[Chapter 36 The Winter Village Gradually Takes Shape]

This time, it took a few days longer to return to Winter Village from Iron Tree Castle than when Laura and I walked. The team of more than a dozen people and two cars walked for nearly twenty days before reaching the village.

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

“Is the effect so obvious after getting the official appointment letter?” 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 only be two or three people, and there were thirteen people gathered in front of him at the moment-not counting David.

“The specific situation is a little different from what you think. I will explain it to you in detail later.”

As a responsible village chief, he couldn’t just ignore it after bringing people back. He had to make some arrangements: Fortunately, the first few large wooden houses were not completely demolished. In addition to the one used as a warehouse, there was still a large wooden house left, which could allow these people to live in the large wooden house temporarily, and then build everyone’s residence before winter.

David turned his head and saw that another wooden house had been built in the village. “Is that where Addis lives?”

“Yes!”

With Fording, a strong laborer, and the fact that this simple wooden house was much simpler in structure, and the village had enough wood stored, Addis and Alfie’s house was soon built.

“How much wood is left?”

“I cut some more these 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 and knew what to do next: Fording still had to work as a lumberjack during this period, after all, no one in the village was more efficient at cutting trees than him.

The main task for these new villagers was to build their own houses, and other things could be put on hold.

After telling the new villagers about their plans, several farmers said, “In fact, we can build houses while reclaiming new farmland, which will not affect farm work.”

According to these people, they can live in the big wooden house first and reclaim the wasteland. After completing the basic reclamation work, the subsequent farm work will be relatively “easy”. During this period, they can use their free time every day to build their own house – they can even cut wood by themselves. Although

this will take more effort and time, and it is likely that they and their families will have to spend this winter in a big wooden house with poor insulation, but none of these people think it is inappropriate.

Several farmers whose contracts belong to David stood there, with very simple eyes and made very small requests: as long as they and their families have food to eat during this period, they will guarantee that David will harvest the first batch of food grown in the new field before winter – they don’t know the situation of potatoes, and the time is calculated according to the crops they usually grow.

Faced with such low requirements, David didn’t know whether he should sigh that farmers in any world are so simple; or he hurriedly explained to Laura and Mark beside him: Things are not what you think! As for Fording, the old nobleman was already accustomed to this situation.

Fortunately, his IQ was online, and he decisively rejected the suggestions of several contract farmers and asked them to do it according to his own requirements. As for food, they don’t have to worry at all. During this period, the food in the village is distributed to all villagers, and meals are served at mealtime every day.

Hearing what the village chief David said, the contract farmers who were a little worried about their own treatment secretly breathed a sigh of relief. As long as there is food to eat, they can arrange it in any way.

“After such a long journey for so many days, take a good rest after dinner and start work tomorrow.”

David didn’t say anything about taking a good rest for a day. For these farmers, starting work early can get their share earlier, and taking a holiday is not a good thing for them.

As for the long journey, everyone came by car, and the bumps on the journey were nothing for these farmers who have been doing physical work since childhood.

After David made the arrangements, the people started to get busy: they took down all kinds of things from the car, and then put them in the places where they should be placed under the command of Laura, Mark and Fording – for example, a few cows were led into the warehouse, and poultry were temporarily locked in cages, which were also placed in the large warehouse, and then placed after a few days when chicken coops, duck houses and cattle pens were built separately.

Various cold weapons were also placed on the shelves in the warehouse, and were not mixed with the various weapons brought by Laura. These were just ordinary weapons, with ordinary craftsmanship and materials. The purpose of these weapons was to distribute them to ordinary villagers when the Winter Village was attacked, so that the villagers could become armed militia.

When the farmers moved their luggage into the big wooden house, divided their beds for rest and prepared to eat dinner – the hard bread they brought with them, Laura came to greet everyone to eat. It

was not until this time that several farmers understood what the village chief meant by “serve dinner at dinner time”.

It was not to distribute some food such as hard bread casually, or to distribute some ingredients for them to solve by themselves, but to really make hot meals and hot dishes for everyone to eat.

And in their opinion, the food was quite good – a big pot full of stew, not many vegetables, basically all meat. Even though the farmers in the Kingdom of Tiran did not live a life where they could not eat much meat for many years, they had never experienced this kind 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 as the farmers were thinking about whether they would have no meat to eat after eating all the meat, and whether they should save some food, David was explaining the situation of these farmers to Fording and others.

The wooden table for the group to eat and discuss was extended, and Addis now sat at the wooden table.

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.

This was Fording’s suggestion. He did not think that David and the farmers would be grateful for having dinner together, but would only make them feel uncomfortable and unable to eat well.

Addis also agreed, so no one bothered about it – even Mark Watney, who came from the country of ‘freedom and equality’, did not think that certain concepts were applicable to all worlds.

“By the way, I have something to tell you.” “

What is it?” Seeing Mark Watney’s mysterious look, David glanced at the side and deliberately put on a curious look and waited for the next words.

“You have a magical creature here, it should be from another world like me!”

David looked at Mark Watney’s expression, ‘Do you want to know what that creature looks like? Where is it now? Keep asking me! ‘, David pointed at his side and back mercilessly: “Are you talking about the blue turtle that looks particularly silly?”

“…”

Mark Watney turned his head to look at Squirtle who stood beside him at some point, and then looked at David who didn’t show any surprise, and immediately realized that David had known about Squirtle’s existence for a long time.

“When did you find out?”

“I found this little guy when Marlonie Mansfield was in our village.” David looked at Squirtle standing next to him, holding a wooden bowl and eating stew. He was speechless about the little guy running over to eat and drink so openly: “You just came out to ask for food during this period of time?”

“Squirtle!” Squirtle nodded calmly. During the time when David was away, it often came to the village to wander around. When it was hungry, it came to see, and when it was bored, it came to look around. After knowing the dinner time in Winter Village, it simply asked for a pair of exclusive tableware and has lived in the village in recent days.

“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 irrigate the farmland, he wanted to change his job to become a trainer immediately: “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 can spray water…”

“Oh, so magical?” After listening to just a few words, I found that Mark Watney’s understanding of Pokémon is not as good as his! He only knows a few names such as Squirtle, Pikachu, Garlic Turtle, etc., and he doesn’t even know the skills, including that Squirtle can spray water. He only knew it not long ago.

But David didn’t expose Mark. Anyway, he was free, so he just killed time.

The two of them ate dinner while chatting about Squirtle. Laura next to them chewed food expressionlessly, watching David fooling Mark quietly.

Just as everyone was talking about various things during this period, Laura gently kicked David’s calf under the table.

“?” David returned a surprised look, then secretly glanced at the people next to him, as if to remind Laura that there were too many people here.

Rolling his eyes speechlessly, Laura gestured to David to look over there.

Following Laura’s reminder, David looked to the side and understood why Laura kicked him: not far from the table where everyone was eating, a shadow gradually emerged and slowly solidified.

David was already very familiar with this scene, and of course he understood what it meant: visitors from other worlds were coming.

Just as David was looking forward to seeing who would come this time, Laura kicked David again, and then winked at Addis at the square table.

In the past, David had eaten with Mark, Laura, and Fording, the visitors from other worlds, and he had never thought of Addis and Alfie, the two locals. Just as David was about to find a topic to divert the attention of Addis and Alfie, Addis happened to turn around and face the direction of the shadow.

“Huh? Is someone coming to us?”

(End of this chapter)