forest kingdom

Chapter 194
Lawrence was injured, suffering serious external and internal injuries.

Beaten by Delenn.

It took three days for the bruises on my face to go away, and it probably took half a month for the pain on my arms to go away.

Lawrence understood why many animals were scared away by people, and why the snow cave people were so timid and afraid of people.

If you get injured in a fight, you will die early!
After the injury, Lawrence became more open-minded.

"Having children so early is also troublesome. In ancient times, the earlier children were born, the more prominent the contradictions were."

If it doesn't work, just find a few beautiful women to have children. If you can't have children with witches, it's not like you can't have children with ordinary women.

Besides, there is no need to be so anxious about having a baby. I am just infertile, not infertile.

As long as it makes you happy, the child can be adopted. If you can't raise it well, you can replace it with someone else. But you can't replace your biological son.

Especially the physical problem of witches. If you have children and do not inherit the mother's wizarding talent, you will face a very cruel choice, so not having children is actually an option.

As for the problems a hundred years from now, there is no need to worry about them. Who will care about what will happen seven or eighty years from now?
Lawrence was more concerned about small things such as eating, bathing and going to the toilet than he was about children.

Inside the cabin

Salil looked at the numbers and reports on the board seriously, with a wise look on her face.

Lawrence was also looking at the report, but after seeing that Salil cared about these things, he left the matter to her.

Salil doesn't like fighting, and she doesn't feel comfortable with murder, robbery and fighting. Instead, she likes to pay attention to trivial things.

For example, the amount of food and supplies, how many people are in the family, how many pots, how many clothes, how many pigs, sheep, chickens and dogs.

Bull said: "Today another family wants to become your master's slaves. We told them what they have to do to become your master's slaves, and they all agreed."

Saliel is calculating what will be most cost-effective to plant in the fields cleared today so that they can mature before autumn.

After hearing Bull's words, Sariel also said casually: "Lawrence asked everyone to pay taxes. A basket of potatoes and a sheepskin are enough. These are not heavy, so why can't you afford to eat?"

Bull smiled and said: "It's not that they can't afford to eat. Now the Pumixiu people in the town can have enough to eat, and they can also make some cheese and butter."

Sofia licked her mouth, "I want to eat cheese too."

Salil continued to count things, "Be patient, and you can eat whatever you want until next spring. If you want to eat now, let Lawrence go down the mountain in exchange for a few kilograms of cheese with the fruit."

Delen also wanted to eat cheese and asked Saryl: "Are we not enough sheep now? I think we have a lot of sheep."

Saryl knows this all too well.

"We now have 23 Dome sheep and 58 ordinary goats and sheep, including three rams, [-] wethers, eight lambs that need milk, [-] dairy sheep that can produce milk, and the rest are three Ewes to eight months old.”

"If these twelve dairy goats become pregnant, they will have no milk."

Lawrence asked: "About how much milk do twelve dairy goats produce every day?"

The shepherdess who was on duty as a maid today replied: "You can have two barrels a day."

One bucket weighs about twelve kilograms, and two buckets weighs 24 kilograms, which is equivalent to each sheep producing an average of two kilograms of milk after feeding lambs every day.

The Lawrence family only uses three pounds of goat's milk every day, and the rest is basically used to take care of the children.

There are more and more babies in the manor. In this era, there are no contraceptive methods and there are not many entertainment facilities. Most women have one child every year.

As long as there is enough food, children will appear continuously like they are growing out of the ground.

Most women have just come up from the mountains. They are nutritionally deficient and don't have much milk. Therefore, it is difficult for their children to survive without the supplement of goat milk.

In addition, the puppies in the dog team also need goat's milk. It is a bit less to rely solely on the big dogs. The stronger the puppies grow when they are young, the higher their chances of survival.

Lawrence said: "It's almost done. After a while, when there are more dairy goats, we can make cheese."

Sariel looked at Lawrence, "Lawrence, you haven't trained with Delen in three days."

Lawrence said without changing his expression: "There are more important things waiting for me. You should understand that when there are many people, a prophet must keep a cool head and cannot let anger lose his mind and make reckless and stupid actions." thing."

"You're right." Salil lowered her head and continued to calculate, muttering: "But it doesn't feel like that."

Lawrence turned a deaf ear to Sariel's muttering, looked at Sophia and said, "Sofia, how are you doing with your bow and arrow practice?"

Sophia smiled sheepishly, "I'll be tired after a while. I want to eat more meat to gain more strength!"

Delen comforted: "It doesn't matter. If you are not strong, it proves that your witchcraft is very powerful!"

Salil frowned, but did not refute.

Sophia is young, and Lawrence currently doesn't know if she is a witch. Only Salil is not young yet, but she still cannot use witchcraft.

Compared to the witchcraft of Bydelon and Khalan, Sariel is really a bit shameful as a witch.

Fortunately, Lawrence is not a wizard, which makes Saryl feel a lot better.

Lawrence said to Delen: "Deren, reinforce the bathroom today. I hope you can use the bathroom tomorrow." Delen responded: "Just wait until the people outside build the wall."

Lawrence went out to check on the progress of the work.

Behind the wooden house, Emma is leading the female workers to build a wall, filling the final gaps with mud and carefully selected stones.

Emma came over and said, "Master, we don't need too many people here. There are still many people who have nothing to do."

Lawrence looked at the forest in the distance. There were more and more open spaces outside the lumber camp, and there were still a large number of wooden piles left in many places that had not been cleared.

"Let the female workers build a new kitchen on the newly opened land in the lumberyard. It will be more convenient for eating, going to the toilet and working in the future. The new kitchen will be made like a pub, longer and can accommodate 100 people for dinner."

"The kitchen shed near our property will be converted into a dog house for Doug."

Lawrence found that Doug always liked to yell and bark. The public kitchen was close to the river beach and faced the camp on the other side of the river, so a watchdog was needed to warn him.

Doug is the gatekeeper of the manor. The camp will also have a guard dog for a while to prevent wild animals from approaching, but there is no rush for now.

Lawrence stood in the sun and looked at his big house.

"It will be changed next year. In the first year, we will live in a stone house, in the second year, we will live in a wooden house, and in the third year... we will still live in a wooden house."

Laurence didn't have time to build a new castle this year, otherwise he wouldn't have built the bathroom.

It won't start until at least next year, and it will certainly take several years to complete a castle.

If it goes slower, it may take more than ten years.

"We can start building a spare house this fall, and after the spring plowing is over next year, we can start to use the excess labor to build the castle."

"However, the forest will also take several years to open up wasteland. Next year, several children will grow up one after another. Now we have to find a way to feed these children."

Although there are many plans in his mind, such as wine making, paper making, making soy sauce and vinegar, processing fine salt, building castles, making musical instruments, water-powered mills, blacksmith shops and other plans.

But now we must make a choice and go all out to open up wasteland and cultivate farmland to plant crops. Solving this year's food problem is the fundamental thing.

The crops grown now can be harvested in summer and autumn, beans and vegetables planted in summer can be harvested in autumn, and half of the crops planted in autumn and produced in winter can also be used as fodder to solve the feed problem for cattle and sheep.

In this era, both humans, dogs and sheep will die from various diseases.

Lawrence walked to the outskirts of the manor, where there was a cold corpse buried in the ground that only lived a few days before leaving this world.

In an era when there are not enough medical conditions, keeping everyone fed is the greatest care.

Now the men and women in the manor can eat potatoes and peas every day, and they can also eat a meal of fish every three days, or drink a bowl of pork-flavored bone soup.

Most people live on two meals a day, and the food crisis will not improve until the first crops mature.

"Take out a basket of wheat every week and make some bread, even gray bread. By the time autumn comes, everyone can eat bread every day!"

The main goal in the first two years was to improve his own quality of life. This year, while improving his own quality of life, Lawrence also began to improve the quality of life of his subordinates.

The temperature in the mountains has warmed up and will get hotter in the future. It is a good time for shearing sheep.

The sheared wool will be made into new clothes for winter.

At this time, the men at the lumberyard basically only wore a piece of cloth around their waists, because chopping wood is a physical job and it is easy to sweat.

There are also people working without shoes, regardless of gender or age.

Even some women are accustomed to working in just a linen vest and don't care about their bodies being seen by others.

Lawrence returned to the house quickly, because he had long accepted his barbarian blood, and Lawrence had long been open to these things.

Returning to the house, Salyl and Sophia Delon were found eating oranges.

Lawrence glanced at the three witches and then walked up to the bedroom on the second floor alone. Sure enough, Khalan was taking a nap.

The three people downstairs always take advantage of Kehalan's absence to eat some fruits made by Kehalan. After all, there are limited delicious food in this area and there is no other choice.

Lawrence quietly went downstairs and went out to find Emma who was chatting with Bull outside the door.

"Emma, ​​I remember there are some edible sweet apples in Dumu Village. You can take someone to collect some and bring them back. I only need about ten kilograms. You can keep the rest for yourselves."

Emma was a little confused. There were obviously more and better sweet fruits in Talim Mountain.

But it was Lawrence's arrangement after all, so Emma agreed: "Yes, Master."

Lawrence reminded: "Ride the sheep over there. I'm not in a hurry. You should be careful and let Brick take the two dogs over. She is familiar with the environment in Dumu Village."

"Yes!" Emma quickly went down to prepare.

In the room by the window on the second floor, Khalan was lying sideways, obviously hearing what Lawrence said.

Not only does her nose work well, her eyes and ears also work well. Her eyes can see farther than normal people, and her ears can also hear nearby sounds when she listens quietly.

(End of this chapter)