Age of Empires From Scratch

  Chapter 36 Rinwinter Village gradually taking shape

  It took a few days longer to return to Cold Winter Village from Iron Tree Fort this time than when I and Laura walked. The team of a dozen people and two cars walked for nearly 20 days before reaching the village.

Seeing that David brought so many people back, Laura, Mark, and Tirion Fording were all a little surprised. Previously, David only brought back Addis, who raised and taught him. Why did he bring back so many people this time? people?

"The effect is so obvious after getting the official letter of appointment?" Laura knew that David wanted to try to recruit some farmers again after getting the official appointment, but she felt that even if David could recruit farmers this time, it would be at the level of two or three people, and There are thirteen people gathered in front of me at this moment—not counting David.

   "The specific situation is a little different from what you thought, and I will explain it to you in detail later."

As a responsible village head, he couldn't bring people back and let them go, so he had to make some arrangements: Fortunately, the first few large wooden houses were not all demolished, except for the one used as a warehouse, there was still one The big wooden house allows these people to temporarily live in the big wooden house, and then cover everyone's residence before winter.

  David turned his head and looked, and found another wooden house built in the village: "Is that where Addis lives?"

"Yes!"

   With Fording's strong labor force, coupled with the fact that the structure of this simple wooden house is much simpler, and enough wood has been stockpiled in the village, the residences of Addis and Alfie were quickly built.

   "How much wood is left?"

  “I have cut some more in the past few days, but I didn’t cut too much to replenish the stock. The remaining wood may only be enough to build one or two new houses.”

  David nodded, knowing what to do next: Fording still has to work as a lumberjack during this time, after all, no one in the village is more efficient at cutting trees than him.

  These new villagers, the next main job is to build their own houses, and other things can be left behind.

  After talking about their arrangements with several new villagers, several farmers said: "In fact, we can cultivate new farmland and build houses at the same time, and it will not affect farm work."

According to these people, they can live in the big wooden house first, reclaim the wasteland first, and after completing the basic land reclamation work, the follow-up farm work will be relatively 'easy', and they can use their leisure time every day during this period Build their own houses - even the wood, they can cut it themselves.

  Although doing so will consume more energy and time, there is a high probability that they and several family members will only be able to spend this winter in a large wooden house with poor thermal insulation effect, but none of these people feel that this is inappropriate.

Several farmers whose contracts belonged to David stood there, with extremely simple eyes, making very small demands: as long as they and their families have food to eat during this time, they promise to let David harvest before winter The first batch of grain planted in the new field-they don't know the situation of potatoes, and the time is calculated according to the crops usually planted.

  Faced with such a low requirement, David didn’t know whether he should lament that farmers in any world are so simple; he should explain to Laura and Mark next to him: things are not what you think! As for Fording, the old nobleman is no stranger to this situation.

   Fortunately, his IQ is online, and he resolutely rejected the suggestions of several contract farmers and asked them to follow their own requirements. As for the food, they don't have to worry about it at all. During this period of time, the food in the village is distributed to all the villagers, and meals are served every day at meal time.

  Hearing what the village chief David said, the contract farmers who were a little worried about their own treatment were secretly relieved. As long as they have food, they can arrange it anyway.

   "After so many days of trekking, I will take a good rest after dinner and start working tomorrow."

  David didn’t say anything about taking a good day off. For these farmers, the earlier they start work, the earlier they can get their portion. Vacation is not a good thing for them.

  As for the long journey, everyone came by car, and the bumps on the journey are nothing to these farmers who have been doing manual labor since childhood.

After David made the arrangements, these people started to get busy: moving all kinds of things on the car, and then put them in the places where they should be placed under the command of Laura, Mark and Fording—such as various A few cows are brought into the warehouse, poultry are temporarily locked in cages, and they are also placed in a large warehouse. After a few days, chicken coops, duck coops, and cattle pens are built separately before resettlement.

All kinds of cold weapons were also placed on the shelves in the warehouse, and they were not mixed with the various weapons brought by Laura. These were just ordinary weapons with ordinary craftsmanship and materials. When it comes time to attack, distribute it to ordinary villagers, turning the villagers into armed militias.

  When the farmers had carried their luggage into the big wooden house and allocated their respective beds to prepare for dinner—the hard bread they brought, Laura came to greet everyone to eat.

  Until this time, several farmers did not understand what the village head said earlier, 'the meal will be served at meal time'.

   It’s not about sending out some hard bread and other food, or sending out some ingredients for them to solve by themselves, but really making hot meals and hot dishes for everyone to eat.

   And in their opinion, the food is quite good-a big pot full of stews, not many vegetables, basically all meat. Even if the peasants in the Kingdom of Tilan didn't live the life of not being able to eat a few bites of meat for many years, they had never experienced this way of eating.

  Looking at the large pieces of stewed meat in the pot, they were a little suspicious. Did the village chief distribute all the meat for the next few months at once?

   Just when the farmers were thinking about whether they had finished eating the meat, and there would be no meat to eat in the next period of time? Do you want to save some food? David was explaining the situation of these farmers to Fording and the others.

  The wooden table used as a place for several people to eat and discuss matters has been extended, and Adis is now sitting at the wooden table.

   What they ate was no different from the food sent to the farmers, but David didn't call the farmers out to eat together.

   This is Fording's suggestion. He doesn't think that David eating dinner with the farmers will make the farmers grateful, but it will only make them feel uncomfortable and not have a good meal.

  Adis agrees, so no one bothers about it—not even Mark Watney, from the land of 'free and equal', doesn't think certain ideas apply to all worlds.

   "By the way, I have something to tell you."

   "What's the matter?" Seeing Mark Watney's mysterious look, David glanced to the side, deliberately put on a curious look and waited for the next step.

   "A magical creature has appeared here, it should come from another world like me!"

  David looks at Mark Watney's 'Do you want to know what that creature looks like? Where are you now? Keep asking me! ’, David pointed at his side and rear mercilessly: "You mean a very naive blue turtle?"

   "..."

  Mark Watney turned his head to look at the Squirtle who didn't know when he was standing next to him, and then looked at David who didn't have the slightest surprised expression, and immediately realized that David had known the existence of the Squirrel a long time ago.

   "When did you find out?"

"I discovered this little guy when Maloney Mansfield was in our village." David looked at the Squirrel who was standing beside him, holding a wooden bowl and eating stew. The guy was speechless for running around to eat and drink in such an open manner: "Did you just come out and ask for something to eat during this time?"

"Jenny Jenny!" The Jenny Turtle nodded calmly. During the time when David was away, it often came to wander around the village. It came to have a look when it was hungry, and it also came to look around when it was bored. After dinner time in the village, I simply asked for a pair of exclusive tableware, and I have been staying in the village for the past few days.

"Okay! I thought I was the first to discover this little thing!" Mark Watney liked the Squirrel very much, especially after he found that the Squirrel could help him water the farmland, he wanted to turn to it immediately. Professional trainer: "But you don't know what this little thing is! This is a magical creature called Pokémon. Every Pokémon has special abilities. This little guy is called Squirtle. water…"

   "Oh, isn't it so magical?" After listening to a few words, I realized that Mark Watney's understanding of Pokémon is not as good as his own! He is limited to knowing a few names such as Squirtle, Pikachu, and Garlic, and he doesn't even know the skills, including that Squirrel can spray water only recently.

  But David didn't expose Mark, since he was idle anyway, so he just passed the time.

  The two of them were having dinner while chatting about the Squirtle. Laura next to him was chewing food expressionlessly, watching David quietly fooling Mark.

   While everyone was chatting about various things during this period, Laura kicked David's calf lightly under the table.

   "?" David returned a surprised look, and then secretly glanced at the few people next to him, as if reminding Laura that there are too many people here.

   Rolling her eyes speechlessly, Laura motioned to David to look over there.

  Following Laura’s reminder and looking aside, David understood why Laura kicked him: Not far from the table where everyone was eating, a phantom gradually emerged and slowly became solid.

  David is already familiar with this scene, and of course he understands what it means: visitors from other worlds are coming.

   Just when David was full of anticipation and wanted to see who would come this time, Laura kicked David again, and then winked at Addis at the square table.

In the past, I used to eat with visitors from other worlds such as Mark, Laura, and Fording. David didn't think of the two locals, Addis and Alfie, so David was about to find a topic to talk about Addis and Alfie. When Fei's attention was drawn away, Adis turned around just in time to face the direction of the phantom.

   "Huh? Is someone coming towards us?"

  (end of this chapter)