Mountain and Forest Kingdom

in church

As he became more and more accustomed to speaking and talking, Lawrence gradually added his true thoughts to the lies.

"Eternal Night is the end and the beginning of the year, like the darkness we see when we first open our eyes as children."

"It's the coldest, darkest hour and the countdown to spring."

"Everyone should spend this time at home. Every seven days, when the church bells ring, someone will light a fire outside the manor. People from the nearby manor come to pray in the church and then go to the communal kitchen to eat."

"The people in the mining area organize their own celebrations. I will prepare the food and wine for you in advance. You can also go home early and spend the night at the manor or at the foot of the mountain."

"People in the town go to the statue to pray and then go to the tavern to eat."

The third eternal night is coming. There will be less than four hours of daylight outside every day, and there will be a long period of darkness.

The sun will not rise, and there is only endless darkness between the sky and the earth, as if you are in a nightmare that you will never wake up from.

This is the first time for some people to spend the eternal night. The eternal night in the south only lasts a few days, but the eternal night here can last for more than twenty days.

Lawrence quickly arranged gathering points in various regions, and many Pumixiu people were arranged in each region. These people have long been accustomed to the eternal night, and can dilute the fear of those forest people when they face the eternal night for the first time to a certain extent. .

The Durila people also spent an eternal night, this time for the second time.

Most of the Durila and Phumexiu people spent their last eternal night in nightmares.

During the last Eternal Night, a large number of Pumixiu people died, and a large number of Durila people who were still working as slaves at the foot of the mountain also died.

The good days of the Duruela people in the mountains actually only started less than a year ago.

This year’s eternal night is destined to be a quiet and satisfying eternal night.

Every household began to busy preparing food for the winter. After each soldier was identified as a soldier, he would receive a basket of food and subsidies, including weapons and kitchen utensils.

The rest of the people also got some food. During the night, the kitchen would only open when the church was open, and they were not allowed to go near the kitchen.

Married people have their own houses, while unmarried people live in dormitories. New foresters also have collective dormitories to live in, equipped with braziers, stone pots, mud stoves and other equipment.

As the boys and girls in Pumexiu Town gradually grew up, Lawrence would ask about their parents and relationship, and then teach some things to pay attention to when getting married. Then, in accordance with the manor law, he would simply recognize the couple in the church where their parents and nuns were present. legal relationship.

After completing his mission as a prophet, Lawrence returned to his comfortable room and lay down.

Sophia and Salil were not there, and only Bull was in the room, bringing tea.

Lawrence asked: "Where are the others?"

Bull explained: "Dren and Khalan were drinking upstairs, Sophia and Saryl were cooking rabbit in the kitchen, and Ms. Lathander was in the house today, as usual."

Lawrence asked curiously: "Rabbit? Did you catch the rabbit?"

Bull smiled and replied: "Doug often catches rabbits from outside. Maybe it's because there are fewer wolves and wild beasts on the mountain, so there are more rabbits."

Lawrence thought about the reasons and quickly came up with several reasons.

Since the last time they fought to death with Uribe, most people have spent less time out hunting, mostly working or exercising.

Especially after the opening of the mining area, the main male workers were dragged into blacksmithing, and the rest were engaged in heavy physical work such as logging.

Later, he was busy building stone statues at the foot of the mountain. In autumn, he arranged for a large number of people to live at the foot of the mountain, and most of the children went down to work.

This group of people used to deal with rats, rabbits and other things, including the dogs that had not been brought to the town before.

Also, after returning from the Cloda people this spring, hunting except for hunting teams was banned.

The target of the hunting team has always been large animals, and they are too lazy to chase rabbits and other animals when they see them.

After an autumn of growth, coupled with the fertile land of Talim Mountain, the number of rabbits has naturally grown.

Large wild boars, wolves, foxes, and snow cats all eat several rabbits every day.

Since the manor has replaced the existence of these upper-level predators, the lower-level animals should also be suppressed, otherwise the balance will be destroyed.

Rabbits, grouse...

Lawrence feels there is little threat because starting next year there will be more children suppressing the little animals.

From the time the first batch of children can walk next year, they will quickly learn hunting and eating skills, and learn to identify the taste of food as quickly as possible.

As long as the barbarian children here in the north can keep up with their nutrition, they can kill chickens and mice with wooden sticks at the age of one and a half.

Rabbits cannot reproduce as long as humans are around. After all, this is human territory.

Salil came out of the kitchen, holding a prepared rabbit in her hand, "Lawrence, if you hang the rabbit meat outside, will it be eaten by Doug?"

Lawrence said lazily: "Just hang it higher."

Salil said unhappily: "You don't know how high Doug can jump. He can jump higher than you! Last time I hung him at a height of eight meters, he stepped on the wall twice and jumped up! "

Doug is 1.5 meters long and can easily bite branches 2.5 meters high. With the help of objects, he can fly 6 to 7 meters high.

If it were to run in a straight line and jump up to hunt for food, it would not be a problem to be three meters above the ground.

After all, it is already one year old, and it is no longer the puppy that can be picked up with one hand.

Lawrence felt that Doug was no longer suitable to be tied to the door. Most of the time, this guy would obediently act as a doorkeeper, but when there were many people or at night, he would go out to play by himself as if he was off work.

I don’t know how this dog has the concept of getting off work. It is obviously a full-time watchdog, so I don’t know how it has the concept of getting off work.

Although strong and obedient enough, both Lawrence and Brick believed that the three dogs at the manor were not suitable for use as sled dogs.

"Alas!" Lawrence sighed, and did not want to blame Doug. He stood up and said, "I will help you make a refrigerator. From now on, vegetables and clean meat will be stored in the refrigerator. The meat stored outside will not be exposed to direct sunlight. If so, it will taste better.”

"So that's it!" Salil said happily: "Okay, smart Lawrence!"

Lawrence became even more helpless and asked Bull: "Is there an unused water tank at home?"

Bull quickly said: "There is a wheat vat that is almost empty. I can put the wheat in it into a box, so that I can finish it today and tomorrow."

"Then this." Lawrence said to the strong Sariel: "Saryl, move the water tank outside."

"Okay!" Salil agreed easily.

Most of the valuables in the home were moved in by Salil and the others.

Even the hostess usually has to do physical work, especially some heavy objects weighing more than 100 kilograms.

Soon Kharan and Delen also came down to watch, curiously looking at Lawrence's new gadgets.

Lawrence asked Saryl, Sophia, Emma, ​​and Bull to fill the water tank four-fifths full with water.

Then simply use a wooden basin filled with half a basin of water and place it in the middle of the water tank.

"That'll do," Lawrence said.

Salil looked at Lawrence in confusion, "Is this okay?"

Lawrence explained: "The tank will freeze at night, and ice will form near the edges and at the bottom, but there will be a lot of water in the middle because there is not enough time."

"When the time comes, open the lid of the wooden basin above and you can see the water inside."

"Turn the water tank over, and the ice water tank inside will come out, and then flip it over to find the refrigerator, where you can put meat and vegetables."

"The water in the tub will also freeze into ice cubes, which can be used as a lid."

Lawrence looked at the women around him, "Since you are too free, use wooden boards that can hold water to make ice cubes, just like bricks, and use ice cubes that are the same as wooden boards to build the refrigerator you want."

Sariel said quickly: "It will slide apart and you will need nails to hold it together."

"Use hot water..." Lawrence seemed to be looking at primitive people, "You can use hot or cold water. Hot water can change the shape and size, and cold water can weld."

"I'm going to build a house next year, and I haven't had much to do recently. You can gather all the idle people together and build a castle or a bridge made of ice blocks, and familiarize yourself with the principles in advance."

Salil obviously didn't understand very much, but she looked excited.

"Well! Let's play with this first and ask you if we encounter something we don't understand!"

Lawrence said casually: "Okay, you guys can play slowly."