A caravan was heading east on the steppe, and someone followed at the end of the caravan in an old horse-drawn cart, and a steel fork sat beside him and watched him with interest.

"I didn't expect you to be able to drive a carriage. A steel fork said.

"When I first ran with the caravan, I learned it by the way, and it was okay to run on flat ground. Ru someone said.

A gust of north wind blew, and the dust instantly enveloped the convoy.

Ru didn't wear his mask, and together with a steel fork, he just covered his face with a thick linen face towel, and although it was a little difficult to breathe, he could barely filter the sand and dust out of the air.

When the two of them were preparing to follow a caravan north to the prairies in Avalon City, they bought a second-hand carriage and a second-hand old horse on a whim, and then purchased some ordinary household utensils and shelf-stable fruits as commodities, and joined a joint caravan ready to go to Corn City as budding merchants.

Coincidentally, one of the merchants in that combined caravan had a relationship with Charles. When he had pit Adonis in the city of corn, he invited the onlookers to drink, including the merchant named Liechtenth and his apprentice.

However, Liechtenth had only seen Charles in a mask, so he didn't recognize someone who had returned with his nose.

Merchants pay a lot of attention to upfront investment, and budding merchants like Ru and a certain steel fork are quickly accepted by the combined caravan, although Ru someone has no right to speak.

In the eyes of those seasoned businessmen, those budding businessmen are a long-term investment.

When you are away from home and rely on friends, sometimes a message from a friend can make you a lot of money or get away with it.

Even if they become competitors in the future, friends will not be wiped out, and the losing side will withdraw from the area and start over with another map.

No one can guarantee that they will always win, and giving others a way to live is also leaving a way back for themselves.

Someone said: "Don't forget, my family has been a merchant for so many years, I have eaten pork and seen pigs run, even if my family is down, I can live comfortably in a carriage in the future." ”

"Is there still a clever werewolf in the carriage, the kind that doesn't wear clothes when she comes out?" asked a steel fork.

"Why don't you ss it?"

Someone dies and dies.

Rubbing his ribs, which he was afraid of cracking, he pointed to the back of the car while performing a healing spell on himself, and said, "I have six wolves." ”

A steel fork looked back at the six wolf cubs on the carriage that were tied up and starved and had little strength, and asked, "What are you going to do with them?"

Ru someone said, "Of course, when I got to Corn City, I asked Sister Momiji for help." ”

After someone was taken back by a wolf that night, he released the "Black Widow" and poisoned all 36 adult wolves in the pack, and now the carcasses of the wolves are in his storage ring, waiting to be sold in Corn City.

This group of winter wolves came all the way, and now there are still six wolf cubs with good strength, and the weak wolf cubs are all dead, so someone left them alive, and was ready to bake them with oil according to the old rules before selling them.

A yellowish-brown antelope jumped out of the dead grass, limping on its hind legs, presumably escaping the hunt of the beast but also wounded, and this lone wounded man did not live long in the wild.

An arrow was shot at the antelope's body, hitting it accurately in the heart.

Roard, the leader of the adventurers who was responsible for protecting the caravan, put away his bow and rode over to carry his prey back.

Rowald came to Ru's carriage and asked, "Aru, do you want some mutton?"

This is the prey he hits, so he has the power to deal with it.

Mutton is definitely wanted, and they still have to hang the lives of those wolf cubs.

"Sell me some offal. Ru someone said.

Rowald shook his head and said, "I won't charge you for those offal, you can come and get it yourself when the time comes." ”

He has protected the caravan for many years, and he knows that these merchants are people who can save money, and it is reasonable for someone like Ru who doesn't seem to have much money to cut the door so hard and don't want meat, as long as the internal organs.

In preparation for the evening, the convoy stopped by a small lake to rest.

It's just that the small lake, which was almost full of water, is now just over two meters deep at the bottom of the lake, where there is palm-high mud and many wild animals drink water in it.

I had no choice but to dig a well to get water.

Soon, a well nearly three meters deep was dug in the middle of the wagon-walled camp, and it was at this depth that there was enough fresh water to drink.

A steel fork came back with a bucket of water, lit a fire and boiled oatmeal on it, and peeled some salted meat into it.

A dejected Ru came back, and after he sat down by the fire, he said depressedly, "It's over, the grass around is so dry that it can be burned directly, and the wild onions and wild ginger are all dead." ”

A certain steel fork shook his head helplessly, and the plan of braised haggis fell through.

Without those spices, the haggis boiled in clear water had a strong taste, so Rowad would give them the haggis.

After cutting up a few pieces of the antelope's liver, he walked to his carriage and untied the ropes tied to the mouths of each of the six wolf cubs, and then fed each wolf cub a piece.

Just as the two were drinking oatmeal together, a certain steel fork asked, "Now that the grassland is so dry, will there be a grassland fire?" ”

Ru nodded hurriedly and said, "There have been times in the past where grassland fires spread to the south and burned a lot of maple forests, and I am afraid that similar things will happen during this time." ”

"The biggest fear now is next year's locust plague. ”

"What then?" asked a steel fork, she knew the dangers of the locust plague.

"Eat locusts. Ru someone shrugged his shoulders, "That's how the locust plague has come over for so many years. ”

"When you get to Corn City, you can pay attention to it, there is definitely no chicken to eat in Corn City now, everyone is laying eggs and eggs to increase the number of chickens, and then release them to eat insects next year. ”

"At the same time, the wild birds that eat locusts next spring will eat well, and the number of eggs laid and the survival rate of chicks will increase a lot, so that in the summer, when the chicks come out of the nest, they will be a new force to eat locusts. ”

"If the weather returns to normal, the ecosystem will be back in balance in a year or two. ”

After eating the oatmeal, a certain steel fork asked, "Will the maple forest attract locusts?"

Ru shook his head and said, "The leaves of the maple tree have their own insect repellent ingredients, unless they are soaked in high-temperature water, most insects, including locusts, will not eat them." ”

At this moment, someone suddenly raised his head and looked at the sky.

In the last rays of the setting sun, a large, golden bird flew overhead.

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