forest kingdom

Chapter 246
The eternal night time every year is the most difficult time.

Lawrence walked in front holding a torch, and Sariel, Emma, ​​Edie, Bull and others walked behind.

"Cuckoo..."

Lawrence looked at the roosters and hens in the chicken coop, which had not seen sunlight for four or five days.

Too much light can irritate these chickens.

Lawrence lit the oil lamp on the wall and patrolled the area with a torch.

Emma inserted the torch into the slanted hole in the wall, took the jar and refilled some oil lamps.

There were also several women who came with them. These women were usually responsible for taking care of the livestock, and now they came to feed the chickens together.

After a handful of feed was spread out, the chickens quickly became lively and crowded towards the location of the feed.

Lawrence quickly caught a hen that was listless and unwilling to eat.

After Lawrence put the chicken in a cage, he went to look for other weak chickens.

Here the weak will prey on the strong, and those who refuse to compete will die!
There are at least 20 days left until the end of the eternal night. Cattle, sheep, dogs and other animals have to rely on their own fat reserves to survive the cold winter.

During the Eternal Night, which lacks food and sunlight, whether the hungry and cold livestock can survive depends entirely on the accumulation before the Eternal Night.

Lawrence fed the cattle and sheep enough fodder, and figured out the proportions of eggs, peas and salt to give these animals the most suitable care.

But the chickens are too small and there are too many, so some of them will definitely die if they only eat one meal a day.

Lawrence soon found another injured hen.

He lifted the hen up to check the injury, and found a hole in the hen's belly.

Chickens also often fight among themselves. Both roosters and hens will peck the feathers of other chickens as if looking for trouble.

Injured chickens will die quickly.

Lawrence handed the dying chicken to Saryl.

More than 600 chickens are raised in two rooms. In addition to being afraid of getting sick, I am also worried that they will fight.

They ate a lot of chickens before, but now the number of more than 600 chickens will continue to decrease, and they will continue to die as the cold winter continues. They will die until spring arrives before they will lay eggs and hatch chicks, and then quickly expand the population.

The death of chickens is something Lawrence can accept. Although two or three chickens have died every day since the arrival of Eternal Night, the situation is already very good.

Without sunlight, these animals that cannot hibernate will soon become more and more fragile and haggard.

Compared with last year and the year before, this year there were more people and livestock, and Lawrence became more aware of the cruelty of eternal night.

This was a feeling I had never had before.

In the past, Lawrence, Salil, and Sophia could hide comfortably in the small house during the eternal night.

Later, several slaves such as Seravan were added, but in fact they didn't have much understanding. The chickens and sheep at that time were just fine.

The number of people has increased dramatically this year. Even after a long time of preparation, I still feel that this eternal night is too cruel.

The soil here is barren, the climate is harsh, and there is a long period of torture every year without seeing the light. The barbarians simply cannot survive without developing outside.

When the environment is harsh, it is natural to eliminate a large number of weak ones and give priority to a small number of resources to the strong ones in order to get out of the predicament.

Everyone quickly cleaned the chicken coop, and Salil sighed after closing the door: "I have to kill two more chickens today."

Lawrence smiled and said: "We will eat one chicken ourselves and give Navia a salary. Don't be too sad. Once the number of chickens is reduced to a suitable range, it will soon stabilize."

Salil cheered up, "That's good!"

Emma came over with a basket and said, "Master, I received twenty eggs today."

Lawrence nodded, "We haven't finished yesterday's eggs yet, so we will give ten of them to pregnant women who are about to give birth."

"There aren't that many pregnant women," Emma said.

"Then give it to women who are breastfeeding." Lawrence thought for a moment, "There are many new women who are very thin and have to take care of children. I will give these to them later."

Emma looked at the dark forest in the distance and said, "Yes, Master, I'll call them up."

Lawrence said directly: "Let's go together and see the others. Everyone must be feeling uncomfortable these days."

Because of his past life experience, Lawrence paid great attention to establishing a good image among others.

I quickly went to sit with each house in the camp to learn about the recent situation.

For those whose children are uncomfortable or malnourished, supplies such as food, clothing, and sweet oranges are provided in a timely manner.

Kehalan now only needs to ripen one orange tree every month, and as long as fertilizer and other nutrients are provided, the grown orange tree can easily be filled with fruits.

Even though she didn't eat it, everyone else loved it, especially Salil and Sophia.To the residents of Eternal Night who live in a dark world, sweet and cold oranges are more valuable than wine and meat.

Men like wine, while women and children like to eat oranges.

Lawrence worked for several hours before going back to the main room, where a game of cards was being played.

This winter has been busier than usual for witches.

Potato chips, fruit wine, ale, fruit vinegar, fish sauce, honey, eggs, playing cards, and most importantly, a bath.

Time passes the fastest when you take a bath, and three hours can easily pass in one bath.

Between bathing, eating, sleeping and playing cards, plus talking to Lawrence and others when nothing happened, or being forced to learn numbers and languages ​​by Lawrence, time always passed quickly.

Lawrence was not as leisurely as the witch. After entering the house, he took off his thick pigskin armor, leaving only a pair of thin linen shorts and walked upstairs.

"Mom, let me use your room."

"Okay." Lathander was playing cards downstairs and had long been used to Lawrence using her room.

Lawrence shouted to Sofia who was watching someone playing cards: "Sofia, bring all the eggs from yesterday, and get two bowls and a chopstick."

"Okay!" Sophia quickly ran to the kitchen to get something.

There are currently five witches in the family, and the maximum is four when playing cards, so when Lathander came down, Sophia stood aside and watched Saril play cards and gave Saril advice.

Usually there are few people when there are many people. They often play cards, which makes Delen and Kehalan not very interested in playing cards. Sometimes they would rather exercise and brew strange things with herbs.

For pure-blood witches, brewing herbal medicine is their main occupation.

Both Khalan and Lathander have knowledge of herbal medicine, and they also have many folk remedies for healing.

Kharan's ability is related to vegetation, and it is normal to know herbal medicine.

As the prophet-priest of the tribe, Lathander has basic abilities related to herbal medicine.

Lawrence also needs to master this type of technology and pass on the pharmacological knowledge of the two witches.

At this time, Lawrence was not studying botanical pharmacology, but egg cooking!

Sophia quickly entered Lathander's house with a basket of eggs. After entering, she closed the door and asked, "Master, what do we do?"

Lawrence walked to the bucket of goat's milk and squatted down, looking at the goat's milk inside.

This goat's milk was the goat's milk from last night, and several people gave it to Luxander before they finished drinking it.

"Bring the eggs over here. The temperature here in Lathander is always between sixty and seventy degrees. I heard Delen said that the house in Lathander can preserve meat and fruit wine."

Sofia placed the egg basket next to Lawrence and took off her hot clothes.

Because of Lathander's fire ability, the place where he lived for a long time was much hotter than other places.

What really provides a lot of heat is not a few braziers, but Lathander itself.

Lawrence took out the wooden bowl from the basket, scooped a small bowl of goat's milk from the goat's milk bucket and smelled it.

The smell is normal and there is no rotten or expired smell.

Lawrence had seen many children and adults with fevers, and had long since determined that the relationship between temperature and pathogens still held true, including pasteurization.

Within a certain temperature range, the lower the temperature, the slower the bacteria reproduce; the higher the temperature, the faster the bacteria reproduce.But if the temperature is too high, the bacteria will die.

Just like the human body will raise its body temperature to eliminate viruses and bacteria when they invade, if the appropriate temperature is used to kill the bacteria before the goat milk and eggs are cooked, then the sterile goat milk and eggs can remain longer.

At the same time, the temperature of [-] degrees nearby is enough to accelerate the evaporation of water and turn the mixed egg liquid into egg powder.

Egg powder has a longer shelf life and is sufficient to serve in various functions before milk powder.

And vegetables can also be processed into dehydrated vegetables.

However, it can only be produced in small quantities at present, because Lathander is not a machine.

Lawrence has regarded this old witch as his elder, and will not treat her as a machine, only enjoying conveniences to a small extent.

There is no need for Lathander to cast witchcraft now, these simple things just require the steady residual heat in Lathander's hut.

Sofia watched curiously and listened carefully to Lawrence's knowledge theories about bacteria and corruption.

At the same time, Lawrence also told the application areas of these technologies, especially in the preservation of ale and wine.

But what I’m making now is not those two things, but something more delicious!

Goat milk powder and egg powder are two more nutritional products that are not produced in large amounts, but are very friendly to children and adults.

(End of this chapter)