The central square of the village of the Soths, in the middle of the intersecting road, is the largest of the houses used to live in the village. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Thor used to say that he didn't have to live in such a big house alone, and that he was used to it when meetings in the clan were held to discuss important matters.

As a device that can accommodate Morey, Diana, Blacktooth, Kratos, Paladin...... Waiting for these people's houses, Saul suspects that since the construction began, Morey may have had the idea of making this a conference room instead of his own dormitory.

On this day, it was also customary for the people to gather in the big house to discuss important matters in the tribe.

"There is still some time before the next grain harvest, and now that there are many more slaves in the tribe and the population has almost tripled, it is possible that our food stock will not be able to support the next harvest. ”

Although the Bureau of Agriculture is responsible for all matters large and small like the chief steward of the entire tribe, many major decisions are still made by Thor, such as ensuring that everyone is fed, which is a top priority.

Naturally, Diana had to report to Saul about the "serious problem" that the stock might not be enough, and then she could deal with it.

"That's it......" Stretching out his hand and gently rubbing his eyebrows, Thor was also distressed, he looked up at Diana and frowned and asked:

"Didn't the hunt continue—?"

Diana coughed lightly and said to Thor slowly: "The people's energy is focused on taking care of the fields, there are still many new houses to be built, and the remaining manpower is also invested in mining, iron smelting, and soap making, and there are only a few people still hunting, which is not at all comparable to the speed of consumption." ”

Diana's words made Thor's face look a little ugly, and Morey was also worried, it seemed that the recent expansion was indeed a bit fast, and he didn't expect the tribe's food reserves to keep up.

"I remember that there were a lot of stalks and leaves from the last harvest of cassava that were useless—" Thor suddenly had an idea, turned his head, looked at Diana with a light in his eyes, and said excitedly:

"If we mash that stuff and use it as fodder, maybe we can raise some pheasants or wild boars or something like that, and that will help alleviate our food crisis, right?"

Diana rolled her eyes rarely, and said without thinking: "My Lord Thor, raising and domesticating also need human hands, and now I can't even find people who hunt, where are I going to find people to capture and domesticate those beasts?"

She went on to say to Saul: "Besides, water is far from quenching the thirst of the near, and it will take time for the animals to be raised to breed from generation to generation and finally provide stable meat for the tribe, and it will not solve the food crisis that may be coming at hand." ”

Thor patted his head, realizing that he was thinking too simply. Indeed, as Diana said, even if there were enough people to carry out animal husbandry, it would take time to grow to feed nearly 2,000 people.

What's more, in the tribe, it is not only the dwarves of the Soth and the Darkfurnace tribe who eat meat, but also a group of dire wolves who are hungry all the time, they are the big meat eaters, and more than half of the meat in the tribe is supplied to this group of beasts.

And the wolves will soon enter a new breeding season, the number of dire wolves in the whole tribe has exceeded 100, and after the birth of a new batch of wolf cubs, the number may exceed 200, and it is not sure how much food will be consumed at that time.

It's not that I don't know, but I'm shocked, where is what Diana said about the "possible food crisis" is clearly "the crisis that will definitely come".

However, as Thor desperately pulled his hair back into his head, Blacktooth slowly walked in from outside the house.

"Nome—" Blacktooth's tall figure stood upright in front of the door, blocking out the incoming sunlight and leaving a wide, long shadow on the slanted ground.

"What's the matter?" Thor straightened up and looked at Blackfang, it stands to reason that Blacktooth should have led someone to patrol around the cliff corner at this time, and would not run back to the village for no reason, it seems that something must have happened.

Thinking of this, Thor's heart tightened, and even the problem of food was temporarily put behind him, turned around, and looked nervously at Black Tooth.

"The warriors have spotted another ship docked on the coast—" said Blacktooth, scratching the back of his head, rather relaxed.

"Is it a pirate ship?" Thor looked at Blacktooth suspiciously, this guy was acting so relaxed, it didn't seem like there was some enemy attacking.

Sure enough, Blacktooth smirked and shook his head, smirked at Thor and told him, "No, Nome - it's two messengers claiming to be from Worms, and they say they have something for you." ”

"Courier?" was Morey's question, and the others looked at Thor in confusion, and Thor was a little dumbfounded, how could there be a messenger from Worms, who had almost no contact with it.

Blacktooth smiled again and continued, "One of the boys is the pirate who escaped last time—"

"The pirate who escaped last time?" Thor wrinkled his eyebrows as hard as he could, and after a while he exclaimed, "Is that the one named Toby!?"

"It's a guy with mixed hair. Blacktooth replied honestly.

"Where are they?" Thor turned his head to make eye contact with Morey, Diana, and the others, and then turned back to ask Blacktooth.

"They are waiting for your summons at the entrance of the village. ”

"What summons and doesn't summon ......" Thor scolded the black tooth with a smile: "After you study with the old man for a while now, there are more and more strange words." ”

Stimulated by Tula's ability to help Diana and Morey with many things at the Agricultural Bureau at a young age, Blacktooth began to study with Morey a while ago.

The content of the study is very wide, from the lingua franca of Wotan to the history of the continent, and even aristocratic etiquette, honorific titles, roll calls, and many other knowledge.

However, due to the many affairs of the Agricultural Bureau, Morey wears many hats, so he can only hand over some fragments of knowledge to Black Tooth piecemeal, which causes him to suddenly change his previous style and become eccentric when he speaks from time to time.

After "Paladin" teased the black tooth, Thor looked at the old dwarf sitting cross-legged under him and said, "Stop transporting iron ore to the village first, and stop the making of iron tools until these two men from Worms are gone." ”

The dwarves were now in charge of iron smelting and mining, and Thor even gave them a large number of slaves to work in mining.

Blast furnaces for ironmaking were also rebuilt near the mines, and iron ore brought to the tribe was stored for emergencies.

Both Morey and Diana nodded in agreement with Saul, and Paladin said no more, nodding yes before hurried out the door.

Thor stared out the house, no matter what the purpose of the two so-called "messengers" from Worms was, the iron ore of the Great Mine was never to be exposed.

The iron ore tunnel, with its staggering reserves and superior mineral quality, was quite attractive even to the "big guys" in Worms.

Piff is not guilty, but Saul still understands the truth of his guilt.

"Blacktooth, go and call them in, everyone is here, let's see what the "friends" from Worms have in mind. ”