The sun in the afternoon is like my mother's hand, touching my cheek, it is easy to remind me of my mother, the wind on the grassland is very strong, even if it just rained last night, in this sunny afternoon, the southeast trade wind of the endless sea wants to blow every ice and snow in the Xinghu Grassland. I stand against the wind, the cool wind blowing through my open fur jacket chest, standing on the hillside to meet the green world in the distance.
I say aloud to the world: Hello, I am coming!
There are not many valuable things on the wind Wolf, although the Wolf bone is also hard as iron, making some bone is very good, but here is not the Green Empire, here is the Xinghu grassland, want to travel thousands of miles back to the Green Empire, the cost of the road is far greater than the Wolf bone itself, so for adventurers, The most valuable thing about wind Wolf is that it is smooth and warm like satin Wolf skin, every skater will cook the skin, who here has no salt glass? But peeling the skin perfectly, without damaging any of the texture on the Wolf's skin, has a lot of learning. Wind and waves are the most elementary warcraft, but the skin of Warcraft can carry magic power and draw magic patterns. Therefore, the leather armor made of wind Wolf skin will be sealed by the junior magic inscriptions and turned into magic equipment. It is very difficult to cut magic marks on the leather, and there are many factors for failure, so the wizards have very strict requirements for warcraft leather, almost every leather will be identified, from one to ten different, and the price is also different. So a skilled skater will also be very popular, and Uncle Fred is the best of this. In addition, there are four sharp canine teeth on the wind Wolf body, which is the production of carving knife and other materials, even if 100 steel is not hard, and it is easy to carry, which is one of the few valuable things on the wind Wolf body.
The adventure group brought back a total of eleven wind wolves, said to have destroyed a Wolf den. Every Wolf pack has a female leader, and this Wolf pack was no exception. The adult female, more than four meters long, was spread out on the board wagon, and Uncle Fred skinned it himself.
I did not understand Kuz's feelings, at this time he was enjoying watching Uncle Fred's flowing knife, the peeling knife in Uncle Fred's hand was like the eyes of his own hand, walking quickly between the fascia of the mother Wolf and the subcutaneous fat, the movement was dexterous as if he were stripping his wife's clothes, and the gorgeous clothes were taken off with a gentle pull.
Holding a roll of parchment in my arms, I nudged Kuz's left side with my elbow with a magic knife and pen in my mouth, and then leaned over his ear and asked him, "Kuz, aren't you a warrior of the Orc-wolf clan, and seeing this scene doesn't feel a little bloody?"
Kuz stared at me with a serious face and said, "We are orcs, and orcs are not related to wolves. The children of our tribe also kill some wolves. They eat our animals and sometimes they steal sheep from us."
The whole adventure group had lunch at noon and followed the rangers to chase the gazelle herd, and it was said that our team of skiers would follow them later. The two young soldiers who had guarded us in the morning were taken away, leaving behind two more lightly wounded soldiers, who had been bumping about on their horses all morning, and by this time had eaten their lunch, and were lying in the afternoon sun on a sunny, wind-swept hillside. Is still the young sorceress to stay, she has a new task is responsible for the distribution of the skin of the Wolf, she looked very seriously, and occasionally interrupted to point out some of the mistakes of the skinning master, the morning relaxed atmosphere suddenly disappeared, the uncle in the caravan began to work with fear.
Kutz and I were the spectators, at this time, Uncle Fred was in the ox cart, obediently watching Uncle skin. The female magician slowly walked to my side, stopped for a moment, and suddenly put out his hand in his pocket, handed me a handful of yellow and orange beans, and rarely smiled, she smiled and really had a little taste of youth, very good, otherwise I would have listed her as an old witch. Then she said to me, "Here you are."
"What is this?
"Bean."
"Cooked."
"Yes, please eat!"
Short communication, maybe she saw I was too young to take extra care of me. This sudden acquisition of fried beans made me feel like she was the sister next door. I politely stood up and thanked her, and she seemed a little surprised that I said thank you. The imperial language does not contain such honorifics as "thank you", perhaps I did not expect that my identity is just a homeless child, also use Imperial language honorifics, a little surprised!
Eleven Wolf skins were soon taken off, and the two lightly wounded soldiers of the nearby adventure Group were called out, and one of them set off with four oxcarts in search of the antelope hunting adventure group on the prairie, while Kutz, Uncle Fred, and I were left to prepare their skins and take the core until all the adventure Group members had returned. The red and bloody head of the skinned Wolf was as big as that of a calf and was piled on the grass, the blood now dried and turned black and purple.
In fact, the rest of the work is still very heavy, the skilled craftsmen are left to deal with the blood and mud fat from the skin of the Wolf, and then the fur is soaked in boiling water mixed with alum, stretched out on a wooden rack to dry, and then rubbed with salt water to turn into fine leather. These processes are the most test of the craftsmen's technology, because once the texture of the warcraft skin is injured, then the whole skin will drop several grades, even if the inscriptions apprentice will not use the worst warcraft skin practice inscriptions, poor grade of the wind Wolf skin can only do some leather, using its own tough and wear-resistant properties, will not become magic equipment.
And Kuz sat on the only ox cart, followed Uncle Ann to the small lake not far away to fetch water, Uncle Ann was very serious when driving the ox cart, also did not speak. It's me and Kuz fighting on the cart, which Uncle Fred would have kicked us in the ass when he was around, while Uncle Ann is careful to keep the cart smooth.
I have a few delicious beans in my hand, and Kuz you one I one eat very sweet. Although I did not succeed in practicing anti-magic last night, after consuming some magic power in my body, I found that the original restless fire element magic calmed down, just gathered in the long time, and the burning sensation that always existed on my body was actually a little smaller, which made me feel very comfortable. Sometimes, a little inexplicable reason can make me very satisfied, like I am now.
To the lake, Uncle Ann did not let me and Kutz start, a person carrying two buckets of water, walking back and forth between the lake and the ox cart, I and Kutz actually the kind of cheap children, naturally jumped off, two people carry a bucket of water behind Uncle Ann, see that Uncle Ann is very pleased. People are always in such a harmonious situation to enhance the relationship, like this time after the water, on the way back Uncle An opened a box, willing to talk with us: "My family also has you so big, to you so clever words, I don't know how happy will be."
"Uncle Ann, do you have children at home?" I thought that Uncle An's home had been robbed by barbarians, and only Uncle An himself was an old brother, so I joined the business group, and it turned out that he had relatives at home.
Uncle An laughed and said, "What do you mean? I have three wives and five children to support."
'Ah! My mouth fell open.
Uncle An said, "My two younger brothers have died, and I have to take care of my sister-in-law and her offspring." That's how it is in our country, where barbarians come every few years to take men back to the mines, leaving a bunch of women and children with no one to rely on. That's what every family does. I wish they could go somewhere, but if they stay, then I have to support them, which will be my daughter-in-law in the future. Before coming out, the eldest of the five children in the family was not yet ten years old, and the youngest was not yet a full moon. Oh, although the business group is a bit hard work, it takes two or three years to go out at a time, but the pay is not bad, this time I think I can at least renovate the house, and it is better to move to a place near the city of Sloit, maybe it will be safer."
"So Uncle Ann, you are out running business, how do they live at home?" I asked curiously.
Uncle Ann smiled and said, "Country people live very easily." Eat some black wheat, which is all over the mountain, and if you are lucky, you may find some pheasants in the snow pits." In the end, Uncle Ann did not say how to live, and I did not ask too much for fear of annoying, but it is true that the world is rich in products.
Kuz is a little stupid but diligent, I am small but very good at talking, look at the pile of this work done in a straight line, even the pile of no harvest of the Wolf head also distinguish who is who, each bloody Wolf head was signed by me. So the two of us are very popular among the team. Uncle Fred is also very proud, apparently this time he persuaded the two adventure group leaders to let us two boys into the hunting group, and we two children can do something more or less to help, so that others less gossip, naturally let Uncle Fred is very happy.
This meadow after I do not know how many years of deposition, winter and summer alternately, the years of decay, years of grass into rotten leaves, the grassland became fertile. I crouched next to Uncle Fred and listened to his story. The uncle had been a leather maker for more than twenty years. He had been an apprentice in a shoe-shop, and in those days, when he was no more than a boy like me, he was paid only a piece of white bread every day. Even now, apprentices in the shop follow the old tradition that the little apprentices are not paid at all, but only a piece of white bread every day.
Each master will use his own method to teach his apprentices, because each leather maker has a different understanding of the concept of skin, in this era, there is no school, but the skilled leather maker always has his own unique method, Uncle Fred's perception of leather, only the texture.
Old Kuru has been very praised Uncle Fred for this reason is also because of this, many of the Orc totem marks are based on the texture of Warcraft leather was born, the old Kuru called Warcraft leather itself has a natural magic array, these magic arrays are contained in the texture, and because of this, Warcraft leather will carry magic power, and finally made into magic equipment.
Uncle Fred told me that conforming to the texture of the leather will cause the least damage to the leather during the leather process, and will have a greater chance of producing a better leather. While squatting on one side, I watched Uncle Fred gently hold the knife in his hand with the four fingers of his left hand, gently pushing it between the skin and the fascia, and the skin was peeled off. I smiled and said to Uncle Fred, "Uncle, you will have your own leather shop, and I will be your little apprentice, and you will give me a white bread every night."
"Then it's not easy for your boy to get white bread without hard work. Ha ha!" Uncle Fred laughed loudly, I think no matter aristocrats, civilians, slaves, everyone needs to have a little bit of pride in the inner world, which is the source of their happiness, and sometimes the meaning of life. Uncle Fred also has a wish, that is, to use the money earned by the runner to open a small leather shop, even if it is a little remote, it does not matter, as long as it is his own shop.
This time is probably the most proud of Uncle Fred, pick up the knife he is like an artist, confidence, passion, this is Uncle Fred's pride, and my pride where? I have always felt that my life has meaning because of the extraordinary magical power in my blood, and I have often been a little proud of it, and old Kuru told me to keep this secret to myself until I could protect myself.
I leaned my little body against a sack full of brown bread and stretched in the most comfortable position. The men in the caravan were not unhappy that you had the right not to work because you were only five years old, but they were not unhappy that thieves were lazy because of my age. I could remember the wind Wolf materials in the books, even if I had completed my task. Kuz also has to follow Uncle Ann to the lake to carry water, he paid today's labor is not enough to exchange dinner. I wanted to go with Kuz, too. The little Orcs don't much like cooperating with strangers, and he only trusted me except for old Kuru. But the young sorceress who has been in charge of supervision and vigilance stopped me and said to me: "Secretary, in a moment the team of adventure group will come back, there are a large number of demon antelope need you to register, don't go far."
Female magician to my name let me a little dumbstruck, the first time someone called me such a formal name, I am a little embarrassed do not know how to answer her, see her eyes in some narrow smile, just know the original joke with me, do not know why she will have a good impression on me, it seems that my popularity can be ah!