Mountain and Forest Kingdom

On summer nights, the mountain breeze is cool.

Three nuns sat in the wooden shed where Lawrence worked as a carpenter during the day, complaining about each other.

"You are really a bad person, just like your mother. Our monastery has been in constant trouble since she became abbot. She caused the monastery to owe a debt of fifty kelp."

Young Navia clasped her hands on her chest and shivered while sitting near the wooden bench. Her mouth seemed to be trembling as she babbled out her dissatisfaction.

Colin was also shivering from the cold, and there was no hot weather at all in the mountains in the north.

Although it is not too cold here, much better than the eight nights blown by the sea breeze, it can still make them huddle up and feel miserable.

"Damn! What qualifications do you have to teach me a lesson?"

Colin said angrily: "If I hadn't escaped with you, you would have been burned together with the monastery!"

Brielle said: "But we were the only ones caught. Navia was right, she sucked."

Colin retorted: "Dean, she is a bad businesswoman, but she is a good dean!"

Navia was not afraid of Colin and blamed the dean for her misfortune.

"Since she took over our money, the monastery has declined, we don't have enough to eat, and she hasn't given us new clothes for two years."

"Even the farmland and forests of the monastery were sold by her to pay off her debts, and she didn't tell us anything."

"She also pawned a set of the best spoons we have here. It's no wonder. After all, she never did her part, and she never negotiated anything with us... She didn't repair the house and made us sing hymns. It’s raindrops.”

Colin retorted: "It's because the potato harvest outside is bad, it has nothing to do with her!"

"What is being pawned is her dowry, it is her thing and has nothing to do with you!"

"The leak in the monastery has been repaired. The water fell on the ground, not on your heads!!"

"You guys just like to stir up trouble and never put any effort into studying!"

Brielle felt offended, "My literature is much better than yours! How dare you lecture me on such a thing?"

Navia also wanted to continue to say that Colin was wrong. At this moment, the window of the nearby wooden house was forcefully opened.

Lawrence was there, visibly disturbed.

"Shut up! Go to sleep! If you keep nagging outside, I will put rocks in your mouths!"

The three nuns quickly became obedient and suffocated in the wooden shed, enduring the cold wind and hunger.

The cold summer nights passed quickly, and when the still-chilly morning arrived, the women in the nearby simple wooden houses also began to come out to work.

The shepherdess wanted to check the condition of the chickens. She wore a thick cloak made of animal skins and wool, which covered her neck, shoulders and back. It was simple and convenient to put on, just pull it off from the neck.

The shepherdess saw the three nuns, but soon passed them, carrying a bucket to fetch water and boil it.

Not long after, Etty also came out to work. She went to look around the field of vegetables to be picked today, and then went to the area where the peas were piled up to sort out the last few peas.

After more than an hour, I was so busy that I packed up the last pot of peas as soon as the sun came up.

These are fresh peas, and many of them have been dried and preserved to make dried beans.

The shepherdess took the fresh peas to cook, and the remaining pea roots were used by the shepherdess to feed the sheep and chickens.

The boiled water was quickly poured into the bucket, and a small amount of cheap barley was poured in.

There is not much food for the chicks, and most of the food except water has to be obtained by the chicks outside.

The public kitchen quickly started cooking, simple wild vegetable cakes and endless berries picked this season, as well as a small piece of meat for each person.

The shepherdess seemed to have discovered something after coming out of the sheepfold, and quickly walked into the wooden house.

Lawrence was drinking tea in the living room. He got up very early every day.

The shepherdess approached the sofa and said, "Master, our sheep is pregnant."

Lawrence smiled, "Then there will be goat milk to drink soon. This is good news."

Not all the sheep were killed to retrieve the eggs. Lawrence also kept the breeding sheep, but the next generation would need to find sheep from outside.

The shepherdess added: "You can buy a dairy goat directly from the mountain so that you can drink goat's milk tomorrow."

Lawrence nodded, "That's a good suggestion. I'll go down the mountain today and have a look. You can feed Dom the sheep more food."

"Yes." The shepherdess quickly went down to work.

Lawrence drank the berries in the cup and drank the tea, then walked out of the cabin and came to the three nuns.

"Get up and work. Go and help Edie cook. She is the woman who is busy at the stove over there. After dinner, you will work with Edie and collect the pumpkins."

Navia took the initiative and asked: "Master, when can we work for you in the wooden house?"

Lawrence originally thought that today would be enough, but he changed his mind when he saw how much they wanted it.

"After you have done all the work here, if you still want to be my maid, then I will allow you to become a temporary maid."

“Farming, gathering, hunting, mining, logging, building houses, taking care of livestock, cooking, it’s all done.”

"Go to work now!"

Lawrence arranged many things for the three female believers in the Lord of the Morning.

If Western culture wants to invade and influence this manor, it must first accept the rules here.

Whether it's the morning prayers or the rules for eating, we must follow Lawrence's rules.

The aristocratic rules that the three nuns are familiar with are the embodiment of Western culture and the influence of religion.

Barbarians without a complete system are easily influenced and their consciousness is affected by spiritual invasion.

Lawrence was not as physically strong as Andrew, but he had a strong spiritual power and would not be affected by the strong communication power of the church.

The Lawrence now is not the lonely Lawrence he was before.

Now Lawrence just wants to live a good life for his family and will not place his future hopes on the church and faith.

After eating, I started busy with various things.

Sophia practiced throwing with two active puppies. Salil taught Sophia how to throw things, and the two puppies were responsible for picking them up happily.

The manor is large enough for two puppies to run around, so the two puppies still have no idea of ​​taking care of the sheep and chickens. At most, they bark twice symbolically when seeing outsiders, and then run away wagging their tails.

There are always strangers joining the manor, which results in the two puppies not forming a sense of themselves and outsiders.

Lawrence went down the mountain and informed Reglo to come with the Ug slaves to help. Kenny also wanted to go up the mountain but was refused. There was still someone to look after the house.

Soon Lawrence took the wooden sign made by Sophia and others yesterday and went down the mountain to Pumexiu Town.

Outside the town, there were many people working in the fields, as well as supervisors riding on the backs of deer.

Kate saw Lawrence coming, rode a deer and said, "Mr. Lawrence, thank you for your blessing. I'm much better now."

Kate, who suffered from scurvy after being at sea for more than a month, looked as energetic as before she set off after a few days of recuperation after returning home.

People are in high spirits when happy events happen, and Kate, who has gained a lot, is now very confident.

Lawrence said: "That's good. I made two more sets of wooden cards. Do you need them here?"

Kate said happily: "Okay, what do you want?"

Lawrence already had a psychological price point.

"I want a milking sheep."

Kate does have a milking goat at home, but it also needs to be fed to the puppies.

"Two is not enough, five."

"No, three at most."

"Four!"

"Three," Lawrence insisted. "Only three."

Kate said with satisfaction: "Three then, one is not enough and it will break soon."

Barbarians have strong hands and are easy to get angry. They can smash wooden playing cards completely.

Lawrence exchanged the two sets of cards he had for a milking sheep, and the set of cards he owed would be delivered in a few days.

Soon Lawrence led the sheep to Mandekru's house and found that the Mandekru family was packing up.

Mandekru looked outside and found that no one else was following him, then whispered: "I will go there at night when no one notices."

Lawrence smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, you can go up with me first with some things, just say you are going up to help me build a house, so that you can move everything up in a few days."

Mandekru showed a happy smile, "Okay! That's it!"

Lawrence asked: "Is it okay if you don't want the fields here?"

Mandekru said casually: "No, they are all very poor fields. I think the fields on the mountains are much better than here."

"Of course my land is better than the one here." Lawrence has not set a rent collection ratio for the time being. We will discuss this later.

With the help of Lawrence, Mandekru took two children and one sheep up the mountain, came back to stay and sleep at night, and continued to take the children and sheep up the next day.

In the past few days, the Pumixiu people were also busy moving, moving some people and livestock to Dumu Village to avoid being taxed by the baron.

The next day, when Lawrence was about to go down to deliver the wooden signs and help Manderkru transfer the family property, Salil reminded:

"Lawrence, it's going to rain tonight. Autumn is coming."

Lawrence looked outside in confusion and found that it had indeed been much cooler these days.

Spring, summer, and autumn here in the north are very short, and the days squeezed out are filled up in winter.

Most of the year is in winter.

"Well, I understand." Lawrence felt the pressure, "We need to build houses and stock up on food as soon as possible."

"We have enough food and don't have to worry about so many things," Salil said.

Lawrence shook his head, "No, the Pumixiu people will definitely go to the Salt Lake to get salt before winter, and Avari will also come to gather people before the count gathers people to rob. Then he will definitely take the opportunity to collect taxes, but I don't know him. How many people will we bring this time?"

Salil thought for a second, "Do you want to fight?"

"It depends on the situation." Lawrence said, "Just prepare your weapons."

"Okay!" Salil agreed simply. Most people in the north were not afraid of fighting.