Because the dinner is close to the mountains and forests, it has an extra flavor, including pine needles, root vegetables, snow mushrooms, and the minced meat bone soup that has been cooked all afternoon.
For most people, even their daily lives are nothing more than this
"Neo, why don't you go to eat?"
Neo, who was combing the fur of white socks with a large wooden comb, turned around and saw Liz wearing a gray cloak. The cloak was made of velvet and billowing in the wind, making Liz's figure look a little thin.
"I need to rush to rendezvous with the Gale Team. Where are you eating? Have you eaten?"
"Well, I've eaten." Liz walked forward and pushed a wooden food box to Neo with both hands, "It's for you!"
"What is it?" Neo took it, opened the lid and took a look, "Oh! Pickled root vegetables, also dressed with scallion oil, um... delicious!"
"Thank you, Sister Liz." Neo smiled happily. Liz's cooking skills are indeed very good, especially the delicious pickled dishes. They were once one of the signature features of the Malfoy Hotel. Neo and his guards used to have a drink in the hotel restaurant.
eat, eat often, sometimes
I also packed some to take away and saw again today. Not only was the aroma of the delicious snacks tempting, but there was also some nostalgia for the past in it, as if I was tasting my mother's home-cooked food again after a long absence.
of cordiality
"Why is your hair so messed up?"
"Hey!" Neo was a little embarrassed because his hair would grow longer when he transformed into a werewolf. In the past, Neo would find a mirror afterwards and cut it short with a dagger. This time, he has been busy with this and that since he woke up in the evening.
He didn't have time to repair it, so he wanted to use his hands to pull it off a few times, but Liz opened it with her hands and said, "My hands are full of lint, I'll do it."
With that said, Liz came up, stood on tiptoes, stretched out her hands, and used her fingers as a comb to comb Neo's hair. Apart from her mother, Liz was the first woman to do this. Neo could clearly feel it.
The coolness coming from Liz's fingertips, and the feeling of comfort when her hair was combed by her fingers with moderate priority, felt so good that Neo unconsciously bent his legs to make it easier for Liz to do it.
After combing her light flaxen hair, Liz naturally took off a purple hairband from her wrist, helped Neo put it on the braid, leaned back and looked at it, "Well, I feel more energetic" and said
Then he brushed Neo's cheeks and chin with his fingers, "If you don't shave your stubble, will you learn from the vicissitudes of life?"
Neo said surprisingly, "It is also the sequelae of werewolf transformation"
Liz seemed to like seeing Neo being so at a loss. She pursed her lips and smiled silently, her smiling eyes half-closed. "Okay, I won't tease you anymore." She pinched and brushed the wolf on Neo's body.
Mao said, "No matter where you go, take care of yourself, you know?"
"Yes!" Neo nodded vigorously. "Sister Liz, please wait a moment." He turned around and walked a few steps quickly. He rummaged through the backpack on the snow plow not far away and found two items. He turned around and put them
An animal skin shawl was wrapped around Liz's shoulders. This shawl was made of the animal skins hunted in the past few days. Although it was not as high quality as the fragrant deer skin given to Mirien,
But the thermal insulation effect is still very good
Looking at the size, Liz knew that this shoulder scarf was used by Neo himself, "How is this possible? How could you be sleeping outside in the open air and not paying attention to keeping warm?"
Neo wrapped a scarf tightly around Liz's shoulders and said sincerely: "Take it, your cloak is too thin for sleeping in the open air. Aren't we all sleeping in the open air?"
"and you……"
"Take care of yourself, I can do it, I promise." Neo smiled and handed another object to Liz. It was an exquisite hand warmer, which was also used by Neo himself. It was mainly because the weather was cold, but it was
When I need to do some dexterous tasks again, "I haven't noticed before, sister Liz, that your hands and feet are always cold, especially in winter, your feet are extremely cold?"
"Hmm..." Liz nodded. She did have this problem, but it was not congenital, but related to the war spirit she raised.
Neo only thought that Lizzie was like Miriam, suffering from Qi deficiency, blood deficiency, and excessive pressure. He squatted down and measured Lizzie's feet with his fingers. It was simple and quick, "Well, okay, I'm free.
I have learned a few skills from Brother Edison to help you make a special pair of boots."
"Thank you" Liz sniffed and looked at Neo with warmth flashing in her eyes.
After sending Liz away, Neo continued to comb White Socks' mane. White Socks hummed: "I don't like the smell of this woman."
After taking office as a shaman, Neo's ability to communicate with fellow spirits has improved by leaps and bounds, and it has become possible to have spiritual conversations with White Socks incidentally. Although they can only talk about simple topics at the moment, Neo is very happy.
Neo thought that Miss White Stockings was getting jealous again, so he laughed in surprise and said, "What smell? The smell of laurel?"
"No, this smell goes deeper..."
Neo can understand it to this extent. No matter how deep the description and expression are, he still can't understand it.
"Deeper? Miscellaneous flavor?"
Normal smells are only superficial smells for beings with sensitive olfactory senses such as wolves, dogs, and bears. They can also smell some deeper, dark smells, and even some very weak smells in the body.
Can Smell has a dramatic line: I smell the stench of your dirty soul, which can somewhat describe that subtlety.
What Neo thought about was that Liz was a woman after all, not a girl. It was inevitable that Malfoy's smell would remain in her body. In addition, it might also be caused by long-term consumption of tea and other spicy food and drinks. This was called
It is a mixed flavor, mixed but not pure
Soon after this sweet little episode, Neo and White Socks left the camp and headed east.
Zhagen, who was chatting with the resting militiamen, saw Neo. After greeting Neo in a friendly manner, he turned back and said with a bit of regret: "It would be great if the brothers from the Wind Team were here this morning.
It is said that all of them can fight like Neo..."
Neo did not go directly east, but after leaving the camp for a while, he turned northwest to get Cordim's body.
As early as in the morning, shortly after winning the battle with the minions of darkness, Neo discussed the use of these human and animal meats with Diff and Abt. According to the plan, most of these human and animal meats would be passed off as trades with Mashua.
part of food, while
It was transported to the camp and stored in the food and grass as a base of food. It should not be used unless it is absolutely necessary. The weather is cold. If it arrives in a short while, there is no need to worry about the frozen meat spoiling. What's more, it can be pickled according to the situation. The salt and spices in the team are on the contrary.
Not much lacking
The main thing that Neo will bring out this time is animal skins. At the same time, he will perform certain cuts on the corpses, such as breaking open the upper body of the Cordim human form and guillotining it. The shape will be difficult to distinguish.
The risk of being discovered is reduced
Chopping ribs and cutting meat is a hard job. Fortunately, the meat has been frozen, making it easier to handle, and Neo specially brought a thick-backed chopping ax.
"White Socks, do you think I have the potential to be a butcher?" Neo chatted with White Socks while working.
"Humph, your behavior is incomprehensible. Your movements are clumsy and stupid. Hurry up. I promised to eat frozen meat, but I didn't promise to be hungry for so long." The white socks walked around the workplace, sniffing this and that
Smell, the meat quality of the Cordim beast is quite good, and more importantly, Neo's freezing method is better than what it knows. It has a bit of fresh frozen meat, and it is not disgusted with eating such meat, unlike Neo
What Ao said is just a young lady’s reserve.
It took about 2 hours before and after, Neo was finally finished
The snow had begun to fall an hour ago, and now it was being carried by the wind, sweeping away one by one like a summer thunderstorm.
"Ouch! Call it a day!" Neo's muscles tightened up and he made a bodybuilding movement in his white socks. Sweat was steaming from his naked body. The muscles in his body were all sharp and angular, without a trace of fat. He was indeed very powerful and beautiful.
The white socks man came over and squeezed Neo, and said with a bared teeth: "Why is it so ugly? When my scabies is gone, then it will be called beauty."
"Haha" Neo smiled and walked to the snow plow. He took out a cloth from his bag to wipe the sweat. A level 4 warrior. After exercising, he was no longer afraid of the cold. Instead, once the sweat soaked his clothes, the cold wind hit him.
, will be very uncomfortable
Putting on dry underwear and relatively loose leather pants, Neo let out a long sigh. He didn't bring armor this time. The armor suffered a lot of damage in the battle in the morning and has been sent to the blacksmith team accompanying the team for repair.
This blacksmith group is naturally hosted by McCann and Woodrow.
While dressing, Neo was thinking about trivial matters.
In the migration team, a hierarchical organizational structure has been formed. The core is him, Diff, Abt, and Miriam. The next echelon includes Jeff Zhi, who has just recovered from injury, and York, who serves as the captain and deputy of the two militia teams.
Along with Edison, McCann and Woodrow, there are also Cropp Village Mayor Asiborn, Level 2 Priest Nolinde, Hunter Wright, and the outstanding clerk Nikolai.
In the second level, almost all of them have multiple jobs and heavy tasks, such as York the Butcher, who is also the temporary guard of the Mammeris family, and Edison, McCann and Woodrow, all of whom have work related to their respective crafts.
Neo has no intention of simplifying the responsibilities of these people.
, what he thought of was the need to quickly promote a group of people with outstanding performance to serve as deputies or backbones to share the work. In this way, he could not only firmly grasp the main functional departments, but also allow these people to be trained and stabilized.
The team gradually solidified from this.
In addition, there are several more important functional links that are short of manpower, and we have to boldly recruit new people, such as medical care, publicity, catering, logistics support, bedding, transportation, and livestock raising. These all require dedicated personnel.
Came to take care of it
Liz, Zagan, Wendell from the cloth shop, Rick the clerk, Frank the militiaman, etc., these are all the subjects under investigation. In fact, most of them have already shared a lot of work. As long as nothing goes wrong, or the current situation can be improved,
If your performance continues, there will be no problem in being appointed or promoted to a member of the second echelon.
In addition to the outstanding elements waiting to be promoted, there are ordinary clerks and militiamen below. This class is the main target of unity and education. They are like the roots of a tree, firmly grasping the people who represent the soil, or in other words, influencing more people. To be more precise, from the current point of view, the effect of differential treatment is quite significant, which can be seen from more people actively trying to join this class...
Carrying more than a dozen furs and some fresh frozen meat, Neo walked northeast with white socks. His fifth mind continued to think about the rights of the team. Gaining status was the path he must choose, so he had no knowledge of this aspect. Confirmation, accumulation of experience, very caring
This move to the east may be regarded as a good practice opportunity for Neo. Dave is the representative. The four core people are discussing the management of this team together, but he is often the one who has the final say, from the formation of the team to the daily life. Neo felt that he had benefited a lot from the discovery and solution of problems, to the running-in of operations, as well as the emergence and solution of some problems not mentioned in the books. He also made a note and excerpt for this, In order to facilitate future inquiries and research, Neo believes that if there is a similar opportunity again, he can do at least 50% better than this time.
Leaving the dim lights of the mountain village Kuian behind, Neo continued to travel north. Finally, relying on analysis, traces, and smells, he found the second battlefield near a frozen creek about 5 kilometers north of the first battlefield.
This is the battlefield of the annihilation battle that the Mashua cavalry proudly mentioned in the morning. Strictly speaking, it is also an ambush battle. After killing Cordim's scouts, although it was Neo who first proposed the second Ambush, but Valentina had actually made up her mind at that time, but Neo coincided with it.
Under Valentina's subsequent careful arrangements, Mashua's militiamen successfully ambushed the Cordim man-beast brigade who came to look for the search team in the early morning, killing more than 100 men and beasts, and Valentina alone Just killed more than 40 heads
With strong morale, Valentina originally wanted to use a strong attitude to meet the outstanding temporary lord of Tures. At that time, Valentina had already thought of leading the people and moving eastward with the Tures people. He planned to cooperate with others, and of course he had to show off his strengths. As a result, the high-spirited cavalry met the Tures people who had already embarked on a migration journey in Fallen Leaf Valley, and what happened next
What's interesting is that at this time and on this battlefield, Neo actually found the majestic Acting Lord Mathias doing what he did after his first confrontation with the Cordim - skinning and dismembering.
Seeing that it was Neo, Valentina sheathed her sword. She didn't feel as shy as a child who was caught stealing sweets. She smiled brightly and said, "Why, not even here? The residents of Mashua are not like that. The people of Tures are so wealthy, especially these furs, which are of great significance to our eastward migration."
"I will help you with the work for 10 whole skins, but can I replace them with 15 human and animal corpses?" Neo directly skipped the sensitive topic. At this moment, he was more like a Fury businessman.
"It seems that the Tures Migration Team is more short of food than I thought. I can promise 20." Neo's understanding made Valentina regain the feeling of being a superior in an instant.
The agreement was reached, and the two started working together, doing the butcher's work together. Valentina was able to use sharp weapons with combat power, and Neo was not bad either. Even Valentina could only admire his control and use of power.
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White Socks, on the other hand, was quarreling with Valentina's beloved horse, Black Boots. Black Boots looked down on White Socks, who was covered in scabies, while White Socks was quite unhappy with Black Boots' arrogance.
"What the hell? Be careful, Miss, I'll scratch your face!" White Socks shook his mane and showed off his sharp claws.
"Try it if you have the ability!" The black boots snorted, and the black-maned hooves and legs powerfully stepped on the ground, causing snowflakes to fly.
"You'd better take care of your mount. I don't care if it gets hurt by my black boots." Valentina said with a little pride that was not disgusting.
"It doesn't matter, White Socks knows what play is and what life is." Neo is neither humble nor overbearing, soft yet hard.
"Your warg's name is Socks?"
"It seems that the name of your mount is also unusual."
"The boots are worth the socks."
“My boots are out and I feel like a server”
“It’s easy to break your feet without boots.”
"My feet are sweaty without socks, or even my feet are scratched"...
The two of them were working and bickering, and time passed quietly.
Even if the strength and physical ability of the two of them were far beyond comparison, they were exhausted after dealing with more than 100 large creatures. If it weren't for Neo's help and cooperation, Valentina would have had to work alone all night.
When the horse-drawn sleigh arrived at Quian, Neo realized that Valentina just didn't want the people to know that she was hiding human and animal meat in case of emergency, and the matter of animal skins was not hidden.
The people of Mashua were preparing for the migration overnight. Blacksmiths, tanners, cloth makers, crafts