Chapter 36 The Winter Village is gradually taking shape
This time, it took several days longer to return to Cold Winter Village from Iron Tree Castle than when he and Laura walked. The team of more than a dozen people and two cars walked for nearly 20 days before reaching the village.
Seeing David bringing so many people back, Laura, Mark and Tirion Fordring 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 appointment letter?" Laura knew that David wanted to try to recruit some farmers again after he got the official appointment, but she felt that even if David could recruit farmers this time, it would only be two or three people.
There were a total of thirteen people gathered in front of me at this moment - not counting David.
"The specific situation is a little different from what you thought. I will explain it to you in detail later."
As a responsible village chief, he couldn't just bring the people back and ignore them. 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 remaining.
The big wooden house can allow these people to live in the big wooden house temporarily, and then build everyone's residence before winter is still early.
David turned around and looked around and found that another wooden house had been built in the village: "Is that the residence of Addis?"
"Yes!"
With Fording's strong labor force and the fact that the structure of this simple wooden house is relatively simple, the village stockpiled enough wood and quickly built Addis and Alfie's residence.
"How much more wood is there?"
"I've cut some more in the past few days, but I just replenished the inventory and didn't cut too much. The remaining wood may only be enough to build one or two new houses."
David nodded, knowing what to do next: Fording still had to work as a lumberjack during this period, after all, no one in the village could chop down trees more efficiently than him.
This was Fording's suggestion. He didn't think that David's dinner with the farmers would make the farmers grateful. It would only make them feel uncomfortable about not being able to eat.
All kinds of cold weapons were also placed on the shelves in the warehouse, and they were not mixed with the various weapons that Laura brought. These were just ordinary weapons with ordinary craftsmanship and materials. The function of these weapons was to encounter in the Winter Village.
When an attack occurs, they are distributed to ordinary villagers, turning the villagers into armed militia.
Just as the farmers were thinking about whether they had finished eating the meat and there would be no more meat for a while? Should they save some food, David was explaining the situation of these farmers to Fording and others.
"I've been traveling long distances for so many days. Let's have a good rest after dinner and start working tomorrow."
After explaining their arrangements to 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 the farm work."
"?" David returned a surprised look, and then secretly glanced at the people next to him, as if to remind Laura that there were too many people here.
While everyone was chatting about various things during this period, Laura gently kicked David's calf under the table.
"Oh, is it so magical?" After only listening to a few sentences, he realized that Mark Watney didn't know much about Pokémon as he did! He only knew a few names such as Squirtle, Pikachu, and Garlic.
I don’t know any of the skills, including the fact that Squirtle can spray water, I only learned about it not long ago.
It was only then that several farmers understood what the village chief meant when he said, "Meal will be served at meal time."
According to these people, they can live in a big wooden house first and reclaim the wasteland first. After completing the basic land reclamation work, the subsequent farm work will be relatively 'easy'. During this time, they can use their daily leisure time.
Build their own house - they can even cut the wood themselves.
Instead of just handing out some hard bread and other food, or handing out some ingredients for them to prepare on their own, we actually make hot meals and hot dishes so that everyone can eat them.
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?
"A magical creature has appeared here. It should be from another world like me!"
"Squirtle, Jenny!" Squirtle nodded calmly. During David's absence, he often came to the village to have a look. When he was hungry, he came over to take a look. When he was bored, he came over to take a look. After understanding the cold winter
After dinner time in the village, I simply asked for a pair of exclusive tableware, which has been settled in the village in the past few days.
But David didn't expose Mark. Anyway, he was idle, so he just passed the time.
As for traveling such a long distance, everyone comes by car, and the bumps in the journey are nothing to these farmers who have been doing manual labor since childhood.
As a few people ate, the wooden table for discussion was lengthened, and Addis was now sitting at the wooden table.
Although this would consume more effort and time, and there was a high probability that they and several family members would have to spend this winter in a large wooden house with extremely poor thermal insulation, none of these people felt that this was inappropriate.
After David made the arrangements, these people began to get busy: moving various things from the car, and then placing them where they should be placed under the command of Laura, Mark and Fording - such as various
Breed a few cows and bring them into the warehouse. The poultry are temporarily locked in cages and placed in the large warehouse. They will be placed in separate chicken coops, duck coops, and cattle pens in a few days.
Addis also agreed, so no one struggled with this matter - even Mark Watney, who comes from a country of 'freedom and equality', doesn't think certain ideas apply to all worlds.
The food they ate was no different from the food sent to the farmers, but David did not call the farmers out to eat together.
Rolling her eyes speechlessly, Laura gestured to David to look over there.
Faced with such low requirements, David didn't know whether to lament that farmers in any world are so simple; or he quickly explained to Laura and Mark next to him: things are not what you think! As for Fording, the old nobleman was so unsophisticated.
This situation is no longer surprising.
Hearing what the village chief David said, the contract farmers who were a little worried about their treatment secretly breathed a sigh of relief. As long as they have food to eat, they can make any arrangements.
Mark Watney turned to look at Squirtle, who had stood next to him at some point, and then at David, who had no expression of surprise at all. He immediately realized that David had known about Squirtle's existence for a long time.
"By the way, I have something to tell you."
David didn't say anything about taking a good rest. For these farmers, starting work earlier can get their share earlier. Taking a holiday is not a good thing for them.
And in their opinion, the food is quite good - a big pot full of stew, not many vegetables, basically all meat. Even if the farmers in the Kingdom of Tilan do not live the kind of life where they cannot eat more than a few bites of meat for many years, they still
I have never experienced eating this way.
Fortunately, his IQ was online and he decisively rejected the suggestions of several contract farmers and asked them to follow their own requirements. As for food, they did not have to worry about it. During this period, the food in the village was distributed to all villagers, and every day at meal time
Just start dinner.
"What's going on?" Seeing Mark Watney's mysterious look, David glanced to the side and deliberately pretended to be curious and waited for the next step.
"..."
The two of them were having dinner while chatting about Squirtle. Next to them, Laura was chewing food expressionlessly and quietly watching David fooling Mark.
The next main job for these new villagers is to build their own houses, and other things can be put aside.
Several farmers whose contracts belonged to David stood there, with extremely simple eyes and a small request: as long as they and their families had food to eat during this period, they promised to let David harvest before winter.
The first batch of food grown in a new field - they don't know the situation of potatoes, the time is calculated based on the crops they usually grow.
David looked at Mark Watney with a look like 'Do you want to know what that creature looks like? Where is it now? Keep asking me!', David pointed to his side and behind without mercy:
"Are you talking about the very silly blue turtle?"
"Okay! I thought I was the first person to discover this little thing!" Mark Watney likes Squirtle very much, especially after discovering that Squirtle can help him water his farmland, he can't wait to switch to Squirtle immediately.
Professional trainer: "But you probably don't know what this little thing is! This is a magical creature called Pokémon. Each Pokémon has special abilities. This little guy is called Squirtle, and he can spray
water……"
When the farmers carried their luggage into the big wooden house and assigned their beds to rest in preparation for dinner - the hard bread they brought with them, Laura came to greet everyone to eat.
Following Laura's reminder and looking to the side, David understood why Laura was kicking him: not far from the table where everyone was eating, a shadow gradually emerged and slowly became solid.
"I discovered this little guy when Maroney Mansfield was in our village." David looked at Squirtle standing next to him, holding a wooden bowl and eating stew. For this little guy,
The guy actually came so openly to eat and drink and was speechless: "You just walked out to ask for food during this time?"
"When did you find out?"
David was already very familiar with this scene, and he certainly understood what it meant: Visitors from other worlds were coming.
Just when David was full of expectations 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, he always ate with Mark, Laura, and Fording, visitors from other worlds. David never thought of the two locals, Addis and Alfie, just when David was about to find a topic to talk about Addis and Alfie.
When Fei's attention was drawn away, Addis turned around and faced the direction of the phantom.