Although she was skeptical about David's "better environment", Laura did not object because she was curious about the person David was going to take her to meet.
Laura was very smart and guessed that David was going to meet the old hunter Addis who raised and taught him to become a hunter.
After walking around the outer city of Iron Tree Fort for a while, she gradually saw relatively scattered houses in front of her. Through David's explanation, Laura understood that because there was a threat from the elves in the Iron Tree Forest to the northwest, Iron Tree Fort was also built in that direction.
Fortress, so after it developed to a certain extent, people no longer settled in that direction.
Later, civilians who settled in Iron Tree Fort mostly chose the south side of Iron Tree Fort. The various types of houses and buildings in that direction were more than three times those on the west side, and the number of civilians was even greater.
A small number of people live in the southwest direction. Due to various reasons, there are much fewer residents in this direction - the defensive fortress mainly defends the direction facing the iron tree forest, and the pass blocks the road to the north. It can also be due west.
It is possible to take both factors into consideration, but the southwest direction of Iron Tree Fort is relatively weak for defense and is relatively close to Iron Tree Forest. Living in this area has certain risks.
"Generally speaking, the people who live in this area are mainly woodcutters and hunters." This direction makes it easier for them to get firewood and game from the nearby forest.
"Did you live in this place before?"
"Yes."
Because there are few residents, the houses are not almost next to each other like in the "outer city" we saw before, and there is much less "domestic garbage", so the environment is relatively "better".
Hearing David say what he wanted to say but couldn't believe it, Addis was so surprised that he straightened his back and leaned back. At the same time, he reached out for the small kettle that had been hanging around his waist, and opened the lid.
It took me several pauses to calm down.
Upon entering the house, there is the most spacious living room, with a wooden table and several chairs, as well as cabinets and shelves for storing weapons and prey placed around it.
In fact, it was not just Laura who was surprised, David was also a little strange... He had been away for more than two years, how could this place have changed so much?
I looked around to make sure I was looking for the right place, and except for the flowers and plants in the yard, everything else was just as I remembered.
Alfie's voice came from the kitchen, and David looked at the child who was still working hard in the kitchen, and thought of himself.
"..." The child named Alfie was startled and couldn't help but take a half step back as if he had done something wrong. Nono explained: "I opened the door when I heard him say that he called David...
…”
"Laura...Crawford?" Addis's face showed a little surprise. He carefully looked at the woman in front of him and easily noticed that Laura was special.
"I won't die that easily." David opened his arms and hugged Addis, and at the same time, he patted the old hunter on the back hard: "Don't you still expect me to support you in your old age?"
"Hey!" David on the side noticed that something might be wrong here. Although Addis's temper was not very good before, he was not so irritable, and although his tone was not good, the concern in his words was very obvious. It seems that this
The child's identity is not simple: "Old man, in addition to his temper getting worse, his eyesight has also become worse and worse. Don't you recognize me?"
"I'm not kidding." David looked directly at Addis in front of him, who also stared at David with wide eyes, as if he wanted to see some flaw in David's face.
He didn't say anything, but warmly invited the two of them into the house to talk.
The wooden door opened, and what came out was not a 'lady', but a short, thin child. He stood at the door and looked at David outside the yard: "Addis went into the forest in the morning (there are more than 100 children around Iron Tree Castle).
I went hunting in the Iron Tree Forest (a forest in the Iron Tree Forest) and I haven’t come back yet.”
"Is this here? The environment is really good." Laura looked very surprised. She thought that the Addis she was going to see would be a rough man with a beard and an unkempt appearance. Besides, he was a hunter, so he might have a lot of furs or fresh prey at home.
Corpse.
As for why David, who always looks like he wants to do big things, chose to give up, it may have something to do with the woman following him. Men, once they have the ties of responsibility, they will not think about so many unrealistic things.
Something.
Addis's home is also a wooden house. Compared with the new wooden houses David built in Winter Village, this wooden house is much larger and the interior is slightly more complicated, with several rooms separated.
"Laura Crawford, just call me Laura." Laura has been learning the lingua franca of this world. Due to her cheating language talent, Laura has long been able to communicate with people in the lingua franca proficiently.
.
In David's opinion, after learning about the situation of the pioneer team, Addis thought that he would never come back, so it was not strange to find a new successor to train him. He had long known that the old hunter adopted children and taught them to become hunters.
, just so that someone can take care of him after he is no longer able to hunt and provide for him until his death.
The two men stared at each other for more than a minute. Finally, Addis took the lead in sighing and broke the deadlock: "It's actually true... It's really unbelievable that you guy actually did it.
"
While this beautiful child was talking to David, an old hunter with a gray beard slowly walked over and started roaring from a distance: "Alfie, I don't want you to stay in the house.
In?"
"I was lucky. After taking over the position of village chief, I found a wild crop, and now I have begun to cultivate large-scale fields and plant this crop."
In any case, she never expected it to be like this.
"OK."
"The purpose of coming back this time is to make Winter Village an official territory of the kingdom."
"Thanks!"
After walking for a while, David and Laura stopped outside a wooden house. Compared with the houses they had seen before, this cabin looked much neater and cleaner. It also had a fenced yard and various kinds of plants.
Flowers and plants, the fragrance of these flowers and plants greatly alleviates various odors in the air.
"What's this girl's name?"
"This child is my successor?"
Putting his backpack and hunting bow aside, and after Laura also put down her things and sat down, David noticed that Alfie was in the kitchen handling the prey that Addis had thrown into the yard, and cast curious glances at David from time to time.
Addis had already walked up to David, casually throwing the hare and pheasant in his hand into the yard, and looked at David face to face: "Although you have changed a lot, you still don't look like you deserve a beating.
Change."
"Could it be..."
The old tree is blooming? The old bachelor is single?
With a piece of cloth tied around his head, David thought that the child might have been injured and was recuperating at home. According to his past experience, under normal circumstances, Addis would take the child with him when hunting and teach him how to become a qualified hunter.
"He said he was David, right? You are so stupid! I can't imagine how you will survive in the future." The old hunter's roar did not subside because of Alfie's excuse, and even became more deafening.
"This joke is not funny at all."
According to his previous temper, he should have given some 'kind' greetings smoothly, but now he had deleted all these words, but he soon discovered that he might have thought wrong.
David smiled back and turned to explain to Addis that he had not given up his identity as a pioneer this time and returned to Iron Tree Fort to be an Orion: "Although the pioneer team I was in encountered many difficulties, in the end it was
The village was successfully established."
After David entered the house, he looked around and saw that there was no change from when he left.
In this case, it seemed inconvenient for me to break in directly, so I had to stand outside the 'yard' and shout loudly: "Addis, I am David, I'm back to see you!"
"I'm David, has Addis mentioned me to you?" Seeing this little child, David immediately understood what was going on - it seemed that Addis had adopted another child.
Shaking his head, Addis took another big mouthful, and a little red gradually appeared on his face and neck: "Congratulations."
He opened his arms and hugged David: "I asked about the situation of the Pioneer Team, and I thought you wouldn't be able to come back."
"Wait a minute... you just said that you took over the position of village chief?" He discovered new crops and started planting them on a large scale. These are nothing. What really shocked Addis was that David actually became the village chief. At the same time,
He also understood why David came back to Iron Tree Fort this time: "So, you came back this time..."
Addis turned to Alfie in the kitchen and shouted: "The rabbit and pheasant are cooked for dinner to celebrate David becoming the village chief."
After careful inspection, this child was quite thin, with a handsome and fair face, and his skin was so delicate that he did not look like a child who would live in such a place.
Addis opened his arms and smiled happily: "So, when you come back this time, you are going to be a hunter in Iron Tree Castle?"
In Addis' view, David should have chosen to give up and return to his original life like the previous pioneers. In Addis' view, this choice was more practical.
"Oh? Success?" As a member of the Tilan Kingdom, Adis certainly understands what it means to successfully build a village: "But I heard from those who came back before that the environment in the north is very bad and it is impossible to build a village.
."
"Yes, I heard him mention it."
But when David turned the topic to the child, Addis's expression became strange, as if there was something he couldn't say.
"Is there any trouble?"
"No, nothing!" Addis obviously hesitated for a few seconds, but finally said nothing.
However, David noticed that Addis glanced at Laura a few times when he hesitated, and seemed to be very wary of Laura.