[Chapter 75: Build a Big Castle]

David didn’t respond to Penny’s enthusiasm, but just chatted politely for a few words. The blonde girl also realized that David had no interest in her.

However, her personality was relatively carefree, and she was not a bad person by nature. She didn’t care too much about being rejected, and just changed the subject by saying, “I thought you were an old man with a white beard like in the game Leonard and the others played.”

After a few simple chats, the two sides got to know each other. Leonard breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that David did not attack Penny. At the same time, he introduced David to several other friends: “This is Howard Wolowitz.”

“Hello, just call me Howard.” Howard stretched out his hand and shook hands with David. At the same time, he introduced David to Rajesh Kusapari, who could not speak in front of women: “This is Raj Kusapari. He can’t speak in the presence of women. Considering the current situation, you can just treat him as a mute.”

“…” Raj glared at his friend, then smiled and shook hands with David, then pulled Howard aside and continued to express his dissatisfaction with his hands.

“Oh? What did you say? Sorry, I can’t hear anything…” Although Howard kept complaining about Raj, he did not break away from him. The two walked aside and continued the previous conversation mode.

“The two of them…”

“Yes, we sometimes have such doubts.” Leonard looked at the two people, indicating that he was used to this scene: “And this is my roommate Sheldon Cooper, Sheldon! Stop asking questions to Fording! I don’t need you to explain to him what the Holy Light is!”

He called out to Sheldon Cooper loudly. The tall and thin man who had been talking to Fording all the time, although he was reluctant, still walked in front of David.

In fact, if he hadn’t met Fording, Sheldon would be very curious about David, the village chief of Winter Village. He was very curious why this place could gather people from all kinds of different worlds. What was so extraordinary about David as the village chief?

After looking David up and down, Sheldon greeted David politely: “Hello, I’m Dr. Sheldon Cooper.”

“Hello, Dr. Cooper.” David shook hands with Sheldon. Compared to how Sheldon treated most people in the plot, he was already very polite to him: “Welcome to Winter Village.”

“Thank you very much for inviting us here. It’s my honor.” It’s not that Sheldon doesn’t know how to talk to people politely, but most of the time he doesn’t want to do so because he feels it’s unnecessary.

But when facing David, he put the skills that he didn’t usually use back in the skill column: “In addition, I also assure you that your decision is very correct… I heard that you, the village chief, are considering building Winter Village into Winter Town. I have some… Oh~ Leonard, didn’t you see that I was discussing important things with Village Chief David?”

Leonard gave David an awkward smile full of apology, and poked Sheldon at the same time: “I think Village Chief David doesn’t need to ask for your opinion on how to build his own village.”

While whispering “whisper”, Leonard pulled Sheldon aside, and the two began to argue fiercely. David watched the similar scene that he had seen many times before from a close distance and found it very interesting.

“Huh? Why is it so lively here today?” At this time, Will, who had not appeared all day, came back from Royal Port and found that the village was more lively than ever, and there were many people he had never seen before: “So many new people are here?”

David explained the current situation to Will. He learned that Winter Village not only had new people like Leonard and Eva, but Fording had also successfully recruited hundreds of people. He realized that Winter Village would enter a period of rapid development next.

As a blacksmith, Will will be very busy in the future.

Will doesn’t think there is anything wrong with this. Being busy will make him look important. For example, his main task these days is to learn. Learning new languages and new forging knowledge, but having no place to apply what he has learned makes him very uncomfortable.

Now, with the arrival of a large number of people, just making various tools and maintenance is enough to keep him busy every day.

After another round of introductions, Leonard’s friends all had amazing reactions when they saw Will Turner, especially Penny and Raj. On the contrary, Sheldon was very calm. It seemed that he didn’t have any special impression of the little blacksmith. While a group of

people were chatting with each other, David took the time to hand Laura the list he had written earlier: “These things need to be bought as soon as possible, especially the beds and bedding.”

The weather has gradually turned cold. It’s okay for these newly arrived craftsmen to deal with it for a day or two, but if it takes too long, something will definitely go wrong.

“Leave it to me. Peggy has already told me.” Laura looked at the list, which detailed how many sets of bedding to buy first, how many sets to buy later, and the priorities of various materials: “Speaking of which, don’t we need to buy a batch of building materials?”

“It’s not clear yet.” David said that he would wait until Van Cleef inspected the surrounding environment of Winter Village before he could decide what to buy: “Edwin may need to figure out what resources are available around Winter Village and what is missing, so that he can know what building materials to buy.”

Laura immediately understood what David said when she heard him say this: “Do you want to use the materials here as much as possible to build a new town?”

“For the city to develop, the demand for various raw materials will increase. It’s impossible for you to carry them from home all the time.” David had this idea a long time ago. The village was not big before, the population was not large, the demand was just that little, and Laura didn’t have any trouble transporting it.

Now it’s not possible. A town of a few hundred people is not small anymore, and the demand for various materials is amazing. If everything goes well, it will continue to expand in the future. Does it all depend on Laura to transport cement here bag by bag?

In short, David’s next goal is to use local resources as much as possible in raw materials. Only some high-end, sophisticated, and irreplaceable things will be “imported” from other worlds. In the

following days, Laura began to frequently travel between Winter Village and her own world, and first transported bedding and bunk beds, followed by various tools required by the craftsmen to ensure that the craftsmen could start work immediately. Then there were

living facilities such as radiators. In order to ensure that there would be no casualties in Winter Village, which already had hundreds of people, this winter, Laura also purchased a large number of medicines and coal. The

originally peaceful and peaceful Winter Village has once again become a large construction site, and this time the scale is much larger than the last time. Winter Village has gradually changed from a simple layout that can run through the entire village with a main street to a square layout.

Fording spent some time and finally brought all four hundred former Brotherhood members and some of their families to Winter Village. Among these four hundred people, there are nearly one hundred senior craftsmen, more than two hundred are the families of these senior craftsmen, mainly women and children, and the remaining less than one hundred are low-level craftsmen and miners.

This population structure is very unreasonable, but there is a reason: the senior craftsmen trust Van Cleef, and they are on the wanted list of Storm Kingdom, so they can’t go back to be ordinary people. These people and their families either follow Van Cleef to Winter Village or choose to leave Storm Kingdom by boat.

As for the less than 100 craftsmen and miners, they are basically young and strong bachelors. They trust Van Cleef, and they have no worries, so Van Cleef wants to take them to other places to start a new life, and these people also come.

Finally, these 400 people are all human. When Van Cleef formed the Defias Brotherhood, in order to ensure that the Defias Brotherhood has a strong enough “high-end combat power”, the hired tauren, murlocs and other races of mercenaries were not brought to Winter Village.

One reason is that Van Cleef doesn’t know what the situation is in David’s world, and he doesn’t know whether these non-human races will cause any bad conflicts after going there; another reason is that Van Cleef doesn’t trust these mercenaries. When he met with everyone to discuss whether to go to another world to start a new life, he didn’t even notify those people.

Anyway, about 400 craftsmen, miners and their families joined Winter Village, and after Van Cleef introduced David to everyone, he also took the initiative to “resign” from the position of leader, took off the red mask on his neck and burned it on the spot, and announced that the Brotherhood and the Stonemasons’ Union were a thing of the past, and everyone would be a villager of Winter Village from now on.

After that, he began his own field investigation. He estimated that he would spend one to two months investigating the surroundings of Winter Village, and get a clear understanding of the geology, mineral types, and where there are a lot of high-quality stone and other resources in this area before he could start to consider how to design a new city.

“Including your castle, you need to start designing it after that.”

“My…castle?” David was confused when he heard Van Cleef’s description of the future plan, and even stopped writing with his hand: “When did I say I wanted to build a castle?”

He just wanted Van Cleef to help him design a new Winter Town, so why did the castle come out?

“I heard that you are going to apply to upgrade Winter Village to Winter Town. If all goes well, you will be awarded a title. As a lord with a title, isn’t it normal to live in a castle?”

“…” David felt that what Edwin Van Cleef said made sense and he couldn’t refute it at all: “This… is at most just a country lord in a remote area of the kingdom, and he may not be awarded a title.”

Van Cleef looked at David’s shining eyes and said: “I will design a better castle than Stormwind Fortress.”

(End of this chapter)