Age of Empires From Scratch

  Chapter 49 New Neighbors

  The days are gradually entering the midsummer, and for the people in the winter village, they don't feel the heat of the midsummer at all, but feel that the weather is cool and pleasant.

"Is the summer here so comfortable?" Will from Port Royal feels that the summer here is similar to the winter in Port Royal. It is warm and comfortable without being particularly humid. The village has become especially cool, and he likes it more and more now.

"Yes, it's at this level during the hottest summer." According to David's experience in the past two or three years, the hottest time in this place in summer is only 27 or 8 degrees, and it's only a few days. There is a cool breeze blowing from the Winter River, and it is still comfortable and pleasant in the hottest time: "But winter is more difficult."

  The winter in Lindong Village is not only cold, but also lasts for a relatively long time. Every time he thinks back to the long and difficult winter of the previous two years, he is surprised that he can persist.

   "How difficult is it?" Will, who grew up in Port Royal, lacks an intuitive understanding of winter, even if David told him that winter is very cold, he couldn't imagine what it would be like.

   "I can only remind you to build your house more tightly, and you must prepare more firewood before winter." Even if there is a forest to the north of Lindong Village, it doesn't mean that they don't need to store a lot of firewood. Winter Village often snows heavily in winter, and when the door is closed due to heavy snow, it can only rely on the firewood stored in advance to keep warm. What's more, it is best to dry the firewood for a period of time before using it after cutting it.

   However, the smithy should have no shortage of things to make a fire...

   "I see." Will wrote down what David said, and then checked his newly built blacksmith shop with David.

Will became the blacksmith of Cold Winter Village. His house is not only a residence, but also the blacksmith shop of Cold Winter Village. Therefore, Will’s house is relatively the most troublesome to build—it is the first house in Winter Village to be used. Houses built of stone.

   There are Fording, Steve, Peggy, Sharon, and David, a strong labor force. Although there are no stonemasons, looking for stones that are almost usable, and adding cement, the house was successfully built.

Will grew up in a blacksmith's shop and knew how to design the layout of the blacksmith's shop. Mark made some "modern" improvements to Will's design. It took a month to complete the construction of the blacksmith shop.

The finally built blacksmith shop is composed of two parts, the working area and the living area. A forge where you can work and a warehouse where you can store various creations.

  The living area is next to the blacksmith shop, and it is true to say that it is part of the whole building, because the residence is connected to the blacksmith shop, so Will can go back to the room directly to rest.

  Will was very happy to see such a good blacksmith shop and house. More and more people chose to stay in Winter Village, and only ran back to Port Royal when he missed Elizabeth.

   "Can I bring Elizabeth to the village?" When the blacksmith shop was completely completed, Will couldn't wait to show off his own blacksmith shop to his beloved.

  For this question, David just replied: "Of course." Then he lowered his head and ticked the words "Blacksmith Shop" on the notebook.

   “There is a blacksmith shop, and so are water systems and public toilets.”

Laura spent a lot of effort and time to send all kinds of equipment parts that Mark needed, and then the village chief headed by David used 120 points of effort to assemble equipment, dig trenches and lay pipelines, build water pumps And the water purification station - a small machine room was built by the Winter River to ensure that the water pumping and water purification equipment will not cause accidents.

   After finally connecting the pipes to the assembled and erected water storage equipment, the tap water system David planned was finally completed.

  Now everyone in Rinwinter Village can receive clean water from Rinwinter River as long as they go to the faucets installed next to the water storage equipment in the village.

  Actually, when the village head took the lead in digging the trench and lowering the pipeline, the farmers wondered what the village head was busy with? Even if all kinds of equipment are assembled and erected by the river and in the village, the villagers still don't know what this thing is for? They didn't understand until the moment the water came out of the tap.

   "Why not just dig a well?"

Although the farmers did not ask directly, David could see similar thoughts from their expressions. David did not waste time explaining this situation. When various equipments were put into use one after another, they saw the real thing. I will understand naturally.

  No matter what, Cold Winter Village has finally been connected to running water. With the battery packs charged by wind and solar energy, it should be no problem to maintain the operation of these devices for a long time.

  Currently, the public facility being built in the village is the canteen, followed by bathrooms. These two facilities can be completed before the fall, and then the villagers should prepare for the winter.

  People in Lindong Village don't know, but David knows that the autumn time in this place is very short, or the temperature in this place will drop quickly in autumn, and it will be no different from winter in other places when it enters late autumn. If the villagers prepare for the winter according to their previous living experience, they will definitely be in bad luck.

  He will remind everyone to make various preparations when autumn comes, including hoarding firewood, making bacon, smoked fish, and making jam to ensure that everyone in the village can survive the winter safely.

   After thinking about it for a while, David felt that he should not have missed anything. He wrote down all the things he was going to do next in his notes and turned them back and forth a few times.

   "Next, should we upgrade the houses of everyone in the village? Or lay roads and drainage systems?"

  He didn't linger for too long. He felt that given the current situation in Lindong Village, it would be too extravagant to lay any asphalt roads, or even lay stone pavements.

   Similarly, in the current situation, there is no need to consider the drainage system, and it is almost the same when the village is further upgraded.

   "So, it's time to consider upgrading everyone's houses."

  In the entire Cold Winter Village, only Will Turner lives in the stone house, which was built considering the special nature of the work of the blacksmith.

  The head of the village, David, still lives in a one-room cabin. Judging from the layout and size of the house, it is not even as good as the houses of later farmers.

   "After several rounds of planting, can we harvest a lot of food in autumn?"

  Finally found another document, which contained information about the villagers and the land of Lindong Village, which was regarded as an official document certified by the Kingdom of Tilan.

  Currently, there are eight farmers in the village, not including a group of alien visitors, five of whom are contract farmers under David's name. More than half of the farmland reclaimed around the village now belongs to David himself.

Most of the remaining fields, which accounted for nearly half of the total, belonged to the mother and son of Samantha and Kang En, accounting for more than 30% of the total. farming.

The last part belongs to Mark, Fording, Peggy, Sharon, Steve, and Laura, but these few have no idea of ​​​​becoming big landowners. It seems that Laura just planted some random things after taking the time to reclaim a field. It is more to help Mark test whether various crops can survive.

   Fording, who lived in Cold Winter Village for a long time, and Peggy, Sharon, who can't go back and can only live here, planted some potatoes well. After all, they are not the kind of people who can keep eating with peace of mind.

   Therefore, in the "official records" of Lindong Village, these few are all self-cultivated farmers, and everyone has their own farmland.

   As for Will? He worked hard for the blacksmith with all his heart and soul, and he had no mind or energy to do reclamation work.

  The last thing left is the old hunter Addis and his nominally adopted son Alfie. Like Will, the father and son have no idea of ​​reclaiming the fields, and continue to focus on their original career, being a hunter.

   "David."

   While David was sorting out the villagers' information, Adis suddenly came over.

"What's the matter?" David noticed that Addis looked very serious, and he didn't bring Alfie with him no matter where he went, which meant that Addis had something to talk to himself alone: ​​"Sit down and talk slowly. "

   Poured a glass of water for Addis, David closed the documents and notebooks in front of him, and waited for Addis to speak.

"I took Alfie along the edge of the forest to the northeast today, looking for any large prey." As an experienced old hunter, Addis knew that it was time to prepare for winter, and a medium-sized or Large prey can not only provide enough meat, but can also be traded for other necessities.

  In order to ensure that he can better find prey and transport the prey back easily, he went out on horseback this time.

   "What did you find?"

  Addis ran to find his prey, but found himself when he came back. His expression didn't seem like he had any good harvest, but more like he found something unexpected.

   "I see some people."

"oh?"

"Located in the northeast of Cold Winter Village, about a day's walk away." As an experienced hunter, Adis can accurately judge the distance between the two places: "I observed in the dark, those people are Logging and clearing the land, and building a lot of wooden houses, I think they are building new villages."

  "A new village?" David was a little surprised. He didn't expect that someone would come to the northern plain to build a village, even further north than himself: "Iron Tree Fort sent out a development team again?"

   Could it be that because of the establishment of Cold Winter Village, Iron Tree Fort felt that it would not be difficult to establish a village here? So a new pioneering team was formed?

   "I don't think so." Addis denied David's guess: "I saw heavily armed knights and soldiers among those people."

  (end of this chapter)