Mountain and Forest Kingdom

Stone House: Population +3

Simple shack: population +5

Lawrence woke up quickly, looked at the flames still burning in the room, and then looked at the sky outside in confusion.

The window was not closed, and there was a gap in the door, but the crow still didn't come back.

Lawrence reached out and touched the side of the fireplace next to the bed. There was no residual heat on the fireplace.

Usually this is proof that a night has passed, and it also means that it may be only half an hour to one or two hours before dawn.

The fire on the ground must have been fueled by someone in the middle of the night.

Lawrence gently got off the bed and looked at the basket next to the fireplace. After lifting the animal skins, he saw two fat puppies sleeping soundly.

Lawrence gently touched the two puppies, feeling the warm touch of young life on his fingers.

All still alive.

Lawrence lay back on the bed, thinking about what he had to do today.

Time passed quickly while thinking, and soon it was dawn outside, and Salil also sat up.

Lawrence got up, and so did Regloro, who was sleeping in the hay next to Dom.

"Hey~" Dom Sheep opened his eyes and made a meaningless cry.

Salil yawned and said to Lawrence: "What are you going to eat today? Is the bread good?"

We obtained the old noodles for making bread from Pumixiu Town. From today on, everyone can eat bread.

Lawrence said: "At noon, eat the remaining bread in the morning. Today we will do things separately. I will take a few people to hunt, and you will take others to burn stones."

"What do you mean by burning stones?" Salil didn't understand.

Lawrence said: "I told you before about thermal expansion and contraction. You first burn a match on the exposed stone for a while, and then pour cold water on it from the river. This will make the stone more fragile and brittle. If you encounter a cracked stone, You can fill the rocks with water and wait until they freeze tomorrow.”

Lawrence felt that it was a bit difficult to talk to Sariel, so he said: "You will clean the rocks with me today, Sofia will cook at home, Reglo, can you hunt?"

Lawrence looked at the newly joined female warrior.

Reglo replied: "I can catch seals and hunt. I hid in the mountains for a long time when I was hiding. The Ug people only caught me through sneak attacks."

Lawrence felt that this would be easy to handle.

"You take two people to hunt. There are grouse, squirrels and rabbits here, and there are fish in the river. I will give you a shield, and you can find sticks and stones as weapons."

Reguero agreed: "Okay!"

Soon everyone started to do things. The first thing was to take the Dom sheep outside to find food for himself.

Winter will be over soon, and there will be only a few days left for the mountains to freeze. Lawrence is not well prepared this year and has not had time to do much.

Now we need to take advantage of the last cold winter season to use the power of nature to crush nearby rocks that are difficult to excavate.

A while ago, I was looking forward to the end of winter every day. From today on, Lawrence must grasp the tail of winter and take advantage of the last severe cold before spring arrives.

After eating the broth and potatoes with only one piece of meat, everyone started to get busy.

One person cooks, shepherds the sheep, and cleans the housework.

The four men gathered fuel wood, built sheep pens, and excavated rocks.

Three people hunt for food.

There are two others who are making straw baskets and sacks and raising chickens, sheep and pigs in the house at the foot of the mountain.

At this time, grass and twigs were exposed at the bottom of the mountain, but the mountain was still covered with ice and snow.

Lawrence looked at the hunting team hunting down the mountain, and quickly continued to do his own thing, taking Salil to survey the land near the hillside.

"here."

Lawrence pointed to the position on the snow and continued walking forward.

Sariel stuck a 40-centimeter-long wooden stick in the snow, and then followed Lawrence and continued walking forward.

A lot of thick snow has accumulated in the surrounding low-lying areas. Due to the terrain, it is easier to accumulate soil and rotten leaves, and it is also easier to obtain irrigation from streams.

This is the area most suitable for development into farmland, but the biggest problem is the stones in the field.

The stone area in front of my house is too difficult to mine, so I don't mine it. Instead, I use it as an area for resting and drying things. There happens to be more sunshine there.

In other places, the best fields should be selected based on light and terrain.

Lawrence had a rough idea of ​​whether the land was good or not before the snowfall, and now he prioritized developing the fields that were easiest to cultivate.

"There is a gap here. Pour hot water on it later and it will freeze tomorrow."

Lawrence pointed to a cracked stone.

Fire, water, freezing, relatively speaking, pouring water into the cracks of the rocks to crack the ice is the easiest way, but it will be slower.

Salil touched a pine branch from the basket behind her. The green branch was very conspicuous on the clean ice.

Sariel got bored after working for a while, "Lawrence, don't we go hunting? They may not be able to catch prey alone."

Lawrence said: "Three people are already a lot. Even if we encounter a pack of wolves, we can fight them. If there are more people, we won't be able to catch the animals."

Salil said with a smile: "You can go catch seals, guard all the ice holes where the seals live, and give them a blow when they show their heads! This is how the Vakiri catch seals, and they can often catch seals. !”

Lawrence said helplessly: "We don't have seals here."

Sariel suggested: "Now that we have seven people, we can go hunting wild boars!"

Sophia was not considered a combatant, and Sariel excluded the young Sophia when hunting.

Seven barbarians armed with spears and throwing axes could indeed hunt wild boars.

And generally, male wild boars are not selected, but small wild boars or female wild boars that are not too big are attacked.

"We'll talk about it when we have the chance. Now we have to seize the time to develop the fields and then build a fence with stones."

Lawrence looked at the valley in the distance and the hillside in front of him. Except for the building area behind him, most of the area was a sloping hillside, but this area was not small.

"If we are lucky, we can allocate about 30 acres of land. Part of it will be planted with grass, chickens and sheep, and the other part will be planted with fine grains and vegetables."

"Last year we didn't have time to burn the land, so we probably won't be able to do it this year. But at least we can solve the problem of pasture first, so that we can eat a little bit."

Sariel looked at the nearby slopes that were still covered with ice and snow, and then at the mountains not far away, "Lawrence, can we dig a cave?"

"That will take several lifetimes."

Lawrence continues to survey the land, but is quickly reminded of something by Salyl.

Lawrence quickly said: "I almost forgot about the mountain road. We must hurry up and open up the stones before winter passes, especially the road we go down the mountain. We can completely break the two cliffs and use the fallen stones to form Stony slope.”

"If we do it quickly, our trip down the mountain can be shortened to less than half an hour!"

Lawrence now just hopes that winter will pass slowly, otherwise it will be too late.