Mountain and Forest Kingdom

Time flies, tall logs crash to the ground, and a clearing gradually opens up in the originally dense forest.

In three days, Lawrence, Salil, Seravan and others cleared a clearing in the center of a circle with a diameter of 30 meters.

Lawrence walked into the second house, which was the coachman's and farmer's house, only twenty square meters.

The room has a wooden bucket for the toilet, two beds, and a tree stump left over from chopping wood as a table.

Since there are no livestock or other assets, such a wooden house is enough for two people to live in.

"We can put two more beds here." Lawrence smiled and said: "Your clothes have been prepared. I will give you clothes to change after dinner in the evening. The old clothes you take off will be placed outside the door tomorrow. Someone will come and pick them up. Go clean."

Brielle, who was following Lawrence, quickly translated Lawrence's words to the two men.

The coachman was already familiar with the situation here and said in a strange tone: "Thank you, master."

Lawrence nodded with a smile, and looked at the windows, beds, hay and animal skin blankets, and wooden bowls and containers of water in the room before leaving.

The third house is on the other side, Mandekru's house is in the middle, and the two huts on the left and right are the second and third houses respectively.

The dormitory for the five women was larger, and Lawrence thoughtfully installed wooden partitions on the left and right sides of the beds for them.

But after installing the first one, if the others want to, they can use their rest time to find branches to block.

This bread-like rectangular house can have a room on each side, leaving a walkway in the middle, and then separate partitions on the left and right.

After checking the accommodation environment, Lawrence stood by the river and looked at the river fish that had been raised for three or four months.

These river fish are all big fish intercepted in the river after spring. They are usually fed some bugs and food residues, or sultry chicken droppings.

Perhaps they sensed someone approaching. Under the autumn sunshine, these big fish that realized they were about to eat happily came out of the water, waving the breath of life in the sparkling sunshine.

Lawrence sprinkled some mashed peas and threw them away, then walked towards Mandekru who was watching the children wrestling.

Mandekru stood up and asked: "Mr. Lawrence, is there something wrong?"

Lawrence looked at the forest in the distance, "Winter is coming soon, and it's time to prepare some wood to make a fence. In addition to the blacksmith shop and livestock pens set aside, the outside areas are fenced with wood."

"Cut more wood and stand it up to prevent wild beasts and thieves from approaching."

Mandekru nodded, "I understand, do you want to start tomorrow?"

"Start tomorrow." Lawrence doesn't have much to do recently, the main thing is to prepare for winter.

Let’s talk about hunting next month, so that the wild beasts in the mountains can multiply for a while.

The current main task is to collect wild vegetables, berries, and wood fuel to build houses.

Don't worry about iron weapons for now, the current weapons are enough.

Mandekru said: "Okay, I will take them to continue cutting down trees tomorrow."

Lawrence reminded: "While cutting down trees, expand the current area and build it like a village."

Mandekru thought of something and took the initiative to say: "We still have too few slaves here. Do you want to go to the Snow Cave People or Taloji's village to capture a few slaves?"

Lawrence was very speechless. The way of thinking of barbarians is always so simple and crude.

Although it was indeed very useful, Lawrence didn't want to go to all that trouble.

"We don't have enough manpower now, we have to avoid meaningless battles, and the slaves we captured directly hate us."

"The current Reglo, Seravan, you and those people in the West were not actually captured by me, so it is easier for us to get along with each other. However, those people who were directly killed by us or captured by us need to be managed. It’s going to be very troublesome.”

Mandekru said directly: "The snow cave people are very obedient. As long as we capture their dogs, they will not be able to survive in the snow. Then they will listen to us."

Lawrence tried to reason and said that wouldn't work, but Mandekru came up with a more practical solution.

Seeing this, Lawrence said directly: "If there are too many people, the food will not be enough, and Doug has contacts with the Snow Cave people, so he needs the Snow Cave people to provide him with snow dogs."

"Besides, will the captured slaves work well? The Pumexiu people and the slaves in Telland's Great Hoof City all need whips and blood knives to supervise their work."

Mandekru said: "Is it okay to let them go after finishing the work?"

Lawrence retorted: "I'm glad you can learn to think, but this suggestion is not good, because catching them will delay us a lot of time, and it will also affect the Pumi Xiu people's view of us."

"Once the Pumixiu people feel that we will take the initiative to attack others, then Doug will definitely take away a few of us before taking the people in the village away."

"If Doug comes here to borrow someone to rob next time he goes out, who will go there, you or Seravan?"

Mandekru was suddenly speechless and became nervous.

Lawrence said: "I definitely won't go, and I don't want you to go. Even if you two go out with them, you won't be able to share anything. You might even fall into the sea and die."

"Now follow my arrangements and set up the camp first."

Mandekru said respectfully: "Yes, master."

After Lawrence checked the situation here, he returned to the manor.

After returning to the house, Colin, who had seen Lawrence coming back and returned to the house early, said: "Master, I have made hot milk for you."

"Yeah." Lawrence returned to the sofa and sat down.

There are already dairy goats in the manor, and one goat does not produce much milk. Now, in addition to the dairy goat Kate sent, there are also one of our own and two of the Mandekru family.

The four dairy goats receive extra care from the shepherdess every day, producing goat milk exclusively for Lawrence, Sophia, and Saryl.

The excess will be made into cheese. All six Western women know this. At present, the most indispensable thing in the manor is a cook.

I usually drink tea. The tea is made from some wild pear leaves found in the forest. I collect some and put them in jars. I usually make tea for drinking.

Lawrence doesn’t quite understand the effects of these leaves, but he will try them slowly and change them if they feel bad.

Anyway, I shouldn’t be able to drink it to death...

Lawrence quickly got a cup of hot milk, and when he was picking up the cup to taste it, Navia came over.

"Master." Navia put her hand on her shoulder and bowed in greeting. After standing up, she said, "Three women reported to me today. They seem to be pregnant."

Lawrence looked surprised. These three women had only been here for half a month.

After carefully calculating the time, I found that most of them were not the children of the original family, nor the children of those in the West.

The most likely ones were the robbers on the ship or the children of the Pumixiu people.

"Well, tell them not to worry about this and just give birth to the baby smoothly. I will provide them with food for the baby."

"In the future, they can take away the children or let them stay. It's up to them. I am kind and will not force their descendants to become slaves."

Navia said respectfully: "Yes, I will tell them right away, maybe there are more than three pregnant women."

Lawrence looked at Navia curiously, "Are you pregnant too?"

Navia quickly said: "No, no, we are the bride of God, and those people dare not challenge the majesty of God!"

Lawrence didn't understand, and after thinking for a while, he realized the reason.

Because they were wearing weirder nun uniforms than others, and the world did have mysterious powers, the three nuns should have given them to Andrew and Redbeard as valuables.

Andrew and Redbeard were busy suppressing the sick and nervous crew members, and had no time to pay attention to these weird-minded clergy.

In the eyes of barbarians, these clergy are strange creatures, and weak people will become abnormal if they approach them.