, doesn't care." Aman agreed.

Xiao Xian took a look and saw that Ada was walking beside Qiao. Ah Yin ran two steps and came back with a small flower in his mouth to show to Brother Zhuo Yan. Brother Zhuo Yan touched Ah Yin's head, and Ah Yin went to find something fun again.

Only his brother, running forward like a pig, ignored them.

"Damn it! My grandma, grandpa, and I were deceived by my second brother." Xiao Xian said angrily.

Zhuo Yan heard the conversation between the two and said with a smile: "Do you really want your second brother to move out?"

"They are so big. If they move out, the stone bed will be very open for me to sleep on." Xiao Xian said confidently. explain.

Ah Yin looked for her brother with a yellow flower in her mouth. When she heard what Xiao Xian said, she couldn't help but look over and then at her brother. He was not big. He could sleep against the wall of the cave.

Zhuo Yan said: "How many stone beds do you have in your house?"

"Three. It used to be two, but then there were three. I sleep on one, and my father and mother sleep on one. My eldest and second brothers used to sleep on it, but later I slept on it." The eldest brother and the second brother are always fighting, and my second brother comes to squeeze into my bed. "

Zhuo Yan: ...You can't blame Xiao Xian for being so cruel and forcing his second brother to get married and move out as soon as possible.

"Don't you want to go to the market? If your second brother gets married, he will definitely not carry you." Shitou reminded at this time.

Xiao Xian was disgusting a second ago, but when he heard what Shi Shi said, he immediately felt lucky, "That's true, that's great. Fortunately, my second brother doesn't have a partner yet. I hope he won't have a partner until next year."

Zhuo Yan: "Hahahahaha."

Everyone laughed.

"My eldest brother should move out this year." Xiao Xian muttered, becoming even more nervous now, "I'm going to ask my second brother if he has any sub-orcs he likes, but he must not have any, at least wait until next year for me I went to the market and there..."

Xiao Xian ran quickly.

Zhuo Yan said: "Ah Yin, please watch carefully."

Ah Yin held the flowers in his mouth and gave them to his brother first, then whimpered to the sky. Not long after, Xiao Xian happily called his second brother in the woods in front of him. It should be Ah Yin. I asked Ah Tou to keep an eye on him, but Ah Tou didn't run too far.

Chatting and walking all the way, with the orcs leading the way, they were not afraid of getting lost. As they passed through the dense and towering forests, the scenery suddenly opened up. Large tracts of grassland, endless green, like a plain, with ups and downs in the distance but nothing It's not big, the whole field of view is wide, and people feel cheerful.

"Shall we camp nearby?" Zhuo Yan asked.

Everyone else is fine and has been gone for a long time. So everyone unloaded the cane baskets, Aman laid the leather, Zhuo Yan took a can of oil residue from home, and also carried a small pot on his back. The others were surprised when they saw it, and said: "Zhuo Yan, why did you even carry the pot on your back?" "

I'll cook something later, but I found there's no water."

Ah Yin ran over quickly, whining. Zhuo Yan didn't need Ah Tou to translate this time. He was sure to tell his friends: "Ah Yin knows where there is water. I'll go get it. You guys can arrange it first."

"I know."

Ah Yin happily waved his tail and asked his brother to get in . , Zhuo Yan went up with a small pot, put all the vegetables and potatoes to be washed into the pot, and cooked them directly when he came back.

"Okay Ah Yin."

Ah Yin started running, not very fast. Zhuo Yan sat on it, the scenery was backwards, the cool wind was blowing in front of him, and everything he saw was green, blue sky and white clouds. It was really, really comfortable and free. .

"Brother Zhuo Yan must want to secretly play with Ah Yin." Xiao Xian said, looking at his retreating figure.

Aman knocked Xiao Xian on the head, "Of course, we are partners. Didn't you notice that Qiao and Ada were inking in the forest for a long time?"

"I noticed." Shitou said.

But after a while, both Qiao and Ada came out. Ada turned into a human form and was wrapped in a small leather skirt. Qiao's face was red. Aman looked at it and laughed secretly. Qiao pretended to be calm and said, "Where is Zhuo Yan?"

"Haha, brother Zhuo Yan is just like you. He rode A Yin and ran away to play."

Qiao's calmness just now disappeared, and his face showed shyness.

Aman hugged Xiaoxian Shitou and the three of them made a fuss.

Zhuo Yan has never done galloping horses in modern times - the horses in tourist attractions are only used for checking in and taking photos, and ordinary people don't have the opportunity to ride horses like in the TV series. However, when he arrived here, he felt the speed of the wind and lightning.

He felt that Ah Yin didn't run very fast either, because he still had a pot in his arms, but he was already very fast. Zhuo Yan sat on Ah Yin's back and took a mouthful of wind, but he couldn't hold back his silly joy. It was really of happiness.

"Okay, okay, let's find the water source."

A Yin ran to the water source. This was a very narrow river. I don't know where it came from. Zhuo Yan scraped the potato skins by the river, washed the potatoes, and beat them. After getting the water, he got on Ah Yin's back and said, "Go back slowly and don't spill the water."

"Ouch~" I knew my brother.

So he went back slowly. Zhuo Yan sat on A Yin's back and looked at the scenery in the distance. Occasionally, he could see flying birds and antelopes jumping behind the slope in the distance. He must have discovered them and avoided them. .

When we returned, the 'camp' was set up.

Shitou also dug a stove on the spot. Shitou and Aman were good at making kilns before. They knew how to dig pits to leave vents for ventilation, so that the stove holes would have a strong fire. At this moment, they had gathered a pile of firewood. Zhuo Yan put the pot rack on top and started cooking. Potatoes, wait for the soft potatoes to melt and mash them, then sprinkle some oil residue and salt into them.

Very fragrant!

While they were waiting for dinner, they were playing on the grassland. Xiao Xian was blowing the bird spoon, Dayun was catching bugs on the grass, and Zhuo Yan taught everyone how to play eagle to catch chickens -

"How to play this?"

"Eagle? We need to hunt first. An eagle? "

That's not necessary. Zhuo Yan talked about how to play. At first Shitou Aman thought it was fun, just running around without getting caught, but Xiao Xian was eager to try it, Dayun was also watching eagerly, and finally the two 'adults' Shitou Aman agreed.

Who is the eagle?

"For the sake of fairness, I will teach you how to play first, so that I can play the role of an eagle." Zhuo Yan said.

There was no problem with the others, but when he ran around and no one could touch him, Zhuo Yan regretted it, and Xiao Xian also began to feel that running around in this game was boring. Only Dayun gave him the most face, jumping and jumping. Play.

Zhuo Yan looked at the adults: grinding his teeth.

"I have an idea. Ah Yin will carry me, and I will catch you." This way, he can go faster. He just forgot that Shitou Aman was stronger than him even with Qiao's physical strength in running. He could just catch Da Yun—— The big cloud is still protected by stones.

Now that he has Ah Yin, he will definitely be better than the first time.

Everyone agreed that they had underestimated the game the first time. Zhuo Yan could see that A Man Shitou was looking down on him, that kind of "I am an adult, playing childish games", so he couldn't help but sit on A Yin, gearing up, and leaned over to mutter to A Yin.

Ah Tou's ears also perked up. He wanted to hear what was being said, but he didn't hear anything.

Ada stood at the front, followed by Qiao, Aman, Dayun, Shitou, Xiaoxian, and Atou stood at the end. The second time, Zhuo Yan said that Xiao Xian could just whistle. Xiao Xian whistled in a hurry. As soon as the whistle fell, something started to move in front of him. He was so frightened that he dropped his spoon and had no time to pick it up.

On the grassland, the ranks of orcs and sub-orcs were like Toxoplasma gondii, swaying here and there. Ah Yin, an eagle mount, moved like lightning under the command of the eagle. Zhuo Yan caught Ah Tou first.

"Ah Tou was caught, eliminated!" Zhuo Yan said happily, touching Ah Yin's ear, "Good job!"

"Huh?" Ah Tou was unconvinced, "Come again, come again, I just wasn't ready."

He took it lightly and still Thought he was an eagle for the first time! Zhuo Yan said: "I will continue to catch in the next round." He and A Yin both stood majestically at the front and asked: "Are you ready?"

Now the team became a little nervous, especially in the last round. Xiao Xian, who was exhausted, swallowed, "Okay, okay!"

"Brother Zhuo Yan, we are done." Dayun also started shouting.

Zhuo Yan directed A Yin to follow the circle at first, and it went smoothly with A Da's protection. When everyone relaxed their vigilance, Zhuo Yan made a 'U-turn', and A Yin suddenly ran in the opposite direction. Xiao Xian screamed from behind and ran very fast. But it's too late.

"Xiao Xian was also eliminated."

Xiao Xian still had a smile on his face, he said ah ah ah too fast, how could it be the other way around. But he could only sit with his second brother and wait for the next round.

Shitou Aman's face showed seriousness.

...

After the second round, Ada's leather skirt was caught by Joe. Everyone laughed and didn't look at it. Joe blushed and went to the forest to wear leather skirts with Ada. Ah Tou was eager to play for the third time. He wanted to be the eagle. In the end, everyone except Joe and Ada went into battle.

Ah Yin guarded the hen at the front, and Ah Tou held on for a long time. There were screams and laughter over the entire grassland. When they got tired of playing, they spread out on the lawn and ate mashed potato and oil residue soup. Zhuo He also prepared several bowls for Yan and A Yin to eat with Guogai, and Qiao and Ada shared a bowl to eat.

After eating the soup, everyone was very tired - they laughed too loudly just now, so they lay down on the grass and basked lazily in the sun. The afternoon sun was very comfortable, chatting or taking a nap. Xiao Xian and Dayun played bird whistles.

After waking up, we packed up, put out the fire, and went home carrying the rattan baskets.

"So this is an outing, Zhuo Yan, this is really fun." Aman said.

Shitou nodded. He didn't understand before, why he had to walk so far to bask in the sun and eat. It was the same in the tribe, and it was more convenient by the river, but now he understood a little bit.

It's the same every day by the river. Here you can see strange grass far and wide, laugh and scream, and no one else comes to ask what they are doing.

What fun.

"Brother, when will we come back?" Dayun also liked it.

Shitou said, "Let's wait until next time. Zhuo Yan, when will we come again?"

"Next time, change the place." Zhuo Yan wanted to go and see everywhere. Ah Yin ran beside him and howled. He knew there was a place. Ah Tou took him there. It was not far from the tribe and there were sheep.

Ah Tou was on hand to translate. After hearing this, several people thought it was good and discussed going there to play next time.

It was already dark when we returned to the tribe, and Shi Shi's feather necklace was stained with grass. Shi Shi took great care to pick off the grass, follow the peacock feathers, and then put it away and put it away. He was playing with his favorite necklace today and was really happy.

Fortunately, I wore it. Shitou thought later.

Aman thought that next time he went out to play, he would also bring the feathers of the golden-headed bird.

After playing, life goes on as usual.

Zhuo Yan tidied up the chicken coop. He already had eight chickens. Among them was an egg that he had been too busy to pay attention to the past few days. The egg broke when it was born. If he had discovered earlier that he could scramble eggs, he would wait for him. The chicken coop had a fishy smell when it was discovered.

After the rainy season, there was almost no rain. Zhuo Yan drove the chickens down the slope. He wanted to expand the hole of the chicken coop and dig it for a while. For this purpose, he specially improved a tool - a stone pickaxe. He had a stone knife and used it to dig. It has been used for many years. It is a little small, but still very sharp. It is a bit tiring to use the hand plane alone. I first tied a wooden stick, but it easily fell apart after digging for a long time, which was not very smooth.

Later, Zhuo Yan found an arm-long, somewhat thick one, dug a hole in the middle, and inserted the stone knife into it. This time, it was much easier to dig holes.

On the fourth day, the clan leader was going to the mammoth territory. Zhuo Yan sat on A Yin's back, carrying a stone pickaxe and a stone knife that reached the sky, tied to his back. An empty rattan basket was also tied to A Yin's back. Leaving the skins, the other orcs were wearing skins.

Set out before dawn.

This was Zhuo Yan's first real trip. He was actually very excited. He sat on A Yin's back. Everyone was moving very fast this time. A Yin followed the team. Zhuo Yan was actually a little bumpy when sitting on it. But it's okay if you get used to it.

The cold wind in the early morning faced him, causing him to squint his eyes. He saw forests, grasslands, the rising sun, and many animals, including monkeys and baboons in the trees, some groups of deer, and some animals he did not recognize.

They walked on the grassland for a day, and when they stopped occasionally, the orcs would hunt down prey and eat it on the spot. After a few clicks, an antelope was eaten clean. The orcs licked their paws and gathered around to be on guard. All around.

Zhuo Yan got a piece of meat and was struggling - he didn't bring any dry food and was inexperienced this time.

"Don't be in a hurry to rest. You and A-yin go to the side and make a fire to roast and eat." The clan leader said.

Zhuo Yan looked at the raw meat in his hands and didn't show any courage. He hurriedly went to barbecue. He brought flint and salt. When it was cooked, he sprinkled salt on it and ate it in big gulps, trying to eat as much as possible to satisfy his hunger.

The clan leader did not urge him, and even watched Zhuo Yan start eating. He guessed what Zhuo Yan was thinking, with a gentle smile in his eyes.

Afterwards, Zhuo Yan found that he was not going so fast anymore. When passing a water source, he would drink water and take a short break. When passing through the jungle, A Yin and he walked in the middle of the team. The terrain of the jungle was uneven, and some trees cut across the road. At this time, the orcs would jump Get up and cross it -

it's like a roller coaster! It's really exciting.

Zhuo Yan leaned over and hugged Ah Yin's neck tightly. Ah Yin jumped very high, one after another, Zhuo Yan went up and down, and almost flew out of the body because of Ah Yin, but - it was really fun. .

When sleeping at night, the leopards will look for a tree, not a straight tree that reaches the sky, but a shorter tree, three or four meters high and thick with forked branches. Everyone will find one and lie down on the forked tree. Mouth to sleep.

Zhuo Yan thought, what about me?

Ah Yin pushed his head against his butt. Zhuo Yan: ...He seemed to hear laughter. He turned around and saw leopards climbing trees and sleeping. It seemed like he had heard the laughter just now wrongly.

"Wait a minute, I'll come." Zhuo Yan whispered, and the two chose a tree branch that was not that high. He should be able to climb up. Zhuo Yan's hand covering his butt was released, because he was indeed standing next to A Yin. On his back, or if Ah Yin put his head on his butt to lend him some strength, he would climb faster.

At this moment, Zhuo Yan tried his best to forget about his "little leather skirt leaking air" and that he was surrounded by leopard orcs. He tried his best to treat this as a normal and natural thing - it was not easy to tell Ah Yin in front of so many people. Your brother's skirt is exposed!

Inappropriate or inappropriate.

Ah Yin asked his brother to sit on his buttocks behind his head, so that he could put his front paws on the tree and his brother could easily climb up. Zhuo Yan understood that there was still a tacit understanding at this moment, but - he had to spread his legs and sit on A Yin's neck -

in fact, in the winter, he was still naked and hugging A Yin, so there was nothing revealing. After some mental preparation, Zhuo Yan quickly sat on it. When A Yin stood up with his front paws on the tree trunk, he suddenly jumped up, reached the branch with both hands, and quickly climbed up with the help of his strength.

Ah Yin jumped up gently and quickly. One person and one leopard were almost twisted into twists on a triangular tree branch. Ah Yin lay down on the triangular tree branch first and let his brother sleep on him. He could hold his brother in his arms at night. Can keep warm.

At this moment, Zhuo Yan could only listen to Ah Yin. He stood aside first. After Ah Yin lay down, he lay on Ah Yin's belly and asked in a low voice: "Am I sinking?"

It seemed that he heard it again. Laughed.

Ah Yin whined, not sinking, not sinking, brother gently.

The experienced orcs listened to Xiao Ya's worries with kind smiles in their eyes. What's this? Xiao Zhuoyan is really afraid of crushing his A Yin. After all, he is also a leopard orc with the size of a small A Yin. He looks almost grown up, yes.

The forest was very cold at night, and the dew was heavy, but Zhuo Yan couldn't feel it at all, because he was wrapped in A Yin's arms, and his fur was very soft. Next to A Yin, he could feel the rise and fall of A Yin's breathing. It's airtight and really comfortable - except that it's hard to move and turn over, it's no different from sleeping at home.

After only sleeping for most of the day, Zhuo Yan estimated that it would be about six or seven hours, it was still dark. They set off again, this time walking for a long time, and then rested for a barbecue and something to eat. The leader of the group, Big Tooth, howled.

evening.

Far, far away, Zhuo Yan saw the 'migration' of a herd of mammoths, moving from the lake to another grassland to rest. The group of them waited for a long time, and after nightfall, they bypassed the grassland and walked through the forest to the lake.

arrive.

It was the first time Zhuo Yan saw more than a dozen orcs transforming. He looked at the lake first, and when everyone put on their leather skirts, he went to the lake and took a handful of water and took a sip. As expected, the water had no salty taste. Ah Yin squatted next to his brother.

"There is no salt in the lake. Take me to the place where the mud is saltiest."

Ah Yin nodded, ran ahead, then turned back and motioned for his brother to sit up. Zhuo Yan sat on it, and the other orcs, even though they were in human form, had slender legs and ran fast, following the direction of Daya Ayin.

The orcs who came out this time, except A Yin Daya, were all orcs who followed the clan leader to the Yuren Market to exchange for the salt team. This was their first time here, and they were excited but also filled with solemn joy.

After crossing the lake and the low mountain, behind the hillside, under the pure white moonlight, there was some rolling soil and scattered weeds. The land in the distance was vaguely glowing white under the moonlight, as if salt had been sprinkled on it. There was no grass growing there.

In this large area, with its undulating slopes and growing grass, Zhuo Yan's eyes flashed with joy and he said, "Let's dig over there." Under the farthest slope, there was almost no grass growing there.

The orcs followed and obeyed the command.

After arriving, Zhuo Yan took out a stone pickaxe from his back and started digging. Although the other orcs didn't understand, they said they were strong enough to dig.

Zhuo Yan explained to the clan leader and the orcs: "No grass grows here because the salt content in the soil is too high and grass will not grow. I suspect there are salt mines underneath. If it is really a salt mine, we leopards will not be able to grow in this large area." The descendants of the human race may not be able to eat it all for a hundred years. "

Is that so?" "A hundred years?"

In fact, Zhuo Yan was being conservative . Looking at the vastness here, if there were all salt mines underneath, I don't know the depth, and they could last for hundreds of years. And there are gray elephants outside the territory of mammoths, so there must be salt there.

He stated his speculation.

"Dig, dig down and take a look." The patriarch said.

This time everyone worked hard to dig deeper. The stone pickaxes brought by Zhuo Yan were very useful, and the orcs turned into beasts and dug with their claws. Soon there was a deep pit. The soil became stronger as you went down, and there were even some white stone particles. .

No need for Zhuo Yan to say anything, everyone can see that this is salt.

"Lots and lots of salt, clan leader."

"It turns out the salt is so close to us."

"So much salt."

It would be difficult for them to wait any deeper. Zhuo Yan remembered that the underground salt mines were very deep, sometimes thousands of meters deep, and Now the digging is more than one meter deep, and the soil is already mixed with salt and stone particles.

He didn't even know what era he was wearing - modern textbooks talked about dinosaur fossils and apes in prehistory, but there was no record of orcs. Maybe he was not on Earth at all now.

In short, we cannot rely solely on modern things to judge - otherwise, in salt mines with a depth of thousands of meters underground, the soil here has extremely high salt content. When we dug to a depth of three meters, we could no longer dig it - we encountered a large piece of white stone. .

The orcs excitedly expanded the edge of the stone. When they dug it out, the orc licked a large 'salt stone', wrinkled his face, and stuck out his tongue and said, "It's bitter."

The orcs were afraid, this Isn't it salt? Is there only a shallow layer of salt mixed in the soil?

Everyone looked at Zhuo Yan.

"The concentration of salt is too high - a lot of salt is mixed together, and it is bitter. If you don't believe it, knock off a small particle on it, go to the lake and dissolve a small particle, and you will know whether it is salt." Zhuo Yan explain.

If the concentration is this, let alone the Leopard Man clan, the other three clans should eat it together.

The orc did what Zhuo Yan said, waited for a while and tasted it. Sure enough, it was salty, so salty, so salty. He lay down and drank some water again, and the salty taste in his mouth faded a little, so he hurriedly He hurried back and told the clan leader the truth.

"Everyone just take this salt pit, fill it up, and leave before dawn." The clan leader said, and then looked at A Yin: "A Yin doesn't have to carry it, just take care of Zhuo Yan."

The other orcs had no objections . , the skins they brought were filled with soil, stones and salt.

Under the moonlight, more than a dozen orcs packed their skins heavily and tied their mouths tightly with vines. One orc carried two leather bags, transformed into an animal shape, and placed them directly on his back.

Before dawn, the clan leader ordered us to go back to the tribe. He made a decision in his mind.

Wait a moment. After boiling the salt this time, you can send people to find the werewolf tribe... Zhuo Yan is right. He must take the initiative to say that they cannot become a tribe like the Yingren. They will be resented by the other three tribes on the grassland. The tribe It will not prosper for long.

Moreover, with so much salt, he felt at ease.

The Werewolf Tribe is the closest to the Leopard Man Tribe. The Leopard Man Tribe is in the northernmost part of the grassland forest. The land is remote, so the snow season is the longest, and the surrounding prey is not very abundant. The Werewolf Tribe is in the northwest, and the two places are very close. I'm only half a month old.

The Lion Tribe is in the southwest, closest to the Feathered Market.

The Tiger People are in the east, the far east, where the snow season is as long as that of the Leopard People, but there is a lot of prey. The mountains are densely forested, and there are many prey, including brown bears and black bears, herds of sheep, reindeer, hares, and roe deer. In the grasslands at the foot of the mountains, there are Herds of short-legged beasts are out and about.

Prey is usually plentiful, but once winter enters, the danger will increase. The Tiger Tribe was the first tribe to store food for the winter. Especially this year, some new cubs were born in the tribe. There were more people but less salt.

...

Zhuo Yan and A Yin returned to the tribe two days later. The journey was quite smooth and fun. After returning, they boiled salt - especially the big salt stone, which required a lot of dilution and boiled a lot of salt. , and it is very convenient and only needs to be filtered once.

He no longer needs to keep an eye on the matter of salt. The orcs in Tribelia have learned this.

The weather is getting colder day by day, and the grass on the riverside is growing vigorously. It is possible to weave straw mats, burn charcoal, and dig holes. The tribe has begun to hunt. These meats are not eaten, and the sub-orcs are busy curing the meat.

Zhuo Yan originally wanted to exaggerate that his family was very wise in life, and had already discovered the method of preserving preserved meat. When he saw that everyone put salt directly on the meat, then piled it on the skin and wrapped it, moved it back to the cave, and waited for the snow season. While eating, if there is mold and smell somewhere, wash it off and continue eating. If you really can't eat it, cut it off and continue eating the other parts.

"Isn't it right, Brother Zhuo Yan?"

"It's not wrong, but I think it can be improved to ensure that the meat will not spoil for a long time and make the taste better."

He wanted to eat bacon and bacon.

Chapter 55 (Revision)

Everyone in the tribe has been very busy recently.

The orc hunting team is divided into two teams, with a rotation system. Since the introduction of salt, everyone has been traveling long distances to hunt these days, with a round trip of about four days. Working in shifts, half of the orcs had at least four days of free time. During these four days, the orcs did not stop to rest. Some people went to patrol in the morning or afternoon, leaving most of the day to themselves. At this time, most of the day, the orcs were busy Went to chop wood -

everyone was going to make doors.

Zhuo Yan's uncles Asen and Lin Rong also found Zhuo Yan. After looking at his wooden door, Asen and his fellow orcs went to the forest to pick a big tree and start making wooden door materials.

Lin Rong, on the other hand, took her friend Xiaofeng to learn how to make wooden hinges. Naturally, he took two cubs with him when he went out - a little leopard that was almost three months old. The blue film of its eyes had faded, and it was the size of a big cat, with fleshy pads and claws. It's very big - after all, if you catch prey in the future, you can slap it to death with one slap. The head is round, the ears are round, and the eyes are round.

Anyway, the round head and round head are particularly cute.

Zhuo Yan liked it very much and wished that Lin Rong came to learn wooden hinges every day. Lin Rong saw it, and her embarrassment for disturbing Zhuo Yan turned into a smile.

"He likes small salt and small dishes so much." Xiaofeng said quietly.

Lin Rong nodded, and she could see that every time he came, Zhuo Yan would put down whatever he was doing, and after saying a few words to him, his eyes would shift to Xiaoyan Xiaopan, and he would ask him if he could give him a hug.

Of course you can hug it.

Zhuo Yan would hug the cubs one by one, hold the cubs in his arms, and touch their ears and heads. Xiaoyan Xiaopan also liked Zhuo Yan very much, and would expose his belly for Zhuo Yan to touch, and would also make purring sounds. .

This is like Zhuo Yan. Zhuo Yan obviously didn't have cubs, but his technique of touching cubs was really better than him.

Zhuo Yan gave the 'little leopard cat' a good suck, and the two little leopards meowed milkily. They fell on the stone bed in his house and even turned their bellies out for him to jerk off. If he jerked one, the other would be sucked. He came over with limp limbs, his tail wrapped around his arm, his head rubbed against his, and he meowed, meaning 'touch me, touch me. '

It's so, so happy!

Two furry cubs are fighting for me to masturbate, who knows!

Fortunately, Ah Yin was not here today, and Zhuo Yan was very happy immersed in masturbating the cat. After he sucked for a while, he looked up and saw Lin Rong and Xiao Feng looking at him. Zhuo Yan assured that he must still have a 'crazy' smile on his face, so he coughed, became serious, and said, "What's wrong with you?"

"No, I'm just curious. Zhuo Yan, you don't even have cubs. Why do cubs like you touching them so much?" Xiaofeng asked. He has a very good relationship with Lin Rong, "I touched Xiaopan and Xiaoyan, and they didn't even make a grunting sound to me."

Zhuo Yan showed two parts of pride, two parts of reserve, and one part of pride, and said, "I have I touch Ah Yin every day."

Lin Rong and Xiaofeng suddenly realized that their expressions were a bit shocked and joking.

"..." The two seemed to have misunderstood something. Zhuo Yan hurriedly explained: "I mean, Ah Yin was still young when I picked him up, just like a cub. He would be sick, weak and clingy, so I would touch him to help him through the pain. "

That's right." Lin Rong nodded.

Xiaofeng looked a little embarrassed. He had thought wrong just now.

Zhuo Yan looked at the expressions of the two people, and sure enough, they must have thought of something about the Eighteen Bans just now. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and saved some reputation.

So he didn't dare to talk about the technique. Zhuo Yan said seriously that he would prepare bacon ingredients in the afternoon, made an appointment with Amanqiao and asked Lin Rong and Xiaofeng if they wanted to come together.

"? Bacon? You mean, marinate the meat with salt?" Xiaofeng didn't understand.

Zhuo Yan roughly explained that in addition to salting, he also planned to use cypress leaves to smoke. The first round of hunting people had already gone for the second day, and they were expected to come back in two days. He would be there in these two days. Make all the preparations for bacon—long-distance hunting is sure to bring in lots and lots of meat.

In the past, the tribe had stocked up early. He still remembered that the first snowfall last year came as soon as possible.

"I haven't eaten this before." Lin Rong said. Xiaofeng asked if it could be better preserved?

"Yes, it is easier to preserve than just applying salt before." Zhuo Yan briefly explained the process. Today he will prepare a rack for making bacon. Yesterday Ah Yin and Ah Tou Ah Ri Ah Hui brought back some thin trees. It was time to make a shelf, and I needed to prepare cypress branches today. Ah Yin ran out with his friends to grab it.

Ah Hui is not Ah Yin's partner, but Ah Hui can't get rid of him - this guy has been very convinced of Ah Yin since he was defeated by Ah Yin, and after Ah Yin brought back the salt, he is even more submissive and wants to do all kinds of activities. He moved closer to Ah Yin and followed suit.

They helped, especially storing food for the winter. Zhuo Yan asked Ah Yin to ask Ah Hui if she wanted to come and make bacon together. If she came, she could just go to the open space of the kiln factory afterwards.

The area of ​​the kiln factory—their tribe's current various processing plants.

Burning charcoal, burning kilns, boiling salt, and now smoking meat are all there, not far from the water source, the place is open and flat, there are trees in the shade around it, and a shed has been built. The place is large, and the orcs can move freely while working. , what a great place.

When Lin Rong and Xiaofeng heard this, they immediately agreed to go together.

Although they don't know about bacon, they trust Zhuo Yan. So at almost noon, everyone carried rattan baskets and tools and went over to gather. There was a half-made wooden hinge in Lin Rong's rattan basket, and there were two cubs in her arms. The little cub was very lively, lying on his father's shoulder, and the other one was eager to jump into Zhuo Yan's arms.

Zhuo Yan originally stretched out his hand to take it, but when he saw Ah Yin from a distance, he was immediately caught. He took back his hand, smiled awkwardly and politely, and said, "Xiao Yan, be good, your uncle Xiao Feng will hug you, haha." His Ah Yin Silver is a vinegar jar!

Every time he finished sucking the little leopard cub, A Yin would turn his belly to let him suck twice as much. But because A Yin was so big now, once, when Zhuo Yan touched A Yin's belly, he could see A Yin's squeaking.

He didn't mean to look, it was Ah Yin who was exposed.

The feline's jiji is very small. Anyway, when his family was in estrus, it would show a little bit from time to time. It was really just a little bit. Later, when I looked at feline science, I found that some 'big cat' males have barbs on their penises, which are small but frequent, ensuring breeding.

Let's get back to the topic, Zhuo Yan was immediately at a loss after seeing it that day. He was originally laughing and joking around with Ah Yin. At this moment, Zhuo Yan felt that he was really crazy and wretched.

Just... that kind of simple fun suddenly changed. Zhuo Yan later reflected that Ah Yin was also an orc after all. Although he could not transform, Ah Yin had a human mind and could think. He could not really treat Ah Yin like a puppy or a big cat.

They are indeed equal, and they must respect A Yin's privacy ideologically, and -

A Yin is not small at all.

Maybe it's because it's not just a big cat.

After that, Zhuo Yan restrained himself in playing around and tried not to make Ah Yin jealous. Although the other cubs were furry and cute, they belonged to other people. Ah Yin was his younger brother. He didn't want Ah Yin to feel sad or feel unlovable because of his big size. Yes, my brother likes little cubs. If he touches Rua again in order to appease Ah Yin, what if it gets stimulated again?

Isn't this an inexplicable cycle?

Therefore, Zhuo Yan can touch the cub where A Yin cannot see it. In front of A Yin, Zhuo Yan can still be A Yin's good brother in a serious manner.

Really well-intentioned. Zhuo Yan couldn't help but sigh that he was great.

It was really not easy for him to control the leopard with small breasts.

Xiao Feng helped Lin Rong look at Xiao Pan. Xiao Pan was very lively and active. He and Lin Rong looked at each other and both laughed. Zhuo Yan also liked Ah Yin so much, but he didn't expect Ah Yin to be so possessive. powerful.

In the tribe, orcs are possessive of their partners, but they generally make an exception for their cubs, especially those who have just been born and have not yet experienced their first human form.

Ah Yin held the cypress branch in his mouth, put it aside first, and ran towards his brother happily.

Zhuo Yan squatted down and was almost jumped by Ah Yin. After he stopped, Ah Yin's ears were furry, and he had no idea that this look really meant that he was guilty of being a thief. Ayindang didn't smell the smell of other leopard cubs on his brother, so he was happily wagging his tail.

The two of them had a round of fun.

In the eyes of outsiders, the two of them seemed to be in love.

Zhuo Yan stood up and said, "Let's go." Aman and others had arrived early and looked at him. Ahem, Ah Yin is getting more and more clingy, and Ah Yin has been working hard all morning, so he should encourage her.

The cypress branches and leaves were piled into small mounds, and they were all fresh and did not need to be dried - because the meat was smoked, not dried.

Many sub-orcs gathered there, including Ah Hui's grandmother. Maybe some sub-orcs didn't hear what Zhuo Yan said in the past and were unwilling to accept it - after all, it was related to Xue Ji's stored meat, but it's different now.

First came the pottery. Zhuo Yan let all the Luoya orcs know his name. After boiling the salt, everyone trusted Zhuo Yan even more. Even if they didn't know that they had never heard of bacon, they were all willing to come and see it, learn it, and try it first. Give it a try. If you don't like it, don't get used to it, and feel bad about it, you can continue your own method of storing meat.

So now there are fewer wooden shelves for hanging meat.

Some orcs ran to continue cutting down trees.

The orcs left them to make a triangular wooden frame. This is easy to make. First cut off the thin branches and use the bare sticks to make the thick ones into the brackets. You only need to open the slots. Two thick pieces of wood are stuck on the ground and are slightly narrow. Some are stuck crosswise. The other side remains as usual, about one meter high, so a tree can be used as a support. There are shelves at both ends and a piece of wood across the middle.

One afternoon, eight long meat racks were quickly arranged one meter apart in the open space next to the kiln. Cypress branches are piled up next to it. I did some more the next day, but the space was full, so I stopped doing it.

Everyone didn't waste the remaining scraps of firewood. They either took them back for cooking, or left them here to burn the charcoal later when the meat was done.

On the third day, Zhuo Yan led everyone to stir-fry salt and berry tree leaves - in fact, spices should be added, such as cinnamon, star anise, peppercorns, and sun-dried orange peels. After such a dry stir-fry, the cured meat will be delicious. .

If you only fry salt, the taste will be dull. Zhuo Yan found that the leaves of berry trees have a light fruity aroma on the mountain. He washed them and dried them, as well as the leaves of garlic sprouts. The next day, he and Qiao took a big stone pot and started frying salt.

Don't add a drop of water or oil, just stir-fry the salt and fruit leaves until the aroma comes out.

In the evening of the same day, the hunting team came back. The clan leader took the lead. When they came back, they rang the bang bang bang and everyone went to share the meat. This time the hunting team caught a long-necked deer.

Zhuo Yan and A Yin ran over to take a look, and were stunned. They looked like giraffes, but they were different from those in the zoo. They were bigger here, with less long necks, thicker limbs, and short antlers on their heads. .

In the tribe, animals are called according to their characteristics. For example, those with horns, and the horns are obviously very big, are called horned sheep, horned deer, and one-horned ox. Those with very prominent teeth are called tusked pigs and tusked elephants - he has not seen them yet, but he heard from Qiao Ji To describe it, it is about the same size as a gray elephant, but because its tusks are very large and protruding, it is more difficult to catch than a gray elephant. The most difficult thing is the mammoth.

They have only captured cubs and adult mammoths. Unless they really have nothing to eat and send out all the orcs, under normal circumstances, everyone will choose to capture something else.

For now, the orcs are skinning and deboning these four long-necked deer, and the uncle is starting to divide the meat. This is also a technical job. You need to estimate in advance how much meat each person will share, otherwise there will be no shortage at the end. Whose fault.

Zhuo Yan and A Yin received more than two hundred kilograms of meat.

"It's too early to divide the meat this year. It must be because there is a lot of salt and the orcs brought back so many prey." Joe said with certainty.

Shitou nodded. Aman said: "I didn't hunt some heavy prey until the weather got colder last year. Otherwise, it would be difficult to store and it would be wasted.

"

He is so fierce, he eats every three to five days, and stays six to seventy percent full at ordinary times, so that there will be prey around the Leopard Man tribe.

If you hunt too hard, the animals will migrate and leave within a few years.

Zhuo Yan had thought before that this was similar to large-scale free-range breeding. His tooth pigs are now self-sufficient. If he wants to breed them in the future, he can refer to this - he cannot use modern thinking to raise animals in captivity and must adapt to local conditions.

It's best to have a dedicated orc keep an eye on them to act as an intimidator. Refer to the rabbit tooth pig at home.

There was too much meat, and some bones were given as gifts. Zhuo Yan stopped chatting with his friends and agreed to meet at the bacon place tomorrow before dawn with the meat, and everyone went back separately. Zhuo Yan went to bed early that day, and the days after that were endless. In order to be comfortable during the snow season, autumn is a busy season.

After the meat was divided that day, the clan leader stopped Zhuo Yan and said that he had arranged for the orcs to deliver some salt to the werewolf tribe and the tiger tribe. The lion tribe was too far away and it was too late this year.

Two people formed a team, carrying half a basket of salt wrapped in leather, and set off separately. The Werewolf tribe will arrive in less than half a month, and the Tiger tribe will arrive in half a month. The four orcs will be able to come back before the snow season.

After hearing this, Zhuo Yan felt that the clan leader was kind-hearted and upright. Their tribe now had no worries about salt, and their winter food storage was in good order.

"If it weren't for you, Zhuo Yan, I wouldn't have chosen to let people go before winter." The clan leader's eyes were kind. "Our tribe has rich food, and there are also the mud beans you led the tribe to grow after the rainy season - you call them potatoes. ? A very good name."

"I believe you, if you store it early this year, it will definitely be available for the snow season."

With all this, the Leopard Tribe will not be short of it, so the clan leader will send people to deliver salt to the other two tribes. .

If you are poor, you can take care of yourself; if you are prosperous, you can help the world. The four grassland tribes should watch and help each other. Zhuo Yan thinks the clan leader is really good.

At dusk the next day, the entire tribe woke up. The orcs stopped hunting and joined in the work - everyone wanted to do the work. The sub-orcs carried the meat on their backs, or their friends helped carry it first, and transported the meat to the river.

The salt that had been fried before was used directly. Zhuo Yan taught everyone to apply salt. The orcs saw that this was not the way they used to store meat. It was just that the salt was dry-fried in advance and berries and leaves were added, so it was done quickly.

The cooked meat is wrapped in leather and placed there.

Everyone thought it was troublesome to move it around. Zhuo Yan said that it takes five days to marinate the meat before smoking it. In fact, according to the process, it is best to marinate for ten days, but there is too much meat now, and there is still meat in the later period. After ten days of marinating, One batch was too late.

Zhuo Yan shortened the marinating time.

There is too much meat to transport, and there are orcs sleeping in the bacon factory these days, guarding the cured meat.

Marinate it for two days and rub it with salt again. On the fifth day, it is finally ready for smoking. Before smoking the meat, wash away the salty contaminants with cold water. Four large stone pots were heated with boiling water. The stone and the strong sub-orcs skewered the meat strips with holes and tied them with thick rattans.

Qiao Xiaoxian followed Zhuo Yan's example and ran the washed meat through boiling water.

"No need to cook it, just cook it briefly for about five seconds - just count five times." Zhuo Yan smoked the meat once, so that the smoked meat tastes better and is less salty.

The meat strips that have passed the boiling water are hung on the pole. Don't smoke in a hurry. Wait until all the meat is hung together, so that the moisture of the meat can be dried naturally.

Under the command of Zhuo Yan, the orcs acted like an assembly line, with a clear division of labor. Because there was too much meat, the first racks set up were not enough. During the four or five days when Zhuo Yan taught everyone how to marinate meat, the orcs Many more shelves were made.

One day passed, and in the evening, the shelves were covered with meat, which was drying in the shade. The guys held cypress branches and spread them under the shelf, and started to light a fire. Because the cypress branches were wet and the leaves were still green, they couldn't burn at all. There was only thick smoke. Soon the river and the meat factory were all filled with smoke. .

It was the first time for the sub-orcs to store meat like this, and they were very excited and curious.

"It should be okay, right?"

"I think it's okay. I put a lot of salt on it, but it's just more smoked."

"What does bacon taste like?"

"I don't know, it's my first time making it too."

"Don't pour the water to wash the meat. You can also make soup, it's full of salt."

"Then we'll take some back later."

Aman heard other sub-orcs chatting and interjected: "It's better to wait for the meat washing water to stand for a while and pour out the top. Water, and then boil the salt, it should be cooked. "

"What is standing?"

"Just let it sit for a while."

Some orcs asked Aman how to do it, and went to wash the meat just now. of salt water.

As a result, after Zhuo Yan listened to them pouring the water, he couldn't help but said: "You poured the salt water, and all the dirt underneath the sediment is in vain." It's like a waste of time!

Aman is confused, right?

Zhuo Yan analyzed it carefully and found that salt water is different from other sediments. The density of salt water - forget it, I can't explain it clearly. He directly said: "Salt water can't be left alone. It can only filter dirt. The water really contains salt."

In short. It's too late, everyone has already poured out the salt water, leaving behind the dirty stuff. Zhuo Yan: ...Forget it, the family is big and the business is big, so a little waste is fine. And the salt water used to wash the meat is very dirty, so don't use it again.

As the afterglow faded, there was a strange scent in the air by the river, the smell of meat mixed with the smell of smoky cypress trees and firewood. It was hard to tell, but the orcs had the most sensitive noses, and many orcs gathered around here unknowingly.

Some sub-orcs found their mates, the two of them stood next to each other and talked in low voices.

"We have been busy all day, and Zhuo Yan said that bacon will last longer and won't stink." The orc man said.

The orc nodded, he knew, "Zhuo Yan cooked the salt, this bacon will definitely be cooked, and I smell the aroma, a different aroma from the bacon before."

"I smelled it too, it's such a strange aroma, I've never I have never smelled it. "

To say how delicious the 'cured meat' was in the past - it was definitely not delicious. It was just salty. It had been left for a long time and was only marinated. When it was taken out during the snow season, some of the meat was rotten. The smell is terrible. Everyone eats bacon just to survive. There is nothing good or bad about it.

Things are different now.

"It smells so good."

As night fell, torches were placed around the bacon factory. Under the light of the torches, the meat exuded an orange-golden luster, and the outside of the meat became harder.

"Zhuo Yan, do you need to cook this to eat in the future?"

"How to eat it?"

"When will it be ready?"

Zhuo Yan answered one by one: "If you want to eat it, you can make soup, stew it with potatoes, or grill it. Just don't add salt, there's enough salt in it.", "It's enough to smoke until midnight. You can take it back tomorrow morning and hang it in the hole like this. After another ten days, you can put it in a rattan basket or a straw mat. Get up. "

The meat has no moisture, so it is better to preserve. Unlike the previous tribe's marinated meat, it is not dried. In order to save space, it is strange to cover it until it doesn't stink. Of course, there are smart sub-orcs who will lay it flat.

"I got it."

"Then I'll go back and make a shelf for the hole."

"There's no room in the hole."

"You can use vines to hang on the tree outside the hole first, and then put it away when it's dry."

Smart! Zhuo Yan nodded, indicating that it was okay.

The sub-orc man was very happy to be praised by Zhuo Yan.

The orcs were left to guard that night, and the other sub-orcs went back first, looking for trees at the entrance of their caves to pull out the vines. When it was dark the next day, they all came to get their own meat - because it had been smoked and sun-dried, the meat was hard and shrunk to look smaller. If it is lighter, no one will suspect that Zhuo Yan or other orcs ate it.

Because everyone is busy with the bacon.

After everyone had just transported the first batch of bacon back to their respective caves, the second batch of the tribal hunting team came back from hunting - meat, in small piles of meat.

Zhuo Yan:! ! !

He now dreams about bacon, working, bacon, working every night. Even his hair smells like bacon. He has no time to weave his family's straw mats, let alone grow bamboo rice.

So for nearly a month in the future, the entire tribe, Zhuo Yan, was going to work like a machine. His bacon process had been automated - his brain didn't need to think at all, his body acted instinctively.

Not only did he do this, but no one in the entire tribe was idle-except the cubs.

The orcs hunted, cut down trees to make doors, and carried cypress branches back, which were all manual jobs. The orcs divided the meat, tied it with ropes, rubbed it with salt, dried it, and smoked it...

In their busy schedule, they even made railings for their caves or hung ropes at the entrance.

Zhuo Yan chose the method of hanging ropes at the entrance of his cave. There was a tree with a crooked neck at the entrance of his cave. The tree was quite strong. There was another tree at the bottom of the slope. It was originally slanted. After a month, Zhuo Yan saw that the trees were all hung up. Meat.

His crooked-necked tree seems to be even more crooked.

Zhuo Yan: ...Thank you for your hard work, Brother Shu.

"There's a lot of meat stored in the cave this year."

"It's the same in my family. The bacon is really delicious. I couldn't help but eat some. The soup is delicious."

"Me too. It's really delicious, but I don't dare to Eat more, and eat it during the snow season.

"I never thought that at this time of year, we are still far away from the snow season, and there is already so much meat in the cave. In the next few days, we will be able to eat fresh meat, waiting for the snow." Let's eat bacon later."

Everyone had this idea. Zhuo Yan estimated that with one person in each cave, the minimum amount of meat would be at least three hundred kilograms. According to the ninety-day snow season, an average of three kilograms of meat would be eaten a day, plus potatoes and taro, and the orcs would transform into human form. The amount of activity is small - it's all in the cave, which is enough.

Houses with more people have more meat.

The clan leader may have also calculated, so after the temperature dropped again, the hunting team went out to hunt less ferociously than before, everyone had fresh meat, and the work of bacon was finally over - the shelves were dismantled, and the orcs moved it to the big cave to wait for the coming year. can be used when.

In short, don't waste it.

Zhuo Yan thought he could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and then Qiao asked him to make a mat tomorrow. The grass on the riverbank grew up to waist height, and now that the weather was good at noon, he could still dry the mat in the sun.

"..." Wuwu. So tired, so tired. Zhuo Yan agreed with tears in his eyes, and that night, "Ah Yin stepped on my brother's back."

Zhuo Yan lay on the stone bed. Ah Yin had mastered this 'massage' more than half a month ago. Because he felt sorry for his brother who was so tired every day, Ah Yin raised his paws, retracted his nails, and used a flesh pad to massage his brother. , my brother said it was very comfortable.

At this moment, when Ah Yin listened to the order, his eyes glowed blue - his eyes were blue, but his eyes lit up and his ears stood up, like a puppy.

So sometimes I don't blame Zhuo Yan, because Ah Yin is really a bitch sometimes. Literally.

The puppy A Yin is now squatting on the stone bed, raising his front paws and carefully landing on his brother's shoulders. Zhuo Yan sighs comfortably, "Yes, that's right, be stronger."

"More up."

A Yin's flesh The pads are a little rough, but really comfortable to press on.

"Waist, some waist."

Ah Yin's paws obeyed his brother's words, rubbing and rubbing from his shoulders to his brother's waist. His eyes fell on his brother's butt again, but his brother wouldn't let him press here, so Ah Yin worked hard to massage her brother's waist.

Zhuo Yan felt drowsy. The fatigue of the day was released at this moment, so he fell asleep. At first, when he was half asleep and half awake, he could still feel the wetness on his waist. Ah Yin would definitely lick him again like a puppy, but Because he was too tired, Zhuo Yan muttered "no", but all he said was "hum hum" and fell asleep.

A Yin was so cute that she gave her brother a massage. After his brother fell asleep, he licked his waist and his eyes fell on his butt again. Ah Yin's blue eyes deepened unconsciously, but he thought that his brother didn't like him to touch this place, so he looked away. Focus on pressing your brother's shoulders—do it again!

Hey hey hey hey, press it for a little longer, brother will smell good.

The next day, Zhuo Yan took a nap and woke up really radiant and energetic. His waist no longer hurt and his shoulders were no longer sore. He moved his shoulders. Zhuo Yan met A Yin's eyes and held A Yin's cheeks with both hands.

"Thank you for your hard work, Ah Yin. You must have pressed me for a long time last night." Because my whole body, muscles and bones were smooth!

Ah Yin whined, it was neither hard nor hard, he liked to massage his brother, and he would continue to massage her tonight.

On this day, Zhuo Yan was going to weave mats by the river, and Ah Yin and his friends were going hunting - short distance. In Zhuo Yan's opinion, short distance hunting was for young orc hunting classes, which was safer.

After he and his friends had made mats for three days - all the orcs were doing this by the river, everyone chatted and worked together, and shared some furniture in their caves, because the orcs had cut down trees to make doors, and there was a lot of wood left. Everyone heard Zhuo Yan talking about making shelves and tables, so they all came to ask.

Zhuo Yan: ...I forgot, his family hasn't made any furniture yet.

Ahhhhhh! When is the snow season? The days before the snow season are really hard to get through! ! ! He is now looking forward to the snowy season, sleeping on the stone bed at home and eating as salted fish. When he gets bored, he goes outside to see the snow and catch fish in the river.

"Rack? Is it the same as the rack for hanging meat? Do you want to hang meat?" The newly arrived sub-orc added the question.

Zhuo Yan said no, and gestured, "The shelves for storing things can be made three layers shorter, or they can be nailed to the cave wall, make smaller holes in the cave wall, push the wooden strips in, and expose some, above the wooden shelf , put some cups, pots and bowls, etc. If there is no wooden board, it can be used as a hook to hang leather..."

This really doesn't take too much effort - compared to the month-long bacon work, creating the comfort of the improved hole is really It's easy.

The sub-orcs who understood understood suddenly said, "Zhuo Yan, you are so smart."

Those who didn't understand were confused. Zhuo Yan took a small stone and drew a rough diagram on the ground while explaining it. Now everyone understood it - it was indeed not difficult.

"Zhuo Yan, you are so awesome. What do you think?"

"I just lay on the stone bed and pondered it. There are more things in the cave. I need to put meat and pile firewood. Skins and straw mats can be spread on There are some unused old leathers on the stone bed. I plan to hang them behind the door to protect them from the wind and cold during the snow season.

"Before the snow season comes, I will dismantle the hay shed and build a small stove in the cave. I will also need a table for eating. " It's not tiring to eat like this."

Shitou listened to Zhuo Yan's description with envy in his eyes - his family also made a wooden door this year, because other orcs in the tribe also made it, and his father and mother followed him. Like Zhuo Yan, his father and mother didn't have time to make the cave very clean and tidy.

The two finished making the wooden door, and during the two days of rest, they had a private nightlife according to Zhuo Yan.

Dayun was taken outside to play by him.

Shitou held his cheek with one hand and couldn't help but think, if he has a hole in the future, he will arrange it like this. Zhuo Yan can do it, and he has learned it, but he can't -

"Zhuo Yan, if you make wooden tables and boards, I will do it." Come help you, I want to learn." Shitou said.

"That's great, thank you Stone." You are worthy of being his strong partner. Zhuo Yan was moved.

Aman and Qiao both saw Shitou's thoughts, and they couldn't help but laugh. However, one wanted to imitate and the other thought Shitou helped out for the sake of friendship, which was good. Xiaoxian: Why are Qiao and Aman laughing? He wants to laugh too!

Zhuo Yan turned his head and saw Xiao Xian smiling with white teeth.

He also smiled. Teeth bared.

The days that followed were filled with tension and work, but it was still possible to relax for a while, until the weather turned cold again. The temperature difference between morning and evening was very big, and it was very cold at night. Zhuo Yan took out the leather cover. It turned out that the potato seedlings on both sides of the river were lush and green, and the leaves of some trees in the mountains were yellow.

His chestnut tree! Walnut tree! Found it during a spring outing.

Zhuo Yan and his friends took A Yin up the mountain to pick chestnuts. This was easy to do. A Yin climbed into the tree and swayed the branches at the top. Zhuo Yan shouted from below to stay away. Those chestnuts with thorny shells rolled away. fall down.

"Brother Zhuo Yan, this is so tough. How do you eat it?" Xiao Xian forgot the way to eat it.

"Put it away and let it dry in the sun. During the snow season, when you make a fire at home to cook, you will first hit it with a stone to make cracks, then throw the shell into the fire. When it is cooked, peel it and eat it."

They arrived late at the walnut tree. , the green skin rolled to the ground, some of it had been pecked by birds, and it looked dirty and pitted on the outside. Qiao remembered that Zhuo Yan said that when the green skin was peeled off, he had to smash the inner shell again, so it must be good, right?

"Okay, it's just convenient for us to pick up."

The group of them carried baskets on their backs and picked up a lot of chestnuts and walnuts. They returned home and spread them at the entrance of the cave to dry. Zhuo Yan took the time to continue to expand the holes for the animals at home. They kept busy and busy. Then one day, Shitou Tell him: The potato, taro and dudu fruits are ripe and can be picked/digging.

Zhuo Yan:! ! ! !

Help, help, he missed the snow season - in just one autumn, he howled many times to miss the snow season. He used to look forward to spring during the snow season, but now he can't wait for winter to begin.

But it's impossible. We have to continue working. Everyone in the Leopard Man tribe is like little squirrels in this autumn, not stopping for a moment, crazily hoarding food in preparation for the winter.

The entire area on both sides of the river, long and wide, is full of potato fields. Under Zhuo Yan's name, now the tribal orcs also call it this way. They also know the difference between potatoes and taro. After all, they only grow potatoes.

In the jungle outside the river - the ones closest to the tribes are wild. In the past, wild and distant places were enough for tribal orcs to eat, mixed with meat, and they could barely sustain themselves for most of the winter.

After planting this year, everyone discovered: wow, there are so many.

When the potatoes were dug out and piled into a hill, each sub-orc carried baskets back to the cave. They stood in the cave and looked at the food in the corner. They saw that the stored bacon was still intact, and every face showed disbelief. The eyes of the sub-orcs were red.

They had never thought that there would be a snow season with such abundant food. It seemed that they would not be hungry anymore...

"Zhuo Yan, there are so many potatoes."

"I feel that this snow season should be enough to eat."

"Before, every time I Just eat less and don't eat as long as you're not too hungry. This way you won't starve to death.

"There's a lot of food in the cave this year."

"Zhuo Yan, thank you."

Everyone gathered around Zhuo Yan to thank him. Zhuo Yan was a little embarrassed. In fact, at first he just wanted to improve his hole, but everyone in the tribe was sincere and open-minded, and it was easy to trust him -

even Chun came to him to apologize and thank him when he was smoking meat.

Zhuo Yan didn't have any thoughts about Chun. What he could do was that he didn't hate or like Chun. It was impossible for him to be friends with Chun, so he expressed his thoughts.

[Xiao Zhuoyan will be very scared. If you threaten him, he will die. I will not hate you, nor can I be your partner. 】

Just maintain the relationship with strangers in the tribe.

Chun later left. Except for some collective work, she did not go to Zhuo Yan and Qiao. Later, when harvesting potatoes, Chun had a new partner. They played, talked and worked together.

Everyone is straightforward, and getting along is really not tiring, there is no intrigue, and there is no jealousy and exclusion because he teaches everyone to work and is in the spotlight - Zhuo Yan has been targeted in this way when he worked in the company, especially When he hopes to be promoted.

Therefore, the reason why Zhuo Yan did all this smoothly is also due to everyone's contribution.

"You're welcome. I hope our Leopard People will get better and better and spend the snow season safely."

"Okay!"

"This year we just need to defend against the beast tide. I heard from my friend that there will be patrols during the snow season. "The clan leader has arranged in advance to patrol every two or three days."

"Zhuo Yan, the entrance to your cave is too far away. It would be better to find another large stone. When the snow thickens, it will block the entrance. If Ah Yin doesn't have the strength, my friend will." We can help."

"Let's move a big rock together."

Upon hearing this, Zhuo Yan accepted everyone's kindness and felt that it was right to build two defensive doors. Hearing his agreement, the sub-orcs were even happier, as if the other way around - he seemed to have helped them.

...Everyone is so cute.

Under such busy conditions, one morning when they went to pick the last piece of Dudu fruit, Shitou said: "There is ice on the grass leaves."

It seems that he said this last year, and the first snow fell within two days.

Zhuo Yan ushered in the second snow season in the Leopard Man tribe. Before, he was alone and seemed to be strong and did everything. In fact, only he knew what he was thinking. Thinking about breaking the jar, he was afraid of committing suicide. It hurts. If you can't bear Xue Ji, you can't blame him. It was God who took away this life and didn't want him to live.

Later he picked up Ah Yin and was tied up.

Now -

"Ah Yin, this is our second snow season, this year will definitely be better than last year!!!"

Finally, we no longer have to work endlessly. Zhuo Yan couldn't wait for Xianyu to lie down.

Chapter 56

Thirteen days ago, the werewolf tribe.

The weather has gotten colder, and werewolves and orcs have begun to hunt more frequently. They don't have much salt, and they want to hunt more prey when the weather is as cold as possible, so that they can be stored more easily and save some salt. On this day, the wolf clan leader led most of the orcs in the tribe to chase the brown bear for three days.

Two leopards arrived at the outskirts of the wolf tribe's territory.

There were no obvious external patrolling orcs in the wolf tribe. The two leopards hesitated and did not go in immediately. Instead, they approached and started roaring. After a long time, a newly adult orc came out of the wolf tribe.

"Ouch~" the young werewolf howled.

The two leopards turned into human shapes one after another, and the rattan basket fell to the ground, revealing a large penis inside. These are the elder leopard men who came to deliver salt to the werewolf tribe: Ake and Ah Meng.

"We are the orcs from the Leopard Man tribe, coming to find your clan leader." Ake said.

When the young werewolf took a look, he transformed into a human form. His face was very childish, like that of a boy in his late teens. His pupils were light blue, his face was narrower, and his eyebrows were deeper and more three-dimensional.

Ake took a look, smiled at Ah Meng and said, "The werewolf's eyes are really blue, very similar to Ah Yin. It would be great if Ah Yin could turn into a human form. He must be as big as that."

"He is handsome. "The young man." Ah Meng was talking about the young man in front of him, why not Ah Yin.

Both of them were somewhat kind to the young werewolf - because of Ah Yin's relationship.

"What do you want from our clan leader?" the young werewolf asked. He saw that the other party was a leopard man, and he was very friendly. The wolf tribe and the leopard men were always like this. He ran a few steps to get to the two of them, but then he thought about what the elders of the tribe had taught him, and his eyes were a little wary.

Ameng Ake laughed when he saw it. Ake said: "Good boy, did your clan leader go hunting? When did you leave?"

"He went out three days ago." After the werewolf answered, he became alert again. How did the two leopard men know?

Ameng guessed that the werewolf had gone far away to hunt, and there was no one on patrol in the entire tribe. He muttered, "It's too late, we won't see you."

"We have to go back before the blizzard."

After the two of them discussed it, Ameng After waving his hand, Ah Meng said, "Didn't you just ask us what we came for?" He squatted down and untied the leather of the rattan basket, "We followed the clan leader's arrangement to bring salt to your werewolf clan."

"Salt? !" Now the young werewolves lost their vigilance and ran forward, looking inside the rattan basket on the ground - "This is not salt."

Ake laughed and said, "No, this is our own salt from the Leopard People. "

Child, try it." Ah Meng said.

They held up the salt crust and let the werewolves and orcs taste it for themselves. The orcs were really eager. Is this really salt? At this moment, he completely lost his vigilance. He dipped his finger into it and put it in his mouth. He could not help but look at the two of them with wide eyes.

"It's really salt!"

Aka suddenly laughed. Ake said: "You go back to the tribe and bring your orcs, come here to get salt, and our clan leader has something to say to your clan leader."

The young werewolf: "Our clan leader went out hunting."

"I know, you just said After that, the person in charge of your tribe will come, and he will tell your tribe leader that we must return to the tribe before the snow season." A Meng said.

The young werewolf did not doubt his presence and even invited two leopard men into the tribe. Ake'a laughed loudly after hearing this. The young werewolf was a little embarrassed and didn't know why he was laughing at him. Ake explained: "The leopard people and the werewolf tribe have good relations, but we will not enter your tribe."

"If your clan leader is here If so, we can only go in if he invites us.

The young werewolf scratched his head, but his heart was full of salt, and he was even afraid that the two leopard men would leave. He turned back three times in a few steps, hurriedly transformed into a wolf and ran back howling.

Ake: "Hahahahaha, really just like Ah Yin."

"Ah Yin screamed, I know who to follow."

"His mother is a werewolf, what is her name?"

"Big beauty, right?"

"It seems like she is . Xiaomei. "

It doesn't matter.

Akamaeng chatted and waited for the werewolf to come out. The young werewolf entered the tribe in a hurry, fearing that he would be slow and let the leopard man and other anxious leopard men leave. He didn't even turn into a human form, and screamed all the way -

other sub-orcs in the tribe said: "Little What happened to Wo? , I don't know, this child is on patrol. How old is he? He's not yet an adult. It's almost past the snow season and he will be an adult. What is he howling...

"Salt? The Leopard People are here to bring salt?" The patriarch's companion asked in surprise.

Xiao Wo whined for a moment and turned into a human form in a hurry. He didn't even wear a skin, covering his lower body and said: "Yes, just outside the tribe, they said that the leader of the Leopard People asked them to deliver salt, and he asked me if the leader was there. , I said I wasn't there, and they didn't come in and wanted to leave. They said they wanted the people in charge of the tribe to leave..."

What and what.

The clan leader took the orcs to hunt, and it was impossible to take away all the orcs. At this time, the orcs who heard Xiao Wo yelling all the way also arrived, "Salt? The salt Xiao Wo just said? Or was it sent by the Leopard Clan?", "Is he the one who came all the way?" Are you kidding us if you are bored with patrolling?"

There are also those who are wary, thinking that it is not a leopard orc outside, but a leopard.

Xiao Wo waved his hands anxiously: "No, no, no, they are leopard men. They turned into human shapes in front of me, and they even let me eat the salt they brought. It was really salt, salty."

"Are you eating it? "Poisonous mushrooms?"

"Did you go to the forest to eat mushrooms?"

Everyone asked, and Xiao Wo explained anxiously. In the end, it was the tribe leader's companion who took the strong sub-orcs out of the tribe to see what was going on.

Ake and Ameng waited for a long time, and finally saw the werewolves coming - but they were menacing, with many sub-orcs holding sticks and stone knives in their hands. Ake Ameng:? ? ? ?

"We are the Leopard People." The two shouted.

The leader of the wolf clan stopped far away, and looked at the two of them with caution. After a long time, she waved for everyone to put down their things. She took the lead and walked forward, "It's almost the snow season, what do you want to do with our tribe?" "

Chief of the clan?" Let us deliver the salt." Ake opened the leather and handed it over.

Ah Meng had already gotten used to it, and he said first, "The salt of our Leopard Tribe is whiter than that of the Yumen Market. It's just salt. You can try it."

After the tribe leader and his partner tasted the salt, their eyes lit up, and they looked at the two of them again. Leopard Man, the vigilance just now disappeared.

"Our Leopard Clan Chief said: After we came back from the Feathered Market, we found that we had salt, and it was very troublesome to make salt. Until now, the Clan Chief said that the Leopard Clan and the Wolf Clan have a harmonious relationship, so he sent it to the Werewolf Clan before the snow season. Half a basket of salt, I hope everyone can spend the snow season safely."

After Ake finished speaking, he looked at Ah Meng, was he right? He memorized everything. Ah Meng thought for a moment and nodded, and said: "We are going back."

At this moment, the werewolf orcs and sub-orcs were all stunned on the spot. They looked at the leopard orcs in disbelief and opened their mouths. They couldn't ask anything. They didn't Know what to ask.

Salt?

Is it really salt?

Until the leopard-man orc transformed into a leopard in front of them and returned at an extremely fast speed. The werewolf clan finally recovered from the shock, "The leopard clan really just gave us salt." "Is it really salt?"

Everyone looked at the clan leader and his companion.

"It's salt, salty, white salt." The patriarch's companion's eyes kept falling on the salt in surprise. She held the salt bag tightly, fearing to spill some.

Behind her, the Ya-orcs and the orcs were all looking in the direction where the two leopards disappeared...

Compared to Akea, who arrived at the werewolf clan without seeing the leader of the werewolf clan, Huo Xia and Daya arrived at the territory of the tiger clan six days later. As soon as the two entered the territory of the Tiger Tribe, they saw the Tiger Tribe orcs hunting a group of prey they had never seen before.

Those prey were not tall, crawling on all fours, fat and strong, and looked very clumsy.

Daya and Huo Xia didn't come forward, they jumped up into the trees and waited for the Khajiit to hunt first. The fat, four-legged thing didn't even have horns, and looked easy to catch, but those Khajiit orcs didn't look like it.

The two looked at each other without saying a word.

Sure enough, when the tiger man approached, the fat and short animal opened its mouth, which was densely packed with fine teeth. The mouth was very big and looked very sharp. Moreover, the animal ran very fast, almost touching the ground. It can still burrow into the soil, but only a small bag bulges out of the soil.

However, the tigers were experienced in hunting. The tigers dispersed, and soon blood appeared on the soil, and they shouted one after another: "Caught it, I caught it too."

Waiting for the tiger people to kill the prey.

The leader of the tiger people looked at the tree not far away, "Leopard people?"

Huo Xia and Daya jumped down and turned into human forms. Each of them carried a rattan basket, and without saying much, they directly explained their intention. Hawa, the leader of the tiger tribe, was stunned for a moment, "Salt?"

Da Ya directly handed over the rattan basket.

Hawa took it and untied the leather. This was not salt. Salt was not that white. He knew salt, but he also knew that the Leopard People would not come so far to lie to him. The two tribes had never had a conflict, and the Leopard People The patriarch has always been gentle.

It was impossible to lie to him and provoke them, the tiger people.

He dipped some hawa in his mouth and was stunned. It was really...salt.

Tiger people are impulsive and reckless, but they are also truly enthusiastic - if they show kindness to their tribesmen and treat their tribesmen sincerely, Tiger people will be even more enthusiastic. Therefore, Huo Xia and Daya, both of whom had direct tempers, could not withstand the hospitality of the tiger people. The tiger people and orcs gathered together and warmly welcomed them to go to the tribe to rest.

That night, Huo Xia and Daya also ate the prey that the tiger people hunted today - called the earth dragon beast. This kind of beast lives in the soil all year round, so the soil is very loose. If someone inadvertently breaks in, it may The body sank into the soil and was buried to death.

"...Don't struggle at this time, be steady, and then slowly come out with your arms on the ground."

"The teeth of the earth dragon are very sharp. Brother Leopard, please stay here and I will make you some earth dragon teeth knives." , this one is very small, your partner and children can use it."

"Yes."

"The meat of the earth dragon beast can be ignited and can be burned for a long time."

The meat of the earth dragon beast is fatter and less lean. Under normal circumstances, tiger people do not eat them at ordinary times, and they only hunt them in winter.

The orcs and sub-orcs were all gathering under the tribal tree to barbecue and talk. They surrounded the leopard-man orc brothers and asked some questions about white salt - everyone was just curious, not specifically inquiring about anything.

Until an elderly sub-orc man came over and asked, "Did the leopard man bring salt?"

"Ama Dan, the leopard man really brought salt. Don't stop eating salt in the future. You can eat leopard man." The salt that was given is not the salt of the feathered people."

Hawa, the leader of the tiger people, told the two of them at this time: "She is the grandmother of the broken-leg orc Dahn at the feathered people market. After we came back, she never ate it again. Take it with a grain of salt."

Although Huo Xia and Daya didn't go to the market, they had heard about this.

"Yingman went too far." The two couldn't help but say.

Upon hearing this, the tiger men nodded and followed the leopard man brothers as if they were brothers. Dan's mother also looked at the two of them gratefully with red eyes.

"After the salt team in our tribe came back, we found out that we also have salt, but it's not salt, it's salt mud. There is a sub-orc named Zhuo Yan in our tribe. He is very smart. He finds the salt and boils it to dry it. "It took a long time to dry out the salt from the mud."

"Our clan leader said: From now on, the four tribes of the grassland will not have to be forced to exchange salt by the Ying people."

The originally bustling tiger tribe square was now quiet and the wind could be heard. Sobbing slightly, Da En's mother covered her face and cried. Her son, if the Eagle Man hadn't been too bullying, wouldn't have fought, and his legs were broken.

The eyes of Hawa, the leader of the tiger people, were slightly red, but they soon became sharp and said: "We tiger people will remember the friendship between the leopard people, thank you."

After that, they ate meat, and Huo Xia Daya slept all night. When they set out the next day, the two of them carried more than half of the rattan basket of salt. When they returned, it was originally empty. Now the tiger man gave them the teeth of the earth dragon beast, which filled half of the basket.

"It's too late to grind it. You can go back and grind it yourself."

There are also frozen fruits sent by Da En's grandma. They are very hard to chew. Da En's grandma said: "Put them in the snow to freeze, and they will become soft when you eat them again." "Yes."

Anyway, he came back carrying a basket of things.

The Khajiit orcs personally escorted the two people out of the territory. After seeing that they left safely, they returned to the tribe. The Khajiit leader Hawa stood in the tribal square, looked at all the tribesmen, and said loudly: "Next year, I will lead the team before the Feathered Market. Let's go to the Leopard People first."

"It's time to settle our feud with the Eagle People next year,"

there were loud voices in the square.

Originally, Dan, who had broken his leg, was depressed and had never eaten salt since he came back. When he thought that the tiger people would have to ask the eagle people to exchange salt with them next year, he wanted to die and did not take good care of his injuries. A human-orc whose legs were broken by an eagle-man.

This hatred and humiliation gnawed at the young orc's pride.

Now, Dan wants to take good care of his injuries. Next year, he will also go to the Feathered Market and thank the Leopard Tribe.

Hawa has a brain. If the leopard people don't have much salt, they won't tell them about the tiger people before the snow season.

The leopard people will not be like the eagle people.

This is the goodwill and harmony emanating from the leader of the Leopard People. He led his tribe there in person, expressing his acceptance of the kindness and his willingness to reciprocate the kindness and gratitude.

-Leopard

Man Tribe.

The first snow came quickly, with scattered snowflakes falling in the middle of the night. Zhuo Yan didn't feel the slightest chill in the cave. He nestled in A Yin's arms - he said he had grown taller, but A Yin had also grown, so this winter, A Yin could still surround him tightly. .

It's warm and soft, like sleeping in cotton.

Zhuo Yan woke up and opened the door. There was a thin layer of white snow on the ground outside, and the river was still roaring. The snow had not fallen. A Yin followed his brother with a bucket in his mouth. One person and one leopard went to the river to fetch water and exercise. Body.

Ake and Ah Meng came back this morning.

"Good morning, Ah Yin, I'm playing with your brother by the river."

"Ouch~" Good morning, I'm not playing, I'm working. Ah Yin said.

Ake ran to the river and said: "We went to the werewolf tribe this time and met a very handsome werewolf with blue eyes like you -" Ah Meng kept beating Ake next to him, but A Yin couldn't Transform, what are you talking about?

"Oh, let's go first. You can play." Ake reacted and felt a little embarrassed. He hurriedly ran away, but after taking a few steps, he turned back and took out a frozen grass rat from the rattan basket and handed it to him. To Ah Yin.

"Daya said you like to eat this, so I'll give it to you Ah Yin."

Ah Yin tilted his head and whined. He didn't like it.

But Ake and Ah Meng have already run away. After traveling for such a long time, after explaining the situation to the clan leader, they are going back to the cave for the winter. They have prepared a lot of bacon, potatoes and taro this year, so they can have a good rest.

When Zhuo Yan saw Ah Yin yelling, he guessed that Da Ya was teasing Ah Yin again, but he still picked up the stiff grass rat - it was as big as a rabbit, referring to modern rabbits, and today's rabbits are even bigger.

Grass rats are mice on the grassland. They eat grass seeds and some grass rhizome bugs.

"We, Ah Yin, don't like to eat. This is for the family's tooth pigs." Zhuo Yan packed it up by the river and didn't want to waste it.

Ah Yin whined very clingily and relaxed this time. He was not as anxious as before and rubbed his head against his brother. Zhuo Yan touched A Yin's head to comfort him.

Ah Yin must have been young at that time, and no one taught Ah Yin hunting skills. Ah Yin was hungry and could only catch these to satisfy his hunger.

The grass rat had its skin removed, and Zhuo Yan didn't want the fur, so he buried it in the soil. After finishing cleaning up and washing his hands, Ah Yin fetched water. Zhuo Yan said, "Let's go back."

Ah Yin ran ahead with a bucket in his mouth. He often fetched water, so he could run without spilling the water in the bucket. . Zhuo Yan was carrying a rattan basket on his back, which contained washed potatoes and taro, and he was carrying a peeled grass rat in one hand.

I went back and passed the animal cave. Now the cave is two meters high and much spacious. It is divided into two parts. The chicken and rabbit use a corner of the fence, and the tooth pig uses a corner - the tooth pig eats meat. Zhuo Yan asks A Yin to come to the cave from time to time to keep an eye on him and scare him. Yazhu, don't let Yazhu eat his chicken and rabbit.

"Yazhu." Zhuo Yan shouted at the entrance of the cave, and Yazhu came out with his head arched. Zhuo Yan threw the grass rat over, and Yazhu caught it in one gulp. His teeth opened and closed, making a crunching sound, and he swallowed the grass rat in his stomach in twos and twos.

Zhuo Yan went back to the hole first, took some hay and fed it to the rabbits. Then he drove the chickens out and let the chickens find their own food. As for the chickens, he cooked the potatoes, mashed them and added some meat. Chicken feed.

But he definitely can't stay like this all winter. There are a lot of chickens at home. There are eleven now. He wants to kill the chickens. He just wants to keep two or three chicks.

...Forget it and wait.

Zhuo Yan called A Yin into the cave. The cave door was half open, and there was a large stone piled next to it. A new small stove was built in the living room of the cave, which was just the right size to hold a clay pot. On one side of the mountain wall near the entrance of the cave are neatly piled firewood, with charcoal piled next to it. On the other side is the place where bacon is stored. It is in a rectangular wooden box, which is close to the entrance of the cave and is cool. A large package is wrapped in a straw mat and stacked in the box.

Along the side of the firewood is furniture. There are two rows of wooden shelves on the cave wall. The position is not high, so you can reach it with your hands. There are neatly folded leathers on them. There are some rattan boxes at the bottom, which hold tools, such as bone knives and stone knives. class. There are rattan baskets at the bottom. He has two rattan baskets at home, and the old one holds chestnuts and walnuts.

There were still hooks next to the shelves, but they were now empty.

There is an old place in the cave recessed with potatoes and Dudu fruits piled inside. Behind the stove in the living room are two tables, a long low table with a small earthenware stove, bowls and chopsticks, water glasses and salt shakers. The other one is a taller, round table - the root of the large piece of wood is cross-sectioned and the root is trimmed flat, so it can be used directly as a table.

Living room and kitchen integrated. The opposite side is concave, avoiding the wind at the entrance of the cave. It is still the same layout as before. The stone bed is located. Zhuo Yan spread a straw mat under the stone bed and spread a large leather on it. The half bear skin harvested last year was used this year. .

It's quite warm when covered.

Ah Yin poured the water in the bucket into the stone pot, held the bucket in his mouth and ran to fetch water again.

"Don't run too far. Come back after the fight."

He was answered by Ah Yin's vague whine. His Ayin is really hardworking.

Zhuo Yan started cooking. He poured some water into a clay pot and put it on the stove. He threw the washed potatoes, taro and hob pieces in and cooked them first. After they boiled, he took two kilograms of washed bacon and cut it into pieces. Throw it into thick slices without adding salt.

Ah Yin had already returned with a second bucket of water and poured it into the stone pot as usual. The stone pot was almost full. Zhuo Yan said he would take a rest, but the cave door was not fully closed. It was not snowing at this time, the weather outside was gloomy, and the light in the cave was not very good.

Moreover, firewood for cooking is very smoky, so it is good to run away from the smoke.

Ah Yin ran to his brother's side, facing the entrance of the cave, and squatted there to protect his brother from the wind.

After a while, bubbles bubbled up in the pot. Zhuo Yan stirred it with a spoon, and finally sprinkled some minced green onion and garlic. Except for the lack of some vegetables, everything else was perfect. When spring comes next year, I must plant bamboo rice so that I can eat winter bamboo shoots. ——There will be such a day.

"A Yin is ready to eat." Zhuo Yan took out the food in a bowl and put it on the table. It was still hot at this moment. A Yin still circled around his brother. He waited for Zhuo Yan to sit down before A Yin sat down.

"Let's eat."

Fool learned how to cook it in one pot. Although it doesn't look very good, it tastes really good. The food here is delicious, and the meat is outstanding. The soft noodles stewed with potatoes and taro are full of the aroma of bacon. The bacon is not greasy at all. When mixed with the soup, it is really salty and fragrant. There is also wild garlic. Spicy.

Zhuo Yan ate a big bowl, and his head broke out into a thin layer of sweat. It felt really good. Ah Yin's bowl of rice was specially cooked by Zhuo Yan. It was not a deep bowl, but had an open mouth, somewhat like a large deep plate, which made it easier for Ah Yin to eat.

A large pot of broth is enough for two people to eat for a day.

After eating and washing the dishes, it started to snow again outside. Zhuo Yan drove the chickens back to the cave and put a layer of hay outside the cave entrance to prevent wind and cold. Now he could close the door and shrink back onto the stone bed.

"It's so boring." Zhuo Yan lay on the stone bed and hugged Ah Yin, "I have been working for a long time, and I feel like I have nothing to do when I have some free time."

Ah Yin went to lick his brother so that he could play with him. Zhuo Yan turned over and leaned against A Yin, with his legs on the mountain wall. He turned his head and said, "What should we do?"

"Ouch?" What are you talking about, brother?

Zhuo Yan thought for a moment. Playing backgammon was boring and there was nothing to do. "Forget it, sleep."

Who knew that A Yin was very excited. As soon as Zhuo Yan adjusted his posture and lay down, A Yin raised his paws and started massaging him. Zhuo Yan:? ? ? It's sleep, Ah Yin, massage is not a game! But it was so comfortable~

Zhuo Yan didn't object, he just hummed, and then fell asleep.

After another two days of this kind of life, the snow began to get heavier. Qiao and Xiaoxian came for a visit. Of course, Ada and Atou were also in the cave, and they wanted to see off their partner/brother.

"Aman's beast father went to the tiger tribe and hasn't come back yet." Qiao said.

Zhuo Yan said: "It should be soon. Two days ago, I met Ak Ameng who came back from the werewolf tribe." He added: "Actually, the first half of the snow season is still very safe."

Both of them nodded. , the few people had nothing else to do in the cave, chatting and chatting were very interesting, and Zhuo Yan didn't say he was bored. In the evening of the next day, Huo Xia and Daya finally returned to the tribe. They went straight to Zhuo Yan's cave and called out several times.

Ah Yin ran out and Zhuo Yan followed.

Huo Xia Daya was covered in snow, carrying a rattan basket on his back. Huo Xia took out something. Daya said: "The earth dragon beast hunted by the tiger tribe. These teeth are used as bone knives. You can sharpen them slowly."

"There are also jelly fruits, Huo Xia ." The human race said it would be delicious if buried in the snow and then taken out."

Zhuo Yan thanked him and asked, "Doesn't this need to be divided into tribes?" Daya laughed and said: "We ran so far, this is a gift from the tiger tribe to us. We don't need to divide it into tribes. You can just take it."

After saying that Daya and Huo Xia were leaving, before leaving, Daya patted Ah Yin on the head. Ah Yin bared his teeth and howled, Daya said: "Do all the beast-falling people know that you love eating grass rats? Hahahahaha. "

People are running away.

Ah Yin was still yelling in anger. Zhuo Yan couldn't understand, but he felt that Ah Yin was scolding Daya for talking nonsense. Zhuo Yan touched Ah Yin's ears, and Ah Yin instantly became a good boy.

They got a handful of earth dragon teeth - Zhuo Yan counted eleven. These teeth were as long as his palm, not wide but rather thin. The widest one was one finger wide, the smallest one was narrow and thin, and one end was very pointed. You can imagine how big that earth dragon beast is. If it is bitten by this tooth, its arm will be gone.

Zhuo Yan complained that he was bored before, but now he has something to do - grinding teeth. After just grinding it a few times, his eyes lit up, "Ah Yin, I know, we can use this as a needle!"

Of course it's not a modern, very thin needle.

Zhuo Yan took the thinnest one and looked at it. The tip of the tooth was really sharp and could be sharpened again. Then the root was thicker and a hole could be drilled. This should be enough for sewing leather. He had a lot of scraps of leather at home. You can sew a carpet, door curtain, etc.

Just do it.

In the next few days, Zhuo Yan was at home grinding teeth with A Yin. The first blizzard also followed, and Zhuo Yan felt his body cool down. When he opened the door, he saw that the snow outside was as high as his calf. He held the snow shoveling tool in his hand and started working. He had barbecue for lunch. .

When she went to bed that night, Ah Yin's hind legs kept twitching and she gritted her teeth without making a sound, but Zhuo Yan still noticed her. In the darkness, he saw A Yin's face was in pain, and Zhuo Yan was afraid, "What's wrong? Does it hurt somewhere?"

A Yin whimpered softly.

Zhuo Yan examined Ah Yin and when he touched his leg, Ah Yin twitched.

"Legs, do your legs hurt?" Zhuo Yan hurriedly got off the stone bed and lit a firewood. He checked carefully under the light and found that there was no external injury. "Did you pinch it while clearing snow this afternoon?"

A Yin rubbed his head against his brother, trying to say that it was okay. .

Zhuo Yan saw that Ah Yin was in pain, "Are you still cold? Last year, you didn't cover yourself with a quilt. Now it's snowing, and Lao Han's legs are broken -" He wrapped Ah Yin in the bearskin.

"I'm going to boil some hot water and give you a hot compress."

Zhuo Yan didn't bother to put on a waistcoat and wrapped himself in a leather skirt before heating the hot water. When it was done, the scalding hot water soaked his leather and Zhuo Yan twisted it with his hands. , the palms of her hands were all red, and she covered Ah Yin's hind legs with leather.

"Is it hot or not?"

Ah Yin whined, but he didn't want to burn his brother.

Zhuo Yan took a closer look at Ah Yin's expression. He seemed to be better than before. It seemed to be working. He couldn't help but cursed himself. Last year, he should have forced Ah Yin to wear leather. Who knew that Ah Yin would also have rheumatism and cold legs? .

But that's not right. They sub-orcs wear small leather skirts all year round. Last year, he was breaking ice by the river to catch fish in the winter. This year, he didn't feel any pain in his legs. Could it be that Ah Yin was weak?

When Ah Yin was still a cub, his beast father ignored him and threw him out to fend for himself, causing him to suffer more than he did.

Anyway, that night, Zhuo Yan gave A Yin a hot compress on his limbs. Before going to bed, he even took two skins. The bearskin covered A Yin tightly, and Zhuo Yan slept on the other one. leather.

Ah Yin was wrapped up by his brother so that only his furry head was exposed. His blue eyes were full of displeasure. He wanted to sleep in the same bed with his brother.

"Sleep well, children must be obedient."

Furry Head could only whine in aggrieved tone, I know brother, but I am not a child anymore.

Zhuo Yan thought, his legs hurt - he didn't know if Daya's brachypod wing powder was still there. Ada's herbal medicine was used to treat trauma and stop bleeding, and the wing powder was used to treat bones. He would go to Daya Cave tomorrow and ask. .

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw A Yin being wrapped up pitifully into a rice dumpling, with only her furry head showing, and her blue eyes looking at him with wet and clear eyes. Zhuo Yan suddenly softened his heart. He leaned over and kissed A Yin between his eyebrows and the hair on his mouth, and said, "Be good, if it hurts again, tell me. Don't hold it back."

"Ouch~" A Yin said in Xiongpizi wagging its tail.

Early the next morning, the snow continued to snow outside. When Zhuo Yan thought about Ah Yin's leg throbbing in pain last night, he couldn't care less. He took an old leather and put it on his body. Ah Yin ran to the cave entrance to carry his brother. Zhuo Yan He hesitated for a moment -

Ah Yin's legs hurt and the snow was thick. Don't let Lao Han's legs make things worse.

But it was up to him to get out of Daya Cave - especially now that the snow was deep and dangerous. Zhuo Yan gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, let's go early and come back early, and I'll give you a hot compress when we come back."

The two of them braved the wind and snow to get to Daya Cave. Fortunately, A Yin came with them. It snowed heavily, and every household in the entire tribe's cave entrance It's almost the same. If Zhuo Yan is alone, he will have to look for it.

"Ouch~" Ah Yin called Daya under the cave.

After a while, the door to the cave opened, and Big Ya showed his head, "Come up." He was too lazy to go down.

Ah Yin ran quickly with her brother on her back. Zhuo Yan saw Cong Lu and hurriedly explained his purpose. When Cong Lu heard this, he said, "Is Ah Yin's leg injured? Let Daya show it to him." "Okay." Zhuo Yan entered the cave this time, only at the entrance of the cave. "A Yin, let Daya

show it to you."

I touched it and found no wounds.

"There's only a little dregs left in the wing powder." Cong Lu brought the dry skin and there was only a little bit of wing powder left. "You can take it all."

Zhuo Yan took it and thanked him, "Want it with some water?"

"Just give it. He licked it," Da Ya said.

Zhuo Yan and A Yin stopped disturbing him. He was afraid that A Yin's legs would hurt again at night if he stayed out for a long time. So he folded the dried leather carefully. When he got home, Zhuo Yan took out the leather and opened it for Ah Yin to lick. Then he felt stupid.

This amount was eaten in Dayazong Green Cave just now, why should I bring it back?

He was so anxious just now that he didn't even think about this. After Ah Yin finished licking it, he folded the leather and put it away, waiting for the spring to return it to Daya.

In the big tooth cavity.

Cong Lu was still a little worried, "What do you think happened to Ah Yin? His leg suddenly hurt, and Zhuo Yan was worried. Did the short-legged beast go to other places during this snow season? It's not easy to catch either."

Big Ya said nothing. What are you thinking.

Cong Lu tried several methods but none seemed to work. He didn't hear a reply from his partner, so he looked over and said, "What's wrong? Did you think of anything?"

"My legs also hurt when I transformed for the second time. "After Da Ya said this, his brows furrowed even more, "But that boy A Yin is a beast now, no, no, he shouldn't be."

Cong Lu understood, and then became confused.

"What do you mean, Ah Yin turned into a human form? If he turned into a human form, wouldn't he be a sub-orc?"

The two looked at each other and frowned. Cong Lu recalled that when he first transformed from a leopard into a human, he forgot whether his legs hurt.

When it first transformed, the leopard cub was still very young and couldn't even remember whether its legs hurt. He did not transform a second time, and he has always been in human form since then, that is, a sub-orc.

"Did your legs hurt when you were in human form and transformed into leopard form for the second time?"

Da Ya nodded, but Ah Yin didn't transform into human form into leopard form, even if he really transformed -

"I said that you should be a good partner, Ah Yin The boy insists on calling Zhuo Yan brother, brother. If he really transforms, they are all sub-orcs. Let's see what the boy will do. It's not as good as now. "

At least Ah Yin can still hunt now.

When Cong Lu thought of this possibility, he became even more worried about Zhuo Yan, but: "What if Ah Yin can transform into a beast-"

"How old is he?"

Yes, it was too late for Ah Yin to transform into a human form for the first time. , if he transformed into a beast for the second time, how old would Zhuo Yan be, and how would Zhuo Yan live in the future?

After much deliberation, Daya finally waved his hand and thought no more. Maybe Ah Yin just had leg pain and it was not the reason for his transformation.

In the cave.

Zhuo Yan boiled hot water again, gave Ah Yin a hot compress, and then used a bone knife to kill the family's rooster. This rooster cackled in the morning and was very annoying. .

When killing the chicken, Zhuo Yan found many "crimes" for the rooster, so he became ruthless.

He boiled a pot of hot water, blanched the chicken feathers, and took the pot to the river to clean it. Ah Yin was not allowed to follow him, and he stayed on the stone bed and was not allowed to get down. It was the first time Ah Yin was attacked by his brother, and he was not angry - he would never be angry with his brother. He was just like a puppy, with his head on the stone bed, staring eagerly at the entrance of the cave, unable to see yet, just sniffing his nose. He could smell his brother.

All this reminded him of the last snow season, when his brother was also busy and he could only watch from the stone bed. Thinking of this, Ah Yin's blue eyes were full of annoyance and self-blame. Originally, he could help his brother a lot during this snow season, but now he is asking his brother to be busy again.

Legs, legs, you are so disobedient, why do they hurt? Ah Yin lowered his head and thought.

Chapter 57

Zhuo Yan made a pot of chicken soup. It was very rich. He only added a little salt and chopped green onion. The whole pot of chicken soup exuded a light golden color. He still used half a chicken - the rooster was very big, at least there was Thirty or forty pounds.

Zhuo Yan dropped the remaining half on the canopy support of the stove outside and planned to eat it tomorrow.

Put all the chicken offal into another large bowl and stir-fry it at night. Add more garlic to remove the smell.

"A Yin." Zhuo Yan didn't ask whether A Yin's leg still hurt. He went over and touched it, paying close attention to A Yin's expression. A Yin gave him a smile. It looked like it was still hurting but not that much.

Zhuo Yan felt a little relieved, as long as it slowed down.

"Let's eat first. After eating, I'll boil hot water for you and apply it on you."

One person and one leopard started to eat. Zhuo Yan added two more firewood to the small stove in the cave, put the pot aside, and the two of them ate on the table next to them. , there is light and you can keep warm.

The chicken soup is rich in flavor and the meat is stewed off the bones.

"Eat more meat and drink more soup. Be sure to eat enough. There will be enough food for this year." Zhuo Yan gave A Yin another chicken drumstick.

Ah Yin whined and refused to eat, but his brother ate, and he had everything.

Zhuo Yan was funny and said, "If you are sick and uncomfortable now, you can eat one more chicken. When you get better, we can each eat one. It will be fine. We still have plenty of chickens at home."

Ah Yin whined. Zhuo Yan took advantage of the skill directly. He reached out and touched A Yin's head, "Do you listen to my brother?"

"Ouch~" Listen. Ah Yin lowered his head and started eating.

Zhuo Yan: Hehe.

In fact, he is not very hungry. Now he is not like before, working all day long and eating more when he is hungry. Now he cooks every day - most of the time he cooks one pot and eats the leftovers in the evening. One hot.

Then it's time to sleep, grinding the teeth of the earth dragon beast, until it gets boring and stops grinding.

In short, the consumption is small and I am actually not too hungry. After finishing the meal, Zhuo Yan boiled snow water in a small clay pot and washed the dishes and spoons. Then he boiled a pot of snow water again and gave Ah Yin a hot compress on his leg bones. After finishing everything, the two of them went to sleep on the stone bed. Zhuo Yan continued to wrap Ah Yin up. Zongzi.

"I'm sleepy, take a nap." I sleep in the afternoon in winter.

Ah Yin whined softly, and waited for his brother to fall asleep. He moved carefully and moved close to his brother, sticking out his tongue and giving him a small lick. He wanted to sleep with his brother.

That night it was fried chicken offal with potatoes as the main dish. Zhuo Yan set aside some mashed potatoes and left it with chicken offal - it would be too crazy to feed the chickens this.

"Ah Yin, don't move. I'll go out and see how the chickens are doing in the cave."

Zhuo Yan took the food to the next cave. The original 'haystack door' was covered by the wind and snow. As soon as he picked it, there was a rustling inside. There was a rustling sound, and when he opened it, he saw that the chickens and rabbits were trembling in the corner, especially the chickens.

After all, he killed the rooster at the entrance of the cave with a knife at noon.

"...I can't help it. Who asked me to kill fish in RT-Mart for ten years?" Zhuo Yan thought to himself, telling himself that he was ruthless and ruthless. His family's A Yin was the first. He was reluctant to kill chickens before. After all, he had raised them for almost a year. .

As a result, it was very fast and accurate at noon.

"Eat, eat, I won't spare your lives today. Let's talk another day." Zhuo Yan poured the mashed potatoes into the wooden trough, prepared hay for the rabbit, and prepared pig grass for the tooth pig next door.

After doing all this, close the gate and fence, and spread the haystacks.

The animals in this cave don't seem to survive the winter. Zhuo Yan couldn't help but think deeply about his great breeding business. Will he raise it every spring and eat it during the snow season? It's not impossible, but what if we expand the scale? Zhuo Yan was made to laugh by his large-scale imagination.

I really plan to open a breeding farm among primitive tribes.

To be honest, he had thought about it, just like raising a lot of cattle and sheep on the prairie, but it was too early to think about this now, and how could the tribal orcs listen to his arrangements and let the sheep be herded, and they must also abide by their duties and not secretly eat the sheep—— In fact, if one day there are too many cattle and sheep to eat, then it is really a breeding farm.

After Zhuo Yan finished feeding the animals, he thought for a moment and took back the half chicken left at noon. It was already as cold as a popsicle. Ah Yin's eyes gleamed when he saw him. Zhuo Yan put the chicken next to the stove, went to bed and played under the quilt with Ah Yin, "Get down, brother will give you a massage."

Ah Yin shook the puppy Tails, happy to climb down.

Zhuo Yan started to show off his skills, stroking his hair. Ah Yin purred unconsciously and was a little shy. Zhuo Yan said, "Don't be shy. What's the big deal? When you massaged me, I also hummed."

Ah Yin whined, and his brother was so cute when he hummed.

One person and one leopard chatted for a while, then got down on the stone bed to eat. The staple food was boiled potatoes with chicken offal. The temperature was just right in the mouth. Zhuo Yan also grilled some chicken for A Yin, and A Yin ate all the chicken bones. , like eating crispy rice, crunchy and crispy.

After eating, cleaning up, heating water and washing up, Zhuo Yan went to clear the snow at the entrance of the cave. He was a little worried about the bubble leaf tree next to the crooked neck tree at home, hoping it would still be there next year.

At night, Zhuo Yan and A Yin shared a quilt, and the thick bearskin one was given to A Yin. As a result, it snowed heavily in the middle of the night, and the firewood in the cave had already been extinguished. Zhuo Yan was a little cold, shivering unconsciously under the leather, and he didn't want to get up. , there is no warmth in the bed, and my feet are cold.

Ah Yin opened his blue eyes and looked at his brother. His legs still hurt. Not only did his legs hurt, but his front paws also hurt. The bones in his whole body hurt so much. Ah Yin endured the pain and didn't want to wake his brother up. He was busy today. It's been a day.

He tried hard to stretch out his paws and cover his brother with the leather on his body. After thinking about it, he went to get into his brother's bed again, so that his brother wouldn't be angry if he found out - he was also covered and very warm.

So...

Zhuo Yan dreamed of smashing the ice on the river to fish first. It was very cold and he was shivering, but the ice was about to break open and the fish were about to come out. He didn't want to waste all his efforts, so he stayed at the hole in the ice - and waited and waited. wait.

As a result, the fish didn't arrive. Instead, he was eating hot pot again, which was spicy. He was sweating profusely and the tip of his nose was sweating due to the heat. Sitting on the table opposite was A Yin. Zhuo Yan was very used to instructing A Yin to turn on the air conditioner. Who I know that Ah Yin is whining, saying it's not hot and won't turn on.

Zhuo Yan: ...

This kid is disobedient! Your brother is almost dehydrated and turned into a paper man!

If you don't want to open it, I'll open it myself. When he opened his eyes, what he saw was a big furry face. A Yin was grinding his teeth and making a very small voice. His silver-white hair was a little sweaty. Zhuo Yan stretched out his hand and touched it. , the whole person was anxious.

Ah Yin, Ah Yin has a fever?

No, leopards can still have fever?

Zhuo Yan quickly stood up and touched Ah Yin all over his body. If it had been before, Ah Yin would have opened his eyes the moment he woke up, but now Ah Yin still has his eyes closed, and his teeth are making slight collisions, like He endured the pain with all his strength.

"Ah Yin? Ah Yin?" Zhuo Yan's heart sank a little and he couldn't scream.

He picked up a small leather skirt and wrapped it around him, and quickly lit a fire to boil water. He didn't know whether it was physical cooling, or covering the body to sweat - physical cooling, Ah Yin's hair was all wet from burning.

Zhuo Yan removed the leather from the stone bed, leaving only the straw mat. When the temperature in the cave dropped, he brought the leather back in with snow and applied it to Ah Yin's forehead. Ah Yin let out a painful murmur and opened his eyes after a while. , but the eyes are red.

Zhuo Yan was shocked, don't let Ah Yin burn him into a fool or blind him.

That night, Zhuo Yan didn't sleep and kept changing the cold skin applied on A Yin's forehead. During the day, the snow stopped outside the cave, and the snow reflected light, which illuminated the cave a little brightly. Zhuo Yan's eyes were drowsy after not sleeping all night. When he opened his eyes, A Yin's face was much calmer and less painful.

"A Yin?" Zhuo Yan called softly.

Ah Yin whined and weakly opened his eyes, revealing a pair of blue eyes.

Zhuo Yan breathed a sigh of relief and touched baby A Yin's forehead. He found that it was no longer hot or hot. It was fine. So Zhuo Yan didn't care about sleeping, and went to kill the chicken again with a knife - half of the chicken yesterday was enough to eat in the afternoon.

Ah Yin liked to eat it so much that there were no bones left.

There was a sound of chicken clucking in the next hole, but it soon became quiet. Zhuo Yan: Ruthless.

It was busy again, boiling water, plucking the feathers and removing the internal organs. As usual, the whole chicken was divided into two parts, half stewed, half roasted, and the giblets were reserved for frying tomorrow.

Wait for the chicken soup to slurp up and become fragrant.

"Ouch~" Ah Yin cried out.

Zhuo Yan had been busy all morning and couldn't help but feel happy when he heard the screams, because the screams were much more powerful and not as painful as last night.

"Ah Yin wakes up? Let me touch him."

Ah Yin spread himself out and let his brother touch him casually. Zhuo Yan looked funny and stretched out his hand to touch the whole thing. It was not as hot as at night. "It's just right. Come down for dinner and drink soup. You can bake it in front of the stove. Your hair was sweaty last night. Let it fluff up a little. Don't catch a cold.

" The child is really worried.

Ah Yin whined and was very clingy. She pressed her head against her brother's hand and stretched out her tongue to lick him. Brother, thank you for your hard work.

One person and one leopard drank chicken soup again today, but today Ah Yin did not eat chicken legs. He ate other things. He showed the chicken breasts that his brother did not like to eat, meaning that he would eat this and his brother would eat the chicken legs.

Zhuo Yan was so moved that he burst into tears.

Then I ate two chicken legs, they were delicious, the meat was slippery and tender.

After dinner, he went to take a nap and roasted the remaining chicken in the evening. Ah Yin was fine that day, with no fever or bone pain. Zhuo Yan breathed a sigh of relief. However, at night, Ah Yin felt pain and fever again. .

Zhuo Yan:! ! !

He almost shouted at the entrance of the cave to Master Tianshen: If you want to take my life, take my life, don't take away my A Yin! ! ! (bushi).

It's best not to take anyone away. The good life of these two brothers has just begun. Why is it so difficult? Although Zhuo Yan complained, he was really worried and had to work hard all night. During the day, Ah Yin was much better, and Zhuo Yan took the knife to kill the chicken again.

Such a cycle goes on, not to mention that the chickens in the small hole next door are now scared when they see Zhuo Yan, the rabbits and tooth pigs also howl and crawl into the holes as soon as they see him, eating whatever is given to them.

Zhuo Yan: A ruthless killer.

Zhuo Yan didn't dare to sleep that night and kept looking at Ah Yin. However, Ah Yin didn't have a fever that night and was still in good spirits. He kept rubbing him and covering him with the leather in his mouth. Zhuo Yan actually stayed up for two or three days. I was really sleepy and couldn't stand it anymore. Seeing that Ah Yin was fine today, I made the bed again and fell asleep doubtfully.

"If you feel uncomfortable, tell me to get up, Ah Yin."

"Did you hear me?"

"Don't hold back, listen to your brother."

"Be good."

After Zhuo Yan frightened the child, he held Ah Yin's face and kissed it. , it was hairy again, but I was used to it, A Yin whined, as if to give him a guarantee, so Zhuo Yan fell asleep in a daze, half asleep and half awake, he could still feel the rustling of A Yin next to him. There was a rustle on his body, and he must have been covering him with a piece of leather.

He wanted to say don't catch a cold, so what he said was: Hey, hey, hey.

Ah Yin understood, and stuffed her huge self into the leather, close to her brother. The brother was afraid of the cold. In winter, the brother said that holding him was the warmest. Today, his bones no longer hurt, and he didn't need to get up at night.

Sleep, sleep.

That night, everyone slept well. Zhuo Yan simply looked like he had fallen asleep. It was no exaggeration. He hadn't slept all the way in the past few days and had endless worries. He didn't have any dreams that night, and he slept soundly and soundly.

Ah Yin had a dream. In the dream, he came to a familiar place. There was a river and a big tree. There were leopards on and under the tree. The leopards were playing and everyone looked at him. Ah Yin remembered that he had been here last winter when he fell in the grass.

But he doesn't want to come now. He has a brother and he doesn't want to stay here.

[Isn't it nice here? 】

【No, no, no, no, no, no, no, there is no brother here. ]

[Your brother? You look like you're almost an adult, are you still pestering your brother? Ah Yin felt that he could not understand what the leopard was saying .

Regardless of whether he was an adult or not, he loved his brother the most. He wanted to hang around him, lick him, and stay with him forever.

[I want to go back, I want my brother. ]

[Are you thirsty? Go and take a sip of water from the river. 】

【I'm not thirsty. 】A Yin said that he was attracted by the river. The sparkling waves in the river were like stars falling in. If his brother saw it, he would say it was very beautiful.

He came closer and stretched his neck to lick the water. The slow reflection in the river startled A Yin.

There was a figure inside -

Ah Yin was so frightened that he fell in. The river water tightly wrapped him. He stretched out his paws to climb up and asked for help from the leopards by the river, but the leopards ignored him and licked their paws. Play, slowly the river water reaches your head.

"Cough, cough, cough -" Ah Yin coughed and woke up. The discomfort in his dream was still bothering him. He stretched out his hand to touch his neck. The water had just been poured in. He couldn't even gulp it down. He drank a lot of water -

Eh. ?

In the dark night, Ah Yin's blue eyes slowly lowered, and a pair of non-furry hands stretched out in front of his eyes. His hands were hairless. Ah Yin moved, and his whole body was smooth and hairless.

He reached out and touched his head again, and found that it was hairy! Ah Yin breathed a sigh of relief and soon became nervous. His ears were gone. No, he seemed to have turned into a human.

Ah Yin stretched out his arms and looked at his hands, and then quietly stretched out his legs from the leather. They were really human legs. "Brother--"

This voice startled him, and he screamed it many times in his heart. , I heard my brother call himself: brother.

Ah Yin covered her mouth. She couldn't disturb her brother while he was sleeping.

He looked at it for a long time and felt a little cold. His brother asked him to cover it with leather.

So Ah Yin got into the bed again and pressed against his brother. His legs were entangled with his brother's legs in the bed. After turning into a human, he had no hair and was a little slippery. He couldn't help but rub it again, blue He looked at his brother with bright eyes.

He wants to wait for his brother to wake up and tell him that he has become a human.

Ah Yin hugged her brother, leaned over and gently licked her brother.

Brother is fragrant.

Zhuo Yan had a somewhat colorful dream. He couldn't remember the content of the dream. Anyway, it seemed to be wrapped in silk satin. Because of the close fit, it was a bit slippery and soft, so it was inevitable that it was a bit like that.

...Later, his cheeks were wet and his mouth was soft -

Ah Yin licked him again. Zhuo Yan was so used to it that he even thought that A Yin's ability to lick him meant that A Yin was not sick last night and had recovered. So he was so confused that he didn't open his eyes and reached out to rub A Yin's head first.

"Brother, touch and touch her. I'll wake up later."

Ah Yin's hair is a bit hard today. Zhuo Yan opened his eyes in confusion, and what he saw was an unfamiliar face. He was so frightened that he immediately closed his eyes. Could it be that he didn't wake up? Still dreaming.

"Ooooooooooooo." Ah Yin turned over habitually.

Zhuo Yan couldn't close his eyes at this moment of touch in the quilt. It was such a creepy touch - a man pressed against him and rubbed against him.

Known conditions: leather quilt, no pajamas.

In other words, now the two of them -

Zhuo Yan opened his eyes instantly and fell back. The handsome guy followed him closely. Zhuo Yan shouted: "Don't come over!"

A Yin was stunned for a moment, "Ouch? "Brother, it's Ah Yin.

Zhuo Yan propped up his body, the leather on his body slipped off, and the man opposite him was naked. It was known that sub-orcs could see at night and had very good eyesight.

This man has silver hair, moans, and behaves like...

Ah Yin habitually squats on the bed.

Zhuo Yan saw the male's body - ah ah ah ah, he must still be sleeping and not yet awake. When will this dream end? !

The words sounded familiar. Zhuo Yan's scalp was now numb and he pinched himself hard. It hurt - it was not a dream.

Early in the morning, the two men stared at each other for a long time on the stone bed.

For a long time, Zhuo Yan was still confused. He looked carefully at the handsome guy in front of him. He had silver hair, blue eyes, and cold white skin. He was seventeen or eighteen years old, with deep eyebrows, three-dimensional brow bones, and a straight nose - he looked like a foreign mixed race. Looks like a handsome little guy.

"Aww, brother, aww."

The blue eyes were eager and passionate.

It seems, really, to be Ah Yin.

The door to the cave was closed. He had used a wooden stick to hold the door open last night, but no one had ever opened it.

He and Ah Yin were the only ones in the cave... The person in front of me was really Ah Yin!

Zhuo Yan tried his best to digest this fact. He covered Ah Yin's body with leather first. Ah Yin's body was also very low in fat, thin but muscular, just like that of a young man.

Ah Yin was so happy when he saw his brother covering him up - he used to wag his tail, but now he pounced on his brother. Zhuo Yan was caught off guard by the surprise attack, and was then pressed down on the stone bed by Ah Yin.

Zhuo Yan: Ahhhhhhh! ! ! !

My scalp is numb.

"Don't, don't rub it, Ah Yin, don't rub it yet." This feeling was really strange and terrifying. A current hit his scalp directly, making it feel numb and itchy. Zhuo Yan's thumb shrank.

Ah Yin obeyed and stopped, but still hugged his brother. He wanted to lick his brother.

Zhuo Yan: Wow.

"Don't lick it yet."

Ah Yin rubbed her head against her brother's neck and looked at her brother carefully, with pure happiness in her eyes. Zhuo Yan wanted to say it, but he still didn't have the heart to say it. He tried his best to think rationally. Ah Yin had become a human, and he must have been confused. He couldn't stop and hit Ah Yin one after another.

"When did it change?" Zhuo Yan said softly.

Ah Yin was excited and opened her mouth to moan. After Zhuo Yan heard this, he knew that Ah Yin was at a loss when he turned into a human form. At that time, Dayun had just turned into a human form and could not even walk. He crawled all day long and could not speak. His words were all wailing. Woo hoo hoo, then the words came out word by word.

"Is it last night?"

Ah Yin nodded and tried his best to pronounce the words "brother" as if he had learned them many times. Zhuo Yan changed at night when he heard it, then: "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"Brother, go to sleep -"

"Sleep." Zhuo Yan taught A Yin the pronunciation.

Ah Yin whined when he was anxious, but the two brothers pronounced the words accurately. Thinking of this, Zhuo Yan was very tolerant of the humanoid Ah Yin, and asked in a gentle voice: "Does the bone still hurt?"

"Ugh~" Ah Yin was anxious for a moment, stretched out with his arms spread out, and asked his brother to check.

Zhuo Yan: I don't know where to put my eyes. My eyes are panicked and I feel very secretive.

"Let me see, you cover it first." Zhuo Yan pulled the leather to cover A Yin, coughed and pinched A Yin's arm, "Does it hurt?"

A Yin shook his head, it doesn't hurt, brother.

"That's good. I've just turned into a human form. I'll just stay in bed for the next few days. Drink more soup and replenish it. After all, growing up is hurting your body." Zhuo Yan spoke incoherently and got up from the stone bed first. A Yin wanted to Following up, Zhuo Yan was the first to say: "Be obedient."

Ah Yin shrank back into bed and nodded, "Brother, what a shame."

"You're so good." Zhuo Yan touched Ah Yin's hair, which was really silver. , the hair is a bit stiffer, with a furry head, and the hair is a bit long, shoulder length - it looks like a tramp hairstyle on other people's heads.

But there's nothing sloppy about Ah Yin's head. The main thing is Ah Yin's face.

To be honest, in modern times, Zhuo Yan has been praised as a handsome boy since he was a child. He is said to be sunny, lively and sportsy. At first glance, he looks like a good young man - positive and upbeat.

But there is still a gap between a handsome young man and a handsome man.

A Yin's face - Zhuo Yan, wrapped in a small leather skirt, glanced secretly again, and then was caught by blue eyes. Zhuo Yan coughed and said seriously: "Okay A Yin, you can sleep for a while, and I'll do it." "Food."

"Ouch~" Ah Yin lay back, but still looked at her brother.

Zhuo Yan: His Ah Yin's face is really as good-looking as a male star before the global aesthetics were downgraded. It is the kind of handsome boy with a masculine look.

It's not like we've never seen orcs in human form in the tribe. None of them are as handsome as Ah Yin. They all have brown hair, brown pupils, and are leopard-shaped. Their faces are shorter, and they have thick eyebrows and big eyes. They are all handsome and handsome. Positive growth method.

Children, such as Aman's younger brother, have a cute appearance despite their naughty character. When you look at the human form, you can think of the animal shape - round ears, round face, round eyes, cute and adorable.

Zhuo Yan wrapped up his leather skirt, but his mind was still numb - he had stuffed too many things in the morning. He thought about A Yin's appearance for a while, and then thought about why A Yin suddenly turned into a human form. Anyway, it was a mess.

He wanted to cool off and clear his head.

As soon as I opened the door, snowflakes were falling outside. Zhuo Yan sneezed and heard Ah Yin squealing on the stone bed - he was so frightened that he hurried back and said: "It's okay, it's okay, I'll just put on the leather. I'll boil a pot of hot water and wash it off later."

"Ouch~" Zhuo

Yan made a pot of snow, closed the wooden door, and started to light firewood and boil water. While he was doing all this, Ah Yin obediently lay on the bed and looked at him - before, his perspective was that of Ah Yin's statue. What looked like a well-behaved puppy now looks like a handsome man with blue eyes looking intently at you.

To be honest, it was very sudden.

Zhuo Yan muttered: I'm getting used to it, it's Ah Yin, Ah Yin, Ah Yin.

It's not anyone else.

On the bed, Ah Yin heard his brother call his name many times and fell down happily.

Zhuo Yan glanced at it: ...

and silently removed his eyes, Ah Yin needs a small leather skirt.

After Zhuo Yan heated up the hot water, the two of them scrubbed and scrubbed. Zhuo Yan said, "I'll cut a piece of skin for you first. You wrap it up, and I'll help you take care of your hair."

"Ouch~" Ah Yin said. Rub brother.

How come the furry head looks like a big dog? Zhuo Yan has gotten used to it now, and his behavior is much more natural, not as stiff as in the morning.

If you have leather at home, you only need to cut out the length of a small leather skirt. If it is too long and cannot move, it should be looser. Orcs walk more stridingly and often run. Then punch holes in the waist and tie a belt, and it will be perfect.

Zhuo Yan got it done in a few moments and let A Yin wear it. Ah Yin took the leather and looked at his brother. Zhuo Yan:...

"I'll do it."

"You stand up first."

A Yin got down from the stone bed. Zhuo Yan looked up at Ah Yin, no, Ah Yin, how tall are you? ? ? So high?

He should be over 1.8 meters tall now, and Ah Yin is half a head taller than him, at least 1.9 meters tall. But the orcs in the tribe are all the same height.

Zhuo Yan taught A Yin how to wear a small leather skirt and how to tie it. Ah Yin lowered his head and studied very seriously. Zhuo Yan was a little unfocused - his eyes were falling on his A Yin's abdomen, one, two, three, four... eight, a full eight pack of abdominal muscles, arranged so beautifully.

In the past, he worked hard to eat and work, and his abdominal muscles were thin and shallow.

Ah Yin woke up and turned into a human form, with perfect muscles.

Zhuo Yan was envious for a second, then raised his head and met A Yin's eyes. Zhuo Yan coughed and said, "What about that, have you learned it?"

A Yin shook his head and said happily: "Brother, oooh, oooh, oooh, touch. "

What touch?"

Ah Yin put her brother's hand on her belly and stretched it out to let her brother touch it. Zhuo Yan: Ahhhhhh!

I'm not I didn't.

But when he saw Ah Yin's sincere gaze, as a sub-orc who knew how to be polite in social interactions, Zhuo Yan admitted that he actually wanted to touch her, but how did Ah Yin know? He just thought about it in his mind and didn't say it out loud.

Ah Yin's expression was "Brother, touch me, touch me quickly", "My belly is full, brother, touch me quickly".

So Zhuo Yan touched it, and A Yin laughed. Zhuo Yan also laughed and said, "Don't move. I want eight-pack abs. You won't have them if you hold out your belly now."

A Yin didn't understand, what is eight-pack abs? Abs.

When Zhuo Yan saw it, he became obsessed with comparison. He stood up straight and looked for a concave shape, "Look, look, look, do you think I have abdominal muscles on my belly? They are really muscles."

"Ouch~Brother~" Ah Yin also became excited. His brother was so awesome. He touched his belly with his hands.

Zhuo Yan was a little itchy, and his abdominal muscles disappeared as soon as he smiled. Then he saw that Ah Yin's eight-pack abs were neatly displayed in front of him, and he couldn't help but touch them again.

"It looks good." Zhuo Yan praised.

The two of them started to fight, and the old unfamiliarity was gone - Zhuo Yan was a little embarrassed on one side, but A Yin was still the same as before, even more clingy to his brother. Ah Yin learned to tie a belt, and learned it quickly.

The beastman is not a fool when he transforms into a human form. He is just starting to use his hands and feet and is not proficient in standing and walking. He needs to switch from the behavior of a beast to the behavior of an adult. The learning ability also depends on the intelligence of the beastman, but how to put it -

the second time he transforms from humanoid to beast form is also Three or four years have passed. During this period, it is not only the behavioral habits, but also the development of human thinking and brain, which is different from real animals.

Zhuo Yan tried hard to retrieve the transformation information of orcs and sub-orcs, but suddenly froze when he thought of something.

"Ah Yin, can you turn into an animal form again?"

"Ouch?" Ah Yin doesn't know. He is in human form now. Can't he turn into a leopard? He doesn't want it, he wants to become a leopard, he wants to be an orc, so that he can hunt and catch delicious food for his brother, and he can be his orc.

Zhuo Yan saw A Yin's anxious expression and hurriedly reassured him: "Don't worry, don't worry, it took the other orcs in the tribe three years to transform into human form for the second time. The earliest one took three years, and now you have transformed into human form for the first time." He didn't dare. Say, what if Ah Yin is a sub-orc?

It's not that the orcs are bad or anything, but A Yin's face is anxious and she wants to be an orc.

"It's okay, take your time." Zhuo Yan raised his arm and touched A Yin's hair.

Ah Yin lowered his head so that his brother could touch him more easily.

The two of them got over it. After washing up, Zhuo Yan trimmed Ah Yin's hair. The two of them sat at the entrance of the cave and took advantage of the snow light. It was very bright. Ah Yin's hair was also silver, and her eyelashes were very long, the same color as her eyebrows. They are all brown, just like when A Yin is in his beast form, he has silver hair all over his body, and there are brown leopard print circles in the sun.

...He also missed Ah Yin in his animal form.

I hope Ah Yin can transform into an animal form and be an orc.

Ah Yin walked a little shaky, just like a child learning to walk, so Zhuo Yan supported and encouraged Ah Yin - he could not let Ah Yin crawl all over the floor.

So Zhuo Yan was very busy that day, and he forgot about the embarrassment he felt when he got up in the morning. He had to cook, and teach Ah Yin how to hold a spoon and pour water. When eating, he didn't lower his head to add plates, and when carrying a bucket, he didn't hold it with his mouth, and he had to be careful. Exposed.

...

On a day of chaos, Zhuo Yan didn't kill the chickens because he didn't have time after cleaning up in the morning. He cooked bone taro soup, minced the raw taro and some bone meat and fed it to the chickens. I don't know whether it was cold or not. When it comes to him being a ruthless chicken killer, the chickens are trembling anyway.

Seeing this, Zhuo Yan became very kind and gave hay to the chickens and rabbits.

There was a heavy snowstorm outside the cave and it was extremely dark. Zhuo Yan closed the cave door, pressed a wooden stick against the middle of the door, and hung an old leather bag behind the door to protect against the wind and snow. The two of them had eaten late today, so they were not very hungry for dinner. Zhuo Yan roasted potatoes, one for each of them. .

Ah Yin was sitting on the stool, and she didn't know where to put her legs - they were too long.

As soon as Zhuo Yan lowered his head, he could see A Yin's - "A Yin, close your legs."

A Yin looked at his brother's legs, Zhuo Yan's face was a little red, because his legs were also spread apart, mainly because A Yin used to be Leopard, he really lives a carefree life. He also pays attention to his image as much as possible when he is outside, but he naturally enjoys himself at home.

"——Forget it, there's no need to close it. Whatever makes you feel comfortable." Zhuo Yan said. It's just that Ah Yin's gaze seems to be lowered. What on earth is this guy looking at! Zhuo Yan silently closed his legs.

Ah Yin followed his brother's lead and crossed his legs.

After washing and brushing your teeth, it's time to go to bed. Zhuo Yan: ...I've waited so long to get to this point, why are there no pajamas in this world!

There are just no pajamas. Why doesn't Ah Yin transform any day in autumn, spring or summer? Why is it at this moment that there is no time to prepare the stone bed? How to prepare for the snowstorm outside.

Do they really want two grown men sleeping together?

Zhuo Yan pretended to be calm and separated the sheets, one for you and one for me. Ah Yin had a handsome face, very cute and innocent, looking at him a little pitifully. Zhuo Yan didn't dare to look at each other for too long. He was afraid of being soft-hearted, so he lowered his head and murmured: "You are older now, and it's not good to sleep with your brother all the time."

"Ooooooooooo~" A Yin said anxiously. Woo.

Ah Yin is not big. Ah Yin is very young. Ah Yin wants to sleep with her brother. It is best to sleep with her brother. Ah Yin can also warm her brother's bed, massage her brother, and hold her brother.

Chapter 58:

Zhuo Yan is ruthless, Zhuo Yan is hard-hearted, and Zhuo Yan is also ruthless.

So that night, Zhuo Yan carried A Yin on his back and quickly got into his bed - he was sleeping in it. A Yin looked at his brother's back pitifully. Zhuo Yan: ...The gaze behind him seemed to be piercing him.

"Go to sleep, go to sleep, Ah Yin." Still couldn't help but say.

Ah Yin was happy, got into bed, and curled up against her brother. Even with his back turned, Zhuo Yan could still think of Ah Yin's cute appearance, so he just endured it. Anyway, they were separated by the quilt and there was no skin-to-skin contact. It didn't matter, just be next to each other.

"If you feel uncomfortable at night, you must call me." Zhuo Yan said behind his back.

Ah Yin rubbed his head against his brother and kissed him. The warm breath hit behind Zhuo Yan's ears and neck. He felt his scalp numb, as if there was an electric current. He quickly said: "Sleep, sleep, sleep!"

Anyone who doesn't sleep and talks is a dog.

Puppy Ah Yin: "Brother, wow~"

Zhuo Yan faced the wall and smiled broadly, this puppy.

A piece of firewood in the cave slowly extinguished without any sparks. The violent storm outside the cave stopped. Zhuo Yan was thinking that the ice must have become solid. It seemed that it was around this time last year that he went fishing on the ice. Ah Yin transformed. The human body also needs to be replenished. If your legs hurt in the past few days, it must be due to calcium deficiency.

It's great for making fish soup.

If the snow stops tomorrow, you can go to the river to have a look. Zhuo Yan fell asleep quickly.

Behind him, Ah Yin was still staring at his brother. He wanted to sleep with his brother, but his brother wouldn't allow him. He secretly covered his brother with the leather he was wearing to keep him warm.

Zhuo Yan slept soundly. He was still a little hot in the middle of the night and felt a hair on his hand -

wait for the hair?

Ah Yin's head is under the covers? This thought made Zhuo Yan wake up instantly. He opened the quilt and looked inside. But when he woke up, his eyes had not adapted to the darkness. It looked so dark that he couldn't see anything clearly. Then he leaned over with a furry head and screamed. Call.

Zhuo Yan:? ?

After being stunned for a moment, Zhuo Yan went from being shocked to being even more surprised and happy. He said excitedly: "Ah Yin, have you turned into a leopard?!"

That's right, the furry Ah Yin is sleeping next to him now.

Zhuo Yan held A Yin's face and carefully looked up and down to see that it was indeed a leopard. "How did you become a leopard?"

"Ooooooo~" He didn't know how he changed into a leopard even when he fell asleep.

Zhuo Yan was quite happy. He was happy for Ah Yin. He rubbed Ah Yin's head and said, "Then it must be that you transformed late. Others transformed every few years. You transformed together because of the delay." "

I Take a look." Zhuo Yan got out of bed to light firewood. Ah Yin jumped off the stone bed like a leopard and squatted in front of the stove to show his brother. Zhuo Yan checked carefully and asked, "Does it seem to have grown a lot?"

Ah Yin immediately asked. stand up.

"It's really big and taller." Zhuo Yan said.

Before, Ah Yin was not as tall as him when he stood up, reaching up to his chest, but now it reached up to his shoulders.

In just three or four days, he transformed into a human form and grew taller. No wonder his bones ached and he grinded his teeth. Zhuo Yan was heartbroken and touched Ah Yin. Ah Yin squatted down again so that his shorter brother could touch his head, which made him happy.

"Okay, let's go to bed."

Ah Yin ran quickly this time and squatted on the stone bed to look at his brother. Zhuo Yan: ...

"No, you have grown up and transformed."

Ah Yin's blue eyes looked at his brother pitifully, and he tilted his ears. He could warm his brother's bed. He has so many furs and is very warm - -

"...Come in." Zhuo Yan is really soft-hearted towards the leopard-shaped A-yin.

Ah Yin stuck out her tongue, looked cute as a big dog, and then got into bed.

The two of them had just been tossing, and the stone bed and quilt had lost all warmth. But with A Yin, plus a layer of bearskin and another layer of skin, Zhuo Yan was still held in A Yin's arms, and the quilt became warm after a while. .

Ah Yin's big head circled his brother's head, and his head was so small.

"Go to sleep, go to bed." Zhuo Yan felt the temperature for a while and asked Ah Yin to kick the top layer of leather aside. It was a little hot to cover it with two layers. "Kick it under your feet and cover your legs."

Ah Yin obediently used his claws . Claws kicking the skin.

"If the snow stops tomorrow, let's go to the river to catch fish." Zhuo Yan originally wanted to go out alone, but now it's okay, "A Yin is an orc and can carry me down."

Great! ! !

Zhuo Yan is also very happy that Ah Yin has turned into a human form. After all, before, Ah Yin was looked down upon and disliked by everyone in the tribe for not transforming into a beast. Although it is better now, he knows that Ah Yin also wants to change into a human form.

He was confused all day long, and he was not used to the embarrassment. After all, there was a handsome guy in the cave. Zhuo Yan had been doing some mental construction. The handsome guy was A Yin, and A Yin was a handsome guy. It didn't matter whether he was hairy or not. of.

But now...a slap in the face.

You can't sleep in the same bed with a handsome guy, but you can sleep in the same bed with a hairy Ah Yin.

Double standards!

Zhuo Yan gave himself a reason: It was not a double standard. He knew clearly that it was all Ah Yin, and he had actually thought about it. If Ah Yin could not transform into a second form, he would be a sub-orc. He had thought about all this, and even thought about it. Future Measures.

For example, Ah Yin will transform into another form every three to five years. So if he is in human form for the time being, he will definitely make a wooden bed in the coming spring. He will sleep on the wooden bed, teach Ah Yin some skills, and expand the farming area - this is the second point.

For example, Ah Yin is a sub-orc.

The two brothers have to rely on planting and raising more animals to survive. The chickens cannot be killed. If Ah Yin wants to get married, he has to teach Ah Yin how to choose a partner. Although, Zhuo Yan has always been single, but theoretical knowledge There are still some.

As a result, he never expected that Ah Yin would transform into an orc for the second time that night.

The orcs have the advantages of being an orc, such as keeping warm in the winter and making it easier to hunt in the future - it is safer and more convenient to switch between the animal form and the human form at any time according to the terrain of the prey. For example, he is strong and can go out easily in bad weather - A Yin can carry him on his back.

And you can also expand the map to farther places.

Then again, Zhuo Yan really has no resistance to furries. It would be awkward for you to get naked under the bed with a grown man, but if you hold a furry, you will just feel "Wow wow wow".

Zhuo Yan fell asleep beautifully.

Ah Yin was also very happy, wagging her tail and hugging her brother, lowering her head and giving him a small lick. Zhuo Yan felt it, but he was used to it. So he slept in a daze the next day. Zhuo Yan felt that his forehead was wet, and he instinctively stretched out his arms to hold A Yin's head, and hummed in his mouth: "Stop licking, your brother, I will be bald sooner or later..." ..."

"Brother is moaning and bald~"

The touch felt like human skin. Zhuo Yan opened his eyes and met his blue eyes, silent.

Under the quilt, he was fully nestled in the humanoid Ah Yin's arms, and one of his legs was even stuffed between Ah Yin's legs -? ? ?

Zhuo Yan didn't understand how he slept in this position.

The two of them were skin-to-skin. Zhuo Yan was a little embarrassed about getting up early and wanted to withdraw his leg, but accidentally rubbed A Yin's thigh, ahhhhhhhh.

Zhuo Yan was going crazy in his heart, but he remained calm on the face and said, "Good morning, Ah Yin, when did you change back to human form?"

"No, no, no," Ah Yin said anxiously.

have no idea. Zhuo Yan understands. It seems that Ah Yin can't control when to transform. Is there any secret to transforming? He tried his best to think about serious things and said, "It's okay. When winter passes, we'll ask Qiao and Ada."

"Get up first."

Ah Yin still held him in her arms. In the end, the two of them took it apart as if untying the twist. Zhuo Yan was wrapped in a small leather skirt and had calmed down a lot - mainly because of the cold. He glanced at Ah Yin. He originally wanted to ask Ah Yin if he knew it, but saw that Ah Yin had fastened his belt.

Very smart, I learned it yesterday.

"I'll boil the water," Zhuo Yan said.

Ah Yin took the pot and opened the door to dig out the snow. Zhuo Yan cleaned up the stone bed and started to light firewood. Because Ah Yin used to watch what he did when he got up early in the morning, but now the human form is much more convenient. When Zhuo Yan made a fire and boiled water, Ah Yin also took the snow shoveling tool to shovel the snow.

Zhuo Yan felt much relieved.

"Are you cold, Ah Yin? I'll make you a waistcoat."

"No."

That means your brother thinks you are cold.

The water boiled, the two of them brushed their teeth and washed their faces, then boiled the water again for cooking. The taro and potatoes were mixed with yesterday's leftover chicken racks. After boiling, there was a spoonful of crispy oily residue, which Zhuo Yan liked to eat very much. While waiting for it to boil, Zhuo Yan began to make A Yin's waistcoat. This was easy to make, just gesture with your arms and then make a hole. Because the method was simple and rough, there was no tailoring, and of course it was not very slim when worn.

"Wait, let me take a look." The little life blogger had never made clothes before, but now Zhuo Yan was thinking about how to make A Yin's waistcoat close to the body so that it can keep warm.

They now have bone needles, so they can sew.

But you need a 'thread', you can cut a narrow strip of leather, and then the hole in the tooth bone needs to be drilled slowly, or you can drill it with a red-hot object. It would be great if there was iron. He can make iron - pig iron.

After the two had dinner, Ah Yin went to feed the animals in the cave next door. Zhuo Yan was still studying the waistcoat and wanted to trim his own waistcoat. He started to make the thread for sewing clothes, and the rest was to open the teeth. hole.

"Brother woo woo?" Ah Yin came back to see her brother busy and didn't understand what he was doing.

Zhuo Yan: "I want to drill a hole in the tooth bone without causing any cracks." He was looking for his stone knife and planned to burn the tip of the stone knife and drill the tooth bone to try.

When he slowly heated the stone knife, he began to drill into the bone needle. Under the high temperature, the bone turned a little black and yellow, but it did not crack. It really worked. If he drilled directly, it would be easy to crack the bone needle at the end.

Zhuo Yan was overjoyed and said, "It will be ready soon. I'll do it a few more times." Because the stone knife tip is not very thin, it is very slow and troublesome to make. After burning for a while, you have to use a bone knife to grind the holes again.

Ah Yin howled.

Zhuo Yan couldn't understand what A Yin was saying. Then A Yin turned into a beast shape and exposed his sharp nails. Zhuo Yan immediately understood. He put the thick end of the bone needle on the table and gestured to A Yin: "Here, just now There is a small hole in the burnt black place. Don't use too much force to crack it, okay?"

Ah Yin didn't know if it would work, so he applied his nails carefully as his brother said.

At the end of the bone needle, a small hole appeared.

Zhuo Yan: ...! ! !

His A Yin is really a hole-opening tool.

The bone needles were there, but Ah Yin couldn't change back to his human form and was just spinning around in place. Zhuo Yan: ..."It's okay, it's okay. Maybe it will change tomorrow. I'll make clothes first. Your animal shape is furry and you're warm and not cold."

The animal shape is better, so I feel more comfortable. Zhuo Yan still has to get used to facing A Yin's human form.

The bone needles and leather lines were ready, and then it was time to cut and sew the waistcoat, but Zhuo Yan was not doing it. The wind and snow outside the cave had completely stopped, and there was some sunshine. Zhuo Yan wanted to go to the river to catch fish, especially A Yin. Now in beast form.

So he carried the rattan basket on his back and put a piece of leather on his body. The leather was wrapped around his feet and up to his knees. He used to be afraid of Ah Yin's cold legs, but now he cherishes his knee joints.

It will look like wearing over-the-knee leather boots.

"Ah Yin, let's go to the river to break ice and fish." Zhuo Yan walked out awkwardly. Ah Yin lay on his front legs at the entrance of the cave to make it easier for his brother to come up. Zhuo Yan sat astride him and sat firmly, then for a moment he thought about his butt. Close to A Yin's back.

I had never thought about this problem before, and I didn't feel ashamed or embarrassed, but now it's not Ah Yin who has become a human.

No wonder in the tribe, except for parents and brothers, no orc would carry a stranger orc on his back, unless it was a couple or partnership.

Ah Yin had already stood up, and suddenly he rose up. Zhuo Yan lowered his body and hugged Ah Yin's neck. Ah Yin started running. Because of this posture, Zhuo Yan was not particularly cold, and the cold wind in front of him was blocked by Ah Yin. His body was lowered, and his chest and thighs were almost sunken into Ah Yin's thick fur. Ah Yin's warmth was transmitted to him, and his back was wrapped in a big leather to protect him from the wind and snow.

Compared to last winter, it really depends on willpower.

Soon we arrived at the river. Zhuo Yan had the experience of last year. This year he went straight to the place where he was last year and started breaking ice. He also searched in the grass to see if he could find anything unexpected.

Caodang accidentally discovered that there were no fish, but there were still as many fish in the river as last year, and they kept jumping out of the ice. Zhuo Yan only focused on picking up fish and packed up a basket. A Yin stood in front of his brother and used his huge body to give it to his brother. Keep out the wind and snow.

"Ah Yin, you can go back now." Zhuo Yan shouted, his voice mixed with the roar of the wind and snow.

There's another snowstorm.

A Yin squatted down and asked his brother to come up. Zhuo Yan was about to carry the rattan basket, but who knew that A Yin held it in his mouth, and Zhuo Yan was a little unsteady due to the wind - the weather changed too fast, and the wind became stronger at this moment. .

Zhuo Yan didn't dare to delay, so he quickly got on A Yin's back and lowered his body.

Ah Yin held the heavy basket on the ground in his mouth. He was very smart and held the two straps together so that the basket would not be broken. He stood up and ran back to the cave quickly. When we arrived at the entrance of the cave, snow was falling, and there was already a lot of snow at the entrance. A Yin's fur was covered with snow. He was originally silver-white, but now he seemed to have melted into one with the snow.

"Go back to the cave quickly." Zhuo Yan reached for the rattan basket.

Ah Yin had already entered the hole with the rattan basket in his mouth and was still moaning. Zhuo Yan knew this and responded: "You go first." While he hurriedly closed the door, Ah Yin took the rattan basket in his mouth and put it away. Then he used his head to help his brother close the door and still held it in his mouth. Zhuo Yan used a wooden stick to prop up the door, and Zhuo Yan hung up a piece of leather to block the wind.

Through the wooden door, you can still hear the whistling wind and snow.

Zhuo Yan didn't pack up the basket of fish, but lit the firewood first. This time he burned charcoal, and the temperature in the cave was warmer. Zhuo Yan took a dry skin to dust off the snow on A Yin's body, but it had already melted. It's open.

"You go sit by the stove and bake. Don't catch a cold."

Ah Yin obediently went to the stove to warm up. Zhuo Yan took off the leather of his cloak and hung it on the cave wall. He took off his leather boots and put them under the shelf. A rattan basket of fish was placed at the entrance of the cave first. The temperature was low. When the snow stopped, this would be cooked in a stone pot. The big stone pots of snow and water were all packed away.

Fish offal can be eaten by chickens and pigs.

Collect these fish scales together and throw them away next time you go to the river. Anyway, don't keep them in their holes.

All this will have to wait until the snow stops.

After roasting for a while, Zhuo Yan started to make dinner. He drank soup at noon and grilled bacon in the evening. No need to add salt. The meat was rolled in boiling water once, cut into thick pieces, baked on a stone slab, and smeared on the stone slab. Add a layer of fat, add the meat, sizzle, and fry until golden brown on both sides.

Because the meat has been cooked in boiling water, it is not very dry, and it has been fried in fat, just like eating a smoked steak, and the salt taste is not heavy.

One person and one leopard ate three to five kilograms of meat while smelling the stove. Zhuo Yan boiled a pot of water. After dinner, the two of them drank water. Zhuo Yan started making a waistcoat in front of the fire.

He repaired his waistcoat first, so he worked with his upper body bare. He used a bone knife to cut open the place where the cuffs were originally made, and widened the arc so that he could open his hands for active work. He also needed to add a piece of leather to the waist area and the middle part. You can make holes and tie them with leather ropes.

Ah Yin squatted on the ground and looked at his brother. His eyes fell on his face, and then he looked at his hands, and then he looked at his body. He was afraid that his brother was cold, so he got up and moved to his side, wrapping his arms around him.

"Be careful, I'll prick you with my needle." Zhuo Yan said. Ah Yin's fur felt a little itchy against his upper body.

Ah Yin whined and refused to move away.

Zhuo Yan: "Okay, I have a little temper."

"Ouch~" No, protect my brother.

Zhuo Yan knew it all, so he teased A Yin and stuck it close to her. It was furry and warm. After he finished improving his waistcoat, it was indeed more comfortable to wear on the upper body. The hem was close to the body and the cuffs were open, unlike the previous one. The skin exploded and the hole was too small.

The stitching is ugly, but it's just a fuzzy, fitted vest.

Then I did it for Ah Yin - Zhuo Yan looked at the furry Ah Yin and thought about the figure of Ah Yin in human form. Zhuo Yan coughed and said, "Forget it, it's too late today. When will you turn into a human form?" Figure out your figure, don't do it badly. "

He actually has a lot of skin - compared to last year.

I have some sheepskins and deerskins, and I have saved a few pieces, but they are all relatively small, as well as rabbit skins and other small bits and pieces. Now that I have bone needles, I can make small items for both of them in the next few days, such as leather boots and cloaks. .

Leather boots: simple leather boots wrapped around the legs and feet, which need to be tied with some leather ropes.

At night, the wind and snow stopped. Zhuo Yan cleaned up the slates and wiped them with snow. After running boiling water through them, they were clean. He went to the cave next door and took a look. It was too dark, the chickens were balled up, and the tusked pigs were silent. The rabbit nests in the corner.

well. I feel like you are suffering too, so why not eat them all.

Zhuo Yan said this, turned around and fetched a wooden board from the cave, clamped the board tightly to the entrance of the animal's hole, and spread hay outside. If he froze to death like this, he had no choice but to eat the frozen food with tears in his eyes. .

I washed up that night.

Ah Yin squatted on the stone bed and waited for her brother. Zhuo Yan was very determined when he made the quilt tonight. There was no way he could be swayed by A Yin. Even A Yin wagging his tail was useless. You and I will definitely sleep separately.

"Understood?"

Ah Yin looked at her brother pitifully and wagged her tail.

Tough-hearted Zhuo Yan: "No, no, we can't sleep well on the same bed."

Ah Yin's furry ears drooped. Zhuo Yan's heart softened for a second, but when he thought about the way their lower parts were entangled this morning, he still hardened his heart. "No, you can go to sleep. I'm going to sleep, I'm so tired~"

He pretended to yawn.

When Ah Yin saw that his brother was very tired, he stopped begging and got into bed obediently, not letting his brother worry about him. Zhuo Yan: Oh wow Ah Yin is so cute and pitiful.

So Zhuo Yan reached out and touched A Yin's ears, "Good boy, go to sleep." Still unmoved, he insisted on the principle of one bed for each person.

Ah Yin wasn't unhappy either, his brother touched him! happy!

He also stuck out his tongue and licked his brother's palm.

Zhuo Yan: ...enthusiastic puppy.

Ah Yin is like this, he is more sensible than other children. Even if he does not meet Ah Yin's requirements, Ah Yin will not get angry or unhappy, he will only be happy towards you.

Good brother. Zhuo Yan was a little proud, he raised her.

But in the middle of the night, Zhuo Yan woke up from the cold. He couldn't bear it with a piece of skin. Although Ah Yin covered him with some bear skin, it was still very cold. Zhuo Yan opened his eyes and looked at Ah Yin, who was still furry and struggling. Do you want to sleep together?

Ah Yin also opened his eyes, his eyes sparkling and howling.

"... Uncover the quilt, I'm a little cold, brother, sleep with you."

"Ooooooooooo~" Ah Yin took off the quilt, and the moment Zhuo Yan rolled in, Ah Yin turned into a human, really So quickly, he transformed into a living person, and really became a human being!

Zhuo Yan:? ? ? ! ! !

At this moment, he was confused, but he had already rolled into the man's arms.

Ah Yin also hugged him. Zhuo Yan and Ah Yin looked at each other. Ah Yin thought he was cold, so he pulled the bear skin to cover them both tightly. Not saying anything, Ah Yin hugged him tightly, and even wrapped his legs and feet around him. It's a little cold, but Ah Yin's body is very warm.

but! but! Ah Yin is a man.

Zhuo Yan looked at his bed with difficulty. As if he had misunderstood, A Yin used human hands and feet to kick the piece of leather to his feet, and covered his and his brother's legs and feet.

"..." Zhuo Yan was silent.

How about pretending to be asleep?

Because Ah Yin is really warm. Zhuo Yan was embarrassed for a second, and finally collapsed in the warm quilt. He closed his eyes and did not look at A Yin. He hummed and said: "Go to sleep, go to bed, don't move."

"Brother, wailing."

It was quiet in the cave . . After a while, Zhuo Yan whispered: "Hand."

Ah Yin looked down at his brother, his blue eyes full of innocence. Zhuo Yan knew that Ah Yin really didn't understand, instead of pretending to be confused, but he was really embarrassed and could only endure it -

no, he couldn't bear it anymore.

Zhuo Yan: "Don't touch your hands on my waist." It made his waist feel itchy and he was so upset that he couldn't sleep.

Ah Yin understood, he whined seriously and stopped moving, but his brother's skin felt so good. He couldn't hold it back just now. It was slippery, and his brother smelled delicious.

"Don't move your feet either." She still rubbed his feet.

Do you know this is very ambiguous!

Ah Yin stopped moving after hearing his brother's words, and just looked at him secretly. Zhuo Yan closed his eyes and slept, swearing in his heart that he would not be like this tomorrow. Forget it for today, he had already fallen asleep in Ah Yin's arms. If he kept tossing the quilt, he would lose the heat, so he went to sleep.

Falling asleep quickly too.

The next day there was one good thing and one bad thing. The good thing is: Zhuo Yan slept very well. When he woke up in the morning, Ah Yin turned into a leopard again, avoiding the embarrassment - he was lying in Ah Yin's arms, and his hands were irregularly holding Ah Yin's waist, which should be the waist. Well, her legs are still rubbing against Ah Yin's lower half...

Anyway, Ah Yin's transformation into a leopard shape is great.

If they were in human form, Zhuo Yan didn't dare to think about what posture the two of them would be in.

The bad thing is: four of his chickens froze to death, and there is something wrong with the remaining six chicks. They don't look like they will survive for long, but the hens are still somewhat energetic.

The rabbit is gone.

Zhuo Yan had a lot of work that day. He had to deal with a basket of fish, four chickens and a rabbit. A Yin watched him work around in a hurry, and then turned into a human form.

Zhuo Yan:!

So in the cave, two handsome guys sat opposite each other and packed up the frozen goods for the day. Zhuo Yan's hands were full of fish smell. He washed the soap three times before it disappeared. He collected the fish, chicken, and rabbit viscera. This was to feed the toothed pigs. of.

At the same time, he opened the door of the cave next door, took out the remaining six chickens and one rabbit, rushed to his cave, and asked Ah Yin to speak harshly: "Go and scare them, don't let them run around and fly around."

Ah Yin stared at several animals and howled.

Zhuo Yan went to the next door to clean up briefly and fed Yazhu. Yazhu had rough skin and thick flesh and looked in the best condition. He ignored him and didn't move around. He just slept there.

"Good-toothed pig, you can survive this winter and come spring, I'll ask Ah Yin to find you a companion." Zhuo Yan painted a pie for outstanding employees.

Yazhu hummed and continued sleeping unmoved.

"You'll know later."

It was already evening after finishing the day's work. Fortunately, I cooked a pot of fragrant fish soup, which healed Zhuo Yan's busy day. After dinner, it was time to go to bed.

I didn't make a leather waistcoat for Ah Yin today, so I will definitely do it tomorrow.

Two quilts and one quilt... The wind and snow were howling outside the door. This year's blizzard came earlier and it was especially cold. Zhuo Yan looked at Shaoyin A Yin, betting that A Yin would be in a furry state tomorrow.

"Go to bed and sleep together."

"Ouch~" Ah Yin was excited and happy.

The next morning: The bet was lost. Woohoo.

Fortunately, Zhuo Yan can act. He is playing a good brother who is serious, calm, and calm in trouble. First, he unwraps his twisted body...

The smell in the hole is not good, but the rabbit and chicken still pooped.

Zhuo Yan endured it again and again, but finally couldn't bear it anymore and drove the chickens and rabbits back to the cave next door, but this time he didn't stop the toothed pig. "You guys hug together to keep warm."

On this day, Zhuo Yan sewed the scraps of skin together and gave them to the cave next door. A curtain was made in the hole to protect it from the wind and snow, and it was also covered with thick hay.

When he went to bed that night, A Yin was in human form. Zhuo Yan hesitated for a second. It was not like he had never slept before. It was so cold and sleeping alone at night would be very cold. As long as he woke up, A Yin was in a furry form, so he made another bet.

...Every bet must be lost.

Zhuo Yan: stumbling and stumbling, engaging in twist-and-turn behavior.

The good news is that the rabbits, chickens, and pigs in the next hole all looked very energetic, as if they had been fighting all night and were full of energy. When he looked at them, each one was very energetic. The old hen was protecting the chickens. The butt of the toothed pig is pressed against the wall of the cave, and the rabbit is hiding under the body of the toothed pig.

Zhuo Yan: ...

"Get along well, fight and have fun, but don't die." Zhuo Yan explained.

The toothed pig snorted. Zhuo Yan didn't know that the hen should be biting the pig's butt, so he comforted the excellent employee: "You are the big brother, please give in, they are also furry, it would be great to join a group to keep warm, wait." When spring comes next year, I will definitely find you a companion. "

Chapter 59

There is an additional activity in the cave.

Zhuo Yan taught A Yin how to speak and do math. Anyway, he was idle. Compared to the handsome humanoid boy A Yin who rubbed him and clung to him every day, and the two hugged him, Teacher Zhuo Yan was indeed much more serious when he held a small class.

"Ahem, don't hug the teacher." Zhuo Yan said.

Ah Yin was puzzled by the simplicity: "Ouch?"

"Just focus in class." Zhuo Yan said. Whose student hugged the teacher like this? In modern times, your parents would complain that I harassed you - he remembered, he was Ah Yin's parent.

That's even more unacceptable!

One cannot use power for personal gain. Zhuo Yan had a serious face, and then corrected the previous question: "Ah Yin, you should say 'why' and tell me why." " It's

because of Oow."

"It's not Oow." Zhuo Yan is very patient, he is afraid of A Yin Tired of studying, he sat over and said, "Why."

"For Senmo."

"Very good." Zhuo Yan praised: "Ah Yin is really smart and learns anything quickly." It's just a mistake in pronunciation. make persistent efforts.

Ah Yin is happy. When he is happy, he likes to rub his head against his brother or wag his tail. But now that he has no tail, he likes to nuzzle his head against his brother.

Zhuo Yan: ...I'm glad the parent is me, otherwise I would have been complained!

Life in the cave is very simple in the winter. Zhuo Yan usually does twisting in the morning. Occasionally, A Yin is in a furry state. Zhuo Yan will breathe a sigh of relief, hug the furry A Yin and sleep for a while. The bed is warm and comfortable.

After waking up, Ah Yin would be able to work if he were in human form. He would open the door, shovel the snow, and see if the animals in the next cave are still alive. Zhuo Yan would light a fire and boil water, and the two of them would wash and brush their teeth, and then cook.

Ingredients in the cave: lots of bacon, a big basket of fish, four or five chickens. The rabbit ate it all. A large number of potatoes were piled into a hill. Potatoes were planted by the river last fall, and the sub-orcs who lent them the seeds were really honest and paid him back a lot.

Plus there are wild ones in the forest outside, so there are a lot of potatoes in the cave this year.

Zhuo Yan mixes pig grass with potatoes and their leftover meat for Yazhu. Even chickens can eat this kind of food. Rabbits also need grass and potato roots.

The food changed every now and then, with fresh meat and bacon being eaten here and there, and fish soup.

The days were very leisurely, and he just said he was full and warm, so Zhuo Yan tried his best to find serious things for the two of them. Ah Yin was really simple, he could not bully Ah Yin, and would not take advantage of Ah Yin in anything. Of course, he was also——

Junmei The handsome guy hugs him and rubs him every day. Zhuo Yan is also very shy sometimes.

It feels like his sexuality can no longer be hidden.

So I would do some handicrafts. In the past half month, the teeth of the earth dragon beasts that Daya gave them were made into needles. Zhuo Yan planned to give them to Qiao and the others in the spring. Some scraps of leather at home were also sewn and made into needles. cloak.

The snow season has entered the second phase of stormy cold.

The two of them rarely go out, doing both work and small classes. Ah Yin can already communicate simply. Even when he is anxious or excited, his words will be mixed with moans. Zhuo Yan told A Yin many times that he should behave like a human being, and he could not just pounce on him, hug him or lick him -

what A Yin heard as "pounce, hug and lick".

Zhuo Yan: ...Sometimes I really suspect that Ah Yin is doing something wrong and deliberately misheard.

"Brother likes it." Ah Yin hugged her brother and said Tie Tie.

Zhuo Yan looked at Ah Yin's eyelashes and handsome face, his heart skipped a beat, and he said with a serious expression on his face: "Who said you like it? I didn't say it."

He also felt that he was very pretentious and pretentious, but he still had the ability to be a human being. moral bottom line. He had picked up Ah Yin. Ah Yin was seriously ill at that time. He really wanted to find a companion to live with, but he never thought of raising Ah Yin as a 'child bride'.

Now that Ah Yin has become a human, he can't take advantage of others.

He had to understand things and feelings before talking about anything else - ahem, he actually couldn't pass this test in his heart. Kissing Ah Yin felt like he was taking advantage of him.

Ah Yin is only seventeen or eighteen!

Another point is that when picking up A Yin, he would choose this name. He was thinking about his family background and talking about his brother. Every time A Yin felt sick and weak, what he brought into his heart was his old father, Mommy sauce.

...In this case, if your cat turns into a handsome guy, it would be very unethical if something happens.

Zhuo Yan: A good young man who obeys the law and is moral.

Tonight, the lights have been turned off.

"Brother."

Zhuo Yan was drowsy in sleep and hummed. Ah Yin leaned over and hugged his brother, placing his head on his brother's head, just like his habit in animal form. After being hugged like this for more than half a month, Zhuo Yan was used to it and thought that if A Yin's head was wrapped around his head, at least his head wouldn't get caught in the wind.

What a tongue twister.

"Sen Mo?" Zhuo Yan couldn't speak clearly at this time.

Ah Yin carefully licked her brother.

Zhuo Yan: ...He's not asleep yet! Just lick it blindly, and you won't sneak around behind his back any more, right?

"Brother, the tooth pig is howling."

Zhuo Yan was about to fall asleep at this moment, and the bed was very warm. He was very perfunctory when talking to A Yin, and said vaguely: "Are you hungry?"

No, when they were eating at night. Just fed it.

"Could it be that a chicken bit your butt?"

Ah Yin listened carefully, but the tooth pig was still howling. He felt something was wrong, so he opened the quilt and tried to get off. Although he moved very carefully, there was still a cold wind coming in. Zhuo Yan suddenly sobered up a lot.

"What's wrong?"

"Brother, it's wrong."

Zhuo Yan saw A Yin's frown and confused eyes, and immediately understood that A Yin might think something was wrong, but he couldn't figure it out at the moment, but something was really wrong. place.

He thought that animals are particularly sensitive before danger approaches.

"Wear leather, I'll go with you."

There is a large stone at the entrance of his house. The tribe leader helped him move it before the snow season, saying that it can be blocked at the door for two layers of security. After winter, Zhuo Yan still had to take care of the animals in the cave next door, and he liked to go in and out for air and ventilation, so the big stone was always stuck on the side, not blocking the main entrance.

At this moment, Zhuo Yan wore leather and lit a piece of firewood to shine a light. Ah Yin opened the door, and the wind and snow poured in. Not to mention that the light of the firewood was blown out, Zhuo Yan was almost blown over.

A Yin said: "Brother, I'll come."

"I'll help you." Zhuo Yan dropped the firewood in his hand, and the two of them worked together to move the stone. However, the stone was very big, and there was still snow on the ground. Zhuo Yan turned around to get it. Shoveling away the snow on the ground with a shovel, Ah Yin turned into a beast shape, roared, and the stone rolled to the entrance of the cave and got stuck.

"You can't get in!" Zhuo Yan said hurriedly: "You transform into a human and get in from above. There is a place above."

There was a snowstorm outside, and the silver-white snow shone with a cold light. I don't know if it was an illusion, Zhuo Yan Yan felt tremors, and some faint red lights in the distance -

those red lights were moving very fast, from the forest outside the tribe to the river, there were many dense red lights.

Beast tide!

Some messy and bloody images flashed through Zhuo Yan's mind. They were little Zhuo Yan's memories. His beast father was torn to pieces by the beast tide. "A Yin, A Yin Kuai, in human form."

He pushed the big stone stuck at the door. .

There were some gaps left on the left and right sides of the stone. Zhuo Yan saw the red dots getting closer and closer, and couldn't help but stretched out his hand to push the stone. "Come back, come back." He would rather not get this stone stuck, and would rather be with Ah Yin under the wooden door. Together.

"Hurry up, Ah Yin."

"A Yin!"

Zhuo Yan watched helplessly as the red dots headed towards his home. Almost at the moment he shouted in despair, Ah Yin turned into a human form and slipped through the cracks in the stone. Come back, and the red eyes covered with snow flew into the air and started howling.

Then its companion came, and a head emerged from the corner under the stone. Zhuo Yan could clearly see the crazy beast - red eyes, sharp teeth, drool, and the appearance of a leopard.

Zhuo Yan was stunned for a moment, and Ah Yin took a few steps back with his brother in his arms, transformed into a beast shape, and roared outside the stone. Zhuo Yan came to his senses in an instant and said, "Close the door, close the door."

These leopards were irrational, with killing in their eyes, as if they wanted to tear them apart.

The red-eyed leopard hit the big stone over and over again, and the leopard's head was stuck in the gap left by the stone. After a while, there was also one above, but it was just stuck between the hole and the stone, howling excitedly.

Zhuo Yan's hands were numb and he tried hard to close the door, but a thin leopard in the corner had already squeezed in. Fortunately, A Yin's beast shape pounced on it and pushed the leopard directly to the ground without any extra movement, ending the leopard's life.

The blood spread on the ground, which made the leopards outside the cave even more excited.

The sound of howling wind and snow outside the tribe could not cover up the howls of these leopards. Not only their cave was attacked, but other caves were also attacked.

Every time one comes, there are two. The leopards were frantically pulling at the stone, trying to get in with their heads. Ah Yin lowered his front paws in an offensive posture, roared and shouted back, but it was of no use. The red-eyed leopard was crazy with no sense. generally.

"Ouch——" Brother left.

Ah Yin quickly realized that her brother didn't understand, so she turned into a human form again, lying naked on the ground to confront the things outside. She turned around and said, "Brother, go to bed."

"Don't worry about me anymore, be careful-" Again One came in from above.

Zhuo Yan ran back so as not to worry A Yin, and took his bone knife to defend himself. The stone stuck at the entrance of the cave became tighter and tighter, but the leopards were squeezing in. On the left and right... there were too many .

Why are there so many leopards?

But if you look closely, you will see that these leopards are different from the orc leopards. They are much smaller and in poor condition. Their pupils are red, blood red, and their eyes are full of madness, without any trace of clarity.

Zhuo Yan hid behind, and Ah Yin turned into a beast. Now they had the upper hand, and they came in and killed each one, but there were too many of them, and the sound of 'bang bang bang' was faintly heard in the howling of the wind and snow.

Ah Yin roared, and the wind and snow mixed with the roars of other orcs.

"Brother, close the door and I'll go out." After A Yin finished speaking, he pushed the stone. The stone rolled several times, overwhelming the red-eyed leopard that rushed towards him. A Yin's animal shape blocked all foreign things in front of him. Zhuo Yan immediately Go up and close the door.

Ah Yin stood outside, fighting with a group of red-eyed leopards.

Zhuo Yan blocked the door. At this time, his mind was numb. He only had one thought: Nothing could happen to Ah Yin. He stared at Ah Yin through the gap and saw that Ah Yin easily eliminated those red-eyed leopards, but there were just too many.

Don't let anything happen.

Until his hands and feet were numb from the cold, and his face was a little stiff. The cold wind howling outside could not block the strong smell of blood. The fur on A Yin's body was all blood-colored, and the carcasses of red-eyed leopards were all around the hole on the ground.

Ah Sen roared, and Ah Yin roared back.

【Are you okay? ]

[My brother and I are both fine. 】

Zhuo Yan opened the door, and the blood had solidified and seeped in. Zhuo Yan ignored the bloody and dirty ground and looked at Ah Yin with his bare feet. "Are you okay? Let me see where you are injured?"

Ah Yin was covered in blood . The blood and hair were all red, and it was hard to tell whether it was the blood of these red-eyed leopards or the injured ones. A Yin said: "I'm fine, brother."

Zhuo Yan held A Yin's hand a little stiff, and he stumbled and said: "Am I okay?" I'm stupid from the cold, my brain is still numb from the cold, and I can understand whatever you say when you're still in the animal form. "

Just now, Ah Yin asked him to close the door. At that time, Ah Yin was in the animal form.

At the critical moment, he thought he was hearing things or having a mental connection with A Yin.

"Yes, brother." Ah Yin was also confused for a moment.

Zhuo Yan:? ? ?

That's for sure, it's not an auditory hallucination. But there was no time to think about this. The orcs from the tribe came out. The leader of the tribe took the lead and wanted to clean up the corpses on the ground. Two leopards went to the forest outside the river, and there was a group of more than ten hyenas squatting.

These hyenas are really annoying, trying to pick things up.

No matter whether the red-eyed leopard is dead or the orcs are killed or injured, those hyenas can still have a good meal. Only this time the kick hit the iron plate, and the clan leader issued a message to take them all down.

"Brother, you go back to bed and I'll clean up." A Yin said.

Zhuo Yan: "I can't sleep. Be careful. Listen to the clan leader. If there is another wave

of beasts coming, run away if you can't defeat him." A Yin originally wanted to rub his head against his brother, but as soon as he got closer, the blood on his head receded. When he went back, Zhuo Yan saw it and reached out to touch Ah Yin's ears. Ah Yin became happy.

"Go ahead, I'll wait for you to come back for dinner."

"Okay, brother~"

Ah Yin first took the body in the cave and threw it out, and then transported it. Zhuo Yan closed the door and pushed it against the wooden door with a wooden stick. Blood seeped into the soil on the ground at home. Zhuo Yan covered it with firewood ash, planning to wait until A Yin came back before going out to dump it.

The snow was falling, and there was a rusty smell in the cave.

Zhuo Yan couldn't sleep either. He stayed by the stove. The temperature had risen and his brain was spinning. He couldn't figure out that the beasts coming this time were red-eyed leopards. The leopard tribe had never hunted leopards in the past - he knew There are real leopards.

Because Ah Yin could not transform before, some people in the clan laughed at Ah Yin, saying that he was a leopard beast.

Let's get back to the subject, how could these leopards go crazy and desperately want to attack?

The wind and snow outside gradually subsided, but Ah Yin had not come back until dawn. Ah Yin cried out for his brother. Zhuo Yan opened the door. Ah Yin's body was covered with snow, and the blood on his fur was gone?

"Did you take a cold shower?!" Zhuo Yan touched his hand and his hair was frozen into ice strips. He couldn't think about anything all night long. He was very angry and gave A Yin a slap - gently. Called.

"You're going to piss me off if you take a cold shower on this cold day."

Ah Yin rubbed her brother against her, then remembered that she was covered in ice and snow, so she backed away to avoid freezing her brother. Zhuo Yan was heartbroken and quickly added charcoal to the stove. "You sit in front of the stove and warm yourself up. I'll boil some hot water for you to wipe it with."

He wrapped Ah Yin in a big leather bag.

Ah Yin turned into a human form, naked and sitting on the stool obediently.

"Brother, where is my little skirt?" It was the little leather skirt that his brother made for him.

"Here, I'll put it away for you." Zhuo Yan touched A Yin's human-shaped head. His silver hair was covered with ice particles. "You put on the bear skin first, and I'll take a look at your body."

Ah Yin took the bearskin away and stood up to show his brother.

Zhuo Yan: ...

I have no other ideas at this time. Zhuo Yan checked and found that A Yin was not injured except for a little bruise on his forehead, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let's warm up by the fire."

The snow outside the cave was covered deeply, and all the original layer of plasma disappeared. Zhuo Yan shoveled the snow down the slope - A Yin wanted to come to help, but Zhuo Yan scolded him and told him to sit still and not move.

Traces of blood could be seen in the snow.

When Zhuo Yan saw it, he couldn't help but think of the scene at night. Those red-eyed leopards were really crazy. He took a bucket and ran up to catch the snow, then came back to boil it and let Ah Yin wipe his body.

After finishing everything, the wind and snow continued outside.

Ah Yin was grilling meat and passing meat to his brother. Zhuo Yan took a bite and said, "What to do with those corpses? Where are the hyenas?"

"Kill them all. Take the corpses outside the forest and bury them in the snow." A Yin took a bite and said, "The clan leader said hyenas are very cautious. Yes, if we let one go, the tribe will not be able to live in peace in the coming year. They will harass the tribe from time to time and disturb our hunting."

Zhuo Yan nodded, "What's going on with those red-eyed leopards?" Why are there so many at the entrance of his cave? More than ten.

He just asked, thinking that Ah Yin probably wouldn't know.

Who knew that A Yin said: "Brother, there is a story about the gods."

"?" Zhuo Yan: "What story?"

A Yin said seriously: "In the past, the gods had a sacred fruit tree. The four tribes guarded the sacred fruit tree, and there were some orcs. He stole the divine fruit and was punished by the gods. He will always remain a beast and cannot change into human form. "

And this story? Zhuo Yan thought about it carefully, but still couldn't remember Xiao Zhuo Yan's memory. So he looked at Ah Yin, who sat down obediently. Zhuo Yan reached out and touched Ah Yin's hair. At that time, Ah Yin couldn't turn into a human form and was laughed at, which was far more serious than he thought.

The four tribes all spread the story of the divine fruit tree. Since Ah Yin cannot transform into a human form, some people will definitely think that Ah Yin is not favored by the gods - like an orc who was punished for eating the divine fruit tree.

Therefore, we discriminate, dislike, look down upon, and stay away from Ah Yin.

What a big boy he is! I was wronged.

Ah Yin secretly rubbed her head into her brother's arms. Zhuo Yan held A Yin's head. The boy was stunned for a few seconds, and then he discovered a problem: "You are very articulate now, you speak very clearly, and you can still speak in your animal form."

"Yes." A Yin seemed to have just spoken. Finding the same thing, his eyes lit up, "Brother, I seem to be really talking faster and more clearly. My brother taught me this."

Zhuo Yan touched the puppy's head.

Later, Zhuo Yan learned that those red-eyed leopards might really be jealous of the leopard people's eyes dripping with blood. Anyway, most of the beast tides every few years were these red-eyed leopards attacking the tribe, going crazy and vicious, and the attacks from other tribes were the same.

The four tribes all have common rules: they do not use the skins of the same animal shape and do not eat the meat of the same animal shape.

They were the same kind in the stories of gods long ago.

Therefore, these beasts and leopards circle their territories and usually have few natural enemies. The beasts and leopards reproduce very vigorously. As long as they are not extinct, they will raid the tribe every few years.

This year, all the red-eyed leopard carcasses were transported outside and buried in the snow.

This beast attack was also talked about in other caves, but the topic was different.

"A Yin can speak human language now?"

"Really." Ada said to Qiao, "I heard it."

"Then can he turn into human form?" Qiao followed up and asked, it would be great if he could turn into human form. Zhuo Yan won't suffer anymore in the spring. The animal shape is still too big and it's hard to give birth to cubs.

Ada said: "I didn't see a human form. Now that you said that, I thought about it and I don't know if A Yin said human words."

Qiao: "Hey, think about it again, you just said "Ah Yin can speak human language now."

"The wind and snow were too strong, maybe I didn't hear clearly. When we came back after delivering the red-eyed leopard carcass, Ah Yin jumped into the snow and rubbed his fur. He seemed to say 'brother,' but he didn't. " I haven't said it yet."

"...Have you said it or not?"

Faced with her partner's serious inquiry, Ada couldn't guarantee it.

This is not what is said in other caves. For example, the two brothers A Tou and A Ri have promised eight hundred times with their younger brother, "A Yin fights very fiercely.", "To him, the entrance to the cave has the most corpses. I didn't expect A Yin to be so Awesome." "Daya taught me." "Daya really likes Ah Yin.

"

"Your partner is fine. Ah Yin has killed those crazy leopards."

"That boy is really good at it. No wonder Daya scolds him the most every time he hunts." Huo Xia said. He knew that when hunting, whoever Big Ya scolded harshly would be more powerful.

Aman's brother grabbed his father's arm and said, "I can do it too. It was my brother who stopped me, otherwise I would--"

"You will be torn apart by those crazy leopards." Aman interrupted his brother.

Huo Xia nodded, "You are still young, you can play with A Yinduo in the future."

"He doesn't like me." Brother A Man said.

Huo Xia:?

According to his dealings, Ah Yin has a good temper. When Daya scolds Ah Yin so much, Ah Yin will not ignore Daya and will not be angry. "Why doesn't he like you?"

"He keeps staring at me. If I follow Brother Zhuo Yan walked closer, and he looked at me like this. "Brother Aman stretched out his fingers to pick out his lower eyelids, making his eyes bigger and more fierce.

Aman: Hahahahahahaha.

He knows why! The next time I see Zhuo Yan, I will tell him that Ah Yin is really possessive. He just introduced his younger brother to Zhuo Yan before, but Zhuo Yan refused and did nothing. Stop scaring his younger brother.

Everyone in the cave laughed.

The tide of beasts has passed, and there have been no casualties this year. In the past, when beasts raided, there was no wooden door to resist, and there was only a big stone. If there was an orc in the cave, sometimes some small red-eyed beasts would get in. If there were too many, the orcs would not be able to protect them. In time, there will definitely be casualties.

...

The days that followed returned to calm. It snowed continuously for half a month. Zhuo Yan shoveled the snow again and again. The slope in front of his house was now almost as level as the road at the entrance of his house. It showed that there was a lot of snow.

The smell of blood has long since disappeared.

Ah Yin wore a small leather skirt and a pair of over-the-knee leather boots to feed pigs, chickens and rabbits. She turned to her brother and said, "Brother, the chickens -"

"What happened to the chickens? Did they die again?" Come out and fight. Zhuo Yan, who was snowing, quickly put down the bucket and went to take a look. The last time a beast attacked, a red-eyed leopard got into his animal den. In the chaos, two chickens were not sure whether they were frightened or trampled. Anyway, Zhuo Yan had time to look at them the next day and found that they were dead. No trauma.

The hen dropped the two chicks on the edge of the hole, frozen stiff.

Now he only has one hen and three chickens left in his family.

"It's not brother, it's eggs. The hens laid eggs." Ah Yin was a little happy.

Zhuo Yan went over to take a look and saw that there were indeed two eggs on the haystack. He couldn't help but be impressed by his hens. They were really awesome. They could lay eggs in such an environment!

Sure enough, it is right to eat the rooster and not move the hen.

"I'll give you an extra meal today as a reward for your hard work." Zhuo Yan said cheerfully. When he turned around, he found that Ah Yin was still very happy, looking at him with bright eyes, and said, "Brother, the hen has given birth to cubs."

Zhuo Yan: ...Although he was very happy when the hen laid eggs, he felt that Ah Yin was too happy, so he couldn't help but probe: "Do you want to eat scrambled eggs?" Is it not a good idea to say this in front of the hen at the entrance of the cave? ?

"!" Ah Yin was stunned for a moment.

Zhuo Yan took a look and realized that he had misunderstood. Ah Yin didn't want to eat scrambled eggs.

"I see you are very happy all the time, so I thought you wanted to eat this."

"No, brother, the hen has a new baby." Ah Yin said, looking at his brother.

Zhuo Yan still couldn't figure it out and followed the words: "I know I saw it. Let's go back. I'll give them extra food later. The fish and bacon will be minced." Ah Yin liked it so much, "In a while Come and feed me."

It happened that he was too lazy to go out.

Ah Yin nodded and agreed.

After lunch, the two took a nap. Zhuo Yan took off his leather skirt and rolled inside, yawning. A Yin entered the bed in human form, sticking to her brother in a sticky manner. Zhuo Yan: "Go to sleep, go to sleep."

Although I'm used to it, Ah Yin, don't be too coquettish! Don't shake your brother and my moral defense!

Ah Yin still put her head on top of her brother's head and hugged her brother to sleep.

Zhuo Yan yawned again and fell asleep completely. Then A Yin secretly kissed his brother's forehead on his head. His eyes were bright. He was now a beastman, not a beast.

Brother is fragrant.

Zhuo Yan knew nothing about these behaviors and fell into a deep sleep. More than ten days of such boring days passed. The wind and snow outside the cave entrance finally subsided. Sometimes the sun would come out. Zhuo Yan was finally not as bored as he had been in the past. When he was about to sleep, Ah Yin could run out for a walk while carrying him on his back. He didn't dare to leave the tribe, but he could play nearby.

They still skated on the river, but they couldn't fish anymore - after a winter, the ice on the river was now so thick that it was impossible to break it.

After returning from playing crazy that day, Zhuo Yan was still not satisfied. He thought about making a pulley for himself and letting Ah Yin pull him to run around and play. Zhuo Yan said that A Yin would only say yes and listen to his brother.

As a result, Qiao Ada, Xiao Xian and his second brother came the next day.

"Zhuo Yan, are you there?"

"Brother Zhuo Yan, we are here."

There was a noise down the slope.

Zhuo Yan and A Yin were sleeping in, and they vaguely heard the voices of Xiao Xian and Qiao. He suddenly felt like he was being caught and raped in a hurry (bushi). The main reason was that he felt a little guilty for no reason -

he and A Yin were obviously very upright and innocent. Nothing happened.

When Zhuo Yan thought of this, he kept mumbling in silence, but looking at the current situation between him and Ah Yin, he was sleeping on Ah Yin's chest, and there were even some suspicious water stains on it. His saliva? No, did he sleep so soundly?

Under the quilt, not to mention, the two of them were twisted into knots again.

"Ah Yin, don't move. I'm coming. I'll leave first. Get dressed quickly. Sister Xiao Xianqiao is here..." Zhuo Yan came out of the quilt with his legs first, and then found a leather skirt to wrap them up.

The sound at the door was getting closer.

Even though he was in such a hurry, Zhuo Yan never thought about the idea of ​​letting A Yin transform into a beast shape - wouldn't it be more trouble-free and innocent?

But Zhuo Yan didn't.

Ah Yin is a real orc, which is a good thing.

"Brother, I'm dressed. I'm going to open the door."

Zhuo Yan: He was still wrapping up his leather skirt in a hurry. He didn't know what he was panicking about. He had the feeling that he would be caught having sex with his relatives and friends behind his back. Feeling of panic.

no! What are you thinking about? No messing around!

Chapter 60

Xiao Xian got off the second brother's back and stepped on the snow. He didn't feel cold. He just muttered: "Second brother, Ada didn't even let Qiao get off."

"You are just my brother, I am not Your partner." Ah Tou turned into a human form and took the leather skirt from his brother's hand and wrapped it up. Ah Yin was very weird and didn't like them not wearing leather skirts in front of Zhuo Yan. He muttered: "If it wasn't too much, I'm bored, I want to play with Ah Yin, and I won't come either."

Xiao Xian: "Damn it."

Qiao sat on A Da's back, listening to the two brothers bickering. She patted A Da on the neck, meaning she could put her down. It doesn't matter. There's just some snow, and it's not that cold anymore.

Ada half-squats his forelimbs.

Then the door opened.

The quarreling brothers and loving partners all looked behind the door. Xiao Xian, whom they hadn't seen all winter, smiled, and a 'Brother Zhuo Yan' got stuck as soon as he put it in his mouth -

everyone was dumbfounded. Lived.

In front of him was a man wearing a leather skirt. He was very young, with silver hair, a tall figure, and fair skin. Qiao thought to himself, he looked like a male of the Peacock tribe - very, very beautiful.

"Qiao, Qiao, second, second brother, did we go to the wrong cave?" Xiao Xian asked, stumbling. He even took a step back because the other person was unfamiliar.

Ah Tou stared at the person in front of him, his mind also confused.

Qiao said: "No, we come to Zhuoyan's house often, how could we go wrong?"

Ada turned into a human form, protecting Qiao behind him.

A familiar voice came from behind the door first: "Sister Qiao, Xiao Xian, wait a minute. I'm coming down. Immediately - Ah Yin, please bring everyone in and sit down first."

"Zhuo Yan?!"

"Brother Zhuo Yan! "

Qiao and Xiaoxian first breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. Zhuo Yan/Brother Zhuo Yan is fine. Then after they digested the content of Zhuo Yan's words, they both looked at the man in front of them again, their eyes widening. He closed his eyes and said in unison: "Ah Yin?!"

Ah Yin smiled.

"Ah, Ah Yin? You, you became a human?" Ah Tou was shocked.

"Yes." A Yin said.

Zhuo Yan finally came out wearing a leather skirt and waistcoat. Perhaps because of a guilty conscience, he pulled his hair when he first put on his clothes and checked whether there were any red marks on the exposed skin - naturally it was caused by sleeping! But he was afraid that Qiao and Xiaoxian were thinking wrongly.

"Hahahaha." With a guilty smile, Zhuo Yan ran to the entrance of the cave: "Welcome, come in and take a seat first, Ah Yin has turned into an orc."

The group of people were shocked and stupefied, doing whatever they were told.

Ah Yin stood close to her brother, and was very happy to see her friend's shocked look. She whispered to her brother: "Ah Tou is going to scream."

The next second Ah Tou screamed.

"Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!" Ah Tou screamed happily and looked at Ah Yin, reaching out to pat Ah Yin's arm, "You have really turned into an orc!"

Ah Yin also smiled, "Yes."

"Congratulations, brother .

"Thank you." Ada

was more reserved, "This is a good thing. Congratulations to you."

Xiao Xian and Qiao looked at Zhuo Yan, waiting for Zhuo Yan to elaborate. Zhuo Yan carried the bucket, and Ah Yin rushed to beat the snow. Zhuo Yan made a fire. They had just woken up in the morning and hadn't washed up yet. He said, "It's been more than a month." "

You guys wait until I brush my teeth and wash up, and then we can explain in detail ." "

Xiao Xian: "Why do you have to wash up?"

Qiao thought of something, stopped Xiao Xian's arm, and said with a smile: "We came too early and disturbed Zhuo Yan and A Yin."

"What are you disturbing about sleeping? "Brother Zhuo Yan can do it now."

Zhuo Yan knew it when he looked at Qiao's smiling expression! He knew it! There must be a misunderstanding, so he couldn't help but say seriously: "It's not that I didn't, Ah Yin and I did nothing but sleep."

"What are you doing, brother Zhuo Yan?" Xiao Xian was at a loss from beginning to end.

Qiao Xiao said, "Okay, I'll listen to you." He then told Xiao Xian, "Zhuo Yan is shy. In the past, every time A Man Shitou started chatting, he would interrupt and change the topic."

Xiao Xian was still thinking about the past. What's that? Although Zhuo Yan felt a little burned when facing Sister Qiao's teasing smile, he still planned to drop the topic - otherwise it would be easy to explain more and more unclearly, so he might as well talk about something serious.

"Let's eat at my house at noon. My hens just laid eggs. It's very cold and they probably won't hatch. Please eat scrambled eggs -"

"Ah! I remembered what Qiao Gang said." Xiao Xian's eyes twitched. His eyes lit up, and he looked at Brother Zhuo Yan, "Brother Zhuo Yan, did we interrupt you and A Yin's mating?!"

Zhuo Yan: ...!

What's more critical and fatal is that Ah Yin, who went out to play in the snow, came back with a wooden bucket, and there was also Ah Tou who joined in the fun. At this moment, Ah Tou looked at Ah Yin and said happily: "You're so awesome, kid!" He turned into an orc and mated with your brother. "

Zhuo Yan: Ahhhh! ! ! !

Someone kill him, now!

"I'm not, we really don't have one." Zhuo Yan said heartbroken.

Ah Yin punched Ah Tou. Ah Tou staggered, not understanding yet. He looked at Zhuo Yan and then at Ah Yin. He seemed to understand something. He looked at his younger brother and whispered, "Are you, Brother Zhuo Yan, shy?"

Everyone in the cave can hear it.

Xiao Xian nodded his head and whispered, "Brother Zhuo Yan used to be shy when talking about this, so let's not talk about it."

"..." Zhuo Yan: Forget it, I can't explain this.

"Ah Yin and I wash up -" Well, it's very similar to their 'evidence' last night. Will Mr. Qingtang come out to uphold justice?

Ah Yin said seriously: "My brother and I have not mated. My brother is not my partner yet. We just sleep to keep warm."

"Stop talking about this, my brother will be unhappy."

The brother looked like he was about to be broken.

Zhuo Yan: Oh wow, wow, Ah Yin, you understand me.

"Okay, no more," said Joe. Xiao Xian looked at Brother Zhuo Yan's appearance, and finally nodded seriously, waving his hands and saying that it was his second brother's fault whether he said it or not. A Tou:? ? ?

In the end, Zhuo Yan finally finished cleaning. He was very happy to see Qiao and Xiao Xian when he returned to the cave. They chatted and talked about what happened in the past, some interesting things in each cave, as well as the attack of the beast tide, and Zhuo Yan. Yan gave Qiao and Xiaoxian a handful of bone needles, about five each.

"...You can put the leather strip into the hole and then sew clothes." Zhuo Yan explained, "This earth dragon has sharp teeth and can sew leather easily."

Qiao and Xiao Xian became interested and listened carefully to Zhuo Yan. Brother Yan/Zhuo Yan talked about how to make clothes, especially when they heard that smaller leather can be sewn together, their eyes lit up.

Brunch was a big stew: taro, bacon and meat scraps stewed together, and fish was grilled.

Because Xiao Xianqiao knew that Zhuo Yan went skating by the river yesterday, and the two of them wanted to play, so after dinner at nine or ten in the morning, they packed up and went to the river to skate.

The ice was very thick, and Zhuo Yan didn't have time to make a small stool today. So he used an old piece of leather tied with vines, and A Yin put it around his neck. Zhuo Yan sat on it and could easily take off on the ice.

"Second brother, second brother, look at A Yindu." Xiao Xian said.

Ah Tou was not very happy and said, "He is pulling his friend."

"Then I am your brother too, please."

"Okay."

Xiao Xian's furry ears popped out in excitement, and Zhuo Yan pulled He lent the leather to Xiao Xian to play with, and he said to A Yin: "You become a human, and I will play with you."

A Yin's eyes were bright, and he suddenly turned into a human. Zhuo Yan had already handed A Yin the leather skirt, and A Yin After Yin was dressed, the two held hands and skated on the ice. Later, Xiao Xian and Qiao saw that Xiao Xian in particular didn't want his second brother to pull him, he could play by himself.

And let him beg!

A Tou: "You really change your temper very quickly. I won't carry you on my back when I go back."

"Hey, second brother, I'm just teasing you, don't be angry."

Qiao and Zhuo Yan laughed.

Everyone has been holding it in the cave for a long time. Even though A Tou said he would not let his brother play with him, he was actually very happy to play with him. His limbs slipped on the ice and his whole leopard shape almost flew out. Xiao Xian was amused in the back. laughing out loud.

When it was getting dark, they parted ways. Xiao Xian still said reluctantly, "I still want to come and play tomorrow."

"It should be safer after the beast wave." Ada saw that Qiao liked to say it first, which meant that if Qiao wanted to come, they could come again tomorrow. Play.

A Tou had completely forgotten what he had threatened his younger brother, "Let's play again tomorrow."

"Okay." Zhuo Yan agreed.

Their river is wide and long, and the ice is thick. It is a sacred place for skating. In addition, the orc and sub-orc genes are resistant to fighting and falling. Even if you fall too fast on the ice, it will not matter - Zhuo Yan does not feel too much. It hurts, and his Ayin always protects him.

So several people readily agreed, and Qiao said: "I'll go back and ask Shi Shi."

"I'll ask Aman." Xiao Xian said.

The rocks are not carried by the orcs, so they may have to get out by themselves, but the snow is still quite deep and it is difficult to walk on the road. Qiao said she would ask first, maybe Shitama could carry the stone and play with it.

Stone Granny is an orc.

A few people decided to go home early after discussing it. Zhuo Yan sat on A Yin's back, facing the cold wind, and played happily and freely for an afternoon without feeling cold. The dullness of the past winter was gone.

The next day, Aman didn't come, and neither did Shitou, but Qiao and Xiaoxian brought news.

Shitou's father is pregnant, and Aman's mother is also pregnant.

Zhuo Yan: ...

I love taking care of so many babies. Zhuo Yan thought of Shitou taking care of his sister, but in fact Shitou didn't like taking care of children very much - even though he had said before that if he helped him take care of his cub, what kind of cub would he have?

Xiao Xian held her cheek and said, "It's great. I don't know when my eldest brother's partner will have a cub."

Ah Ri formed a cave with the orc man last autumn, and the two of them did not hold a ceremony.

"The two of them were very excited when they found out that Ah Yin had turned into an orc. They wanted me to congratulate you, and said that they would come and say it in person after the snow had stopped melting," said Qiao.

Zhuo Yan could only say that he would wait to meet and chat, and sighed at the "love" of Shitou's parents, but he didn't expect that Aman's parents would be the same. He didn't expect that.

Then that night, he and A-Yin were lying in the same bed. It had been a long time. Zhuo Yan fell into a pre-sleep state. A-Yin said shyly, "Brother, do you like cubs?"

"... ...The cub, um, I like it, it's not bad, it's quite cute..."

Zhuo Yan was thinking of his uncle's Xiaoyan and Xiaopan, they were indeed very cute. Ah Yin lowered his head and kissed his brother secretly. He didn't really want the cub yet. He wanted his brother to play with him more, but that's fine if he liked it.

When Zhuo Yan woke up the next day, he thought about last night. He was a little unsure whether it was a dream or real. Then he and A Yin ate scrambled eggs that day, but Qiao and others couldn't finish it yesterday. Ah Yin:!

"It's cold and the eggs won't hatch." Zhuo Yan said looking at A Yin's expression. Doesn't it seem very sad?

Ah Yin started eating happily. In fact, he doesn't like chicken cubs very much. He likes them as long as his brother likes them.

Zhuo Yan saw that Ah Yin was enjoying the food and couldn't help but wonder: Could it be that he was really dreaming last night?

Most likely, Qiao and Xiao Xian were teasing him, and they heard that A Man and the adults in Shitou's family were pregnant again, so they might have had this dream——!

Zhuo Yan was shocked by his own thoughts. Because he was a sub-orc, did he really want to have sex with Ah Yin and have a baby?

No, he loves Ah Yin so much? !

Zhuo Yan was in a trance for a day.

Am I so deeply in love that I don't even know? No way...

Zhuo Yan doesn't think he's that love-minded. In modern times, he was a single mother. When he was in junior high school, there were young lovers secretly falling in love in his class. At that time, he liked to take physical education classes and play football. , I liked playing basketball in high school, tennis and cycling in college. Then one day a male classmate from the cycling club confessed to him and said: You do the same.

What is it? He was stunned.

The other party said: I thought you were too...I won't get the wrong person.

Zhuo Yan seemed to have discovered a huge secret that he had hidden that day. He didn't like football, basketball, tennis, or cycling. He liked to play with his male classmates. He liked...men.

It's just that his family is very traditional, and his personality is a bit shy. After self-certification, he escaped for a while... The bravest thing is to confess his sexuality to his family after getting sick.

Having said that, when Zhuo Yan was looking back on the past, he didn't realize that he had any love brain - because he had never been in love. So he was not sure. He glanced at Ah Yin secretly. Ah Yin had a really good figure. She was tall enough, but she didn't feel clumsy and bulky. Because her body fat was low, she looked healthy, just like the supermodels on the catwalk. , long legs, wide shoulders, narrow waist, small head, three-dimensional facial features, and a handsome face.

"...I'm so dirty!" Zhuo Yan cursed himself because his heartbeat was racing.

We agreed to treat Ah Yin like a kitten that I can pull up with my hands.

How could you have such thoughts about kittens.

Zhuo Yan, you are not human! ! !

"Brother?" Ah Yin came over, held his brother's cheek like his brother held his head, and took a closer look, "Brother, you are unhappy, please don't be unhappy."

Zhuo Yan, who was not a human being, was breathing nervously.

"I'm not unhappy."

"Yes."

Zhuo Yan: "...Okay, let go first." Otherwise, we will be too ambiguous, Ah Yin.

Ah Yin let go of his hand, still looking at his brother worriedly. Zhuo Yan: It doesn't have to be so close. He pretended to be nonchalant and said, "I was a little unhappy just now. I wonder when winter will end. It's too boring to stay in a hole every day." Just find any excuse.

After dinner, Ah Yin hurriedly put away the pots and bowls, transformed into a leopard shape, holding the 'dog sled leather version' made by Zhuo Yan in his mouth, and howled: "Brother, come up, let's go play."

Zhuo Yan: Wow wow wow wow I am really touched.

Who doesn't love big cats? Still have to be an individual. Zhuo Yan, who jumped repeatedly, conscientiously pretended to be a serious parent, climbed on A Yin's back and just sat down, when A Yin started running faster, Zhuo Yan screamed in fright and hugged A Yin, and A Yin said he did it on purpose.

Zhuo Yan: ...

But the moment when I started to eject was really exciting.

Zhuo Yan laughed hahahaha.

Ah Yin also became happy, wagging his tail.

It hasn't snowed much in the past few days, and some orcs have been carrying sub-orcs out to play - they saw that Zhuo Yan and A Yin's things were getting better and asked what they were. Zhuo Yan gave him some advice, and when A Yin turned into In human form, the tribesmen:! ! !

"Ah, ah, Ah Yin is an orc?"

"A Yin can change into a human form?!"

Zhuo Yan was very happy at this time, as proud as his son was admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University: "Yes, it didn't take long after it started snowing. He changed into a human form, and then he changed into a beast form." "The child is a late bloomer - I mean A Yin has never transformed before, but he changed after a while."

Later, everyone in the tribe knew that A Yin could change into a human form, Daya. Asen deliberately caught A Yin and Zhuo Yan by the river. They were very happy to see A Yin turn into a human form. Ah Sen looked at Zhuo Yan with "relief" in his eyes and said, "A Yin can transform, you will be fine in the future."

Zhuo Yan has always felt that his uncle Ah Sen cares about little Zhuo Yan, so Zhuo Yan Yan happily said: "Uncle, I will work hard to live with Ah Yin in the future."

There is no need to worry about him anymore.

Asen nodded.

When the snow melts a little more, it is the best time to walk in the tribe. The snow is there but not deep, and the weather is still very cold. The snow has not turned into water, and the sub-orcs can still step on the snow and go out - in another half a month, This snow will turn into water and it will be muddy everywhere.

However, winter and spring transition very quickly. In three to five days, the ice and snow melt and the ground becomes dry.

"Zhuo Yan!"

"Zhuo Yan, your A Yin has changed into a human form?"

That day Shitou and Aman finally came out. They were still wearing leather. Shitou held Dayun under his arm and ran so fast that Zhuo Yan was afraid. He fell down, but the stone was very stable. When he reached it, he put Dayun down, and Dayun crawled around on the ice.

"You're slipping on the leather." Shitou threw the leather over him.

Dayun sat on the leather, holding it up with his hands and playing with it.

Zhuo Yan and Aman Shitou chatted first, "Yes, Ah Yin has turned into a human form."

"I heard it from Qiao." Shitou said, "Qiao didn't let me ask you about mating with Ah Yin, saying that you would be shy. "

... Then what do you mean?"

Shitou scratched his head excitedly, "I'm so happy to see you. We haven't seen each other for a long time."

"Yeah, what does A Yin look like?" The male of the peacock tribe is very beautiful." Aman was curious.

Ah Yin, who was squatting behind his brother, turned into a human form. Zhuo Yan saw A Man and Shi Shi's slightly open mouths. He handed the leather in his hand to A Yin and asked A Yin to put it on.

Aman and Shitou have already started talking.

"It turns out that the males of the Peacock tribe are like this. Although Ah Yin has lost some weight, don't be afraid, Zhuo Yan. Ah Yin is still young. When he becomes an adult next year, he will definitely be stronger." Aman said.

Zhuo Yan knew that this was Aman's aesthetic, that is, a powerful player, and immediately said: "Ah Yin is very powerful now, he can hunt, as long as he is healthy."

"I know you will like Ah Yin whatever he looks like." A Man said happily Said: "It's just that the old people in the tribe said that strong orcs and sub-orcs can have cubs better. Didn't you like to have cubs before?"

The humanoid A Yin's ears stood up.

Zhuo Yan: ...I'm not—forget it.

"He's not an adult yet, so don't talk about this topic." Chakai Chakai said.

Aman nodded, although he didn't understand why Zhuo Yan cared so much about adulthood - because although A Yin looked a little younger, he was not in a cub state. It was not unprecedented in the mating tribe at this time, but Zhuo Yan didn't want to Just say it.

Shitou withdrew his gaze and said happily, "Zhuo Yan, your Ayin is so pretty."

"...Thank you?" I didn't expect Shitou to have a handsome aesthetic. In fact, it can be seen before that Shitou doesn't like orcs who are too strong.

After that, everyone started playing, and soon Xiao Xian Atou, Qiao Ada, and other tribesmen came out. No one had ever thought about skating on the ice before. At this time, most of the orcs were carrying sub-orcs on their backs for a walk.

Ever since Zhuo Yan developed the ice game, everyone has been playing it more.

After laughing and joking all day long, Zhuo Yan still had a smile on his face when he returned home. Ah Yin was very happy to see his brother happy. He doesn't like winter very much, but he likes skating very much. Winter is better now.

"Why are you like a puppy again?" Zhuo Yan looked at Ah Yin, "Why are you so happy?"

Ah Yin leaned over and said to his brother: "Brother, let's all go out to skate during this snow season."

" Okay." Zhuo Yan thought A Yin liked skating, so he readily agreed.

Ah Yin was very happy and thought about continuing to play tomorrow, "This will make my brother happy."

Zhuo Yan was stunned for a moment. Did Ah Yin think that he would be happy if he liked skating, so he was looking forward to it so much? He immediately looked at Ah Yin again, feeling soft...

The happy days of skating lasted for less than half a month. The weather was sunny and the sound of rushing water could be heard under the ice. At this time, the ice layer was very thin and it was not suitable. Skating, and the orcs were still playing, and there would be holes if they stepped on them, but fortunately it was the orcs, and there were no casualties.

The river is very fast and it is hard to get into the river.

The snow in the entire tribe has melted and the roads are a little muddy. Zhuo Yan doesn't go out much, and no one in the tribe goes out to hunt. There is no fat prey to be hunted at this time - after a winter, the animals are now very thin and hungry, and their tempers are also bad. Very grumpy.

The clan's custom is to wait for the weather to clear up completely and the mud on the ground to dry up before going hunting if there is no food, but this year there is no need to do so. Every household still has bacon in stock in their cave.

Zhuo Yan counted the food and found that he could eat it for at least another month, and he didn't touch the Dudu fruit. The days after that were not too difficult. Ah Yin turned into a human form, which reduced consumption and allowed them to eat cereals together.

When the ground is slightly dry, there are more people by the river. Many tribesmen come to the river with bone knives and stone knives to clean. The sub-orcs still carry rattan baskets, loaded with tools, and take their cubs with them to cut their hair short. Scrub your face and neck.

As for the cold.

The orcs are used to the cold river water. They feel that the river water will be very clear after the snow melts. The first wash in spring will make them stronger throughout the year.

Without the genes of a beast, you really can't do this!

Zhuo Yan let out all the chickens, tusked pigs and rabbits at home. The tusked pig lost a lot of weight, but was in good spirits. He rushed out of the cave and started to play at the bottom of the slope, gnawing the mud with his nose, as if looking for food.

The hen took her two remaining cubs to look for food and fluttered her wings.

"Ah Yin, tell Yazhu, just remember to come back." Zhuo Yan follows the principle of keeping animals at home, mainly because he is also very busy, so he can only let Ah Yin intimidate them.

Ah Yinguang glanced at Yazhu, and all the Yazhus were fawning over. Ah Yin nodded and said, "Brother, I'll keep an eye on you."

"That's good, come here, we need to dry the bearskin. The cover is just thin these days, so put away the bear skin. "

"Here comes brother~"

Zhuo Yan and his friends have been cleaning the cave for a few days - each doing his own thing, using the tooth needles of the earth dragon beasts. Give five stones to each of Aman, and no one will be left behind. After that, he put up the stove shed again. His stove did not collapse after a snow season, and the quality was still very good.

The bubble tree next to the crooked neck tree also had branches and branches. The branches that were originally weighed down by the snow stood up. Of course, there were also branches that were swaying here and there. Zhuo Yan ignored it. After a few days, he discovered that there seemed to be bubbles on the ground again. Leaves and new shoots growing?

Aman saw it and exclaimed: "Zhuo Yan, isn't your bubble leaf tree the same tree?"

"Yes, the branch on the side is inserted into the soil, and it seems that a second tree has grown." Zhuo Yan couldn't help but sigh, The plants in this world that could survive and reproduce in large areas are really tenacious. "Do you want it? I'll cut a branch for you, and you can just plant it in the ground when you go home."

Aman still looked shocked.

Shitou said: "What on earth were we doing before? The bubble leaf tree is so easy to work with, why didn't we plant it back before?"

"I don't know what we were doing." Aman thought about it carefully. He was stupid at that time, and other people in the tribe every day Whatever the sub-orcs did, he would do it without thinking about anything.

Xiao Xian said: "I know what to do. At that time, we had to pick, talk, play, and talk about which orc was the most powerful."

Several people squatted in front of the bubble leaf tree and sighed. They were stupid in the past and never thought about it. 'Plant', is what Zhuo Yan said, plant the bubble leaf tree back.

That evening, before the others left, Zhuo Yan cut off the branches of bubble leaves.

He also plowed up a large piece of gentle land on the slope in front of his house. Ah Yin helped him. It basically didn't need to be watered. He planted the collected garlic cloves one by one, as well as wild onions.

He was almost done with some odd jobs, and the weather was getting hotter. There was a big temperature difference between morning and evening. The hottest temperature at noon was 18 or 19 degrees Celsius. The 'schedule' he had arranged before could finally be implemented.

Before that, the uncle found him.

"Zhuo Yan, when will you plant potatoes this year?" The uncle still looked very serious and said, "There are also pottery fired by the tribe. You will continue to arrange it this year. If you need to tell the orcs of the tribe, I will tell you."

"The ground can be plowed tomorrow. Let's find the potatoes that have sprouted in each hole, collect them together, and continue to plant them on both sides of the original river area."

"Burning pottery can also be done at the same time. This year, we will see what is missing in which hole. It can be replenished."

He actually wanted to get some soap - there was not much soap left, only two pieces left, but now there is no grease in the hole.

After hearing this, the uncle summoned the sub-orcs to the square that morning and asked Zhuo Yan to speak.

"Two things, plowing the land and opening a kiln to make pottery. Plowing the land to plant potatoes, and half a basket of sprouted potatoes came out of each hole. We all did it last year. If you forget, you can ask those who remember. If you haven't yet, If you're not sure, you can ask Qiao and Aman. "

"The second thing is to burn pottery. The snow season has damaged the kiln. You need to take someone to repair the kiln, or clean up the place before burning. You can tell me if you want clay pots or bowls, Xiao Xian, please take note of this with Cong Lu."

Xiao Xian's eyes lit up and he said yes loudly. Cong Lu smiled and nodded.

"There's no rush to clean and wash the mud at the moment. We'll do it in two days."

The whole kiln is still in a mess and needs to be cleaned up first.

The clan leader looked at Zhuo Yan with great satisfaction in his eyes, and then arranged for the orcs to plow the ground - don't hunt too hard in the spring. The entire Leopard clan orcs knew this.

This year's snow season, no one from the Leopard People died. There has never been a winter like this, especially this year when there is a wave of beasts coming.

Not only that, there are also many Donglian orcs who are pregnant with cubs.

This is a very good thing. The clan leader looked up to the sky, then looked at Zhuo Yan...

It was the grace of the gods.